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I attempted to flash a froyo bootloader via odin, said it failed.. now my phone is permanantly stuck on this screen that has a pic of a phone with a few dots leading to a computer and an ! between the two. I can't get it into download mode, I can't boot.. wtf did I do??? I followed the instructions to a friggin T!
oldfield16 said:
I attempted to flash a froyo bootloader via odin, said it failed.. now my phone is permanantly stuck on this screen that has a pic of a phone with a few dots leading to a computer and an ! between the two. I can't get it into download mode, I can't boot.. wtf did I do??? I followed the instructions to a friggin T!
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odin back to stock
1. Start Odin
2. Plug USB cable into pc
3. Power off the Phone.
3. Pull the Battery.
5. Plug USB cable into Phone.
6. Press and Hold: Volume UP + Volume DOWN + Power, all at the same time.
7. Re-insert the battery.
8. The phone will power now, when the screen starts a cycle of going to a BLACK screen, release ONLY the POWER button.
9. When you see the download icon release the volume buttons,
10. Odin back to stock by putting the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.
Or try that same method without holding the power button, just the volume rocker (up and down) when plugging into usb that works for some ppl
I frickin tried all that I still can't get outta that damn screen
And Odin won't see it, much less my whole damn computer
Edit: Still NOTHING. Am thoroghly convinced I did a hard brick some ****ing how and I'm about ready to shove this thing through a wall
try this. thats what worked for me
bfranklin1986 said:
try this. thats what worked for me
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I'm not some friggin noob who doesn't use the search button, ok?? I've tried all this!
No your phone is not completely bricked. I rescued my phone many times from that screen. Connect your phone to another PC, install ODIN & samsung drivers. Make sure that the phone is recognized,
ON ODIN Select only the phone.
use any modem file using Phone
Click start that should bring your phone back to life.
Search for Eugene Froyo that does not brick and start from there.
chichu_9 said:
No your phone is not completely bricked. I rescued my phone many times from that screen. Connect your phone to another PC, install ODIN & samsung drivers. Make sure that the phone is recognized,
ON ODIN Select only the phone.
use any modem file using Phone
Click start that should bring your phone back to life.
Search for Eugene Froyo that does not brick and start from there.
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I have TWO completely separate computers with samsung and odin drivers installed, BOTH of them yield the exact same result. The damn computer can't even recognize the phone!
oldfield16 said:
I'm not some friggin noob who doesn't use the search button, ok?? I've tried all this!
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You need to relax for someone who is asking for help.
oldfield16 said:
I have TWO completely separate computers with samsung and odin drivers installed, BOTH of them yield the exact same result. The damn computer can't even recognize the phone!
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Do you have a Jig?
If you do not, then spend the 5$ and get one. Its worth the money. Will get you into download mode in a jiffy.
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You need to relax for someone who is asking for help.
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Sorry, just don't like being treated like some noob who doesn't use the search button/didn't already do some research in attempt to fix it themselves.
chichu_9 said:
Do you have a Jig?
If you do not, then spend the 5$ and get one. Its worth the money. Will get you into download mode in a jiffy.
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If that's my only solution then I'm stuck using a mytouch until that comes......
oldfield16 said:
If that's my only solution then I'm stuck using a mytouch until that comes......
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Team whiskey sells em, I got myn in 3 days.
chichu_9 said:
Team whiskey sells em, I got myn in 3 days.
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Guess I really just don't get why it REFUSES to leave that screen. I myself have saved my phone from that screen a few times myself, now it just won't. No matter what I do it just sits there. Doesn't matter the button combo, doesn't matter when I pull the battery or plug in the USB, not a goddamn thing.. and of course I don't get paid til tomorrow so, I'll have to wait through the entire weekend plus however long it takes for it to arrive so.. if someone could please come up with a solution that makes it so I don't have to go back to my chinsey little mytouch for a full week let me know.
