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.
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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 downloaded the 2.3 rom on my tmobile vibrant. Well, i messed it up. It was for like international phones and stuff. So i decided to odin back to stock 2.2. It did it, but now my phone gives me a black screen and i cant do anything. It wont even turn on. Last time this happened i had to send my phone to samsung and get a new one. Someome please help, i dont want to wait for a new phone again.
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kevho00 said:
I downloaded the 2.3 rom on my tmobile vibrant. Well, i messed it up. It was for like international phones and stuff. So i decided to odin back to stock 2.2. It did it, but now my phone gives me a black screen and i cant do anything. It wont even turn on. Last time this happened i had to send my phone to samsung and get a new one. Someome please help, i dont want to wait for a new phone again.
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Are you able to get in download mode @ all ? ?
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Take out battery, run odin, plug usb into computer, plug usb into phone, hold volume up and down but not the power button, replace battery at same time as you hold the two buttons. You really can't kill this phone.
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get/make a jig as long as your battery still has juice this will force your phone into download mode, from there odin back to stock 2.1 (JFD) i have had the least issues when odining back to JFD
What is a jig? This is op on friends account
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What is a jig? This is op on friends account
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A usb jig is a micro usb connector with 301k ohm resistance e across two specific connections ( don't rmr which two connections) that rocks the phones circuitry into pushing the phone into download mode, if I recall correctly instructions on the formation of a jig can be found in the vibrant general section
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The guide on making a jig saids that it wont help me
I really need to get my phone in download mode.
Taking out the battery was no help
kevho00 said:
The guide on making a jig saids that it wont help me
I really need to get my phone in download mode.
Taking out the battery was no help
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it would help you get into download mode, but aside from that when you press the power button do you see the home keys turn on? if you do id imagine a jig would help. However if not even that helps you probably need to send the phone in.
No, not even the home keys light up.
Crap dont tell me i have to turn it in :/
you try the jig first, its like 5 dollars worth of parts and can only help. Give it a shot, who knows you may get lucky, it could also be that your battery is just drained try charging it in a friends vibe or captivate and see what happens. but at this point it sure looks like you might have to turn it in
This is the second time this happens to me.
Ill just tell Samsung that my phone wont turn on again. Thats what i did when i was rooted and decided to flash my phone to froyo via kies. I didnt get charged $400, so look like they never got it back on either.
did you end up sending it in? this exact same thing just happened to me
^ can you see Anything? Battery charging, cutting it on, trying recovery or download? If so, you are fine. If not, removebattery, wait a while, try again still nothing? Brick likely. What did you do, very hard to brick this phone.
just like the OP said. upgraded to 2.3..didnt like it, tried to go back to 2.2 using odin. it said passed! and has not booted up since..no d/l, no recovery, just black...no nothin
Are the buttons at the bottom lit? Or is it like your phone is just dead? If not the latter, try Eugene's froyo that doesn't brick.
it's like the phone is dead. i cant get anything
Doesn't sound good if you can't see anything. I've seen some say they've removed the battery avg let some time pass and then they were able to get it working, but that seems crazy to me.
unfortunately, i'm not one of those people. i left the battery out for 8+ hrs. and tried again..to no avail....
i tried to put 2.3 gingerbread on my samsung galaxy s 4g and i was using odin and during the process it failed and my phone shut off. It wont turn on when plug in i hold all the buttons nothing works. tried to put in download mode doesnt turn on nothing works please i need help i just got the phone tried to put 2.3 gingerbread on and it failed now my phone wont turn on. i basically tried every thing and nothing works.
Oh great.... I don't want to be the person to deliver bad news. But I believe you have screwed up your bootloader stage 1. That means you can button clickyour way into download mode or recovery. Also known as a HARDBRICK. The gingerbread ROM from Samsung comes with new bootloaders, which is always a very risky thing to change. I know a JIG probably won't work but its worth a try. :/ sorry but I think your SOL. Read this actually.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049294
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Haas360 said:
That means you can button clickyour way into download mode or recovery.
