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Bricked after Openfire -> Nandroid?! help

Hey People,
So i rooted(Unrevoked) my Wildfire today, everything went fine it seemed. but after putting OpenFire on, it just did'n get past the OPENFIRE screen. i let it run for an hour+ in the end i got so hot i pulled the battery.
now i tried to Nandroid restore it, but it suddenly went B(lack)SoD on me and now the orange Charge light i just blinking and i can't seem to revive the phone HELP! Please
Kind Regards
Vicster

if you still can use nandroid. why don't use flash to another rom

so you can't boot back into recovery?
if you can, make sure you do a full wipe before installing a rom (always do a wipe when installing a new rom)

THanks for your reply's the phone suddenly came back to life...!! thanks alot everyone!

pnukeid said:
if you still can use nandroid. why don't use flash to another rom
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I bricked mine as well. It bootloops and then goes into the recovery. How do I put a rom on it so I can choose it to be flashed? I had a restore point but it won't work after I restore it.

nemuro said:
I bricked mine as well. It bootloops and then goes into the recovery. How do I put a rom on it so I can choose it to be flashed? I had a restore point but it won't work after I restore it.
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in recovery, mount your sd card or usb, and put a rom into it. make sure your phone is plugged into your pc.
or take your sd card out and put a rom on it and put it back into the phone, then boot into recovery and flash it, simple enough?

vicster said:
THanks for your reply's the phone suddenly came back to life...!! thanks alot everyone!
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lucky you! My wildfire cant go into recovery, battery drains out in 2-3 hours, now even with a new battery. I am so sad

@kevin2516
I was desperate enough to not do a search in the recovery menu. I did the thing with the sd card. I don't understand why my backup started bootlooping...

[Q] vibrant bricked i think??

so i crashed my phone today.. basically my phone was rooted and i install everything you would need flashed the phone with obsidian 4.2 or whatever... heres where i think i went wrong ( im not super techy but smart enough to get this far) .. the flash was awesome running super fast... i got greedy and i decided i wan'ted to do the voodoo lag fix to see how much faster it would be.. i was reading tuitorial on how to do it.. it said to flash the phone with the davlchik cache and scirpts download did that.... backed up phone with clock mod rec. flashed the phone with voodoo linda was giving the prompts it was done... and i got the vibrant screen only thing i can come up with was my phone was being glitchy and didn't download the whole file for the scripts.. and didn't really install i thought i covered my basis.. now heres the real problem when i volume button/power button the phone into recovery and went to restore the phone the phone completed the system recovery but when in data recovery it froze at pcsync_stream??? what do i do now can i load a rom on the sd card? and flash it?

You will probably have to ODIN back to stock.
Try the bible thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
Hope all goes well

Or try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737

Big problem with my I9000 (phone stuck and doesn't work)

Hey guys.
I've had one of the latest nightly versions of CyanogenMod 10 on my phone. I tried to install the rEmIxRoM just to see how it looks and if I'd like it, but I didn't like it. So I decided to install the latest Slim Bean version out there. But when I flashed the .zip to install, the screen became dark and then the Semaphore logo came up, and nothing happened for a few minutes. I tried the 3-button combo to get back to the Clockwork Mod, but it didn't work also. Now my phone is stuck on the Semaphore logo every time I try to turn it on, with no option to do anything.
What am I supposed to do? Please guide me...

It's too easy.
just flash 3 files (Stock GB ROM) with Odin and then your phone will boot and ok.

I'm sorry but I don't really understand... I don't know much about these things.
I don't know how to work with Odin, I don't even have it on my PC, I usually just install roms via recovery. Is there a guide that can tell me exactly what to do? Because it sounds easy but I don't even know where to get these 3 files from... :angel:
By the way I can't get my phone to CWM or download mode. Both just end up showing me a weird battery graphic (it doesn't mean that the battery is empty)

Technetium37 said:
I'm sorry but I don't really understand... I don't know much about these things.
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Assuming you are here to learn, read carefully and digest it before attempting
B]Need to know what is your phone model [/B]. Check Here to chose your forum/Guide by Version of your phone or you will have more problems by using wrong solutions due to different versions of Galaxy S
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....
This alone could have solved your CWM problems, if not try a solution from My Android Solutions
To get basic idea about Odin try watching these http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810130 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyAIUOYufrU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33I-aNCypVM
If anything you are not sure of use the google search will give you many more to watch and learn
Tips before Flashing:-
Backup all your important files, contacts, SMS, game data, images etc to PC or Ext SD card. or make Nanadroid Backup If you have CWM
Backup your EFS Folder to PC or Ext SD card
Enable USB Debugging on Phone. Touch menu>Settings>Applications>Development>
Charge your battery to more than 50% before you attempt any sort of flashing.
Disable Samsung KIES when using Odin. Kill Kies.exe, KiesTrayAgent.exe, & KiesPDLR.exe using Task Manager on PC
Use only ROM and solution for your model and Wipe x3

