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[General Topics] early_riser:
I bricked a Motorola Triumph using Swapper2. It apparently wrote files over the system partition.

Before I installed, I searched "swapper motorola triumph" to see if it was safe. Didn't find anything. After bricking my phone, I searched "motorola triumph swapper2" and first result was "Swapper2 Bricked my phone!" . DAMMIT!
[General Topics] :
twice. the second was yesterday :crying: but i fixed it:D
[General Topics] ryebread761:
Not yet.
[General Topics] t3hcurs3:
Did the same with my S3... bad underclock kernel hard bricked it... heard there is a trick you can do with a mini USB end though that will get it into download mode. I ended up saying it was the jellybean rollout OTA that bricked it. Sprint replaced mine with a refurb free of charge.
[General Topics] Stefano23ps:
Fortunately never bricked. But this is the first time I flashed CWM and the CM 10.1 by TheWhisp

Inviato dal mio GT-S6500 usando Tapatalk 4
[General Topics] bmwkeith:
I have come perilously close, but have always been bailed out by searching the forums.
[General Topics] Win98PL:
Yes i bricked i device when i porting the rom xD.I'm unbrick the device ;P:cowboy:
[General Topics] El_Dark:
Lol, if I was to count how many times I've bricked my S5830M (aka S5830i), my fingers wouldn't be enough xD more than 10 times? for sure :P especially when flashing CM7

"Hard" bricked... Hummm, yeah, once I tried to flash CM9 for the Ace (S5830, which has a completely different hardware, damn you samsung) xD Luckily ODIN was there for me :)
[General Topics] adyra:
My First Android device LG Optimus Me is soft brick many times when I try something new, but I always able to recover it.
[General Topics] Razerman:
Luckily nope:thumbup:

Even though I have flashed all kind of things, guess I'm lucky then:confused:

But my brother has soft bricked his advance many times.
[General Topics] jack3935:
HTC EVO 4G (Supersonic)

I have bricked my HTC EVO 4G (Supersonic)

i write NV itemes at wrong address and Hard brick

planned to purchase ORT-JTAG to repair it
[General Topics] One2thTEXAN:
I managed to brick 3 Droid X's due to it being my first smart phone and I didn't understand the concept of reading forums before taking action. :eek: But it led to being knowledgeable on every device I've owned since.
[General Topics] pijan08:
i did not brick...:silly:
[General Topics] LeeThargic:
just a Nokia n900 when battery shorted for some reason during flash.

Now I always make sure power connected when flashing my devices.
[General Topics] power2top:
Yes. I hardbricked by Karbonn A21 :( Got to a stage where the phone did not even vibrate when you press power on. no adb forget CWM as even screen does not start. The only thing visible when you connect via USB port to the computer is Qualcomm USB Modem connected!! Hello its a Mobile phone not some modem :(. Now sent to Service Centre since it is still under warranty. Less hope I get a new piece.:eek:
[General Topics] blocknot.es:
Never did.

But one of my friend lost an iPhone in the toilet :)
[General Topics] @non4:
Yup I broke my desire z the same way :D

Sent from my smart frying pan (Tegra 3)
[General Topics] Nanaya Caasi:
Bricked

I remember when I started out flashing ROMs, I flashed a ROM which was meant for p5110 on my my p3110, I still remember it took me days to find out I flashed the wrong rom
[General Topics] Mattix724:
Brick=Unrecoverable, does not power on.

Soft Brick=Does not boot past the splash screen, no bootable OS.

Boot loop=The OS attempts to boot but errors out and repeats the boot process.

