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[Q] Extreme phone brick

i need help! i bricked my phone while installing rom using XRecovery.
I tried using the PCC but it says that my update failed.
sometimes it shows a warning triangle with a yellow exclamation mark and telephone symbol. What does that means?
I hope you guys can help me..

Relax... i had been brick my phone more hard than you brick your phone before, and my phone still alive since now..,now tell me what situasition of you phone now?.. can you enter to xrecovery?
Sent from my X8 using XDA App

okay, i was installing a rom and then the phone died automatically..
i reboot the phone but it stucked at the sony ericsson logo and can't go to xrecovery..
i've tried to restore my phone using PCC i tried to updae the phone for about more than ten times but it all fails.
so, now i'm just hoping that someone would tell me how to restore my phone.

relax i have 5 hard brick
use flashtool and follow proper installation
or Here
Cheers,
XtremePeople

Which 1 should i download? what's the difference between all the rom images?
X8 Shakira E15i_2.1.1.A.0.6_generic.ftf
X8_1.6_clear.ftf
X8_2.0.2_China.ftf
SE x8_2.1_rus.ftf

DokaponKingdom said:
Which 1 should i download? what's the difference between all the rom images?
X8 Shakira E15i_2.1.1.A.0.6_generic.ftf
X8_1.6_clear.ftf
X8_2.0.2_China.ftf
SE x8_2.1_rus.ftf
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X8 shakira E15i 211A06 generic. Ftf.... flash its with flash tool
Sent from my X8 using XDA App

okay thanks for the help..
i've restored my phone
just 1 more question, do i need to root my phone again?

DokaponKingdom said:
okay thanks for the help..
i've restored my phone
just 1 more question, do i need to root my phone again?
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yes. that one u flash is stock and unrooted.

DokaponKingdom said:
okay thanks for the help..
i've restored my phone
just 1 more question, do i need to root my phone again?
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I want to tell you 2 news... good news and bad news.., good news your can restore your phone again.... and the bad news its the ftf file your dowload its not a baseband 015 and you must change the baseband again....
Sent from my X8 using XDA App

Have an Xperia Play, but don't know how to root!

Hello,
I have bought an Xperia Play and tried to root it.
nothing seems to work or maybe i'm doing it wrong.
luckily i didn't brick the phone yet :S
I've tried the gingerbreak but that never ends!
it just tell me to wait few minutes and take forever...
is there any other way?

Superoneclick worked a treat for me
Sent from my R800i using XDA App

ummmm
can you give me a good source of how I can use that?
I've bricked one phone before,,, I wanna play it safe now

See this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294129
or this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1312859

Thank you, Super One Click did the trick ^_^

My advice on how to prevent bricking

After screwing up my device by messing up the build.prop I would like to share that the best thing you could possibly to for your device would be to create a backup in recovery. Had I not done that my device would be bricked.

If all you did was mess with the build.prop, then it's only soft bricked. Wipe and Flash a new ROM.

Also maybe don't change/edit something unless you know the consequence/outcome maybe?
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium

littleemp said:
If all you did was mess with the build.prop, then it's only soft bricked. Wipe and Flash a new ROM.
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Normally I would agree without you but the build.prop I edited has a tag for no sd card, so it couldn't be mounted in recovery.

Making a backup is android modding 101...thanks for the revelations

A nandroid is awesome
Should be done before any kind of modification and is a huge tool - unique
DN41
Sent from my DHD @ ARHD 7.0.0

Wow I thought this would be something to do with nvflash techniques.
Instead I learned that someone else discovered common sense way to go buddy!!!
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium

If you don't have a working recovery, then try using Nvflash to restore it to working condition. Also READ before you do anything.
Sent from my MB860 using XDA App

=_=
search function and fully understanding is your tools
repeat the mantra and never brick your device again
ohm

roflcopterofl said:
After screwing up my device by messing up the build.prop ....
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Sorry for noobing aroung guys..just want to learn. How can you screw up your device by changing the DPI? You have to go far under 130 something (or is this kind of a BS information?^^), don´t you?

