think my phone hardware bricked - Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

so some small background
been puting custome roms on my phone for a whial iv "bricked" it 100s of times ... i dont really consider it bricked if it turns on
neway started with it not turning on without being pluged in to usb shows dead batt icon
than it would boot loop once i did get it back on have odin a stock rom in
went on like this for about a week trying to find wtf i did wrong and why
now i had it on and chargeing went onto another item iv been working on come back its off and will not turn on no download mode no power nothing
so it basicaly bricked tho i didnt do anything to it at that time ... im guessing hardware
ima be trying unbrickable mod i gota find someone to do it ... or a better soldering rig witchever is cheaper
any ideas anyone ever heard of this its just so bizzar to me it hapion outside of me putting a rom on it or anything

Sounds more like a dead battery or charging hardware issue to me. The boot loop after draining the battery out is common as you can read about it here. I would start off with a fresh battery and and new charging setup first .
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chargeing i got alot of cables to charge but even with no batt u can go into download mode
for the sake of it i tested bad 3.99v

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[Q] phone won't charge, boot or go into flash mode

Hey xda crew!
i was hoping you might be able to help me out with this problem i have
I tried to root my phone recently using the "newbies guide to rooting x10" and well when i turned my phone back on it wouldn't turn on and just vibrated constantly untill i took the battery out.
after that i decided to try and reinstall software using SEUS and it told me that it worked. But when i tried to start my phone it again wouldn't start. but this time instead of vibrating the screen light just turned on and sort of flashed every now and then.
I left the phone on all night charging while the screen was doing funny things, in hope that it would eventually start up. but when i got up in the morning the battery had gone dead and all that was happening was the red led light was flashing.
I tried to get it back into flash mode, but because the battery was so dead all the phone would do was the red lights would flash when i plugged it into the computer.
As im not sure that i can claim it on warranty.. i was wondering if my problem lies in the USB cord/charger or the phone its self? or the battery?
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Would be a amazing help.
Thanks heaps in advance.
Well, something probably went wrong when you tried too root it, so it turned into a brick.
You won't be able to claim it on the warranty because you lost that when you tried rooting it.
Get your battery charged (maybe in someone elses x10), and search the forums here, i'm pretty sure that there is a de-brick guide somewhere, although i haven't tried it.
To get into flash mode, your bttry need to be on 50% charged... Your phone must've been booting all night, find a way to charge your battery mate, n then bfore flasing, take out ur battery, hold the back key n insert it back.... Hope this will b helpful...
maguyver it take an old charger cut the end off strip the wires now touch the red to the positive and black to negative of your battery and plug it in... i had to do it for my buddies droid x when i bricked it when it was it it reads as full charge but you only wanna have it plugged in like that for like 10 min tops
chadf said:
Hey xda crew!
i was hoping you might be able to help me out with this problem i have
I tried to root my phone recently using the "newbies guide to rooting x10" and well when i turned my phone back on it wouldn't turn on and just vibrated constantly untill i took the battery out.
after that i decided to try and reinstall software using SEUS and it told me that it worked. But when i tried to start my phone it again wouldn't start. but this time instead of vibrating the screen light just turned on and sort of flashed every now and then.
I left the phone on all night charging while the screen was doing funny things, in hope that it would eventually start up. but when i got up in the morning the battery had gone dead and all that was happening was the red led light was flashing.
I tried to get it back into flash mode, but because the battery was so dead all the phone would do was the red lights would flash when i plugged it into the computer.
As im not sure that i can claim it on warranty.. i was wondering if my problem lies in the USB cord/charger or the phone its self? or the battery?
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Would be a amazing help.
Thanks heaps in advance.
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Guess there's not many to help in this issue. I just faced the same man. Don't know what to do. It won't go to flash mode, SEUS don't recognize, neither the flash tool. Reinstalled PC companion thinking the drivers have gone wrong but that don't seem to be the issue.