I have done all three. There is definitely a huge difference between a boot loop and a soft brick.
[General Topics] damnnew:
Not yet :)
[General Topics] thirdzcee:
Soft bricked countless times, boot looped less than my softbrick and I dont know if this is a hardbrick or as soft brick but last year I flashed cm9 for galaxy s and ended up not going passed the galaxy s logo, I can still go to cwm, I even flashed stock via Odin but it still ends up the same in recovery mode I cant format internal sdcard, must have gotten corrupted or something
[General Topics] krzych086:
Since my first smartphone htc wildfire, I had 5 and never could resist to unlock it. Fortunately, I had never bricked any of these devices, flashing allmost everything what got into my hands, or I should say onto my sd card :p. So my advice to everybody, just be 200% sure You doin exactly like in the instructio and everythin should go fine.
[General Topics] droideastcoast:
Hard bricked SGS3 but got jtag device so I'm all good.
[General Topics] sachithyoda:
i had 3-4 devices rooted and unlocked every device, thankfully never bricked any one if these phone.
[General Topics] TechGeek7757:
I own two devices....and had bricked both of them :p
[General Topics] harry lon:
I have one device i keep replacing the roms for discoveries.. thanks god not having a prblem on it.
[General Topics] birdy3636:
Never have I hardbricked but I've soft bricked my old droid 2 numerous times when learning about rooting and roming. I haven't bricked my galaxy nexus or the droid 1 I got. I did end up frying the motherboard in my droid 2 though. No picture just blacklight.
[General Topics] S4RSZ:
ofcourse, although they were all soft bricks.
[General Topics] SonicX2014:
I have soft bricked my LG Optimus V a hand full of times. And being a Linux user, panic really sets in when 99% of all the tools out there are for Windows. The first time I was using ADB terminal in Linux to flash a Optimus S recovery to a LG Optimus V because everyone I talked to said they are both the same. Everything looked good till I reboot the phone and it stayed stuck on the LG logo. After that panic really set it. I knew the only way to fix this was to install the LG flash tools and KDZ tools and guess what! they only work in, you guess it, WINDOWS. :mad:

I did find the answer when I stumbled across the XDA forum. Back then I didn't have an account, just started reading and learning from there. I found a dev that did manage to un-brick an LG Optimus V using ADB and it worked for me. I now use Xionia for my recovery and it's been a champ ever since. I also wanted to try Odin but guess what! Yup! Windows. Would like to see a Linux version of Odin if it exists.
[General Topics] waldbrand1:
Never had problems with flashing;) just read carefull the instruction
[General Topics] Bostich:
Not yet:) several bootloops, but everytime i finally got ito HBOOT
[General Topics] RogueFiber:
I have not hard bricked any device. I have soft bricked my hackintosh, wrong kext and the sound card gave away a vary loud sound so I had to cut the power and reinstall.
[General Topics] BrotherCheese:
softbricked my GNex plenty of times. Recovered easily though thanks to Wugfresh.
[General Topics] KillsBR:
3 times my GSII :crying:
[General Topics] SpaceMammoth:
not yet, but I am sure I will at some point - its just a matter of time.
[General Topics] fruizmelo:
No, never
[General Topics] Soobin:
Yes of course. Is it indespensable for xda members?
[General Topics] raine0324:
Soft brick. hard brick not yet. i soft bricked my su370 when i enter recovery by typing reboot recovery on terminal emulator without the recovery.img on recovery partition.
[General Topics] Dark Wraith:
Soft bricked galaxy y.Hard bricked micromax a90s.restored both though
[General Topics] IRX120:
I bricked my ge 2 and my nexus 7 a few times

Sent from my Gnex VZW @1.5 GHz on Stock 4.3
[General Topics] AllanSim:
Got stuck in a boot loop once as the ROM I was trying was insanely overclocked, but luckily i was able to get back into cyanogenmod and reinstall the backup. So, haven't bricked yet.
[General Topics] ltc_mkt:
Is my phone Soft Bricked or Half rooted ?

