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Hi. I ruined my phone when trying to add a new kernel (overclock 1.2).
It stayed on Vibrant/Samsung screen.
I downloaded one click odin.. LIKE AN IDIOT I DIDNT SEE IT WAS FOR CAPTIVE (AT&T) ONLY!!
NOW I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO.
PLEASE HELP and link me to wherever i need to download stuff.
Before others eat you alive and flame you, look around dude. Look at the stickies.
C-4Nati said:
Before others eat you alive and flame you, look around dude. Look at the stickies.
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I did, I couldnt find anything.
I don't think anyone has been a dumber noob than me..
ALSO it keeps just rebooting over and over and over.. I dont think it recognizes my battery idk..
MasterGGM said:
I did, I couldnt find anything.
I don't think anyone has been a dumber noob than me..
ALSO it keeps just rebooting over and over and over.. I dont think it recognizes my battery idk..
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Put into download mode use odin to flash back to stock all the tools you need are in the sticky that says bible in it..........
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S4BRE2121 said:
Put into download mode use odin to flash back to stock all the tools you need are in the sticky that says bible in it..........
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Download mode doesnt work
It shows AT&T and keeps rebooting.. over and over. I have no idea if they will exchange it due to it being a t-mobile phone.
Maybe Try the jig
Not sure I know enough about the real issue other than you got the wrong rom. But, there is a jig you can make 301k resistor (or combo of a few to equal that number) soldered to a usb connector on # 4 & 5 pins look it up it will unbrick the phone and get you into the phone from there I not sure what you will need to do next but that would get you into the phone. Btw the resistors and usb cord less than 5 bucks good luck
Dude, you are being childish. I usually never flame but don't say you did because you didn't Enough. Slow down and take your time. If you are doing any kind of mods you should learn how to use Odin first, but unfortunately its always after the fact.
Learn how to use Odin, in the development bible I have a video there to show you how. Doesn't get any easier than that.
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jzero88 said:
Dude, you are being childish. I usually never flame but don't say you did because you didn't Enough. Slow down and take your time. If you are doing any kind of mods you should learn how to use Odin first, but unfortunately its always after the fact.
Learn how to use Odin, in the development bible I have a video there to show you how. Doesn't get any easier than that.
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You are completely right. I was "trigger happy" you may say and I did it by rushing through it and ruined my phone. Luckily I have not yet sold my 3Gs and could use that until I get tmobile to exchange it.
The jig would most likely work for my case but I would need a step by step guide which unfortunately didn't find with images or video.
If I could just kill the AT&T boot logo it'd be perfect but sadly I can't.
I got the phone two days ago..so I am really sure I can get away with an exchange.
If you return the phone and it is booting with the At&t logo they will now you where messing with it and charge you the full amount of the phone which is around $400.
What you have is a soft brick. You can fix it if you bothered reading. Just follow this:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...r-vibrant-and-return-to-stock-phone-pc-error/
Jamison904 said:
If you return the phone and it is booting with the At&t logo they will now you where messing with it and charge you the full amount of the phone which is around $400.
What you have is a soft brick. You can fix it if you bothered reading. Just follow this:
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I wish mine was a soft brick but it isn't. That thread was for "phone ! PC" mine is a tmo vibrant that boot loops as AT&T captive since I flashed the wrong stock kernel.
Remove battery, SIM card and the external SD card.
Connect USB cord
Hold down both volume keys and insert the battery.
I love how everyone gives the same reply. The phone WAS FULLY BRICKED.
I took it to T-Mobile and said I did an update and this is what happened and they gave me a brand spanking new one! =D
Thanks for all your help though.
MasterGGM said:
I love how everyone gives the same reply. The phone WAS FULLY BRICKED.
I took it to T-Mobile and said I did an update and this is what happened and they gave me a brand spanking new one! =D
Thanks for all your help though.
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Pathetic, take some responsibility. Thanks for supporting a future of locked phones.
Greetings Ok friends this is my situation I think my phone is a brick as hard and tried everything mentioned in these 19 pages and even http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737 fails to go into download mode, the situation is that the phone is not even the lights on if the screen and does absolutely nothing, leading to a repair shop in my country and I say tried to make a JTAG and the phone does not respond, any suggestions?
this guy sounds promising http://www.youtube.com/user/MobileTechVideos#p/search/0/lzh7cbND-lo
knew, had seen the video, it was my last option in case you can not recover myself
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/unbricking-your-captivate-gets-even-easier/
Last but not least, AdamOutler is asking for volunteers to borrow devices from that are equipped with a CORTEX-A8 processor in it will do. It does not have to be functional as the dev will need it to remove the processor from it. The dev promised to return it once he is done. You can find a list of devices in this thread. So, if you have a broken phone from this list laying around in your house/office and would like to put it up for a good cause, now is your chance.
