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question about a bricked hero

Hy, i found a guy who has a bricked hero ( stucked at bootloop ) he is seling it preaty cheap and i'm wondering if maybe it can be revived. He said that u push the power buton, it starts up stays like that for like 5 seconds, than it shuts down. he also said that the problem started when he tried to upgrade it from 1.6 to 2.1 and also he mentioned that the phone was rooted before, but now wont enter in cyanogen ( havent got the time yet to read what cyanogen is).
here is a youtube video ( not his phone ) but where the phone is stuck, u can look at the second 26, there his phone reboots. what u say? can it be somehow revived? what do u sugest me? curently i own a diamond and i would love and android phone. cheers

littlej said:
Hy, i found a guy who has a bricked hero ( stucked at bootloop ) he is seling it preaty cheap and i'm wondering if maybe it can be revived. He said that u push the power buton, it starts up stays like that for like 5 seconds, than it shuts down. he also said that the problem started when he tried to upgrade it from 1.6 to 2.1 and also he mentioned that the phone was rooted before, but now wont enter in cyanogen ( havent got the time yet to read what cyanogen is).
here is a youtube video ( not his phone ) but where the phone is stuck, u can look at the second 26, there his phone reboots. what u say? can it be somehow revived? what do u sugest me? curently i own a diamond and i would love and android phone. cheers
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I don't think that's bricked mate. A bricked Hero, typically, won't turn on at all.
Can he enter Fastboot?
I think it's Home+Back+Power...

as i said i dont have the phone but i could buy it for about 140euros if i have any chance to revive it. cheers

littlej said:
as i said i dont have the phone but i could buy it for about 140euros if i have any chance to revive it. cheers
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i think i would take it.

Or you could be generous and point him here, so he can fix it himself?
You know, be nice?

Branwen said:
Or you could be generous and point him here, so he can fix it himself?
You know, be nice?
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(10 char)

he is seling it especialy becouse he does not have the time to get it to service or read some forums on the internet... the idea is, can it be fixed? should i buy it or not ?

littlej said:
he is seling it especialy becouse he does not have the time to get it to service or read some forums on the internet... the idea is, can it be fixed? should i buy it or not ?
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The chances are, it can be fixed.

Story seems a bit strange to me
But yeah sounds like it can be fixed.

Offer 100 for it. Say you might be able to fix it and you are taking on all the risk!

This happened to me too. But it isn't bricked, at least it wasn't for me. I don't know if it's rooted, but mine was. I took out the sdcard, booted in to recovery (the one where you flash new ROM's, dunno if it's the right name). And then I wiped, and installed a new ROM.
Hope this helps

hy, thx for information, can u be a little mor specific? if somehow it aint rooted is it anyproblems entering into recovery mode? this hapend to you also while upgrading from 1:6 to 2:1 ? sry for mistypes, posted from diamond cheers

littlej said:
hy, thx for information, can u be a little mor specific? if somehow it aint rooted is it anyproblems entering into recovery mode? this hapend to you also while upgrading from 1:6 to 2:1 ? sry for mistypes, posted from diamond cheers
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There is no 1.6 or 2.1 on Hero.
Also, Cynaogen mod hasn't been released for Hero but for the G1.
I would make sure that you are getting what you're paying for. Buy it off ebay and make him write that he'll accept returns.

If you see the network operator logo or the HTC logo, I reckon it's not bricked. Bricked usually equals nothing, or just an error triangle or something like that (even the error triangle may indicate hope).
I reckon it may be worth a shot (can't see any youtube link to see for myself).
Back+Power is to enter fastboot FWIW. Maybe you could ask him to plug it in and see if the charging LED comes on??? That sometimes indicates it's still working.
I'll vote 'boot-loop', which isn't critical. Should be fixable by goldcard and RUU downgrade, then installation of custom ROM.

