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[General Topics] spaazm:
When it happened first, about two years ago, with Galaxy Spica (i5700), I naturally panicked and went straight to service.

I paid an equivalent of about 20$ for repair. All they did was a factory reset. But I learned about it long after that. :)

Recently I managed to brick my SGS+ (I9001). I was trying to restore nandroid backup using TWRP. It has stuck in the middle and my phone went into a bootloop. Fortunately flashing a ROM with Odin did the trick.

It happened due to a faulty recovery. And I consider myself lucky, because later on I diagnosed my phone with an "insane" emmc chip. From what I read I could have corrupt my data partition permanently. It's happened to a couple of users of SGS+. All because of a recovery.

Today I'm safe thanks to some xda users, who have not been so lucky as I.

I hope there ate still many soft bricks ahead of me and none of the hard ones. ;)

⇜ SGS+ ↭ SlimBean 4.2.2 build 3 ↭ K^Kernel JB V1.6 OC exUV 370MB ↭ InfinityEngine V2.1 ⇝
[General Topics] cwfei.:
Lol I break twice on my brither 's galaxy w
[General Topics] dmadhur:
No, never bricked
[General Topics] darkrai:
bricked the day i rooted my sony live with walkman using titanium backup !!! :p
[General Topics] jRi0T68:
[MENTION=4503217]deathnotice01[/MENTION]... post back here when you get your N7. :p

Trollolol!

-Accidental Asshole aka Jeremy

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[General Topics] Sanjay:
I wantedly bricked my device,just to excage the cell in service centre:D:D

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

SENT FROM MONSTER ! ! !

HIT THANX OR I WILL JUST

CRY...
[General Topics] Kenobz:
In the stupidest way possible.
[General Topics] kamal882:
Once my mobile stuck in bootloop while doing a sound mod. Fortunately I had backup and CWM helped me to recover the problem.
[General Topics] pete72:
Thankfully no.
[General Topics] BlueVIP:
Once i lost my IMEI by flashing, not really a brick but also useless :(

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9000 mit Tapatalk 2
[General Topics] waswiswus:
no , not yet :silly:
[General Topics] WarlordKaisersX:
Yeah somehow. It hang at SAMSUNG logo.
[General Topics] grunted:
I soft bricked yesterday flashing a theme. I got half way done flashing and ran out of storage.
[General Topics] LazyNDaCrazyDayz:
Bricked my girl friends Xperia x10 the other day. Unbricked it after a few hours.
[General Topics] aDigitalPhantom:
yes a HTC Rezound it has never powered up since, and i am not sure how i did that either.
[General Topics] grunted:
Never flash when u have more than a six pack
[General Topics] Rob5ur:
Not yet.
[General Topics] Joulez:
Not yet, but i've had a couple of scares.
[General Topics] michal89chz:
soft brick? 1xx times but hard brick only one: zte blade on the flor at rails station and than he go under train. Hehe , because he cant handle OC from 600mhz to 825mhz (only 672mhz) :D
[General Topics] jHota:
I hard bricked 5 hours after buy my samsung galaxy ace using rom toolbox to change bootanimation

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[General Topics] shael1992:
Yes! I recently just bricked my SOny Xperia J. But thank God to CMW. It was like "healed" :victory:
[General Topics] mahaninad22:
Yea many yimes...Lol it was hard bricked 3 times...due to rom manager....But fortunately it was in warranty
[General Topics] Lifehacker7:
Soft bricked many times. I'm not a hard guy to hard brick :P
[General Topics] Sinker1345:
I screwed up my tablet by flashing the wrong bootchain. It still boss but I no longer have a bot animation. On top of that it screwed up download mode so I can't go back to stock. It isn't rooted and there is no custom recovery so I'm done messing with it.
[General Topics] Shweta12345:
I never bricked my device because I love my smartphone and it's features.
[General Topics] 350Rocket:
I've yet to brick a device but I think I was close with my sisters galaxy s.

