Hi there!
Actually, I've stopped trying to ressurect my phone about a month ago, but... maybe someone can help
Ok, what happened:
I was at exam and must shut my phone off. I did it. Some seconds later it booted again. So, I had to turn it off by holding the power button. After that it doesn't boot anymore.
Now the "facts":
- It was the Lite'ning Rom (I think 2.6) with the Kernel incl. as it bricked.
- It boots up to the yellow triangle and stops there.
- If I want to charge it - I see just a waiting-circle (like in windows), but it doesn't move at all.
- I can enter the Download mode, but only if I hold Volume Down + Power Button. If I hold the VolumeDown+Home+Power Button - it's just starting without entering the download mode.
- I can't enter the recovery mode. It's just gone...
- Kies doesn't see the phone at all.
- Odin see it and I can flash it. I can flash all the things I want: bootloader, kernel, pda. I can re-partition it, BUT:
- Now the interresting thing: Odin flash it and says, that all was fine. But nothing happens... Actually, I've already tried to "kill" it with the 3-part ROM for 9100G, but Odin says, that all was ok and nothing happens with the phone at all. It just ignoring all the flashs I tried.
- I have the USB-Jig, but it start the "Factory mode", and... see the point above.
- Already tried about 10-15 Rom (1-parted and 3-parted), with bootloaders and pits etc. Nothing happens.
I had the phone just for 3 months, and... yeah, 500€ are gone. I can't send it to Samsung service, because of triangle and counter > 0. And I can't remove this triangle and set the counter back.
Anyone have any ideas I can try? Maybe someone already heard about issue like that? Is it the famous "eMMC brick"?
Thx in advance!
I don't know if this is due to the EMMC bug. But it sure does sound like a hardware issue.
Have you tried flashing Factory / Stock firmware via Odin? I had a similar issue some time back with my Galaxy Tab but flashing stock firmware, rebooting to recovery and clearing cache etc then fixed the issue.
Good luck man!
Maybe send it in for warranty service/replacement & play dumb in the first instance. Always a chance they won't care/notice you trashed it. If they do & decide to charge you, ask for a quote & for the phone back. Then take the phone to local mobile repair shops & see how much they want for repairing the phone. You can also then compare the costs of having Samsung/authorised repairer or local mobile repair shops with the costs of having the phone JTAG'd (assuming it can be JTAG'd). Lots of JTAG repairers can be found with a Google search, not necessarily in your country, but will still likely be cheaper than having Samsung/authorised repairer fix it.
Try to flash a bootloader for a different device (Note for example), and after that to repartion the device also with pit for Note or something similar. I think that there is a good chance that you succeed in killing the phone completely, and then you can send it to service and play dumb.
Find someone with a riff box and get it j-taged
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Have you tried flashing Factory / Stock firmware via Odin?
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Yes, already tried some different stock firmwares, always the same thing - just nothing happens and Odin is lucky and saying "all was fine".
pilgrim011 said:
Try to flash a bootloader for a different device (Note for example), and after that to repartion the device also with pit for Note or something similar. I think that there is a good chance that you succeed in killing the phone completely, and then you can send it to service and play dumb.
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Already tried with G-Version of SGS2, but that didn't work. But I will try it with Note's bootloader and pit. Thx!
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Maybe send it in for warranty service/replacement & play dumb in the first instance. Always a chance they won't care/notice you trashed it. If they do & decide to charge you, ask for a quote & for the phone back. Then take the phone to local mobile repair shops & see how much they want for repairing the phone. You can also then compare the costs of having Samsung/authorised repairer or local mobile repair shops with the costs of having the phone JTAG'd (assuming it can be JTAG'd). Lots of JTAG repairers can be found with a Google search, not necessarily in your country, but will still likely be cheaper than having Samsung/authorised repairer fix it.
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I've already called JTAG-Service I found in my country, but the guy on the phone said "you can send it to us, we will try to fix the issue, but you will see - you will get your device back without any changes." In addition, he said, that my phone has some bad sectors in header of internal memory and it's nothing to do with it. The only option is to change the mainboard.
