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[General Topics] kramkumar:
I bricked three phones. Lenovo S880, Star N9000 and a nameless chinese spreadtrum processor phone. Had to use test point method, unbricked Star N8000. Thanks to xda.
[General Topics] hardlined:
It's pretty hard to brick newer devices, I used to be scared about rooting and such, but now I throw all caution to the wind, only thing I can think of is messing up both the flashing of a Rom and custom recovery, even then you can still get to the bootloader. I'm sure I just jinxed myself.
[General Topics] Glorifyy:
I bricked my brothers T989, but after about 4 hours unbricked it. :cool:
[General Topics] Badbob117:
Never a android device

I have bricked my old xbox trying to swap a disk drive. Still have no idea what happened. I have also bricked a zune. But never a android device.

Had some close head scratching moments when not paying attention flashing roms but never to the point of killing my phone or tablet. Will knock on wood and cross my fingers!
[General Topics] duabijitelur:
soft bricked a lot of times then unbricked few hours after XD
[General Topics] :
Yeah...Almost 5 times...

Of course !!!

Had bricked it almost 5 times...

Thank god..! it were soft bricked...!!
[General Topics] xdabumblebeen:
no doubt! haha!
[General Topics] animus7:
YESS, 3 times .

device LGE P880
[General Topics] sandm4n:
Soft? yes many times, Hard? Never...
[General Topics] R4Y3K:
Just wanna to ask what is bricking the phone

Cause i think it mean that i flash the wrong rom or what ?
[General Topics] MAGISTR-Shuba:
Nokia N73 so cool, but... swim.... sad =\

just 1 time
[General Topics] Whipstickgostop:
Surely most of us have experienced a 'soft' brick at some point... I've not yet bricked a device to be fully unrecoverable, but I would not be surprised if that day comes eventually ;)
[General Topics] giangimilan:
soft brick yes many time, hard brick no so far :D
[General Topics] promohammad:
NO
[General Topics] famazi:
Soft bricked my s3 mini a lot of times.
[General Topics] azureskies:
Soft bricked a couple of times with my GT-P1010 and my Asus TF101 while flashing them. Nothing unrecoverable.
[General Topics] Alexandar-II:
Im not sure if it was bricking or just some kind of boot problem, i was trying to root my tab, with some program over laptop, and after tab restart it stuck at sammy logo
[General Topics] schultp:
I have bricked my HP TouchPads. This is a known issue that randomly can occur without anything more than letting the battery drain down. Fortunately, a great developer has developed a 'tpdebrick' program that runs on Ubuntu and magically has resurrected one of my 2 TPs. I'm still working to resurrect the other one!
[General Topics] Adurnas:
Soft bricked my xperia neo by accidentally installing a patch for a rom before the main part of the rom itself. Hadn't flashtool existed, I would have been in major trouble.
[General Topics] hambuger:
Yup! Have bricked a few things now. Nothing I couldn't recover though!
[General Topics] assassinst:
yes, i was bricked my ainol novo crystal 7 times, soft bricked

and my oppo find muse 2x

but i never bricked my nokia 6120c LoL:laugh:
[General Topics] BadWolff23:
I usually brick all my devices (Galxy mini, Galaxy Music,Galaxy S3, Lenovo Ideapad A1 , Asus Nexus 7 , Galaxy Note 10.1) and bringing them back to life helped me to master ROM installing lolz. but there's no device I touched that hasn't softbricked
[General Topics] fousekis21:
sometimes i have fail to flash a rom but its reversible
[General Topics] mirfaghihi:
xperia ion soft bricking

for first time i really scared mobile was totally dead not response and no led charging light i kept it on charging whole night morning red led start flashing trying to boot and after a few attempt totally off ,i started flash tool choose rom i wanted to flash after that small window open asking me to off mobile and connect it in flash mood with usb by holding , down volume , i tight down volume with rubber after about one hour green light on and flash the rom , and boot normally battery charge level was 3 percent.
[General Topics] jime1:
Bricked my Htc pico several times while installing custom sense ROM on it..

