Hey I know this may be the wrong section but im sure we'll get the answer quick here. Was running MIUI 11-4-11 (newest update), decided to upgrade my boot-loader to GB newest, successfully updated, thought CM7 and MIUI were good with GB bootloaders now. Now that I was updated thought I could flash back to froyo roms ok. MISTAKE Decided to odin to KA7 instead of just JFD or whatever. Forgot KA7 had some kind of bootloader file sbl.bin
Phone odined, finished, and shut off completely and nothing works. No lights, no download mode, no computer triangle problem. Im going to order a jig from Team Whiskey but if anyone has ANY HELP OR SUGGESTIONS please reply and let me know lets get this figured out. I've had the vibrant a long time and been around xda forever im not a noob just was stupid.
THANKS!
Ive had a couple soft bricks too that Ive never had problems with. First hardbrick like this happened with a friends vibrant a year ago and we just sold it. Hoping I dont have a complete HARD BRICK and a paper weight now. Any info is good
Remove Battery.
Hold Both Volume Rockers (Up and Down). Keep Holding.
Place in battery and press power button while holding rockers.
You should get in Download Mode.
If this don't help, your bootloader is corrupted.... you need someone to JTAG.... JIG won't help.
EDIT: If above steps don't work..... After You Remove Battery... Also place in USB cord. And follow same steps
Yea ive tried this a bunch. Whats the info on a jtag? Cant afford a 180 dollar jtag. Youre saying the jig wont boost me into download mode.? Thought maybe it could since my phone may still work, just the bootloaders made it not recognize hardware buttons. Thank you for the reply
PowSniffer0110 said:
Yea ive tried this a bunch. Whats the info on a jtag? Cant afford a 180 dollar jtag. Youre saying the jig wont boost me into download mode.? Thought maybe it could since my phone may still work, just the bootloaders made it not recognize hardware buttons. Thank you for the reply
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I bricked my phone recently.. completely hard bricked.. it will behave just as no battery in it....
I did lot of reading, and found that JIG may not help with corrupted bootloader.
A last thing for you to do is charge your phone overnight and try combo buttons to enter in recovery mode. This helped few people here, somehow, magically.
EDIT: For US people, I saw JTAG happens for below 50$
Cool thank you. Will try the charge and combos and check back here later. So assume its hardbricked and nothing works, best option is to send the phone by mail to someone with a jtag that will fix it for aboput $40 and send it back? Whats the likely hood of the jtag user fixing my either single bootloader corruption, or if I corrupted the secondary bootloader as well.
As long as you are on a GB bootloader you should try Volume down +Power button to get into download mode. I'm not sure but you should try
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No need for a jtag. If you are comfortable taking your phone apart and have some electronics skills, you can do the unbrickable mod.
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No need for a jtag. If you are comfortable taking your phone apart and have some electronics skills, you can do the unbrickable mod.
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Kinda nervous to dive into this. Is it worth the risk? I'd be down to go ahead and try it but my soldering skills arent up to key in the last two years
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Kinda nervous to dive into this. Is it worth the risk? I'd be down to go ahead and try it but my soldering skills arent up to key in the last two years
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Ahah, then you should go for the safer method, man. Better to be safe.
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theexel said:
Ahah, then you should go for the safer method, man. Better to be safe.
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Meaning jig? Who here has experience with a jig personally? Im wondering if itll force into download mode. I dont wanna pay $10 for a jig then have to pay another 50 to send it in for jtag repair. Thanks for the pointers and suggestions guys
I had something similar happen to me. I used mobiletechvideos service (http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant-unbrickable-mod/) for 30 dollars it worthy and it includes the return shipping. Takes around 7 to 10 day. Then I installed Ubuntu along side Windows (Ubuntu CD has that option) and perform the resurrection myself. You can also pay them 10 more to resurrect your Vibrant. After that it will be unbrickable, you can flash away and repair the phone no matter what.
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Meaning jig? Who here has experience with a jig personally? Im wondering if itll force into download mode. I dont wanna pay $10 for a jig then have to pay another 50 to send it in for jtag repair. Thanks for the pointers and suggestions guys
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I bought a JIG I've had bootloader issues in the past and I was able to work with it. Worst case you have to send the JIG back. I actually found it on Amazon. Its been a life saver since.
I bought my jig from teamwhiskey.com but u can probably find one around these forums and I don't know how some kind of jig magic but it works everytime.
