Guide: How to fix a bricked SGSII from failed flash, no recovery & no usb recogntion
Now Fixed. - Thanks: Below is the guide to how I broke and fixed it with a little help from my XDA Friends. Maybe the MODS could sticky it as a unbrick guide to go alongside the rest?
So I was flashing a ROM through Odin as per the instructions on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
The flash failed and when I restarted my phone I was left with the following:
1)No Access to Recovery Mode through Vol Up + Home + Power
2)Access to Download Mode through Vol Dwn + Home + Power
3)PC would recognise a device was connected on any USB port but kies or Odin Could not detect the phone
4)when phone started or attempted to be put into rec mode just a splash screen saying firmware upgrade failed and a picture of a phone and pc with a yellow warning triangle.
The Cure:
1)Uninistal and Re-Install Kies and Samsung Mobile Device Driver
2)Pureley by accident left my phone connected on flash screen of death through the process and on loading ODIN it connected perfectly right away
3)Set PDA to ROM and flashed.
4)Reflashed as per normal routine again due to boot loop this time in download mode.
5)Factory Reset via Recovery Mode to force CSC update to match ROM
6)*When it arrives use USB jig to re-set flash counter to 0*
Step 2 is not advised as goes against what all the instructions say, please try download mode before this method I don't know if it was just luck I didn't further mess up the phone, but to be honest bar screwing my IMEI it couldn't get much worse! And as I said I found it by accident and it worked. Don't know if anyone has an explanation. From the message on the screen and what I read on Kies ref the emergency recovery I think this is a kind of emergency download mode for when stuff goes wrong as it hints kies can fix it from this screen.
I tried to flash the 02 2.3.5 file from the carrier branded thread, followed all instructions. File was a .tar.md5 i left as is as per instructions.
the flash failed when the phone powers up i get upgrade failed, I can get to download mode but odin doesn't recognise the phone as being connected ive tried multiple usb ports
kies also wont recognise it
i cant access recovery mode
is there any way back?
ive read most of the other posts but don't seem to be getting anywhere other than fustrated!
In kies there's an option to install drivers, try that first and see if it'll find the phone again.
kies
no joy that root, the pc knows its there as every port i plug into it wants to install drivers for device and does so
Remove Samsung Kies from phone and reinstall it and try again .
jje
Cheers will report back, what i don't get is why i cant get to recovery mode would make things easier! Can a jig do this? If i try i just get the failed update screen
I also get same. Screeb when plugged into charger does thos mean its not even charging?
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My god you guys are amazing! Uninstalled reinstalled kies then conected phone not in download node but on the failure screen odin connected right away and flashed perfectly its alive again thnx sooooo much
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Jig ordered jig worked one reset flash count
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my phone doesn't turn on anymore...and my jig doesn't work to turn on it in download mode... battery is full I check it with tester voltage. Can somebody help me??? my phone is die!!!!
cyberspaceguy said:
my phone doesn't turn on anymore...and my jig doesn't work to turn on it in download mode... battery is full I check it with tester voltage. Can somebody help me??? my phone is die!!!!
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Service Centre .
jje
DAMN
I really wish I saw this 2 weeks ago
Its stuck in the warranty repair centre, I dont expect it to be fixed, so will try this soon when it comes back !
Lol i spent ages reading multiple posts about bricked phones nothing seemed to be working do asked, someone suggested the kies reinstall, then by accident i deviated slightly from instructions in terms of not disconnecting phone and leaving it on brick screen and it happened to work
Alot of people flame for posters asking previous questions but these guys were really helpful to me.
Ask and xda will provide
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this just happened to me..luckily sprint gave me a new phone after 2 days for no charge at all..
Odin was not recognizing my phone... than I followed your instructions and unninstaled kies and samsung usb drivers.
turned usb debbuging mode ON...
turn off phone
put the phone in download mode (hold volUP, home, power)
AND WHEN I INSTALLED KIES WITH THE USB PLUGGED IN THE PHONE, WINDOWS INSTALLED THE DRIVERS AND I FLASHED THE FIRMWARE I WANNED WITH ODIN
MANNY THANKS
Glad it worked hopefully this will get sticky
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4)when phone started or attempted to be put into rec mode just a splash screen saying firmware upgrade failed and a picture of a phone and pc with a yellow warning triangle.
