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Galaxy S Vibrant won't turn on after upgrading

Hi
I just upgraded my T-Mobile Galaxy S Vibrant using KIES, and since then it just won't turn on! When I press the button to turn it on, it shows de Vibrant Screen, like it would boot properly... but suddenly it stops, the screen keeps all black forever...
I really don't have a clue of what to do.

i believe you are in the wrong Galaxy S section
Let me send you to the one it belongs to.

were you rooted?

Did you have a ROM other than stock loaded? Did you upgrade to JI5 thru Kies? Did you have a lag-fix installed?

This is a soft brick, you need to find Eugenes non brick froyo and follow the instructions

Thx to you all, my problem is being solved with tips & hints here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809567&page=3

[Q] Bricked Phone Need Help

Hi everyone, I was needing help. I bricked my phone last night trying to flash the stock rom from Odin on my Vibrant, I can't get into d/l mode, or recovery using the buttons, and the phone just doesn't turn on. I fear there is nothign I can do
Its black, the screen is all black. Nothing works, nothing turns on the computer doesn't recognize it...its all black.
I tried to do the unbrick, but every damn thing I try is a problem for some reason. My phone has gone to hell,I hope you guys can help.

Your phone its not bricked, see this link for repair services
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant-unbrickable-mod-repair/
Or try DIY solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277056
I bet you had gingerbread bootloaders and were trying to flash stock jfd ?

Is that the only thing, and I think thats exactly what i was trying to do --- but I read that it shouldn't have bricked my phone. *sigh* I would have to pay that much? I guess I can try Linux.

(Bootloop?) I promise i tried and checked everything PLS HELP

I bought an a Samsung galaxy S5, SM-G900F.
When I turned it on at first, it got over the Samsung animation, but after that only BLACK SCREEN and blinking blue LED was what i got.
So, i did a factory reset in the original recovery. This not helped my phone.
I tried to reflash the firmware with ODIN, but nothing. I tried to downgrade with ODIN but nothing at all, the phone went worse.
I tried to make it stocky again with Smart Switch, but after that, nothing changed again.
I can flash everything in DOWNLOAD MODE, but after that my phone does nothing.
Flashing a PIT file along with a firmware did not help.
WHEN, i flash TWRP recovery, i can enter it approx once in a hour. But after that, only the blue text ,,recovery booting. . " and my phone reboots,.
I also tried this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...ft-bricked-t3311882/post65245516#post65245516 but it didnt help
In the current state with stock recovery again, i cant enter it. The phone now does not get over ,,Samsung Galaxy S5" text.
Does anyone could say something about it . . ? please

So this happened right after you bought it? Why didn't you first try to contact the guy that sold you the phone with a problem

id get a fresh tarball from sammobile.com/firmwares and flash it 3 times, yes 3 times. Delete the android folder from internal storage from TWRP before doing this tho.

Galaxy Tab A T585 soft bricked, cannot flash anything in Odin, cant enterDownloadMode

Hi guys, a friend of mine asked me if i can fix her child's tablet (It is galaxy tab A 10.1'' with LTE T585.
Her problem was that she factory reset it, because her child set a pattern and forgot it. They also dont remember the password, hence FRP problem.
I tried to flash a new Official rom from Sammobile and tried to flash it via AP option, but it got stuck on about 95% at Meta-data/Fota.zip and the screen is flashing somewhat. Upon further reading i understood that i need newer Odin, hence i had to unplug the cable and start over. However, I am unable to access download menu anymore. When i press home power down and lock nothing happens, until i plug the cable in. Then Odin sees it (although the tab says Error occurred bla bla use Smart switch PC software, which does not support the tablet weirdly). But i cant flash anything like that it gets stuck at initializing.
I am open for any suggestions on how to fix this or i might have to end up buying a new tablet for her.
Thank you guys!
PS: Ive been long away from samsungs (since S5 disappointment so im not really into samsung specifics).

