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flashing att logo, recovery mode sudden death?

after using the "Odin3 One-Click Downloader" my i9000 only loops the att logo on and off, recovery mode and download mode are no longer working... had anyone experienced this?

well this is f...ed up..... my i9000 was unbranded, and that one click crap must have flashed the captivate fw or smth, should i let my phone die in peace now?

There are different oneclick apps for different branded SGSs. Which one did you download? Sounds like you downloaded the AT&T version.
You have to boot your phone into download mode again to flash the correct ROM for your specific phone. There are many different ways to get the phone into download mode. Check the dev forum or instructions.

foxbat121 said:
There are different oneclick apps for different branded SGSs. Which one did you download? Sounds like you downloaded the AT&T version.
You have to boot your phone into download mode again to flash the correct ROM for your specific phone. There are many different ways to get the phone into download mode. Check the dev forum or instructions.
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"[STOCK ROM] Odin3 One-Click Downloader and Drivers" I've downloaded this one... and i cant boot into download mode, the 3 button methods died on me

Its for captivate.... And your phine iscompletely bricked. Needs a new mother board.
Why people download weird **** from untrusted sources?
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Phone is completely bricked. Happened to me, and a few others too. Seems that these one-click odin downloaders do more harm than good. Hahaha...
Anyway, phone is bricked. Samsung replaced the motherboard for me. Luckily it's under warranty at no cost to me..

Seifer1975 said:
Phone is completely bricked. Happened to me, and a few others too. Seems that these one-click odin downloaders do more harm than good. Hahaha...
Anyway, phone is bricked. Samsung replaced the motherboard for me. Luckily it's under warranty at no cost to me..
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replace the motherboard? what the fudge.. i gave it to a local repair shop (samsung recommended one) and well.. they will try to reflash it or smth.. if that wont work, how much would replacing the motherboard cost? i'm out of warranty

dupel said:
Its for captivate.... And your phine iscompletely bricked. Needs a new mother board.
Why people download weird **** from untrusted sources?
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What untrusted source? He went into Captivate forum here in XDA to download Captivate stock ROM. What do you think the outcome will be?

it might cost you around $150 or so, if i remember reading a recent post about a guy replacing his mb too. I think he had the same problem as you.

SwiftPolar said:
it might cost you around $150 or so, if i remember reading a recent post about a guy replacing his mb too. I think he had the same problem as you.
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could you find that post for me? i cant seem to find it myself...

well, so far, i've found out that by flashing the i9000 (unbranded) with a captivate FW remapped all the buttons except for the power button, so download mode or recovery mode is impossible via any button combination. But if the phone does show something on the screen, its still only semi-bricked, in my case, its stuck at the bootloader. its fixable with JTAG ... i hope the service i took it to has a jtag device and will reflash to the i9k FW. and it would only cost me 10$ for the repairs

who had a similar experience?

I had exactly the same problem, after updating my phone through kies which failed halfway through i downloaded odin which at the time i didn't know was the wrong one and not for the i9000. in the end i had to get a new phone.
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aaronlivo said:
I had exactly the same problem, after updating my phone through kies which failed halfway through i downloaded odin which at the time i didn't know was the wrong one and not for the i9000. in the end i had to get a new phone.
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were you under warranty? did you try to repair it ?

well my sgs is not fully bricked, it does not need a new motherboard... it just needs to be reflashed with jtag or smth >.<
a fully bricked (faulty) device would not turn on at all

allright, so just by flashing the phone with that one click odin crap, the repairs are going to cost me 250$

[Q] sprint tab brick frimware?

please if anyone has anything to help please do so i i need the pit file and the frimware ffor the sprint tab

there is no firmware. what did you do to your tab?

i try the epic one click root now it boots in a loop

can you wipe data?

No is there anything I can do

you can't get into recovery at all? hit the power button while holding vol+up

It won't let me that's why I need thefirmware but I can't find it anywhere

Can I use eur firmware to get it aleast running again

No that will permanently brick it. I dont see why you can't get into recovery.. you always can if it bootloops. When it won't even start up is when your in trouble.

