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bricked?!? -SOLVED-

I've tried the "brick fixes" on this forum, but without luck so far... I can get into download mode, and I've tried flashing with odin from this post which says "passed" to me. After this is reboots into a black screen after the "galaxy S" screen, and nothing can be done except making the capasitive buttons light up...
All help is appreciated!!
FYI I don't have a SD card installed during odin...
Solutions in #6 and #7...
Thanks a ton

Novek said:
I've tried the "brick fixes" on this forum, but without luck so far... I can get into download mode, and I've tried flashing with odin from this post which says "passed" to me. After this is reboots into a black screen after the "galaxy S" screen, and nothing can be done except making the capasitive buttons light up...
All help is appreciated!!
FYI I don't have a SD card installed during odin...
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Sounds like a boot loop, but I can't figure out why you would get one with the stock odin flash. Try doing a factory reset? it shouldn't be needed, but who knows?

how? tried the "hard reset" whitout luck

Novek said:
how? tried the "hard reset" whitout luck
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In recovery.. there should be a factory reset option. I thought odin did that though.

when it is resetting I can read "mbr checksum error" or similar in yellow text before it's wiping data etc...

Try this ...turn you phone off but keep it plugged into you cpu usb cord and open oidin, next put your phone in download mode and put the needed files in oden and click start I had a hard time getting odin to work right for some reason this may not help but it worked for me. Good luck I don't think you bricked I think you can come out of this.

I assume that you used the partition in ROM Manager? If so I had the same problem as you. The phone would boot up to a black screen with only the buttons working. What I did was flash Eugenes 2.2 Froyo Rom, I surprised that it booted up and worked. After that I flashed back to stock rom and it work as it did before!

AustinKnight45 said:
Try this ...turn you phone off but keep it plugged into you cpu usb cord and open oidin, next put your phone in download mode and put the needed files in oden and click start I had a hard time getting odin to work right for some reason this may not help but it worked for me. Good luck I don't think you bricked I think you can come out of this.
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Thanks for the help, but my problem occurs after odin... when it's rebooting and it says "passed!" i just end up with a black screen with only the capasitive buttons lighting up when pressed...
ElahC said:
I assume that you used the partition in ROM Manager? If so I had the same problem as you. The phone would boot up to a black screen with only the buttons working. What I did was flash Eugenes 2.2 Froyo Rom, I surprised that it booted up and worked. After that I flashed back to stock rom and it work as it did before!
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that's my problem!! found it, downloading now... will report back for future accidents...
Froyo worked!! Thanks a ton! Now I just have to downgrade

sry... dubbel

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. How did you get odin to detect your phone? I put it into download mode but no detection plzzz help

farrisizdaman said:
I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. How did you get odin to detect your phone? I put it into download mode but no detection plzzz help
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I turned the phone off while the usb was connected when the phone if off open odin ounce its open boot up the phone and boot it into download mode from there odin will connect and you can put the files you need into it and click start. This worked well for me when I needed to revert back to factory vibrant after flashing the "Real lag FIX" kernel that made my ear piece not work and some of my buttons not work but boy was my phone snappy and my benchmarks were awesome but what good does that do when your girl calls you and you cant hear her and all she can hear is you saying hellllllllooooooo .

I"ve been trying to flash with odin now for about 2 hours. It gets stuck on DO NOT DISCONNECT. And never finishes.

farrisizdaman said:
I"ve been trying to flash with odin now for about 2 hours. It gets stuck on DO NOT DISCONNECT. And never finishes.
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Ya it was like that for me until I did what I said in my last post, you do have the samsung drivers installed ?
Edit: And you are using this method or this thread HERE

farrisizdaman said:
I"ve been trying to flash with odin now for about 2 hours. It gets stuck on DO NOT DISCONNECT. And never finishes.
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You have managed to get into download mode right? My device is up and running stock now, but gonna try some other ROM now =)

