Hard bricked Galaxy S7

[TechieK]

Hello! I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 lying around and it's not working, from what I heard, it is "hard bricked" which means that it's not working and just showing a black screen. Tried charging it, no sign. It was because I installed a app, and it started going weird as it froze, and I had to force it to shut down. It worked the next time, but froze again. Tried booting it in Safe mode, but it still froze. I want to get it working again.

[meself]

Whatever you download that caused it would need to be removed beyond a factory reset not sure

[TechieK]

It was a Google app and even though it was compatible with my phone, maybe Google pushed out an update that made it not be supported on my S7. Not sure either.

[meself · Accepted solution]

Don't know of many if any ar all apps that would be working on a s7 it would tell you the requirements I'm the about app

[TechieK]

The Play Store says what the app is compatible with in the description. I don't know why my phone went weird after the installation.

[meself]

What was the app

[TechieK]

It was for Google's not so new anymore AI app named Gemini.

[meself]

I don't believe Gemini would be compatible on the s7

[TechieK]

True! Don't know why it was compatible for Android 8.0 at that time.

[meself]

Android 10 and up