I was wondering if someone has done this by accident before and somehow managed to recover w/o jtag? I was flashing a Vibrant for a friend of mine, who told me his phone was the Galaxy S4G. So of course I used Odin to update it to Gingerbread using the pit, pda, and csc files for the Galaxy S 4G phone. After Odin did its thing, the phone stayed on the yellow screen so I did a battery pull to reset it. Afterwards...it never came back on =( . I've tried all the methods to getting it back to download mode with the button combos. Only thing I have not tried is JIG cable and JTAG. I'm planning on ordering a JIG cable on ebay, but that'll be a week. Is there anyone who's mistakenly done the same and managed to get it back to download mode?
Ouch, your friend definitely needs to get his devices straight.
You can try this, but honestly I'm not sure it will work...
Make sure you have ODIN OPEN with admin privileges!
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
You don't necessarily need the download mode image to be present. As long as you are getting the COM ID to light up yellow in ODIN, just flash back to stock like normal.
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I tryed flashing a rom without disabling voodoo and know my phone wont even turn on. Any help please!!!!
ireiricky said:
I tryed flashing a rom without disabling voodoo and know my phone wont even turn on. Any help please!!!!
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If you look couple threads down, you'll see my thread, and I am having the same problem. Slightly different cause, but of the same nature, and the exact same problem. I have not had any real help yet, but I have been scouring the forums here. And I think the only option, if none of the button combinations work, as they don't seem to for me, and you're getting a complete brick, is perhaps the usb jig resistor method... but even that I don't think is 100% because some of the people who created the guides on how to make the jig resistor said it only worked for softbrick, not total brick like our cases. Unless someone can verify otherwise...
Thanks for the reply man i don't know what to do man i spent $400 0n this phone there must be a way but no luck on google either
ireiricky said:
I tryed flashing a rom without disabling voodoo and know my phone wont even turn on. Any help please!!!!
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Try this. Take your sim card, microsd and battery out. Leave battery out for a few minutes.
Open odin and load with the 512 pit and Jfd tar.
Plug one end of usb cable into computer only
take your vibrant with everything still out of it
hold down both vol buttons (vol up and down) and never let go
do not touch power
while holding down both volume buttons plug in your usb cable into the phone with the other end previously in the computer...do all this while holding down volume buttons and dont let go
now grab your battery with your free hand and while still holding down the vol buttons now plug in your battery
if all goes well your.phone should go into download mode at which pt you can let go of volume buttons.
If this doesnt work you can maybe try the jig if your bootloader is intact
also since you were messing with voodoo you might need to first flash eugenes froyo tbat doesnt brick...im not too sure on this so ask around and look it up.
You need this first of all (Froyo that does not brick)
http://eb-productions.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=samsungsgs&action=display&thread=8
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1. Download Eugenes 'Froyo that does not brick' file.
2. Extract the files.
3. Open Odin, plug in your phone, then put it into download mode.
4. load the PIT file in appropriate area.
5. load the .tar file in the PDA area.
6. DO NOT check 're-partition'.
7. Click start, let it finish. Your phone will load and reboot into stock recovery. It will error out again. DONT panic! This is what's supposed to happen.
8. Now, pull your battery.
9. Download the 'True stock 2.1 firmware for the vibrant'.
10. Extract the files.
11. Once again, open Odin, plug in your phone, put into download mode.
12. Load the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.
13. THIS TIME you want to check the 're-partition' box.
14. Now click start, let it finish, and this time your phone will load up just fine! BAM!
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iv'e tryied that i read somewhere that it's a hard brick
Then try accessing download mode by first, removing the sd card, sim, and battery, second, plugging in the usb cable, third, holding down the two buttons on the side of the phone, and finally, while holding down those two buttons, inserting the battery.
I havee tried that mothod many times no luck just a blank screen
Then commit a fraud and send it back to T-Mobile saying it suddenly stopped working.
Or if you prefer a wild card you can use a JIG
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
Edit: Never mind it will not work for you. Sorry :/
Edit 2: The phone does not even turn the buttons on??
no nothing turns on at all no power but when i put it to charge it heats up but no battery screen
Yea, take it to T-Mobile and get it replaced. I got mine switched at T-Mobile once, and it would only boot to the custom Nexus animation....the lady still swapped it out. It all depends on the rep, if they won't switch it, go to a different location. Eventually you'll find someone.
i don't think thats possible seeing as im in Canada bought it off ebay
take it to a phone expert. he will flash a bootloader to your phone.
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I'm not sure where to go for help or what to do next, so I'm posting on here (I've read a lot of great stuff on here in the past and now!). So, here's the story:
Tmobile came out with their 2.2 update and I decided to get on the band wagon and update my phone. What I didn't know after I started was that the stupid Samsung program doesn't want to work with Win7 x64 for whatever reason. So after my phone is sitting at 2% for two hours, I decide enough is enough and I disconnect it and reset it.
Now it's got the phone...!...PC picture on it (or black screen o' death).
