So I tried rooting my T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant T959 successfully and tried flashing a ROM. In the middle of the loading, my phone reboots and gets stuck at the vibrant loading screen. Now it won't turn on.
I've rooted my old phone before and for some reason this time it didn't work. I followed instructions but now I guess it's broken.
*I used the oneclick root program. Followed instructions and what not.
Is my phone completely broken now? Or there's still a chance?
Not sure if this is what they call a hard brick or not.. I'm hoping it's not. Don't have time or will to search the forums. I'm panicking.
It's stuck on the Vibrant screen and doesn't do anything even if I wait.
Need a fast response asap please.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thank you!
Well first I think you are rooted, if you were able to put a ROM on the root of your phone and then use cwm recovery to install.....you are rooted.
Now pull the battery and put it back, hold vol up/vol down and power, it should take you back to recovery then reflash the ROM. You are not hard bricked.
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samsgun357 said:
Well first I think you are rooted, if you were able to put a ROM on the root of your phone and then use cwm recovery to install.....you are rooted.
Now pull the battery and put it back, hold vol up/vol down and power, it should take you back to recovery then reflash the ROM. You are not hard bricked.
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I have been trying to get back to recovery but it takes long and doesn't do it. I'll keep trying though.
I'll report back in a few.
EDIT: After a few minutes of trying.. I think it finally worked. Got to recovery and was able to flash the rom.
Hopefully everything will be stable.
Thank you so much!
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I'm reasonably new to the whole Samsung scene. Needless to say, Odin absolutely bewilders me. I bought this Vibrant, the dude said he tried to flash a bootanimation, and when he did, he bricked his phone. When you turn the phone on, you see the Samsung Vibrant splash screen, it goes through the bootanimation he flashed, and when it gets to where the homescreen should be, you see blackness. However the capacitive keys are lit up. From what I read this is a sort of soft brick. I'm not too sure. Anyhow, I bought it for two hundred bucks because I knew if I could get it into recovery, or connect it to adb, I'd be golden. The problem is I can't.
For the life of me I cannot get adb to recognize my Vibrant, also, when I try and put the phone into download mode I get nothing. Phone Will boot up, go through the bootanimation, and once I get to the home screen everything goes black with the capacitive keys lit up.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
On a side note: I had an Epic not too long ago and had nothing but problems with the Drivers. 32 bit.
Thanks in advance.
It sounds like the rom is corrupt/missing. Can you get into clockworkmod recovery? If so you can then push a rom.zip with ADB and flash it. He should have done a nandroid backup before flashing and if he did its as simple as getting into clockwork and doing a nandroid restore.
If you cannot get into recovery, try the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741027&highlight=unbrick
Thanks for the suggestion, man. Just clarifying, not being able to get into recovery mode or download mode, and not being able to get adb to recognize the phone entails a legitimate brick, correct?
ironically, and i stress.
IRONICALLY.
as soon as 2011 rolls around, i suddenly loose service?
and i figure it's a problem with the rom that conflicting with the radio, so i restore using Clockwork ROM Manager.
upon doing so, I first get a Yellow Exclamation point, so I restart my phone.
it goes through the process, and then it stays at the "Vibrant" screen for a good 20 minutes.
did I do something wrong? :/
Were you going from froyo to an eclair backup? Backup's don't restore the kernel, hence hanging.
Most would suggest to odin back to stock.
no, it was from Eugene's 2.3 clone to stock.
and I already backed up my stock rom, but I think I used the wrong method of restoring.
like, I went to ROM Manager, Restore Backup, and I had a big exclamation point.
I let it sit for 5 minutes, nothing happened so I restarted.
It restored and everything, and then it just bricked at the Vibrant screen.
to be more specific, i used this rom:
http://eb-productions.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=samsungsgs&action=display&thread=144
i backed up using both nandroid and rom manager.
i hope this can be restored.
because it's not a critical brick.
but just a soft one.
it won't boot into download mode with the power button/vol trick because I tried it before.
it just flashes on a black screen, and i usually use cmd to do it.
but because it's possibly hardware locked, i cannot do anything from cmd because it says "the device is not ready" even though it's plugged in to my computer.
please tell me someone can help me.
i think it's unfixable because of two reasons:
1. i am hardware locked, and i cannot boot it with the power key trick.
2. cmd can't find the device, even though it's recognized by my computer and odin.
primarily, my computer sees the drive i need to access, but i cannot connect to it because my phone won't get past the vibrant screen.
so, i think it might be full bricked and there isn't anything i can do to fix it.
but it's weird, because ODIN sees my phone, but there is no way to download the stuff i need from odin on my phone.
sorry to spam like this, but i really need the help.
I've had this problem in the past but I got my phone back in september/october so my vibrant isn't hardware locked
I would keep trying, last night I bricked my phone while flashing a rom and I was barely able to get it into download mode...
