Hello,
I'm scared just perfect, I've done too much of a good thing.:crying:
Was just flashing my device via ODIN. tar file.
And there was just a little power outage here in the street.
Just had the phone connected via USB. Now it is no longer appropriate.
I cant power it on. The screen keeps black
What can I do?
Please safe my christmas
No boot, no download mode, no recovery = possibly JTAG or service centre. Or you could try King Rat's trick where he tries to 'jump start' the phone without the battery. Doubt it will work, but you might as well find/try it (search for his username & then search through his posts to find what I'm talking about).
Other than that, you don't really have any other options.
MistahBungle said:
No boot, no download mode, no recovery = possibly JTAG or service centre. Or you could try King Rat's trick where he tries to 'jump start' the phone without the battery. Doubt it will work, but you might as well find/try it (search for his username & then search through his posts to find what I'm talking about).
Other than that, you don't really have any other options.
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How does he start his device?
Cant find the user nor his thread
jolle-pe said:
How does he start his device?
Cant find the user nor his thread
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Why people so lazy, I Think ?
JUST USE SEARCH His Post -_-
King_Rat said:
* take battery out of phone
* launch Odin
* locate ROM you would like to flash
* plug ph into pc/laptop (nb, battery still out of ph)
* holding button combo for d/l mode insert battery (extra helper maybe needed)
* 'if' ph gets into d/l mode, flash ROM
NB, this saved my S2 from BSOD
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Paulius7 said:
Why people so lazy, I Think ?
JUST USE SEARCH His Post -_-
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Thanks a lot. But it doesnt work without jig
wow.. that's like 1% chance of having power outage while flashing.
bad luck for christmas lol
Like we would say in germany:
"The luck is with the stupid"
I have to play lotto or bingo with my luck I have
Sorry my friend for asking did you find any solution cuz i also have the same problem
No power on, no recovery, won't recognize the usb cable
I don't know what to do
the bad luck invented chainfire, and chainfire invented mobile odin.
from sii xda-ded
Mobile odin.. Yes too late... I want to test the jig USB dongle. I'll post in a few days if it worked.
Nevertheless i have to send it to the Samsung repair station
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gastonw said:
the bad luck invented chainfire, and chainfire invented mobile odin.
from sii xda-ded
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remark about your bad luck with home power when flashing.
It works again!
I sent it to the local repairstation. I told them after a firmwarebackup with samsung kies, my device had hang up.
MistahBungle said:
No boot, no download mode, no recovery = possibly JTAG or service centre. Or you could try King Rat's trick where he tries to 'jump start' the phone without the battery. Doubt it will work, but you might as well find/try it (search for his username & then search through his posts to find what I'm talking about).
Other than that, you don't really have any other options.
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Hurrmmpfff....
Have you already tried with jig usb? Here at the forum there are tutorials to make it at home
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machv5 said:
sweet a user named after a trojan I wouldna bee surprised if that's the reason why the first flashing of the recovery failed but said success then once I tried it again re-partition magically prechecked itself to brick the device soft and then after not knowing what to do next and reading the phone shut itself off hardbricking it. Thank you kingRAT you made my day. Nice to know that I have to contend with people hacking my computer and installing stuff llike king RAT (or similar) to my system. Outstanding. So paperweight number2 great smashing wonderful great. And if this is considered flaming and deleted oh well I couldn't care less this time. You have no idea how much you just make it more of a challenge for me to kick you around next time. Im off but will be back. But not with soiftwae loaded on my system that much I can tell you,
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What on this bloody planet are you talking about??????????
You obviously have a very serious problem between chair and keyboard.
philohtc said:
Have you already tried with jig usb? Here at the forum there are tutorials to make it at home
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I ordered one ages ago for another Samsung, it never arrived and they have just resent another one. Which was nice of them. I tried making my own but at the time I didn't have a multimeter so couldn't test the accuracy of the resistors I was using, I didn't see any documentation for the amount of leeway on either side where the jig would still work as intended or the consequences for using one that had different values. I live in a small town that only has one Radio Shack and they only carry multi-packs of resistors. I had to use a series of them soldered together in order to make up the 300k amount. Each multi-pack of 100 or 200 resistors have two of each resistance value, meaning the last 100k has to be made up of two or three separate ones. Also, because the tolerances were loose on the multi-packs they did have I couldn't check for the level of accuracy for each resistor. I made two or three jigs using varying combinations. On another project I did in the mid 1990's I remember seeing a difference of up to 3-4k with some 45k resistors from Radio Shack with the .25% tolerance values. I bought a pack of five 45k resistors and needed 47k I tested each one till I found the one that was closest. I remember the values distinctly because it was the first time I ever modified something (mid 1990's btw). Ironically, It was an old alarm clock/telephone combo and I liked its retro look, but its photocell was getting on making it a pain to be able to read during the day. You had to use a lamp or flash light to see the display. I took it apart and measured the resistance across the display panel when it was at the brightness level I wanted. Which was bright enough to see during the day yet still dim enough not too make it double as a green desk lamp at night, and swapped out the cell for the resistor.
