I was running the newest SKANK rom, and woke up this morning with it on the galaxy s screen. I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot, but the power button didnt work. it wouldnt boot into recovery either. I tried using odin, but it keeps hanging at either cache, or modem, and wont go any farther... I could really use some advice.
take it apart
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I was running the newest SKANK rom, and woke up this morning with it on the galaxy s screen. I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot, but the power button didnt work. it wouldnt boot into recovery either. I tried using odin, but it keeps hanging at either cache, or modem, and wont go any farther... I could really use some advice.
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hey bro whats up sorry to here that have u tried taken out your battery sim and micro for 5 minutes then putting back your battery only before this you should restart your computer then using a different usb port connect the usb then hold vol up and down same time hopefully download mode right away then you have to check repartition if your using some older version of odin it does not do it for you make sure you have correct files and you should be good odin will only hang usually due to wrong or mismatch pit and tar .... goto development section look for any of FISHMANs work he has plenty of odin images you can easily odin back to a rooted device and not have to go through all those steps in rerooting before any of my steps just make sure you have repartition checked on yes :good: hopefully that gets you some where :good:
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I was running the newest SKANK rom, and woke up this morning with it on the galaxy s screen. I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot, but the power button didnt work. it wouldnt boot into recovery either. I tried using odin, but it keeps hanging at either cache, or modem, and wont go any farther... I could really use some advice.
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Well try to get into download mode with the combo, then reinstall your Samsung drivers, try adding nexus drivers too. Idk much about this but skang, soft brick, and Odin problems caught me cause I run the same ROM.
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I have CWM 3.0.8, and want to get back to the red recovery, so that I can flash a new rom on my fascinate. The problem is, that I can not for the life of me get my phone to show up on Odin. I have tried on two different computers. I have used Odin on both computers for this phone, so the drivers are all installed. Any ideas? The rom I have now is a force close nightmare. I would like to get back to something that is stable.
Thanks for any help,
Brad
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I have CWM 3.0.8, and want to get back to the red recovery, so that I can flash a new rom on my fascinate. The problem is, that I can not for the life of me get my phone to show up on Odin. I have tried on two different computers. I have used Odin on both computers for this phone, so the drivers are all installed. Any ideas? The rom I have now is a force close nightmare. I would like to get back to something that is stable.
Thanks for any help,
Brad
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Follow this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001064
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Ive used odin before, I just cant get the fascinate to be detected by the computer. It wont even mount the sd card via the usb cable to transfer files. I got the phone in download mode, connected to the computer through the usb cable, but can not get the yellow "added" dialog in odin so that I can flash the .tar file...
Thanks for the help so far,
Brad
Maybe a stupid question but do you have Odin open before you plug the phone in.
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You can also try to reinstall drivers or even odin check to see that you have odin 3 1.3 and maybe reinstall odin it can be found here in one of the forums.
I have tried it both ways, going into download mode, then opening odin, and first opening odin, then going into download mode.
Now, I have another problem. I was able to do a data wipe, which stopped the force close loop. I was then able to get my phone workable at least. Then, while resetting everything, I dropped it on my coffee table and the touch screen will not respond. The phone's soft keys work fine and i can turn it on, but have to do a battery pull to turn it off. I have tried turning off/rebooting, and again doing a data wipe. I don't know what else to do other than take it in, but I don't think that is possible since it is rooted
I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
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I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
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Odin will flash, takes less than 5 minutes.
Is there any data running that you can see? I mean at the bottom left. I would suggest you turn off the phone, battery pull, wait for 5 minutes, and reflash back.
If it semi bricked, use JIG to revive it.
Either way, you can't be letting the phone there for the next few days etc right?
Did you click Start in Odin??
Although i don't have an s2(will be getting one soon) did you try to reset your pc? When i was flasing my sgsl i was stuck in this situation where odin seems to freeze everytime. I restarted my pc and poof, flashed without a problem
Edit: was flashing successful? If so maybe you should follow the instruction from the post below.
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This might sound stupid but did you have 'auto-reboot' checked? It happened to me once even though I have flashed hundreds of times. Odin was still open after flashing a kernel and never reset.
Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
Flash CWM kernel, download CM7 rom, copy it on SDCard (mount USB storage in CWM, connect to PC via USB, copy ROM), flash ROM from CWM
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Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
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Try to go into recovery mode and factory reset and clear cache and try flashing again (make sure you are on download mode)
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Hold power button to off it (hold a lil longer for this).
Then Go into recovery mode (power, home button and volume up at same time). Try do wipe all data, cache and even dalvik. Reboot and see if that works.
Alternatively, at the same place, go into restore backup.
