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Bricked my epic. Need help restoring it

Hi guys,
I know it's supposed to be virtually impossible to brick the epic but I don't know how to fix mine using the threads in this forum.
I originally rooted my phone, installed Clockworkmod and had the genocide Kernel installed.
This morning I tried to flash the Bonsai rom. Everything seemed fine and I got the message that the flash was successful. Upon reboot the phone just stays stuck at the Samsung screen.
I've tried to use Odin to reset my phone but Odin doesn't detect my phone and anything I try to do within the recovery screen gives me the message that says
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
Can anyone help me get my working again? And what do you think went wrong in my attempt to flash Bonsai? Could it have been that I already had Genocide kernel on there?

If Odin isn't detecting your phone, try rebooting PC and use a different USB port and cable, if possible.
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Are you in download mode when you are using Odin? If not... open keyboard while phone is off and hold down 1 and the power button. If that's not the problem try another cable.
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I am in download mode. I will try to reboot my laptop and change the USB port. Hopefully that works. If not it won't be until tomorrow when I have access to different cables. Will let you know how it goes.

Have you successfully used Odin with this particular laptop and cable?
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As long as you can get to Download mode, you Epic shouldn't be bricked
Instead of using Odin, try the SWUPdate version of the EB13 update with the phone in download mode

xxmastermindxx said:
Have you successfully used Odin with this particular laptop and cable?
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When I used odin to flash to Froyo I was using my desktop. This was my first time using the laptop. Looks like it was a bad idea!
I rebooted the laptop and changed USB ports and still no cigar. When I plug the phone in Windows goes into it's plug n play routine trying to install drivers for the devices which unsuccessfully install. I've previously installed the Samsung drivers on the laptop in order to mount the SD card so I'm not sure why doesn't recognize the phone. Any idea on why this happens? Is it normal when the phone bricks?
It won't be until late tonight Pacific time or tomorrow that I will be home and able to try things out on my desktop where I previously used Odin successfully.

U should use your desktop for this since its worked for u in the past
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I think a PC reads the phone differently depending on what mode its in, someone correct me if I'm wrong. Mine has come up as a disk drive, an adb interface, a modem, and just plain phone. Not sure of the exact reason.
But yes, use the PC that's worked for you before. I'm sure your Epic just needs a little love
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Thanks guys, I'll try it on my PC as soon as I can and hopefully it'll all work out.

I had a similar situation where my netbook would not recognize my phone, but everything works normally on my desktop.

I had the same problem. I think to fix it I had to run the one click root for ext4 and then flash the rom. Hope this helps.

I had a similar problem but was able (eventually) to get cwm to boot and restored from nandroid
Swyped from my Epic on Bonsai

Thanks for the suggestions guys! It was as simple and unintuitive as using my desktop and the cable that came with the phone to get Odin to detect the phone. I'm now flashing back to stock before rooting and putting on a custom ROM

Glad to hear it went well
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HELP phone, yeild, computer sing! (BRICKED?)

PLEASEEE!!! help me out i tried upgrading from kies mini to froyo. I did this with success earlier in the past on my old vibrant but had it replaced to a referbished one and i tried upgrading it now.. but my vibrant was stuck at downloading the uprade on kies mini at 1% for half an hour... and the vibrant had the android shoveling yellow sign saying do not turn off target... for half an hour as well.. I knew something was wrong there because it didnt take even close to that long last time..
NOW I tried unplugging the usb wire restarting the phone in emergency mode still nothing... now all i have is a cellphone...yeild sign... computer icon showing..
PLEASE HELP!!!

