Current Situation:
When I say bricked, I mean BRICKED in all caps. The phone is completely unresponsive. If I try to turn it on – no good. If I try to put it in bootloader mode – no response. If I hold the volume button down and depress the power – no menu displays. I get no ‘M’. I get nothing. Except…
If I fire up RSD Lite 4.9 and plug in the phone, it does recognize something. Under model it displays “S Flash OMAP3630”. If I load up an sbf file (I’ve been following Higgsy’s incomparable “How To” guide - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853674 and using the generic UK sbf file he recommends) and depress “Start” within RSD Lite, the phone will display “SW Update In progress…” in white blocky text. RSD Lite says it’s executing and, after several minutes will display a Status of “Finished” and a Result of “PASS”. On the phone, the screen goes dark but a white notification light displays. While the phone is still plugged in, I can depress the power button on and off and RSD Lite will recognize it’s there (if it’s on) or not recognize the phone is there (if the power is toggled off).
Note that the battery is fully charged.
I’ll give you a little background info:
Background:
I purchased Defy phones for my wife and me for Christmas. Her’s is working fine, is unrooted, and has only a few apps beyond stock (Angry Birds of course!). But of course I had to play with mine. All went well until I (stupidly) installed the latest T-Mobile update which removed my root access. This was not acceptable to me as I had overclocked my phone for performance purposes. I had a really hard time getting root access back until I at last found a version of SuperOneClick that did the trick.
By this time I had reset the phone back to factory settings. So I thought “Well, I might as well flash some cool ROM”, so I flashed a Gingerbread themed Froyo cooked up for the Defy. Unfortunately, it didn’t work (for whatever reason). I was stuck at the dreaded ‘M’.
Next I started following Higgsy’s guide (as mentioned above) but I guess I screwed something up because now the phone is totally unresponsive except as detailed above.
So where do I go from here? Some possibilities:
Flash T-Mobile 2.2 test sbf?
Link?
Flash Original SBF?
Link?
I’ve still got my wife’s phone which is working perfectly fine. Is there a way to copy files from her phone to my dead phone and get some life?
Do you guys have some other steps you’d recommend?
I’d really like to get my phone working again and would much appreciate the help. Many thanks in advance.
(Note that I’m a Noob so please don’t assume I know anything!)
(Yet another note: I'm in the USA.)
Which .sbf's and in which order did you install them?
The same happened to me after I'd flashed the 3.4.2 sbf, then tried to downgrade back to 2.34. it went blank and I had to reflash 3.4.2 again.
If you've flashed 2.51 or 3.42 then you can't downgrade from them. So the fix would be to flash the same rom again.
I have the same problem and this how i fix it
1.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892026&highlight=low+battery your phone will show in rsd lite
2.flash http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=933555 with him you get a error that can not be installed
3. disconnect phone from USB and remove the battery
4. Replace the battery in the phone and power up, and phone immediately go into the bootloader
5. Flash bootonly http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=899450
6. and finaly flash http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922430
it works for me
sorry for bad english
Solved
I flashed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922430 per your suggestion and I'm now up and running. Thank you.
Motorola Defy bricked
hi
i have a question about my defy. The white led is still shining but there is no connection to the pc. I connected via USB-cable.
pls HELP!!!!!
I have a similar issue as the OP..
I originally rooted the phone using simpleoneclick... then I overclocked it using setvsel...
it was running fine for an hour or so, and then I ran quadrant (several times over the course of the hour) and the final time, it rebooted during the middle of a test, and then it would just keep looping the bootup moto logo and "android" screens.
at that point I could still enter the bootloader and recovery screens. I tried wiping data and resetting to factory defaults with no avail.
Finally I followed a thread on flashing a new rom to the phone with RDSLite and the uk rom. After getting it to finish flashing and it showing a 'Finished' and 'PASS' status as the OP mentioned, te phone now no longer responds. Power button does not trigger the screen to go on, regardless of if I try to press the volume buttons with it or not.
