Hello - I urgently need help with my Samsung Galaxy Tab.
I flashed a wrong PIT/PDA & what happened is:
- my Galaxy Tab does not reboot at all
- the flashlight in the back suddenly switched ON automatically
No matter how long I press the Power Button, the device switches off just for one second, and then the flashlight switches ON again - but no reboot.
I cannot get into download mode / when I try to use commands with Odin, it only says: error: device not found.
Odin does show my device ([COM:4]), it appears as: Added // only the download mode does not work!
When I tried to start SuperOneClick, trying to Unroot, it is stuck with: "Waiting for device"
Weirdly, though, my netbook does install the drivers automatically when I plug it in. Which means, my netbook can "read" the device.
Does anyone here know how I could make the extreme Hard Reset, without having to reboot?
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If you think this post should rather go to the Developers section, please feel free to move it // I am thankful for any help
Have you tried connecting to it with ADB to see if you can reach it at this level (apart from with SuperOneClick)? Try installing the Droid Explorer application on your Windows PC and see if it will recognise your Tab. If it will you should be able to initiate a reset from the Droid Explorer UI. If it won't I would suggest that you are hard bricked and it will have to visit Samsung. Good luck!
Hello,
thank you for your advice.
adb does not detect my device ..
and, unfortunately, neither does Droid Explorer
Just find it so strange that ODIN does ..
but like you said -
I am also afraid, that this is a "hard brick" & I will go see the retailer tomorrow.
Thank you, though, for offering help.
QueenAmy said:
Hello,
thank you for your advice.
adb does not detect my device ..
and, unfortunately, neither does Droid Explorer
Just find it so strange that ODIN does ..
but like you said -
I am also afraid, that this is a "hard brick" & I will go see the retailer tomorrow.
Thank you, though, for offering help.
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If Odin sees it, its not bricked. What image is on the LCD when Odin sees it, or is it blank?
rotohammer said:
If Odin sees it, its not bricked. What image is on the LCD when Odin sees it, or is it blank?
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I guess the problem here is that even if Odin sees the USB device connected, if the Tab won't go into download mode then it's as good as bricked. With the SGS you can construct a USB jig with a 301k resistor between pins 4 and 5 of the micro USB to push the device into download mode if it won't respond any other way. I wonder if a similar thing would work for the Tab... Sounds like a challenge for someone who has two Tabs and doesn't mind experimenting a bit with one of them.
bdl1969 said:
I guess the problem here is that even if Odin sees the USB device connected, if the Tab won't go into download mode then it's as good as bricked. With the SGS you can construct a USB jig with a 301k resistor between pins 4 and 5 of the micro USB to push the device into download mode if it won't respond any other way. I wonder if a similar thing would work for the Tab... Sounds like a challenge for someone who has two Tabs and doesn't mind experimenting a bit with one of them.
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lol, I'll get my cheap Chinese Tab cables this week and hack one up to test.
My guess is that Odin will only see the Tab when it is in download mode. Id try flashing it in that state and find out for sure. It sure cant hurt.
You went to your retailer?I have exactly the same problem!!
First of all - THANK YOU for having started this discussion.
Yes, I went to the retailer. My Galaxy Tab is with Samsung Technical Support now; will keep you posted.
To answer some earlier questions, yes ODIN did recognize my Tab; but the screen on the Tab remained totally black. Only this strange "flash" light on the back kept glowing.
rotohammer, if you really get to test what you mentioned before, I'd be interested to hear what happened - but, personally I would not recommend it, unless you are sure you want to risk completely ruining your dear Tab.
studio54 said:
You went to your retailer?I have exactly the same problem!!
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I did ... and less than 2 weeks later ..
Update:
13-Jan-2011
Today noon I got a call from my retailer my Galaxy Tab was ready to be picked up & I was really lucky: my retailer said the repair would normally cost EUR 650.-
.. as I had damaged the whole mainboard ..
but as the Tab was less than 1 month old, they were so kind to do it w/in my warranty - so I did not have to pay for it.
I'm very relieved, as you can imagine.
Got my Galaxy Tab back with a brand-new mainboard, everything is working well &
I sure learned my lesson.
I will not flash the Galaxy Tab again.
Only because Galaxy Tab and Galaxy i9000 are both on Froyo, it does NOT mean that you can flash the same software!
I wanted to apply the 3 button combo fix on my Galaxy Tab but apparently it does not work!
