Ok lets start.
1) Phone wouldn't connect to PC but it would charge - got over that by just using a memory card and always having ROMS on the card
2) went on holiday (gran canaria) at the beach so a bit of sand got on my phone but it was working fine for the rest of the holiday
3) Got on the plane and the phone was working fine i Accidently left it off airplane mode but oh well we lived ad im sure that hasn't affected anything and fell asleep with it in my pocket. now ive got back to the UK but the phone was of even though it was charged before hand. tried to use the wall charger but it wouldn't work when i got home i tried USB but that wouldn't work
4) today ive gone to get a new battery in case the battery has died but no battery worked. i went ot about 3 different shops and now im sure its the phone.
5) ive tried cleaning (blowing the sand out of the phone and it never got wet so now i don't know what to do. i was using the Foxhound rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1162715) which was working fine the whole time
What are my options? I dont have insurance but i was considering to get i. so i could them to replace it but not sure if i could get another since im sure the warranty is void since ive rooted my phone and put a new rom on. If that's not an option then i wouldn't mind opening my phone to try and fix it myself if someone could point me in the right direction. Annnnnd if that's not an option how much could i sell it for as it is? ive still got the box and stuff lol
oh yeah when i say i cant turn it on i dont mean bootloop i mean it wont even vibrate when i press the on button tried soft and hard reset ive opened the phone and tried cleaning it out and i cant get into recovery or download obviously because it wont turn on
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Hello,
Don't know if this has been asked but I have been looking for it for a while. Cant seem to fine a solution.
I flashed my phone wrong with hemdall now my phone wont turn on. Screen completely black i reboot pulled out the battery everything I can think of can you give me a suggestion. I was thinking about buying a USB Jig.
I'm in the same boat and I bought the Jig. However I think Josh just acts as a middle man on this one and shipping is actually from overseas. But you can find it here. http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/ I suggest a little extra shipping cost.
However the other suggestion if that is not working (I think I killed my phone) is to have Josh do a Jtag on the phone. You can find that at http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant-jtag-brick-repair/
Can you get into download mode? Remove battery, plug usb, press up+down vol buttons and insert battery.
hey i having same problem but i could see the vibrant samsung screen but my phone won't pass that and like you say about the usb cable and then plugging the battery i can do that as well but how can i get my phone back and running another rom!!!
Monster809 said:
hey i having same problem but i could see the vibrant samsung screen but my phone won't pass that and like you say about the usb cable and then plugging the battery i can do that as well but how can i get my phone back and running another rom!!!
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If you can see the Vibrant Samsung screen just use Odin to flash back to stock
Kabiigon said:
Hello,
Don't know if this has been asked but I have been looking for it for a while. Cant seem to fine a solution.
I flashed my phone wrong with heimdall now my phone wont turn on. Screen completely black i reboot pulled out the battery everything I can think of can you give me a suggestion. I was thinking about buying a USB Jig.
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The real solution here i doing a JTAG to your phone or make the Unbrickable MOD (It's very dangerous, a person with Welding and electronic skills must do this).
Another thing you can do is buy a broken Screen phone from Ebay (it more cheaply) and change the motherboard!!
My suggestion would be to continue to try to get into Download mode on the phone. My phone was DEAD no life at all plugged into the wall or PC. I kept trying to get it into download mode and magically after hours of failures, ODIN recognized the device! The phone was still DEAD no life at all on the screen but ODIN had recognized that my device WAS indeed connected. So I continued to flash back to stock and as always with a little patience ODIN was there to save me. The phone automatically rebooted after ODIN was done and BOOM! Good2Go
Goodluck!
^^I'm gonna try that and hopefully with some patience it will work. Otherwise I'm also gonna be ordering a jig, they're not that expensive. My problem is the same as the OP's. My vibrant will just not give any signs of life. I was trying to odin to stock from one cosmics ics RC3.1. Wanted to start on a fresh install for AOKP build 25. But then odin decided to fail on modem.bin. then it just hung and phone turned off, haven't been able to turn it on since. I've spent the last two hours trying to put in different combinations and keys and usb attachments to bring any hints of life, but so far nothing. Bootloader update was not checked on odin so I'm pretty confident that its not due to bootloader mismatch but someone correct me if I'm wrong. Sending it back to samsung or tmobile is very far of an option since I've modified the phone to add FFC. If anyone has any advice or hints it would be greatly appreciated. I'm kind of hating myself and flashing now since I was very happy with the rom that I had and how everything was setup. I just wanted to try something new for fun and this went and blew everything up.
