okay i think i may have finally bricked a Vibrant.
Heres what happened.
I recieved my warranty replacement from Tmobile, my original Vibrant had headjack issues...
I rooted the phone, installed Projet V and all was good.. i then noticed none of my photos and music was being recognized.. i thought maybe it was a bad flassh, reflashed and same issue.. i then moved some songs to my external and it played.. so i thought lets start from scratch.
So i started ODIN and my p wouldnt recognize phone in Download mode...battery pulled and now i have the phone to pc symbols.. all is good still cuz this has happened before and ODIN will recognize my phone..this time it was NOT the czse =(..
I have tried different USB ports
Uninstalled both ODIN and Samsung Drivers
tried a different PC
tried a brand new USB from Tmobile
PCs WILL not recognize phone...
Any other suggestions..... ive read tons of threads and all say to do the different ports n crap but its not my lucky day i guess... if i cant fiix it im just sending it back to Tmobile and asking for another one..
i got the 'phone ! pc screen' on mine yest, just keep trying
took me like 2 hours to get it to connect, i tried all 4 usb ports on my laptop like 10 times each then it decided to work
yah odin and pcs are finicky that way, keep trying!
power off phone
pull out battery
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
mine doesnt go to download by having it plugged in and pushing battery in, battery has to be in with mine then plug usb in
so try both ways
thanks to everyone.... i guess i'll keep trying. If not i'll send it back to Tmobile n get another replacement =/
also i think its the phone =( tried to use ODIN on my original Vibrant and sure nuff it can see it.. Oh well back to Tmobile...
Mods u can close this thread =)
Eureka!!!!!!!
heres the steps I took, keep in mind i went to Best Buy and bought a BB USB cable and it worked..... still sending the phone back tho, i should have another one by tomorrow =)
Pull the battery out
plug the phone into the usb
open odin
pick the tar file of whatever you're trying to flash
hold the up and down volume buttons
now put the battery back in
phone will boot into download mode
odin should pick it up, click start button in odin to flash
done
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So I just received a replacement phone because I bricked my previous one and I think I may have bricked this one as well (because I'm an idiot).
I can't get anything to show up on my screen except the screen that has a phone a yellow triangle with a ! and a computer. They're little icons lined up in the middle of the screen when I try to turn it on.
How this happened:
I upgraded my stock phone to Froyo using Kies and then I tried to flash the KA6+Voodoo firmware that I found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870480 using Heimdall on my mac.
I had put the phone into download mode, selected the zImage and clicked start and it just sat there for a little bit before it said "Failed to receive device info response!"
I didn't know what to do after that so I just tried to restart the phone and I ended up with that error screen that I'm becoming more familiar with than I would like to be...
If anybody can help save my phone I would really appreciate it.
You just need to go through the normal odin steps to go back to stock.
The instructions on how to odin are in this forum.. I'm kinda lazy this morning sorry.
Odin isn't recognizing my phone right now and Windows is saying that it's detecting a "gadget serial" device but can't successfully install drivers for it. Based on some advice I found elsewhere, I'm installing Samsung PC Studio which should contain the drivers for the "gadget serial" device.
Hopefully Odin will work then...
also try a different cable. I know that if I use certain cables odin will not work. I have to use the cable that came with my phone.
Google Galaxy s USB drivers and install those.
And your phone is only bricked if nothing ever comes on. So your still golden. Just use the volume button download mode method and odin to stock.
IT'S WORKING. THank you!
The only problem now is that it's not recognizing my sim card...
blim8183 said:
IT'S WORKING. THank you!
The only problem now is that it's not recognizing my sim card...
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Turn off the phone and pull out the sim card. Reinsert the sim card and reboot the phone. It should be recognized.
I just tried that a couple times and it's still not recognizing it.
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I just tried that a couple times and it's still not recognizing it.
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OMG PANIC! Insert another sim and see if that works. If so, pull the battery for a minute and try again with your sim. If that doesn't work call T-Mo and confess that you broke it.
