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Hidden download mode on Vibrant?

Guys. Just playing around with my used Vibrant. I flashed it with a few odin variations from I9000 (noob me). I guess you know what happens. It failed to boot up with a scary screen of Phone-!-PC sign (of course Odin didnt complain at all).
I tried so many combinations of keys (in panic) to get it to download mode and nothing worked. That horrible sign would just be there as soon as the phone is reset thru all methods...(3-buttons, 2-buttons, battery pullin, usb pullin, hair pullin)
However, then I noticed Odin screen say "Added!" message with a yellow comport sign while I was still trying in panic...and feeling hopeless as the screen is still with the deadly sign Phone-!-PC.
So I thought it probably was a fluke since there's no Android Download sign on screen... I decided to push my luck and flashed a different version with Odin. It worked!
Just a tid bid to share in case you hit this condition. If Odin sees the fone, you might have a chance.
UPDATE: Forgot to mention how it gets to the "Added" message on Odin. I hit power button and reset fone until it comes up. Then hit vol +/- buttons at once. Odin would says "Added!" message... you're good to go.

This is well known by most of the community and has been covered multiple times.
No troll intended.
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Lol when I saw the pc to phone sign I immediately bought a $15 jig and didn't notice that it was in download mode still until the day I received the jig
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Rofl, Alan, fail, you noob. <3
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Duh for me. Now I'm at a worse nightmare. I dont think its been solved. While I was successfully flashed the Vibrant to new 2.3.4 firmware. I got mixed up with my 2nd Vibrant by plugin the cable to my SGS4G. As I had laid it on the same work table while trying to get SIM card out for testing. It is hard-bricked!
No power activity no lighting whatsoever after the successful flash. So... i set out to build a USB JIG... after many trials. The JIG worked well on the Vibrant everytime, yet still not able to resurrect the SGS4G...
God damn these fones are almost exactly the same. Anyone got directions to build a time machine? I wish I can just turn back the knob to the second before I hit the start button on Odin. I wonder what I can do with a $200 SGS4g hard brick.
Hmm.... very stylish paper weight?

theexel said:
Rofl, Alan, fail, you noob. <3
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I had a blonde moment!
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bricked1t said:
Anyone got directions to build a time machine? I wish I can just turn back the knob to the second before I hit the start button on Odin. I wonder what I can do with a $200 SGS4g hard brick.
Hmm.... very stylish paper weight?
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I'm really Stephen Hawking. I can build you one for $550,238,295,588,299.99 OR you can just buy yourself a new phone. I think the new phone is a much wiser option since it's 2,751,191,477,941 times cheaper.
But really... just because you're phone is a paper weight doesn't mean you can use the parts. Just look at what you have. The 4g camera itself is at least $25. There are people that want to use the battery cover and spend at least $10 just for that. Then there are other things such as the digitizer, etc. Look at this here. This person is selling his/her phone for $100 as a broken device. Just some advice.

bricked1t said:
Duh for me. Now I'm at a worse nightmare. I dont think its been solved. While I was successfully flashed the Vibrant to new 2.3.4 firmware. I got mixed up with my 2nd Vibrant by plugin the cable to my SGS4G. As I had laid it on the same work table while trying to get SIM card out for testing. It is hard-bricked!
No power activity no lighting whatsoever after the successful flash. So... i set out to build a USB JIG... after many trials. The JIG worked well on the Vibrant everytime, yet still not able to resurrect the SGS4G...
God damn these fones are almost exactly the same. Anyone got directions to build a time machine? I wish I can just turn back the knob to the second before I hit the start button on Odin. I wonder what I can do with a $200 SGS4g hard brick.
Hmm.... very stylish paper weight?
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You can try selling it on ebay or CL. I've seen some listings there. But before you do that, PM me first.

