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My friends just bought s2 for 5 days and didnt do any mods on it. So can say his phone is still a virgin. And suddenly this morning his phone can not turn on. Cant get into download/recovery mode. Hold down power button for 10seconds also no use. Is it using Jig is the only way to save his phone beside using warranty?
Obvious one first - sure the battery is charged?
Sounds daft, but seen it happen (and done it myself )
B3311 said:
Obvious one first - sure the battery is charged?
Sounds daft, but seen it happen (and done it myself )
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Yes the battery is fully charged
You say "no mods" so why would you think about using a jig?
idi0t said:
My friends just bought s2 for 5 days and didnt do any mods on it. So can say his phone is still a virgin. And suddenly this morning his phone can not turn on. Cant get into download/recovery mode. Hold down power button for 10seconds also no use. Is it using Jig is the only way to save his phone beside using warranty?
Jig will only boot to download mode once in download mode its a question of flashing a stock Samsung rom.
5 days old no contest return to seller .
jje
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Maybe a jig will work, but there's no backup to reflash.. I'm still jigless, there are many better qualified here than me, but I'm pretty sure a jig won't help if the phone is 100% hardbricked.
Anything at all happen when connected via USB to pc? Again, doubtful it will work, but worth a try
Sounds like a major hardware failure - I'd send it back pronto.
Edit - jj beat me too it. Is the phone new or second hand?
What i mean no mod is everything still running stock firmware original from factory. No roots etc. Nothing happened when attached to computer/laptop using cable data. I also guess its a hardware failure.
Anyways thank you all very much for all the infos. Guess my friend have to use his warranty. Never used my warranty although my phone counter already reached 70 hehehe
what i did when this hapened to me was charged it for couple hours plugged it into pc left it a few mins unplugged re-tried the same thing over and over and eventually pc gave me the connection sound which put a smile on my face which then booted into download mode and flashed stock rom through odin, if that fails to work then get it sent back to seller if it hasnt been flashed modded then a return and exchange/repair wont be a problem at all
idi0t said:
What i mean no mod is everything still running stock firmware original from factory. No roots etc. Nothing happened when attached to computer/laptop using cable data. I also guess its a hardware failure.
Anyways thank you all very much for all the infos. Guess my friend have to use his warranty. Never used my warranty although my phone counter already reached 70 hehehe
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Just a question: How is the phone going to get bricked if you didn't do absolutely anything flashing related? Just give it back to the shop and get a new one if it's faulty, before it's too late. Also, maybe the battery was faulty and died; have you tried with another battery?
iamsloany said:
what i did when this hapened to me was charged it for couple hours plugged it into pc left it a few mins unplugged re-tried the same thing over and over and eventually pc gave me the connection sound which put a smile on my face which then booted into download mode and flashed stock rom through odin, if that fails to work then get it sent back to seller if it hasnt been flashed modded then a return and exchange/repair wont be a problem at all
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Thx alot for your info. Will ask my friend to try it.
Astrofrigo said:
Just a question: How is the phone going to get bricked if you didn't do absolutely anything flashing related? Just give it back to the shop and get a new one if it's faulty, before it's too late. Also, maybe the battery was faulty and died; have you tried with another battery?
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Its my friend's phone. Not mine. So i really dunno what happened. Not yet try with other battery.
Easy fix.....send it back!
Assuming it has warranty.
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Hi
I have been using it for about ten months and my phone just died all of a sudden.
I tried everything but it doesn't work.
I currently have cm9 mod installed so the phone is rooted and unlocked.
However its not like I bricked ot while installing new firmware or anything.
I've sent it in for repair with samsung canada (thankfully still under one yr) but do u think they'll be able to find out that the phone's been rooted? I was thinking that since it doesn't even turn on they will have to replace the mainboard or something and won't be able to figure out but I'm a bit worried. Maybe I should've microwaved it for a bit before sending it off lol jks.
Anybody have experiences with this?
mayamo said:
Hi
I have been using it for about ten months and my phone just died all of a sudden.
I tried everything but it doesn't work.
I currently have cm9 mod installed so the phone is rooted and unlocked.
However its not like I bricked ot while installing new firmware or anything.
