I have a (supposed) MT6589 iPhone i5s clone which I managed to brick. I tried to use the instructions here to use the SP Flash Tool to unbrick it, but the first problem I have is with getting my Windows 7 (32 bit) computer to recognize the phone. I installed the MediaTek MT65xx Preloader VCOM driver and it connects for a second. I can see the device connected as a COM device, but it only stays connected for a second and then disconnects. (This is independent of whether I am running the SP Flash Tool or not.)
Is this a symptom of a bad driver? The other problem with trying to follow the instructions is that it says to remove the battery, but this copy is a 1:1 of the iPhone so it is not intended to be opened up. I tried to discharge the battery completely, but when I plug the device in, there seems to be no response (ie, Windows doesn't do anything). At some point, there seems to be some charge in the battery because of constantly plugging in the USB cable, and at that point, is when the device is recognized but is quickly disconnected.
Anyone happen to know what I am doing wrong?
So in general, I am first interested in:
Why is the device connecting properly (I assume) being recognized as MediaTek Preloader VCOM, then disconnecting in about a second?
Is it related to not being able to disconnect the battery?
In theory, wouldn't a dead battery be the same as disconnecting the battery?
When battery is dead, nothing happens when I connect the phone to my PC. This seems odd since I am supposed to be able to connect to the PC without any battery... What is the difference?
Per instructions, I've been pressing the + volume button when connecting, but I seem to get similar results no matter if I press + or not.
Should I be loading any other drivers besides the MediaTek Preloader drivers?
Thanks.
PS. I've decided to open up the phone using a video found on YouTube, and found that the battery is soldered, so I am not so motivated in trying to disconnect the battery if possible.
Update: OK, the problem I likely had with the phone is that since the phone was in a type of "boot loop", I couldn't actually tell it was on or not... And plugging in the cable only worked if the phone is off. Once I made sure the phone was dead due to battery dying and made sure I did not turn the phone on, I could connect, let the battery charge long enough for the phone to respond to the PC, and then it was recognized by SP Flash Tool. However, seems I may have tried flashing something incompatible as the phone is not responding. I'll likely need to write another post once I can find the symptoms of what is going on.
Try hardware preloader MOD which means test point on the phone board; by soldering one to GND and another point on the board (connecting points are clear on the board), this will stop connecting and disconnecting phenomenon
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Hi guys, i realy need your help, my phone is dead.
My I9100 worked fine for two years, I flashed lots of custom firmwares by Odin. Half a moth ago, when I was going to sleep, I plugged in the charger as usually, and noticed, that it started beeping occasionally. On the display it indicated smth like: Charging... than Not Charging... than Charging and so on.
I thought that I plugged the charger incorrectly and replugged it, but it didn't helped. I was very tired and just simply turned the soud off and left the phone charging. In the morning it indicated that it is charging even when the charger was unplugged.
So I've flashed the firmware - no help, than kernel from stock to fillz - no help , than siyah than again to stock - no help. All flashings were maid via CWM. I realized that flashing will not help when I turned off the phone and it was indicating that it is charging.
I decided not to do anythig. Only USB mode didn't worked because when you want to use your phone as USB you should open the apropriate mode on the phone than there will be smth like : plug the USB data cable to enter the USB data transfer mode. I couldn't do this because my phone thought that the cable is already plugged. In forums i've got hints that my micro usb should be cleaned or small board should be replaced. So i decided to clean it. I disassembled the phone and cleaned that board with micro USB. Than turned on the phone, and connected the cable. Phone recognized it and I managed to transfer files from pc to phone. From this point I can say that all terminals on micro USB are ok.
When i unplugged the cable, phone thought that it is plugged((
The most awful part:
I decided to flash it one more time and go to stock via backup made by CWM a year ago.
But during this process the phone made a reboot by itself and after that there was no loading. I can see only name of the device and thats it.
No recovery. Only download mode.
When i connect it to PC in download mode, there is a sound that USB is connected but the device is Unknown. There is no any information about this device in dev manager on PC. I tried two USB cables, all usb ports, two laptops, all versions of USB drivers for my phone.
Earlier, drivers worked well, but now i can't understand where is the problem: Is the problem still connected with my micro usb port or i just erased boot sector and it is already brick.
