I may have just thought of something. Just need to know if there's anyone that's able and willing to try it out.
Well if anyone reads this, can you get the usb prompt by holding volume up and power?
Cant get to USB mode. It just powers up with the battery and question mark, If you power up with unit plugged it you get a flashing home button.
Cant get anything to work
gavie said:
Cant get to USB mode. It just powers up with the battery and question mark, If you power up with unit plugged it you get a flashing home button.
Cant get anything to work
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You cannot go into USB mode with a flat battery make sure its charged up first, plug in the charger or put on the touchstone and leave to charge overnight do not turn on until charged then to put into USB mode unplug the cable then power +volume up when USB symbol shows then plug in the USB cable
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I may have just thought of something. Just need to know if there's anyone that's able and willing to try it out.
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This is a know problem with all WebOS products. I experienced it with my old Palm Pre Plus. The only solution I know of is to replace the battery.
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Ok, this has been bugging me and I can't find an answer. Why do we need to plug in for BSR to work? I know it may be a silly question but I have wondered why for a while now, and why can't we plug into pc powr? I can get into recovery with my car charger but not with it plugged into pc
Sorry for such a trivial question...I can usually find answers I want but not this one...
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Ok, this has been bugging me and I can't find an answer. Why do we need to plug in for BSR to work? I know it may be a silly question but I have wondered why for a while now, and why can't we plug into pc powr? I can get into recovery with my car charger but not with it plugged into pc
Sorry for such a trivial question...I can usually find answers I want but not this one...
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I think its because the recovery hijacks charge mode, the mode that is active when the phone is off and charging. It shuts the phone off and when the charge mode starts the recovery takes over. If its not plugged in there is no mode to hijack
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It hijacks charge only mode is the only info I can give ya. Don't know if switching to charge only mode while on computer will work tho as it may be a different type of charge mode.
So I have been trying to root my phone and have been following the directions posted on the forums here, the problem is, no matter what I try I can't get it to download mode. I've tried volume up + volume down while plugging in USB, tried volume down + power button while plugging in usb, and while not plugging in usb. Nothing gets it into download mode. All the buttons and the phone works completely normally outside of this, and I can get it into 3e recovery mode easily enough. Any help?
Take out the battery from the back to ensure your phone is completely off, then put the battery back in. Now hold down on both the Up and Down Volume buttons and plug the USB coming from your PC into your SGS2. Once you see a warning screen let go of the volume buttons. Hit the Up Volume button to continue into download mode.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1288112
I tried that, and did it again just now with taking the battery out. It doesn't work, after like 5 seconds of having the usb plugged in it just starts charging the phone and brings up the battery filling up graphic...
Never mind, maybe this should have been obvious, but I was trying to do this with a generic microusb cord made by At&t (it was what i had closest at hand) and it wasn't working. I just tried it with the microusb cord that came with my phone (samsung made) and I got into download mode right away...go figure.
Interesting...I wouldn't have thought it mattered. Glad you figured it out.
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Never mind, maybe this should have been obvious, but I was trying to do this with a generic microusb cord made by At&t (it was what i had closest at hand) and it wasn't working. I just tried it with the microusb cord that came with my phone (samsung made) and I got into download mode right away...go figure.
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I think some of the microusb cords AT&T sells are specifically designed for charging-only - they short D+ and D- together to force the phone into AC Charger mode.
Which of course makes them useless for data...
(The stock MicroUSB cord is OK - but additional cords can be charger-only.)
I managed to soft brick my wife's Vibrant while trying to put it back to stock ROM: basically I get the "Phone -- Yellow exclmation -- PC". The volume up, down and power combo doesn't work.
In addition, to make things worse, if I plug it into the PC it gets power but the PC doesn't recognize the USB, so I can't use any type of soft unbrick software.
Should I give a try to the USB jig to get into download mode or, do you guys think the USB port is faulty... I know it's kind of hard to know, but I'm primarily curious to see if anyone got in a similar situation with soft brick and no USB connectivity and was able to solve it with the jig...
Thanks!!!!
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I managed to soft brick my wife's Vibrant while trying to put it back to stock ROM: basically I get the "Phone -- Yellow exclmation -- PC". The volume up, down and power combo doesn't work.
In addition, to make things worse, if I plug it into the PC it gets power but the PC doesn't recognize the USB, so I can't use any type of soft unbrick software.