Anywho, moving on maybe the jig will work maybe not I won't know till it arrives. I have a vague memory of having the same result (no power) happening on the other Samsung at one point, so I shelved it for a month or two, then one day gave it another shot and it powered up again. So maybe the same thing will happen again. Failing that I will just use the parts to fix another Samsung in the future.
Related
I was flashing my Vibrant back to the stock ROM using ODIN, and I had the re-partition checked off... and I think this is what killed my vibrant. If I click the power button it doesn't do anything. It has a full battery and even with it on the charger... still nothing. I can't see anything on the screen. What are my options to fix my Vibrant?
Timz917 said:
I was flashing my Vibrant back to the stock ROM using ODIN, and I had the re-partition checked off... and I think this is what killed my vibrant. If I click the power button it doesn't do anything. It has a full battery and even with it on the charger... still nothing. I can't see anything on the screen. What are my options to fix my Vibrant?
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What were you flashing to stock from?
Can you enter download mode?
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HELP IM SO WORRY HAS SAME PROBLEM OR WORSE
I upgraded to froyo 2.2 using Kies mini, and follow each step, till it finish of donwloading the oficial download from their server, in the tutorial says to wait for it to reboot but never did. what could happend? now im not able to power on, put in download mode, etc cause its acting like its dead, not even the usb im so scared caus ei just bought it on ebay HELLPPPPP PLEASE.
letor69 said:
HELP IM SO WORRY HAS SAME PROBLEM OR WORSE
I upgraded to froyo 2.2 using Kies mini, and follow each step, till it finish of donwloading the oficial download from their server, in the tutorial says to wait for it to reboot but never did. what could happend? now im not able to power on, put in download mode, etc cause its acting like its dead, not even the usb im so scared caus ei just bought it on ebay HELLPPPPP PLEASE.
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Following these guide: http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Samsu...-upgrade-to-Android-2-2-Froyo-now/td-p/678871
Here are a couple of things to try. There are videos out there on utube also.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
No I can't enter Download mode. I have no power at all.
nomadrider123 said:
Here are a couple of things to try. There are videos out there on utube also.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
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Have you tried a simple
pull the battery
put the battery back after a few second
start ODIN
connect USB to PC, but not to phone
hold the volume +/- key
connect USB to phone while holding vol +/- keys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9LYLoK1Qog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNts11IBZ8Y
I click the power button nothing happens. I plug in the usb, nothing happens.
Timz917 said:
I click the power button nothing happens. I plug in the usb, nothing happens.
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Have you tried both at the same time?
pull the battery
put the battery back after a few seconds
start ODIN
connect USB to PC, but not to phone
hold the volume +/- key
connect USB to phone while holding vol +/- keys
nomadrider123 said:
Have you tried both at the same time?
pull the battery
put the battery back after a few seconds
start ODIN
connect USB to PC, but not to phone
hold the volume +/- key
connect USB to phone while holding vol +/- keys
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SAME AS ME heeeeeeelllpppp
not a single button is working, either JIG i have it, what can i do?
Sorry to disappoint you; it seems that you are out of luck. I was flashing my Vibrant in the similar situation like yours and my phone has never turned on again since then (6 weeks). I live in Thailand and have been searching both English and Thai version for a solution. None comes up so far. The only way the USB jig will help is your phone can be powered up. I have tried that myself. You can look for the confirmation elsewhere in this forum. Any way if you can find a diy solution, please let me know and I will post it here if I can find one myself. Thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
I am wait on this line here on your link.
More methods coming soon
do you have insurance with tmobile?
i bricked mine before i had a good understanding of the whole rom flashing concept and i could get a downloading screen but i didnt know what to do so they replaced it with no problem.
call and ask all they can do is say no.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
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they bro, i appreciate that your trying to help the guy but read.
the title states its a "HARD BRICK" meaning it will not turn on. If the OP has enough sense to name the thread its a HARD brick, then i'm sure he knows what a hard brick is. All solutions your leading to cannot be done AT ALL. The phone is a paperweight, you cant do anything but 2 things:
@OP
Do one of these 2 things:
1) build a JIG costs around 10$ a bit more or a bit less. but no over than 15$
(search JIG for vibrant on youtube by mobiletechvideos)
2) Send it to tmobile.
I hard bricked my phone 4 days ago.
I called them, and their sending in a replacement, and i send them mine and im done.
It cost me 10$ for shipping and handling but thats it.
Timz917 said:
I was flashing my Vibrant back to the stock ROM using ODIN, and I had the re-partition checked off... and I think this is what killed my vibrant. If I click the power button it doesn't do anything. It has a full battery and even with it on the charger... still nothing. I can't see anything on the screen. What are my options to fix my Vibrant?
