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[General Topics] djbillabong:
LOL

Bro, who told you bricked = forever dead ?

and if you bricked your device and until you fix it your device is called dead[bricked] !! :p :silly:
[General Topics] faraaz3:
lol soft bricking and hard bricking arfe different..soft brick many times happened with me but no hard bricks:D
[General Topics] adubinsky457:
#1 definition in Urban Dictionary:
[General Topics] lowandbehold:
Bricked does mean forever dead. There is no such thing as a soft brick...that is a boot loop.
[General Topics] shadab007g:
i too bricked my allwinner A10 tablet so many times as this tablet is for testing purpose only :D
[General Topics] Quinncy:
of course, YES
[General Topics] prg318:
I have owned a Motorola Droid 1, 2, and 3 and I have yet to brick any of them.

/me crosses fingers
[General Topics] Dcane:
I bricked my phone for a few month ago -.-

There was a Bump on the Case and my Provider told me i have lost the guarantee,

so i bought a new Phone -.- This sucks :D
[General Topics] nanocells:
I can say yes.

But it's not an android device. Motorola e398 and rokr e1, i bricked them many times, almost dead, even i need to force them into flash mode, dead again, re flash again, again and again, until i sold them both, few years ago :D

Sent from my ST18i
[General Topics] Maerlynn:
Yes... Not a good experience ! :)
[General Topics] @non4:
Softbricked:

Desire z

Galaxy Mini

Motorola Defy

Desire s

Optimus 4x

Hard (real) bricked

Nothing, yet :eek:

Sent from my rooted P880
[General Topics] tejkkarani:
many times :D
[General Topics] Sanjay:
The word bricking is common word to me,so think how many time i had bricked the devices..:thumbup:
[General Topics] DCurrahee:
Never, and now that I said that I'm sure my next attempt will brick ... :p
[General Topics] :
I bricked a droid bionic a while back. Never really figured out what i did wrong. I'm having some reservations about getting a custom rom on my GS3 due to that experience.
[General Topics] SolemnSinner:
Soft-bricked my S4 just yesterday tinkering around with different recoveries. Luckily I was able to save it thanks to a tutorial here on XDA! :good:
[General Topics] Felosis:
Nope

Never bricked a device and I've owned many Androids.... from HTC to Samsung and always rooted and S-off is HTC.
[General Topics] Sindroid:
Roms rarely bricks.. just gives bootloops. Flashing firmware and radios is a more nervous game.

Sent from my HTC One
[General Topics] aafan88:
i think the ROMs which are closed to stock version are less likely to brick compared the ROMs which have some much amendments and tweaks.
[General Topics] coolduckey:
htc magic radio

Bricked my HTC magic a while ago. flashed the wrong radio
[General Topics] seandop:
I've owned several Apple and Android products and have never hard-bricked any devices by accident.
[General Topics] jabrif:
No hard bricks so far..*luckily*

Soft bricked many times...;)
[General Topics] kaymar:
unbricked

My first android SE arc s got bricked when i was in desperate to make it fast and got briked with out reading the exact procedure it took several hr to make it working, so please dont hurry to flash on desperation read flash steps & note down in paper before.
[General Topics] m.garz:
Hard Bricks = never

Hope to stay that way ;)
[General Topics] Jaistah:
Softbrick my S4 for 3days flashing an incompatible rom( stuck on that triangle exclamation mark screen) . Had to wait for a korean stock rom before I fixed it. Lost my imei and efs for 2days. Now I fear flashing no more! :D
[General Topics] wolke7:
I flashed already many diferent devices. I think if you do careful and if you use your brain it is not so easy to brick a device... and if so, there are some possibilities to fix it with the help of the community :)
[General Topics] jabrif:
Take precautions before you start flashing. Take backup of efs and persist. Once you lost these files you can't get them back.

Always be prepared to face an unexpected brick/bootloop/freeze/random reboots etc. Get ready with all the informations to overcome these situations. Everything will be alright
[General Topics] beef_supreme:
Nope, never bricked anything yet.