I've rooted an lg shine plus, optimus one, 2 HTC desires, desire HD, galaxy s i9000, galaxy s t959, t989 HTC one s, and an HTC nexus one.

I'm no expert but I try to be careful.
[General Topics] DK253:
Bricked my old Droid X twice. Haven't bricked my GS3 yet!
[General Topics] Vlad Paul:
Yes, i bricked my LG Optimus Sol (LGE 730). After a clinical death (hard brick) of my So(u)l , the phone was revived from the software cemetery by a team of 3 brilliant friends from cyanogenforum: youngserj, andr00ib, shutt1e!(Lot of thanks to my friends)

Revived tutorial steps is described on cyanogen forum in thread:

Hard Brick - To Hell And Back - Guide To Recovery
[General Topics] Mattix724:
That's not a hard brick. That's a soft brick.
[General Topics] bigmike83:
AT&T HTC Aria

I bricked my Aria (my first android phone) I was a n00b but I was able to 'unbrick' it my downloading & installing the AT&T RUU...life saver! I still use that phone today as a cycling computer/baby noise machine/mp3 player
[General Topics] InkSlinger420:
Luckily no..but my Samsung is really solid...

sent from my SGH-I577/Slimbean/1.5oc LZ kernel
[General Topics] aashishbhargav:
Semi bricked many.

Ace, s2, neo v

But saw my cousin brick his s2 9100g by putting ROM of another variant of s2 9100 without "g"

:D:D
[General Topics] runningman04072013:
Bricked the Kindle Fire a couple times. Thank goodness for the unbrick utility.
[General Topics] NiTRi0UX:
My Mishaps

I've mostly Bricked my Droid X, once I bricked it while the battery was low. So the bootloader wouldn't let me SBF it to a previous version to save it's life. I ended using it as a paperweight until I bought a battery charger pack 2 weeks later.

Other than that, I've bricked my Kindle Fire HD 7 recently testing out OC Kernels. I actually forgot I was on Kinology (Rom based off of the Amazon OS). I was mostly confused because I was switching between CM 10.1 and Kinology to test which one was worth it for the time being.

It's a great story, I could go more in depth, but that's another tale.
[General Topics] jHota:
brikc software can repair in the galaxy ace. I could not repair it. is why I say hard brick.

so I think that some of the internal components broke. As a cell phone can be saved as s3 via soft SDS can also kill

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Chainfire 3d twice
[General Topics] Vauvenal7:
Softbricked my SGS i9000 and it was sort of a hardbrick for me for some time till i got the SGS from my cousin (moved to SGS3) and could install the firmware via that device, so the other SGS was now again recognized by odin, now i got 2 SGS

Never bricked one of my 2 htc (desire z, and mytouch 4g slide) devices and my tablet (galaxy note 10.1 - wifi only) will be left as is cus i need it for university

Greets Vauvenal7

Sent from my HTC MyTouch_4G_slide
[General Topics] Will_Xda:
Softbrick Xperia Tipo yesterday and previously hard bricked wildfire (buzz) maybe two of them
[General Topics] Deepak sai:
I Hard bricked my first time trying to install custom rom.
[General Topics] @non4:
How???

Sent from my rooted P880
[General Topics] Paul Blake:
I softbricked my phone many times mostly 4 times in a day but never hardbricked
[General Topics] sebtorres82:
I have bricked my Kindle Fire 2 times, my Galaxy Y like 15 times and my Note II 0 times
[General Topics] Toxmax:
Bricked my phone only once before, always read the instructions from then on.
[General Topics] AOWL:
i bricked my Sony Ericsson K750i first :D after Nokia 5800, SE Xperia Arc S and also i really bricked(broked) :D my tablet.
[General Topics] dutchy716:
I hard brick a Moto Droid 2 once.
[General Topics] AndroiDisCracK:
I boot looped my sgs2 trying to install cyanogenmod10.1 xD
[General Topics] eissenvale:
Yes,I ever brick my galaxy young into hard brick and it stuck on Samsung logo :eek:
[General Topics] a4abell:
Bricked my s2 installing dorimax kernel. Paid 200$ to fix it :/
[General Topics] devious avatar:
Haha Lol. Don't even ask. The worst was when I bricked my best friends new nexus. Man I almost lost a friend that day!:silly:
[General Topics] drachenreiter:
Just bricked my SKY Vega 810k huhuhu... now no signal and signature verification problem ;-( Help maybe? ehhehe
[General Topics] kappadue:
It's due to brick my phone sometime :D.

