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Unable to turn it on. totally bricked
So... Are you unable to turn it on due to no fingers?
Lol yea what happened?
Well, we need a bit more info.
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1. have you tried "power button" ?
2. have you charged the phone ?
on a bright side, you are the 1st one !
Maybe your battery is loose? Not to mention that bricking a
phone is usually due to screwing up a software flash. So, is brick really the right word?
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kolyan said:
1. have you tried "power button" ?
2. have you charged the phone ?
on a bright side, you are the 1st one !
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LOL!!
Try holding down the volume down button as you turn the phone on...see if that does anything.
Only time I'd allow the "First" comment to be used in a thread.
Im guessing CW Recovery...
Thank you guys
I think it's bricked, and unrecoverable.
After several flashing, It suddenly turned off then never woke up again. Any effort so far is hopeless
bl4ckdr4g00n said:
Thank you guys
I think it's bricked, and unrecoverable.
After several flashing, It suddenly turned off then never woke up again. Any effort so far is hopeless
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What were you flashing? Give more info and maybe ppl would/could help you!
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What were you flashing? Give more info and maybe ppl would/could help you!
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I tried with captivate stock firmware, i9000 international firmware, then I flash back to vibrant stock firmware.
After had things done with Odin, my phone restarted, and it was the last time I saw my baby working as a smart phone.
Did you try to reboot the phone into recovery or download mode?
DAKIDD236 said:
Did you try to reboot the phone into recovery or download mode?
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How can I do that when I can't even turn it on?
bl4ckdr4g00n said:
How can I do that when I can't even turn it on?
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Have you tried plugging it into your charger? does the battery/charging screen come on?
bl4ckdr4g00n said:
How can I do that when I can't even turn it on?
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try this Koush posted this in his thread.. hope it works
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If you are stuck on the phone to PC screen, you are NOT bricked. During development, I ended up getting into this state a couple times myself. You can still get into download mode in the same fashion.
Connect your phone to USB so you get the phone->PC screen. Press and hold both volume up/down. Then press and also hold Home. Then start pressing and holding power for 2 seconds. After 2 seconds, let go of power. Continue holding volume up, volume down, and home, until you get into download mode.
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Have you tried plugging it into your charger? does the battery/charging screen come on?
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no, a completely blank screen.
no icon, no GUI, no nothing (
Yeah, weird...I just flashed back to US firmware and now my phone is totally unresponsive to everything. Keep in mind I've flashed back and forth several times...even once thought my phone was bricked because the power button wouldn't even turn the screen on. But after holding the correct buttons it finally booted into download mode. I was even using my phone earlier just fine, and having it run quadrant test of 1700, but as soon as I flashed back to 100% stock US firmware, my phone now no longer boots. Go figure lol.
Though this time I think it has bit the dust for real, lol. So be weary of flashing back to US firmware if you are flashing a lot of different other firmwares. Cuz I think something happens and the key combinations get deleted so it refuses to boot into any mode.
DAKIDD236 said:
try this Koush posted this in his thread.. hope it works
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I"m at the phone to pc screen..but the Home button is not a "button" it's a touch sensitive button on my vibrant and it won't go into download mode...
I got here because i flashed the custom kernel to put the market and data on a ext4 partition...and it reversed my volume buttons and reversed the routing of sound..headphone speaker..that stuff....so i couldn't hear anything...so when i went to reflash stock t-mobile firmware it told me not to unplug for like hours..it wasn't doing anything.....i took the battery out and now i'm stuck at phone to pc...i think i might just use the warranty..seeing as u can't do a think with it...atleast i can't that is..i feel like a moron...
the forum said to work on com7 but com4 was showing up in odin...i couldn't get it to go on com7 so i thought it should still work....
fykick said:
even once thought my phone was bricked because the power button wouldn't even turn the screen on. But after holding the correct buttons it finally booted into download mode.
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what was your combination?
