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[Sprint LG Optimus G] BinarySwag:
Just want to say this my first time rooting a device etc, this is pretty new to me. So I followed the steps in this thread to root my totally stock Sprint LGOG ZV9. I rooted with no problem. No I just want to know do I need to backup my current config, what software would I use. Also was the boot loader unlocked. I Just want to make sure that I do exactly what is supposed to be done correctly. Are there custom roms for lgog currently.

Just an image showing phone was rooted

I am assuming this software was installed when I rooted the phone

Phone firmware info

Oh just figured Id show some great 4g speeds I get from Sprint at my house !! These speeds are very consistent at my house and you can see there isnt anu WIFI on just my Sprint Data. I am moving in the next month or so though. Its crazy where internet speed has come in the last 10 years.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] spatel9114:
4.1.2 Jelly Bean has been released for this phone now, I'd start by getting that. check out the LGOG development forums to flash a stock version of it or I think Lifeless ROM also has Jelly Bean incorporated now.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] hoslayer13:
After rooting you can choose to unlock your bootloader to flash better code or custom roms to your device, or download and run apps that would require root like root explorer or setcpu to change how your device works.

Unlocking is a whole different ballgame. It allows to flash custom kernels and roms. Like spatel said, 4.1.2 is out and if you unlock and flash TWRP or CWM, you can make a backup of your current phone system, data, efs, cache and then flash 4.1.2 to your phone to see if you like it or not. You can flash the new ZVB radio and possibly improve your signal. It all depends on what your comfortable with. Also, it depends on your interests and whether you're into theming or developing and rooting is just one of those precursors.

Currently there are a few roms based on stock but some AOSP roms will follow now that some source is available to developers. From what I understand, the efs contains important device info and is currently breaking with AOSP roms attempts but I'm sure the devs are making progress on it. If anything check the threads and stickies for a lot more info. There's a wealth of info out there and Google is your friend lol
[Sprint LG Optimus G] BinarySwag:
Thanx for the info
[HTC Radar] PNgo:
Hello everyone!

I am looking for a message alert tone that I found to be on my friend's HTC Radar. On her phone, it is labeled as "Alert 10". May anyone provide me a download link to this individual tone or a package of stock HTC radar tones? Thanks in advance!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
as title states hard bricked after install of orthus eight then rebooted and nothing. followed instructions and still bricked. i have flashed many roms i don't know what went wrong with this flash. Will a jig work to unbrick to download mode? I have tried several methods to get into download and cant seem to succeed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

I don't think the rom had anything to do with it. I've flashed it and it's fine.

What was the best thing before sliced bread?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] T.J. Bender:
What exactly did you do? And don't just say, "I followed the instructions." I need to know exactly what you did every step of the way from downloading Orthus Eight to laying the cornerstone of your new brick house.

I'll ask this first obvious question because so often it reveals the true problem: what kind of phone do you have?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] prbassplayer:
Lets not go straight in to flaming a user just because he has no posts. I know for a fact there is a brick problem in AOSP 4.2.2. Lets hear him out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] err1max1:
I'm not an expert but if you really hard brick the phone then jig would be your solution.

You may want to read the posts on "[ROM][10.1]SUPERLITE CM10.1 JB 4.2.2 > 79mb < | SLGAPPS 10MB | FEB28/13" page 2 and 3 and try to get in touch with the user who bricked the phone and was going to try "JTAG brick repair"

BTW I also installed the ROM and is working smooth.

P.S. I don't think anyone is blaming Ortus8 ROM while the question ... and request for support ... was regarding jig
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

A Randomly appearing brick that only affects some and not others this i want proof of sir mod or not i want validation.

