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Please Help... Soft Brick or Hard Brick?

So I've only had this phone for about a week now and just tried to install TWRP on my phone with the TWRP app from google play once rebooted 'm now stuck on a screen that says:
SECURE FAIL: KERNEL
Start Up Failed
Your device didn't start up successfully. Use the Verizon Software Repair Assistant on a computer to repair your device.
What do I do?!
Things I've tried to do:
I tried hooking it up to my computer but it doesn't detect it but makes a sound when connected?
Even though I'm on fully stock rom but my device is rooted with kingroot i planned on using ODIN to go back to stock rom just to see if anything would happen but still wouldn't detect my phone, I'm lost and miss my baby, it's the only phone I have right now currently and I need it for work.
My phone is on 5.0.1 btw

Do you have kies and the drivers installed?

Bricked or screen is broken?

Hello, I have redmi 3s 32GB , I have had developer rom and last friday as a many of you my phone was not able to be used, so I tried to flash global stable rom via fastmode commands, but phone was bricked, so I removed back cover and reset pins,of course reconnnected battery, after this phone was detected in win10 and I have installed global stable rom, pc now detect phone as redmi 3s, I saw my internal sdcard...but screen is still blank, I cannot see recovery boot, fastboot and no logo too. Could you help me? Is screen broken or is this software problem?
Regards

undulus said:
Hello, I have redmi 3s 32GB , I have had developer rom and last friday as a many of you my phone was not able to be used, so I tried to flash global stable rom via fastmode commands, but phone was bricked, so I removed back cover and reset pins,of course reconnnected battery, after this phone was detected in win10 and I have installed global stable rom, pc now detect phone as redmi 3s, I saw my internal sdcard...but screen is still blank, I cannot see recovery boot, fastboot and no logo too. Could you help me? Is screen broken or is this software problem?
Regards
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Hi, open ur phone again and check the display connector, try fully disconnecting it and reconnecting it and check if all other connectors in range are also properly connected. Then reassemble ur phone.
Next time, do not open your phone unless you really have to. I don't see why you have opened to reset it. You can press power for very long then after maybe 30 seconds or so, your phone will fully turn off. No need to open it for that.
Next time if you have a question, use the Q&A section, not this one. You'll get answers quicker there too.

Bricked or screen is broken
Without disassembling I was not able to detect my phone, after pin reseting phone was identified in windows. No recovery boot was working too... This is reason why I disassembled phone...
But thank you for reply..

undulus said:
Without disassembling I was not able to detect my phone, after pin reseting phone was identified in windows. No recovery boot was working too... This is reason why I disassembled phone...
But thank you for reply..
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if that worked, i'd be curious to know

PC doesn't recognize my LG (download mode)

Hey guys!!!
Can you please help me with this?
Yesterday i tried to install a new ROM on my LG Android phone (My LG phone is not working properly, it has a reboot loop). I tried to do a factory reset without success -> the dead Android logo appeared :/
I put my phone in Download Mode and connected to the pc but Windows does not recognize my phone.. it says: "USB device not recognized.. the last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it"
I do not know what to do now.. when i try to flash a ROM with the LG Flash Tool it fails because LG program does not recognize my device..
PS: LG Support Tool recognizes my phone (it shows the model) but i cannot flash a ROM
Thanks!!:fingers-crossed:

