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[Q] [HELP] Defy is bricked, PC doesn't recognize it

Hi everybody
I have Motorola Defy, but after I plug in the usb cable to defy and PC , rsd lite 4.9, 53.1. or 5.5 doesnt recognize my device..
After plug in it shows only white led and nothing more, nothing at all...
I tried every method , but unsuccessfull...
Everytime i try tu plug in, it just shows white led, nothing more, screen is black, and PC doesnt recognize it at all...
What should I do to unbrick it ???
Pls help, I'm desperate ... Thank you
PS: I tryed every method, I searched almost everywhere

When you plug it in first make sure battery full charge then load rsd lite and under settings change it to first come first serve. I had same issue and this worked.
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I'm having the same issue.hopefully it works I'll get back to you after that
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Have you tried entering bootloader and then connect the phone to PC? I got RSD lite recognizing my phone this way.

yuffany said:
Have you tried entering bootloader and then connect the phone to PC? I got RSD lite recognizing my phone this way.
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I can't power up the phone, I can't enter boot menu or even download mode, nothing, before brick: I just plug usb into phone and usb and i could flash througt rsd whatever I want to but now I plug the usb cable into a phone and PC dooesn'r recognize my defy...
Just white led and black screen...

djmajino said:
I can't power up the phone, I can't enter boot menu or even download mode, nothing, before brick: I just plug usb into phone and usb and i could flash througt rsd whatever I want to but now I plug the usb cable into a phone and PC dooesn'r recognize my defy...
Just white led and black screen...
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Have you tried my suggestion.. I had same issue.. black screen with white lite.. you need to have full battery then plug the phone in and run rsd lite with settings on first come first serve..
if
your phone does load with a full charge then hold volume up and power button to get into the bootloader menu.. after than then plug into rsd lite..
to make things easy let us know what happens after you put a batter with full charge on it.. then we can go from there..

yes , I have full battery, I set the rds lite to option firt-come-first-serve, but nothing happend
I can't get into bootloader, I can't power the phone up, I can't get into mode... Nothing
Still the same probem, still not solved, Any idea what could be with it ??

Check the drivers
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djmajino said:
yes , I have full battery, I set the rds lite to option firt-come-first-serve, but nothing happend
I can't get into bootloader, I can't power the phone up, I can't get into mode... Nothing
Still the same probem, still not solved, Any idea what could be with it ??
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try these steps..
take phone battery out and wait few seconds..
then put batter back in and hold volume up and power button for few seconds.. let go of power button and then let go of volume up button..
your phone screen will still be black and no light will be lit up..
then connect usb cable to phone then to pc.. after that you load up RSD lite with the setting of first come first serve.. you should see a line in middle of window that says.. "connected" at this point your phone might display white light ..it sometimes doesn't but as long as rsd lite shows connected your fine.. at this point you should be able to run sbf files

The defy doesn't even power up when I push the power button

djmajino said:
The defy doesn't even power up when I push the power button
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are you reading the steps??? clearly says that the screen might not light up or lights might not turn on..but thats ok..
before we do all this did you make sure your battery is fully charged?
please read my last steps carefully and try it out..i was in same boat and worked for me

dilfatx said:
are you reading the steps??? clearly says that the screen might not light up or lights might not turn on..but thats ok..
before we do all this did you make sure your battery is fully charged?
please read my last steps carefully and try it out..i was in same boat and worked for me
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I tried McGyver hack, phone was connected, I did flash 2.51.1 UK version non carries, but nothing did,
On screen was:
SW update
In progrees
at RSD was Phone is being rebooted and PASS, but nothing on phone screen

Defy is working againg, but I was at the service

so using the MacGyver hack method enabled your computer to see your phone again?
I have the same problem (flashed wrong rom, phone bricked with just a black screen, flashed the same wrong rom again hoping for a different result, still bricked, read up on what was going wrong, came back the next day and my computer (including RSD Lite) could no longer see my Moto Defy. Next step i'm either going to have to (1)borrow another Moto Defy battery that is guaranteed fully charged (i have no way to check the amount of charge in mine while my Defy is out of action) or (2)cut up a USB cable and do the MacGyver hack.

1. Make sure your battery is charged.
2. Make sure you've all the latest drivers from Motorola's Website installed.
3. Make sure your RSD Lite version is atleast 4.9. I use v5 and had no problems till now.
4. Boot into bootloader mode.
5. Flash
If it doesn't work:
Try MacGyver hack.
In case you don't know what it is, search here in xda forums. You'll find it.

Update your drivers and do the same as above
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Same as above worked 4 me I needed to put on the latest gb rom the non downgrade one.
defy cm7

komakaze said:
Next step i'm either going to have to (1)borrow another Moto Defy battery that is guaranteed fully charged (i have no way to check the amount of charge in mine while my Defy is out of action) or (2)cut up a USB cable and do the MacGyver hack.
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Option 3 is to buy a cheap standalone wall charger for the Defy battery off eBay, like this one, to keep your battery charged between attempts to flash the phone. Gotta be less risky than the McGyver hack.

