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Possible brick?

So I've encountered the soft brick many times and been fine. Well now, after messing with Odin, the phone is off and won't come back on.
I've attempted turning it on with the power, power + vol up/down, plugged in, pulled the battery for a few mins and tried again, etc...
Is this a possible full on brick?

try doing it without pressing the power button

To expand a little on what chikin said
1. remove battery, sim and sd cards
2. plug in usb from phone to pc
3. holding only the volume buttons (up and down), pop the battery back in
This should launch you into dl mode. I remember last week someone was having the same issue, phone would not respong to anything and would not power on, and this method brought him to dl mode where he could use odin to flash to stock. If it doesn't work at first, keep trying, patience and persistence is the key.

Br1cK'd said:
To expand a little on what chikin said
1. remove battery, sim and sd cards
2. plug in usb from phone to pc
3. holding only the volume buttons (up and down), pop the battery back in
This should launch you into dl mode. I remember last week someone was having the same issue, phone would not respong to anything and would not power on, and this method brought him to dl mode where he could use odin to flash to stock. If it doesn't work at first, keep trying, patience and persistence is the key.
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Oh wow, thank you so much! I was ready to drop this thing in the toilet and go make an insurance claim today.

Did you get 'er to boot?
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Damn, think I am on the same boat and it's slowing sinking. Just got my phone last night too and followed the video on how to flash the AXURA Vibrant edition rom and everything appeared to go smoothly and then after it was done I rebooted my phone and now I can't turn it on and even tried the pulled battery method mentioned here too.
How long does it take after you pop in the battery? A few seconds or a minute before something comes up on screen? Thanks.

My Epic came unplugged, now its bricked.

If this is asked else were I apologies as I did a search but could not find anything. Short story, my Epic came unplugged before Odin3 finished. Now I cannot get the phone to power on. It will not go into download mode or recovery. I pulled the battery and hit vol. up and power, but nothing happens. I am just about sure there is no hope for the phone, but it is worth a shot. Does anyone know if it is possibly to fix a bricked phone that will not turn on?
Thanks

Will it go into download mode again? do a battery pull and try to go back to download mode. does the samsung logo show when you boot the phone?

I pulled the battery, and still nothing. When I try to power it never comes to life, no logo nothing its like I do not have a battery in it when I hit the power button, but the battery is fully charged.

Art2Fly said:
Will it go into download mode again? do a battery pull and try to go back to download mode. does the samsung logo show when you boot the phone?
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Download mode: Slide out the kbd, hold the 1 key, press and hold the power button on the side until you get the download screen with the yellow caution triangle and the ditch digger guy...

Holding power and 1 also does nothing.

I think pulling the plug while ODIN is running is literally the only way you can brick this phone, other than running it over with a car.

Did you have full batterywhen you started? Does odin recognize the com port when you plug the phone in?
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I did have full batterywhen I did it, but I was using my laptop and went to move causing my phone to fall and become unplugged before it was finished. I just tried plugging in the phone again and nothing came up Odin did not recognize it.

I have had to unplug the phone while odin was running several times because it stopped progressing with the flash. I have been lucky enough to never have a total brick. I would suggest pulling the battery and hitting keys on the keyboard to ensure the power is completely drained, the putting in the battery while holding the 1 key and power.... Always does the trick for me.
You are making sure the phone its in download mode and odin is running before plugging your phone in, right?
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Oh my; that sucks. I hope you can get it replaced without any issues.
Good luck, with the next one. Tie it to the desk during the Odin process.

You said you pulled the battery then hit Vol. Up and power...
To get into recovery you need to hit Vol. Down + Camera + Power (hope you had a Backup)

Even after pulling the battery it still will not come back to life. I was at the sprint store and told them that I was doing the over the air update and this is what happened. The tech told me that he has seen a few Epics turn into bricks because of the update went wrong. I will have a new one on Monday but it was worth a try to see if there was a fix since the phone they let me use sucks. Now I will be a little scared putting roms on my phone once I get my new one. Thanks for the help anyway.