XPLANE9 said:
Google Galaxy s USB drivers and install those.
And your phone is only bricked if nothing ever comes on. So your still golden. Just use the volume button download mode method and odin to stock.
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I'm trying to restore my phone to factory settings using (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475) but once again I've gotten the phone ! computer error. However, this time when I plug the phone into the computer to try to use Odin, it's no longer recognizing that a USB device has been plugged in.
I've been trying different combinations of battery pulls, plugging it in after the phone is on, plugging it in before it's on, etc. and nothing is working.
EDIT: Nevermind, I got it. Ignore me... it case it wasn't clear already, I'm a n00b and have no idea what I'm doing.
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Please put your questions to: Vibrant Q&A
was messing around in cwm and formatted boot among other things i'm sure, because my phone wasn't able to be recognized by my pc due to what I believe was debugging not working... tried onecosmics ics and my debug just malfuntioned? Now I'm stuck at the Vibrant screen and although I can get into download without a problem, no computers recognize it... therefor I cannot odin. No CWM no nothing... just vibrant boot or download mode. Phones a year old, absolutely loved it and i messed up bad... If anyone can help me get her up and running through odin I will donate something to ya lol... Have all drivers needed just wont recognize... Geez I just can't leave things alone haha
thanks for reading and replying in advance
Make sure you are plugging the USB on the back end of your computer, closer to the motherboard. I never had any luck with ODIN when plugging into the front USB ports; seems not enough power goes to those.
Try a different version of ODIN. The link is available in a sticky around here somewhere. If you're entering download mode, all is not lost. I would try to click Start on ODIN just in case.
Try using the Toolbox. It has all the drivers, pit/tar files and Odin too. I use it all the time. I agree, if you can get anything to even show up on your screen, you are not "hard" bricked. Just have to find that sweet spot.
Remember that you don't have to have Download showing up on your screen, just a yellow COM box in Odin. Sometimes people forget that and freak out but I know you said it (the computer) doesn't recognize. Is this bc you are not seeing any Mass Storage devices? Just keep trying to get that little yellow box.
Edit:: Try to keep one thread on the subject so that you aren't getting confused.
I agree with the comments above.I recall going into DL mode and just hooking up the phone to the pc and it wasn't recognizing it but I flashed the 512 pit and it worked without the COM.
Try a different USB cable
You can always use linux, that's an option at this moment
I'm sorry for making two threads, didn't want people coming into the last thread and answering an old issue... I'm gonna keep trying...
I guess my days with the Vibrant are sadly over, although I can get into download mode, tried 2 cables, 3 computers... Can't get anything recognized or ODIN to work period... I'm 16 days past my tmobile warranty for the phone and they refuse to help me... onecosmics rom was the biggest mistake I made. I lost the ability to debug because of it, which is now my downfall. Nothing gets recognized and I believe it wont because debug is broken...
AIO couldn't help me... I would have much rather bricked my phone essentially than this because I would at least know where I stood and knew a Jig may work, this issue I'm having is just false hope... There are no answers anywhere that have a happy ending in my case, just threads that get left without a true method or answer, I have looked. I don't know if a Jig would work for a device that can boot in download mode but can't get recognized? I don't know anything, I just know I wish wouldn't have tried that rom and then lose my cool because of it.
We root and change ROMs because we can. We make our ****s faster or slower if we wish, i could run porn ,the newiest movies, dl songs.there is nothing better than freedom my bro
How about reinstalling the drivers while phone is connected to PC with Odin running.
And what buttons are you using to get into CWM?
I am using the standard 3 button combo for CWM cant get past vibrant logo just resets and does it again... I tried everything with odin no dice... Lol, it's my own damn fault truthfully lol... I was irresponsible in CWM due to a bit of anger and this is the result. shouldnt have formatted everything and reset. Dumb dumb dumb... especially after I knew debug was broke and disabled...
