[Q] Hard bricked my Samsung Galaxy Pocket (GT-S5300) - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Soooo ... Hello.
I've recently registered to XDA so i'm sorry if i put this post in the wrong section.
Ok so yesterday i did a totaly bold headed move. So i was getting ready to get Mac-Droid on my S5300 and went for the pre-romming procedure ( just data wipe and other stuff) and after that i tried to install the rom itself using the restore feature on androids. For somewhat reason it didn't want to "do the deed" ( something about not being able to do something (Status 2)). The phone still worked by that moment. As the sneaky fast kid i am i tried to do tons of stuff to make the rom work on the Droid(Tried to use galaxy mini's clockworkmod recovery and it showed me that my sd card was unreadable(the sd card was taken out , so i consider it meant my internal memory as it was the place where the rom file was)). None of it helped , same problem (let me note that all the stuff i did , couldn't have damaged the boot sector of the phone). Well after that i decided to do stuff on my own (Again just to note , i'm not a newbie to electronics , i've hacked a ton of other devices such as Apple products , Nintendo products and SONY products). So i decided that i'd try to make my internal memory responsive with clockworkmod recovery and tried to partition my SD Card(as in internal memory?). I choose the partition size and some other thing that i dont quite remmember(i was unsure as to what it was so i just randomly picked one of the options(the options were 16mb , 32mb , 64mb , 128 mb , 256 mb and 512mb). So it did the partitioning and i selected the reboot option in CWM. It showed that its rebooting. I went to grab a snack at the kitchen and when i came back to my room(rougly 10 minutes later) the "Rebooting.." text was still on the recovery screen. So i thought "big deal , i'll just restart my Droid - it's the same as the rebooting , only quicker , no ?". So i used the combination of Volume Up + Power button + Home button (I thought that was the combination to restart the phone , just like to enter recovery). The phone turned off , and never turned on. I'm STATING the fact now , i spent more or less 6 hours on browsing variuos forums in search of ways to bring the phone to life. Tried A LOT of methods to getting it back to life and none worked.
So , finally , i've turned to XDA seeking for help..
I'll list the stuff i've tried and the facts that give me hope that it's possible to revive it without Riff box.
Things i've tried:
Entering Download mode with variuos methods such as :
The button combination
Taking out the battery , pressing the button combination and replace the battery back into the phone while still holding the combination
Taking out the battery , pressing both volume up and down and replace the battery back while still holding the buttons.
Charging battery
Taking out sd and SIM cards and doing the same procedures
Tried variuos other combinations
Using all of these methods while being connected to a pc
Kies
And lastly , Odin (gave me a glimpse of hope)
Notes and stuff that gives me hope:
Soooo , i was pretty sure i failed after trying everything except the stuff with my pc. But as i connected my phone to the PC i heard something.Something that forced me to smile temporarily. I heard the sound of an external device being connected.
But there are a few catches. First of all if i hold the recovery combination on my phone it disables as a device on my pc and in seconds comes back.Next , my phone is filed not as a phone or sth else but as a Broadcom USB wireless modem (wut ?).Another catch is that Odin !.85 and 1.87 DETECTS MY PHONE (Yet Odin 3.xx doesn't). I've tried romming my bricked S5300 with both working Odins , but it always stops in connectionsetup(The phone appears as a yellow rectangle on odin).
Now for the last part , i'm not 100% sure , but i think i heard it evict sound today , again i'm not sure if it happened but i think i heard the sound of it getting less than 15% battery , yet the screen still was blank and i didn't hear anything else for the whole day.
I'm practically sure that the only things i haven't tried are USB Jig (making my own one , will take a few days(lack of time to make it)) and Riff box , but mabie , just mabie i missed something.Open to suggestions.
Waiting for reply in high spirit , PLEASE HELP ME ! :crying:
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Just decided to add a photo of what the device looks like in "Devices and printers".
To clarify (yet again) if i install the drivers for this device , my phone no longer appears on Odin.

