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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OrionBG:
The first and hopefully last one I bricked was one of mine Dell Streak 5 phones (I had two of them).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tsukurimashou:
I never bricked a phone, the only thing I ever bricked is my 1st wii when there was no brick protection, I tried to downgrade like a noob and the wii just froze, hardbrick :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] venkat_9099:
Bricked HTC Incredible S yesterday. Still do not know what to do with that phone.

Got S III now.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dasistsparta:
How is this related to the gs3? Never bricked a phone. Soft bricks do not count as bricks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaspernemec:
Softbricked my galaxy s loooots of times (never actually managed to fail bootloader update)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pinesal:
If you use the term "bricked" correctly, then your phone would be unfixable after being bricked. That's why it's a brick because you might as well just chuck it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheFaixy:
Nokia N95
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cashyftw:
The i9000 :( I was so mad lol, I didn't understand voodoo at the time lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] souljasteve84:
i had a htc incredible s before i purchased a sgs3 now the incredible s sits in the draw with an acer a500 iconia and an iphone 3gs and a nokia n97 lol now after using the sgs3 the incredible s now looks so dull to me and plain.

but just yesterday my bro in law bought a sgs3 wanted it rooted with custom mod, i told him to come over and ill help him with it ( since he has never done it before ) he said ill be fine. 15 min later he calls me again and says ' i dont know why it aint turning on or anything, i asked for him to bring it over he finally listens n comes over. tried the jig nothing, tried many methods but nothing. its definately bricked and the funny thing is he tried to flash a firmware from a different phone. what a fricken idiot :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ICS.:
K750i !! way back in 2006.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr.m0x:
HTC Desire. It was one of the AMOLED screen ones and I flashed a firmware for sLCD to it. Wasn't really bricked, just couldn't see the screen. Managed to reflash a new rom blind thanks to help from XDA.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joe2316:
Nokia 1610 (September 1996). Ran over it with my car. That bricked it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michael_P:
Nokia 6600 in 2004/5 after doing a hard format it got stuck in a boot loop, but was on contract so Orange sent a replacement by courier the next day.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ascariz:
totally brick my sgs1 until need to change board.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jody2k:
I broke all my previous phones (broken screens( thats why i bought the S3 xd
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Red Wolf:
Galaxy note :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spamcakes:
HTC Dream, flashed a custom kernel for some major overclocking lolz, forum reports all said it was stable but somehow it goofed and bricked it, charging LED would turn on, but any touch of the power button would black out the LED permanently till i pulled the battery, screen never did anything after that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oomahey:
I hear you, mate. I, too, bricked my Optimus One when flashing via KDZ.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
That one is hard to brick, what happened?

Bricked a i9000 once, was rooted with a custom rom and it was repaired (motherboard) under warranty :victory:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hisee:
soft brick my wave s8500 2-3 times: D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedyjay:
Whats this thread about?? Anyone who has bricked their phone has done so through their own fault (no offence people) and this thread is not necessary
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan187:
hahah so many times bricked mi DHD hahah.....and so many more phones after that but it is all goooood :) now keep my GS3 stock....a had root but didn't like it and than went back to complete stock for now.....may be one day when there is completely stock fully working AOSP Rom I will root it again.....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
Havent bricked a phone yet.. I guess because I actually read before flashing anything :P
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imnothimm:
HTC G1.

With the Death SPL before it was known as "The Death SPL" lol...

Just called T-Mobile and said it froze during an OTA update. They sent me a new one two days later.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sodeknetters:
None yet. I read before I flash...

Same goes for bios updates, wii mods, etc.

100% certainty is hard to get but if you spend some time browsing through available information there's a lot of don'ts you can avoid for sure..

US version with a partial/failed gt-i9300 rom anyone ? :-)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bangkokguy:
I bricked my HTC Desire. It was fallen out from my pocket and I drove with my car straight on it by chance.... :(

LOL :)

It was my best phone ever!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroTechMaster:
I did hardbrick on my friend samsung galaxy ace... i was trying to install CWM with rom manager,but ace is not supported with RM ;) My friend was not happy, nothing help, even jtag.... :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] souljasteve84:
lol that must suck, i bricked my father in laws, apple iphone he was not impressed but my reply was its an iphone man there crap !!.

i did end up buying him a htc sensation xl as replacement, now he's an android lover :) so everything happens for a reason haha
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Ha ha ha! I love father Ted! What a show!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] w.working:
Never bricked a phone but my first tablet which was a dell streak 7 got stuck in a read only mode would only boot to cwm and would not take anything so I pop it in the micro and sent it back to dell and got a new one returned was more careful on the next one and all is well and hope to stay that way
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Jimieo:
I'd like to try out ChainFire's SuperSU as I've heard good things about it...