Dont worry you totally didnt brick your phone. Its pretty common, can you get your phone into download mode? If you can then just odin to stock.
1.Take your battery, sim card and SD card out
2. Plug in USB Cable
3. Hold volume up/down and plug in battery (There are a few ways of doing download mode and I believe its phone specific, or if you have bootloaders installed its different as well, google around a bit...
4. Start odin and presto, your phone works again!

hey thanx... I just did that.. I never used odin but i installed odin with all the files... I believe my vibrant is hardware locked because i was trying to get into download mode for 2 hours with different techniques.. such as just volume keys and power button... taking out the battery holding volume keys then putting it back in.. but nothing put me into a downlaod mode... somehow odin still found my phone while i was still stuck under that picture...
I loaded the .pit file without the jfd image.... becuase i didnt know what window i was suppose to load the jfd image from... like pda.. or etc???
anyway so i just loaded the .pit file and clicked start it reset the phone and the phone went into restart mode and it turned on fine i checked it works fully... lol.
It makes no sense... was i suppose to load the jfd file somewhere?????
i still want to upgrade my vibrant to 2.2... but now whenever i turn on the keis mini it promps me to emergency recovery upgrade... so i tried doing that and went into download mode since now i can.. and plugged in my phone but the progress bar on my computer for upgrading never moved from 0%... its odd... am i doing something wrong?
so again i disconnected and "bricked" my vibrant again lol... went into odin followed the same steps just loading the .pit file and it reset the vibrant back to normal again lol...
Im so confused yet happy that i have my phone working but i still want my froyo... i love the fact that i can use yahoo video messaging on it with froyo and have flash and other benefits..
any advice?
Thanx again

try this...........
power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
put pit in pit and tar in pda on odin

Connect it to the PC and see if ODIN recognizes it.
If it does, you are safe, flash stock.
EDIT: nvm, didn't notice the third post was yours.
Anyways, if ODIN can STILL recognize it, get the first from the link on the post above, FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS and enjoy your again-useful phone.
I had that same issue once.

Try a JIG. And do a search, I see like 50 posts a week like this.

First.
Thank you all for taking your time to help. I have one last question... since I used Odin but it just reset my phone and I didn't flash the old firware on it..... ever since that now I tried to update my phone with kies mini and it says phone unregistered... in that place before it used to say new firmware available and showed old forward numbers/letters.
So if I use odin all the way will this resolve "unregistered device" problem?
Thanx again
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AlexSochi8 said:
First.
Thank you all for taking your time to help. I have one last question... since I used Odin but it just reset my phone and I didn't flash the old firware on it..... ever since that now I tried to update my phone with kies mini and it says phone unregistered... in that place before it used to say new firmware available and showed old forward numbers/letters.
So if I use odin all the way will this resolve "unregistered device" problem?
Thanx again
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It should.
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Bricked
I have a similar issue, was soft bricked, Odin to stock then, while using Mini Kies to upgrade back to Froyo the phone turned off and never came back on. I cannot get any response from the phone as far as light's or sounds. Checked a few batteries and still no use. I'm curious if anybody else has had a similar experience?

so if it should solve the unregisted problem... where I put in the pda file... is it possible to put in the last froyo there so odin could flash froyo on my phone so basically i wont have to go through kies process?

odin back to 2.1 then root and then flash a 2.2 rom way better then a stock 2.2 rom

Dan_Brutal said:
Try a JIG. And do a search, I see like 50 posts a week like this.
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I might be late to the party but I've built a jig and I can't believe how quickly this thing saved my ass...
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dsuycott said:
I might be late to the party but I've built a jig and I can't believe how quickly this thing saved my ass...
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Yeah man. Jigs are the balls. Saved my ass this morning with a bad bootloader flash. I got lucky though.....
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Make sure you have the right odin files, once you have gotten back to normal just do a factory reset on your phone if that is possible. Then root, flash, and do whatever you want to do. Without your proper files for odin you'll get bricked or get something different.