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HOW ABOIUT LEAVE PHONE CHARGING FOR 10 GO IN TO DARK ROOM SHUT OFF LIGHT PRESS POWER BUTTON AND SEE IF BACK LIGHT OF SCREEN LIGHTS UP, IF SO I TOLD YOU SO I HAD THE SAME BUT MY VIBRANT WORKS AGAIN UNLIKE YOURS p
xriderx66 said:
they bro, i appreciate that your trying to help the guy but read.
the title states its a "HARD BRICK" meaning it will not turn on. If the OP has enough sense to name the thread its a HARD brick, then i'm sure he knows what a hard brick is. All solutions your leading to cannot be done AT ALL. The phone is a paperweight, you cant do anything but 2 things:
@OP
Do one of these 2 things:
1) build a JIG costs around 10$ a bit more or a bit less. but no over than 15$
(search JIG for vibrant on youtube by mobiletechvideos)
2) Send it to tmobile.
I hard bricked my phone 4 days ago.
I called them, and their sending in a replacement, and i send them mine and im done.
It cost me 10$ for shipping and handling but thats it.
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Your first option is out because I have tried that. The only option left is the second one. since I live in Thailand, I have to ship the phone to my friend in Los Angeles to have him replace it for me. It is costly, but at least I will get a phone to work.
It seems to me that this issue is a special case that doesn't happen very often. Only the chosen ones will get into trouble like this when making an error here and there while flashing rom.
I had an IPhone 3G before and, of course, I made mistakes while updating it with all kinds of firmware, but the hardware never fails on me no matter what I did.
Thanks all who try to help.
xriderx66 said:
they bro, i appreciate that your trying to help the guy but read.
the title states its a "HARD BRICK" meaning it will not turn on. If the OP has enough sense to name the thread its a HARD brick, then i'm sure he knows what a hard brick is. All solutions your leading to cannot be done AT ALL. The phone is a paperweight, you cant do anything but 2 things:
@OP
Do one of these 2 things:
1) build a JIG costs around 10$ a bit more or a bit less. but no over than 15$
(search JIG for vibrant on youtube by mobiletechvideos)
2) Send it to tmobile.
I hard bricked my phone 4 days ago.
I called them, and their sending in a replacement, and i send them mine and im done.
It cost me 10$ for shipping and handling but thats it.
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Just because he put hard bricked in the title means little. It was his first post. He very well could be a aviid user. All I could go by is he said he hit power and nothing happend thats about all he said over and over. No battery pull 3 button try. So what I did was try to help thats it. I did not suggest anything to make matters worse. A lot of ppl thought their phones were "hard bricked" but they got it to come out of it. Just because your more of a wiz then most ppl here. I would appreciate if you would get off my back a bit for I was just trying to help.
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Just because he put hard bricked in the title means little. It was his first post. He very well could be a aviid user. All I could go by is he said he hit power and nothing happend thats about all he said over and over. No battery pull 3 button try. So what I did was try to help thats it. I did not suggest anything to make matters worse. A lot of ppl thought their phones were "hard bricked" but they got it to come out of it. Just because your more of a wiz then most ppl here. I would appreciate if you would get off my back a bit for I was just trying to help.
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I'm not getting on your back, why is it you think so?
Most of the users as i've encountered don't have the sense to name their threads appropriately, the OP on this one specifically named it HARD BRICKED, so instead of telling him to do all these instructions, you could've asked 1 thing "when you plug your usb, or wall charger, does it show any lights? or Are there any symbols on the screen? any lights glowing?"
Those 2 questions could've saved him, and you time.
Trust me i'm a beginner as well, i just know how to get out of these because i've been with this problem a few times. Alot of people here know more than me, specifically s15.. idk his full name.
Hi guys/girls of XDA.
I've been happily running my Galaxy S 2 with CM9 for some time.
I've just yesterday changed to the latest nightly. Had used the Battery Calibration market app, just so i can get the maximum use out of my extended battery (i still seemed to get regular usage out of the battery). Made sure the triangle was gone with Triangle Away. All was swell.
Untill today, I attempted to check out the beats audio plugin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525226
I flashed through CWM as you usually do for these things, once this was done, and rebooted fine, I noticed some niggling issues.
My SD card wasn't mounted. Mounted it again. Was working fine. My audiobook decided to crash on me, and the phone froze.
Thought it might be a good idea to get into Recovery and flash over the latest nightly again clearing the mess i put on my phone. SD wasn't mounted again, mounted and confirmed working.
Flashing of ROM would not work.
Sat at installing for about 10+ minutes.
Pulled battery.
Now i'm unable to get into Recovery or Download mode.
I believe I've Soft/Hardbricked. But I can't confirm it.
Any ideas?
(My sig isn't up to date, and i cbf updating it)
Try a usb jig
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I was thinking that would be the first answer.
I don't have one, might have to check Ebay, unless there is a local seller in Aus.
