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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.
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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.
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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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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!
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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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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.
Hello Everyone,
I have just installed a ROM from CWM, and selected Reboot system, and phone turned off and wouldn't turn back on. nothing, completely black, not even boot up screen, nothing, I pulled out battery and put back in, nothing as well. put it on charger and still nothing.
Not quite sure what to do.
Is there a reset button for it?
Anyone any thoughts?
Thanks.
try to get it into download mode...by pressing power button and down button
It's like im clicking nothing, doesn't make a difference, still powered off.
What rom did you flash on your note?
I have realized that I flashed a wrong ROM on there.
It's for N700 the other note. not the i717
[ROM] CriskeloRomNOTE ICS V1 Beta3
Although im CWM it read the file and expanded it.
You probily have bricked your galaxy note as the 2 different model notes, use different boatloaders as they both use differnt cpu chips.You will have to take your phone to Bell to get it fixed or replaced.
Try this method. ..pull battery and put it back in...hold down volume up and down while plugging into pc...
That may get you into download mode so you can flash the stock rom etc
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You can try one of these. They're only a couple of dollars and supposed to force the phone into DL mode. I believe someone on the forums said it works for the ATT note:
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
Nothing worked,
Bell wouldn't send it away because it's been rooted, doesn't that void the warranty.
7ilmi said:
Nothing worked,
Bell wouldn't send it away because it's been rooted, doesn't that void the warranty.
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you are holding the buttons down yes ? hold the vol down and the power button, HOLD THEM down , if its not hard bricked you should boot to down load,, you will get a vibration and then the down load screan , if you get nothing at all your hard bricked and i think you are out of luck
yeah nothing,
It seems like I am out of luck.
7ilmi said:
yeah nothing,
It seems like I am out of luck.
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Try the USB jig dude. Worst case is you're out $4.
If the phone does not boot, bell can not tell if it is rooted or not
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Phone Samsung Canada and get your phone fixed or replaced. You do no have to go through bell for warrant. It is along faster to deal with Samsung directly as i have done in the past
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My first note got permanent black screen like yours for a mistake I made. Return it like i did they'll think it was a defective device. I was in and out in 10 mins.
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That's what I did,
Thanks guys, I got a replacement.
Bricked Phone Returns
For the future, NEVER admit to rooting a phone that cannot be turned on... Almost never comes back once mailed away from the dealer.... They just don't care... Just play dumb at the dealer....
You can buy a jig for $8.00 that will get you to download mode and flash back to stock. I bought mine from video tech out of Texas.
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i tried to flash a rom and when it finished it turned off and now it wont turn back on. i have tried going into recovery and going into download mode and nothing. do you think a usbjig will work? or can i return it and just say the phone wont power back on?
update: if i plug it in to my computer i can hear the notification my computer gives when i plug in a usb device but the tome is different. its like a deeper tone.
anyone?????
So, you can get into recovery or no? Maybe look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27850974&postcount=7
zonly1 said:
So, you can get into recovery or no? Maybe look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27850974&postcount=7
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no. i cant get into recovery nor into download mode. the screen shows nothing at all and the phone doesnt vibrate. i did the tmobile chat and she said they might need to exchange it but would take 7-10 business days. i didnt tell her it was rooted tho. i was hoping the usb jig would unbrick it. i have an old usb from my other phone. i already cut it and stripped it but i need a 300k resistor and radioshack doesnt open in 1 more hour.
i just checked device manager and if i plug in my device it shows QHSUSB_DLOAD with a yellow exclamation.
update: i installed some drivers i found online and it now shows as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (com7) in device manager but odin wont recognize it still
so after doing the live chat with samsung and they wanted me to send them my phone to check it out and i had to wait 6-10 business days i went to my local tmobile store the guy tried to turn it on tried charging it and said to go back on wednesday because thats when they get them. so i am stuck with a loner phone.
That's a bummer...just curious...what ROM were you trying to flash?
zonly1 said:
That's a bummer...just curious...what ROM were you trying to flash?
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I didn't know there was roms to flash yet
Then how'd it get bricked?
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http://rootgalaxys3iii.com/root-at-t-galaxy-s3/
Fixboot.tar just in case anything screws up when rooting. Saved some people's lives. Odin if anything happens to phone
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So how did u brick it?
worst case, take it back to tmobile tell them that it got really hot and turned off and wont power up. they wont check anything. just get a new one. and DONT FLASH ANYTHING UNTIL YOU READ UP ON IT! we are all using the Rooted stock rom. just chill out for now... ROMS WILL COME. this is the hottest phone on the market...
