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Is it me or is the galaxy s the easiest phone to brick

I have had the nexus and g1 and sprint hero and these phone have never bricked or failed..abrielle I flash a rom on my vibrant i start to get nervous and cross my fingers it doesn't brick again..
There are probably more threads on"help I bricked my vibrant" here than there if on other phones?
What do you think?
Do any of you agree
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That might be because its the only phone u can fix from a brick.

Most people who think they bricked there phones only soft bricked it which is easily fixed.. This phone is actually pretty hard to brick imo..
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No it is you
Most of these "I brick my phone" are due to PEBKAC or OTA update.
Most of these "bricks" are fixable.

Alanrocks15 said:
I have had the nexus and g1 and sprint hero and these phone have never bricked or failed..abrielle I flash a rom on my vibrant i start to get nervous and cross my fingers it doesn't brick again..
There are probably more threads on"help I bricked my vibrant" here than there if on other phones?
What do you think?
Do any of you agree
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The term brick is being tossed around to much. Bricked mean no nothing, nothing at all happening, no lights turning on, no vibrations nothing...nadda...
Not "OMG I BRICKED MY PHONE IT SHOWS A COMPUTER AND A PHONE ON THE SCREENNNN HALPPP"
The Vibrant is the hardest phone I have ever seen to brick. I cant speak for other Galaxy S phones cuz I only have the Vibrant. So far I have only heard of one fool proof way of bricking the phone, it was something that had to do with pulling the usb while using odin.

ipeench said:
The term brick is being tossed around to much. Bricked mean no nothing, nothing at all happening, no lights turning on, no vibrations nothing...nadda...
Not "OMG I BRICKED MY PHONE IT SHOWS A COMPUTER AND A PHONE ON THE SCREENNNN HALPPP"
The Vibrant is the hardest phone I have ever seen to brick. I cant speak for other Galaxy S phones cuz I only have the Vibrant. So far I have only heard of one fool proof way of bricking the phone, it was something that had to do with pulling the usb while using odin.
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+1 and even a USB pull during Odin will only soft brick,, I have done that several times.

Alanrocks15 said:
I have had the nexus and g1 and sprint hero and these phone have never bricked or failed..abrielle I flash a rom on my vibrant i start to get nervous and cross my fingers it doesn't brick again..
There are probably more threads on"help I bricked my vibrant" here than there if on other phones?
What do you think?
Do any of you agree
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I have come from a Nexus One and i agree 100%.

ipeench said:
So far I have only heard of one fool proof way of bricking the phone, it was something that had to do with pulling the usb while using odin.
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Actually. I did this and even that didn't brick the phone. I managed to get out of the brick by using volume buttons and usb cable. But my phone seemed dead to the world. No power button. Nothing when plugging it into the usb. But some more reading was done and I got life into it.
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really? I think its easier to brink my psp then the vibrant

Yea but the other phones don't even soft brick never noe even for an ota..
Constantly fixing a soft bricked vibrant
Don't get h me wrong I love my vibrant
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Alanrocks15 said:
Yea but the other phones don't even soft brick never noe even for an ota..
Constantly fixing a soft bricked vibrant
Don't get h me wrong I love my vibrant
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Trust me, i have bricked it almost once a day.
Never on the Nexus One.

A lot of the bricks are due to lag fix. Other phones don't deal with this. If you don't mess with lag fixes it updates quite well. Also the leaked firmware we get from samsung to play with probably isn't as stable. The hardware is good, samsung doesn't do the software well.
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Yea but like other phones also have their perks as well but I don't know you have to do a lot of things to the vibrant before you can use it s power
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Alanrocks15 said:
I have had the nexus and g1 and sprint hero and these phone have never bricked or failed..abrielle I flash a rom on my vibrant i start to get nervous and cross my fingers it doesn't brick again..
There are probably more threads on"help I bricked my vibrant" here than there if on other phones?
What do you think?
Do any of you agree
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the vibrant is probably one of the hardest phone to brick. all these "bricks" are caused by user error on their part. and from what I can tell from your signature, you're not very smart either. a g1 should never use 256swap.

Technically...
I always thought "Brick" meant just that. literally a worthless device best used,like a brick, as a paperweight or something heavy to throw through your ex-girlfriends window. i have abused the vibrant in unspeakable ways and with a 5 minute odin, little nandroid maybe and good as new.

questgraves said:
I always thought "Brick" meant just that. literally a worthless device best used,like a brick, as a paperweight or something heavy to throw through your ex-girlfriends window. i have abused the vibrant in unspeakable ways and with a 5 minute odin, little nandroid maybe and good as new.
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I agree with this. "brick(ed)" has become to general now.