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I feel as though there is not enough douchiness against the OP... i think its pretty nasty when someone decides hes gonna take the android dev section for a question because question is more important rthan those in the appropriate section
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PowSniffer0110 said:
Hey I know this may be the wrong section but im sure we'll get the answer quick here. Was running MIUI 11-4-11 (newest update), decided to upgrade my boot-loader to GB newest, successfully updated, thought CM7 and MIUI were good with GB bootloaders now. Now that I was updated thought I could flash back to froyo roms ok. MISTAKE Decided to odin to KA7 instead of just JFD or whatever. Forgot KA7 had some kind of bootloader file sbl.bin
Phone odined, finished, and shut off completely and nothing works. No lights, no download mode, no computer triangle problem. Im going to order a jig from Team Whiskey but if anyone has ANY HELP OR SUGGESTIONS please reply and let me know lets get this figured out. I've had the vibrant a long time and been around xda forever im not a noob just was stupid.
THANKS!
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Download Mod:
1: Remove battery
2: connect usb Phone and Pc
3: Hold UP volume (Only Up ok)
4: Put battery back
Now u r on download mod
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Hi. I ruined my phone when trying to add a new kernel (overclock 1.2).
It stayed on Vibrant/Samsung screen.
I downloaded one click odin.. LIKE AN IDIOT I DIDNT SEE IT WAS FOR CAPTIVE (AT&T) ONLY!!
NOW I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO.
PLEASE HELP and link me to wherever i need to download stuff.
Before others eat you alive and flame you, look around dude. Look at the stickies.
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Before others eat you alive and flame you, look around dude. Look at the stickies.
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I did, I couldnt find anything.
I don't think anyone has been a dumber noob than me..
ALSO it keeps just rebooting over and over and over.. I dont think it recognizes my battery idk..
MasterGGM said:
I did, I couldnt find anything.
I don't think anyone has been a dumber noob than me..
ALSO it keeps just rebooting over and over and over.. I dont think it recognizes my battery idk..
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Put into download mode use odin to flash back to stock all the tools you need are in the sticky that says bible in it..........
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S4BRE2121 said:
Put into download mode use odin to flash back to stock all the tools you need are in the sticky that says bible in it..........
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Download mode doesnt work
It shows AT&T and keeps rebooting.. over and over. I have no idea if they will exchange it due to it being a t-mobile phone.
Maybe Try the jig
Not sure I know enough about the real issue other than you got the wrong rom. But, there is a jig you can make 301k resistor (or combo of a few to equal that number) soldered to a usb connector on # 4 & 5 pins look it up it will unbrick the phone and get you into the phone from there I not sure what you will need to do next but that would get you into the phone. Btw the resistors and usb cord less than 5 bucks good luck
Dude, you are being childish. I usually never flame but don't say you did because you didn't Enough. Slow down and take your time. If you are doing any kind of mods you should learn how to use Odin first, but unfortunately its always after the fact.
Learn how to use Odin, in the development bible I have a video there to show you how. Doesn't get any easier than that.
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jzero88 said:
Dude, you are being childish. I usually never flame but don't say you did because you didn't Enough. Slow down and take your time. If you are doing any kind of mods you should learn how to use Odin first, but unfortunately its always after the fact.
Learn how to use Odin, in the development bible I have a video there to show you how. Doesn't get any easier than that.
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You are completely right. I was "trigger happy" you may say and I did it by rushing through it and ruined my phone. Luckily I have not yet sold my 3Gs and could use that until I get tmobile to exchange it.
The jig would most likely work for my case but I would need a step by step guide which unfortunately didn't find with images or video.
If I could just kill the AT&T boot logo it'd be perfect but sadly I can't.
I got the phone two days ago..so I am really sure I can get away with an exchange.
If you return the phone and it is booting with the At&t logo they will now you where messing with it and charge you the full amount of the phone which is around $400.
What you have is a soft brick. You can fix it if you bothered reading. Just follow this:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...r-vibrant-and-return-to-stock-phone-pc-error/
Jamison904 said:
If you return the phone and it is booting with the At&t logo they will now you where messing with it and charge you the full amount of the phone which is around $400.
What you have is a soft brick. You can fix it if you bothered reading. Just follow this:
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I wish mine was a soft brick but it isn't. That thread was for "phone ! PC" mine is a tmo vibrant that boot loops as AT&T captive since I flashed the wrong stock kernel.
