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Root Hard Bricked

james wonderer

james wonderer

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I used a program called Swapper 2 and my Android ZTE Warp 4g Jellybean became bricked. Is there any way to fix this? Im willing to try any method
 
Yes, it will not turn on at all. The most I get is the red light flashing when I have it plugged in and my pc recognizes it as a device, but then when the flashing red light stops the phone is no longer seen by my pc. I cannot reboot into ANY mode.
 
did you try booting into FTM mode? holding power button and volume up till the screen turns while with FTM on it
 
Can't do it. The phone is unresponsive to any type of button holding combinations. This is just a learning experience so hopefully this thread can help others with the same issue.
 
does ADB recognize it while plugged into the pc when the pc is detecting it? and what exactly did you do? what does the swapper 2 thing do?

EDIT try and see if either ADB or FASTBOOT will recognize it
 
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Ill try right now..

Nope. Fatsboot devices and adb devices nothing comes up. The pc recognizes my phone solely as "QHSUSB_DLOAD"
 
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what was the phone doing when this happened?

EDIT was googling QHSUSB_DLOAD and it seems there's not much you can do unfortunately really sorry man :/

EDIT did you try pulling the battery at all? just wondering cuz you can put this phone in a similar state (black screen and only red light showing and no responsiveness at all from buttons) by holding volume up+volume down+power button it will put the phone in the aforementioned state and only way to get it out is to pull the battery
 
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Yes I tried that. Doesn't make a difference. Guesing my best bet is to find a way to take my phone apart and fix it some other way. I'm out of ideas haha. Oh well.
 
from what i was reading i should be able to create an unbrick image that you can put on your sd card since Qualcomm apparently has sd booting in their chips which would auto boot android from the image on your sd card which you can then use to flash the stock files back onto the phone. idk how accurate this is for this phone but it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 which i guess should be able to pull it off? idk ill keep reading tomorrow need some sleep now lol not sure if you know anything about it but its worth a shot
 
I appreciate your efforts thenab! This will not be in vain and we may be able to save many people money and time if we can crack this. I too will be researching thanks again I await your reply.
 
seems there are some things you can try but none are guaranteed as there is little information i can find on this phone and unfortunately nothing that i can try since i don't have access to your phone obviously lol do you know what you overwritten in swapper 2? have you tried posting in the All Things Root or tried using the unbrick tool found in all things root?
 
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Swapper 2 swaps does something that is supposed to increase phone ram using your sd card. I formatted my card the wrong way I guess and after that the phone would not reboot.I don't think that unbricking tool is for hard bricked I'm pretty sure it's for soft brick.
 
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