Not sure if the standalone wall charger will work, seems to me that the phone doesn't actually recognise the battery, however I have no means to test this and it's just a guess.
If it does actually detect your battery level but just can't charge it then what you listed is fine.

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: Please Google defy stock rom!!! 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.
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Sorry, Google defy stock recovery!!!

I can not boot system or go to bootloader. BRICK?

hi!
I wanted as a normaly update my defy from JB QUARX CM10 25.8. to JB QUARX CM10 28.8.. BUT, when it was instaling suddenly Defy restarted. After it was only showing the logo GOOGLE bud i can not go to boodloader or recovery. I tryied to flash sbf file with RSD but when I connected my defy to PC only white led blinked and nothing happened. PC is not see defy.
What do I do?
pls help me....
thx
Sorry for my english...

sterver1 said:
hi!
I wanted as a normaly update my defy from JB QUARX CM10 25.8. to JB QUARX CM10 28.8.. BUT, when it was instaling suddenly Defy restarted. After it was only showing the logo GOOGLE bud i can not go to boodloader or recovery. I tryied to flash sbf file with RSD but when I connected my defy to PC only white led blinked and nothing happened. PC is not see defy.
What do I do?
pls help me....
thx
Sorry for my english...
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see this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1150155 try to charge your battery fully. hope it works..

you tried in another PC o USB cable ?

I can not go to recovery. But I managed to go to flash menu (or what is this (power + volumeup and place battery))- i tryed to flash this:"Froyo_CEE_2.2.2\JRDNEM_U3_3.4.2_179-002_DEBLUR_SIGN_SIGNED_UCAJRDNEMARAB1B80AA03A.0R_P DS03C_USAJRDNFRYORTCEE_P016_A016_HWp3_Service1FF.s bf" with RSD Lite but: "Failed lashing process. Failed lashing process. Phone[0000]: Error getting subscriber unit informatieon. Device API Error: 0xE 0030007 Command RQHW (0xE0831007); phone disconnected"
After it I tryed agine go to to power + volumeup and place battery but it write Baterry low. Now propably I charing batery (I have connected my defy to AC and GOOGLE is showing, battery heating). Then I try to flash it agine. - that isn't working
Propabbly I must use maccgyver hack but I haven't got any bad or superfluous USB cabel.

sterver1 said:
I can not go to recovery. But I managed to go to flash menu (or what is this (power + volumeup and place battery))- i tryed to flash this:"Froyo_CEE_2.2.2\JRDNEM_U3_3.4.2_179-002_DEBLUR_SIGN_SIGNED_UCAJRDNEMARAB1B80AA03A.0R_P DS03C_USAJRDNFRYORTCEE_P016_A016_HWp3_Service1FF.s bf" with RSD Lite but: "Failed lashing process. Failed lashing process. Phone[0000]: Error getting subscriber unit informatieon. Device API Error: 0xE 0030007 Command RQHW (0xE0831007); phone disconnected"
After it I tryed agine go to to power + volumeup and place battery but it write Baterry low. Now propably I charing batery (I have connected my defy to AC and GOOGLE is showing, battery heating). Then I try to flash it agine. - that isn't working
Propabbly I must use maccgyver hack but I haven't got any bad or superfluous USB cabel.
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Try to enter stock recovery ab do a factory reset
If your battery is really empty you can use ab old Nokia wallcharger out else ....... just figure out what is plus and what is minus....
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Do you have the appropriate drivers installed on your pc for rsd? You have to be able to flash an sbf, a failed Cm update flash won't brick your Defy, it's much harder to brick it...
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lexer98: Yes I tried it... It is same.
bone101: I can not enter to any recovery.
sa3e1: Yes, I have all drivers.
I try the other.

Turn off defy, then hold power and vol+ button for 5-10 sec, when you release the buttons, your phone will power up in Stock bootloader. Does it work until this point?
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sa3e1 said:
Turn off defy, then hold power and vol+ button for 5-10 sec, when you release the buttons, your phone will power up in Stock bootloader. Does it work until this point?
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When I do that, on screen show: Battery Low - Cannot program.
But all is OK because I bought universal charger and now I'm charing battery..:cyclops:
Next I flash correct SBF file via RSD Lite. Is it ok?