I thought Samsung phones were unbrickable. Is this sort of thing common or was it a bad unit?
fcortes626 said:
so after doing the live chat with samsung and they wanted me to send them my phone to check it out and i had to wait 6-10 business days i went to my local tmobile store the guy tried to turn it on tried charging it and said to go back on wednesday because thats when they get them. so i am stuck with a loner phone.
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Use the jig. I made one with parts from Radio Shack and it works on the S3.
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wiser212 said:
Use the jig. I made one with parts from Radio Shack and it works on the S3.
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You are wrong in this case because he hard bricked it, which is why he only sees the QHUSB_DLOAD mode.
That requires special software in order to flash, and we don't get access to it.
Lantek23 said:
I didn't know there was roms to flash yet
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there isnt
avataranjie said:
Then how'd it get bricked?
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i tried the cm9 fro international and changed the buildprop and bootimg
avataranjie said:
http://rootgalaxys3iii.com/root-at-t-galaxy-s3/
Fixboot.tar just in case anything screws up when rooting. Saved some people's lives. Odin if anything happens to phone
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odin wont find my phone
dasistsparta said:
So how did u brick it?
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flashed an international rom
Radsolutionz said:
worst case, take it back to tmobile tell them that it got really hot and turned off and wont power up. they wont check anything. just get a new one. and DONT FLASH ANYTHING UNTIL YOU READ UP ON IT! we are all using the Rooted stock rom. just chill out for now... ROMS WILL COME. this is the hottest phone on the market...
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yea i went yesterday and just said it wont turn on. he tried it and plugged it into the power outlet and nothing. he just said they dont get their shipments until wednesday(tomorrow) so i guess they will exchange it. good thing it was on warranty still. im guessing samsung wont be able to tell it was rooted since they cant access it and they will just reflash it and sell it as refurbished or something right?
wiser212 said:
Use the jig. I made one with parts from Radio Shack and it works on the S3.
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i was going to try it but it didnt work out lol. all the pins fell. i also read it wont work with devices that have a blank screen
Hunt3r.j2 said:
You are wrong in this case because he hard bricked it, which is why he only sees the QHUSB_DLOAD mode.
That requires special software in order to flash, and we don't get access to it.
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yup. i got qpst to see it but i dont know how to use that software so ill just wait until tomorrow. it was just some videos and pics i wanted to pull from the sd card. oh and i noticed the back cover was scratched so i want a new one lol. mus of happened when the tmobile guy got it out of the box and set it on the counter cuz i had a zagg cover all arround it. but oh well. i was the first to brick the s3 lol and that was the first phone i ever hard bricked. lesson learned haha
ECrispy said:
I thought Samsung phones were unbrickable. Is this sort of thing common or was it a bad unit?
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An unbrickable phone does not exist. The closest to unbrickable as you can get is an iPhone. But it can be bricked if you try hard enough I'm sure. Strapping an m80 to my iPhone seemed to do the trick as well
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unbrickable phones do exist, almost all samsung galaxy phones are capable of getting the "unbrickable mod" which is a hardware modification that enables the phone to be re-flashed without working bootloaders. but unbrickable out of the box, no.
Evocm7 said:
An unbrickable phone does not exist. The closest to unbrickable as you can get is an iPhone. But it can be bricked if you try hard enough I'm sure. Strapping an m80 to my iPhone seemed to do the trick as well
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isnt the captivate unbrickable?
i read somewhere that there are some phones that boot from the sd card first and that those are unbrickable.
fcortes626 said:
isnt the captivate unbrickable?
i read somewhere that there are some phones that boot from the sd card first and that those are unbrickable.
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I believe there are some that are very difficult to brick such as a setup that boots from sd like you mentioned. Regardless of how difficult it is to brick, there is always some idiot out there that will do the impossible
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Hey everyone,
I just rooted my At&t galaxy S II (SGH-i777) for the 1st time. I updated my phone with the official At&t/Samsung ICS update, and the phone became very laggy, so I said it's time to root. Anyways, I had no trouble with rooting phone. The trouble came after I installed clockworkmod recovery from google play store.
