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Bricked phone (repeat restart)

1st of all i want to apologize for my bad english .
Few hours ago i had installed this rom, it was just fine, until i applied the app2sd option from SupSetupV16 application. After that my phone turned off with no reason and from then it restarts again and again. I've tried with an sdcard with ext3 & fat32 partition (cuz the app2sd option in this rom requires it, but i didn't saw it earlier, and my phone has no s-off) and the phone loaded the start animation of the rom, than turned off and all over again. The battery level was almost 50% just before the 1st restart, and now the phone is in the charger. The phone does not receive any command from the hardware buttons, just cant enter the recovery mode .. i feel rly fckd up. No volume up + power, volume down, back + power .. nothing. I'll charge it all night and try again in the morning. Somehow im smelling the service ...

i think you got loop because the phone is reading wrong data.
ok... do you have ClockworkMod backup your stuff already? you can unplug your phone from the usb, if it have been boot loop from just now. poor phone. you can disconnect it from the battery. now its totally off. hold Vol - and power on your device. then on the menu, go to recover... the red [!] screen... From what i've know, i can only go to recovery using these combination from the phone is in OFF state. not while its loop booting, and it is somewhat safe to remove your battery when the phone is not writing something to the internal memory.
if you have ClockworkMod, you can run the update.zip (the fake Flash) or if you have hack4Legend (cant remember if this the name on the pc download as i dont use this anymore) plug in your usb to the pc and run Recovery.bat if your windows.
then your on ClockworkMod. from here onward i guess you know what to do. go flash a new rom or do a wipe the data and stuff to see of the loop stops.
hope this worked for you as this is what i did... for a few times already.
If this dont work for you. then you should try the search button for boot loop.

Oh, man .. u're awesome. On turned off phone .. volume - and than power is working fine and the fastboot menu appears. You're awesome, again! Thanks alot!

I think it's very hard to actually brick a HTC Legend... I've had this problem too and some other black screen problems. All could be solved!

Lol, I think as android are hard to kill. Really... not just our legend. But rest too.... I personally poisoned my friends to get android phones so that I get to play with them. Showing them how much these phone can do... and if you root them youll get more cool stuff! lol..
But, anyway. I'm glad it workd for you.
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However with S-ON legend to have app2sd with superginger you have to apply before the overlay, reboot and then app2sd.
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Phone gone?! please help!!!

Hi, I think this should go into Dev section, but i dont have enough Posts yet... This forum is my last hope. I already did Custom Recovery, Root and Custom Rom on a different phone, but I think this time ive briked my Phone
I rooted my brandnew Play yesterday and landed in a bootloop today, i think i had a wifi Problem, however, I then tried out FrAsErTaG's FTS Customrom and everything worked fine. Afterwards I wanted to flash the DooMLoRD Kernel. Now I cant access my phone anymore... Cant get into Bootloader mode nor into flashmode or anything, the led on the Powerbutton stays black. But when i press the Powerbutton, the phone vibrates for a second and a blue or green light flashes for a millisec. When i do the same while connected via usb, the phone does nothing, and the phone isnt recognized by the pc. any Help PLEASE??? Phone was brandnew

Somehow i can access Fastboot mode now, but though i flashed another rom, the phone wont bootup.. no animation, nothing, just the vibration for a sec again.

arihellmichimich said:
Somehow i can access Fastboot mode now, but though i flashed another rom, the phone wont bootup.. no animation, nothing, just the vibration for a sec again.
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You need to flash a new kernel/boot.img by the looks of it, maybe try flashing the stock kernel as you know it works, if boot partition is corrupt or badly flashed, flashing a rom wont solve the problem
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I think i now realize what i ve done... While using fastboot, i renamed the img files by numbers - also the ClockWorkMod Recovery from this Post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130639 where it is clearly stated that i should not flash it. I think I mixed up the numbers and flashed it and thats why i cant boot anymore... Stupid me!!! Any Idea??? I could kick my own butt right now!!! By the way, i can access CWM now via Fastboot, but booting up normaly still doesnt work of course...

arihellmichimich said:
I think i now realize what i ve done... While using fastboot, i renamed the img files by numbers - also the ClockWorkMod Recovery from this Post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130639 where it is clearly stated that i should not flash it. I think I mixed up the numbers and flashed it and thats why i cant boot anymore... Stupid me!!! Any Idea??? I could kick my own butt right now!!! By the way, i can access CWM now via Fastboot, but booting up normaly still doesnt work of course...
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Just flash doomlords kernel from fastboot, that has CWM embedded into the kernel, so you get to keep your recovery and get to boot your phone
just to be safe, use the command "fastboot erase boot" before you flash a kernel, this will format the boot partition so you can make a clean install
doomlord thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1176502

Thanks a lot! Right now, when i connect it to the Powercable, the red led flashes every few seconds. I will try as soon, as my battery is charged again..