screwhead89 said:
There is no 1.6 or 2.1 on Hero.
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there is one leaked 2.1 rom, from which several 2.1 roms have been built. all can be found here and on modaco's. also there is one 1.6 rom, which hasn't been updated since 30. october 2009.
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Also, Cynaogen mod hasn't been released for Hero but for the G1.
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jnwhiteh released a build cyanogen's 2.1 sources for the hero.

kendong2 said:
jnwhiteh released a build cyanogen's 2.1 sources for the hero.
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The owner of the phone presumably said that he "can't get into Cyanogen anymore". I think he meant Cyanogen's recovery image v1.4, which preceded Amon's
One should try loading a fresh recovery image - running the "Fastboot" part of the code at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=561124
If the recovery image is corrupted, there could be issues of "access-denied" running certain "fastboot" commands, depending on method of past rooting. Even with a Goldcard. I was there.

Wonder Boot Loop Problem !

Just doing independent research
From 1:10 wonder has boot loop problem
Although you already do flashing well
No kidding, but the characteristic for the phone that possible have a boot loop are always have FORCE CLOSE app and doing RESTART itself
And in next day it restart and only showing samsung logo...
In this situation you can't get to recovery
It can fixed but only if we get stock firmware with wipe and boot loader to fix this issue
Maybe I8150ZSKI3 Android 2.3.6 (ASIA) can helped, all component to do hard reset is in this firmware
OPS– Ancora.ops.
Boot – APBOOT_I8150ZSKI3_CL613004_REV00_user_low_ship_EMM C.tar.md5.
Phone – SMD_MODEM_I8150ZSKI3_CL613004_REV00_user_low_ship_ EMMC.smd.md5.
PDA – SMD_PDA_I8150ZSKI3_CL613004_REV00_user_low_ship_EM MC.smd.md5.
CSC – SMD_CSC_GT-I8150-MULTI-CSC-OZSKI3_EMMC.smd.md5
I will try it first.. i will report latter

Reported..
Still have no change to bring that phone back to live -_-
Anyone..
Can help regarding this issue

Rio Saputro said:
Reported..
Still have no change to bring that phone back to live -_-
Anyone..
Can help regarding this issue
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Sorry, I can't help, but in my flashing thread, it has also been reported. But I think it happens more often on phones with asian firmwares. I had one report in the german forum too, but I am not sure if it was an "asian" version.
I think if something happens while the firmware update with an asian firmware, it might end up in a bootloop. I am not sure, but I think it makes also the partitioning of the storage, isn't ?
It would be good if we could get a "gettogether" in this thread and have all the reports of the soft-/hardbricked SGWs. So we can analyse and maybe find out the reason or atleast narrow down the issue.
I would like to know:
1. Did you have a custom rom before the flash ?
2. Was your phone rooted ?
3. Did you make the internal/external swap ?
4. Did ODIN say PASS before you disconnected(before the bootloop happend) ?
5. Any other fancy modifications you have done and what we should know ;-D ?
greets
THE-E

THE-E said:
Sorry, I can't help, but in my flashing thread, it has also been reported. But I think it happens more often on phones with asian firmwares. I had one report in the german forum too, but I am not sure if it was an "asian" version.
I think if something happens while the firmware update with an asian firmware, it might end up in a bootloop. I am not sure, but I think it makes also the partitioning of the storage, isn't ?
It would be good if we could get a "gettogether" in this thread and have all the reports of the soft-/hardbricked SGWs. So we can analyse and maybe find out the reason or atleast narrow down the issue.
I would like to know:
1. Did you have a custom rom before the flash ?
2. Was your phone rooted ?
3. Did you make the internal/external swap ?
4. Did ODIN say PASS before you disconnected(before the bootloop happend) ?
5. Any other fancy modifications you have done and what we should know ;-D ?
greets
THE-E
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My team already try for asian rom that you provide in your tread and the new version of stock rom. it didn't do full wipe just normal flash like the others
Only stock rom & rooted bro...
PASS but the phone not turn on -_-"
No swap partitions
Just regular phone for daily use
If we can found the stock rom with wipe and bootloader still can be fixed
Hopefully it can be fixed without go to samsung -_-
All of us must aware for this issue bro..
Regards