I installed Rom manger first from clockworkmod. I saw there was a backup icon in the app. So I clicked on it, and it told me I have to download clockworkmod recovery before I could use it. So I did, and when it finished downloading, I clicked on backup again in rom manager. The screen went blank afterwards(it was actually off), but the phone was still on (i saw the four button lights still on). It was like this for a few minutes, so I decided to turn the phone off. When I turned it back on, the phone would show the 1st screen, the Samsung SII screen, and then turn off. I took the battery out, and put it back in, the same thing. I tried getting into download mode by holding the volume, and power buttons, and the same thing would happen.
Does anybody have any advice/suggestions?
wdepoo said:
Hey everyone,
I just rooted my At&t galaxy S II (SGH-i777) for the 1st time. I updated my phone with the official At&t/Samsung ICS update, and the phone became very laggy, so I said it's time to root. Anyways, I had no trouble with rooting phone. The trouble came after I installed clockworkmod recovery from google play store.
I installed Rom manger first from clockworkmod. I saw there was a backup icon in the app. So I clicked on it, and it told me I have to download clockworkmod recovery before I could use it. So I did, and when it finished downloading, I clicked on backup again in rom manager. The screen went blank afterwards(it was actually off), but the phone was still on (i saw the four button lights still on). It was like this for a few minutes, so I decided to turn the phone off. When I turned it back on, the phone would show the 1st screen, the Samsung SII screen, and then turn off. I took the battery out, and put it back in, the same thing. I tried getting into download mode by holding the volume, and power buttons, and the same thing would happen.
Does anybody have any advice/suggestions?
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LIKE 10th post about Rom Manager in the last day!!!! NEVER USE ROM MANAGER
Plug your USB in and see if you can boot into DL mode.
Don't. Use. Rom Manager.
The End
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I definitely will not! I was following the instructions on a website about backing up my phone. I found a stock rom, then I rerooted the phone again. The guy miswrote for the att sii, and that's what screwed me up the 1st time. He was using an international version of the sii, and the button pressing was a little different with ours. I got CWMR to work, backed up to my internal sd. Now I'm looking at a couple ROMs I want to install.
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I definitely will not! I was following the instructions on a website about backing up my phone. I found a stock rom, then I rerooted the phone again. The guy miswrote for the att sii, and that's what screwed me up the 1st time. He was using an international version of the sii, and the button pressing was a little different with ours. I got CWMR to work, backed up to my internal sd. Now I'm looking at a couple ROMs I want to install.
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From my travels, I've come to find out that we, as a human race, should more or less only trust what's on XDA when it comes to information on our phones. Good luck and remember, spends lots of time reading before you do any mods, its will save you time in the long run.
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I just installed rom manager and naow my phone won't boot it keeps saying FAIL, reading is FAIL and tells me to search moarr is this normal?!
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Phalanx7621 said:
I just installed rom manager and naow my phone won't boot it keeps saying FAIL, reading is FAIL and tells me to search moarr is this normal?!
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Ur an idiot. You have to update to stock 4.0.3 and factory reset. Then you flash the abberation ROM but the i777 ROM doesn't work u have to use the 9100
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122ninjas said:
Ur an idiot. You have to update to stock 4.0.3 and factory reset. Then you flash the abberation ROM but the i777 ROM doesn't work u have to use the 9100
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Play nice people
jthatch12 said:
Play nice people
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Can't tell if saying stop the sarcasm or stop saying false info
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122ninjas said:
Can't tell if saying stop the sarcasm or stop saying false info
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False info lol. Help the kid out, I'd do it myself but don't feel like helping any nubs today :laugh:
Phalanx just made a joke, you guys.
He just pretends a newbie
Why can't you guys see it?
Lol been trolled again ninja!
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jthatch12 said:
False info lol. Help the kid out, I'd do it myself but don't feel like helping any nubs today :laugh:
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I think he fixed his problem..
Yeah in case anyone didn't know I was just joking lol. just find it funny how many people are making threads about rom manager and / or they have a sky rocket instead of an i777. Is it just me or have there been a ton of them popping up in the last few weeks
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Phalanx7621 said:
Yeah in case anyone didn't know I was just joking lol. just find it funny how many people are making threads about rom manager and / or they have a sky rocket instead of an i777. Is it just me or have there been a ton of them popping up in the last few weeks
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I thought it was always like this. I managed to stay away from q and a for a while till last week which seemed to have been the releasing of the nubs
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I had exactly the same problem
I have the same problem with galaxy ace. I typically did the same mistake and do not know what to do. My phone does not turn on completely
Any help !!
wdepoo said:
Hey everyone,
I just rooted my At&t galaxy S II (SGH-i777) for the 1st time. I updated my phone with the official At&t/Samsung ICS update, and the phone became very laggy, so I said it's time to root. Anyways, I had no trouble with rooting phone. The trouble came after I installed clockworkmod recovery from google play store.