Inviato dal mio MT27i con Tapatalk 2
[General Topics] xelectronicax:
The first android device i ever bought was the Lenovo A1 tablet.....then i bricked it HARD and it was dead for real. Wasnt able to unbrick it. Then I bought the Galaxy Player 5. Bricked that a few times (when i say a few I mean alot :D) But I unbricked it :)
[General Topics] Dprotp:
I psuedo-bricked mine... It took awhile though. I had an LG Optimus V, which, by some stroke of genius, I decided to run under the faucet as my girlfriend's pet parakeet crapped on it... I made a very bad, split-second, panicky decision. I was able to get the phone to work again for a few months before I bought an HTC One V. After reverting to stock and powering the phone down, I haven't been able to boot past recovery due to water damage. It seems to have issues with not holding the back hardware key...
[General Topics] user 6230:
I as closely bricking my TAB 2 7" Wi-Fi +3G
[General Topics] Im_Roy:
I used to brick blackberrys.. lol...
[General Topics] inroot1898:
Device? I once bricked a PSP 1001....been lucky so far :cyclops:
[General Topics] Dartmouth:
I have softbricked my SGN2 a ton of times, pretty hard to hardbrick this thing though. You really have to do it on purpose.
[General Topics] shahtheass:
I had soft brick my Galaxy Note numerous times but never hard bricked it....
[General Topics] hakesak:
I have bricked a couple of my phones in the past...they were reversible except for when I bricked my s3...thats what happens when you flash a verizon phone to cricket yourself...and then attempt to flash it back when it isnt able lol

SGN2. Jedi X14. XDA Premium. Jelly?
[General Topics] Tetrahybrid:
Bricked nokia c2-03, while updating through official software. Wasnt even customed just battery went bad while loading new soft on it.
[General Topics] hk43420:
Bricked my Galaxy Y while i tried to flash a sound mod. Flashed it back to stock rom with odin and it worked like a charm again!
[General Topics] Konsumhaus:
Bricked an old SGS one
[General Topics] patrykowy:
Never brick my phone.
[General Topics] tgoods24:
I bricked my first Samsung Fascinate until it was a paper weight, but it was user mistake. Rooted a second one, rooted incredible 2 fine. Got the S3 and soft bricked it 4 times i believe, but fixed it and currently using the same device.
[General Topics] JuarX:
I'm so happy that I never hard bricked my phone. I had already some bootloops but never a hardbrick :)
[General Topics] Droidfish:
Many boot loops, but never hard bricked, although I've thought that I did a few times on a few devices, you gotta love those 3a.m. frantic moments when your pouring through every forum on the web, downloading recoveries, stock images,etc. Somehow I've always find a way.my first smartphone was tyre og moot droid and that thing was impossible to brick, fun times
[General Topics] dazza_84:
Semi bricked my first ever android phone which was the galaxy S on my first ever root experience, I almost **** my boxers
[General Topics] DJBhardwaj:
Bricked my first Android (LG Optimus One) twice about 2 years ago. But fixed it on my own using RIFF :D
[General Topics] fivezall:
maybe i was did before.. but not to much just a few times. maybe 2 or 3 times and its just softbrick. :)
[General Topics] tom12e:
soft bricked.. first time flashing a pre-rooted rom on my I-9505. Failed on "Complete(Write) operation", fixed it by re-flashing using the orignal samsung USB cabel :p
[General Topics] RootYourPhoneHD:
About fifty times :banghead:
[General Topics] twith70:
brick my g-tab

