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Is my HERO REALLY BRICKED!!!???

my phones rooted and I have the Regaw mod ROM load on there, and its been good for a couple days now. Last night I went to sleep and forgot to charge my phone so figured the battery died. I plugged in it for about 10-15mins or so to turn it on and all it does is hang on the HTC bootscreen!!!! then I try to boot into recovery and all I get is at the bottom of the screen it says "Build : RA-HEROC-v1.5.2"!!!! Does this mean my phone is bricked!!!???

Remove the battery. Put it back in. Try to boot.
There are other solutions. As long as it turns on there should be a way to unbrick. Try RUU as well.

i tried the battery pull a couple times im trying the RUU now but what the hell could have bricked my phone over night?

I think what the guy in the 2nd post is trying to say, is that if it is booting, it isn't bricked.
It would be bricked if you couldn't do anything with it, then its like a brick.
I know it is probably a bit scary but ify ou can boot it at all, you most likely can fix it.
Did you make any changes (remove any files?) yesterday at some point, and this would have been the first restart?
I don't know, it could be a number of things.

It is probably not bricked. I bricked my G1 so I have some experience in that area. If you can boot into recovery it is not bricked. When I bricked my G1 I couldn't even get to recovery. let it charge a bit. Th battery is probably just dead. OR. take the battery out and plug it in and try to boot. Let it boot for about 15 mins or so.

no i didnt change anything at all, except my sd card said it was corrupted after unplugging it from my PC improperly. and I didnt reformat it right away. I just tried to RUU and i got an Error 170 a USB connection error

BAttitude7689 said:
no i didnt change anything at all, except my sd card said it was corrupted after unplugging it from my PC improperly. and I didnt reformat it right away. I just tried to RUU and i got an Error 170 a USB connection error
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Where does the recovery image read from? I know we put it in the root folder of the SD, but does it actually boot from there? Could be your issue...
are you runnings apps2sd or whatever it is called?

yes that possibly could be my issue!! how can i fix my sd card or what should I do?

no I am not running apps to SD

BAttitude7689 said:
yes that possibly could be my issue!! how can i fix my sd card or what should I do?
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BAttitude7689 said:
no I am not running apps to SD
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I'm not so sure. I am pretty green when it comes to all this rooting stuff. I'm just trying to help figure it out.
Maybe try booting without the SD card in the phone? Could help to narrow down the issue.
I'm sure someone with more knowledge could help.

yea im booting it now with NO SD and its still hangs at the HTC screen

BAttitude7689 said:
yea im booting it now with NO SD and its still hangs at the HTC screen
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Can you try plugging it into your USB connection and getting into the ADB shell (in CMD) to see if you can access the phone even though it seems stuck.
I know I did this and was able to monitor the logcat when I thought it was stuck, but it was really just doing a whole bunch of stuff.
Just an idea....again, I'm just fishing here trying to help you out.

it tells me error: device not found
i went to (CMD) then cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools and then adb devices

you might have to manually rewipe your recovery partition in cmd. I had to do that after the official ruu messed up my phone- it wouldn't boot at all, I had to use the fastboot command: fastboot oem boot, then using my nandroid backup restored my recovery.
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im kinda of a noob at some of this so kinda need to explain it out lol ...I just booted to recovery and pressed *vol up* and got me to Fastboot Mode then it says press <Menu> to reset device, should I do that option?

okay i pressed menu and all that got me was it hanging again at the HTC screen.. should i do all of this with my SD card in or out of the phone?

When you boot it and it gets into the "partial" recovery mode, does the PC see the phone? Can you put RA-Heroc-1.6.2 onthe SD card from there? If so, I'd try flashing the new recovery from ADB...very easy...and see if that gets you a bit further along.
You might also try cheating a bit. See if you can pull a nandroid from the SD card (might have to do this with a card reader), then get Flipz's Kitchen and restore the Nandroid after you boot into recovery.
Just a couple of things I'd try....from experience...
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okay this is what happens i press vol down and power then is load where the androids are on skateboards and it says press <HOME> for recovery along with a Fastboot mode and Simlock option. I press home and then I see the HTC screen for about 30 secs and then where I normally would see the recovery menu with all the green writing i see all black except at the bottom is says
Build : RA-heroc-v1.5.2

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When you boot it and it gets into the "partial" recovery mode, does the PC see the phone? Can you put RA-Heroc-1.6.2 onthe SD card from there? If so, I'd try flashing the new recovery from ADB...very easy...and see if that gets you a bit further along.
You might also try cheating a bit. See if you can pull a nandroid from the SD card (might have to do this with a card reader), then get Flipz's Kitchen and restore the Nandroid after you boot into recovery.
Just a couple of things I'd try....from experience...
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To follow this and break it down a bit more for you:
1. Plug in USB with phone off
2. Turn on phone and get it to the "blank" recovery screen.
3. Run through the flashing of the recovery rom image again (see HERE) but start at step 13 or so.