Appreciate the help, but this situation in general.. it's just bull****.
oldfield16 said:
Guess I really just don't get why it REFUSES to leave that screen. I myself have saved my phone from that screen a few times myself, now it just won't. No matter what I do it just sits there. Doesn't matter the button combo, doesn't matter when I pull the battery or plug in the USB, not a goddamn thing.. and of course I don't get paid til tomorrow so, I'll have to wait through the entire weekend plus however long it takes for it to arrive so.. if someone could please come up with a solution that makes it so I don't have to go back to my chinsey little mytouch for a full week let me know.
Appreciate the help, but this situation in general.. it's just bull****.
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I am not sure, which froyo bootloader you tried to flash, but what you did is kill the three button combo on you phone.
If you were in Atlanta, I could have let you borrow my Jig. Sometimes these things are frustrating, but look at them as a learning. Next time you will know not to mess with bootloaders. FYI, you are still lucky than many, things could have been worse.
chichu_9 said:
I am not sure, which froyo bootloader you tried to flash, but what you did is kill the three button combo on you phone.
If you were in Atlanta, I could have let you borrow my Jig. Sometimes these things are frustrating, but look at them as a learning. Next time you will know not to mess with bootloaders. FYI, you are still lucky than many, things could have been worse.
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All I was trying to do was odin to stock and flash the stock froyo bootloader so I could get CM7 working, like so many have done before me. Between all the other **** ups I've been making this last month, this one's kinda pushing me over the edge.
oldfield16 said:
Guess I really just don't get why it REFUSES to leave that screen. I myself have saved my phone from that screen a few times myself, now it just won't. No matter what I do it just sits there. Doesn't matter the button combo, doesn't matter when I pull the battery or plug in the USB, not a goddamn thing.. and of course I don't get paid til tomorrow so, I'll have to wait through the entire weekend plus however long it takes for it to arrive so.. if someone could please come up with a solution that makes it so I don't have to go back to my chinsey little mytouch for a full week let me know.
Appreciate the help, but this situation in general.. it's just bull****.
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you could allways make your own
Rofl bro, exactly that happened to me... rxactly that the t roofl... heres how i fixed it:
First i tried normal download mode, that didnt work.. then i tried pulling out battery, plugging in, holding vol buttons and putting bbattery in... this worked
But then i stupidly.tried tto flash the froyo bootloaders again (from cm7)... same exact issie excrpt the solution didnt work this time... this time i had to make a jig...
Once your in download mode, odin with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING... meaning open odin, plug in dl mode, once recognized, click start.. no pit.or pda or modem or anything and dont touch the repartition or whatever bullets. This wworked for me, it just rebooted into cm7 immidietly
Then if you want froyo bootloaders, do a nandroid, odin to stock, flash em, flasg cm7 and restore the nnandroid.. good luck
Sent from a cell tower to the XDA server to you.
1) take your battery out
2)put your battery in
3)hold vol up and vol down
4)plug your usb cable
this should get u to download mode....
nomadrider123 said:
you could allways make your own
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I decided to take advantage of someone who can get next day shipping for only $5 on amazon so I have a jig coming anyway.
Again, appreciate the methods people are posting, but I've tried em all. My only hope is a jig, and if not then.. well..idk honestly, buy a jtag box?
I was flashing the most recent ICS Rom via CWM and and in the middle of the flash, The screen went black. I **** my pants and then changed my underwear. I then tried to turn on the Phone and it does nothing. USB doesn't recognize, doesn't show any signs of life. The phone is 2 days old.
Ive been flashing since the HTC Hero and nothing like this has ever happened. Please advise.
Considering you list your network as Sprint, I'm going to make a guess that you don't have the I9100 and just hosed your device with firmware for the wrong device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1281
have you tried to turn it on to download mode using the 3 button combination ?
I can assure you that I am on tmobile with their Galaxy S 2. The first phone i had was on sprint like 3 years ago. XDA hasn't caught up.
Ive tried VOL + and - and Power. No joy.
DrHero said:
I can assure you that I am on tmobile with their Galaxy S 2. The first phone i had was on sprint like 3 years ago. XDA hasn't caught up.