Pull battery, wait for 5 minutes
huylinh said:
Pull battery, wait for 5 minutes
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Already tried.
Attempting to turn it on after this period has no effect, and nothing shows on the screen.
(After some time pressing the power button, it starts to get hot around the camera)
If you can't get into download mode at all/phone won't turn on your last (slim) chance is a jig. If the jig doesn't work you have two options:-
1) JTAG repair by 3rd party repairer (probably cheaper option)
2) Repair by Samsung (probably more expensive option)
But definitely try the jig before you go down that route. You never know.
I think usb jig will solve your problem and you can make your own usb jig indeed. It is just a 300k resistor which is soldered between the fourth and the fifth legs of a micro usb socket.
You can find lots of videos and schemes showing how to do it. I think it is better to
make your own usb jig then waiting your internet order.
I hope you can get your phone back soon.
Looks like i'll try a JIG asap.
Then look for a JTAG repairer in adelaide.
Will keep you guys posted.
There's a thread in General where people have offered to let other people use their jigs. Might be worth a look to see if there's someone in Radelaide who can help, would be surprised if there isn't.
Might save you waiting for jig in the post (assuming you don't already have one/aren't confident enough to make your own); if you do borrow a jig & it works you get your phone back earlier & if it doesn't work, at least you can then focus on getting it fixed.
Mingo3k said:
Looks like i'll try a JIG asap.
Then look for a JTAG repairer in adelaide.
Will keep you guys posted.
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Thanks Mistah, i'll do that
Edit;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1495867
Nobody in Adelaide it seems.
Really ? Bugger Do a Google search along the lines of "Samsung Galaxy S2 jig eBay location Australia". That should yield you a seller within Australia which will save you a heap of postage time. I got mine from Hong Kong (relatively close) & it took 8 calendar days.
Mingo3k said:
Thanks Mistah, i'll do that
Edit;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1495867
Nobody in Adelaide it seems.
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Google is your friend...
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com.au/viewitem?itemId=250824932765
granted you can pick these up for $2, but I don't think that's important to you right now.
I'm in Sydney, let me know if you are really stuck getting a hold of one.
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ultramic said:
Google is your friend...
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com.au/viewitem?itemId=250824932765
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That's cool and all, I just purchased a couple online.
Google didn't help in my searching locally, due to desperation over the issue.
Waiting on some friends to get back to me, but i'll see how it goes.
try to make a picture from it
Well, after waiting on packages to arrive.
The phone will not respond to a USB Jig. (I ordered a couple, and none work, i'm on ICS bootloaders I believe, and it won't respond)
Have sent the phone off to http://www.themobilephoneclinic.com.au
(They do JTAG services in Melbourne)
I've found out something on the motherboard is fried, and they can't perform a JTAG on my phone.
Replacing the motherboard will cost about $275 to replace, so my dead phone is on it's way back to me, dead
Sad day.
Time to start saving for the S3 i think.
Hey guys,
The problem started last night, i had no sound coming from my speaker. After some checking i found that for some reason the phone was thinking that my headphones are always connected, even if they were in the other room. I tried reflashing it, and i couldn't boot up anymore. Tried flashing new kernel, nothing. Tried flashing stock firmware, nothing. The phone won't accept any firmwares. So i tried to REPARTITION with odin. And i think i got the wrong tutorial
My phone is a gt-i9100, and i repartition it with omap4_all_20110627_emmc.pit
In odin was like this:
pit file selected
auto reboot selected
re-partition selected
f.reset time selected
And start.....all done, green light but the phone won't power on, won't enter recovery/download.
Now what?
Posting questions in the general forum = bad
Flashing an I9100G .pit on an I9100 = worse
JTAG.
JTAG won't help you, because it is not bootloader corruption. Motherboard replacement will fix it.
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another one bites the dust
try JTAG anyway,cant hurt.
Oh your wording... too funny...
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firmware?
xSurgery said:
Hey guys,
The problem started last night, i had no sound coming from my speaker. After some checking i found that for some reason the phone was thinking that my headphones are always connected, even if they were in the other room. I tried reflashing it, and i couldn't boot up anymore. Tried flashing new kernel, nothing. Tried flashing stock firmware, nothing. The phone won't accept any firmwares. So i tried to REPARTITION with odin. And i think i got the wrong tutorial
My phone is a gt-i9100, and i repartition it with omap4_all_20110627_emmc.pit
In odin was like this:
pit file selected
auto reboot selected
re-partition selected
f.reset time selected
And start.....all done, green light but the phone won't power on, won't enter recovery/download.
Now what?
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Did you put a firmware in the PDA section? if not go here to get one - sammobile.com/firmware
last_pawn said:
Did you put a firmware in the PDA section? if not go here to get one - sammobile.com/firmware
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Dude, this thread was last posted in back in October before your post.
