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I've tried the "brick fixes" on this forum, but without luck so far... I can get into download mode, and I've tried flashing with odin from this post which says "passed" to me. After this is reboots into a black screen after the "galaxy S" screen, and nothing can be done except making the capasitive buttons light up...
All help is appreciated!!
FYI I don't have a SD card installed during odin...
Solutions in #6 and #7...
Thanks a ton
Novek said:
I've tried the "brick fixes" on this forum, but without luck so far... I can get into download mode, and I've tried flashing with odin from this post which says "passed" to me. After this is reboots into a black screen after the "galaxy S" screen, and nothing can be done except making the capasitive buttons light up...
All help is appreciated!!
FYI I don't have a SD card installed during odin...
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Sounds like a boot loop, but I can't figure out why you would get one with the stock odin flash. Try doing a factory reset? it shouldn't be needed, but who knows?
how? tried the "hard reset" whitout luck
Novek said:
how? tried the "hard reset" whitout luck
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In recovery.. there should be a factory reset option. I thought odin did that though.
when it is resetting I can read "mbr checksum error" or similar in yellow text before it's wiping data etc...
Try this ...turn you phone off but keep it plugged into you cpu usb cord and open oidin, next put your phone in download mode and put the needed files in oden and click start I had a hard time getting odin to work right for some reason this may not help but it worked for me. Good luck I don't think you bricked I think you can come out of this.
I assume that you used the partition in ROM Manager? If so I had the same problem as you. The phone would boot up to a black screen with only the buttons working. What I did was flash Eugenes 2.2 Froyo Rom, I surprised that it booted up and worked. After that I flashed back to stock rom and it work as it did before!
AustinKnight45 said:
Try this ...turn you phone off but keep it plugged into you cpu usb cord and open oidin, next put your phone in download mode and put the needed files in oden and click start I had a hard time getting odin to work right for some reason this may not help but it worked for me. Good luck I don't think you bricked I think you can come out of this.
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Thanks for the help, but my problem occurs after odin... when it's rebooting and it says "passed!" i just end up with a black screen with only the capasitive buttons lighting up when pressed...
ElahC said:
I assume that you used the partition in ROM Manager? If so I had the same problem as you. The phone would boot up to a black screen with only the buttons working. What I did was flash Eugenes 2.2 Froyo Rom, I surprised that it booted up and worked. After that I flashed back to stock rom and it work as it did before!
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that's my problem!! found it, downloading now... will report back for future accidents...
Froyo worked!! Thanks a ton! Now I just have to downgrade
sry... dubbel
I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. How did you get odin to detect your phone? I put it into download mode but no detection plzzz help
farrisizdaman said:
I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. How did you get odin to detect your phone? I put it into download mode but no detection plzzz help
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I turned the phone off while the usb was connected when the phone if off open odin ounce its open boot up the phone and boot it into download mode from there odin will connect and you can put the files you need into it and click start. This worked well for me when I needed to revert back to factory vibrant after flashing the "Real lag FIX" kernel that made my ear piece not work and some of my buttons not work but boy was my phone snappy and my benchmarks were awesome but what good does that do when your girl calls you and you cant hear her and all she can hear is you saying hellllllllooooooo .
I"ve been trying to flash with odin now for about 2 hours. It gets stuck on DO NOT DISCONNECT. And never finishes.
farrisizdaman said:
I"ve been trying to flash with odin now for about 2 hours. It gets stuck on DO NOT DISCONNECT. And never finishes.
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Ya it was like that for me until I did what I said in my last post, you do have the samsung drivers installed ?
Edit: And you are using this method or this thread HERE
farrisizdaman said:
I"ve been trying to flash with odin now for about 2 hours. It gets stuck on DO NOT DISCONNECT. And never finishes.