Rio Saputro said:
My team already try for asian rom that you provide in your tread and the new version of stock rom. it didn't do full wipe just normal flash like the others
Only stock rom & rooted bro...
PASS but the phone not turn on -_-"
No swap partitions
Just regular phone for daily use
If we can found the stock rom with wipe and bootloader still can be fixed
Hopefully it can be fixed without go to samsung -_-
All of us must aware for this issue bro..
Regards
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I have edited my thread, it makes people now more alert about the risk of bricking.
Maybe it is more secure always wiping everything using ClockWorkMod:
Using this course of action:
1. Backup everything manually what you can!
2. Flash via ODIN ClockWorkMod Recovery on your device(english). Scroll down to other and select ClockWorkMod.
3. Once ClockWorkMod is flashed, go to the recovery:
a) backup and restore -> backup to external sdcard
b) backup and restore -> restore from external sdcard
This is to make sure the files aren't corrupted, if this is successful you can be sure everything is backupped. If you get a MD5 mismatch something went wrong. Try again!
c) wipe data/factory reset -> confirm
d) wipe cache partition -> confirm
e) mounts and storage -> format system -> confirm
f) mounts and storage -> format cache -> confirm
g) mounts and storage -> format data -> confirm
4. You restart your phone in Download Mode and flash a firmware using this instruction, which is provided in the thread under Firmwares.
5. Now you will have to flash again the ClockWorkMod recovery to restore your data.
Than open ClockWorkMod Recovery and:
backup and restore-> advanced restore from external sdcard -> select the backup -> Restore data -> confirm.
Now if you want the stock recovery back(needed for OTA updates) instood of ClockWorkMod, than go to the Others or Sonstiges and select the stock recovery, and flash it on your device.
6. Now you should have a fresh device like you have never flashed before!!!
Oh yeah, the reason why you have to make these complicated steps: Because you were flashing all different kinds of firmwares, you system will be a mess. To make sure your device is not a overwritten old firmware these steps are necessary.
Flashing via ODIN does not delete all old data !!!
I have to say also: I have flashed all the ROM's successfully before posting them in my thread about flashing.
greets
THE-E

Is it not important to say that the guy in original thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22560826
He had installed Rio's Black Note 2 ROM using CWM to do Nandroid Restore.....as is Rio's method to flash his ROM ???
Maybe is not important, but maybe is!!!
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irishpancake said:
Is it not important to say that the guy in original thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22560826
He had installed Rio's Black Note 2 ROM using CWM to do Nandroid Restore.....as is Rio's method to flash his ROM ???
Maybe is not important, but maybe is!!!
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Yes he already inform this...
But the question why just only him that get boot lop, this is kind a strange because another user didn't face the problem like this
His problem happened after applying V6 SC
I know that V6 SC update 9 RC6 have a change for boot lop, because for applying 100% must integrated built.prop
So many friend of my use V6 SC update 9 RC4 that more stable for our phone
Actually there is nothing different if we flash with nandroid and update.zip
The script doing same thing except for the user data
nandroid use md5 for more safety flashing
Like i wrote before..
Before this happen the phone always do restart it self
I hope there is any progress for prevent and fix this issue
The user that have this problem, now must go to Samsung to fix it before we know how to fix it
Regards

I'd like to say this sudden restart happen to me quite often while in stock rom, but after I flash custom rom this phenomenon never happen again. This phenomena only happen while I'm on stock rom.
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Update for this..
My friend reported..
For my country, we get FULL WARRANTY for this case
and waiting this status until fixed about 2 days
For the first phase they do regular Flashing with STOCK ROM based on country
then it still cannot on (we know already -_-)
We didn't sure yet is the phone will be change with the new one or not because this had implication from hardware issue..
Come back latter..

