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Okay so I updated to JI6 from KIES. I was having some problems after the update so I decided to restore my nandroid made by ROM Manager (a backup made before the update - at JFD). I restore it, phone reboots, etc. However, now it is stuck at the "Vibrant Samsung" screen -- you know the one that comes with the T-Mobile logo appears. The odd thing is I even hear the load-up sound that plays, but the phone does not go past the Vibrant screen.
Help please?
Oh and I can still boot into recovery mode...
You sure you are waiting long enough? Mine took about 5 minutes after the firmware upgrade to get past the samsung vibrant screen. I thought it was frozen at first but I guess it takes awhile after the firmware upgrade.
This is after I did the restore from ROM Manager -- not after the firmware upgrade.
This is caused by downgrading from ji6. If you nadroid on ji6 to stock it will brick. I believe the only way to fix would be through odin. Hope it gets worked out.
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doh >.>
Why the heck can't I get into Download Mode...
EDIT: Nevermind, got into download mode. Apparently you dont hold power key for DM.
Okay i ll make sure to never help you again. Have fun with your attitude and bricked phone.
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Huh? What did I do to you =O
Anyway, I think my phone is really bricked now. Can't get into download mode.
fcbarca17 said:
Okay i ll make sure to never help you again. Have fun with your attitude and bricked phone.
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Ha ha he did not even say anything bad xD
DarkAgent said:
Huh? What did I do to you =O
Anyway, I think my phone is really bricked now. Can't get into download mode.
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Ever get it fixed, im having a similar problem..
Title. I haven't ventured far enough to flash roms yet, still running stock JI6. Is it even a remote possibility to completely brick your Vibrant i.e. no fix?
It seems like whenever someone creates a thread saying they bricked their phone, Odin always magically fixes everything.
Yes, it is possible but VERY unlikely. If I remember correctly, wesgarner bricked his.
I'm new here. I bricked mine up good. haha. I rooted and did a lagfix. It worked great, until tmo sent me the ota update. It softbricked it. So I flashed it with what I thought was a stock rom. then they sent me the update again. After poweroff it won't even turn on. No recovery menu, no download menu, no power. So, yes it is possible.
Yeah, I have bricked 2 of them while doing some things & messing up at like 2am
Anything can be bricked.
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You can't brick it, is only a soft brick, the ones that get ''bricked'' are the ones that are hardware locked, they can't get flash back to stock, because recovery nor download mode work after the ''brick''.
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Master™ said:
Yeah, I have bricked 2 of them while doing some things & messing up at like 2am
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what are you doing exactly with it? it can't be fixed even flashing back to stock?
i bricked my first g1 Not my baby tho lots of hours of reading and re-reading
iynfynity said:
what are you doing exactly with it? it can't be fixed even flashing back to stock?
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Same thing Wes was.
And nope, they couldnt be flashed back with Odin even.
smkr420 said:
i bricked my first g1 Not my baby tho lots of hours of reading and re-reading
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Same here. I forget what I did wrong, but it was during the Donut hysteria.
Luckily, I've learned to read a but more with the Vibrant before flagging things.
-bZj
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cervantesjc said:
You can't brick it, is only a soft brick, the ones that get ''bricked'' are the ones that are hardware locked, they can't get flash back to stock, because recovery nor download mode work after the ''brick''.
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Hw locked has a fix & You can brick this phone.
I bricked my vibrant by flashing haykuros danger SPL.... Lol. G1 days FTW!
Hardware locked vibrants are considered bricked. Happen to me twice now and had to send in for repair.
I've never seen the term bricked associated with a device like the vibrant.
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You certainly can brick a Vibrant, even one that is not hardware locked. I did it last week. I did it by trying to create a custom Odin backup that flashed an incomplete boot loader, I think.
In any case, AFTER a successful Odin update the phone turned off to reboot, and will not turn back on. No amount of messing with it will get the phone to turn on. There is no way I can figure out how to even get Odin to work, because there is no power going to the phone. Bricked.
So, moral of the story:
Follow these rules and it's not possible:
If you have a hardware locked phone, FIX IT.
Don't flash anything for the wrong phone.
Don't accept OTAs if you're hacked.
Only flash things that others have confirmed (can be the dev).
If you're making your OWN stuff (Wes, cparekh), it's quite possible to completely screw your phone.
I know when you install EXT4 it warns you that your phone will stay rooted forever, but I highly doubt that there's zero way to unroot it, you guys can do it. The situation is that my front facing camera is busted through a hardware problem and sprint is willing to give me a brand new one for free but it's rooted. And it's apparently rooted forever. lol Halp?
RustyPwns said:
I know when you install EXT4 it warns you that your phone will stay rooted forever, but I highly doubt that there's zero way to unroot it, you guys can do it. The situation is that my front facing camera is busted through a hardware problem and sprint is willing to give me a brand new one for free but it's rooted. And it's apparently rooted forever. lol Halp?