I hold volume up and down..then hold home with those..then power for 2 seconds..let go and nothing...it doesn't recognize i'm holding the home because it's a software based button..the home key that is..and with no software...no button...so i'm afraid this screen means bricked...adb reboot download won't work either...i'm gunna get it exchanged in the morning..under buyers remorse..
Ok, My phone's internal SD decided to quit on me a couple of days ago, so I'm sending it back to Bell/Samsung for service. However, when I was speaking with the bell tech, he asked me to put the phone into recovery mode by doing the following with the phone off.
Hold Vol Up, Home and Press the Power Button.
When the Samsung GT-I9000M logo appears, let go of both Home and Power. (Keep holding Vol Up)
Now, I did happen to have one with 3 button modes enabled. But I tested it anyway and it worked.
Hopefully it's worth a shot if someone could try this with 3 button disabled.
Tried and no go for me (i9000m)
Didn't work for me neither..
Any Idea why the 3 buttons are disabled yet?
Wanna try the same thing, only keep holding power and vol up. Let go of the home button when the logo pops
If I Hold Vol Up, Home and Press the Power Button, I go into FORCED UPLOAD by KEY PRESSING mode, not recovery mode... what is this mode for and how can I get recovery mode? So my buttons arn't disabled, they just go into this mode. I am on JM1. Is this going to cause me problems if I have a bad flash? I have seen elsewhere that this FORCE UPLOAD mode should be accesed by vol down home and power
don't work
the 3 button combination you mentioned is the normal method to go into Recovery Mode, there is no secret there
for a moment i though it was a new combo
AllGamer said:
the 3 button combination you mentioned is the normal method to go into Recovery Mode, there is no secret there
for a moment i though it was a new combo
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The normal way of doing it was to release ONLY the power button. He asked me to release the home button and not the power button. Hence me asking someone without the mode to try it. Nothing more. My phone is working and goes in every time, so I had no way to know. I apologize for wasting your time.
Ok, well i'm glad this thread is started, i was about to do it before i noticed this one!
Right well, i've spoken with an engineer yesterday at a Samsung service centre near me - and he said that the 3-button recovery/download modes has to work, as this is what they use themselves in order to flash customer handsets with their own flashing equipment. So basically, he said if the 3-button modes don't work, it's a fault, and they would send the phone back to Samsung! He did in fact add that he hasn't come across this problem himself as yet. However, he went on to say he's not sure if you could get the handset swapped out purely to access the recovery/download, as customers are not meant to be using this feature!
(By the way the method given by OP didn't work for me, and i've tried quite a few!)
Recovery and download mode work on sasktel i9000m's
hi there, i'll be getting my Galaxy S later on today, just want to ask a noob question here, if the 3 button was disabled and i tried it with the combos, what will happened to my phone? will it brick and i have to send it back to repair? or i can unbrick it myself?
thanks,
Kiay
Nothing. It'll just start up normally and wont go into download- or restoremode.
ianrush said:
Nothing. It'll just start up normally and wont go into download- or restoremode.
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ah.... thanks for the quick reply, but how come people are saying that they bricked their phone and need to send it for replacement or so?
kiay reason why people have their phone bricked is because when your phone doesnt have the 3button enabled and you try to flash your phone to another FW and it stuffs up during that time you will get a PC->!->phone pic on your screen which means it wont respond to any button presses unless you put the phone in recovery/download modes ... obviously if you dont have the 3button to be able to put them in its respective modes you will have no choice but to send it in for either a fix or replacement
hope that makes sense... thats why phones with 3button disabled will have to return their phone to get fixed where as phones with 3button active it will be hard to brick a phone
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ah.... thanks for the quick reply, but how come people are saying that they bricked their phone and need to send it for replacement or so?
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Because something happened to their phone (via firmware upgrade, changing system files, or other things) and most of the time to restore these easy fixes, we need Recovery/Download mode and it's disabled on a lot of Galaxy S's.
can some one try these buttons?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8130971&postcount=31
when i do it on my phone all it does is bring up task manager and volume max
still disable
So, is there an alternative if the combo is not working on the phone?
coz, as i read in the earlier posts, end users are not supposed to know this...and the dealer might refuse to take the handset back for this "fault"...