Thanks for the help.
I couldn't get into download mode or CWM at first, but after a lot of tries the phone managed to boot. I just flashed the Slim Bean zips and all is ok for now. I actually saved your post on my pc, in case I have problems in the future. :good:

Tips before Flashing:-
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Backup your EFS Folder to PC or Ext SD card
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I'm not stuck in the same situation (back on 2.3.6 JW8 again) but the above mentioned point is not so easy.
I tried 4.0.4 / 4.1.1 myself (SlimROMs of CM9 / CM10) and it seems to run fine but I lost my IMEI every time.
Even with root access you're not able to make a full backup (e.g. with ES File Explorer, Ghost Commander, Total Commander). The only solution I fould was to make a sector disk dump (dd) via terminal which is way to much effort for a quick flash.
Or are there some other tricks for this?

Hayabusa_XDA said:
Or are there some other tricks for this?
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yes, read efs problems and solutions in My Android Solutions

Everything is working for me now, except for one problem: some apps can't be downloaded from the Google Play. I keep getting the "App could not be downloaded due to an error (942)". When I try to access them through the PC browser, it's saying that the app is incompatible with my I9000, even though I used it on my previous roms. The big question is why does this happen only with some apps, but with other apps there's no such problem?

No recovery, no pink screen. But.....

For the sake of saving my time and yours, please know that I am not a noob and I know how to backup/restore, enter recovery and pink screen, wipe before flashing and I used the correct version of ROM. But either a corrupt backup or a bad SD card got me to where I am now.
I had a phone (U8800-51) that was essentially bricked after I tried to restore a backup made with CWM. I had access to the pink screen and I could see the image partition when I booted to pink screen and connected to my PC. but restoring the backup image made with DiskImage_1_6_WinAll did me no good whatsoever and I could not get into recovery. The phone would turn on the ATT logo for a few seconds then shut off.
Soooo...I purchased a new phone (brand new for $27.00) and am now using it with stock 2.2.
But as a last resort, I removed the battery on the old phone, plugged it into my PC and tried to update using GB update.zip from the SD card. Imagine my surprise when it worked.....sort of. I now have a phone with GB 2.3.5 but no recovery or pink screen. No matter how I try it always boots to the OS. Also no mobile service. WIFI works great. So it is essentially a mini-tablet with no way to flash or customize it beyond this version.
Not a life changer since it is an extra phone. I may just use it as an MP3 player for my car. But it would be nice to be able to get it back to stock and working as a phone. It is a U8800-51.
Any suggestions?

UPDATE - everything works except Mobile service.
pastorbob62 said:
For the sake of saving my time and yours, please know that I am not a noob and I know how to backup/restore, enter recovery and pink screen, wipe before flashing and I used the correct version of ROM. But either a corrupt backup or a bad SD card got me to where I am now.
I had a phone (U8800-51) that was essentially bricked after I tried to restore a backup made with CWM. I had access to the pink screen and I could see the image partition when I booted to pink screen and connected to my PC. but restoring the backup image made with DiskImage_1_6_WinAll did me no good whatsoever and I could not get into recovery. The phone would turn on the ATT logo for a few seconds then shut off.
Soooo...I purchased a new phone (brand new for $27.00) and am now using it with stock 2.2.
But as a last resort, I removed the battery on the old phone, plugged it into my PC and tried to update using GB update.zip from the SD card. Imagine my surprise when it worked.....sort of. I now have a phone with GB 2.3.5 but no recovery or pink screen. No matter how I try it always boots to the OS. Also no mobile service. WIFI works great. So it is essentially a mini-tablet with no way to flash or customize it beyond this version.
Not a life changer since it is an extra phone. I may just use it as an MP3 player for my car. But it would be nice to be able to get it back to stock and working as a phone. It is a U8800-51.
Any suggestions?
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Okay, I was able to get into pink screen by erasing the dload folder, removing the battery, and connecting to my PC via the USB cable. I then copied CWM 5.0.2.7 over and then flashed Stallion-51-ICS onto the phone. I now have a very fast, rooted and customized U8800-51, BUT no mobile service. IMEI and APN info is correct but it won't access the mobile service that our other phones access, SIM is the same one that I use in my current phone.
Still looking for any suggestions you all might have.

