[Q] Hard-bricked Kindle Fire (power controller is dead)? topic

I've got a problem with KF. It was unused for 2 or 3 months and looked like fully discharged. I tried to charge it with low-amper charger (5V, 0.55 mA), got it stuck for 5-sec bootloop.
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Leaved it for 2-3 minutes and KF totally turned off, without any reaction on power button (no powering on, no charge indicator). Got original 1.8A charger - no luck. Tried hard reset (from 30 sec to 5 mins) - no luck. Tried different chargers from 0.55 to 2.1A - no luck.
Tried usbboot trick - no luck (firekit stuck on waiting for device, lsusb shows nothing).

Disassembled and reinstall battery connecter shows the same result. Leaved it on charger through usb-ampermeter, it showed power consumption 0.6A with battery attached and 0.2A without battery. After battery being charged for 8 hours ampermeter shows power consumtion in 0.2A (so battery looks like fully charged). Disassembled battery connection and measured voltage between first black battery (from black cords to red cords) and 3rd red battery cord (from red cords to black cords) - it shows 4.2V, so battery looks like fully charged.

Now i have such symptoms:
- No reaction with usb cable attached (both wallet and computer 0.5A usb)
- Powers on by single press (power button light for 2 seconds, display with "press power button for recovery" - for 1 second) and powers off without usb cable attached. No reaction on usb cable attaching in this 2 seconds (and no response for power button being pushed while usb cable is connected).
- No reaction on usbboot at all (both battery connected or disconnected)

Any ideas?

By: dd On 04:32

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gionee m2 hardbricked and pc wont recignise it topic

tried to upgrade my gionee m2 to 4.4 kit kat but the phone died it wont turn on or enter into any mode ,and PC wont recognize it ,i downloaded the sp tools and m2 files but the app wont recognize it pls what can i do

By: dd On 15:37

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[Q] MBM-CI 5.0 ? For hardbricked devices topic

I installed the Brazillian lollipop (5.0) soak test on my Asian Moto G,
I've heard that 5.0.1 has came out for GPE devices, so I flashed the GPE 4.4.2 ROM to my phone
then I planned to upgrade to 5.0.1 via OTA,
The 4.4.2 GPE ROM seems has no problem, but after I install the 4.4.4 OTA, my phone won't boot at all, not even to fastboot mode,

So I googled and I found out that we need MBM-CI 5.0 to bring our dead devices back,
As I said, I've heard that Official Lollipop has came out for us,
So does it mean that Motorola has also released the MBM-CI 5.0?
If it does, then where can I get it?

Sorry for my bad English, I'm Indonesian, and I hope some of you could help me out
Thanks

By: dd On 06:20

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[Q] Recovering data from hard-bricked GT-I9100 topic

Hi

I looked around for a while but didn't find a solution to my problem so starting a new thread.
The story:
My wife's phone (2.5 years old, unrooted, not sure what OS version - i think ICS) has stopped working - stuck at the logo. Everything on it was not backed up in a while - contacts, meetings, photos so it had to be attempted to restore.
After reading around i tried to flash a CWM - as suggested in http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2168448.
I couldn't access the SD card in recovery mode, so i tried the adb sideloader.
Unfortunately it worked - i flashed the kernel from CWM-SuperSU-v0.97.zip (based on this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...overy-t1994544) and hard bricked the phone.
Now it doesn't react at all - stuck at a black screen. The only indication that it is still alive is that it warms up when plugged in.
I got my hands on USB JIG but it didn't do any affect - i tried the 2 methods i found (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...tions-t1402286 and plugging the jig before returning the battery).

Any ideas what to do, except for sending it somewhere to use JTAG ?

Any help would be appreciated, i told her we can save her data :)

By: dd On 23:14

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[Q] Hardbricked Moto G XT1033. Need MBM-CI 5.0 Lollipop topic

Hello guys,

I upgraded my Moto G a couple of days ago to Lollipop 5.0 and yesterday I decided to downgrade my phone back to 4.4.4.
But when I updated OTA 4.4.4 my phone won't boot up.

I've flashed MBM-CI 4.3 4.4.2 and 4.4.4 with Motoflasher, but it still won't boot up.

Please, how to make MBM-CI file? I still have my OTA 5.0.

Thanks.

By: dd On 20:19

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Have I hard-bricked my device? topic

Please excuse me if I'm repeating a prior question but it seems far too specific to trawl through pages of related threads to make sure.

I decided I was going to sit down and root my Xperia Z1....

Steps:
1. I installed ADB and Fastboot via the latest windows Android SDK (r23-.0.2), in fact I had to source a sony version of the fastboot driver in order to get it working but once I'd done that all went ahead as planned.

2. Generally followed this guide (wont let me post a link but google "honami cyanogenmod" and it's the 2nd result)

3. All was going swimmingly, I entered fastboot mode absolutely fine, flashed CWM using fastboot which all loaded up absolutely fine.

3. At this stage ADB was not picking up my device at all, tried different cables, ports, all of the usual. What I didn't do was make a backup, and then I wiped all of the things that it's possible to wipe thinking to myself that I was going to get Cyanogenmod on there so all would be fine...

4. Finally I (quite stupidly) restored from memory card (which had already been wiped) from inside CWM, the device restarted and now I am getting no response AT ALL.

5. Sometimes it will load the Sony 'splash' logo that first appears but sometimes not, when plugged in the device is recognised and ADB actually sees the device but lists it as offline... Interestingly at this stage windows device installer actually installs Sony ADB driver for me automatically.

6. All I'm getting at the moment is a red flashing LED although when I plug in via USB the device is again recognised when I type adb devices but again is offline...

If any more information is needed please, I will be more than happy to give a quick reply.

Thank you in advance

By: dd On 15:51

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