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ive got an issue, i happened to drop my eris in a pool last night on accident. luckily it still works for the most part but i just came to find out that cant access my sd card but it charges just fine?? and my phone wont work in a call unless on speaker phone now... im really happy that it still works but not having access to my sd is kinda stifling being rooted, has this happened to anyone else?, cuz im really debating sending it back under its warranty,im just thinking itd be an easy fix and maybe cheaper than an insurance claim....
any feedback would be great....
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ive got an issue, i happened to drop my eris in a pool last night on accident. luckily it still works for the most part but i just came to find out that cant access my sd card but it charges just fine?? and my phone wont work in a call unless on speaker phone now... im really happy that it still works but not having access to my sd is kinda stifling being rooted, has this happened to anyone else?, cuz im really debating sending it back under its warranty,im just thinking itd be an easy fix and maybe cheaper than an insurance claim....
any feedback would be great....
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if ur phone is rooted ur warranty is void
Your SD card doesnt work cause the card itself is probably broken and the microphone shouldnt work cause its full of water. Try taking it all apart (remove battery, sd card, case back) and put it all in rice over night. maybe itll dry out more. best of luck!
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if ur phone is rooted ur warranty is void
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so i guess my best bet is to take it to a phone repair, i was afraid of that but i guess its the cheapest route but yeah thanks for your input cuz i thought i was able to unroot and send it back...
frosteddroid said:
so i guess my best bet is to take it to a phone repair, i was afraid of that but i guess its the cheapest route but yeah thanks for your input cuz i thought i was able to unroot and send it back...
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Yeah not much you can do, id try the rice trick or silica beads which are cheap, if not then return it
Captainkrtek said:
Your SD card doesnt work cause the card itself is probably broken and the microphone shouldnt work cause its full of water. Try taking it all apart (remove battery, sd card, case back) and put it all in rice over night. maybe itll dry out more. best of luck!
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i thought my sd might be broke aswell but when i go to recovery i can flash from sd allday long but it doesnt want to mount for some reason when plugged into pc & it only shows battery charge... but yeah ive heard of the rice trick, thanks for the input il def try it b4 i go to a repairman....
good luck! also try mounting it from recovery
In amon_ra: USB-MS Toggle
Clockwork: Partitions-->USB SD (or something like that its the last option)
Captainkrtek said:
good luck! also try mounting it from recovery
In amon_ra: USB-MS Toggle
Clockwork: Partitions-->USB SD (or something like that its the last option)
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yeah usb toggle thru recovery dont work either. im really suprised it still works aswell as it does, my past three phones have died from drinking too much liquid but they were blackberries, the Eris is pretty indistructable! thanks for your help guys...
I've bricked 4 Eris's. Rooted with custom recovery. I walk into the Verizon store, say it won't boot and walk out with a refurb. They don't really seem to care. The last time the guy even gave me the link to the 1-click root app. They *may* check the water damage indicators on yours, but I wouldn't bet on it. Worth a shot at least.
erishasnobattery said:
I've bricked 4 Eris's. Rooted with custom recovery. I walk into the Verizon store, say it won't boot and walk out with a refurb. They don't really seem to care. The last time the guy even gave me the link to the 1-click root app. They *may* check the water damage indicators on yours, but I wouldn't bet on it. Worth a shot at least.
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id do that if i had a brick but mine is far from bricked; its just small minor problems that a good phone repair can do easily for proably alot cheaper.
frosteddroid said:
id do that if i had a brick but mine is far from bricked; its just small minor problems that a good phone repair can do easily for proably alot cheaper.
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Not that I condone such behavior, but they are relatively easy to brick... They'll switch it out free at the store. Claim it happened after the OTA.
erishasnobattery said:
Not that I condone such behavior, but they are relatively easy to brick... They'll switch it out free at the store. Claim it happened after the OTA.
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Ive been debating on using the repair sd thru recovery but im not sure what that option does. since i cant mount sd ive been skeptical to try it.does anyone know if it might work?
Let the thing sit powered off to dry out. When I took my phone in for trackball probs they checked my water damage indicator.