That, and it was already established he used a pit file not meant for his device, which is what went wrong.
try force download mode, you need some one to help u
pull out the battery press the home+power+vol down
let the other person put the battery back
eraser0 said:
try force download mode, you need some one to help u
pull out the battery press the home+power+vol down
let the other person put the battery back
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I give up.
ctomgee said:
I give up.
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lol
Sent from the little guy
Bunch of boneheads (last_pawn & eraser0 I'm glaring @ you in particular).
ctomgee said:
I give up.
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They probably are trying to help an iS**t guy now LMFAO
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Hi all,
so is there any progress on this issue?
I did not want to open a new thread because this thread explains exactly my situation and I am posting here because this thread did not help me.
I have since yesterday the same problem. I unfortunately also repartitioned my Samsung Galaxy S II i9100 with "omap4_all_20110627_emmc.pit" which actually is the wrong one.
(I know it is "stupid" but please do not explicitly state it in your replies, I am already aware of it.)
Is there a possibility fix this issue by repartitioning with the correct one?
Current Situation:
- My phone is not booting up
- not going into the download mode
- not going into the recovery mode
- if I plug into the PC with a USB cord, PC and Odin is not recognizing it
- if I try to charge it, I see no icon at all
- in short: it is dead
Solution I have found so far:
1- replace the motherboard
2- buy a usb jig
3- throw it away
So my question is about second (possible?) solution: if I buy a usb jib will I be able to use Odin to repartition with the right pit file? Did someone have experience or try this method?
I thank you all in advance for your replies.
Ibo
The jig more than likely won't work, but you may as well try one given they cost 1/3rd of sod all.
Option 1 tends to be the only way to fix the phone. And obviously option 3 is always possible (People who use the 'I'm going to smash it/throw it away/etc' line here tend to get ignored for the childish fools they are. We don't care what you do with your phone).
Edit -Yes, using a wrong PIT is the height of stupidity. Despite thousands upon thousands of warnings here/elsewhere not to touch PIT's unless you have a very specific reason for using one (0.000000001% of cases, you were not one of those people), people still do it.
MistahBungle said:
The jig more than likely won't work, but you may as well try one given they cost 1/3rd of sod all.
Option 1 tends to be the only way to fix the phone. And obviously option 3 is always possible (People who use the 'I'm going to smash it/throw it away/etc' line here tend to get ignored for the childish fools they are. We don't care what you do with your phone).
Edit -Yes, using a wrong PIT is the height of stupidity. Despite thousands upon thousands of warnings here/elsewhere not to touch PIT's unless you have a very specific reason for using one (0.000000001% of cases, you were not one of those people), people still do it.
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Thanks for your answer. I thank you just for the part where you have written "Option 1 tends to be the only way to fix the phone.". This was enough for me to hear considering your experience in this forum. For the rest:
1: What would you do if your phone is not booting up and shows the Samsung logo even you wait 1 hour? Assuming that you already used options in recovery mode and also used Odin to update PDA several times?
2: Then you found a tutorial which says this is for Samsung Galaxy S II no further specifics given other than I9100.
3: Different people have different sense of humor so I do not blame them when I see in many forums where they write throw it away. I think it does not make sense to overreact to such suggestions. For example I just laughed when I read something like this.
Best,
Ibo
1) If I'd tried everything (and I mean everything, over and over and over), I'd assume the NAND is stuffed, bite the bullet & have the motherboard replaced one way or another. I'd either find a 2nd hand one & have a local mobile repair shop/not an authorised Samsung repairer replace it for me, or if I couldn't find one I'd pay an authorised Samsung repair to put a new one in. Or I'd get a new phone.
2) Before I got my phone I did a lot of research/reading/learning. For over a month. When I got my phone, I did even more research/reading/learning. I didn't jump blindly in messing with my phone without knowing what I was doing. If I saw some dodgy tutorial that told me to use a PIT when everything else I'd read said not to touch except for a very specific situation, I wouldn't touch a PIT unless I was in that very specific situation. Knowledge is power & stops you doing silly/desperate things. It's like putting your hand on the stove when you've already learned you'll get burnt if you do.
3) I'm glad you found what I said amusing. That probably speaks to why you broke your phone in the first place. I was deadly serious. From where I sit, a $700+ piece of electronics is too important to me not to take its continued proper functioning very very seriously. I realise some people get a new phone every 6 mths or whatever or don't care. To me, that's wasteful.
Edit - If you're able to have it assessed cheaply/for free, it might (again, less likely than more) even be JTAG'able, but I wouldn't be spending a lot of money up front having it looked at given it's likely not to be.
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1) If I'd tried everything (and I mean everything, over and over and over), I'd assume the NAND is stuffed, bite the bullet & have the motherboard replaced one way or another. I'd either find a 2nd hand one & have a local mobile repair shop/not an authorised Samsung repairer replace it for me, or if I couldn't find one I'd pay an authorised Samsung repair to put a new one in. Or I'd get a new phone.
