[Q] Bricked my phone yesterday :( - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi All,
My phone is Samsun galaxy ace GT-S5830
here is how it happened
1) rooted my phone in the afternoon, everything was fine
2) installed rom manager . biggest mistake :'(
3) when i tried to download new ron it said CWM not installed. and to select a version. by mistake i instaled a different CWM since ace was not present.
4) still it was fine. saw an option called boot in recovery mode. just wanted to try it. so clicke that and since then my phone is dead.
i bought it with my first salary. very emotional about it. Please give me some advice. how to unbrick it. i will try this method now. lets hope for good.

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Sent it back to the store and say a kies update failed.
You can't unbrick it.
Sent from my GT-S5830 using Tapatalk 2

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spyhacker2012 said:
Hi All,
My phone is Samsun galaxy ace GT-S5830
here is how it happened
1) rooted my phone in the afternoon, everything was fine
2) installed rom manager . biggest mistake :'(
3) when i tried to download new ron it said CWM not installed. and to select a version. by mistake i instaled a different CWM since ace was not present.
4) still it was fine. saw an option called boot in recovery mode. just wanted to try it. so clicke that and since then my phone is dead.
i bought it with my first salary. very emotional about it. Please give me some advice. how to unbrick it. i will try this method now. lets hope for good.
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I'm not familiar with Galaxy Ace, but you have better luck about unbricking in its particular forum. I can assure that it is no way a hard brick i.e. it can be repaired by using softwares only.
(Frank) said:
Sent it back to the store and say a kies update failed.
You can't unbrick it.
Sent from my GT-S5830 using Tapatalk 2
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Bad idea! Usually rooted phone aren't validated for warranty!!

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spyhacker2012 said:
Hi All,
My phone is Samsun galaxy ace GT-S5830
here is how it happened
1) rooted my phone in the afternoon, everything was fine
2) installed rom manager . biggest mistake :'(
3) when i tried to download new ron it said CWM not installed. and to select a version. by mistake i instaled a different CWM since ace was not present.
4) still it was fine. saw an option called boot in recovery mode. just wanted to try it. so clicke that and since then my phone is dead.
i bought it with my first salary. very emotional about it. Please give me some advice. how to unbrick it. i will try this method now. lets hope for good.
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Try and see whether you can go into Download Mode.
Volume Down + Home + Power.
If you can, your phone is soft-bricked and can be returned to the original state.

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spyhacker2012 said:
Hi All,
My phone is Samsun galaxy ace GT-S5830
here is how it happened
1) rooted my phone in the afternoon, everything was fine
2) installed rom manager . biggest mistake :'(
3) when i tried to download new ron it said CWM not installed. and to select a version. by mistake i instaled a different CWM since ace was not present.
4) still it was fine. saw an option called boot in recovery mode. just wanted to try it. so clicke that and since then my phone is dead.
i bought it with my first salary. very emotional about it. Please give me some advice. how to unbrick it. i will try this method now. lets hope for good.
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1st, please make sure your device is either Ace S5830 or Ace S5830i. (this is important!)
2nd, go to specific unbrick tutorial for S5830 : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071970 or S5830i here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840645
3rd, welcome to the forum and next time, please use forum search feature before asking question (just a friendly reminder to prevent your topic from getting close) ...
I have a funny feeling that the mod will move this into related thread ... hehehe