I'll try to kill it with Note's firmware, if it's not going to work - will try to send it for repair. But the chance, that guys from samsung will ignore the triangle and counter ist actually... yeah, it low ^^
Thx again for the advices!
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tried the Note's bootloaders - the phone accept it, I see the progress-bar on phone's screen, but after reboot it stucks again on triangle.
tried this guide again - doesn' help at all.
looks like the advice from MistahBungle is the last hope
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Hey Guys.
I recently Hard Bricked my Vibrant while flashing a Custom ROM. It won't turn ON at all.
I am shipping the Phone to Samsung Repair Centre in Texas from India.
I had a talk with the Call Centre where they said that I should just give them the piece without the Battery and Battery Pack and they will only repair my piece and will not Replace it anyhow.
I am fine with them just repairing my piece rather than replacing it, but the issue is that I have only Download Mode available on my piece and the Recovery Mode is Factory Disabled.
My Questions are,
1) Whether they will make the Recovery and Download Mode available back on my Vibrant after repairing it ?
2) The phone is very much off the 30 days mark for the Return Policy to work, so is it still their obligation to Replace my piece with a one that has a Recovery and Download Mode enabled on it if the repairing solution doesn't do the trick ?
3) I am shipping the Phone from India so how should I make sure that the Phone that they have Repaired or Replaced with has the Recovery and Download mode working on it ?
4) Also, in my Country we have a Samsung Galaxy S International available, so is the Motherboard of Samsung Vibrant and the International Model similar for the Service Centre over here to repair it ?
Any Help is appreciated.
Thank You.
ech419 said:
Hey Guys.
I recently Hard Bricked my Vibrant while flashing a Custom ROM. It won't turn ON at all.
I am shipping the Phone to Samsung Repair Centre in Texas from India.
I had a talk with the Call Centre where they said that I should just give them the piece without the Battery and Battery Pack and they will only repair my piece and will not Replace it anyhow.
I am fine with them just repairing my piece rather than replacing it, but the issue is that I have only Download Mode available on my piece and the Recovery Mode is Factory Disabled.
My Questions are,
1) Whether they will make the Recovery and Download Mode available back on my Vibrant after repairing it ?
2) The phone is very much off the 30 days mark for the Return Policy to work, so is it still their obligation to Replace my piece with a one that has a Recovery and Download Mode enabled on it if the repairing solution doesn't do the trick ?
3) I am shipping the Phone from India so how should I make sure that the Phone that they have Repaired or Replaced with has the Recovery and Download mode working on it ?
4) Also, in my Country we have a Samsung Galaxy S International available, so is the Motherboard of Samsung Vibrant and the International Model similar for the Service Centre over here to repair it ?
Any Help is appreciated.
Thank You.
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So you CAN get into download mode with the Android holding a shovel in a big yellow triangle?
Also, did you ever try flashing a custom recovery? ie- clockwork
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ech419 said:
Hey Guys.
I recently Hard Bricked my Vibrant while flashing a Custom ROM. It won't turn ON at all.
I am shipping the Phone to Samsung Repair Centre in Texas from India.
I had a talk with the Call Centre where they said that I should just give them the piece without the Battery and Battery Pack and they will only repair my piece and will not Replace it anyhow.
I am fine with them just repairing my piece rather than replacing it, but the issue is that I have only Download Mode available on my piece and the Recovery Mode is Factory Disabled.
My Questions are,
1) Whether they will make the Recovery and Download Mode available back on my Vibrant after repairing it ?
2) The phone is very much off the 30 days mark for the Return Policy to work, so is it still their obligation to Replace my piece with a one that has a Recovery and Download Mode enabled on it if the repairing solution doesn't do the trick ?
3) I am shipping the Phone from India so how should I make sure that the Phone that they have Repaired or Replaced with has the Recovery and Download mode working on it ?
4) Also, in my Country we have a Samsung Galaxy S International available, so is the Motherboard of Samsung Vibrant and the International Model similar for the Service Centre over here to repair it ?
Any Help is appreciated.
Thank You.
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So let me get this straight...
I'm assuming u rooted the phone b/c you must in order to even attempt to flash a custom rom...
So you want to send a rooted phone in for repair??
