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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zonlicht:
If your phone does not turn on (blue light only), can't get into download mode, isn't recognized by a PC (Odin), then it is hard bricked.

It could just be a bad flash or wrong flash, then a JTag service for $50 would solve your issue.

If you messed up your emmc chip, then it is hard bricked for real.

Please provide:

What ROM were you on?

What kernel were you using?

What recovery did you use? (Did you use Rom Manager)

What ROM were you flashing?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Febby:
Oh I wouldn't exactly know as I just ordered my SGS2 to get back into the Sammy crowd.. HTC became horrible. The user above me can prob help you best =-)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamcar:
how would i JTag it???

cm9

cm9 default kernel

el26 repacked ( the one in the instructions , i used mobile odin to flash that then when right into recovery)

cm9
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
This is the extra info I was looking for, and is the cause of your hard brick. Very likely you did not Odin the stock EL26 kernel + CWM, which you should have done before reflashing anything. Wiping anything in CWM while on an ICS kernel when you have CM9 on your phone is a death sentence.

Sprint will likely exchange it for a refurbished unit for a $35 fee. www.mobiletechvideos.com may be able to JTAG it for you for $50.

Edit - Oh hmm in your last post it says you did indeed flash the EL26 stock repack. I'm not sure where you went wrong then, but your description sounds like the "blue light of death", which is usually indicative of a hard brick.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamcar:
what do you think i should do, sprint or JTag??? i would kinda like to keep what is on the internal memory, but i dont know if the JTag would do that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MeWarning:
USB jig won't work to fix it. You either have to have Sprint replace it or Jtag can fix this type of brick too. I had the hard brick like you have where only the blue led turns on and he was able to fix it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamcar:
did you have the same memory in it after wards???
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MeWarning:
No, sorry but you're not going to be able to get back anything on internal memory no matter which way you go to fix it. And Sprint is kind of a crap shoot. If they replace your phone and take apart the old one and discover a custom ROM on it they can charge you full price for the replacement. Then again they may just give you a new one and that's it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Dchibro:
You're out of luck on your internal memory in either scenario. Sprint will almost definitely exchange it, but it would require you playing dumb, which is up to you. JTAG lets you keep your original device (not a refurb) if you care about that, but you have to mail it to them, get it fixed (hopefully) and have it mailed back. Sprint would likely get you a refurb faster and for $15 less, but again, you'd need to lie to them to avoid any hassles. It really depends on how you want to approach this and what you're comfortable with.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zonlicht:
You flashed a gingerbread kernel + CWM repack on a CM9 rom. That is such a bad idea.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
no it is not .. it just will never boot but just go strait into cwm and flash
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] toprock23:
yea thats our only method of having recovery for cm9. that's what i did to update the radio. odin el26cwm, during boot hold volume up, then flash.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zonlicht:
Maybe that is possibly the problem.

Most if not all the bricks are because of CM9 or AOKP. If you guys are forced to use a GB kernel + cwm to flash an ICS rom, that might be a problem.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nacron:
my E4gT had the same issue but I wasn't flashing anything. I was running MIJJ's v16.0 and it's been stable for the past month. Last night I just threw it on the charger and woke up to a red LED that wouldn't turn off. I restarted it by holding down power but it just blue LEDs. I'm wondering if sprint tried to push the OTA ICS to my phone last night and it bricked it. Going to sprint today. Probably going to buy a GSIII and get this one repaired to use as a backup.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Bruce Inman:
OTA has to be confirmed by the user. It had to have been something else.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mcadamry:
Do you let your phone die often?

BLOD can be mistaken for bad battery.

Li-ions can NOT be all the way discharged.

FF18 SFHub Rooted
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] luisrodg:
Ever since the nightlies after CM9 alpha5, including alpha6, I believe they fixed the problem and you could now flash from ICS to ICS. I have done it without problems. Which CM9 where you on?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] nacron:
I have spare batteries and they all had same result. even my jig wouldn't pull it into odin, would just sit with the blue LED on. Got it replaced at sprint.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamcar:
It was a hard brick nothing worked, bought a new phone......I moved on to the sIII
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] snapback2:
I just bricked mine): same problem as yours
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] izzibew26:
I hard bricked a while back, if you dig up my posts there's a weird ass partial solution that may help. I have no ideas why it even did anything significant but I was able to get my personal info off it.if you can't find my posts on me and I'll find em for you....I'm still looking for someone to explain it to me and I'm an electrical engineer
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Definitus:
Hi All

I have a Galaxy S2 jailed to portuguese TMN carrier, and it will be easier to see the pope than to expect an official ICS update from them. Can someone indicate a link to a tutorial about how to root & flash ICS rom on S2?

Thank you all for your help.

PS.: I have a Galaxy S and I never thought I would have ICS on it, before the new S2.