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tburns said:
Let the thing sit powered off to dry out. When I took my phone in for trackball probs they checked my water damage indicator.
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i just rebooted and this being the 3rd time since the incident & now im getting a notification saying i have a damaged sd card, i wonder if a reformat will do the trick?, it's really wierd cuz all my apps show up in drawer and are usable.
Let the thing sit powered off to dry out. When I took my phone in for trackball probs they checked my water damage indicator.
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i just rebooted and this being the 3rd time since the incident & now im getting a notification saying i have a damaged sd card, i wonder if a reformat will do the trick?, it's really wierd cuz all my apps show up in drawer and are usable.
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Dood, call it in or take in. Lie to em, I'm on my 3rd, both before were rooted. first was a complete lie bc I was trying to get droid. But I banged it up after I got my replacement. I really don't care anymore about what's "right" especially for verizon. Use ur warranty..
Oh have you tried the sd card in another phone. That'll explain a lot if works or doesn't.
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drounn said:
Dood, call it in or take in. Lie to em, I'm on my 3rd, both before were rooted. first was a complete lie bc I was trying to get droid. But I banged it up after I got my replacement. I really don't care anymore about what's "right" especially for verizon. Use ur warranty..
Oh have you tried the sd card in another phone. That'll explain a lot if works or doesn't.
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ive done my troubleshooting and it looks like sdcard reader ate it! lss i called for warranty.lol
now i need to figure how i really wanna send it back to em...
Just pay VZW 50 bucks for a new one.
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Just pay VZW 50 bucks for a new one.
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That's if he has insurance
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That's if he has insurance
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yea i have insurance but since ive filed a warranty claim and getting my new phone on wednesday, im just gonna keep my fingers crossed they dont charge me an arm & leg in the end... i proably shoulda just done an insurance claim
i told em the sd driver isnt reading, mounting doing anything its supposed too.
frosteddroid said:
yea i have insurance but since ive filed a warranty claim and getting my new phone on wednesday, im just gonna keep my fingers crossed they dont charge me an arm & leg in the end... i proably shoulda just done an insurance claim
i told em the sd driver isnt reading, mounting doing anything its supposed too.
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ive been trying to get back to 2.1 stock for the developers sake just so warranty doesnt see everything i have on the phone but adb processes and says device not found when trying jcase's flash for ruu http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=726885, unforrtunatly im not gonna b able to send it back looking stock, any recommendations?
Hello,
i was loading new fw to my Galaxy 2 and suddenly electric was cut off and it kept downloading..
i had to pull the battery out after waiting half an hour and it is not turning on anymore..
i can't enter recovery, download mode..
Device is fully silent though full battery..
now that means that it is bricked and what is the solution ?
thanks for your help in advance..
What was your current fw and what were you installing
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Had the same problem with my Galaxy S, i had to send it to a Samsung shop who was able to flash a new rom.
Regards
Carsten
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intruda119 said:
What was your current fw and what were you installing
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i had litening rom XWKF3 and loading miui 1.9.2 beta 8..
i think there is no chance waiting for a while without battery...
in that case i should prepare myself to Samsung shop..
Have a Jig? Could try with that.
Were you doing it through a pc? Laptops have ups built in and so does your phone. Less chance of bricking when using a laptop.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
ithehappy said:
Have a Jig? Could try with that.
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i've heard jig but it works for turned on devices,i suppose.
i mean soft brick ones.
My device is not acting any energy, action etc.
it looks like there can't be any operation with usb cables,laptops,3th party programs etc.
pukemon said:
Were you doing it through a pc? Laptops have ups built in and so does your phone. Less chance of bricking when using a laptop.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
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yeah but it happened..i gave my laptop's battery to my friend for today..
i was working with wired cable..
i'm so upset now..
taurus58 said:
yeah but it happened..i gave my laptop's battery to my friend for today..
i was working with wired cable..
i'm so upset now..
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that was not a good idea. you just became a poster child.
taurus58 said:
i've heard jig but it works for turned on devices,i suppose.
i mean soft brick ones.