Its very hard to brick the vibrant....u probably have a soft brick....did u try Odin to restore your phone back to stock?? Try that before sending it anywhere
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So let me get this straight...
I'm assuming u rooted the phone b/c you must in order to even attempt to flash a custom rom...
So you want to send a rooted phone in for repair??
Its very hard to brick the vibrant....u probably have a soft brick....did u try Odin to restore your phone back to stock?? Try that before sending it anywhere
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Sounds to me like he probably doesn't know about odin.
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Thanks for Reply.
No, Guys. I know what Odin is.
The phone is Hard Bricked. That means nothing will show up on the screen to do anything at all. It is a well known issue and it is very much possible with your phone too.
From what I have read on the forum, the USB doesn't work due to some bootloader corruption and thus you will not be able to try anything on your phone and Wires need to be physically soldered onto the Motherboard to flash the bootloader and Stock ROM.
I want to enquire about the issue of whether Download and Recovery Mode which comes factory disabled in the newer Vibrants, be enabled by Samsung itself ?
Thanks for your Help.
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Thanks for Reply.
No, Guys. I know what Odin is.
The phone is Hard Bricked. That means nothing will show up on the screen to do anything at all. It is a well known issue and it is very much possible with your phone too.
From what I have read on the forum, the USB doesn't work due to some bootloader corruption and thus you will not be able to try anything on your phone and Wires need to be physically soldered onto the Motherboard to flash the bootloader and Stock ROM.
I want to enquire about the issue of whether Download and Recovery Mode which comes factory disabled in the newer Vibrants, be enabled by Samsung itself ?
Thanks for your Help.
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Have you heard from Samsung yet as to how much the repair cost will be? I have to send mine there after a Kies update killed by boot loader (the most common reason why a Galaxy S won't show any signs of life and only way to truly brick them). I had a local repair shop jtag it before Kies killed it again, but they couldn't fix the hardware lock.
I got it to a point like that as well. Even when I plugged it in to charge and such, nothing happend. I was still able to ODIN it though. What I had to do was just the battery pull method of putting it into download mode (pull battery, sim and sd cards, open ODIN, connect phone to pc, pop in battery while holding volume buttons) and it worked for me.
Like others say, it's really difficult to hard-brick Vibrants. If either primary or secondary bootloader has been corrupted, you shouldn't have Download mode. Try search more and find out what others did to get out of such situations. You should be able to flash away UNLESS your internal SD card has been fried/messed up. The repair will probably cost you ridiculously large sum of money. Samsung will probably replace internal SD memory (I think it's MoviNAND flash memory module) and flash new firmware. But again it will cost money. I would do everything I can possibly think I can do before sending it off to repair centers.
EDIT: If it is your cellular carrier accepting your phone for examination and think that the cause is hardware malfunction, the carrier will REPLACE your phone. If you are not sending it to your carrier, however, and you are sending it directly to Samsung repair center instead, they will most likely incur repair fees. Not sure 100% but Samsung must be able to tell if you've ever flashed custom firmware and flashing custom kernels and ROMs void manufacturer's 1 year warranty. And this will probably be true unless you flash a stock ROM before shipping it, but this is ironic and according to you doing so is impossible. Try Odin JFD again!
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I got it to a point like that as well. Even when I plugged it in to charge and such, nothing happend. I was still able to ODIN it though. What I had to do was just the battery pull method of putting it into download mode (pull battery, sim and sd cards, open ODIN, connect phone to pc, pop in battery while holding volume buttons) and it worked for me.
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I take it yours wasn't hardware locked then. It's interesting that you were still able to get Odin to recognise the phone when it wasn't showing any sign of life. Were the lights turning on?
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Like others say, it's really difficult to hard-brick Vibrants. If either primary or secondary bootloader has been corrupted, you shouldn't have Download mode. Try search more and find out what others did to get out of such situations. You should be able to flash away UNLESS your internal SD card has been fried/messed up. The repair will probably cost you ridiculously large sum of money. Samsung will probably replace internal SD memory (I think it's MoviNAND flash memory module) and flash new firmware. But again it will cost money. I would do everything I can possibly think I can do before sending it off to repair centers.