I've sent it in for repair with samsung canada (thankfully still under one yr) but do u think they'll be able to find out that the phone's been rooted? I was thinking that since it doesn't even turn on they will have to replace the mainboard or something and won't be able to figure out but I'm a bit worried. Maybe I should've microwaved it for a bit before sending it off lol jks.
Anybody have experiences with this?
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You have CM9 installed as your operating system, Got a feeling they will know its not a Samsung standard firmware," unless Stevie Wonder is repairing it ". Good luck but i think they will charge you..
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bored_stupid said:
You have CM9 installed as your operating system, Got a feeling they will know its not a Samsung standard firmware," unless Stevie Wonder is repairing it ". Good luck but i think they will charge you..
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Sig'd for the lolz.
Depending on what's wrong with the phone, you might get lucky. I've seen a few posts on here about people sending phones in with custom firmwares that had bricked and getting them replaced under warranty.
Depends how bad it is - if they can't boot the phone themselves due to a hardware failure then there's no simple way for them to know you've voided the warranty.
Could you get the phone into download mode? If so then you probably could've fixed it yourself with Odin. If they can boot it into download mode then the first thing they'll see is the counter showing how many ROMs you've flashed over USB (doesn't count CWM flashing, mind).
Whatever happens, when you get the phone back maybe try Chainfire's Triangle Away, it resets your counter and gets rid of that pesky warning triangle. It's risky stuff mind and not for the faint-hearted - I'll admit I haven't run it yet XD
another one when your phone returned
most kernals now come with root and no yellow triangle eg siyah kernal etc etc
mayamo said:
Hi
I have been using it for about ten months and my phone just died all of a sudden.
I tried everything but it doesn't work.
I currently have cm9 mod installed so the phone is rooted and unlocked.
However its not like I bricked ot while installing new firmware or anything.
I've sent it in for repair with samsung canada (thankfully still under one yr) but do u think they'll be able to find out that the phone's been rooted? I was thinking that since it doesn't even turn on they will have to replace the mainboard or something and won't be able to figure out but I'm a bit worried. Maybe I should've microwaved it for a bit before sending it off lol jks.
Anybody have experiences with this?
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Did you tried to remove and insert a battery ?
so i've sent off the phone last week and according to the person at the repair centre, it's with the quality control folks right now to make sure that there's nothing wrong with it after the repair.
i was told that the 'mainboard' was replaced and that they've updated the os to the latest ics.
so does this mean that they never found out about the cm7 rom that was installed?
that's what a dead mainboard means right?
anxiously waiting for the phone to be shipped back now
If they haven't charged you for it, it's either that or they don't care. Either way you win.
Hi!
While installing the revolt rom, downloaded here from the xda, the screen suddenly went black and the phone died. I have tried everything. I can't get to download mod or recovery mode. There's any sign from it... I read somewhere that a jig can help out! What do you think?
Thanks in advance!
[EDIT] The phone is a Samsung Galaxy S2!
Cheers!!
Did your phone shut off during the install?
Phone model? When exactly did it shut off?
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Based on what you've said, I'm afraid your phone is hard bricked. I say this because the same thing occured to me, only I knowingly pulled the USB out whilst it was flashing a pit file. You mentioned your battery died, maybe leaving it plugged in to charge for over an hour or so might revive it, does the phone become slightly (if not) warm near the camera? If it does, you then atleast know the phone isn't completely dead (from fixing, that is).
I ordered a jig and that didn't work, luckily, my carrier provided a repair service guarantee in which they repaired the phone in a couple of weeks, I just played dumb over the phone prior to sending it off.
Good luck and keep us posted.
fagundes666 said:
Hi!
While installing the revolt rom, downloaded here from the xda, the screen suddenly went black and the phone died. I have tried everything. I can't get to download mod or recovery mode. There's any sign from it... I read somewhere that a jig can help out! What do you think?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers!!
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please provide your ROM kernel details before you attempted to flash revolt ROM.
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
jthatch12 said:
Did your phone shut off during the install?
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Hi!
I forgot to mention...My phone is a Samsung Galaxy SII!
Like jthatch12 said, the phone just shut off during the install process.
I've already instaled a lot of roms downloaded here from xda and never got this kind of trouble! I read somewhere that a jig would take to download mode... Hope so!
Thank you all!