This is wha it does it boot says samsung than turns off and trys to reboot the only way for me to stop it is to put it download mode and and the power key it work go to recovery because the one method I used had clockworkmod and I think that what's cause all the trouble idk what do you think

dont understand what ur trying to say. it doesnt make sense

infamousjax said:
dont understand what ur trying to say. it doesnt make sense
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What I get out of it is he tried to use a one click root that had clockworkmod in it.Which was a very dumb thing to do flashing stuff from another phone it always ends badly.

skeeterslint said:
What I get out of it is he tried to use a one click root that had clockworkmod in it.Which was a very dumb thing to do flashing stuff from another phone it always ends badly.
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Ok yea I tryied the one click root with clockworkmod for the epic is there any way to fix this its still is able to go in to download mode some I bevlive I can if I have the right firmware

Listen to me very carefully.
There is no firmware available for the Sprint Tablet. Do not flash any other firmware. If you can't get into recovery mode by holding the power button and vol-up at the same time, then you are screwed.

infamousjax said:
Listen to me very carefully.
There is no firmware available for the Sprint Tablet. Do not flash any other firmware. If you can't get into recovery mode by holding the power button and vol-up at the same time, then you are screwed.
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Ok but if and when sprint release the firmware it will be possiable to reflash the firmware to get the tab working again?

Technically if you had a .tar stock ROM for Sprint you could restore everything... but there's no telling when that will be available.

infamousjax said:
Technically if you had a .tar stock ROM for Sprint you could restore everything... but there's no telling when that will be available.
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How whould go about getting this firmware who do I need to talk to just point me in the right place

Can you get adb to work ?
Plug the phone in and try to use adb, if you can there might be hope.

he cant get adb as it doesnt get past the samsung logo. those firmwares you get on odin are actually LEAKED from sprint.. you're not going to be able to get them no matter who you talk to.

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he cant get adb as it doesnt get past the samsung logo. those firmwares you get on odin are actually LEAKED from sprint.. you're not going to be able to get them no matter who you talk to.
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Will adb wrk in download mode? Cause I can get it there

Does anyone have the box to fix bricks or bootloader?

I tried to Odin Eugenes JK2 PIT and as I was Odinind the USB cord unplugged and now my phone will not boot-up. No power to it; Nothing.

hayn_pryde46 said:
Does anyone know how to unbrick the Vibrant from bootloader??
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bootloop? not sure exactly what you mean. Explain your problem more like how it happened or the title of the screen your stuck on and anyone here will be happy to give you advice.

if it's the bootloader that's caused the brick, then you're gonna have to jtag it in order to bring it back.

Oniyuri said:
if it's the bootloader that's caused the brick, then you're gonna have to jtag it in order to bring it back.
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Do you mean jig? http://www.mobiletechvideos.com/blog/?page_id=100

Oniyuri said:
if it's the bootloader that's caused the brick, then you're gonna have to jtag it in order to bring it back.
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Yeah I Was Wondering If Anyone Does This And Would Do Mine...

Does Odin recognize at all, if so, just run it, u don't have to be in dlmode for it to work
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DEFINITIONOFREAL said:
Does Odin recognize at all, if so, just run it, u don't have to be in dlmode for it to work
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No Odin Wont Recognize My Phone At All... I Dunno Though I Been Having Usb Problems To Like Not Charging And Connecting To Computer Thats Why It Disconnected In Odin....

ferhanmm said:
Do you mean jig? http://www.mobiletechvideos.com/blog/?page_id=100
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nah, jigs only work for soft bricks. from what hayn's describing, it seems to be a hard brick (everyone's worse nightmare). AFAIK, using a riffbox jtag is the only way to bring back a completely bricked phone and there's very few that do it.
hayn, if you're sure this is a hard brick rather than a soft one, check out here for a repair centre: [REF] Repair/Service centres around the world
there are a lot of official numbers there but hopefully you'll find a normal store that could get your phone back into working order.
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Hey Hayn, before we get into the doom and gloom of having a hard brick, could you try taking everything out (sim/microsd) and see if you can get it back into download mode using the battery pull trick?
I was just thinking about how come ppl had thought that they hard bricked their phones before and realized that it could still get back into download mode. It's a small shot, but it might be worth the try.
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Oniyuri said:
nah, jigs only work for soft bricks. from what hayn's describing, it seems to be a hard brick (everyone's worse nightmare). AFAIK, using a riffbox jtag is the only way to bring back a completely bricked phone and there's very few that do it.
hayn, if you're sure this is a hard brick rather than a soft one, check out here for a repair centre: [REF] Repair/Service centres around the world
there are a lot of official numbers there but hopefully you'll find a normal store that could get your phone back into working order.
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Hey Hayn, before we get into the doom and gloom of having a hard brick, could you try taking everything out (sim/microsd) and see if you can get it back into download mode using the battery pull trick?
I was just thinking about how come ppl had thought that they hard bricked their phones before and realized that it could still get back into download mode. It's a small shot, but it might be worth the try.
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Yeah I Wrote A Thread On Taking Out Sim And Micro Sd Putting Battery Back Hold Both Volume Buttons And Plug Usb In... This I Tried 30 Times It Aint Working No Light Nothing, Thanks Though