Glad to hear your phone is back up and running .

i know this is an old thread, but i figure this can help someone later... brick is a common search term, and i figure this will come up in a search and this will save time for others...
here's what happened to me. i was flashing back to stock and was in download mode. the blue bar was moving etc and murphy and his dumb law decided to kill my my usb port... i thought the phone was DEAD! nothing i did woke the phone up. no battery indicator, buttons didn't do anything... it was all black. holding up/down and power didnt turn the phone on and into recovery or download mode... the phone was DEAD...
then after scouring the forum forever, i finally got the phone into download mode...
NOTE: i don't recall if the usb wire was plugged into the computer or not... i think it was though...
NOTE2: samsung drivers should have been installed already...
- remove the battery
- hold vol up and vol down buttons
- reinsert battery
i thought WOO HOO!! I GOT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE!!!
the next issue i had was getting odin to recognize the phone... it didn't detect what com port i had. but after a lot of reading, i finally got it to work...
- open odin first
- then get into download mode using the steps above...
after odin recognized the port the phone was plugged into, i flashed back to stock rom using the instructions given on this site... and my dead phone works again...
i was able to fix a dead phone!! this phone could be un-brickable!!
i hope this helps...

farrisizdaman said:
I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. How did you get odin to detect your phone? I put it into download mode but no detection plzzz help
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Open odin first, then plug in your phone.

[Q] Deleted Settings .apk Now phone constantly restarts

I was cleaning up my phone with Root Explorer and was trying to get rid of the clutter that was in the App section. Now my phone is stuck in a constant loop of restarts. The only way to power it off is pull the battery. Any ideas on how to fix this? Please let me know what information you need.

you need to boot into Download mode, open up ODIN and flash back to stock. you made a big mistake deleting that

How do I boot into download mode? Is that like Android system recovery?

Adb reboot download
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No its diffrent, have your phone off, connect it to your computer, pressdown volume down and power, as soon as you see a black screen let go of the power button not the volume down. Or when your phone restarts if you can see the t-mobile screen showing its powering down do this,connect the usb as soon as you the tmobile logo then after the battery charing screen shows up press volume up and down and power. Once you see the black screen let go. It may take a few tries but it works.
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I would search this forum for a how to on using Odin and download necessary files to flash your phone.
Good luck.
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I'm running Odin right now following the proper link. It's just sitting at file analysis. Any idea how long it takes to work?

apathy311 said:
I'm running Odin right now following the proper link. It's just sitting at file analysis. Any idea how long it takes to work?
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If you are stuck there then its not working. What operating system are you using? And is it 32bit or 64Bit

I am running Windows 7 64-bit.

apathy311 said:
I am running Windows 7 64-bit.
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People have reported problems with 64bit systems. Apparently, Odin is a POS. I use an old 32bit XP laptop for this stuff, works as good as Odin ever does.

Well now my phone is stuck at the "Phone + ! + PC" screen. I've pulled the battery, held every button combination possible, plugged and unplugged my phone while doing so and nothing works. I'm thinking I'm going to have to bring it to a T-Mobile store and exchange it.

Yet another person that borks their phone and has someone else pay for it .... sigh
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apathy311 said:
Well now my phone is stuck at the "Phone + ! + PC" screen. I've pulled the battery, held every button combination possible, plugged and unplugged my phone while doing so and nothing works. I'm thinking I'm going to have to bring it to a T-Mobile store and exchange it.
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They will probably tell you your warranty is now void, especially if you mention you deleted the settings.apk. Even if you don't, someone at the store will likely know you did something you shouldn't of and will want to send it out.
You should be able to get into downloader/bootloader mode and reflash the stock rom using the instructions on the last page still though. I find it weird that you can't, but I'm not going to try that out on my phone just to test it.
LESSON TO ALL: If you do not know what you are doing, do not go around deleting system .apk files. Deleting the settings.apk file is like deleted the windows folder on a windows machine.