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You mean you haven't updated it, and to clarify, my guess still applies, as I still don't think you have an I9100 and have hosed your device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1329
Go to download mode and flash a stock rom .
jje
oinkylicious said:
You mean you haven't updated it, and to clarify, my guess still applies, as I still don't think you have an I9100 and have hosed your device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1329
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I can pull a sim card out of my phone that has a big PINK T on it. Yep i MUST be on sprint.... Can someone who wants to be helpful actually post.
I cant get the phone to do anything no download mode or anything. I'm thinking just return it i have the PHP plan and its brand new.
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Can someone who wants to be helpful actually post.
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I'll try and write this in big letters, because you're clearly not getting this.
YOU DO NOT HAVE AN I9100, YOU HAVE A SGH-T989.
GG.
Try vol- + home + power
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I bricked my galaxy note i717 beyond recovery with a regular jig. I've looked into jtag but I haven't found any information whether it's viable for the i717 (i.e. which jtag it's using, which box I would need, where I would need to bring it etc etc.)
So here's my question: Do any of you guys know any more about how to unbrick the phone or details about whether/how to unbrick using jtag?
Maybe I've overlooked something else. Here's how it went down:
I was stupid and tried to flash the phone with firmware for the N7000 because I was overexcited and didn't know that it wasn't an n7000. Now the recovery mode wouldn't let me upgrade (understandable reasons I guess) so I decided to force flash it with odin which also didn't let me upgrade the phone. So I used some method relying on adb. The process took way to long so I unplugged the phone mid-way through it, then replugged it and suddenly the process reported success. So the phone started rebooting just that instead of actually booting up it stayed black. Pressing any of the buttons yields no response - neither vibration nor any screen response. Using the usb jig also yields no response but I'm not entirely sure if there's a jig method that might work - or a key combo that might work - or even a usb method that might work.
Anyway any advice would be highly appreciated.
Did you try return to the store where you boought it? If your phone don't show anything on the screen, there is no way store knows what's going on with your phone unless you tell them the truth
That's exactly what I would do
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if you can get into download mode try reflashing the stock recovery found in the dev section then if you can get that fair try flashing the odin stock rom to see if it will boot
Read his OP. He can't get into the download mode even with a Jig.
I have yet to encounter any one as reckless as OP trying so hard to brick the phone
foxbat121 said:
Read his OP. He can't get into the download mode even with a Jig.
I have yet to encounter any one as reckless as OP trying so hard to brick the phone
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he never said if he tried with the hardware buttons doesn't mean he cant do it if hes been trying the jig
foxbat121 said:
Read his OP. He can't get into the download mode even with a Jig.
I have yet to encounter any one as reckless as OP trying so hard to brick the phone
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Somebody has to be the guinea pig I guess lol. Glad it wasnt me. LOL Only thing worse is the Will it blend guy or the iFix it tear downs lol.
BLOWNCO said:
he never said if he tried with the hardware buttons doesn't mean he cant do it if hes been trying the jig
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If jig won't work, I'm pretty sure hardware button won't work either. It goes without saying that he probably already tried everything he could find.
edpsx said:
Somebody has to be the guinea pig I guess lol. Glad it wasnt me. LOL Only thing worse is the Will it blend guy or the iFix it tear downs lol.
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That's not guinea pig. He did couple wrong things in a row (wrong ROM, god know what he is doing with abd and then unplug the phone in the middle of flashing or something). If I'd make a guess, he screwed up the bootloader.
foxbat121 said:
Did you try return to the store where you boought it? If your phone don't show anything on the screen, there is no way store knows what's going on with your phone unless you tell them the truth
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Yeah I thought about doing that - worst case scenario they tell me I voided my warranty and give me the phone back and I can still try finding a jtag solution or do i have to face any other consequences including maybe never getting my phone back?
foxbat121 said:
He did couple wrong things in a row (wrong ROM, god know what he is doing with abd and then unplug the phone in the middle of flashing or something). If I'd make a guess, he screwed up the bootloader.
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That's my guess too. I screwed up badly. I would like to blame it on the late hour I did all that but it was just overexcited stupidity -_-
Try your buttons...
Everybody's talking about whether you tried to get into download mode with buttons, but You have not said for sure you tried it.
