How to unbrick your Android

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The term "bricked" is often used improperly. A bricked phone means one thing: your phone won't turn on in any way, and there's nothing you can do to fix it. Just like a brick. A phone stuck in a boot loop is not bricked, nor is a phone that boots straight into recovery mode.



Even if you can't access the recovery mode itself, don't panic. It's not bricked!

While soft brick is pretty easy to fix, furbishing up a hard brick is quite impossible and eventually you have to buy a new phone.

Bricking your phone is pretty rare, so I wouldn't worry about it being a common occurrence

What to do when you can't access the recovery mode on the phone, neither the downloader mode nor the fastboot?

Things needed:

1. A PC, 2. Required drivers (USB drivers to recognize your phone, SoC drivers), 3. Flashing tools (QFIL (Qualcomm Flash Image Loader) for Snapdragon phones, SP Flasher for MediaTek phones)

Procedure (may vary, but you can always find it for your phone by Googling it):

Here I'm giving account of the procedure of flashing Lenovo A6000 Plus which is a Snapdragon based phone.

On Snapdragon devices:

1. Install the drivers on your computer (Qualcomm and and your phone's drivers)
2. Remove the battery of your phone and reinsert it.
3. Hold down the volume buttons at once and connect it to computer via USB cable.
4. In QFIL flash tool you would see your device connected (port name will be something like Qualcomm HS-USB QDloader 9008 (COM__)
5. Select build type to "Flat build".
6. Select the firmware in Programmer Path by clicking Browse... (choose the FireHose file with the extention .mbm)

You can download the firmware from the web, it mostly ends in ROW (in this case A6000_S035_150507_8G_ROW)  in its name in a compressed file format like zip or rar, remember this is not the same as the stock ROM as STOCK ROM AND STOCK FIRMWARE ARE DIFFERENT)

7. Click on Load XML and select the XML file in the open file dialog
8. Now select patch0
9. Finally hit "Download"
10. It will take 5-10 minutes to complete flashing and then you can remove the phone from the data cable
11. Reboot your phone and see your phone brought back to life.

QFIL tool

This utility installs the Stock ROM along with the Stock Recovery which you couldn't do on the phone.

Similarly for MediaTek devices, use SP Flash Tool. You need the firmware to be downloaded first. Then scatter file is used instead of FireHose file. That's it.

There are Youtube tutorials in plethora in case you don't make out the process. Just try searching specifying your device model.


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