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I think I've bricked my Galaxy S II.. I got it yesterday and tried to flash 2.3.5. When I was flashing with Odin, the program went unresponsive and crashed. There was nothing else to do but take out the battery.. I shouldn't have done it, but I did. And now it won't turn on at all. I've tried the 3 button method, for download mode, and a jig from my old i9000. Nothing has worked. The screen wont even turn on. I don't know what to do... Help Please??
you need a jtag.If it wont go into download or recovery its gone.
What do you, Jtag? I've got a usb jig, does that work? Or are they the same thing?
*What do you mean
aren't jigs phone-specific?
Any new info on this? Did jtag worked or whatever. I keep eye on this thread but looks like OP disappeared. Genuinely curious what happened with the phone.
Hmm .. very wierd that phone wont turn on ... i have broken Odin flashes purposedly many times myself but always I can get back into it ...
You could try power drain ... remove battery ... press power on button for 10 seconds (WITHOUT BATTERY IN) ... now put battery back in and try to go into Download mode.
Sorry but i got busy with other stuff but wanted to explain to him about the JTag.Its a special box called a RiffBox JTag and what it does is basically wipes the motherboard/bootloader and in most phones repears the bootloader aswell of a fully bricked phone so it can be put into download mode again letting you re-flash via Odin and thus saving your phone.A little miracle that means no more bricked phones.There doesnt seem to be that many around and to buy they aint cheap at all but if you can find a dealer or a phone shop who has one they can do it for you.For example.I bicked my phone and was going to buy the box on ebay.es imported (in spain there isnt any for sale) for 160euros complete or 140 without cables.Searched this site:
http://www.jtagbox.com/riff-jtag-bo...s-unbrick-bricked-phone-riff-box-owners-list/
and found a shop in Barcelona who did it for me for 35euros plus postage "BARGIN!!!!".If you search youtube and google for RiffboxJtag in your country you should find someone with a unit willing to help out or check the link ive given as it has a list of users worldwide.
EDIT:A jig is not a JTag.A jig will boot your SEMI-BRICKED(phone showing some kind of life ex.classic icon of phone/arrow/computor,menu and back arrow lights work e.t.c.) phone into download mode.A FULLY-BRICKED(dead,no signs of life.wont start.no download,recovery,lights nothing.DEAD!!!) phone needs a JTag
@cooza , Thanks for that explanation and site I even found one near me, that some day might come handy.
I must ask now to further clear my doubts, this riffjtag box, like you said is able to "revive" or "unbrick" _any_ bricked SGS2? No matter how bad is it? Im kinda new around these things and trying to suck up as much info/knowledge possible, before I decide to flash/root/?brick? xD haha ( hope not for last one) my phone.
Devourz said:
@cooza , Thanks for that explanation and site I even found one near me, that some day might come handy.
I must ask now to further clear my doubts, this riffjtag box, like you said is able to "revive" or "unbrick" _any_ bricked SGS2? No matter how bad is it? Im kinda new around these things and trying to suck up as much info/knowledge possible, before I decide to flash/root/?brick? xD haha ( hope not for last one) my phone.
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Hi.As i said before there are semi and hard bricked phones.A semi bricked phone can normally be booted into download mode with the 3 button combo or a jig and your away again.It has the usuall symbol of a phone and a PC with a warning sign in the middle of them.Hard bricked is when the bootloader is damaged and there is basically no return.You got yourself a very expensive paper-weight for the office desk.Its like trying to turn on your phone with no battery in it.Dead,gone and not coming back.Before the Riffbox the only solution was the rubbish bin or maybe change the motherboard(but a few years ago that was an extremely pricey task if possible).Now we have the box.You can screw you phone to the point of no return and still the box will bring it back to life as it wipes the motherboard and in the case of the SGS2 also repears the damaged bootloader which is what boots your phone to start with.One thing to know,and i dont know if it happens to everyone but mine came back with 2.3.3 installed but there was no recovery mode.If this happens all you have to do is re-flash via Odin a more reciente firmware WITHOUT PIT FILE and yourll get recovery mode back at reboot.Obviously youll need to plug in your phone before hand to re-install the drivers.Same with Odin.boot to download,plug in,installs,unplug,then open Odin and flash.
EDIT:yourve got my name there so if something ever happens and you need a hand to re-flash after a jtag just send me a private message.Here to help.