Jase3040 said:
Now I will be a little scared putting roms on my phone once I get my new one. Thanks for the help anyway.
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Don't be. What happened to you is next to impossible. If you don't chuck your phone around while Odining, it won't happen again.

k0nane said:
Don't be. What happened to you is next to impossible. If you don't chuck your phone around while Odining, it won't happen again.
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Yes... ODIN + ADHD is not a good combination

Your phone is not bricked. I had this scenario happen to me. The way I got the phone working again is to take the battery out and then plug the USB cable in. At that point I was able to have the keyboard open, hold down the 1 key+power and the phone went in to dload mode. It worked for me, I am betting it would work for you.

I forgot to mention, leave the battery out of the phone while doing this.

Socos25 I have to say I had hope for this, but I still have the same problem…… however, still nothing but a blank screen that is darker then the bottom of the ocean.

I feel your pain, buddy.
I hate to admit it, but I did the same thing when my phone was 29 days old. In my case I think I started by using the wrong PID file and the process hung. I got worried and unplugged the phone after about 2 minutes. I tried every combination possible to get the phone to wake up but each time it got worse. There was no way to get it back into download mode.
I ended up taking it to a Sprint service center. The tech was sure he could reflash it, but after 20 minutes he came back and said it was dead. Since it was under 30 days they gave me a new phone. Thank you Sprint.
Anyway, I'm pretty nervous these days when using Odin. It IS possible to brick this phone using Odin (as we both know). When I use Odin now I triple check every step, do it on a laptop with a full battery, put the phone down and step away from it until it's finished.
It's likely that if you take it to a Sprint service center they will replace it for a $35 fee. That may be your only option at this point.

Thinking back.. Pull the battery, hold down the power button for like 10 seconds. Then with the battery out of the phone plug in the USB cable. try the 1+power button.
I am pretty sure tha is how I got mine back after I accidently dropped the phone when odin'ing. Does the LED light up when you plug in the usb cable?

I've pulled my phone over 20 times turing an ODIN process to try and brick it. It just doesn't happen with these Samsung phones. You may get stuck at the Samsung screen, but chances are if that you battery is either dead or you keyboard is broken. Cause through 5 phones with trading I can't seem to brick one.

My g900F is Hard Bricked - Help me please

Hello.
I've flashed my s5 with popwizh and everything went well. But after a full battery discharge the phone won't turn back on.
Battery is good and charger.
volUp+home+power doesn't do anything
volDown+home+power doesn't start download recovery
tried to boot from sdcard with a debrick img but no luck.
What more can I do? I don't want a paperweight please.

Charge it?

Battery is good and charged

If you can't get it to even turn on or enter download mode, there's not a lot you can do
Try removing everything like SIM and SDCard, remove the battery too and only connect the charger, see if you can get any signs of life at all
If not, it sounds like a hardware problem

Its to much of a coincidence to be a hardware problem, I refuse to give up just yet.
So far all the posts that resemble to my situation go on an on about flashing a debrick.img to the sdcard and boot from there. Dead boots and stuff.
I did this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626 but without success

You said it won't even power on ?
How you going to flash anything without power?
I'm not saying 100% this is the problem, but most devices die when they are powered on, as that is when they are put under the highest stress
For example, I put away my treadmill in the corner of the room about 6 months ago, working - came to use it a few weeks ago, dead
Looks like pixies killed it, but actually it was when it was powered up again, just looks like it died when it was off
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Is the phones power button working?
If you at least had a sign of life, we could go from there, but without any power at all, I have no clue
Battery connection contacts not bent or snapped?

From what I understand the phone won't turn on because the boot partition is gone, so if I manage to boot from the sd card to the download recovery, I can then use odin to flash it back to stock android.
Am i wrong?

