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Hi...im a n00b here but really need help
ok...i tried upgrading my SX56 to 2003 thru siemens website. I followed directions like it told me. I put the phone in its cradle, didnt pick up any calls (nor did i recieve any calls), and then BAM...it got stuck at 10% for like 30mins - 1 hour. so i was like, umm ok. it froze?
i then took it off the cradle and did a soft reset hoping it would fix the problem....but yet, i was wrong...it doesnt show anything. so i proceed to make a Hard-Reset. now its totally screwed.
is my device gone for good?
well, i then reinstalled my ROM using the Program i found here at this site. I used the SD-Card method. I put the files in my card, insert it into the device, and held down the power button while performing a soft reset. This is where i got to the FLASHING screen where i think its copying the files to my phone? well, after this was finished, it told me to make a COLD reset. i assumed it meant soft reset, so i did.
now, here the window screen shows
all it is showing is
G
R
A.30.09
that's it? and it stays like that. can sumone help me plz
I got the same problem. Check my posts, I'll check yours. It sucks not having the P/PC and only the bootloader. I still have not fixed my phone and my day of optimism is comming to an end. My fear of having a dead phone is slowly creeping up. Anyway, good luck with your problem. Val.
A cold reset means you unscrew the top of your stylus and insert it into the tiny hole on the bottom right of your xda, the one with the red mark on, press once which will disconnect battery power, leave for one minute, press again will switch it back on. This always needs to be carried out following rom upgrade.
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:?: i finally wanted to use my siemens sx56 after a year... Now it doesn't want to start all the way up... Lots of problems.. Battery light will not come on... No start bar on screen... Resets itself all the time... blinking backlight about every 15 seconds... etc... Please help me... I just want to use it again... it has wallaby bootloader 5.15... ppc 2002 3.14..
Have you tried a hard reset, that is using the unscrewed top half of the stlylus in the hole on bottom right of xda, leave for one minute then press again.
I recently picked up an SX-56 that was long unused. It took a few minutes on the power before the lights would come on. Plug it in and let it juice for a minute, and then a cold boot is definately in order. Also, make sure that the SIM door is fully closed.
thanks for reply guys... But i tried all of that stuff... sometimes it will bring up windows but there is no start button... also i can't even use a stylus because it's not tuned up.... also it won't let me connect to activesync... comp see's it but cannot connect...
i think u need a new one
Can you get to the bootloader?
Dear Gurus ...
I need help. During the upgrading process, the connection was disconnected and my XDAII is currently not showing any sign of life.
I ran through the forum, and tries a lot of stuff:
1) try to reset it to bootloader (pwr+joy+reset) - nothing
2) change USB port - nothing
3) setting in MsActiveSync - nothing
There is no display on the screen right now. Even if I put it in to charge there is nothing, no flashing blue led etc ... just dead ....
One thing I noticed is that after removing the battery, and putting it into the cradle, there is a red led light up.
Currently I ran out of options and can only think off taking out the battery for the XDAII to drain completely (not sure if this could help me get into the bootloader mode).
Any one out there who has any bright ideas? Pls help as I am desperate to fix my XDAII .... thanks ....
alvinlim28 said:
Dear Gurus ...
I need help. During the upgrading process, the connection was disconnected and my XDAII is currently not showing any sign of life.
I ran through the forum, and tries a lot of stuff:
1) try to reset it to bootloader (pwr+joy+reset) - nothing
2) change USB port - nothing
3) setting in MsActiveSync - nothing
There is no display on the screen right now. Even if I put it in to charge there is nothing, no flashing blue led etc ... just dead ....
One thing I noticed is that after removing the battery, and putting it into the cradle, there is a red led light up.
Currently I ran out of options and can only think off taking out the battery for the XDAII to drain completely (not sure if this could help me get into the bootloader mode).
Any one out there who has any bright ideas? Pls help as I am desperate to fix my XDAII .... thanks ....
