i was updating my vibrant phone in kies and i thought the file was still being downloaded when i received a call.
i took the call and got off as soon as possible.
when the installation finished it started to reboot but never made it and i have not been able to get any kind of start-up screen at all.
i am totally bricked.
before the update i was able to get into download mode but no more.
no two button or three button combos work.
i am leaving the battery out all night and will try again tomorrow but i am not hopeful.
moral of the story is take out the damn sim card when updating so as not to screw up the download.
sigh.
anyone have any ideas what to do with the boat anchor besides trying to talk t-mobile into taking it back.
Same thing happened to me a while back.
the only way of resurrecting your phone if its COMPLETELY bricked is to use a JIG box... Google it... Otherwise its basically paperweight and if you have insurance call it in lost or stolen.
You corrupted the bootloader.
all the jig boxes say they get the phone into download mode.
however one of the ebay vendors says:
If your phone screen is always black, turn it on and if it stays completely black, then sorry, but NO USB jig will help you.
so i don't understand how the jig will help me since i cannot get any response from the phone at all.
how is the jig wired.
do you know.
thanks.
irv
You should have put it into airplane mode :/.
buru898 said:
You should have put it into airplane mode :/.
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should have not used that POS called Kies
He shouldn't have answered the phone.
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You can try the jig it may work for you connextion2005 sells for 8 bucks. You can try to push the bootloader through adb, don;t know you exact situation. If those don't work then you could return it and clam under warranty that the it got jacked up when updating on Kies, and get a new phone. (refurbished one probably)
Good luck
This happened to me a while ago and i could not get into recovery or download mode at all. I did the search on the forums, and there was a way to get it back into download mode. Just search it and it might work for you. i'm sorry i don't remember the method itself but good luck.
EDIT: this is not it, but try the "no-boot method"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737&highlight=download+mode
irv6744 said:
i was updating my vibrant phone in kies and i thought the file was still being downloaded when i received a call.
i took the call and got off as soon as possible.
when the installation finished it started to reboot but never made it and i have not been able to get any kind of start-up screen at all.
i am totally bricked.
before the update i was able to get into download mode but no more.
no two button or three button combos work.
i am leaving the battery out all night and will try again tomorrow but i am not hopeful.
moral of the story is take out the damn sim card when updating so as not to screw up the download.
sigh.
anyone have any ideas what to do with the boat anchor besides trying to talk t-mobile into taking it back.
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should have not used that POS called Kies
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I've never used kies just like I never used activesync .
the no boot method didn't work for me.
i will probably try the jig method one of these days but i don't have much hope for that either.
airplane mode is a good idea when updating..
should be mentioned more often.
what do people use instead of kies for updating and backups.
thanks
i made my own jig with a 301k resistor and a usb connector and there was no joy.
i think i am dead in the water.
i am thinking of getting a phone with a broken screen and swapping out the screens.
is that a tough job?
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I swapped my Vibrant out at BestBuy with one that has Download/Recovery mode, so its now time to play.
Which lag fix and root procedures work with the Bell Vibrant? Also which Firmware is compatible?
AllGamer...since you seem to be the "guy" to talk to about the Bell Vibrant, do you want to start a sticky thread, one that lays out which fixes/root/firmwares are compatible with our phone?
i will be buying a Bell Vibrant very soon, so i just wan to know how can you tell it has the recovery feature?
Hold down Home+VolumeDown+Power. It will boot up into a screen with a yellow yield sign and say "Download mode".
Mine doesn't have it so im going back to exchange.
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Want to hear a funny story?
I was in my Bell store today, seeing if they had any accessories in for the Vibrant yet. My sales rep was there, and we started talking about the device, unlocking, modding, etc.
He mentioned they had five returns since Monday regarding the download and recovery mode issue they swapped out on the DOA plan. Guess there's a lot of modders in the downtown Vancouver area.
I asked him if they still had any of those returns, he said yep, they had all of them, they hadn't been processed out of the store yet. He brought a couple out, and I fired them up, did the download keypress and fired them up. Repeated this process for four working phones in total, the fifth was well and truly dead.
Guess what?
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WENT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE.
EVERY
SINGLE
ONE
So did all the demonstration models.
I'll leave it to you to figure out the moral of this story.
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Want to hear a funny story?
