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Top tip: there's always a way to get to fastboot
Never lose hope, find the flashing tools and modes for your vendor and attempt to flash a recovery onto it. Somewhere out there (probably XDA) this information exists on the exact timings and button configuration needed to open that tiny flashing window where you can restore fastboot.
You might need to open the case and search for pins surrounding a chip with a TTL device (search for pinouts of your chip), but I guarantee you that the phone is always recoverable
I tried everything for my Poco F1 in 2023, some Qualcomm tools, trying to go into EDL mode, using some weird firehose files with the MI flash tool. I read every fucking XDA thread. I even brought that phone to a shady repair service station near me, nothing worked.
The only option I did not use were some sus af indian Telegram channels that sold that service for 20 bucks.
Don't tell me the phone is always recoverable, because sometimes it is fucking not.
I've been exactly where you are, and can only say that despite it being maddeningly frustrating there is still always a way. It might require melting off a chip and soldering a replacement one on (with significant loss of data)
https://xdaforums.com/t/poco-f1-bricked.3968436/#post-80252328
You tried removing the battery panel and connecting the two test points to force EDL mode?
You're well into Ship of Theseus territory once you're replacing major chips. You've not really recovered the phone, you've just replaced big chunk of it so it's not entirely the same phone anymore, just with extra hassle because you've not replaced the main board as a whole.
If the cost of Theseus replacing a mast incurred the cost of buying a new ship, then I doubt it would be his ship neither physically nor figuratively.
Chips are ridiculously cheap, and getting your local phone shop to resolder one on is about £30 and 30mins of your time worth spending
I'm not saying it's not worthwhile to do this to fix a broken phone, just that if you have to do this, then the phone was bricked, and once you're replacing hardware, you're not just recovering it.
that's a fair point
Ok
Most of the time I find this stuff on 4pda. Sure it's in Russian and it requires an account to download files, but they delve much deeper into the device and usually you'll find working instructions how to unbrick stuff.
never heard of this one, thanks?
Working with and building circuit testers, I can say those pins also very likely have test pads routed to them for when the board was originally programmed. Look for un-tinned, smallish solder pads that looks like a needle may have pricked them.
Look up EDL mode for devices with a Qualcomm SOC, it usually requires opening the phone to short some pads but you might be able to buy a special cable that does it
Unlesa it's a samsung.
Not if you flash over the earliest bootloader partition
Trust me bro, lying on the Internet is illegal
Even with water damage? Had to give up on my trusty old Fold 4 and make a claim. But it's all good cause I was able to take the money and put it towards a shiny new Fold 7 (best phone I've ever owned).
I wanna say yes -- once the phone is fully dried out and it never shorts, should be good to go after a few days?
I could only get it to work for about 6 hours after a week of drying it out in the fridge. It bought me just enough time to back up my data before it died again for good.