After successfully rooting my husbands phone, he accidently updated. I've waited to try and do re-route it now since there's a method of re-rooting. This was my first attempt at rooting ever and currently the phone only powers on to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 screen and doesn't go any further. Here's what happened:
On Windows 7
Opened CASUAL
Received instructions to flash root.
Using Odin I tried I605_VRALJB_Restore.tar.md5, it failed to flash so I instead flashed root66_VZW_stock_system.tar.md5.
This worked fine, proceeded with CASUAL
Flashed BAVBaseline.tar.md5.
Phone began to reset and froze at Samsung Galaxy Note 2 starter screen. Waited 5 minutes no change in the screen on the phone or on CASUAL. After 30 minutes pressed power and the buttons to get into Odin, I finally unplugged. The phone is still stuck at the start screen and isn't recognized by Odin or my computer
pull battery, reinsert, three finger combo into odin mode, flash a full stock odin image(make sure you get a good download or it will fail). section 1 of my guide has more detailed instructions if you need them.
The phone won't even go into Odin. I've pulled the battery several times and tried the volume down, power, central button and nothing happens.
iana703 said:
The phone won't even go into Odin. I've pulled the battery several times and tried the volume down, power, central button and nothing happens.
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Is the battery dead? Let it charge then try Odon mode again and again. Takes a couple times sometimes
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Thanks, I let it charge for a bit and got it into Odin.
Next I flashed Root 66 and followed droidstyles guide.
The phone rebooted just fine thankfully however now it is not able to establish Verizon service. I'm looking online to find out how to get it to connect unless someone has some tips. I didn't remove the sim card or anything. The phone prompted me to call a number, should I do that? I have another device.
Turn it off pun the sim and turn it back on. Let it sit fur a little 5-10. Power it off or sim back in and turn it on
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Unfortunately, this hasn't helped.
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Unfortunately, this hasn't helped.
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Worth a shot. Is your imei still inert phone info
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Can you explain a bit what this means? I am not quite sure what this is.
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Can you explain a bit what this means? I am not quite sure what this is.
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settings/more settings/mobile networks/network mode
from there toggle LTE/CDMA, see if 4g connects.
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does anyone know how long it should take for odin to finish flashing my phone back to stock? Also has anyone seen this screen? It's black, with a white cell phone and a white computer with a yellow triangle with an "!" in the middle between them....? that's all i can get my phone to do. Odin is taking a really long time and i'm not sure everything's working right.
it should take 5-15 minutes at max.
I get that sign every time i do odin, but unlike others i just click the power button and reboot and its good... try that?
well how do i know when odin is finished? becuase it's been stuck on step: chache.rfs for about 20 minutes now and i don't know if it's just frozen up or what. I don't want to unplug it if i'ts still doing something.
hate to sound like a **** head but when that happened to me this last go around (getting stuck on the chache part) i unplugged which gave me the computer ... ! thingy i put it back into download mode and opened odin then plugged my phone back in. hit start after putting my pit and tar files in their respective spots and it worked. took less then 6minutes i'd say.
There are ways to dl mode your phone from computer ... ! screen just find them. im leaving for a puppy otherwise i would have linked it. gf getting angry RAWR!! <(*-*t)
thats her giving me the bird and ready to kill. LOL
That happened to me also, and it was my very first flash on the Vibrant. It soft-bricked, but I just kept at it... got back into download mode... and tried again. It worked. As far as I can gather, as long as you can still get to download mode, you are golden, even if it takes a try or two. It seems that Odin is sometimes temperamental. It only takes a couple of minutes to flash via Odin, but when you are sitting there waiting for the PASS notification, it does seem like an eternity the first time you do it.
I got a FAIL the first two times on the very first attempt. It's a bit unnerving when you aren't sure it'll come back.
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does anyone know how long it should take for odin to finish flashing my phone back to stock? Also has anyone seen this screen? It's black, with a white cell phone and a white computer with a yellow triangle with an "!" in the middle between them....? that's all i can get my phone to do. Odin is taking a really long time and i'm not sure everything's working right.
