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[Q] (Solved) Flash img from sd card?

Hi all,
My UK O2 HD Mini is no longer recognised via any usb connection.
Mobile device center cannot see the phone, and even in bootloader mode the device is not recognised, I have tried several cables and computers.
My question is.
Is there any way to flash the phone from the sd card, so I can reflash the original o2 rom, before returning it for repair under warranty?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Success I found the answer.
Rename the the flash file to photimg.nbh, with power off insert sd card into phone, hold vol down and press the power button.
Phone goes into bootloader, then the flash screen. Follow the onscreen instructions.

Edit: Sorry, after reading it the second time, I realised I misunderstood....

[Q] unbrickable ideos x5?

Hi, I think this is my first post here. Anyway, here the question:
I have an Ideos X5 (not pro), it is bricked. So far, I have followed instruction for recoveries from several threads, but none of them worked because in my phone:
there is no boot screen
there is no pink screen
there is no logo
there are no images of any kind (screen wont even turn on)
it only vibrates when I plug it into my computer
Also *sometimes* the buttons light up and when this happens windows detect a new USB device, but after I while it dissapears again. Also, this happens only with the battery on.
The phone became bricked after I followed instructions to revert back to froyo from gingerbread (wifi wasn't working). All roms were originals from Huawei.
So, any suggestions??
Thanks in advanced.

I had a problem like you.I have deleted amss.mbn file because Huawei locked pink screen, it was bricked But i wasn't so patience enough, i sent my phone to technical care.But here are the answers, try it with caution:
shuiyunxingzuo said:
Hi
Space is not enough to flash any ROMs;
Bootloader is locked,you could not edit that sector.
So is there a special ROM that is very small and allows to edit the bootloader?
Here is the MINI ROM:
http://www.mediafire.com/?7c33h84a974va28
Flash it than edit the bootloader~
NOTICE: I format the whole sector ,and the file including IMEI was missing
'Cause I don't know how to edit recovery or other system files like .mbn,
so just delete the abnormal big file and you would be able to flash any ROM s
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xmsnx said:
Yes!!!! My phone works"!!!!!!!
Ok here's what I did
Download mediafire.com/?1hbk6n46hgamyt6
Unzip it, and find UPDATE.APP
Put UPDATE.APP in a dload folder and upload to empty sdcard.
Put sdcard in phone, and hold vol+/- and power and flash it.
After phone has restarted pull battery.
Download http://www.mediafire.com/?6hrfz36b8e2vw87
Unzip and copy the dload folder to empty sdcard.
Hold vol+/- and power and flash it.
After it fails near the end or if it restarts then pull battery.
Download a rooted boot.img and a clockworkmod recovery.img (got both mine from links at modaco)
Attach phone to PC in pink screen mode and delete the boot.img and recover.img files.
Upload the downloaded root.img and recovery.img to image folder in phone.
Download any custom rom from XDA, I used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1475687 and upload it to sdcard
Pull battery.
Hold vol+ and power and go into clockworkmod, wipe everything and flash the custom rom!!
Good luck!
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Tried taking off the battery for 10 seconds and after that inserted USB into computer (without battery)? Also try to take off battery and insert USB to wall-charger.
The buttons lighting up could be our way out, but if it only stays there for a couple of seconds it doesn't help. Can you see what Windows detects?

Hi again,
thanks for answering.
None of your suggestions worked anyway, because it won't even load anything from the sdcard, it just makes a short vibration and nothing more.
I managed to get the lights on again, but windows didn't show what kind of device it was, maybe because it's already installed but I'm not sure which usb device is it (windows did make a sound though, like "device is connected" sound). Also I noticed there's a red led blinking near the speaker, does that mean anything?
Anyway, tried to flash while the lights were up but it did nothing, and after two minutes the went off again.
Thanks again for your suggestions.

I connected the phone to my laptop with ubuntu, and despite I cannot do anything with the phone, there are two devices created in /dev: hiddev0 and hidraw0. Is there a way to flash the device using any of those files?
thanks again.