... I have a really bad feeling again. After the red led stopped blinking, i connected via Fastboot (blue light), erased the Boot partition and flashed DoomLords Boot Image. Sais 1 bad block encountered! (it told me already, that i had 10 bad sectors when i flashed the rom before but i didnt think this was the problem, because it bootet up at that time).
For now, i cant even get into this fastboot mode, only red light blinking.
Any other ideas please???

arihellmichimich said:
... For now, i cant even get into this fastboot mode, only red light blinking.
Any other ideas please???
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Good luck with this. I basically did the same thing on Sunday. I gave up trying to fix late Sunday night, but when I tried again yesterday evening I'm only getting the blinking orange light. I did leave the device on charge last night, but the light didn't come on to say it was charging. How do you know your battery is charged?
I'll take AH's advice and if I ever manage to get the blue light back I'll erase boot, installed DoomLords custom kernel and then hope recovery can fix the rest.
I'll post back here if I make any progress before you (and please let us know how, if you manage to fix it in the mean time).
Daeron.

I've spent the last couple of days searching the forum, search google, search the forum some more and I've made a bit of progress.
After finding similar threads in the X10 forum I believe the flashing red light is related to the battery. Also my inability to get a fastboot blue light was caused by uninstalling SE Companion while trying to use other drivers for a Flashtool stock image flash (I didn't get that to work either). I have reinstalled SE Companion and can now connect to my PC in fastboot mode (with the blue light).
This is where my progress ends. I have tried using using this and the commandline outputs this
Code:
F:\Xperia Play\Boot Unlock\fastboot>fastboot boot recoveryPLAY.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
(bootloader) USB download speed was 41547kB/s
OKAY [ 0.549s]
booting...
(bootloader) Download buffer format: boot IMG
OKAY [ 0.003s]
finished. total time: 0.552s
but the phone does nothing except the blue light goes out. Which leads me back to the battery.
After trying to fastboot the recovery image the only thing I can do is disconnect, take out the battery, put battery back and plug into mains charger. The red light starts flashing again for a short while then I can try again with fastboot.
Next step is to leave it on charge for a few hours (only did 30mins last time) and try again. I think the reason the recovery didn't work is the battery won't hold enough charge to boot on its own, so I need a new battery
The only other thing I haven't tried is to erase partitions before booting recovery. I'll give that a go before booting recovery image in a few hours.
D.

When i boot into CWM from the boot image via fastboot. It will shut off the phone. Just unplug the device, wait a sec, and try to enter fastboot again. Usually it hangs and then goes to CWM. And when you flash a new rom, You need to factory reset in CWM clearing data and cache or else it will bootloop. Thats just basic Android rommage right thurrrr. Mine was stuck, and i just flashed the stock system.sin and kernel.sin and erase the /data and /cache with Clockwork.
fastboot flash system system.sin
fastboot flash boot kernel.sin

Sooo sorry, i didnt post before, but i moved out of my flat and had a lot of other stuff to do last week...
In the End this helped for me.
1. FULLY CHARGE YOUR PHONE!!! I was told to remove battery for 30minutes, then put it back in but without sim card and withough SD Card. Then plug the charger back and charge for at least 5-10 hours!!!
2. Connect your Phone in Fastboot mode (blue light) by pressing the searchbutton before connecting.
3. Do the steps of relocking your play through Fastboot
4. Try SE Update again with the official Sony Software, it said software could be updated :-D
So in the end, the blinking red light was just a battery problem, i couldnt imagine it was such a big deal, because i always charged for at least an hour and i thought the usb port of my netbook was at least strong enough to provide power during the flashing progress BUT IT WAS NOT!!!
Thank you soo much for the help!!!

Everything worked out fine that way.

