I bought one off ebay because it was cheaper, but the battery won't go above 70%, and it charges really slow. I really would like some help step by step please on how to enable USB debugging and all these things with Odin.
Retail mode is NOT active, however it is still acting as such, and the updates it's pushing to it are for retail. Can anyone please please take the time to explain step by step what I need to do, where I get the stock firmware, and what to download?
Thank you all so much for your hard work and knowledge!
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I have two Galaxy S gt-i9000m both with Bell and I live in Newfoundland which is the 850mhz radio as well.
One phone became bricked few months ago when I started getting random reboots I changed rom, it converted fs from rfs to ext4 and recovery gave some screens to go through but at this time I was only new, I messed up and my internal sd started causing issues. It was when gingerbread first arrived
I used odin to flash a number of firmwares, but now I feel I was not doing odin correctly, regarding bootloader and partitioning, anyway what ended up making the actual "BRICK" was when I flashed a vibrant rom and rebooted, now its a perm black screen.
If I have a fully charged battery and leave in, it dies overnight, If i plug usb in, the motherboard heats up very noticably, but no sound, no connection through device manage, nothing at all, no matter what tricks or buttons I try.
So not I have another identical phone that works perfectly. I have been researching if there was a way using my good phone to flash a chip, or solder something together could I fix it but I could not find any relevant info.
So I am left with the jtag/riffbox.
Can someone do this service for me, I dont want to actually buy one just to use it once, or can someone help me fix my bricked galaxy s, I will pay you for info that helps as well as put videos up, etc.
Please I have been last 4 months trying when I have free time, someone that knows how to help me, please do!!!
Thanks,
Dave Husk
709.764.7890
**EDIT**
I would love to work with someone, I attached pictures of my phone's internal parts including chip shots, and i also took a picture of my sim card writer, which is a serial to usb device and I'm sure somehow I can solder together to make a device to help unbrick our SGS's, I am even willing to send free of charge to the next person in need, and pay for shipping to continue the good will as every bricked SGS owner deserves HELP!
**EDIT 2**
I also already have a Download mode jig, the 301k resistor here as well
Does the download jig do anything?
If not your into specialized territory with the jtag stuff. I would add to an existing thread on that and hope someone is still watching it.
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There are jtag shops in TO that can do it (on xda somewhere) and you could likely ship it to them and get the service.
Hi. I have a Samsung Galaxy 5s SM-900S. I discovered after buying it that it is a clone. Oh well!
I rooted it using Root Genius (Chinese) from Shuame download.
It was working great. Then I deleted some bloatware apps, and disabled others.
After that, all hell broke loose. I was stuck in a flash screen boot loop.
A techie friend put the phone in download mode, and it was able to open up, but no home page.
Then he downloaded Nova launcher, and I got my home page back.
But it was a slightly different home page.
The phone originally said 900T (under- about device), but I know it is G900S (from 3 apps that display the phone specs).
Now it says G900.
The problems now are:
1. my phone dialer disappeared. I downloaded another, but it wont ring when a call comes in
2. Every few minutes when doing anything, I get a message- Unfortunately, the process android process.acore has stopped.
I then must press the ok button to continue.
Can anyone help me? Do I need to flash a new ROM?
I don't wantto reset to factory settings if I can avoid it.
I am a newbie. But I learn fast.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Arnele
arnele said:
Hi. I have a Samsung Galaxy 5s SM-900S. I discovered after buying it that it is a clone. Oh well!
I rooted it using Root Genius (Chinese) from Shuame download.
It was working great. Then I deleted some bloatware apps, and disabled others.
After that, all hell broke loose. I was stuck in a flash screen boot loop.
A techie friend put the phone in download mode, and it was able to open up, but no home page.
Then he downloaded Nova launcher, and I got my home page back.
But it was a slightly different home page.
The phone originally said 900T (under- about device), but I know it is G900S (from 3 apps that display the phone specs).
Now it says G900.
The problems now are:
1. my phone dialer disappeared. I downloaded another, but it wont ring when a call comes in
2. Every few minutes when doing anything, I get a message- Unfortunately, the process android process.acore has stopped.
I then must press the ok button to continue.
Can anyone help me? Do I need to flash a new ROM?
I don't wantto reset to factory settings if I can avoid it.
I am a newbie. But I learn fast.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Arnele
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I'm just going to let you know right now... You're not going to get support in an official device thread for a clone.