I think we all KNOW that BRICK = DEAD PHONE/PAPER-WEIGHT. I have always been bothered by people throwing that term around way too easy... I used to fight it, but so many do it, it's unfortunately become the norm.
Perhaps we just need a new name for SOFT-BRICK....
How about thread titles like this so it's more clear it IS NOT a Brick:
[Q] Help, I just LIMP-DICKED my Vibrant!!!

s15274n said:
I think we all KNOW that BRICK = DEAD PHONE/PAPER-WEIGHT. I have always been bothered by people throwing that term around way too easy... I used to fight it, but so many do it, it's unfortunately become the norm.
Perhaps we just need a new name for SOFT-BRICK....
How about thread titles like this so it's more clear it IS NOT a Brick:
[Q] Help, I just LIMP-DICKED my Vibrant!!!
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Its annoying to me to ... This tells me that some of the users on here still DON'T understand enough of what they are doing , if every time they get a BOOTLOOP , they say that they Bricked the phone ....
Bricked means just that , Brick....
The only known way to revive a phone that has been bricked is by the use of JTag(mostly used to revive Bricked windows mobile phones) , to date theres been only one ANDROID phone for which JTag has been developed , and thats the G1 ......

My g1 ran superb on 256 swap on 2.1 hero
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Imo, the iphone is the easiest phone to brick. Even with one touch jailbreaks and such...
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Almost had a heart attack

So I sent my phone into samsung the other week to get reflashed after a ota update bricked it, I have the samsung vibrant like everyone else in this section hehe
They fixed it and sent it back, I started flashing some custom roms and then i flashed a custom kernel, Odin froze and I wanted, tryed to reset the phone and OH CRAP! there was the dreaded pc to phone screen I had before I sent it in, I was like oh no! So I got mad and let it sit for a hour, I looked online and bought a jig to get it back(im glad I did, i might need it later) I havent got the jig yet either since this was last night. I plugged the phone back into my pc, and ding ding it recognized it on that screen and it didnt before I sent it to samsung. I was able to odin from that thing, I was so happy and rejoiced! has anyone ever been able to? I bricked it again on purpose and did the same thing over too, so samsung must of changed something

devilsrogue said:
So I sent my phone into samsung the other week to get reflashed after a ota update bricked it, I have the samsung vibrant like everyone else in this section hehe
They fixed it and sent it back, I started flashing some custom roms and then i flashed a custom kernel, Odin froze and I wanted, tryed to reset the phone and OH CRAP! there was the dreaded pc to phone screen I had before I sent it in, I was like oh no! So I got mad and let it sit for a hour, I looked online and bought a jig to get it back(im glad I did, i might need it later) I havent got the jig yet either since this was last night. I plugged the phone back into my pc, and ding ding it recognized it on that screen and it didnt before I sent it to samsung. I was able to odin from that thing, I was so happy and rejoiced! has anyone ever been able to? I bricked it again on purpose and did the same thing over too, so samsung must of changed something
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don't know, but that PC to Phone screen IS the download mode, you can just connect your phone to PC and odin from that screen

No its not, download mode has the android sweeping up rubble, that is the softbrick screen lol

devilsrogue said:
No its not, download mode has the android sweeping up rubble, that is the softbrick screen lol
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From what I've read, you can ODIN back to stock even when on that screen so it is pretty much like download mode.

Hmmm, why didnt it work before? i couldnt get it do anything until samsung sent it back to me, Odd....hmmmm

This is 10000% true. I've done it
sahil04 said:
From what I've read, you can ODIN back to stock even when on that screen so it is pretty much like download mode.
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Sometimes takes several tries. It usually doesn't work until you start to get really scared around attempt #5-6.
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I have had it non responsive on the pc-to-computer screen. If this happens you just do the battery pull hold 2 button then plug into the computer to get it into download mode......but you also may need to hit the home and menu button to get it to be responsive. Or- just get the jig..............

devilsrogue said:
No its not, download mode has the android sweeping up rubble, that is the softbrick screen lol
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Can I say told ya?

When you see the phone to PC screen just hold the power button and the volume up/ down until you see the symbol for the second time then plug your USB into your phone and the COM port should show up.
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Samsung Vibrant Hard Bricked, Any solutions?

