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Bricked?

Editing this as I'm desperate for help and things have moved on since I first posted, below is where I am up to post 11 of this thread.
I flashed Vegacomb b (exe), it restarted but stayed on the warning about paying for vegacomb for 10-15 minutes which didn't seem right so I held power for 6 seconds and it turned off. After that it would never turn on or go into recovery (I know all the methods, none worked).
Today I unhooked the battery, when I plug the battery back in the screen comes on for a second but then it's as it was, unresponsive. HOWEVER, if I plug the mains in with the battery disconnected then it immediately tries booting but still sticks at the warning (left for over 20 minutes). If I plug the battery in while on this screen then remove the mains it stays on. The power button is unresponsive through this so I still cannot get into recovery.
Any more ideas that haven't been mentioned?
I've tried well over 100 times to get into recovery but it's not happening
anyone willing to have a go at fixing (cheaply!) if I send them it?
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Hi guys, just managed to (re?) install Vegacomb (b, from exe), it restarted but stayed on the white screen with the warning text about paying for Vegacomb for over 10 minutes so I held down the power button to turn it off, now I cannot do anything to boot it up (tried holding power button down from 0.5 seconds to 60 seconds!), it also won't boot into recovery. Is there anything at all that can be done to get this going?
cheers

OK, I've tried holding down back while plugging in (fully charged btw), tried all variations of button presses with back and power, with and without USB, with and without power cable.
Only got until 10PM (UK time) to get this sorted (it's now 6PM) so any help/advise would be appreciated

Flash back to modded stock then try again.
From modded stock go app drawer and run recovery
From recovery wipe data, cache then go advance then wipe dalvik
Then press back
Then install zip from SD
Choose vegacomb from whatever directory on your SD you copied it to then confirm
If you ain't Got Vegacombe zip then download it.
Or you could run the .exe again but the above is my preferred method.
Also you might need to download modded stock v2 if you ain't already got it.
Good luck.

intel007 said:
Flash back to modded stock then try again.
From modded stock go app drawer and run recovery
From recovery wipe data, cache then go advance then wipe dalvik
Then press back
Then install zip from SD
Choose vegacomb then confirm
If you ain't Got Vegacombe zip then download it.
Or you could run the .exe again but the above is my preferred method.
Good luck.
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the Vega won't turn on and won't go into recovery, cannot flash anything, nothing comes up on PC, tried all variations of the back and power buttons (inc back, plug in power & usb, press power, leave 2 seconds and release back) over 100 times. it's like it's dead.
the only thing it does is show a blue LED when I plug the power cable in

I've read that if you got less than 50 or 60% battery it wont go into flash mode (back button 2 seconds - power & back 2 seconds)
Have you got enough battery cause mine takes half a day to charge.

intel007 said:
I've read that if you got less than 50 or 60% battery it wont go into flash mode (back button 2 seconds - power & back 2 seconds)
Have you got enough battery cause mine takes half a day to charge.
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100% (solid blue LED), been on charge for over 24 hours

I'm baffled mate, I've had same issue couple of times but after 10mins or so I've always got it to power back on.

Bricked
I've had the same problem and although quite drastic, remove the rear cover and unplug the battery connection (the multipin one with red and brown/black wires).
With the mains plug out,i found that if you press volume up and power with the wires unplugged and leav eit for a few mins then use back + power it will start as you need it to.
It may take a few tries but i have managed to do it following this procedure about 7-8 times.
Hope this helps.
DAve

I had trouble getting into recovery when the Vega was 100% charged (i.e. charge led was solid blue). When I let it discharge a little so it was flashing with the charger plugged in, I managed to get into recovery then.

dmarchant said:
I had trouble getting into recovery when the Vega was 100% charged (i.e. charge led was solid blue). When I let it discharge a little so it was flashing with the charger plugged in, I managed to get into recovery then.
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I can't discharge it though as it doesn't turn on, left it 14 hours from last night, back at work again now and it still says fully charged
got the battery disconnected now to give it a try

Disconnected battery for around 10 minutes, put it all back together, still can't boot or get to recovery
EDIT: it works when the battery is disconnected (goes to the Vegacomb warning screen but no further, cannot power off or get to recovery still)
any ideas?