Got it back
Hehe. Yeah thanks u all posting good advices. I did search around for options for a bit while keep marveling it on my desk... just a beautiful piece of gadget.
Parting it out, the screen would be $100+ already. I saw some on eBay $115~$130 range. And quite some time and effort to get it sold....
I registered on Samsung with the IMEI number, it shows still in-warranty. Talked to the tech, obviously it's a user service issue since I caused the brick. They say its a flat-fee service of $75. Whoa! ... got my heart jumped again. I was about to send it in... then I saw some CL items with cracked screens (of the 3G model)... bought one for $45 and decide to take the risks.
You know what I gonna do. ...I gut the SGS3G and use the screen/frame of my dead SGS4G. Of course, this'd be a downgrade dead 4G->3G. I tested the cables/plugs & parts (mainboard doesnt fit yet), put in battery, hit power button and voila! it came to life!
The circuit board of the 3G doesn't fit flush into the 4G screen frame. it has 2 protruding thingy about 1mm high... Just clip off those 2 metal markers and replace the 3.5mm jack/earpeice/light sensor assy over from the 3G and its all perfect again (the plug is slightly/wider & different in the 4G model, though layout/design & fit is exactly the same).
PHEW! A hasty second costs me $45 and quite a few hours on the net. I thanks to this forum for most of the help. This is just great.
P.S: The flat-fee service is for ANYthing except screen replacement which is around $165 parts & labor (in case some of u wonder, i did too since some ppl selling really cheap busted screen SGS3G out there)

Atrix for sale(Dev/Parts phone)

Hey Guys
I'll try to keep the story short. This is my girls phone. A few days ago she gave it a bath in some Earl Grey tea. She noticed this after she got to work and realized her travel mug was open in her purse. She pulled the battery and called me. I picked up the phone a few hours later and gave it another bath. This time in rice for 36 hours. Put the battery back in and fired it up. Nothing. I took the phone apart and used electrical cleaner on all of the components. Back to another rice bath. Put the phone back together and booted up. Green light comes on and it stalls on the start screen. After a minute:
"Modem did not power up (0)
Starting RSD protocol support"
A quick trip to your forum and some searching led me to believe it was indeed a hardware issue. Just because I had some time to kill I used this guide to unlock the bootloaders, root and install CWM.
Tenfar's recovery-en-goapk-0630-1029
Booted back up and still the same modem message. I was able to boot it using Boot Android(No BP). I can confirm now that the screen and all rockers work fine. It will stay booted for about 2 minutes before it reboots itself. I'm assuming because it's trying to talk to the modem and getting no response. Don't really feel like taking the time to logcat it because I'm getting rid of the phone. I called MOTO and they said they would replace the MOBO for 125 with tax.
Since I already got her an HTC Vivid we've decided to see if anyone here at XDA might want to buy the phone before I ebay it. Being a member I would much rather see it go to someone here that can use it. I would like to get about $100 for it. If you have any questions or want more info please send me a PM as I might not check here that often. Also if anyone can think of steps that I've missed to recover this I'm open to suggestions. Sorry if this was long winded I just wanted to give full disclosure.
Thanks

hechoen said:
Hey Guys
I'll try to keep the story short. This is my girls phone. A few days ago she gave it a bath in some Earl Grey tea. She noticed this after she got to work and realized her travel mug was open in her purse. She pulled the battery and called me. I picked up the phone a few hours later and gave it another bath. This time in rice for 36 hours. Put the battery back in and fired it up. Nothing. I took the phone apart and used electrical cleaner on all of the components. Back to another rice bath. Put the phone back together and booted up. Green light comes on and it stalls on the start screen. After a minute:
"Modem did not power up (0)
Starting RSD protocol support"
A quick trip to your forum and some searching led me to believe it was indeed a hardware issue. Just because I had some time to kill I used this guide to unlock the bootloaders, root and install CWM.
Tenfar's recovery-en-goapk-0630-1029
Booted back up and still the same modem message. I was able to boot it using Boot Android(No BP). I can confirm now that the screen and all rockers work fine. It will stay booted for about 2 minutes before it reboots itself. I'm assuming because it's trying to talk to the modem and getting no response. Don't really feel like taking the time to logcat it because I'm getting rid of the phone. I called MOTO and they said they would replace the MOBO for 125 with tax.
Since I already got her an HTC Vivid we've decided to see if anyone here at XDA might want to buy the phone before I ebay it. Being a member I would much rather see it go to someone here that can use it. I would like to get about $100 for it. If you have any questions or want more info please send me a PM as I might not check here that often. Also if anyone can think of steps that I've missed to recover this I'm open to suggestions. Sorry if this was long winded I just wanted to give full disclosure.
Thanks
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Have you posted this on the market of XDA? You will do better selling it there.
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Voelker45 said:
Have you posted this on the market of XDA? You will do better selling it there.
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Yup!
Mods will likely tell you to do exactly that and close this thread.