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On that screen, the phone is effectively in Download Mode already.
Just connect Odin and flash away, did it on my phone a lot of times already (I sometimes forcefully enable this screen manually - don't ask why - and always flashed directely from there.)
Thanks for that i didnt realise till after I'd flashed that this was still download mode, i was still in flappy panic "dude i bust my phone " mode. Still trying to find out why windows ****s up the drivers when the flash bins out
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Why don't people use mobile Odin?
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i was previously using this rom, [ROM][MIUI][21/10] cMIUI 2.10.19 [4.1.2][AOSP][OTA][Aroma][Multi][Super Stable] and tried to flash it back to the stock rom (DXLPB).
i used odin to flash it back and apparently the operation failed and i got into the screen where it shows the "firmware upgrade had encountered an issue...." message.
when i tried flashing the rom again the operation always fail because the usb keeps disconnecting every 20 seconds and connecting again.
so i tried flashing the rooting file ( the one that i used to flash in odin in order for it to root ) and this time my phone went into recovery mode.
i cleared the cache and wipe the phone data and rebooted it.
apparently the phone doesnt go into any screen anymore other then the empty battery icon when i plug it into the com. if i unplug it, the phone will be stuck in the same screen until i take out the battery.
usb is not detected, odin not detected also.
i cant switch it to download or recovery mode either.
i tried using the heimdel package but it wouldnt work because the phone cant be detected either
is there anyway to save my phone??
please help! thanks in advance.
i tried getting it into download mode and the screen shows "LOW BATTERY!! CAN'T DOWNLOAD!" screen. unfortunately, i cant seems to charge my phone also. plug into the pc and charger for hours, doesnt seem to charge. its not the cable's fault. i got many cables, tried all of them. any help??
Try another battery (best charged). If you have an old backup use it.
My phone is not restarting. I am using a Samsung Vibrant T959.
I really love the phone since it a gift from my sister and I hope i can fix it. It had no issues, with a stock 2.1 firmware, but last month I installed ICS on my phone after which I started receiving me errors.I guess the ICS version i installed was not very stable. Usually restarting the phone would fix the problems and I would be good to go. However last evening when I got the error I restarted the phone 2 times but I would still receive the errors. The 3rd time I restarted it, the phone got stuck on the animation screen and did not boot.
I tried the recovery mode and it worked fine.
I took a backup of my data using the USB debugging mode of the phone.
Since I was irritated with this version of ICS i tried to root my phone using Odin.
Odin failed. The phone was stuck on the downloading screen for some time so i disconnected the phone from my computer and now the phone will not start.
It does not boot, it does not go the recovery mode nor the download mode. when I press the power button or the three buttons (volumn and power) together the screen shows a mobile phone a computer and a disconnect between the three (Phone ! PC sign).
I do not know how to fix it. Any help on this would be appreciated.
Closing this thread so that your duplicate can progress.
This happened once before, when I tried updating my phone to ICS. Here's a little background info. I've got a SGH-i727 (AT&T GS 2 Skyrocket). I hook my phone up to Kies, which surprisingly recognizes my phone and says it has an update. I had 4.0.4 originally. I hit update and it downloads the update and while installing it gets stuck at 1% and freezes and eventually Kies says update failed.
Right now I'm stuck at the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." I can't access download mode (volume up/and down and power button) or (volume up/down and connect usb cord when phone is off). Eventually both take me back to the Firware upgrade encountered screen, with the big yellow triangle that always shows up.
The last time this happened, when upgrading to ICS, by some miracle Kies actually recognized my soft-bricked phone and I was able to apply the recovery upgrade. But I can't for the life of me get Kies to recognize it this time. I've literally tried uninstalling and reinstalling and then restarting at every step in between.
I would use Odin software, but I have a mac. I really need help on this.
Helo guys,
I tryed to change my smashed screen and with the new one it turned off after 20 seconds. I tryed to go from 4.4 to 4.2 in order to repair the bug.
I pu the phone in download mode and charged the root file bu after a time it disconect from usb by mistake.
Now the phone doesn't starts at all.
When I contect it to the PC throug usb cable the PC makes a sound as it detects the phone, but the phone its dead. Nothing works.
Odin dosen't recognized.
Is it dead? Can I do anything to make it work? Boot from sd? something?
It does not even appear to charge the battery. Nothing.
Thanks!