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I think I've bricked my Galaxy S II.. I got it yesterday and tried to flash 2.3.5. When I was flashing with Odin, the program went unresponsive and crashed. There was nothing else to do but take out the battery.. I shouldn't have done it, but I did. And now it won't turn on at all. I've tried the 3 button method, for download mode, and a jig from my old i9000. Nothing has worked. The screen wont even turn on. I don't know what to do... Help Please??
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im not juding you...but next time is better to flash with CWM.
Odin only for root kernel...
cooza said:
Hi.As i said before there are semi and hard bricked phones.A semi bricked phone can normally be booted into download mode with the 3 button combo or a jig and your away again.It has the usuall symbol of a phone and a PC with a warning sign in the middle of them.Hard bricked is when the bootloader is damaged and there is basically no return.You got yourself a very expensive paper-weight for the office desk.Its like trying to turn on your phone with no battery in it.Dead,gone and not coming back.Before the Riffbox the only solution was the rubbish bin or maybe change the motherboard(but a few years ago that was an extremely pricey task if possible).Now we have the box.You can screw you phone to the point of no return and still the box will bring it back to life as it wipes the motherboard and in the case of the SGS2 also repears the damaged bootloader which is what boots your phone to start with.One thing to know,and i dont know if it happens to everyone but mine came back with 2.3.3 installed but there was no recovery mode.If this happens all you have to do is re-flash via Odin a more reciente firmware WITHOUT PIT FILE and yourll get recovery mode back at reboot.Obviously youll need to plug in your phone before hand to re-install the drivers.Same with Odin.boot to download,plug in,installs,unplug,then open Odin and flash.
EDIT:yourve got my name there so if something ever happens and you need a hand to re-flash after a jtag just send me a private message.Here to help.
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Thank you mate! I am getting my SGS2 this week so ive been doing alot of reading and research about everything. Thanks for your contribution and kind offer to help if ever comes to that. Very appreciated.
No worries mate.truth is its very hard to fully hard-brick an i9100.The main thing to watch out for,and its a mistake that first-time users/flashers have done,is to flash there i9100 phones with i9000 firmware by mistake.An SGS is not an SGS2 and if they are mixed you WILL hard-brick your device.Here on XDA everything is clearly marked and on their right pages so you cant go wrong if you take your time dont rush-in.But just in case you havnt seen it heres the thread:
Firmwares:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
CF-Root Kernels: (if you feel the need)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399
Hi, dont bother faffing with it mate, if you have only had it a day take it back and tell them it wouldnt boot after an automatic Kies update. If they cant turn it on they wont know you bricked it until it gets back to the factory and to be honest after selling 10 million of these babies they wont even bother checking it out, they'll just put it into spares or straight recondition it.
I did the same thing to my xoom, PC world couldnt turn it on so they just gave me another.
I bricked my phone with the ICS 4.0.4 firmware
Recovered using the PIT file
i9100_u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4-patched-standard
So the phone booted, and I lost 2 gb of internal sd space, as expected.
But why am I not able to copy anything to the internal SD card?? Copying to ext sd is ok.. If I connect to the pc to copy to int sd the phone freezes..
Sometimes it freeze while downloading apps or opening apps.. Why? Can also freeze if I open the camera app..
A brilliant xda member helped me recover the phone.. Thanks to XDA forum and its members..
Jst wanted to knw if anyone have encountered such a problem, and know the reason for the freeze
Pls help
Same her man,i have bricked my phone with 4.0.4 lq5 and full wipe with cwm recovery. Than i flashed ums bricked pit ext4 becouse standard pached pit wont bot rom. Now my phone is working but have freazes when instaling apps and games. Best working is on android 2.3.5 . I am waiting if ther any solutions for that problem . I have tried twice flashing pits to repair problem but then my phone is hardbricked and i have then go to repair shop and worked jtag,after jtag same thing phone only bots with ums bricked pit????
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vislavskid said:
Same her man,i have bricked my phone with 4.0.4 lq5 and full wipe with cwm recovery. Than i flashed ums bricked pit ext4 becouse standard pached pit wont bot rom. Now my phone is working but have freazes when instaling apps and games. Best working is on android 2.3.5 . I am waiting if ther any solutions for that problem . I have tried twice flashing pits to repair problem but then my phone is hardbricked and i have then go to repair shop and worked jtag,after jtag same thing phone only bots with ums bricked pit????
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Try to completely restore Stock Rom (doesnt matter if its Gb ir Ics) and get rid of any clues it has ever been tempered with. Then send it to Samsung for warrany repair.
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boki9999 said:
Try to completely restore Stock Rom (doesnt matter if its Gb ir Ics) and get rid of any clues it has ever been tempered with. Then send it to Samsung for warrany repair.