Rio Saputro said:
Update for this..
My friend reported..
For my country, we get FULL WARRANTY for this case
and waiting this status until fixed about 2 days
For the first phase they do regular Flashing with STOCK ROM based on country
then it still cannot on (we know already -_-)
We didn't sure yet is the phone will be change with the new one or not because this had implication from hardware issue..
Come back latter..
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same problem with my devices , after flash cwm and use GingerIce Rom my device cant boot again.
im tried Oneclick Unbrick : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15330252#post15330252
but still problem

flowish said:
same problem with my devices , after flash cwm and use GingerIce Rom my device cant boot again.
im tried Oneclick Unbrick : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15330252#post15330252
but still problem
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Hi Bro...
We don't know yet how to fix it.
Update for this,
Samsung do spare part / hardware changes for this case. It probably cause not only by flashing but hardware also
BTW now i have 1 Wonder and 1 Wonder at Samsung center (i mean both are my friend phone ). ETA for fixing this is 3 days
And my friend want me to re write black notes chapter 3
It will come next week
Come back latter

Rio Saputro said:
Hi Bro...
We don't know yet how to fix it.
Update for this,
Samsung do spare part / hardware changes for this case. It probably cause not only by flashing but hardware also
BTW now i have 1 Wonder and 1 Wonder at Samsung center (i mean both are my friend phone ). ETA for fixing this is 3 days
And my friend want me to re write black notes chapter 3
It will come next week
Come back latter
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yeah , my wonder goto SSC now

Update for this,
Finally SGW come out from hospital
The problem cause not from FLASHING but from HARDWARE
Samsung must change the MAINBOARD for this problem
If this problem happened to you
Don't blame yourself or the Developers
Don't try to fix or figure this out by your self
Go to Samsung to Fix it
Regards

Rio Saputro said:
Update for this,
Finally SGW come out from hospital
The problem cause not from FLASHING but from HARDWARE
Samsung must change the MAINBOARD for this problem
If this problem happened to you
Don't blame yourself or the Developers
Don't try to fix or figure this out by your self
Go to Samsung to Fix it
Regards
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They change your Mainboard???
No questions?????
Very good result Rio!!!!
Is there a thread outlining what the symptoms of this particular Boot loop problem are.....
Maybe this post in this thread.....from THE-E....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22744322
it should be stickied!!!!!
How to do that here, who request to???
Not enough stuff getting stickied here, peeps have to trawl thro' full forum to find answers to sometimes repeated questions??
But important stuff certainly should be "stickied".
Anyone else agree....and how to get a result on this???
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irishpancake said:
They change your Mainboard???
No questions?????
Very good result Rio!!!!
Is there a thread outlining what the symptoms of this particular Boot loop problem are.....
Maybe this post in this thread.....from THE-E....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22744322
it should be stickied!!!!!
How to do that here, who request to???
Not enough stuff getting stickied here, peeps have to trawl thro' full forum to find answers to sometimes repeated questions??
But important stuff certainly should be "stickied".
Anyone else agree....and how to get a result on this???
Sent from my GT-I8150 on Lanzarote Canary Vacation using Tapatalk
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This thread and The-E thread must be stick because now the problem occur much often...
So we can inform the others Galaxy W users
Regards

thanks for your update... which mean Im having same problem too here... need to send this phone to SSC... Huh! (

same problem here, my friend sgw had bootloop from unknown reason, have try flashing with ASIA firmware but have no result (before i read this thread) thanks for op, this must be sticky..
will go to ssc now :hammer

same problem as well
stuck at samsung logo and just keep reboot reboot and reboot
already bring to SSC few days ago they say will change board
now just waiting the phone to be back

Guys, i bought one Wonder from eBay and its with thos problem now.. any change of fixing it without going to samsung assistance?

gajodafeira said:
Guys, i bought one Wonder from eBay and its with thos problem now.. any change of fixing it without going to samsung assistance?
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A little late in reading this post but I also bought my Galaxy W from Ebay. Samsung user agreement states that the phone is guaranteed for 2 years after the date of sale and the agreement is transferable between owners. In other words it doesn't matter who originally bought it but is guaranteed for 2 years and our phone is still less than 2 years old. I know this as had to send mine back and they accepted it.

