Last night i went to bed after reading on my sgs2 i9100 international version running cm9 stable
i woke and found that the phone was off. Trying to turn it on by pressing power didnt work
no response when charging it via wall charger
wont go into download mode or recovery
my dearest fellow sgs2 owners
i need your help
what to do?
it might be some hardware fault.... get back your samsung store to check out device ASAP
if you are using a cover for ur S2 , just remove it , and press the power button directly for 10 to 20 seconds ( keep holding it )
ive contacted samsung and because its still in warranty theyll either fix it or replace it with a brand new one
but id still prefer to fix it myself. so far nothing has worked.
is there any way to trouble shoot the device and find out what the error is.
fried mother board etc?
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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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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.
Today pressed the home button to turn screen of as per usual, and went to turn it back on to get into phone, and nothing happened...
ive tried taking the battery out, plugging into power, booting into recovery.
nothing...
it does have custom rom installed (omega 33.2)
help would be grand right about now :/
cheers,
Are you sure it didn't run out of battery ?
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haha yeah light doesnt even turn on to indicate charging when plugged in... and it was 90% before it just stopped working :/
Condolences, and join the club: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993044
As you have no warranty its worth trying a USB recovery jig .
jje
cheers guys, took it into vodafone yesterday and their sending it off to samsung, sounds like the ultimate sudden death issue, but cracked the screen a few weeks prior so hopefulyl samsumg dont try pin it on user error, see what happens i guess
hi, i need help i was charging my galaxy s2 while playing a game(dream league soccer) and when my phone turned off. I thought its going to turn back on but it didnt it could never go past the samsung logo and it was always doing the same so i freaked out i pulled the battery off and put it back on but it kept doing the same thing. Now its turned off completley and it shows no sings of life whenever i want to charge it just over heats and it does not show the battery icon. I was running 4.1.2 jelly bean. I tried to go on recovery mode but no succses. Please help.:crying:
ermalst said:
hi, i need help i was charging my galaxy s2 while playing a game(dream league soccer) and when my phone turned off. I thought its going to turn back on but it didnt it could never go past the samsung logo and it was always doing the same so i freaked out i pulled the battery off and put it back on but it kept doing the same thing. Now its turned off completley and it shows no sings of life whenever i want to charge it just over heats and it does not show the battery icon. I was running 4.1.2 jelly bean. I tried to go on recovery mode but no succses. Please help.:crying:
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Dont panic, Just see if u can put it into 'Download Mode' (vol down + pwr + home button combo) .
If it sees dwnld mode then u can 'Odin' flash a Stock rom and see
^^^
Yeah. Like a phone in that condition is going to boot into download mode magically You've been here long enough & seen enough of these to know there's only one fix for 99.9999% of them (& this one is not one of the 0.0001%).
OP - one/more components on motherboard dead = replace motherboard - Samsung service centre for new board (expensive option), source 2nd hand board yourself online (Google search) & either swap yourself or pay local mobile repair shop to do the swap (cheaper option).
Anything else anyone tells you is just giving you false hope where there isn't any (and I really wish people wouldn't do that on here; why not just be honest with people from the getgo ?).
ermalst said:
hi, i need help i was charging my galaxy s2 while playing a game(dream league soccer) and when my phone turned off. I thought its going to turn back on but it didnt it could never go past the samsung logo and it was always doing the same so i freaked out i pulled the battery off and put it back on but it kept doing the same thing. Now its turned off completley and it shows no sings of life whenever i want to charge it just over heats and it does not show the battery icon. I was running 4.1.2 jelly bean. I tried to go on recovery mode but no succses. Please help.:crying:
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post above correct. but some things you can try.
1). Remove battery. hold combination for download mode (volume down + home button + power button). when you hold, slide battery back in place. you need some fine motors or someone to help. keep holding the keys. see if it goes to download.
2). Use Jig. No hurt trying
hope help
Hi!
My Galaxy S2 suddenly died today and I have not been able to turn it on.
This has happened before, but it worked after switching battery, this time it didn't.
I have tried many things that people have suggested on Google, but I am not even able to get into recovery/download mode.
The phone was running NeatROM 4.4.4.
What did you do ?
Nightshadow931 said:
What did you do ?
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What I tried?
Removing battery, USB jig, USB power only, download mode, vol up + home + power, etc.
No, i ask what did you do to make it die?
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No, i ask what did you do to make it die?
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I checked my phone and saw that I received a message, put it in my pocket, took it up - wouldn't respond.
Could still use some help, thanks.
Try putting a new battery in that you are sure has some charge already in it .
Try booting into recovery/download mode .
If it doesn't still turn on it may be that your screen has died or mainboard is dead . Both of which require taking it for repairs as it is kinda like swap the part hit and miss kinda repairing. Still I guess if screen goes bad you should feel some vibration .
Plus it would be nice to know that your phone didn't go off of low battery . Since it can rule out very unlikely scenario that power button has failed or phone died of low battery and charger is refusing to charge the phone .