Cheers!
BlurrOVO said:
Based on what you've said, I'm afraid your phone is hard bricked. I say this because the same thing occured to me, only I knowingly pulled the USB out whilst it was flashing a pit file. You mentioned your battery died, maybe leaving it plugged in to charge for over an hour or so might revive it, does the phone become slightly (if not) warm near the camera? If it does, you then atleast know the phone isn't completely dead (from fixing, that is).
I ordered a jig and that didn't work, luckily, my carrier provided a repair service guarantee in which they repaired the phone in a couple of weeks, I just played dumb over the phone prior to sending it off.
Good luck and keep us posted.
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You pulled the usb cable out, while flashing a pit file?!
Why? Pit files are extremly dangerous.
I almost flashed a SGS1 pit file once..
Have you tried to remove the battery and leave for a few mins.
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s.d.oconnor said:
Have you tried to remove the battery and leave for a few mins.
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Try that too... Several times! There's no sign of life...
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Try that too... Several times! There's no sign of life...
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If you connect to your computer via USB are you getting any responce from your computer or phone at all. Also do you know anyone that has a galaxy s2, so you can see if it's the battery that has gone.
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S II? Ok.
I9100/G/M/P/T? Your previous ROM? What are you did, more details. more.
If it doesn't go into Download Mode with a jig, then it looks like a full hard-brick.
Do you know why it shut off? Did you fully charge the phone before flashing the ROM? Did you compare the MD5 sums to check that the ROM wasn't corrupt?
I bricked my phone last year. I got Odin FAIL (corrupt ROM) and I pulled the battery. That was it - it was bricked. No download mode - nothing. I sent it off to Three and played dumb. Two weeks later, my phone was fixed.
If the jig doesn't work, your options are JTAG or service center.
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If it doesn't go into Download Mode with a jig, then it looks like a full hard-brick.
Do you know why it shut off? Did you fully charge the phone before flashing the ROM? Did you compare the MD5 sums to check that the ROM wasn't corrupt?
I bricked my phone last year. I got Odin FAIL (corrupt ROM) and I pulled the battery. That was it - it was bricked. No download mode - nothing. I sent it off to Three and played dumb. Two weeks later, my phone was fixed.
If the jig doesn't work, your options are JTAG or service center.
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I didn't test any of those. The battery was ok.
I also did what s.d.oconnor said, I plug it into the computor but got no response.
The only response I got from the phone, is the warm up near the camera when I plugged it into charge for over an hour.
@bkjugg my previous rom was Wanan lite.
Thank you all.
Cheers!
I feel your pain!.. I just bricked my SGS2 yesterday. Knowing fully how I did it, but just had a brain-f*ck at the time..
I searched everywhere high and low on how to unbrick a hard brick. Already had a jig which didn't work.. tried every type of combo.. It's now going to get dropped into my local samsung repairer tomorrow to get looked at under warranty (as they can not tell how you hard brick it because they is no way of retrieving that information).
Jtag is for US customers, an I am not waiting 5 weeks for my phone.
Although until tomorrow, I am still going to look for a method to wake it up possibly..
I just took it as a known risk of flashing 100's of roms and kernels to my beloved phone..
markymark0055 said:
I feel your pain!.. I just bricked my SGS2 yesterday. Knowing fully how I did it, but just had a brain-f*ck at the time..
I searched everywhere high and low on how to unbrick a hard brick. Already had a jig which didn't work.. tried every type of combo.. It's now going to get dropped into my local samsung repairer tomorrow to get looked at under warranty (as they can not tell how you hard brick it because they is no way of retrieving that information).
Jtag is for US customers, an I am not waiting 5 weeks for my phone.
Although until tomorrow, I am still going to look for a method to wake it up possibly..
I just took it as a known risk of flashing 100's of roms and kernels to my beloved phone..
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Hi!
I didn't try a jig because I don't have one. I've ordered one on ebay and I have to wait a few days now and see if it works. If not, I'll send the phone to samsung and try to get it repaired under warranty. If they say that it isn't covered by warranty, I'll try a guy on ebay uk. Just search for jtag s2.
Cheers!!
markymark0055 said:
I feel your pain!.. I just bricked my SGS2 yesterday. Knowing fully how I did it, but just had a brain-f*ck at the time..