How screwed am I? Odin doesn't recognize phone, vibrant aio toolkit can't adb phone into recovery or download mode. Flashing different rom screwed up during kernal phase and I stupidly rebooted phone. I CAN use a jig I bought to get into download mode but computer Odin doesn't 'see' it.
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dcboi said:
How screwed am I? Odin doesn't recognize phone, vibrant aio toolkit can't adb phone into recovery or download mode. Flashing different rom screwed up during kernal phase and I stupidly rebooted phone. I CAN use a jig I bought to get into download mode but computer Odin doesn't 'see' it.
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Do you have the drivers installed on your PC?
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Dan_Brutal said:
Do you have the drivers installed on your PC?
Yes, not sure what changed but I plugged the phone in again and Odin recognized it, the file I loaded is PDA_T959UVKB5.tar.md5, the process has hung up at SetupConnection...
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id keep trying it odin is finicky! maybe try different usb ports

ok guys i know i aksed for a lot of help.. but i have a newly discovered problem.. when i connect my vibrant thru the original usb port to transfer files back and forth it never lets me transfer even the smallest picture image... on both internal 16gb or sd... the phone computer just constantly shows transferring animation.... i tried many times.. i even scanned the phones hard drive and sd card for errors... nothing... could it be i messed something up with kies? or thats why kies in general never went with the upgrade past 1%?
its a refurbished phone.. when i got it.. i uploaded my old pics without a problem with the same usb cable..... its weird.... i dont know what to do? what is it likely the phone itself or i messed it up with kies upgrade????
please help.. its frustrating me

Help rooting my device(I have tried everyting)

Hi this is my first thread but I have been reading this site for some time. Here is my problem.
I have an stock EC05 rom epic 4G recently adquired and I have tried to root it for some time but every method I tried proves to be unsuccesful(I have tried nopc method and oneclickroot) both
Of them finished unsuccesful my biggest problem with the oneclick method is that my computer(and any) can't detect my device as an pendrive, just as an modem so I'm enable to acces anything from my phone when is connected by usb(have tried usb debbuging mode on and off but nothing) I have the drivers installed I'm my pc but they don't seem to connect whit my phone(have reinstalled them but not working, the same as before) so I don't have a clue of what's wrong or missing if someone could help whit anything I would thank it a lot.
If you need to know something else I'm. Cheking contantly the thread to refresh it the quicker I can.

Did you try using bonsai master unlocker?
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Have u tried all the USB ports? Also if u are using the stock Samsung USB cable. Try a different one.
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Yup I have tried every usb port and a BB cable but nothing. Its the same whit the stock cable and no I never have read about the bonsai method I will try it.

Did you download the samsung drivers to your PC?
Sorry, I see you did that.
Keep trying different cables, it took me 3 to find the right one.

Did you let th drivers install the fist time you plugged it in?
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Well in fact I think is not the cable because my computer is able to detect it but not as an usb mass storage when I plug it to my pc 3 drivers are loaded the cdma modem samsung usb modem and the theter one but no one is the android usb driver that I have seen in some videos and whit another android phones ohh and I have been trying to find the bonsai methhod but it seems that the thread have been deleted.

i had a very similar problem when rooting mine. do you have access to another os to try it on? when i was doing mine i had to do it on mac os . i was using the oneclick method but it took awhile as the newer models of the epic seem to hate windows 7......dunno why tho...lemme know how it goes and if its still not working i can send the exact programs i used.

well i have tried bonsai masterkey but no the same as the others I'm getting frustrated by this situation

You could also try rebooting your phone, computer, or both.

a great place for beginners to start at is theunlockr.com, if your not firmilliar with your phone and how the root process works they are great about holding your hand through the process and have some pretty good starting points for what roms to use so on and so forth...
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epic 4g - SyndicateROM Frozen 1.2 from the ACS team
VisionKernel v1.0 from ACS