Knocks on wood
[General Topics] Mithrandil:
Bricked my old HTC Desire HD, something went wrong during s-off. Luckily replaced by warranty
[General Topics] ZedDedd:
I have not - yet. I was overly cautious in the beginning until I understood things a little better. come to think of it, I haven't bricked any device yet I've modded (Evo 3D, Old Visio android tablet, Xbox, PS3, Wii, WiiU, Dsi, 3DSXL, PS1, others...) or upgraded firmware on.
[General Topics] soupysoup:
Ive bricked three phones back to back, all cheap chinese note knockoffs, although I think they all had hardware issues since they all soft-bricked the same way at almost the exact same time, and all had the same chipset, I finally learned and bought a supported device haha

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[General Topics] droiddddd:
I bricked my XT910 with a nandroid restore using SS3. The phone booted but the display didn't power on.
[General Topics] wizardfingers:
I have never bricked any of my devices. :)
[General Topics] ukemochi:
spike dalaraieven emoiuth

I thought I had bricked my phone, bought the GS4, and I use TWRP. I went a little bit to fast and managed to delete absolutely everything on the phone. I tried to install a stock rom using Odin but had no luck, I literally tried everything and would have no success. Went through a list of ROM's available on the GS4 and none of the recoveries worked, but there one was one post that had a download of the original firmware you cant really find anywhere (at the time) and I used odin and bam it worked. I thought I was out 600 bucks.
[General Topics] coolsandie:
Hard Bricked? - No.

Soft Bricked/Bootloops? - Yes.

On Samsung Galaxy Mini, mostly when trying out own compiled kernels to see whether it boots or not. Thanks to CWM recovery to switch everything back to normal.
[General Topics] Advanced Chemistry:
Thank god no
[General Topics] engmarwan:
Hello every body. I brecked ny .gs gt i9003 once and the screen shows the sign when the phone just break and at that time i was so sad but then i removed the battery for a whiles then i tried to go into the download mode and i got it and i flashed a stock Rom . I don't know how come it solved but it is fine now.
[General Topics] TRS_80:
As many mentioned above....to me "bricking" is it....dead. I have "soft bricked / bootlooped" a Nook tab and my GalaxyAce. Both were brought back using various methods.
[General Topics] ADINI1:
Yes i do:) Long time ago my Samsung Omnia landing in service ...hardbricked... that was first and i hope last time:)

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[General Topics] PAPalinskie:
I always bricked mg device but luckily I fixed it all by myself with the help of XDA
[General Topics] chuckiev79:
Never bricked yet. Knock on wood. Always always make a back up before doing anything.
[General Topics] Eternalty:
I've soft bricked but never something I couldn't easily get out of.
[General Topics] ch4zzy:
I've never bricked any of my phones. I' ve been modifying my old Sony Ericsson, Samsung with WM and now Xperia P with Android...so far so good and lucky i guess :laugh:
[General Topics] daniloz:
So far, so good.... no bricking yet... :)
[General Topics] Xelux_usa:
Is really hard to brick any xperia Phone...

So.. no yet
[General Topics] Bishal Pranto Roy:
Ya.i did. But got a replaced from c.care.

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[General Topics] hydrogen993:
yes, many times. it's easy to restore phone
[General Topics] soupysoup:
I think the term bricked has been thrown around very loosely, it's very very hard to truly brick any android device, u have to almost be trying to break ur device lol, bootloops and anything thank can be fixed with a restore is not a brick
[General Topics] AndreRaptor:
Only softbricked :cool:
[General Topics] shenglimzdavid:
Bricked my galaxy 5 twice trying to install cwm. Didn't happen on the S3Mini though.:)
[General Topics] fanshk:
yes , just soft bricked and any bootloop

but the problems must be a solution ;)
[General Topics] Dronevil:
Soft rocked only touch wood!
[General Topics] dbarrera:
Soft bricked my first device, which was a Captivate, but one from device couldn't be recovered by any means... Then I got a LG P350, bootloop when CM7 was first emerging... Now I regretfully have a Samsung Galaxy S5830M and never had issues (grew wiser)...
[General Topics] cloud a3:
Yes lol I had bricked my Samsung omni i900...i think it was soft bricked cause I was able to fix it after searching on how to fix soft bricks.... Man was I scared when I bricked my phone..
[General Topics] fajol89:
i have bricked my Galaxy s plus gt-i9001 sometime... but but after reading some guides I restored everything with odin...
[General Topics] Dabolx:
I bricked my device many times when trying to install custom roms and also one time I bricked my firend's tablet. But I had a backup so he even didn't notice that it was bricked :D
[General Topics] kk4:
Fortunately not once.
[General Topics] caiorsiqueira:
Only half brick many times! lol
[General Topics] AdisR:
Just soft bricked my S1. But it was my fault i was a noob and did things without researching. Could go worse
[General Topics] plumbix:
Galaxy S+

I was trying to install Clockwork Mod 6 on my phone and after 15 minutes of waiting and Odin was showing "Recovery" I disconnected the phone.