Similar thing happened to me I got into download mode by pulling battery, then putting it back in, then hold both volume buttons while plugging in the usb and as soon as you plug in the usb press the home and menu buttons a bunch if it doesn't work try again it worked for me after like 10 tries
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try the button combo for the i900 bootloader. also what sbl where you on and what sbl where you going to when it bricked? the only way i've ever heard of a true hard brick is coming back to the t959 sbl from the i900 sbl. i've seen countless people recover including me from the phone getting unplugged during an odin however if it was writing ANY part of the bootloader when it unplugged you may very well be sol.
good luck.

You could try the jig probably won't do it. One of the other posts had an option:
"try the button combo for the i900 bootloader. also what sbl where you on and what sbl where you going to when it bricked? the only way I've ever heard of a true hard brick is coming back to the t959 sbl from the i9000 sbl. i've seen countless people recover including me from the phone getting unplugged during an odin however if it was writing ANY part of the bootloader when it unplugged you may very well be sol."
Remember to try the variants of the button combos Like using the battery out plug in the usb and tap alternately the home and menu buttons while holding down the volume keys and there are other you just got to try those oddball variants. They have saved me in the past. Also you may be able to reload the bootloader in adb depending on how the phone reacts and what the computer sees. Also. you might try some google searches with Boolean restrictions (being specific) you might find someone who has had the exact same issue.... worth a try....
Good luck....

Are you on i9000 bootloaders? I am too and I've found all the tricks to getting into download, recovery, etc if you are pm me and ill try my best to help
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JTAG or send it back to Samsung for Warranty repair are your two choices.
Google T959 JTAG repair. Some guys would do it for 50 bucks

Guys, for the people about sbl, the Eugene jk2 ROM contained not only an sbl, but a boot.bin (primary bootloader). And if it failed during the boot.bin flash, then yeah, your sol.
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Okay I have a similar issue I actually got my phone to boot up into download mode. Everytime I try to flash the stock firmware though it fails. What now? I've downloaded the stock files from 4 different locations and also tried different versions of odin. Also tried different usb ports on my computer. Nothing works. I flashed the gingerbread bootloaders and a gingerbread from before this happened. I don't want to have to send my phone off!!! Please help
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search riffbox at Google then look who's the nearast person to you that have it.
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geoffcorey said:
Guys, for the people about sbl, the Eugene jk2 ROM contained not only an sbl, but a boot.bin (primary bootloader). And if it failed during the boot.bin flash, then yeah, your sol.
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This is what I told him earlier in messaging - His cord came out after the boot.bin and before the sbl - this left him with a mismatched set - 1/2 i9000 gb, I think, and 1/2 Vibrant froyo - brick.

jellette said:
This is what I told him earlier in messaging - His cord came out after the boot.bin and before the sbl - this left him with a mismatched set - 1/2 i9000 gb, I think, and 1/2 Vibrant froyo - brick.
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Well then............. That sucks............. It is always critical to remember when flashing you have to pay attention, and make sure your surroundings are neat and safe so you do not lame out on yourself...........

The jk2 that you're talking about, is it the Froyo that doesn't brick?
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kind of bricked my phone! need help!!

So i wanted to root my phone, following a tutorial on androidsoul(i cant post link yet i just googled edge plus root)
after like 20 tries to flash with odin it finally passes(dunno why. nothing changed the last 5 tries... and odin tooks about 1h for the flash..)
finally their i decided to add some lines in the build.prop to tweak the ram management -.-
so heres where the **** begins. The device bootlooped, so i downloaded the firmware for my device nummer with the vodafone branding and tried to flash it.
it fails and the phone gets some kind of bricket i get a message i need to emergency firmware recovery with some kind of samsung crap software, which doesnt support my device(neither kies 3).
good thing i can still enter the download mode but when i try to flash, odin stucks at setupconnection or iniialazion or get pit mapping or sboot.bin or cm.bin in this momen at boot.img .. just somewhere everytime.
I already deleted kies and tried all my ports.
any ideas??
ty alot!

