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UK JTAG Service

Hi,
First off yes I know I'm an idiot for bricking a phone with dangerspl.
Now to the point is anyone based in the UK able to unbrick my phone for me for a fee or know of someone that could do it for me?
Thanks in advance.

Can you describe the steps you took which caused the brick? Are you positive its bricked? There is no stupid here -- its just a damn mistake, so be honest, save the next soul the trouble.

Well i was trying to save myself from the normal comments about this type of brick
Anyway after flashing dangerspl on the reboot it just hung on the G1 logo for 30 minutes so I tried a battery pull but got the same thing again.
I'm guessing I had the wrong radio flashed.
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can you get into the recovery or bootloader ?

No I can't its currently in repair at the moment.
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Just a 'me too' on this year-old thread - I did a stoopid and whilst I thought I had all the right radio versions etc. installed I must've messed something up, so my old G1 just sticks at the G1 logo forever.
Power + Camera = no bootloader, Home + Power = no recovery. Even the suggestion of 'fastboot' does nothing - I see no USB device detected.
So, any UK takers? The RIFF box isn't that expensive, but I'm bloody useless with anything small and fiddly

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immolo said:
Hi,
First off yes I know I'm an idiot for bricking a phone with dangerspl.
Now to the point is anyone based in the UK able to unbrick my phone for me for a fee or know of someone that could do it for me?
Thanks in advance.
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I Just bricked (Hard-bricked my S2) and found a service with in the u.k http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif its called funfoneshop.co.uk so check it out and for my S2 it's only £30 http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Most ridiculous issue ever - please advise.

Okay so - recently my I9000m went into a boot loop (during normal use - though I did have voodoo installed) and I can not access recovery mode. I could however access download mode.
I attempted to install stock firmware from samfirmware - no luck.
I attempted to install stock firmware from the forums - no luck.
I attempted to install EZBase - no luck.
I even attempted to use Virniks 'stock everything' tutorial - no luck.
After all these attempt and various other attempts involving 3 button fixes I was still having boot-loops.
So I got desperate - and I installed the Odin One Click for captivate - I know...bad idea but like I said.. I was desperate.
Now my i9000m (bell canada) starts up with the AT&T Logo and then boot loops!
The worst part is I can't even access download mode anymore! I understand that this is probably due to the fact that the buttons are remapped - keeping that in mind I tried as many key combos as I could but still get nothing but the AT&T Logo looping over and over.
So to the point.. does anyone have a surefire way to get to captivate download mode on a I9000M?
I've read about the JIG solution but I'll use that as a last resort as I would have to order the pieces (I'm not much of a solderer).
So are there any non-JIG solutions to get back to download mode/restore my phone?
All input is appreciated and I'd like to thank everyone that has tried to help me these last couple of days!

Sounds like your internal SD card is dead.
I was having similar issues where the phone would just bootloop. I re-flashed 4-5 different stock roms which all did the same thing. One of the stock roms allowed me into recovery mode, which yielded no success only a no sd card message.
I have gone ahead and sent my phone out to Bell for repair.

Viper717 said:
Sounds like your internal SD card is dead.
I was having similar issues where the phone would just bootloop. I re-flashed 4-5 different stock roms which all did the same thing. One of the stock roms allowed me into recovery mode, which yielded no success only a no sd card message.
I have gone ahead and sent my phone out to Bell for repair.
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I'm thinking of doing the same (bringing it to bell) though I'm not sure they'll honor the warranty with it booting up with the AT&T logo, hah :<

Yeah i dont think they would service that, i was fortunate enough to get back a stock i9000m rom so it still boot up with that.
You can try contacting samsung directly to see if they will be able to repair for you, or try the jig and re-flash to stock bell rom

Viper717 said:
Yeah i dont think they would service that, i was fortunate enough to get back a stock i9000m rom so it still boot up with that.
You can try contacting samsung directly to see if they will be able to repair for you, or try the jig and re-flash to stock bell rom
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Called samsung last night - they said I have to bring it to bell first.
Worst case scenario I'll pay sammy to fix it =/
Update: Just got off the phone with Bell, described my problem, said that I messed with the software real hard and they said that as long as I didn't remove any warranty stickers I'll still be able to get it fixed by samsung foh freeee.