Looking into this method right now as Im hard bricked myself!!!
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1220181
dseldown said:
Looking into this method right now as Im hard bricked myself!!!
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1220181
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thanks will try this method now
could you please tell me how to get the (boot.bin) or give me a download link
the vibrant
The only way to fix a hard brick is make a jig.
try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242466....I know it is for captivate but since vibrant and captivate are both galaxy s variant...doesn't hurt to try after all sorry.. if I sound rude but how worse can it get?
onasri15 said:
The only way to fix a hard brick is make a jig.
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TECHNICALLY, if you can use a JIG, its not a hard brick.
a hard brick is a solid brick. nothing can solve it except the... urghhhhhh i cant get the word in my mouth but its a something "box" i think
thats the only way out of hard brick as far as i know.
i tried flashing with ordin3, in the middle (or maybe beggining or end not sure) i got the blue screen and now when i try and boot my galaxsy s 2 it doesnt boot up. doesnt power up or anything.. what should i do!?!
Mobiletechvideos has a service they can revive it. I had to use them for my infuse about a month ago. Service is top notch and I believe it cost 40 bucks which IMO isn't bad.
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rbisrxx85 said:
i tried flashing with ordin3, in the middle (or maybe beggining or end not sure) i got the blue screen and now when i try and boot my galaxsy s 2 it doesnt boot up. doesnt power up or anything.. what should i do!?!
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Try taking battery completely out then with Odin open hold up and down volume plug USB cable into phone from pc. Should load download mode. I had this happen when I had the captivate.
If everything else fails, buy or make a USB JIG. It can put your phone into download mode easily.
foxbat121 said:
If everything else fails, buy or make a USB JIG. It can put your phone into download mode easily.
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when my infuse was hosed and I wouldnt power on no JIG, battery pull or anything would bring it back.....
rbisrxx85 said:
i tried flashing with ordin3, in the middle (or maybe beggining or end not sure) i got the blue screen and now when i try and boot my galaxsy s 2 it doesnt boot up. doesnt power up or anything.. what should i do!?!
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WHAT were you flashing? Unless you flashed something from the I9100 that had bootloaders, you shouldn't have been able to hardbrick the device.
foxbat121 said:
If everything else fails, buy or make a USB JIG. It can put your phone into download mode easily.
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I have yet to see a situation where a jig would've worked and VolUp + VolDn + USB insertion didn't.
Entropy512 said:
WHAT were you flashing? Unless you flashed something from the I9100 that had bootloaders, you shouldn't have been able to hardbrick the device.
I have yet to see a situation where a jig would've worked and VolUp + VolDn + USB insertion didn't.
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then obviously you havent had a totally hard bricked phone. I jig and or Volup+voldn + USB wouldnt even phase mine at all.... it could be I was just a rare case....
and no disrespect intended for this post Entropy...i re-read it and it sounds much different then I wanted it too
i dunno what i did im a noob and now very upset i even tried anything. i tried taking the battery out then pressing vol up & down and plugging in the usb, didnt work.. i dont have a jig yet so i cant try it and i dont want to spend 60$ sending it out but if i must i guess that my option for now..
I download Odin3execute i think it was called, plugged in the gs2 and press start.. there were two buttons START and MASTER CLEAN (I think it was), After i clicked start it wrote a few lines and said please wait or dont unplug or something, then after 15-20 min my computer crashed and now it doesnt power on...
please help :'(
sounds like you flashed new (and the wrong) bootloaders. if thats the case, you're going to have to get it revived because nothing else will work
nyydynasty said:
sounds like you flashed new (and the wrong) bootloaders. if thats the case, you're going to have to get it revived because nothing else will work
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how do i go about reviving it? should i just send it in to mobiltechvideos? will that help?
rbisrxx85 said:
how do i go about reviving it? should i just send it in to mobiltechvideos? will that help?
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yes they can revive it for you
do u think ill be able to go to att and return it? tell them that its just not booting and lie and tell them i didnt try and root? or will they know i tried to root?
go give that a shot.. all they can say is you screwed it up ... right??
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go give that a shot.. all they can say is you screwed it up ... right??