I searched everywhere high and low on how to unbrick a hard brick. Already had a jig which didn't work.. tried every type of combo.. It's now going to get dropped into my local samsung repairer tomorrow to get looked at under warranty (as they can not tell how you hard brick it because they is no way of retrieving that information).
Jtag is for US customers, an I am not waiting 5 weeks for my phone.
Although until tomorrow, I am still going to look for a method to wake it up possibly..
I just took it as a known risk of flashing 100's of roms and kernels to my beloved phone..
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Yep, same shiat. I can enter in download but can't in recovery + can't charge my phone ( has flashed 100500 ROMs, kernels, and all is ok, but not checked md5 - full wipe - bye bye until I return home. I hope I'll recover my phone.
Good luck OP.
I'm in the club for a brick SGS II, no smiles here too....
ChardC said:
I'm in the club for a brick SGS II, no smiles here too....
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Since the jig didn't work, I sent my phone to samsung, under warranty! Now I just have to wait for better news...
my phone seems to have been bricked as well
Phone was about 80% power and plugged into the wall, all of a sudden, screen goes blank
- was browsing twitter at the time
cannot
- enter download mode
- enter recovery mode
- power on
- charge
tried
- usb jib (i have tried before while my phone actually worked and it didnt work then either)
- taking out battery, sim , microsd for 24 hours and trying to boot again
- swapped batteries with friends working i9100 , he boots up, i still dont
running
- CM9 cm-9-20120916-NIGHTLY-galaxys2.zip
- Siyah kernel SiyahKernel S2-v4.1.5
- GAPPS 20120429
- LPX modem
any ideas ?
Timstah said:
my phone seems to have been bricked as well
Phone was about 80% power and plugged into the wall, all of a sudden, screen goes blank
- was browsing twitter at the time
cannot
- enter download mode
- enter recovery mode
- power on
- charge
tried
- usb jib (i have tried before while my phone actually worked and it didnt work then either)
- taking out battery, sim , microsd for 24 hours and trying to boot again
- swapped batteries with friends working i9100 , he boots up, i still dont
running
- CM9 cm-9-20120916-NIGHTLY-galaxys2.zip
- Siyah kernel SiyahKernel S2-v4.1.5
- GAPPS 20120429
- LPX modem
any ideas ?
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does it get hot if you plug it in the charger?
i bricked my SII last month trying to format internal sd in ext3, dont know what really happened, i rebooted and it just died, same symptoms as your phone.
i took it to a repair center under warranty and they replaced the motherboard for free.
Hi guys, my phone is flashed so I guess that will make this whole process painful...
But here is the story, I have omega version 12.1 I think (maybe 11 or 13) it has been on my phone for 1 + months now, so I am fairly certain it isn't anything to do with firmware. Phone wont turn on, wont go into download mode or anything. I have tried taking the battery out and leaving it out for 5 minutes, still nothing.
It was working fine before I went to bed, had 10 percent battery and was just on home screen when I put it on charge, not in app or anything. Then seems to be hard bricked after waking up, so happened sometime overnight.
I am not with a carrier, brought it locally outright at my local consumers electronics store (JB-HI-FI)
Since it is hard bricked to the point it wont turn on in download mode does that mean there is no way for them to know it is flashed unless they fix it (in which all is ok)?
Never done a warranty return, do I just take it into store and they send it off? How long will this take?
On top of all this I cut my old sim doown using a cutting template, and it appeared to slide in fine, but after trying to remove it today the push eject isn't working, and tips to get this out, doesn't appear to be enough room to grip it with tweesers.
Thanks.
So as we keep on saying in all posts, the next step u have to make is try with an usb jig.
U know what is that?
xopito_cc said:
So as we keep on saying in all posts, the next step u have to make is try with an usb jig.
U know what is that?
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No, have never heard of one. Just talked to samsung live chat and they said to have a proper diagnostic to take it down to a service centre, would anyone recommend this, or try this jig thing first?
Nicholas68 said:
No, have never heard of one. Just talked to samsung live chat and they said to have a proper diagnostic to take it down to a service centre, would anyone recommend this, or try this jig thing first?