Viper717 said:
Sounds like your internal SD card is dead.
I was having similar issues where the phone would just bootloop. I re-flashed 4-5 different stock roms which all did the same thing. One of the stock roms allowed me into recovery mode, which yielded no success only a no sd card message.
I have gone ahead and sent my phone out to Bell for repair.
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I have urgued him to flash any SGS firmware with recovery image, but he didn't listen.
And yes, I think that his internal storage bus is dead.
If so, he should write down IMEI of his phone, and send email to the Samsung Korea with the info, that his internal SD card is dead. They will send him brand new phone.
But in the case he would rather use warranty service of his provider, he will need to:
a) try reboot with adb, and fastest as he can, try to issue "reboot download" command with it
OR
b) make JIG, and reboot to download mode, and reflash stock ROM
Asking Samsung Korea for new phone with IMEI sent to them do not require any of above...
EDIT: I have missed your last reply. Good to know, that Bell will fix it for you. But I do not think that they will be able to fix it. They will more likely give you new phone.

Virnik0 said:
I have urgued him to flash any SGS firmware with recovery image, but he didn't listen.
And yes, I think that his internal storage bus is dead.
If so, he should write down IMEI of his phone, and send email to the Samsung Korea with the info, that his internal SD card is dead. They will send him brand new phone.
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I did listen - no matter how many times I tried to flash the sgs firmware w/ recovery image it would just keep booting and wouldn't enable the functionality.
As i detailed above I tried several recommended methods to re-enable the recovery mode and none of them worked.
Thanks for your help - hopefully Bell honors what they said on the phone.

Sozage said:
I did listen - no matter how many times I tried to flash the sgs firmware w/ recovery image it would just keep booting and wouldn't enable the functionality.
As i detailed above I tried several recommended methods to re-enable the recovery mode and none of them worked.
Thanks for your help - hopefully Bell honors what they said on the phone.
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OK. Just do not panic :-D
You will get your phone back, more likely new one.
And on other hand, this result is not your fault. Some "first-line" SGS phone models has been faulty. You are not the first one with such problem.

Virnik0 said:
OK. Just do not panic :-D
You will get your phone back, more likely new one.
And on other hand, this result is not your fault. Some "first-line" SGS phone models has been faulty. You are not the first one with such problem.
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They said they would send it to Samsung and give me a loaner until mine is back.
Not sure if they'll still honor it when I show up in person...but I'm hoping for the best.

So to give a final update:
After a couple commutes back and forth to the Bell store and a couple phone calls to Samsung it looks like I voided the warranty and I'm SOL on getting this phone repaired.
The (semi)bright side of the story is that I have an insurance policy with Bell and I'm getting a brand new SGS for $150.

Sozage said:
So to give a final update:
After a couple commutes back and forth to the Bell store and a couple phone calls to Samsung it looks like I voided the warranty and I'm SOL on getting this phone repaired.
The (semi)bright side of the story is that I have an insurance policy with Bell and I'm getting a brand new SGS for $150.
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Little too much for a few hours of your time. If you'd reflashed stock ROM and ignored vibrant fw, as I've suggested, they would have no chance to find out what happened, and you've been given new phone for free. But you were in a hurry. Besides, your second, but in the circumstances of your haste not important misstake was, that you've told them what you have done.
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Virnik0 said:
Little too much for a few hours of your time. If you'd reflashed stock ROM and ignored vibrant fw, as I've suggested, they would have no chance to find out what happened, and you've been given new phone for free. But you were in a hurry. Besides, your second, but in the circumstances of your haste not important misstake was, that you've told them what you have done.
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Exactly what I thought...you gave them extremely obvious reasons to put you at fault when you could have easily gotten a free replacement out of this. Don't answer questions that aren't asked
My father's I9000M had a failed SD and I got it replaced for free. Ironically his had a single ROM flashed on it and mine has had over 100 and been 100% fine.

chambo622 said:
Exactly what I thought...you gave them extremely obvious reasons to put you at fault when you could have easily gotten a free replacement out of this. Don't answer questions that aren't asked
My father's I9000M had a failed SD and I got it replaced for free. Ironically his had a single ROM flashed on it and mine has had over 100 and been 100% fine.
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Btw, it does not matter how many times you'll reflash, this sd bus failure is pretty common in some first series of GT-9000 and GT-9000M
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chambo622 said:
Exactly what I thought...you gave them extremely obvious reasons to put you at fault when you could have easily gotten a free replacement out of this. Don't answer questions that aren't asked
My father's I9000M had a failed SD and I got it replaced for free. Ironically his had a single ROM flashed on it and mine has had over 100 and been 100% fine.
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My BELL phone started up with an AT&T logo... even if I didn't volunteer the information they would have figured it out and sent me the bill.
As soon as they determine it is off warranty Samsung charges $35 dollars just to evaluate the problem and then charges you to fix it.
Yes I should have just brought it back when it first messed up but I figured my warranty was already voided due to the voodoo installation that I could not reverse (due to the boot loops).
Lesson learned.. probably won't tweak my phone too much in the future...especially if (like my last phone) I can't get into recovery mode - though I'm hoping this is fixed in the new phone I get.