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I hope so.. they can prob also find out what happened and have att charge me for the phone .. not sure tho, def would not be cool lol
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do u think ill be able to go to att and return it? tell them that its just not booting and lie and tell them i didnt try and root? or will they know i tried to root?
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if they wanted to find out the truth, i'm sure they can. I'm always against doing that because you knew the risk and still proceeded without reading but its your phone, not mine.
yeah I'm not really sure they scrutinize things that closely unless maybe you keep returning the phone for the same issue multiple times...
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then obviously you havent had a totally hard bricked phone. I jig and or Volup+voldn + USB wouldnt even phase mine at all.... it could be I was just a rare case....
and no disrespect intended for this post Entropy...i re-read it and it sounds much different then I wanted it too
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That's exactly what I said - it's next to impossible to hardbrick a phone unless you flash bootloaders (which it seems like he somehow did) - and if your bootloaders are broken, jig won't work.
So my original claim stands - I know of no situation where jig will work and volup + voldn + USB insertion won't.
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That's exactly what I said - it's next to impossible to hardbrick a phone unless you flash bootloaders (which it seems like he somehow did) - and if your bootloaders are broken, jig won't work.
So my original claim stands - I know of no situation where jig will work and volup + voldn + USB insertion won't.
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wasnt disagreeing with you... was just stating a experience I had personally...
well technicaly i didnt get to flash anything because my pc got blue screen in the middle of the process..
so will sending it to that site not work?
only me... only me! tsk tsk shoulda stuck with an iphone...
lol jk i loved the phone and i want it BACK!
thnx again for all the reply's more will be welcome! please
Sending it out to that site will still work for sure.
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Hey I know this may be the wrong section but im sure we'll get the answer quick here. Was running MIUI 11-4-11 (newest update), decided to upgrade my boot-loader to GB newest, successfully updated, thought CM7 and MIUI were good with GB bootloaders now. Now that I was updated thought I could flash back to froyo roms ok. MISTAKE Decided to odin to KA7 instead of just JFD or whatever. Forgot KA7 had some kind of bootloader file sbl.bin
Phone odined, finished, and shut off completely and nothing works. No lights, no download mode, no computer triangle problem. Im going to order a jig from Team Whiskey but if anyone has ANY HELP OR SUGGESTIONS please reply and let me know lets get this figured out. I've had the vibrant a long time and been around xda forever im not a noob just was stupid.
THANKS!
Ive had a couple soft bricks too that Ive never had problems with. First hardbrick like this happened with a friends vibrant a year ago and we just sold it. Hoping I dont have a complete HARD BRICK and a paper weight now. Any info is good
Remove Battery.
Hold Both Volume Rockers (Up and Down). Keep Holding.
Place in battery and press power button while holding rockers.
You should get in Download Mode.
If this don't help, your bootloader is corrupted.... you need someone to JTAG.... JIG won't help.
EDIT: If above steps don't work..... After You Remove Battery... Also place in USB cord. And follow same steps
Yea ive tried this a bunch. Whats the info on a jtag? Cant afford a 180 dollar jtag. Youre saying the jig wont boost me into download mode.? Thought maybe it could since my phone may still work, just the bootloaders made it not recognize hardware buttons. Thank you for the reply
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Yea ive tried this a bunch. Whats the info on a jtag? Cant afford a 180 dollar jtag. Youre saying the jig wont boost me into download mode.? Thought maybe it could since my phone may still work, just the bootloaders made it not recognize hardware buttons. Thank you for the reply
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I bricked my phone recently.. completely hard bricked.. it will behave just as no battery in it....
I did lot of reading, and found that JIG may not help with corrupted bootloader.
A last thing for you to do is charge your phone overnight and try combo buttons to enter in recovery mode. This helped few people here, somehow, magically.
EDIT: For US people, I saw JTAG happens for below 50$
Cool thank you. Will try the charge and combos and check back here later. So assume its hardbricked and nothing works, best option is to send the phone by mail to someone with a jtag that will fix it for aboput $40 and send it back? Whats the likely hood of the jtag user fixing my either single bootloader corruption, or if I corrupted the secondary bootloader as well.
As long as you are on a GB bootloader you should try Volume down +Power button to get into download mode. I'm not sure but you should try
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No need for a jtag. If you are comfortable taking your phone apart and have some electronics skills, you can do the unbrickable mod.
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No need for a jtag. If you are comfortable taking your phone apart and have some electronics skills, you can do the unbrickable mod.