HI,

I did manage to brick a device. I own a viewsonic g-tablet and while trying to change out the rom, I bricked the device but had installed CWM so after some research I just re-flashed the ROM and all was well.
[General Topics] Rhodesfreak:
never, I cross my fingers
[General Topics] WiiDal:
Sometimes with my old Galaxy y, but nothing that odin couldn't fix :)

Inviato dal mio Galaxy Nexus con Tapatalk 2
[General Topics] atchleya19:
nope!!!!
[General Topics] ivanbelejkov:
More than fifty times. And I don't actually care as long as I can fix the device. But if I get hardbrick I will pray to android gods!
[General Topics] Stereo8:
As long as you can get to the recovery, download, fastboot or whatever mode, you're not bricked. Hard bricks are ducked...
[General Topics] ajay74:
The two type of bricking soft bricking and hard bricking

Soft brick means that your mobile boots but struck in logo this usually occurs because of change of framework or some time kernel rom mismatch, sometimes it occurs if you edit some thing in build prop, but that's not a serious issue as it can be repaired as your mobile boots and thus you can work in CWM.you can flash any rom or restore your nandroid in some mobile like in lg you can flash kernel too. In this case your bootloader, fastboot, is working but rom not working that's soft bricking

Hard brick is the stage which is consider as dead here bootloader got corrupt no USB detection, no fastboot work,so that it's almost impossible to flash kernel via PC in fastboot mode too, your phone shows no sign of life a.k.a. dead, here only one options will work to revive your phone that's JTAG CABLE

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Dear friends

Earlier I was having galaxy fit it hard bricked twice both time the culprit was rom manager both time I revived it with jtag cable, first it got bricked by trying to take rom backup it got switch off then it didn't start not showing charging no signs of life in mobile not getting detected by odin then it gotta revived by jtag cable it was first

For second time read first paragraph again:)

Both time it was hard bricked

Then I changed my mobile and it was live with Walkman it was soft bricked millions of time now I am having LG L9

Two or three times it also got soft bricked

But I always carry nandroid to face any calamities I usually flash my stock Rome to prevent bootloop
[General Topics] GP_1992:
One time I bricked my little wonder gt8150 .... but is risen: D
[General Topics] Xaraxx:
I had soft-bricked my HTC Sensation once.
[General Topics] ROFLkopter:
Bricked my old Galaxy Y by factory resetting through settings instead of CWM. Easy fix though. And Bricked my Nexus 7 once by reinstalling the factory image through a toolkit but something went wrong and it would only boot to the bootloader, no further. Soon fixed that though. Managed no serious bricks yet
[General Topics] twith70:
Soft bricked my xt912

Besides my g-tablet I can now add my Verizon XT912. I tried to install boot menu manager and flash ROMs..this program is not intuitive and has very little documentation. I prefer Safestrap by far..
[General Topics] TheMetalDrummer:
I bricked my galaxy next... i was that stupid to use rom manager on a device that is not supportate...
[General Topics] Salamender:
I Bricked my Galaxy SII, i flash a stock ROM Wipe with Odin and i'ts good :)