So im here with a bricked x10, lol but not funny ppl
Someone(recognized developer) in the forum said that the X10 can't b hard bricked. Also, i got this problem 2-3months back. But now its alright.
SEUS did't find the drivers for my x10. Then i went to my friends home(who also has x10) and flash my x10 using seus. I found drivers because drivers were already installed on my friend's pc.
So, i just want to tell you that:
Flash your X10 from that PC which already has drivers installed.
Remember your x10 can't b hard bricked. It will be semi-bricked.
Sorry for my bad english
chadf said:
Hey xda crew!
i was hoping you might be able to help me out with this problem i have
I tried to root my phone recently using the "newbies guide to rooting x10" and well when i turned my phone back on it wouldn't turn on and just vibrated constantly untill i took the battery out.
after that i decided to try and reinstall software using SEUS and it told me that it worked. But when i tried to start my phone it again wouldn't start. but this time instead of vibrating the screen light just turned on and sort of flashed every now and then.
I left the phone on all night charging while the screen was doing funny things, in hope that it would eventually start up. but when i got up in the morning the battery had gone dead and all that was happening was the red led light was flashing.
I tried to get it back into flash mode, but because the battery was so dead all the phone would do was the red lights would flash when i plugged it into the computer.
As im not sure that i can claim it on warranty.. i was wondering if my problem lies in the USB cord/charger or the phone its self? or the battery?
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Would be a amazing help.
Thanks heaps in advance.
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I'm not a DEV
But I played and bricked and de-bricked my x10 a lot and I literally installled and tested almost all ROM's the dev's posts
So, this is what I feel would've happand.
First of all, u didnt mention if u were on 2.1 or 2.3.
Because rooting 2.3 is not as easy as 2.1.
Now, like what most people commented, you root must have been broken.
Also, what I feel is that your battery stats were wrong.
That means, your battery was not holding the proper charge what it was actually "showing" (charging is infact is software based).
Now, what you actually can do is, find another person who has an X10 near your place.
Put ur battery in his cell and check whats happening.
If its really out of juice, then use "his" phone to charge your battery.
Charge it to full and then put it back to ur phone and try starting your phone.
If the vibration thing is happening, then ur battery is good.
Now open flash tool, and remove battery from ur phone.
Connect USB to phone and comp, and press the back button and hold it, and while holding it, insert the battery.
From my experience, you should be seeing the green light now, and my openion is that u flash the 2.1 generic firmware and then rroot the phone first, install recovery and after doing these, install any of the custom ROMs available.
I'm using Wolf's ROM v 4.04 and its very stable.
All the best and report back if your problem is fixed.

[Q] Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH-I777 wont turn on

I have read similar threads but want to make sure I did not miss anything...
My Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH-I777 device seems to be totally dead:
Pressing and holding power button does nothing
Pressing power and Volume Up and Volume down buttons do not get into download mode
Removing the battery and holding power button for a minute to do s oft reset and drain power did not help
Putting the unit in a freezer bag and into the freezer for an hour did not help
Leaving it charging overnight did not help
Using USB Jig method did not work
Here is the sequence of events, as best as I can recall, that led me to this state:
Device was rooted with CWM recovery installed and Android 3.2.4
I then installed FoxHound PsychoMantis 2 custom ROM so I could try ICS (bad idea for a noob)
I ran into the problem "Unfortunately, Samsung keypad has stopped" and device making it really slowwwwwww!!!
I then tried to go back to the stock version using Heimdall 1.3.2 and heimdall-frontend (build from source for my Ubuntu 11.04) and the XXJVU_heimdall.tar.gz heimdall firmware package. At this point the device was fully charged and I was still able to get into recovery mode but was getting "ERROR: Setting up interface failed!" from heimdall-frontend when flashing.
At some point after this I must have turned power off to get out of download mode and then could never turn the device on after.
I ordered a USB jig from Amazon and tried the USB jig method but that did not make any difference to the problem
Is there any thing else for me to try? If not, is Mobile Tech Videos JTAG service my best bet?