Should I give a try to the USB jig to get into download mode or, do you guys think the USB port is faulty... I know it's kind of hard to know, but I'm primarily curious to see if anyone got in a similar situation with soft brick and no USB connectivity and was able to solve it with the jig...
Thanks!!!!
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I'm not sure ajig would help you but its good to have ajig laying around just in case things go bad. The jig will get you into download mode but if your usb cable/usb port is bad then you still can't connect to your pc to use odin. Sounds like you need a new usb cable or you need to clean your usb port. Have you tried cleaning your phones usb port with isopropyl alcohol and a Qtip? We had a member fix his phone this way just yesterday. If that doesn't work and a tmobile usb cable doesn't work then you might have a faulty usb port. Tmobile has a 30 day money back guarantee on the usb cable so try that if you haven't already. If you end up exhausting all options then I recommend www.mobiletechvideos.com to replace your usb port, plenty of folks have had success with them in the past. Just so you know, the only usb cable that works for me is the one from the tmobile store. I'm not sure why but I have three other cables that work fine on my friends vibrant but dont even do anything at all when plugged in to my phone (not even charge). Let us know what ends up being the fix, good luck.
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I gave it a try and cleaned out the USB port with some electronic contact cleaner, but that didn't help. I've also tried 4 cables and 2 PC with no differences.
I'll try out the JIG and see if that fixes it if not I'll decide what to do:quite frankly I would unbrick it and bring it back to the stock firmware just to turn around and put it on eBay, so I'm not quite sure it's worth the effort... But since I've already ordered the JIG I'll give that one a try...
Good luck. I suggest you mod your phone like mobile tech videos (tried acronyming it to MTV but you know) did to make it unbrickable.
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ZetaTre said:
I managed to soft brick my wife's Vibrant while trying to put it back to stock ROM: basically I get the "Phone -- Yellow exclmation -- PC". The volume up, down and power combo doesn't work.
In addition, to make things worse, if I plug it into the PC it gets power but the PC doesn't recognize the USB, so I can't use any type of soft unbrick software.
Should I give a try to the USB jig to get into download mode or, do you guys think the USB port is faulty... I know it's kind of hard to know, but I'm primarily curious to see if anyone got in a similar situation with soft brick and no USB connectivity and was able to solve it with the jig...
Thanks!!!!
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It gets power.does it means your wife's ph is charging??try charging battery with external charger..and connect to pc...
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If you happen to have Amazon Prime, you can get a jig from Amazon in your hands with next day delivery for $8 (3.99 for the jig and 3.99 for the delivery).
Now that said, if you happend to have flashed the GB bootloader at some point, rememer that the download mode is now accessed by the volume up, instead of both up and down. It's definitely worth giving this a try:
- take out the battery
- plug in the usb to the phone and your PC
- hold the power up button and insert the battery. It should go right into download mode
I actually did have a GB room installed... I'll give it a try tonight: thanks for the heads up!!!!
Just noticed that you said you already ordered the jig so NM about the amazon suggestion. I've been in the situation with the exclamation point and thought mine was bricked. I ordered the jig on Amazon and then finally tried what I detailed above and got in download mode. I could not get in DL mode no matter what else I tried, including just powering up with USB attached and volume up held. I had to do it with the battery being inserted with volume up.
Good luck and remember, the jig may work for the phone, but flowers usually work for the wife.
It was indeed the wrong combo to get it into download mode: using the volume up only and it went right in. The USB connectivity is also solved.
After some back and forth I was able to get CM 7.2 loaded and it works perfectly. Now I just need to solve the dreaded GPS issues of this phone: tonight I'll take it apart and see if bending the antenna connector solves it. It is a August 2010 production so it might as well be.
Other than that CM7.2 works pretty damn good. I already have it on my N1 with no issues. The Vibrant is very much snappier now, particularly if you crank it over to 1.3GHz.
Again thanks a lot for all the help!!!!
A friend had the same problem where it wouldn't go into download mode and would just stay at the phone ! computer screen. It would auto turn on when plugged into usb to this screen so that gave me little hope. What I ended up doing was holding all three buttons and when it turned black let go off power but kept volumes held, it would load back to the exclamation screen and I would hold the power button again, it cycled like this 3 or 4 times, but eventually went back to the download mode and I was able to restore with Odin.