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But i dont have warranity ???
How? The warranty is 2 years and the phone has been out about a year and half, maybe less.
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Well i have byed used phone and i dont have waranity. I am asking to any solutions for my problem not for waranity problems...
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saiyanajay said:
I bricked my phone with the ICS 4.0.4 firmware
Recovered using the PIT file
i9100_u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4-patched-standard
So the phone booted, and I lost 2 gb of internal sd space, as expected.
But why am I not able to copy anything to the internal SD card?? Copying to ext sd is ok.. If I connect to the pc to copy to int sd the phone freezes..
Sometimes it freeze while downloading apps or opening apps.. Why? Can also freeze if I open the camera app..
A brilliant xda member helped me recover the phone.. Thanks to XDA forum and its members..
Jst wanted to knw if anyone have encountered such a problem, and know the reason for the freeze
Pls help
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how about factroy reset?
I have tried factory reset but same thing
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don't think anything can be done in all honesty
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How? The warranty is 2 years and the phone has been out about a year and half, maybe less.
Sent from my Galaxy S2 GT i9100
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The warranty is for one year
So replacing the motherboard is the only solution I guess
How did you manage to boot the bricked phone and load the pit file? jtag? Thanks
saiyanajay said:
I bricked my phone with the ICS 4.0.4 firmware
Recovered using the PIT file
i9100_u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4-patched-standard
So the phone booted, and I lost 2 gb of internal sd space, as expected.
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Help us!
Before I recovery my Galaxy S2 from emmc brick, when i download an app or anything my phone freezy. I'm crazy . I found a forum which looks will help us. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1760107
Somebody who knows how to use this tutorial, please put step by step here or post a new tread.
Thanks for all anyway
Hello , I had the same problem , I searched a lot ,but It seems that the only solution is to replace the motherboard.
BUT:
I have tried many roms , I found that cm10 , cm10.1 is working very well , with no freeze . try cyanogenmod
Lol, everyone that soft bricks their devices thinks that it's eMMc's bug.
And I dunno why everybody loves to dance with pit files.
Monsters never scared me, pit files do.
gastonw said:
Lol, everyone that soft bricks their devices thinks that it's eMMc's bug.
And I dunno why everybody loves to dance with pit files.
Monsters never scared me, pit files do.
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Yeah and everyone who simply cant get system partition to boot seem to think their device is "soft" bricked.
No such thing as a soft-brick. Your device is either bricked or it isnt, ie when you need to JTAG flash or motherboard replace. Anything less, ie when you can simply just re-flash a kernel or rom via download/recovery is not bricked in any way.
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Yeah and everyone who simply cant get system partition to boot seem to think their device is "soft" bricked.
No such thing as a soft-brick. Your device is either bricked or it isnt, ie when you need to JTAG flash or motherboard replace. Anything less, ie when you can simply just re-flash a kernel or rom via download/recovery is not bricked in any way.
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I think we had this conversation before....went something like...this:
Your statement:
Bricked Phone: useless phone.
Non Bricked Phone: working phone/system failure/whatever phone has got that can be reverted.
Unbrick: Something that is accomplished by a riff box jtag or mobo replacement.
Mine (and a whole lotta people):
Bricked phone / hard bricked phone: Dead man, dead.
Soft-bricked phone: system failure/whatever phone has got that can be reverted.
Unbrick: revert the system issues making it work properly, re partition, riff box jtag or mobo replacement or whatever that brings the phone back to life.
As you can see, we are talking about the same, we only brand it with different names.
Now, the thing is that we call it a brick because we can't use it, and judging by the device's wheight we call it a brick, it's got brick's uses only.
Same applies to Soft brick, that stands for Software bricks, an unusable software , that without of people wanting to help other people (here at xda and forums alike) would became either bricks or just a service center scam ( giving them the possibility to say "You must have dropped it, we changed the hardware and it costs $ 250").
Same happens with the unbrick concept. Tell me, as you are being "technical", how in gods name do you unbrick a brick? what, you apply some glue?
Exactly, makes no sense, that's why we call it a metaphor.
wouldn't you agree now?
No.
Bricked is when you need extra hardware to repair problem other then standard USB cable. ie new motherboard or riff box/jtag connection. If you can simply boot device and re-flash something by normal means there is nothing wrong with your device and PEBCAK, and is not "bricked".