Thank for your help and patience with a noob.
What instructions did u follow to do this operation? I think its interesting people think they'll get more help if they put Noob on the page somewhere. "I'm a noob." I'm gonna try that with the IRS next tax year. "Sorry but I can't file this year.". " why not sir?". "Oh. I'm noob at it.". "Oh **** really?! Nmind then its all good. No need to file."
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Make sure your phone not missing its motherboard.
One thing I see wrong is jvu, that's not a firmware for this phone
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USB Jig not working is never a good sign....
Looks like you flashed some i9000 firmware. Depending on how far the flash went, you may be bricked to the point of needing a JTAG repair. I suggest MobileTechVideos, they've had good reviews.
[Solved] Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH-I777 wont turn on
I finally decided to take the device back to AT&T as it was under warranty. It turns out the problem was a dead battery! It was a shocker to find out that this device will not turn on if the batter is dead (or not installed) even if the power is plugged in. Can any one explain how this is possible and why Samsung chose such a questionable design? It seems to means that to troubleshoot a dead phone one must have a working spare batter!
farrukhnajmi said:
I finally decided to take the device back to AT&T as it was under warranty. It turns out the problem was a dead battery! It was a shocker to find out that this device will not turn on if the batter is dead (or not installed) even if the power is plugged in. Can any one explain how this is possible and why Samsung chose such a questionable design? It seems to means that to troubleshoot a dead phone one must have a working spare batter!
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Or a charger nearby...
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I've had some issues if my phone dies I just can't get it back on yet either...
I've found that if I pull the batt plug in the usb put in the batt and go into the 'forced upload mode' (as long as I'm able to still get it that far I can bring it back)
the problem I have is that sometimes it seems like it goes into this mode, and then restarts... after a while i'm able to get it to stay in this mode, and then i believe it is able to charge the battery;
I don't know what the deal is, I tohuhgt that charging while device off was now enabled (I believe before if the device was so dead it couldn't load a kernel it couldn't charge or something like that)
anyway; i thought that was in the kernels maybe it's not maybe i need to use something else, maybe our problems are unrelated -- my best advice ... try to get it into downloader (I have a kindle Fire charger that is 5v 1.8a or so, more than the phone needs but I stick it on there and then fight it off and on for sometimes 2 days...) it's *#$(# annoying I can tell you that -- but it ain't quite bricked ... Good luck broseph.

SGH-i777 Not Turning on

Hey everybody. I think this thread is somewhere but I looked and couldnt find any solution for this issue. I have a SGH-i777, rooted and unlocked and all that fun stuff. It was working fine until the other day when I believe the battery was drained all the way (wife's phone, doesn't take care of it). I tried charging it but only thing that would pop up was the battery sign for like 3 seconds and then it would go blank, wouldn't charge. I tried going into download mode and it did so I thought it was just the battery. I bought a battery wall charger and charged it. I then tried to boot the phone but same thing would happen. I tried going into download mode and all it shows is Low battery!! Can't download!! in red. When I plug the phone in to PC or wall, the battery sign pops up and shuts down. Any suggestions of what it could be? Bricked? Motherboard? Battery?
replace the battery..?
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cm_narimani said:
Hey everybody. I think this thread is somewhere but I looked and couldnt find any solution for this issue. I have a SGH-i777, rooted and unlocked and all that fun stuff. It was working fine until the other day when I believe the battery was drained all the way (wife's phone, doesn't take care of it). I tried charging it but only thing that would pop up was the battery sign for like 3 seconds and then it would go blank, wouldn't charge. I tried going into download mode and it did so I thought it was just the battery. I bought a battery wall charger and charged it. I then tried to boot the phone but same thing would happen. I tried going into download mode and all it shows is Low battery!! Can't download!! in red. When I plug the phone in to PC or wall, the battery sign pops up and shuts down. Any suggestions of what it could be? Bricked? Motherboard? Battery?