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I ment you CAN'T sorry
damn this sucks i knew i shouldnt be messing with this kind of stuff from the beging. i just got this phone from somebody off craigslist and now its broken. Do you know if i can send it to samsung or sumtin to get it fixed and what can i tell them to get it fixed
Yeah you can. Just send it in to samsung and say kies screwed it up or something. They should do it. Other wise you will have to break the phone open and do a flash box. Its in that link! Hope you can fix it man :/
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ok yeah thanks i think it will be better if i send it to samsung but what is kies and what else do i tell them because i dont want them to be charging me like 400 dollars and i dont think mine is on warranty
Hmm even out of warrenty I bet you would only have to pay 100$ or so.
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royce706 said:
i tried to put 2.3 gingerbread on my samsung galaxy s 4g and i was using odin and during the process it failed and my phone shut off. It wont turn on when plug in i hold all the buttons nothing works. tried to put in download mode doesnt turn on nothing works please i need help i just got the phone tried to put 2.3 gingerbread on and it failed now my phone wont turn on. i basically tried every thing and nothing works.
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I am having the EXACT same problem. ODIN failed and it just froze on downloading screen so I had no other choice but to try rebooting the phone but of course, phone is now dead.
I tried putting it on download mode too but will no longer work.
I guess it is bricked unless if anyone has any idea to give life to this thing.
I'm having the exact same problem.. I might try having a professional flash box it, I'll let you know how it goes.
There is a good Samsung unbrick method here, works for Odin I used it 3 times in 20 minutes on my captivate, hold home, volume down, and power, put in USB with Odin running, and it should go into download mode, then reflash.
The worst that will happen is you will still be bricked, there is more info round the site, just gotta read.
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Or you can send it to me.
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Flashed frugal/2.3.3 root using Odin, all info from xda. Love u guys.
Anyway to fix my brick? I used Odin to restore my phone back to stock, and then used kies to update it back to the latest (none rooted) build, after said it was done and needs to restart but my phone was black screen and now wont turn on. No matter how long it charge/hold down any combination of buttons / anything it does no turn on not even light up black its like if it is completely dead, can anyone tell me how this could have happened everything updated fine.
I don't know how it could have happened, we take your word for it. I know you said you tried different button combinations, but have you tried to get into download mode? If that doesn't work, try using a jig to induce the phone into download mode. If that doesn't work, you can probably have it jtagged. Or buy a nexus s )
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Yes I can't get no response not even download mode, ok how do I jig and jtag? any guid so n how to do it, i'll try anything before having to run to tMobile and saying an update broke it lol
It sounds like you destroyed the bootloader. I was in the same situation when I flashed the GB bootloader by checking the reboot checkbox. To get back, I removed the battery, hold vol up + vol down + power, launched odin, plug usb, and slide the battery in.
tanner2007 said:
Anyway to fix my brick? I used Odin to restore my phone back to stock, and then used kies to update it back to the latest (none rooted) build, after said it was done and needs to restart but my phone was black screen and now wont turn on. No matter how long it charge/hold down any combination of buttons / anything it does no turn on not even light up black its like if it is completely dead, can anyone tell me how this could have happened everything updated fine.
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Tried it, and just tried it again, no luck, no response, im almost certain its hardbrick, and I am willing it jtag it if I can =/
Try the following steps:
1. Removed the battery
2. Plug the usb to you pc and phone
3. Hold vol up + vol down + power
4. Slide the battery in
tanner2007 said:
Tried it, and just tried it again, no luck, no response, im almost certain its hardbrick, and I am willing it jtag it if I can =/
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VibrantThemer said:
Try the following steps:
1. Removed the battery
2. Plug the usb to you pc and phone
3. Hold vol up + vol down + power
4. Slide the battery in
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I did that, many times....
Watch this video --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxearzXrVY
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I did that, many times....
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I kno sir, Iv been in that mode many, many, many times, this time nothing on my phone works...its dead
How old is the phone? Could it still be under one year warranty from Tmobile? If it is still within one year call up and tell them you tried to update with Kies and it screwed your phone.
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archie53 said:
How old is the phone? Could it still be under one year warranty from Tmobile? If it is still within one year call up and tell them you tried to update with Kies and it screwed your phone.
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It is, small problem, small crack on lower left part of screen, almsot not noticable but with that idk if im have to pay some huge amount of money with I don't have and if i have to id rather by a new phone..
I was in the same situation. Any of the methods mentioned before don't worked for me because you have a hard brick.. your only option is a RIFF Box JTAG.
