[Q] Bricked S5830 ! Abnormal brick mode ... - Galaxy Ace S5830 General

Hi guys and gals !
So a few days ago i rooted/flashed my friends s5830 regular way and uploaded VillainRom, yesterday he came by my house for he has tried to upload LucaRomv2 by using Rom Manager.
As a result the phone stays dead at "Samsung" logo on regular boot, altough if we plug it in the pc it will detect the modem, sd card(not acessing it for it must have usb debugging enabled) and all, just the screen that doesnt pass "Samsung" logo.
So the logical next step is if we have communication is to press the magic buttons VOL- + Home + power ON, and it does work for it goes to download mode, the only problem is has soon has i plug it on my VM (VBox 4.0) it just spits out usb error on VBox and does not connect.
I have tried all combinations Volume+ (flash mode) all enters, its just that when i plug it to VM it spits out an error.
I can even enter recovery mode by HOME+POWER (and for the looks of the register that show when i enter it it complains it cant find /data, /cache .... so my guess is Bootloader is still ok has it enters all these modes and just need to re-upload rom(basically the os)
So leading to usb error in VM i prompted to fully test my VMUSB everything works ok connecting it (storage drive, my vodafone smart, usb cam) and even the s5830 itself while on regular usb connection. This has worked ok before for this is the computer/vm i used it to flash it originally.
Just to relief up i will try the following today:
Clean format a physical computer with winxp and try do the process without VM in the middle
Should i make the usb jig with 301K ? Has anyone actually tried usb jig on ace ? Whats different from this mode to regular vol- + home + power ? From what it seems its factory download mode i guess, an alternative bloader.
In case of JTAG needed does anyone have flash specs ? I mean offsets and such ... i have access to JTAG tools here at work, just a matter of pinout and see if cpu/flash supported.
What is your general opinion about this ?
I have launched this thread for i have not found any info on this kind of situation, people usually have fully bricked (black screen) or can still access download mode and communicate with pc, i have not found similar characteristics.
Thank you !!

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Did your friend a wipe after flashing the rom? If not then go to recovery and wipe Dalvik cache - cache and Data/factory reset.
If this doesn't work put the phone in Download Mode and flash with Odin and after this make a wipe.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16699494

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steini81: I dont know exactly what he did, i have tried to wipe it via recovery manager but still no go, it still complains on missing mounts /data /cache .... as for flashing with odin i can start download mode on the phone but has soon has i connect it on the usb port of the computer it just gives out an error and does not go online.
Lovetz: I already read that post, the difference is i still can go to download mode, my problem is when i plug on pc it doesn´t go thats why i opened another thread.
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Maybe it´s just Virtualbox playing it´s pranks with async usb, can only eliminate this chance later on for i dont have the sga with me.

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how about using a different machine? a machine with the drivers from Kies..

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Try it on a Windows PC with Odin and Kies Drivers installed.
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Mundix: I´m already using skeys drivers, tried killing processes and not killing them, but this subject goes further then that because i think i have usb connectivity issues, now, it worked ok when i first flashed this device maybe something corrupted my usb1/2 modules for virtualbox (btw running debain squeeze-> virtualbox -> xpsp3, with full usb 2.0 extension loaded (already tried only usb 1.0 only has it has helped before on the first flash). Plus all usb devices work ok, including the samsung itself on "normal" boot so i dont know, maybe has its a raw dump vbox doesnt like it Later on i will format a computer with xpsp3, load skeys, odin and start from there,so basically you agree with my point
Steini81: yeps thats what im gonna do, but i do not use any windows machines all obsd/debian at home and work so ... only virtual, i´ll grab an old borrowed laptop and format it just for this.
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Once again i just opened the thread because i havent found anyone with same situation, either its fully bricked or they can usb plugin. No post until now for usb download mode crash. I will follow up here maybe it might help someone in the future, or will confirm brick altough bloader boots and phone detected on "normal" mode.

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Mizaiko said:
Mundix: I´m already using skeys drivers, tried killing processes and not killing them, but this subject goes further then that because i think i have usb connectivity issues, now, it worked ok when i first flashed this device maybe something corrupted my usb1/2 modules for virtualbox (btw running debain squeeze-> virtualbox -> xpsp3, with full usb 2.0 extension loaded (already tried only usb 1.0 only has it has helped before on the first flash). Plus all usb devices work ok, including the samsung itself on "normal" boot so i dont know, maybe has its a raw dump vbox doesnt like it Later on i will format a computer with xpsp3, load skeys, odin and start from there,so basically you agree with my point
Steini81: yeps thats what im gonna do, but i do not use any windows machines all obsd/debian at home and work so ... only virtual, i´ll grab an old borrowed laptop and format it just for this.
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Once again i just opened the thread because i havent found anyone with same situation, either its fully bricked or they can usb plugin. No post until now for usb download mode crash. I will follow up here maybe it might help someone in the future, or will confirm brick altough bloader boots and phone detected on "normal" mode.
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My sister's Backflip had a similar issue . All I did was to wipe EVERYTHING then reflash .
Sent from my Awesome Ace with fla.sh ROM and TAPATALK

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SOLVED !
1 st Run:
Clean XPSP3 *Laptop* - "Unrecognized USB device ...", exactly has ocurring in VM.
No go.
2 nd Run:
USB JIG (tried 299K, 300K, 301K and 302K accurate resistors 1% tolerance) followed by above method.
No go.
3 rd Run:
Load WIN7PRO on a desktop for s-kies was giving problems with framework4 on XPSP3.
No go. "Unrecognized usb ..." just like on the laptop with XPSP3
Thats when it hit me, "some" devices(MODEM, STORAGE) load ok, odin driver does not, so it does have partial usb communication, this made me go way back in time when i had a USB MSI WIFI that would only work stable under USB 1.0 and was buggy under 2.0, so ...
Step 1 - Take the dust out that powered USB 1.0 Hub from drawer;
Step 2 - Make pigtail from internal desktop 12Vcc to power usb hub for Vcc stability
for power supply been lost like 4 house moves ago(yes i could go external powerless but ... just in case);
Step 3 - Cook a good home meal and mix it with some fine red wine;
Step 4 - Hook up usb hub, let win7 install, hook up SGA while on DOWNLOAD MODE (Vol- + Home + Power) and you can have the batery installed, no need to hot plug it, connect to usb hub.
Step 5 - Be amazed has it detects "Odin" has a new device and Odin square turns yellow just waiting for you to press start ...
*Personal Note : Do not stand up quickly after step 3 !
Now, the funny thing is if i move the USB 1.0 HUB to the XP SP3 Laptop its also a go, same results for in my Virtualbox install. Notice i tried it on 2 physical/1 virtual computer under VBOX4.
In conclusion:
If your SGA still boots to "samsung" and lets you get in Download/Flash/Recovery but gives out an USB communication errors, but still installs some devices like MODEM/Storage, all of this after a run from ROM MANAGER, please *DO* try to put an usb 1.0 hub between your computer and your SGA.
At this moment it works like a charm and i´ve just uploaded coderom.v2x-02, altough if i remove the USB HUB its back on the same problem, trough the hub it works ok aside i have 1.0 transfer speeds ...
Now, some help on debugging, arent there any logs on the system i could analyse? Should i dump trough JTAG ? What could of happened so that it has this symptom now ?
Anyways thanks for those who tried to help, just hope this helps someone in the future !