I gave my phone to service center, they told that they can't help me with this. They say that usb is ok, we don't know why it is not detecting by pc.
Can the board replacement help in this issue or maybe i can do smth. in linux with my device ??? I'll appreciate any suggestions.
Yesterday I talked to representatives of service center and they told me that the problem is that internal memory is damaged and they cant flash the phone.
I took the phone and tried to flash it via Heimdall with brick fix pit.
After using this pit file, the phone was flashed normally and even turned on normally.
But in the phone info menu I saw no any data about internal memory. (It was damaged and required format). I tried format through phone menu and it did nothing.
I decided to flash the phone via Odin with normal 16 GB pit file and had a bad luck. I experienced freez during repartition. After this, phone is a complete brick.
When I connect it to PC without battery pressing vol down and rower buttons it connects as unknown device but there is nothing on the phone display. No recavery no download mode. Nothing - just reflection of my frustrated face).
Currently i'm tring to make a Jtag, maybe it'll put it in the download mode, but hope is dying....
I've herad somewhere that it is possible to put it in the download mode in linux. If somone did this, could you please give me the contact of this person?
Hello
I have a phone ZOPO C2 VER B. Phone turned off and do not ever want to turn on. It stopped responding to the charger, do not give any sign of life.
When connected to computer detects the phone, installs the drivers, the SP FLASH TOOL it detects. I pulled a few ROMs and I can not upload any ROM. It is always like this: It comes to 100% red belt and that's it. No error. The phone is detected as the MTK PORT, sometimes after reaching the 100% change in VCOM MediaTek USB DA. Here I give a link to the video where you can see how it looks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iospu3n0oU&feature=youtu.be
I tried to upload separately preloader, recovery boot. Always the same ending. I tried with the battery in the phone, without the battery, hold Vloume - + Power, etc. Nothing gives all the time is the same.
Use three other PC to try. I have one more phone Zopo and on the same computer and the same driver is dowload rom with SFP without problems.
Phone is brick or can fix this?
Sorry for my english is bad
I am having the same problem, until now could not solve.
Hi, so I have encountered a rather big issue with my xiaomi redmi 3 pro.
I believe I have flashed wrong (corrupted ? ) ROM, now I have a really annoying situation.
So, I flashed " ido_xhdpi_images_V7.2.6.0.LHPCNDB_20160129.0000.14_5.1_cn " in MiFlash, took a bit long time (nearly 15 minutes), afterwards it was completed, I disconnected my phone, and *BOOM* since then, black.
Current situation is this: When I connect my phone via USB, my phone gets recognized in device manager as
"Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM#)", also it gets recognized in MiFlash, but can't get it to work in fastboot, and it is not recognized as adb device. So, throughout 3 days now, I tried nearly EVERYTHING I have found on forums. The only thing I have not done is to take the back cover off and disconnect battery ( as I have seen on forums), tried with deep flash cable, all possible combinations of buttons and all. If the phone is connected to PC, when I press whatever combination of buttons on phone I just get Windows sound for connecting an USB device.
So today, when I connected it, red LED light was blinking, I have no idea what that was, so I plugged it into the wall to charge for 10mins, and now when I connect it, it's gone again, all black, no response whatsoever.
So, when I connect it to MiFlash and try to flash any ROM, tried nearly everyone I found, I get the same message; "Unspecified error 0x80004005; End Transfer packet id0, status 9" if I refresh MiFlash without disconnecting, and press flash again I get "Reached the end of the file. (0x80070026; Receiving hello packet) "
Things maybe to mention: I am running a 64 bit Windows 10, and my bootlocker is locked.
So I am wondering, if there is any possible way to solve this or it's time for a new phone?
alchzor said:
Hi, so I have encountered a rather big issue with my xiaomi redmi 3 pro.
I believe I have flashed wrong (corrupted ? ) ROM, now I have a really annoying situation.
So, I flashed " ido_xhdpi_images_V7.2.6.0.LHPCNDB_20160129.0000.14_5.1_cn " in MiFlash, took a bit long time (nearly 15 minutes), afterwards it was completed, I disconnected my phone, and *BOOM* since then, black.