"soft-brick" is just a term coined by n00bs who find it easier to use the term when they screw system up somehow and cant get partition to boot or have boot loop etc etc. Only reason its used allot is because we have many many n00bs on here and the term has simply stuck.
The term "bricked" is used far too loosely noways.
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No.
Bricked is when you need extra hardware to repair problem other then standard USB cable. ie new motherboard or riff box/jtag connection. If you can simply boot device and re-flash something by normal means there is nothing wrong with your device and PEBCAK, and is not "bricked".
"soft-brick" is just a term coined by n00bs who find it easier to use the term when they screw system up somehow and cant get partition to boot or have boot loop etc etc. Only reason its used allot is because we have many many n00bs on here and the term has simply stuck.
The term "bricked" is used far too loosely noways.
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Yeah, I meantioned what you thought about that term in my previous post, here, let me get auto quoted:
gastonw said:
Your statement:
Bricked Phone: useless phone.
Non Bricked Phone: working phone/system failure/whatever phone has got that can be reverted.
Unbrick: Something that is accomplished by a riff box jtag or mobo replacement. HENCE THIRD PARTY INVOLVED
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I'm sticking with the Soft-Brick term, It's just so cool to use.
Guess I'm a noob then....hold on a sec...I am a noob, first flashed Dec, 19 2012.
So, nothing new here, oh yes, unbrick term is missing.
Let me know when you think of a non-loose answer for that.
I'd really like to see a brick become unbrick (explained with technicalities).
Lol, if we get thru this, the next thing we all gonna be arguing about is english language.
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Yeah, I meantioned what you thought about that term in my previous post, here, let me get auto quoted:
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I'm sticking with the Soft-Brick term, It's just so cool to use.
Guess I'm a noob then....hold on a sec...I am a noob, first flashed Dec, 19 2012.
So, nothing new here, oh yes, unbrick term is missing.
Let me know when you think of a non-loose answer for that.
I'd really like to see a brick become unbrick (explained with technicalities).
Lol, if we get thru this, the next thing we all gonna be arguing about is english language.
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The term "bricked" has always meant same on XDA, Its only these past few years when smartphones have become more popular with mainstream public and XDA has had a huge flood of n00bs screaming "hey I haz bricked me fone " that terms like "soft-bricked" has come into play because n00bs kept thinking their device was bricked when it was simply a bad flash or system had problems booting etc.
Bricked is when your phone cannot be used/flashed without extra hardware like when you corrupt your bootloader for example.
A "unbrick" would be when you use this extra hardware to resolve issue with your device.
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The term "bricked" has always meant same on XDA, Its only these past few years when smartphones have become more popular with mainstream public and XDA has had a huge flood of n00bs screaming "hey I haz bricked me fone " that terms like "soft-bricked" has come into play because n00bs kept thinking their device was bricked when it was simply a bad flash or system had problems booting etc.
Bricked is when your phone cannot be used/flashed without extra hardware like when you corrupt your bootloader for example.
A "unbrick" would be when you use this extra hardware to resolve issue with your device.
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Following that reasoning PC should be consider considered extra hardware.
As I said before, we are talking about the same thing here, we only call it differently.
Hello
I have a question to do with the jtag, actually a couple of questions.
So here is what happened:
I have (or had :crying: ) an samsung galaxy s2 and I think I have hard bricked it, don't know how tough. I was prompted to download the updates for the apps i have on the play store, afterwards i came across an error saying something like 'failed to install'. And after that everything started crashing, so i thought a restart would do the trick and fix it. So i left it for about 5 minutes and the it still hasn't shut down, so the best thing i could think of was to take out the battery, afterwards i couldn't turn it on(No vibration, screen was black) I have tried the usb jig and failed (either because i was using Stock ICS or probably because the bootloader has been messed up somehow), So the last thing i could try is to send it off to a company near my area who jtag phones(already found one).
The cost is not that big so it doesn't really matter to me (only £25) and im about 99.9% sure that i will do this, but i just want to know a couple things to be sure before i send it off to be jtagged.
1. Does my whole phone memory get deleted in the process?
2. Will a jtag solve my problem?
3. After the riff box or something other has finished jtagging my phone, will i be able to use the phone normally and be able to flash roms?
4. Does jtagging affect anything else other than the software (bootloader,modem etc....) ?
5. Will jtagging my phone bring any thing extra (except the fact that it will work :3 )?
And also i am not really worried if it don't ever work any more because i do have any other sgs2 that i can use but having 2 would be better for my personal use ( long story about why). Any answers will be appreciated. And sorry if i posted this in the wrong sub-forum but i guess it is mostly questions so i think i got it right.
