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My vibrant won't even powerup, i was using odin3 v1.70 and i accidently put the wrong .tar file and it said failed! NOW IT WONT START UP.....help please =\
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dex1701 said:
I had this same thing happen after Odin froze during a flash of the stock Vibrant US firmware. I thought for sure it was dead...no battery charging icon when plugged in, couldn't boot into download mode, no signs of life at all...nothing I did made it do anything. After messing around for an hour and a half I figured out how to get it to boot into download mode:
1. Removed SD and SIM card
2. Removed battery
3. plugged the phone into USB
4. held down vol-up and vol-down
5. popped the battery back in while holding vol buttons
This got me into download mode consistently when my phone looked 100% dead. After that I unplugged it from the computer (still in download mode), fired up Odin, set up my flash files, and plugged it back into the computer. It then showed up in Odin and I was able to re-flash successfully.
Maybe it will work for you guys too. Don't put the SD card or SIM card back in until after you flash, though. I couldn't get mine to flash correctly with the cards installed.
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this worked....mods please lock
thanks
Thanks for the info, I did Odin and the phone end up death too. I will this your method. I am hoping this will work.
this method didnt work.. my vibrant is dead.. help... its not doing anything..
magic4lyfe said:
this worked....mods please lock
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u r a bad ass, thank you soooooooooo much, it just happened to me and now im on my way back to being fixed. thanks bro. ps by the way someone else said to the same thing basically but they said to press power as well, when i tried nothing...but without the power button pressed, worked...hell ya
Did not work at all... Accidentally I flashed my phone with a i9000 firmware tar file and now the phone is dead... can anyone tell me please how to save it? I don't have a phone at all
everyone just needs Download mode. access it whatever way you can same thing as recovery mode its just usually not that simple to get into using the multi-button methods. If all else fails to access download mode buy a team whiskey pre-made USB JIG. I havent purchased one but from the responses it seems like a good buy especially if you find yourself in a spot like most of you are in
mobileoneexpress said:
Did not work at all... Accidentally I flashed my phone with a i9000 firmware tar file and now the phone is dead... can anyone tell me please how to save it? I don't have a phone at all
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Define dead do any lights come on at all? Like on the bottom of your phone? If so then it's not that bad. try using the toolbox.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
There is a tutorial of every way to unbrick a vib in the Development section, that should help you out.
Help, when i was flashing with odin i accidentaly un plug the usb cable and now my phone doesnt even turn on, no lights, nothing, could anyone help me?
Image that you have a hardware locked vibrant and bricked !!
all the methods that was discussed about getting locked vibrant into recovery mode or even download mode has failed except the adb method which successfully got me to the download mode , I uploaded customized ROM and PIT in odin and that`s all the phone can`t be started not even showing battery bar or recognized by my laptop ..
does that mean it`s dead ??would it be covered by Samsung warranty ...
thanks in advance
as long as you can get to download mode it's never dead.. why would you flash a custom ROM immediately? try flashing a stock pit and tar 1st.. then once your recovered go to custom ROM
yea but my vibrant can`t be detected by PC so adb method wouldn`t work ....
I may try making a homemade JIG hoping it to force download mode ..
I know you said you try everything, but just incase, did you try turning on odin with stock pit and tar in, then plug in the usb, with the battery out. hold down volume + and - and then plug in the battery? Should bring you to "download mode" hit start. It work all the time for me. Sorry if you did try it, but it was just incase you havn't.
skaikey said:
I know you said you try everything, but just incase, did you try turning on odin with stock pit and tar in, then plug in the usb, with the battery out. hold down volume + and - and then plug in the battery? Should bring you to "download mode" hit start. It work all the time for me. Sorry if you did try it, but it was just incase you havn't.
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thanks for the reply , yes I did that .. but nothing happened .
I sent my phone to samsung today to fix it ...
Hello everyone,
I tried to hard reset my Vibrant phone using Odin but my PC crashes during the update and now I am unable to boot my phone and my PC don't recognize it, I have only this picture on my Vibrant even if I try the reboot with volume up+ volume down +power button
If someone can tell me how to fix it if I can.
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Sorry for the image, I cannot post an image directly.
I had this before. It's another form of Download mode... you just have to keep messing with the phone and USB until the computer recognized it, then ODIN back to stock. It should work.