Phone Bricked

Hello,
I think that my phone is bricked, wanted to check to see if anyone had advice... it is the last day of the sprint 30 day guarantee thing for me, I believe... but don't know if it works for bricked phones so not sure what to do.
Anyway, it was running the Negalight Wonderrom with KT Kernal, think TouchWiz, and everything else default but for installing a few apps.
Ran Comadose + Crossbreeder last night, rebooted was working fine... then turned it off and went to bed as my upstairs charger wasn't working.
Went to bed, woke up, and it wouldn't turn on. I am currently pulling the battery for 10 minutes to see if that will work to fix it.... but haven't been able to get a response via power, home, vol up or power + vol down.
Pretty sure that Samsung would charge me if I sent it in?
Please advise.
(Also, going to contact some smaller shops in the area that I see on craigslist alot that may know what to do...)

tisdadd said:
Hello,
I think that my phone is bricked, wanted to check to see if anyone had advice... it is the last day of the sprint 30 day guarantee thing for me, I believe... but don't know if it works for bricked phones so not sure what to do.
Anyway, it was running the Negalight Wonderrom with KT Kernal, think TouchWiz, and everything else default but for installing a few apps.
Ran Comadose + Crossbreeder last night, rebooted was working fine... then turned it off and went to bed as my upstairs charger wasn't working.
Went to bed, woke up, and it wouldn't turn on. I am currently pulling the battery for 10 minutes to see if that will work to fix it.... but haven't been able to get a response via power, home, vol up or power + vol down.
Pretty sure that Samsung would charge me if I sent it in?
Please advise.
(Also, going to contact some smaller shops in the area that I see on craigslist alot that may know what to do...)
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are you sure that the battery is charged? and also your sprint guarantee only lasts 14 days so your well overdue and unless you have TEP its unlikely sprint will just give you another phone without a fight

Do you have TEP on the device? If so just take it in to a sprint store and tell them that it won't turn on. They're not going to known if you rooted if it doesn't turn on.
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TKS3 said:
Do you have TEP on the device? If so just take it in to a sprint store and tell them that it won't turn on. They're not going to known if you rooted if it doesn't turn on.
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I actually did have TEP, then it was removed when I sent it to samsung... but Samsung fixed it for free. Seems it was power port abuse or something... no idea how that could be but whatever.
Anyway, just got it back and was able to get online again and wanted to say thanks.

Urgent screen replacement question. Please help!

