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I think I might be bricked. HELP?

So I followed the instructions to flash back to DI18 and when it booted up android processes started non-stop FCing so I did a battery pull to hard reboot but when I booted back up it froze at the "SAMSUNG www.samsung.com" screen. Am I bricked and if I am is a soft brick or a hard brick and if its soft what can I do to fix it? Finally if its unfixable think I can bring it back and claim I didn't do anything and get a new one? Please help...

You're not bricked.
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herzzreh said:
You're not bricked.
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So what can I do? I can't even boot into CWM.

if you can get to the boot screen you aren't bricked, odin the DI18 tar.

Magic Oreo said:
if you can get to the boot screen you aren't bricked, odin the DI18 tar.
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I am on a Mac and do not really have access to a windows machine nor do I have a license...

find a friend with a pc, use a library computer. i don't think you can use odin on a mac :X

Magic Oreo said:
find a friend with a pc, use a library computer. i don't think you can use odin on a mac :X
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You can't...so I don't need to install anything? Its just an .exe right?

kenvan19 said:
You can't...so I don't need to install anything? Its just an .exe right?
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yes its a .exe, and as far as im aware bootcamp is only way to odin on a mac. so find a pc, or live with phone that doesnt work :X.

Pull the battery wait a min or two. Boot up holding the vol down camera and power.
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Some time ago I was reading a thread where a guy was talking about a "custom made" version of Odin that he used on his mac. The name of the program started with an H, but I can't for the life of me remember where I saw it. Happy searching!

knx2 said:
Pull the battery wait a min or two. Boot up holding the vol down camera and power.
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Tried that but I'll try again and I'll try searching for that custom odin too. Thank you. Definitely made explaining to my fiancee why I haven't been answering texts and the subsequent question of 'what the f*** did you do to your phone you dumbs***'

No dice on the battery pull or finding the custom odin. Guess I'll have to be phone-less until tomorrow and hope I can get access to win machine.

leatherneck6017 said:
Some time ago I was reading a thread where a guy was talking about a "custom made" version of Odin that he used on his mac. The name of the program started with an H, but I can't for the life of me remember where I saw it. Happy searching!
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i believe you are thinking of Heimdal. I don't know anything about using it, but I believe it is supposed to be an OS independent version of Odin3.
OP, find a friend with windows, that will be the easiest way. Otherwise, do some research on Heimdal.
Also, as other people have said, as long as you can get to the download screen. you are NOT bricked.

Can you get into clockwork recovery mode? With power off press and hold the camera button and the volume down button while powering on. If you can you can restore a back up if you made one or flash a rom.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
Found that thread for downloading Heimdall
Here is the developers site as well http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/

n0esc said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
Found that thread for downloading Heimdall
Here is the developers site as well http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
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Wow thank you! I'll give this a shot!

Update: I tried heimdal but no dice...someone in my class has a windows netbook and I used it to ODIN and bingo, back to stock. Woohoo!

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

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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

Frustrated, out of ideas and posts to read...

Every time I was reboot the phone goes to this menu, Odin doesn't recognize it, windows doesn't see any device attached, and no options(or combo of) have worked.
Any ideas appreciated!
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i almost bricked my phone several times but i never seen that...

dcboi said:
Every time I was reboot the phone goes to this menu, Odin doesn't recognize it, windows doesn't see any device attached, and no options(or combo of) have worked.
Any ideas appreciated!
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If you have a tmobile vibrant, you need to flash the original JDF firmware ... if you gonna flash the KB5 firmware after make sure "re-partition "is not checked off in odin ...You are getting that error cause you are missing some data files that are only in the original firmware...

ive gotten that screen when i flashed without disabling vodoo. i always use the "froyo that does not brick" flash through odin.

as they say!
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

U can buy or make a jig I made one easy and cheap gets in download mode everytime

Oh man, everytime I odin, that screens comes by, flash froyo that doesn't brick by eugene with re-partion check, then flash a stock odin rom with unticked repartition. And there you go, a clean phone. I had to odin last night.
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Chwek13 said:
U can buy or make a jig I made one easy and cheap gets in download mode everytime
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Jig doesn't put the phone into download mode, neither does key combo+ usb+ battery insert. I think I'm screwed, unless there's a way to access a zip file from the external sdcard.
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dcboi said:
Jig doesn't put the phone into download mode, neither does key combo+ usb+ battery insert. I think I'm screwed, unless there's a way to access a zip file from the external sdcard.
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Hey, I'm helping another XDA member with the same exact problem and it took me a long time, but made good progress. He's running froyo now, but can't install apps. So I'll definitely be able to help you with this.

