Phone bricked? - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi Guys,
I've been running CM10.1 for several days now and yesterday my phone freezed. I tried to do a reboot by holding the power button. But all it did was turn the phone off. Since then I haven't been able to boot anymore. Nothing seems to work.
I can't get into download mode and I can't get into CWM. Nothing happens when trying to boot, the screen stays black. I've tried charging it for several hours and I've tried leaving the battery out for several hours. Using a JIG does not work either.
I'm afraid that this is the end of my Galaxy S2, but maybe there's some hope.. somewhere.

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Grey Battery Logo Loop

Hi everyone,
Recently my Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 has started playing up.
When I power my phone on it display grey battery logo and keeps restarting itself in a loop.
I have two batteries and I use external charger to charge them up so I know its not a battery issue.
Not long ago my phone started going into Odin download mode often and I used to just Press Volume down + Home key + Power to get it to reboot out of Odin mode.
Sometimes it just boots as normal and I am able to use my phone.
In past my phone was rooted and I already tried flashing ROM few times to get it work. I have even performed factory reset few times but the issue seems to not go away.
Could anyone offer me any further advice?
The only way I can get phone working is if I always make sure its fully charged and never switched off which is not really a solution.
Thank you.
You require a service centre .
jje

[Q] Phone won't boot, can't enter download or recovery

A few days ago my phone got soaked through my pants as I was working in the rain. I came home, dried it out, etc. and tried to turn it on. Wouldn't turn on, so I started charging it. I eventually got it to turn on and it seemed to be working fine except for some reason it said the battery life was at 0 %. Note that it was still working normally otherwise.
I went into recovery, made a backup, and did a factory reset to see if that would fix the problem. It didn't, so I restored the backup. Now the phone won't turn on at all.
When plugged in, it shows the charging battery symbol, and if you hold power to turn the phone on it will sometimes begin to start, but it gets to the boot animation and simply stays there forever (I've left it at the boot animation for several hours to no effect). If I try to boot into recovery it simply does not work; it will either just restart the battery charging animation or boot normally (and then get stuck on the boot animation).
In a last ditch effort, I was going to try to flash a stock ROM from Heimdall. However, I plugged my phone in and tried to enter download mode and was greeted with the error: "LOW BATTERY!! CAN'T DOWNLOAD!!." This was after charging the phone all night. I then proceeded to charge the phone for another hour then try again, to the same error. And now here I am. It seems the problem is that my phone will charge, and the battery will be full but for some reason the phone doesn't recognize that the battery has a charge, so it just thinks it's at 0%. I've tried a different battery and was unsuccessful. Is there any way that I can either force my phone to enter download mode or somehow get it to recognize the charge on the battery? Or is there some other way I could resolve this? Or is my phone simply gone for good?
I am (was) running a rooted I777 with Slim Bean ROM ( I believe v8) 4.2.
Have you tried using a JIG it can be an option
If a JIG doesn't work you can try removing the battery, then plug the phone to the PC and go to download.
But for me the problem is with the battery. If after flashing the ROM you get the same results, don't think it and BUY A NEW BATTERY.
Good luck.
Sent from my Nexus 7 2012.
If I'm bad at English is because I'm from Argentina and I'm learning.
I has the same problema, I spend two days searching on the web, but i didnt have any idea.., ,y problem is. when we conect to ANY charger (car/wall/PC-USB..) appears on screen a batery logo, but the batery never charged..., I tried to enter to the CW but, the keys combination doesnt make anything on the phone, and without live on it, I cant access to CW..., I wait for 2 hrs, with these cell phone conected to charger to see if the it gone works...
ANYONE has another idea for how we resolve these issue? My phone has a stable version of CyanogenMod..
same with me but what i did was put a different battery in, let it charge for a bit then put the original one in and it only started charging after i used my car charger as i was driving to work so thats how i fixed mine.

[Q] Soft Bricked Phone? Won't boot past Samsung logo.