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A jig does nothing for a hard brick. You don't need a jig to get to DL mode if soft brick. In short a jig is worthless.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] prbassplayer:
In my opinion it has to do with the kernel, course I could be wrong. However I had 2 testers brick with CM's kernel. I've seen similar reports with the 4.2.2 AOKP around here. In the 2 cases I'm sure the phone booted and ran fine, then randomly locked up and dead. No life afterwards. I understand we all make mistake by both my testers where doing something different when it happen, and the fact the device booted fine THEN bricked (again my particular case) means it flashed fine and whole booted something happen (I believe it blew partitions, possibly secondary or third, if this device has a third, bootloader). If I had any better proof I would have found a solution, or tried to already.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

I find it hard to believe this was random or attributed to to cm's kernel if nothing else it would be based on something particular to their hardware or your build as you would see a ton of these on cm's thread. You are placing blame in an unlikely place as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] prbassplayer:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Well I was using cms device folders and my qcom hardware folders are constabtly updated with cms commits. Only difference are overlays files and that we use slim.mk which is mostly a copied cm.mk only fixed source locations. Don't know what I did different to create a brick zip. Not my first rodeo, though I'm no expert that's for sure.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Again if it was cm's doing this would be far more widespread. Something's not adding up, also several people have successfully flashed orthus this is user error nothing more.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] prbassplayer:
Mate Tell me something I don't know. Same thing with Slim. My test builds where flashed by 50+ people only 2 bricked, so happen both I had most communication with as they where helping me debug the camera problem I had. Like I said if I had a better idea of where the problem laid I wouldn't have stopped working with it (I still fiddle with the code) I just don't have any concrete evidence to work with to merit the chance of bricking other members devices. I originally thought it was me but not the case. There has been posts about this happening on AOKP, I believe on CM (not sure if it was here or not). I'm not saying its a wide spread problem, however its there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mtdew:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Aokp for this device? Cm for this device? Were the members who bricked very experienced? I'm not saying you don't know what you're talking about but i never trust testers and i especially don't trust people saying such and such ROM bricked my device. I've seen this all too often and all it does is spread fear and give good devs bad names.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] T.J. Bender:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Just as an fyi, I loaded Orthus onto my skyrocket just now. Booted fine, restoring apps now
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] blwjr:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Been running it since it dropped absolutely no issues smoothest 4.2.2 ROM out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mindmajick:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

I'd love to try and help this user.

What methods have you tried to get into download mode?

You said you can reboot, then get nothing. Is that a blank screen? Does the backlight come on?

What recovery were you on? What steps to flash?

Can you get to the device via adb?

Even if I can't help you, maybe we can narrow down the issue.. Whatever it may be.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
damn another brick bug, i thought it was all done with

as for blaming the op, if he had the sr and flashed an sr rom whichever rom that would be, we cant blame the op since theres nothing he could do wrong to actually hardbrick the phone , yes he could softbrick but not hardbrick it.

definition of the bug imo is its totally random, 1 out of x phones it will happen to
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
I have a samsung galaxy s2 skyrocket sigh i727. I downloaded the rom from the forums here (i think the link was goo.im) and transfered to my internal sd. I wiped data factory reset, wiped cache patroon, wiped system, wiped delvil cache then flash downloaded zip and half way through the android in background fell over and triangle showed up. I tried restoring backups and eving wiping did not work so I went to advance and restart recovery and the device turned off and now will not respond to anything.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Be careful with goo. I've never been sure what I've downloaded from it.

Most likely not a problem with the rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
I'm not trying to give any dev a bad name I was just trying to specify what rom I was flashing when this happend
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
OK. Moving the file from external to internal could cause a corruption. It could have been a bad DL from the start. Hence the reason checking MD5s is so imortant. Either way you should still be able to enter recovery. No ROM that is flashable touches the recovery partition. Pull out your external sdcard and access it with a comp. Copy that files full name here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] T.J. Bender:
A few things jump out at me:

1. Transferring a file from external to internal (or vice versa) can corrupt it. Put the file exactly where you want it and MD5 check it in that location before flashing.

2. I would bet whatever damage was done happened when you started pushing buttons after the flash failed. If a flash fails, back out to the home screen and power down the phone. Pop your external SD card out and delete/reload the file(s) to be flashed onto it, then MD5 check it again. Pop it back in, turn your phone on in recovery, then wipe your cache, dalvik, system and data again before flashing the file on your external SD card. Don't go wiping, restoring backups or even trying to re-flash a bad file; just make sure you're using a clean file and go again.

3. Download from GooManager freely. I've never had a bad download from there, and Goo checks the MD5 for you as part of the d/l process. Don't use anything but TWRP/CWM to do the actual flashing, but Goo's a good download host to work from.

4. Agreed with hechoen. I'm honestly wondering if you didn't accidentally boot your phone without an OS. The phone would act like it had been killed, but really it's just a matter of remounting the USB storage and loading a ROM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
I tried a USB jig and it did not get me into download mode. I tried hooking to computer and just says unknown device and reinstalled driver on computer did not work either.