Try this combo:
1. Hold power + 2 volume buttons while plugged into computer
2. Keep holding until vibrant logo flashes 3 times
3. Right before the vibrant logo shows for the fourth time RELEASE VOLUME UP BUTTON
4. Odin back to stock
This always works for me, but liked I said, my phone is not hardware locked this may or may not work
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it's not going to work because my phone is hardware locked.
but i'll try. :/
Try pulling the battery and sim and try odin again...should be working if you see a com port in odin.
no it didn't work.
would i be able to call t-mobile and tell them that upon a soft reset, the phone stopped booting?
Are you sure it's a hardware locked? Even before you flashed a custom rom you can't access the recovery through the 3 buttons?
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You went from eugene r2 to stock? Stock meaning 2.1 that came with your phone? It definitely sounds like a soft brick due to kernel mismatch...
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.
FaultException said:
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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ewh1292 said:
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 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!!!!
My gf's phone finally got the ICS OTA this morning and i managed to root it with no problems.
I was going to try out a new rom so i went through the safestrap process. Upon switching to safe mode, and trying a reboot, i get the menu to continue like normal, but then just a black screen.
I ended up having to force reset with the power and volume down button to get back to recovery. I was able to switch back to unsafe and successfully boot (thank god she woulda killed me if i bricked it or had to SBF lol).
Im curious why it did that tho, because obviously it needs to be in safe mode to rom.
Only thing i managed to find while searching was to update busybox but that didnt help.
vaeevictiss said:
My gf's phone finally got the ICS OTA this morning and i managed to root it with no problems.
I was going to try out a new rom so i went through the safestrap process. Upon switching to safe mode, and trying a reboot, i get the menu to continue like normal, but then just a black screen.
I ended up having to force reset with the power and volume down button to get back to recovery. I was able to switch back to unsafe and successfully boot (thank god she woulda killed me if i bricked it or had to SBF lol).
Im curious why it did that tho, because obviously it needs to be in safe mode to rom.
Only thing i managed to find while searching was to update busybox but that didnt help.
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It was probably plugged into the charger, Safestrap has known issues with not going into recovery while on charge.
Is their any other ideas I have run into the same thing with my XT910 with the CM10 build
I just got a galaxy note 2 not a day ago and I finally managed to root it, but for some god forsaken reason I didn't have a custom recovery. So I used casual thinking it would help me out, but when it was uploading the recovery it said it failed. I'm now in a boot loop and odin nor casual are recognizing my device in download mode. I can't get into recovery either. Please someone help! I'm about to have a nervous breakdown.
Zack-074 said:
I just got a galaxy note 2 not a day ago and I finally managed to root it, but for some god forsaken reason I didn't have a custom recovery. So I used casual thinking it would help me out, but when it was uploading the recovery it said it failed. I'm now in a boot loop and odin nor casual are recognizing my device in download mode. I can't get into recovery either. Please someone help! I'm about to have a nervous breakdown.
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I used casual last night and it got me into a boot loop, and i had a breakdown !
Are you able to get into recovery at all? power phone off, then press and hold the Home button, Up volume, Power button *until recovery starts* dont let go when the device boots, keep holding.
After using casual the phone was able to go into TRWM or something (whatever recovery program it flashes). If you are able to get into recovery do a factory reset (not the advanced one) and your phone should work.
my phone boot loops after every flash and requires a factory reset, but still keeps the rom add.
I am thinking casual is not the way to root
Zack-074 said:
I just got a galaxy note 2 not a day ago and I finally managed to root it, but for some god forsaken reason I didn't have a custom recovery. So I used casual thinking it would help me out, but when it was uploading the recovery it said it failed. I'm now in a boot loop and odin nor casual are recognizing my device in download mode. I can't get into recovery either. Please someone help! I'm about to have a nervous breakdown.
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Checkout this thread by Adam Outler called "DON'T ACCEPT OTA UPDATES" in the Verizon Galaxy Note II General section. I'm aware that you aren't experiencing this specific problem, but it should fix your boot loop problem. You'll need the two files that he makes available just below the picture. I've had others tell me that they used those files to successfully fix boot loops.
drocksmash said:
I used casual last night and it got me into a boot loop, and i had a breakdown !
Are you able to get into recovery at all? power phone off, then press and hold the Home button, Up volume, Power button *until recovery starts* dont let go when the device boots, keep holding.
After using casual the phone was able to go into TRWM or something (whatever recovery program it flashes). If you are able to get into recovery do a factory reset (not the advanced one) and your phone should work.
my phone boot loops after every flash and requires a factory reset, but still keeps the rom add.
I am thinking casual is not the way to root
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Adam has stated that if all you want is root, using CASUAL is like "killing an ant with an atomic bomb." CASUAL is for doing an irom unlock. In short, you get everything unlocked - recovery, bootloader, and root
Also as long as you read and follow directions, unlike most people are doing, CASUAL works perfectly fine.