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..
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I have locked hardware vibrant should I take the chance of installing clockwork. And flash rom's Cuz what if I get stuck in vibrant screen than I can't do anything. I bricked my last phone. By usin Odin by adb. It just froze on Odin after that there was no going back. So what should I do?
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flameinthefire said:
I have locked hardware vibrant should I take the chance of installing clockwork. And flash rom's Cuz what if I get stuck in vibrant screen than I can't do anything. I bricked my last phone. By usin Odin by adb. It just froze on Odin after that there was no going back. So what should I do?
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I personally have had no issues flashing at all. I do not have a locked vibrant but I've literally pulled the cable when in the middle of flashing with odin just to try to brick it, which thankfully I've had good luck thus far. However this is up to your discretion. If you feel competent enough to do it, then go for it. Otherwise if you feel that you'd rather not risk another brick then i'd step back.
Good Luck
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.
Hello guys,
I have problem with my friends facinate.
I don't know what he did but when I tried to boot this phone, I see those logo.
I can't get into recovery mode or odin mode.
Please help me guys~!
brozroy said:
Hello guys,
I have problem with my friends facinate.
I don't know what he did but when I tried to boot this phone, I see those logo.
I can't get into recovery mode or odin mode.
Please help me guys~!
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looks like he tried booting captivate firmware on his fascinate
nitsuj17 said:
looks like he tried booting captivate firmware on his fascinate
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How can I get into odin3
Make sure you have the fascinate drivers.
Pull the battery.
Connect phone via USB to your computer.
Hold volume down button then press power.
That should boot it into download (Odin) mode
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K40 said:
Make sure you have the fascinate drivers.
Pull the battery.
Connect phone via USB to your computer.
Hold volume down button then press power.
That should boot it into download (Odin) mode
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It works on my phone. But not on this phone. Is there any other way?
Thanks
Only other way, that I am aware of, is to boot holding the volume down button with the battery in then connect to USB after the downloader launches.
Did your friend possibly install CWM? If so try holding both volume buttons down and going through Clock Work Mod.
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Also if you can boot using the second method but don't have CWM installed you can possibly add another ROM named update.zip to the root of the sdcard and use the standard recovery launcher.
This information may be innacurate I come more from Palm Pre tweaking, but I believe that's what I read.
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I have never seen a Galaxy S phone not be able to get to download mode.. but I think I've only seen one other person dumb enough to flash a Capitvate rom / kernel onto a Fascinate..
That being said, if removing the battery (don't put it back in), plugging in USB and holding volume-down doesn't bring up download mode, you're screwed. The phone obviously needs to be made inoperable before returning. An easy way to do that would be to disconnect the cable to the screen. Alternatively, and much more dangerously, you could microwave if for a few seconds at a time until it dies.
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Alternatively, and much more dangerously, you could microwave if for a few seconds at a time until it dies.
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Are you serious?
Inoperable would be a last ditch effort in my opinion. Mistakes happen. These are the kind of mistakes that not only the OP and his friend learn from but also the community as a whole. If we can get him through this we also learn how to help others that make similar mistakes.
Modding / hacking whatever you wish to call it comes down to learning. We learn what works and what doesn't and we try to help others not make those mistakes. I prefer to try everything before nuking a phone that can be recovered.
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K40 said:
Inoperable would be a last ditch effort in my opinion. Mistakes happen. These are the kind of mistakes that not only the OP and his friend learn from but also the community as a whole. If we can get him through this we also learn how to help others that make similar mistakes.
Modding / hacking whatever you wish to call it comes down to learning. We learn what works and what doesn't and we try to help others not make those mistakes. I prefer to try everything before nuking a phone that can be recovered.
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Thanks. I hope there is other way to flash it.
Keep trying holding both volume buttons down while powering up. If you can get into the default recovery or the download interface this can be corrected.
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I have never seen a Galaxy S phone not be able to get to download mode.. but I think I've only seen one other person dumb enough to flash a Capitvate rom / kernel onto a Fascinate..
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Yeah. I know. He is very young kids. I think he didn't even read title of thread.
Sorry am at work, any progress on getting the downloader to launch?
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I would gather he is at the vzw store signing into the kiosk right now and waiting for his name to be called.
good day.
Was just trying to take the small amount of information I have acquired and help the person out.
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K40 said:
Sorry am at work, any progress on getting the downloader to launch?
