[Q] Phone bricked, no recovery no dowload - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I think my phone has a serious problem.
I was on the cm9 nightly from june 16 and everything was working fine, after that i decided to flash siyah kernel 3.3.2, and again everything worked as it should initially.
Now a few minutes ago I wanted to flash the latest nightly via rom manager .
I downloaded the rom and wanted to boot into recovery mode, it didn't work
I tried restarting, but it would not boot anymore. Mind rebooting was working fine before.
Only download mode was working so i went into download mode and flashed siyah kernel odin version. The flash was successful but now the phone wont boot at all. no download mode , no recovery, just the samsung logo and after that, nothing.
I was probably stupid to try to reflash the kernel via odin.
have I killed my phone?

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Edit: Oops you said no download mode :S
Do you have a JIG ?
Or just take out the battery for 5 mins and put it back. Try to enter download mode again.
if it works, flash a stock samsung firmware

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sinancetinkaya said:
Edit: Oops you said no download mode :S
Do you have a JIG ?
Or just take out the battery for 5 mins and put it back. Try to enter download mode again.
if it works, flash a stock samsung firmware
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no i dont have a jig, i probably have to buy one.
Already tried to take out the battery for 5 min, no download mode.
So I should be able to get into the download mode with the jig?
Another question, how could that happen? Everything worked fine until i tried to boot into recovery mode

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jayzsa said:
no i dont have a jig, i probably have to buy one.
Already tried to take out the battery for 5 min, no download mode.
So I should be able to get into the download mode with the jig?
Another question, how could that happen? Everything worked fine until i tried to boot into recovery mode
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It will not work if you have an ICS bootloader. (correct me if im wrong) If the jig wont work, your only option is to get a JTAG or to send it to samsung for service.

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jayzsa said:
no i dont have a jig, i probably have to buy one.
Already tried to take out the battery for 5 min, no download mode.
So I should be able to get into the download mode with the jig?
Another question, how could that happen? Everything worked fine until i tried to boot into recovery mode
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Honestly I don't know.
I don't know whether JIG will work, either.
JIG is your last chance if something is really wrong.
Try this.
Connect your device to your computer
On your computer, check whether there is a usb device problem in the device manager

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Kaze105 said:
It will not work if you have an ICS bootloader. (correct me if im wrong) If the jig wont work, your only option is to get a JTAG or to send it to samsung for service.
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I made my own JIG to fix a couple French tourists's i9100G
Yes JIG is working with ICS , it's just not resetting the flash counter AFAIK

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sinancetinkaya said:
Honestly I don't know.
I don't know whether JIG will work, either.
JIG is your last chance if something is really wrong.
Try this.
Connect your device to your computer
On your computer, check whether there is a usb device problem in the device manager
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No usb device problem , the phone is recognized as Samsung Android Phone/ samsung android adb interface
The sd cards are also recognized as removable discs, but i cant access them

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jayzsa said:
No usb device problem , the phone is recognized as Samsung Android Phone/ samsung android adb interface
The sd cards are also recognized as removable discs, but i cant access them
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Pray that adb works
Open a command console (start/cmd)
and type this
Code:
adb reboot download
But you will need "adb" to get it working. Do you have it ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868734

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sinancetinkaya said:
Pray that adb works
Open a command console (start/cmd)
and type this
Code:
adb reboot download
But you will need "adb" to get it working. Do you have it ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868734
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The phone is listed in device manager / adb android phone is listed in the device manager
this means adb is working, right? (view attachment)

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jayzsa said:
The phone is listed in device manager / adb android phone is listed in the device manager
this means adb is working, right? (view attachment)
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Seems so to me. Just try the command I gave you.
If it works, your device will enter the download mode.
If it doesn't work, JIG is your last chance

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sinancetinkaya said:
Seems so to me. Just try the command I gave you.
If it works, your device will enter the download mode.
If it doesn't work, JIG is your last chance
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Oh god it worked, thank you very much
now it probably would be the best to follow this guide?:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458

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Well if your in download mode now, just immediately flash a stock ROM from sammobile.com.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA

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jayzsa said:
Oh god it worked, thank you very much
now it probably would be the best to follow this guide?:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
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I'm about to go home, sorry
Just flash an original stock samsung ICS firmware via ODIN
And for the last, don't do anything that you don't know well.
First read, read, read

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Ok so I flashed a stock rom and everything seems to be working fine.
Thank you very much again for your help.
Now what have i done wrong / why did the the recovery suddenly stop to work? In order to avoid things like that in the future.

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jayzsa said:
Ok so I flashed a stock rom and everything seems to be working fine.
Thank you very much again for your help.
Now what have i done wrong / why did the the recovery suddenly stop to work? In order to avoid things like that in the future.
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I've heard bad things happen when you use rom manager
Sent from my GT-P7510 using xda premium

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jayzsa said:
Ok so I flashed a stock rom and everything seems to be working fine.
Thank you very much again for your help.
Now what have i done wrong / why did the the recovery suddenly stop to work? In order to avoid things like that in the future.
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Don't use ROM Manager, weird stuff happens when it is used (the same problem happened to me, not a brick though). As to why your problem occurred, nobody will know, but at least if the problem occurs again, you will know how to fix it
Chris.

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it is too late for this, but... i personally stopped using the rom manager. it (soft) bricked my phone twice. I think its always better to download the rom manually and manually enter the download mode anyways.
but maybe it's just me or you had bad luck

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So rom manager could be the reason.
I never actually used rom manager to flash directly, i just used it to download and then boot into recovery from rom manager then flash.

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Don't use Rom Manager if you have a kernel with CWM in particular (has also been known to cause probs for people not running kernels with CWM as well). Rom Manager has a habit of breaking CWRecovery and/or causing bootloops/soft bricks.
Use/have one or the other installed on your phone (I.E if you're running a kernel with CWM, use that & uninstall Rom Manager).
jayzsa said:
So rom manager could be the reason.
I never actually used rom manager to flash directly, i just used it to download and then boot into recovery from rom manager then flash.
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ok thanks , will avoid using rom manager in the future, dont really like it anyway, expensive and alot of small errors.