Yo are, you good finally
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YO if you can't fix it nOOOb,don't waste our time.I /They have gave u great advice.
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I say blow your phone up
Have you tried the jiggy yet? Last time, I was messing around with CWM and other ported GB and things didn't go well to the point where I got no download screen at all - just black screen after power up. Download finger combos didn't work anymore. I thought I hard brick it and about to be real brick. Since jiggy was only around $5, so I thought why not and got it off ebay (something like this one). After I hooked it in, boom I get download mode. I was so glad and didn't bother going forward anymore. I just load back old stock eclair rom with all the files in it then reload froyo.
If you odin it before, I assume driver still good. If it still good, IMO, you shouldn't try new driver. If you install other drivers over it, you can't tell if good one still there. Do you have another vibrant phone that you can hook in just too see odin and driver works good (in recognizing the phone)? This is to isolate issue if limited to your pc/odin/driver or limited to your phone only. If odin can recognize another vibrant phone, then everything on your pc is good and just need to get your phone in download mode. If your pc can't recognize other vibrant or other galaxy s phone, then it's likely your driver messed up and just need to uninstall all the sgs driver and reinstall only the one that worked for you before all this mess. I'm saying other galaxy s, because my pc was able to recognize my sister Verizon Fascinate phone and I can odin through it with the samsung driver i installed for my vibrant.
Just idea...
Thanks, but I have tried a million drivers to no avail lol... It's the ICS rom I flashed... It disabled my debug mode (although it said it was enabled). I believe with debug off, your phone is not recognized by ODIN... I can get into download mode, the only thing I need the Jig to do is get debug to be enabled lol, and I don't think it can do that?...
You ought to find another member near you and see if they can look at it. Sometimes another set of eyes can make a difference. You could also try mobiletechvideos.com. They do JTAG repairs (unbrick phones).
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Thanks, but I have tried a million drivers to no avail lol... It's the ICS rom I flashed... It disabled my debug mode (although it said it was enabled). I believe with debug off, your phone is not recognized by ODIN... I can get into download mode, the only thing I need the Jig to do is get debug to be enabled lol, and I don't think it can do that?...
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Are you saying the "debug" inside the ICS rom? I don't think that matter, because I have ODINed mine to stock eclair rom before which has debug disabled by default if I remember correctly, then I just ODINed over other rom and it work...if that work, the debug setting shouldn't matter. Ok maybe driver...
If you strongly believe it is a driver, why not just try remove ALL samsung driver then start back with the one that work for you initially. Or use only driver from more trusted reliable site. Try one at a time. Or even reboot to safe mode and remove all the drivers. Don't install anything sparingly on your machines. Do you have another pc to try? Or have another friend with ODINed already installed w/ working samsung driver...so you reload eclair rom over it? You should have test it in VM or Virtualbox or Sandboxie.... If you can get into download mode, it should work...
Also make sure your machine is virus or spyware free. Spyware can affect other apps on your machine. If you haven't already have a good one, go to download.com and download Avast and Malwarebytes Antispyware. Then reboot into safe mode (F8), then scan virus and antispyware with both of the lattter programs. Anything it find, just delete them and keep scan until it finds 0 under safe mode. Then boot back normally and reinstall a good trusted samsung driver executable. That's what I would do if i were you.
This happened to me a while back onky thing different was my phone was working fine, but computer didnt recognize. Like others say COMPLETELY uninstall all samsung drivers, and I dont know if it will change anything for you but odin 1.7 and 1.1 didnt work for me but 1.3 was perfect, in other words try to get your hands on as many different odin files as possible, and if you have to heimdall has worked for me once before too
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Have you tried nexus s or galaxy nexus drivers yet? Your running ics you might need them....