Try doing the above post..

Help

Hey every one I'm new to xda and I got my samsung vibrant rooted with the stock system recovery and was working fine but than I decided to do some apps and file transfer from another android phone to it and after that my phone kinda froze on me. So I rebooted the phone and boom nothing happen after the galaxy s animation, its just stuck there then the screen went black out. I rebooted again and this time I went to the sustem recovery mode and try to do the data reset but it couldn't fix it either. I tried to connected to my computer but since the phone wasn't fully booted into the home screen my computer are unable to detect the phone driver. I reconnect the phone and computer together, and this time I got to where it say's "downloading" "do noy turn off target", what is that mean? is it download something or is that I'm suppost to do something to it. Please can someone help me out. I've already download the stock firmwire but couldn't be able to transfer to the mass storage cos the phone couldn't boot beyound the galaxy s animation and eventhough its in the system recovering I still couldn't get it to connect to the phone mass storage. What can I do to fix it?.

You can take the battery out at that screen, but I don't know if it's going to fix your overall issue.

Take sd out. Hook to computer with adapter. Move stock nandroid to sd. Replace sd in phone. Boot into clockwork recovery. Restore nandroid. Reboot.you are now stock with root.

one thing
I know what I did is stupid but at lease I learn my lesson. I would really appreciate if someone could help me out.

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I tried but its not working cost the phone doesn't read what's on the sd card it read only the mass storage which is the 14g not the 2g memorycard.

The SD card won't be in the phone so of course it won't read from it. It will read from the interbal memory, so do it from there.
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Kld4ever2008 said:
Hey every one I'm new to xda and I got my samsung vibrant rooted with the stock system recovery and was working fine but than I decided to do some apps and file transfer from another android phone to it and after that my phone kinda froze on me. So I rebooted the phone and boom nothing happen after the galaxy s animation, its just stuck there then the screen went black out. I rebooted again and this time I went to the sustem recovery mode and try to do the data reset but it couldn't fix it either. I tried to connected to my computer but since the phone wasn't fully booted into the home screen my computer are unable to detect the phone driver. I reconnect the phone and computer together, and this time I got to where it say's "downloading" "do noy turn off target", what is that mean? is it download something or is that I'm suppost to do something to it. Please can someone help me out. I've already download the stock firmwire but couldn't be able to transfer to the mass storage cos the phone couldn't boot beyound the galaxy s animation and eventhough its in the system recovering I still couldn't get it to connect to the phone mass storage. What can I do to fix it?.
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Turn off the phone, take out the battery and take out the SD card, try to get your hands on a sd card reader for your card so you can fix what you did without using your phone to mount it. Copy the rom or stock firmware over to the card and use the recovery, wipe data/factory reset and then try to load up the stock firmware. if all else fails do a hard reset:
To hard reset Samsung Vibrant, follow the steps below:
Step 1. Turn your Samsung Vibrant off. If your Samsung Vibrant is frozen, pull the battery out and reinsert it.
Step 2. Hold the Volume Down button.
Step 3. Press and release the Power button.
Step 4. You are now presented with a menu that allows for Fastboot, Recovery, Clear Storage, and Simlock
Select Clear Storage by pressing the Volume Down button, then press and release the Power button.
Step 5. Choose one of these: Volume Up for YES and Volume Down for NO. If you selected YES, all data including third-party applications will be deleted from the Samsung Vibrant.
That is for the default recovery so depending on the recovery you are using try to wipe everything and flash the ROM from the sd card, if you need help PM me or contact me on chat.andirc.net #droideris, or irc.andirc.net #droideris
Best of luck!

[Q] Delete personal data from non-booting phone

Hi everyone
I have a Huawei U8800 which I can no longer boot (it gets stuck at the white Huawei screen). I can, however, access the 'pink screen' (vol+, vol-, power button) and the files when connecting it to my computer, but entering recovery mode (vol+, power button) does not seem to work.
I am an utter noob, so my approach to solve my problem would be to simply take the phone back to the shop, but first I would like to erase my personal data. Is this possible in my case, without voiding my warranty? In case it is not, could you perhaps tell me how I could go about fixing the phone myself (in such a case I would also be willing to scrap the warranty)?
Thanks a lot in advance!
PS: I have not rooted the phone or done anything like that, all I did was installing a couple of apps, so it's pretty much in its original state.