My device is not acting any energy, action etc.
it looks like there can't be any operation with usb cables,laptops,3th party programs etc.
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A JIG is used on turned off phones. It forced the phone to enter Download mode, even when the user can't get there while pressing the buttons.
You seem to have a soft bricked phone due to a bad flash, so a JIG might work on yours. I would suggest you buy one on ebay (there like 10 bucks) or make one yourself. You can find the tutorial here somewhere on XDA.
Its worth the money and it is always worth a try.
Syrellaris said:
A JIG is used on turned off phones. It forced the phone to enter Download mode, even when the user can't get there while pressing the buttons.
You seem to have a soft bricked phone due to a bad flash, so a JIG might work on yours. I would suggest you buy one on ebay (there like 10 bucks) or make one yourself. You can find the tutorial here somewhere on XDA.
Its worth the money and it is always worth a try.
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thank you..i will
had similar experience with galaxy s1 and jig worked perfectly.
you can get it for $4 on ebay.
try that.
it should work in my opinion
[email protected] said:
had similar experience with galaxy s1 and jig worked perfectly.
you can get it for $4 on ebay.
try that.
it should work in my opinion
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Yep me too. i even managed to soft brick my phone twice in 1 day and both times it was jig to the rescue. Definately worth $4 cause I'm not sure that samsung would be very sympathetic to flashing custom roms etc
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Hi,
i have a friend who has a jig.
He told me "ahh that's okay we can hearten it with jig don't worry dude ! "
But you should see his face when it was not working : )
He turned his face to me disappointly and told me that " dude, we have to change your mother board "
We changed it with the payment 400 $
Expensive expreinence !
Q: eh..uh...help....
Hi! I was doing this guide to do a STOCK ROOM format....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989&page=6
And it all went well i did the step-by-step guide...until Odin showed this "Do not turn of target"... ok so i w8 somewhat 10 mins and it still stood there..i was about to go from my desk to my printer when i accidently pulled the cable off from the computer and so it started...
First of all i dident take out my sim card before i did the procedure!
The phone was still in "Download mode" and i was unable to turn it off.
I opened the back cover to reach the battery and pulled it out and also i took out my sim card (just incase).
Tried to reboot my phone but it wont boot nor does it start to charge with the USB cable inserted in my PC.
My phone is practicly dead now and im kinda got a baad feeling about it...
Does anyone know or does anyone have a fix or solution for this?
Shouldent there be a reset button somewhere inside the phone to do a hard reset?
Note to reader: Ive done the hard and soft reset
yours phone is bricked (sorry to say that) , get a usbjig or find a tutorial and make one...
every flash interrupted is equal to brick !
lummujaj said:
yours phone is bricked (sorry to say that) , get a usbjig or find a tutorial and make one...
every flash interrupted is equal to brick !
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Not necessarily.
A similar thing happened to me a while ago during a firmware update using Kies. I was able to use Odin to flash an older version of the firmware then reflash using Kies.
Plenty of guides on here about using Odin to 'unbrick'.
lummujaj said:
yours phone is bricked (sorry to say that) , get a usbjig or find a tutorial and make one...
every flash interrupted is equal to brick !
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Oh no, Darn it -.-...ive shouldave just gottan an iphone -.-, Do you know where i can buy a jig ?
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Not necessarily.
A similar thing happened to me a while ago during a firmware update using Kies. I was able to use Odin to flash an older version of the firmware then reflash using Kies.
Plenty of guides on here about using Odin to 'unbrick'.
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How can i use Odin to unbrick it when i cant get it in download mode ?
Look on eBay for "Samsung Galaxy S2 jig" (minus the ", obviously ). Shouldn't cost more than a couple of bucks. If that doesn't get you in download mode it's either back to Samsung/your telco or....
You could try this guy . I can't vouch for their service, but I have seen a couple of positive reviews on here from memory and they might end up being cheaper/easier than going the Samsung/telco route if they refuse to fix it under warranty.
I have also seen reports/experiences where the local Samsung outfit didn't care the phone had been messed with & fixed it under warranty anyway.