Look for a 3 Part Firmware with a PIT File.
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put phone in download mode, connect to Kies even though says not compatible and goto Emergency Firmware upgrade in the menu it will flash anyway even though not compatible

didnt found anyone only for the normal edge. mby its to early...
Shockwave71 said:
Look for a 3 Part Firmware with a PIT File.
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didnt found anyone only for the normal edge. mby its to early...

bunglebp said:
put phone in download mode, connect to Kies even though says not compatible and goto Emergency Firmware upgrade in the menu it will flash anyway even though not compatible
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but i have to choose a device then and because the device is not supported its not listed...

bunglebp said:
goto Emergency Firmware upgrade in the menu it will flash anyway even though not compatible
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That should work though failing that you may have to get it to a dealer to look into.
if not insurance,,,, 3 seconds in a microwave,,,, claim,,,, done
Disclaimer: I do not condone putting phones in microwaves unless its totally awesome

when i try to just flash a new firmware with keis or smart swtich the installation just stays at 0% forever...
i have no ideas anymore what to do..

figlero said:
when i try to just flash a new firmware with keis or smart swtich the installation just stays at 0% forever...
i have no ideas anymore what to do..
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How old is it? - repair/replacement is looking likely
Have you tried KEIS on another machine?
has the machine been rebooted yet? (old trick)

ha3kser said:
How old is it? - repair/replacement is looking likely
Have you tried KEIS on another machine?
has the machine been rebooted yet? (old trick)
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the phone is 1 week old and got no guarantee cuz i triggered know when i rooted-.-
yes i tried kies on my laptop too...
of course... ^^

figlero said:
the phone is 1 week old and got no guarantee cuz i triggered know when i rooted-.-
yes i tried kies on my laptop too...
of course... ^^
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I would be tempted to take it back to where you got it and ask them to replace it... its up to you if you say it was because you were trying to root it or not...
If it t'were me I would blame an Update or App Corruption - though I am a gifted linguist (read: Bull****ter) and can normally get things sorted, your average shop employee wont know enough about rooting (hopefully) or KNOX (hopefully) so they will just replace it.
But thats not a Guarantee (as with all changes you make its your device and your responsibility if it goes wrong, warranty void etc etc etc)
I'm hopeful you are able to get this sorted and keep us posted if its replaced etc

Bricked! Need help from sm-e500f users

Hey guys I have just managed to brick my phone and I need some files in order to fix it.
If any body has sm-e500f phone inform me so that I can tell you the instructions for debrick img
thanks

nepalbiraj said:
Hey guys I have just managed to brick my phone and I need some files in order to fix it.
If any body has sm-e500f phone inform me so that I can tell you the instructions for debrick img
thanks
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Download firmware from Sammobile and flash it via Odin, If It's stuck at Samsung logo then do a factory reset via recovery and that should do it.

Hassan 4 said:
Download firmware from Sammobile and flash it via Odin, If It's stuck at Samsung logo then do a factory reset via recovery and that should do it.
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Tried that. no download mode no recovery nothing.

nepalbiraj said:
Tried that. no download mode no recovery nothing.
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Are you sure It's charged? try leaving it for a while in the charger, may be your battery is totally empty, It won't open until you leave it a while in the charger

try pwr+vol-+menu to reboot

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Are you sure It's charged? try leaving it for a while in the charger, may be your battery is totally empty, It won't open until you leave it a while in the charger
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Yeeah tried that too thanks but its not working. I guess theres no soul in it LOL.
I tried charging two days straight no response not even charging indicator.

BusuDD said:
try pwr+vol-+menu to reboot
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tried that bro but didnt work. I am here like pressing the 3 buttons forever but it didnt start or vibrate

Seemed you bricked your bootloader, only to fix i think is using a JTAG but i think its expensive

Try this link.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30415128#post30415128. There are so many solutions for the problems related to galaxy phones. I hope you can find your solution there.

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Seemed you bricked your bootloader, only to fix i think is using a JTAG but i think its expensive
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Yeahh seems like it. I tried giving it to for repairing they said they could not open the phone for acessing the motherboard.
bad luck

crazykc said:
Try this link.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30415128#post30415128. There are so many solutions for the problems related to galaxy phones. I hope you can find your solution there.
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Thanks crazykc for the headsup. I will certainly look into that.
Too bad that I bricked my phone before I even started development for it.