Remove battery, SIM card and the external SD card.
Connect USB cord
Hold down both volume keys and insert the battery.
I love how everyone gives the same reply. The phone WAS FULLY BRICKED.
I took it to T-Mobile and said I did an update and this is what happened and they gave me a brand spanking new one! =D
Thanks for all your help though.
MasterGGM said:
I love how everyone gives the same reply. The phone WAS FULLY BRICKED.
I took it to T-Mobile and said I did an update and this is what happened and they gave me a brand spanking new one! =D
Thanks for all your help though.
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Pathetic, take some responsibility. Thanks for supporting a future of locked phones.
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I suggest you pull the battery, put it back in, plug your USB into your PC, hold both up and down on the volume rocker and plug the micro USB into your phone t get back into Download mode and flash Odin the 512.pit and the JFD tarball.
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Get into download like this
Take out battery.
Connect USB now press the volume buttons then put battery in
Nero beta 3 + oclf
climhazzard1993 said:
not gonna work.
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well you obviously don't want help fixing it so go ahead and return it and pray you don't get dinged for flashing it.
Some guy in the marketplace here sells jigs for $15.
And ebay has them for $25 or something.
Whats a jig?
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Segnaro said:
Some guy in the marketplace here sells jigs for $15.
And ebay has them for $25 or something.
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He does not want to fix his phone, he has a replacement already but wants someone to look into the future to see if he will get busted for flashing firmware onto the phone.
Zylograth said:
He does not want to fix his phone, he has a replacement already but wants someone to look into the future to see if he will get busted for flashing firmware onto the phone.
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Yeah, I didn't read the edit.
Zylograth said:
He does not want to fix his phone, he has a replacement already but wants someone to look into the future to see if he will get busted for flashing firmware onto the phone.
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My thoughts exactly.
If he wont try. No point in helping
@OP, there's different ways of going into download mode. Not just 1. Try them or gtfo of this forum.
Nero beta 3 + oclf
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What ROM were you flashing when this happened? I doubt they will be able to see but it is possible they will see a custom ROM and charge you for the replacement.
I would at least try to get the original firmware back onto the phone before sending it back. Have you tried more than one USB cable to get into download mode?
climhazzard1993 said:
umm, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
lol? yeah um, not gonna argue with u. but ive tried all that, otherwise i wouldnt be here asking..
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I was working with someone the other night having the same issue getting into download mode, we did a video chat over skype and he showed me that all the steps were not working. the next day he bought a new USB cable and got into download mode on the first try.
hard to sat if they will catch you but I would at least do everything i could to avoid it LOL
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climhazzard1993 said:
i accidentally flashed a gt i9000 onto my vibrant. it worked but it wasnt reading my sim card. then i tried flashing the 2.1 stock, odin got stuck at cache.rfs for an hour so i pulled my phone out and thats how it bricked. and i doubt that will work cuz my idiot ass flashed the wrong firmware on my vibrant.
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you "should" be able to get back to stock, did you include the 512.PIT when you tried flashing 2.1? I usually do a 512.PIT with re-partition when I am going back to JFD
Maybe the OP should "read before posting". I've seen many threads like this, and its really up to the luck of the draw, if your unit happens to be inspected by Captain Flawless, he'll catch it, most likely they'll try to turn it on, see it doesn't boot into recovery and sent it through the refurbishing process. I've actually never seen or heard a story about someone having it come back to bite them in the ass other than anything physical like water damage.
in the OP you make it sound like a JIG is not an option.... may I ask why? THat would solve your issue.
That said, I dont think you have an issue.... send your phone in and quit worrying.
True I sent one one in with fusion on it cause the screen had some bad pixels they never said anything about it I didn't even think of taking the rom off probably cause I dont care but I never heard anything about it and never got any additional charges not saying you won't but the chances are good that they don't look or care either its not like they have 1 guy on a room setting all these phones back to the way they were
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Please put your questions to: Vibrant Q&A
The JIG is ONLY useful if its a softbrick or what?
will the JIG get me out of a hardbrick?
its only useful to get you to Download mode.
Yes, i understand that.
I'm asking a whole different question; Does the JIG get the phone out of a Hardbrick?
I'm asking because i've had people say yes, and people say no
Thats a 50/50 chance.