Today while getting lunch my GS4 shut off and wouldn't turn back on. I am running Hyperdrive RLS18.1, and it has been working fine up until today. I have tried everything to get it to boot past the samsung custom logo. The steps I take to get it to the logo are- 1) Take out the battery 2) Put battery back in 3) Screen boots up with samsung logo(if it is plugged into the charger it shows the charging battery then goes to black) 4)the screen turns off. I have tried putting it into download mode by holding the home-power button-volume button combo, but it won't boot into download mode. I tried plugging it into the computer and it doesnt recognize it because it is off. I have two different batteries that I tried to put in the back, but they both do the same thing. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about fixing this? And if I go into the verizon store and my phone gives the samsung logo with custom underneath it will they uphold the warranty? I doubt since rooting voids it....Thanks for any help in advance!
After trying some more options to fix the phone, I was able to get it into download mode, but then the screen turned off again. I realize that the problem is the screen won't stay on for more than a second or two. No matter what comes up, the screen turns off. But when plugged into the computer, it also just shuts down.
can you get into safestrap?
bamige1 said:
can you get into safestrap?
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I actually had this phone before the bootloader was locked, I think. I never had to use it to root.
I have no idea why this worked, but after letting my phone sit all night, I tried this video -https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1286109531&feature=iv&src_vid=SSLZFmhmBlc&v=uc0afHKahR4 . I have no idea why it worked, but it did. So if anyone comes upon this thread and has this problem, feel free to contact me and I will try to help you fix the problem.

[Q] Device won't respond w/o charger, and even charging it fails to boot

So... My dad bought this S2 for him a couple of years ago, and on the first 15 days, he let it fell, and the screen broke, but he kept using it like this until around 3 months ago...
Now he has a G2, and the S2 had no use anymore, and I thought about using it as a dashcam on the car...
Installed dailyroad voyager on it, and used as dashcam for about 15 days...
Then today, I got on the car, it was off, but with the charging cable plugged in, I pressed the home button, it said the battery was 100% charged, so I tried turning it on
It went until the animation that plays when booting, but restarted, I tried again about 5 times, each time it rebooted a bit early than before
It got to a point where it didn't even reach the animation, just the "Samsung Galaxy S2" appeared on screen, and rebooted...
Then I tried going on recovery mode, and it worked, so I cleaned the cache partition, made it clean user files, etc... then pressed to reboot, and still didn't work...
So I thought it could be a battery problem, and unplugged the cable while it was on the recovery screen, and it didn't turn off, I let it on the recovery screen, and went to do some work for about 2 hours, it was still on
Now it won't do anything without the cable, can't turn on, can't go to recovery, and even with cable plugged the "Samsung galaxy S2" screen won't appear anymore, and I couldn't get to the recovery screen anymore....
Here's a video of the actual situation:
Does anybody knows what's happening and how to fix?

[Q] Samsung Galaxy S3 won't turn on after so many ways (Literally dead)

Okay so I have my Samsung Galaxy S3 for about 2 years now and it's having a lot of problems for the past few months. At first it had the sudden death syndrome (when it suddenly shuts down and having that boot cycle on the Samsung logo) and now it's fine. But 4 days ago I was sleeping and forgot to charge my phone. When I woke up and plugged in the charger it was charging just fine. When the battery indicator shows 100% I tried to turn it on and nothing happen. Just nothing. I plugged in the charger back and still nothing. The screen was completely black. No vibrations. I tried to go into the recovery mode and I can't. I've googled some ways including taking the battery out, pressing the power button for a minute and put the battery back in. Still nothing. I've tried like ALL WAYS to turn it back on. I took my battery and put it in my sister's phone and it worked just fine. So I know it's the hardware problem and I know it's not the power button too because I tried to turn it on by using the charger (plug in the charger and pressing the volume down and home button) and still nothing. I don't know what to do because I have so many things in my phone and I don't want to do any factory reset (if possible) by sending it for repair. But if I still have some options please tell me otherwise I have to get a new phone although I really need my old phone back. Thanks.
saraanafisa said:
Okay so I have my Samsung Galaxy S3 for about 2 years now and it's having a lot of problems for the past few months. At first it had the sudden death syndrome (when it suddenly shuts down and having that boot cycle on the Samsung logo) and now it's fine. But 4 days ago I was sleeping and forgot to charge my phone. When I woke up and plugged in the charger it was charging just fine. When the battery indicator shows 100% I tried to turn it on and nothing happen. Just nothing. I plugged in the charger back and still nothing. The screen was completely black. No vibrations. I tried to go into the recovery mode and I can't. I've googled some ways including taking the battery out, pressing the power button for a minute and put the battery back in. Still nothing. I've tried like ALL WAYS to turn it back on. I took my battery and put it in my sister's phone and it worked just fine. So I know it's the hardware problem and I know it's not the power button too because I tried to turn it on by using the charger (plug in the charger and pressing the volume down and home button) and still nothing. I don't know what to do because I have so many things in my phone and I don't want to do any factory reset (if possible) by sending it for repair. But if I still have some options please tell me otherwise I have to get a new phone although I really need my old phone back. Thanks.
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Does download mode work? If yes have you tried to flash a stock firmware?
Usb jig or repair centre, given the other problems you're best off getting a new phone.

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