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can some one try these buttons?
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when i do it on my phone all it does is bring up task manager and volume max
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Forced Upload works for me. My SGS has recovery disabled.
Bought in Gemany (T-Mobile branding):
GT-I9000
I90000BOJF1
ECLAIR.BOJG3
So yesterday my Kies said there was a new firmware for my SGS, and after backing up my data with kies, i started updating it. The update got stuck at 71% for 2 hours, so i decided to disconnect the cable and recover the phone afterwards. But i cant get to connection mode or download mode, I've read lots of threads in this forum, tried many combinations, tried to release power when the icon disappears, but nothing... The image with the phone, triangle and computer appears all the time, and i haven't seen anything other than this.
Also, my computer doesn't recognize the phone when connected since i tried to update the firmware.. I have also tried with Odin, but i got the same result.
So, anyone can help me? I won this phone in a christmas contest, and they haven't delivery the warranty yet, so im kinda stuck.
thanks for your time reading this.
You could try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
Read the sticky topic about JIG/JTAG.
GL.
Hum, i was trying to avoid that method, but i guess i will give it a try later. First i will try to get my warranty.
Ricardo_1991 said:
So yesterday my Kies said there was a new firmware for my SGS, and after backing up my data with kies, i started updating it. The update got stuck at 71% for 2 hours, so i decided to disconnect the cable and recover the phone afterwards. But i cant get to connection mode or download mode, I've read lots of threads in this forum, tried many combinations, tried to release power when the icon disappears, but nothing... The image with the phone, triangle and computer appears all the time, and i haven't seen anything other than this.
Also, my computer doesn't recognize the phone when connected since i tried to update the firmware.. I have also tried with Odin, but i got the same result.
So, anyone can help me? I wont this phone in a christmas contest, and they haven't delivery the warranty yet, so im kinda stuck.
thanks for your time reading this.
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The same thing happened to me a month or so ago, I managed to get it in to download mode by removing the battery, putting it back in and being very quick with my fingers to get it in to download then flashed with odin.
You backed up your data did you back up your original rom by any chance ??
jje
Remove your battery for 10 min. then try again if u hadn't solved 3 button combination before
JJEgan said:
You backed up your data did you back up your original rom by any chance ??
jje
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I don't think so.. :/
As Samsung broke the phone i would take it to a Samsung service centre before getting involved in warranty breaking flashing .
jje
JJEgan said:
As Samsung broke the phone i would take it to a Samsung service centre before getting involved in warranty breaking flashing .
jje
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very good point.
If you want to fix it yourself the mentioned battery pull will probably work.
(pull the battery out, wait a few seconds, put it back in, voldown-home-power and you should be in download)
I had a similar problem some time ago (Phone ! PC screen)... I disconnected the battery for half a day came home from uni and put the battery into the phone, while holding ALL (hard) buttons at the same time... then, download mode actually went through
theduckking said:
very good point.
If you want to fix it yourself the mentioned battery pull will probably work.
(pull the battery out, wait a few seconds, put it back in, voldown-home-power and you should be in download)
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That doesn't work.. the same screen appears all the time
Happened to me once too, just keep holding onto the buttons, it will eventually go to download mode.
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Ok guys, thanks for the support. I will keep trying, and if it fails, i will get my warranty and go to samsung.
Get ur phone into a black screen no icon so basically completely off then hold the download mode 3 button combo u phone should then turn on in download mode
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Use the download combo to turn on ur phone basically its how I got my butt saved when I first got this icon thing
I only had the phone a week so I was very happy to save it
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rudeboy150 said:
Get ur phone into a black screen no icon so basically completely off then hold the download mode 3 button combo u phone should then turn on in download mode
To sumerise
Use the download combo to turn on ur phone basically its how I got my butt saved when I first got this icon thing
I only had the phone a week so I was very happy to save it
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I did that so many times already, but the result is always the same for me...
azleep said:
Happened to me once too, just keep holding onto the buttons, it will eventually go to download mode.