Worth a try on this post : Here

It is fried then

Try mounting those two devices, is there any file system recognized? It might not be bricked, but this is an issue probably nobody has had yet. Send it in for repair if it is still within warranty.
Important question: How did this even happen?
XphX

XphX said:
Important question: How did this even happen?
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auxorro said:
The phone became bricked after I followed instructions to revert back to froyo from gingerbread (wifi wasn't working). All roms were originals from Huawei.
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Sent from my U8800 using Tapatalk 2

Hi,
thanks for all the help.
Sadly nothing works with this phone, I tried mounting and dd from the devices but nothing happens.
I guess I'll send it for repair (hope it's still within warranty)
Anyway, thanks again for all the suggestions.
Bye!!

auxorro said:
Hi,
thanks for all the help.
Sadly nothing works with this phone, I tried mounting and dd from the devices but nothing happens.
I guess I'll send it for repair (hope it's still within warranty)
Anyway, thanks again for all the suggestions.
Bye!!
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If the phone wasn't rooted, then it is still within warranty

hard brick after dloap

hard brick after dloap official page of huawei, performed the installation procedure and now only vibrates when turned on and does not turn the screen and either pink screen ... any solution?

Are you sure you downloaded the correct rom for your device? Roms for U8800 and U8800 pro aren't compatible. Maybe you can stiil reflash an original rom. Try to connect the device with the usb cable without battery and power on using the combination power/vol+/vol- while you have the dload folder with the suitable rom in sd card. If this doesn't work, I don't think that you can do more.

My Note 4 (910F) won't turn on!

Hey guys, so I flashed Kyubi ROM a few days ago, I used to use that for a loooong time, so I'm pretty sure it isn't the ROM, what I did notice was the last few weeks, every ROM I flashed was a bit laggy and glitchy (not sure if it has anything to do with that).
So anyways, I was at school, pulled my phone out of my pocket to see it has turned off, tried to turn it off again and nothing happened, I thought it was just a dead battery. But once I got home, I plugged it in the charger, but the battery indicator didn't pop up. I googled for some stuff, tried a lot of ''fixes'', but nothing seems to work. I tried putting in a different battery, tried different chargers, but nothing seems to work.
Does anyone have any idea why this isn't working? This is very frustrating..
TLDR; Phone doesn't turn on, tried different batteries, chargers, nothing helps.

Mikeyman123 said:
Hey guys, so I flashed Kyubi ROM a few days ago, I used to use that for a loooong time, so I'm pretty sure it isn't the ROM, what I did notice was the last few weeks, every ROM I flashed was a bit laggy and glitchy (not sure if it has anything to do with that).
So anyways, I was at school, pulled my phone out of my pocket to see it has turned off, tried to turn it off again and nothing happened, I thought it was just a dead battery. But once I got home, I plugged it in the charger, but the battery indicator didn't pop up. I googled for some stuff, tried a lot of ''fixes'', but nothing seems to work. I tried putting in a different battery, tried different chargers, but nothing seems to work.
Does anyone have any idea why this isn't working? This is very frustrating..
TLDR; Phone doesn't turn on, tried different batteries, chargers, nothing helps.
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Did you try to connect to pc ? If your pc does recognize not then i am pretty sure its hard bricked. You will need debrick image for your model to fix have a look link below many people has same issues.
.http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/sm-n910f-hard-bricked-debrick-img-t3380120

Trex888 said:
Did you try to connect to pc ? If your pc does recognize not then i am pretty sure its hard bricked. You will need debrick image for your model to fix have a look link below many people has same issues.
.http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/sm-n910f-hard-bricked-debrick-img-t3380120
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My PC recognizes the phone, but won't I need to boot to recovery or some **** like that? going to check it now
thanks a lot for the reply brother means a lot because im stressing the f*** out because of my phone...... its crucial for me
hey bro I don't have this SD Card thingy i can put in my laptop... is it neccessary? or can I format it via TWRP and then just copy files over there (on a different phone ofc)

Mikeyman123 said:
My PC recognizes the phone, but won't I need to boot to recovery or some **** like that? going to check it now
thanks a lot for the reply brother means a lot because im stressing the f*** out because of my phone...... its crucial for me
hey bro I don't have this SD Card thingy i can put in my laptop... is it neccessary? or can I format it via TWRP and then just copy files over there (on a different phone ofc)
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If you want your phone to boot by debrick image then you must write debrick image using win32 disk image software in pc to microsd card minimum 8gb capacity and will you also require qualcomm usb drivers install on pc. or it will not work. Are you able to go in download mode ?