You shouldn't take it back to the store. You should really just get on a 32bit system and flash a stock ROM in Odin.
Have you verified that you're getting into download mode correctly?

apathy311 said:
Well now my phone is stuck at the "Phone + ! + PC" screen. I've pulled the battery, held every button combination possible, plugged and unplugged my phone while doing so and nothing works. I'm thinking I'm going to have to bring it to a T-Mobile store and exchange it.
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that is very easy to fix, just unplug the usb and re plug and hold the two volume buttons and then power and when it turns black leet go of power. This SHOULD work because i had that message too and this fixed it.,
i have heard that you must disable something on your computer first by restarting it and pressing f8 to disable some driver setting and it should get odin to work

or try puching settings apk with adb? but im guessint this guy cant use adb

brick boot loader to black screen: no simple solution, simple prevention

Hi
So last night when I flashed my new created ROM with CWM, it seems like I ruined my boot loader, and from that I can't find the way to recover
SYMPTOMS:
- black screen
- power button doesn't do anything
- no button combination boots to download mode
- no charghing indication when connected to charger or USB
- no detection in the computer when connected to the USB
Is this the real black screen of death?
How did I get there?
I flashed a ROM through CWM, when it finished I selected reboot from CWM, and since then, all I see is black screen, no indication whatsoever to powering up.
I didn't try a USB JIG yet, but I will at Thursday (meet with a friend that has one)
as far as I understand the only way to recover from this is using a RIFF Box JTAG which requires, taking apart the phone, and soldering small wires to the board, and then reload the boot loader
Where do we go from here?
If it happened to you Please write down:
how did it happened to you?
what did you do to try to recover?
did you mange to recover?
if you did, how did you?
Why is this post so important to everyone?
Because if it didn't happen to you yet it might happen in your next CWM flashing.
So its very important to find a solution or at least the way to prevent it.
- update 31/12/2010 -
Cause
corrupted boot loader , bad sbl.bin flashing
Prevention:
do not flash roms/addons/fixes with sbl.bin
if you must flash sbl.bin, do it while you are sure that your USB configuration is perfect, and do it as less as possible.
Solution (for those who already bricked to black)
you're not gonna like it
find riffbox jtag....

marcelo.waisman said:
Hi
So last night when I flashed my new created ROM with CWM, it seems like I ruined my boot loader, and from that I can't find the way to recover
SYMPTOMS:
- black screen
- power button doesn't do anything
- no button combination boots to download mode
- no charghing indication when connected to charger or USB
- no detection in the computer when connected to the USB
Is this the real black screen of death?
How did I get there?
I flashed a ROM through CWM, when it finished I selected reboot from CWM, and since then, all I see is black screen, no indication whatsoever to powering up.
I didn't try a USB JIG yet, but I will at Thursday (meet with a friend that has one)
as far as I understand the only way to recover from this is using a RIFF Box JTAG which requires, taking apart the phone, and soldering small wires to the board, and then reload the boot loader
Where do we go from here?
If it happened to you Please write down:
how did it happened to you?
what did you do to try to recover?
did you mange to recover?
if you did, how did you?
Why is this post so important to everyone?
Because if it didn't happen to you yet it might happen in your next CWM flashing.
So its very important to find a solution or at least the way to prevent it.
BTW I think its a developers post, because we need developers creative way of thinking to find a solution
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Happened to me too. I was tinkering with the Armani source to hopefully find something of use for Axura, and I bricked it. Same things happened to me. I called att and got a new one.