Thanks for your advices, I succeed to get again into download mode thanks to this website :
androidforums.com/vibrant-tips-tricks/223806-guide-fixing-bricks-odin-errors.html
ok so i tryed to flash cm7 on my vibrant and now it starts up in recovery and says "E/cant mount sd card" also i cant flash back to stock from odin because there is no way to get to download mode and cant flash a new rom from recovery because i cant mount sd card. please help thanks
Pretty positive that message is normal.
Reboot.
i wish it was that easy but ive tried that bit doesnt help at all
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
i am having the same problem ...... but i dont want to leave cm7.......want to flash a kernel
ok thanks but when i try to put it in download mode the same wy you said it just boots up on the recovery and cant use my phone at all so thank but really need a working way asap haha
playonline53tms said:
ok thanks but when i try to put it in download mode the same wy you said it just boots up on the recovery and cant use my phone at all so thank but really need a working way asap haha
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If it's booting to recovery and not dl mode, you've done it wrong.
Make sure it's only vol + and vol - and then USB.
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nope i am doing it over and over it just goes to a cwm screen and says waiting for usb to mount
As it says in op on front page!!! make sure u can get into dl mode before flashing cm7! Could u get into dl mode before??? keep trying and if it doesnt work maybe a usb jig would work.
ill get one of those usb jigs lol but yes i could get into dl mode before
Phone charged up overnight, and after half an hour of listening to music, I noticed the battery had fallen to around 30%. I then rebooted the phone, but it did not boot up. Cannot seem to enter any recovery/download mode.
Rooted running the Omega ROM. Haven't done any modifications to it for a good couple of weeks. Any chance of salvation?
maybe the battery gone bad? did u try with other battery?
Maybe, but I forgot to mention i somehow entered emergency recovery mode earlier (once) which would suggest its not? How do you enter that mode?
i've heard of that emergency recovery mode, but never actually seen it or know exactly howto trigger it. try vol up+vol down+home+power
Thanks that worked.
Now in 'emergency dload mode (arm9 mode)'
Where do I go from here?
so hows that recovery looks like? got any menu selection like normal recovery such as wipe data etc? if got, try to wipe data.
Nope not like a recovery mode. All it is is the Samsung logo with the 'emergency dload mode' text...
frankly we all here doesnt know exactly what the purpose of that emergency recovery mode.
try to connect your phone with odin and see its detected. maybe u can flash stock rom from it.
if it doesnt work either, u can try to force the device into normal download mode and flash with odin. first take off the battery, wait for around 5 seconds, hold the three button combination for download mode and while u still hold those three buttons, reinsert the battery. it should go into download mode and u can flash stock rom via odin.
Thanks for help. Will give it a go, and let you know the results....
If it treat it like a normal download mode, am I right in thinking I just follow the normal procedure for flashing via ODIN?
Ie, follow this tutorial: http://acetips.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/upgrade-ace-odin/
MrKillers66 said:
If it treat it like a normal download mode, am I right in thinking I just follow the normal procedure for flashing via ODIN?
Ie, follow this tutorial: http://acetips.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/upgrade-ace-odin/
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yes.
freakin' xda wont allow short post
thanks.
managed to get it to display yellow 'downloading' text. Can't find a link for drivers though? Think its them I'm missing as ODIN won't detect it...
MrKillers66 said:
thanks.
managed to get it to display yellow 'downloading' text. Can't find a link for drivers though? Think its them I'm missing as ODIN won't detect it...
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doload samsung kies and install
herpderp © aint got money to pay to my fish
MrKillers66 said:
thanks.
managed to get it to display yellow 'downloading' text. Can't find a link for drivers though? Think its them I'm missing as ODIN won't detect it...
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http://hotfile.com/dl/141204140/576b45c/SAMSUNG_Mobile_Phones_USB_Driver.rar.html
if its asking for pass, its
Code:
samfirmware.com
Does anyone knows where to buy a motherboard for gt n7000
Got drives and firmware downloaded. But ODIN won't recognise my phone? Any suggestions?
Odin won't flash phones that in Emergency download mode.
Have you tried normal download mode?
P.S: Emergency Dload mode = Vol Up + Vol Down + Menu + Power
Nomal dload mode: Vol Down + menu + power
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Thanks for everyones help.
Managed to get it to the 'downloading' text, where I eventually managed to flash a stock ROM via ODIN, so I'm now unrooted.
Problem still remains where it won't boot up without being plugged into a power source, so taking it back tomorrow. I believe the battery somehow died and may have taken something else down with it...