It was a small heart attack thinking my phone is broken. I managed then to install CWM 5.5 and with that CWM 6 as a zip.
[General Topics] :
Hard bricked Galaxy Ace the same day my friend gave it to me :p
[General Topics] UnrealChrisG:
I once bricked my Nokia N-Gage by installing an app some random person in a random crowd sent me over Bluetooth. Big mistake. I think it was called CommWarrior or something... I never was able to fix it and that was the last phone I had until I got myself a G1.
[General Topics] metro77279:
On purpose =1. (My EVO 3D) because of the hboot, i cracked the screen and had to take it in so it just got bricked. Stupidly=1. (My S3.) I flashed a kernel for the international model on my sprint model.
[General Topics] Felosis:
No

I've owned many Android devices between tablets and phones and have always rooted/unlocked them all and I've never hard bricked but have softbricked which I was always able to easily fix. In my experience, I think it's pretty hard to "hard brick" a device unless you try, short of flashing the wrong firmware/modem/etc to your device.
[General Topics] Anon5978:
I have only soft bricked a few times luckily.
[General Topics] Cuius:
me too...only soft bricked...
[General Topics] vinadoros:
Luckily I've never bricked past the point of no return. On SGS3, download mode has saved me a couple of times, although it has freaked me out before...
[General Topics] mattonom:
I bricked my HTC Droid Incredible when I first rooted it because I'm an impatient idiot. I decided to flash a ROM for the very first time because I hate how Sense looks and I wanted something different. I set up everything correctly, rebooted in recovery, wiped everything and flashed the room. The flash was clean and my phone rebooted and everything was going great until it was rebooting for what seemed forever. So dumbass me decided to take out the battery and try to redo everything again...and you could guess what happened.
[General Topics] xSilas43:
Only softbricked my htc one which I thankfully was able to restore via backups I found online as I foolishly wiped everything while installing a rom via TWRP. Got stuck in boatloops a few times as well but nothing serious.
[General Topics] escapist00:
i've bricked Xperia Ray, dell streak, Samsung Note II, Apple IPod 4th gen, Xperia Z

and then successfully fixed it :)
[General Topics] MiguelHogue:
Never bricked before.. I've softbricked my epic 4g touch before when I first started rooting.. Heart dropped

-TeaM VeNuM Like A Boss :flipoff2:

-SoA: Son's of Android™
[General Topics] :
Everytime i tried to root with odin(galaxy s) i bricked it(yep everytime) then i got angry and hardbricked it :D

but later i found my love Galax Nexus :thumbup:
[General Topics] nooktablet:
i'm not sure if this is consider "bricked" but my first android device was a nook tablet and i was messing with rooting, somehow i used adb and accidentally deleted all files in system/app and the tablet couldn't boot
[General Topics] creatyve:
yes
[General Topics] nehemia:
I bricked my S4 by flashing i9500 recovery on a i9505 because...well didn't pay attention while clicking the download-link :D. It stuck in a boot loop trying to load the wrong recovery. I eventually got it in download-mode after a short time and flashed the right recovery.
[General Topics] emtzzz:
I almost bricked my phone (I think), forgot to wipe/factory reset when trying to install paranoid 3+ rom on my galaxy sII and it stuck in my NeatRom booting screen. I then flashed siyah kernel to the device hoping that I could enter recovery mode to no avail.

My phone started with siyah kernel logo, then it's completely blank. Download this and that from uncle google and finally flash my phone with stock Samsung rom through Odin, then re-root & finally successfully installed the paranoid rom

That was quite an interesting experience :D
[General Topics] jimbo.levy:
Yes, my Samsung Galaxy Europa. Hard bricked it too. Wouldn't charge, turn on, buttons had no function absolutely nada.

That's what happens when you flash CWM Recovery for a different device, in your phone!
[General Topics] hawk05:
semi bricked my S2 :D
[General Topics] Schproda:
I managed to load the wrong ROM I think on a Galaxy. My only hope was to connect the USB cable and copy a zip file to it. That worked, even without the phone booting all the way up.
[General Topics] phownage:
Almost bricked it.

I had a Galaxy S2 I was trying to root however it turns out the korean version has to be rooted differently than global versions. I didnt know and did it 'incorrectly'. Thank god someone on this site had the files to restore it.
[General Topics] marus2:
Its funny to brick unknown brand of chinesse model. I was skilful to do that. And more funny is to discover, how to unbrick it - most method in chinesse. Its an adrenaline job to do that :)
[General Topics] civikakias:
I have bricked my samsung galaxy s plus once, but they repair it for free!:laugh:
[General Topics] DJDSB:
Almost 15 Times

My Works

Jellydroid OS For GT S5302
[General Topics] felixlong:
Yes, Acer A500.
[General Topics] beastlykings:
I bricked my wrt-54g when I was 15 or 16, I threw it away, only years later realizing I could've tried jtag :rolleyes:

Haven't bricked anything since, thankfully ;)
[General Topics] Lysergicz:
Bricked My Galaxy S3

I just recently bricked my GS3 by flashing an international rom to it on accident. I ordered a riff box though and plan on fixing it...we'll see how it goes
[General Topics] alexischino:
I have brick my samsung infuse 4g,galaxy s blaze 4g,lg motion and i always use the unbrick packages from xda to unbrick my phones thank xda!!
[General Topics] doma8108:
I bricked my phone with wrong kernels ;)
[General Topics] rundmk13:
bricked devices

I have bricked my HTC Evo quite a few times. After a few years with working with the evo I have more of a success rate. My new device that I seem to brick is The Toshiba Thrive. It's all a learning process.
[General Topics] khainqk:
Yes, my younger brother 's HTC evo 3d :(
[General Topics] :
Softbricked my Galaxy Spica, HTC HD2, Galaxy SII and Xperia Z but always fixed it :)
[General Topics] a.affe:
I bricked my galaxy s2 and also my galaxy s3 several times.
[General Topics] SVENN0:
I bricked my xperia p when I tried to restore from cwm. It failed to mount my system partition after I did a format :p. I had to flash rom back with flashtool.
[General Topics] SolidKiwi:
I haven't bricket anyting yet, but hopefully I wont anytime soon either lol :p
[General Topics] voyager_s:
Not fully bricked no. Closest I came was on the Asus original transformer tablet.

I just sold it on eBay and was trying to restore to stock ICS from some 4.1 ROM I was running.

Got stuck on the Asus logo screen for a while. Then luckily there was this handy tool in the dev section that helped me all out.

Was a big relief.

Also on the original galaxy note I came close to a brick. But it worked out ok
[General Topics] sidz2393:
Many times
[General Topics] taintstick666:
I bricked my old S3 twice and since they couldn't turn on I got a new one for free from att each time. Learning from my mistakes I haven't bricked anything since!
[General Topics] Ryanrioz:
haha

1st dev aka my 1st droid phone, HTC Incredible S

Flashing w/o unlock bootloader and S-off

Send my S5360 n LT-25i to XDA via tappatalk
[General Topics] madlove143:
Yes my panda veer.

Now it serves as a paper weight.
[General Topics] Fingon1:
No and I hope I never will. I really try to read all the guides and comments carefully. :p
[General Topics] 0killer:
well bricked:

Kindle Fire 8.9 HD

Netgear Router

Galaxy S3

but was always able to recover!

Sometimes instructions are not clear or do not apply to your situationfor 100 % (like using another version of Windows ...)
[General Topics] Mbariah:
i once killed the touch function in my samsung galaxy mini when dialing one of samsung's secret codes...was as good as dead...no amount of flashing( custom or official) ever brought it back..what i did was using screencast to control my phone then redial the code again...worst 2 days of my android tweaking..
[General Topics] Winflo:
Oh several times but if you do your recovery backup every time before flashing it schould be no Problem (only softbrick)

Never had a hardbrick and i dont want one :)

Gesendet von meinem Galaxy Note II
[General Topics] BlueBerryNinjaX:
Never fully. It was an iPhone 3Gs; but, that is because jailbreaking and recovering / updating / re-jailbreaking the new OS was never as smooth as i'd liked. It never offered enough customization either but that is a whole different topic, haha.
[General Topics] FelixMG:
I hard bricked a Coby Kyros 8024 while flashing a GB rom with Honeycomb theme.
[General Topics] JeremyNWilliams:
Devices I've bricked so far: HTC Hero, HTC Evo, and the s3.
[General Topics] nishcash:
My samsung S4 hence why im here.
[General Topics] iMMMOOO:
Yes, sure! I do a security wipe, and my device become brick~~ :crying:

But I refresh it back, lol..:D
[General Topics] TechRejectz:
Wow I didn't realize it happened to so many people. I've been in some tough predicaments but never anything I couldn't fix with a little time and effort.
[General Topics] stopcallin:
just softbrick and bootloop occurs many times in the past.

i always forget to make an nandroid backup so my phone is always "brand new" :rolleyes:
[General Topics] sameen.asil:
I have bricked my dell xcd 35, however i managed to flash cwm and finally unbricked it. :D
[General Topics] toastedjelly:
I have bricked every Android device I have ever owned, outside of the first (HTC Droid Eris) because, well..I didn't have the slightest idea how to go about doing so at the time.