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Are you running window's 7?
If you are run as admin , also that happened to me to couple days ago at the 5th time trying it finally worked
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Are you running window's 7?
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I am currently downgrading back to stock on my T959 using Odin 3 and it keeps hanging at the very first part when it says file analysis. I have been at this part for a good 30 mins. any suggestions? just keep retrying until it works?
Just keep at it...ODIN likes to be picky.
mine normally takes like 2-4 min
mine froze on factory reset.rfs or something yest for like 10 min so i unplugged and got the 'phone ! pc screen', took me like 2 hours to get it to connect to odin again
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I am currently downgrading back to stock on my T959 using Odin 3 and it keeps hanging at the very first part when it says file analysis. I have been at this part for a good 30 mins. any suggestions? just keep retrying until it works?
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could redownload odin and the pit/tar files again and try that
It takes about about 3 minutes to get my Vibrant from any custom to JFD. I just Odin 3 v1.81, s1_odin_20100512.pit, can T959UVJFD.tar files only. Total time is about 2:20-2:35 seconds.
Mine takes about 2-3 minutes
i am now flashing with odin and its stock on catche is this a problem ?
mine hasnt moved from the downloading screen - its been about 39min.
Okay so I was running CM9 3/22/2012 just fine. I noticed a nightly went up listed as 3/23/2012. So I downloaded and clicked on the downloaded file, for some reason Rom Manager took over and asked if I wanted to go into CWM. So I agreed and it took me to the AT&T screen with the exclamation mark. I then rebooted and got stuck on the same At&T screen. So I decided to use Odin to go to stock and start from scratch. For some reason Odin 1.81 was supposed to go back to stock with Root. For some reason it got stuck I turned off my phone and now it is unresponsive to most of the tricks listed on this forum.
So will a jig get me out of this jam, a quick search pulled up nothing reliable or I would have to wait 3 weeks to receive, I need it this week like tomorrow if possible.
Searched the forums before going to work real quick couldn't get anything concrete So I'm posting this and I will search some more when I get to work.
Thanks for any help.
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Okay so I was running CM9 3/22/2012 just fine. I noticed a nightly went up listed as 3/23/2012. So I downloaded and clicked on the downloaded file, for some reason Rom Manager took over and asked if I wanted to go into CWM. So I agreed and it took me to the AT&T screen with the exclamation mark. I then rebooted and got stuck on the same At&T screen. So I decided to use Odin to go to stock and start from scratch. For some reason Odin 1.81 was supposed to go back to stock with Root. For some reason it got stuck I turned off my phone and now it is unresponsive to most of the tricks listed on this forum.
So will a jig get me out of this jam, a quick search pulled up nothing reliable or I would have to wait 3 weeks to receive, I need it this week like tomorrow if possible.
Searched the forums before going to work real quick couldn't get anything concrete So I'm posting this and I will search some more when I get to work.
Thanks for any help.
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not sure why you would even be using Rom Manger other then maybe renaming backups. This is i known issue with our phones and Rom Manager and has been stated way too many times. Try holding the power button down for a while to see if it resets. A jig is going to put you in download mode so that you can use Odin again.
Thanks for the reply. Yes I have heard of issues with Rom Manager and i stopped using it. But for some reason or another I kept it on my phone and idiotically agreed to having it put me into CWM. Also I kept the battery in the phone till I got to work, pulled it out of my bag to try the suggestion that was given above and noticed my phone is warm. Not sure what's up with that, I immediately pulled the battery and will let it cool for a while and then I will try with the above suggestion.
Can you recommend a jig for our phones or does any jig work on any phone.
Thanks for all your help and wisdom.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes I have heard of issues with Rom Manager and i stopped using it. But for some reason or another I kept it on my phone and idiotically agreed to having put me into CWM.
Can you recommend a jig for our phones or does any jig work on any phone.
Thanks for all your help and wisdom.