I send my phone to this ebay seller and he repair my phone the same day and the same day he ship me back my phone.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Samsung-Galaxy-...ultDomain_0&hash=item3f0c87e20b#ht_719wt_1344
If the item expired on ebay you can find the seller items in here:
http://shop.ebay.com/olegor215/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562
or search for the sellers name ( olegor215 )
Sorry for my bad english
I bricked my Note, I was flashing cwm based recovery when it hung, screen went black and sat there for about 15 minutes before I decided to do the dumb thing of pulling the battery. Now it won't turn on, but there's good news! I hope. I get a driver sound and error when plugging it in, so it is recognizable. When checking Computer Management, I show a QHUSB_DLOAD under Other but the phone won't connect at all. Any ideas?
Have you tried putting it in download mode and see if Odin recognizes it?
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On my vibrant and my behold 2 (both Samsung devices)
I took out the battery and plugged the USB in while holding the buttons for dl mode and it would get out of the soft brick. Once it goes into dl mode, pop the battery in, Odin should recognize it, and flash away.
Don't know if it will work, but it sounds like you didn't hard brick it
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It won't turn on to get into DL mode. I tried to see if Odin would see it but nope. I was hoping there was another driver to allow it to see it.
Thanks for the idea, it didn't boot though. It tries, it makes the sound of the USB being inserted but then makes the error sound for failed drivers. I wouldn't think it's a hard brick either, but even my JIG won't get it to boot.
i had a hard brick after flashing a kernel. not sure what the problem was but it wouldnt go into download mode, so i pulled the battery for about 5 minutes and it went into download mode and odin recognized my phone.
Would the phone turn on? I'll give it a try. I've left it out for 30 seconds and that didn't work, I'll let it go longer.
http://tinyurl.com/6vlc92p
Dacian said:
Would the phone turn on? I'll give it a try. I've left it out for 30 seconds and that didn't work, I'll let it go longer.
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Mine wouldnt turn on when i did a battery pull quickly, But after i left mine out it went into download mode, at this point trying anything is better than nothing. hope it works out for you
I left it out for awhile, I think I'll see if Best Buy will give me a new phone tomorrow. I just found a thread on the other note side that had this same issue, he ended up not being able to fix it too. Thanks for trying to help though, it's what makes XDA what it is.
Dacian said:
I left it out for awhile, I think I'll see if Best Buy will give me a new phone tomorrow. I just found a thread on the other note side that had this same issue, he ended up not being able to fix it too. Thanks for trying to help though, it's what makes XDA what it is.
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just take back to best buy and tell them that the phone won't come on, do not tell them that you did anything just tell them you had your phone on the charger over night and it wouldnt come on in the morning. i hope you more time left on your thirty days i did that a lot of time lol.
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xpprofessional1 said:
just take back to best buy and tell them that the phone won't come on, do not tell them that you did anything just tell them you had your phone on the charger over night and it wouldnt come on in the morning. i hope you more time left on your thirty days i did that a lot of time lol.
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That's what I planned on doing. lol. If nothing else, I could sign up for their black tie program, come back monday during my lunch and get it swapped then and they could say nothing about it.
An update on the situation, I left the battery out of the phone overnight and tested it when I woke up, nothing. So I took the phone to BB and they said they wouldn't take it back unless I wanted to spend $170 to replace it. I took it to AT&T and they did everything they thought would get it to work, it wouldn't naturally, so they warrantied it and I have a new one coming in a few days.
Radioshack insurance way better then crapy bestbuy. Which is why i buy mine there and att deductiables to high when u use their insurance
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rboone18 said:
Radioshack insurance way better then crapy bestbuy. Which is why i buy mine there and att deductiables to high when u use their insurance
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Ive never heard of anyone getting radioshacks insurance and I sell phones. A quick google search on their protection showed class action suits against them for misrepresenting their protection. Oh and it's more expesive them best buys lol
And to the OP, you could have also done the monthly best buy protection instead of the 170 2 year plan, they could have also replaced it under manufacturers warranty for your situation. I hate when people work for the same company as me and are uneducated at their jobs.
Glad all is well but for future reference what should you have done? I mean, if i flash something and it goes wrong, the first thing I'd do would be pull the battery. What should we do?
