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Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by just2endowed(op): 5:58am On Jan 24, 2016
Soft Brick
As the name goes "Soft" aka "Software" bricking is something that occurs when we perform a dirty flashing. Now you might think that what this dirty flashing means?
Dirty flashing occurs when you flash any ROM on your device without doing the factory reset. Or else if you flashed a ROM which was not made for your device!!
After fixing lots of devices of our favorite visitors, we got loads of good feedbacks. On basis of responses from all their devices while fixing, I acquired and gathered the solutions for the problems and divided the case of soft bricking into 2 stages.

Stage one: At stage one you will be able to boot into your recovery (custom/stock) one but you will be stuck at the boot animation (or on the brand's logo), in such cases you have to flash your stock ROM back on the device. Either by copying a factory signed zip file (if available) in your external SD card and flashing it via stock or custom recovery.

Stage two: If the situation is like you are not able to boot into your custom/stock recovery then you are at stage two. In these cases you have to use the Smart Phone flashing tools like:
• SP FLASH TOOL (for MTK chipsets)
• ODIN (for Samsung devices)
• Mi flash tool (for Xiaomis)
etc for flashing. So if the drivers are properly installed on the system which you are using then it will be able to detect your device in the "device manager" section on Windows.

Hard Brick
When the device has gone through problematic conditions such that it quits the detection of USB, charging and everything that you provide to it then the device is unfortunately hard bricked. Some hard bricked devices are as good as a paper weight that we paid for some day. But that is the extreme case lets see what are the two stages we can observe here:

Stage one: At stage one the device keeps getting disconnected every 5-8 seconds when you connect it with the flash tool via data cable (specially with the mtk devices I have seen). So in that cases we only have few seconds of time gap so that we can make the flash tool to detect the device. Hence, we have to find out certain key combos on the device which will lead to detection of your bricked device to flash the "stock ROM" while it kept connected to the data cable. Key combos could be:
* Volume Up + Power button
* Volume Down + Power button
* Volume Up + Volume Down
* Power button alone

Stage two: It occurs when some serious hardware damage happened to the device such as malfunctioning of the motherboard, Processors, Internal circuits etc. If the device reaches to this condition then it does needs repair on the segment of the hardware. In case if the device is under warranty then I recommend not to break the seal of the company or else the warranty will get void.



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Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by just2endowed(op): 7:46am On Jan 24, 2016
For those that really hard brick ur phone, u should know when it affects the hardware
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by just2endowed(op): 11:16am On Jan 24, 2016
Seun, this worth front page
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by Ameboperoo(m): 11:45am On Jan 24, 2016
just2endowed:
Seun, this worth front page
True talk
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by just2endowed(op): 4:32pm On Jan 24, 2016
Something like that
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by Gosj01(m): 5:52pm On Jan 24, 2016
bro, how can I flash my soft brick through recovery mode? stuck on logo start up...Btw the phone is mtn s720i
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by just2endowed(op): 7:57pm On Jan 24, 2016
Gosj01:
bro, how can I flash my soft brick through recovery mode? stuck on logo start up...Btw the phone is mtn s720i
Try boot to recovery and do a factory reset


If it doesn't work, I hope u have a backup of the rom.
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by Marvel1206: 8:51pm On Jan 24, 2016
NICE ONE OP
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by just2endowed(op): 8:01am On Jan 29, 2016
Marvel1206:
NICE ONE OP
Yes
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by Mikocake(m): 8:26am On Jan 29, 2016
my HTC DESIRE 526G is currently bricked and i have tried the ADB ish but they said i should download file of 856mb...any suggestion to restore it without much stress?
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by just2endowed(op): 12:06am On Jan 30, 2016
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Mikocake:
my HTC DESIRE 526G is currently bricked and i have tried the ADB ish but they said i should download file of 856mb...any suggestion to restore it without much stress?
I will get back to you
Re: Difference Between Hard Brick & Soft Brick by Mikocake(m): 7:20am On Jan 30, 2016
just2endowed:
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I will get back to you
alright..waiting patiently
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