;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hostilevader:
Try VK, in Development section ;) Smooth and stable!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnnySM:
If you like pure stock ROM, there's a new ICS called NEAT ROM, by Sale. I'm still on GB, but I am preparing myself to flash Neat ROM, since I like stock :).
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Whats best rom posts are banned on XDA for the simple reason their is no best and we dont want repetitions of the same post everyday .

jje
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] HuskerWebhead:
Are there any alternate spash screens out there? Or is it generally discouraged (not safe) on the Nexus? I was thinking of changing mine. I changed the one I had on my Droid Incredible and always loved that little personal touch. I was thinking of using this one but I wasn't sure about it being horizontal. I know several of the boot animations are horizontal though, so maybe it doesn't matter.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] modstorm:
If you're talking about the bootanimation you can and its quite simple....just move bootanimation.zip to system/app using Root Explorer(or any file browser).

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] HuskerWebhead:
Nope. I'm talking about the very boring "Google" black screen that comes up just before the boot animation.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] utcu:
There was a lot of talk about changing the splash screen on these forums as well as on rootzwiki. No one seemed to have a clue of how to do it and it seems like everyone lost interest rather quick. lol. So as of right now it appears to be UN-changeable. I hope someone eventually figures it out though. I've tried digging through framework res files to find the images because I heard that's where they might be and I had no luck.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] HuskerWebhead:
Well poop....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] moxlon69:
Kind of an old thread, but I figured I'd reply. I'm unsure exactly where it is located on the gnex, but it wouldn't be in the framework. the splash image loads before the phone boots. This would lead me to believe that it's stored on a partition (probably hidden, in or about the area of the bootloader or radios). There's a pay app on the market made for galaxy nexus devices (seems to be most versions) called Logo Me. If I fail to dig up the relevant information, I'll end up buying the apk, but it is indeed possible. I'm not beyond buying the app, I just haven't given up trying to figure out how to do it by hand, since I used to do it all the time on HTC phones.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bmg1001:
Im pretty sure I saw a thread on how to do it earlier today. Either here or in development, and it was a new thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] blackhand1001:
Thats a really good way to hard brick your phone. Not worth the risk. Probably one of the few ways you actually could brick this phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Da Kine:
There's an app called logo me in the play store. There's also a thread buried here in the themes and apps section about it. The app allows you to change the Google logo and the little locked/unlocked lock under it with just a push of a button. Its a paid app though, worth it depending how bad you want to change those images.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Dsmforlife92:
If Att doesn't give us ice cream sandwich then we should be able to use Bells Note upgrade.

http://m.androidcentral.com/list-bell-android-40-updates-appears-timelines-each-device
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] redneck.nerd:
Awesome, If I only have to wait another couple of weeks for *real* ICS, I think I can manage. Not that our current roms arent awesome, but I really want to see how snappy ICS is on my NOTEpad...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] nunyabiziz:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1572106
[T-Mobile LG G2x] btaing:
Hey was wondering if anyone noticed this...but on the CM 7.2 and CM 7.1 for the G2X, there is no transition after the unlock screen. I've tried CM on the MyTouch 4G and Nexus S, and both have a fading transition after unlocking the screen.

Has anyone noticed this? If so, is there a way to fix it?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] I.R.Chevy:
Don't think its broken just not added.

Personally one less animation is a good thing in my eyes... I would prefer no BS on unlock faster and less resources for the phone... could be a nice peice of Bacon though...

Pin it to Win it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] btaing:
I agree it's mostly a personal preference. It caught my eye because every part of CM has smooth animations and transistions except for this one part. I like it because it makes the OS look more polished.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] billzilla2000:
My new GNote purchased on the 13th was giving me serious problems. Terrible fast battery drain even with Juice, very slow charging even with the OEM cable and adapter, really obvious black crush issues. In fact, the black crush was so bad that I could see the red and green gradient pattern on the dialer (end and during call backdrop) fade to a really ugly banded grey and then abruptly drop off to black.

There was also plenty of irritating lag, even with Go Launcher EX especially when scrolling left and right. Changing screen orientation produced very slow icon redraw.

I tried rooting, Juice Defender, SetCPU, battery monitor and other fixes. The phone was indeed going into deep sleep so that wasn't a problem, but under solid use I doubt I'd crack 2 hours with the thing, and it got very hot, although many report this issue so maybe it's normal. It also occasionally reset itself, sometimes with the UI appearing to re-initialize ala the iPhone's respring and sometimes it crashed to a full system reboot. Kies had tons of connection issues. I could transfer files but never back up or restore.

So I exchanged for a new Note with ATT yesterday. They were fine with it, even helped me transfer my screen protector, although the whole handshake and walk me to and from the door thing is embarrassing and weird.