EDIT: If it is your cellular carrier accepting your phone for examination and think that the cause is hardware malfunction, the carrier will REPLACE your phone. If you are not sending it to your carrier, however, and you are sending it directly to Samsung repair center instead, they will most likely incur repair fees. Not sure 100% but Samsung must be able to tell if you've ever flashed custom firmware and flashing custom kernels and ROMs void manufacturer's 1 year warranty. And this will probably be true unless you flash a stock ROM before shipping it, but this is ironic and according to you doing so is impossible. Try Odin JFD again!
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I'm trying to find out exactly how much Samsung would charge to repair a screwed up boot loader caused by a Kies update. The device was flashed to stock prior to the update; however, there is a TiBu folder on the internal sd. The Samsung agent I spoke with opened a support ticket and said it would be repaired under warranty as long as nothing was done to the device to void the warranty. I'm trying to decide whether to have it jtagged and still have it hardware locked, or take a chance and send it to Samsung for a proper repair, fixing the hardware lock and boot loader.
So I had previously rooted my SGSII, and decided to try installing CM7 on it. I used CWM Recovery and ran it off the SD card, and everything appeared to work fine. I think I had a bad/not fully functioning CWM or something, as it didn't list an option to backup anything (I'm guessing because I flashed the stock kernel after rooting?) Anyway, it will no longer boot. I can access download mode, but Odin fails everytime I try to flash anything back on there. When I try to boot my phone, I just get a "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue" error.
EDIT: I just tried again as I was writing this, after rebooting, reinstalling my drivers and rebooting my computer. I was able to get the Firmware to flash properly in Odin. Now I have my phone booting and getting stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 splash screen... Doesn't seem to go any further than that though, unfortunately.
Any ideas what I can do? Is it possible that I need re-flash a bootloader or something ??
Any help would be supremely appreciated!
So I was just trying to re-install the Kernel, using the CF unsecured kernel, and it failed, but when I try to go into recovery mode, it looks as though it managed to install CWM Recovery. I have no idea what to do from here, and am sort of afraid to do anything for fear or bricking the phone completely...
I'm hoping someone out there knows how to fix this, I feel like such a tool
As long as you can get into download-mode, your phone isn't bricked.
If you switch from or to a TouchWiz-based ROM, you have to do a full-wipe in the recovery.
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Go back to stock first via download mode via odin
Nah you're good. Similar thing happened to me at my first flashing attempt. Get your stock firmware from Intratech's thread, put the phone into download mode & flash the firmware via Odin.
Then maybe have another go at rooting the phone with the matching CFRoot kernel.
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So I was just trying to re-install the Kernel, using the CF unsecured kernel, and it failed, but when I try to go into recovery mode, it looks as though it managed to install CWM Recovery. I have no idea what to do from here, and am sort of afraid to do anything for fear or bricking the phone completely...
I'm hoping someone out there knows how to fix this, I feel like such a tool
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yes, if you can still go in download mode it's no so difficult..this "small brick" it's on of "Android things to do" once in your SGS2 life
Hi guys. I'm in a worst situation. As my phone after a failed ODIN downgrade from Android 2.3.6 to one stock kernel is completelly dead - it doesn't boot anymore - not even managed to put it back into download mode or revert to fact defaults (no keys, no lights not even battery charging displayed when pluged in) - tryed the USB jig also. Nothing worked.
The question is: Will Samsung manage to repair and how much will it cost - an average ammount offcourse. Because I guess it's out of the question to be considered a warranty issue. I guess it will be visible somebody have done smth to the ROM by a software approach....
This is the short story because I would bore you to discuss all the things I have been through - it was only my faoult out of stupidity
HELP!
I don't see why Samsung wouldn't fix it ? As to how much they'll charge you, I think you'll find that will vary from country to country (labour costs being variable, etc). No, I don't think you'll be able to have it repaired under warranty.
You might want to look at having it JTAG repaired by someone other than Samsung. This will possibly be cheaper than having Samsung repair it. Do a search on here/Google.
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The question is: Will Samsung manage to repair and how much will it cost - an average ammount offcourse. Because I guess it's out of the question to be considered a warranty issue. I guess it will be visible somebody have done smth to the ROM by a software approach....
HELP!