Current situation is this: When I connect my phone via USB, my phone gets recognized in device manager as
"Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM#)", also it gets recognized in MiFlash, but can't get it to work in fastboot, and it is not recognized as adb device. So, throughout 3 days now, I tried nearly EVERYTHING I have found on forums. The only thing I have not done is to take the back cover off and disconnect battery ( as I have seen on forums), tried with deep flash cable, all possible combinations of buttons and all. If the phone is connected to PC, when I press whatever combination of buttons on phone I just get Windows sound for connecting an USB device.
So today, when I connected it, red LED light was blinking, I have no idea what that was, so I plugged it into the wall to charge for 10mins, and now when I connect it, it's gone again, all black, no response whatsoever.
So, when I connect it to MiFlash and try to flash any ROM, tried nearly everyone I found, I get the same message; "Unspecified error 0x80004005; End Transfer packet id0, status 9" if I refresh MiFlash without disconnecting, and press flash again I get "Reached the end of the file. (0x80070026; Receiving hello packet) "
Things maybe to mention: I am running a 64 bit Windows 10, and my bootlocker is locked.
So I am wondering, if there is any possible way to solve this or it's time for a new phone?
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I will move your thread to the correct section so that the experts there maybe able to assist you.
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Hi, sorry to hear that happened to you. I suggest you to post this on Xiaomi reddit page, so more people can help you. Here is the link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/
hi. so my problem is that my phone does not turn on, i cant go to recovery or do hard reset. the phone react when i plug it in PC without battery, but its always connect and disconnect over and over again. i have downloaded the omap drivers and instaled it. now i have in the device manager a OMAP4430 FastBoot USB device. by the drivers was a fastboot emulator. but when i will flash rom, kernel or recovery a just get partition does not exist. can someone help me please? srry for english.
Does your phone not turn on at all when holding down the power button? If it boots up, and gets stuck on a loop or has an error message, that is different. But if it doesn't turn on at all, then your battery is dead or something is wrong with your phone's hardware. If you connect your phone to the PC (with the battery on), does it at least show a light? Or does it boot up at all when you hold the power button? If it doesn't show a light or boot up, it is not your battery, but your phone's hardware. Your phone might have been dropped or water inside it or it was microwaved? I know it sounds silly, but something happened to the phone physically. Now if you connect it to the PC and you see a light but it never boots, your device is bricked. Not accusing you, but you might have tried rooting it or writing over a partition on your phone which caused to brick. Also, try typing in fastboot devices. If it shows up a device, that means it is connected. Cheers!
No the phone does not turn on and it shows nothing, even when i put it on charger. If i connect to pc with battery after i installed the omap driver it just connect and disconnect over and over again, windows make this sound when you connect and disconnect something. I have flashed a new rom. It has worked but after some time its stoped. So i have try flashed it again but i could not get in recovery. A files was missing and after i try flashing thhe recovery its just dead. I can connect it just with the fastboot emulator because it's don't connect when i just put it on pc. I must connect it without battery wait 4 sec and then put the battery back. Than i can see in the emu my phone but not able flash anything because of partition does not exist
Hello everyone,
Recently I tried to flash my Freer X9 Tablet (aka U89) with Android 7. In the beginning the SP flash tool was not able to detect the tablet, maybe because of a driver clash. Then the flash process started very very slow and stopped in the middle for some unknown reason. I had to exit the SP flash tool.
After that, the tablet seems to be hard bricked. It does not start, it does not respond at all. On the other hand, when I connect it to my laptop, the laptop is able to detect it as Mediatek USB VCOM device.
I came across some threads which mention Meta mode which can make the device start working again but for it to work, I must physically open the device to disconnect the battery since the battery in this device is not removable. I do not really want to do that fearing that the tablet could be damaged while I open it (locks, paint and stuff).
Can it be unbricked in any way without physically opening it? Any help is highly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Solved!
Well, I waited for a day and guess what, the battery got discharged. I don't know how. I put the SP tool to download mode (clicked the download button). Connected the tablet to the laptop while keeping the volume up key pressed. I did not release the volume key for 10 seconds even after connecting it to the laptop.
And... boom! it started to flash!!! the tablet works now!