Trex888 said:
If you want your phone to boot by debrick image then you must write debrick image using win32 disk image software in pc to microsd card minimum 8gb capacity and will you also require qualcomm usb drivers install on pc. or it will not work. Are you able to go in download mode ?
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Hey bro
I just tried that link you posted, but I don't have a micro sd card reader, a friend is going to lend me one tomorrow, then I can try, I needed to format sd card yo FAT32 but I cant without that thingy. I also ordered an usb jig to see if I can get it into download mode with that. I really hope so, so I will try it tomorrow, and if that doesn't work I hope the usb jig will save my life.
U are a beast for helping me I cant thank you enough, you brought me much further.
Thanks again brother and ill keep you up to date!
Gonna have to do it with a sh*tty s3 mini until then (my moms ols phone) but already rootd it and put cyanogenmod on it to make it somwhat... Fast
Have a nice day bro

DO u guys think an USB jig will fix the problem? i ordered it

hey fellas
just got the USB jig and I tried it but it didn't put my phone into download mode
so i guess i need to get a micro sd card reader and try the solution trex posted
but i don't think its gonna work.. it responds to nothing

UPDATE: tried this
scamex said:
One more thing.. Here are the .SDC files for direct sdcard boot repair. So choose what sdc you need and try to flash.
The flash procedure is this:
1.Put the .SDC file to your sdcard (sdcard must be formated as FAT32 and must be SDHC max 16GB)
2.On the phone press VOLUME DOWN + HOME + POWER
3.If all is ok the phone will display SDCARD MODE and will try to flash the phone with the file provided to sdcard
4. IF the process went ok now you have to flash the phone with odin and stock rom.
If the phone didnt boot to SDCARD Mode you will need a USB JIG that you can buy from ebay or somewhere else...
I hope this help you.
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but it didn't work, didn't boot to SD card mode or anything
then I saw a different method with flashing pit files and bootloader to sd card with T-flash in odin
so i tried that with my samsung galaxy s3 mini and it just did nothing when I pressed start
can someone please help me, or is my telephone fried for good?

Hey guys I'm sorry for the continuously bumping but... I tried like every single method. And there is one little bit of hope for me, that is that someone gets me the debrick.img which I can use..
but I don't have really much hope for that
still always open for help
I am desperate
thanks

pleaaase someone help me i beg u guys i really need my phone

no signs of life (no charging led, nothing on screen) after OTA update

So yesterday I got a notification for an OTA update (I'm on sprint). I am rooted, have xposed, and have twrp installed. Partly because of my stupidity and also just to see what would happen, I clicked download and install now. Now the phone doesn't show any signs of life, even after taking out the battery and trying to drain the capacitors by holding down power then putting the battery back in. Doesn't show up on my computer when plugged in, and doesn't have any power led when charging. I've tried 4 batteries with it (lol I have too many) and they all don't work. They were all charged with external anker chargers. I've tried with the sim card and sd card taken out, too.
So yeah, my phone is dead and I have no idea what to do. I'm pretty sure I'm out of warranty because it's been two years and I've modified it.

fruitgang said:
So yesterday I got a notification for an OTA update (I'm on sprint). I am rooted, have xposed, and have twrp installed. Partly because of my stupidity and also just to see what would happen, I clicked download and install now. Now the phone doesn't show any signs of life, even after taking out the battery and trying to drain the capacitors by holding down power then putting the battery back in. Doesn't show up on my computer when plugged in, and doesn't have any power led when charging. I've tried 4 batteries with it (lol I have too many) and they all don't work. They were all charged with external anker chargers. I've tried with the sim card and sd card taken out, too.
So yeah, my phone is dead and I have no idea what to do. I'm pretty sure I'm out of warranty because it's been two years and I've modified it.
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Sorry for your loss mate.. please take your device to the nearest Samsung service center and let them check it for you the won't charge you nothing for normal checkup. Merry Christmas
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fruitgang said:
So yesterday I got a notification for an OTA update (I'm on sprint). I am rooted, have xposed, and have twrp installed. Partly because of my stupidity and also just to see what would happen, I clicked download and install now. Now the phone doesn't show any signs of life, even after taking out the battery and trying to drain the capacitors by holding down power then putting the battery back in. Doesn't show up on my computer when plugged in, and doesn't have any power led when charging. I've tried 4 batteries with it (lol I have too many) and they all don't work. They were all charged with external anker chargers. I've tried with the sim card and sd card taken out, too.
So yeah, my phone is dead and I have no idea what to do. I'm pretty sure I'm out of warranty because it's been two years and I've modified it.
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You might consider to have a look here if you didn't do it already mate : http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/snapdragon-dev/note-4-debrick-img-t3488114

If you need the debrick.img for the sprint varient, I can give you that.