but then unbricked it after several persistent efforts..Thanks to all the Experts on XDA!:laugh:
[General Topics] braca1965:
[MENTION=4366060]sony neo[/MENTION] v, i bricked many times after flashing new rom and trying with another kernels,then i again reflesh stock kernel then again root ,and start using my phone like first day :)
[General Topics] Commandos18:
Never ^^ Even when I modified old Sony Ericsson phones and 1 time I unplugged my old k550i while installing rom. It should brick the phone, but it wasn`t :D
[General Topics] xemnas18:
I was a complete noob before i decided to root my phone and flash a rom, but luckily I didn't brick it. Funny story though, i read that you use the power button to navigate cwm but the first time i pressed it, the screen went black (still lit though). I almost had a panic attack lol...eventually i just pressed power again and i was right back where i started, then i used the enter button which worked out nicely.
[General Topics] rovama:
I was worried about doing that the first times I flashed a new rom, but until now I had no troubles at all :p
[General Topics] Irwenzhao:
Soft-bricked once, was being stupid. I deleted every single byte of data in my phone. (Excluding recovery :P) :silly:

Smack that Thanks button if I helped!

KitKat came in on my OmniROM, running on my Note 2.

Sent from a small country called Singapore.

P.S. Time for school, not much time for XDA :(
[General Topics] Rodrigo Toledo:
3 days with nexus 4 i bricked him instaling cm.

Enviado de meu Nexus 4 usando Tapatalk
[General Topics] masterocv:
I owned many phones, always flash roms and i not have bricked device no once.
[General Topics] bennlucky7:
Never failed because Im usually flashing roms from needrom or other that already success flashing it and do exactly from wiping because many problem occurred if u dont complete wiping ur previous rom
[General Topics] jabrown84:
Nope
[General Topics] scientific calculator:
Nah, never bricked a device. Got into bootloops a few times, but thank the gods for ODIN, I got out of it :)
[General Topics] oscarmarina2:
Only bootloops also...
[General Topics] jhelp:
Hello,

I hard bricked a HTC Nexus One. It was my first flashing phone. After that I have hesitated long time before try flash again. But I don't know what I done first time, because after that I didn't brick the new phone again (Yes I was need to buy an other phone, I tried to save previous phone with lot of tools, nothing worked ...)

After that only soft-bricks on Samsung Galaxy S2 or S2+

JHelp
[General Topics] iZLeeP:
Only softbricks like bootloops. Never had a hardbrick since I'm very cautious.
[General Topics] akirici:
My friend had no idea how to flash a new room and he asked me to show him how to do then I had tried to show him but i did softbreak on his phone and he almost a heart-attack. that was exited! :D
[General Topics] ydn:
I have bricked my Samsung wave2 (s8530) a lot of times :laugh:
[General Topics] Presbuteros:
I've sent my Sero 7 Pro in endless reboot cycles and even tanked the CWM recovery image but always seem to eventually be able to pull it out of a tailspin... If I can manage not to hard brick this thing then I'd say it is a solid device for a beginner to mess around on...
[General Topics] @non4:
To get a hard brick these days you have to almost want it. Ever had a.rom that soft bricks itself for no reason? Now THAT is annoying :D soft bricked my xperia sp today messing with build.prop. It doesn't like being a nexus 7 :D (I wanted a tegra game)

Sent while my supervisor wasn't looking
[General Topics] haldav:
YP-G70 US Version

So maybe not bricked but I have definitely rendered my device inoperable several times, but nothing that flashing firmware doesn't fix. Thank God for Odin! There doesn't seem to be many places to obtain the factory stock, either. Without this forum, though, I would have been lost. Funny thing, as a note, the wifi occasionally drops now. Would like to fix it but it'll do.
[General Topics] smartpr1v4t3:
I flashed so many things on my iphone, but i never handled it to brick. Only Bootloops.

On my android phone i only managed it to the same thing. Loader was broken but everything was manageable.
[General Topics] Mysterion1:
I just had some bootloops, while coding and experimenting. Hardbricks never happened. :cool:

Sent from my LG Optimus 4X HD
[General Topics] wolfen69:
You're right. A truly "bricked" phone is unrecoverable. What people in this thread are talking about is a soft brick.
[General Topics] Ackroyd:
Okay, but then I am wondering.. How will you get a "hard brick"?
[General Topics] lowandbehold:
Depends really. You can flash a kernel not meant for your device. There are some mods where if you type the wrong thing into the command prompt, it can brick your device. Most stuff is 99% safe if you know what you are doing and read before you attempt to do it, but there is always a chance..
[General Topics] @non4:
That was almost my first brick, flashed wrong kernel on galaxy tab 3. Fortunately the recovery worked, however a strange issue remains. No boot screen, whatever rom/kernel I flash, just black and must turn screen on/off to get rid of black display... My bad :o