2) Before I got my phone I did a lot of research/reading/learning. For over a month. When I got my phone, I did even more research/reading/learning. I didn't jump blindly in messing with my phone without knowing what I was doing. If I saw some dodgy tutorial that told me to use a PIT when everything else I'd read said not to touch except for a very specific situation, I wouldn't touch a PIT unless I was in that very specific situation. Knowledge is power & stops you doing silly/desperate things. It's like putting your hand on the stove when you've already learned you'll get burnt if you do.
3) I'm glad you found what I said amusing. That probably speaks to why you broke your phone in the first place. I was deadly serious. From where I sit, a $700+ piece of electronics is too important to me not to take its continued proper functioning very very seriously. I realise some people get a new phone every 6 mths or whatever or don't care. To me, that's wasteful.
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1. It is nice to hear that in any case the motherboard should have been / be repaired. You are right that was an expensive try but even if didn't I had to let the motherboard repaired. It was written the same thing as you said: the motherboard should be repaired so why not try this option: yes awful but if you have no other option and you tried really everything, you just give it a try.
2. I have been using this Samsung Galaxy SII since a couple months after it is first launched (mid 2011) and did not have any problem so far, so I did not have any interest or reasons to learn about flashing or any advanced methods.
3. Sorry there is a misunderstanding there. I found amusing not you have written but when I saw on an android forum where they written whether let the motherboard repaired or throw away/sell parts and buy a new phone instead. This "piece of electronics" is too expensive not only for you, I think for many people including me. That is why I posted here before giving 125€ to an authorised Samsung repairer.
Best,
Ibo
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Edit - If you're able to have it assessed cheaply/for free, it might (again, less likely than more) even be JTAG'able, but I wouldn't be spending a lot of money up front having it looked at given it's likely not to be.
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Thanks for the tip. :good: I am now searching for it.
Bought one, but have to wait till it ships, so figured I would ask if anybody in the 757 has a mini-usb jig that I could use to get my Note into download mode. Send PM if you do.
Thanks in advance.
U can reboot into download thru recovery
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U can reboot into download thru recovery
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Walk me through that one, no response to anything, power and up volume results in nothing. Plugging into usb results in nothing Windows, ODIN nor Kies registers it.
vanemburghj said:
Bought one, but have to wait till it ships, so figured I would ask if anybody in the 757 has a mini-usb jig that I could use to get my Note into download mode. Send PM if you do.
Thanks in advance.
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I think this is what you're looking for, yes?
http://galaxys2root.com/tag/diy-usb-jig/
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I thought it was "down volume button + power " to get into ODIN mode for Samsung devices
up+ down is for recovery
Shirokishi said:
I think this is what you're looking for, yes?
http://galaxys2root.com/tag/diy-usb-jig/
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I thought it was "down volume button + power " to get into ODIN mode for Samsung devices
up+ down is for recovery
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That is what I ordered, either way on the buttons, phone is bricked to point will take very special sauce to fix it.
Oh... I didn't know all of that... When my phone freezes I can hold the power button for 10 seconds n it'll reboot but u r n need of special sauce... I'm n the 540 sorry
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mrstone77 said:
Oh... I didn't know all of that... When my phone freezes I can hold the power button for 10 seconds n it'll reboot but u r n need of special sauce... I'm n the 540 sorry
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Yep am with you on that one, I have soft bricked before, but nothing like this, my very first true brick of my cell. Hopefully Jig I ordered at least gets me into download mode, where I can fix it.
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Yep am with you on that one, I have soft bricked before, but nothing like this, my very first true brick of my cell. Hopefully Jig I ordered at least gets me into download mode, where I can fix it.
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If you can see the samsung bootloader then yeah there's hope otherwise you're gonna need the $100 fix for it.
But at least people are responding, I got no love on my end, lol
keeping things in perspective, as I posted before, I have never seen anyone report that a jig does any good on this phone..
You would be better off either using JTAG, or calling Samsung, and playing stupid, and tell them it died after you did an update that the phone requested..they will send you a replacement, with no questions asked.
go through the general and q&a sections; you will see that a jig doesn't do anything for this phone..
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keeping things in perspective, as I posted before, I have never seen anyone report that a jig does any good on this phone..
You would be better off either using JTAG, or calling Samsung, and playing stupid, and tell them it died after you did an update that the phone requested..they will send you a replacement, with no questions asked.
go through the general and q&a sections; you will see that a jig doesn't do anything for this phone..
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Well smokestack76 told you differently yesterday. He said over 20 times with a jig. Plus for $1.60 I will give it a try.
yes, for the price, if it makes you feel better, try it..
and, if you believe him, when you can find 20 others that said it did absolutely nothing, then that's your choice.
the sooner you send it in to Samsung, the sooner you will have a working phone..
If Samsung is wiling to send you a loaner phone while you're under warranty i can't see why you wouldnt do that.