[Q] HELP! Stuck in Boot Loop, Locked/unrooted

Was on 4.1.2 OTA (yeah I know dumb of me, but it did it overnight), rooted with TWRP all was fine untill I decided to power cycle and got stuck in a boot loop...
Booted to twrp...tried to recover from a back up, still boot loop....Cleared dalvik and all other caches, Still bootloop....factory reset, still no change...
Last resort was to flash using RSDlite v6.1.5 to VRZ_XT907_9.8.1Q-78-1_1FF.xml ...and i'm still bootlooping!!:crying: Now I've lost root, NO Custom recovery with a locked bootloader. I can't push anything through adb cuz bootlloop interrupts windows recognizing the phone and the drivers don't properly install while in Stock Recovery (I do have the latest drivers BTW)...and only sees it as 'MOT SINGLE ADB INTERFACE' while in fastboot.
Question is, what could still be causing it to bootloop?? Anyone know?.. and is there any way to get this fixed and/or get back root and a custom recovery??
At the end of my rope here! Need some guidance....

Alright Guys and Gals I solved the issue (even though I'm not sure how! LOL)
What I did (with simplified instructions)
1. Let it bootloop till the battery ran down...
2. recharged it up to 100%
3. opened it up while still off
4. disconnected battery cable for 5 secs
5. reconnected battery cable
6. started into boot menu (hold POWER and VOL UP & VOL DOWN together) and chose recovery (VOL DOWN to highlight recovery and VOL UP to select it)
7. While in recovery Hold VOL DOWN and tap VOL UP to get the Recovery Menu
8. Chose wipe cache ( VOL buttons to highlight, Power Button to select)
9. then chose wipe data/factory reset
10. rebooted into boot menu again
11. chose Factory option
*12. Held my breath :fingers-crossed:*
AND IT BOOTED!!!:laugh:
Now just to be clear I am not even sure if it was one of these steps or the combination of all of them that got me off the Boot Loop, but I just thought I'd outline them just in case someone stumbles on the same problem I had. Also please note that all this was after I fastboot flashed the 4.1.2 (.78) firmware using RSDLite v6.1.5
Being stuck on on 4.1.2 (.78) Stock is alot better than being stuck in a Boot Loop at least, so I'm happy!
P.S: F.Y.I... I was getting stuck halfway through the boot animation (just about where the droid eye kinda thing closes up) so I could still recharge my Battery from a powered off state (why I had to let it run down to zero, as it was either that or open it up and manually disconnect the battery cable and I was feeling lazy.
Now I have another Logic Board which doesn't boot past the initial Motorola "M" Logo, and thus can't get into recovery or even charge from a powered down state (can only get into fastboot) even though I've successfully flash 4.1.1 to it TWICE!!

meaty0025 said:
Now I have another Logic Board which doesn't boot past the initial Motorola "M" Logo, and thus can't get into recovery or even charge from a powered down state (can only get into fastboot) even though I've successfully flash 4.1.1 to it TWICE!!
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Do you know what build that logic board is... if its an older version use Matt's utility on it simply swap with your current one and have the joy of an unlocked device... first time I flashed (well almost every time I flash) 4.3 I get stuck on the boot logo and have to use Matt's utility to bring it to life again....
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ezknives said:
Do you know what build that logic board is... if its an older version use Matt's utility on it simply swap with your current one and have the joy of an unlocked device... first time I flashed (well almost every time I flash) 4.3 I get stuck on the boot logo and have to use Matt's utility to bring it to life again....
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That was my initial thought but, Where on the board can I find that info? and doesn't matt's utility in essence perform a fastboot flash, same as RSDlite?? Would love to have an unlocked device or at the very least a working back up board in case of unforeseen accidents, but this one has me stumped...