Hold down down volume button, home button and power button all at the same time. You don't know for sure until you try it.
brojoe11 said:
Everybody's talking about whether you tried to get into download mode with buttons, but You have not said for sure you tried it.
Hold down down volume button, home button and power button all at the same time. You don't know for sure until you try it.
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I'm sorry that I wasn't being very clear on this but I have tried and it didn't work. Thanks though.
cilmeron said:
I'm sorry that I wasn't being very clear on this but I have tried and it didn't work. Thanks though.
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I know on some phones that download mode can still be activated even if the screen isn't working properly and displaying it. I know many infuse users ran into problems and were still able to use Odin to flash stock and fix their phone. Try doing the hardware method of getting into download mode, and even though your screen doesn't show anything, it may still connect to Odin and you could try to flash back to stock.
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U cant brick these phones.use the hardware buttons to get into download mode.
Take battery out and put it back in.hold power vol down and home for 20sec and then press vol up and plug into ur pc with odin running.u should see something on port section.
If that dont work.hold power and both vol. Buttons for 30 sec. Then press vol.up and plug in usb.hope it works.
mintu123 said:
U cant brick these phones.use the hardware buttons to get into download mode.
Take battery out and put it back in.hold power vol down and home for 20sec and then press vol up and plug into ur pc with odin running.u should see something on port section.
If that dont work.hold power and both vol. Buttons for 30 sec. Then press vol.up and plug in usb.hope it works.
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Actually, you can brick it to the point of needing JTAG repairs to restore your device. That being said, it's very very very hard to brick it. You have to do something like flash firmware for a completely wrong device and screw up your bootloaders in the process.
cilmeron said:
I bricked my galaxy note i717 beyond recovery with a regular jig. I've looked into jtag but I haven't found any information whether it's viable for the i717 (i.e. which jtag it's using, which box I would need, where I would need to bring it etc etc.)
So here's my question: Do any of you guys know any more about how to unbrick the phone or details about whether/how to unbrick using jtag?
Maybe I've overlooked something else. Here's how it went down:
I was stupid and tried to flash the phone with firmware for the N7000 because I was overexcited and didn't know that it wasn't an n7000. Now the recovery mode wouldn't let me upgrade (understandable reasons I guess) so I decided to force flash it with odin which also didn't let me upgrade the phone. So I used some method relying on adb. The process took way to long so I unplugged the phone mid-way through it, then replugged it and suddenly the process reported success. So the phone started rebooting just that instead of actually booting up it stayed black. Pressing any of the buttons yields no response - neither vibration nor any screen response. Using the usb jig also yields no response but I'm not entirely sure if there's a jig method that might work - or a key combo that might work - or even a usb method that might work.
Anyway any advice would be highly appreciated.
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I've read some so my suggestion is this:
First make sure that you have the drivers installed for your phone. Then pull the battery wait for a few seconds. press the down button and then the power to go in download mode and hold them pressed for 20s. Now plug in the USB and press the volume up button. If Odin detects it you're good to go! If not... Well it's worth a shot
My theory is that even though the screen is blank, the hardware still boots properly. Just make sure your battery is somewhat charged. And also plug in the USB AFTER you "boot" in download mode.
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I was stupid and tried to flash the phone with firmware for the N7000 because I was overexcited and didn't know that it wasn't an n7000. Now the recovery mode wouldn't let me upgrade (understandable reasons I guess) so I decided to force flash it with odin which also didn't let me upgrade the phone. So I used some method relying on adb. The process took way to long so I unplugged the phone mid-way through it, then replugged it and suddenly the process reported success. So the phone started rebooting just that instead of actually booting up it stayed black. Pressing any of the buttons yields no response - neither vibration nor any screen response. Using the usb jig also yields no response but I'm not entirely sure if there's a jig method that might work - or a key combo that might work - or even a usb method that might work.
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Everything here screams 'you should never attempt to modify your device again.'
What is it with all you smart asses telling him he shouldn't have done it??? What, you never made a mistake in your entire life???