Anyway, the new phone is like night and day... At least for now. At all brightness levels I'd say the black crush is about 30-50% better. The darkest grey level is much darker than my old phone, and I can discern between mid to low grey levels better. One interesting thing is, Quadrant benchmarks I've run thus far have been below 3000 (my old GN benched as high as 3200) yet there's significantly less stutter or lag when scrolling and paging, like night and day in terms of smoothness. I haven't rooted yet, nor have I done anything to alter performance other than install the apps I had on my old Note.

Anyway, thought I'd let folks know that exchanging can indeed help with the little issues that plague the phone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Thremix:
its still bad dude... i got 0% black crush, little to no lag...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] StarLog:
Do you feel like your in a car dealership with the handshake and walk.?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] billzilla2000:
Sort of, I suppose, although in a car dealership I'd feel a little less creeped out by it. With an ATT store it just feels really forced, especially with the floor or store manager nodding and watching your every move.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] nghiaxp:
How hard was it to exchange your note? I bought my note on craigslist and am not an att customer. Do you think i would have problems exchanging?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] cgibsong002:
probably...
[LG Optimus Black] peppe.desire:
Hi all, i have a question for the developers. Is possible to improve camera fps of this smartphone? I have a CM 7.2 RC1 but in the stock ROM the quality was the same, with the difference that in the CM the fps were less than in the stock ROM. My dream is a 30fps camera videorecording without any lag. Is it possible?

Sorry for my bad english :)

thank's all!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Franzferdinan51:
okay i bricked while using gremlin cleaner some how and im trying to reflash stock+ root and odin just hangs at setting up connection the phone is recognised and everything but its been like 20 minuets and it hasent moved a inch

HELLLPPPP pls
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Franzferdinan51:
also may need pit but cannot find a download link for it can anybody tell me where to get it please
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] stephen_w:
Is the phone in download mode? If so, I've had ODIN hang on me like that before too. I had to disconnect the USB cable from the computer then plugged it back in.

The phone might freak out and show you a different screen but it's really just another download mode.

I would suggest ditching ODIN and using one of bhundven's one-clicks to return it to stock. They work great.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] al2x:
Anyone have any good recommendations on a secondary battery charger? I have the extended battery in my Nexus just about all the time, but I've been noticing its time to start carrying around a spare battery with me.

If possible I'd love it to be cheap, maybe sub $15, and any little add in features like built in phone charger or cradle would be excellent too. If possible, I don't want something so cheaply made that it may blow up my house :)

I saw the official Samsung charger, but $25 seems kind of steep for just a battery charger. I may just go for it in the end, but I'd assume you guys know a lot about whats out there.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] The Gingerbread Man:
Just charge both battery's in the phone while at home, one at a time and simply carry it around after? Saves you $
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] la7lou7a:
Theres a simple battery charger for like 4 dollars on obostore
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thirteen113:
Wow, thanks for the obostore recommendation.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] T4rd:
FYI: That $4 charger is only for the i9250 (GSM) Galaxy Nexus.

Also, curse you all for not linking to it and making me take 20 seconds to find it :p.

Link for the lazy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonnythan:
You can get a pair of extended batteries and a standalone charger on eBay for about $22.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonnyg1097:
There are some docks on ebay and amazon (if you are looking to spend a little extra $) that would charge up your phone and have a spot for an extra battery to charge up at the same time.

Edit: On a completely unrelated note this site is awesome and these things are so cheap!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] al2x:
Agh, i knew that was a catch. Is obostore out of Hong Kong/China for shipping?

I need a charger for the LTE Nexus!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ifti_q:
So I recently bought Samsung Galaxy S2, coming from iPhone it's quite tricky when it comes to firmwares. My phone is the I9100G white model and I accidentally tried to flash the I9100 ICS firmware update.. But after researching on the net I was able to flash it back to the GingerBread firmware via Odin software. My query is that will I be able to get and install official firmwares from Samsung or not directly through KIES, if not than how can I shift back to the original firmware for my device which would work on KIES update.. Lastly has ICS been released for I9100G model as yet or not??? Your help would be much appreciated..!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alberto 63:
ics has not yet been released for the original firmware 9100g need to know from which country the sgs2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ifti_q:
It's a UK Handset!

I bought the unlocked international version of SGS2.. I also wanted to know how to find out which country is my phone from although the seller claims that it's a UK handset.. If there is a way to find out do let me know... Thanks!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.Greg:
I9100 SGS2 is international version and doesn`t matter from which country you bought
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
I9100G isn't distributed by any of the networks in the UK or even sold direct by any major retailer (well, maybe one). You should be able to check your IMEI somewhere like here to see where it's from.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ifti_q:
ROM

Can you recommend any other custom ROM for I9100G model.. I have come across many ROMs for the I9100 but not the I9100G one..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
If you haven't flashed custom ROMs or updated your firmware yet, your build number in the About Phone screen will (sort of ) tell you. It's a code that can be deciphered.