It won't say it on the board you'll have to install it to the housing n digitizer n get it to boot... I think you can tell by the fast boot menu but I'm not sure what to look for.... n to be honest I have never used rsd I've always used one of Matt's utilities for all my moto devices he has saved several of my phones...
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ezknives said:
It won't say it on the board you'll have to install it to the housing n digitizer n get it to boot... I think you can tell by the fast boot menu but I'm not sure what to look for.... n to be honest I have never used rsd I've always used one of Matt's utilities for all my moto devices he has saved several of my phones...
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Utility doesnt seem to work for me for some reason, it just closes when i "hit any key to continue" even flashed it with rsd using the xml from matt's ultilty... Still no go.
It should be an older board though, i bought off ebay with a broken screen just mainly so i could get the pristine back housing off of it (lol) ... and that was in february.
The guy did say he'd dropped a wrench on it breaking the screen while workin on his car, guess it was a bigger wrench than i thought and it damaged the board too :laugh:

brick problem, noob here, plz help

my problem is kind of abnormal. i couldnt find solution anywhere so i came here. my device was zenfone 5(t00f)/lollipop.
so i wanted to root my phone. i followed this guide >>
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-5/general/zenfonetoolkit3-24-40-87-t3406557
the tool i used is called ZenfoneToolkit_20160719, downloaded from here
HTML:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0AFmAAcGS5xbWpTQzBQVTN3b1k
. its a bundle of .exe, .dll, .img, .bin files. but no need to work on them seperately, there is a simple cli tool from which you can choose what you want to do and it executes that file for you. below is the list what you can do.
1. Wipe Cache
2. Factory Reset
3. Flash Boot
4. Flash Recovery
5. Flash Fastboot
6. Flash Stock ROM
7. Root
8. Unroot
9. Unlock Bootloader
10. Relock Bootloader
11. Zenfone Rescue aka Debrick
12. Fixing Generic IMEI 004999010640000
13. Backup MicroSD
14. Flash Boretz Kernel Lollipop
so wiped cache[1] first then i tried to root[7]. sadly it didnt work, when i turned the phone on it took me to fastboot screen, there i had only a few options like, normal boot(doesnt happen), recovery mode, restart. when i turned it off and pressed power and volume up together it would go to recovery where none of the options works. i though that was what called brick, so followed this guide to make my life better
HTML:
http://zenfone-blog.blogspot.com/2015/06/guide-how-to-unbrick-asus-zenfone-4-5-6.html
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my phone by default came with kitkat. so when i downloaded the firmware i wanted to get a kitkat. but i couldnt find a matching recovery img and firmware for kitkat on asus official page. so i downloaded jellybean. ASUS ZenFone 5(T00F/T00J) software Image: V1.18.40.9 ww for firmware from here
HTML:
https://www.asus.com/support/Download/39/1/0/2/96nqlxHp1VKV4Rdz/32/
. and recovery img is 1.18.40.9_ww_recovery.img from here
HTML:
https://www.asuswebstorage.com/navigate/s/644D9E0A19714899974C75FC4B6C87EDY
. i dont know what "ww" means in those name but i saw it in my software version before so i went with it.
All the steps went smoothly, by the end of it i guessed my phone charge would be low so i put it in charge and turned it on. first time it turn on without a problem. i checked out a few things and leave it for charge. after a while i came back and battery was 0%. i thought i would be wise to plug out and in charging port again. as soon as i pull out the pin, screen instantly turned black and the phone went dead after a looooong ass vibration.
now when i try to charge the orenge light at top lights up but the animation that shows battery always show its empty. if i try to turn it on while plugged, it shows asus logo/intel logo and goes dead again. if i try to turn it on without being plugged, it shows a battery logo with a question mark, which i think means the phone cannot find battery.
i am stuck here.... plz someone be my savior.

Hello my dear, to get out of this problem I did the following: I connected the phone to compuador by USB cable (with himself off), then he calls and gets the question symbol, it held the power button plus volume up he must restart to get the logo asus about 4 seconds after loose the power button and continue with the volume button up insured. It should enter into fastboot mode there do the necessary procedures to reflash the system.
I hope you helped, hug!

matheusgcdj said:
Hello my dear, to get out of this problem I did the following: I connected the phone to compuador by USB cable (with himself off), then he calls and gets the question symbol, it held the power button plus volume up he must restart to get the logo asus about 4 seconds after loose the power button and continue with the volume button up insured. It should enter into fastboot mode there do the necessary procedures to reflash the system.
I hope you helped, hug!
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i tried. but just cannot get to the fastboot screen. :'(

nooblett said:
i tried. but just cannot get to the fastboot screen. :'(
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use this thread and perhaps there is hope

matheusgcdj said:
use this thread and perhaps there is hope
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thnx. i am gonna try it now.