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There's no such thing as rooted forever, unless you want it to be rooted forever. Not sure where you heard or read that. Just use Odin to flash back to stock di18, and you will be good to go.
You can odin back to stock there is a wiki page on out but I don't know the url off the top of my head.
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RustyPwns said:
I know when you install EXT4 it warns you that your phone will stay rooted forever, but I highly doubt that there's zero way to unroot it, you guys can do it. The situation is that my front facing camera is busted through a hardware problem and sprint is willing to give me a brand new one for free but it's rooted. And it's apparently rooted forever. lol Halp?
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Why don't you just Odin to DI18. You'll be back to stock. Not sure where you are getting your info. Odin is the stock image, wipes everything out. If I were taking it into the Sprint store I would probably format my sdcard too. Just save all your files I your computer.
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mattallica76 said:
There's no such thing as rooted forever, unless you want it to be rooted forever. Not sure where you heard or read that. Just use Odin to flash back to stock di18, and you will be good to go.
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Thanks for the fast replies. When you root and convert the file system to EXT4, it says you would also permanently install Clockwork mod 3.0.0.5 and root it forever. I'm gonna try to just flash the di18 pda. Thanks everyone!
I can't seem to find the stupid files, can someone link me the DI18 thing?
Here you go. It contains the instructions and files for flashing via odin for a number of epic releases including stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794138
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your link doesnt work
Can't connect to cpu. So how do I unroot my phone?
I have a rooted Epic 4g that my computer doesn't recognize. No matter what I do the computer doesn't recognize it through the usb port(s). Now I want to unroot it and I can't. Does anyone have a solution to this
myphone171 said:
I have a rooted Epic 4g that my computer doesn't recognize. No matter what I do the computer doesn't recognize it through the usb port(s). Now I want to unroot it and I can't. Does anyone have a solution to this
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Don't know if you've tried Download mode
Here's the thread read/follow this to get your phone back to stock...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773032
myphone171 said:
I have a rooted Epic 4g that my computer doesn't recognize. No matter what I do the computer doesn't recognize it through the usb port(s). Now I want to unroot it and I can't. Does anyone have a solution to this
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Myphone was doing that
I reinstalled drivers and all
I ended up doing a hard-reset and then everything worked fine after plugging the phone in
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I can't seem to find a thread to help me restoring my nexus s back to a factory state.
I did flash via adb, but I am having issues with my phone, so I want to re flash.
Thanks for your help
Matt
Code:
fastboot oem lock
fastboot oem unlock
(then lock again if you want)
That will erase EVERYTHING. Then you can flash clockwork back. Then flash one of the stock ROMs (found here on the forums somewhere or from ROM Manager). Basically back to stock. (With custom bootloader). Which you can also get rid of, I just don't remember how
Why not just flash the newest stock from samfirmwares via Odin? Semms quicker and easier to me, but ... are there any disadvantages?
fallenguru said:
Why not just flash the newest stock from samfirmwares via Odin? Semms quicker and easier to me, but ... are there any disadvantages?
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I've always considered Odin to be a last resort kind of thing. You really shouldn't Odin unless everything else doesn't work and your phone is near screwed. The reason being, should anything go wrong during the Odin flashing, your device runs a very high risk of permanently bricking and the past the point of no return. Its probably the only way of permanently bricking your Nexus.
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Hmm, ok.
I've always used Odin for my Samsung i5700 (Galaxy Spica), mainly because there is nothing else for it. It's always seemed extremely stable and lightweight to me, never mind the factory floor look.
AFAICT Odin can only brick your phone if your computer explodes at exactly the right time (i. e. while it's flashing the bootloader) - no idea if fastboot has additional safeguards or something.
An inexperienced user has a much better chance of screwing up in a multi-step restore, so if the objective is to restore to an out-of-the-box state then I'd still rather use Odin, personally. (For modding parts of firmware and comfort, fastboot beats it hands down.)
I came from the Vibrant, so I see where you're coming from. But like you said, an inexperienced user has a better chance of screwing it up. That's why I recommended the non-odin method to the OP. To each his own I guess. Both methods will take you to the same end result, one which is slightly less of a hassle. I just cringe everytime I use Odin in fear of windows crashing or Odin crashing since previous versions were known to be relatively unstable. Or some other mishap like kicking the USB cable while flashing.
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I just used odin and ROM from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947950
Restore 2.3.1 through CWM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884093
download the nandroid backup in that thread and restore using cwm. then do a factory reset and lock bootloader with "fastboot oem lock". that's what i did.