galaxy s5 g900f hard brick

hi guys i hope you can help me i have a problem with a galaxy s5 g900f i change a lot of custom roms on it and before 1 week i flash the stock rom with odin i do it many times and it works fine this time the phone opens i make all the updates download all the apps i need from the appstore and from one second to another it close and i can not open it i try to go in recovery mod in download mod i buy a new batterie but nothing i think its a hard brick but if it was a hardbrick it must not open after flashing the stock rom but it opens just fine, i hope you can help me.

noName85 said:
hi guys i hope you can help me i have a problem with a galaxy s5 g900f i change a lot of custom roms on it and before 1 week i flash the stock rom with odin i do it many times and it works fine this time the phone opens i make all the updates download all the apps i need from the appstore and from one second to another it close and i can not open it i try to go in recovery mod in download mod i buy a new batterie but nothing i think its a hard brick but if it was a hardbrick it must not open after flashing the stock rom but it opens just fine, i hope you can help me.
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i have a solution for you my friend ... you need to wipe the phone (without your media ofcourse) by cwm script
i faced this when using custom roms ... get cwm and wipe using the attached zip and then flash by odin or cwm any rom you like
the script i give will appear like flashing new rom but its not dont worry
this script wipes system\cache\data\dav-cache other stuff but wont touch you media on internal memory or sd card cheers
NOTE : dont boot after using it you must flash a rom by cwm or odin ... if odin shut the phone dont let it boot normally

rrgrrg said:
i have a solution for you my friend ... you need to wipe the phone (without your media ofcourse) by cwm script
i faced this when using custom roms ... get cwm and wipe using the attached zip and then flash by odin or cwm any rom you like
the script i give will appear like flashing new rom but its not dont worry
this script wipes system\cache\data\dav-cache other stuff but wont touch you media on internal memory or sd card cheers
NOTE : dont boot after using it you must flash a rom by cwm or odin ... if odin shut the phone dont let it boot normally
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thanks for answer me but how can i wipe the phone with the script like i say the phone does nothing i cant open it i cant go to recovery or download mod.

rrgrrg said:
i have a solution for you my friend ... you need to wipe the phone (without your media ofcourse) by cwm script
i faced this when using custom roms ... get cwm and wipe using the attached zip and then flash by odin or cwm any rom you like
the script i give will appear like flashing new rom but its not dont worry
this script wipes system\cache\data\dav-cache other stuff but wont touch you media on internal memory or sd card cheers
NOTE : dont boot after using it you must flash a rom by cwm or odin ... if odin shut the phone dont let it boot normally
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lol the guys is clear his phone is off
can you charge your phone or not ( red led is on ) ?

popmpopm said:
lol the guys is clear his phone is off
can you charge your phone or not ( red led is on ) ?
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no not charging nothin i try with a new battery but nothing i read maybe you can install something on microsd card with linux and than boot from micro sd card and than go to download mod and install with odin stock rom, and i read about a samsung jig but i dont know were i can find this jigs...

noName85 said:
no not charging nothin i try with a new battery but nothing i read maybe you can install something on microsd card with linux and than boot from micro sd card and than go to download mod and install with odin stock rom, and i read about a samsung jig but i dont know were i can find this jigs...
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hi guys now i have a second problem lol i i write a debrick image to my microsd card and try like i read it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626 it dont work but now i cant use my microsd card anymore pc dont regonice it and my phone dont regonice it too. how can i format the micro sd card that i can use it again?

noName85 said:
hi guys now i have a second problem lol i i write a debrick image to my microsd card and try like i read it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626 it dont work but now i cant use my microsd card anymore pc dont regonice it and my phone dont regonice it too. how can i format the micro sd card that i can use it again?
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ok i found here what to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpBUzCVrSm0 now my micro sd card is ok but still found no solution for my phone, help please i have this phone only 6 months and no warranty because it was gift.

noName85 said:
ok i found here what to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpBUzCVrSm0 now my micro sd card is ok but still found no solution for my phone, help please i have this phone only 6 months and no warranty because it was gift.
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I think the solution is jigs I make one its easy if you have good tester ( mine is so bizarre )