brooon said:
Sorry for noobing aroung guys..just want to learn. How can you screw up your device by changing the DPI? You have to go far under 130 something (or is this kind of a BS information?^^), don´t you?
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Yeah you would have to do something amazingly stupid in the build.prop to cause a soft brick and even then it's just boot looping and you reflash or restore a backup. Actually with build.prop you go advanced restore restore system done thats like a 2-3min job tops.
I was excited about this thread at first (the title)..... I think it should be closed Backing up is on every devs front page and almost an un-written part of the xda banner/root/mod community.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium

Tales of our X8's and W8's !

Hey guys i'm just starting this thread so we can share our personal experiences with our beloved X8's. I want to unite all X8-tians Come on, we all have good times and bad times with our X8's and i want to hear them it doesn't matter what the story is. New rom, new SD Card, accidental discovery, EPIC GLITCHES (I have one I'll post soon)...hope there isn't another thread like this out there or that this is in the wrong section ...ok I'll start off and i hope this thread catches on
OK, so where should I start.....I guess my 1st brick i guess So one day i decided to take my dad's abandoned X8 and upgrade it to Gingerbread. Spent half a day learning up on rooting and Gingerbread and attempted it . I flashed nAa's MiniCM 2.0.7 at around 3.00 am (next day was a schooling day), and just as i was finishing i forgot 1 important thing...FORGOT TO FULLWIPE ...got a bootloop and actually cried myself to sleep (I swear to God i ain't lying ) and eventually found out that SEUS or PCC did the trick ! Then i joined XDA, hooked my X8 with GDX V13 and my adventure began *epic music plays*

Very easy for me to explain why I'm on XDA .
I'm french (it's not a scoop..) and all of french's forums are translating most of posts we can find here.. So rather waiting for a translation, I decided to see by myself this site and finally.. stay and create an account..
We can find plenty of roms, and all my answers are here so.. I think you'll bear with me a moment longer

boisdulait said:
Very easy for me to explain why I'm on XDA .
I'm french (it's not a scoop..) and all of french's forums are translating most of posts we can find here.. So rather winting for a translation, I dcided to see by myself this site and finally.. stay and create an account..
We can find plenty of roms, and all my answers are here so.. I think you'll bear with me a moment longer
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That's true I see many forums which are just translated copies of XDA info thnx for the post !
Sent from my X8 using xda premium

Exact,
They're not trying to make their own tutos... Just translate words by words.. And XDA forces me to remember my poor English.. so very cool for me

Ok, here's my tale:
I remember very well I first attempted to install GingerDX. You cant imagine that I actually forgot to full wipe and I was wondering why the heck I am getting bootloops. Now, that I am looking back, I realized that I had gone a long way. And its all thanks to my courage and HUGE support of the XDA forum!!!
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RohinZaraki said:
Hey guys i'm just starting this thread so we can share our personal experiences with our beloved X8's. I want to unite all X8-tians Come on, we all have good times and bad times with our X8's and i want to hear them it doesn't matter what the story is. New rom, new SD Card, accidental discovery, EPIC GLITCHES (I have one I'll post soon)...hope tther thread like this out there or that this is in the wrong section ...ok I'll start off and i hope this thread catches on
OK, so where should I start.....I guess my 1st brick i guess So one day i decided to take my dad's abandoned X8 and upgrade it to Gingerbread. Spent half a day learning up on rooting and Gingerbread and attempted it . I flashed nAa's MiniCM 2.0.7 at around 3.00 am (next day was a schooling day), and just as i was finishing i forgot 1 important thing...FORGOT TO FULLWIPE ...got a bootloop and actually cried myself to sleep (I swear to God i ain't lying ) and eventually found out that SEUS or PCC did the trick ! Then i joined XDA, hooked my X8 with GDX V13 and my adventure began *epic music plays*
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Same thing here...