Sent while my supervisor wasn't looking
[General Topics] stipipoy:
Bricked? No, soft brick? Multiple times. :p

Sent from my [Root] O+ 8.15, Stock Rom using Tapa Talk
[General Topics] XP_1:
I hard bricked my Galaxy S3 once and was considering all involved for a jtag. Because of the micro-sd card slot I was able to put a force boot image on it and it booted right up. It was easy enough.

forum. xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860
[General Topics] gothed:
just bootlop severaal times :D thanks God still protect me from those hardbrick
[General Topics] androidkilla911:
s1

i hard bricked my samsung s1 t959 by flashing t959v rom. i was bricked so bad that you couldnt even charge it so i sold it:p
[General Topics] sarthak11:
bricked my karbonn a1+

my karbonn a1+ is not passing through the karbonn logo after i tried to flash the rom

i can go to cwm recovery and i have tried many times to format my phone clear cath and delvik catch but nthing is working pls help
[General Topics] andrewsmith500:
Bricked my Galaxy S3 while i tried to flash a sound mod
[General Topics] divine.impulse:
never bricked mine so far... but i brick a old sonny Ericsson a w model once
[General Topics] EEhobbyist:
I feared for bricking my evo 3d once but my google food helped me find a solution.
[General Topics] malko29:
I soft bricked my previous phone 2-3 times but not thank god not hard brick!!
[General Topics] aashishb4u:
yeahh

I have bricked karbonn mobile but didnt get stock rom for it anyone can help

thank you
[General Topics] PhantomThiefX:
When I first started doing this I bricked a couple of the first Gen iPhones and a couple of Gingerbread Androids but it wasn't for naught. I learned some great lessons about what to and not to do when it comes to modding. The best lesson I learned was that not all the people out there have your best interest in mind when they create their one click root apps. It is always better to know exactly what code they are pushing to your device before you use it. The best thing to do is to learn the shell commands and do it yourself with the help of others like you and sometimes that means you messing up, but you also learn more from your mistakes than you do from someone else's. It's all a part of being a developer. Something that helped me was reading several of Thomas Edison's biographies. That man broke more shiz than he created and he used all of those failures as learning experiences and it made his successes more sweet.
[General Topics] Antonito2030:
mi galaxy S4 I9500, está Semibrickeado

I turn off the battery all the time and does not work until I reacted with the universal charger, can someone help?
[General Topics] Kenobz:
Hit the play store grabbed some new fonts installed switched rebooted it was stuck at the Samsung logo so then I made a thread and got it back on track and now the same device is about to be on sale. Looking back I'm sure I cried very sure I am.
[General Topics] RollingRoman:
I've bricked all my phones (I9000, I9001, I9505) multiple times. Guess I'll never learn it :silly:
[General Topics] casper_zy:
I havd bricked all my devices like 7300...9100...9305...9505...7105....
[General Topics] Mansevolver:
What are things that can be done to genuinely screw over a handset?

My laptop is unreliable, so if it cut off on me while flashing a ROM if it was on boot, would it be acrewed?
[General Topics] Ste_J:
Managed to brick my original galaxy tab. It just could not handle the amount of tinkering. Good old PC world for a swap
[General Topics] safereg:
once i bricked my zperia ion device and I solved it using this method : press and hold both volumes and .....
[General Topics] divyamg28:
I hav also brick my micromax a89
[General Topics] tyagi2014:
bricked galaxy s3

i bricked galaxy s3 of my sister and could only bring it back to life by using kies emergency recovery, rooted it just after that again ;) lol
[General Topics] Rryann22:
Bricked my Galaxy S II multiple times, but managed to bring it back to life.
[General Topics] jbmkawaii:
ive been rooting phones for a long time now and havent bricked one so far,

hope I wont jinx myself. I pray there wont be a time that I will post again in this thread saying the phone model that I bricked haha
[General Topics] kebles:
Soft bricked my LG Motion and L9. Both were cases of after rooting on stock firmware, weeks or months later they just stopped booting. Motion is flashed with CM now and works fine, I still wanna get around to recovering the l9.
[General Topics] activeservo:
I soft bricked my Samsung intercept and that's when I started researching how to fix it. I believe you have to soft brick a device before you really learn about it.
[General Topics] mr doi:
I bricked O2 ( using windows phone ), samsung galaxy note II ( update kernel , ordin, multi boot...) and continuted....
[General Topics] mtabzr:
and in the end that's soft brick or boot loop? anyone has the ultimate answer?