Sozage said:
My BELL phone started up with an AT&T logo... even if I didn't volunteer the information they would have figured it out and sent me the bill.
As soon as they determine it is off warranty Samsung charges $35 dollars just to evaluate the problem and then charges you to fix it.
Yes I should have just brought it back when it first messed up but I figured my warranty was already voided due to the voodoo installation that I could not reverse (due to the boot loops).
Lesson learned.. probably won't tweak my phone too much in the future...especially if (like my last phone) I can't get into recovery mode - though I'm hoping this is fixed in the new phone I get.
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$5 jig could have saved you $150
But at least you're having your phone repaired...

Kops said:
$5 jig could have saved you $150
But at least you're having your phone repaired...
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Not repaired! New phone! Maybe even one without a faulty SD card!

Sozage said:
My BELL phone started up with an AT&T logo... even if I didn't volunteer the information they would have figured it out and sent me the bill.
As soon as they determine it is off warranty Samsung charges $35 dollars just to evaluate the problem and then charges you to fix it.
Yes I should have just brought it back when it first messed up but I figured my warranty was already voided due to the voodoo installation that I could not reverse (due to the boot loops).
Lesson learned.. probably won't tweak my phone too much in the future...especially if (like my last phone) I can't get into recovery mode - though I'm hoping this is fixed in the new phone I get.
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The lesson you should've learn is to READ before you attempt anything.
I've flashed about anything to this phone and it's pretty hard to really brick the thing... Flashing the rom from a captivate is realy not in the line of "tweaking" rather than no-sens what so ever...

t1mman said:
The lesson you should've learn is to READ before you attempt anything.
I've flashed about anything to this phone and it's pretty hard to really brick the thing... Flashing the rom from a captivate is realy not in the line of "tweaking" rather than no-sens what so ever...
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Right, it should be enought to use common sense, and think a little before any further action. I have tried almost anything, starting with dualboot to xubuntu linux, or editing apk's, modding and themming apps (not always successful), erasing all data partitions, created new ones, installed (or at least tried) to install gentoo linux with simple routing capability, and so on. And I'm still here.
Truth is, that some first lines of SGS were affected with faulty sd bus. But there is no need for paying warranty service, and no need to be few days without my phone. If common sense is used, then User would not:
1) install captivate firmware
2) flash anything before cwm is working
if both above fails, he'll reboot to the download mode, flashed canadian or any other fw containing Sbl.bin, alias recovery.
After that, he would flash standard stock firmware which is used by his operator. As a last thing, he would wipe sdcard from recovery.
Phone will look, behave and WILL BE same as he'd bought it.
So they will look on it, and will see standard, untouched phone, which is unknowingly rebooting itself.
Voila! They'll have no other chance then give you brand new phone right on the spot.
So for the next time, keep your mouth shut at least, when you deal with operator ;-)
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t1mman said:
The lesson you should've learn is to READ before you attempt anything.
I've flashed about anything to this phone and it's pretty hard to really brick the thing... Flashing the rom from a captivate is realy not in the line of "tweaking" rather than no-sens what so ever...
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I wish people would read the entire thread before posting more bs like this.
Trying to put the captivate software on my phone via Odin One Click was the 10th or so thing I tried to do to restore my phone. Nothing would work - recovery mode did not work on my phone nor was I able to restore it.
Flashing the captivate software was an attempt to get recovery working (a desperate attempt) and had nothing to do with my comment about tweaking.
diaf.

I know there is nothing you can do but out is bs that you' voided' warranty. they make you pay $150 for THEIR hardware failure.