Itll get you into dl mode but from there who knows...the whole purpose of it is to give you another chance in the event you cant even get into dl mode
Bionix-V 1.3 w/a Splash of Color
It won't get you out of hard brick! The thing is that you may not be sure if you have really bricked your phone untill you try waking it up with a jig. It's worth to try and also good to have for the future even if it doesn't work this time.
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Where is Josh!? Need him to answer this one...lol
It's only useful if you're too dumb to figure out how to manually put your phone into download mode...
Edit: or flash something that messes up your volume key mapping and can't get into it...in this case you're also pretty clueless.
A jig will get you into download mode as long as your phone is showing some sign of life. If there's no sign of life, it's most likely a boot loader issue and can only be repaired with a jtag at a local repair shop or by sending it to Samsung.
xriderx66 said:
The JIG is ONLY useful if its a softbrick or what?
will the JIG get me out of a hardbrick?
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Just wondering why you don't just make one?
nomadrider123 said:
Just wondering why you don't just make one?
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Ehh.. Too lazy, and even though its easy to make, I tend to screw tge simplest things up
I am from India. I was gifted Samsung Vibrant from my friend from US. I was using it with miui 2.3.7 update with bootloaders. But unfortunately I made downgrade to stoc 2.2 froyo with odin3 (without wiping data and caches). As The downgrade process completed with passing in odin, my phone switched off and it never again witched on. No buttons working, no display on screen. I am really frustated. Pl. help me solving it in India.
You've hard bricked your phone. Do a search for a JIG for the vibrant its the only way to resurrect a hard bricked vibrant like that.
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o0stryxs0o said:
You've hard bricked your phone. Do a search for a JIG for the vibrant its the only way to resurrect a hard bricked vibrant like that.
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actually jtag is probably what he needs.
You can get someone to JTAG it for you, Mumbai Manish market has some people to do it. Search on this forum, has been mentioned before.
EDIT Here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878949
dipjyot_001 said:
I am from India. I was gifted Samsung Vibrant from my friend from US. I was using it with miui 2.3.7 update with bootloaders. But unfortunately I made downgrade to stoc 2.2 froyo with odin3 (without wiping data and caches). As The downgrade process completed with passing in odin, my phone switched off and it never again witched on. No buttons working, no display on screen. I am really frustated. Pl. help me solving it in India.
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You don't need jig or jtag. Just watch this video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxearzXrVY
Enjoy your popcorn and soda lolz
As you can see the steps are very simple:
1. Remove the battery
2. Hold Vol up & Down
3. Slide in the battery
4. Plug in USB
From the way it sounds he won't be able to get into download mode. He ODIN'd a rom with a conflicting boot loader that's what causes this issue typically. Its the only way to hard brick a vibrant. He's gonna need a JTAG not Jig like I said before.
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I did exactly what the OP did. I had Passion v8 or v9 with the a GB bootloader. I odined back to stock JFD without changing bootloaders and bricked my phone. I picked one up a jig from TW website and I'm rocking again.
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jayprime said:
I did exactly what the OP did. I had Passion v8 or v9 with the a GB bootloader. I odined back to stock JFD without changing bootloaders and bricked my phone. I picked one up a jig from TW website and I'm rocking again.
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Then you had a different issue not a bootloader mismatch. If you're primary and secondary bootloaders don't match you need jtag. A jig is a handy piece of equipment and it's worth a shot but he probably needs jtag. And btw i've odined to jfd dozens of times with gingerbread bootloaders and never had an issue.
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You can find a jig on amazon.com for less than 5 bucks.
I have flashed JFD stock many times while staying on GB Bootloader, you just have to make sure you don't have the Phone Bootloader Update checked and also make sure you are using odin 1.81 or later.
With all that aside, I have once gotten my phone to the point where it will not respond or have anything light up. I was able to fix it without a JIG.
I did what the jayprime above had stated but I will go into just a touch more detail, I would suggest trying it as it is worth a try.
1: First load Odin 1.81 on the computer and make sure you have a USB plugged in directly to the computer and without using a USB Hub.
2: Next Take Battery and SIM card out of phone.
3: Put the battery back in and while holding Volume up and Down plug the cable into the phone. (most likely you won't see a response on the phone it's self but should see COM light up in ODIN.)
4: Download the JFD bootloader .tar file and load it under PDA and make sure the box for updating Bootloader is still unchecked.