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Thank you very much. I have searched alot to actually understand - unfortunatelly for me it will cost... I saw on youtube a JTAG in action right now (cannot post the link yet). I understand now it is the only way. I'll keep you posted guys. Tomorrow I'll go to service.
I'm sorry it's going to cost Alex. A difficult thing to happen, I know
Here's a link for a JTAG repairer in the US who is also a member here, tho I see you've already found one. I'm sure doing it this way will be cheaper/probably faster than having Samsung do the repair as well.
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Thank you very much. I have searched alot to actually understand - unfortunatelly for me it will cost... I saw on youtube a JTAG in action right now (cannot post the link yet). I understand now it is the only way. I'll keep you posted guys. Tomorrow I'll go to service.
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Thax. Funny thing is that this is exactly the thing I found - the same mobiletechvideos in US Now I allready have an ideea of how much should cost that. Hopefully I'll find a local GSM repair shop with the posibilitty to unbrick it cheep - or at least not much than 50USD - in local currency ofcource.
I'm still thinking if it is possible to use an ATMEL copy process - like in the old times for EEPROMS - I have done that in the past. In theory it might work but I will never do it - alredy scared about what happened to my beloved droid.
Thx again Mistah and have a gr8 day and a wonderfull new 2012!
Yeah I've seen a report or two on here from people who have used his service & have been happy. Must admit I found his page when thought I'd bricked my phone after my first flash attempt messed up. Yeah you might be able to get it done cheaper somewhere local, and that will mean less time without the phone for you without the phone in mail from you to the US & back again.
Let us know how you get on, your experience will be a good guide for people in future who have the same problems as you.
No probs man, happy to give you the little help I did. You too Alex Hope you have a great year & you get your phone back & working soon
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Thax. Funny thing is that this is exactly the thing I found - the same mobiletechvideos in US Now I allready have an ideea of how much should cost that. Hopefully I'll find a local GSM repair shop with the posibilitty to unbrick it cheep - or at least not much than 50USD - in local currency ofcource.
I'm still thinking if it is possible to use an ATMEL copy process - like in the old times for EEPROMS - I have done that in the past. In theory it might work but I will never do it - alredy scared about what happened to my beloved droid.
Thx again Mistah and have a gr8 day and a wonderfull new 2012!
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Hello again. Solved right now. The service didn't charged me at all - I was kind of lucky after all. Unfortunately there are still some issues I have from the start. I'll keep on digging - software related.
hi everybody!
all the steps below were taken from galaxys2root.com as well as the files
i have i9100 with a stock rom 2.3.4 (ki4) (and 1.4gb of free memory-maybe that was the problem).
yesterday i rooted it (everything was fine) and then i installed CWM recovery 4.0.1.4 through odin v1.85 (went fine too) and then on my way to find myself a new rom i decided to backup my current one with cwm. then i entered cwm by pressing vol-down+pwr+home and hit "backup". it backed up the system and then moved on to the data and thats where it got stuck for like an hour.... from the guide i understood that it shouldnt take more than 10 min- 15 min top so i figured that im having a problem, i tuned off the phone by pressing pwr button and turn it back on, then the phone got stuck on the sgs2 screen with the triangle so i turned it off again----> this time it didnt came back on, and not responding to download mode neither to polling battery out or not even by connecting to usb and charger- just dead!
how is it possible? and what should i do to bring it back to life? (and myself)
thank you very much(please help...), and sorry for the long text and the bad english
do you have usb jig with you?
i assume you brick your phone.
read my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402286 carefully. anyway, usb jig will not harm your device
No download mode = try jig. Jig doesn't work = JTAG repair by 3rd party repairer (cheaper option) or JTAG repair my Samsung (more expensive option).
thank you,
no dont have one but i ordered from ebay.
is there a chance that my battery died and as a result of the two my phone wont respond?
Possible but highly unlikely. I guess you might as well try a new battery, at worst you'll have a spare when you get the phone repaired.
Fairly common problem go to forum xx download something and follow the instructions dont work go to a totally different forum and ask why ???
CWM 4 very old .
vol-down+pwr+home and hit "backup why ??? thats download mode
My guess would be wrong instructions/firmware .