I was in my Bell store today, seeing if they had any accessories in for the Vibrant yet. My sales rep was there, and we started talking about the device, unlocking, modding, etc.
He mentioned they had five returns since Monday regarding the download and recovery mode issue they swapped out on the DOA plan. Guess there's a lot of modders in the downtown Vancouver area.
I asked him if they still had any of those returns, he said yep, they had all of them, they hadn't been processed out of the store yet. He brought a couple out, and I fired them up, did the download keypress and fired them up. Repeated this process for four working phones in total, the fifth was well and truly dead.
Guess what?
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WENT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE.
EVERY
SINGLE
ONE
So did all the demonstration models.
I'll leave it to you to figure out the moral of this story.
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Maybe some people don't know how to do it properly, but when I was bringing my SGS in for replacement, I had no problems popping the demo phone into recovery and download modes Just wouldn't work with mine and the one they let me try out of the box. Ended up heading to Future Shop and couldn't get either of their 2 available phones to work.
Hopefully local stores have got another batch in stock.
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Maybe some people don't know how to do it properly, but when I was bringing my SGS in for replacement, I had no problems popping the demo phone into recovery and download modes Just wouldn't work with mine and the one they let me try out of the box. Ended up heading to Future Shop and couldn't get either of their 2 available phones to work.
Hopefully local stores have got another batch in stock.
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what is the exact process to initiate the bootloader mode?
aquenne said:
what is the exact process to initiate the bootloader mode?
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Pwr+Home+Vol- for download, switch vol+ and vol- for recovery. Power on with all 3 kept pressed, then let go of the pwr button before it loops another reboot. Or at least that's how I did it.
It took me a few tries to get it to work.
Now I don't have a problem.
I'm sure all those returns will simply go into the exchange pile.
This phone is freaking sweet !
DarthV said:
Pwr+Home+Vol- for download, switch vol+ and vol- for recovery. Power on with all 3 kept pressed, then let go of the pwr button before it loops another reboot. Or at least that's how I did it.
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Ah i see. mine is working.
Coming from an HTC Touch, the key difference is you could initiate the bootloader mode WHILE the phone was running. This process requires the phone to first be off.
there are 2 topics in the Dev section with the undate.zip to root your phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748131
arr0ww said:
I swapped my Vibrant out at BestBuy with one that has Download/Recovery mode, so its now time to play.
Which lag fix and root procedures work with the Bell Vibrant? Also which Firmware is compatible?
AllGamer...since you seem to be the "guy" to talk to about the Bell Vibrant, do you want to start a sticky thread, one that lays out which fixes/root/firmwares are compatible with our phone?
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Talking about how to activate the recovery/download thing. What I read (and what worked for me) was when the samsung logo appears on screen, let go of the power button for like half a second then hold it again. Worked flawlessly for me!
I rooted mine in-store while waiting for the paperwork to be finished.
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there are 2 topics in the Dev section with the undate.zip to root your phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748131
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I just rooted and installed the "OneClick Lag Fix 2-3. 2181 Quadrant score...holy crap this thing flies now!!!
Bell vibrant doesnt have recovery mode any suggestions???
Hi guys I think im writing in the right section. I just got an unlocked bell vibrant and cant enter recovery mode can anyone suggest a solution I cant stand this Lag!
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Hi guys I think im writing in the right section. I just got an unlocked bell vibrant and cant enter recovery mode can anyone suggest a solution I cant stand this Lag!
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you should have opened a new topic, instead of lapping onto another one.
lag fix has nothing to do with the recovery mode
you can install the lag fix without being able to get into recovery mode
does that answer your question?
ok so basically i installed a custom rom, great.. not really.
it wouldn't connect to a network, my usb failed and countless other things were missing.
fine and dandy, rom manager asked me to do a backup of my original rom so i'll just load that... file unloadable.
great.
Miraculously i managed to get a new rom on my sd card and installed it.
got stuck at bootscreen then loaded in to a black screen that only showed the notification bar.
by now i've gotten pretty flustered and figure a battery pull should re set everything and let it load up fine (after all i'm a previous bb user lol)
but no
no, now my phone won't even power on.. even when i plug it into the wall to charge the screen stays black.
holding any button combination doesn't work..
its literally a brick.
is there any way to fix this?
so far all i've found are fixes for "soft bricks"
sounds like i'm a little past that stage...