Anyone got any ideas?
it's meant to be unbrickable from what I've read so there must be a way around it but I'm out of ideas!

its user error. remeber to put it into recovery mode you need the power cable plugged into it too as well as usb.

slybunda said:
its user error. remeber to put it into recovery mode you need the power cable plugged into it too as well as usb.
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Cheers, but its not user error. I'm not that stupid

Hi, this may not help but i had trouble flashing the stock rom because of the battery being fully charged, could only get the screen to light up so left it over night and then went through the normal routine and got into recovery.
Bill

Hi there
Just one question, how do you know for sure it hasn't gone into nvflash mode?
I know what you are going through trying to get the ruddy thing into nvflash, it's a mare if you don't quite get that timing right but seeing as the screen doesn't light up when it's in nvflash what is telling you whether you are actually in it, other than the screen coming on to say you are not or relying on a windows message?
As I said I had the same problems many a time but I use Audi tool now to tell me if nvflash has started, I got it off the Modaco forum, but when you are in nvflash it actually tells you so rather than relying on perhaps windows to tell you it has happened
If you haven't come across the audi tool before then just do a search for it on Modaco, I don't know if they have got it here on XDA.

mmace said:
Anyone got any ideas?
it's meant to be unbrickable from what I've read so there must be a way around it but I'm out of ideas!
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wow, i'm quite surprised by the number of people who are taking their batteries out when they think there is a problem. You should never need to do this unless it is actually faulty.
Ok yes the Vega is nearly indestructible I have had my in a complete mess many times and have never had to do anything that hard to recover. Some times it will be a pain to get into nvflash mode but this can always be done just have to be patient and know a couple of tricks.
If you have tried the back button and then the power a few times and nothing there is another method.
Instead unplug the power then hold the back button down, whilst holding down the back button plug in the power release the back button after a couple of seconds (I like to count to 5)
I am hoping that you already have the USB cable connected and the right drivers installed on your PC.
Billy..
If you need more help head over to TabletRoms and look in the Vega forum (sorry XDA guys just there is a lot of other useful information there)

wks said:
Hi, this may not help but i had trouble flashing the stock rom because of the battery being fully charged, could only get the screen to light up so left it over night and then went through the normal routine and got into recovery.
Bill
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I've tired fully charged and letting the battery drain for 40+ mins after it's been on the "warning" screen
mitt69 said:
Hi there
Just one question, how do you know for sure it hasn't gone into nvflash mode?
I know what you are going through trying to get the ruddy thing into nvflash, it's a mare if you don't quite get that timing right but seeing as the screen doesn't light up when it's in nvflash what is telling you whether you are actually in it, other than the screen coming on to say you are not or relying on a windows message?
As I said I had the same problems many a time but I use Audi tool now to tell me if nvflash has started, I got it off the Modaco forum, but when you are in nvflash it actually tells you so rather than relying on perhaps windows to tell you it has happened
If you haven't come across the audi tool before then just do a search for it on Modaco, I don't know if they have got it here on XDA.
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I have Audi, I also have Device manager open, I know 100% it's never gone into recovery mode sine I started with this problem.
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wow, i'm quite surprised by the number of people who are taking their batteries out when they think there is a problem. You should never need to do this unless it is actually faulty.
Ok yes the Vega is nearly indestructible I have had my in a complete mess many times and have never had to do anything that hard to recover. Some times it will be a pain to get into nvflash mode but this can always be done just have to be patient and know a couple of tricks.
If you have tried the back button and then the power a few times and nothing there is another method.
Instead unplug the power then hold the back button down, whilst holding down the back button plug in the power release the back button after a couple of seconds (I like to count to 5)
I am hoping that you already have the USB cable connected and the right drivers installed on your PC.
Billy..
If you need more help head over to TabletRoms and look in the Vega forum (sorry XDA guys just there is a lot of other useful information there)
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TabletRoms has been no help for me, there's been no reply at all for my problem but there has here and at MoDaCo. I pulled the battery as a last resort as NOTHING is working, I've tried all the tricks at least 2 dozen times, some a hundred +, including the one you mention

Well I don't want to teach you to suck eggs, but I take it you did use Audi to delete and replace your drivers.
And then when powering on the Vega you held the back button for 2 secs and then the back and power buttons for 6 secs to get the Vega detected?
For me I can only see that there can only be 3 other possible causes
1./ the back button is broken on the vega
2./ The USB port on your PC or on the Vega has gone up the swanee
3./ The USB lead is no good
The Vega may be unbrickable but if the back button or the USB port has had it then .....