Thanks
If you haven't rooted or installed a custom rom, send it for warranty repair. No need for Jtag.
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boki9999 said:
If you haven't rooted or installed a custom rom, send it for warranty repair. No need for Jtag.
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i have rooted and installed custom rom's on it many times, but i have reset my flash counter using some program by an xda dev. i dont seem to have a warranty and i'm willing to pay £25 for the jtag so that i don't have to wait long for my phone to be back where it belongs i just want to know a couple of things before i send it off
Well, as far as I know, Jtag brings your phone back into clean factory working state. And I think the entire memory is wiped.
A new bootloader is installed as well since the phone cant be booted. When the bootloader is screwed, the phone is bricked beyond repair for the user. Everything stock is installed, similar to flashing stock rom.
After that you can flash roms again like nothing happened.
And Jtag doesnt bring anything else than a working phone.
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boki9999 said:
Well, as far as I know, Jtag brings your phone back into clean factory working state. And I think the entire memory is wiped.
A new bootloader is installed as well since the phone cant be booted. When the bootloader is screwed, the phone is bricked beyond repair for the user. Everything stock is installed, similar to flashing stock rom.
After that you can flash roms again like nothing happened.
And Jtag doesnt bring anything else than a working phone.
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Thanks for the answer, i was hoping it wouldn't wipe the memory (Internal 16gb that i have) because i have data on it that would be useful for me but as long as i get this phone working i'm happy Thnaks again
Well, you could ask the serviceman what could be done with the data...
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I asked but no luck :L, because of how jtagging is done there is no way of retrieving the memory its self. Now i know to always use external SD cards. I still don't get how it happened though since i wasn't flashing anything and haven't flashed anything for the past 2-3 months
Hi all,ok i have had a rooted samsung galaxy s3 i1900 for the last 8 mths and dont no what is going on but last nite it decided to switch itself of and stay stuck on the Samsung logo boot up screen, ive tried all the obvious like a soft/hard reset and taking the battery out and trying to put into recovery mode, but it doesnt want to no , also even when i plug in mains charger im getting no red light to say its charging, so before i take back to vodafone can i just make sure it is bricked and there is nonthing i can do, vodafone said yes they will send of to samsung for repair free of charge as its still under the 12 mth warranty, only reason im posting this is to definately check there is nonthing else i can try with the help from other members on here, many thanks and hope to hear soon from brian..
can you boot it into download mode?
If you can still access recovery then it isn't a dead motherboard, probably the system partition is corrupt which a reflash of the ROM will solve - or go for the warranty repair. The rooting shouldn't invalidate the warranty.
Thankyou
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If you can still access recovery then it isn't a dead motherboard, probably the system partition is corrupt which a reflash of the ROM will solve - or go for the warranty repair. The rooting shouldn't invalidate the warranty.
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Hi all and no cant even get into download mode !! looks like a trip back to mobile shop so they can send it of..
that's the only solution
Hey guys !
Well...
Yesterday, I decided to flash a new ROM on my aunt's SII...
It wasn't the first time I did this : my own phones have all been flashed, I know how it works !
But... I got a problem ! While I was wiping the data/cache, the phone got stuck on this step. Then, shut down. And now, it doesn't boot anymore. Screen stays black. I did everything I found on the web : tried to boot on recovery and on download mode, tried to press the buttons to get into these modes and inserting the battery while pressing, tried to connect it on USB (not even detected)...
After some researches, I found out that it was a eMMC problem...
Anyway, in a nutshell, my phone is hard bricked. What can I do ?
Thanks.
rohecla said:
Hey guys !
Well...
Yesterday, I decided to flash a new ROM on my aunt's SII...
It wasn't the first time I did this : my own phones have all been flashed, I know how it works !
But... I got a problem ! While I was wiping the data/cache, the phone got stuck on this step. Then, shut down. And now, it doesn't boot anymore. Screen stays black. I did everything I found on the web : tried to boot on recovery and on download mode, tried to press the buttons to get into these modes and inserting the battery while pressing, tried to connect it on USB (not even detected)...
After some researches, I found out that it was a eMMC problem...
Anyway, in a nutshell, my phone is hard bricked. What can I do ?
Thanks.
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what stock firmware version was the Phone when u did the wipe from recovery (if it was on ICS 4.0.4 then ur phone will be bricked because of the kernel of ICS4.0.4 being plagued with the 'EMMMC' brick bug and only a JTAG or a MB replacement is the solution for it) .
