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
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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!
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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 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?
royaloyalz said:
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.
Hey everyone,
I recently dropped my Note 3, SM-N900 which I originally got from Vietnam. It was dropped, display cracked, all black. I had the screen replaced but the repair tech didn't realize it was the international version. He only had parts for the Canadian versions of this phone. He somehow managed to replace the display despite having the correct components. He fixed replaced the screen without replacing the bezel.
The screen worked great again but I realized my IMEI is now null or "Unknown".
I can't say whether it was still OK after being dropped because the screen was black and I didn't bother trying to call the phone.
I have found a lot of threads on IMEI unknown/null but read several warnings that this can be caused by either hardware or software. A software fix won't work if it is caused by a hardware problem.
Is there any way to tell what the cause is of an IMEI unknown?
Can you distinguish whether it is caused by hardware?
If it is caused by hardware, do I have any way of repairing this? Component replacement?
Could this be caused by the mismatched screen? This thread indicates a wrong screen could put too much pressure on some components, causing null IMEI....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305/loosing-imei-lcd-replace-t2175895
Thanks for any help here! Really want to be able to make phone calls again....
Nathan
Start by restoring your backed up EFS folder .
Thanks for the replay - I didn't back up my EFS folder prior to the phone being dropped.
There is no sense in trying to back it up now and restore again, correct?
Also, is there any way of determining whether the EFS folder is corrupted? I've never heard someone say there is a file in there with the IMEI in plaintext or anything like that. But I figured perhaps there's a way to check the folder and figure out whether it is corrupted?
There is something you can try... go to sammymobile and download the rom for your exact device and region/provider. As long as they are matching, it should restore things back to how they were.
(example: if your phone is from Vietnam, get the rom for your phone from vietnam - and everything will be back to normal after flash from odin).
Good luck!
Update! I factory restored my phone a second time now. Still got null imei after restarting.
Then in the same day in the evening, and the IMEI is back! This is the first time ive seen the IMEI since I dropped the phone.
All that happened during the day was that I put the phone in a backpack, went on a trip and took it out again. Not sure if it was turn3d off between, dont think so.
I read this has happed to others, where the IMEI came back randomly, but then also vanished just as randomly again.
This sounds like a hardware issue with a poor component connection. I heard someone mentioning reflowing... guessing that means stick parts in an oven for a while.
Thanks for the tips so far!
Nathan
So my phone was acting weird recently, with all sorts of various problems popping out and I simply could not live with it. Before continuing, I would like to say that I hope you guys could help me out here, and thanks a lot in advance. Anyways, I decided that instead of just re-flashing the same ROM on top of the current one on my phone, why not fully erase all the partitions first (big mistake) and fresh install the ROM?
I erased my individual partitions (TWRP - rajlko) with this command, and managed to erase up to 7 partitions.
mke2fs -T ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1/2/3/4/5/6/7
After formatting ALL the partitions, I immediately rebooted my phone (another huge mistake - the boot.img or whatsoever is probably deleted now) and now, it boots up with a black screen, and that it shows up as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 in the device manager.
Please do give some insights and suggestions on this matter. I do not have the time to travel to the nearest service center as of now, and that the repair service takes at least 3 weeks. Hopefully there are solutions to this though. From what I know, the partitions (with the names) are there, just that the necessary files required to boot the phone is not there. Is there any way about this? Thank you!
at present we have no solution for this situation.
most important thing is service rom & we do not how to get it.
when I hard bricked my phone, i surrender this to service center & I got my phone back in 5 days.
there are approx 51 mmcblk in ze550kl.
Ouch. Sad news. There is a tool called QFIL from QPST bundle, which can download firmware to device in Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 mode, but I don't know if we have the images to flash. This is all new, I don't believe anyone has tried to unbrick their laser on xda yet
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Ouch. Sad news. There is a tool called QFIL from QPST bundle, which can download firmware to device in Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 mode, but I don't know if we have the images to flash. This is all new, I don't believe anyone has tried to unbrick their laser on xda yet
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I think I was first who hard brick my ze550kl, after doing one week research, I surrender it to my local asus service center.
I got my device repaired in 5 days.
we do not have necessary files of ze550kl.
rajlko said:
I think I was first who hard brick my ze550kl, after doing one week research, I surrender it to my local asus service center.
I got my device repaired in 5 days.
we do not have necessary files of ze550kl.
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Rajiko are you able to explain exactly what the service rom does, and why it is needed? Or do you know any useful URL that we can read to learn more? I don't really understand how the service rom fits into the bigger picture and it would be great to understand more - for example, can we use any msm8939 unbrick tools if we have a snapdragon 615 device, or does it need to be from Asus?
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Rajiko are you able to explain exactly what the service rom does, and why it is needed? Or do you know any useful URL that we can read to learn more? I don't really understand how the service rom fits into the bigger picture and it would be great to understand more - for example, can we use any msm8939 unbrick tools if we have a snapdragon 615 device, or does it need to be from Asus?
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service rom is which have all data of partition which if by mistake deleted or currupted ,so we can full restore our mobile rom partition so can we dont have to go to service center and can have much time and have development of roms on way easier
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Rajiko are you able to explain exactly what the service rom does, and why it is needed? Or do you know any useful URL that we can read to learn more? I don't really understand how the service rom fits into the bigger picture and it would be great to understand more - for example, can we use any msm8939 unbrick tools if we have a snapdragon 615 device, or does it need to be from Asus?