I myself once stuck my xperia zr in a bootloop trying to root it - of course the manual I used did mention that in that certain step if you try to boot it up you'll stuck in a bootloop.
[General Topics] Benster1712:
I almost soft bricked my N7 once, shut it down just in time :rolleyes:
[General Topics] BloodHawkEye:
I had installed chainfire on my Samsung galaxy grand with 4.2.2 and therefore got a Bootloop. Flashed CyanogenMod 11 by pawitp. The guy with the bricked karbonn phone can recover the phone with custom room if he has the required bootloader after flashing recovery.
[General Topics] Phazonclash:
Hard bricked my GS3 2 months ago. Flashed a bad baseband version, and it wouldn't boot at all (no light, no vibration, no boot screen, etc.)

Samsung fixes my phone for free and without asking a single question.
[General Topics] HHLLC:
Did it to my EVO OG and the 4G LTE. I was able to bring them back and learned a valuable lesson. Never forget to wipe...
[General Topics] doumatso:
The worst thing is when you brick a phone that is not yours
[General Topics] TheMiracle:
No

Nope :)
[General Topics] k660:
soft bricked galaxy mini using a wrong recovery.

but using odin to get thing back to normal.
[General Topics] Simonna:
I was only soft bricked few times,but it was easy to recover it. :)
[General Topics] hiiipowers:
Never soft or hard bricked any device happy about that
[General Topics] King_Rat:
Softied every ph I've ever owned (where the true learning happens)

V360v - 1st one, sent to repair store (1st & last time that'll ever happen again) multiple softies - think it still goes... in a draw w/ custom MP on it

Moto Krzr K3 (b/l: 3.90) - left this one alone for a while as had no FB3 profile (or so I thought) profile for another b/l worked and I could bu mp... then I eventually got around to making the only custom mp in existence for Krzr k3 (claim to fame) :holah:

Once mistakenly (tired/late/drunk) flashed an Italian MP - thought I'd killed it... eventually got rsd to see ph and flashed my stock mp etc.

Huawei IDEOS U8150 (1st android)

tried to theme it... softied... XDA saved day with Oz stock rom... softied multiple times... was better half's ph for a while...

Motorola Defy...

stock rom was poos - CM7 1st up, wife has it running MIUI GB...

mistakenly flashed a SII custom rom onto it & it got to bootanimation!?

again multiple :blah: :blah:

Current:

SGS-II i9100... only thought I'd killed it once or twice i.e. BSOD & Odin wouldn't see ph... a few twisted fingers and a custom ICS rom (odin compatible) flash & back in the game... running MIUI V5 - twrp kernel - performance X enhanced :cool:

my 2 cents... to make an omelete... :blah: :blah: eggs :rolleyes:
[General Topics] jxgreat:
I bricked my Huawei Ascend Y320 and was not able to go to CWM or Install it. Now the phone is in Service centre!!!
[General Topics] omaral:
i bricked my iphone 4s on the day i got it. i was so damn mad. i ended up selling it for cheap
[General Topics] Thabris:
I hard briked my girlfriend's Samsung Galaxy S Plus phone, I Introduced a code in terminal emulator and when I restarted the phone, It never power ons again... recovery and download mode didn't work, even when I plugged the charger, no signal appears...

I bought a JIG to get into download mode but nothing works :crying: so I sold it for 50€
[General Topics] chaoscodes:
Soft bricked my Note 2 a month ago after OTA upgrade. I was about to give up and return it to the dealer when a small partition zip I found on the internet made it come back to life.
[General Topics] alleyrat:
bricked

When I first started flashing I flashed an international rom on an AT&T S3 and had me stumped for awhile. I was clueless on what i was doing and tried everything with Odin etc. found something that worked and to this day I cannot remember how I did it but I have rooted/flashed tons of times since then without too many problems. Stay calm most important and research it. I also read the directions from now o as well. :cool:
[General Topics] timmy5822:
i have bricked my Sony Experia Neo when i am learning to flashing a phone with CyanogenMod (unofficial, custom ROM)
[General Topics] J_byrd:
Hard bricked wifes atrix 2 downgrading from ics back to gingerbread i got the wrong file for rsd it was missing patch.
[General Topics] pcguy112887:
Soft bricked a buddies several times (first time ever rooting/modding!) but so far so good otherwise!
[General Topics] poohateq:
I have motorola v360 and when i change soft 3 times in a row i broke bootloader and phone die.. :/
[General Topics] omaral:
i had bricked 14 phones.
[General Topics] Anang_Galih:
Hard bricked my galaxy mini 2. And I serviced in Samsung Service Center. After some month, I get it back. :D