So you've got a couple of options
mathswk said:
Oh no, Darn it -.-...ive shouldave just gottan an iphone -.-, Do you know where i can buy a jig ?
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oh Well, im gona let the phone stay still until tomorrow and see if i can get it working again... I might order a USBJIG if i dont order an iphone 4s
mathswk said:
oh Well, im gona let the phone stay still until tomorrow and see if i can get it working again... I might order a USBJIG if i dont order an iphone 4s
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If I were you I would do whatever I could to get this phone fixed. I had a problem similar to yours mine got stuck in download mode after a failed attempt at rooting using oden. I guess I got lucky though because I pulled the battery and the phone booted right back up with no problems. I would highly suggest keeping this phone it is far better than the Iphone 4s. My bro has it and he is always amazed at the things I can do with my phone that his cant! Not to mention the screen is a whole inch bigger and looks ALLOT better! Also, dont forget the 4s only has 512mb ram and a dual core 800mhz cpu while this beast has 1gig of ram and a 1.2ghz cpu! Thats a total of 800 more mhz for the galaxy! Not to mention allot of custom roms allow you to overclock!
If you want to do some modding, you should order it anyway. jigs are very cheap and you can remove the yellow triangle with it if you switch to a custom kernel. And like others say, force the phone into download mode.
Don't give up yet. You won't regret being a bit patient here ;-)
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lol, then go ahead and buy yourself an iphone4s...
Come on buddy...we know you bricked your phone so you could get the iPhone instead...
If you don't fix the sgs2 you can send it to me
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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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Hi guys, my phone is flashed so I guess that will make this whole process painful...
But here is the story, I have omega version 12.1 I think (maybe 11 or 13) it has been on my phone for 1 + months now, so I am fairly certain it isn't anything to do with firmware. Phone wont turn on, wont go into download mode or anything. I have tried taking the battery out and leaving it out for 5 minutes, still nothing.
It was working fine before I went to bed, had 10 percent battery and was just on home screen when I put it on charge, not in app or anything. Then seems to be hard bricked after waking up, so happened sometime overnight.
I am not with a carrier, brought it locally outright at my local consumers electronics store (JB-HI-FI)
Since it is hard bricked to the point it wont turn on in download mode does that mean there is no way for them to know it is flashed unless they fix it (in which all is ok)?
Never done a warranty return, do I just take it into store and they send it off? How long will this take?
On top of all this I cut my old sim doown using a cutting template, and it appeared to slide in fine, but after trying to remove it today the push eject isn't working, and tips to get this out, doesn't appear to be enough room to grip it with tweesers.
Thanks.
So as we keep on saying in all posts, the next step u have to make is try with an usb jig.
U know what is that?
xopito_cc said:
So as we keep on saying in all posts, the next step u have to make is try with an usb jig.
U know what is that?
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No, have never heard of one. Just talked to samsung live chat and they said to have a proper diagnostic to take it down to a service centre, would anyone recommend this, or try this jig thing first?
Nicholas68 said:
No, have never heard of one. Just talked to samsung live chat and they said to have a proper diagnostic to take it down to a service centre, would anyone recommend this, or try this jig thing first?
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Since it's already harbricked, i'd say just turn it in and let Samsung fix it for you. It is under warranty, and last time i brought in my i9000 that I bricked, they just replaced the phone. the jig is ok only if you already know where to get one or how to make one, but if you have to go out of your way for it, just use the warranty.
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JiroPrinz8 said:
Since it's already harbricked, i'd say just turn it in and let Samsung fix it for you. It is under warranty, and last time i brought in my i9000 that I bricked, they just replaced the phone. the jig is ok only if you already know where to get one or how to make one, but if you have to go out of your way for it, just use the warranty.
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Ok, Think that is best, can't really go without phone for 2-3 weeks while waiting for a JIG to arrive.
Just a few questions about the service centre, do you think they will ask me if I have flashed the phone? Cause I'm afraid they will think the brick was caused by that (could be) but probably unlikely since it died during the night a month after its latest flash.