I'm curious if I can just replace the SuperUser.apk in the root from recovery zip from Team Epic, put SuperSU.apk in its place and change the updater-script to install it, or if there is something else that I am totally missing..

Pretty new at all of this and want to make sure it'd work properly before I try it. :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] drksilenc:
no just install supersu
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Sunsparc:
Install SuperSu, run it once, then delete the SuperUser.apk from /system/app. SuperSu will take over from there.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Jimieo:
Thanks for the quick replies. :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] popo127:
I hope this is posted in the correct location, apologies if it is not.

As stated in the title my droid razr maxx is stuck in a boot loop:

it will go to the "M" "dual core technology" screen and reboot itself after about 20s.

I tried going into the boot menu [I can turn off the phone from the AP fastboot, so it doesn't lose charge].

In the boot menu, I tried to do a factory reset (I've never done anything to this phone and have no idea how)...the recover screen never comes up, the phone just goes back into the loop, same thing for BP tools.

Note: FYI: I had my phone plugged into my computer when I went into AP fastboot and I got an error on my computer saying that it can't find the device.

As of right now I have no idea what to do (I've only ever used phones as they came in the box)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
[Motorola Droid RAZR] popo127:
Update: After charging for the night, the phone turned on with no problem...

then later the screen wouldn't turn on [side buttons and touch didn't work].

Now it looks like the phone is completely off and wont turn on at all (I tried all the combination of buttons and I tried plugging it in)

Please help
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
CWM5 made safe and packaged for easy use..

Read more at the link below

http://aosp.chris41g.org/post/2012/07/08/ClockworkMOD-5-Safe-Recoveries-for-TouchWiz-and-AOSP.aspx

UPDATED 7/10 11:35PM CST - TW NOW WORKING
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Thank you Chris!!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] isaac2k10:
thx man now got two good options, agat & cwm
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SantinoInc:
Your contributions have been second to none. Many thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] basketthis:
Cool! Thanks for another option! Do you know if this helps with the apps 2 sd issue that some roms are having by using custom recoveries?

Sent from my Super Galaxy'd SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
not aware of any issue regarding CWM and apps2d, they would seemingly be unrelated..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rujelus22:
Wow thanks for this, I have always preferred CWM. Can wait to give it a try. :good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Shadow_God:
Wow....the machine is back with yet another great addtion to the E4GT

Stop being sad and be awesome instead......sent from the Universe using tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] repl1ca:
I hope this really is 'safe'. I have been using the 'safe' CWM 5.5.0.4 since it came out and needless to say I bricked another phone. Just waiting for GeekSquad to get me my new phone :)

Good work chris
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sjsharksfan420:
Thanks Chris! Looking forward to your current AoKP FF18 kernel! Outstanding!

sj

Sent from my E4GT on AoKPm5 FF02 @ 128 dpi using Tap@Talk 2.1.3 Pro
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Shadow_God:
Well just because because it say its "safe" doesnt mean its 100% "safe".....its just like a condom....there is all that one "chance"...:D

Stop being sad and be awesome instead......sent from the Universe using tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] repl1ca:
Truer words have never been spoken. Thank you. :good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
i've made every safe CWM out.. that i know of.. where did you get the one you are talking about??
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lilmikeyv:
Status error 255 when I tried to flash the touchwiz zip...just wanted to give you a heads up...I downloaded 2x to make sure it wasn't a bad download...can't wait to try this out...thanks Chris for ALL you do for our phones and community!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lilmikeyv:
Same with the Odin tar for the touchwiz:(
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
Yes... it would help to put real updater-binarys in those zips huh?

reuploading...

btw they are extremely safe if you can't flash them...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
you cant get an error 255 in odin...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Custodian:
Lol that got damn Chris does it again! What rom are you rocking nowadays chris
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Probably his own source build. Chris, is your latest work on Goo Manager? I want to flash one of your ROMs!!!

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
Yea as always its there... just put a new build up tonight..

As for what I'm running. At the moment.. nothing, I'm sporting a brick.. so I'm rocking the og epic until I jtag the e4gt
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lilmikeyv:
Haha...too true, too true...sorry meant the not working part, not the error code...used mobile odin and it left me with no recovery until i odined a new one on my pc...knew you'd have it fixed quickly as usual...thanks again!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
Ok well I will need to take a look at the tw again when I get home...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] basketthis:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27290550

Bottom of the first post... Just wondering. I don't know what the underlying issue is. You guys are smarter than me with this. Maybe it's a kernel thing?