The only response I get from it is when it is connected to the computer, the white led turns on, and the computer (and rdslite) recognizes it. I can still flash it with rdslite and the screen turns on displaying the SW update In progress message...
but that's about all I can get it to do.
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated
edit: I should also mention that after the uk 2.21 rom I've also tried the china 2.2.1 roms.... Should I also try flashing the 2.51 uk version as well?
Okay, I tried a few more roms and this one "JRDNEM_U3_3.4.2_117-00..." has everything back up and running...
however now i'm running into the issue of apps that i've 'downloaded' not actually installing...
bricked
same problem here. rsd can detect my phone but still failed flashing. i changed and renamed the /sbf but still doesnt work... please help
MB525 Defy Bricked
MB525 Defy bricked and rsd cannt detect my phone failed . ... please help
its dead. Actually i uninstalled busybox and in this process all the system files also deleted by busybox. now phone is not starting. if anyone can suggest. I was using MIUI rom. can any one make it alive again.
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Same problem here, but my phone is only detected by a friend's laptop. I think I have to flash Defy+ rom
try to flash sbf use rsd
If your phone is detected by RSD Lite, then you have an easy fix in just flashing a new sbf. If it's not detected and you can't charge your battery, you're going to have to use the MacGyver method.
if sbf doesnt work u better send it to warranty
Well. On my computer the phone isn"t even recognized. Maybe because some RSD Lite files are missing and it need them to detect bricked defy (i did reinstalled RSD Lite)
If it's recognised on your friend's computer but not on yours then it means that you probably have the versions of the motorola drivers or rsd lite that have problems.
white led solution
hope for defy with only white led light turning on. This assumes that you have already have mototola drivers and RSD lite installed.
Background : I only had defy one day when I decided to flash it with miui. I bricked on the first time with bootloops. Did research and got drivers and rsd lite. managed to find three stock t mobile roms and flashed to stock Tom, then flashed miui, since then I've been switching between miui and cm7.
Problem : After a few months of use, I decided to flash stock rom to see how the battery life would be like. Bricked it the first time with bootloops. I thought I had flashed it with wrong rom because the first time I flashed back to original rom I did not delete the roms that I thought were the original roms. So after first failure I tried to flashed with the other roms I had. after the third rom it would not go into bootloader, only white led would turn on. Tried macguiver, did not work so save your usb cable, don't mess with it ain't gonna work.
Two part solution: I realized that when I plugged phone with usb I would hear the usb tone on win 7. When to device manager and saw the other device or something like that was appearing and disappearing when I would connect and disconnect phone. I clicked it and it said Motorola device or something like that, it was sensing my defy! defy drivers were wipe out due to bad flash. I had mototola drivers so I clicked on update and searched for mototola drivers on hard drive. I had rsd lite on and it recognized the defy after driver update, even though the bootloader screen was not on and just the white led was on.
decided to flash rom that have me bootloop and it flashed it but still gave me a bootloop., by the way, the update part of bootloader showed up after a while.
Second part of solution: googled problem and found out that the phone has a stock recovery. its the robot with the triangle exclamation mark. when you get to it you have to touch the extreme lower right hand corner of the screen to get to where you can wipe data and cache. when you start wiping data / cache you have to press on ok?? on lower left hand of the screen repeatedly until wipe is complete. then reboot and tada it boots up to stock tmo USA defy.
this is the stock rom I used : JORDN_U3_6.36.0
F Y I
if you ever try to flash a rom and it just bootloops, just go into stock recovery and wipe data and cache and you should be able to boot into android.
I'm Mc Gayvering my phone. Just tried a led directly connected to USB and fried it
This is my last hope
Is your phone worked?
I have the same problem. I try many ROM,But all of them dosn't work.
When I put in the battery,it shows Bootloader,When i flash a ROM use RSD，the phone always display SW Update In progress... Then the RSD's status is error verifying code group XX(XX=32/33/39/40 etc.) checksums.
What should I do?
THS.