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It sounds like a problem that I had which ended up being a USB charging port and I was in a battery boot loop and also was not able to get into download mode.first I bought a USB jig which forces you into download mode and the USB charger port which got my phone out of that horrible battery boot loop. And with no experience at all I ended up changing the USB charger port its very easy just look up video on utube.I hope this helps you and here's so pics of the stuff I bought
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It could be the charging port, but I forgot to mention that I tried with a different battery after having it on a separate battery wall charger and it still gives me the same issue. Well actually now, the previous battery I had doesn't even let me go into download mode or shows any signs of power. The replacement battery that I am trying does show some sign of life by trying to go into download mode, but giving me the "Battery low!!, Can't Download".
cm_narimani said:
It could be the charging port, but I forgot to mention that I tried with a different battery after having it on a separate battery wall charger and it still gives me the same issue. Well actually now, the previous battery I had doesn't even let me go into download mode or shows any signs of power. The replacement battery that I am trying does show some sign of life by trying to go into download mode, but giving me the "Battery low!!, Can't Download".
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Like I said it sounds exactly what I was going through and it took 8 dollars to fix it so its worth it.http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=190757144194&index=1&nav=SEARCH&nid=91640319289
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I have fixed this issue by connecting 3AA batteries together on series and placing the positive from the first AA battery on the positive terminal of the phone battery and the negative of the last AA battery to the negative of the phone battery. You are basically charging your phone battery minus any safety precautions. Leave the AA batteries.connected.for about 5 minutes and you should be good to go. Reset battery statistics when the phone has booted and charged correctly.
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So I had an extra charging port and I switched them out and yet I have the same problem. I am going to try your way jmgelba, but I don't quite understand how you connected 3 AA batteries in a series and connected the positive of the first and negative of last battery to phone batter? Did you use wires? Do you have a image configuration to show me or a photo?
Thanks
I used soldered wires on the batteries which were in series, giving me 4.5v.
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first of all thank you to everyone who has replied.
So I bought a new battery and I believe the batteries that I tried were bad. So I tried flashing it back to stock ics with odin and all works fine, until it tells me "FAIL". I dunno why its not flashing back to stock. I managed to root the phone and it roots and reboots and shows the galaxy logo but then gets stuck. I left it for a while but nothing happened. I tried to flash back to stock once more and it got stuck on odin and I bricked the phone, luckily i had a unbrick usb jig and so I took out battery, plugged it in and it goes directly to download mode and says
"Product name: SGH-I777
Custom Binary Download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official"
So I don't know if that means the official ICS is installed or what. I try flashing it again but same thing happens and it fails. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You.
P.S I have been looking for Stock Gingerbread, maybe thats why its not flashing, but doubt it. Where can I get it?
Now it also gets stuck on Samsung Galaxy SII logo after reboot
cm_narimani said:
first of all thank you to everyone who has replied.
So I bought a new battery and I believe the batteries that I tried were bad. So I tried flashing it back to stock ics with odin and all works fine, until it tells me "FAIL". I dunno why its not flashing back to stock. I managed to root the phone and it roots and reboots and shows the galaxy logo but then gets stuck. I left it for a while but nothing happened. I tried to flash back to stock once more and it got stuck on odin and I bricked the phone, luckily i had a unbrick usb jig and so I took out battery, plugged it in and it goes directly to download mode and says
"Product name: SGH-I777
Custom Binary Download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official"
So I don't know if that means the official ICS is installed or what. I try flashing it again but same thing happens and it fails. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You.
P.S I have been looking for Stock Gingerbread, maybe thats why its not flashing, but doubt it. Where can I get it?
Now it also gets stuck on Samsung Galaxy SII logo after reboot
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Go to the download repository (link in my sig) and flash the I777UCKH7-CL503881 Stock Binaries. That's stock Gingerbread full install with all the files. You can use the one-click downloader, or use the tar.md5 file with Odin. Let us know if that gets you going.
