hey guys,
was flashing kernels and roms willy-nilly and i think i have bricked my phone for good, it wont charge, wont load at all and wont return to flash mode, just sits there black screen and light - no vibe on hard reset (power button and middle button)
if anyone can help me at all would really be greatful, tryed to press the "reset" button by the batt cover by no joy
i cant remove the batt as my screwwys aint small enough
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How i did it:
1) Removed back cover
2) Look to the left hand side across from the camera and removed the "tab" of plastic
3) Got a flat edge screw driver and removed the power cable
4) Replaced power cable
5) Set up flash tool to flash the right kernel (waiting at the plug in usb dialog)
6) Pressed back and connected the usb
7) Flashed kernel
8) Turned on the phone pressing the power / back button trying to access recovery
9) Mounted sdcard
10) Placed correct update.zip in root and gapps
11) Went back to recovery and flashed rom and gapps
12) Rebooted system
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please can someone tell me where i am going rong i'v had some problems this morning at 2am im still up trying to sort it,it crashed on me so did a hard rest after finding out how to hard rest manualy,now because iv done something rong i trying to flash and put a NEW rom on,im stuck with the SCREEN saying
Niki100
SP-1.16.hard
CplD-4 and in the right corner its says RUUNBH or something
i cant seem to get back to my NORMAL ROM
bootloader mode
try to put your device in the bootloader mode and flash it again.
steps for going to teh bootloader mode (taken from the Wiki):
* Remove back cover.
* Hold camera and power buttons.
* Press reset with your stylus (little button to the right of USB port).
good luck.
iv done that and it keeps coming back to the same screen
tommie&morris said:
try to put your device in the bootloader mode and flash it again.
steps for going to teh bootloader mode (taken from the Wiki):
* Remove back cover.
* Hold camera and power buttons.
* Press reset with your stylus (little button to the right of USB port).
good luck.
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I have the same problem.
Hi guys
I'm pretty sure I bricked my vibrant and would appreciate any help. So here's what happened :
1) Had bionix 1.9 with voodoo lagfix installed
2) Disabled lagfix and flashed eugene's new froyo rom
3) Iwasn't able to enable voodoo again so I flashed the Clockwork version of Voodoo beta4
4) Phone rebooted, Linda's voice said "conversion successfull" at the vibrant logo screen and then it was stuck for 20 minutes at the screen.
5) I reboot the phone and its still stuck at samsung vibrant logo screen.
6) I read instructions at a website called thinkdiff with the title "how to access download and recovery mode in samsung vibrant"and removed my sd and sim cards, plugged in usb cable, opened cmd prompt on computer and typed "adb reboot recovery"
7) It successfully rebooted into recovery mode, so I went to advanced options and attempted to restore a backup from earlier today (which was Eugene's froyo rom)
8) After that my phone has been totally bricked. It only alternates between blue and red dots on the screen, noise-like stuff on the upper half of the screen and the vibrant logo.
I tried to plug in the USB cable and try to do "adb reboot recovery" to try and install a different rom, but my pc wont recognize the device anymore. Holding vol. up+down and power doesn't work at all.
Please tell me there's a way I can unbrick my phone..
skroegerj
Nevermind... browsed through the forums and was able to fix it. Please close this thread. Sorry for being a n00b.
hi I have the same problem can you tell me wat you did to fix your problem I have the same problem
HI There I have the same problem like you mention in your thread can you plz tell me how did you fix your phone problem my phone is also showing red blue dot and noise on the upper screen and keep the phone on and off and show the Vibrant thats it plz help me thank you very much
As far as getting back to download mode if you get the black screen (no vibrant logo), here's what I did.
Take out the battery, plug in the usb cable, hold vol up/down (no power), put the battery in. This will get you back to download mode.
Mage42384 said:
As far as getting back to download mode if you get the black screen (no vibrant logo), here's what I did.
Take out the battery, plug in the usb cable, hold vol up/down (no power), put the battery in. This will get you back to download mode.
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thank you so much for this post! I was afraid that I had really done it this time...
So I was odin'ing back to stock from bionix (forget which) and it failed. I've done this flash more times than i can count from various ROMs, kernels, etc... and never had a problem. However this time it failed, and I can't get back to download mode.
I've found that the best way to get to download mode for my phone is to hold both volume buttons and plug in the USB. This doesn't work, I just get the " phone ! computer " screen every time. power button and bottom volume gets the same, as does power and both up and down. Power and volume up goes to the "POWER RESET or UNKNOWN UPLOAD MODE" screen.
So, does anyone have any ideas aside from picking up a JIG? it's shipping tomorrow probably.
Take your phone into a T-Mobile store and tell them you flashed your phone to a custom rom and now it won't boot up. Then ask them to exchange your phone for a new one; see if that works.
Well, at least you bothered to type it out instead of copying and pasting from the other thread xP
use the search button.
If your getting the phone ! computer screen. your not bricked at all, just us Odin to flash back to stock. the Screen your seeing is just another form of download mode. but if you really want to get back into download mode, pull everything from the phone.
Sim, mem, battery.
make sure the USB is plugged into the PC with Odin open.
plug the USB into the phone.
put the battery in while holding the volume rocker and it should boot into DL right away.
