Let's Play "How Bricked is it?"

[iamz3r0]

I had a customer bring in a G2X that failed to do anything. From a normal standpoint, it seems 100% bricked. From mine, I see some life left in the phone.

Forgive me for my lack of knowledge when it comes to the G2X (I'm a Fascinate/Sensation owner). The phone can still be detected by my Windows XP system as an APX device (or "NVIDIA USB Boot-recovery driver for Mobile Devices"). I tried using NVFlash from the OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe application found here on the forums in an attempt to restore the stock recovery and it hangs at "waiting for bootloader to initialize". I'm unable to get into recovery or the Android system.

NVFlash can detect the G2X fine, but the phone fails to respond at all.

I'd have more information, but the customer supposedly bought the phone from a friend who failed at flashing CWM and a custom ROM. Maybe it was an attempt to flash a custom recovery before rooting? Either way the phone only responds in APX mode and I was told it booted to the LG logo once, but I didn't see it.

Any ideas?

 

[vipaman]

Does the screen work or not.....Basic troubleshooting....might help

 

[Pimpshouse]

Might want to ensure the battery is good as well.

 

[mt3g]

I was wondering about the battery as well, and what are the steps you do to try and flash NVidia recovery I find it hard to believe that this is actually brickable. If the computer recognizes the phone it is fixable might have to go adb route but if there is a will there is a way!

 

[dominoes20]

When I first got this phone I had no idea that LG Optimus 2X on Wind Mobile was really the G2X. Imagine my embarrassment when I flashed the wrong ROM I thought I'd bricked the phone too and worse I had done it all at work since at the time I didn't have a laptop. So off I go to the worst internet cafe in Calgary and spent an hour trying to bring it back to life.
NVFlash from the OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe worked for me but at the time I had no idea that it worked. After getting in an argument with the owner of the cafe and getting turfed I was despondent but lo and behold when I did the power button/volume I was in recovery and could flash the correct ROM.
What I realized much later is that you have to follow the instructions in: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
very carefully. One step at a time.

Hopefully this will work for you because at the time I couldn't get my G2X to even turn on and was convinced that I'd just bricked my bran new (1 day old) phone!

 

[IRASadPanda]

The G2x is pretty much 99% unbrickable, and if you're the one percent that bricks your G2x then there is always a way out of it.

 

[vipaman]

The G2x is pretty much 99% unbrickable, and if you're the one percent that bricks your G2x then there is always a way out of it.

Make that 99.9%

 

[iamz3r0]

The only thing I could come up with was a hardware issue. His battery was severely overcharged and his phone wouldn't respond at all with a new battery.

The LCD would not display anything, whatsoever.

Hardware.

Thanks!