What is the build number?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alberto 63:
type keyboard *2767*4387264636#
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ifti_q:
Build Number..

My phone's build number is GINGERBREAD.XWLA1

KERNEL: 2.6.35.7 root@DELL128#2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
XW is a generic Europe code that could be many countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Nordic, Spain, United Kingdom).

LA1 means it was build 1 in January of 2012.

I believe you can further narrow down what country by finding your CSC by typing *#1234# into your dialer.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alberto 63:
is india or bangladesh
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnnySM:
I think you should be able to flash through Kies when you revert to the stock ROM. Here is a list of official I9100 firmware, I guess you could find yours in there.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4038153:
He has an I9100G :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alberto 63:
I9100G no I9100

---------- Post added at 09:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:41 PM ----------

I9100GXWLA1	2.3.6	2012 January	I9100GODDKL1	Bangladesh
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnnySM:
Sorry. Made an a** of myself :). My bad.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
I missed in the first post of the thread where he said he flashed back to a stock firmware, so my suggestion was voided, since it was no longer the original firmware that shipped with his phone. :o
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ifti_q:
Yea exactly, thats what i want to know how can you revert back to the original firmware that would work with KIES..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Two options.

1) Original firmware that came with phone; search for said firmware on Samfirmware.com, flash according to any instructions they have for flashing firmware downloaded from their site.

2) Latest stock firmware you'd normally get via Kies; get the PC version of Checkfus (search for it on XDA/Google). This will allow you to download the latest firmware for your phone/carrier/country that you'd normally get via Kies (might be the same firmware which came with the phone, depends on whether carrier has pushed a firmware update since or not). Flash this firmware you download following the instructions in Intratech's firmwares threads on here.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tonystark88:
IMPORTANT

THREAD MOVED HERE

MOTIVATION

Welcome in the official thread of the project. This post is made to let discover you why this project is born. We are two universitary students that want more about a new branch of th IT Area, the Embedded OS Porting. We have a particular device, the HUAWEI IDEOS U8150, so our port is in this direction.

So don't ask to us why we are porting this version of Android with this device, because this project starts for educate ourself to the porting of Android OS, in particular we are oriented to port CyanogenMod ver 9. We made research to define a good porting for this device, so all the support ,moral, technical and economic(we need more RAM and CPU frequency) is really appreciated. We are also thinking to port, after this ROM Porting, the MIUI v4.

We work to create a stable ROM that could enjoy all great people that have this device. We think that newest releases of Android could run on this kind of mid-low level devices, so we make all the possible to complete this work.

The xDEOS team

raidenfox

sebaker

INFO ON THE STATUS OF PROJECT

Official Website: Here

G+ Page (daily updates) : Here

ABOUT THE ROM

This is the status of our working ROM:

ALPHA 2 (4.0.4)

CODENAME

xDEOS-9.0.0-RC0-u8150-UNOFFICIAL-alpha2-signed

Download

http://filevelocity.com/aw368vhr28qq/xDEOS-9.0.0-RC0-u8150-UNOFFICIAL-alpha2-signed.zip

Changelog

Update to 4.0.4 Distribution

Removed annoying Red Border

Modified codename

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ALPHA 1 (4.0.3)

CODENAME

cm_u8150-9.0.0-KANG-alpha1-signed.raidenfox

WORK

USB

MMC

Browser

Gallery (without HW Acceleration)

Overclock

Thetering

Audio

GPS

Contacts

Wi-Fi

RIL (partially solved)

SENSORS (G - Sensor)

NOT WORK

Graphics Hardware Acceleration

Camera

Bluetooth

other bugs not known..

All the details about the ROM (status of bugs in bugtracker section) is available on this site.

http://www.xdeos.eu

Sorry for my bad english ;)

SCREENSHOT
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tonystark88:
CWM INSTALLATION

Boot in recovery mode

Flash CWM [http://www.mediafire.com/?esg18iw9lx9axol]

Reboot you Phone in recovery again

FLASH THE ROM

Select Install from zip

Select cm_8150 zip file downloaded on official site

Flash it

After flash do a wipe/cache

Clean cache

Reboot phone

You have installed xDEOS!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Ron G:
it's compiled from source or ported from other device ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tonystark88:
Compiled from source, obtained with git clone on official CM git repository.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Ron G:
hmm and where download link and can't open xdeos website it say website not found
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tonystark88:
Link in the page:

http://www.xdeos.eu/index.php/79-releases/76-alpha-1

or directly

http://www.mediafire.com/?e1hccwb1h7jk9yu
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Ron G:
thanks i will try on my mom u8150
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tonystark88:
Read the issues and bugs first ;)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tonystark88:
xDEOS ICS 4.0.4 coming soon....
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sdq928:
Thank you very much, WIFI can not connect