marcelo.waisman said:
Hi
So last night when I flashed my new created ROM with CWM, it seems like I ruined my boot loader, and from that I can't find the way to recover
SYMPTOMS:
- black screen
- power button doesn't do anything
- no button combination boots to download mode
- no charghing indication when connected to charger or USB
- no detection in the computer when connected to the USB
Is this the real black screen of death?
How did I get there?
I flashed a ROM through CWM, when it finished I selected reboot from CWM, and since then, all I see is black screen, no indication whatsoever to powering up.
I didn't try a USB JIG yet, but I will at Thursday (meet with a friend that has one)
as far as I understand the only way to recover from this is using a RIFF Box JTAG which requires, taking apart the phone, and soldering small wires to the board, and then reload the boot loader
Where do we go from here?
If it happened to you Please write down:
how did it happened to you?
what did you do to try to recover?
did you mange to recover?
if you did, how did you?
Why is this post so important to everyone?
Because if it didn't happen to you yet it might happen in your next CWM flashing.
So its very important to find a solution or at least the way to prevent it.
BTW I think its a developers post, because we need developers creative way of thinking to find a solution
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Did you try removing battery and putting it back and then opening ODIN, holding the volume up/down and inserting the usb to bring it on the download mode. I guess I might have experience almost similar issue with one of the rom. I almost freaked out. Phone wont show if its charging. It wont mount on the pc. But tried all the possible method available several times including adb shell command. And finally I did hear the magical sound from window when the usb is connected and finally it did work.
Also try the adb method if it doesn't go into download mode using volume button combo.
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Did u remove sbl.bin
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Happened to me the first time I ran the OTA update from ATT. Paused the update, and when I resumed it - the phone though I finished downloading the JH7 update and tried to apply it.
It failed to apply and when it went to restart, it never powered on. No download mode, recovery, USB power, Odin, nothing. It was completely dead.
I got it replaced at the AT&T store.

If sbl.bin was removed or corrupted you should call the warranty center. Tell them ota update bricked your phone. Lol good luck
sent from my cappy running di11igaf's rom v2.5 at 1280mhz!!

I think it is just bad luck. I was once being careless and had the battery fall out of my phone while flashing, it interrupted the flash and I was still able to get in download mode to Odin it. Needless to say, I'll never flash again without the back cover on

bulletproof1013 said:
Did u remove sbl.bin
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Yes i'ts probably a bad sbl.bin, but I didn't remove it I flashed a new one, most of the rom's do the same

yeah sounds like it...sry for your luck.but seems like its toast then. keep us posted

But if you had a batch 1008 captivate and you messed up during and Odin flash to stock then your screwed bcuz Odin one click swaps the sbl.bins to make your button combinations impossible. ADB would work but you obviously can't access that. I too have a 1008 and it sucks, that is why I bought a jig.

silverslotcar said:
But if you had a batch 1008 captivate and you messed up during and Odin flash to stock then your screwed bcuz Odin one click swaps the sbl.bins to make your button combinations impossible. ADB would work but you obviously can't access that. I too have a 1008 and it sucks, that is why I bought a jig.
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There is a a way. Whenever you need to flash to stock you must use following stock. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=818439
This is same as normal stock posted by DG except that it includes sbl.bin that we (1008) need. I use it everytime and 3 button combos for Download, Recovery work great.

silverslotcar said:
But if you had a batch 1008 captivate and you messed up during and Odin flash to stock then your screwed bcuz Odin one click swaps the sbl.bins to make your button combinations impossible. ADB would work but you obviously can't access that. I too have a 1008 and it sucks, that is why I bought a jig.
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it seems like this is not my case
I'm still looking for other people who had my case, and recovered (even with the JTAG riff box) or at least find someone who know's what we shouldn't do, so we don't break our phones.
so whats batch 1008?