Hi, I just tried flashing an official froyo rom for Odin3 and it was a sucess, but after it suceeded, my phone just shut off on its own. I tried pressing the power button and nothing happens. I have also tried many methods such as taking out battery, hold volume down+up buttons, then plug usb and put back battery. Another method that I tried from my first hard-brick was holding the Volume up and power button then putting in back the battery which does not work on the second break. Are there any solutions other than using a JIG? Thanks for the responses and help.

The best way to fix it is to go to a T-Mobile store, tell them you flashed your phone to a custom rom and everything went perfect, until it rebooted. Then ask them to exchange it for a new vibrant at no charge even though you voided your warranty. Then ask them if they sell the jigs also because that might come in handy the next time you brick your vibrant.

djquick said:
The best way to fix it is to go to a T-Mobile store, tell them you flashed your phone to a custom rom and everything went perfect, until it rebooted. Then ask them to exchange it for a new vibrant at no charge even though you voided your warranty. Then ask them if they sell the jigs also because that might come in handy the next time you brick your vibrant.
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The problem is I don't have warranty for this phone, I'm not sure if they would exchange it.

You didn't get it....hmmmm.

TheSneakerWhore said:
You didn't get it....hmmmm.
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I would've got the warranty but my parents bought for me lol, the warranty cost alot when it first came out so my parents didn't want it

snowball34 said:
I would've got the warranty but my parents bought for me lol, the warranty cost alot when it first came out so my parents didn't want it
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No, it's a lil more snarky than that--he was BS'ing you all the way.
JTAG might do the trick.

TheSneakerWhore said:
No, it's a lil more snarky than that--he was BS'ing you all the way.
JTAG might do the trick.
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So they are no solutions on how to un-brick my phone other than jigging it?

Try removing everything and open ODIN , plug the usb cable in to your pc & phone... hold down the volume down & power button & put the battery in...just to make sure you tried all combinations...
In actuality, you should do the steps above but hold the volume up & down buttons and put the battery in to get to download mode.
You can also try and remove everything, have odin open, plug the usb into your pc only, hold the volume up&down buttons, put the battery in(keeping the buttons pressed) and then plug the usb into the phone.
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if you can't add to the conversation, then move along and stop bashing someone looking for help...just sayin..

I hard bricked my Vibrant about two months ago when I tried to odin the boot loaders and I didn't buy a warranty when I bought the phone. Samsung gives you a one year warranty on your vibrant from the day of purchase. Since Vibrants were released last July, you should still have the manufacturer's warranty. Just call up Samsung and tell them your phone didn't turn on after you tried updating to 2.2 from 2.1. They will have you send in it in and they'll fix it free of charge. As long as the phone is a true hard brick they won't know you messed with it since they won't be able to turn it on. This process worked for me.
Edit. Make sure you say that you tried updating through Kies.
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+1, to the reply above.
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onajjar1012 said:
I hard bricked my Vibrant about two months ago when I tried to odin the boot loaders and I didn't buy a warranty when I bought the phone. Samsung gives you a one year warranty on your vibrant from the day of purchase. Since Vibrants were released last July, you should still have the manufacturer's warranty. Just call up Samsung and tell them your phone didn't turn on after you tried updating to 2.2 from 2.1. They will have you send in it in and they'll fix it free of charge. As long as the phone is a true hard brick they won't know you messed with it since they won't be able to turn it on. This process worked for me.
Edit. Make sure you say that you tried updating through Kies.
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So Samsung automatically gives my Vibrant a one year warranty starting the day I bought it?

Yes. All new phones come with a one year warranty including Samsung phones.
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power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers

"Bricked"

I've been seeing this word thrown around a lot around here. Frankly speaking, this is actually a word that should be seen only in rare circumstances. So from now on, I would like for you all to ask yourself a few questions when you're about to use the word, "bricked."
1. Does my phone boot?
2 . Can I access ClockworkMod Recovery, even if my phone doesn't boot all the way?
3. If I hold the back button in when I plug my phone into the computer, does the led on top turn yellow?
4. (unlocked bootloader) If I hold the search button in when I plug my phone into the computer, does the led turn blue?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are not bricked. Instead, your phone is messed, glitched, borked, scaring you, freaking you out, or making you cry.
Thank you for your time.
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lightningdude said:
I've been seeing this word thrown around a lot around here. Frankly speaking, this is actually a word that should be seen only in rare circumstances. So from now on, I would like for you all to ask yourself a few questions when you're about to use the word, "bricked."
1. Does my phone boot?
2 . Can I access ClockworkMod Recovery, even if my phone doesn't boot all the way?
3. If I hold the back button in when I plug my phone into the computer, does the led on top turn yellow?
4. (unlocked bootloader) If I hold the search button in when I plug my phone into the computer, does the led turn blue?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are not bricked. Instead, your phone is messed, glitched, borked, scaring you, freaking you out, or making you cry.
Thank you for your time.
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Um Dude Most people Know this, And this should be in Q&A that's Most Likely were People Say there "Bricked"| In most cases They are "Software Bricked"
Just saying Bricked Only means Hardware or Software. You should Know this that Q&A Stands for Questions and Answeres