5: Now Click Start.
6: Repeat steps except this time load the 512pit file and the stock JFD image into the PDA slot.
Please note that if you have the you may still have the GB bootloader installed. If the above steps fail at Step 4. Try using the Up Arrow + Power button combo while the phone is already plugged into the the USB cable and with a fresh battery pull and insertion.
There is the UnBrickable mod you can do too. This requires some skillz, though.
Are you sure it didn't just reincarnate as a nexus?
I couldn't help myself.
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thanx frndz for great answers. I think it would be solved with JTAG. I have given my phone to a hardware expert and he is to solve this problem. When I will get it I will tell u how he did it. Anyway thanx again 2 all...
thanx
adityamunshi said:
You can get someone to JTAG it for you, Mumbai Manish market has some people to do it. Search on this forum, has been mentioned before.
EDIT Here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878949
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thanx.........
Omg. I got my phone returned with saying replacement of motherboard of my phone. But the motherboard or other parts are not available in india. I am scared.... What to do?????
dipjyot_001 said:
Omg. I got my phone returned with saying replacement of motherboard of my phone. But the motherboard or other parts are not available in india. I am scared.... What to do?????
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Your phone is dead.
You can buy a Broken Screen Vibrant, and change the Motherboard. as I did with the mine! (I buy one in Ebay US) (me happen some like you!!!)
i feel sad for those who spent money replacing D: it sucks its happened to me 4x my vibrant even said it was a I9000 at start up before it said vibrant LOL @ me for flashing the wrong ROM but to even get that far i had to get passed the damn BLACK SCREEN... A number of button combinations work and you will read on some posts that if your phone is/got/gets hot your fried it thats not true either just takes a bit of patience in my case about 6 hours of searching forums and in the end simple button combinations eventually worked i think it helps if the battery is dead because it seems as though it wont work otherwise
Where are you located? Did you contact the person in Mumbai for JTAG ?
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Omg. I got my phone returned with saying replacement of motherboard of my phone. But the motherboard or other parts are not available in india. I am scared.... What to do?????
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1. Remove the battery
2. Hold Vol up & Down
3. Slide in the battery
4. Plug in USB
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This method worked for me when I thought I had destroyed my Vibrant.
Bought one, but have to wait till it ships, so figured I would ask if anybody in the 757 has a mini-usb jig that I could use to get my Note into download mode. Send PM if you do.
Thanks in advance.
U can reboot into download thru recovery
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mrstone77 said:
U can reboot into download thru recovery
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Walk me through that one, no response to anything, power and up volume results in nothing. Plugging into usb results in nothing Windows, ODIN nor Kies registers it.
vanemburghj said:
Bought one, but have to wait till it ships, so figured I would ask if anybody in the 757 has a mini-usb jig that I could use to get my Note into download mode. Send PM if you do.
Thanks in advance.
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I think this is what you're looking for, yes?
http://galaxys2root.com/tag/diy-usb-jig/
Sidenote:
I thought it was "down volume button + power " to get into ODIN mode for Samsung devices
up+ down is for recovery
Shirokishi said:
I think this is what you're looking for, yes?
http://galaxys2root.com/tag/diy-usb-jig/
Sidenote:
I thought it was "down volume button + power " to get into ODIN mode for Samsung devices
up+ down is for recovery
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That is what I ordered, either way on the buttons, phone is bricked to point will take very special sauce to fix it.
Oh... I didn't know all of that... When my phone freezes I can hold the power button for 10 seconds n it'll reboot but u r n need of special sauce... I'm n the 540 sorry
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mrstone77 said:
Oh... I didn't know all of that... When my phone freezes I can hold the power button for 10 seconds n it'll reboot but u r n need of special sauce... I'm n the 540 sorry
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Yep am with you on that one, I have soft bricked before, but nothing like this, my very first true brick of my cell. Hopefully Jig I ordered at least gets me into download mode, where I can fix it.
vanemburghj said:
Yep am with you on that one, I have soft bricked before, but nothing like this, my very first true brick of my cell. Hopefully Jig I ordered at least gets me into download mode, where I can fix it.
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If you can see the samsung bootloader then yeah there's hope otherwise you're gonna need the $100 fix for it.
But at least people are responding, I got no love on my end, lol
keeping things in perspective, as I posted before, I have never seen anyone report that a jig does any good on this phone..