I installed Rom manger first from clockworkmod. I saw there was a backup icon in the app. So I clicked on it, and it told me I have to download clockworkmod recovery before I could use it. So I did, and when it finished downloading, I clicked on backup again in rom manager. The screen went blank afterwards(it was actually off), but the phone was still on (i saw the four button lights still on). It was like this for a few minutes, so I decided to turn the phone off. When I turned it back on, the phone would show the 1st screen, the Samsung SII screen, and then turn off. I took the battery out, and put it back in, the same thing. I tried getting into download mode by holding the volume, and power buttons, and the same thing would happen.
Does anybody have any advice/suggestions?
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essam002002 said:
I have the same problem with galaxy ace. I typically did the same mistake and do not know what to do. My phone does not turn on completely
Any help !!
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Go back to your section.
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Go back to your section.
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+1. And did u see the two month old bump he did as well? He deserves TWO cookies. TWO I say!
I followed a root-guide a couple of weeks ago and my phone worked perfectly.
I have no memory of what ROM I used, nor do I remember if I flashed a Kernel or not. I'm pretty new at this.
Now, today, my phone sent a notification that a new firmware update was available. Stupid as I am I just press "install" right away. Not much later my phone tried to reboot and suddenly was stuck at the Samsung logo screen. I tried pulling out the battery to reboot and it still wouldn't work. If I connected it to my PC it shows a battery but the spinning arrow-thingy is frozen.
After searching these forums and other places I found several guides on how to fix stuff like this, by either flashing with a new kernel - or rom or w/e I don't know - or going into recovery mode and do something funky. The problem is that I can't reach recovery mode at all, and when I enter download mode it's just frozen at "Downloading..." and I can't get it to connect to my PC at all (tried both with and without Kies). In Odin the ID:COM cells won't update when I connect my phone.
Do you guys have any idea how to resolve this? Do I have to take it to a service centre?
Edit: The phone is out of battery, suddenly, apparently, so I tried to charge it, but that doesn't work either. What the **** has happened to my phone? Please help if you can!
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I followed a root-guide a couple of weeks ago and my phone worked perfectly.
I have no memory of what ROM I used, nor do I remember if I flashed a Kernel or not. I'm pretty new at this.
Now, today, my phone sent a notification that a new firmware update was available. Stupid as I am I just press "install" right away. Not much later my phone tried to reboot and suddenly was stuck at the Samsung logo screen. I tried pulling out the battery to reboot and it still wouldn't work. If I connected it to my PC it shows a battery but the spinning arrow-thingy is frozen.
After searching these forums and other places I found several guides on how to fix stuff like this, by either flashing with a new kernel - or rom or w/e I don't know - or going into recovery mode and do something funky. The problem is that I can't reach recovery mode at all, and when I enter download mode it's just frozen at "Downloading..." and I can't get it to connect to my PC at all (tried both with and without Kies). In Odin the ID:COM cells won't update when I connect my phone.
Do you guys have any idea how to resolve this? Do I have to take it to a service centre?
Edit: The phone is out of battery, suddenly, apparently, so I tried to charge it, but that doesn't work either. What the **** has happened to my phone? Please help if you can!
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*shameful bump*
As I have no chance of replacing this phone (because I'm pretty much broke) I really need to fix this on my own if I can. Last resort is borrowing money to send it to service.
If you have any suggestions or theories PLEASE reply ASAP. I will truly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance
So Atm what does your phone do? Can you get to download mode? Vol-home and power does it go into that?
Buy a new motherboard.And with your memory,why not borrow the money lol.
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I also stupidly pressed one of those "install update" stuff. Then i had the same symptoms until i removed the battery, then it wouldn't turn on - so i suspected hardbrick.
Lucky enough my warranty still had a month letf and they apparently didn't notice that i had rooted my device and thus vioded my warranty.
Are you sure all Kies' background tasks were closed?
Do you have access to a JIG?
There's anotehr way to get into download mode (other than vol down+power+home) i'll see if i can find it.
If it hardbricks maybe you also can make up a story and give it to them? (just a suggestion, nothing i can say but just mentioning since it worked for me)
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So Atm what does your phone do? Can you get to download mode? Vol-home and power does it go into that?