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Still stuck in att boot logo
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Still stuck in att boot logo
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To be honest, you cant fix it.
You can get it to boot once again if you can ever get it back into DL mode, but the phone wont work again. Not until we get a leak for a complete odin package, and that isnt gonna happen anytime soon.
I posted on my odin thread and pretty much any other thread i have done that you should not flash any other galaxy s device's firmware to the fascinate, they are not interchangeable like that. I hope he has insurance on his phone.
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To be honest, you cant fix it.
You can get it to boot once again if you can ever get it back into DL mode, but the phone wont work again. Not until we get a leak for a complete odin package, and that isnt gonna happen anytime soon.
I posted on my odin thread and pretty much any other thread i have done that you should not flash any other galaxy s device's firmware to the fascinate, they are not interchangeable like that. I hope he has insurance on his phone.
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Thank you guys. I'll just tell him. Good night
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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
ok, maybe not 100's of times but my bootloader showed 52 last time i flashed. Not sure what happened, but something went wrong. My phone only shows a picture of a phone, with a yellow triangle, and a picture of a computer. Under that it says firmware failed, and under that it says try recovery mode. Download mode, and recovery mode shows the the same screen described as above, and odin does not see phone. I left the battery out over night, and this morning, the same screen, and odin still don't see the phone. I know all the key combos to get into recovery or download mode, and neither works.
You have a bricked phone now. Use JIG USB to save it!
I had similar problem and resolved mine by removing the battery, reinserting it and holding down volume down and home keys while powering on (download mode). Then I connected phone to pc via usb and used odin to flash kernel. Hope that works for you.
Or you could try this
One-Click UnBrick
it seems this is the job for a USB jig (I think)
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Have you tried recovery firmware option via KIES?
Bah, just take out battery and put it back in and go to download mode and flash the firmware with Odin.
Thanks God i've got my Jig..
is it related with the limitation write of the NAND flash? quite worry about it..any idea?
You only need a jig if you can't get into download mode. Though from what I've read on here might be good to have to reset the flash counter.
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You only need a jig if you can't get into download mode. Though from what I've read on here might be good to have to reset the flash counter.
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and pretty sure the OP said he can't get into download mode...hence the need for a jig...
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Does the number of times flashed has anything to do with the failure? Is there a limit after which the hardware gets weaker?
Believe me. Most rom chefs or developers in here flash at least 500+ times (if they tested their product) and I don't think they have issue. (I flash my X1 at least a 1000+ times when I was a rom chef and it's still working great now)
Flash memory does have a life span on number or Read/write. But I doubt anyone here can reach that limit with 3+ yrs (by that time, you will probably get another phone).
Agreed its unlikely that 50 odd our even a few hundred rom flashes should damage your nand memory. Unless it was faulty in the first place
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This problem..
..Was notorious on the Captivate. We lovingly referred to it "Phone ! Computer" screen.
The good news.. If you see this screen the level 1 boot loader is fine and you are only soft bricked.
If you ever plug in the phone to a power source with it turned off and you see nothing then you're screwed.
Same scenario as when you plug in a JiG and nothing happens.
budco2000 said:
My phone only shows a picture of a phone, with a yellow triangle, and a picture of a computer.
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Hold and do not release the key combo for DLM, your phone will reboot about 3 times it should then enter DLM.
I did try this before your reply and no go, I tried again today, got the same screen, however Odin and kies, both saw the phone, went back to stock then back to cognition 1.31. My captivate, inspire, and infuse ive flashed over and over and over and never bricked a phone until my S2. It's back up and going strong now. Now im afraid to flash it again. This is best phone ever and im keeping it until the S3 comes out, so im trying to not render my S2 useless yet lol
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You've developed flashphobia?
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You've developed flashphobia?
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For days, odin and kies didn't see phone no matter what I did. I'm not a developer, but I'm nowhere close to a rookie either. What ever happen was a hoax, because clockwork and download mode works as it should again. Next update for cognition i'll flash, i doubt anything will happen.
budco2000 said:
For days, odin and kies didn't see phone no matter what I did. I'm not a developer, but I'm nowhere close to a rookie either. What ever happen was a hoax, because clockwork and download mode works as it should again. Next update for cognition i'll flash, i doubt anything will happen.
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**** happens. Flashes go right 99.9% of the time when you do everything right. You just hit that 0.1% where something went wrong during the flash.