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Kinda nervous to dive into this. Is it worth the risk? I'd be down to go ahead and try it but my soldering skills arent up to key in the last two years
PowSniffer0110 said:
Kinda nervous to dive into this. Is it worth the risk? I'd be down to go ahead and try it but my soldering skills arent up to key in the last two years
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Ahah, then you should go for the safer method, man. Better to be safe.
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theexel said:
Ahah, then you should go for the safer method, man. Better to be safe.
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Meaning jig? Who here has experience with a jig personally? Im wondering if itll force into download mode. I dont wanna pay $10 for a jig then have to pay another 50 to send it in for jtag repair. Thanks for the pointers and suggestions guys
I had something similar happen to me. I used mobiletechvideos service (http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant-unbrickable-mod/) for 30 dollars it worthy and it includes the return shipping. Takes around 7 to 10 day. Then I installed Ubuntu along side Windows (Ubuntu CD has that option) and perform the resurrection myself. You can also pay them 10 more to resurrect your Vibrant. After that it will be unbrickable, you can flash away and repair the phone no matter what.
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Meaning jig? Who here has experience with a jig personally? Im wondering if itll force into download mode. I dont wanna pay $10 for a jig then have to pay another 50 to send it in for jtag repair. Thanks for the pointers and suggestions guys
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I bought a JIG I've had bootloader issues in the past and I was able to work with it. Worst case you have to send the JIG back. I actually found it on Amazon. Its been a life saver since.
I bought my jig from teamwhiskey.com but u can probably find one around these forums and I don't know how some kind of jig magic but it works everytime.
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I feel as though there is not enough douchiness against the OP... i think its pretty nasty when someone decides hes gonna take the android dev section for a question because question is more important rthan those in the appropriate section
Sent from a cell tower to the XDA server to you.
Download mod
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Hey I know this may be the wrong section but im sure we'll get the answer quick here. Was running MIUI 11-4-11 (newest update), decided to upgrade my boot-loader to GB newest, successfully updated, thought CM7 and MIUI were good with GB bootloaders now. Now that I was updated thought I could flash back to froyo roms ok. MISTAKE Decided to odin to KA7 instead of just JFD or whatever. Forgot KA7 had some kind of bootloader file sbl.bin
Phone odined, finished, and shut off completely and nothing works. No lights, no download mode, no computer triangle problem. Im going to order a jig from Team Whiskey but if anyone has ANY HELP OR SUGGESTIONS please reply and let me know lets get this figured out. I've had the vibrant a long time and been around xda forever im not a noob just was stupid.
THANKS!
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Download Mod:
1: Remove battery
2: connect usb Phone and Pc
3: Hold UP volume (Only Up ok)
4: Put battery back
Now u r on download mod
Bought one, but have to wait till it ships, so figured I would ask if anybody in the 757 has a mini-usb jig that I could use to get my Note into download mode. Send PM if you do.
Thanks in advance.
U can reboot into download thru recovery
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mrstone77 said:
U can reboot into download thru recovery
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Walk me through that one, no response to anything, power and up volume results in nothing. Plugging into usb results in nothing Windows, ODIN nor Kies registers it.
vanemburghj said:
Bought one, but have to wait till it ships, so figured I would ask if anybody in the 757 has a mini-usb jig that I could use to get my Note into download mode. Send PM if you do.
Thanks in advance.
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I think this is what you're looking for, yes?
http://galaxys2root.com/tag/diy-usb-jig/
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I thought it was "down volume button + power " to get into ODIN mode for Samsung devices
up+ down is for recovery
Shirokishi said:
I think this is what you're looking for, yes?
http://galaxys2root.com/tag/diy-usb-jig/
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I thought it was "down volume button + power " to get into ODIN mode for Samsung devices
up+ down is for recovery
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That is what I ordered, either way on the buttons, phone is bricked to point will take very special sauce to fix it.
Oh... I didn't know all of that... When my phone freezes I can hold the power button for 10 seconds n it'll reboot but u r n need of special sauce... I'm n the 540 sorry
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mrstone77 said:
Oh... I didn't know all of that... When my phone freezes I can hold the power button for 10 seconds n it'll reboot but u r n need of special sauce... I'm n the 540 sorry
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Yep am with you on that one, I have soft bricked before, but nothing like this, my very first true brick of my cell. Hopefully Jig I ordered at least gets me into download mode, where I can fix it.
vanemburghj said:
Yep am with you on that one, I have soft bricked before, but nothing like this, my very first true brick of my cell. Hopefully Jig I ordered at least gets me into download mode, where I can fix it.
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If you can see the samsung bootloader then yeah there's hope otherwise you're gonna need the $100 fix for it.