android_simply said:
Hey guys!!!
Can you please help me with this?
Yesterday i tried to install a new ROM on my LG Android phone (My LG phone is not working properly, it has a reboot loop). I tried to do a factory reset without success -> the dead Android logo appeared :/
I put my phone in Download Mode and connected to the pc but Windows does not recognize my phone.. it says: "USB device not recognized.. the last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it"
I do not know what to do now.. when i try to flash a ROM with the LG Flash Tool it fails because LG program does not recognize my device..
PS: LG Support Tool recognizes my phone (it shows the model) but i cannot flash a ROM
Thanks!!:fingers-crossed:
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Were you using a custom recovery? (i.e. TWRP)? If so, are you able to boot into recovery? It was a few years ago but whenever that happened to me I would have to use the hard reset option. If I remember correctly, on my LGG2, I would hold down the power button and the volume down button at the same time until the LG logo appears, then right when it appears, release and re-press both buttons again holding them down again until the hard reset option showed. Then when it asked me if I was sure I wanted to reset my phone, select yes (it made nervous the first ten times or so). Eventually I began to trust it would, in fact, do what I was informed it would do which was boot into TWRP without actually resetting anything. From there I was always able to flash a new ROM etc. Anyway, if you knew all that sorry, just trying to help. If not, please get second opinions since I will not be held responsible for your device and since it's been years since I tinkered with mine. Having a Samsung now, I don't mess with it cause rooting a Samsung Note trips Knox and then Samsung Pay is disabled.
Anyway, happy flashing and best of luck to you. It was an awesome hobby while I was involved with it.
Cheers!
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Tab A SM-T355Y in Bootloop, cannot access Recovery. Help (please)?

So I gifted my mother a Galaxy Tab (SM-T355Y) a few years back and it was behaving fine until a few weeks back. Now it gets in an infinite bootloop when we try turning it on (I see the black screen with Galaxy Tab written in white, and it boots again and again) and it simply won't budge. I cannot access recovery in this state as pressing the required buttons still keep me in the loop.
Now flashing the stock firmware on Odin would be the logical go-to in such case, but I cannot get Odin to recognize the device when plugged in on Download mode. I keep getting a message saying 'Windows doesn't recognize the device', but it recognizes my S10 perfectly and I did install all necessary drivers when I had plugged in my S10 for the first time.
I think the drivers for both S10 and the Tab should be the same. Am I missing something here? I hate it when I'm not able to fix an android device myself, but I seem to have hit a roadblock in this case.
PS: I don't come from a tech background and I've learnt all things android on XDA, so excuse any gaps in my understanding.
Cheers!

Bricked Lenovo Tab M10 fhd plus while trying to downgrade, any advice?

Hi,
I'm not sure I'm posting in the right section but, I had a really bad experience upgrading to android 10. Really sluggish and slow... so I tried to downgrade to android 9 by using Lenovo's Rescue and Smart Assistant.
What I did, is to find the stock ROM for my model, and replace the files downloaded by the Rescue Assistant (which downloaded the latest firmware). The process went through, but now the device wont power on.
When I plug in the USB, windows makes a sound, the charging light comes on, but The rescue Assistant nor SP flash tool is able to flash the latest firmware.
Is it bricked for good?
Model : TB-XF606F
Hardware number : 60

Maybe your computer doesn't recognize your tablet. Did you ever try using sp flash tool with your tablet before? You can try reinstall or install a driver for your table if you haven't done it yet.

Well the tablet is recognized as the "mtk vcom..." in device manager. I guess it is the driver that the lenovo rescue app installed.
I have never used sp flash tool with my tablet, just the lenovo rescue.
I tried on 2 different pc and it is the same thing. I think the problem is that I can't turn off the tablet properly, even though, all I can see is a black screen.
I will try to drain the battery by keeping the power button pressed with some scotch tape. I don't know what I can do else.
Edit: I tried a few other times with flash tool using different setting for the connection (with battery and full speed) and nothnig happened. But now windows says it does not recognize my tablet.

did the same thing exactly. . bricked lenovo m10 fhd plus x600v after i flashed a downgrade version. dont try to downgrade this thing. i had already flashed it with 3 or 4 versions the same way , but when i chose to flash the oldest version available with the model , this tab got completly unresponsive , no feedback when try to boot into recovery, fastboot, or system . neither does it gets recognised in windows or anything - device manager dowsnt recognise this usb device ( in device manager properties comments it reads- USB\DEVICE_DESCRIPTOR_FAILURE). if you find a way to reflash the device please let us know. good luck .

Bricked mine after being completely running smoothly on Lineage, then was messing around trying to get gapps installed and jacked up the partitions. TWRP said no OS. Kept messing around and mistakenly locked the bootloader again with apparently an unverified boot partition. . I couldn't get SP Flash tool to work ever either. Pretty sure it's a door stop now.