@matheusgcdj: yes it worked

Huawei P10 Lite - Bricked

Hello guys,
A day ago I decided to root my Huawei P10 lite. I unlocked bootloader and flashed TWRP. Everything worked fine. However I was unable to root my phone so I tried to lock bootloader. Thats where my problem started.... I locked bootloader via ADB and then it said the phone will reboot and factory reset. Phone was rebooted but now its ,,stucked" on huawei logo screen and nothing happens.... I just let phone to discharge and when I try to turn it on its still get to the logo screen and nothing. Always when I try to turn phone off it keeps turning on to the logo screen and Im unable to go to recovery or safe mode because button combination dont work. I cant even connect it to the PC via the USB cable....
Any ideas how to fix it (if its even possible) would be much apreciated.
Thanks a lot guys.

So, even you if you mounted the /system partition read-write it gets modified and the signature breaks that's why your phone no longer boots.
Try following: shutdown the phone if you can, press volume down and at the same time plug in the USB cable and unlock the bootloader, then flash the latest firmware for the device using the HwOTA method:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/hwota-huawei-p10-lite-t3776186
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p1...pilation-firmware-flasheables-huawei-t3736754

Eurofighter_ty said:
So, even you if you mounted the /system partition read-write it gets modified and the signature breaks that's why your phone no longer boots.
Try following: shutdown the phone if you can, press volume down and at the same time plug in the USB cable and unlock the bootloader, then flash the latest firmware for the device using the HwOTA method:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/hwota-huawei-p10-lite-t3776186
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p1...pilation-firmware-flasheables-huawei-t3736754
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Thats the problem, the phone cant be shut downed by the ,,official" way (hold power button) because it instatly power on after two seconds... Only way how to completely shut down is let the phone discharge.... Anyway when I try to shut down the phone and then instatly press volume down I always get to the logo screen then I get black screen (looks like its trying to do something) and then the phone reboots and again get logo screen... It looks like the phone is gone for good lol

Eurofighter_ty said:
So, even you if you mounted the /system partition read-write it gets modified and the signature breaks that's why your phone no longer boots.
Try following: shutdown the phone if you can, press volume down and at the same time plug in the USB cable and unlock the bootloader, then flash the latest firmware for the device using the HwOTA method:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-lite/development/hwota-huawei-p10-lite-t3776186
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p1...pilation-firmware-flasheables-huawei-t3736754
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Thats the problem, the phone cant be shut downed by the ,,official" way (hold power button) because it instatly power on after two seconds... Only way how to completely shut down is let the phone discharge.... Anyway when I try to shut down the phone and then instatly press volume down I always get to the logo screen then I get black screen (looks like its trying to do something) and then the phone reboots and again get logo screen... It looks like the phone is gone for good lol
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It worked as you said (holding volume down + USB) and phone booted successfully but then appeared shutting down possibly due to low battery... I will keep trying. So thank you very much, you saved my day lol.

Allright, the phone is gone for good... Whenever I try your trick (volume down + USB) the phone boot up to the OS but then always shut down because of low battery. I tried to charge the battery but it seems like its not charging at all... Got phone on charger for three hours now and still red LED diod shows low battery.... I think this thread can be closed and I will bring the phone to the service center and see if they can fix this or not. Again thanks for the help.

Try to charge it when is in bootloop or that's what you tried?

Eurofighter_ty said:
Try to charge it when is in bootloop or that's what you tried?
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Yeah, now I have it on charger for 5 hours, got huawei logo on screen and red LED diod flashing... Strange thing is the phone is not heating anymore, even charger is cold... When I un-plug the charger the phone shut down in like 5 minutes... When its on charger its not turnning off so I assuming there must be some power coming through the charger to phone then...

This Huawei P10 Lite is quite strange piece of electronic.... Its just booted itself on its own and actually its working just fine... What would you recommend to do, now? battery is charging right now at 16%

pathfindercz said:
This Huawei P10 Lite is quite strange piece of electronic.... Its just booted itself on its own and actually its working just fine... What would you recommend to do, now? battery is charging right now at 16%
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What do you mean by working just fine ? It booted to the OS or what ?

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What do you mean by working just fine ? It booted to the OS or what ?
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I left it plugged on charger and after few hours it booted to the OS, but when I tried to go to Fastboot and Rescue mode it turned off and now It wont boot again. Got stucked on huawei logo screen again.