Help with rooting Samsung Galaxy Light T399 - T-Mobile

Its been a while since I have rooted anything manually and i need some expert advice here.
I have someone unlocking my T399 and he gave me this guide -> http://rootmygalaxy.net/root-galaxy-light-sgh-t399-install-twrp-recovery/ the problem is the TWRP link is dead and i cant find another of that version anywhere. Does anyone have this or can I use http://androidforums.com/threads/recovery-team-win-recovery-twrp-2-7-0-0.836658/ or https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...recovery-twrp-2-8-1-0-touch-recovery-t2924604 ? Im assuming yes but wanted to double check with you guys before off and doing something catastrophic to my phone.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Phonecapone

TWRP Themed Recovery
phonecapone said:
Its been a while since I have rooted anything manually and i need some expert advice here.
I have someone unlocking my T399 and he gave me this guide -> http://rootmygalaxy.net/root-galaxy-light-sgh-t399-install-twrp-recovery/ the problem is the TWRP link is dead and i cant find another of that version anywhere. Does anyone have this or can I use http://androidforums.com/threads/recovery-team-win-recovery-twrp-2-7-0-0.836658/ or https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...recovery-twrp-2-8-1-0-touch-recovery-t2924604 ? Im assuming yes but wanted to double check with you guys before off and doing something catastrophic to my phone.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Phonecapone
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There you go
I upload TWRP Themed Recovery on Android file host there you find (IMG,zip,tar) file choose what you want:good:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=157735

I used the second one you linked just a couple weeks ago, and it appears to work just fine:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...recovery-twrp-2-8-1-0-touch-recovery-t2924604

A140 said:
There you go
I upload TWRP Themed Recovery on Android file host there you find (IMG,zip,tar) file choose what you want:good:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=157735
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Hey A140 thanks a million! Hopefully I wont have any issues downloading it. For some reason I have had a lot of corrupt downloads from androidfilehost. I know they said they are in the process of moving servers? So perhaps that's why. Can you upload to one more place so we all have a backup here? So in the event others run into the same problem I am having we're all covered. =]
http://www.multiup.eu is good
I will try and download soon as I just got back around to this phone again and give it a try and let you know what I think. Right now I have TWRP ver 2.7.1.0 for Galaxy Light T399 ? which appears to be custom and themed? I just now noticed it when rebooting into Recovery from ROMs restart options. It is white, brown and orange with a list menu. I haven't seen this before though again I haven't flashed any other versions of TWRP besides the touch so maybe it's the standard? I did have TWRP ver 2.8.4.0 for this phone which was the grey, black and blue big button themed touch interface I loved so much.
Aside TWRP matters im also toying around with Lightwave-V3 Rom by user @root@ which I switched to from TigerLillly by user DJBoxer. Both seem to be pretty good although Lightwave was suppose to have came preconfigured with a bunch of useful utilities / mods and it appears they weren't configured in the Rom's configuration. I'll have to take a look and see what needs to be modified if they exist within the build seems same with TigerLilly also. I'd suggest these 2 ROMs to anyone with this phone. Smooth, no bloat and no problems so far. However I am always up for trying any others if anyone has some to suggest. Post and let me know.
First post back here in some months. Now back into androids more and attempting root on a few unknowns so hopefully I will have some good material to contribute in the near future. Still hitting that learning curve hard trying to get with the future. I'm still oldschool @ heart stuck with knowledge of the past flip / feature phones, java, crackberries, outdated unlocking boxes and about 100 pre android phones lol. Have the parts to the first android still but unfortunately incomplete. Some interesting times I tell ya. Thanks to XDA and HOFO I'm picking up where I left off quite quickly.
Lightwave - https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-light/development/rom-lightwave-v1-t2825253
TigerLilly - https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-light/development/rom-tigerlilly-v2-1-4-4-2-t3400659
I will post a TON of information on this phone, recovery, rooting, stock/custom rom links and much more in the appropriate thread when I get time free from work. Have done a lot of researching since this post. https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-light - seems to have most of my work done lol. I keep forgetting how old this phone is and that it's been ran through by quite a few dev's already.