This happened to me last night. I was trying to flash the Darky port via CWM and during the flash it became unresponsive. I had to pull the battery. This caused 2 different things. Sometimes it would be a never ending loop of boot screens and then others it would just go into recovery where it wouldn't let me do anything.
From here luckily I was able to access download mode by using the "adb reboot download" command. So I then got into dl mode and tried to flash stock (not the 3 button fixed one) and it froze on FACTORYFS (or whatever it is). I had no choice but to pull the battery. Now it won't boot at all. So my assumption is it wiped the bootloader. I'm not 100% sure but I feel that the reason it stopped where it did was because I didn't run odin as admin on my Win7 pc. I read in another thread that someone had the same problem when they didn't do that either.
If you are in a pitch black room and you press power you can see your screen illuminate, it's just very dim.
I have batch 1008 if it makes any difference to anyone.
Either way I'm heading to the device support center in a half hour or so to try to get a replacement. I originally was going to make or order a jig but people are saying it only works if the bootloader is intact. I originally had hopes because one person claimed that they recovered a completely dead phone with it, but upon further reading all others could not. It seems like his phone may not have been completely bricked.
Update:
Just got back from the at&t device support center. They gave me a new phone without any hassle. They asked what was wrong with my phone and I told them that I was trying to update it and now it won't turn on. The guy tried a few combinations of button presses and tried hooking it up to a jig-like device. Nothing worked so he just gave me a refurbished phones. No questions asked. As I was walking out he said a few people have had the same issue so it's not a big deal.
Either way I thought this would help to realize that there is likely no way to get the phone to boot unless you have a jtag handy.

I don't feel safe to flash rom via CWM.
If you really want to do that, delete the bootloader inside the .zip

So i think i killed mine too
so i get black screen, two button combo gives me SEC S5PC110 Test B/d
I opened odin but nothing Is this toast?

I had this exact problem over thanksgiving weekend. My phone was was was hard bricked I was getting the "phone + computer" it took some effort to get it into download but I got it there and when I was recovering with odin the connection got lost the screen went blue and then nothing. It was dead totally unresponsive no charging or boot screen nothing but once I got a black screen with redlines. After a lot of attempts to revive it I gave up called ATT warranty for a replacement. Luckily I opted for the slow mail service and kept reading. Yesterday I saw the above post and now I can say "yes even now your phone is not bricked even though it does NOTHING"
step 1) first thing I did was charge the battery with my replacement phone as the bricked phone was no longer able to charge the battery
step 2) open odin1 click and hooked up the usb to the phone and computer no battery
step 3) inserted the battery holding only volume up+down
step 4) "BOOM" download mode and a happy dance
I posted this in the"read before flashing" thread there are other people who have recovered from this and now I think that the extra trick to this is getting a 100% battery you need this to flash, and state the phone is in now wont charge a battery.
hope this sound encouraging

silverslotcar said:
But if you had a batch 1008 captivate and you messed up during and Odin flash to stock then your screwed bcuz Odin one click swaps the sbl.bins to make your button combinations impossible. ADB would work but you obviously can't access that. I too have a 1008 and it sucks, that is why I bought a jig.
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It's odd because I keep seeing people saying things like this. I, too, have a 1008 Captivate. My button combos have worked from day one and Odin one click has never messed that up. Maybe I'm just lucky?
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RKight said:
It's odd because I keep seeing people saying things like this. I, too, have a 1008 Captivate. My button combos have worked from day one and Odin one click has never messed that up. Maybe I'm just lucky?
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I believe there's a "fixed" 1008 batch. Not all 1008s are going to have the problem.

norcal einstein said:
I believe there's a "fixed" 1008 batch. Not all 1008s are going to have the problem.
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Yeah it's either that or just a misconception spread by the community. Both my old captivate and replacement were 1008. I have been able to get into recovery via the power+volume combination. I was also able to get into dl mode using the vol+insert usb combination.
It's possible I just got lucky on both but who knows.

I, and many others have a 1008 that don't go into download or recovery via the button combos without fixing sbl.bin.
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I think ive bricked my phone

i rooted my phone today which worked out fine, i went on to install a custom rom which is my first time i read several guides,etc before trying to install Darkys rom which i wasent sure if it was compatable anyway after trying to flash it using odin through download mode it i closed my odin beacause it was not working my phone was still in download mode so i turned it off by holding the power button and when i tried to reboot it nothing comes up at all is it dead or is there something i can do any help apperciated i have a Uk version of the phone , thanks

Remove the battery for about 1-2mins then power it on again.