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You have managed to get into download mode right? My device is up and running stock now, but gonna try some other ROM now =)
Glad to hear your phone is back up and running .
i know this is an old thread, but i figure this can help someone later... brick is a common search term, and i figure this will come up in a search and this will save time for others...
here's what happened to me. i was flashing back to stock and was in download mode. the blue bar was moving etc and murphy and his dumb law decided to kill my my usb port... i thought the phone was DEAD! nothing i did woke the phone up. no battery indicator, buttons didn't do anything... it was all black. holding up/down and power didnt turn the phone on and into recovery or download mode... the phone was DEAD...
then after scouring the forum forever, i finally got the phone into download mode...
NOTE: i don't recall if the usb wire was plugged into the computer or not... i think it was though...
NOTE2: samsung drivers should have been installed already...
- remove the battery
- hold vol up and vol down buttons
- reinsert battery
i thought WOO HOO!! I GOT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE!!!
the next issue i had was getting odin to recognize the phone... it didn't detect what com port i had. but after a lot of reading, i finally got it to work...
- open odin first
- then get into download mode using the steps above...
after odin recognized the port the phone was plugged into, i flashed back to stock rom using the instructions given on this site... and my dead phone works again...
i was able to fix a dead phone!! this phone could be un-brickable!!
i hope this helps...
farrisizdaman said:
I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. How did you get odin to detect your phone? I put it into download mode but no detection plzzz help
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Open odin first, then plug in your phone.
Well I was running the super dark rom + stupidfast kernal and everything was running great, until i wanted to try stupidfast 1.1.4 and i noticed that it said BLN was disabled by default and followed the link to flash a kernal (had no idea that it was a kernal and that it wasnt meant for our phone) long story short. My phone is stuck at the samsung boot screen i downloaded odin3 and downloaded all the files needed to restore, however everything i do results in the phone still being stuck at the samsung screen then rebooting over and over again
****UPDATE****
FIXED GO TO POST #12 to see how!
Well I was running the super dark rom + stupidfast kernal and everything was running great, until i wanted to try stupidfast 1.1.4 and i noticed that it said BLN was disabled by default and followed the link to flash a kernal (had no idea that it was a kernal and that it wasnt meant for our phone) long story short. My phone is stuck at the samsung boot screen i downloaded odin3 and downloaded all the files needed to restore, however everything i do results in the phone still being stuck at the samsung screen then rebooting over and over agai
Well I was running the super dark rom + stupidfast kernal and everything was running great, until i wanted to try stupidfast 1.1.4 and i noticed that it said BLN was disabled by default and followed the link to flash a kernal (had no idea that it was a kernal and that it wasnt meant for our phone) long story short. My phone is stuck at the samsung boot screen i downloaded odin3 and downloaded all the files needed to restore, however everything i do results in the phone still being stuck at the samsung screen then rebooting over and over again
The stupidfast 1.1.4 kernal was meant for our phone.
It sounds like all you need to do is cold start your phone in download mode. Make sure you have the correct (samsung galaxy s) drivers on your computer.
1) Turn off phone
2) Pull battery and USB out
3) Hold volume DOWN while reconnecting USB
4) Continue Holding volume DOWN and press the power button
(you may now put the battery back in)
You should see a big yellow triangle, this is download mode. From here you can use Odin to flash back to stock. Also, make sure you are flashing the correct image via. odin. We had a guy awhile back who accidentally flashed the stock mesmerize image and his phone really was bricked.
That last sentence brings a smirk to my face for some reason
I think someone needs to come up with a theme that makes the phone look like a brick
chrisexv6 said:
I think someone needs to come up with a theme that makes the phone look like a brick
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or at least a boot animation of a brick being dropped by a flying android that explodes once it reaches the bottom of the screen.
Sent from my StupidFast, SuperDark Fascinate.
After i flash the stock-i500-recovery.tar.md5 through odin and go to the recovery menu and hit apply sdcard:update.zip it gives me this error message:
E: failed to verify whole-file signature
E: signature verifcation failed
Installation aborted
anyone know what this means or if im supposed to be seeing this?
sounds like you still have the update.zip that clockwork creates on your phone but your not rooted (kind of a guess here). I would flash EVERTHING back with odin, remove your SD Card (where the update.zip is) and just boot the phone to see if it gets you to a setup/home screen.