And the phone isn't charging when it's off?? I hope it will be ok after charging battery with external charger! Then go to stock bootloader and flash a stock sbf, or if you want to go straight to CM10 try Easy Recovery sbf:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787541
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Done
Hurray....
My Defy is working now....
Thanks for your help.
I did it as follows: I chared my battery with universal charger. Then I went to stock bootloader (power+volume up) and conected my phone to PC. After it I flash two SBF files* via RSD Lite. Then I went to recovery and wiped all. Now my phone working well....
* first: Froyo_CEE_2.2.2.zip
second: CM7RC1.5_16_09_11_custom.sbf
(I will upload this files to some File Hosting and I'll post here links)

sterver1 said:
Hurray....
My Defy is working now....
Thanks for your help.
I did it as follows: I chared my battery with universal charger. Then I went to stock bootloader (power+volume up) and conected my phone to PC. After it I flash two SBF files* via RSD Lite. Then I went to recovery and wiped all. Now my phone working well....
* first: Froyo_CEE_2.2.2.zip
second: CM7RC1.5_16_09_11_custom.sbf
(I will upload this files to some File Hosting and I'll post here links)
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Why 2?
Only 1 is enough
Also AICS that is older version of CM7…
Flash froyo and root it...
Install 2ndInit and using cwm install CM10
If you screw up...I am not responsible!
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All is ok.... Now I'm using CM10.

[Q] Unbricking Help?

Attempting to update a US-Tmobile Defy (green lens) with CM7 to CM10
1. As a 1st step wanted to do a full Nandroid - but the backup repeatedly failed.
2. Next, installed RSD lite to unroot, revert to stock, 1st tried with "JORDN_U3_6.36.0_SIGNED_USAJRDNTMOB1B4B5DE1028.0R_JORDANTMO_P022_HWp3_Service1FF.sbf.gz"
After completion, the Defy was stuck in a boot loop
3. Finally, used RSD lite attempting to unroot & revert to stock using, "T-Mobile_MB525_6.19.0_1FF.zip"
After completion, the phone would not boot nor go into bootloader.
The battery was very low and I suspect that it may be the reason I cannot start the bootloader. The phone, in its current state does not seem to charge the battery.
Please help!
Doug

All you had to do was wipe data after 1 St flash via stock recovery
But now search around for the mcgyer trick to charge your phone and then flash the first sbf and wipe data afterwards
Never flash with a low battery
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thekguy said:
All you had to do was wipe data after 1 St flash via stock recovery
But now search around for the mcgyer trick to charge your phone and then flash the first sbf and wipe data afterwards
Never flash with a low battery
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Thanks,
found the thread and am gave it a try. Still no love insofar as getting into the boot loader. Perhaps the battery is not dead. Reads 3.9v
Anything else I can do to try n summon the bootloader?

techhome said:
Thanks,
found the thread and am gave it a try. Still no love insofar as getting into the boot loader. Perhaps the battery is not dead. Reads 3.9v
Anything else I can do to try n summon the bootloader?
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Do you get something like :
'battery ok in bootloader' ?
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I see you are not able to see boorloader at all.
one thing you can do is :
connect the phone to your system
start rsd lite
take out the battery
insert it again
and immediately press power and volume up.
you may not see the bootloader on the screen but your device may show up on rsd lite.then you can flash your sbf.

kanpurite said:
Do you get something like :
'battery ok in bootloader' ?
EDIT:
I see you are not able to see boorloader at all.
one thing you can do is :
connect the phone to your system
start rsd lite
take out the battery
insert it again
and immediately press power and volume up.
you may not see the bootloader on the screen but your device may show up on rsd lite.then you can flash your sbf.
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You nailed it, looks like I am out of the woods... Thanks!

Happy flashing
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what do i do if it says "Battery Low..Cannot Program"??

prateekranka said:
what do i do if it says "Battery Low..Cannot Program"??
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You must charge your battery. The possible ways are:
1. with friend's defy or external charger
2. McGyver way - find in threads, but use with caution

[Q] Defy plus bricked from CM10

Hi there,
I bricked my Defy Plus from CM10, 2ndInit. I've wanted to flash again the original .sbf cause of warranty issues. I wasn't sure witch version I had on the original so I thought I'll go from one to one in the list of droid developers SBF( can't create link )
After flashing with RSD light there was 2 possible outcome:
1. Flashing completed normally but after device rebooted, it hanged at the Motorola Logo infinetly.
2. Flashing completed, but the device turned off itself, and after trying to turn on, nothing was rendered, HOWEVER I've noticed, that it can be still booted into bootloader mode, cause I could see it listed in the RSD Lite device list.
I thought that was the worst case scenario, turns out its not:
After flashing DFP-137 device cannot be turned on, won't apper in RSD Lite, nothing.
A symptem is, that if connected the white led glows.
Is it possible I bricked it to such state, that I've got no options? If not, what should I do.
I think the cell got supply, cause I licked it, and felt normal ( electricity was riding trough my thoung ).
Any tipps are welcome, hit me!