The man said: "I can't go into recovery mode"
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Recovery mode doesn't work - nope. But thanks anyway. It's nice to see that people at least try to help. Big hugs to you all.
If I try to flash CWM, I come into the same freeze again. Mindbending stuff ala Samsung, huh. They clearly don't make idiot-safe products. I'm stuck. My next phone might be a StarTAC...
Has happened to me before. KIES was opened. I closed all KIES files and the flashing fun started again~
Good point, make sure Kies isn't running when using Odin!
Also, now that you've flashed CWM, can't you boot on it?
Kies is not running and whatever I flash - it freezes. The green progress bar in Odin reaches maybe 1 cm, but no blue progress bar is visible on the phone as usually happens when flashing. It just says, "Downloading... Don't turn off target!!"
Am I slowly heading towards the brutal-axe-method?
Sounds like the NAND is damaged to me, but I'm no expert...
"NAND" means? Why does it sound like it's damaged? How can it get repaired?
NAND is the flash chip (internal sdcard). Seems that its damaged because you're unable to fully flash it.
I don't think you can have that repaired (if the NAND is truly damaged, like I said I'm no expert), you'd have to get the phone replaced.
With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
lol I hope for you that I'm wrong also!
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With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
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Something similar had happened with me too. The phone was stuck b/w flashing with odin. And the startscreen was showing those 3 icons. It was soft bricked.
But I then finally fixed it by flashing CF and then a ROM
I recently flashed the new ICS Passion v11 and this first flash was giving me problems...so I went back into recovery and wiped data, cache partition, and Dalvik cache. I accidentally messed up and rebooted before reinstalling the .zip file and now my Vibrant is stuck at the first boot screen and will not go into cwm recovery. So is there any hope left for my phone? Please help!
Don't worry. Just flash back to stock using Download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
Complete guide to flashing ROMs and ODIN back to Stock -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1307637
Its simple cant go wrong if you follow all the steps.
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Don't worry. Just flash back to stock using Download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
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I tried getting into download mode but it still just keeps cycling the same Vibrant boot screen. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but if I'm not mistaken it is Vol Down + Power right?
Few things.
First. Under your avatar is a Verizon picture. Are you using the Vibrant or the Facinate? They are different and Facinate ROMs don't work on Vibrant phones and vice versa.
Second. See below.
Make sure you have ODIN OPEN with admin privileges!
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
You don't necessarily need the download mode image to be present. As long as you are getting the COM ID to light up yellow in ODIN, just flash back to stock like normal.
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Woodrube said:
Few things.
First. Under your avatar is a Verizon picture. Are you using the Vibrant or the Facinate? They are different and Facinate ROMs don't work on Vibrant phones and vice versa.
Second. See below.
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Yes, I am using the Vibrant. I was with T Mobile but I switched to Verizon. I was planning on giving this phone with ICS Passion flashed on it to a friend of mine who is still with T Mobile. Thanks for the post about how to get into download mode. I will try it as soon as I get some time to mess with it today.
I have answers!
Hey. I was having this exact problem and I solved it!
Basically, when it goes into a bootloop, all you have to do it take out the battery, pop it back in, and reflash it again. I had this problem for almost all my flashing even odin'ing back to froyo I had to do twice because it froze.
Here was my process:
I went through the process of going into going to Froyo with Odin (twice sometimes if it froze) then flashing CM7(Twice because of a boot loop) and then flashing ICS PAssion V12 (Twice because of boot loop)
Now it works perfect! Also, no need to wipe data/factory reset/cache partition/dalvik cache after coming out of the bootloop. simply take out the battery, go back into recovery and flash it again. should work!
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I tried getting into download mode but it still just keeps cycling the same Vibrant boot screen. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but if I'm not mistaken it is Vol Down + Power right?
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It's Vol Down + Vol Up + Power. then you can let go as soon as you see the word "Vibrant" in white. should take you into recovery
Thank you to everyone that helped me out, especially to you Woodrube. Your post really helped me get things going. I finally got my phone into download mode and flashed back to the stock Eclair firmware with Odin. I then went back into recovery, flashed CM7, and proceeded to flash ICS Passion v11. It took me a couple of tries with all of this because I figured out that the ICS update file somehow got corrupted (Possibly when I flashed the stock rom?), so I just re-downloaded the file and flashed and it worked fine.