But at least people are responding, I got no love on my end, lol
keeping things in perspective, as I posted before, I have never seen anyone report that a jig does any good on this phone..
You would be better off either using JTAG, or calling Samsung, and playing stupid, and tell them it died after you did an update that the phone requested..they will send you a replacement, with no questions asked.
go through the general and q&a sections; you will see that a jig doesn't do anything for this phone..
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keeping things in perspective, as I posted before, I have never seen anyone report that a jig does any good on this phone..
You would be better off either using JTAG, or calling Samsung, and playing stupid, and tell them it died after you did an update that the phone requested..they will send you a replacement, with no questions asked.
go through the general and q&a sections; you will see that a jig doesn't do anything for this phone..
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Well smokestack76 told you differently yesterday. He said over 20 times with a jig. Plus for $1.60 I will give it a try.
yes, for the price, if it makes you feel better, try it..
and, if you believe him, when you can find 20 others that said it did absolutely nothing, then that's your choice.
the sooner you send it in to Samsung, the sooner you will have a working phone..
If Samsung is wiling to send you a loaner phone while you're under warranty i can't see why you wouldnt do that.
I know Nintendo is awesome like that but apparently Samsung reps are quite jaded when you do something silly like ask an honest question.
I wish Samsung would honor warranty services if the device hasn't been on the market longer than year.
I'm A. Maybe he Made a mistake and wants to own up for it insted of weasling into a fraudulent phone.
B. I would be a little jaded as well when I get people calling me all day that have messed up their own phone and are now trying to steal from me.
C. Samsung does honor warranties a year after the device has been on market. YOUR WARRANTY DOES NOT GO INTO EFFECT UNTIL THE ORIGINAL DATE OF PURCHASE. not when the first one of its kind rolls off the assembly line.
Also, wase a jig does work of you are not actually bricked, if you were to be soft bricked the jig would force download mode. I had a captivate I built a jig for, first thing I did was try it on my note. Bam, download mode.
And finally op it's a micro usb jig not mini. Mini is bigger than micro
yeah bro, I know a jig works for SOME phones; it helped me bring my S2 back to life..
However, I have read many many reports of it doing nothing for the Note, so that was why I said what I did..
Plus, people are using the term "Bricked" around here in so many ways, that its hard to know what they mean when they say it..to me, a bricked phone is DEAD, and nothing but an expensive paperweight.....
I can take a video of my note going from off to download mode with nothing but my jig. However the same jig that works on both my phones is out of resistance tolerance on my brothers sgs2.
And yes bricked is used much too often,it is a term to describe when your phone is inert, has no pliability and just sits there, like the baked red clay building material it was named for.
was curious to see if the OP had any luck with the jig....
Well the jig did nothing for me. I suggest send your phone to mobiletechvideos.com for repair, he goes through the JTAG recovery method, and he also unlocked mine... he did a great job. I bricked my Note flashing a ROM for another device by mistake, could not use the jig for anything, so had it repaired. Feeling really happy now... hope this helps.
the jig isn't and was never meant to fix a hard brick...
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Back on captivate, certain bootloaders would disable the button combos for download and recovery, making a simple (I hate the term... But) soft brick into a much stickier situation, so it was discovered that using 300k ohms of resistance across certain pins on the usb port from a powered off state would trigger download mode in seconds, making you then able to simply odin a stock rom and try again.
It was later discovered that the jig had the same effect on the sgs2 with the added benefit of restting the flash counter.
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If you flash a firmware for the international note on an i717 you will need jtag because you are indeed bricked of the hard variety.
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was curious to see if the OP had any luck with the jig....
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Nope gig still in the mail, however took Note to ATT Device Service Center and they told me mother board failure and replaced it. So might not have been related to flashing, inspection seem pretty in depth, removed back cover, using multi meter type of tool and said mother board didn't provide correct response to input. My mandatory 10 days to return no functioning unit is 17 Dec so don't think will have chance to try the jig before I send it back or be charged $549 for non-functioning unit.
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Nope gig still in the mail, however took Note to ATT Device Service Center and they told me mother board failure and replaced it. So might not have been related to flashing, inspection seem pretty in depth, removed back cover, using multi meter type of tool and said mother board didn't provide correct response to input. My mandatory 10 days to return no functioning unit is 17 Dec so don't think will have chance to try the jig before I send it back or be charged $549 for non-functioning unit.
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might as well keep the jig for the couple of bucks it cost..plus, even if it doesn't work for this phone, it might work for your next one!