You weren't sure if something was compatible, yet you flashed it anyway? Sounds like a bad move.
Try holding the power button down by itself for ~10 seconds. If nothing, then try EarlZ's suggestion. If still nothing, then plug it into a power source for a few minutes, then repeat the process.
What do you mean that Odin "wasn't working"? More information required.

Yeah i feel like kind of a fool now but i left the battery out for a while a but still nothing, but it seems to get quite hot ill plug it into a powersource for a little and see what happens and when i pressed the start button in odin nothing happened at all ,the phone was connected

still nothing but it is getting somewhat hot which is a bit of hope that it isnt completly dead it is hot at the top of the phone (not where the battery is)

Did you put the phone in debug mode before trying to flash.
What happens if you press "power+voldown+home. Can you get in to debug mode? If not you gona have to need the jig.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156348 There is also a link there to make it yourself.

Regarding odin..when you exit odin does the process end-ie does task manager show its no longer running?

jr866gooner said:
Regarding odin..when you exit odin does the process end-ie does task manager show its no longer running?
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it was last night so i cant check that anymore
coolfi said:
Did you put the phone in debug mode before trying to flash.
What happens if you press "power+voldown+home. Can you get in to debug mode? If not you gona have to need the jig.
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yes it was on debug mode and i cant get into download mode i guess ill be getting to jig which i install another rom with it?

you can't get into download mode anymore?

Buy or make a jig
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is the phone getting somewhat hot while it is in this state a good or bad thing?

[Q] Flip phone to computer icon. help please?

hello,
attempting to root my stock gingerbread i think i forgot to choose the pit file. well now i can barely get into the stock recovery program and when i choose factory reset it does it but when rebooting i still get this icon. so i cant get into download mode at all. ive left the battery out for a while as well. how can i get back into download mode? thanks.

Odin did not complete properly so you have no system to reset. Hook your phone up to the computer with the battery and sd card out. Press and hold the "1" key on the physical keyboard then add pressing and holding the power button. Odin away. Pop the battery in when it tries to reboot.

when starting off rooting ive had this problem many times. It usually has to do with screwing up odin. The first thing i want you to do then, is learn how to use heimdall, you have a much better chance of soft bricking your phone. I use it myself and never have had a problem.
To recover your phone there are a couple of solutions. There used to be a thread about this rest button near the camera lens. It is just below it to the left. This should get you into download mode. you will want to press it while your phone is off and battery is in. You will need a paper clip to do this.
Also you are going to want to leave your microsd card, so that it is not affecting the process in any way. Also double check that your phone drivers are correct.
Lastly sometime just waiting with the sdcard and battery out will help, as there is some sort of cache or somethign that must be cleared. I dont know if this true its just what I heard.
Also I dont know why I do this, but sometimes if you hold a key down before inserting the battery for about 30 sec, 1 key is usually the best cause you need it for download mode, and then inserting the battery and hit power, it might get you out of the soft brick.
I hope I help, its been a while since i've seen it, thank god.
irule9000

ok i reinstalled the phone drivers and was able to successfully odin the device to completion. it gets even better now. i only see lights on the bottom of the device now when trying to power on. wow. not my weekend. i have the battery pulled and im going to wait a while.

It will not reboot without the battery in.
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i meant i had the battery in and it wouldnt properly turn on so i pulled it again. Sory about the confusion

nyr35blue said:
i meant i had the battery in and it wouldnt properly turn on so i pulled it again. Sory about the confusion
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No prob. We all are just trying to help. Maybe it was a bad download on the Odin file. I would suggest repartition with the PIT file included.
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phew. i was able to use an older version of odin and flash back to EC05. Thanks guys!