Upload it
I upload both themed 2.7 and 2.8 to your favorite site I am giving the link down you can download from it I upload zip file you can flash using costom recovery that you have right now if you want img file you can extract zip file you find Img file and if you want to flash through odin than use zarchiver on your Android phone and compress img file to tar and rename it tar.md5!?
Themed 2.7 link
http://www.multiup.eu/bd3fdc8bee0f678b90df62a1376ed1e6
TWRP 2.8.4 link
http://www.multiup.eu/en/download/9...14bc32/openrecovery-twrp-2.8.4.0-gardalte.zip
phonecapone said:
Hey A140 thanks a million! Hopefully I wont have any issues downloading it. For some reason I have had a lot of corrupt downloads from androidfilehost. I know they said they are in the process of moving servers? So perhaps that's why. Can you upload to one more place so we all have a backup here? So in the event others run into the same problem I am having we're all covered. =]
http://www.multiup.eu is good
I will try and download soon as I just got back around to this phone again and give it a try and let you know what I think. Right now I have TWRP ver 2.7.1.0 for Galaxy Light T399 ? which appears to be custom and themed? I just now noticed it when rebooting into Recovery from ROMs restart options. It is white, brown and orange with a list menu. I haven't seen this before though again I haven't flashed any other versions of TWRP besides the touch so maybe it's the standard? I did have TWRP ver 2.8.4.0 for this phone which was the grey, black and blue big button themed touch interface I loved so much.
Aside TWRP matters im also toying around with Lightwave-V3 Rom by user @root@ which I switched to from TigerLillly by user DJBoxer. Both seem to be pretty good although Lightwave was suppose to have came preconfigured with a bunch of useful utilities / mods and it appears they weren't configured in the Rom's configuration. I'll have to take a look and see what needs to be modified if they exist within the build seems same with TigerLilly also. I'd suggest these 2 ROMs to anyone with this phone. Smooth, no bloat and no problems so far. However I am always up for trying any others if anyone has some to suggest. Post and let me know.
First post back here in some months. Now back into androids more and attempting root on a few unknowns so hopefully I will have some good material to contribute in the near future. Still hitting that learning curve hard trying to get with the future. I'm still oldschool @ heart stuck with knowledge of the past flip / feature phones, java, crackberries, outdated unlocking boxes and about 100 pre android phones lol. Have the parts to the first android still but unfortunately incomplete. Some interesting times I tell ya. Thanks to XDA and HOFO I'm picking up where I left off quite quickly.
Lightwave - https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-light/development/rom-lightwave-v1-t2825253
TigerLilly - https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-light/development/rom-tigerlilly-v2-1-4-4-2-t3400659
I will post a TON of information on this phone, recovery, rooting, stock/custom rom links and much more in the appropriate thread when I get time free from work. Have done a lot of researching since this post. https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-light - seems to have most of my work done lol. I keep forgetting how old this phone is and that it's been ran through by quite a few dev's already.
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Thanks again! For conversions and archiving I have been using 7zip and a few simple batch files to convert .tar + calculate sum to .tar.md5 and and .img to .tar then .tar to .tar.md5 calculating sum.

Question chinese tencent 120w red magic 6 pro 12gb/256gb eclipse black version with global rom?

anyone here that has successfully flashed this model of the rm 6 pro with a global rom? does that work or will i brick it?

Bet your the first tester to find out

Pachacouti said:
Bet your the first tester to find out
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no, im too scared im a newb in this and i dont want to brick it. if i brick it i will be lost cause im a newb

And noobs had to start somewhere. So say someone says it works, then what will you do?