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Pretty much nothing. Yes I can get into it, but it says "Downloading... Do not turn off device" or something like that. Recovery Mode is inaccessible.
theunderling said:
Buy a new motherboard.And with your memory,why not borrow the money lol.
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maybe your an iphone expert
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And with my memory huh? I'll do this as a last resort.
TheMasterOfToast said:
Are you sure all Kies' background tasks were closed?
Do you have access to a JIG?
There's anotehr way to get into download mode (other than vol down+power+home) i'll see if i can find it.
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Yep, I even tried with a 100% uninstall and removal of it; still didn't work. No I do not, but I've considered buying one on ebay - they're like $1 with free shipping from China.
TheMasterOfToast said:
I also stupidly pressed one of those "install update" stuff. Then i had the same symptoms until i removed the battery, then it wouldn't turn on - so i suspected hardbrick.
Lucky enough my warranty still had a month letf and they apparently didn't notice that i had rooted my device and thus vioded my warranty.
If it hardbricks maybe you also can make up a story and give it to them? (just a suggestion, nothing i can say but just mentioning since it worked for me)
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It has most definitely hardbricked. I've considered this: Go down there, act dumb, say after installing the firmware update my phone wouldn't boot and a yellow triangle suddenly appeared out of nowhere, or something like that.
I've only had this phone for half a year so I really wanna fix this if possible!
Thanks a lot for the feedback - please reply with more if you've got some suggestions/recommendations/tips/solutions!
zCourge said:
I followed a root-guide a couple of weeks ago and my phone worked perfectly.
I have no memory of what ROM I used, nor do I remember if I flashed a Kernel or not. I'm pretty new at this.
Now, today, my phone sent a notification that a new firmware update was available. Stupid as I am I just press "install" right away. Not much later my phone tried to reboot and suddenly was stuck at the Samsung logo screen. I tried pulling out the battery to reboot and it still wouldn't work. If I connected it to my PC it shows a battery but the spinning arrow-thingy is frozen.
After searching these forums and other places I found several guides on how to fix stuff like this, by either flashing with a new kernel - or rom or w/e I don't know - or going into recovery mode and do something funky. The problem is that I can't reach recovery mode at all, and when I enter download mode it's just frozen at "Downloading..." and I can't get it to connect to my PC at all (tried both with and without Kies). In Odin the ID:COM cells won't update when I connect my phone.
Do you guys have any idea how to resolve this? Do I have to take it to a service centre?
Edit: The phone is out of battery, suddenly, apparently, so I tried to charge it, but that doesn't work either. What the **** has happened to my phone? Please help if you can!
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Hey zCourage ,
Maybe you should try another USB jig.... have you tried it yet?
ksjd said:
Hey zCourage ,
Maybe you should try another USB jig.... have you tried it yet?
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Like just another cable or a "modified jig"? I've tried 3 different USBs and 2 chargers none of them worked. I do not have access to a "modified jig", yet. I will try to order one on eBay
Of course this is a drivers thing, you need your pc to see the device.
We got a couple of threads about that.
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Of course this is a drivers thing, you need your pc to see the device.
We got a couple of threads about that.
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Come again?
"you need to read about troubleshooting"
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gastonw said:
"you need to read about troubleshooting"
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Elaborate
"You really ought to be less lazy on your ass and search the forums about how to fix your device. Get it now or you want me to draw it for you?"
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"You really ought to be less lazy on your ass and search the forums about how to fix your device. Get it now or you want me to draw it for you?"<br />
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Better still put one of them many pics you got up.:thumbup: Then I can rob it :thumbup:
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"You really ought to be less lazy on your ass and search the forums about how to fix your device. Get it now or you want me to draw it for you?"
Sent from...this is not even my S2
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Oh so you don't think I've googled for hours to find solutions for this problem? Think again. Every "solution" i read is either take out the battery, enter recovery mode or use an USB jig. 2 of them don't work and the third is at the moment not possible as I don't have a jig.
No need to be rude.
gastonw said:
Of course this is a drivers thing, you need your pc to see the device.
We got a couple of threads about that.
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Was I being rude when I posted this?
google i9100 troubleshooting
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gastonw said:
Was I being rude when I posted this?
google i9100 troubleshooting
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You don't think I have? I'm not retarded. The phone is 100% hardbricked.
Buy a new mobo then.
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you need to change your motherboard.
Take it to samsung service center near you and give it to them.
Same thing happened to me and only solution worked is the one that i just told you.