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Since it's already harbricked, i'd say just turn it in and let Samsung fix it for you. It is under warranty, and last time i brought in my i9000 that I bricked, they just replaced the phone. the jig is ok only if you already know where to get one or how to make one, but if you have to go out of your way for it, just use the warranty.
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JiroPrinz8 said:
Since it's already harbricked, i'd say just turn it in and let Samsung fix it for you. It is under warranty, and last time i brought in my i9000 that I bricked, they just replaced the phone. the jig is ok only if you already know where to get one or how to make one, but if you have to go out of your way for it, just use the warranty.
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Ok, Think that is best, can't really go without phone for 2-3 weeks while waiting for a JIG to arrive.
Just a few questions about the service centre, do you think they will ask me if I have flashed the phone? Cause I'm afraid they will think the brick was caused by that (could be) but probably unlikely since it died during the night a month after its latest flash.
If they do get it working will they go in and check the flash counter? Then what happens?
And lastly, if they ask me if I have flashed it should I lie and say no?
Thanks for the help.
I ordered my jig from ebay from overseas but it arrived in a few days.
I am in Melbourne city btw, pm me if you are too. I can lend you mine.
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priyana said:
I ordered my jig from ebay from overseas but it arrived in a few days.
I am in Melbourne city btw, pm me if you are too. I can lend you mine.
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Nope brisbane here, thanks for the offer though. What would the chances be of a JIG fixing it though, cause I have a feeling the mainboard has died. Kinda wish I didn't turn off the red LED charging light, apparently some others who's phones hardbricked the light still turned on showing some sign of life.
Any suggestions on sorting out the micro sim card issue now, assume I have to get it our before taking it to service centre, or just leave it in for them to fix?
priyana said:
I ordered my jig from ebay from overseas but it arrived in a few days.
I am in Melbourne city btw, pm me if you are too. I can lend you mine.
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Does the jig work on s3? I have an old one from s2 and if I'm not wrong is not working on s3...
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Does the jig work on s3? I have an old one from s2 and if I'm not wrong is not working on s3...
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-it will force the S3 in download mode
BUT
-it will not reset the flash counter like with S2
Got a little bit of good news, this might help other people out with jammed sim cards, NO damage and worked like a treat.
In the top of the sim card holder down the bottom left there is a little circle around one mill wide, got a sharp thumbtack and pushed it gentelly into the sim card, the just applied a little pressure and the sim card started to slide up, was very easy, had a great grip on the sim cad and no damage done trying to grab it with needle nose pliers like I read elsewhere, now to get the phone replaced or unbricked.
Thinking about it more I think it is a hardware fault, cause I had flashed the correct version of omega for international S3, I havn't had any wrong signs like freezing or crashing, been working flawlessly for over a month, then out of the blue completely dead. So I think I will just go into the service centre and tell them I suspect the motherboard has died, or the charger port (didn't charge over night), dont have a spare battery to test with though).
http://lifehacker.com/5940308/save-a-bricked-phone-using-paper-clips-and-pencil-graphite
Just a post tyat i found today..not sure if it ll work or not.
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That video is pretty cool, don't have an old connector to try it, but seeing as my phone didn't hard brick from a flash going wrong while flashing or wrong firmware or anything I have a feeling a JIG or similar wont work. Would try it if I had the connector though.
How often do batterys and charger ports fail, cause that could be another reason I guess.
Nicholas68 said:
Ok, Think that is best, can't really go without phone for 2-3 weeks while waiting for a JIG to arrive.
Just a few questions about the service centre, do you think they will ask me if I have flashed the phone? Cause I'm afraid they will think the brick was caused by that (could be) but probably unlikely since it died during the night a month after its latest flash.
If they do get it working will they go in and check the flash counter? Then what happens?
And lastly, if they ask me if I have flashed it should I lie and say no?
Thanks for the help.
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Exactly. There were no problems with the flashing part, i think ypu have a hardware issue.
They didn't ask me anything really, just asked what happened prior to the phone dying.
But i was ready to lie my ass off.. lol!
Dont say anything about flashing. They wont even bother trying to flash the phone if they dont get it into download mode.
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Exactly. There were no problems with the flashing part, i think ypu have a hardware issue.
They didn't ask me anything really, just asked what happened prior to the phone dying.
But i was ready to lie my ass off.. lol!