I thought OTA would not install, if you were rooted and had a custom recovery.

Chimbat said:
You might consider to have a look here if you didn't do it already mate : http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/snapdragon-dev/note-4-debrick-img-t3488114
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Hey, thanks for the help. I'm not sure how to check if my device is hard bricked? Is it normal for there to be no signs of life at all, not even power LED or vibrations? I can't get my phone to the download mode in order to show up in odin so I'm not sure how I would flash the unbrick file. When I plug my phone into my computer windows says that the device has malfunctioned and I can't find it in the device manager.

fruitgang said:
Hey, thanks for the help. I'm not sure how to check if my device is hard bricked? Is it normal for there to be no signs of life at all, not even power LED or vibrations? I can't get my phone to the download mode in order to show up in odin so I'm not sure how I would flash the unbrick file. When I plug my phone into my computer windows says that the device has malfunctioned and I can't find it in the device manager.
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It's worth to try it i think. Some users got back their phones to life using this method. @RDChase is offering you a debrick.img for your variant. This method is using sdcard so no worries at the moment with Odin

Similar thing here, Sprint, TWRP, rooted, stock rom one of the early ones v4.4.4?!
Over last couple month it kept trying to update itself at night, very sneaky!!!! I have disabled auto-download and update BUT clearly it found a way around it, bastards!
It was in a reboot loop, extremely hot and buzzing, woke me up in the middle of night, I thought it going to burst in flames like Note 7!
So I pulled the battery out and left it out till morning, but now it no longer powers up, no LED, black screen, PC keeps saying USB drive malfunction and un-recognized, can't put it in recovery or download mode! Odin doesn't detect it also. PC device manager doesn't detect it either! Used volt meter to check both batteries both are fully charged up, but it doesn't show LED charging light?!?
Is there any way to un-brick it?
Again, I repeat phone does not power up and PC doesn't detect it!
Please help, if I can't un-brick it than I have few days until end of year to catch deal on upgrade to LG V20, hopefully it can be un-looked and rooted????
Edit: Just read online there is possibility that Note 8 is coming out either in April or Early August 2017!!!!!!
I need my Note 4 working again and last until new Note 8 comes out!
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Chimbat said:
It's worth to try it i think. Some users got back their phones to life using this method. @RDChase is offering you a debrick.img for your variant. This method is using sdcard so no worries at the moment with Odin
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Will mounting De-Brick.img on sdcard even work if phone doesn't power on or go into download/recovery mode?

Yes. Instead of booting from internal memory, the cpu will boot from the external sdcard. Make sure you prepare it correctly however. The sdcard must be the 32GB+.
Take a look at this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860
Is is for the s3, I know... However, it's the same stuff happening.
This works on a soc level, not the bootloader level.
Link to N910P debrick.
Removed, can't get it back either
If I have helped you, hit that thanks button!

boot from internal
RDChase said:
Yes. Instead of booting from internal memory, the cpu will boot from the external sdcard. Make sure you prepare it correctly however. The sdcard must be the 32GB+.
Take a look at this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860
Is is for the s3, I know... However, it's the same stuff happening.
This works on a soc level, not the bootloader level.
Link to N910P debrick.
Mega Link
If I have helped you, hit that thanks button!
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hi. once you get it to boot from sd card and configure the phone how do you make it so it can boot normally without the need for the sd card?

RDChase said:
Yes. Instead of booting from internal memory, the cpu will boot from the external sdcard. Make sure you prepare it correctly however. The sdcard must be the 32GB+.
Take a look at this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860
Is is for the s3, I know... However, it's the same stuff happening.
This works on a soc level, not the bootloader level.
Link to N910P debrick.
Mega Link
If I have helped you, hit that thanks button!
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:good: Thank you for debrick.img was looking for Sprint one everywhere!
Is it supposed to be 128mb or around 4Gb?
Debrick.img doesn't includes stock Rom, does it? If it does which version?
Next Steps:
1. Copy debrick.img to sdcard?
2. Put in sdcard + battery +press VolDown+Home+Power?
3. USB connect to PC + flash new Rom using Odin?
4. Root again?
Is this correct way to do it?
Has it worked for anyone?