I've just received a cracked s2 gt-i9100 the screen was cracked and didn't show an image but still the buttons lit up and the phone vibrated on touch i ordered a new screen and set about replacing it unfortunately upon doing so I snapped the power button ribbon cable so i'm unable to power up the g2 till the new one arrives, when i plug my phone into my laptop the screen turns on and shows a battery charging however the laptop keeps saying unknown device... I've tried different cables and a different laptop not sure if i could of damaged the usb or if it might be that there is no power button ribbon connected?!
Would really love any help? like maybe there is a way to turn the phone on without the power button for the moment?
Have you installed all the necessary drivers for the phone?
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Have you installed all the necessary drivers for the phone?
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Yeah as far as i'm aware.... + the phone was working in USB mode before I replaced the screen and snapped the power ribbon :/
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Yeah as far as i'm aware.... + the phone was working in USB mode before I replaced the screen and snapped the power ribbon :/
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I don't think the power ribbon cable have anything to do with the phone not being recognized by the computer, but everything is possible. Are you sure you didn't mess up anything inside the phone, when replacing the screen?
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I don't think the power ribbon cable have anything to do with the phone not being recognized by the computer, but everything is possible. Are you sure you didn't mess up anything inside the phone, when replacing the screen?
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pretty sure I didn't... the phone still shows it's charging when plugged in via usb
So i found a usb cable at work so i decided to take it home and use it. When I plugged my tablet in, it seemed a bit loose so I decided not to use it. But when I plugged my original charger, it wouldnt charge....that was 2 days ago and still no charge.
Im pretty sure its bricked because it doesnt turn on, doesnt show its charging...nothing. I guess i just want someone else to tell me that its done for and time throw it away or maybe have someone more knowledgeable repair it..
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So i found a usb cable at work so i decided to take it home and use it. When I plugged my tablet in, it seemed a bit loose so I decided not to use it. But when I plugged my original charger, it wouldnt charge....that was 2 days ago and still no charge.
Im pretty sure its bricked because it doesnt turn on, doesnt show its charging...nothing. I guess i just want someone else to tell me that its done for and time throw it away or maybe have someone more knowledgeable repair it..
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So what makes you think it's a brick? Is it just a dead battery? Did it boot before? Have you opened it to check the battery connection?
I replaced the USB daughterboard on mine. Like $10 and 15 minutes. Couple screws and ribbon cables
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So what makes you think it's a brick? Is it just a dead battery? Did it boot before? Have you opened it to check the battery connection?
I replaced the USB daughterboard on mine. Like $10 and 15 minutes. Couple screws and ribbon cables
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didn't think it was that easy...ill work on that and keep u posted
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didn't think it was that easy...ill work on that and keep u posted
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sorry took so long had to go away for a bit...installed new daughterboard and still nothimg, ill check the connections again
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didn't think it was that easy...ill work on that and keep u posted
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Does the white light at the bottom flash when you try to power it on while it charges?
try this:
Plug your N9 into a good 2.4amp output USB brick
hold down the power button
If the led doesn't flash 3 times annoyingly then you are out of luck. I don't know how to fix it. I have a broken N9 and a good one and the broken one has a dead mother board and sounds the same, but I DOUBT a loose USB cord destroyed your tab.
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Does the white light at the bottom flash when you try to power it on while it charges?
try this:
Plug your N9 into a good 2.4amp output USB brick
hold down the power button
If the led doesn't flash 3 times annoyingly then you are out of luck. I don't know how to fix it. I have a broken N9 and a good one and the broken one has a dead mother board and sounds the same, but I DOUBT a loose USB cord destroyed your tab.
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Mine died too, but the led does flash 3 times. Is that a good sign? My USB port began failing and it was getting harder to charge. I left it plugged in over the weekend (forgot about it) and on Monday.... Nothing. But it does flash the led 3 times when I plug it in, sometimes. I probably need to replace the USB board again. Leaving a USB otg stick plugged into it for movie viewing in the truck is what keeps damaging my USB ports.
Update: I finally got it to charge and boot. Just had to hold the cord just right, and plug it into an outlet I have converted to USB next to my couch. New USB daughterboard ordered and on the way.
Try putting it in APX mode and charging it. Plug it into a computer and hold power, vol+, and vol- until the tablet is detected. Leave it overnight, then hold the same button combo for 15 seconds.