HTC EVO 4G :: How Could You Possibly Brick An Evo?
Nov 30, 2010
I was just talking to someone about bricking mobile devices and I couldn't even think of how I could accidentally brick my own phone. Couldn't you always just go into recovery and wipe/reflash? Unless there was a way to stop you from getting into recovery but I don't see how.I'm not an expert and I've learned everything I know from reading here and on XDA so I could be missing something.
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Mar 6, 2013
I rooted my S3 a few months ago based on some detailed instructions found online - no issues. The method used involved clockwork mod or some such.I was following these URL....
instructions to attempt to install liquid smooth (URL...) ROM. I had backed up everything on titanium backup and using the back up in ROM manager. In step 3.1, "flash a recovery image," I didn't think I needed to do this, as I thought it was a part of ROM manager.I proceeded onward, and after the phone finished making a back up, immediately after it started to install the new ROM, the screen went black (I assume the phone turned off).
I'm currently unable to get it to turn on at all, taking the battery out didn't do anything, and when I plug it into the comp via USB, it doesn't seem to recognize the device.I'm a broke med student on loans, and a new phone is going to hurt the bank account a lot.
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Sep 16, 2010
I managed to reformat my internal storage on my phone (to FAT) and now I can't boot the phone. It just bootloops. If i boot into recovery and try to wipe i get the error E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (File Exists) Error mounting /data/! Now, i tried to reformat data from adb shell by doing:
adb shell
su
format /data
but SU is coming up as an unrecognized command... format also anyone know what I should do or should i chuck this out the window
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Dec 18, 2009
I currently use SMS Backup & Restore, but that has two drawbacks I see
-I have to manually initiate the backup
-It only stores and restores one file, so I have to overwrite and rename
I just lost my texts and only had a two day old backup. I'd love to see the same thing but that can do it with a timestamped file such as backup_2009-12-18-15-08.xml (pickable when restoring) and can run at a preset time each day or each half day.
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Apr 7, 2010
This morning at 3 am spam was sent out of my gmail account. I am not sure if it came from my phone or my account just got hacked (my computers were turned off). I changed the Password on my account. Since I am running 2.1 and it is not an official release there is the possibility this is where it came from it was a simple email with a link in it. Just wanted to post a heads up to keep you eyes open
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Apr 15, 2010
i might have to exchange my phone,i have a few questions..first to get back to unroot i can just use droidmod to do that right? then should i update to 2.1 before i send it back? the person from motorola said i would keep my sd card.so then all my backups from say titanium and mybackup that i put on the sd card would be good to go on the new phone right?
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May 19, 2010
Does anyone have any suggestions for a good free emulator for nes or sns possibly n64. Could you also provide some place to get the roms.
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Jul 29, 2010
I presently have a windows 6.0 phone, an older htc fuze on at&t. it's getting long in the tooth and a little quirky so I'm looking to upgrade.I saw the captivate appear a few days ago on at&t's website and did some research on it. Although it has a few potential problems, I don't think they outweigh the pluses.What I'm really concerned about is I have quite a few Excel spreadsheets and Word docs on the fuze storage card that I would like to be able to continue to use on the captivate.Is this possible?Keeping in mind that I do not have to upgrade now, does the forum think it would be better to wait until the at&t captivates ship with 2.2 or go ahead and get a 2.1 unit now and do the android upgrade later?Or is the 2.2 release date still to iffy to wait?
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Jun 7, 2010
Im trying to create a folder on my home screen to put all the games ive downloaded in it. But when I do create a folder it just says new folder and doesn't have any option for changing the name of the folder. So what im asking is how do I change the name of the folder and possibly the icon? Im running bh_mans r12 galaxy 1.6 rom.
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Jul 2, 2010
I have Pandora, Slacker, and bTunes and sometimes I will be playing bTunes and Pandora will start playing too. Or Slacker will just start playing. Its super odd. Has anyone heard of this? Is an app that I have possibly causing it?
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Apr 24, 2014
I switched from an ATT ip5 to a tmobile one m8 last thursday and have noticed a lack of texts. at first i thought i was unpopular suddenly but now i know at least one of my contacts texted me without it reaching me. on their end it still said i was on iMessage. im curious if this means i may have lost a number of texts during the transition.
So far the only people to text me are ones i texted first. Are there undelivered texts floating in the aether? can i retrieve them?
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Sep 14, 2010
I really hope this is just a supplement. Verizon's Android App Store is Late, Not New.
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Oct 17, 2010
Whats the best way to view what I recorded on my pc and possibly post on youtube. I found something on line but it convert it again and changes the .mp4 to something else.
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Jul 25, 2010
I tried to install a Bootanimation with bootanimation.zip When i turned on the phone, it keeps loading the Sprint 4G splash screen...So i just went to the Recovery screen and re-flashed the Damagecontrol 3.2.3, and it still just stays at the Sprint 4g slash page. I can get into the recovery screen which has ROM Manager. Did I screw something up thats too deep internally?