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nash2000 said:
Glad all is well but for future reference what should you have done? I mean, if i flash something and it goes wrong, the first thing I'd do would be pull the battery. What should we do?
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I was wondering about that also. I just want to know so I won't do the same thing. I'm glad the OP got it straightened out.
thunderkiss65 said:
i had a hard brick after flashing a kernel. not sure what the problem was but it wouldnt go into download mode, so i pulled the battery for about 5 minutes and it went into download mode and odin recognized my phone.
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If you were hard bricked, your phone wouldn't have booted. A hard brick is a permanent thing. What you had was a soft brick.
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Dacian said:
I left it out for awhile, I think I'll see if Best Buy will give me a new phone tomorrow. I just found a thread on the other note side that had this same issue, he ended up not being able to fix it too. Thanks for trying to help though, it's what makes XDA what it is.
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Best Buy is pretty good about exchanges. Whatever you do, DON'T tell them what you did. Just say your phone got really hot, froze, and wouldn't turn back on again.
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Dacian said:
An update on the situation, I left the battery out of the phone overnight and tested it when I woke up, nothing. So I took the phone to BB and they said they wouldn't take it back unless I wanted to spend $170 to replace it. I took it to AT&T and they did everything they thought would get it to work, it wouldn't naturally, so they warrantied it and I have a new one coming in a few days.
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Good to hear!! Glad you got everything worked out.
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I'm sure this has been asked before and I apologize for asking again if so. (I tried to search but couldn't find the files I need.)
I need to get my Vibrant that is on ICS back to 100% factory.
I know I have to repartition to go back but I can't find the factory Odin and PIT file I need.
Thank you all in advance.
This link might be able to help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319802&highlight=stock+odin
Awesome! Thanks.
New problem. (Small but important.)
I am not able to get into Odin download mode. I have all my drivers installed and when I connect the phone the battery icon pops up but if I do the three button method the screen goes black like it's supposed to be it just reboots and either goes back to the battery or powers on. (I am on ICS Passion V12 if that helps any.)
Any advice? I'm stuck without linking with Odin.
NoName9 said:
New problem. (Small but important.)
I am not able to get into Odin download mode. I have all my drivers installed and when I connect the phone the battery icon pops up but if I do the three button method the screen goes black like it's supposed to be it just reboots and either goes back to the battery or powers on. (I am on ICS Passion V12 if that helps any.)
Any advice? I'm stuck without linking with Odin.
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Cut the phone off, pull the battery out and put it back in. Hold volume up and volume down keys at the same time(do not hold power button) and plug the usb cable in. If you have gingerbread boot loaders then it's really simple, cut the phone off and hold volume up key only then press the power button.
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iTz KeeFy said:
Cut the phone off, pull the battery out and put it back in. Hold volume up and volume down keys at the same time(do not hold power button) and plug the usb cable in. If you have gingerbread boot loaders then it's really simple, cut the phone off and hold volume up key only then press the power button.
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You are my new Hero!:good:
Thanks again.
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You are my new Hero!:good:
Thanks again.
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Lol no problem, glad I could help.
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It appears I can't catch a break!:crying:
I got the phone restored to 2.1 and it worked flawlessly.
I plugged it up to my pc to upgrade to 2.2 through Kies. I had charged to 100%, it upgraded successfully and said the device would reboot. It never did.
It appears Kies and 2.2 have hard bricked the phone. I don't get a charging indicator and can't get into recovery or download. The phone is completely unresponsive.
I am really starting to hate Samsung.
Yea - there should be a big warning everywhere not to use kies.
If you connect the phone to the pc does it show up in Odin? If so flash away.
Try the battery method again. Also instead of going to 2.1 you may want to try the Froyo KB5 2.2 Heimdall 1-click:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1674519
download:
http://www.filereactor.com/zcl1dy7zlxbh/UVKB5_Stock_Heimdall-One-Click.jar.html
I haven't used Odin to get the 2.2 stock since the 1-Click
Moped_Ryder said:
Yea - there should be a big warning everywhere not to use kies.
If you connect the phone to the pc does it show up in Odin? If so flash away.