Sent from my Super Galaxy'd SPH-D710
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
I don't know what that issue is, but as far as I know its only on that rom.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 5FOOTER:
It's moving apps to sd not internal memory its been discussed in one of agat's thread. You can on stock kernel but not repacks so people mobile odin stock kernel move apps then mobile odin back to Agat 0.2.1. I believe it's an ics issue I'm on Blazer 0.1.3 and same issue.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] daniel4653:
same here i just mobile odin'd your touchwiz tar and it left me with no recovery i was ****ting bricks i thought i had bricked my phone or something. but i am able to get into download mode right now. and it wont boot into my rom lol just shows samsung splash screen then a black one and nothing.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
btw they are extremely safe if you can't flash them... :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] &roid:
Thanks as always Chris. Hope you didn't get the brick while developing this for all of us.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] diablo311:
Would this work on miui?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
i dont know, i dont develop for nor run closed source chinese crap...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
TouchWiz kernels should be fixed now..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rujelus22:
This one was the same for me, booted fine but once I try to go to recovery the screen just goes black. Have to odin a recovery back to get booted again.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Like people on xda ever use condoms...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Crsdr37:
Same here black screen after using zip for tw.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kingsway8605:
Same issue here, used mobile odin to flash the tar, black screen after booting into recovery, had to odin stock kernel to boot again.

running agat ff18
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
This work on AOKP as well? I assume I need the AOSP version?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] srkmagnus:
Yes and yes.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
How is this a safe recovery when Samsung hasn't released kernel sources for our phone yet? That was the hold up for CWM...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick_rick:
chris41g knows his stuff. I've been using his SAFER recoveries for awhile now. I've wiped, backup and restored, and flashed zips through it with no problems.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Chris41g has packed safe updater-binary into recoveries sbin folder.

Recovery does use that binary when flashing anything which make the recovery safe.

Every flashable zip file has an updater-binary and updater-script in it.

The problem was introduced by Samsung in their ICS source and when using format() command in updater-script it would use updater-binary packed into zip. If binary is not safe (ICS) that might cause a brick.

Now since recovery has an updater-binary packed into it it won't use binary packed with rom but it's own binary and the binary packed into it is safe.

Hope this make sense.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agentfazexx:
Makes more sense than "just trust the dev."
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
LOL.

Chris41g is one of very few devs you can really trust.

He does too many (IMHO) tests before he releases something.

Everything I typed I've got from him yesterday when he was helping me to implement all those changes in my recovery as well.

As he mentioned in few thread he is a good developer but not so good teacher and tutorial writer.

So his explanations might be short by they always right on the spot for those who is as advanced as he is.

Me personally have to ask few times till I get the picture (not the smartest guy in the block).
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dudeman1st:
Nice workaround, OP. Many thanks for your hard work. I look forward to using your CWM releases.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] davidstjohn1:
Okay so here's my question I just now installed cm 9. I have the clockwork mod recovery that came with it. What I want to know is if I install this am I safe to do a nandroid backup and also wipe? Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rocket321:
Had similar question - is this the same recovery "shipped" in CM9 alpha6, or a new one?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] davidstjohn1:
This is the new recovery that chris made, I believe that the c m 9 has integrated it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cdss:
Thanks Chris41g for this,we all appreciate it and all your hard work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
This is the same as CM9s CWM, as I explained in the blog post. I packaged it for easier flashing.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] davidstjohn1:
Chris thanks for all your hard work it is very much appreciated. I know for me for 1 love the idea of having a safer recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lilmikeyv:
Have the touchwiz ones been fixed yet?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rujelus22:
Well unless he updated them again since this morning then no. I tried this morning and got the same no recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Crsdr37:
Me as well unfortunately
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Shoulon:
Can I finally flash modems using ur cwm packed kernel chris?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rujelus22:
Why would you not be able to flash a modem?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
The ability to flash modems was removed from ICS recoveries...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] agat63:
Not if modem was packed into flashable zip.

I flashed all modems in recovery using Sfhub's zip files.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rujelus22:
Yeah I flash modems all the time with flashable zips
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] &roid:
Yep, modems flash if in a zip file. I do all the time too.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
Using an ics recovery? Because google removed that command from the updater-binary.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lilmikeyv:
Yes sir...I've flashed them in rogue and agat's ics recoveries
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
Agats recovery is a gb recovery in an ics kernel..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Crsdr37:
Have you fixed the tw recoveries yet from the black screen bug?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] davidstjohn1:
Well it's impossible to flash a zip modem in chris's recovery it will not allow you
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rujelus22:
I have done modems on the the rouge ICS kernel and agats ICS kernel. Did not think there was an issue with that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nutzy:
You should pull this until the bug is fixed... im stuck at work with a brick...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rujelus22:
It is not bricked, just odin a recovery to it
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nutzy:
No odin at work. If its broken however and i have to Odin another recovery then what's the point?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
I'm sorry you flashed it without reading the thread..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Darrien13:
Wait so I can flash this on a GB rom and flash between ICS AND GB without a problem?