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My samsung E1105T freezes on samsung startup, i know this kind of question has been answered but since i am using samsung SGH-E250i i am not able to see the solution on a YOUTUBE video, if i could only just get instructions i would be greatful, i hope you will be able to help
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my Samsung galaxy vibrant SGH-T959 is stuck on the beginning boot screen. i cant get into recovery. i take the battery out and unplug it. i hold volume buttons and plug it in and go to download mode. but my PC will not recognize the phone. it popped up and said "this device was not set up properly." i uninstalled drivers that i installed and tried Samsung Kies. but it just kept saying "connecting." Odin will not work either. i see how people say just take the battery out while its plugged in. but that does not work either. i really need this phone this is my daily driver. it will not boot at all it just stays on vibrant logo. please help!!!!
I have an um-rooted samsung galaxy player 3.6 (running gingerbread 2.3.6) I was browsing an app when suddenly it crashed! the battery was low, so at first I thought to plug it in, but before I did, I noticed that it was rebooting every 4-5 seconds. plugged it in, took out battery, tried putting in recovery (put bat. back in, hold power and both volume buttons) but it vibrates and just goes back into boot loop. it pops up with the samsung logo, stays for 3 or so seconds, screen goes dark, then it does it again.
I have been messing with it. when it starts booting, my computer recognizes it as OMAP3630 which google has told me is the name of the processor. It tries to install drivers but fails due to "umplugged device" when it turns off
Weird! If you have data to recover try using adb logcat to see what's going on. Otherwise reflash with Odin. I have only experienced this problem when using heimdall to flash my us yp-gs1, but it happens right after flashing.
What app were you using when it happened?
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a Forum app. It has not been flashed either. it is all stock 2.3.6 gingerbread. if i put the battery in then plug it in (without hitting any power buttons) it goes to a loading circle (that does not move at all) and just stays there. the computer does not recognize it in this state. its only 3 months old, but I have no idea where the recipt is!
weird! im sticking with my answer tho, if you want to fix it then put it in download mode and flash it
if you cant get to download mode then buy a $2 usb jig
Tried it! no luck. got it in download mode. ran odin and It said pass! BUT it only took 3 seconds? and then instead of flashing just samsung then rebooting, it started flashing samsung with a caution symbol under it and rebooting. went to do it again and it says suctom binary current binary:custom. so it seems it worked but did not fix my problem
Did you flash normalboot and factoryfs both?
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Tried it! no luck. got it in download mode. ran odin and It said pass! BUT it only took 3 seconds? and then instead of flashing just samsung then rebooting, it started flashing samsung with a caution symbol under it and rebooting. went to do it again and it says suctom binary current binary:custom. so it seems it worked but did not fix my problem
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I had a similar problem with the galaxy player 5.0. Took out my micro sd card from it and somehow that worked. Hasn't gone on any reboot cycle since.
I was gonna try the fs whatever one, but now i cannot get my computer to recognize it! i tried another factory reset and that didnt help. i got it to work once. Guess I will have to keep trying? I got school so I cant do it now (16, junior in High school)
yep you'll need to get to download mode to flash it. like i said before, a $2 usb jig will always do the trick (i loooove mine)
I dont have any problem getting it into download mode, my problem is getting the computer to recognize it. gonna have to try it on a dif computer I guess, which is weird, because I got it to work once, but now it wont. I flashed the normalboot the first time, what did i do wrong? should I have flashed the other (fs or whatever is is) one instead? thanks for the help!
When I'm in a bootloop after heimdall testing I need to flash factoryfs. For you I would say flash both. Try another cable/ try another USB port
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Hello
My situation goes as follows: I'm on a Cyanogenmod 11 nightly, as I flash a new ROM from time to time. So I know how to get into recovery and that kind of things. I've installed TWRP recovery, instead of the CWM one. I'm on a mac by the way.
As I was a little bit fast, I accidentally rebooted into download mode instead of recovery. Now my phone remains that way, only without the info in the top left (normally it says ODIN Mode and four other lines of information).
I tried to get the battery out and to drain the battery, both gave the same result: it booted in "downloading... do not turn off target !!"
I tried ODIN, Kies, Heimdall and adb trough terminal, and even the CM installer; none of these things seemed to recognize my phone.
I've been googling for over two hours now and I'm getting desperate. Is my phone ready for the bricks? I can't go to a shop tomorrow as it is the national holiday in Belgium. So still 32 hours of trying ahead of me...
Any ideas? If you guys have any additional questions, please ask.
Thanks in advance
R.
erdeebee said:
Hello
My situation goes as follows: I'm on a Cyanogenmod 11 nightly, as I flash a new ROM from time to time. So I know how to get into recovery and that kind of things. I've installed TWRP recovery, instead of the CWM one. I'm on a mac by the way.
As I was a little bit fast, I accidentally rebooted into download mode instead of recovery. Now my phone remains that way, only without the info in the top left (normally it says ODIN Mode and four other lines of information).