[TUT]How to unbrick Xperia Arc

If your phone won't boot up (it's stuck at Sony Ericsson boot screen) and you can't get into recovery either, that means you bricked your Xperia.
You may think that you are screwed, but if your PC can recognise your phone when it's powered off (don't try booting it before connecting to PC!) I have an easy solution for you!
What you need to do is download UpdateService (Find it on Sony's site), and install it.
Don't run it just yet.
Than, connect your phone to your PC and when Windows checks it, run UpdateService (thing you downloaded)
Than, UpdateService will do firmware checking and in a minute you should be able to see it updating your phone to a newest firmware (.62 right now).
Now, this will take a few minutes, and when it's done phone will start booting, that also might take up to 5 minutes.
When it's done, you have your phone working again!
*This works only if you have your bootloader locked!
**You will lose all of your apps, so I hope you know what you had!

does not always work , but it is a good option to fix the phone

Since the pc recognizes the phone and the update service thing is not available anymore so we can even try to flash new firmware manually, by fastboot or flashtools! And what if one is already running the latest firmware, will update service still work?
If i helped you, hit the thanks button!
Xperia Arc |Acronium 7.2| |DooMkernel v19|

Sony Update Service (previously SEUS) is available here. Current version 2.11.12.5.
But 'No new software is available for your phone.' So that's good; it might be a shiny brick, but at least it's up to date!

nice tut., but its not easy to brick a phone with locked bootloader

It won't work on unlocked bootloader.
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TheHaso said:
nice tut., but its not easy to brick a phone with locked bootloader
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Actually it is if you use a wrong custom ROM.

TheHaso said:
nice tut., but its not easy to brick a phone with locked bootloader
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Trust me, it's not hard. I did it already

Loosely said:
But 'No new software is available for your phone.' So that's good; it might be a shiny brick, but at least it's up to date!
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So how did you solve that problem?

Wy,i brick my arc s install a rom,can't you help me to unbrick.

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I ****ing LOVE you OP!!
This **** saved my ass so much that I made an account just to say thank you man! Also used Thanks button :good:
Dude, you are a lifesaver - continue being awesome!

Thx a lot it work!!!!

Is it even possible to brick an arc s beyond the point of repair, unless you're a noob.
With the Arc S having fun on CM 10

Hi there! I think I've just bricked my arc ( it showes an exclamation mark inside a triangle and there is a phone close to it and it all right after sony logo). but the thing is that my bootloader is probably open( dont really remember). Any ideas of reparing?

NiklarenF1 said:
Hi there! I think I've just bricked my arc ( it showes an exclamation mark inside a triangle and there is a phone close to it and it all right after sony logo). but the thing is that my bootloader is probably open( dont really remember). Any ideas of reparing?
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Flashtool.
Want more information? Search.

Someguyfromhell said:
Flashtool.
Want more information? Search.
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Flashtool says that it cannot flash it bcz my debugging isnt on, and I cant reset it(

NiklarenF1 said:
Flashtool says that it cannot flash it bcz my debugging isnt on, and I cant reset it(
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Debugging isn't needed for that. You need to get your phone into flashmode. Use Search to find more info how to use Flashtool

intersting guide.......it's useful if i brick my phone:fingers-crossed:

First of all, when you are running your phone on the latest update, you can't use this process to unbrick/update your phone. So my guess here is, this post is rendered useless to people who have updated their phones to the latest update.
I am in Panic mode so yeah.

My phone is not bricking when I want it to do so!!!

Hi guys this is just an experience sharing....
I am also one among those who bricked their phone by wiping
I was able to recover my note from brick state to working state with the help of forest1971 and hg42...special thanks to them. After recovering from brick my phone was showing some lag and it used to hang now and then..I got nearly 9.5 GB of my internal sd recovered. So I thought of giving it to samsung and getting it replaced.
I tried wiping wiping wiping with many custom roms but none bricked my phone again...Then I thought of deleting the sys partition with rm command and tried to reboot. But this time I was able to enter cwm recovery but any how it was hang at samsung logo....I was afraid that samsung may find that I have rooted my phone so I reinstalled stock GB rom and then tried to update to ics but it also failed. Then I downloaded ics stock rom and installed it with odin and used triangle away app to reset the counter. The I tried to wipe but of no use. Again I installed cwm and wiped may times but there was no problem at all. I was really surprised, I am in stock ics rom and wiping in cwm but not bricking my phone I wiped nearly 10 times but no sign of brick, my phone is working.....
At last I reinstalled my stock ics to get stock recovery and went to samsung. I told them my phone hangs now and then. There they tried to install the new ics rom and my phone bricked at that time... :fingers-crossed: Now I am waiting for replacement...they told my phone will be replaced with in 2 weeks...heheeee...