The other question to ask is it a i9100 or a different version .
jje
i really hope thats the problem, im going to a friend now to try with his battry.
but really how is it possible that my phone is bricked when i didnt even try to flash a new rom, and more than that it happened in the backup process when all the cwm does is a copy operation... so what really had happened?
JJEgan said:
Fairly common problem go to forum xx download something and follow the instructions dont work go to a totally different forum and ask why ???
CWM 4 very old .
vol-down+pwr+home and hit "backup why ??? thats download mode
My guess would be wrong instructions/firmware .
The other question to ask is it a i9100 or a different version .
jje
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to be honest i was too lazy to search here (which im not going to be now)
thats what he was doing in the video (it did went in cwm)
and my phone is i9100 i bought it in the UK
Wrong firmware faulty firmware wrong instructions any number of things can go wrong with a flash . But it is very odd that it happens in backup recovery yes but backup very rare .
jje
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Wrong firmware faulty firmware wrong instructions any number of things can go wrong with a flash . But it is very odd that it happens in backup recovery yes but backup very rare .
jje
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so there is a slight chance that its the battery right?
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so there is a slight chance that its the battery right?
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no, there is not.
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ok the battery swap doesnt work so its not the problem,
any other ideas??? (except usb jig and jtag)
thanks
Jig <=1% chance of getting you into download mode, JTAG = 100% chance of fixing it. Other options = 0.
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Jig <=1% chance of getting you into download mode, JTAG = 100% chance of fixing it. Other options = 0.
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I should say jog = 50% chances of getting into download mode. JTAG is more like a solution for hard brick(totally unresponsive, bootloader totally mess up, brain system totally corrupted).
Base on my understanding, getting yourself a hard brick is harder than finding a needle in a haystack. If you go through zedomax(galaxys2root.com owner), he mentioned that he flashed all his android device countless time. All he got is just a couple of soft brick. Never a hard brick. Don't waste your money first. Invest on a cheap usb jig which only cost around 2 dollar, compare to JTAG services which cost 50 dollar.
If usb jig doesn't work, try to go for warranty , see whether they charge you or not. If warranty doesn't cover you and cost less than 50 dollar to repair, go for it.
Only go for JTAG if every effort above don't work.
Warning: JTAG is just a service that reinject Samsung firmware into your device. If your phone has hardware failure, I don't think they can help. Unless they provide hardware repair now. If you wanna be sure, email or call them up to see if they provide hardware repair/replace as well, just in case it is a hardware failure cases.
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i know its a very rare situation but it happened. I've tried the jig and it didnt work, then i decided to send it back to the store and they told me they have sent it to the manufacturer, now im waiting...
My phone is totally messed up. Even with a Jig resetting it, Download mode does not work.
Phone is off, battery is out. When I turn it on to go into download mode -- Instead of the Samsung Logo coming up and THEN going into download mode, it goes STRAIGHT into download mode from a black screen (something I've never heard of or seen before, anywhere)
While in download mode - I open Odin (kies and everything is closed, drivers work fine) -- nothing works. It doesn't say "added"
I can't figure out what is going on.
Basically I messed up the phone because i did a factory reset from within settings -- I never did it from CWM.
The whole thing is insanely messed up. Please someone help.
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My phone is totally messed up. Even with a Jig resetting it, Download mode does not work.
Phone is off, battery is out. When I turn it on to go into download mode -- Instead of the Samsung Logo coming up and THEN going into download mode, it goes STRAIGHT into download mode from a black screen (something I've never heard of or seen before, anywhere)
While in download mode - I open Odin (kies and everything is closed, drivers work fine) -- nothing works. It doesn't say "added"
I can't figure out what is going on.
Basically I messed up the phone because i did a factory reset from within settings -- I never did it from CWM.
The whole thing is insanely messed up. Please someone help.
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if ur phone is under warranty then better take it to a nearest Samsung service center
afraid you are a victim of the superbrick bug, only a new board will repair that if odin fails to connect.
superbrick bug ???????
also not sure how i can tell if it's under warrenty --- but when I go into download mode it says 0 binary count (thanks to the Jig) so
Do I have to have a receipt or something ?
Where would the closest samsung repair shop be ?