DjIvcho said:
Hi guys, a friend of mine asked me if i can fix her child's tablet (It is galaxy tab A 10.1'' with LTE T585.
Her problem was that she factory reset it, because her child set a pattern and forgot it. They also dont remember the password, hence FRP problem.
I tried to flash a new Official rom from Sammobile and tried to flash it via AP option, but it got stuck on about 95% at Meta-data/Fota.zip and the screen is flashing somewhat. Upon further reading i understood that i need newer Odin, hence i had to unplug the cable and start over. However, I am unable to access download menu anymore. When i press home power down and lock nothing happens, until i plug the cable in. Then Odin sees it (although the tab says Error occurred bla bla use Smart switch PC software, which does not support the tablet weirdly). But i cant flash anything like that it gets stuck at initializing.
I am open for any suggestions on how to fix this or i might have to end up buying a new tablet for her.
Thank you guys!
PS: Ive been long away from samsungs (since S5 disappointment so im not really into samsung specifics).
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Irrespective of whatever state the tablet is in just hold in this order HOME + VOL DOWN + POWER. Hold until the screen goes blank then when you see the Samsung logo release after a few seconds.
Once in DOWNLOAD mode flash using at least odin 3.12

Tried that already but Odin was staying on initializing. Gave it to a phone mechanic and he fixed it now i need to find a way to know which Android version it has and how to bypass the frp.

Turned this phone into a brick and I need to fix it!

Hi, so, I got this phone from a friend, and he told me that the phone was working prorperly, but after someone factory resetted it, he wasn't able to set it up. Constant force close pop-ups where showing up while setting it up, and you weren't able to accept terms and conditions (button grayed out). Also, one thing I noticed. The phone got into "Factory Mode". Idk what that is, but it wouldn't let me to enable wifi or bluetooth. That little Factory mode thingy got me really confused. Also, I wanted to boot into recovery mode, and I wasn't able to do so. After turning the phone off, and doing the key combo to boot into recovery, the phone rebooted itself (very showrtly after doing the startup vibration) and after that, it seemd to get into recovery, but it stayed at the android logo with an exclamation sign and after 3 seconds it rebooted itself to system.
After that I said, "well, last thing to try is flashing stock rom again". And I did so. Using the Frija software to download the latest version of android for this phone (and using the corect CSC for this phone (CTI)). I used odin 3.12.7 (wich I knew it works because of previously using it with other phones) to flash the stock rom again. I made sure that only Auto-reboot and F.reset time were checked, and started flashing. After it finished, it got to the samsung logo, but got stuck there. Nothing happened (I left the phone there for like 30 min). I decided to hard-reboot the phone and try to factory-reset it, but after shutting it down, it started to be really hard to make the phone turn on. I had to unplug the battery and wait like 10 mins to try again, and I still wasnt able to boot into recovery mode. It just got stuck at the "Galaxy Core 2" logo.
After that first boot, the phone never got passed the "Galaxy Core 2" logo. Just stuck there. After that, things just begun to get worse. It was also hard to get the phone to get into download mode, most of the time it just stayed at a blackscreen (im not shure if the phone ever turned on, but it never vibrated) and did nothing. I decided to try other versions of odin. Tried with 3.09 and 3.04. Nothing, and after every flash, it got harder and harder to make the phone boot.
At this point, I can hardly get the phone into download mode, and if I do so, sometimes I get the odin complete write operation failed error, wich the only way that I've found to solve it is to reboot again the phone into download mode.
I know that the battery is working, I have another core 2 (same exact model) and battery is ok. At this moment I don't know what else to do. Please, help me to get this brick of a phone back to working conditions, I dont want my friend to buy a new phone just to use it to recive calls and charge it.
Some extra notes:
As i've read, sometimes this can be caused by the replacement of the digitizer/screen. This phone seems to have one or both of them replaced, since I can see glue residues on the corners of the glass, where it touches with the plastic frame.
If there is anything hardware related thing to try, I can try to open the phone. I have some experience doing so.

EDIT: As I continued reading through this forum, I found out that some people had luck with Odin3_v3.13.1_3B_PatcheD, so I decided to try it out and see. Still, nothing changed. As today, I can only use this phone to charge the battery (it dosent actually show the percentage, only the battery icon with a loading icon inside) and boot into download mode
Although, I have to say that after flashing the stock rom with that version of odin made the phone not that hard to start in download mode. I think that it could be something that got corrupted on the eMMC module and it has to repartition it all again...? Does anyone know how to do so?
Regards

Well, tried almost everithing I know. Downloaded rom again with binary nature, tried with odin version 3.12.7, 3.13.1_3b patched and 3.13.3, but nothing. Extracted the PIT file from the CSC file, did repartition, NAND wipe, and nothing changed. I have to say that its certaily easier to get the phone in download mode, but thats almost it. One thing to note, when i select the NAND wipe, it dosent seems to do anything. I mean, in odin Log screen some things appear related to NAND wiping and such, but its really fast and there are only 2 or 3 lines dedicated to that. Is that OK?
Anyway, please, any recoomendation or thing to try would be great, since this phone is now trash, it dosent matters if it starts to get worse, or even unusable (more than it is rn).
Regards