@creepyncrawly
Thats funny cuz I just came back to reply that I found a solution at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18859438 which is your post and I just noticed that you had replied.
It did work and it is back to stock. Freaking tried everything and your solution worked.
Thank You
Easy Solution
A very Simple Solution:-
I have been seeing the same issue in my sgh-i777, and found an easy alternative.
you just cover the battery output points with a small piece of paper. and put it back in phone to get charge.
This way it will only charge; NOT start /try to start the phone and go into infinite loop of boot.
wait for 15-20 min, pull the paper pieces out and BINGO, your phone turn on!

[Q] USB connection + stock bootloop

Hi Guys I've looked at loads of other related posts for this but nothing seems to be the same as mine, let me try and give you a bit of background on this it wont be perfect as it is my sisters phone and she doesn't know anything. my sister left her original charger at her boyfriends and therefore had to use a cheaper non-stock one she had. Every-time she used it her phone would play up do things like open the car mode and keep rebooting, she didn't think much of it and used it anyway. Her phone died (ran out of battery) one evening and she used the strange charger to charge her phone overnight this however seems to have caused issues since then it wont boot it goes past the Samsung boot screen then the o2 boot screen then just repeats (sounds like a boot loop) note the phone has never been rooted and is still 100% stock.
So this is the issue I figured using ODIN and flashing the stock firmware would fix the issue but I cannot for the life of me get the phone to pick up on ANY computer at all I've tried different charger cables, different computers, Different OS's, cleaning the port and pretty much everything else the internet has currently had to offer. I really am at a loss here I cant use recovery as its not rooted I cant use something like Kies Air or mobile odin as I cant boot into the room and using ODIN is im unable to connect to any computers.
So I guys I'm reaching out to you here what can I do to fix this I really need some advice :laugh:
Thanks in advance.
Say hi to your sister for me.
Oh and her battery must be dead because of the charger.
Usb port could also be busted.
Get another fully charged battery and check it out.
PS: I didn't even read the thread.
Sent from the little guy
gastonw said:
Say hi to your sister for me.
Oh and her battery must be dead because of the charger.
Usb port could also be busted.
Get another fully charged battery and check it out.
PS: I didn't even read the thread.
Sent from the little guy
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Battery seems to work fine, it charges in the computer fine and i tried my mates s2 battery and it was still in the same situation :silly:
Let me read the thread then
Done.
Change usb port, it's busted.
If in warranty...well have them take a look at it.
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gastonw said:
Let me read the thread then
Done.
Change usb port, it's busted.
If in warranty...well have them take a look at it.
Sent from the little guy
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No shes had it since launch so its way out, also if it charges would that not mean its working?
Different conectors.
Warranty is for 2 years mostly....
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Do you think there is anything else I can try I don't want to jump directly into replacing parts/handset.
If it's a hardware fault, not much while you can do other than change the part. The part itself is cheap, isn't even hard to swap it out
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[Q] Samsung S2 stuck in boot loop, cannot access Recovery Mode.

Hey Guys, ive scoured google for 2 days now trying to find a way to fix my phone.
two days ago i was doing some work and i left my phone on the table, and later i found out that the battery was low and it had shut off. But when i looked at it, it was just flashing the "samsung galaxy s2 gt-i9100" text logo. (and not the animation circle logo.)
I tried turning it off, didnt work so i thought it had frozen which happens, so i took out the battery and put it back in again.
Then i tried to plug it into my recharger, and it was showing a grey battery icon and was frozen on that screen always, the screen doesnt turn off, the battery icon isn't showing that its charging. doesnt change, just shows the same empty battery grey icon with the refresh circle-arrow in the middle.
I tried taking the battery out leaving it out for 5 minutes, draining the battery from the phone by holding the power button for 10 seconds, then trying to charge the phone. Same issue, only showing the grey battery icon when trying to charge and it never changes or goes away.
SO i tried to boot up the phone, but it wont go past the samsung text logo.
I tried entering recovery, but it just freezes on the samsung text logo.