lucastan96 said:
Ok, here's my tale:
I remember very well I first attempted to install GingerDX. You cant imagine that I actually forgot to full wipe and I was wondering why the heck I am getting bootloops. Now, that I am looking back, I realized that I had gone a long way. And its all thanks to my courage and HUGE support of the XDA forum!!!
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We all live and learn i guess
Sent from my X8 using xda premium

My first "brick" or maybe something like that, happened during my first week of using my x8, I got bored so I googled how to root x8 and found xda
there I remember the primitive way of rooting my x8 there, flashing back my x8 from 2.1 to 1.6 (rooted) then flash back to 2.1 (rooted) haha, during the process I forgot to remove something during the flashing method there I got stuck into a bootloop, the hell I'm scared haha, good thing I reread the instructions haha.
Lesson learn: Always read carefully

kimpoy1994 said:
My first "brick" or maybe something like that, happened during my first week of using my x8, I got bored so I googled how to root x8 and found xda
there I remember the primitive way of rooting my x8 there, flashing back my x8 from 2.1 to 1.6 (rooted) then flash back to 2.1 (rooted) haha, during the process I forgot to remove something during the flashing method there I got stuck into a bootloop, the hell I'm scared haha, good thing I reread the instructions haha.
Lesson learn: Always read carefully
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Well said but hey, we wouldn't be where we are if it werent for those svrew ups
Sent from my X8 using xda premium

OK i have 2 stories actually
1: 1 week i had phone i was playing games on the phone and going to the bathroom suddenly i stumbled my self and my phone hit teh flore. luckly it didn t fell in WC (it was close)
2: after 1 month i had another problem. i was on stock, not rooted.... and i was trying juice defender ultimate (downloaded from internet not Market ). So i played with it. Then suddenly FCs on some android preoces bla bla bla... so i had no idea what to do (i didn t know about XDA then - it is my first android phone). I tried with SEUS and PCC non of them didn t want to repair or update it. As I didn t know about flashtool so i take it to the shop for repair.
1 brick: nothing special

wanna hear my story?
well i always play with my x8..i always test new roms and see if its good...when i install roms i always go to xrecovery, do full wipe,wipe cache, format system, wipe dalvik and then finally install custom zip...
but then, last week i tried fde...i did the usual things: xrec, full wipe, format system, wipe cache and dalvik.. i diddnt go to "install custom zip" and out of my excitment i pressed REBOOT NOW...
who can guess what happened?

ok, heres my tale throughout my x8 life.....
Lets start with rooting,
One dsy, i decided to upgrade my X8's OS, My x8 is on a contract btw, but anyway, it took me ages to pluck up the courage to actually root my phone, once i had rooted my phone,my heart beating like s&it (LOL), i installed xreocovery, so i did, then i flashed gingerdx v011, I joined xda when gingerdx v011 was out, so i flashed that, and i liked it..,...
Then, once i had reached v018 of gingerdx, the news had spread on xda about bootloader, so i decided to unlock it. My date was 10w47, so i was clear to unlock, 1st attempt, And i succeeded! I was ever so happy, then i decided to install LinuxDX (back then, alfs or nAa wasnt out, so i had no choice but to flash that custom kernel). All went perfectly, and i felt like i was awesome in succeeding
My first brick was a simple 'forgeting to do full wipe' problem, i was alright in fixing it though, just a simple full wipe in recovery
Now, not only am i flashing ROM's, Im making my own Custom ROM