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I pressed the buttons for 5 minutes, but nothing, the "phone ! computer" icon disappears for 1 second, and appears again, over and over again
@Ricardo_1991
If you remove the battery for some time(10 min.) and you still can't access download-mode then Sbl on your device has been corrupted while kies did flash the ROM, take it to a samsung service center and get it fixed.
You probably have done this but ensure your usb cable is REMOVED until you get the download mode working.
Personally I'd use the jig. As soon as you have that jig built you can have your phopne working again (and updated) in less than 30mins. Who knows how long it will take the service centre to fix it.
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Personally I'd use the jig. As soon as you have that jig built you can have your phopne working again (and updated) in less than 30mins. Who knows how long it will take the service centre to fix it.
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I agree, but im from Portugal, and i dont have any nearby store where i can buy all the materials. What i can do is order the micro sim thing from amazon.co.uk, and the 301K resistor from somewhere else..
ps: the sellers of resistors in amazon wont send them to portugal, only the micro sim plug
Good day to all!
I am experiencing a problem with my Samsung Galaxy Y and I badly need your help. This is what happened.
This morning my phone shutdown and kept on opening only until the Samsung Galaxy Y logo. So what I did was removed the battery and put it back again. At around 12 o'clock, I kept doing the same procedure and my phone opened. I was able to send messages to my friends. After 30 minutes, my phone died again. AFTER THAT INCIDENT, THE ONLY WAY TO OPEN IT IS BY REMOVING THE BATTERY, AND BY PUTTING IT BACK AGAIN, IT BOOTS UP TO THE SAMSUNG GALAXY Y LOGO ONLY! then it turns off. In order for it to open again, I'll have to remove the battery then back again. But it keeps on dying. It only reaches the Samsung Galaxy Y logo for around 5 seconds.
I tried putting it on Download Mode, but after 5 seconds it dies again.
Thank you,
Hoping for you replies, ASAP!
Did you try flashing stock?
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maybe a dead battery,
try using someone else's battery and see if it gets the issue resolved
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maybe a dead battery,
try using someone else's battery and see if it gets the issue resolved
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I already tried that. My battery works on my friends SGY. When I use his battery it's just the same problem.
Maybe it's a hardware problem.... Though u try flashing stock Rom using odin like he said..... If it happens again I think it's a job for the service centre.... Good luck
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Maybe The problem is in your hardware, because if your phone bootloop your phone not turn off automaticaly after 5 second
I sugest you to take it to samsung center
Press thanks if i help you
JGA3103 said:
Maybe it's a hardware problem.... Though u try flashing stock Rom using odin like he said..... If it happens again I think it's a job for the service centre.... Good luck
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If I'll bring it to the service center, will they know if I rooted my device and changed its ROM?
Btw, I have Hyperion 8 as my ROM
redtrashcan said:
If I'll bring it to the service center, will they know if I rooted my device and changed its ROM?
Btw, I have Hyperion 8 as my ROM
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Yes. And rooted phone= warranty exploited. So, as far as you have a stock rom( non rooted) you're good to go.
Just tell them you tried to update using kies and it got stuck.
adityaavhad said:
Yes. And rooted phone= warranty exploited. So, as far as you have a stock rom( non rooted) you're good to go.
Just tell them you tried to update using kies and it got stuck.
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I'm not using SGY's stock rom. I'm using Hyperion 8. What will they do to me if they found out that my phone is rooted?
If they find out and your phone's under warranty then they will not consider the warranty. Since you can't flash the stock rom just tell them that your phone got stuck in between the process of updating the firmware via kies. They will try to flash the stock rom via other methods and i guess then they won't know. I'm not really sure but am telling of what all I've read on online forums.
Good day fellow XDA developers and members.
I got an update with my phone. I think the power button got stuck. Why?