Bricked mine as well, but mine is a weird case
I bring up the weirdest case of bricking so far, i was on an official Arabic (P1000JPJK2)Firmware, and i noticed a new Arabic release on SamsungFirmware.com (P1000JPJM3) i downloaded it and downloaded the .pit file, Started Odin v1.7 and unchecked repartition, selected the PDA and the pit and started the processes, odin finished and Reseted the device and give me the green light with the word PASS, however, the my p1000 decided to reboot into download mode automatically, so i rebooted the device manually and got stock in the Samsung Logo and keeps looping. so i decided to go back to my previous Rom but it will always fail and i would have to reboot my tab and it will show the good ol' Phon-PC logos, however, odin would see it and would flash anything i want. i tried flashing various versions of rom's but they would all fail... i tried repartition checked and unchecked and nothing worked, so lastly i decided to flash the .pit file alone and that worked and got me back to where i was stuck in the Samsung logo loop and no ROM would be flashed through Odin BUT the (P1000JPJM3) but it still will not boot! and funny enough i took it to sammy's repair shop and they told me to come pick it up in a few hours but they told me that they failed to repair it and they would need to keep it till tomorrow, but they guy was not that optimistic about getting it repaired and to make things worse i couldn't get unrooted so there is a good chance that there will be no warranty... does this mean that i bricked it for good? please help me.
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if I can get some help on getting my tab back on a road. Make long story short, here it goes.
OK. I was playing wit my tab last night and unfortunately it got stuck , nothing works , black screen. This happened after I tried to flash my tab to make calls with (Samsung TAB Euro Flash Package) From : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847273
At the time this happened my tab was rooted and I had a TWRP 2.3.3.1 and Goo Manager installed on ICS 4.0.4. I also saved all the backup files on my PC.
I was following the steps on a first page, after first flash something went wrong and now Odin doesn't recognize the tab as before. And it's being recognized by computer as a Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM4) . Now i'm lost and don't know what to do. Please lead me in a right direction. Thank you.
I would recommend to connect your tab to a charger and let it charge for 4-5 hours. Then try to connect to a computer USB port without ODIN. If you are lucky your tab will switch to a "Download" mode. Then you can start ODIN and reflash it.
The best would be to find recommendations how to get into "Download" mode in its native forum. I suspect that you flashed ROM compiled to a different processor. European 3G and US LTE Samsung Tabs use different processors. I don't think you managed to overwrite bootloader.
Good luck!
LTE 4G ! said:
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if I can get some help on getting my tab back on a road. Make long story short, here it goes.
OK. I was playing wit my tab last night and unfortunately it got stuck , nothing works , black screen. This happened after I tried to flash my tab to make calls with (Samsung TAB Euro Flash Package) From : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847273
At the time this happened my tab was rooted and I had a TWRP 2.3.3.1 and Goo Manager installed on ICS 4.0.4. I also saved all the backup files on my PC.
I was following the steps on a first page, after first flash something went wrong and now Odin doesn't recognize the tab as before. And it's being recognized by computer as a Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM4) . Now i'm lost and don't know what to do. Please lead me in a right direction. Thank you.
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It sounds like your boot loaders got damaged. I have a thread for shv-e160l which covers some of what's required to repair that issue.
Its a sub forum under i717 at & t, work is underway to expand the repair list so although we don't support the device directly under the repair tools we can at least assist you
Darkspr1te
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Or maybe you flashed a P1000(Original Tab) firmware to you 8.9, did not research, had no idea, and are in bad shape; then posted in wrong section. Carelessness.
Hi,
I've got a Galaxy S5 g900F which I want to upgrade to 5.0 stock from alliancerom. I've got the zip downloaded, but the only way to update I've found implies running odin. That puts me in doubt wether I could do it or not on my dell laptop, whose battery is dead. I run it plugged in and I don't know if that means it doesn't get enough power into the USBs. I noticed windows explorer can't browse my card and phone memory, as they don't show up in there. Could I update via Odin, if it may just recognize my phone, without getting it bricked?
Well as long as its detecting your phone then it should work just fine .. first try to nandroid backup your phone through PC .. if it went well, then installing something should work too
After installing, if your phone gets stuck at galaxy s5 logo, install again
Hey there peeps, I know this is the wrong model but you don't seem to have a thread for the s6000 as far as I can see so basically it's simple I'm stupid I wanted Kitkat on my tablet and did not back up the tab and it error when I was flashing it so it will boot to lenovo splash screen and that's it. I'm not too knowledgeable with tablets I do know a fair bit about pc's however that's not the case so my question is to you what do I do I can get to the recovery menu eg: boot from sd , fast boot , adb but I can't seem to figure out what to do the tablet will connect to my pc but only to charge no programs will acknowledge it so I guess my question to you is where do I go from here I have a sd card but I don't have access to the tablet to dl anything I need on the tab itself and there is not a lot of info online I also need a stock rom for the tab too cant seem to find one any help at all would be great
ok so i cant for the life of me get m computer to recognize my samsung tab a ive did all things that google has suggested. Nothing. I downgraded, up graded and disabled the drivers and more. i purchased my tab a sm-580 from a friend of a friend so i dot really want to bring it in if i aint got to. now my comuter has recognized everything else ive hooked up to. so please someone help me out and fix it thanks