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Why don't you find Adam_Outler in the hardware hacking forum? Send your phone to him and he'll hopefully be able to create an unbrickable mod. Not only will you likely have a fixed phone but it will mean volumes for our community.
Note, you will be without a phone for a bit
I did something stupid to my note too so don't feel too bad. **** happens... I returned my note to att with no problem because my screen was permanently black. Wouldn't do anything download mode,cwm nothin.. Flashed gsm kernel from root so beware the way its layed out u won't know its gsm unless you read it extremely careful. I had read the thread three times and only caught it after i read really slowly post-brick.
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ekerbuddyeker said:
What is it with all you smart asses telling him he shouldn't have done it??? What, you never made a mistake in your entire life???
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It's not that, we've all made mistakes, but it's like this guy went out of his way to try to brick the phone. This isn't like "oh crap, I flashed the wrong radio"
He tried to flash a ROM from a different SoC and every fail-safe wouldn't let him do it. I'm surprised at how well the different programs tried to save his phone, then he actually went ADB and forced it onto his phone and then he unplugs during a flash.
It's like he drove his car without paying attention and hit a fence that prevents you from flying off a cliff, then he kept ramming his car into the fence, then took some C4, blew up the fence, drove off the cliff, then started yelling "help, I fell off the cliff"
N3RD420 said:
I did something stupid to my note too so don't feel too bad. **** happens... I returned my note to att with no problem because my screen was permanently black. Wouldn't do anything download mode,cwm nothin.. Flashed gsm kernel from root so beware the way its layed out u won't know its gsm unless you read it extremely careful. I had read the thread three times and only caught it after i read really slowly post-brick.
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I'm confused, is there a CDMA Note? What do you mean "they won't know it's GSM"?
I am a "new" Vibrant owner. I bought some broken ones in an effort to fix them. My question is, if the phone is off and you plug it into a charger, is there an animation while the battery is charging?
Yep the battery refilling
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Ok so the phone isn't doing that. Any ideas? Also, when I have left it plugged in for a while and turn it on, it goes to the AT&T screen and doesn't move. Sometimes the phone will show that or the charging screen for three to five seconds and then start all over in a infinite loop.
Kinda lost on this thing right now.
Are you sure it's a vibrant and not the Atnt version?
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seedofchaos said:
Are you sure it's a vibrant and not the Atnt version?
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Sorry, what's the difference?
I mean it has a TMobile logo, and was sold to me in a TMobile box. The guts look the same so I don't know how to tell the difference
onlymojo said:
I mean it has a TMobile logo, and was sold to me in a TMobile box. The guts look the same so I don't know how to tell the difference
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it should start with a screen with Vibrant (and) Samsung screen, then a screen with animation that ends with a box with (magenta) Stick Together. That's tmobile phone. Besides, the phone should have Tmobile on its screen. That should be enough to be able to tell if it's tmobile Galaxy S or not.
onlymojo said:
I mean it has a TMobile logo, and was sold to me in a TMobile box. The guts look the same so I don't know how to tell the difference
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The phone was probably rooted and someone installed custom ROMs on it etc.
I'm sure if you search a bit here you can find guides on how to ODIN your phone. Do that method and it will reset your phone to STOCK settings, meaning how it was out of the box brand new. Read some up on ODIN'ing your phone because even though it IS a easy to do it, if you for example, put the wrong file to flash etc. You can potentially BRICK your phone, meaning unusable etc.
Read up, ask questions, then proceed to do it.
There are probably plenty of video guides as well.
xriderx66 said:
The phone was probably rooted and someone installed custom ROMs on it etc.
I'm sure if you search a bit here you can find guides on how to ODIN your phone. Do that method and it will reset your phone to STOCK settings, meaning how it was out of the box brand new. Read some up on ODIN'ing your phone because even though it IS a easy to do it, if you for example, put the wrong file to flash etc. You can potentially BRICK your phone, meaning unusable etc.
Read up, ask questions, then proceed to do it.
There are probably plenty of video guides as well.