my first rom was hackdrod by raucht

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I got my X8 in February of 2011 and that was also my first Android device. My brother had gotten a White X8 (which ran 1.6) for Christmas just a month before I got mine. Mine ran 2.1
So, from March to August I pretty much experemented with apps and games and all that stuff.
Now, I'm not a big mobile gamer so I just accepted tthe fact that the X8 WASN'T a gaming phone, unlike some people who just force their phones to play HD Games.
Then, on August 23rd 2011 at 10:27PM I decided to root my phone with Super One Click. I actually didn't read Any ttutorials on how to root my phone. I just Googled ffor Super One Click as i had read on OTHER forums that they had rooted their Android phone with tthat.
A week later, I decided to install a ROM. This wàs a **** decision. I followed a video on YouTube and the link for the ROM (MINICM6) that was in the description was old and the ROM was buggy. The description CLAIMED that the ROM was fully functional.
WiFi (which claimed to be working) didn't work and neither did the camera and a ffew other features.
I panicked. I literally cried. I thought, 'well, there no fuc*Ing possible way to get back to android 2.1". I was wrong.
later the next day I went on my PC and check PC Companion.luckily it worked. I was back on good ol' 2.1
I rooted again and stayed on 2.1 ffor several months.
(Btw I joined XDA a week after going back to Android 2.1 )
Then, on November 4th 2011 at 11:51PM I downloaded and copied GingerDXv017 to my SD Card and flashed in XRecovery. (Yes I know its CWM, but read on!)
I got a boot loop. I was crying and panicking again. I swore not to install a ROM again.
Then, I went on my dads X8 and talked to my friend Quinny898. He said to do a full wipe. Which I was I forgot :0
I fillwiped and it booted into GINGERDX! I immediately checked the WiFi and Camera and they both worked! Horray!
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Once again, last Saturday (a week ago) I attempted to unlock my bootloadEr. I literally had my warranty and X8 box ready just incase I bricked it. Luckily i got SEMC SIMLOCK CERTIFICATE. I proceeded. And all went well. I installed alfs and boom, happy days!
I think I've typed too.much already. Considering I typed this from my X8. ^__^
I BE FAST TYPER!
Sent from my X8 with Beats Audio.

Wow. Just realized that my tablet is right beside me. I could've used that. -_-
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x8 is my first android phone so when i bought it i had never imagine how wonderful is...actually i bought it because my previous nokia xpress mussic was destroyed and i had to bought a phone....
i used to use my x8 for listening to music ,gaming, surfing on internet and of course calling and texting.
the fun for me started when i was playing zenonia 3 and i couldn't success a mission so i had to paid for buying some good stuff(which was out of the question) or to hack it! after a research on how to do it i found about an app which you should be rooted(hex editor)!!! then i was finding more and more facsinating things!
after rooting i wanted dual touch and when i got it i was really happy!!!, and i started to look for more things about my beloved phone!
when i was trying to increse my phone's performance i found xda ... and you understand what happend.. a new world about my phone was discovered!!!!
i was trying many roms and modules that i found in xda but for long time i hadn't make an account because i thought it was pointless but after enjoy myself with the work of others i thought that the least i could do was a thank for their work so i made one to show my thankfullness to devs...so here i am!
{my 100th post }

My almost 700th post! Lol
Sent from my X8 with Beats Audio.

n1kolaa said:
my first rom was hackdrod by raucht
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Hehe i remember these days ;D
Have evry 30min reboot...
Heres my story...
One day i wonted to get a x8(11.11.2010)
When i get it whaz so exsidet xD...
And then have waited for the 2.1 update...
Wone day i have seen that i can root,install custom roms....
And then on yt i have seen cm6,
And clockworkmod...
Then i installed a rom for x10 on my x8(then when i rebooted my phone, geted bootlops and i cried ..
And repair it whit seus and seen xda developers(tbe daddy of our phones)...
Thats my story...
Now im using GINGERDX v22 and Alfs008
Idk my dad ask if i wont his HTC Desire what do you think???
Im eating some Fritt(+Vitamin (e) C)
xD...Delicious

my tale
i didn't brick my phone except once
because i learned everything before buying it(do u imagine that?)

The reason why I joined the xda community is that 2 years ago I bought a Xperia X1 and I spent days and days in order to make it impossible (xperia x1 perfect / full working phone with no bugs), which has so far proved unsuccessful. Then I stumbled on xperia x8 Android phone, which is the same day when he came into my hands ended up connected to the PC and modified (BL unlock, root, xrecovery ..... GDX , firedroid ). I still hope that developers will make at least one rom that will work fast, look good as an ICS, and be bugless.

