APK bricked my Charge!

[jbenash7]

First, thanks for all your collective wisdom in this forum.

I've got a rooted Charge that's run smoothly for a couple of months, with the voodoo lagfix kernel installed. I just installed the Wifi Tether 3.1 beta 6 APK directly from code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether, and it seems to have bricked my phone! As soon as it was installed, the touch screen became unresponsive (although the phone was not frozen). Somehow I managed to restart the phone, but now it will not get past the "Samsung" screen, even when I try to boot into safe mode or recovery mode. When plugged in, the phone is stuck on the battery loading screen.

Am I stuck with a dead hunk of plastic?

 

[winnersmw]

Can you get it into download mode? Remove the battery and, with the battery out, plug it into your computer with the USB. Anything?

 

[jbenash7]

Nope, nothing.

 

[jbenash7]

Assuming I can't fix this -- if I take it into a Verizon store, will they be able to tell it was rooted?

 

[jbenash7]

Actually, I did get it into download mode (had to hold the down volume button)! Now what can I do?

 

[jbenash7]

Ok, followed some links around and managed to successfully flash a Gingerbread build. Thanks!

 

[kraisydave]

Ok, followed some links around and managed to successfully flash a Gingerbread build. Thanks!

Congrats! I would now suggest some further reading and build yourself a backup of everything. Use titanium for apps and data, SMS backup plus, pictures to Google Plus and then just save a copy of your fav ROM that you use to your SD card download folder. Backup everything...

After that you can play around like you have with less worry. I run into problems similar to this regularly. I just flash my backup and reinstall the data/apps. Do not restore the data if moving to a different ROM for fear of glitches.

Now you can relatively play safely and always get back to what you know works for you.

Dave

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[winnersmw]

Glad to hear you got it fixed I thought you just needed an external power source with the phone off for it to cycle into download mode, my apologies! You figured it out, though.