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I had the same problem but I didn't loose hope. I kept on resetting it until I was able to get into the bootloader mode. It was black with some writings "SERIAL 1.06". When I put it back on cradle, Serial changed into USB 1.06. Tried to do the upgrade over and over again but didn't work. I put AC Adapter to my cradle and hard reset my unit, put back to the cradle, started the upgrade again and it worked. :wink:
twinkle said:
I had the same problem but I didn't loose hope. I kept on resetting it until I was able to get into the bootloader mode. It was black with some writings "SERIAL 1.06". When I put it back on cradle, Serial changed into USB 1.06. Tried to do the upgrade over and over again but didn't work. I put AC Adapter to my cradle and hard reset my unit, put back to the cradle, started the upgrade again and it worked. :wink:
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Thanks!! I tried hard reset after 30mins with the battery out, nothing works. After I out in the AC adapter for 5 mins and tried a couple of times of hard reset, the screen came out with "Serial" !!!
YAHOOooo ... now I'm in the middle of uploading the ROM back ... thanks twinkle .... that just saved my day ..
alvinlim28 said:
twinkle said:
Thanks!! I tried hard reset after 30mins with the battery out, nothing works. After I out in the AC adapter for 5 mins and tried a couple of times of hard reset, the screen came out with "Serial" !!!
YAHOOooo ... now I'm in the middle of uploading the ROM back ... thanks twinkle .... that just saved my day ..
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No problem... have fun! 8)
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plz give me te steps coz i had the same problem, what do i have to do???!!
red LED when plug it to carger without battery........... plz
Same problem
@NightmarE
I have exactly the same problem!
If you find solution please PM
So many people have their XDA II gone dead while upgrading to the second edition rom. What went wrong during the process ?
adad said:
So many people have their XDA II gone dead while upgrading to the second edition rom. What went wrong during the process ?
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There are several Golden Rules when upgrading - not just to SE, but any upgrade.
Always make sure the cradle is attached directly to a USB port on the PC and not through a hub.
Always make sure the power supply is connected to the cradle.
Disable USB in Activesync connection settings.
Disable any screensavers
If an error does occur, putting your device into bootloader mode and restarting the upgrade often proceeds OK.
Bootloader mode can be a little tricky to obtain as the multi-directional button has to be pressed directly down in the middle - not tilted up, tilted down, tilted left or tilted right, at the same time as pressing the power button and the reset switch.
It is very easy to assume bootloader is not working when it may just take several attempts before you get it right.
adad said:
So many people have their XDA II gone dead while upgrading to the second edition rom. What went wrong during the process ?
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My qtek2020 dead because it's my mistake I upgrade it to SE correctly but with Chinese Version and before DCS post his ROM when I saw it's working better than my PDA2K I try to flash my qtek2020 with the PDA2K ROM ( I make some HEX editing ) but with no luck my qtek2020 is totally dead
Any body have solution !
How I recover from my dead XDA II ..
I have to agree with DCS that those are the rules and you need to follow them properly. It's not the ROM that's having the problem but the procedure needs to be followed.
In my case I didn't have the Sync cable properly connected (I bought a new sync cable & I didn't use the cradle) to upgrade the XDAII (duh!).. and I paid the price of having my heart droped on the floor ..
My nightmare started when the cable came loose halfway through the upgrade, so the XDA kind of "hung" and when I tried to reset it, it refuse to show any signs. Do a small test. My guess is as long as you take out the battery, put the XDA II into the charger (without a battery), and the red light comes on, that's a good sign.
For those who is stuck in this situation try this steps:
1) Remove the main battery
2) Leave it out for at least 30mins (to drain the backup battery)
3) Go make your self a coffee or watch TV (time flies faster than staring at your XDAII)
4) Put the battery back (at this stage it still won't work)
5) Put the XDAII into the AC Charger (give it a good 5mins charge)
6) Then keep doing the hard reset (just don't give up, it's like doing CPR, your XDAII will show "Serial 1.06" after a good hard resets ...)
Those steps above did work for my XDAII .... and it should work for most cases as I believe when we upgrade (the ROM) we don't touch the bootloader. Sometimes when we screw up, the XDAII got "hung" and it needs a good "cold boot". Taking the battery out won't help because the backup battery is still in. After a good "cold boot" the XDAII will boot into the bootloader and you can resume your upgrade ;-)
NOTE : Do keep your fingers cross through out the entire process.