Also "-99.9% is the custom kernels however do not have this super brick bug. I can confirm these kernels don't have it"
Mine was running Siyah's kernel -- so it couldn't be a superbrick bug
Any other tips
what version of syiah kernel have you used? One older version had brick big in it as well.
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what version of syiah kernel have you used? One older version had brick big in it as well.
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I'm not sure - the phone won't turn on to allow me to check
So only a samsung service center can fix? I don't even know where my receipt is
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superbrick bug ???????
also not sure how i can tell if it's under warrenty --- but when I go into download mode it says 0 binary count (thanks to the Jig) so
Do I have to have a receipt or something ?
Where would the closest samsung repair shop be ?
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How can this be superbrick bug if he can turn the phone on in the first place?!
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GoNz0 said:
afraid you are a victim of the superbrick bug, only a new board will repair that if odin fails to connect.
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This is not super brick bug at all, stop giving people false information. The brick you're referring to is done via recovery mode not via Android settings. Also when its bricked you cannot turn phone on at all.
@ OP
Try
Different USB socket
Different PC.
Re-installing Kies
Also, you didn't mention if you can go to recovery or not?
boki9999 said:
How can this be superbrick bug if he can turn the phone on in the first place?!
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I have no probs turning the phone on.
1) Turn it on Normally --- samsung logo comes up -- phone goes black -- nothing happens (although curiously if I hit the home button the screen flashes pure white then pure black so strange)
2) Can't get into Recovery at all
3) If I go into download mode, the samsung logo does NOT come up -- the phone goes from power off STRAIGHT into download mode. Once in download mode though, nothing happens when connecting to Odin.
Now I've tried different computers, and Odin still doesn't work. It works with other phones (my friends have the same phone) so it's not a driver / USB slot / etc. issue
No one I have talked to has ever seen anything like this.
I'm just wondering if I should just send it back to Samsung Electronics Service Center in Canada -- I don't have a receipt though the phone is a like 2 years old.
But the Jig did reset it to it's original settings (no binary count)
So strange.
Funkadelick said:
But the Jig did reset it to it's original settings (no binary count)
So strange.
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In that case you should just send it for repair. It looks like a hardware fault to me so they will likley replace mobo or JTAG fix possible.
TheATHEiST said:
In that case you should just send it for repair. It looks like a hardware fault to me so they will likley replace mobo or JTAG fix possible.
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I wish there was another way.... if it's a hardware issue, then how can I turn the phone on and off and get into download mode?
Hi everyone here on xda!
I've got an international, unbranded GT-i9300 16GB bought here in Italy (so I suppose it's the european version, stock roms I flashed ended with _ITV) on August 2012, so it should be still covered by warranty.
Yet there isn't any Samsung center nearby, so I suppose I should be sending it and it will probably take some time to even have an answer.
My phone was charging, I saw the led blinking with a blue light, so I tried to unlock it. No success.
A few hours before, the phone took a screenshot by itself without even touching it. (it took it the same way it does when you press POWER+HOME)
The situation is:
If I plug it to the charger, the battery animation appears, but is frozen. I don't know if it's charging or not.
The phone doesn't boot, it only shows the Samsung boot text.
I can't power off the phone, I have to remove the battery. It only reboots when I press the Power button.
I can't enter CWM Recovery nor the stock recovery, Odin fails to flash anything because says PIT partition is missing.
I can enter Download Mode, and it says:
Odin mode
Product Name:
Custom binary download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
I have read countless topics but I'm unsure if there's a solution, I only saw hundreds of people struggling to flash a ROM.
And, I'm a bit unsure on what to do now, do you know the answer to any of these questions?
1) Is there a solution to this problem, something that I can do at home?
2) Is this a case of Sudden Death Syndrome? Should it be caused by a motherboard failure?
3) If I try or manage to flash a new PIT file (unlikely, I saw that everyone with this issue couldn't) and something goes wrong, can the situation get any worse?
4) Should Samsung repair it since it should be under warranty, even if there's that Custom under System status? Should I insist if it refuses to?
5) If someone managed to solve this issue, did they receive a new phone, or the same phone with their own data? Do they also make a deep clean?