×•× Tapatalk 4 ×•× Galaxy Nexus ×•×
[General Topics] vjbittu7:
Once i did...the service center guy returned me my phone in 13 days...
[General Topics] ravsss:
Long time ago, Samsung Omnia i900... but that was on win 6,5 mobile.
[General Topics] droidxixis:
A couple times I've thought that I had just turned my VZW GS3 into an expensive paperweight, but ODIN saved the day! :good:
[General Topics] szaboek100:
I bricked my Sony live with walkman, but fortunately it was only a soft brick. :)
[General Topics] joe well:
sadly i bricked my N7000. but now totally dead. Samsung SC cannot even revive it. :(
[General Topics] 350Rocket:
Sounds like basically almost nobody has truly bricked their phone on here. I think the term is being used way too loosely.
[General Topics] Scur827:
I have a Motorola Defy from Republic Wireless sitting on my desk right now, completely bricked with no way to revive it. Just got it in December. Rooted it fine, but an update came through and my daughter thought it was okay to proceed. It's only a paperweight now.
[General Topics] JasonKZLY:
Intentionally bricked my phone about 8-9 times within 3 months of buying it!
[General Topics] Chri$b0b2005:
Bricked my x10 mini atleast 4 times but its easy to fix because of their PC update software :3

Past androids: HTC Hero - Sony X10 mini (rooted + mini cyanogenmod) - Orange Stockholm (rooted) :3
[General Topics] dilster97:
2 hard bricks.

With help from XDA I got it going again.

HTC One X (Tegra 3)

ROM: Viper X 3.6.1

KERNEL: Viper X stock

CID: HTC_001

NETWORK: O2 UK
[General Topics] @non4:
Indeed, most people here have "soft bricks", as in its a brick now but doing some (sometimes complicated) process involving a PC will fix it. Hard bricks are very hard to achieve on modern devices, nearly achieved this through Rom manager on galaxy mini, but I stopped when I saw the device displayed wasn't mine. Other people ignored this and rendered the phone useless, not a big loss though the phone was horrible
[General Topics] contactive_ben:
Bricking my phone was one of the most terrifying moments. I tried cycling it through multiple times in rsdlite to no avail. I just want a good six-ish hours of my life back!
[General Topics] grunted:
Ive hard bricked mine once had to get a jtag. Some how i flashed the wrong. Recovery. I use an micro sd card snd forgot i used it on another device. It would not even turn on

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I also had a few beers before i did this
[General Topics] mjalil:
as my first attempt with my xperia z, luckily it didnt brick
[General Topics] grigtm:
yes, droped out of my pocket and stepped on it without noticing, the screen and body went kaboom - 86 kg, one

I managed to brake the phone screen in my pocket while working on an construction site, two

so now I have to be more carefuly, I carry 2 phones, 1 smartphone and 1 normal phone that I use most
[General Topics] WildfireDEV:
Bricked one phone it was a friends HTC One X+. Ended up having to jtag it myself.
[General Topics] TomekCB:
Boot loop is not bricking. Bricking means no way to fix. By the way. I bricked my Nintendo Wii, HTC Desire. Its realy hard to brick todays Devices. You have to ignore everything you get on XDA forum. But it happens. A friend bricked his s2. It was a corrupted recovery file.

Only flash md5 checked files. And only if the file is for your device.

geschrieben von Tomek

auf Samsung Mobile
[General Topics] tandeejay:
Last ROM I flashed, I forgot this step! Fortunately for me (or lucky) the ROM wasn't corrupted ... dodged a bullet there...
[General Topics] abdul007:
I tried unlocking the bootloader but its not working i stuck in that menu.plz help me.
[General Topics] HectorGlez:
if. a few months ago I left my note as a paperweight due to a change of untested rom

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[General Topics] some_kid6:
I bricked my S3

The first time I tried putting a custom rom on my verizon S3 I accidentally put the international version on it. The guide I was using did not say anything about it being international and neither did the file name. Well, It was completely bricked. It wouldn't even turn on. Took it into verizon and they tried their random stuff, a bunch of it I had already tried myself, and they couldn't get it to turn on either. They mailed me a new phone the next day and I've been super careful ever since.
[General Topics] ironhide602:
yes i have bricked my phone and a psp. lol. i fixed both tho
[General Topics] powersimon:
Not me! After 15 or 16 ROM flash I'm still ok! Furthermore, I've "cured" a Nintendo Wii: may I add one point? :D