Try the battery method again. Also instead of going to 2.1 you may want to try the Froyo KB5 2.2 Heimdall 1-click:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1674519
download:
http://www.filereactor.com/zcl1dy7zlxbh/UVKB5_Stock_Heimdall-One-Click.jar.html
I haven't used Odin to get the 2.2 stock since the 1-Click
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Doesn't show in odin cause I can't get into download mode. :-( I'm afraid it's a hard brick as I get no response at all no matter what I try.
have you tried
1. unplugging the phone
2. pulling the battery
3. plugging it into the computer
4. place the battery back in
5. holding volume up + volume down + power
this is how i got to download mode when my phone wasn't responding
I know you said you tried everything i just want to make sure.
rmelendez3 said:
have you tried
1. unplugging the phone
2. pulling the battery
3. plugging it into the computer
4. place the battery back in
5. holding volume up + volume down + power
this is how i got to download mode when my phone wasn't responding
I know you said you tried everything i just want to make sure.
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Just tried it again. No luck. I guess the phone is trash thanks to Samsung. :-/
Hey there. My phone was unresponsive as well, would not go into download mode, even tried the battery thing..
This link, One-Click Unbrick
Try that and see if it works for you, make SURE you have the latest Java.
My phone wasn't completely black, I had the Phone to PC error, but I could NOT get it to get into download or even see that something was plugged in. It was unresponsive to everything. I tried this program and BAM, I'm back into bootlooping. Shut my phone off, turned on in bootloader and reinstalled everything.
You MAY have to reinstall somethings so you might have to go back to square one, however at least you'll have a working phone.
Kies also bricked my first Galaxy.
Hopefully the One-Click unbrick will work for you! I wish you good luck!
NoName9 said:
Just tried it again. No luck. I guess the phone is trash thanks to Samsung. :-/
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Samsung may replace the phone for you, call and tell them it bricked while using kies. For future reference do NOT use kies ever again, it is known to brick devices. If your phone is getting no power at all, then calling Samsung is your only choice and hope they replace it for you. I wish I would have known you were planning to use kies, definitely would have warned you not to. You can look into buying a usb jig for your phone, they are under $5 and maybe could help. You can also make them yourself for around 1 dollar.
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iTz KeeFy said:
Samsung may replace the phone for you, call and tell them it bricked while using kies. For future reference do NOT use kies ever again, it is known to brick devices. If your phone is getting no power at all, then calling Samsung is your only choice and hope they replace it for you. I wish I would have known you were planning to use kies, definitely would have warned you not to. You can look into buying a usb jig for your phone, they are under $5 and maybe could help. You can also make them yourself for around 1 dollar.
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The phone is out of warranty so I'm sure if they'd replace it or charge me to fix it.
The jig thread said it didn't work if you are completely unresponsive.
I'd used Kies on my Wife's Captivate and had no problems so I didn't know it would wonk up my sons Vibrant.
I'll try out the 1 click method and update.
Thanks again for the advice. (My son is using his old Nokia Nuron again so he at least has a phone in the interim.)
NoName9 said:
The phone is out of warranty so I'm sure if they'd replace it or charge me to fix it.
The jig thread said it didn't work if you are completely unresponsive.
I'd used Kies on my Wife's Captivate and had no problems so I didn't know it would wonk up my sons Vibrant.
I'll try out the 1 click method and update.
Thanks again for the advice. (My son is using his old Nokia Nuron again so he at least has a phone in the interim.)
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Yea you could be right about the warranty issue but it was Samsung's program that screwed up your phone. If you haven't called them already, I would call and explain that you would still have a working phone if it wasn't for kies bricking your device. After all, Samsung recommends us to upgrade through kies even tho it has caused more damage than good from my experience. It's worth a try, you never know.
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NoName9 said:
The phone is out of warranty so I'm sure if they'd replace it or charge me to fix it.
The jig thread said it didn't work if you are completely unresponsive.
I'd used Kies on my Wife's Captivate and had no problems so I didn't know it would wonk up my sons Vibrant.
I'll try out the 1 click method and update.
Thanks again for the advice. (My son is using his old Nokia Nuron again so he at least has a phone in the interim.)
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Just so you know, we recently had another member that hard bricked his phone using kies and was also out of warranty with T-Mobile. He called Samsung and explained THEIR program/software rendered his phone useless. He got a brand new vibrant out of the deal.
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