I can enter Odin download mode, and ive tried installing several different both stock, original and CMW roms, and nothing changes. (except if i use gingerbread, then the grey battery icon just keeps flashing off and on in 5 second intervals when plugged into the charger.)
Ive tried taking the battery out for 8 hours and try booting it, no change.
Ive tried changing the battery, no change (think it has low bat as well maybe).
Ive tried leaving it plugged in overnight, but that only drained whatever power i had left over in one of the batteries.
Ive tried some of the siyah and doriman kernels, and they add a loading bar which gets full on the samsung text screen,
but then freezes after that.
Im losing my mind here, ive tried almost everything i can think of. And would really appreciate any help on this.
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Ok so to keep this post updated for people experiencing the same issues.
IT seems there is a hardware failure in progress.
BUT i managed to get a temporary fix, it seems that by having the ear plugs connected into the earphone jack in the phone, the phone becomes somewhat usable. I was able to get into recovery, and able to flash a new stock, and its up and running, but as i said this is only a temporary solution as the real issue is that the phone is not conducting the electricity in a proper way that allowed me to recharge my batteries until i had added the earphones...
The phone becomes unusable for me when i remove the earphones again, as i believe its failing to conduct the electricity from the battery properly through the motherboard without something connected into the earphone jack..
SO for people having issues with their phones, it might be a possible way to get your phone temporarily operational again.
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Search for Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread, download the 3 part stock firmware linked in the thread, flash it with Odin (only if you absolutely have an I9100/I9100T though).
Edit - Doesn't sound promising though, cross your fingers doing that works.
yeah i tried hoppers guide, didnt help me.
Still stuck on the samsung screen.
Whats wierd is, if ive got the phone on charging, it wont boot to the samsung screen even, it just turns itself off
and returns to the grey battery icon again.
Hang on....Did you try flashing the 3 part firmware like I mentioned ? If you haven't, do it. If you have, it's a service centre/local mobile repair shop job.
MistahBungle said:
Hang on....Did you try flashing the 3 part firmware like I mentioned ? If you haven't, do it. If you have, it's a service centre/local mobile repair shop job.
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Yeah, tried 3 part, even another packages with pit files bootloader and repartitioning from another guide.
still no change, still freezes at samsung text screen.
I dont want to take it to a service center, as there is none around here as far as i know. Norway.
If i can just get it into recovery mode i can prob fix it, but i cant fracking enter recovery. Its driving me insane.
Given what you've tried, no chance of fixing it yourself by the usual methods.
Either take it to a local mobile repair shop & ask them to source a 2nd hand motherboard for you & put it in, or you source one (from a 'donor' phone; a phone with a broken screen that is otherwise OK for example, search online) & either replace it yourself or pay the local mobile repair shop to do it if you're not confident enough.
have you ever flashed a rom on that before..... or is this a stock ROM phone we are talking about???
if it was a stock ROM phone....then did it receive updates over carrier network and started to install itself???
if yes then you should have not stopped it...... i have some problem with phone 3 days ago.... i downloaded latest XWMS1 released for nordic region....... phone is fixed and i am back to neatrom 5.3.1
i suggest you download XWMS1 ...and try flashing it via Odin..... might start......
keep fingers crossed
Roshan707 said:
have you ever flashed a rom on that before..... or is this a stock ROM phone we are talking about???
if it was a stock ROM phone....then did it receive updates over carrier network and started to install itself???
if yes then you should have not stopped it...... i have some problem with phone 3 days ago.... i downloaded latest XWMS1 released for nordic region....... phone is fixed and i am back to neatrom 5.3.1
i suggest you download XWMS1 ...and try flashing it via Odin..... might start......
keep fingers crossed
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It wasn't any update or anything, it was related to the battery i think as the batt was low.
And instead of recharging the battery, it went into bootloop and started draining the battery more when it was plugged into the charger.
ive downloaded xwms1, still stuck in bootloop.