I`m sorry you got scammed mate, try to get your money back or file a police report for fraude if the device was advertised as a genuine Galaxy S5.
There is no support for this (also not by the manufacturer) device and even finding a working rom wil be very difficult.
Good luck and hope you learn from this, if it sounds to be too good to be true, it usualy is
Sad to say, but he's pretty much out of luck. Scammers know they're selling a phone that's not genuine, so chances of getting money back are slim to none. Police also don't care. If you bought it with cash just take this as a life lesson, because there's pretty much nothing else you can do.
Hi guys!
So while using my phone halfway, it suddenly powered off and died. At first I thought it was something small and tried to power it on again, but unfortunately it seems to be a much bigger problem. I am unable to do anything with the phone at all. It's become a literal brick.
I have not done any rooting nor have I dropped the phone into the water. I dropped my phone a couple of times, but it was with a proper phone cover.
When I tried to charge my phone, the charging light did not come on. I have tried the battery in an external charging kit and it works fine, therefore I do not believe that it is a battery problem.
The lucky thing is that my phone is still under warranty. However, I was told that the SOP for servicing the phone is to remove all personal data during the recovery process.
Unfortunately, I didn't back up the files in my phone because I didn't see any signs that the phone was gonna die on me, so I was wondering if there was any other way to save my data.
I read online that it may be worth trying to use a USB jig to try to force the phone into download mode. Is this possible? Does anyone know where I may be able to purchase one?
Unfortunately, I do not know which specific model my carrier sells, but it's a Qualcomm 2.7 KHz 4G+ note 4. Can't remember the exact firmware it was running on, but it should be the latest stock firmware.
Would greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks!
Is there anyone here who has any advice for me?
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Is there anyone here who has any advice for me?
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jig is basically a 300K ohm resistor across pins 4 and 5, so searching for brand names/judging by marketing descriptions won't help. It can only fix soft bricks for you, specifically it lets you enter download mode where you can use odin to flash stuff you want. It wont help you in any other way.
Now that we are clear, the cheapest ones I could find are these:
http://www.amazon.com/SainSonic-Dongle-Samsung-Captivate-Vibrant/dp/B0053H73JQ
http://www.amazon.com/Download-adapter-Samsung-Galaxy-Unbrick/dp/B008THL0V4
Buy whichever you like
And if its a hard brick, off to the service center you go!
PS: i have no idea about any way to backup from download mode, maybe someone else can help you on that part.
If you are able to dirty flash a rom and get it booting then you can backup all you want. Hope that works for you.
Thanks for the advice!
Unfortunately because I wasn't able to power up the device I had to send it into the service center. They replaced the motherboard and the charging point for me and I got back my phone 4 hours later.
Lesson learnt, always backup your data every day.
Broke the screen on my I337 *AGAIN*. It`s an easy enough task to replace it (done every galaxy I`ve ever owned, plus my LG G Pro. Yes, I`m rough on devices) but I`m not really feeling the $80 for a new screen and LCD for a second time, what with the thing being three generations old and all.
I`ve got some data store on it that I need, contacts and whatnot, and with the screen not responsive, I can`t get it to unlock, let alone into it to back anything up to the card. Is there a way to get into it with my laptop? I`ll put a screen on it if I absolutely must but I`d rather not.
If you have ever enabled USB Debugging in the Developer section of the phone you are very lucky as you can use ADB (DL) with the appropriate sgh-i337 driver for windows. Using this you can grab any file you want from your phone. Just check for a tutorial on how to do this. This will def work.
Otherwise check if Smart Switch would do the job. And I would recommend downloading the driver from the soulution i gave before then install Smart Switch - So it doesnt have to find the driver and all since its present (or maybe it wouldn't download at all). Second method, im not that 100% sure if it will succeed.
Thank you, that should help a lot. Debugging is generally activated the day I get a new phone because I just can`t seem to leave the ROM alone for long LOL.
Glad I could help you
Sincerely,
Here are 24 hours I'm struggling to make their LG G2 back to the stock room that due to some problems still selling and otherwise the phone is a root-etc etc. Now that I have a job to get it back I can not get into download mode it appears to me the image download mode and then start the computer otvaratti when more disks and look for formatting and the like. Gone is my TWRP only in fastboot can come in when you turn on the phone. Please good people if anyone can help would be thankful, because tomorrow I have to work a cell does not work as well as aggravating circumstance if you think I do not read all the posts of the little child who wants attention, of course hehe.
Thanks in advance