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you can get a jig from just about anywhere. you probably dont need one though. have you even tried manually putting your device into download mode by powering down the phone, plug usb into comp, then holding down both volume buttons, then plugging in the device?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro..._nkw=galaxy+s+2+jig&_sacat=See-All-Categories
Yes I have held the power and up/down volume buttons(that's what works on my phone) and plugged usb into phone while it was plugged in to my computer to get into download mode but nothing happened. Too late I already ordered a jig as I am despearate and hopefully it will be of further use in the future. I also tried holding the power button down for a while and still nothing. Hopefully the jig comes in a couple of days and works.
Thanks for all your help and wisdom.
Okay, so I got my jig today and put it into my phone and nothing happened. I put my phone on the charger and left it til I got home so it should be charged up.
So am I bricked or is there any other options I can try.
Thanks for your help.
Did you try holding both Vol and power keys (all 3) together for 30 seconds? It's saved my bacon a few times, despite how nonintuitive it seems. Also try the USB thing with battery removed, or try putting USB in and inserting battery while holding all 3 keys.
Still a no go I'll call warranty to see if I can get it replaced. If not I'll just wait for sgsiii to come out since its supposed to come in April now.
Thanks for all your help!
If your phone locked up while flashing bootloaders..
I have the international GT-19300 s3 and a few days ago. I installed the latest firmare update. I was on Wifi at work and when the download was
complete. It gave me nothing but a black screen. I think when the download was complete I left the area where the wifi connection was and it
messed up my phone. I tried holding down the home, power and volume button up and it will show 27 percent and then the little android dies and
my phone shuts off. When I push the power button. I only get the s3 galaxy logo and then it immidetaly cuts off. I took it to the shop today and he
said it might be a boot issue so he gave me a link for bootloader, but I do not understand it.
does anyone have a link where i can plug my phone to usb to computer and reboot my phone...
I had my phone 2 years, but I'm not savy with these phone softwares.
thanks
Read the guide in stickythread on how to flash back to stock, then factory reset.
Questions go in the q&a forum, report your own post and ask a moderator to move it.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk
Dear All,
I have been using xda for long time as a user of the huge amount of knowledge in these pages...
Thanks to this community I got the most out of my samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy SII, Galaxy SIII and LG G2.
Now I have an Xperia Z2 D6503. I've been using it for a month and I love it.
But this is my problem.
2 days ago I was using the phone normally, I checked google maps and I put the phone under charge.
An hour later, I went to check the phone, and the phone was unresponsive: black screen, impossible to turn off/restart, no sound, no apparent activity. The only sign of life is a red led when I press the power botton.
The phone is with the original stock (firmware 17.1.A.2.69), I rooted it with a guide I found here (of course) just to use an app like android firewall.
I tried to search the forum for something like this, but honestly all I could find was something similar for the Xperia Z and what was proposed there to restart the phone didn't work (power+volume up).
I also tried to restart the phone with the off button inside the slot where the sim card is. That didn't work either.
Please let me know how can I move forward. As anybody else experienced something like this?
Thanks for your support!
Try flashing official firmware with flashtool maybe? Maybe this will help, I don't know man.
and what about hard reboot, by maintaining power and volume up until the 3 vibrations?
MrYous said:
Dear All,
I have been using xda for long time as a user of the huge amount of knowledge in these pages...
Thanks to this community I got the most out of my samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy SII, Galaxy SIII and LG G2.
Now I have an Xperia Z2 D6503. I've been using it for a month and I love it.
But this is my problem.
2 days ago I was using the phone normally, I checked google maps and I put the phone under charge.
An hour later, I went to check the phone, and the phone was unresponsive: black screen, impossible to turn off/restart, no sound, no apparent activity. The only sign of life is a red led when I press the power botton.
The phone is with the original stock (firmware 17.1.A.2.69), I rooted it with a guide I found here (of course) just to use an app like android firewall.
I tried to search the forum for something like this, but honestly all I could find was something similar for the Xperia Z and what was proposed there to restart the phone didn't work (power+volume up).
I also tried to restart the phone with the off button inside the slot where the sim card is. That didn't work either.
Please let me know how can I move forward. As anybody else experienced something like this?
Thanks for your support!