You should be able to flash one of the original roms and the phone would boot if there're no hardware problems.
The original roms were removed from the huawei website but if you search the site there were plenty links afaik.

Thanks dionero. The trouble is that I am too much of a noob to understand what exactly you mean by 'flash one of the original roms'. Could you please provide some more detail? Thanks a lot

Here is a rom with instructions on how to flash :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17591131&postcount=1

Thanks again! I will give it a go later on today.

Did you manage to recover the phone?

Thanks for asking! First I need to go and buy a micro SD card, as that seems to be required for the process. But I'll post an update once that's done and I've attempted the recovery. Thanks again for your time!!

Hi,
finally the micro SD card has been delivered - I'll never buy from that shop again, what long shipping times!
Anyway, I'm afraid the recovery did not work. The phone did react, said it was performing the upgrade, and it the end it even displayed the "Upgrade completed" message. Attempts to reboot, however, still don't let me get any further than the Huawei screen
One further observation I have made (even before the attempted recovery, but ever since the phone stopped booting): when the phone is switched off (which nowadays can only be accomplished by removing the battery), and I plug it into the power outlet, it immediately starts its booting attempt. When the phone was still alright, however, it would recharge its battery without trying to boot immediately. I don't know whether that's important, but maybe someone can make use of this information!?
Well, in case anyone on here has got some more suggestions as to what else I could try I would be really grateful. Thanks a lot for your time and effort, and for reading this!

How long did you wait at the Huawei screen? First start takes longer time and it should reboot multiple times. Anyway, you should try flashing one of the recoveries, 5.0.2.3 for example. You can find it in the development section. With that you should wipe cache and data, delete dalvik cache and then try to start it.
I'm on mobile so I can't give you a good tutorial, but recovery should be fairly easy to install (look for stockwell's recovery).
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Thanks, Blefish, for your reply. I tried recovery flashing at some point along the way, and I tried it again now, this time using the version you suggested. Still I simply cannot boot into recovery mode. I can either get the "pink screen", or simply the white Huawei screen, even if I press Vol+ and the power button (I've also tried pressing them for different amounts of time, but all to no avail)
Oh, and as an answer to your question: I waited for maybe 15 minutes or so.

Sorry wrong info

1. Download a stock rom.
2. Create a folder on the SD card named "dload"
3. Copy UPDATE.APP and UPDATE_CUST.APP from stock rom archive to dload folder
4. Insert sdcart to phone
5. Switch on phone with press vol+ and vol- buttons
6. The installation will start automatically

Thanks ufukyayla, but what you're suggesting is exactly what dionero had suggested earlier, and unfortunately it did not work.

Expalinin the term- "brick".

First of all, lets get something straight. Most people use the term "bricked" improperly. A bricked phone means one thing: your phone won't turn on in any way, shape or form, and there's nothing you can do to fix it. It is, for all intents and purposes, as useful as a brick. A phone stuck in a boot loop is not bricked, nor is a phone that boots straight into recovery mode. These are things you can usually fix, and they're a lot more common than a truly bricked phone. If your phone is*actually*bricked, you won't be able to fix it yourself (but there are things you can do—see the end of this article). For those other problems, you have a few options.
If Your Phone Keeps Rebooting: Wipe Your Data and Cache

If you've flashed a ROM and your phone won't boot into the home screen, it's probably because you forgot to wipe your data and/or cache. It's trying to boot into the ROM, but some leftover data from your last ROM is causing it to error out, and it'll reboot itself over and over again. If your phone's eating a big bowl of boot loops, your first course of action should be to wipe its data and cache, which you can do from recovery mode. This method assumes you're using ClockworkMod Recovery, like the majority of Android users, but if your particular phone uses a different third-party recovery (like AmonRA), you should still be able to find these options in the interface. They might just be in a different place. To wipe your data and cache:
Power down your phone. Turn it back on and boot into Recovery mode. This is a bit different for every phone, so you'll have to Google how to do it for your specific model. Usually it involves holding down another button, like Volume Down, as you turn your phone on. HTC phones will have to then select "Recovery" from a menu, while other phones will boot directly into ClockworkMod. You'll know you're in ClockworkMod by the words "ClockworkMod Recovery" at the top of the screen.Use your volume keys to navigate the menus, and your power button to select menu items. Scroll down to Advanced, and choose "Wipe Dalvik Cache". When that's finished, go back to the main screen and choose "Wipe Cache Partition". Lastly, head to "Wipe Data/Factory Reset". This will delete all your settings and apps, but you should still be using the correct ROM.Reboot your phone.
With any luck, it should boot right into your ROM. If that didn't work, try the below method with the same ROM (or with a different ROM) and see if you get different results.
If Your Phone Boots Straight Into Recovery: Flash a New ROM