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sounds like you still have the update.zip that clockwork creates on your phone but your not rooted (kind of a guess here). I would flash EVERTHING back with odin, remove your SD Card (where the update.zip is) and just boot the phone to see if it gets you to a setup/home screen.
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tried that and the phone still continues to just hang at the samsung screen and continuously reboots over and over. and when i tried the update.zip it says there's no SD card inserted (obviously since i took it)
Try flashing the odin recovery file. It's in this thread;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782204
It worked for me when I got that error.
GOT IT TO WORK!!!! YES ALL THE BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS PAID OFF!!! If anyone EVER runs into this issue please read this thread:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/fascinate-roms-hacks/44476-bricked-phone-need-help.html
Hi
So last night when I flashed my new created ROM with CWM, it seems like I ruined my boot loader, and from that I can't find the way to recover
SYMPTOMS:
- black screen
- power button doesn't do anything
- no button combination boots to download mode
- no charghing indication when connected to charger or USB
- no detection in the computer when connected to the USB
Is this the real black screen of death?
How did I get there?
I flashed a ROM through CWM, when it finished I selected reboot from CWM, and since then, all I see is black screen, no indication whatsoever to powering up.
I didn't try a USB JIG yet, but I will at Thursday (meet with a friend that has one)
as far as I understand the only way to recover from this is using a RIFF Box JTAG which requires, taking apart the phone, and soldering small wires to the board, and then reload the boot loader
Where do we go from here?
If it happened to you Please write down:
how did it happened to you?
what did you do to try to recover?
did you mange to recover?
if you did, how did you?
Why is this post so important to everyone?
Because if it didn't happen to you yet it might happen in your next CWM flashing.
So its very important to find a solution or at least the way to prevent it.
- update 31/12/2010 -
Cause
corrupted boot loader , bad sbl.bin flashing
Prevention:
do not flash roms/addons/fixes with sbl.bin
if you must flash sbl.bin, do it while you are sure that your USB configuration is perfect, and do it as less as possible.
Solution (for those who already bricked to black)
you're not gonna like it
find riffbox jtag....
marcelo.waisman said:
Hi
So last night when I flashed my new created ROM with CWM, it seems like I ruined my boot loader, and from that I can't find the way to recover
SYMPTOMS:
- black screen
- power button doesn't do anything
- no button combination boots to download mode
- no charghing indication when connected to charger or USB
- no detection in the computer when connected to the USB
Is this the real black screen of death?
How did I get there?
I flashed a ROM through CWM, when it finished I selected reboot from CWM, and since then, all I see is black screen, no indication whatsoever to powering up.
I didn't try a USB JIG yet, but I will at Thursday (meet with a friend that has one)
as far as I understand the only way to recover from this is using a RIFF Box JTAG which requires, taking apart the phone, and soldering small wires to the board, and then reload the boot loader
Where do we go from here?
If it happened to you Please write down:
how did it happened to you?
what did you do to try to recover?
did you mange to recover?
if you did, how did you?
Why is this post so important to everyone?
Because if it didn't happen to you yet it might happen in your next CWM flashing.
So its very important to find a solution or at least the way to prevent it.
BTW I think its a developers post, because we need developers creative way of thinking to find a solution
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Happened to me too. I was tinkering with the Armani source to hopefully find something of use for Axura, and I bricked it. Same things happened to me. I called att and got a new one.
marcelo.waisman said:
Hi
So last night when I flashed my new created ROM with CWM, it seems like I ruined my boot loader, and from that I can't find the way to recover
SYMPTOMS:
- black screen
- power button doesn't do anything
- no button combination boots to download mode
- no charghing indication when connected to charger or USB
- no detection in the computer when connected to the USB
Is this the real black screen of death?
How did I get there?
I flashed a ROM through CWM, when it finished I selected reboot from CWM, and since then, all I see is black screen, no indication whatsoever to powering up.
I didn't try a USB JIG yet, but I will at Thursday (meet with a friend that has one)
as far as I understand the only way to recover from this is using a RIFF Box JTAG which requires, taking apart the phone, and soldering small wires to the board, and then reload the boot loader
Where do we go from here?