6) What is Samsung's average time to fix this issue when it receives the phone?
7) Is there a way to access the phone's internal memory to recover some data in this situation?
8) Which PIT file should I be flashing? Does it make sense to flash just the PIT file, or should I also flash a 3-file stock rom at the same time? Did someone fix this issue by doing so?
Thanks in advance for your time and your patience
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I've been searching around the forums and i see that if Odin is giving that error there's nothing you can do. Just send it to your nearest service center for repair.
NeatWolf said:
Hi everyone here on xda!
I've got an international, unbranded GT-i9300 16GB bought here in Italy (so I suppose it's the european version, stock roms I flashed ended with _ITV) on August 2012, so it should be still covered by warranty.
Yet there isn't any Samsung center nearby, so I suppose I should be sending it and it will probably take some time to even have an answer.
My phone was charging, I saw the led blinking with a blue light, so I tried to unlock it. No success.
A few hours before, the phone took a screenshot by itself without even touching it. (it took it the same way it does when you press POWER+HOME)
The situation is:
If I plug it to the charger, the battery animation appears, but is frozen. I don't know if it's charging or not.
The phone doesn't boot, it only shows the Samsung boot text.
I can't power off the phone, I have to remove the battery. It only reboots when I press the Power button.
I can't enter CWM Recovery nor the stock recovery, Odin fails to flash anything because says PIT partition is missing.
I can enter Download Mode, and it says:
Odin mode
Product Name:
Custom binary download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
I have read countless topics but I'm unsure if there's a solution, I only saw hundreds of people struggling to flash a ROM.
And, I'm a bit unsure on what to do now, do you know the answer to any of these questions?
1) Is there a solution to this problem, something that I can do at home?
Try new battery .
2) Is this a case of Sudden Death Syndrome? Should it be caused by a motherboard failure?
Possible reads the sds thread
3) If I try or manage to flash a new PIT file (unlikely, I saw that everyone with this issue couldn't) and something goes wrong, can the situation get any worse?
Yes
4) Should Samsung repair it since it should be under warranty, even if there's that Custom under System status? Should I insist if it refuses to?
No warranty is void .
If someone managed to solve this issue, did they receive a new phone, or the same phone with their own data? Do they also make a deep clean?
Data is on the motherboard and lost .
8) Which PIT file should I be flashing?
The one for your firmware.
jje
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Well then, thanks for your answers and your time
I think I have no choice... I recovered my phone from various other situations, but I suppose I should have updated my Android version sooner, I was about to do it soon, matter of days.
It still bugs me the fact that I'll have to pay 200$ for a defect that is notoriously not related to the use of the phone, but to a production vice/bug.
Isn't really a way to restore my device status to Samsung Official in this state?
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Well then, thanks for your answers I think I have no choice... I recovered my phone from various other situations, but I suppose I should have updated my Android version sooner, I was about to do it soon, matter of days.
It still bugs me the fact that I'll have to pay 200$ for a defect that is notoriously not related to the use of the phone, but to a production vice/bug.
Isn't really a way to restore my device status to Samsung Official in this state?
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It does not boot how will service centre know its rooted . SDS expect a motherboard swap .
Their is an XDA post by Adam Outler that states that custom rom or root does not void your warranty but Samsung say it does .
jje
JJEgan said:
It does not boot how will service centre know its rooted . SDS expect a motherboard swap .
Their is an XDA post by Adam Outler that states that custom rom or root does not void your warranty but Samsung say it does .
jje
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Thanks
I haven't found the article but found this one about Flashing&Rooting the phone not invalidating the warranty in EU that may be interesting for future readers:
[INFO] Rooting and Flashing don't void the warranty
I'm a bit more optimist now, but sadly I live in Italy so everything can go wrong doesn't matter what the EU says.
I'll keep you posted on my experience, for future reference.
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Thanks
I haven't found the article but found this one about Flashing&Rooting the phone not invalidating the warranty in EU that may be interesting for future readers:
[INFO] Rooting and Flashing don't void the warranty
I'm a bit more optimist now, but sadly I live in Italy so everything can go wrong doesn't matter what the EU says.
I'll keep you posted on my experience, for future reference.
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sorry deleted because wrong pit file