Hit THANKS if I help you

Xperia Neo --> MIUI
[General Topics] omaral:
i bricked my tv
[General Topics] justmpm:
Sorry, but I closed this thread because it has stopped being a discussion and has just become a pointless list.
[General Topics] MikeRWK:
I have soft bricked my phone a few times but its nothing to worry about, as long as you can get into recovery.
[General Topics] kemmo123:
i've soft bricked every device I have ever had. I can be scary at first, because it normally happens when the device is brand new. but its also a good way to build a rescue package for that device for future mishaps...

x10

optimus 2x

galaxy gio

htc one x

zenthink 10.1

nexus 7

galaxy s3 I9305

all have been soft bricked and revived!
[General Topics] ilista:
Soft only, which for me can range from 'oops' to 'freaking annoying' to 'damn these confounded devices and their infernal ridiculous manufactures... Curse them all!!!!!'
[General Topics] d^.:
Thankfully no
[General Topics] notey:
fingers crossed / touch wood -- never

always research and plan it, and have a back up (several)

if i don't have a backup of it, then i don't do whatever it is i want to do

there's a hardware you can get ( for my phone at least), to restore should you ever brick it - bought it hopefully never have to use it.
[General Topics] ToaIII:
Only one time! But because i was fast and not focused!
[General Topics] Nikronius:
hard bricked only once... downloaded a ROM for a different phone by mistake using ROM manager...

all other times have been soft bricks including my s3 because now I do everything manually.

Sent from my GT-I9305
[General Topics] syed.sayeed96:
A million soft bricks and a hardbrick which killed my ace..

Now I have a grand with no bricks yet..
[General Topics] @non4:
Made a nice softbrick last night keeping me up until 5am! Device spoofer does not work on ICS, but its fine on JB? LG ICS is buggy as hell though :D

Sent from my rooted P880
[General Topics] avispi11:
Bricked my ace!!!

Yep, bricked my phone (gt-s5839i)twice on the same day for the first time, trying to flash roms.

Thanks xda i found the way to unbrick. I always research about the rom before flashing.**** happens.Lol :p
[General Topics] abhishek0821:
Was a total newbie and had bricked my GT P1000. Couldn't successfully unbrick for over a month !:eek:

Finally found a tutorial to restock and then finally managed to make it fine.

Since then played around with multiple devices and no bricks now..
[General Topics] arnolldde:
I had done this once when break my laptop in last year.Actually I got backache last year and was feeling very painful while resting on my foam mattress but unfortunately my laptop slip from the bed and its LCD was badly damaged.Thanks for some interesting stuff from all of you.

patient care products
[General Topics] Ofrine:
Soft broke mine once (i9100 SGS2).

Flashed in Odin kernel in phone instead of flashing it in PDA.

Was on my way to school and I was scared the whole day, until I returned home and fixed it in 1 minute.
[General Topics] knockout41:
One of my "friends" thought it would be funny to set the minimum cpu frequenzy to 1.8GHz of my HTC Sensation.

The few times I tried to boot it succeeded firstly but then got stuck in homescreen and rebootet.

Thank God I had a recovery backup :D Otherwise I would have killed someone ;)
[General Topics] Mohhamad Rehan:
Yes did it to three of my previous phone and the current phone but ressurected all of them like a king
[General Topics] Mohhamad Rehan:
Hey u did not bricked ur device to hard brick.status it was softbrick its easy to do that using the recovery but try hard bricking and the ressurect it u will enjoy the ressurection process and feel like a software developer its an awesome feeling to ressurecting ur phone from dead lolz ;)
[General Topics] Sinker1345:
I have never bricked my phone (only ever rooted my current s3) but I did scare the crap out of myself trying to get my Verizon phone to work with AT&T.

I tried to enable gsm bands in a test mode and forgot the settings for Verizon so for about 3 hours I could receive texts and use data but couldn't send texts or make outgoing calls.
[General Topics] naxian:
my zte and optimus 2x :angel:
[General Topics] MclDev00:
Once,,

I've never truly bricked my i5500. Once however, I did soft brick it because of a defective rom. Flashed back to stock using Odin.