^^I literally held down the buttons > plugged in the cord > put in the battery > and counted in my head the amount of seconds it took the phone to "normally" boot to where I would "normally" let go of the power button to get into Download mode, lol I know it sounds ridiculous but that's how I did it. It helped that I had my sisters working Vibrant right there, I used her phone to get into download mode and timed the process and used that as a baseline for the timing of trying to get the "DEAD" Vibrant into download mode.
If all else fails a JTAG as mentioned should fix your problem fosho!
Goodluck!
Ye I fixed it. One day I did what I had been doing the whole time and it just decided to work. Got into download mode then went back to stock. Our phone is so freaking weird yet I love the damn thing. It really is unbrickable. To anyone in this situation just never give up.
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It all started yesterday morning. My had been acting very strange all day long. It would randomly lose reception all day long and when I say randomly I mean I would be sitting down in the same place for 45 min and it would just lose reception and I would have to reboot to get it back. Once I got home, I was having a very serious talk on the phone and then all of a sudden the reception died. It pissed me off of course, but I knew all I had to do was re-boot. I rebooted my phone, but it would not start...I decided I would take out the battery, and wait a few moments. I put the battery back in, and it put the little buffering icon on the screen and then turned off. I thought my phone might of been bricked or something, but I wasn't quite ready to accept that so I powered down, plugged in my charger and tried to start it and like magic it turned on. Sadly, that is not the end of my problem. The slightest bump, makes my phone turn off, and every time I turn off my phone, I have to use my charger to get it to power on and my phone is having difficulties reading my SIM card. Software issue? What should I do? I am running an outdated version of Simply Honey on GB. I'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to androids and what not so if you tell me what to do then I can do it. Thanks for you time.
P.S. Skip to the last few sentences if you wanna skip the whole story and get to what's wrong with my phone.
Odin back to stock and run it for a day to see if the same thing happens with stock
I just tried going into download mode, but it won't turn on now. I think I'm officially screwed -.-
So my phone is now turned on, but after around 5min-15min it decides to reboot. -.-...like it did right now out of nowhere.
Dragonkai said:
So my phone is now turned on, but after around 5min-15min it decides to reboot. -.-...like it did right now out of nowhere.
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Sounds like you have a hardware problem not software related. Did you drop your phone or wet it perhaps? If so well yeah you are screwed and you cannot do anything about that other than replacing the defected part(s). If it is a software problem a quick flash through odin to 2.1 would definitely fix your problems. Otherwise you might be screwed as i had a phone with similar symptoms. It would just reboot on its own after 5mins of use.
I took off the back case and took out the SIM card, battery, and SD card and my SIM was a bit wet along with my battery. :/ I haven't been near water recently but I did leave my phone in the kitchen, so maybe one of the engineers got it wet :/. Good news is, my dad had this exact same phone and is no longer using it so he's gonna FedEx it to me. Bad news is, he tried to get all computer genius with it and bricked it haha. I should be able to get the phone into working condition again though with minimal to no problems. Thanks so much for everyone's time.
My phone was working perfectly fine until yesterday, when I went to the pool and carelessly left my mobile phone near some humid/wet clothes. When I got my hands on it, it was /working/ or so it seemed yet I couldn't put the SIM code to unlock it. It then restarted and got stuck in a bootloop.
I removed the battery, checked the Water Damage stickies and everything seemed fine, but still wasn't working. Today I got home and dropped my phone in rice (I heard it's good in order to absord water and such) and after a while I removed it, put the baterry in but now it just gets stuck on the boot screen.
I tried going into recovery, was able to, but can't surf through the menu because volume keys don't seem to work.
Any ideas what is wrong with my device? Any suggestion for a new phone if my phone doesn't come back from the dead?
Technical data?:
Unlocked with HTCDev Unlocker, rooted, and flashed CM7.1 with no problems before.
Two year old device.
Bump and extra info about my problem.
I left my phone discharging it's battery and seeing if anything worked okay. This morning it was off and wouldn't turn on, so I put it to charge.
After some hours, I got it's LED green so I tried and turned it on. It did, but still didn't pass the Cyanogenmod bootscreen, so I tried going into Recovery, and it worked! Now I'll try to tinker it, and see if I can get it fixed.
So, if anyone out there has the same problem I have, they should try killing their battery and charging it to 100%. It seems the battery malfunctioned or is almost dead, but a man can wish and see if he can repair his gadgets.
Glad to hear it's fixed! I'm sure many others would feel the same way about your recommended remedy!
Sent from my Nexus 7 on the XDA app. GO CANADA GO
Thanks!