Ive even opened it up to see if it was a hardware issue, i see no flaws, all buttons work and nothing is stuck.
the phone just keeps going to the samsung logo, and wont go into recovery mode.
It can easily go into download mode, but recovery mode is just not happening.
at this point i just ordered the Xperia Z1 instead, but i still want to fix this phone and give it to my dad or something.
desidarko said:
Hey Guys, ive scoured google for 2 days now trying to find a way to fix my phone.
two days ago i was doing some work and i left my phone on the table, and later i found out that the battery was low and it had shut off. But when i looked at it, it was just flashing the "samsung galaxy s2 gt-i9100" text logo. (and not the animation circle logo.)
I tried turning it off, didnt work so i thought it had frozen which happens, so i took out the battery and put it back in again.
Then i tried to plug it into my recharger, and it was showing a grey battery icon and was frozen on that screen always, the screen doesnt turn off, the battery icon isn't showing that its charging. doesnt change, just shows the same empty battery grey icon with the refresh circle-arrow in the middle.
I tried taking the battery out leaving it out for 5 minutes, draining the battery from the phone by holding the power button for 10 seconds, then trying to charge the phone. Same issue, only showing the grey battery icon when trying to charge and it never changes or goes away.
SO i tried to boot up the phone, but it wont go past the samsung text logo.
I tried entering recovery, but it just freezes on the samsung text logo.
I can enter Odin download mode, and ive tried installing several different both stock, original and CMW roms, and nothing changes. (except if i use gingerbread, then the grey battery icon just keeps flashing off and on in 5 second intervals when plugged into the charger.)
Ive tried taking the battery out for 8 hours and try booting it, no change.
Ive tried changing the battery, no change (think it has low bat as well maybe).
Ive tried leaving it plugged in overnight, but that only drained whatever power i had left over in one of the batteries.
Ive tried some of the siyah and doriman kernels, and they add a loading bar which gets full on the samsung text screen,
but then freezes after that.
Im losing my mind here, ive tried almost everything i can think of. And would really appreciate any help on this.
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errrrm - just a thought (and it's a real long shot) I had some strange battery drain (bootloop) issues with a brand new i9100 and it turned out that the micro sd card I was using was corrupt, took it out and it worked. Might be worth a try but like I said its a long shot. If that does not work I agree with mistahbungle and looks like you wil need to replace the mb.
Jimsilver73 said:
errrrm - just a thought (and it's a real long shot) I had some strange battery drain (bootloop) issues with a brand new i9100 and it turned out that the micro sd card I was using was corrupt, took it out and it worked. Might be worth a try but like I said its a long shot. If that does not work I agree with mistahbungle and looks like you wil need to replace the mb.
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Yeah ive already taken out the micro sd card and sim card, didnt change anything.
Just so weird the phone is less than 2 years old. Sucks that its already llike this.
desidarko said:
Yeah ive already taken out the micro sd card and sim card, didnt change anything.
Just so weird the phone is less than 2 years old. Sucks that its already llike this.
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I've went through this on my Hercules, T-Mobile S2. I had Android tweaker pro, removed all of the tweaks, and rebooted. It took me quite a while but I was able to get into recovery by the normal button mashing.
DO NOT HAVE THE PHONE PLUGGED INTO THE CHARGER.
PRESS THE VOLUME BUTTONS THEN THE POWER BUTTON WHILE STILL HOLDING THE VOLUME BUTTONS.
AS SOON AS YOU FEEL THE FIRST VIBRATION, LET GO OF ONLY THE POWER BUTTON!
CONTINUE TO HOLD THE VOLUME BUTTONS UNTIL YOUR RECOVERY LOADS.
THAT IS WHAT HAS WORKED FOR ME.
Sent from my Skinny Hercules
Ok so to keep this post updated for people experiencing the same issues.
IT seems there is a hardware failure in progress.