I rooted my HTC WILDFIRE S using CWM Recovery 5 on stock rom. Phone was properly rooted. Superuser installed in system applications and su binaries properly updated. last month i go through Restore Factory Settings. Therteafter when i try to update su binaries, it fails but applications ask for superuser privileges. Ever superuser grant superuser privileges. If i open terminal emulator and enter su, $ changes to # which shows phone has root access. But if i enter ls, mkdir, rm etc. commands, it shows not found. If i enter 'busybox ls' command, it works. Even i m unable to install busybox from android market. it displays phone has not proper root access. Even i try to reroot my phone, nothing change occured.

Is my phone soft bricked ? or Half Rooted ? What can i do ?
[General Topics] user30000z:
away

Happened to me once and lost the device...
[General Topics] zubairamd:
Bricked!!

I once bricked my s advance by installing chainfire 3d on jb.

Yeah but my frnd bricked his galaxy ace over infinite times by sharing my firmware-res.apk, the ink effect mod for s advance, the cocore kernel, crt-off animation effect and lastly trying all s advance custom roms on his device thinking he could make it like mine.HE IS THE BRICK MASTER.:silly::laugh::silly::laugh::silly::laugh::silly::laugh:
[General Topics] Dark Wraith:
[MENTION=793826]ITC[/MENTION]_mkt

It might not be rooted properly. Download any root checker app from playstore and check.

I once improperly rooted my xperia mini pro.had to flash stock rom again and root it properly.
[General Topics] drewwtek:
many close ones... I once thought it really did brick due to countless boot loops... but as it turned out... my boot loops were hardware related. I fixed that and it was smooth sailing afterwards. It really gave me a scare. So.. no... didn't brick anything so far. I sure hope I won't ever have to meet my first bricked phone.
[General Topics] merlise:
YES. Well kind of. I was in the process of freeing my Kindle Fire from Amazon's OS and I got stuck in bootloop. I ended up having to get a fastboot cable and pushing the partitions through adb. It was a great learning experience because I understand how to use command prompts a little better :)
[General Topics] arvin07143:
Soft brick countless of times
[General Topics] Mordec13:
I have never bricked my only phone (Incredible S)

I paid attention to what I was doing, but I have to admit sometimes it was just luck.
[General Topics] llamallama82:
Hi,

Do you think its possible to resurrect a hard bricked Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9210T 4G,

Cheers,

Luke
[General Topics] knutsen_93:
I bricked my galaxy spica, only good thing was that i bought a SGS 2 days later :P

Sent from my GT-I9300
[General Topics] sudd1976:
I have soft bricked my xperia s loads of times.

Also my fly touch 3, galaxy s2, HTC one x and xperia z.

Praise the lord for cwm and twrp, can I get a hell yeah !!
[General Topics] Dark Wraith:
Depends,Can you tell the exact details and condition of the phone. Is it getting detected when you connected by USB. Do you see any bootanimation. Stuff like that
[General Topics] iwjosi:
I have galaxy w and never bricked :D
[General Topics] yusharap:
Of course I am. A lot bricked!!
[General Topics] th3drow:
I got my Droid X when it first came out with that GIANT 4.3 inch screen. The screen density hacks just came out then and I thought it was perfect for this giant device, I get the app set it up and boom, blank screen on reboot. Not sure if there was a fix that I wasn't aware of or not but at that time I couldn't find anything.
[General Topics] artoni:
I had luck and didnt brick anything, although my old Galaxy S was not far away from the brick. It was quite new and I didnt know what to do. I can laugh on it today :laugh::laugh:
[General Topics] kangerX:
Bricked loads of times >_<

sent from the state where marijuana is NOT illegal !!
[General Topics] domenicodeniso:
I bricked my xperia arc, but luckily I was able to fix it though the recovery
[General Topics] -totonio-:
I bricked my Z... I've tried to build my own kernel :eek: luckily fastboot worked :thumbup:
[General Topics] Ste91:
Hard bricked LG optimus one due to a pc-software crash. Fixed for free from service center.

