Hello all I'm currently on the Note3 but the an hour ago I found my old prefect condition s4 in a box. Currently the s4 is hard bricked and is not functional at all what so ever so I was wondering if there was a debrick image to sd card floating around that I could get this bad boy up and running. Seems like a waste to be just sitting doing nothing. I've looked around but havent found one but then again theres not one wide open on the Note3 and I have one. I know there a dyi but I had no luck with that when I bricked it some time back. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.
Can you get into download mode?
I have the same problem, hard bricked S4, will do nothing. I hear different beeps when plugged into the usb port of my computer, but that's the only sign of life it shows. I've been searching for a fix that I can do myself. If anyone knows of a way please let me know.
You've tried booting into download mode? Pull the battery for several seconds...insert battery, press and hold home button, volume down, and power button (all three at the same time) until a warning message appears. If that works, you should be able to use ODIN to flash a stock setup.
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So I was trying to sync some music onto my phone and now its stuck on the android with a shovel screen and I cant get out of it. I tried resetting and its still there. When i turn it on it has the green shoveling android and it says "Downloading ... do not turn off target". Please somebody give me a step by step guide to fix this. Thanks in advance !!
JRams16 said:
So I was trying to sync some music onto my phone and now its stuck on the android with a shovel screen and I cant get out of it. I tried resetting and its still there. When i turn it on it has the green shoveling android and it says "Downloading ... do not turn off target". Please somebody give me a step by step guide to fix this. Thanks in advance !!
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You are in Download mode somehow, disconnect any cords and and hold the power button down until the Vibrant screen comes one let go and it should reboot.
If not, try pulling your battery then starting it up as normal and it should reboot.
Unless you jacked something up prior... No Odin or flashin mods? How did you try "resetting"?
This (you situation) can happen because the buttons for power and volume are directly opposed from each other, its real easy to squeeze both which can put you in download mode.
Good luck! Report back if you're back to normal, I mean the phone.
Didn't work. I tried resetting by removing the battery then placing it again. I also tried the one where you hold the volume button down and press the power button and nothing. Phone remains in download mode. Earlier today I did manage to get to the Vibrant screen but the phone seemed to have turnedd off (it had low batt). But right after it turned back onto the download screen and stood there for a while so I think the battery wasnt that low. Any other ways to pop this phone back to normal ?
I am messing with the phone as I type this, right now I actually got the Vibrant screen where it says samsung right under it. It seems to stay there for about 15 seconds then the phone reboots to the "Vibrant" screen again. Just thought i'd post it to give you guys a better idea of whats up. Sorry guys I know I sound pretty dumb but im a phone freak that just loves using phones, when it comes to the technical parts though I know nothing as you can see lol. Thanks in advance for the help !
possible boot loop
it sounds like you might be in a boot loop problem. before the problem happened were you flashing any roms? if so maybe the error may have happened there and that is why you cant get it to load up, if this is the case a fast odin flash back to stock should fix the problem for you.
here is a link to where you can find info about odin. Just make sure you read everything if you choose to go this route.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810130
also make sure you get the newest version of odin which is 1.7 i believe it is much more stable in my experiences.
if you have any problems or need help with anything feel free to ask or pm me and ill help the best i can, plus there are loads of amazing people on the boards here that will be able to help you as well. good luck and keep in mind as long as you can get into download mode (android with shovel) your phone is never truly broken.
I think that i corrupted my Captivate as I was ODIN one clicking myself out of a ROM that i didn't like and lost connectivity via USB. Not looking too good now.. the screen is black with 6 lines of numeric text in red.
Windows is not handshaking with the hardware and nothing is registering on the captivate either.
Been poking around doing some reading on how to fix but I cant get it past the brain barrier enough to understand how I can fix anything that doesn't even recognize one another in a pair.
Baby steps asking for help on this one.
Y!S
TEXT READS:
RST_STAT =ox1
PWIC_IRQ1 =0x3c
PWIC_IAQ2 =0x0
with the last two lines reading this:
PWIC_STATUS1 =0xc0
PWIC_STATUS2 =0x2c
The device was disconnected when the little yellow man with a shovel warned me "DO NOT DISCONNECT"
I have fresh installed Odin. Removed my SIM and Battery. I start Odin then while holding just the volume rocker I plug my Captivate into the computer.