PS: Thanks to DCS, Twinkle, mamaich and many others who contributed to this fine forum ... Long live the XDA I, II, IIs, III .... beyond ....
How to upgrade my BOOOTLOADER VERSION (it shows USB 1.01)
Is there a way to change my bootloader version from USB 1.01 to 1.06? I'm currently using T-Mobile MDA-II.
Thanks beforehand!
I have a big problem: this summer i dropped my MDA2 on a concrete floor and i broke the power button so I cant make anything but soft reset, or to remove the battery for 30 min for hard reset.
Re: How I recover from my dead XDA II ..
alvinlim28 said:
I have to agree with DCS that those are the rules and you need to follow them properly. It's not the ROM that's having the problem but the procedure needs to be followed.
In my case I didn't have the Sync cable properly connected (I bought a new sync cable & I didn't use the cradle) to upgrade the XDAII (duh!).. and I paid the price of having my heart droped on the floor ..
My nightmare started when the cable came loose halfway through the upgrade, so the XDA kind of "hung" and when I tried to reset it, it refuse to show any signs. Do a small test. My guess is as long as you take out the battery, put the XDA II into the charger (without a battery), and the red light comes on, that's a good sign.
For those who is stuck in this situation try this steps:
1) Remove the main battery
2) Leave it out for at least 30mins (to drain the backup battery)
3) Go make your self a coffee or watch TV (time flies faster than staring at your XDAII)
4) Put the battery back (at this stage it still won't work)
5) Put the XDAII into the AC Charger (give it a good 5mins charge)
6) Then keep doing the hard reset (just don't give up, it's like doing CPR, your XDAII will show "Serial 1.06" after a good hard resets ...)
Those steps above did work for my XDAII .... and it should work for most cases as I believe when we upgrade (the ROM) we don't touch the bootloader. Sometimes when we screw up, the XDAII got "hung" and it needs a good "cold boot". Taking the battery out won't help because the backup battery is still in. After a good "cold boot" the XDAII will boot into the bootloader and you can resume your upgrade ;-)
NOTE : Do keep your fingers cross through out the entire process.
PS: Thanks to DCS, Twinkle, mamaich and many others who contributed to this fine forum ... Long live the XDA I, II, IIs, III .... beyond ....
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I'm trying and trying to hard reset it I can't see the bootloader, I discharged the backup batt already. Can you help here or is there any other suggestion?
Ps: If I remove the battery and plug the Ac.Adpt I can see here the red light , but if I put back the battery there won't be red light , is that normal ?
Bum pp
Sanity saved
Thanx to dcs i was able to get my device working again.
During upgrade (wich was also possible due to time and effort by DCS) my laptop went into standby for unknown reason.
So my xda got stuck in T-Mobile bootscreen
It was this thread and especially the posting by dcs wich saved my ass (and xda)
for i did not know about the reset with third button to get into bootloader.
Now i finally upgraded to 2003SE.
Thanx DCS!!
hello ,
i have the same problem.. somebody can help me or us??
thanks !!
qtek 2020 dead
i tried upgrading the 2020 to the diamond v1.2 but in the middle of it, the pc based application said that it isn't designed for my version of the phone and now i cant get out of the bootloader mode can any1 help me with it i have the original 1.66 rom from the qtek site but the problem is that it too requires activesync to be started initially ... how do i get outta this mess cuz the hemaupdate and the update utility i got from the qtek site requires the phone to be synchronized using activesync first... can any1 help me with it i need help urgently ....
upup... if somebody can help us ..
Re: How I recover from my dead XDA II ..
alvinlim28 said:
I have to agree with DCS that those are the rules and you need to follow them properly. It's not the ROM that's having the problem but the procedure needs to be followed.
In my case I didn't have the Sync cable properly connected (I bought a new sync cable & I didn't use the cradle) to upgrade the XDAII (duh!).. and I paid the price of having my heart droped on the floor ..