Ok, take out the battery, sim, and sd card from your phone. Now with the battery out, plug the phone into the usb and connect to pc. Now, while holding down the volume up/down at the same time, but NOT the power button, put in the battery. And there you should have download mode, odin away.
Good luck.
kylecore said:
so far all i've found are fixes for "soft bricks"
sounds like i'm a little past that stage...
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I'll give you $100 for it, PM me
Telanis said:
I'll give you $100 for it, PM me
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well i had just bought it that day so it was covered under warranty.
i took it back and told them the upgrade to 2.2 did it.
they gave me a new one no questions,
it also helps that i work for them and am their tech guy so they would have given me the phone to try to fix had it been a customer lol.
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well i had just bought it that day so it was covered under warranty.
i took it back and told them the upgrade to 2.2 did it.
they gave me a new one no questions,
it also helps that i work for them and am their tech guy so they would have given me the phone to try to fix had it been a customer lol.
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Please stop scamming...
Its "worse than", not "worse then"
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Its "worse than", not "worse then"
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This too...
Was updating using Odin when, as my luck always proves out, a circuit breaker tripped and cut power to my PC. The phone seemed to be frozen on the "Download Mode" screen (30+ minutes of zero activity) so I pulled the battery. Upon reinserting the battery I discover that the phone is 100% unresponsive. I've tried every trick google could produce for me with the exception of the "homemade jig" method as it seemed fairly clear that the phone needed some semblance of life for that to be effective.
So, my question is... WTF??? I've soft modded wiis, hard modded xboxes, hacked PSPs flashed hundreds of phones and generally revel in futzing around in this manner of endeavor and have NEVER bricked a device (even after some incredibly stupid mistakes). This just doesn't make sense and I haven't seen sysmptoms such as mine presented in any of my web searches. Any ideas???
I'm not saying your not a modder, but you should know to have a UPS hooked up to your dev box, for me its a laptop, so...
Anyway, try removing the battery for 1m, press power button with batt removed, now start up Odin, plug the phone in (batt removed still) and see if the phone connects. I'm sure someone will pop in here and provide links to several threads that describe different methods to help you fix this, I would but I'm sorta busy...
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Keep the battery out for like a half hour and then try again. That has worked for some people.
Or try the mysterious button that may or may not exist. I know I'd be pushing the heck out of it just in case.
Thank you so much for your quick input... I tried precicely that 3-4 times (google search turned it up) and it was a futile endeavor.
And yes, I am fully aware of all the proper precautions to take, unfortunately I am also fully stupid with frightening regularity (well, maybe just lazy and reckless), I seem to have become a tad cocky as I have never really had to face disaster before today.
It won't happen again!
plug phone into computer without battery. Then hold power and 1 to go into download mode (still no battery)
That there is what I've seen as most effective thing to work on bricked phone's.
cool... I just popped out the battery and will let you know the result in about 40 minutes...
this happened to me recently, i found a post with the solution being to pull the battery out of the phone hold down 1 and the power button at the same time before popping the battery back in and it will send you to the proper screen to odin back to what you need, worked perfect for me
oh crap I editted my previous post. i forgot to mention go into download mode...
It's --
Remove battery and plug into computer. then go into download mode WITHOUT Battery still.
If your not getting any sign of life from ur phone, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042746
It worked for me.
Krojian said:
If your not getting any sign of life from ur phone, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042746
It worked for me.
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there is no hole in the back case of my device. I've had my device powered on and bent the **** out of a paper clip trying to push the 'hidden magic button' to no avail.
YMMV (false hope ??)
Cool, didn't know that little button existed!
I bricked mine the same way a few weeks ago and tried every trick in the book over the course of 2 days. It was truly bricked. I don't have insurance; however, my phone was under warranty. Since I couldn't get the phone to boot or anything I figured there was no real way of telling what went wrong. I sent it in for warranty repair and 10 days later, the phone returned in working order. Work order says they replaced the main board. I marked the phone before returning it so I know its the same phone and it works fine now.
And before anyone says anything, I know, I'm an evil bastard. But I figure it's payback for a samsung flatscreen that died 6 months out of warranty.
I've done this, leaving my battery out for 20 mins or so, and leaving it out while going into download mode worked for me. I don't know why but sometimes I can't even get into download mode with my battery in.
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Cool, didn't know that little button existed!