What does it mean when in cwm recovery flashing and the android in the background falls over and has a triangle on top of him? Bad flash?

I'm going to try to send to the guy on mobiletechvids and have him jtag.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

You should be able to flash the stock rom You are not hard bricked if you get the triangle thing. Have you tried odin
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
I tried Odin but it would not recognize phone. Computer recognizes an unknown device. Would I still be able to get my computer to recognize I got the drivers off of the ssinf website
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
I tried Odin it would not recognize phone. Computer recognizes unknown device would I still be able to get my computer to recognize. I download drivers from the samsung website
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

When you get the triangle thing plug your phone into the computer with Odin running. The triangle thing is download mode

Edit: try different usb ports and/or a different computer. Of the phone had life it's not hard bricked

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] T.J. Bender:
One question you haven't answered yet: have you tried to get back into recovery (not download) since the bad flash?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
The phone does nothing right now no power on lights vibrate nothing. Although as stated I plug into computer and the computer recognizes it as an unknown device
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

The computer will see something is there, if you have nothing then you are hard bricked. Jtag is your only answer, or warranty

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
Thanks I will be sending off to jtag ASAP. I will post back how the jtag went.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Good luck!

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lazer77:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Android in the background with a triangle?.. In cwm?..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
Yes this was just after some error while flashing and I tried to reboot recovery and it never came back on. I was running the latest touch cwm.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

That's download mode man. Did you have your phone plugged in while flashing?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
No it's not. It occurs in CWM usually after a status 7 error but any error will trigger it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Oh, thought it was the kies thing. My bad
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
No the phone was not plugged it when I flashed and cwm looked like the last post but a different error I can't remember what it was
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hotbyz168:
I was flashing one of the 4.2.2 roms about 3 weeks back with the newest cwm touch. Mine also failed and hard bricked.Not sure if anyone following this thread remembers. The only thing I do know is that I called samsung directly; didnt even bother with att; and told them the phone wouldn't turn on. They warrantied it luckily and now i'm back in business.

I still try to figure out what i may have done wrong while flashing, but I've always done it the same way. I used Cwm touch when I got the phone back last week, but decided to give twrp a try yesterday. Not sure but maybe 4.2.2 and twrp are more compatible for some reason? I'm not saying there was no way it was something i did, but I been flashing custom/modified roms since the ppc 6700 with windows mobile and the ppckitchen. This was the first time I had a hard brick. Would of loved to of been able to grab a log. I think the last thing I remember seeing was status 7.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mr_magoo:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

You just had that pic lying around lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
Nope. But it's amazing what you can find with half a brain and google.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bps119:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

I would love to get my hands on the phone. We're getting some conflicting reports from the op regarding whether the phone is responsive at all which makes me think that it could possibly boot into recovery and/or download mode. I wonder if one of the ics leak Odin one-clicks would get him back to stock. At least this way, we could mostly rule out user error for the process without actually seeing the user taking the steps first hand.

As far as the brick bug, I agree with others that there would be many more here if it was something to that effect. I mean, I have gone through the entire cm thread since its inception and I think the worst complaint I saw was the audio bug and the computer transfer/app install issues.

The aokp instances which prbass was referring to, if I remember correctly, was two or three users. 2 of them eventually narrowed it down to user error. The 3rd, well he was combatant from the get go and was quite reluctant to answer anyone's questions who were attempting to help. He eventually gave up on everyone actually attempting to help and ran away.

The slim build you posted I flashed and ran myself, I believe I may have even been the first to try it out. Granted, the camera issue was a deal breaker for me, so I only ran it a few hours to test other priorities, but I had no issues to make me think it would cause a brick. I was, however, quite impressed that you took it down and admitted that it may be the roms fault immediately. Whether it was the slim rom, 4.2 in general, or whatever, it was commendable that you immediately locked it down and openly offered that it may have been something with your rom. We are often victims of defending ourselves to our own detriment, and you didn't fall into that trap.