Soft bricked Sony Xperia p fixed flashing again the rom
[General Topics] sukonta:
1 time :angel:
[General Topics] lidorkalfa:
i owned galaxy s I9000 for two years, and now i own galaxy s i9500, and after all these time i still cant understand how its possible to brick your device?! i done almost everything possible with my device, installed a lot of roms and a lot of crap on my phone and nothing bricked it..
[General Topics] Dark Wraith:
lol...it is that one stupid day wen you get overconfident and mess up and bam!! ur device is gone....even i have flashed roms a hundred times...but it takes one wrong step(and a considerable amount of alcohol in my case) to brick the device...Though i have resurrected the bricked devices as well,even a hard brick
[General Topics] Spirit_TheEnCore:
I9300

I'v bricked my I9300 S3 because i lost the IMEI-number but Andromizer safed my butt :)
[General Topics] Rodelkoenig:
I bricked my hp touchpad when i tried to flash the cm alpha in the first few days it was released :P

webOS doctor saved my ass and revived my precious touchpad.
[General Topics] andiroxu:
Me several times soft bricked my device and hard bricked once.
[General Topics] Cubesxda:
4 times my sony s..with LB I just had much problems with recovery apps..cwm and twrp...it was soft bricked so I could restore it easily..but ofc it is annoying and costs time
[General Topics] JeffM123:
Way back in the day (2008) I had a Blackberry Curve 8330. I tried to mod it and got the infamous White Screen Of Death! I learned quickly that like using my laptop or desktop I had to back up back up back up!
[General Topics] sylkyls:
I never hard-bricked :D

Most bricks came after CM updates using CM-Updater because I didn't saw that the version changed (CM10 to 10.1 and 10.1 to 10.2)... New Gapps needed ^^
[General Topics] threekie:
I usually manage to bring my devices back, unless I hardware brick 'em. Once I took a swim with a phone, I never got that one working again.
[General Topics] Molock:
havent bricked any yet, and hope i never will :p
[General Topics] grunted:
I had a hard brick. Was not able to turn on phone I sent It to mobile techvideos and they fixed it. But I need to root it again.
[General Topics] bw13489:
Yeah I soft bricked my lg optimus sol once :p
[General Topics] Smirky Guitars:
bricked an iPhone 4s trying to remove jailbreak haha stupid apples not mine.. I don't condone such behavior, buying iPhones.. Smh freaken girlfriend. Told sprint that that's what happened after updating to iOS 6.0.. They said that's there was issues with that iOS so they replaced the refurbished phone for a new one.
[General Topics] indafeis:
i kinda bricked my kindle fire hd while trying to change font... now it wont boot or factory reset or whatever.. i now have to build a special cable which will make it starts in fastboot mode (not reachable in any other way) and i will likely be able to fix this... lets hope so :)
[General Topics] Vauvenal7:
I hardbricked my samsung galaxy s (1)

now it just lays in the edge gettn dust all over^^

Greets Vauvenal7

Sent from my myTouch 4G Slide
[General Topics] intelxtreme:
I bricked my i727 once and it was a paperweight
[General Topics] carra96:
No thankfully. But once I threatened to install a wrong firmware :rolleyes:
[General Topics] Shidapu:
Purposely hard bricked my HTC Sensation because it had internal partition issues and would not go thru warranty otherwise.
[General Topics] nullofnull:
A few times with my Xperia Neo V... it was awful :mad:
[General Topics] @non4:
How did you go about that? :D

Sent from my rooted P880
[General Topics] Mokiwipeout:
I had hard bricked my Nintendo Wii... Luckily the guarantee hadn't expired... Almost bricked my sola because the pc crashed while using flashtool

Sent from my brain which is in Bahamas
[General Topics] @non4:
How the hell did you brick a wii? I always wonder why people root TVs, I have a freaking pre-flatscreen LCD brick and freeview plus, that does me fine, if you hard brick £1700 worth of Samsung smart TV man will you feel stupid :D