My nightmare started when the cable came loose halfway through the upgrade, so the XDA kind of "hung" and when I tried to reset it, it refuse to show any signs. Do a small test. My guess is as long as you take out the battery, put the XDA II into the charger (without a battery), and the red light comes on, that's a good sign.
For those who is stuck in this situation try this steps:
1) Remove the main battery
2) Leave it out for at least 30mins (to drain the backup battery)
3) Go make your self a coffee or watch TV (time flies faster than staring at your XDAII)
4) Put the battery back (at this stage it still won't work)
5) Put the XDAII into the AC Charger (give it a good 5mins charge)
6) Then keep doing the hard reset (just don't give up, it's like doing CPR, your XDAII will show "Serial 1.06" after a good hard resets ...)
Those steps above did work for my XDAII .... and it should work for most cases as I believe when we upgrade (the ROM) we don't touch the bootloader. Sometimes when we screw up, the XDAII got "hung" and it needs a good "cold boot". Taking the battery out won't help because the backup battery is still in. After a good "cold boot" the XDAII will boot into the bootloader and you can resume your upgrade ;-)
NOTE : Do keep your fingers cross through out the entire process.
PS: Thanks to DCS, Twinkle, mamaich and many others who contributed to this fine forum ... Long live the XDA I, II, IIs, III .... beyond ....
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Just searching through the old threads and I found this post by alvinlim28. I have the same simptoms, white screen, won't start, I get the red light when I remove the battery and place the hima in the craddle, so I guess I'll be up all night trying to get into bootloader and reflash. Thanks all for the contribution in this forum, and thank God for the search option
J.
No luck tonight, I'll keep trying tomorrow gtg to sleep now.
cheers,
J
damm*t still nothing
I've been tryin' all day, and I'm unable to enter bootloader mode
so my story goes as this. just flashing my tytn (x01ht) with a custom built rom from the kitchen, ran ruu as normal and when iit begins at 0% it fails and suggests to me how to correct the mistake by pulling the battery out. so i do that and put it back in afterwards. now it wont even power up. lookup in the wiki to try and jump start it by pluging in the usb power cable, led goes red and put in the battery and led goes black not the yellow that means charging. so now i freak out. try this several times hoping that it will go yellow but nothing.
so i think i have a nice looking expensive brick that i could just pawn for parts or is there still hope left in it. i had flashed it about 10 times before this ever happened.
anyone there to put me out of my misery or can it be revived from the dead
much thanks for any response
Hi, I can just tell you what helped me in a similar situation: Take the battery out, put the charging plug in, (is the light on red than?), put the battery in again. Now press power button, commmanager button and soft reset at once - this is when my came back to tricolor screen. Before that I put a rom file that I renamed to herming.nbh on the empty SD card - I'm not sure if this is necessary, since it didn't start to install the rom from the SD. I hope this may help you.
thanks for the response.
thats what i have been trying to do. on a working one it will bring up ktl mode or the led goes yellow for charging but on my brick it doesnt do anything at all, not even the bootloader comes up.
hi everyone,
i was camping last night and charged my cellphone in the tenent and two hours later i notice my cellphone and battery was a little wet due to dizzle rain.
Upon inserting my battery (without manual turning on), the cellphone immediately turn on with Vibrant logo and boot looped.
I plan to soak my cellphone in the uncooked rice bowl, but im not sure if its a hardware problem because the cellphone can be on.
1.any idea how can i recover my cellphone?
2. is this software or hardware problem?
As now, i can not manually do the download mode and im hesistant to plug my cellphone to PC via usb cable due short circuit.
Note: My vibrant had a rom version miui JB 4.1 by Jrong.
I would dry it as you said then try to just power it on or boot to recovery. From recovery reflash your ROM. If that don't work, try DL mode and use Odin.
My phone acts screwy from steam from the shower but a reboot usually solves it.
Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn.