Op, definitely get back to us with your experience with jtag. And for God's sake, although it may be a language barrier issue, please think before making the title of your thread "xyz rom bricked my phone." Many of us users here are very loyal to our devs and, making statements like that immediately put people on the offensive. Instead, title the thread something like "flash gone wrong" and, within the post, simply state the exact recovery version, the exact steps taken, and the exact rom flashed (maybe even include a link to the download). Doing these simple things will get you a much better initial response than simply stating that a rom bricked your device and you followed all the directions. While I realize that a bricked phone, or even the possibility of one can cause panic, take a step back and think through what info you would need to help someone in your position if you were on the other side.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
I apologize for the title I'm new here and as you said I was in panic. Should I try one click or somethin to see if I could bring it back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] jd1639:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

I think at this point you're hosed. JTAG.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bps119:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

Are you getting ANY response from the phone? Backlights, soft keys, download mode, recovery mode?

When you plug it into computer with Odin running, do you get any response from odin?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
Can I change thread topic?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
Yep. From a comp hit edit. Then advanced. You can change it from there.

Do you know how to get into DL mode?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bps119:
Re: [Q] Orthus eight hard bricked phone

If you respond to our inquiries about dl mode, recovery, responses from phone, etc., we can assist you and you may be able to change the thread title to "SOLVED BRICK, learn how to answer questions and get your phone fixed quickly!"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
I've tried several times phone does not respond to anything. But I may be doing things wrong. What is the correct way to get into download when phone will not even power power on with full battery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] hechoen:
Take out the battery. Plug USB into comp and phone. Hold volume rockers down(both up and down at the same time). Put battery back in. If that forces DL mode you can recover. If it doesn't off to Jtag you go. Good luck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
I tried that method and still nothing. I think jtag is only option. Will be sending off soon mobiletechvideos.com I will post back as soon as i receive the device back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mr_magoo:
I just flashed Orthus and same thing happened to me. I'm looking into it now.

I see QHSUSB_DLOAD in device manager.

Just FYI

CWM: I factory reset, formated data/system/cache wiped delvike. Installed Orthus-Eight, gapps rebooted now black screen ..

crap does mean hard brick..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] baddogie:
My computer started saying the same thing last night. Something about a driver not found for QHSUSB_DLOAD.

Im afraid that is brick I am sending mine to mobiletechvideos.com
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
so as soon as you hit reboot in recovery it went to black screen, no logo no vibrate?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mr_magoo:
Yeah :( CWM said it was successful so I hit reboot system now and bam! black screen.. I thought it just powered off instead of rebooting, CWM has done that to me a few times. After about 15 minutes I held in the power button and it stayed black, then I hooked it up to my laptop and it showed it searching for a driver. That was all she wrote.

I have been flashing for over 8 years and have never had this happen to any device, my heart sank. Real bad timing for me. Matter a fact I haven't even been on XDA for a while and decided it was time to flash, since my phone was getting sluggish and I wanted to check out this ROM ..

I'm still in shock that this happened to me, I'm pretty thorough about these things.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Xanoschild:
QHSUSB DLOAD = Hard Brick

Some devices are able to recover from this without jtag, ours isn't one of them [yet].
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Ravenouss:
Same problem.

Mine bricked just after choosing "Reboot System Now" on sk8's touch recovery after trying to flash orthus 8. Gave me and error message with the # 7 in it. The image may have been corrupted due to draging it over from external sd to internal. Also unmounted and remounted data to check to see if data was properly wiped. Still trouble shooting but never had a hard brick before just a few soft since i started doing this type of stuff.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] woman97:
bricked on Orthus and CMW

Mine was working fine on Orthus but decided to reapply to get back to full Orthus. I was using Moretz 1.04 for the kernel.

Went to CWM and tried to apply zip. Then got an error about zip install being aborted. From experience, I tried to reboot recovery. That's when it did not come back to life anymore.

I don't think it's the ROM itself as I was able to previously install it, which is what I tried to reinstall the second time.

Recovery was not updated as well. Could it be the combination with Moretz1.04 kernel?

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Sent it off for JTAG and got this back from the tech:

I first tried with Riff box and it shows the CPU ID and Emmc ... but when I try to connect to it Nothing happens. I made all new wires and tried again ...still nothing. I also tested my other 2 Jtag boxes ( GPGJTAG and GPGORT) and both of those cannot connect either.

Is it totally dead then? Will I have better luck with mobiletechvideos in your opinion?

Please advise. thanks.