I know Nintendo is awesome like that but apparently Samsung reps are quite jaded when you do something silly like ask an honest question.
I wish Samsung would honor warranty services if the device hasn't been on the market longer than year.
I'm A. Maybe he Made a mistake and wants to own up for it insted of weasling into a fraudulent phone.
B. I would be a little jaded as well when I get people calling me all day that have messed up their own phone and are now trying to steal from me.
C. Samsung does honor warranties a year after the device has been on market. YOUR WARRANTY DOES NOT GO INTO EFFECT UNTIL THE ORIGINAL DATE OF PURCHASE. not when the first one of its kind rolls off the assembly line.
Also, wase a jig does work of you are not actually bricked, if you were to be soft bricked the jig would force download mode. I had a captivate I built a jig for, first thing I did was try it on my note. Bam, download mode.
And finally op it's a micro usb jig not mini. Mini is bigger than micro
yeah bro, I know a jig works for SOME phones; it helped me bring my S2 back to life..
However, I have read many many reports of it doing nothing for the Note, so that was why I said what I did..
Plus, people are using the term "Bricked" around here in so many ways, that its hard to know what they mean when they say it..to me, a bricked phone is DEAD, and nothing but an expensive paperweight.....
I can take a video of my note going from off to download mode with nothing but my jig. However the same jig that works on both my phones is out of resistance tolerance on my brothers sgs2.
And yes bricked is used much too often,it is a term to describe when your phone is inert, has no pliability and just sits there, like the baked red clay building material it was named for.
was curious to see if the OP had any luck with the jig....
Well the jig did nothing for me. I suggest send your phone to mobiletechvideos.com for repair, he goes through the JTAG recovery method, and he also unlocked mine... he did a great job. I bricked my Note flashing a ROM for another device by mistake, could not use the jig for anything, so had it repaired. Feeling really happy now... hope this helps.
the jig isn't and was never meant to fix a hard brick...
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Back on captivate, certain bootloaders would disable the button combos for download and recovery, making a simple (I hate the term... But) soft brick into a much stickier situation, so it was discovered that using 300k ohms of resistance across certain pins on the usb port from a powered off state would trigger download mode in seconds, making you then able to simply odin a stock rom and try again.
It was later discovered that the jig had the same effect on the sgs2 with the added benefit of restting the flash counter.
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If you flash a firmware for the international note on an i717 you will need jtag because you are indeed bricked of the hard variety.
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was curious to see if the OP had any luck with the jig....
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Nope gig still in the mail, however took Note to ATT Device Service Center and they told me mother board failure and replaced it. So might not have been related to flashing, inspection seem pretty in depth, removed back cover, using multi meter type of tool and said mother board didn't provide correct response to input. My mandatory 10 days to return no functioning unit is 17 Dec so don't think will have chance to try the jig before I send it back or be charged $549 for non-functioning unit.
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Nope gig still in the mail, however took Note to ATT Device Service Center and they told me mother board failure and replaced it. So might not have been related to flashing, inspection seem pretty in depth, removed back cover, using multi meter type of tool and said mother board didn't provide correct response to input. My mandatory 10 days to return no functioning unit is 17 Dec so don't think will have chance to try the jig before I send it back or be charged $549 for non-functioning unit.
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might as well keep the jig for the couple of bucks it cost..plus, even if it doesn't work for this phone, it might work for your next one!
I just got a galaxy note for my galaxy nexus last night (traded) and I took it home and install goomanager and downloaded a rom that was "compatible" it saved to the directory that goomanager puts it in so I rebooted into CWMR and cleared cache / data etc then proceeded to install zip from SD Card. it started by saying flashing kernel 4% or whatever and then came back with an error. me being as bright as I am recently...I fixed permissions and rebooted thinking that it would at least let me back into recovery.
I now have a "Dead" note sitting on the floor infinitely "charging" so to speak its just plugged into the wall, Will not boot. Is there a way I can at least get it into Download mode? Hell stick a magnet on it to erase everything even?
I don't need another paper weight..I have an iPhone for that.
Can you boot into download? If so, use Odin to flash the correct kernel.
Can you boot into recovery? If so, flash the correct kernel.
If you can't do either one, your phone is bricked and you will need to send it for a repair. $50 and one week later you will have your phone back with stock 4.0.4 ICS rom. Its called a JTAG service, from www.mobiletechvideos.com. Many note user have gone there, from just this thing.
The jig that works with other phones 99% of the time won't work with the note.
Don't trust CWR. Get your roms from our developers.
Jig 99% Of the time won't work... you made that statistic up. If button combos aren't working it's definitely worth a shot, resistors are super cheap, especially compared to jtag which doesn't sound needed here yet.
And what do you mean. "Don't trust cwr get your roms from the devs here"?
That is a recovery... he didn't download anything with it, he used goomanager.
And even if he downloaded it from here...he would've flashed it in cwm... xda isn't a custom recovery...