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Nov 19, 2012
I had a galaxy tab 2 wifi but it was stolen. I did not install any security apps on my tab so i cant locate it. Is it possible to download apps on the market that can brick the device or apps that are not compatible which can also brick it. so that he cant access my files and the tab.
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Aug 4, 2010
I started to update my phone (root) the download started, then I got an error message, now the computer wont recognize the phone! is there anything I can do or did I just brick my phone?
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Sep 20, 2010
Running Incredible with Froyo. I rooted using Unrevoked3, but I forgot to make the nandroid backup, I guess. the LCD Changer app has my reboot looping. After the very first HTC Incredible screen it goes totally white and I just hear the "Droid" voice(plays when the red droid eye comes up on screen normally" nothing but white and the voice just repeats after the screen flashes every minute or so. Tried applying the update.zip that was linked to on the developers blog, but no luck. Any ideas? I even tried resetting to factory defaults, formatted everything, basically. Lost a great of data, I'm afraid, but I just want my phone back.
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Jun 15, 2009
I updated a few apps yesterday afternoon, I can't remember all of them but Open Home was one of them. I turned my phone off when I got to work and when I turned it back on it would not go past the Android loading screen. T-Mobile had me reset back to the default setting so I lost all my apps and such. I was wondering if anyone else had this problem after updating an app recently.I don't want to download the app again if its broken.
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Aug 27, 2010
I wanted to root my phone but m scared if m going to brick it or something like that. How do people brick their phone?
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Jul 30, 2010
wonder if ill need to install the OTA brick update before froyo? The one that bricked phones and eff'd up my vibrate mode on my 1st evo.
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Mar 30, 2010
Is there any sure fire way to brick my eris? No real specific reason
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Aug 6, 2012
How can i fix usb brick with the correct files ?
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Oct 7, 2012
My friends gave me An lg l3 that i stick on emergency mode, i can'go in other mode He told me that he was flashing a new kernel and after that It could start on in emergency, the problem is that the pc can't Find the device, i've tryed all things But nothing, Kdz supporto tool pv suite d adb doesn't works...
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May 20, 2014
My Galaxy S4 GT-I9506 is bricked with this error:
image 1 (attached)
It doesn't go to recovery mode anymore now!!!
First I tried to install custom Rom to root it with Odin, it did seem fine with "green pass" but didn't actually install any recovery mode (there wasn't any install option in recovery mode, there were only update options), nothing happened to phone at all and it worked normal.
Second i wiped the phone and cache and I download the firmware from Samsung website.
and after try to install, it failed in Odin:
Images 2 & 3 (attached)
I'm not sure but I think it was a wrong firmware, because I bought my phone online (kogan.com i think it is in Hongkong) and I downloaded the Australia Vodafone firmware (as I'm using Vodafone sim card).
I should mention that phone doesn't go to recovery mode, failed in Odin, Kies can not fix it! the drivers all are up to date and no Antivirus runs in my PC.
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Aug 17, 2010
So, will the ota brick a rooted phone that has been completely unmodified except for apps like wifi tether and incrediLED?
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Nov 2, 2010
I have a Samsung Galaxy S phone and am wondering if the lagfix can brick my phone. Are there only one method of doing the Lagfix? If there are more than one, are there any that doesn't risk getting the phone bricked?
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Oct 24, 2010
Yes you read it right I want to know how I can brick my phone or make it stop working completely. Now let me explain the reason why. I had installed an app called "Launcher Pro". Later I uninstalled it and that is when all hell broke lose. Basically when ever I would swipe my screen to unlock the phone, I would get constant error messages that would reappear the moment I would close them, and to make matters worse it would lock out the rest of the screen so I can not click any thing else (just like in windows vista and windows 7 when a UAC message pops up). This is further complicated by the fact that I have a Bell Canada Samsung Galaxy Phone, which does not have the 3 button recovery ability but that is not the end of my problems. I got this phone at a store called Best Buy and got their warranty. Now one of the things that voids the warranty is unlocking the phone, guess what?? My phone is unlocked. So since my phone is not dead, it boots up, the lock screen loads up, the top bar shows u the battery life and the fact it is getting service and can receive calls (but which I can not answer since when it comes to that screen, the screen freezes up with the error messages). So if I take the phone to Best Buy, they are going to pop in a different sim other then bell and when they see that it works, will hand me back my phone and void my warranty. So I need to have the phone in such a condition that they can not check that and yes there can be no physical or water damage either. How do I accomplish this?
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Dec 4, 2013
I have soft bricked my Karbonn Titanium S1. Unfortunately i didnt have the backup. I tried to solve this problem by installing stock rom but the process is getting aborted. i dont know what is wrong with the stock rom. CWM is installed successfully though.
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Mar 23, 2014
I have Galaxy Tab 7.7 running ICS version of Android, due to some unwanted reasons, I need to completely brick this tablet, means I want that no one can boot this tablet in either way neither in recovery mode nor in downloading mode.
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Aug 6, 2013
i have samsung galaxy star i just rooted it 30 min earlier then changed the lcd density to 320 orignally it was 120 so me bcoz my mobile is soft brick... when i start it i just see the logo and adter it it is blank?
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