Are you even getting the logo on screen when you turn it on?
Does the screen even light up?
You said there is no power at all, that's not a boot partition problem

Man if it's not turning on and there's no reaction when you press the power button then there's two things I can suggest : the power button is not working; or when the battery went completely dead its safety system thing could have turned on, which means you have to put it to charge as long as it takes for it to turn on again. Plus if your phone was exposed to water which I doubt its power controller could have gotten burnt

Have you plugged it into a pc? See if it registers with that and if it dies but still doesn't boot just try to leave it on the charger for a few hours even if it's fully charged. Then battery out for 10 secs wait... wait... wait... and turn it on plugged into the wall. Or at least try. If that still won't work samsung repair Centre for you

Still no life, I've tried everything said so far. My only hope is a debrick.img to boot from the sd card, which I don't have.

maskioice said:
Still no life, I've tried everything said so far. My only hope is a debrick.img to boot from the sd card, which I don't have.
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Try to plug the phone to adb and see if it recognize it , if it's not i don't know maybe try another battery to see if its battery related or other hardware composant

S7 Bricked? Won't boot, doesn't appear to charge

As title states, have a sm-g935f running stock firmware that won't boot.
Had issues with it freezing and rebooting so re-flashed stock firmware, has run fine for approximately 3 weeks now when suddenly, whilst installing swiftkey it froze, then turned off. Had roughly 50% charge at this point. Have googled for hours now, tried different button combinations for varying lengths of time to try to boot. Have left it to charge for 2 hours and have just had another crack at it. Charge indicator does not appear on screen when plugged in, led at top of display does nothing at any point.
I'm out of ideas at this point, really could use the expertise of the greater xda community now, this is my only phone and its unusable right now leaving me connectivity-ly stranded.
Thanks in advanced for the help guys :cyclops:

Can u boot into Recovery mode?

No, it does nothing at all. It won't even attempt to turn on

So brick it is.

Boot it into Download mode by pressing Vol Down + Home key and Power Key. Then open Smartswitch app click preferences and click emergency recovery follow the steps then

I also had this problem. Basically you need to follow SjDU. If you cannot get into download mode. Try and leave the phone uncharged for 24 hours. Then charge for about 30 min and try to get into download mode.

AndrOmega said:
So brick it is.
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Why thank you, so helpful

Thanks guys, ill leave for 24 hours, i just have no way of knowing whether its uncharged or not, it really gives nothing at all regardless of what i do. Not even a slight vibrate when i plug it into a charger or pc.
regardless, ill leave it and report back
Thanks

Hi,
It seems to me that it's really dead, give a try at leaving it uncharged for a few hours and then trying again.
However I wouldn't hold my expectations up, I had a similar problem with the Galaxy S4, phone was constant freezing after a Stock flash (I was using custom ROM before), then tried to restart the phone, phone got stuck and removed battery. Turned out bootloader died and I had to flash it again using JTAG (S4 was pretty easy to open up).
I hope that you won't need to use a JTAG Flash, since it needs to open the device and obviously S7 is pretty hard to get to the circuit. An easy option is trying an USB JIG to get to download mode (that is, if your phone has charge - hence you will need to try first the option others suggested - and a working bootloader), you can easily find this device for less than 5 dollars on eBay.
Hope you get your beloved device working again.
All the best,
~Lord
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Axon 7 Bricked To Hell

Hello All,
Yesterday I dropped my phone and the power button got stuck. I opened the phone with my tools and was able to fix the button. I didn't power it off, I didn't think it was needed since the button itself has nothing to do with the electronics inside. While I was closing its back It suddenly turned off. I was very gentle, didn't do any fast or unsafe moves. Since then the phone shows no sign of life. I plugged the phone the my pc but there wasn't any sign of life either. The phone didn't show up on Device Manager or anywhere else. One time, I heard a connection sound but I am not even sure if it was because of the phone since the sound came like 5 minutes after I plugged in the phone.
I already tried pressing all 3 buttons for a long time but it didn't do anything.
So what do you think? What might have caused it? And can you help me?
Thanks

First thing i would do is tear down and disconect/conect the battery flat. After that, hold volume keys while conect to pc usb and see if you can get edl mode. Than flash all that has to be flashed with miflash and edltools.

brunojborges said:
First thing i would do is tear down and disconect/conect the battery flat. After that, hold volume keys while conect to pc usb and see if you can get edl mode. Than flash all that has to be flashed with miflash and edltools.
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Thank you, I will try that when I get back to home.