Sent from my rooted P880
[General Topics] cyelanius:
brick phone

yes. no long after i start ventured into root world XD. at first i was freaked out fearing my galaxy S plus will permanently bricked. Fortunately there is a way to unbrick it and now i frequently flashing new rom and tweaks :D
[General Topics] M_NASSAR:
i do to my xperia neo .. my device won't read sim & thanx to S1 tool fix it :laugh:
[General Topics] Zood:
Never bricked anything, but my Lumia 800 is regularly giving me a heart attack when the battery is flat - apparently it's normal it takes ages to activate again after it reached 0%...
[General Topics] azyyyz:
I've briked my galaxy s and unbriked it by some utilities. I also bricked a galaxy tab and unbriked it
[General Topics] Stefanakii:
Yeah, I remember I bricked my Galaxy S the first time I tryed to flash a rom on it and was kind of scared because I thought it was gonna stay like that forever :laugh: Luckily there was a tutorial on how to unbrick it so I repeated on flashing.
[General Topics] Shidapu:
Adb flashed a nude pic of Paris hilton to emmc I believe, I'm really not trolling.

Got help from ARHD team jkoljo to do it, long time ago.
[General Topics] MclDev00:
Soft bricked

I have soft bricked my i5500 before and I recovered it. I never "hard bricked" any of my devices.
[General Topics] vinitraje:
Only once. Fortunately I had nandroid backup. ;)

Sent from my Karbonn A21
[General Topics] starmaster10:
Once only, my samsung skyrocket i727 was hard bricked, the cwm was labeled wrong and was for the i777 instead, this just happened a few days ago, but i do have a riff box and just going to order soon some jtag jigs to fix it. :cool:
[General Topics] torxed:
For whatever reasons, the following were bricked:

* HTC Desire HD

* Samsung Galaxy S3 (early adopt of custom firmware was the cause).

Was trying to find a descent firmware for my S4 today, hope i'll find one :)
[General Topics] harontas:
bricked device

i bricked once my zte blade to a level that i had only red led blink!thanks to xda i found a solution and it brought back to life for another one year!!!
[General Topics] WeismanGames:
I feel like you have to really really do something terribly wrong to brick the device. Maybe making it get to the point where you have to reset it again, but I feel like bricking is kind of hard to do. Technically Bricking is where there is nothing that can ever be done with the phone again without taking it to a manufacturer.
[General Topics] galimana:
i have brick my optimus one but unbricked again! :)
[General Topics] Dusty Rhodes:
I've done things to my phones over the years that would make it seem like I was trying to brick 'em... Luckily I've always failed.

Dusty: 5

Bricked Devices: 0
[General Topics] RuffaloBone:
I've soft bricked my s3 a few times messing around with things.
[General Topics] josemanuelo:
An sony x10 mini pro

I bricked my mini pro installing a cyanogen rom. I have a mistake and i flash a rom for another sony.

Fortunately a frind can unbrick it.
[General Topics] niquelfer:
install wrong kernel..
[General Topics] rfcandy:
bricked my vodaphone smart II once but fortunately I could unbrick it!
[General Topics] clank201:
I tried to install a recovery through Flashify, but selected flash boot image instead, so now my Xperia T is hard bricked and being repaired.
[General Topics] greeceeeee:
I have bricked my vodafone smart II once but fortunately a friend brought it back to life :P
[General Topics] zaxharu:
Odin is such a great help. Ive bricked may samsung 3100 and i9300 also. But thanks to odin, it came back to life
[General Topics] Paul Blake:
Worst softbrick i had on my s2 was nand rw corruption ... only download mode works and odin on pc gives error(read only file system) at every rom..
[General Topics] tycoo:
I got a softbrick flashing clockworkmod recovery via odin on my galaxy wonder first time a year ago. Pulling out the battery for a few seconds helped me out.
[General Topics] T_Pratik:
Soft bricked my defy + (more than 10 times).... but as usual I read quarx2k's thread (God for defy and other devices) and solved it using custom roms by quarx2k.... :p

Now my defy + is on CM10.2...its so smooth and I'm so happy :D
[General Topics] iko14iron:
Soft bricked my Galaxy Next after accidentally remove sd card during the first boot after the flash :D

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 con Tapatalk 4
[General Topics] mrwetwork:
Yeah unfortunately more than once, but thankfully after reading through hours of fourms, Q&A, and the alike, I have found all I need to know, and then some, it amazes me at the amount of knowledge that people have dedicated to this site, so much more to learn..