The phone is not powering on nor is it showing the 6 elusive lines of code.. Will try again in 20 min.
Am I missing anyhting?
ok i unplugged it once from odin, and this is what i used, unplug phone, take out battery sd card sim, and wait 10 sec. open odin, connect phone via usb, press volume up/down and power, insert battery and let go of the power button ONLY!! hold the volume up and down still. you should now be in download mode. if this doesnt work there should be another way. ill try to find it again.
Okay I amazingly enough took the battery and sim out. plugged into my comp while holding JUST the volume rocker down then slipped the battery into the cap and it got me to the DOWNLOADING screen..(that i havnt seen for over 24 hours!)
NOW the problem is that ODIN3 1 click downloader (that has been pre programed does NOT give me a yellow Com port BUT.
The full ODIN3 program does.
I need help with finding the files that I should be pointing all of the blank perameters into.
if anyone can help me with FLASHING my Captivate with the FGULL ODIN3 program for Captivate I would be ever grateful!!!!!
please take a minute to help and you could be part of HISTORY!! a fully bricked captivate comes back alive!!
thanks in advance!
The Phone kept stalling on oDIN.. So I tried a different computer...BINGO! phone fixed!
It has been said and I will concur.
You cant Brick this phone!
NEED SEROUS HELP WITH THIS odin
yahooserious said:
The Phone kept stalling on oDIN.. So I tried a different computer...BINGO! phone fixed!
It has been said and I will concur.
You cant Brick this phone!
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well my phone is black with the samsung accross the top it will not do anything it goes into download mode but thats it can you please help someone as ive been searching and it looks like i need ODIN to get out of this problem??? someone please advise
Doesn't power on at all, tried 3 botten /w battery in and out tried two w/battery in and out. I had this happen before and someone help me.
I think this is not the right place to to list this but Im not getting help in the general, please help I need my phone
seens a hard brick. what u did to get this?
Try taking out the battery, starting Odin on your computer, plugging the phone into the usb cable connected to the computer, and while holding both the up and down volume buttons stick the battery back in to get into download mode. From there you should be able to Odin back to stock.
If that doesn't work you're SOL. You'll have to do what was suggested in your thread in general.
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If you truly are hard bricked you are gonna need to find a JIG because that's the only way out of that. Other wise take your battery out god down the volume keys and put it back in and you should see the download screen. If you don't somthong deeper is wrong.
**Bionix**
davidtanis said:
Doesn't power on at all, tried 3 botten /w battery in and out tried two w/battery in and out. I had this happen before and someone help me.
I think this is not the right place to to list this but Im not getting help in the general, please help I need my phone
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You need to purchase a (JIG) like the previous member suggested and try getting in download mode, you can buy one on eBay for about $3 simply search for (Download Mode USB Jig for Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant). I hope this helps.
have odin up pull out your battery plug usb into phone then hold power and volume down and insert battery at the same time this should get you into download mode. It may take 3 or 4 tries to get it. you have to pull battery before plugging mini usb into phone and must do the button combo and while inserting battery it would be easier being an octopus to do this but it should work if it doesnt you will need a jig. It is very hard to fully hard brick vibrants keep trying this method it took me 5 times to get into download. search the vibrant forums for odin for noobs it will give you links to all files you will need to get back to stock and start over. pm me if you need further assistance.
thank you, still trying but no luck. Im going in for surgery for my cancer so wont have much time on the phone for a wile
It's Hard Brick. Dont waste your money on JIG, it does nothing. You have to JTAG to recover Bootloader on your phone
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It's Hard Brick. Dont waste your money on JIG, it does nothing. You have to JTAG to recover Bootloader on your phone
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how dose that work, how much money
I too have the same problem since this morning. I have Tmobile Samsung Galaxt 4G SGT959V and after rooting and downloading kernel files, it was only going to the T Mobile logo. Last night I was bale to get into the download mode and then I started downloading Gingerbread. Now my phone is not powering up. I called up samsung and as it under warranty, they are ready to fix. My problem is they will find out what I was doing and this might breach some samsung regulation. not sure???
I would like to know what should I do for getting my phone power on or in download mode. I have tried all the above mentioned steps, but it just not works. Duh!!