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it doesn't..
to prove this (or dis-prove it).. go into clockwork and make a nandroid backup (you know, just in case)...then boot normally and while you're looking at your home screen, jam a paper clip in there as hard as you can. Your device will do nothing.
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it doesn't..
to prove this (or dis-prove it).. go into clockwork and make a nandroid backup (you know, just in case)...then boot normally and while you're looking at your home screen, jam a paper clip in there as hard as you can. Your device will do nothing.
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I hope you guys are messing with him...
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I hope you guys are messing with him...
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No, it's just not proven. Some people swear by it, some say it's a myth and some say it depends on when your phone was made.
Sent from Godot's place.
Sorry to annoy you guys with the same things over and over again. Me - used to flash and customize WM devices quite alot - was a bit to fast with Android I guess.
Had Samsung with stock firmware (about 3-4 months ago, cant tell more).
Wanted to start getting into flashing new Roms, so tried to flash semphore kernel first (Yes.. i know now..).
Went trough somehow anyways, Odin gave green light, I disconnected from USB.
But instead of device booting into somethin I got the white I9100 letters and a big "!" sign below.
(Guess I know now why..)
So.. i tried to flash again with repartition on. I left it running for about 45 minutes, but nothing was happening. Red some posts - guess the wrong ones - that told me if it is stuck for that long you should disconnect, remove bat, retry. Did so, and to my shock odin suddenly replied with:
<ID:0/003> Re-Partition operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
<ID:0/003> Removed!!
I should have listended... " DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!" And read more before I try. I know. Now its not even powering on - guess this means some serious money I gotta pay for repair? Or is there anything left I could try???
Sorry for the noob action....
Is that a kernel for a different phone by any chance (i.e. Samsung Galaxy S)?
Try getting into download mode from the phone, volume down, home button and power button, press all 3, and report back.
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The ! sign is normal. its just there to tell that you are using an unofficial kernel. the repartition is the reason why your device is bricked. Never tick that one
First off all you don't need to repartition when only flashing a kernel.
If you are able to boot in download-mode
You can flash a stock firmware from http://www.sammobile.com and everything should be okay again
And semaphore is not for the S II
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No way to get into download mode.. no battery sign on charge, just black.
So guess there is no way out if it? I red about a special usb cable you can solder yourself, I would not mind doing so... But the pure black on the phones display tells me somehow this time it went worst case... hit me!!!
What would you tell em if you bring it back? I only have it 3 months, kept in case, looks brandnew, guess I still get some good service.
Tell them it got stuck on Kies Update?
Tell them it simply turned off and stayed?
Any other ideas?
Guess telling them "tried to flash wrong, unofficial firmware, then re-partioned and plugged off to early" wont help much to get the repair for free.
I can only hope I bricked it that bad that they cant revive and think its a hardware problem.
Buy a JIG on e-bay for a few bucks
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They'll tell you to pound sand if you try to get it warrantied; it will cost you money to get it fixed. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you have to pay to play.
Order a USB jig, it MIGHT help you get into DL mode.
Ninja Edit; beat by one minute.
redmaner said:
Buy a JIG on e-bay for a few bucks
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Get a jig as mentioned, can you get into recovery mode? Vol up, home, power button combo.
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I could get into download & recovery mode before without problems. Now I dont even get charging symbol. Does JIG really helps in such an extreme case?
edit: Bought JIG from ebay, will see if it helps. Not much hope..
Will report back, thanks for the help guys.
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I could get into download & recovery mode before without problems. Now I dont even get charging symbol. Does JIG really helps in such an extreme case?
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Potentially yes.
Maybe you are lucky and they would accept it when you say kies messed it up.
But i think you don't have bricked it
... If i got it right you just flashed a kernel from a wrong device, right? this means your bootloader is still intact... So no need to worry, your second flash didn't even start according to the odin log you posted.
Here a few things you can try:
1. Maybe your battery is empty because if the long time in download mode (it doesn't get charged there) -> either charge it with some cheap exterenal charger or find someone who borrows his
2. If you have ensured your battery isn't empty, take it out, wait a few minutes and insert it WHILE you hold three button combo for download mode (needs some acrobatic skills ) hold it a bit to see what happens (can be up to 10sec.), if you are in download mode make sure to flash a fw with three files plus re partition with pit!!!