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update to the ICS drivers, they are in the i9000 cm thread, also then connect your phone open odin with admin privileges, install usbdeview, run it in admin privileges and uninstall any driver that starts when you plug the phone in, then un plug and plug back in your phone, should work
Hey guys just wanted to say thanks for all the help you provide on a daily basis, for all the people trying to unlock the potential in their phones. However with that being said I might have tried too hard and messed up my phones. I have a Samsung Vibrant SGH-T595 with 2.1 (update 1) updated officially by Samsung.
I rooted the phone, used clock work recovery mod and then downloaded and installed cyanogenmod 7.1 RC. However in the end I did not like so I tried to go back using my backed up copy created by clockwork mod. Doing this has now what you would call "soft bricked" my phone.
The phone is currently stuck on the Samsung boot screen when trying to power on the device. I am unable to put it into download mode via the three button setup, but I bought a USB jig and it sets it into download mode.
Everything seems great at this point but the Odin program is unable to recognize my phone. I have downloaded the official Samsung Kies, and 64 bit drivers as well for my windows 7 system but it is unable to detect my phone. I believe it maybe a defective USB issue with this phone but not sure since it can be charged through USB but I can't remember the last time I was able to connect it to the PC and transfer files via the USB cable.
My question is what else can I do other then sell it for scrap?
Try another USB cable and different ports. It will recognize it eventually.
As you have a windows 7 x64 bit version i guess Odin may need to be opened by giving Administrator permissions.
Try right clicking odin and click Run as administrator. I guess this should work.
Ran into this issue last night with my wife's Nook Color and moving some file and driver issues. Guess what? It was a bad cord. Actually used my Vibrant cord and it was instantly recognized. Yes sometimes it IS actually THAT simple.
I also suggest you go to the Dev section and download the AIO Toolbox (links are live again and don't forget the .Net files too). Uninstall the drivers you have installed and run to toolbox. It has all the correct drivers, pit/tar files and Odin. It is an invaluable tool.
Sidenote: Kies is notorious for hardbricking devices. You should stay away from it altogether.
Woodrube said:
Sidenote: Kies is notorious for hardbricking devices. You should stay away from it altogether.
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Exactly. And that is how i tried updating my vibrant to froyo and ended up hard bricking it..
Yeah like someone in here said, download aio vibrant toolkit.. its a surefire way to know your drivers are good and right.. once youve ruled them out, try a diff usb port and cable (mentioned above as well). If nothing works, then you may begin to entertain the idea that your phone is in difficult position.
Probably not hardbricked tho, vibrants are very resilient; just keep trying.
Then ttheres jtag and unbrickable mod if youre absolutely sure lifes over
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Thanks guys I ended up recycling my phones cause nothing I did worked. I did try AIO toolbox got the drivers, tried different cables. My SG II is able to be recognized by odin 1.85 with no issues but not my vibrant. I believe it is an issue with the vibrant's usb port. I originally rooted it by doing the update.zip fix from its external sd card, did not use my usb cable at that time. My other vibrant is completely hard bricked since it wont power on with two different fully charged batteries. Anyway thanks again and next time I will research more before modding my phones.
Hey OP,
I did the same exact thing as you and soft bricked it in the same manner. Then when I tried to get Odin to recognize the phone it wouldn't with my Samsung cable. I thought I was out of luck but I went and bought a USB cable made my Belkin from Meijer and Odin recognized it! I looked at the Samsung cable and the Belkin cable and the black plastic inside the microUSB in the Belkin is thicker than the Samsung. I think that helps create a tighter contact between phone microUSB and the cable. I thought I was screwed like you and I fixed the issue with a new cable!! That simple
I used the Samsung Galaxy S II usb cable which looks like it has a very tight connection with the contacts like you said. Thanks anyway I will try that brand of cable, if I ever run into that issue.
Well, I flashed this because i bootlooped on CM7 and nothing I tried fixed it:
http://hotfile.com/dl/145799379/87b0b05/S5830XWKS2_S5830XENKS1_S5830XWKS2.zip.html
Via odin, all went well- passed.