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I suggest you go back to stock using flashtool, use it for a while just stock and see if this happens again. If it does, there's something wrong with your phone, but i don't think that's the case.
Try and tell us.
diego9016 HugePotato thanks for your answer! is there any way I can save my data first before flashing?
sensei_sai how do I perform the hard reboot? if I press power and volume up the phone does 3 vibrations, then nothing. what next? how do I hard reboot?
thanks for your help!
I'm currently travelling but when back home in a week I'll definitely go back to stock. But in the meantime, I'm so anxious to save the data stored in the phone.
thanks again!
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hi RocketSauce83 thanks!
yes. as I said in the first post, I did try the reset button. Unfortunately nothing happens....
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When I put it on charge the red led blinks regularly as usual. Apart that, nothing else.
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Have you tried to repair using Sony PC Companion?
That usually helps me if I get stuck
RocketSauce83 said:
Well that sucks
Here is another thread with something similar issues. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2744371
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Thanks, I read that post. Interesting, but basically no solution except getting the phone replaced under warranty. I'd go for that, but I wish there was a way to save my data first. I've something in the phone only with no backup.
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Have you tried to repair using Sony PC Companion?
That usually helps me if I get stuck
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I haven't tried that yet, as I'm currently travelling.
for my phone was also blinking with a red light when put for charging through the usb or even the charger and then i later found out is because i locked my bootloader when i was in root and had to reflash the stock rom to get it back up
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for my phone was also blinking with a red light when put for charging through the usb or even the charger and then i later found out is because i locked my bootloader when i was in root and had to reflash the stock rom to get it back up
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Did your pc recognize your z2, because I can't seem to get it work on my pc to flash a stock Rom. I only get a blinking red light and when I press the power and volume up I get 3 vibrations that's about it.
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Did your pc recognize your z2, because I can't seem to get it work on my pc to flash a stock Rom. I only get a blinking red light and when I press the power and volume up I get 3 vibrations that's about it.
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shockerz1z malek777
when I connect the phone to the USB I see that the laptop tries to install the drivers and it fails.
But this is my work laptop and I cannot install sony drivers. I don't know if my desktop at home would recognize the phone. I'll try when I get back.
For the rest, the experience is as discribed by malek777, doing power and volume up I get 3 vibrations and that's it.
I fortgot to mention, I rooted the phone without unlocking the boatloader.
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shockerz1z malek777
when I connect the phone to the USB I see that the laptop tries to install the drivers and it fails.
But this is my work laptop and I cannot install sony drivers. I don't know if my desktop at home would recognize the phone. I'll try when I get back.
For the rest, the experience is as discribed by malek777, doing power and volume up I get 3 vibrations and that's it.
I fortgot to mention, I rooted the phone without unlocking the boatloader.
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I figured out a way to use the companion app to go back to stock. When you get to the part in repair my device to connect your device, phone must be plugged in.
Hold the power button and volume up, once you hear the 3 vibrations let go of all and hold volume down. You will see a red light and then a green one. You're phone now in download even though there nothing on the screen.
Let me know if this works for you.
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I figured out a way to use the companion app to go back to stock. When you get to the part in repair my device to connect your device, phone must be plugged in.
Hold the power button and volume up, once you hear the 3 vibrations let go of all and hold volume down. You will see a red light and then a green one. You're phone now in download even though there nothing on the screen.
Let me know if this works for you.
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Thanks malek777 I'll try it when I got home.
Something similar happened to me, I know that's a little silly answer but can you tried charging with another charger/cable?
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Something similar happened to me, I know that's a little silly answer but can you tried charging with another charger/cable?
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hi tel033 I tried to plug it with a different cable. What should happen? The only thing that happens is the red led blinking.....
thanks again.
Same thing happened to me. week 22. Got a replacement. Stock Phone, no root.
Hi there! Long time reader, first time poster (TL;DR below...but it should be a quick read anyways )
So I've been using this S2 of mine for almost 4 years now, haven't had any trouble (other than a couple of battery swaps). For the past 6 months or so I've been using CM 12.1 nightlies without issue.