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I came from the Vibrant, so I see where you're coming from. But like you said, an inexperienced user has a better chance of screwing it up. That's why I recommended the non-odin method to the OP. To each his own I guess. Both methods will take you to the same end result, one which is slightly less of a hassle. I just cringe everytime I use Odin in fear of windows crashing or Odin crashing since previous versions were known to be relatively unstable. Or some other mishap like kicking the USB cable while flashing.
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while i can agree that odin is not very... user friendly in the sense of many errors. it is very slim chance of it causing a brick. and why not just use heimdall? its the open source solution to odin
Check the Q&A section. Yet another nexus S perma-bricked using Odin. In this case he used the wrong files (i9023 instead of i9020) to flash. Anything could happen. If you could avoid it, you really should because Odin messes with very sensitive files.
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peeturr said:
I've always considered Odin to be a last resort kind of thing. You really shouldn't Odin unless everything else doesn't work and your phone is near screwed. The reason being, should anything go wrong during the Odin flashing, your device runs a very high risk of permanently bricking and the past the point of no return. Its probably the only way of permanently bricking your Nexus.
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What permabrick using odin, never happen.
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U can't permbrick your phone with odin
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demo23019 said:
U can't permbrick your phone with odin
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Try loading i9023 Odin files onto your i9020.
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peeturr said:
Try loading i9023 Odin files onto your i9020.
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dont do that that'll mess up with the phone's functionality because it'll start acting like a 9023 when its a 9020.
Maybe the procedure here may help you.
http://theunlockr.com/2011/01/20/how-to-unroot-the-nexus-s/
Actually, I'm quite sure you can brick phones with Odin, if you try. Flashing the wrong firmware (or any other random bucket of bits) certainly works, as you can see. But I'm curious, how would fastboot have prevented this?
Sorry to the OP, I neither wanted to derail your thread nor start a holy war, just offer another option.
well it goes without saying to not use another phones firmware... but using the correct firmware on the correct phone odin has a small chance at bricking.. and thats only when your flashing boot.img and sbl.bin. he shouldnt be using the pit as odin pulls it from the phone. and there is almost no reason to repartition the device.
nabiladeeb said:
Maybe the procedure here may help you.
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Thanks, really helpfull!
I have a problem;Do I have a I9020 or I9023?
When I look in settings-about phone it is Baseband version I9023XXKB1, but if I look in the fastboot mode I find Baseband version I9020XXKB1.
Witch one is correct?
Please help,
Thank you
peeturr said:
Try loading i9023 Odin files onto your i9020.
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shame on someone using a rom not even made for there phone but still i dont see how that will perm brick your phone when you can still access download mode
Sorry in advance if im posting this in the wrong thread or if this has been posted before....
I have a Vibrant and i was updating using samsung kies. I never rooted my phone or did and customize things to it. i was going through the updating process when samsung kies said that the update failed and to disconncet my phone. so i disconnected my phone (the screen said download mode and do not turn off target). now when i try to turn my phone on i get a black screen with a phone triangle and computer logo. it will not go in to recovery. cau u please help... thanks
hopefully there is a way to fix this without using odin
odin and download mode there is a thread in development about in the bible i think about unbricking a vibrant, its very hard to brick a vibrant completely, I have done so before, but you can recover via odin.
Your phone is not fully bricked. and your better off than me half the time
How were you trying to boot into recovery if you've never rooted or customized? Your phone is not completely bricked if its turning on so I'm sure there's a fix.
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http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6998-howto-recover-from-a-soft-brick-on-your-vibrant/
that should have everything you need, you wont be able to get into recovery you need to get into download mode
Rooster85 said:
How were you trying to boot into recovery if you've never rooted or customized? Your phone is not completely bricked if its turning on so I'm sure there's a fix.
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You can boot into recovery without being rooted... i did it before when i wanted to do a hard reset.. plus the tmobile rep wanted me to try and boot into recovery to do a hard reset and clear all user data.
BossLady said:
Sorry in advance if im posting this in the wrong thread or if this has been posted before....
I have a Vibrant and i was updating using samsung kies. I never rooted my phone or did and customize things to it. i was going through the updating process when samsung kies said that the update failed and to disconncet my phone. so i disconnected my phone (the screen said download mode and do not turn off target). now when i try to turn my phone on i get a black screen with a phone triangle and computer logo. it will not go in to recovery. cau u please help... thanks
hopefully there is a way to fix this without using odin
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remove the battery for five minutes, then reinsert it. You can now go back to the normal download mode. ANd I think you can even boot up normally. The former scenario happened to me so I am quite sure of that.
THANKS!!!!
big thanks to everyone i got my phone up and running again. i used odin (which was tricky) and followed the steps i saw in a youtube video. right before i was about to give up i called tmobile and ordered a replacement phone ....lol...tried one more time and it worked im SOOOO HAPPY this is a great community of people , couldnt have done it without u guys THANKS AGAIN!
I always brick my baby, and Odin is always there to save me