BUT i managed to get a temporary fix, it seems that by having the ear plugs connected into the earphone jack in the phone, the phone becomes somewhat usable. I was able to get into recovery, and able to flash a new stock, and its up and running, but as i said this is only a temporary solution as the real issue is that the phone is not conducting the electricity in a proper way that allowed me to recharge my batteries until i had added the earphones...
The phone becomes unusable for me when i remove the earphones again, as i believe its failing to conduct the electricity from the battery properly through the motherboard without something connected into the earphone jack..
SO for people having issues with their phones, it might be a possible way to get your phone temporarily operational again.
Please Help !!
i kinda cloned my ROM , it happened by mistake while trying to flash my kernel , now that my phone is stuck in samsung start up logo , . tried to reboot still the same result. . . :crying:
No recovery ? If that's the case, stock rom from Samfirmware, flash with Odin to get a 'clean slate' (How ? Thread stickied near top of Q&A has instructions) & re-try whatever it was you wanted to do. If you do have recovery, try a factory reset in the first instance, if that doesn't work or if you have recovery but can't do one for whatever reason, proceed with the stock flash via Odin.
Thanks
thanks a lot mate , my fone back in action. successfully flashed, now running on JB 4.3.1 on Paranoidandroid 3.99-RC2 , so far so good .:victory:
being a newbei in this field hoping for all the support
EDIT : any suggestion how to remove warning symbol (yellow triangle) while booting .
Possibly triangle away.Search to get the free version.
desidarko said:
Ok so to keep this post updated for people experiencing the same issues.
IT seems there is a hardware failure in progress.
BUT i managed to get a temporary fix, it seems that by having the ear plugs connected into the earphone jack in the phone, the phone becomes somewhat usable. I was able to get into recovery, and able to flash a new stock, and its up and running, but as i said this is only a temporary solution as the real issue is that the phone is not conducting the electricity in a proper way that allowed me to recharge my batteries until i had added the earphones...
The phone becomes unusable for me when i remove the earphones again, as i believe its failing to conduct the electricity from the battery properly through the motherboard without something connected into the earphone jack..
SO for people having issues with their phones, it might be a possible way to get your phone temporarily operational again.
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Okay so I have managed to get it to this point after day's of grief, now please tell me I don't have to walk around with the earplugs in for ever !
RustyNail99 said:
Okay so I have managed to get it to this point after day's of grief, now please tell me I don't have to walk around with the earplugs in for ever !
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A friend of mine had am Android phone that had a similar problem. It always showed the headphones on the status bar and Could not be heard. If you will take your phone apart then you can look for bridges in the solder points. These happen from poor construction and over heating. Fix the bridges and you should be good to go.
Sent from my Skinny Hercules
fathertomany said:
A friend of mine had am Android phone that had a similar problem. It always showed the headphones on the status bar and Could not be heard. If you will take your phone apart then you can look for bridges in the solder points. These happen from poor construction and over heating. Fix the bridges and you should be good to go.
Sent from my Skinny Hercules
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I did take it apart and had a quick look, all seems ok. However I was not ready to junk the phone so I improvised a little, its not pretty but it works.
I had an old headphone jack which I cut down so as it would just fit into the jack point, installed Soundabout Pro app which forces the calls to come out the earpiece and not headphones voila it works. In the end it cost me a lot of time surfing countless forums, anger management control and some joy at getting it to work. Still without the help people give on this and other forums it would be a useless phone :fingers-crossed:
sweetben747 said:
thanks a lot mate , my fone back in action. successfully flashed, now running on JB 4.3.1 on Paranoidandroid 3.99-RC2 , so far so good .:victory:
being a newbei in this field hoping for all the support
EDIT : any suggestion how to remove warning symbol (yellow triangle) while booting .
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i was also searching for the same...... since triangle did not hurt but i wanted to know if i could get rid of it......
thanks to our wonderful Dev name Phliz i could do it... i had to reflash to stock for it ofcourse but then whole effort was worthwhile .....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1877270
this is the link.... please go through... and best of luck to remove the triangle.....

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