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Hey, I'm helping another XDA member with the same exact problem and it took me a long time, but made good progress. He's running froyo now, but can't install apps. So I'll definitely be able to help you with this.
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That would be great! I've run out of Google searches, blogs to read, and patience. I'm afraid of trying anything cause it feels like one more mistake could make me an expensive paper weight
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dcboi said:
That would be great! I've run out of Google searches, blogs to read, and patience. I'm afraid of trying anything cause it feels like one more mistake could make me an expensive paper weight
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I totally understand. Unplug the battery, take out the sim card, and sd card....leave it alone. PM me so we can set up a time to work on it and I prefer skype because of screen share, it makes it easier for me to show someone what to do.

Help with epic

I am new to power using with phones. I had went to install syndicate and my phone had crashed, i finally got it up and running with oden once, Tried it again, this time i can't seem to get oden to work. At one point my phone wasn't even turning on or doing anything until i had taken it to a sprint store hoping my insurance would cover it.
I can get into clockwork.
I can get into download mode.
Oden is not working.
and Installing from zip is not working.
I could really use some help with this.
Thank you.

bloodywaterfox said:
I am new to power using with phones. I had went to install syndicate and my phone had crashed, i finally got it up and running with oden once, Tried it again, this time i can't seem to get oden to work. At one point my phone wasn't even turning on or doing anything until i had taken it to a sprint store hoping my insurance would cover it.
I can get into clockwork.
I can get into download mode.
Oden is not working.
and Installing from zip is not working.
I could really use some help with this.
Thank you.
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Try another USB cable and also make sure it is plugged into the same USB port as before.

I've tried a couple already, any other idea's?

bloodywaterfox said:
I've tried a couple already, any other idea's?
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Did u convert to ext4 before u tried to flash srf? Also srf didn't come with a kernel u need to flash a kernel right after the rom
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If there would be something wrong with the boot, is there a way to fix this? After using odin or installing from zip it goes right back into clockwork every time.

bloodywaterfox said:
If there would be something wrong with the boot, is there a way to fix this? After using odin or installing from zip it goes right back into clockwork every time.
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U still didn't answer my question. If Odin doesn't recognize ur phone try installing the drivers again
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Esteway.619 said:
Did u convert to ext4 before u tried to flash srf? Also srf didn't come with a kernel u need to flash a kernel right after the rom
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I have no idea, probably not. would you mind showing me how i can find these?
and I posted while you were posting.
I have tried several sets of drivers, and as far as i know odin reads/sees my phone fine.

bloodywaterfox said:
I have no idea, probably not. would you mind showing me how i can find these?
and I posted while you were posting.
I have tried several sets of drivers, and as far as i know odin reads/sees my phone fine.
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Download and flash rfs2ext4 here's the link. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1109362
Edit: afther u flash this make sure u reflash the rom and then flash a kernel. Like genocide or twilight
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so i just run the zip from clockwork, then what? i'm a bit android illiterate, i really could use and appreciate the help.

This is what i did, not sure if it is right or not, however it didn't work.
wiped.
ran rfs2ext4.zip
ran syndicatefro110-fullyloaded-signed.zip
ran genocide2.0_voodoosnd10.zip
and it still keeps boot looping.
I have also been getting a E:cant open /cache/recovery/log

bloodywaterfox said:
This is what i did, not sure if it is right or not, however it didn't work.
wiped.
ran rfs2ext4.zip
ran syndicatefro110-fullyloaded-signed.zip
ran genocide2.0_voodoosnd10.zip
and it still keeps boot looping.
I have also been getting a E:cant open /cache/recovery/log
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What recovery are u using?? I would say try to really install the drivers on your computer and use Odin to go back to stock and start fresh.
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Thanks everyone for the help anyways, I found a .tar file that was a full install for odin and now i have it up and running.
I also figured out what i was originally doing, rooting and installing syndicate.
Thanks guys.

He didn't install a kernel.