[Poll] I have bricked my Note while..

[Poll] I have bricked my Note while..
Here is thread to boost up confidence of newbie, many new to android asking chances of bricking of note.
I think you brick it, if you don't follow guide properly
Last option for all, whether you have bricked it or Not
Let's watch, what poll says !

I never bricked mine, largely thanks to your guides.

Thanx for compliments
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

Just make sure you have a jig handy (~£7 off amazon)
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How do i identify whether a phone is bricked? I've got into a lot of **** spots, but gotten out of them. If i brick my phone does it mean i can never use it again?

bharat4ever said:
How do i identify whether a phone is bricked? I've got into a lot of **** spots, but gotten out of them. If i brick my phone does it mean i can never use it again?
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brick - mean it will not boot up

Softbrick means recoverable
Hardbrick means dead

brick? never. not following instructions. yes im guilty.

dr.ketan said:
Softbrick means recoverable
Hardbrick means dead
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Is it even possible to hardbrick via Odin?
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I think,Wrong pit n wrong rom(different device) can lead to it

bharat4ever said:
How do i identify whether a phone is bricked? I've got into a lot of **** spots, but gotten out of them. If i brick my phone does it mean i can never use it again?
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a proper bricked phone will not turn on or do anything

otester said:
Is it even possible to hardbrick via Odin?
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Hmmm yeah!! There is this Kernel, no matter how you flash it, there is something inherent that would corrupt the flash drive, a rare instance where you have Download mode and recovery working but you cannot do a thing to restore your phone. Things happen, you know?

Only time mine has ever soft bricked has been on those few occasions when I have tried ICS and then tried returning to GB. There is always a way to get through a problem I think. Although I understand that there was a hard bricking episode recently with ICS on the note.
Luckily I was busy when that happened otherwise I'd have bricked mine.... No doubt
Sent from my GT-N7000

Oh yes, I soft brick my Note alright.. just yesterday... while I tried to flash to CheckRom RevoHD v6.... (had a v5 already installed)....
It would just stuck on the Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 Logo....
Restored it back using PC Odin
Personally, I don't think it has something to do on not reading properly the instruction on flashing.... I read it to a tee mind you.. yet the instructions presented have some gaps and loopholes that if the user isn't aware of it... most likely it would end up bricking their note as well...
Anyway, as the famous lines say 'That which can't kill you, makes you stronger...', I will continue flashing to whatever Custom Rom I want and I welcome the challenge of encountering the famous 'Bricking' again...
let's get it on!

@prem1
I think your poll option better fit in this option
It was issue with specific ROM n Kernel
isn't?

chasmodo said:
I never bricked mine, largely thanks to your guides.
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+1. followed dr.ketan after reading it a thousand times. I am fortunate and cautious enough to stay away from ICS at the moment because I heard switching back to gingerbread is behind my skills.
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Only time I bricked my phone was while deodexing. 'CP' command was not working, then I did not know about 'BUSYBOX CP' command. So I copied and pasted all deodexed apps and framework files using Root Explorer and dang! It was bricked =)).
If every newbie follows DrKetan's guide carefully there're 0% chances of ending up with bricked phone.
Trust the guide - make your mind.

Yesterday i think i soft bricked my Note. I tried to put pre rooted LC1 via *Odin 1.85 but it went wrong. Was stuck in factoryfs part. I pulled it off the cable.
It did only boot to recovery screen or download mode, so i just downloaded the stock rom LC1 and got it back online!

It is almost impossible to brick the Note. Unless you do it on purpose

offenberg said:
It is almost impossible to brick the Note. Unless you do it on purpose
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I don't know if the emmc/mainboard got fried recently by flash/using the monster kernel/touch cwm whatever belongs to a brick, if it is, it's not impossible to brick the note, even you are an experienced user. Anyway, there's a risk on flashing, so be 100% careful.
Sent from the forgotten Atrix"2