If it happened to you Please write down:
how did it happened to you?
what did you do to try to recover?
did you mange to recover?
if you did, how did you?
Why is this post so important to everyone?
Because if it didn't happen to you yet it might happen in your next CWM flashing.
So its very important to find a solution or at least the way to prevent it.
BTW I think its a developers post, because we need developers creative way of thinking to find a solution
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Did you try removing battery and putting it back and then opening ODIN, holding the volume up/down and inserting the usb to bring it on the download mode. I guess I might have experience almost similar issue with one of the rom. I almost freaked out. Phone wont show if its charging. It wont mount on the pc. But tried all the possible method available several times including adb shell command. And finally I did hear the magical sound from window when the usb is connected and finally it did work.
Also try the adb method if it doesn't go into download mode using volume button combo.
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Did u remove sbl.bin
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Happened to me the first time I ran the OTA update from ATT. Paused the update, and when I resumed it - the phone though I finished downloading the JH7 update and tried to apply it.
It failed to apply and when it went to restart, it never powered on. No download mode, recovery, USB power, Odin, nothing. It was completely dead.
I got it replaced at the AT&T store.
If sbl.bin was removed or corrupted you should call the warranty center. Tell them ota update bricked your phone. Lol good luck
sent from my cappy running di11igaf's rom v2.5 at 1280mhz!!
I think it is just bad luck. I was once being careless and had the battery fall out of my phone while flashing, it interrupted the flash and I was still able to get in download mode to Odin it. Needless to say, I'll never flash again without the back cover on
bulletproof1013 said:
Did u remove sbl.bin
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Yes i'ts probably a bad sbl.bin, but I didn't remove it I flashed a new one, most of the rom's do the same
yeah sounds like it...sry for your luck.but seems like its toast then. keep us posted
But if you had a batch 1008 captivate and you messed up during and Odin flash to stock then your screwed bcuz Odin one click swaps the sbl.bins to make your button combinations impossible. ADB would work but you obviously can't access that. I too have a 1008 and it sucks, that is why I bought a jig.
silverslotcar said:
But if you had a batch 1008 captivate and you messed up during and Odin flash to stock then your screwed bcuz Odin one click swaps the sbl.bins to make your button combinations impossible. ADB would work but you obviously can't access that. I too have a 1008 and it sucks, that is why I bought a jig.
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There is a a way. Whenever you need to flash to stock you must use following stock. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=818439
This is same as normal stock posted by DG except that it includes sbl.bin that we (1008) need. I use it everytime and 3 button combos for Download, Recovery work great.
silverslotcar said:
But if you had a batch 1008 captivate and you messed up during and Odin flash to stock then your screwed bcuz Odin one click swaps the sbl.bins to make your button combinations impossible. ADB would work but you obviously can't access that. I too have a 1008 and it sucks, that is why I bought a jig.
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it seems like this is not my case
I'm still looking for other people who had my case, and recovered (even with the JTAG riff box) or at least find someone who know's what we shouldn't do, so we don't break our phones.
so whats batch 1008?
This happened to me last night. I was trying to flash the Darky port via CWM and during the flash it became unresponsive. I had to pull the battery. This caused 2 different things. Sometimes it would be a never ending loop of boot screens and then others it would just go into recovery where it wouldn't let me do anything.
From here luckily I was able to access download mode by using the "adb reboot download" command. So I then got into dl mode and tried to flash stock (not the 3 button fixed one) and it froze on FACTORYFS (or whatever it is). I had no choice but to pull the battery. Now it won't boot at all. So my assumption is it wiped the bootloader. I'm not 100% sure but I feel that the reason it stopped where it did was because I didn't run odin as admin on my Win7 pc. I read in another thread that someone had the same problem when they didn't do that either.
If you are in a pitch black room and you press power you can see your screen illuminate, it's just very dim.
I have batch 1008 if it makes any difference to anyone.