Help :mad :
Hello, I'm having a problem with my Motorola Defy, he is not popping no FBS. he is not linking a black screen, but the white light is on, but when I try to install the SBF appears SW Uplidate im Progress .. can someone help me
wesleybinho said:
Hello, I'm having a problem with my Motorola Defy, he is not popping no FBS. he is not linking a black screen, but the white light is on, but when I try to install the SBF appears SW Uplidate im Progress .. can someone help me
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dude this is all same **** u flashed wrong sbf.
flash the sbf service flash higher or same version which came by default wid ur phone.
flashes here http://and-developers.com/sbf:defy
Hi guys,
I recently tried to flash a rom on my phone and when the process was done, all I got was a black screen.
Fastboot still works and I can flash euro roms like on the tutorias fine but the phone simply wont boot.
I can go into emergency mode to flash in it in KDZ, the flashing works fine but still, the phone only displays a black screen.
When I press the power button it vibrates, the PC recognizes the device fine, so I know the phone isnt bricked, I just cant get it to display anything on the screen! please help!
Which rom did you try ?
Using swiftdroid RC4 2.0, but I found out what the problem was. Since on flashboot factory reset was in German, "reset und wipe" or something like that, I did not check it. Reflashed it and it is now working, the only problem is taht tehre are no boot animations whatsoever. only a black screen between pressing the button and going into android. any fix for that?
thank you for the replies!
EDIT: Also, by going into reboot > Recovery, nothing is displayed. this only happens on boot. I flashed originally with Euro+fast.kdz, and that is when this problem begun.
Flash this boot.img
and for the recovery, ace you installed??
I installed CWM for recovery, if that is what you asked.
Going to try to flash it and let you know, hope it does break anything
EDIT: nothing. No boot images. Going to leave it alone until I need it for something. I use an X10 mini, I just bought this phone for testing. Not liking the resistive screen!
you tried to flash an X10 with Rc4 ?
No, I have an X10 which is my default phone, I boght this optimus for testing, I flashed RC4 on the optimus, not the mini. not that stupid
You're not the only one with this problem, this will fix it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10238074&postcount=41
Did you tried with another ROM ?
Yep, follow this... since I can't post links, I can't help......
hi guys..i have messed up my defy...i successfully did cm7 rom in my defy 10 days back....it was working fine... .yesterday it got switched off automatically when i turned off my PC.(i had connected internet to PC via defy Bluetooth)...after that ..when ever i switch on my phone , it will will be alive for few mins ..and then it got switched off automatically(despite many reboots) then i re-installed cm7...from boot loader....it was going fine...
i installed int defy in cm7....and my phone doesn't cross the boot menu(sadly later i came to know that 2int shouldn't be installed in cm7 as it already there)...then i uninstalled bootloader(as i thought it would take me back to cm7) ...i did this big mistake...
then i saw post of sbf flash Thur rdslite as solution for it... and i did it...
the extracting procedure was going fine...then came "phone rebooting" in pc(in rdslite).......then came "manually power up the phone"...but my phone is struck at android logo...and i can't power on...
pls guys tell me a solution... is it a RAM problem or i did wrong rdslite flashing ?.....now my struck at android logo!!!! ( no 2int bootloader ...as i stupidly uninstalled it)
umeshkrish said:
hi guys..i have messed up my defy...i successfully did cm7 rom in my defy 10 days back....it was working fine... .yesterday it got switched off automatically when i turned off my PC.(i had connected internet to PC via defy Bluetooth)...after that ..when ever i switch on my phone , it will will be alive for few mins ..and then it got switched off automatically(despite many reboots) then i re-installed cm7...from boot loader....it was going fine...
i installed int defy in cm7....and my phone doesn't cross the boot menu(sadly later i came to know that 2int shouldn't be installed in cm7 as it already there)...then i uninstalled bootloader(as i thought it would take me back to cm7) ...i did this big mistake...
then i saw post of sbf flash Thur rdslite as solution for it... and i did it...