I've tried just about every combination of the 3-button push to get it into the "download" screen I've been able to find on this forum and others, but all I ever get is the black screen of death. I've got Odin installed and it sees it when I connect the phone via the USB cable, but I still never get onto the download screen. I thought "what the hell" and tried to flash it anyways with Odin. The phone went to a completely purple screen. Reset and back to the Black screen of death.
So, there you have it. Is there anything else I can try? Or is my phone dead dead? I've read about some kind of micro-usb-resister thing I can try, but I'm not positive of being able to reproduce that item. I've also read a lot of terms and procedures that I'm very unfamiliar with. I'm a compelte noob when it comes to flashing and rooting my phone in fears of this exact problem. Now I'm facing it and need some help.
Thanks in advance for your help!
All I can tell you is keep trying to get into dl mode. It can be a real pain in the ass getting the three button to work sometimes. Good luck.
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Pull everything out, battery, sim, microsd
Have ODIN open
Plug the usb into the PC
Plug usb into the Phone
Hold down ONLY the volume buttons
Put the battery in
Take your battery, sim, and everything out of your phone. Open odin. Connect usb cable to your computer only. Put your battery back in. Hold volume up + volume down. Connect usb to your phone. BOOM. You should be in download mode and recognized in odin.
Flash back to stock. If it's that messed up, you may have to use eugenes froyo that doesn't brick first. Search the stickies for that.
Hope this helps.
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jmcghee1973 said:
Pull everything out, battery, sim, microsd
Have ODIN open
Plug the usb into the PC
Plug usb into the Phone
Hold down ONLY the volume buttons
Put the battery in
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Lol! You posted as I was typing it out.
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offdutyninja808 said:
Take your battery, sim, and everything out of your phone. Open odin. Connect usb cable to your computer only. Put your battery back in. Hold volume up + volume down. Connect usb to your phone. BOOM. You should be in download mode and recognized in odin.
Flash back to stock. If it's that messed up, you may have to use eugenes froyo that doesn't brick first. Search the stickies for that.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for posting! So, I tried both methods that you two mentioned, but I'm still only getting the phone..!..PC image. SD card, SIM, and Battery removed; connected USB, held down volumen buttons, and put in battery. Odin does appear to see the device attached (shows up "0:[COM5]" highlighted in yellow), however. Any other thoughts or perhaps there is something I'm missing?
Thanks again for your help!
Addition: I'm using Windows 7 Pro x64 if it matter..
Try odin on different pc. Or try different version of odin. Did you make sure you had proper Samsung drivers installed? 64 bit drivers. After opening odin make sure you have micro usb plugged to pc. Hold only the volume up and volume down buttons at the same time. Now plug usb to cell and that should do it.
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Try it with the phone just powered off.
Pull the battery and unplug the USB from the phone.
Leave it plugged into the PC.
When you put the battery back in it should stay powered off.
Now with the battery back in, ODIN open, and your holding both of the volume buttons down, plug the phone in to the usb.
***Opps looks like rayvil already posted this method
It's working!!
So, when the xda forums went down last night and I didn't have much other guidance I decided "what's the worse that could happen if I keep on screwing with it?". Well, I could never get to the actual download screen no matter what buttons or combination of buttons I pressed. However, my computer would always recognize the device and so would Odin.
I downloaded a .PIT file, loaded it into Odin with the new 2.2 .TAR file. Then I hit "Start". To my amazement, the thing started to update the phone! Even while the phone was still on the "phone..!..PC" image. There was even the download/process bar showing up on the phone itself. 10-15 minutes later and the phone is up and running. The best part, though, was that all my settings and apps were still loaded and working! Odin must have taken over what samsung's piece-of-crap Kies program couldn't do and finished the upgrade process.
Thanks to everyone's input and this forum! It's a lifesaver!
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It's working!!
So, when the xda forums went down last night and I didn't have much other guidance I decided "what's the worse that could happen if I keep on screwing with it?". Well, I could never get to the actual download screen no matter what buttons or combination of buttons I pressed. However, my computer would always recognize the device and so would Odin.
I downloaded a .PIT file, loaded it into Odin with the new 2.2 .TAR file. Then I hit "Start". To my amazement, the thing started to update the phone! Even while the phone was still on the "phone..!..PC" image. There was even the download/process bar showing up on the phone itself. 10-15 minutes later and the phone is up and running. The best part, though, was that all my settings and apps were still loaded and working! Odin must have taken over what samsung's piece-of-crap Kies program couldn't do and finished the upgrade process.
Thanks to everyone's input and this forum! It's a lifesaver!
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Great ! Congratulation !
BTW ODIN is made by Samsung also if you didn't know that !