I,m going to ask a friend his mac to try the bonsai method
wish me luck

cosmoskymaster said:
I,m going to ask a friend his mac to try the bonsai method
wish me luck
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Some of your wording is a little confusing, are you saying that you can't even get usb mass storage to work? (Meaning,are you able to transfer anything to your phone?)
If that's the case, then that honestly sounds like a faulty usb port on your phone and you might have to get it serviced.
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Wait! From what you said earlier... do you have debug mode on?
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Have u tried to see if Odin will recocnize the phone in download mode? If u can get it to show up you can Odin ef02. Then Odin clockwork, then flash superuser. Then u will be rooted.
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i have used odin and it seem to reconized my phone but i havent found a guide to root using odin, I once tried to ask for one but they told me to use oneclick root but It was no use
and for the asking if i used debug mode yeah i tried in every form to connect it to the computer but the same. if some one could conduct me to a way to use odin i would be very greathful

Stuff you need and Odin instructions are in first post of link below. I would also read through thread if you run into any problems. If Odin shows "com 4,5 or 6" really any number it means it should be recognizing phone. That will show in left upper box on Odin program when u put phone in download mode and connect to PC.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1128546
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Or you can read through this thread and try it this way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1128124
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cosmoskymaster said:
i have used odin and it seem to reconized my phone but i havent found a guide to root using odin, I once tried to ask for one but they told me to use oneclick root but It was no use
and for the asking if i used debug mode yeah i tried in every form to connect it to the computer but the same. if some one could conduct me to a way to use odin i would be very greathful
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Sir, if you can't transfer files to your phone, you need to go to a sprint store. It'll be free if you pay for TEP.
These are the exact same symptoms of my friend's phone. Can't mount SD to a computer, same drivers that end up installing, no one click or unlocker will work; but odin recognizes (and works). I'm having him come in to my store next week.
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well it would be the best thing to do but I´m not able to do that because I´m not in the USA so it´s quite umprobable that I can do that i will try to use odin and see what happens thanks for your attention I appreciated

Cant Access COM Port on CleanGB HELP!!!

I flashed with CleanGB, and it is a phenominal ROM. But i cant access the COM port on my phone. I tried ##8778# and switched back and forth on PDA/USB/MODEM settings, but nothing... does anyone have any ideas? Please and thank you.
Sry. This is on a Sprint EPIC 4G

Same issue.....
Also my screen stays black when I open keyboard so my keyboard is useless.
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Have you heard any way to do this? I really dont want to flash back to the sprint ROM, but i will if i need to, i need to change some numbers......

Have you tried reinstalling the drivers on your computer? Different cable? Different USB ports?
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I have tried everything on my computer... My wife epic works fine..
I believe toad said something about it being possibly related to canceling a reboot from the power button. It's in the clean gb rom at the end....
I've just been living with it so far... Plugging it in after power down and removing the battery gets it to boot again...
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Then a quick Odin to EC05 stock should get it going again, then root and flash. Don't restore any system data.
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Can't odin... can't get pc to see phone in boot loader or usb mode....
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troyolson92 said:
Can't odin... can't get pc to see phone in boot loader or usb mode....
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Not even in download mode huh? You can try restoring an old nandroid to see if that fixes it.
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I think you guys have broken phones.
EDIT: Or in the case of your PC not seeing ODIN, something is probably going on with the PC.

ive had the same exact problem you will have to take your sd card and try to install a stock rom from phones cwm recovery or which ever recovery you are running

I have the exact same problem on the exact same rom.
But only on my home PC.
I tried it at work and Odin recognized the com port. Not sure what is changed on my home PC. I dont have to Odin often, and this is the first time I've noticed this.
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did i brick my phone?

Tried to install odin and it wouldn't pass.
Took the usb out and tried to reset the phone & now it's stuck here
i.imgur.com/3kyQ9.jpg
Help

Your phone isn't bricked. Just take out the battery, if the usb cord you used is the stock samsung cord try using a different usb. Take out your sd card as well and while the battery is out go into download with usb cord plugged in and re-odin.
Always remember if you can see something on the screen your phone isn't bricked.
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thanks so much
unfortunately, all i have is the stock samsung usb.
Could that be why odin failed?

mrmondaynight said:
thanks so much
unfortunately, all i have is the stock samsung usb.
Could that be why odin failed?
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It's okay, just try to re-odin and see what happens. You should invest in a blackberry usb cord, samsung stock usb is unreliable imo.
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mrmondaynight said:
thanks so much
unfortunately, all i have is the stock samsung usb.
Could that be why odin failed?
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Very possible! You might want to try a different USB port also.