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My computer isn't recognizing it so I am not sure if I can get it back or not. Might have to JTAG this thing. I try to put it in download mode but it won't go over so this is annoying.
ciditin said:
it should start with a screen with Vibrant (and) Samsung screen, then a screen with animation that ends with a box with (magenta) Stick Together. That's tmobile phone. Besides, the phone should have Tmobile on its screen. That should be enough to be able to tell if it's tmobile Galaxy S or not.
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K, well it says T mobile on the screen but when it boots up it says AT&T Worldphone. I can video it if you want to see it.
onlymojo said:
K, well it says T mobile on the screen but when it boots up it says AT&T Worldphone. I can video it if you want to see it.
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Can you go to Settings>About Phone
and list some things like
KERNEL
Android Version
Modem
also do you have a app named SUPERUSER on your phone?
Here I found you the ODIN thread i was talking about...
Lets get the first questions I asked out of the way, and then if its all fine then I think you should be good to stay as it is since if your TMOBILE service is connected and its all working, it shouldn't be a big deal, and if it is, we can easily get you on another FAST ROM which will most likely remove that ATT logo.
ODIN tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
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Can you go to Settings>About Phone
and list some things like
KERNEL
Android Version
Modem
also do you have a app named SUPERUSER on your phone?
Here I found you the ODIN thread i was talking about...
Lets get the first questions I asked out of the way, and then if its all fine then I think you should be good to stay as it is since if your TMOBILE service is connected and its all working, it shouldn't be a big deal, and if it is, we can easily get you on another FAST ROM which will most likely remove that ATT logo.
ODIN tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
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I can't get the phone to boot right now. It stays stuck on the AT&T Worldphone screen and won't go any further.
Edit: We don't have T Mobile in Canada. I was gonna try to fix it and use it here on one of our providers.
onlymojo said:
I can't get the phone to boot right now. It stays stuck on the AT&T Worldphone screen and won't go any further.
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Oh! I mis understood.
Go to the Odin thread I linked to and follow the directions
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xriderx66 said:
Oh! I mis understood.
Go to the Odin thread I linked to and follow the directions
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All the links are broken!
xriderx66 said:
Oh! I mis understood.
Go to the Odin thread I linked to and follow the directions
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Tracked down the files but can't get it into download mode. Jig time?
Seems that way. Jig it and put stock back then reroot
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onlymojo said:
Tracked down the files but can't get it into download mode. Jig time?
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How have you tried to go into Download mode?
1st:
Take out ALL things sim,sd,battery
Plug in a usb
hold both volume buttons WHILE putting in the battery
Then try that a few times, if it doesn't work... when its booting up, try to hold down power+volume up ( this is for GB bootloaders but just making sure previous owner didn't flash them)
Heres another guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
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How have you tried to go into Download mode?
1st:
Take out ALL things sim,sd,battery
Plug in a usb
hold both volume buttons WHILE putting in the battery
Then try that a few times, if it doesn't work... when its booting up, try to hold down power+volume up ( this is for GB bootloaders but just making sure previous owner didn't flash them)
Heres another guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
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Yeah, I tried every variation of holding down the volume/power keys and nothing. It either goes to the un-animated battery charging screen or an AT&T Worldphone logo and stops. Like I said, I would be more than happy to video it so you can see what it's doing.
Mistakenly posted this over in the I9100 forum first.
I tried to root an S2 with ODIN and siyah. Afterwards it worked but I noticed that the splash screen showed I9100 (I used the I777 file). Anyway, I later realized that the guy i bought it from had left stuff on it (he reset without wiping). I decided to wipe it and now it won't go past the splash screen and won't go into download mode that I can tell.
I was told in the other forum that I will most likely require a jig to get it to work. Considering I can't even root the thing right, I will probably buy one instead of making one. Does it matter what model of S2 it is on the jig? I see some that say I9100 but not I777. I just want to make sure if i order one I get the right thing.
What did you try to get it to download mode?
Jack_R1 said:
What did you try to get it to download mode?
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To get into Download Mode, I held down the down volume, the home button and the power button. The splash screen comes up but just goes blank after that. I'm afraid I may be out of luck.