3. If this gets stuck again try to flash just a pit file and nothing else, this will erase every single partition and then repeat step 2
4. Buy a jig for 5 bucks on ebay or amazon (or do it yourself as you said)
A jig will be your last resort but to 99% you will be successful with it. As i said because your bootloader is still intact.
And take care to use only files for i9100 this time
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Most off the time it does! But sometimes it doesn't.
But it costs a lot less when you need to repair it by samsung or service store ect.
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Invest in a Jig. They cost <$3 on ebay or you can make one yourself just youtube
"How to Make a USB Jig for $2! [Galaxy S2] [Download Mode][Reset Odin Counter] "
Ive had my phone brick on me SOOOO MANY TIMES but ive always managed to revive it. Belive me and anyone else who says "get a JIG".....GET ONE! Better <$3 jib that saves your phone or spend another X amount on a repair/new phone
You guys give me hope. Thx!
I ordered a Jig from ebay yesterday already. (7 € but fast delivery).
I can´t believe the battery was empty, I had it on about 80 % when starting odin
with "repartition" on. And it was showing the "do not disconnect message" on screen
when I plugged it off, which did not dissapear. Then I turned it off, removed battery, instantly after that it was only giving me black.
So I guess it was in the middle of repartitioning.. I really did not expect it to take THAT long, at least not after the first flashing went trough in about 10 seconds. Dunno what this means exactly, does this hurt the bootloader itself? I thought (...) it was only the userfile space / system space.
And sure, I will try each and every trick before I send it in and tell it was evil, evil kies.
Cause IF they are able to revive, they will instantly see on the counter that I did mess with it.
Lets hope I dont pay to much for my little playing - actually I just wanted all functions I bought the phone for to work.... get rid of the beta they sold with it..
Meierhans said:
You guys give me hope. Thx!
I ordered a Jig from ebay yesterday already. (7 € but fast delivery).
I can´t believe the battery was empty, I had it on about 80 % when starting odin
with "repartition" on. And it was showing the "do not disconnect message" on screen
when I plugged it off, which did not dissapear. Then I turned it off, removed battery, instantly after that it was only giving me black.
So I guess it was in the middle of repartitioning.. I really did not expect it to take THAT long, at least not after the first flashing went trough in about 10 seconds. Dunno what this means exactly, does this hurt the bootloader itself? I thought (...) it was only the userfile space / system space.
And sure, I will try each and every trick before I send it in and tell it was evil, evil kies.
Cause IF they are able to revive, they will instantly see on the counter that I did mess with it.
Lets hope I dont pay to much for my little playing - actually I just wanted all functions I bought the phone for to work.... get rid of the beta they sold with it..
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I guess it's best for it to wait till it finishes, but next time, read more
I hope the JIG works for you, man...
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next time, read more
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Gosh, you can really count on that. I have no idea what was riding me, I have been flashing WM phones since 2006 and never bricked one, always red alot before.
And the I kick my shiny new SGS2 in about 10 minutes into darkness...
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Gosh, you can really count on that. I have no idea what was riding me, I have been flashing WM phones since 2006 and never bricked one, always red alot before.
And the I kick my shiny new SGS2 in about 10 minutes into darkness...
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haha hey did the jig work?
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Gosh, you can really count on that. I have no idea what was riding me, I have been flashing WM phones since 2006 and never bricked one, always red alot before.<br />
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And the I kick my shiny new SGS2 in about 10 minutes into darkness...
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Same here, always flashing and I always read (I'm too chicken **** to not read ).
I will heed this warning, and keep reading. For now, I can only say that I hope it works.
How you doin'? Greetings from my GT-I9000!
You flashed a kernel from the galaxy s instead of the s2. Did you use the ops file for the s also? I've read that using a wrong ops file is bad..... Anyone else here that maybe knows a bit more, does this file contain the partition layouts for the phone?
I recently received a used epic 4g when a friend replaced his phone, all was good but then yesterday the phone froze. I took the battery out and powered it back on it then took a long time to boot (2 minutes+) and once it finally did boot it was unusable and very unresponsive. I looked online and got into restore mode and then encountered a problem, my buttons at the bottom don't work therefore I could not hit the home button to select an option.
So I then used Odin to restore it (Used stock stuff). After I restored it it was working fine again. Then today i dropped it 2 feet off my bed and it went back to booting slow and then being unresponsive once booted. I then tried to restore it with Odin again but I made a mistake and didn't put the PDA file in and now my phone seems to be hard bricked (noob move I know).