The word "bricked" implies that your phone has become nothing more than a brick, and no, most people don't know that, otherwise they wouldn't use the word when ever something goes awry.
This doesn't belong in the Q&A section because I'm not asking a question, I'm making a point, even if I'm using questions in my post. I'm not seeking an answer to anything, and so I didn't post this in the Q&A section.

Is constantly rebooting considered bricked?

Have you answered all of the questions? Technically, for it to be constituted as a brick, it wouldn't boot at all.
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lol OK, I see. Thanks...

This should be stickied. It annoys me to see this word incorrectly thrown around

Sorry to revive an old thread, a that goes against my forum etiquette, but I had a thought today.
What if, instead of "brick," people used the term, "paperweight?" Think about it: "Aww crap, I just paperweighted my phone."
After all, its really more of a paperweight than a brick these days. I think people would be less likely to misuse a term like "paperweight."
Agree? Disagree? Thoughts?
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Bricked means the device has a total hardware failure. No way to turn it on or fix it. /thread
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its pretty hard to brick the Xperia Play, permabrick anyhows, But software bricks are easy and normally easy to fix (Flashtool).

Well in the case of mine, it really is bricked, even though it fits some of your criteria. In other words, you're generalizing and not giving accurate information.
Can I access flash mode? Yes.
Can I use fastboot? Yes.
Have I tried reflashing multiple types of software? Yes, and they installed just fine.
HOWEVER; is the phone usable? Nope.
Due to hardware problems, it is essentially a bricked phone until parts can be replaced. You can't navigate through the OS, or make calls, or even get into recovery. It is completely useless.
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[Q] hard bricked

today i accepted an OTA update,
i was previously root with an unlocked BL. i RDS lite back to facotry and i was unrooted, therefore thought it safe to
install update. the phone now wont turn on, no matter the combination of buttons.
i know it has a charge its been on the charger forever. no LED light of any kind, and plugging it by usb to PC has no results either.
im pretty sure i hard bricked this device.
at any rate i cant get a warranty for two reasons :
1. unlocked BL
2. denied replacement dude to crack in back glass..
so im a SOL?????

I havent heard of this procedure bricking anyone else, so maybe your phone just thinks the battery is dead. Team Black Hats factory adapter may fix this for you.

If it bricked because of the update, it's the provider's fault, so they should cover it. However, me thinks there is more to this story.
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Theres nothing more to the story.
It was on charge all night with the stock charger.. Nothing.
Phone was rooted I unrooted it. Boot loader still unlocked.
I accepted the ota and it won't do anything. I was denied a warranty replacement in store because the back glass has a crack.
Anyway the device is useless I bought an s4 today. And I'm selling the RAZR M to the highest bidder.

mustang5.0 said:
Theres nothing more to the story.
It was on charge all night with the stock charger.. Nothing.
Phone was rooted I unrooted it. Boot loader still unlocked.
I accepted the ota and it won't do anything. I was denied a warranty replacement in store because the back glass has a crack.
Anyway the device is useless I bought an s4 today. And I'm selling the RAZR M to the highest bidder.
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Cool story. Do I believe that an OTA, by itself, bricked your phone? Nope. Have fun with that S.

if u tried to update and it died, charging it after wont do anything. so i will ask what was ur battery at when u started?

pbanj said:
if u tried to update and it died, charging it after wont do anything. so i will ask what was ur battery at when u started?
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I charge it all night before work. Got up for work and on the drive to work I accepted the ota so the battery was probably at a good 97%
Im still trying to understand what happened lol

RikRong said:
Cool story. Do I believe that an OTA, by itself, bricked your phone? Nope. Have fun with that S.
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But then again, nobody cares what you "believe" happened.