Maybe it's low on battery, did you factory reset from stock recovery?
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sa3e1 said:
Maybe it's low on battery, did you factory reset from stock recovery?
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No, I figured for removing rooted state, I should reflash the full .sbf.
As I said, it feels charged, mb I'll try go for McGuyver charing method.

If I can reanimte my Defy into bootloading state, how do I know witch .sbf is the correct one??

defy problem
Dear All,
I had flashed Motorola defy plus with kitkat a month ago. As it was getting hanged, i tried to switch it to stock rom but the RSD lite is giving error while flashing everytime.
i have tried many sbf but it diidnt worked out. kindly let me know the correct procedure and the SBF should i flash.
Now its showing Motorola logo only and doesnt move ahead neither i am unable to reach stock recovery.
i did it all by charging battery from universal charger as i cant even charge my battery.
I am in need of urgent help and didn't want let die my DEFY PLUS
Regards
Abhishek

[Q] Defy not booting/blank screen

(Motorola defy MB525) Well, deciding to upgrade from quarx's android 4.2 to 4.4 I went and gave the whole flashing method a try again but I made a mistake on a couple areas and I was stuck in bootloader or the motorola logo appearing on and off over and over. That was because my battery was near death or pretty much dead, so I used the mcgyver method to flash it while it was being charged which 'worked'. It did the usual 'SW update in progress' and the sbf flashed, but after the phone just went to a blank screen (as if it were off) and no longer turns on or goes anywhere. Holding the power button and/or pressing the volume buttons does nothing. I cannot access bootloader or recovery or even get the phone to display. If I connect my defy to my computer, the white led charge light comes on briefly then goes away when the cable is fully connected. Thats the only thing that makes me think my phone isn't totally broke but, I cannot flash anything with RSD Lite again, it does not detect my phone as pressing the 'start' button does nothing.
I even went and bought one of the universal battle chargers thinking my battery just needed to be charged, but even after a full charge the phone has been no different. I'm at a loss, Is my cable the issue? Is my defy just busted? I really need some advice...

Anyone have any ideas? I uploaded a video to youtube showing the problem I have a bit better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q25klbN9kWE
The same thing happens whether I have the battery inserted or no. Its very confusing.

Try to charge the battery with another defy or with an adapter, I think that has no charge

I already charged it with a universal charger (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XY5F6A/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) But was no different. Wouldn't this have worked? It gave me the green LED (full charge) after I left it connected for a while

If mcgyver cable is made properly, and you can't enter bl, you may have bricked your device
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thekguy said:
If mcgyver cable is made properly, and you can't enter bl, you may have bricked your device
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I thought even if a defy is bricked you can at least get into bootloader. Can I unbrick it then?

You should be able to get into bl even then, but since you cannot, for some odd reason, there is no alternate method left
The brief white led glow seems to indicate a damaged bl, as when the internal eMMC is wiped completely
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Motorola defy is not booting
Hi can any one help me on this.
I rooted my defy and upgraded to jelly bean. It was working fine for a year and after that I found issue. So I tried to upgrade to kitkat cwm11, however it didnt work. So, did a factory reset and when i tried upgrading again, it threw an error saying, unable to mount sd card and unable to clear cache and data. After this I couldnt clear any settings or upgrade anything. Tried with different SD card and it didnt work as well. Finally, phone is not booting and when I tried to go to recovery option it doesnt work, even default motorola recovery doesnt work. My phone is not detecting in computer as well. Phone stays dead on moto logo. Please tell me how to upgrade the phone.

thekguy said:
You should be able to get into bl even then, but since you cannot, for some odd reason, there is no alternate method left
The brief white led glow seems to indicate a damaged bl, as when the internal eMMC is wiped completely
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Alright, I guess my defy is toasted :/ Thank you for the information.
gokul_eee09 said:
Hi can any one help me on this.
I rooted my defy and upgraded to jelly bean. It was working fine for a year and after that I found issue. So I tried to upgrade to kitkat cwm11, however it didnt work. So, did a factory reset and when i tried upgrading again, it threw an error saying, unable to mount sd card and unable to clear cache and data. After this I couldnt clear any settings or upgrade anything. Tried with different SD card and it didnt work as well. Finally, phone is not booting and when I tried to go to recovery option it doesnt work, even default motorola recovery doesnt work. My phone is not detecting in computer as well. Phone stays dead on moto logo. Please tell me how to upgrade the phone.
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(Sorry double post) Wow, progress!!!
I tried the mcgyver method one last time and upon connecting the second usb cable I heard the windows chime that tells a new device has connected, but still nothing on screen. On a whim I launched RSD lite and tried flashing an SBF which did work! Halfway through the flashing process the screen came on giving me the 'SW Update in progress', though after the flash I'm back at bootloader, Did the flash work? I tried flashing another sbf but same deal, just back at bootloader. Is there a certain sbf I should use?? Please help if you can I'm getting there!

Dfp 231
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