[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manish30885:
Hi XDA members!

An urgent help is needed to fix a hard brick problem with my smartphone model. I've searched for my model make in this forum and tried all the methods of recovery relating to Karbonn A9 plus/cherry flare but no success till now... :(

So, here's the detailed explanation of how my phone got hard bricked:

Originally my phone had a bootloop issue where it would start with the phone model logo and get stuck at the boot animation. It would never go into android. (where it would be detected as an adb device in windows). So, I rectified it via fastboot mode flashing of my rom using AIO flashing tool. Then I delved deeper into the forums here and found out android kitkat update for my phone model. (my current version being ICS 4.0.4). I got ambitious and went ahead with flashing android kitkat using CWM recovery (again, I made sure I flashed the correct version of cwm recovery for my model first before flashing the new rom). CWM got flashed successfully and replaced my default android recovery system and it worked too (although screen would flicker while tool operated). Everything was perfectly going on till now. I was feeling happy to finally run kitkat on my 4 year old phone. My current OS was booting normally, I could go into CWM recovery, fastboot mode as well.

Now, here's where I made a mistake probably! :

I UPDATED CWM RECOVERY TO V6 JUST BEFORE BEGINNING THE FLASHING PROCESS FOR ANDROID KITKAT FOR MY MODEL. Then while flashing, I first decided to test the backup and restore function of cwm recovery. I backed up and restored my current version using cwm. It backedup without issues. But while restoring, it introduced some errors. (yeah, I didin't know cwm reformated the wrong partition instead of the boot partition while restoring the boot image!!! :eek:)

Now, my cwm recovery is gone, fastboot mode is gone.... heck... even battery doesn't show up as charging. I tried to press vol up + power button but nothng happens. It doesn't give any vibration feedback after the press. Same for just power button press.

Is there any chance of recovery at this stage??

I know cwm f****d up my phone's boot partition. Also, I searched for solutions to this problem as well here and found the article "How to revive dead Karbonn A9+/CM Flare after JB update". Yes, I tried the Qualcomm HS-USB QD Loader 9008 driver and QPST.2.7.374 tool on 32 bit windows xp (as problems were reported on 64 bit and windows 7 for the above mentioned driver installations, I had to take further pain and install 32 bit windows xp on my pc's second hard disk just to succeed in installing drivers for unbricking my phone..... as I use windows 7..... talk about problem getting bad to worst.... ah!! ) I plug the phone with battery in it to my PC (after successful driver installations) but phone isn't detected in device manager.... :mad:

I tried everything, I fully charged battery overnight.

Result?? .... my phone is still not showing anything on screen. It's dead. It's not even accepting to charge from the wall. Forget booting or going to recovery/fastboot mode.

I will never use cwm recovery again on any future smartphone of mine!!!! :crying::crying:

PLEASE HELP me with reviving my phone!!!

Or should I give up trying and just buy a new smartphone?? :rolleyes:

thanks in advance.