Then when i went to turn it on (after Cache wipe via stock recovery) the two light up buttons at the side of the home button light up and nothing else does. The screen does not turn on. When i pull the battery and wait a few moments then plug in USB, place battery back in Hold Home + Power + Vol Down- nothing happens- odin (4.38) does not recognise it. I have got cooper.ops and the new DDK8Q firmware from SamMobile.
Well im thinking: Either A) Something in my phone has blown by chance (Not Likely)
or B) The USB 1.0 Port my PC uses is faulty and interupted the process when it was working on the boot.
and C) The Firmware I downloaded was corrupted and Hard Bricked it
Now, I have already taken it to service centre before for a new motherboard (forgot I was no longer on the Defy so I flashed a Defy ROM on autopilot from the same SD)
so I'm wondering, with already haven claimed it on the warranty- will it now no longer be covered by warranty?
And, has anyone ever had this before?
Place phone on your papers. It will stop them blowing away. Seriously hope someone supplies you with good solution. I once had similar prob when using odin on laptop (vista), tried on PC (xp and 7) used on xp and managed to flash ok. Make sure drivers are ok and that you can get in download mode first though. GL
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Place phone on your papers. It will stop them blowing away. Seriously hope someone supplies you with good solution. I once had similar prob when using odin on laptop (vista), tried on PC (xp and 7) used on xp and managed to flash ok. Make sure drivers are ok and that you can get in download mode first though. GL
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Drivers uninstalled and reinstalled, still no good :/
Tried other PC, still no good :/
Tried VirtualBox XP, still no good :/
Your Ace is screwed
Ace-ing all tests.
Well buddy if your phone is in warranty you can claim it as many times as you want.I have myself got my motherboard changed 3 times..!!Just act noob at service center and blame KIES for evrything
Good Luck
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Well buddy if your phone is in warranty you can claim it as many times as you want.I have myself got my motherboard changed 3 times..!!Just act noob at service center and blame KIES for evrything
Good Luck
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Lol Kies
Kies is responsible of screwing our ace! If it wasn't so freakin useless we eon't be forced to use odin XD
Hi all!
I have a Galaxy S 4G running stock GB and my girlfriend asked me to update her Vibrant for her so her phone would be "better than" mine. Lol. Anyways, I was able to update to stock Froyo as kies only updates to 2.2 on U.S. T-Mobile Vibrant. I rooted it, also. I tried to put a Simply Stock GB rom on it, but I was unsuccessful. I just gave it back to her running Froyo. It was working fine for a while (about a day) and then the messaging app began to force close and she wasn't able to text anyone. So, I thought I'd just put Eclair back on it for her as she had no problems with that. While I was putting Eclair on it, Odin froze at the "file analysis" stage, so I closed it, and lo and behold, the phone is now soft bricked. What's weird is that the phone!computer message is on the top-left of the screen. Here's a pic:
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I tried everything to get it into download mode, which I had issues with before. I used adb to get it into download mode for the attempted Eclair install because the volume keys+usb cable method did not work. And now, the three button combo does not work. What's worse is that the computer won't even make recognize that anything is plugged in when I plug the phone in (but the phone does turn on and show the message). I even tried a home-made jig! I've tried 300k ohms and even 301k ohms. Nothing. Here's a picture of the jig:
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Please, you guys have gotta save me from the couch! Lol. Well, I'm not really on the couch, but she is using my phone for the time being and I miss it. =/
Thanks in advance!
-Rahi
EDIT: I didn't realize that I can't post pictures yet. Just paste the url and delete the spaces in the appropriate places. But, please have have a look at the pictures, as this soft-brick is an oddity to me and let me know if the jig is not right. =]
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Change your USB cable? Change computers? or usb ports.
Also, when you said your computer didnt recognize anything. Did you mean Odin didnt recognize the phone or the computer itself didnt recognize it? Check your drivers. You might also want to try uninstalling drivers and reinstalling them.