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i had same problem.i also totally hard bricked my phone.so i just send it to Samsung service center.its easy cos don.t try to lost warranty.
Sent from my GT-S5300 using Di1black OS

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Doesn't your warranty go away when you try to switch roms ?

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no it does not. i went to service center and said i tried to update other kies using data cable and after doing it my phone went dead and never turn on even i plug in it charger. so they take it. just say like this.cos they will fix your phone with box like riff box.and when they will flash it. it will have original os.they will not know that you tried custom Rom.i made it dead with last custom Rom.just say you got problem updating with Samsung kies firmware updater
send from Di1black OS

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There's no center near my place , does the same apply if i take it back to the place that provided me with the phone (Just like orange theres one called Tele2 in my place)

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hm same as me . my service center is also too far. but its better for you. first you need to send it to there.Samsung care.its only available option for you now. cos i also tried all but my phone did not purpose at all. if you have that fixing device then you may fix.other wish its better to send your phone to Samsung care. best of luck
send from Di1black OS

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If anyone has any other suggestions until i send my phone to Samsung Service , please post it.
It might help someone other than me
And who knows , maybe i'll use your suggestion because sending it to Samsung is a pain..

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Dude maybe i can help you same thing happened with my other phone i.e galaxy ace i ..
It was also stuck at setup connection.use odin 1.84.download xxlf5 firmware.and do same stuff but dont select pit file .i tried and it worked i hope it will work on your device.at least try.
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---------- Post added at 09:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:25 PM ----------
And first use odin then connect your phone..phone will automatically install drivers(it happens when i tried maybe it will happen will happen with you too)
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I'm confused on 1 thing . It says that Odin detects phones only in download mode , the newest version of odin doesnt detect my phone , Odin 1.85 detects it but stops at setting up connection , i've tried installing its normal firmware a few times but it never gets past the "setting up connection" thingy. What do you mean by not using the Pit file ? I have a stock firmware file which you only need to add to PDA and it tries to install the firmware , but as i said before , gets stuck on setting up connection ..

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BTW , how do you use Odin 1.8.4 , it seems entirely different than 1.8.5 and above
EDIT:
Nevermind , it was a wrong version
You're suggestion didn't work. Still stuck at setting up connection (i bet this is because i can't reach download mode). I even tried to do it with other firware (By other i mean a divided version with which you have divided modules (Boot , csc etc.). Didn't help..

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Ooh only pda .......have you tried waiting because in some cases (my friend told me that setting up connection takes time) waiting has helped.
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---------- Post added at 10:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:57 AM ----------
Btw which firmware are you trying to flash?
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---------- Post added at 11:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:59 AM ----------
Sent from my GT-S5300 using xda app-developers app on repencis 3.5 rom
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Retry the steps again and again.
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I told you.that flasher will detect phone but will fail at connection time.because phone can.t even go to download mode.i also tried my best.So have your pain send it to Samsung service
Sent from my GT-S5300 using xda premium

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Dude same my galaxy ace i was also stucked at download mode but it was in download mode...so something else is thee problem
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You misread , it is not in download mode , and i cant get to it

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Sorry not misread mis typed it was stucked at setup connection(not download mode).i tried other firmware and other odin and retried some time.and finally got sucessful.btw can you post the image what you do before pressing start in odin.and also when it is stucked at setup connection.
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This
and this
Or this
and this

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When it was stucked at setup connection have you tried going in dowload mode????
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---------- Post added at 11:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:49 PM ----------
And with only the pda ....select the pda and tick all i.e the csc,phone,bootloader???
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---------- Post added 6th February 2013 at 12:00 AM ---------- Previous post was 5th February 2013 at 11:52 PM ----------
Try hard reset your phone..i think combination was vol up+home button or home and power ..or something like that i forgot :banghead:
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Dude i almost forgot there is also a method called one click unbrick...if your phone is detected by odin then maybe you have chance with that ....its for all android samsung phones...search for it on xda.
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IF UR DEVICE IS DETECTED BY PC YHEN TRY TO FLASH ROM USING
ADT(android download tool).

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Do you mean Android Development tool ?