If, when you boot up your phone, it goes straight into ClockworkMod, then there's likely an issue with the ROM you flashed. Note that some ROMs boot into recovery mode automatically after flashing, so reboot your phone once from recovery mode to make sure you're having a problem. HTC users: if you boot up your phone, it might go straight into the bootloader—check to see whether you can choose "Recovery" from the list before continuing to the next step. HTC phones usually don't boot straight into recovery.
In this case, you'll want to reflash the ROM from scratch. Try again with the ROM that messed up your phone, if you so choose, but if that doesn't work, try an entirely different ROM. The best way to do this is to download a ROM from somewhere on the net and putting it on your*SD card. You'll need to take the SD card out of your phone, and you'll need an SD card reader that you can plug into your computer. Here's how it works:
Plug the SD card into your computer. Drag the ROM's ZIP file to your SD card, and wait for it to copy.When it's done copying, eject the SD card and put it back in your phone. Reboot into Recovery mode. This is a bit different for every phone, so you'll have to Google how to do it for your specific model. Usually it involves holding down another button, like Volume Down, as you turn your phone on. HTC phones will have to then select "Recovery" from a menu, while other phones will boot directly into ClockworkMod. You'll know you're in ClockworkMod by the words "ClockworkMod Recovery" at the top of the screen.Use your volume keys to navigate the menus, and your power button to select menu items. Scroll down to "Install ZIP From SD Card" and navigate to the ZIP file you just copied over. Give it time to flash the ROM.When it's done, reboot your phone.
Hopefully, your phone should successfully boot into the new ROM. From there, you can probably assume that the previous ROM that messed up your phone isn't going to work, and you'll have to find another ROM for now—or find another copy of that ROM that isn't corrupted. Remember to make backups of your working ROMs so you don't lose all your data!
If Your Phone Boots Straight Into its Bootloader: Restore From a Stock ROM
If you're really having trouble, one of the most surefire ways to get your phone working again is to restore from the original ROM your phone came with—unrooted, stock, stable goodness. Each manufacturer and phone has a different method for doing this, and we can't go into too much detail here, but we can steer you in the right direction.
Note that this will unroot your phone, and return it to exactly how it was when you bought it from the store. You'll lose all your apps, settings, ClockworkMod recovery, you'll get over-the-air updates again, and you'll even have to re-activate your phone if you're on a CDMA provider like Verizon or Sprint.
This is less likely, but it's a problem I and a few others have run into on occasion: sometimes your SD card just gets corrupted, which makes the above methods useless (since they rely on your SD card to work). Take your SD card out of your phone, put it into your computer using an SD card reader, and format it. It's very important that you format it through an SD card reader directly and not by plugging in your phone in USB mode—I learned this the hard way. Format it as FAT32 and try the above methods again.
Other errors, like during the ROM flashing process, might give you a hint as to what's wrong. Try heading to the*XDA Developers forums*and asking for help, as your phone could have one of a million specific problems we can't address here today. Remember, if your phone turns on, there's still a good chance you can recover from whatever error you're experiencing, so don't give up just yet!
If Your Phone Is Truly Bricked: Take It Into the Store and Play Dumb
If your phone is actually bricked—that is, it won't turn on at all, no matter how hard you try—it's time to give up and move on. The first thing you can do in this situation is try to take it back to your carrier's store and play dumb—just say something like "I don't know what happened, but my phone won't turn on anymore" (don't tell them you rooted it, obviously). Most carriers don't have time to deal with such issues and they'll just give you a new phone. Sure, it's a tad evil, but it should work most of the time.
If they're wise to your act, though, you can try another store or just sell your bricked phone for a few bucks on Craigslist. Sadly, if no one will replace your phone, you'll have to buy an entirely new one. Such are the dangers of rooting, but don't be discouraged! Bricking your phone is pretty rare, so I wouldn't worry about it being a common occurrence. As always, though, when you void your warranty, only do so if you're ready to replace that device completely, since you never know what can happen.
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L7 HardBricked + bricked sd?