You would be better off either using JTAG, or calling Samsung, and playing stupid, and tell them it died after you did an update that the phone requested..they will send you a replacement, with no questions asked.
go through the general and q&a sections; you will see that a jig doesn't do anything for this phone..
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keeping things in perspective, as I posted before, I have never seen anyone report that a jig does any good on this phone..
You would be better off either using JTAG, or calling Samsung, and playing stupid, and tell them it died after you did an update that the phone requested..they will send you a replacement, with no questions asked.
go through the general and q&a sections; you will see that a jig doesn't do anything for this phone..
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Well smokestack76 told you differently yesterday. He said over 20 times with a jig. Plus for $1.60 I will give it a try.
yes, for the price, if it makes you feel better, try it..
and, if you believe him, when you can find 20 others that said it did absolutely nothing, then that's your choice.
the sooner you send it in to Samsung, the sooner you will have a working phone..
If Samsung is wiling to send you a loaner phone while you're under warranty i can't see why you wouldnt do that.
I know Nintendo is awesome like that but apparently Samsung reps are quite jaded when you do something silly like ask an honest question.
I wish Samsung would honor warranty services if the device hasn't been on the market longer than year.
I'm A. Maybe he Made a mistake and wants to own up for it insted of weasling into a fraudulent phone.
B. I would be a little jaded as well when I get people calling me all day that have messed up their own phone and are now trying to steal from me.
C. Samsung does honor warranties a year after the device has been on market. YOUR WARRANTY DOES NOT GO INTO EFFECT UNTIL THE ORIGINAL DATE OF PURCHASE. not when the first one of its kind rolls off the assembly line.
Also, wase a jig does work of you are not actually bricked, if you were to be soft bricked the jig would force download mode. I had a captivate I built a jig for, first thing I did was try it on my note. Bam, download mode.
And finally op it's a micro usb jig not mini. Mini is bigger than micro
yeah bro, I know a jig works for SOME phones; it helped me bring my S2 back to life..
However, I have read many many reports of it doing nothing for the Note, so that was why I said what I did..
Plus, people are using the term "Bricked" around here in so many ways, that its hard to know what they mean when they say it..to me, a bricked phone is DEAD, and nothing but an expensive paperweight.....
I can take a video of my note going from off to download mode with nothing but my jig. However the same jig that works on both my phones is out of resistance tolerance on my brothers sgs2.
And yes bricked is used much too often,it is a term to describe when your phone is inert, has no pliability and just sits there, like the baked red clay building material it was named for.
was curious to see if the OP had any luck with the jig....
Well the jig did nothing for me. I suggest send your phone to mobiletechvideos.com for repair, he goes through the JTAG recovery method, and he also unlocked mine... he did a great job. I bricked my Note flashing a ROM for another device by mistake, could not use the jig for anything, so had it repaired. Feeling really happy now... hope this helps.
the jig isn't and was never meant to fix a hard brick...
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Back on captivate, certain bootloaders would disable the button combos for download and recovery, making a simple (I hate the term... But) soft brick into a much stickier situation, so it was discovered that using 300k ohms of resistance across certain pins on the usb port from a powered off state would trigger download mode in seconds, making you then able to simply odin a stock rom and try again.
It was later discovered that the jig had the same effect on the sgs2 with the added benefit of restting the flash counter.
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If you flash a firmware for the international note on an i717 you will need jtag because you are indeed bricked of the hard variety.
wase4711 said:
was curious to see if the OP had any luck with the jig....
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Nope gig still in the mail, however took Note to ATT Device Service Center and they told me mother board failure and replaced it. So might not have been related to flashing, inspection seem pretty in depth, removed back cover, using multi meter type of tool and said mother board didn't provide correct response to input. My mandatory 10 days to return no functioning unit is 17 Dec so don't think will have chance to try the jig before I send it back or be charged $549 for non-functioning unit.
vanemburghj said:
Nope gig still in the mail, however took Note to ATT Device Service Center and they told me mother board failure and replaced it. So might not have been related to flashing, inspection seem pretty in depth, removed back cover, using multi meter type of tool and said mother board didn't provide correct response to input. My mandatory 10 days to return no functioning unit is 17 Dec so don't think will have chance to try the jig before I send it back or be charged $549 for non-functioning unit.
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might as well keep the jig for the couple of bucks it cost..plus, even if it doesn't work for this phone, it might work for your next one!