If they do get it working will they go in and check the flash counter? Then what happens?
And lastly, if they ask me if I have flashed it should I lie and say no?
Thanks for the help.
I ordered my jig from ebay from overseas but it arrived in a few days.
I am in Melbourne city btw, pm me if you are too. I can lend you mine.
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priyana said:
I ordered my jig from ebay from overseas but it arrived in a few days.
I am in Melbourne city btw, pm me if you are too. I can lend you mine.
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Nope brisbane here, thanks for the offer though. What would the chances be of a JIG fixing it though, cause I have a feeling the mainboard has died. Kinda wish I didn't turn off the red LED charging light, apparently some others who's phones hardbricked the light still turned on showing some sign of life.
Any suggestions on sorting out the micro sim card issue now, assume I have to get it our before taking it to service centre, or just leave it in for them to fix?
priyana said:
I ordered my jig from ebay from overseas but it arrived in a few days.
I am in Melbourne city btw, pm me if you are too. I can lend you mine.
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Does the jig work on s3? I have an old one from s2 and if I'm not wrong is not working on s3...
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Does the jig work on s3? I have an old one from s2 and if I'm not wrong is not working on s3...
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-it will force the S3 in download mode
BUT
-it will not reset the flash counter like with S2
Got a little bit of good news, this might help other people out with jammed sim cards, NO damage and worked like a treat.
In the top of the sim card holder down the bottom left there is a little circle around one mill wide, got a sharp thumbtack and pushed it gentelly into the sim card, the just applied a little pressure and the sim card started to slide up, was very easy, had a great grip on the sim cad and no damage done trying to grab it with needle nose pliers like I read elsewhere, now to get the phone replaced or unbricked.
Thinking about it more I think it is a hardware fault, cause I had flashed the correct version of omega for international S3, I havn't had any wrong signs like freezing or crashing, been working flawlessly for over a month, then out of the blue completely dead. So I think I will just go into the service centre and tell them I suspect the motherboard has died, or the charger port (didn't charge over night), dont have a spare battery to test with though).
http://lifehacker.com/5940308/save-a-bricked-phone-using-paper-clips-and-pencil-graphite
Just a post tyat i found today..not sure if it ll work or not.
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That video is pretty cool, don't have an old connector to try it, but seeing as my phone didn't hard brick from a flash going wrong while flashing or wrong firmware or anything I have a feeling a JIG or similar wont work. Would try it if I had the connector though.
How often do batterys and charger ports fail, cause that could be another reason I guess.
Nicholas68 said:
Ok, Think that is best, can't really go without phone for 2-3 weeks while waiting for a JIG to arrive.
Just a few questions about the service centre, do you think they will ask me if I have flashed the phone? Cause I'm afraid they will think the brick was caused by that (could be) but probably unlikely since it died during the night a month after its latest flash.
If they do get it working will they go in and check the flash counter? Then what happens?
And lastly, if they ask me if I have flashed it should I lie and say no?
Thanks for the help.
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Exactly. There were no problems with the flashing part, i think ypu have a hardware issue.
They didn't ask me anything really, just asked what happened prior to the phone dying.
But i was ready to lie my ass off.. lol!
Dont say anything about flashing. They wont even bother trying to flash the phone if they dont get it into download mode.
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Exactly. There were no problems with the flashing part, i think ypu have a hardware issue.
They didn't ask me anything really, just asked what happened prior to the phone dying.
But i was ready to lie my ass off.. lol!
Dont say anything about flashing. They wont even bother trying to flash the phone if they dont get it into download mode.
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Ok, thanks for the info, I've tried everything besides a JIG to try get it into a download mode, so I doubt they will get it into download mode, Ive seen a couple of other cases where the S3 has had a mainboard issue, only other thing is in the last week I have been using the wall charger where as I normally use the computer and usb, so not sure if this could link to it though, might have got a power surge, but had no storms in months so unlikely and the fuse box is modern with pretty good protection. Ill just go in and tell them it was working one night, and dead when I woke up the next morning, which is the truth. And if they ask if its flashed, ill miss understand them and say, not the screen wasn't flashing/flickering when it died, I was asleep
Reality is though if they get the phone to a restored point to where they can see the flash counter, then I no longer need their help to fix it.
