bricked? Please help - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was running passion v9.2 and went to go back to stock. Some thing went wrong and now the phone wont boot at all. Only thing i can get it to do is come to this screen with red text after holding volume up and power key for 30 sec. With the red text showing odin recognizes my phone with a com7 but when i try to flash it gets stuck at setup connection. Is there any thing i can do to bring this phone back to life. thanks

Keep trying to get to download mode, you're not bricked if you have any life at all
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Did you use the correct files for odining from ics? You cannot use the ordinary files...
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Switch off ur phone and remove the battery and sim card. Leave your phone for 30 mns. And try to get download mode by pressing vol up/down keys and connect your usb cable. If u faild you can use jig method.
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safe mode?

phone is running in safe mode? lower left corner shows that. bricked? data isnt working right now and calendar kept FC.
Did you manage to get windows 98 on your phone lol. I have never seen that before. Try nandroid restore or factory reset or reflash rom.
I've seen safe mode on android phones before and a reboot usually makes it go away
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I had a safe mode too. Reboot it.
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I think if you hold menu during boot it will come up in safe mode. Sometimes I'll do it accidentally if I touch the right place at the right time when handling the phone when it boots. It's a pain because I have to put most of my widgets back to the desktop because they get the problem loading error. I also freak out because I think my phone got wiped
My phone is in safe mode!
HOLLY COW, SAFE MODE IS REAL!
I've tried to get into safe mode in the past to no avail.
Out of the blue, I look down on my phone it says "Safe mode" on the lower left corner in a ghosted box. How the heck did I get myself into there? I've tried every key combo in the past to no avail. I musta restarted my phone and had my hand on the capactive buttons without knowing.
I want to take a snapsoht with Shootme, but it won't let me open Shootme for some reason.
LOL anyway just got excited there for a second.
Now I rebooted and can't get back in safe mode. How the heck do you get into safe mode? I've tried every capactive button combo people have suggested
I had to send on my og g1 due to being stuck in safe mode...my menu button was stuck, causing it to go into safe mode on every boot. Its nothing new really.
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jamesd86 said:
I had to send on my og g1 due to being stuck in safe mode...my menu button was stuck, causing it to go into safe mode on every boot. Its nothing new really.
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ya I know it's not new, I just never been able to get into it. Then suddenly today my phon was in safe mode, now for the life of me, I can't get it to go back in.
I just booted ibto,safe mode by holding menu and powering on...hold menu untill you see safe mode on the bottom of the screen.
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jamesd86 said:
I just booted ibto,safe mode by holding menu and powering on...hold menu untill you see safe mode on the bottom of the screen.
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Didn't work for me, kept my finger on menu, powered on my phone, kept finger on menu the entire time, no safe mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872006
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872006
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ya i had that happen to my widgets
but i still cant get back into safe mode.
oh well
I must have gotten lucky because all my widgets worked fine after i rebooted my phone ealier.
jamesd86 said:
I must have gotten lucky because all my widgets worked fine after i rebooted my phone ealier.
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It might depend on which widget. I rebooted once after safe mode. I'm on stock JI6.
SamsungVibrant said:
HOLLY COW, SAFE MODE IS REAL!
I've tried to get into safe mode in the past to no avail.
Out of the blue, I look down on my phone it says "Safe mode" on the lower left corner in a ghosted box. How the heck did I get myself into there? I've tried every key combo in the past to no avail. I musta restarted my phone and had my hand on the capactive buttons without knowing.
I want to take a snapsoht with Shootme, but it won't let me open Shootme for some reason.
LOL anyway just got excited there for a second.
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Just like a computer the phone will only startup the the bare basics to let it run. All third party apps will not work in safe mode.
Fear the beard...
I had my vibrant go into safe mode once also, my phone was not charged so when i got to work i plugged it into my work computer, after a while grabbed my phone and it was dead, Zip, zero, nada. After awhile pulled the battery out, and put it back in, the phone started up, but into safe mode. What i believed happened was when you plug in a mass storage device (AKA Thumb drive) into a computer at work, it trying to encrypt the device, and i think my phone said "Nope not gonna happen" and locked itselfs. Not sure, but not going to plug itin again.