the extracting procedure was going fine...then came "phone rebooting" in pc(in rdslite).......then came "manually power up the phone"...but my phone is struck at android logo...and i can't power on...
pls guys tell me a solution... is it a RAM problem or i did wrong rdslite flashing ?.....now my struck at android logo!!!! ( no 2int bootloader ...as i stupidly uninstalled it)
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flashing thr rsdlite might be the major cause
umeshkrish said:
hi guys..i have messed up my defy...i successfully did cm7 rom in my defy 10 days back....it was working fine... .yesterday it got switched off automatically when i turned off my PC.(i had connected internet to PC via defy Bluetooth)...after that ..when ever i switch on my phone , it will will be alive for few mins ..and then it got switched off automatically(despite many reboots) then i re-installed cm7...from boot loader....it was going fine...
i installed int defy in cm7....and my phone doesn't cross the boot menu(sadly later i came to know that 2int shouldn't be installed in cm7 as it already there)...then i uninstalled bootloader(as i thought it would take me back to cm7) ...i did this big mistake...
then i saw post of sbf flash Thur rdslite as solution for it... and i did it...
the extracting procedure was going fine...then came "phone rebooting" in pc(in rdslite).......then came "manually power up the phone"...but my phone is struck at android logo...and i can't power on...
pls guys tell me a solution... is it a RAM problem or i did wrong rdslite flashing ?.....now my struck at android logo!!!! ( no 2int bootloader ...as i stupidly uninstalled it)
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Go to stock recovery. Turn off your phone and power it on with holding Power button + Vol Down (Vol-) until you see triangle logo. Then release it and press Vol+ and Vol- buttons in the same time.
Wipe cache and you`re good to go.
thanks... my defy s back
Hi.
I was running cm7.1 and flashing to cm9, when the battery fell out (my stupid mistake) when it was installing cm9.
Now all that comes up on the display when I start her up is the Google/cm logo.
Pressing vol down while starting dosent get me in recovery mode, but pressing vol up does get me in bootloader mode. When I plugged the phone to the PC, it downloaded something, so that works...
The problem is that I dont konw what to do from here, I bet the awnser is out here, but I dont konw what to search for.
Anyone got a minute to help, I bet its a simple fix :]
Thanks
I guess the "simple fix" would be using RSD Lite to flash some stock or fixed sfb from Recovery and start over (root, 2nd init..)
Well, thats awsome, installed new stb driver with rds tool, ran the setup, and after a long wait the phone is back in action.
Thanks alot!!
Hello guys i really messed up things with bro`s zte blade originaly sold gen 1 upgraded gen 2 with windows tool but dont know why every it wouldnt installed apps from play on stock or any other custom rom(mokee,swedish snow.stirfry) so i tought to do a tpt to repartition and then flash a rom so i downloaded tpt helper from play and chosed the gen2 v2a tpt, unziped it turned off the phone start it with menu +volume up and power so it loaded a band till the almost end then said fail something error and i freaked out so i think i removed the battery or i waited some time dont know anymore and know if i try to flash another tpt it boots to black screen and led is red, tried almost eveything and i`m really panicated, hope someone can help me cause i`m in a real mess
Sorry for my bad english but i`m starting to freak out this never happened to me. i have other device but i dont think i`ll do anything more to them. Please help me out, i`m beging you
Ok so it seems i left it on over the night and in the morning the device had moldovan mile on it( i flashed that tpt too in my despair) but now the device doesnt have ftm mode or recovery or boot animation, i tried to flash a recovery with rom manager it says it flashed it but if i try to enter recovery mode it boots to black screen so i tought i should flash another tpt but i`m a little afraid to do that consider the trouble i went trough with last one so i`m asking for your help to point me to a good tpt( the blade checker says it is gen 2 upgraded with windows tool) with good partition which will not make it bricked again and maybe explain again how should i flash the tpt the part with the combo menu +volume up+power it should till the screen is turned on or till the entire tpt process is finished?
Thank you in advance and it seems that miracles still exists
SOLVED! BLADE UNBRICKED