Either way I'm heading to the device support center in a half hour or so to try to get a replacement. I originally was going to make or order a jig but people are saying it only works if the bootloader is intact. I originally had hopes because one person claimed that they recovered a completely dead phone with it, but upon further reading all others could not. It seems like his phone may not have been completely bricked.
Update:
Just got back from the at&t device support center. They gave me a new phone without any hassle. They asked what was wrong with my phone and I told them that I was trying to update it and now it won't turn on. The guy tried a few combinations of button presses and tried hooking it up to a jig-like device. Nothing worked so he just gave me a refurbished phones. No questions asked. As I was walking out he said a few people have had the same issue so it's not a big deal.
Either way I thought this would help to realize that there is likely no way to get the phone to boot unless you have a jtag handy.
I don't feel safe to flash rom via CWM.
If you really want to do that, delete the bootloader inside the .zip
So i think i killed mine too
so i get black screen, two button combo gives me SEC S5PC110 Test B/d
I opened odin but nothing Is this toast?
I had this exact problem over thanksgiving weekend. My phone was was was hard bricked I was getting the "phone + computer" it took some effort to get it into download but I got it there and when I was recovering with odin the connection got lost the screen went blue and then nothing. It was dead totally unresponsive no charging or boot screen nothing but once I got a black screen with redlines. After a lot of attempts to revive it I gave up called ATT warranty for a replacement. Luckily I opted for the slow mail service and kept reading. Yesterday I saw the above post and now I can say "yes even now your phone is not bricked even though it does NOTHING"
step 1) first thing I did was charge the battery with my replacement phone as the bricked phone was no longer able to charge the battery
step 2) open odin1 click and hooked up the usb to the phone and computer no battery
step 3) inserted the battery holding only volume up+down
step 4) "BOOM" download mode and a happy dance
I posted this in the"read before flashing" thread there are other people who have recovered from this and now I think that the extra trick to this is getting a 100% battery you need this to flash, and state the phone is in now wont charge a battery.
hope this sound encouraging
silverslotcar said:
But if you had a batch 1008 captivate and you messed up during and Odin flash to stock then your screwed bcuz Odin one click swaps the sbl.bins to make your button combinations impossible. ADB would work but you obviously can't access that. I too have a 1008 and it sucks, that is why I bought a jig.
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It's odd because I keep seeing people saying things like this. I, too, have a 1008 Captivate. My button combos have worked from day one and Odin one click has never messed that up. Maybe I'm just lucky?
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RKight said:
It's odd because I keep seeing people saying things like this. I, too, have a 1008 Captivate. My button combos have worked from day one and Odin one click has never messed that up. Maybe I'm just lucky?
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I believe there's a "fixed" 1008 batch. Not all 1008s are going to have the problem.
norcal einstein said:
I believe there's a "fixed" 1008 batch. Not all 1008s are going to have the problem.
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Yeah it's either that or just a misconception spread by the community. Both my old captivate and replacement were 1008. I have been able to get into recovery via the power+volume combination. I was also able to get into dl mode using the vol+insert usb combination.
It's possible I just got lucky on both but who knows.
I, and many others have a 1008 that don't go into download or recovery via the button combos without fixing sbl.bin.
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Hi people. I have been running a rooted phone for a while and decided to go back to unrooted recently. I decided I would like to use the barclays app and apply the new updates that samsung rolled out recently. However when I flashed the stock firmware I found that the screen no longer worked. The phone seemed to boot up and play the samsung startup jingle but no splash logo. just a black screen. To test I decided to call it and the call came through ok and answered with the home button, speech all functional???!! Just no screen ... completely black??? Would this likely be a fault with the firmware or is it just uncanny timing with a faulty screen??? confused and wondered if anyone else has come across this before I go but a new screen. I downloaded the firmware from hotfile "I9505XXUDMH8_I9505OXXDMHA_I9505XXUDMH8_HOME"
thanks in advance
jamhot said:
Hi people. I have been running a rooted phone for a while and decided to go back to unrooted recently. I decided I would like to use the barclays app and apply the new updates that samsung rolled out recently. However when I flashed the stock firmware I found that the screen no longer worked. The phone seemed to boot up and play the samsung startup jingle but no splash logo. just a black screen. To test I decided to call it and the call came through ok and answered with the home button, speech all functional???!! Just no screen ... completely black??? Would this likely be a fault with the firmware or is it just uncanny timing with a faulty screen??? confused and wondered if anyone else has come across this before I go but a new screen. I downloaded the firmware from hotfile "I9505XXUDMH8_I9505OXXDMHA_I9505XXUDMH8_HOME"
thanks in advance
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i would say to stay away from new firmwares at this time....you are stuck in the locked bootloader.