So you tried holding the down volume button+ power to get it into download? Flashing a kernel will not remove your recovery/download mode unless you flashed a Rom not made for your device that installed something on said partition(s).
As for the jig...don't know statistics, but I am a one percenter. Worth a shot imo.
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Volume down and power, then when prompted volume up, for download mode.
And I'm also a "1% er" and my jig isn't homemade. Josh from mobile tech gave me one of his he sells on the site.
As nun said, the combos should work, they are in the bootloaders, flashing a kernel won't effect those unless says kernel is for a different device, then you wouldn't get a single thing outta the device at all, no charging screen, no bootloop. Nothing. Whatsoever.
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Volume down and power, then when prompted volume up, for download mode.
And I'm also a "1% er" and my jig isn't homemade.
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Right amigo 99% + 1% = 100%. You and Nunhugger are the only ones who said a jig worked for them. So actually its way higher than 99%. . . But you guys are ninjas. Your phone would probably reboot if you just told it to. I just wanted to kill the eventual jig question early.
And my response about CWR was because it sounded like he used the old app Rom Manager to see what was available. Clearly it was wrong so I told him not to trust it, and put in a plug for our developers.
When an update is released the forum gets slammed with complaints about bad flashes of incorrect kernels, and I have seen several members heal their phone by flashing the correct kernel. I just figured he was not accustomed to the button combos of the note and would get to that eventually. But if it was for the wrong device I wanted him to get his mind around the $50 and week wait.
Sheesh. . . decaf.
Well seeing that I can't Get into either mode and no button combos will work, I am assuming I need the JTAG. I figured an app like GooManager would have at least gave me the right roms for my device. it did say i717 but that could just be my memory playing tricks on me.
Man, I'm real sorry. But the JTAG service has been used by many, and with lots of positive comments. Good luck.
hahah thats okay, I mean its a great phone, definately not worth keeping in a draw collecting dust so I will go with the JTAG service. Thanks Guys!
You still have signs of life, it shows the charging animation, therefore your phone isn't bricked.
Do some searching on making a jig, I personally think it's well worth a try.
You could very well fix your phone for under $10 and have the satisfaction of accomplishing this yourself And have the know how to do it again...
It doesn't have the charging animation. just a dead black screen.
Then why did you say this?:
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I now have a "Dead" note sitting on the floor infinitely "charging" so to speak its just plugged into the wall, Will not boot.
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That's more than a little misleading...
Will not boot...could mean many things.
From a easily fixed bootloop down to a brick.
Saying it was infinitely charging made it sound less severe.
if it weren't for that line, I wouldn't have bothered to tell you to use a jig.
JTAG it is
cris, why do you need to experiment with finding the proper resistance? Why should there be any variability in that circuit? Perhaps that is why some users have used up as many as six usb port replacement parts.
By the way, my 99% statistic is, like my entire post, just my opinion, and strictly a figure of speech. If it were a fact I was quoting I would have included a footnote. Remember those painful things? Do we have to include disclaimers for any figure we use? Sorry to mislead anyone!
I said "dead" because its not necessarily dead because a JTAG thing can fix it..and I said "charging" because to the normal person who didn't know anything was wrong with said device it would look like it was charging. But anyhow. I'm sending the phone out this week. I just don't understand why all the phones can't be as open as the devices straight from google.
You're phone is dead.
JTAG is akin to zombie, the phone needs disassembled and a special rig is needed to hook to the motherboard and flash EVERYTHING back to the nand at the prebootloader level.
The I717 is pretty much just as open as a nexus as far as easily modified and rooted...
No locked bootloader even which nexus have though it's a single line in a terminal to unlock, that step isn't needed on this device.
Only thing that isn't as open is the hardware drivers.
You may have flashed an incompatible kernel for a DIFFERENT device... and that on any phone will brick you.
And ranger not sure if it's the circuits within the phones that vary from device to device, ands seem to require a more specific voltage across those pins to trigger download mode
Or, if It's the resistors that are the variable. They are only rated within a certain +/- tolerance the cheaper ones having a larger margin of error.
And lol yes I am a ninja, but I didn't do anything special to my jig at all, I got mine from mobiletechvideos, funny enough it's worked on 4 captivates, a vibrant, 2 note 1s, and an s3, but didn't work on an s2 I was fixing.
the one I got from Goomanager was probably for the i700 which shouldn't even be able to happen.
They have video proof of them fixing phones with dead black screens from exactly what happened to mine using the JTAG Method. As far as I am concerned this thread can be closed cause I got the answer to my question.
the JTAG rewrites basically everything anyways so it is being sent out later this week. Till then I'll use a blackberry or something...Take care guys hopefully next time you see me post it will be to help someone and not asking for help
You'll be up and running by next weekend. By then, lots of exciting development will be happening on the released rom.
I doubt it, I live in Canada and have to send it to the states. It probably be closer to the weekend. Unless I expedite everything.