Pachacouti said:
And noobs had to start somewhere. So say someone says it works, then what will you do?
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i would give it a try ^^

But your replying to me. I'd be shredding cables by now lol, but hey, is it possible your fone is a rebranded redmi 6 pro? Plenty of tuts here for that, but I'll try to help/guide you should you need it, tell me, what stock flashing application will you use to flash your stock BACK in case of a mistake?

Pachacouti said:
Pachacouti said:
But your replying to me. I'd be shredding cables by now lol, but hey, is it possible your fone is a rebranded redmi 6 pro? Plenty of tuts here for that, but I'll trry to help/guide you should you need it, tell me, what stock flashing application will you use to flash your stock BACK in case of a mistake?
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the problem is that the vendor from china put some crippled stock rom on my phone where they removed the system update service and so i cant do a local update with the phone. my rm 6 telegram group suggested that i install the qcom 9008 usb driver on my pc and boot my phone via adb into qcom 9008 edl mode and use miflash to flash it with a 4.15 unbrick package and if this would work i would have intact system update again and could flash it with a local update with the firmware id like. thanks for the help btw. gotta go out in 5 minutes but be back in a bit. please give me your opinion, i will read it once im back

What you wrote sounds good. Your flashing app is miflash. Download the 4.14 unbrick, and load it into miflash without fone plugged in, power fone OFF, start the miflash, hit download/flash (dont know the actual button to do the damage), then plug turned off fone into usb, miflash should auto find and flash, anything after that, feel free to ask.
Ps you could just jump in the deep end and flash the one you WANT, so that if it fails you'll know if it works or not, and will have tested a rom before flashing your stock back, kinda better than flashing stock first in a way.

Pachacouti said:
What you wrote sounds good. Your flashing app is miflash. Download the 4.14 unbrick, and load it into miflash without fone plugged in, power fone OFF, start the miflash, hit download/flash (dont know the actual button to do the damage), then plug turned off fone into usb, miflash should auto find and flash, anything after that, feel free to ask.
Ps you could just jump in the deep end and flash the one you WANT, so that if it fails you'll know if it works or not, and will have tested a rom before flashing your stock back, kinda better than flashing stock first in a way.
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thanks for the suggestions! i want to give this a try as soon as i have some time. buthow do i backup my current stock rom in case the new rom wont work? i only know about rom manager app but that needs a rooted phone and mines isnt rooted. is there a way to backup the stock rom without having a rooted device?

Forget backing that up, your already at the stage where you learn if you back this up now, you MAY also back up the problem and have to do it all again, take my advice, keep it simple.
For your 'backup' - download latest official stock from your fone maker.
You may want to revert back AFTER you test the one you want to test.
So test first while it's 'broken' knowing once you go back to stock, it aint broke, dont fix it.

Pachacouti said:
Forget backing that up, your already at the stage where you learn if you back this up now, you MAY also back up the problem and have to do it all again, take my advice, keep it simple.
For your 'backup' - download latest official stock from your fone maker.
You may want to revert back AFTER you test the one you want to test.
So test first while it's 'broken' knowing once you go back to stock, it aint broke, dont fix it.
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hey there! thanks for your tips, i appreciate it! ok just to clear things up, with "stock" firmware, you mean the official latest chinese firmware from the chinese nubia page, right?

Yup, if thats what you know is your STOCK, ie, not the one you wanna test, but in your scenario, I'd flash the test before stock, this way you gain experience flashing, and if you mess up, then you flash the stock, and learn not to. (again lol)
To clarify, stock is the firmware the fone maker has on their site.
Follow thir instructions, it's easier than you think, as my auld man told me, when testing, write down every step, so you REMEMBER instead of being unsure because I forgot....