I had the same experience with my phone it accidentally fell into the water once and had the same problem it gust boot looped I kept my phone in the sunlight for about 30mins with the case opened and the battery removed from the phone and after 30mins it worked fine hope your phone also works just give it a try and hope that this works
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda app-developers app
thanks for the tips guys.
by the way, do i need to remove all the screw drivers and dry the internal circuit of the vibrant?
That would be up to you. One of my cousins dropped her phone in a bowl of milk a few weeks ago and it powered up just fine. It zapped her sim card reader and her touch screen was unresponsive, though.
Could take the battery out and put the whole phone and battery separated in a container with rice and after a day or so you may get all the moisture out, so long as no damage has been done already you'll probably be fine.
after 2 hours of soaking my vibrant from uncooked rice, i tried to perform the download mode, but instead of getting the download mode logo, i get a charging symbol ( small sun rays).
is my phone unrecoverable?
Yes it most likely is. It seems you didn't get DL mode thus just charging of PC. Have you tried to power it up?
Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn.
samsgun357 said:
Yes it most likely is. It seems you didn't get DL mode thus just charging of PC. Have you tried to power it up?
Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn.
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Thanks, im still soaking the vibrant in uncooked rice.
By the way,
1. if i odin the vibrant, will my internal memory pictures and files be deleted?
2. after odin, will i root again my vibrant ?
souleater11 said:
Thanks, im still soaking the vibrant in uncooked rice.
By the way,
1. if i odin the vibrant, will my internal memory pictures and files be deleted?
2. after odin, will i root again my vibrant ?
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If you Odin, no, your internal storage and all of your pics/video and such should be intact. Think of it as a separate area for storage.
After Odin yes, run update.zip and then flash the ROM of your choice.
hi thanks for the reply,
by the way, does anyone know why my vibrant automatically turn on (without pressing power button) upon inserting the battery?
This makes the manual download mode very frustrating to execute.
note: my vibrant and its battery was 1 hour rain soaked last sunday.
I don't have any informed answer to give to you. I know they can do some funny things upon being wet or exposed to liquids.
Maybe its something internal like mobo, or maybe something got zapped around the power button causing it to think its in the "power on" position, even if its not.
After you get done rice drying, we'll see where we can get with it. I'm not a hardware guy.
i got another questions.
Before executing the odin application, is it require to install again the samsung vibrant drivers?
souleater11 said:
i got another questions.
Before executing the odin application, is it require to install again the samsung vibrant drivers?
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Well, not if they have already been installed. As long as you know they are there and working you should be alright. Ultimately, if nothing else works after say.. a few hundred thousand tries, you could install fresh drivers and try different cables and such.
Since your phone starts automagically when you insert your battery, make sure your holding the combo buttons before ever inserting battery, and get that USB cable in there real quick like.
Oct 15, Mon: Soaked uncooked Rice for 2 hours. Still Upon insertion of battery, it automatically turns on and boot looped. I cant go to Download mode.
Oct 16, Tues: Soaked uncooked Rice for another 15 hours. Still Upon insertion of battery, it automatically turns on and boot looped. I cant go to Download mode.
Oct 17, Weds: I observed that when I quickly insert the battery. it doesnt trigger the automatic power on. So when I manually turn on, the boot loop stoped and I was back to my previous normal boot up.
Oct 18, Thurs: A. I noticed that the volume and powers buttons are very sensitive that when press randomly, it will trigger a restart and boot looped again.
B. I observed that when I wake my vibrant from sleep mode, it will take 3 to 5 seconds and i have to press the power button repeatedly to trigger it to wake up.
Oct 19: When I manually press the power button, it does not turn on, but I charged in laptop via USB cable, it shows the charging circular symbol, and I can enable the download mode.
My questions;
1. Since my the week's history of my device is very unstable, is it safe if I flash odin ?
2. however, im very hesistant to flash odin since I think that my device unstable issue is a hardware related. what do you guys think?
It's really up to you. It sounds like the damage has been done. If in the same boat, I'd back up my photos/videos/media and flash things if you want. As you say, I believe its all hardware related, but if it works well enough to use as a device to play with ROMs and test out features, go for it.
Personally I don't think your going to return it to a normal working state. Not without some replacement parts.
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