To date I have bricked a Motorola Droid X, a Epic 4G Touch, GS3, Motorola Photon Q, and my current. LG Optimus G. The photon q was a one time thing rooting and flashing CM for my fiance. The others are minimum 5-55 times.
[General Topics] xperia4me:
Yup, soft bricked my tipo dual many times while adding fonts nd roms
[General Topics] florian94140:
I've bricked motorola RAZR 3 times, with 3 different devices ! Lot of phone rooted (20+) but this one is the only where i've been locked without solution. I'was working on mobile phone store so easy to use warranty :p
[General Topics] JeffM123:
ALMOST bricked my Blackberry 8330 a few years ago when trying to install some MODS. This is when App World was a simple store. My phone ended up dying in a buck of water anyway. My 8330 was NEVER the same afterwards anyway. Thankfully, my insurance saved the day and allowed me to get a replacement. By that time, it was the 8530.
[General Topics] MightyRaith:
No but I thought I might have done it during the conversion of my HTC One to the Google Play Edition literally sweating and felt sick till I realised it was ok lol
[General Topics] patricia_tan:
i bricked my SGS2 twice , and luckily someone was helpful enough to revive it !
[General Topics] kurtyyyyyy:
I bricked my Nexus 4 2 days ago. Thanks to XDA i managed to get it up and running!
[General Topics] yog12:
Yup

;)i have bricked my Micromax Canvas 2 100 timesss :D

And unbricked with help of Sp flash tool:D
[General Topics] daogiahieu:
I have twice !

But I have cwm and the rom in sd card :D, so i flash the rom and every became normal :D
[General Topics] vivek_p08:
I have soft bricked my LG optimus me twice..
[General Topics] sauprankul:
Hard bricked my HTC One. Rather, it bricked itself. Just check out my signature (the struck out part). Click on the "list." I wasn't alone.
[General Topics] ASMI1:
Yes......but I recover it:)

Samsung phones are awesome:)
[General Topics] m24red:
Bricked my smartphone (wildfire s), phone (razr v3m) and PSP (2000 v1). Thank god for recoveries. :p
[General Topics] supernaturally:
soft bricked my iPad into a boot loop, and lost the track of the file I needed to modify. Thankfully someone had posted original IOS files onto some torrent site. I got lucky and replace the correct one (although my Ipad still shows the iPhone telephony symbol in the upper right hand corner),
[General Topics] worf105:
Tablet = no (not as yet but still got time to brick it :o

Mobile = no and would hate to brick it :(
[General Topics] Resplendency~:
Entire data partition went corrupt on my phone.

Person who NAD previously owned it encrypted the phone too.

Luckily, Verizon sent me the same phone for free :)
[General Topics] vishalgc:
I'm new for Android but never bricked my phone thnkx to xda changed many Rom
[General Topics] kribdo:
not yet haha :D

I hope not happening to me :silly:
[General Topics] hussaindahodwala:
Yes ...but thanks to xda they show me the guide how to overcome that problem
[General Topics] Adrianwo:
Flashed a ace rom to my (ex) ace i phone... But luckily that wasn't the end. Fkn strange new version of phones xd
[General Topics] sOuLjA4eVeR:
never bricked it, im a lucky guy :)
[General Topics] axel6630:
Noooo and I hope never :crying:
[General Topics] androidify:
MyPhone A848 Duo

I bricked my device. myphone A848 duo . same as micromax a68. and i recover it using spflash tool and cwm recovery. thanks to both of them
[General Topics] big70tom:
I bricked my phone permantly once, but I think technically I fried it. First phone left in car, got waaay to hot.
[General Topics] usama_92:
I have bricked my brother's chinese tablet (which his friend sent him from canada as a gift) in its second week and haven't still unbricked it cuz can't find any support for it on the web.

Recently I bought Qmobile Noir A9, and just installed custom recovery and testing various custom roms and mods on it, so expect another bricked device in a couple of days from me. :p
[General Topics] kewkie:
Softbricked many phones... 2 days ago i hard bricked my S3... no efs backup, wrong imei.. expensive PDA :D
[General Topics] gamikzone:
Bricked twice but fixed both times. So I know they weren't hard brick xD
[General Topics] OneBlueSky:
Luckily I have never done that. Fingers crossed I never will! Been worried a time or two though!!
[General Topics] nababan:
Yes i have once while to root my first Android phone (Samsung Galaxy Ace)
[General Topics] konkuruseyyi:
bricked my sgy on first attempt flashing custom rom. big thanks to doky for the stock rom and carl's tutorial :D
[General Topics] dhampire:
mobile : 4th soft brick as bootloop
[General Topics] Roboburr:
I bricked my galaxy ace to bootloop some time ago. I still have it somewhere I think it is easy now to restore it with kies but back then it was all new so there was little support and me noob x)