can you boot in recovery or odin modes and see the screen?
wipe data and cache and reflash the MH8 then do the wipe. see if that works
can not determine if it is a HW or SW issue.
if you want to use app that doesnt require root like Barcley and you are rooted, you can hide the root with some available app.
It seems I am able to get the device into download mode, although nothing comes on the screen. I just have to do the procedure blind. No matter what I do nothing comes up. It also seems I can only get the phone to read the internal memory through USB once a flash procedure has completed. It seems to force a boot up but when I try to restart manually it does nothing but vibrate and only seems to be able to put into download mode while blind. I find it very unusual that the screen should suddenly stop working the moment I try and flash the standard firmware. Getting worried now. nothing seems to work
Can anyone help here??? I have tried flashing several times. Just vibrates and does nothing. I can get it into download mode but I don't get any warning screen up. I just go through the button combo's blind and it manages to get into communication with a odin com port. I have tried doing a PIT download. What I was then finding is that the phone can bring up a recovery screen with option to reset, I reset but the phone will just be a black screen and play the samsung start jingle without the splash screen. It then seems to boot and receive notifications with a totally black screen. completely unresponsive.
If you can't see a splash screen or even recovery and download mode screens, then I'd say its a hw issue and no ROM is going to fix it, because those mentioned things are not even tied to the ROM.
Your screen has broken some how, it could be as simple as a flexi connector falling out or as bad as your screen being totally gone.
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It doesn't look like hardware problem
i am facing exactly similar situation with a 9505, i tested LCD with another of my 9505, and LCD is ok
is just happened after an Odin flash of stock firmware.
I have the S7 Edge originally the ATT version but I rooted and flashed the unlocked version firmware. I was trying to unroot the device and restore everything to the factory settings since I am using the trade in program through Samsung and have to send it back in stock. I tried to flash it using Zodin, the Mac version of Odin, but was unable to get it to work because I was not able to get the proper pit file, it always returned with the error that there is a corrupt file. Since I do not have Windows, I could not Flash the firmware using Odin. Out of desperation, I looked online and a website (the article was on Android forums with the title restore stock with flashfire no PC) said that I could use the Android app Flashfire to flash a firmware and return to the factory unrooted settings. I downloaded and inputted the full firmware file for the original AT&T firmware version and checked the boxes to wipe boot, system, internal data, and trusted Zone and also maintain everroot. It seemed to work and was processing with the fast scrolling command text on the black screen but after a few minutes it said there was an error at the very bottom of the screen. Eventually, it restarted but nothing has come up and the screen is black without any light from the LED indicator. I tried to restart it with the power button several times, holding down the power button and the volume down, holding down the home button and the power button, and holding down the power button, volume down, and home button. I left the phone unplugged overnight and plugged it in this morning to see if it would turn on but nothing happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated and I am hoping that I did not brick the phone.
Since Im not sure now if you also tryed to go in download mode again but ussualy you are always able to do that.
If not try to remove battery and put it back in after 10 minuts. And connect it to your laptop and let it charge for a few minuts. Next Hold buttons for dowload mode. Hold em for 5 secconds. Even if still have a blackscreen open samsung kies or switch. One of them has the emergency recovery option. It will detect it then and will say something like you need to repair the software want to continue etc. Lwt it do its thing and make sure you are on the internet. You drink some coffee and give it 30 minuts atleast.