Tried to re odin and it stays stuck here.
i.imgur.com/WjwdY.png
Gonna buy another usb tomorrow.
Also, how do i get OUT of download mode?
If i try to reset the phone, i get the same screen as before.

mrmondaynight said:
Tried to re odin and it stays stuck here.
i.imgur.com/WjwdY.png
Gonna buy another usb tomorrow.
Also, how do i get OUT of download mode?
If i try to reset the phone, i get the same screen as before.
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You might have made an error while odin-ing. Tell me the steps you took to Odin?
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I followed this video
youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE
downloaded the kernal gb file
opened odin
made sure only auto reboot was click
pressed pda to add the kernal file
went into download mode(usb was out)
once in download mode, attached the usb
waited to see the yellow box that says com5
pressed start.

mrmondaynight said:
I followed this video
youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE
downloaded the kernal gb file
opened odin
made sure only auto reboot was click
pressed pda to add the kernal file
went into download mode(usb was out)
once in download mode, attached the usb
waited to see the yellow box that says com5
pressed start.
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I don't think kernels are supposed to be odined that might be your problem right there.
You can flash kernels through CWM, no need for odin.
Just odin back to stock using the info from QBKing odin video.
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masaidjet said:
I don't think kernels are supposed to be odined that might be your problem right there.
You can flash kernels through CWM, no need for odin.
Just odin back to stock using the info from QBKing odin video.
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It didn't pass, so it should still be stock, no?
Also, i don't see the info on how to revert back to stock

mrmondaynight said:
It didn't pass, so it should still be stock, no?
Also, i don't see the info on how to revert back to stock
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFazLOVXPns

Everything you need to know is written in the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
I recommend odin-ing the EC05.tar that's there, instead of the EL30.tar because it's easier to root and you'll be able to flash a custom stock EL30 GB easily(after updating your CWM to CWM5)
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You didn't do anything inccorect its just that crappy stock cable.
And yes the gb3a.tar should've been flash prior to clockworkmod for it to stick so you followed correctly its not an error on your part just a flawed cable go out and buy a new one like a blackberry or something really good not a cheap one .
Good job guys thanks.
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Big Goron said:
You didn't do anything inccorect its just that crappy stock cable.
And yes the gb3a.tar should've been flash prior to clockworkmod for it to stick so you followed correctly its not an error on your part just a flawed cable go out and buy a new one like a blackberry or something really good not a cheap one .
Good job guys thanks.
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You should ask him do he want you to root it for him, with your rooting service.
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masaidjet said:
You should ask him do he want you to root it for him, with your rooting service.
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I was going to ask but I figured he had it down pat the video is pretty much solid.
Just needs a better cable anyways to the original poster if you would like I can remotely root your phone via teamviewer. Google it install it and pm me the id and password...if of course you'd like me to do it.
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see, now that'd be awesome.
Downloading now.

mrmondaynight said:
see, now that'd be awesome.
Downloading now.
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Did you get a non stock usb?
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still stock usb
Followed the steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Took longer than 10 minutes, so i unplugged to start again..now i can't get into download mode. Screen is completely blank.
I guess now it's bricked

mrmondaynight said:
still stock usb
Followed the steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Took longer than 10 minutes, so i unplugged to start again..now i can't get into download mode. Screen is completely blank.
I guess now it's bricked
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Pull the battery for a while, and see what happens.

okay, that worked.
Got it back into download mode.
Still have the stock usb, so im sol till it's replaced. No phone ftl