RikRong said:
Cool story. Do I believe that an OTA, by itself, bricked your phone? Nope. Have fun with that S.
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I came here to ask for help on how to revive the phone. I didn't ask for an opinion. What I provided is a 100% accurate account of what led to my phone being bricked. In the hopes someone could give me and idea of what to do. I really could careless about your opinion of "what you believe". If you can't help then don't come here and attack me. Thanks.

mustang5.0 said:
I came here to ask for help on how to revive the phone. I didn't ask for an opinion. What I provided is a 100% accurate account of what led to my phone being bricked. In the hopes someone could give me and idea of what to do. I really could careless about your opinion of "what you believe". If you can't help then don't come here and attack me. Thanks.
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Don't worry about alpha nerd. He gets his kicks by being smarmy in nearly every thread he posts in.
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Have you tried holding down on the power, volume up and volume down buttons at the same time for about 3 secs?

mustang5.0 said:
I came here to ask for help on how to revive the phone. I didn't ask for an opinion. What I provided is a 100% accurate account of what led to my phone being bricked. In the hopes someone could give me and idea of what to do. I really could careless about your opinion of "what you believe". If you can't help then don't come here and attack me. Thanks.
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There's no attacking. Before we even had chance to help you, you scrapped the phone and went and bought another one. When you originally posted, you didn't give any details to help us out. Personally, I don't believe only the OTA would cause a brick, but as we all know, no one cares what I think.
If your battery is good, you should be able to get into your recovery menu and restore your backup. If you can't do that, you might try to get into the fastboot menu and fastboot back to stock. If you hold the power button, volume down, and volume up at that same time, you should be able to get into the fastboot menu. When in the menu, scroll down with vol- button and choose your choice by hitting the vol+ button. If you can't get the phone to boot into FB, then you are probably stuck. However, if you can get into recovery and/or fastboot, you don't have a brick.
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Don't worry about alpha nerd. He gets his kicks by being smarmy in nearly every thread he posts in.
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edit: I started a pissing match, so I'll end it.
As much as I enjoy being "smarmy", I'll try to ease up so I don't hurt some kids feelings.

Dear rikrong.
First. Please read I supplied every detail I can absolutely express about my phone and what happened.
Second I do important business and there's no point in tying up time in waiting for a fix to my phone when I can get a new one. Why waste the time when I was expecting a customer to call about a $5000 job?
I'm not "some kid" and unlike you I have business to do and don't have time to troll on a forum for people seeking help with their devices. Hold your tongue and don't pass judgment on someone you don't know.
And don't worry about hurting my feelings. I GUARANTEE you don't have the mental capacity to offend me, friend.
I would like to revive the device and donate it to a family member or friend who could make better use of it than I.
To wrap this up, no button combos or ANYTHING will turn the device on, it literally is a brick, I heard of JTAG and this may be the route I will take..

mustang5.0 said:
Dear rikrong.
First. Please read I supplied every detail I can absolutely express about my phone and what happened.
Second I do important business and there's no point in tying up time in waiting for a fix to my phone when I can get a new one. Why waste the time when I was expecting a customer to call about a $5000 job?
I'm not "some kid" and unlike you I have business to do and don't have time to troll on a forum for people seeking help with their devices. Hold your tongue and don't pass judgment on someone you don't know.
And don't worry about hurting my feelings. I GUARANTEE you don't have the mental capacity to offend me, friend.
I would like to revive the device and donate it to a family member or friend who could make better use of it than I.
To wrap this up, no button combos or ANYTHING will turn the device on, it literally is a brick, I heard of JTAG and this may be the route I will take..
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Well, that's nice, you tell me not to attack you and you come right back at me. I tried to tie it up in my last post and offer some help, but I guess you didn't get it. If you think I'm trolling, you need to put on your big girl panties and take a look at the other forums that aren't super newb friendly like these tech forums. I tried to offer peace, but you came right back at me. I also have plenty of of business to take care of every day. It just so happens that I like to come to these forums when I'm at home and finished busting my knuckles at work.
I tried to offer some help, after realizing how I did come off as an ass in my original post, but you fired right back at me. So,have fun.

I stand my my recommendation in post #2. It doesnt make sense that this procedure would brick your phone so my feeling is that its not bricked. I had a similar experience with my D2G back in day. For $10 team black hats factory adapter is worth a shot. Even if you stick with the S fixing your XT907 will fetch you more money on the market.