SPRINT SAMSUNG GALAXY S3

ANDROID 4.1.2 ROOTED

BASEBAND L710VPBMD4

M.O.A.R/KTOONZ 3.0.69 KERNEL
[General Topics] Karchikumar:
Yes my Xperia U and my mate's videos x5 u8800 pro and successfully retrieved both to the working state.....

If u need any help in that just post me a question.....
[General Topics] K96:
Only bricked once surprisingly my nexus s.
[General Topics] staticinferno:
Yeah, I bricked an S3 with a bad kernel install. Wouldn't power, got the red charging light for 5 seconds when I plugged it in and then nothing.

Told em that as I went to bed I noticed an OTA coming through and didn't think anything else about it. Woke up the next morning and it didn't do squat. Luckily it was within the 2 weeks of getting it. Never heard anything else about it after sending the old one back.
[General Topics] ralphvalmeo:
of course. in fact i did it a couple of times but i reverted it back :D
[General Topics] sgirard1991:
Twice... soft bricks, and didn't take much to fix it tho, luckily :)

Sent from my Verizon Galaxy S3 running MIUI v5
[General Topics] deathnotice01:
I came to fulfill my promises :p

Sent via Nexus 7 (2013)
[General Topics] vclavellmaso:
Nexus 5 maybe
[General Topics] BD.:
i had almost bricked my coby kyros 8042 :) fortunately i was able to save it hehe:laugh:
[General Topics] Iniku:
No, and i hope that continue !
[General Topics] Agasharr:
yes, by updating software by samsung kies
[General Topics] infinitysedge:
Screwed up build.prop on a galaxy S2 by using a flaky play store app to boost volume. Continual rebooting that time. Hp7 1800 tablet stuck at boot after Chainfire3D driver install. Had to completely reflash it. HP 7 messed up the Nand Flash(internal memory) with a partition app I thought was partitioning my external SD but it sucked all my internal space into an unusable dead partition. Low memory warnings after that until I finally removed it. Several horrible crashes on S2 from Cyanogenmid 9 resulting in countless installs. In other words, I'm too dangerous and bone headed to own anything android(and we won't get into the apple stuff I've sent to an early grave). Thankfully I have XDA to get my butt out of the fire lol
[General Topics] umbc1205:
I thought I bricked my galaxy nexus a while back. Was having issues with an install so I did a wipe of everything (including internal storage)... Only thing left on my phone was twrp. Anyways I came to the good folks here at xda was able to push an os back to the phone through adb.
[General Topics] robrobbbbb:
not yet, i've been through bootloops and weird errors but nothing that couldn't be fixed :D
[General Topics] ace091:
I had history of bricking phone on my first attempt and fix it in my second, first was my Nokia 5233 nd second was my Xperia U and third was my friend's Nokia C5-03 :p
[General Topics] sum1one:
I thought i bricked my phone over the weekend trying to install 3minit framework into my phone. I thought my phone came with it but i read later that they took it out so i got stuff in a infinite bootloop !!!! after calming down from a near heart attack and different ways to come back from it. I lucky enough had my rom on my sd card still, got into CWM and re-flashed it and i was good to go.
[General Topics] chaosreaper95:
ive bricked my Evo V 3d a few times but nothing too serious worst it got was stuck in the hboot loop but was fixable. now make backups regularly just in case XD
[General Topics] pendata:
yep, recovered from the heart attack and the phone thanks to odin.