I got stuck on this screen before and this saved me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12511424&postcount=32
Hello, I have a Samsung Vibrant, and i had the Cyanogen 7 Rom on there... In the Mist of Trying to Reboot to Recovery i clicked something and im not sure what i clicked but my phone Wont load past the "Samsung Vibrant" screen, And when i plug it up the loading symbol pops up in the middle of the black screen and ive tried to press the up/down volume + Power ... it worked before the accident, doesnt work now! im really upset and just in need of a little help, so someone please tell me what i can do to Save my phone!
theres three methods!!
heres one
power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper tar file in pit and the .pda file in pda in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
second one is the aio toolbox
third one is a jtag pm connexion2005
Samsung Vibrant Hanged due to ROM Confliction
I also have same problem and I tried the procedure, but failed, my phone not detected on my pc. When i start the phone Samsung vibrant logo appears but hanged at that point not booted further.,
PLZ HELP ME TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM
You need to be able to get into download mode(yellow triangle andriod dude shoveling). If you can't get there with the buttons you need to look into purchasing a USB JIG. Good luck!
yasirshafiq said:
I also have same problem and I tried the procedure, but failed, my phone not detected on my pc. When i start the phone Samsung vibrant logo appears but hanged at that point not booted further.,
PLZ HELP ME TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM
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sometimes it takes just a little twist on that procedure
1. Start Odin
2. Plug USB cable into pc
3. Power off the Phone.
3. Pull the Battery.
5. Plug USB cable into Phone.
6. Press and Hold: Volume UP + Volume DOWN + Power, all at the same time.
7. Re-insert the battery.
8. The phone will power now, when the screen starts a cycle of going to a BLACK screen, release ONLY the POWER button.
9. When you see the download icon release the volume buttons,
10. Odin back to stock by putting the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.
sometimes you just have to keep trying before it catches
If you changed the bootloaders when you installed CM7, then the key combination for DL mode may also have changed. See this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117990
Try this I did and it worked to get mine booting after a bad update.
I messed around with it using several methods of getting it to boot into download mode until I finally got it to do it. I think I left it plugged into the USB, powered it down until I saw the charging screen, then I proceeded to play with the different ways to hold the buttons to get it to download mode. If you are persistent enough and read a little on booting methods to get bricked phone into download mode you will succed if not then your not for the world of trial and error... the main thing is do the first steps I said before until it works
1. Get into Download Mode (WITH THE PHONE PLUGGED IN) by following the steps below
*Turn off the phone until you get to the charging battery screen (keep in mind, your phone is currently PLUGGED IN)
*Press volume up and down, and power all at once.
*As soon as the screen turns black, release your power button.
2. Unplug phone from USB
or try
2. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, sim, battery).
3. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT the battery, as you have already taken it out in the last step.
4. Press and HOLD vol. up and vol. down.
5. As you are HOLDING these buttons, reattach your battery.
6. You should be in Download Mode.
7. Unplug phone from USB
any how try try try until it works
Once in download mode
Get your files together for your phone, and use Odin 1.85.
Plug into Odin and make sure it shows yellow and its added!
1. Now if your files have like 3 files and the exact .pit file for your phone
I found mine here
http://www.droidevelopers.com/showthread.php?11722-Download-OPS-amp-PIT-files
2. Click the PIT button and browse to your exact .pit file for your phone *It should now have added a check in the re-partition box under the options area of the Odin window. If not CHECK IT!
***If you don't have your .pit don't worry about this unless you suspect, or have a bad partition
3. If you have just 1 file just click the PDA button and load the file. If you have 3 then you will load the PDA file in PDA, the Modem file into PHONE, and the CSC file into CSC, there are way too many phones to link all the files so get you stuff together!
4. Now hit start.
5. When done and the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE Logo or whatever... immediately unplug the battery from the phone to shut it down.
6. Now put it back in and start it in Upload mode by pressing Vol Up, Home at the same time then the Power button.
7. As soon as the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE Logo or whatever let go of all buttons and using the Vol Up down Choose the Clear Cache option and go through and make sure you factory reset it if you can just for good measure.
8. Reboot
9. Now when the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE Logo or whatever take out battery again to power off
10. Now put it back in and start it in Download mode by pressing Vol Down, Home at the same time then the Power button.
11. Once in download mode Hook up to Odin again and flash it with a root kernel for your phone. Do not ask me just find it. I did it took time but I got all the files together over several days of reading and collecting the correct ones.
12. When done and the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE Logo or whatever... immediately unplug the battery from the phone to shut it down.
13. Now put it back in and start it in Upload mode by pressing Vol Up, Home at the same time then the Power button.
14. In most roots you will now have a advanced or mounting options and more options to use.
15. I cleared the Cache again, Cleared the Davilik Cache, Went into a option and actually mounted the cache formatted the Cache.
16. Use the option now to restart the phone...
And mine started up installed the apps and I am up and running, nice and smooth and no issues so far
I hope this helps out someone whos just about to go off the deep end, as I was there and patience and trial and error came up with this step by step way to recover mine. Thank me by hitting the little thumbs up THANKS button below this post.
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