Root Soft Bricking Issues

[thoreson14]

Hello!

I love the site and plan to stick around, but before I could introduce myself, I attempted to root my phone and flash a ROM.

Here's what happened. I am kind of a newbie and I tried to do the one click root. I had my phone charged at maybe 60% and attempted to flash fallowing one of the guides posted on the website.

The flash failed.

So, instead of wiping the phone and starting over, I gave up and booted the phone regularly. I had no idea that when you get a bad flash, it defaults to that mode. (Should it be doing this?) I was out and my phone died. I thought nothing of it. When I went home, I found my phone would not charge and instead it would boot to the AP flash mode, but since the batter was dead, it would not allow me to flash.

I am left with a dead batter and a soft bricked phone. Any methods around this? Do I got to Verizon and request a new battery? Will they reset it? I don't know anyone with the same battery as me.

Thanks for any help.

Zak

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Fast/Easy unbrick - Droid 3 (XT862) - Page 10 - xda-developers


I am going to attempt this; I don't think there is any major precautions I should take right? I am not going to like shock myself or melt the batteries right?

 

[redsox985]

Hello!

I love the site and plan to stick around, but before I could introduce myself, I attempted to root my phone and flash a ROM.

Here's what happened. I am kind of a newbie and I tried to do the one click root. I had my phone charged at maybe 60% and attempted to flash fallowing one of the guides posted on the website.

The flash failed.

So, instead of wiping the phone and starting over, I gave up and booted the phone regularly. I had no idea that when you get a bad flash, it defaults to that mode. (Should it be doing this?) I was out and my phone died. I thought nothing of it. When I went home, I found my phone would not charge and instead it would boot to the AP flash mode, but since the batter was dead, it would not allow me to flash.

I am left with a dead batter and a soft bricked phone. Any methods around this? Do I got to Verizon and request a new battery? Will they reset it? I don't know anyone with the same battery as me.

Thanks for any help.

Zak

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Edit:
Fast/Easy unbrick - Droid 3 (XT862) - Page 10 - xda-developers


I am going to attempt this; I don't think there is any major precautions I should take right? I am not going to like shock myself or melt the batteries right?

I didn't check out that link, but IIRC, strip the red and black wires. Red is + and Black is -. Fold them over on themselves once to make them a bit thicker. Put the wires into the correct slots and then plug in the USB. You shouldn't shock yourself since a USB port is only 5v and 1/2 amp IIRC. Just keep an eye on it and if it ever seems to get excessively hot, just unplug it and allow it to cool. I believe that it says it should take ~2 hours? You can find it for sure by dividing the milliamp hours of your battery by the milliamp output of your USB port, leaving you with hours to full theoretical charge.

 

[thoreson14]

Thanks, the method did work.

However, after restoring, the phone still defaults to the AP flash Boot. So like if the phone is off and I hit power on, it goes to the Flash Boot menu, rather than powering up normally. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks

 

[redsox985]

So, you did get it charged? I would use the quick unbricking script (which needs AP Fastboot anyways) to get the phone up and running if nothing else works.

 

[thoreson14]

So, you did get it charged? I would use the quick unbricking script (which needs AP Fastboot anyways) to get the phone up and running if nothing else works.

no the phone works 100% fine and I have not yet rooted it again, however if my phone dies or turns off, when I turn it back on, it goes right into the flash boot without me going to the boot menu.

It is like the AP flash boot is the default starting mode.

 

[redsox985]

no the phone works 100% fine and I have not yet rooted it again, however if my phone dies or turns off, when I turn it back on, it goes right into the flash boot without me going to the boot menu.

It is like the AP flash boot is the default starting mode.

You could probably root, make a nandroid back up, then SBF, reroot, and restore the nandroid backup to get back all of your settings, apps, and data, but it would probably restore the booting to normal, since that's deeper than a nandroid backup.

 

[bryan847]

You could also try accessing the boot menu when you turn it on. I have had a few very rare occasions where selecting things through there has caused them to become the default boot.

Just hold both volume buttons at the same time when you turn it on and select normal boot by pressing the lock button. You may have to do it a few times before it becomes default. But hopefully it will eventually.