But a friend of mine bricked his phone. He called the emergencynumberwhenelectronicthingsmessup: me. Ordered online and shipped a USB jig: phone fixed. :good:
[General Topics] Rothan77:
Phones no. But I've bricked an xbox.
[General Topics] kgeier82:
I remember the first time I bricked an iphone (yes I know this is XDA). I freaked out, but fixed it within an hour. This was back when Jailbreaking was all brand new, so google was semi-helpful.
[General Topics] Sgt.7Eleven:
Had 2 Androids till now, both have bricked before

Started out with the HTC Incredible S, great phone, but bricked it MANY MANY times haha.

currently, its display is screwed so its kinda awaiting repairs..

On my RAZR, its a different story: whenever theres a brick, I can easily restore it to stock firmware easily..

BUT before I learnt how to use that restore, life was hell.. haha

Now, I just use a failsafe recovery that loads on every boot to make sure any brick does not occur. At least a ROM bootloop brick. For firmware bricks, well, a firmware restore becomes necessary. But how often do they occur? LOL
[General Topics] Gregrin:
I'm always checking everything 2 times, so till now happily not :)
[General Topics] EndInGame:
A lot of time! :P
[General Topics] Trozzul:
Soft bricked my LG optimus V a couple times Hard bricked my Galaxy s2 t989 for flashing a skyrocket rom that was sposed to work on the phone.. soft bricked lg ally and hard bricked a HTC Dream (t-mobile g1)
[General Topics] aafan88:
i have used all the Galaxy Series since SGS2 and thank to god i never bricked the phones.
[General Topics] ppyyf:
yes, cwm rocks.

I am using huawei d1/u9500.

it does even have a 'forcibly flash' feature. but I am not sure whether this feature works even if boot and recovery partitions are both broken :victory:
[General Topics] kancut_bau:
by the way, what is bricked means? ifbit means forever dead, then yes i had bricked my last phone lg optimus black p970..

bootloop + screen unresponsive (hardware prob i guess) and then i stomped on it until my oblack broken = bricked :D
[General Topics] Flik210:
I have bricked my Xperia Tipo a few time. But CWM and a backup are like jesus. if you think your smartphone is dead, you can resurrect it with cwm again. :D
[General Topics] Nate2:
No, never. I hope it stays that way.
[General Topics] WildfireDEV:
Well I have already replied to this thread but now I can add another to this thread. One of my HTC Sensations where bricked while I was messing around with it and screwing around with bootloader flashing. Now I can use it to see if the unbricking project will work on this phone.
[General Topics] sp4ge:
just soft brick and bootloop , and thanks to Odin :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BeansTown106:
more or less just to let u guys know chaOS is coming but one of the main developers needs to chat a little :P aka an introduction to my buddy
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wizard0f0s:
Lol! Yep, I don't have many posts on XDA yet. I've been active for a while and been here a good bit, just have posted much.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BeansTown106:
well lets change that :P as you are one of the main devs for chaOS lol :P u need to be able to post it in the forum
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wizard0f0s:
Lol, that's true. Sucks to have working d2vzw and d2usc builds and can't really tell people about them.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BeansTown106:
agreed and without you there would be no t0ltevzw builds either :P
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wizard0f0s:
Nah, I'm sure you'd be able to get them working. Maybe just not quite as fast ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jason Roach:
Can't wait to try it. Good luck! Oh and welcome officially lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Addiso:
He's a wizard, beans.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wizard0f0s:
Thanks! Glad to be here!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BeansTown106:
thanks bud :) i agree but i am nooby with all the git commands without you it would have taken a month or at leasr a week of buggin nocoast lmao
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hobart!:
Wizzzzzzzzzard! Good to see you here!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ddurandSGS3:
interested to see what chaos is! welcome!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FormeriPhoney:
Hey man. Welcome. Anyone vouched by Beans is cool with me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobAbooE:
Same wizard that was deving on the dx at rootz?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] shawnten:
so are the nightly usable