RDChase said:
Yes. Instead of booting from internal memory, the cpu will boot from the external sdcard. Make sure you prepare it correctly however. The sdcard must be the 32GB+.
Take a look at this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860
Is is for the s3, I know... However, it's the same stuff happening.
This works on a soc level, not the bootloader level.
Link to N910P debrick.
Mega Link
If I have helped you, hit that thanks button!
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I'm confused, I correctly mounted the image to the sd card and I put it on the phone with a fully charged battery, and tried booting into download mode thru home + volume down + power. it doesn't show anything on screen or any LEDS. it's connected to the computer but it says "usb device malfunctioned". Thanks for your help

I can't get into download mode even with the unbrick sd card in, I mounted it with win32DiskManager and everything. No charging LED or screen or vibration at all.
I installed qualcomm drivers and it shows up as "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008"
After some research looks like this is the only method that would solve my issue.. problem is that nobody has released the files needed to do this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/help/unbrick-samsung-galaxy-note-4-sm-n910w8-t3249970
Edit: Would a USB jig help me?

dead4ngel - to permanently fix it, just Odin the stock firmware
Others - I wasn't clear in how to prepare the SD card.
To prepare it properly you image the SD card with the debrick image file. This has to be on a 32+ GB SD card. (On a Linux machine where your in the folder with debrick-n910p.img is located and your SD card is /dev/sdx the command is dd if=debrick-n910p of=/dev/sdx)
You then put it in your phone, boot to download mode (it may take a few tries), then Odin a stock rom (PH1 or PK1 only) which MUST contain the bootloader
After this you don't need have the SD card be prepared like this, your bootloader will be fixed

RDChase said:
dead4ngel - to permanently fix it, just Odin the stock firmware
Others - I wasn't clear in how to prepare the SD card.
To prepare it properly you image the SD card with the debrick image file. This has to be on a 32+ GB SD card. (On a Linux machine where your in the folder with debrick-n910p.img is located and your SD card is /dev/sdx the command is dd if=debrick-n910p of=/dev/sdx)
You then put it in your phone, boot to download mode (it may take a few tries), then Odin a stock rom (PH1 or PK1 only) which MUST contain the bootloader
After this you don't need have the SD card be prepared like this, your bootloader will be fixed
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:good: Again thanks a lot for debrick.img it worked, you saved my butt!
Here is what I did to make it come alive, it did take couple trial and errors on my part.
Warning DO NOT copy & paste image file directly onto sdcard, it wont work!
Instead use the diskimage win32 software that was mentioned in Debrick thread before.
I used it to unpack and write file from debrick.img onto 16GB sdcard (only one I have) using that little piece of software.
I plugged in sdcard + battery, than pressed power button and phone came back to LIVE:angel:
Now it is back in my original KitKat Rom v4.4.4 still booted from sdcard, I was able to transfer all my documents and photos to my PC, thank God!
Ps screen got very hot again while it tried to run another software update, I killed it with task manager and turned off Data+WiFi radios for now, until I re-Flash from Odin!
Now for next step to flash new ROM using Odin, do I have to flash original KitKat 4.4.4 or Lollipop 5.11 recovery or can I just flash stock Marshmallow 6.11?
Is there stock Sprint+rooted+De-Odexed Marshmallow 6.11 version I can safely flash?
Do I need to root again each new ROM?

pLz i want to update jn lollipop halp me
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@RDChase One step forward two steps backward arhh!
Managed to put it into download mode + downloaded Marshmallow PK1
BUT still having issue with malfunctioning USB device "Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)
I have installed Google & Samsung & Qualcomm drivers to no effect!
How do I fix it?

try differnt usb cords and/ports
unistall/reinstall samsung drivers
take a look at this

yes please !!!!
RDChase said:
If you need the debrick.img for the sprint varient, I can give you that.
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yes please i need this file a lot pleaseeee

Tarek Hadef Mostafa said:
yes please i need this file a lot pleaseeee
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