So I have the little pc with phone icon and it wont go into download mode

yup i cant get in it
i know my phone isnt hardware locked
just bought a jig hopefully this will work
Uh,
1. Take the battery, sim, sd card out.
2. Connect USB cable.
3. Hold volume down and up buttons at the same time. (NOT the power one.)
4. Insert battery. (Keep holding the volume buttons down.)
5. DOWNLOAD MODE.
kbai.
you dont have to leave the batt out btw. i would suggest having all files in odin and ready to go
Easy fix no worries
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yes i tried and nothing
the jig has been shipped so i should have it by thursday or friday
will post when i have a fixed phone
This happened to me today and I though i bricked it. You dont technically see the normal "download mode" screen, the same image of the phone and computer with the yield sign is still there but odin will recognize your phone. Its weird but it works just do the volume and power button thing to get into download mode like usual
Wtf? Listen take out the battery. Plug the usb into computer first.
The hold up and down vol buttons down.
Then plug in usb into phone while still holding both vol buttons.
Should work.
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Virtuososteve said:
This happened to me today and I though i bricked it. You dont technically see the normal "download mode" screen, the same image of the phone and computer with the yield sign is still there but odin will recognize your phone. Its weird but it works just do the volume and power button thing to get into download mode like usual
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Yes he should see download mode. power button?
Um no.
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mr.orange303 said:
Wtf? Listen take out the battery. Plug the usb into computer first.
The hold up and down vol buttons down.
Then plug in usb into phone while still holding both vol buttons.
Should work.
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Do not put the battery in unless it doesnt go into dl mode.
Then you would put it in after connecting the usb trick is never let the vol buttons go until you see dl mode.
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[Q] Safe Mode

I got a little trigger happy while holding my volume button down while restarting to enter recovery. My phone restarted in Safe Mode. I'm just curious what this mode is and if it could possibly be useful?
Im pretty sure its judt like a computer safe mode. In other words you use it to remove problem apps or a virus.
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galaxy s3 doesn't turn on, nothing at all

is it dead? i wasnt flashing it or anything, it was working last night, and i tried to turn the screen on today as my blue light was flashing this morning (i probably had a message) and it wouldnt turn on, so i pulled battery and this didnt work either, the phone was not on charge either,
now no matter what i try it justs dark screen,
Could be hardware issues. Send to service centre.
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Try going to download mode and flash another firmware. You may also try to force it to go to download mode (if ever you cant go to dl mode manually with the button combo)
If all else fails, send it to service center
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[Q] Dead, but can i get my data?

My galaxy s 2 is dead. When i try to turn it on, there will be light in the "back" and "menu" button, but the screen do not turn on. Sometimes the alarm starts, but because the screen dont turns on, i can't turn it off.
There are still warrenty on the phone, so the question is not how to fix the phone, i just want to to know, if there is any way that i can get my data, pictures e.g.
I hope someone know some sort of software that i can install on my computer, to connect the phone.
Use adb to copy sdcard to pc
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Alex_7859 said:
My galaxy s 2 is dead. When i try to turn it on, there will be light in the "back" and "menu" button, but the screen do not turn on. Sometimes the alarm starts, but because the screen dont turns on, i can't turn it off.
There are still warrenty on the phone, so the question is not how to fix the phone, i just want to to know, if there is any way that i can get my data, pictures e.g.
I hope someone know some sort of software that i can install on my computer, to connect the phone.
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Install kies on your pc and connect your phone to it. I'm not 100% sure, but there is a possibility that you may be able to retrieve your pictures.
grisoxxl said:
Use adb to copy sdcard to pc
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Lol... Don't tell this solution to noobs. More often than not, it will result in confusion and a barrage of questions.
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