When I had access to the Recovery I backed up my phone and wiped dalvik and cache, then re-installed Cyanogenmod (now upgraded from 7.1 to 7.2) but I'm currently considering switching to another ROM, like an ICS'
Everything works fine, except the SIM, but I believe that's a problem on my own end (network not working)
So ive been using JMT since the v8 and ive never had a problem before. One night i decided to get the X1 and everything seemed to well..the next day i was chargin my phone and i noticed that the phone was off, the chargitng icon was not showing.
I turned to phone on and it would go halfway the splash screen and then it would go black.. then it would start vibrating the way it vibrates when u turn the phone on and it just does that. I tried doing a battery pull but everything that i put in the battery the phone turns on automaticly.
Ive tried going to recovery but it just wont go in. PC doesnt detect the phone and it looks like theres a 5 second gap before the phone does the same hthing over and over.
I dont know what to do because the phone doesnt let me do anything.No recovery,no nothing.
could somebody help me please?
what can i do!? any other ways to totally erase the whole phone! even if i have to fry the motherboard so i could get a replacement lol! but i dont want to do that tho that would be my last solution
it looks like you may need a jtag to fix the phone, it seems that the X1 may have bricked your phone.
Hi all, i got my Galaxy S2 about a year ago (9100 normal, non AT&T or verizon or another else ) and i never encountered problem like this. One day i was texting on the toilet, and unfortunately it fell down on a bowl of water and its all soaked. I just turn it of and take out the battery, when i turn on it again, the start mode triggers, the icon Samsung igt 9100 is showing up and it keeps blinking and blinking, bootlooping. many of my friend said that it is fine and just wait for the water inside the machine to dry up, like one week or so. but after one day i tried to turn it on, the yellow triangle below the 9100 logo is gone ( i think its resetted and everything is gone ) and it went to download mode. But after that, i was not careful enough and my battery fell off, and the phone is turned off dead. and after all of that, i can't even turn on the phone, nothing happened, its like a dead phone without battery.
i went to many forums and many people tried to fix it using the download mode USB jig recovery kit, i bought the i9100 USB jig on the eBay, its arrived today. I tried to plug in on my phone, and i try to turn it on and even every boot method ( download mode, and recovery mode ) and holding the power, still nothing happens. what should i do...?? does that means my cellphone is dead forever? :crying::crying:
You should have put it in a bowl of dry rice for a couple of days to completely dry it out. I think you turned on your phone too soon with the risk of having it f**cked for good.
You seem more accident prone than Mr Bean.
Stick it on eBay
theunderling said:
You seem more accident prone than Mr Bean.
Stick it on eBay
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when i plugged it into my pc, it works, it says that device is not recognized but it still shows, i think it might be some hope, can somebody help me
Unfortunately it is dead, because you did not wait til it dryed out before starting. You fried the flash chip which contains the information for the phone to run.
Only way to fix it is to replace the motherboard. Which means it becomes a new phone with different IMEI.
aiserukana said:
Hi all, i got my Galaxy S2 about a year ago (9100 normal, non AT&T or verizon or another else ) and i never encountered problem like this. One day i was texting on the toilet, and unfortunately it fell down on a bowl of water and its all soaked. I just turn it of and take out the battery, when i turn on it again, the start mode triggers, the icon Samsung igt 9100 is showing up and it keeps blinking and blinking, bootlooping. many of my friend said that it is fine and just wait for the water inside the machine to dry up, like one week or so. but after one day i tried to turn it on, the yellow triangle below the 9100 logo is gone ( i think its resetted and everything is gone ) and it went to download mode. But after that, i was not careful enough and my battery fell off, and the phone is turned off dead. and after all of that, i can't even turn on the phone, nothing happened, its like a dead phone without battery.
i went to many forums and many people tried to fix it using the download mode USB jig recovery kit, i bought the i9100 USB jig on the eBay, its arrived today. I tried to plug in on my phone, and i try to turn it on and even every boot method ( download mode, and recovery mode ) and holding the power, still nothing happens. what should i do...?? does that means my cellphone is dead forever? :crying::crying:
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plug in the charger and let it charge for few hours. You should have left the phone to dry before switching on
Cosmic Blue said:
Unfortunately it is dead, because you did not wait til it dryed out before starting. You fried the flash chip which contains the information for the phone to run.
Only way to fix it is to replace the motherboard. Which means it becomes a new phone with different IMEI.
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will it cost much?
I doubt there's anyone here who can tell you how much. That will depend on how much parts & labour are in your country. Send it in & find out.