Thanks for any suggestions you can give - i feel sick about this whole situation!
hipsterdo0fus said:
To get into Download Mode, I held down the down volume, the home button and the power button. The splash screen comes up but just goes blank after that. I'm afraid I may be out of luck.
Thanks for any suggestions you can give - i feel sick about this whole situation!
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You should read the stickies... You're doing it wrong.
Volume up and down plus power. Leave USB disconnected.
Everything is explained in the stickies.... Read them
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Pirateghost said:
You should read the stickies... You're doing it wrong.
Volume up and down plus power. Leave USB disconnected.
Everything is explained in the stickies.... Read them
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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The sticky I am looking at doesn't coincide with what you are saying, which may be why I am confused. The guide says:
Boot into download mode by this method:
With the phone powered off, plug in the usb cable while holding the vol up + vol down buttons (but not the power button).
When the warning screen appears, press Volume up to continue into download mode.
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Which is not giving me a dang thing. Doing your method or any other method only gives me the splash screen then black again.
hipsterdo0fus said:
The sticky I am looking at doesn't coincide with what you are saying, which may be why I am confused. The guide says:
Which is not giving me a dang thing. Doing your method or any other method only gives me the splash screen then black again.
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Sorry. Volume up down and power is for recovery. Volume up down and plug in usb is download. The only way this would have changed on your device is if you flashed primary or secondary bootloader from the i9100
But based on what you said before is that you were following the i9100 method to get into the different recovery and download mode, since the i777 doesn't have a physical home button like the i9100
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Pirateghost said:
Sorry. Volume up down and power is for recovery. Volume up down and plug in usb is download. The only way this would have changed on your device is if you flashed primary or secondary bootloader from the i9100
But based on what you said before is that you were following the i9100 method to get into the different recovery and download mode, since the i777 doesn't have a physical home button like the i9100
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Well, I followed a video from galaxys2rootdotcom that said it was for I777 and the file I used said I777 but after doing it, the splash screen said I9100. If I hold down the powerbutton and or other buttons while it is not plugged in, I get the splash screen with the exclamation then it goes off. If I try it while it is plugged in, I get a grey battery icon. Sounds like best bet is a jig?
Check out my signature and download the adb portable from one of my previous posts.
It has a reboot download mode batch file that should be able to help you out.
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium
Red_81 said:
Check out my signature and download the adb portable from one of my previous posts.
It has a reboot download mode batch file that should be able to help you out.
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium
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Thank you for your suggestion. I tried it and when I plug in the phone and turn it on all i get is the grey battery icon then it goes off after a few seconds. thanks though.
Sounds like your battery is extremely drained. Try leaving it in the phone overnight and then use the wall charger in the morning.
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Red_81 said:
Sounds like your battery is extremely drained. Try leaving it in the phone overnight and then use the wall charger in the morning.
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium
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Red - that was my initial thought but it was fine before I did the wipe and I did try charging it some. Also, when I did the wipe, it was plugged in, which makes it odd that it would die. I'll certainly give it a try.
One thing I noticed at home that I had not seen here (it was too bright to notice) was that it does indeed seem to be stuck in a loop. The screen flashes a little brighter every few seconds before going dim again. At this point, it doesn't seem that I have much option but to wait to try to use the jig to get it in download more *fingers crossed*, and then swear to never get advice from rooting from anywhere but here.
I got my jig in and immediately went into download mode, which was a relief. I went to try to reset to stock using the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659 . Everything okay but when it comes up to the welcome screen and try to click on the android to start, i just keep getting errors about google services framework stopping.
hipsterdo0fus said:
I got my jig in and immediately went into download mode, which was a relief. I went to try to reset to stock using the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659 . Everything okay but when it comes up to the welcome screen and try to click on the android to start, i just keep getting errors about google services framework stopping.
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Factory reset
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Factory reset
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Thanks, I just saw something else that said I should do that, but I can't figure out what I need to do that since all I get is the welcome screen. Recovery mode? (Sorry, I got into download mode but unsure about recovery).
on edit: Okay got into recovery (sorry, this device is new to me).
Got it working now - looks fine!