Dont say anything about flashing. They wont even bother trying to flash the phone if they dont get it into download mode.
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Ok, thanks for the info, I've tried everything besides a JIG to try get it into a download mode, so I doubt they will get it into download mode, Ive seen a couple of other cases where the S3 has had a mainboard issue, only other thing is in the last week I have been using the wall charger where as I normally use the computer and usb, so not sure if this could link to it though, might have got a power surge, but had no storms in months so unlikely and the fuse box is modern with pretty good protection. Ill just go in and tell them it was working one night, and dead when I woke up the next morning, which is the truth. And if they ask if its flashed, ill miss understand them and say, not the screen wasn't flashing/flickering when it died, I was asleep
Reality is though if they get the phone to a restored point to where they can see the flash counter, then I no longer need their help to fix it.
One more question. At the service centres do they try fix it while I'm there, or do they tell s to come back in a few hours, or do they ring a few days later. And if they can't get it in download mode do they normally give you a replacement there? Or do they ship it off to get parts replaced and then ship it back taking weeks/months?
Thanks
I'd give the jig a chance. Just imho.
Btw it is very likely that the jig would arrive in, like, 24-48 hours if you choose the right seller, while other users already told you it's probably gonna take more then a few days (probably from 2 weeks to a month) for samsung to "close the ticket". In my experience only with apple you'd be up and running in less then a week.
Nicholas68 said:
One more question. At the service centres do they try fix it while I'm there, or do they tell s to come back in a few hours, or do they ring a few days later. And if they can't get it in download mode do they normally give you a replacement there? Or do they ship it off to get parts replaced and then ship it back taking weeks/months?
Thanks
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I'm sure they will ask you to come back in a few days or even weeks. Don't think they will replace new unit for you. They will just replace the faulty part.
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I have the same issue so thought i would post here rather than starting a new thread.
Here's the story for mine. Working fine on current rom for about a month no issues at all. Today battery got to about 9% then switched off and i haven't been able to get it to turn on again, no download mode,no recovery, no charging led nothing at all.
I had to change my screen a couple of days ago, has been working fine with the broken screen for months, have i now voided my warranty?
A lot of faulty s3 i think... My s3 suddenly died last night. Battery is around 90+. Check the phone and it's not responding. Power button doesn't work. Doesn't even go to download mode or recovery mode. I'm running on stock ICS with root only. Sad part is I don't have any access for a jig right now. So can't test it. Bought this phone in SG and I'm in the Philippines right now. Warranty is good for SG only. Dec would be my next trip back to SG. By then no S3 as of now. For a phone I'm getting depressed LOL!
over the air jellybean brick my phone unrooted unflashed phone
BEWARE EVERYONE!! when updating to jellybean some do go very wrong! not all! but some do!! and it will brick your phone!! i updated over the air.. and for a few days. my phone kept on freezing! and locking up! one night i went to bed woke up and the phone was stuck on the boot screen! i thought thats weird took battery out, put back in, as ya do.. nothing took sim out and back in nothing... so only option was to reapair it through kies. put serial in and model number in it found the sortware. i downloaded it. told me to put phone in recovery mode.. so i did,kies said it was gonna install it to my phone.. but everytime it tryed to install it kept on saying it couldnt find my phone.. i tryed this all day long used different usb ports. different computers. to know avail, so my only option was to take it in for repair.. so i took it back to phones 4 u! they sent it away, i waited over 2 weeks! which was undiscrible it was like i lost my right arm with no phone! as you can imagine.. than the repair center turned round and said that the phone has been rooted! which it hadnt!! and they said this in order to brake the terms and conditions of my warentee so phones 4 u can get out of giving me a new handset. so they all save money!! i wouldnt do that to a 500 pound phone!! the phone does everything you could want from a phone! im launching a full investigation into this matter.. and have writen a formall complaint to phones 4 u headoffice, and will be contacting trading standards, ofcom, watchdog, and the ombudsman, and plaster it on all the forums ,social networking sights i can think of, to give them as much bad press as possible!! untill my problem is resolved and i will restore there name and clear it once they have done the right thing by me
I am afraid I can also report a bricked S3 here.
Rooted two weeks ago, but did not yet install a rom. Didn't Triangleaway yet aswell.