I am considering sending it in for JTAG but I have some questions. Do you guys think the SLOW booting and unresponsive once booted issues were hardware issues? Will it just do that again eventually after I pay for it to be JTAG fixed? Also do you think they would be able to fix the buttons at the bottom? I would appreciate any advice.
Also please don't kick me when I am down, I know not double checking my Odin stuff was a dumb move, that's not what this thread is about.
So to just be sure, you can't power it on at all? The slow booting seems like a ROM problem. If you can get into Download mode you can fix it. If not, then you are definitely bricked and need to take it in.
If you could though, just reodin the proper files WITHOUT rushing.
I've dropped my phone everyday (I've even found out gorilla glass is ass since it cracked) but its always booted unless I did some dumb **** to it.
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So to just be sure, you can't power it on at all? The slow booting seems like a ROM problem. If you can get into Download mode you can fix it. If not, then you are definitely bricked and need to take it in.
If you could though, just reodin the proper files WITHOUT rushing.
I've dropped my phone everyday (I've even found out gorilla glass is ass since it cracked) but its always booted unless I did some dumb **** to it.
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Thanks for the reply
Correct I can't get it to power on at all. A second opinion on whether or not there was a hardware issue would nice, it just seems odd to me that the exact same thing would happen again a day later. When I bricked it I accidentally only used a pit file. When I did it right the first time I followed a guide and had a pit file and a PDA file, I assume one of those is(or includes) the ROM but I don't really know a lot about this stuff. I am considering just selling this one on ebay as-is if you guys think its a hardware issue and getting a new phone but if not I'll send it to be fixed.
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Thanks for the reply
Correct I can't get it to power on at all. A second opinion on whether or not there was a hardware issue would nice, it just seems odd to me that the exact same thing would happen again a day later. When I bricked it I only had a pit file. When I did it right the first time I followed a guide and had a pit file and a PDA file, I assume one of those is(or includes) the ROM but I don't really know a lot about this stuff. I am considering just selling this one on ebay as-is if you guys think its a hardware issue and getting a new phone but if not I'll send it to be fixed.
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try removing the battery. then try to get into download mode with it plugged into the computer only no battery also remove sd card.
tazfanatic said:
try removing the battery. then try to get into download mode with it plugged into the computer only no battery also remove sd card.
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Thanks!! that did it. I had actually already tried that but tried it again when you suggested it I couldn't get it initially but kept trying and eventually tried unplugging it and plugging it back in while holding one and power the whole time and that got it. So was the slow boot thing happening twice just unlucky or is there something else I need to root or whatever?
JoeCow said:
Thanks!! that did it. I had actually already tried that but tried it again when you suggested it I couldn't get it initially but kept trying and eventually tried unplugging it and plugging it back in while holding one and power the whole time and that got it. So was the slow boot thing happening twice just unlucky or is there something else I need to root or whatever?
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My guess is the slow booting was data corruption. A clean install should fix that. After Odining in the stock EL30 run it like that for a few days to see how it is working before looking into rooting it and a custom ROM.
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kennyglass123 said:
My guess is the slow booting was data corruption. A clean install should fix that. After Odining in the stock EL30 run it like that for a few days to see how it is working before looking into rooting it and a custom ROM.
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Thanks guys, saved me $50s should i have sent it in. I appreciate it. I watched a few of the videos on rooting it and I saw the recovery program used to root things lets you use the camera button as apposed to the home button for selecting things. Think I should switch to that since my bottom buttons are broken? It looked like I probably wouldn't be able to navigate back in menus after selecting something but that would be better then not being able to select anything.
JoeCow said:
Thanks guys, saved me $50s should i have sent it in. I appreciate it. I watched a few of the videos on rooting it and I saw the recovery program used to root things lets you use the camera button as apposed to the home button for selecting things. Think I should switch to that since my bottom buttons are broken? It looked like I probably wouldn't be able to navigate back in menus after selecting something but that would be better then not being able to select anything.
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If they are still broken after a fresh Odin then yes the newer CWM will work fine for you. There are widgets somewhere (don't remember) to add those buttions to your screen once you get it working right.
If the buttons really are toasted there are two fairly good onscreen button apps available. One is called Zmooth and the other is called Button Savior.