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Root Wtf happened??? Bricked by root

mikegLA

mikegLA

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Well the title of the thead says it all. I tried rooting my buddys admire for him and it did everything thescript said it would...vibrate boot loop...then root complete. Press any key to continue. But the phone never came back. It does 2 boot logos, metro pcs hello hello hello, then the glowing samsung logo and that's it. We waited and waited but it never came back to life. I'm not a noob, and I've rooted countless phones. I've even used that flim flam z4 root and never had a problem. Can somebody tell me wtf happened.
 
Are you sure all the drivers for the admire installed on your PC correctly?

That's probably the most important! :eek: :)
 
There's a bug in the .bat file for one-click-root. "wait-for-defice" should be "wait-for-device". I know it caused me issues at one point when I was rooting a friend's admire a few months ago. Can't remember exactly what the issue was though.
 
Ouchy! Yea, I always end up just rooting most phones, especially when there are already a bunch of ROMs for them usually by just Odin'ing CWM on them and just slipping in a nice ROM... but first this after putting CWM is making yourself a recovery in CWM so you have something to fall back on... I have forgotten to do that before... but regretted it as well! ;P
 
How can you put a rom on the sd card when its bricked? I could install cwm with odin but how are you going to install a rom from the sd if you can't put it on the sd?
 
mikegLA said:
How can you put a rom on the sd card when its bricked? I could install cwm with odin but how are you going to install a rom from the sd if you can't put it on the sd?
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I soft bricked my girls admire last night after routing it.. Used odin to install cwm and just threw in my sd card to flash monster3.0.. Luckily we have the same phone and I had everything on my card already..
 
mikegLA said:
How can you put a rom on the sd card when its bricked? I could install cwm with odin but how are you going to install a rom from the sd if you can't put it on the sd?
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Pull the SD card out and put it in a normal card reader or another device that takes SD cards. You can pick one up for about $10 almost anywhere, or even a MicroSD to SD adapter.
 
Demented755 said:
Pull the SD card out and put it in a normal card reader or another device that takes SD cards. You can pick one up for about $10 almost anywhere, or even a MicroSD to SD adapter.
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What he said... I just assumed you could figure that out because I thought everyone had a SD card reader for their PC :p

Good luck! :D
 
You seriously can't run to the closest store and get one? Or even better ask your neighbor? They're floating around everywhere I look sometimes! :what:
 
Damn...I gotta stop smokin sooo much. Good idea. Put the rom on my sd card then slap tha one in the admire. I guess he went to the metro store and got a new one. But thanx for all the input. Is everybody still clueless on how come it got bricked from rooting?
 
mikegLA said:
Damn...I gotta stop smokin sooo much. Good idea. Put the rom on my sd card then slap tha one in the admire. I guess he went to the metro store and got a new one. But thanx for all the input. Is everybody still clueless on how come it got bricked from rooting?
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I've found that sometimes even downloading big files (like the root ones are) over mobile data can sometimes cause them to be incomplete (corrupted) my adviice to you would be to not root the samsung admire. Instead just downliad Odin and the CWM-Admire.tar (along with the samsung induldge drivers!)into your PC and download the Admiral Beaat to a your SD card then flash that baby to your phone. Its not only superior to the stock rom but, comes rooted sans ze bloatware.
 
You can always get a md5 checksum app that scans it.. or some similar app that checks for corruption... then you are good to go...
 
Mount your sdcard while you are in cwm. Its in mounts and storage and its the bottom option. I. can confirm this works.
 
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