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Have you every face a situation where there is no recovery, no fastboot, no system runs, you are unable to see any sign of booting device, no light on your mobile scree.
When you connect your mobile phone to your pc you found yourself in a new situation, your pc displays a popup installing driver for newly found device, when this installation done, you found a new device in your pc's device manager somename .... 9008.
In this situation, we need some tools that may detect our device & here it comes to role of service rom.
our xda forum is good url to read & learn with every situation regarding our mobiles.
every manufacture have different boot partitions & commands, so we need service rom from particular manufacturer for particular device.
Thanks for your help guys! I decided to send it in and it came back within 5 days. The engineers diagnosed the problem as the motherboard being "dead" (stated so on the letter), though I am pretty sure that's not the case, if you know what I mean.
Upon receiving my phone and popping off the back cover, there is actually a "hole" next to the SIM slot 2, which could be easily identified with a yellow taping around it. With the vague image of my previous ZenFone 2 Laser, as well as with the aid of images online, I am sure that this is definitely a new revision for that particulator motherboard, or so to say, a revised version. One thing I noticed is the dramatic improvement in battery life. Using the exact same applications as before, I would only get about 3-4 hours max screen-on-time, whereas with the repaired phone, I could easily get to about 8-11 hours of screen-on-time without limiting any of my application usages.
Another thing that I noticed was that the phone was significantly faster. I have the MSM8916 processor variant, and with the previous phone, it would lag occasionally. Whereas after being repaired, everything was butter smooth. Extremely smooth.
I am not sure if this is really because of the, so to speak, "updated" version of the motherboard, or simply a placebo effect, but hopefully it's not the latter.
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Thanks for your help guys! I decided to send it in and it came back within 5 days. The engineers diagnosed the problem as the motherboard being "dead" (stated so on the letter), though I am pretty sure that's not the case, if you know what I mean.
Upon receiving my phone and popping off the back cover, there is actually a "hole" next to the SIM slot 2, which could be easily identified with a yellow taping around it. With the vague image of my previous ZenFone 2 Laser, as well as with the aid of images online, I am sure that this is definitely a new revision for that particulator motherboard, or so to say, a revised version. One thing I noticed is the dramatic improvement in battery life. Using the exact same applications as before, I would only get about 3-4 hours max screen-on-time, whereas with the repaired phone, I could easily get to about 8-11 hours of screen-on-time without limiting any of my application usages.
Another thing that I noticed was that the phone was significantly faster. I have the MSM8916 processor variant, and with the previous phone, it would lag occasionally. Whereas after being repaired, everything was butter smooth. Extremely smooth.
I am not sure if this is really because of the, so to speak, "updated" version of the motherboard, or simply a placebo effect, but hopefully it's not the latter.
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That's strange. Could you run AnTuTu/Geekbench/Vellamo benchmarks a few times and post your average scores?
Maybe check your device info using CPU-Z to see if anything's changed?
Can you please post a picture of the back?
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Upon receiving my phone and popping off the back cover, there is actually a "hole" next to the SIM slot 2, which could be easily identified with a yellow taping around it. With the vague image of my previous ZenFone 2 Laser, as well as with the aid of images online, I am sure that this is definitely a new revision for that particulator motherboard, or so to say, a revised version. One thing I noticed is the dramatic improvement in battery life. Using the exact same a
I am not sure if this is really because of the, so to speak, "updated" version of the motherboard, or simply a placebo effect, but hopefully it's not the latter.
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Alright! I will post a picture of the back, as well as the benchmark scores when I get back.
Hardbriked like realy dropping it on the floor
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Alright! I will post a picture of the back, as well as the benchmark scores when I get back.
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I scrolled briefly through your posts and didn't see which model you have 550 or 551?
Also, what was the verdict on the possible new mainboard? What did CPU-Z report?
Please create a new topic, since this is not related to "hard bricked".
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rajlko said:
I think I was first who hard brick my ze550kl, after doing one week research, I surrender it to my local asus service center.
I got my device repaired in 5 days.
we do not have necessary files of ze550kl.
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how much did it cost ? as my phone too is hard bricked and i see no solution! thanks in advance!!
het21 said:
how much did it cost ? as my phone too is hard bricked and i see no solution! thanks in advance!!
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we have solution
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we have solution
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actually i own ze551ml .. its completely hardbricked.. i went through the entire process of xfstk, isoc usb and other drivers and methods. So in xfstk is succesfully mounted (os + fw ) on the device. post that you get a 4 colored screen and then you boot into bootloader normally. in mine however the phone is stuck at the 4 colored screen forever. i have redone the entire process like 90 times but same , i have eeven tried other solutions but nothing worked. thats why i asked whether the service center guys replace the motherboard or actually unbrick it and how much they charge? thanks for the reply!
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actually i own ze551ml .. its completely hardbricked.. i went through the entire process of xfstk, isoc usb and other drivers and methods. So in xfstk is succesfully mounted (os + fw ) on the device. post that you get a 4 colored screen and then you boot into bootloader normally. in mine however the phone is stuck at the 4 colored screen forever. i have redone the entire process like 90 times but same , i have eeven tried other solutions but nothing worked. thats why i asked whether the service center guys replace the motherboard or actually unbrick it and how much they charge? thanks for the reply!
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they will unbrick it
And i cant guide coz i have qualcomm model
U should ask for help in ur device forum
addy692 said:
they will unbrick it
And i cant guide coz i have qualcomm model
U should ask for help in ur device forum
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cool! they unbrick it! oh i tried asking in those forums but no result! thanks again!