Hello there!
I have already used the search function, but I wasn't able to find my exact problem in any other post.
Yesterday I flashed the rom Carbon (4.4.2 maded by coderzs) on my p705, and today It appeared with the LG logo a little buggy, then I take out the battery and it never turns on again (no matter what key combination I used) and another surprise is that my 32gb micro sd was corrupted too, I can't even format it with HP disk storage format tool, neither I can use Recuva to get the files.
Plus, when I connect the phone to USB withouth battery it gets really hot.
Do anyone have an Idea of what to do? Actually I'm more concerned in recovering the SD card info or at least use it again in the future.
Thanks in advance.
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Now I can make it boot LG logo sometimes, but it still buggy and there is no key method to enter bootload emergency is working. =S

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nehuy said:
1 Actually I'm more concerned in recovering the SD card info or at least use it again in the future.
2 Now I can make it boot LG logo sometimes, but it still buggy and there is no key method to enter bootload emergency is working. =S
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1 try putting it in a blackberry while its on (old bb are the best) and it will prompt its corrupted say yes to format and then try plugging into recuva (worked for me numerous times)
2 did you try vol+ and vol- and power hold and release power after vibration and then use KDZ_FW_UPD_EN.7z
try link2sd it does same but on a different level

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1 try putting it in a blackberry while its on (old bb are the best) and it will prompt its corrupted say yes to format and then try plugging into recuva (worked for me numerous times)
2 did you try vol+ and vol- and power hold and release power after vibration and then use KDZ_FW_UPD_EN.7z
try link2sd it does same but on a different level
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I will have to try to put the sd in another phone, but I don't know anyone with bb =S
Also, the only way to make the phone "boot" is holding vol+ (and any other key) and then it vibrates and sow a buggy LG logo, then it continously restart over and over again showing different buggy logos (LG ones).
THanks for the reply.

Other than trying kdz flash you can use LG official update tool to do an emergency update. You will in that process need to enter both imei&serial. Basically this also flash kdz but in addition it check and repair your partitions.
Hope it might help you :beer:

I will try that last advice, thanks
The SD card seems dead =S
It is recognized by the computer and devices, it shows 1gb instead of 32 and it needs to be formated, but no program let me do it.

I already have this problem with my girlfriend's phone last week-end and solve it!
I use a modified stock rom (root + cwm in KDZ) avaiable here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2214717. ROM KDZ V20A_00 ROOT
Put the phone in emergency mode (power off the phone, plug it on usb to your pc, wait for the battery logo then press vol+ and power)
Start KDZ updater then flash the rom. After install, start cwm (vol+ vol- power home at same time) and do a wipe data factory reset and wipe dalvik and cache.
Reboot and it work! :victory:

Yes, I already did it too in the past, I bricked my phone twice, but this time is a hard brick, and wont let me get to emergency mode (there is no way, really I test it). It seems that I can't make it boot =S
Maybe all this is because I was using ART instead of davlink, and something may explode inside the phone.
Thanks anyway for the reply, I'l keep searching for some solution (the SD have more chances to keep alive I guess)

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nehuy said:
Yes, I already did it too in the past, I bricked my phone twice, but this time is a hard brick, and wont let me get to emergency mode (there is no way, really I test it). It seems that I can't make it boot =S
Maybe all this is because I was using ART instead of davlink, and something may explode inside the phone.
Thanks anyway for the reply, I'l keep searching for some solution (the SD have more chances to keep alive I guess)
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does your phone come-up with blank (black but backlit) screen ?
if it does then you will be able to use kdz updater in attachment LG-RDTT_1.0.5.4 (needs included windows enabler for this version)
use THIS GUIDE to flash just skip the hosts file editing steps
and let us know

Okey, I'll try it in a moment
well, it didn't work =S
Computer don't recognize the phone, I tried with ubuntu, 3 windows and 2 mac.

When you say buggy logo do you mean there is visual distortion to screen?
if so it most likely will be hw damage
you got ubuntu can you see it in adb ?
Push/pull ?

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When you say buggy logo do you mean there is visual distortion to screen?
if so it most likely will be hw damage
you got ubuntu can you see it in adb ?
Push/pull ?
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No, and I'm not able to mount it neither.
The logo is as you say, but it reboots constantly and make some little color bars blur the image, then restart again and make some other kind of buggy image :x all with LG logo.
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Well, I finally choose to go for LG service, I'm going to call them tomorrow.
Thanks for the help and trying to solve my problem, I guess they will make my phone boot, but my SD will never come back, or that is what is seems =(
It keeps saying that it is read only, and that's why I can format it.