Yeah, tried it, cheers.

galaxy tab 10.1 p7500 shut off- bricked?

hey to all, its my first msg here so ill try to describe as much as i can
I'm reading in XDA for a while, almost every question i had i found the answer here somewhere so thanks all all of you!
i have the p7500 tab with JellyBeanRom ICS v6 XXLQ8 with the A1 kernel (installed it few days ago, till then i was with JellyBeanRom ICS v5.1 i think)
Two days ago i found my tab off, i tried to turn it on and no respond, only after at least 10-15 tries of holding the power and vol+ or vol- and just holding each one of them separately for 20-60 seconds one the combinations boot it on.
I used the tab like nothing happened , fixed permissions and it worked fine until the screen went off (i think only when it was in 'deep sleep' cos i turned off the screen few times only for few sec and it was ok). sine that moment the tab was off again for 12 hours, only today again after lots of tries and strange combinations i succeed to boot it again.
I installed the rom again, wiped every option, fixed permissions again and used again the tab for 45 min (while he was with screen on) and it worked ok, connected it to the pc and it was fine, i went to a meeting with the tab in my bag and i got out and the tab is still off.
when its off, the computer doesn't recognize it, the tab is no charging since the morning and still nothing.
any idea please? i have a cwm backup that maybe can help me but need to boot first

If you were having stange problems with turning it on, why didn't you look into it the first, or second time?
Anyway, this happened to me on my tab using one of the JB roms.
-Have you tried charging with charger and not the PC?
-When you plug it in to the wall, do you get the battery icon, even for a short few seconds?
Just to confirm, you have tried holding the power button for 30-40 seconds and it doesn't do anything? Do you feel it vibrate at all?

i didnt thought to look it up at the first time cos i thought its only a glitch cos i turned it on again and it worked fine, the 2nd time i reinstalled the rom and wiped everything..
-Have you tried charging with charger and not the PC? Yes, tried few chargers and 2 different cables
-When you plug it in to the wall, do you get the battery icon, even for a short few seconds? nope, didnt got anything, no battery icon.
Just to confirm, you have tried holding the power button for 30-40 seconds and it doesn't do anything? Do you feel it vibrate at all? yes i tried it, i even used a tape to hole the power button for few hours, and also to hold power and vol-.. and no vibration at all
if ill take it to samsung lab, they have any way to know that i changed rom? cos if its off, i can tell them that i didn't changed a thing and like this the warranty still good

please help..?

If it's still not turning on then I suspect it's a hardware issue. If you can get it to turn on again flash a stock rom and test.
If it turns off again your only option is to send it in for repair. Alot of times they will fix it and not care about the rom.
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I9515 will only turn on after an hour without battery and not even complete bootlogo

Hi there,
so I have here a Galaxy S4 Value Edition Black (I9515) and it is doing simply nothing. Just black screen, no lights, no vibration, battery is charged in another phone to be sure! I tried all the normal button combinations for Recovery or Download mode but nothing happens. Not even a charging indicator when plugged in.
Story:
I had it on my desk over night with the battery pulled out and in the morning I was able to get to the boot logo with the blue recovery text. But it will just hang there. After one or two tries it will only display half the bootlogo before it goes back to doing nothing again.
So I waited another few hours with the battery out and tried using a USB JIG to get into Download mode. This surprisingly worked on the second try and the phone stayed for around 20 minutes in this mode and was also identified by ODIN. While searching and downloading the correct stock pda I disconnected the phone und reconnected it every minute to check if its still working. After around 20 minutes it was still recognized by windows but not anymore by ODIN. So I now have to wait another few hours to get back into Download mode.
Questions:
-What could trigger such an "only power on when discharged"-behaviour? Fuses, Capacitors? idk
- Is there a way to quickly discharge every component on the board, so that i dont have to wait that long.
- What Hardware components should I inspect closer? Measunring points? Voltages? (multimeter at hand)
Thanks in advance!

Hard Bricked Samsung galaxy s7 edge

Hi! I managed to hard brick my galaxy s7 edge and i wanna see if someone here knows if its hard bricked or soft.
Got root and had renovate rom 2.0 ( n7 port) then i wiped my phone and flashed renovate 3.3 (s7 edge stock)
my phone worked fine on startup and i started to restore my old apps through gmail. i thought it would take a while so put my phone in my pocked and let it be fore about 20 minutes then when i took it up it was complete dead. i had about 67% before it died i tried everything (vol up down home all together) for at least 15+ sec. had it charge over the night ( i noticed that the phone didnt get warm or any leds shown) in the morning i tried everything again and nothing. when i connect my phone to my computer i hear the connect sound and then it disconnect a sec later. if i hold power button down and connect it ( and dont release power) my computer recognize it as onyx8890 and if i release powerbutton it disconnects. cant boot it in any way whatsoever. so what do you think? its only a week old thats the worst part of it!
I have left it to the store I bought it from for warrantable but its still rooted and have a rom on it. well if its complete dead they cant see if its rooted so thats one good thing.
still want to hear you opinion
sorry for bad english

so, from what I understand, u cant boot into any mode, are u even able to see something on screen? (logo, boot screen, etc.) U can try JIG (it somehow make any samsung device go to download mode). otherwise idk.