Pachacouti said:
Yup, if thats what you know is your STOCK, ie, not the one you wanna test, but in your scenario, I'd flash the test before stock, this way you gain experience flashing, and if you mess up, then you flash the stock, and learn not to. (again lol)
To clarify, stock is the firmware the fone maker has on their site.
Follow thir instructions, it's easier than you think, as my auld man told me, when testing, write down every step, so you REMEMBER instead of being unsure because I forgot....
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ok i got it. thanks for the help! i have the stock ready on my computer. unfortunately i cant flash my phone by following the manufacturers steps because my phone vendor flashed my phone with some custom chinese multi language firmware with google already pre installed. and whoever edited this firmware before flashing it on my new phone, removed the system service that is necessary to launch the "system update" options. therefore i have no way of making a local firmware update in my phone. unfortunately the red magic 6 pro also does not have a local update option in the recovery menu. thats why my only option is flashing the phone with my computer. but in the worst case i will have the latest stock rom on my phone in the end and this will have the system update options intact. thanks again for all the help!

Need help unlocking AT&T Calypso (U318AA)

Hello Everyone,
Today a friend gave me a phone that I would like to use, but it has a screen lock passcode on it that she doesn't know. The phone was given to her, but she couldn't use because it's AT&T and she is on T-Mobile so she passed it on to me. I checked the IMEI number on several sites and it's clean so i shouldn't have any issues. Is there a way I can remove the passcode from this phone?
My apologies if this is in the wrong section.

adrian0883 said:
Hello Everyone,
Today a friend gave me a phone that I would like to use, but it has a screen lock passcode on it that she doesn't know. The phone was given to her, but she couldn't use because it's AT&T and she is on T-Mobile so she passed it on to me. I checked the IMEI number on several sites and it's clean so i shouldn't have any issues. Is there a way I can remove the passcode from this phone?
My apologies if this is in the wrong section.
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Hi, do you still have the phone on you? I've basically hard brick mine and now I need a full mtk dump to get it back as it was. so if you do, can you upload this files? don't worry if you don't know how to do that, I can walk you through the process

i can help you , if your device still soft break
Osamaaj03 said:
Hi, do you still have the phone on you? I've basically hard brick mine and now I need a full mtk dump to get it back as it was. so if you do, can you upload this files? don't worry if you don't know how to do that, I can walk you through the process
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sahelkhan022 said:
i can help you , if your device still soft break
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it is, I think the problem is with the super image but I'm not 100% sure. so if you can share a full mtk client backup it would be awesome. if not, a super image will do

your device stuck on logo ? or deadboot ?

842.92 MB file on MEGA
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sahelkhan022 said:
your device stuck on logo ? or deadboot ?
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every time I try to turn it on it bootloops to fastboot mode, I suspect that the issue is a super image I found online, flashed not knowing that it was corrupted (which I discovered later), and I foolishly didn't create a backup (why I went and downloaded the corrupted image in the first place) thinking that I will never go back to the stock rom but now after I have used a couple gsi's for a while found out that the og rom performance was much better and decided to go back

sahelkhan022 said:
842.92 MB file on MEGA
mega.nz
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so this is just a bunch of .bin files that I have to flash using mtk client to said partitions? just making sure

and just to let you know I might not be able to download the file today, the internet is pretty sucky where I'm rn, so I hope you don't have a problem keeping the file up till tomorrow. and just wanted to thank you for the incredible help, I've been trying to fix this phone for the last two weeks which was headache inducing say the least.

you can flash this with lots of free tools .. if secure boot on you can't flash directly but i will help you . you just need to share your screen with me ..

sorry for the late response, but yeah I've flashed all of the files using mtkclient and it didn't work Idk if I have messed things up, I thought reflashing all of the stock firmware would fix everything but it seems that there's still something wrong

sahelkhan022 said:
you can flash this with lots of free tools .. if secure boot on you can't flash directly but i will help you . you just need to share your screen with me ..
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I've unlocked the bootloader and disabled boot verification, tried fastboot -w and fastboot format userdata and non of it worked, and I'm really sorry but I can't share my screen because as I've mentioned before my internet is bad and I had to go somewhere else to get the files. can I share anything else with you that might help, I have some recovery log files

IT WORKED!!!!! I don't know what was the problem, I've tried flashing the files again but this time using the terminal instead of the gui AND IT WORKED. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

I'm going to upload the files later in case someone else encountered the same problem