Still not work? Try to put in a spare battery or charge it with another phone. If that not even works. I cant help you.
First of all, I do not have a battery that I can remove. I tried to enter download mode and recovery mode but nothing worked. It will not boot up into any mode.
Just hold the button combination for download mode for 10sec and connect it to a PC with installed smart switch on it. Smart switch should detect your phone, even if the display of the phone stays black.
I tried what you recommended but nothing works still.
I seem to have encountered the same problem, albeit not through exactly the same method. Essentially I managed a full stock firmware flash through ODIN, all the right messages came up and I got a pass from Odin. The phone rebooted and brought up the blue "updating" screen, which very quickly changed to a "removing" screen, at which point the phone froze. When I tried to reboot, the screen went black and now.... nothing. No recovery, no download, no light to indicate that its charging... nothing. My computer doesn't register there is even a device attached.
I've done heaps of flashing and never seen anything like this!
Would greatly appreciate any advice or assistance!
same issue here accept i was just using odin like usual. anyone figure this out yet? the phone was not rooted or anything. i had flashed the g935u firmware and then decided to put it back to stock g935t firmware. then it started doing this.
reflash but this time it check nand erase all
NEVVER EVER CHECK NAND ERASE ALL, dont advise others what you don't know yourself. This is for manufacturer and is not intended for repairing, if you nand erase your phone its just a paper weight then, beyond recoverable. But this issue is caused by wrong partitioning i suppose, but still it must go in download mode, try plugging it in when smartswitch is open in pc while holding home+vol down+power , if it wont detect then i suppose its nand failure due to any reason. And motherboard replacement is required.
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I recommended it because I had the same experience of the black screen and blue led that lights up and I flashed more than 50 times without any result and the solution that was given to me and which walked it's this one
stootie said:
I recommended it because I had the same experience of the black screen and blue led that lights up and I flashed more than 50 times without any result and the solution that was given to me and which walked it's this one
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If it really did nand erased all, your phone wouldn't even boot, your phone working is a proof it isn't nand erased. What people don't understand is that nand isn't the internal memory, its the non volatile memory holding vital info about functioning of phone just like a bios of computer, so if it is erased you are beyond recoverable damage. Here , i must say i dont know if odin can really nand erase all, because if your phone is working, nand is definitely not erased. And as far as what fixed your issues, there must have been some other reason. But for everyone, leave that option empty just to be safe.
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I was trying to install 935U firmware in my 935V US verizon s7 edge. After installation completed using odin phone rebooted and showed new sim setting something.... after that it went off and now its turning up.
Any help please?
did you find any solution?...plzzz help me i also got the same problem
HEY BRO...FIRST OF ALL , WHOEVER SAID THAT NAND ERASE OPTION AFFECTS PHONE... IM HERE FOR ANSWER. IHAVE FLASHED AND EVERYTIME used nanderase ...my phone feels brand new ..it jst repartitions the size of nand... also adding pit doesnt effect ...your problem is something other ... plug your phone to a good charger whole night.make sure charger is working...then try volume down and home and power into download mode..gudluck
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HEY BRO...FIRST OF ALL , WHOEVER SAID THAT NAND ERASE OPTION AFFECTS PHONE... IM HERE FOR ANSWER. IHAVE FLASHED AND EVERYTIME used nanderase ...my phone feels brand new ..it jst repartitions the size of nand... also adding pit doesnt effect ...your problem is something other ... plug your phone to a good charger whole night.make sure charger is working...then try volume down and home and power into download mode..gudluck
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Ofcourse it doesn't effect S7 edge, because it DOESNOT wipes the nand.. so its not working simply..
On older phones it will wipe nand totally and thats a dead brick..
First search what nand is.. its the non volatile memory.. or simply nand chip .. if you delete it.. your phone won't be a phone anymore.. its the non volatile memory that is equal to a bios of a computer.. delete non volatile memory and your phone is completely dead..
Thanks to the latest phones that don't erase non volatile memory and instead selecting nand erase with s7 edge simply deletes userdata before flashing.. which is equal to a normal hard reset ..
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