In 2 Weeks?
Hope "Samsung" will not see this thread in the meantime...

replacement in 2 weeks? that too in ernakulam? you're lucky bro. keep us updated

Thats interesting story, you dont want to brick it, it brick. Now you want to brick it, it won't. Thats funny. :laugh:

anjath said:
replacement in 2 weeks? that too in ernakulam? you're lucky bro. keep us updated
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is that too late???? ....:crying:

JazonX said:
In 2 Weeks?
Hope "Samsung" will not see this thread in the meantime...
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Actually a part of the reason for these type of replacement is samsung itself....it is the bug in their kernal that is making phones brick...
Any way with this experience I learned to play with my phones partitions...how to delete it, re-create it, change its size...etc.....
From my experience what I think is samsung will be able to reuse these motherboard....the technicians in these local service outlet may not be knowing how to recover from such cases, they may not even have the equipments to repair such problems. These are just a problem with the partition blocks not a major hardware issue.....I am sure that samsung can recover from such bad blocks in the partitions....

Hi guys....Today I got my note's mother board replaced after a great war....:good:
By today it is one week after I gave my note to the service center people. Today I went there to know the status. As usual it was very crowded there and there were lot of people complaining... I just showed my work sheet to one guy there and asked for status...He went inside and told me that they are loading software...I told them the complaint was not for software but for board...That guy was not knowing that I gave it for replacement, and thus accidentally I came to know the truth that they haven't even send my phone for replacement.:crying:
This made me mad and I shouted there and asked them what the hell were you guys doing for the last one week...and the war started...they tried to tell some lame excuse and I strongly argued ..... they tried to reflash my phone many times and it failed..... then I called samsung call centre and I told the whole story and I asked for the procedure to complaint againt that authorized service centre and gave them the details of that service centre. They asked me to talk with its manager which was already done and was of no use at all...Then the samsung guy told me that they will make a solution and will call in half an hour....But in 15 minute what happened was the manager of the authorized service centre was asking and searching for some board...and in some minute they told me that they are replacing the mother board. and in 45 - 60 min I got my phone with new mother board....:fingers-crossed:

Im sorry mate, can you explain exactly how did you brick your phone the first time i just want to play it safe cause in my case i have to go to my cel company and then they have to go to samsung and well im afraid they will take tooo long
thanks

Zbc said:
Im sorry mate, can you explain exactly how did you brick your phone the first time i just want to play it safe cause in my case i have to go to my cel company and then they have to go to samsung and well im afraid they will take tooo long
thanks
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First time I was on stock ics rom. I installed cwm recovery and accidentally I wiped in cwm recovery and my phone bricked.

Wrong Post.

sandy4everyone said:
First time I was on stock ics rom. I installed cwm recovery and accidentally I wiped in cwm recovery and my phone bricked.
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Thank you im just a little scared of flashing ill be careful

[BRICK] X8 Loader/Hard Bricked during unlock process

Hello xdadevelopers.. I recently tried unlocking the bootloader on second X8 phone.. I successfully managed to unlock it.. but I've accidentally removed the battery after it boot up.. I'm not getting any sign of life or such.. I tried powering up normally, no results, tried booting up the flashmode, green LED doesn't appear, tried to connect it on my USB cable, no response, tried charging it with normal cable (No USB cable).. no results.. :/
Is there any way to unbrick it without sending it to SE service? Please help..
P.S. It's date is 11W44 (I managed to unlock my bootloader below 11W44 I think, will check my phone for release date)

No. Not really. You need to send it to sony. There are a lot of warnings here regarding unlocking bootloaders of devices 11w29 and up.

So that means the hardware is damaged after unlocking the loader? And I'm not sure if SE service still has options to repair X8 since it's old phone and it's production has stopped.. :/

NCC-34051-E said:
So that means the hardware is damaged after unlocking the loader? And I'm not sure if SE service still has options to repair X8 since it's old phone and it's production has stopped.. :/
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Not 100% sure, but i don't think it's the hardware in as much as it's not really "damaged." based on what i've read from members that had sony reppair their devices, it seems that the motherboard is replaced. But those who know claim that jtag can fix it.
Edit: try to search around for people who are knowledgeable on jtag and maybe they can fix it.

Yeah.. I've read about jtag and riff box moments ago.. It seems the flash memory is corrupted.. unable to reflash it again.. Since it was my friend's phone (I borrowed him my so I can try to update his phone to cyanogen mod), I've successfully lost my phone, oh well.. I might buy better one in the future I hope.. Thanks for the help!

NCC-34051-E said:
Yeah.. I've read about jtag and riff box moments ago.. It seems the flash memory is corrupted.. unable to reflash it again.. Since it was my friend's phone (I borrowed him my so I can try to update his phone to cyanogen mod), I've successfully lost my phone, oh well.. I might buy better one in the future I hope.. Thanks for the help!
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Good luck. Hope it gets fixed.