1.) I can access download mode with just pressing Volume down + home button
- *it boots in Download mode but closes after 5 seconds*
2.) Once it boots into the Samsung Galaxy Y Logo it closes after 4 or 5 seconds.
- I think that can only be triggered if you are still holding the power button.
3.) Every time I insert the battery, my phone turns on by itself BUT only until the Samsung Galaxy Y logo then it shuts down.
What do you guys think? As far as I know, you can't access download mode with just volume down + home button.
Thank you for your support! PLEASE KEEP ON HELPING ME! STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!
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Good day fellow XDA developers and members.
I got an update with my phone. I think the power button got stuck. Why?
1.) I can access download mode with just pressing Volume down + home button
- *it boots in Download mode but closes after 5 seconds*
2.) Once it boots into the Samsung Galaxy Y Logo it closes after 4 or 5 seconds.
- I think that can only be triggered if you are still holding the power button.
3.) Every time I insert the battery, my phone turns on by itself BUT only until the Samsung Galaxy Y logo then it shuts down.
What do you guys think? As far as I know, you can't access download mode with just volume down + home button.
Thank you for your support! PLEASE KEEP ON HELPING ME! STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!
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If its a hardware problem and you are not interested in taking your phone apart yourself then i think no one here can help you...
Take it to a service center or take your phone apart and check what the problem is....
Good day to all XDA developers and members!
Thank you for the support you showed by sending your opinions. I already fixed my phone a while ago! It's the power button that causes my phone to shutdown on boot. So what I did is took a small scissor like tool and pulled the power button out!
Thank you again XDA!
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Good day to all XDA developers and members!
Thank you for the support you showed by sending your opinions. I already fixed my phone a while ago! It's the power button that causes my phone to shutdown on boot. So what I did is took a small scissor like tool and pulled the power button out!
Thank you again XDA!
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Would be better if you stop using colors in your posts. It hurts eyes when using mobile app. Not complaining though.
And nice to hear that you got your phone fixed.
A Hero Can Be Anyone. GENERAL HELP THREAD
redtrashcan said:
Good day to all XDA developers and members!
Thank you for the support you showed by sending your opinions. I already fixed my phone a while ago! It's the power button that causes my phone to shutdown on boot. So what I did is took a small scissor like tool and pulled the power button out!
Thank you again XDA!
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thanks bro...same prob with me.....and solution also works
thanks a lot.
This must be a separate thread.
I also had the same issue a while ago and what i did was threw the phone twice and it was fixed.
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i received my Galaxy S4 I9505 a week ago and have been happily using it until today it turns on vibrates make notification sounds but the screen doesn't turn on i have taken the battery out and restarted it many times makes sounds and vibrates but still no picture and it doesnt have picture in recovery mode either.
i have never dropped the phone or scratched it its in perfect condition so i cannot see why it would stop working
i need help quick its like a child to me :crying:
pls no hate i am a noob
Screen seems to really be dead. If you've only had it for a week, you should be able to exchange it without any issue. I don't know where you live, but in Europe we have a 14 day exchange period covering us.
alienboi said:
i received my Galaxy S4 I9505 a week ago and have been happily using it until today it turns on vibrates make notification sounds but the screen doesn't turn on i have taken the battery out and restarted it many times makes sounds and vibrates but still no picture and it doesnt have picture in recovery mode either.
i have never dropped the phone or scratched it its in perfect condition so i cannot see why it would stop working
i need help quick its like a child to me :crying:
pls no hate i am a noob
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Try to take out the battery then put it back and press the volume down button without loose press also the power button.
Is anything on screen?
If no then service is the only way.
ausdim said:
Try to take out the battery then put it back and press the volume down button without loose press also the power button.
Is anything on screen?
If no then service is the only way.
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nothing and thats putting it in to recovery mode i think i said that it only vibrates in original post
alienboi said:
nothing and thats putting it in to recovery mode i think i said that it only vibrates in original post
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Download mode...
Anyway you need to visit to service center.