Same problem as described, I was browsing the net, and suddenly, screen went black (off). Could not get it powered on anymore. (nor in download/recovery mode)
So i brought it to the local telecom service center of my office, they could tell me the battery was fine and the buttons were working but they never saw one in this state.
So they are sending it to a samsung repair company.
This was two days ago, heard nothing yet, but I am very curious if I will get repaired or if I need to pay because of the rooting.
Will post the result if I know more.
Does anyone know if this problem also happens to people who did not root?
I have been running Siyah 1.7rc1 dual booting Omega v30 as primary and AOKP milestone 1 as secondary. I also have the 4.2 camera and keyboard mods installed. The phone has been working fine until last night.
Last night the phone was fully charged. This morning the phone was off and wouldn't turn on when I pressed the power button. Hoping it was just a depleted battery, I put the phone on the charger for a couple of hours. However, it still won't turn on. I can't get to either recovery mode or download mode with the vol_up+home+power or the vol_down+home+power.
There is no reaction from the phone to any combination of buttons. I have removed the battery a few times with the same results.
Does anyone have any ideas? I might try and see if Samsung service can fix this but wanted to know if there was any advise from XDA.
Well if you do want to go to samsung service """ you have a freaking rooted phone bro"""""",,,BTW your phone is dead.
As repair is chargeable i would first try a new battery or borrow one and a USB jig to boot to recovery mode .
jje
*sob*
Mine has gone exactly the same way.
Had it on charge. Took it off charge and checked emails then left it on my desk. Came back 30 minutes later, picked it up and phone was completely dead.
No light when plugged into a charger, phone won't power on.
Plugged it into a computer, no luck.
Different chargers, different cables, no luck.
Tried a USB jig, no luck.
I've NOT tried a new battery yet, that's next on my list. I suspect this won't make any difference either.
I suggest you send it to samsung bro.
happened to my phone too.
They won't find out you rooted/have custom ROM etc, cause this is caused by hardware failure. They'll need to replace it to get it to boot, so they can't tell if you rooted or not.
LemonPlusTea said:
I suggest you send it to samsung bro.
happened to my phone too.
They won't find out you rooted/have custom ROM etc, cause this is caused by hardware failure. They'll need to replace it to get it to boot, so they can't tell if you rooted or not.
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take it back to the shop first, if you havent had it too long them may just swap it out. If not then they will send it back for you and should lend you candybar phone to use if you leave them a deposit (depends on the shop though).
Sammy wont even both to check if its been rooted, they will just replace it.
Thanks both. I'm going to send it straight to Samsung as soon as I've found proof of warranty. Hopefully it won't take too long to sort out.
zaphy42 said:
Thanks both. I'm going to send it straight to Samsung as soon as I've found proof of warranty. Hopefully it won't take too long to sort out.
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Like i said its a paid for repair .
Totally dead mobo that requires change you will probably get away with warranty .
jje
I did try using a friend's battery. No go. I saw another thread on XDA where a bunch of people seem to have hit the same problem in the last week. I am wondering if it is some time-triggerred bug?
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I did try using a friend's battery. No go. I saw another thread on XDA where a bunch of people seem to have hit the same problem in the last week. I am wondering if it is some time-triggerred bug?
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I've just got round to trying a friends battery too. Likewise, no go.
I think it's probably more likely a design flaw on Samsungs part.
I wonder if they've produced a different revision of the S3 circuit board to fix it? I've heard on other threads that Samsung just replace the system board when it's sent back for warranty repair...
Well there certainly has been quite a lot of them over the last 4 weeks or so. Probably some sub-standard motherboards found their way into the production line every now and then (given the number of units produced), or a design flaw as noted above. It's going to be a reasonably expensive exercise for Samsung if they end up having to replace a lot of them though...
I just hope that the new one they put in my phone isn't going to commit suicide again in 4 months time
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I have the exact problem.
But it was my fault in this case. Flashed an "unmatched" md5 file of WanamLite.
It booted up normally. Then i proceeded installing TiBu & restore apps. After 10mins, i came back with a dead phone.
After some googling & advice from phone shops, there's a possibility that the motherboard may be fried.
I sent to Samsung Service Centre, and within 2 working days, my S3 is alive.
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