Please someone help!!
breakmyhead said:
I too have the same problem since this morning. I have Tmobile Samsung Galaxt 4G SGT959V and after rooting and downloading kernel files, it was only going to the T Mobile logo. Last night I was bale to get into the download mode and then I started downloading Gingerbread. Now my phone is not powering up. I called up samsung and as it under warranty, they are ready to fix. My problem is they will find out what I was doing and this might breach some samsung regulation. not sure???
I would like to know what should I do for getting my phone power on or in download mode. I have tried all the above mentioned steps, but it just not works. Duh!!
Please someone help!!
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different phone, none of this applies to your phone
Well, I was able to get into download mode last night by running odin, pulling battery and connect to usb. Then holding volume button inserted the battery and my ohone was in download mode. But now its not powering on.
any suggestion how to get into download mode??
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Well, I was able to get into download mode last night by running odin, pulling battery and connect to usb. Then holding volume button inserted the battery and my ohone was in download mode. But now its not powering on.
any suggestion how to get into download mode??
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nope, but you can look on the forum for the galaxy s 4g
Well I was trying to revert to 4.2.2 from 4.4.2 after trying it out for a couple days and I managed to kill my phone I think.
I can't get to download or recovery or anything.
I can hold down the power button or the power and volume down buttons with no usb cable and I get an occasional vibration... maybe one every 5-10 seconds. If I do this with the usb cable plugged in my led blinks red after every second vibration.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I haven't been able to find anything on fixing a really hard bricked G2.
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StevenInMichigan said:
Well I was trying to revert to 4.2.2 from 4.4.2 after trying it out for a couple days and I managed to kill my phone I think.
I can't get to download or recovery or anything.
I can hold down the power button or the power and volume down buttons with no usb cable and I get an occasional vibration... maybe one every 5-10 seconds. If I do this with the usb cable plugged in my led blinks red after every second vibration.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I haven't been able to find anything on fixing a really hard bricked G2.
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Hi
My phone was exactly Also.
I don't anything - no recovery and no download mod
Please help me if resolve your problem
i searching for resolve this problem and if resolve it send message to you
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What a surprise, you too! I believe it is hardbrick. No sda partitions showing up on ubuntu.
Luckily I have a warrenty, called Verizon and played dumb. Getting new G2 soon.
I don't think there is a JTAG method, I don't think there is even the hardware available.
Well, I will try my best to get a solution to this, because I basicly have a phone to screw around with until tomorrow.
Use this method
Guys, I think this is a bit late. But I found a forum that can help you with the phone back to working. Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142
Hi guys,
I have a problem with my LG. Yesterday i was casually lurkin some internet or whatever. Havent done anything suspicious or something. Then i switched phone off and put it for a while on the side. When I tried to unlock it after that it was impossible. Phone just doesnt respond. I havent rooted it or done anything connected with roms etc, not into this stuff really. When i plug it into charger red LED starts blinking, then LG logo appears, then battery icon and after that its just charging like normally and still red LED lights. Right now its fully charged so instead of red, the LED is green. The buttons combinations dont work neither (hold power,hold power and vol-) besides holding vol+ and power. I have to hold it for a while, then plug into charger and then some kinda download menu appears, but it does nothing too. Still cant start the phone. However few hours ago i just tried holding power for a bit and everything worked perfectly. Then i locked the screen and *bam* bricked again. I know there are many topics like that but i havent found the exact same problem with solution yet. Every help would be highly appreciated. :good::good:
BUMP please any advice. It actually Turner on one more time, but when i tried using power button, at first it didnt respond, then after few seconds it went bricked back. I managed to take off the backcover so maybe there is sth i can do?
I could be wrong but sounds more software related then hardware to me, maybe try to use one of that flash tools or pc suite to do a clean flash and sadly lose all your data.
If that doesn't help idk....
You don't have a backup do you?
No, unfortunately i dont. I didnt expect that to happen.
Yo so I actually managed to turn it on (i ve no idea how) and its working fine. Im scared to press the power button so it will be unlocked all the time. Ive already done the general backup of photos, music etc, but if there is some good app to make solid backup or something please let me know.
Soo is there any other option to find out if it is finally repaired than pressing power button? I can access data on PC so maybe theres the way to fix it now? If i press the button probably it will brick again, and then after couple of days it will suddenly start working, so id rather dont do this..