I tried to get the battery out and to drain the battery, both gave the same result: it booted in "downloading... do not turn off target !!"
I tried ODIN, Kies, Heimdall and adb trough terminal, and even the CM installer; none of these things seemed to recognize my phone.
I've been googling for over two hours now and I'm getting desperate. Is my phone ready for the bricks? I can't go to a shop tomorrow as it is the national holiday in Belgium. So still 32 hours of trying ahead of me...
Any ideas? If you guys have any additional questions, please ask.
Thanks in advance
R.
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Try removing the external memory card, if you have one.. and try the hard reset method.. sometimes it may work...search in forum for hard reset methods... or you can connect the phone and continue with odin again to see anything happens...:good:
cooljay5 said:
Try removing the external memory card, if you have one.. and try the hard reset method.. sometimes it may work...search in forum for hard reset methods... or you can connect the phone and continue with odin again to see anything happens...:good:
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Removing simcard and external storage didn't work, as well as putting another card in my phone. I'll try the hard reset and come back to you.
Thanks!
cooljay5 said:
Try removing the external memory card, if you have one.. and try the hard reset method.. sometimes it may work...search in forum for hard reset methods... or you can connect the phone and continue with odin again to see anything happens...:good:
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Odin does nothing, I tried Kies methode, but it stopped after the download.
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Odin does nothing
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Have you tried the hard rester method?
Whilst in download mode hold power button for about 1 minute until it vibrates? Maybe your buttons are stuck.
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Have you tried the hard rester method?
Whilst in download mode hold power button for about 1 minute until it vibrates? Maybe your buttons are stuck.
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Hard reset as in tried to flash trough Kies, I can't do anything else, right?
I tried the pwoer button, but it just loops in download mode, without the information on the top left.
I do get it into download mode WITH the information, but than Kies simply says there's no phone attached.
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Hard reset as in tried to flash trough Kies, I can't do anything else, right?
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Are you familiar with the PC flashing tool Odin? It's specifically for Samsung devices.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...08-2013-odin-3-09-odin-1-85-versions-t2189539
Download and install Odin onto your PC it will flash a stock image onto your device (No root, Stock recovery)
http://www.sammobile.com
Head to Sammobile and download your ROM firmware specific to your device.
Run ODIN on your computer and connect your phone.
When it recognizes it, check "Auto Reboot" and "F.Reset Time".
Everything else should be left unchecked.
On your computer, unzip the ROM file you downloaded. It should give you something with the extension of
.tar.md5
Press "PDA" on ODIN and select this file.
Everything should be as shown here: http://gyazo.com/fea7a1c8b7a7b5bb287fb0a0c70056dc
Click Start and wait for it to do it's thing. It'll take quite a few minutes.
When it's finished, you're done.
If it hangs on boot ones it flashed, reboot to Stock Recovery and do a factory reset it should boot up fine now, (also 1st boot takes about 3 minutes.)
Let me know how it goes
EDIT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/guide-odin-flash-guide-t1671969
Stock Firmware is on this page
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LiamAtkins90 said:
Are you familiar with the PC flashing tool Odin? It's specifically for Samsung devices.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...08-2013-odin-3-09-odin-1-85-versions-t2189539
Download and install Odin onto your PC it will flash a stock image onto your device (No root, Stock recovery)
http://www.sammobile.com
Head to Sammobile and download your ROM firmware specific to your device.
Run ODIN on your computer and connect your phone.
When it recognizes it, check "Auto Reboot" and "F.Reset Time".
Everything else should be left unchecked.
On your computer, unzip the ROM file you downloaded. It should give you something with the extension of
.tar.md5
Press "PDA" on ODIN and select this file.
Everything should be as shown here: http://gyazo.com/fea7a1c8b7a7b5bb287fb0a0c70056dc
Click Start and wait for it to do it's thing. It'll take quite a few minutes.
When it's finished, you're done.
If it hangs on boot ones it flashed, reboot to Stock Recovery and do a factory reset it should boot up fine now, (also 1st boot takes about 3 minutes.)
Let me know how it goes
EDIT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/guide-odin-flash-guide-t1671969
Stock Firmware is on this page
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As I'm on a mac, I tried jodin, but it doesn't seem to recognize my phone.
Sorry
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So, my phone is bricked?
Last try: A windows computer and it worked. Don't know why it didn't work on my mac.
Awesome. I'm happy for you mate. Glad you got it fixed
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No not at all.your phone not brickd.only one option is to flash your phone via odin on 4.3 available on sammobile.
Hot thanks?
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