Someone please explain i'm so lost :silly::eek:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Crsdr37:
He is right though should pull link. For tw. I personally though would not flash a recovery without some type of Odin access incase things go wrong
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
While all of your contributions are more than appreciated... I must...

What is it that makes this safe.

Are you saying that I can once again issue the command for factory reset?

Or has the option to wipe simply been disabled as in other recoveries?

Sorry fort the questions, but from my stand point CWM has been safe for months ever since a pattern of wiping and bricking emerged and I started avoiding those tasks through recovery...

Thanks again :)

WOW DISREGARD!

I hadn't noticed the question fest and want no part in it.

many many thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Go Gators1:
Thank you!:good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
The recovery is the recovery I made for CM9, and has the same safety features implemented in TWRP that me and Dees_Troy worked on..

It has full wipe, format, flash, etc.. functions.. google did remove flashing of modems from recovery. Not something I did. Also, they changed the updater-script arguments for some of the commands, such as format, it now requires 4 arguments, instead of 3. format(fstype, MTD|EMMC, partition, size) size is new. so some older GB scripts will need to be updated.

As far as the TouchWiz version, apparently I derped when repacking it, and I haven't been able to repack it yet. probably something simple like a broken symlink.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Nutzy:
Well at least take down the TW version. I'm eager to try it don't get me wrong. Rujelus22 would you post a rom that wouldn't boot?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] &roid:
Chris was just givin' you some **** and razzin' ya. I don't think he meant harm. Reading and researching threads is a cardinal rule of XDA. He'll fix it. We would never be as fat as we are without his previous work on this phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamexman:
Well, can it be updated to be able to flash modems?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick_rick:
Umm just dont download it for now. Simple as that. Hes working on a fix.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
probably not...

not as simple as an "update", the framework was removed.. i can look into at some point but its far from a priority to me. some phones could never do this.. ie: og epic. so imo its not that big of a deal anyway.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
I'm uploading new versions for testing now.. but until i say its ready, assume its not. Taking the link out of the blog won't do any good, as I get about 40k+ hits a day or more to my goo.im folder for people looking for new stuff to flash anyway..

Thats what this thread is for, AS OF RIGHT NOW, THE TW VERSION IS ASSUMED NOT WORKING, THE AOSP VERSION IS FINE.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
ok, I have confirmation that the TW version now boots to recovery, and is working.. but please.. flash at your own risk, and keep an odin tar handy ok? I may have removed the risk of an eMMC brick, but not that of a soft brick.. so don't get into any situations where you will be without your phone because this kernel won't boot...

that being said.. it works now.. AOSP and TW.. sorry about the delay..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
Youre awelots! (what? Its more than some!)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Shoulon:
No idea what you people are talking about. Modem Flashing in ICS recoverys doesn't work. Just tried it now. But whatever. I dont mind using PC Odin
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] &roid:
I can't wait to take the risk! Thanks Chris.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
We've been flashing modems with CWM and Agat's recoveries since the first leak as long as they were in flashable zips. I flashed one yesterday with Agat's kernel but as Chris just explained that ability has now been removed.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CyberpodS2:
+1 Funny, it took me a couple posts to figure out I was not going crazy here... As DH said we have been flashing modems using both CWM and Agat's kernels forever.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Will of fire:
This is great I will flash this on my brothers e4gt

I miss my nexus
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] skyo12:
Sorry for the real noob question

How do you update to this version if you have an older version of CWM?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
You've been using gingerbread updater-binarys... I don't know how clearer to explain this. This recoverys safety feature is to ignore the updater-binary in the zip, and use and included, compiled from ics source updater-binary which has been patched. The ics updater-binary code does not have the ability to flas modems, because google removed it. Once its added to a source built kernel, I can remove the patch to ignore the zips updater and modem zips will work again... any questions?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
Is this really the topic in this thread still?

Come on guys...

We used to be among the most educated in the world....

Now we cant even read....

Ugh
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] killaphatboy:
Thanks for another awesome kernel option Chris. I can't seem to flash anything using it though. I'm on PARANOIDANDROID port and tried to flash 3 different roms and 2 other kernels with 0 success. It may have been a bad flash or something of that nature. Anyone else had this issue?

Sent on PARANOIDANDROID v1.6 with M tweak using tapatalk
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
Plus

Plus

Equals confusion
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chris41g:
i dont see how its confusing... he took my gingerbread recovery, modified the look, and repacked the ics leak kernels with it...

its really simple.. the kernel is not the same as the recovery, the recovery is just a program that runs...