Hi guys, I have the same problem with my S7 Edge.
Can anyone help?

OK. So I managed to recover my phone.
The phone was dead because of a software crash(nothing on display, no LED light, power+vol. down for reset not working) and when connected to my PC - nothing (just a connect and after 1 sec. a disconnect sound).
But if I kept the power button pressed without letting go, my PC would detect the phone as exynos8890.
I tried to keep pressing the power+vol. down while connected to PC and I realized that the combo worked because after ~7 seconds the phone would disconnect and reconnect itself (but still as exynos8890).
But I tried a different approach. While connected to the PC I tried to keep on pressing power+vol. down. And I could hear that it disconnected and reconnected. But I did not let go of the buttons. And again a connect and disconnect. And again. And after literally 5 minutes of the buttons kept pressed down without letting go and countless reconnects there was finally a change. The disconnect sound was not heard after the connect sound. At that point I stopeed pressing the buttons and when I looked at the phone I could see that the battery icon appeared. Since the phone was connected to my PC, after 1 min. the battery started charging (it was charged 31%). And after that my phone booted fine.

wow

Hi I have just bought an s7 which turned out to be a Korean G930L but I cant get any response out if it apart from the 2 bottom leds and and the blue one. No response from trying to get into recovery or download mode, basically a black screen though it does vibrate on what i think is start up. It is found by pc and Odin and charges ok, I can tell as I can see properties on pc. But no other response. Is it possible that the previous owner tried to root it using non korean rom or TWRP? Any advice on how to fix either getting TWRP on or screen to light up. I am sorry for being so vague I have pulled it apart and checked all of the connections, screen, motherboard etc but nothing. Or chuck it out or put back on eBay. I tried your idea but it only booted once in that 5 minute period so I tried without it plugged in and rebooted several times but still no screen response.

Is my phone a bricked lost cause?

I was running a standard OS, no root/custom/anything (mostly because I couldn't find a compatible hack). Anyway, I had my phone running happily for ~2+ years, no trouble at all, but few days ago I left it charging for 2-3 days (it powered down due to lower power before that). I've done it before several times, but when I tried turning it on, it was stuck on Samsung logo (white on black). I restarted, it was stuck a bit further on the colored startup animation. Third time, stuck on the logo again. I turned it off, but it was a bit warm after 10 or so minutes. I tried charging it - it showed the usual green battery charging from 80% or so. I took the battery out, pressed the power button for a minute for some hard reset, but the battery back in, and from that point on it seems I have a brick. No reaction to power button, no reaction to charging. Power+Home+VolUp produce no reaction, either.
Is there anything I can try, or should I just give up?

Factory reset ??
Flash stock rom via Odin ??
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piokon said:
I was running a standard OS, no root/custom/anything (mostly because I couldn't find a compatible hack). Anyway, I had my phone running happily for ~2+ years, no trouble at all, but few days ago I left it charging for 2-3 days (it powered down due to lower power before that). I've done it before several times, but when I tried turning it on, it was stuck on Samsung logo (white on black). I restarted, it was stuck a bit further on the colored startup animation. Third time, stuck on the logo again. I turned it off, but it was a bit warm after 10 or so minutes. I tried charging it - it showed the usual green battery charging from 80% or so. I took the battery out, pressed the power button for a minute for some hard reset, but the battery back in, and from that point on it seems I have a brick. No reaction to power button, no reaction to charging. Power+Home+VolUp produce no reaction, either.
Is there anything I can try, or should I just give up?
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The only answer I can think of is that your battery is dead. I would try to use another battery before getting to the conclusion that your phone is completely bricked. Or just let the battery out of your phone for a couple of days and try again later.

JJEgan said:
Factory reset ??
Flash stock rom via Odin ??
Sent from my SM-N930F using XDA-Developers Legacy app
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Can't do either since the phone is not turning on.

ShaDisNX255 said:
The only answer I can think of is that your battery is dead. I would try to use another battery before getting to the conclusion that your phone is completely bricked. Or just let the battery out of your phone for a couple of days and try again later.
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Tried a new battery, the phone still won't turn on. No lights, no charging screen, no activity.

piokon said:
Tried a new battery, the phone still won't turn on. No lights, no charging screen, no activity.
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Must have fried something. The only thing I would check now is to connect it to a PC with a USB cable and see if the PC detects something, ANYTHING. If it makes sounds that something has been connected to it. I remember when I hard bricked my phone, it did not turn on at all but my PC still sort of detected it. I guess that is the only thing left to try to give you a definite answer