One more question. At the service centres do they try fix it while I'm there, or do they tell s to come back in a few hours, or do they ring a few days later. And if they can't get it in download mode do they normally give you a replacement there? Or do they ship it off to get parts replaced and then ship it back taking weeks/months?
Thanks
I'd give the jig a chance. Just imho.
Btw it is very likely that the jig would arrive in, like, 24-48 hours if you choose the right seller, while other users already told you it's probably gonna take more then a few days (probably from 2 weeks to a month) for samsung to "close the ticket". In my experience only with apple you'd be up and running in less then a week.
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One more question. At the service centres do they try fix it while I'm there, or do they tell s to come back in a few hours, or do they ring a few days later. And if they can't get it in download mode do they normally give you a replacement there? Or do they ship it off to get parts replaced and then ship it back taking weeks/months?
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I'm sure they will ask you to come back in a few days or even weeks. Don't think they will replace new unit for you. They will just replace the faulty part.
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I have the same issue so thought i would post here rather than starting a new thread.
Here's the story for mine. Working fine on current rom for about a month no issues at all. Today battery got to about 9% then switched off and i haven't been able to get it to turn on again, no download mode,no recovery, no charging led nothing at all.
I had to change my screen a couple of days ago, has been working fine with the broken screen for months, have i now voided my warranty?
A lot of faulty s3 i think... My s3 suddenly died last night. Battery is around 90+. Check the phone and it's not responding. Power button doesn't work. Doesn't even go to download mode or recovery mode. I'm running on stock ICS with root only. Sad part is I don't have any access for a jig right now. So can't test it. Bought this phone in SG and I'm in the Philippines right now. Warranty is good for SG only. Dec would be my next trip back to SG. By then no S3 as of now. For a phone I'm getting depressed LOL!
over the air jellybean brick my phone unrooted unflashed phone
BEWARE EVERYONE!! when updating to jellybean some do go very wrong! not all! but some do!! and it will brick your phone!! i updated over the air.. and for a few days. my phone kept on freezing! and locking up! one night i went to bed woke up and the phone was stuck on the boot screen! i thought thats weird took battery out, put back in, as ya do.. nothing took sim out and back in nothing... so only option was to reapair it through kies. put serial in and model number in it found the sortware. i downloaded it. told me to put phone in recovery mode.. so i did,kies said it was gonna install it to my phone.. but everytime it tryed to install it kept on saying it couldnt find my phone.. i tryed this all day long used different usb ports. different computers. to know avail, so my only option was to take it in for repair.. so i took it back to phones 4 u! they sent it away, i waited over 2 weeks! which was undiscrible it was like i lost my right arm with no phone! as you can imagine.. than the repair center turned round and said that the phone has been rooted! which it hadnt!! and they said this in order to brake the terms and conditions of my warentee so phones 4 u can get out of giving me a new handset. so they all save money!! i wouldnt do that to a 500 pound phone!! the phone does everything you could want from a phone! im launching a full investigation into this matter.. and have writen a formall complaint to phones 4 u headoffice, and will be contacting trading standards, ofcom, watchdog, and the ombudsman, and plaster it on all the forums ,social networking sights i can think of, to give them as much bad press as possible!! untill my problem is resolved and i will restore there name and clear it once they have done the right thing by me
I am afraid I can also report a bricked S3 here.
Rooted two weeks ago, but did not yet install a rom. Didn't Triangleaway yet aswell.
Same problem as described, I was browsing the net, and suddenly, screen went black (off). Could not get it powered on anymore. (nor in download/recovery mode)
So i brought it to the local telecom service center of my office, they could tell me the battery was fine and the buttons were working but they never saw one in this state.
So they are sending it to a samsung repair company.
This was two days ago, heard nothing yet, but I am very curious if I will get repaired or if I need to pay because of the rooting.
Will post the result if I know more.
Does anyone know if this problem also happens to people who did not root?