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I was running simply honey 3.8 on my phone and my phone was working fine untill when i tried to flash bootlader for gingerbread i for reason took the usb cable out while it was flashing it now i am stuck on download mode and odin is not able to recognize my device , so basically i cant flash nything now i tried to download samsung drivers many time but no luck
please somebody help me with my phone
hmm.....first of alll WHY DO YOU TAKE IT OUT IT TAKES 6 SECS
anyway did you turn it off.....most likely you will have to do a JTAG reset
yah you half flashed a bootloader? .... the fine print in the bootloader Post is very Clear that it is one of the only true ways to HARD BRICK your vibrant.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117990
close odin reopen and attempt to reconnect and flash your Froyo Bootloader. if that don't work you may want to consider a new phone. there aren't any samsung repair centers here in the usa to my knowledge. and your warranty is far gone. Sorry can't help more then that but Bootloaders aren't to be trifled with. Goodluck.
When u do a gingerbread bootloader the method of download mode is very different then froyo so u will have to look that up but its not holding down +,_ volume its something different for gingerbread. But once u figure that out!
power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
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
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DONT TURN THE PHONE OFF, IT WONT COME BACK ON
just keep unplugging and plugging in till it recognises it, try diff usb ports
only way to recovery hard brick is with a jtag, wasnt expensive for me and only took a day but im in the UK
thanks for replying my got turned off when i connect to the charger i get phone exclamation mark and a computer and i was able to get into download mode but my phone is not able to connect to odin
VERY lucky there...next time just don't do that with a 7 second flash.
reinstall the drivers
but i try to do that but it still not connecting my phone
took me 2 hours of trying to get it to connect last time, i was going to give up but tried for a few more min and it got it
late to the game here... can you boot up the phone? I guess not, but if you could, turning off USB debugging, connect to usb, drivers install, then turning debugging back on would have done it i believe.
have you uninstalled, reinstalled the drivers?
have you trid multiple usb ports?
have you removed other usb items and rebooted the pc?
all of these things sound odd but have proven to help.
I have a Samsung Vibrant T959 that will not turn on, even with the hold-volume +/- and-put-battery-back-in, trick.
Background information:
When I got my phone, my friend helped me update it to Cyanogenmod 7 and since then, I have realized that the "Samsung I9000" screen shows up in the beginning of the boot cycle (which I'm assuming is the bootloader). However, I decided to revert back to stock 2.1 via Odin with the "s1_odin_20100512.pit" and "T959UVJFD.tar" files and then used Samsung Kies Mini to update to 2.2. Doing this have bricked my phone. I recall the popup message saying that the installation was successful and to wait for the phone to reboot, but that never happened. I researched online and it said that my bootloader is probably corrupted, but I am not quite sure. A lot of people suggests using a RIFF Box/JTAG to restore a corrupted bootloader. I was wondering if there is another way to do this without breaking the bank, assuming that my phone is even bricked?
Thanks
1. Should've taken the ota once you booted 2.1 lol
2. Are you able to jump in recovery?
Have tried all the button combinations to access download mode, but have been unsuccessful. When this happened, the battery was 80% full, so I doubt that the battery is at fault.
Decided to call Samsung today and they have offered to reflash my phone for free (even though my 1 year warranty expired). I just needed to print out the shipping label they gave and send it in.
Before you send it in, try this...
Make sure you have ODIN OPEN with admin privileges!
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
You don't necessarily need the download mode image to be present. As long as you are getting the COM ID to light up yellow in ODIN, just flash back to stock like normal.
Tell me if this works for you!
Really im not new about doing this things about how to flash correctly with odin, etc.. But I really do the things correctly I already flash with stock JFD <-- well that's eclair.. the phone works 100% but i had froyo before I flash to stock so i put the official version firmware that T-Mobile launch.. my phone don't start... in Odin say succesful.. it never turn on,No recovery, No download mode.... Some people say that a USB Jig will turn on the phone?, but i don't think so? why can turn on if the phone don't work the 3 combos?, . Also i read about t mobile block the keymapping or someting like that?.. I should be able to have my cellphone in download mode with a usb jig? i will buy it if someone tell me if I have a little hope with my phone..
Please help! ...
the phone seem dead.. like a toy ..
I called in my country a place specialized on cellphone repair and say something that if the phone don't turn on they cant repair it because the MOTHERBOARD is dead ( broken ) idk.
Before purchasing a JIG to get into Download Mode try this...
Make sure you have ODIN OPEN with admin privileges!
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
You don't necessarily need the download mode image to be present. As long as you are getting the COM ID to light up yellow in ODIN, just flash back to stock like normal.
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Before purchasing a JIG to get into Download Mode try this...
Make sure you have ODIN OPEN with admin privileges!
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
You don't necessarily need the download mode image to be present. As long as you are getting the COM ID to light up yellow in ODIN, just flash back to stock like normal.
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no don't work and also no light up yellow in ODIN ;/
I have a jig and it works man its definitely worth the try.
Yeah, if the above method didn't work then try a JIG... Here's one for cheap on ebay... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-i90...Accessories&hash=item45fcfe0818#ht_500wt_1287
U can also make a jig really easy and cheap to do there's a tread on how to make one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9403915&postcount=10