So last night, around 7 or 8, I was waiting for my train at the station in philadelphia.
All of sudden, right before i got onto the train, this one black dude runs upto me and snatched my g2 out of my hands and started to run. Wtf.
I ran after him and tripped his legs while he was running. he fell hard, and my g2 flew. I wish that dude at least got a broken nose.
Anyways, I quickly recovered my g2 and got onto the train, and checked if it was okay.
I noticed the screen got cracked on the bottom right corner. FML.
The crack was really bad, but "luckly", I dont think the falling tempered with any functions of the phone. Everything was working fine.
Im thinking of sending the phone in for a warrenty.
But i rooted my phone a day before.
I was just wondering, would going back to completely stock take care of the root counter, or whatever it is called?
If not, someone please recommend me another option to fix my phone.....
Ps. Do not pull ur phone out alot, if not all in public places (especially in bad neighborhood and/or in the city). People will not help you if this ever happens to you. There was over 30+ people when this shiit happened.
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ILLHYHL said:
So last night, around 7 or 8, I was waiting for my train at the station in philadelphia.
All of sudden, right before i got onto the train, this one black dude runs upto me and snatched my g2 out of my hands and started to run. Wtf.
I ran after him and tripped his legs while he was running. he fell hard, and my g2 flew. I wish that dude at least got a broken nose.
Anyways, I quickly recovered my g2 and got onto the train, and checked if it was okay.
I noticed the screen got cracked on the bottom right corner. FML.
The crack was really bad, but "luckly", I dont think the falling tempered with any functions of the phone. Everything was working fine.
Im thinking of sending the phone in for a warrenty.
But i rooted my phone a day before.
I was just wondering, would going back to completely stock take care of the root counter, or whatever it is called?
If not, someone please recommend me another option to fix my phone.....
Ps. Do not pull ur phone out alot, if not all in public places (especially in bad neighborhood and/or in the city). People will not help you if this ever happens to you. There was over 30+ people when this shiit happened.
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I'm sorry to hear that happened to you. Based on what you've stated, you only rooted, meaning you still have the original recovery, which is more imperative than the root, as root is easy to get rid of. All you got to do is based on what SuperSU you're running, you hit menu or go to it's respective settings, and there should be an option to unroot! Easy as 1, 2, 3! :victory:
Hope it helps, if not specify the app you're using and I will be able to do more direct instructions!

Kenchi* said:
I'm sorry to hear that happened to you. Based on what you've stated, you only rooted, meaning you still have the original recovery, which is more imperative than the root, as root is easy to get rid of. All you got to do is based on what SuperSU you're running, you hit menu or go to it's respective settings, and there should be an option to unroot! Easy as 1, 2, 3! :victory:
Hope it helps, if not specify the app you're using and I will be able to do more direct instructions!
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thanks for the info.
I flashed TWRP as well though. well, i'll look more into it.
do you happen to know how long does the warrenty fix/replacement would take?

ILLHYHL said:
thanks for the info.
I flashed TWRP as well though. well, i'll look more into it.
do you happen to know how long does the warrenty fix/replacement would take?
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That's crazy man, i've been a little paranoid myself taking my phone out in public (i also live in philadelphia) and now i see that im not just paranoid.
Anyway, if you have AT&T it depends on the shipping you select. the first two replacement Xperia TLs i had only took 3-5 days. the third replacement the guy gave me free one day shipping (the third time i went to a different device support center) the previous two replacements required you to pay for one day shipping.
So its fast depending on what you choose. if you have verizon though then im not sure, but its probably similar.
As a side note, i do not recommended the Sony Xperia TL lol. i would not question my luck that i got three defective phones in a row, but most likely i think Sony just needs to get their **** together. very glad i went with the G2 to say the least.
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Nook broke

Fell down flight of concrete steps. I have protection plan but none in stuck have to ship mine back and wait for replacement. Very sad.
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jpisini said:
Fell down flight of concrete steps. I have protection plan but none in stuck have to ship mine back and wait for replacement. Very sad.
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Sincere sympathy for the mishap! Hope your replacement arrives quickly.
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Sherip said:
Sincere sympathy for the mishap! Hope your replacement arrives quickly.
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Thanks man. I got an email saying it would ship tomorrow so here is hoping.

Lady on the phone made it sound like it would be at least a week for me to get the replacement. I called them yesterday it was waiting for me when I got home from work today. A very nice surprise. I have to say it came in a box that said refurbished but it looks brand new. testing it now so far everything looks good.

Thought there might be an issue with the battery first couple of charges I only got about two hours of use which is crazy. Once I shut off all the syncing it isn't bad it seems to be about 10 to 15 percent an hour of real use and 1 percent overnight, a little higher than CM or Carbon but close enough. I haven't done anything to this one (rooted or new Rom) as I wanted to make sure it works right first.
I can boot off of the SDcard I built to do internal installs with CWM on it but I tried to build a new CM on SDcard so I could dual boot (wiped the old one for storage) and I can't boot off it not sure if I am doing something wrong or this device is just pickier than my old one. My old one would boot off anything. Overall I think it is OK I had a couple of crashes but they were after playing games so I think it was a resource thing.

Had time to try it again. I must have done something wrong when building the card it is working now after trying again.