JTAG won't work; motherboard replacement or bin.
I think it was 4.0.4...
Motherboard replacement is the only thing I can do ?
Mate.... Samsung KNOWS this is a problem.......I'd try for warranty repair/replacement.....if the phone is less than two years old, you have a good chance......
Just remember to 'act dumb' at the service center..... Tell them you were trying to use kies to update from ICS and the phone died...... If it is the emmc brickbug, there's NO WAY they can check what os was on ur phone or whether you'd rooted or modified it in any way.....right now it's an unrecoverable (expensive) paperweight........
This might be my S2, or it might be my W...but it's definitely CM
Yeah, I saw this is a quite common problem... But often, it's just a soft brick. In my case, it's a hard brick...
And warranty expired two months ago...
Well, it's unlikely to succeed, but you could try emailing Samsung explaining your situation regarding expired warranty and going on to explain that updating with kies is a 'normal' procedure and that it's that 'normal' Samsung provided procedure plus the 'unstable' OS version (having read on the internet about 4.0.4 brickbug) that have killed a phone that would otherwise be working today. Stress the point that the ICS firmware AND kies were both supplied by Samsung for official (end user) use on Samsung devices......see what they say.....can't hurt right?
This might be my S2, or it might be my W...but it's definitely CM
Yeah, they're going to honour an expired warranty. That happens all the time
Mb....I *did* say right at the start that it probably wouldn't work..... But what has he got to lose?
Lol.....they *might* be suffering from an excess of Xmas and new year goodwill.......
This might be my S2, or it might be my W...but it's definitely CM
I have twice super bricked my two SGS-2s.... EMMC bug is one hell of a pain in ass. You have to let go some SD card space, but u can revive you phone using the URL in my signature. I revived both my phones losing about a GB space in one and a couple GBs in other. Good Luck
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but u can revive you phone using the URL in my signature
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People have said he needs a new motherboard.Do you know something they dont?.
S4 victim
The problem is that I can't flash anything ! The phone simply doesn't turn on ! No recovery mode, no download mode, nothing ! It doesn't even charge !
Yes try this link from alvinasnow
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
So far as I know if you only connect your phone normally if it os charging then it already has some kind of connection with the pc I believe its adb.
But since you dont have warranty you can give it a shot to save money so just give it a try and read carefully. I was surprised when I got this phone, that samsung would make a big mistake like that its a just shame.
Edit: i dont know or you need jtag or riff and I will not test it cause I dont have a superbrick phone with mmc cap erase.
But just open device manager on the pc and connect the phone and see if there is a new device connected.
In my opinion my previous phone has one of the best options to make it unbrickable
It was nvflash but it sucked.nvidia wouldnt release sources.
Gooodluck with your phone
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Which part of this phone needs a motherboard replacement are you lot having trouble comprehending ?
OK...For all the slow kids who keep posting to this thread (including the OP); this phone needs a new motherboard. No threads promising magical fixes are going to work, there is no other way to fix this.
Is this clear now or do I have to make another post in bolded caps to make it really clear ?
There is a SLIGHT chance that if a JTAG recovery house can boot a kernel via JTAG (I do not know if RIFFBox can do this or not), they can use the solution that the Kindle Fire community used. (This was a recent discovery 2-3 months ago)
The problem is, I have attempted to provide information on this solution to these JTAG houses with no response. I don't know if they can boot a modified kernel via JTAG or not.
Currently:
All Exynos4 devices that are Superbricked are unrecoverable, as Samsung refuses to provide any way to boot these from USB, and anyone who could develop a solution hasn't responded (since most dead devices are long gone at this point...)
All Qualcomm-based Samsungs that are Superbricked are hosed too
Kindle Fires that are Superbricked are recoverable as of 2-3 months ago thanks to some discoveries by Oranav that were used by Hashcode to develop a recovery solution. This solution can't be used on Samsung Exynos4 devices as it depends on the ability to boot the device from USB.
And folks...... @Entropy512 needs to be listened to.......he is the dev who has done the most research into this issue and (somebody cmiiw) was the one who discovered the "emmc cap erase" command was the culprit. I think he also wrote the original (much copied) 'got brickbug' app which tells you if your phone is affected or not. If what he says doesn't work, then as @MistahBungle says, the ONLY OTHER OPTION is a new motherboard........
This might be my S2, or it might be my W...but it's definitely CM
Well...
I think I'm just going to call the insurance, and see what they can do ! Even if my warranty is now void, they may replace the phone !
Thank you all !