The events:
- The other day, my phone froze (I wasn't using it when it froze, it was when I went to use it that I noticed...it was on the wifi selection screen if it matters), so I held the power button to shut it down, and when I powered it back up, it just froze at the Samsung boot screen (with the usual yellow triangle).
- At this point, I was able to reboot into download mode at will, but any attempt to boot to recovery just led to the freeze at the Samsung boot screen. Also, the phone would automatically reboot itself at this point any time I inserted the battery (I was of course putting the battery in and out trying everything I could).
- I would have reflashed from Odin at this point, but since I was away for a few days I just kept trying to reboot into recovery, to no avail. On one of these attempts (power+vol up+ home) it showed the Samsung boot screen, and then immediately shut down and I haven't been able to get anything onto the screen since
I'm now home, and I can't seem to fix it. If I plug the phone into a charger, the top half or so of the phone gets warm, and it also seems to get warm if it isn't plugged in and I try to power it up. I was thinking maybe the phone was maybe doing the same thing as before and just not showing anything on screen, but I blindly do the steps to get it into download mode, and Odin doesn't recognize anything (drivers are definitely installed). I have also tried other batteries, no luck.
Any ideas of what I might try? I'm willing to do anything. For the record nothing happened to the phone at all when this all happened (no dropping or water damage or anything, just my attempts at booting into recovery). Maybe I should try a jig? I'm also open to opening the phone if there's something I can do, though I don't have experience with this.
Thanks so much for any suggestions!
TL;DR: phone froze (running CM 12.1 nightly), held power to shut it down, and then consistently froze at the boot screen on any attempts to power it on. After a few attempts at booting into recovery (the phone would only freeze or enter download mode) the screen suddenly shut off and I haven't seen anything on it since no matter what I try. I can't think of anything that happened to the phone I'm open to any and all suggestions! Thanks
One sentence amongst your description stands out like a 'sore thumb'.....
That the device heats up towards the top when you attempt to charge it.......
Until you try a jig I can't be certain, but that heating coupled with a dead/unresponsive screen along with a lack of recovery and/or download modes (download mode is 'hardwired' into the device, and NOTHING should be able to corrupt it) are the primary symptoms of a failed motherboard.......
That is my opinion based on my experience in these forums and personal experience with a (now dead) S2 (one of two that I own).........
Get the jig just to be sure, but I'd be surprised if it had any effect.....sorry to be typing something you don't want to read, but you said it yourself, the device is 4 years old....it's been in service roughly twice as long as most smartphones, and they don't last forever....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
Thanks dude! It's nice to have some idea of what happened. I am indeed very happy my phone has lasted me this long, and my friend is gonna give me an extra S2 she has anyways it seems so it's all good!
I'll try the jig and update here with the result (I ordered one online...will arrive in January sometime)...just in case anyone is curious.
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Thanks dude! It's nice to have some idea of what happened. I am indeed very happy my phone has lasted me this long, and my friend is gonna give me an extra S2 she has anyways it seems so it's all good!
I'll try the jig and update here with the result (I ordered one online...will arrive in January sometime)...just in case anyone is curious.
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Yeah....be good to know the results.....If only to confirm or refute what I've suggested.....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
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Yeah....be good to know the results.....If only to confirm or refute what I've suggested.....
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg
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Sorry it took me a while...the jig was in the post haha. It didn't do anything at all (no response when I plugged it in) so I think it's safe to say you were bang-on and the motherboard failed! Happily using a new S2 (with CM13.0 now ) on behalf of my friend though.
Thanks again.
Sounds familiar. Happened to me also due to failed cyanogenmod update (CM13). Only thing that works is download mode, so i'm not given up hope yet.
I can't post a link but google ''Apply Update Failure samsung galaxy s II'' there's a thread about this on the cyanogenmod forum.
Elaias said:
Sounds familiar. Happened to me also due to failed cyanogenmod update (CM13). Only thing that works is download mode, so i'm not given up hope yet.
I can't post a link but google ''Apply Update Failure samsung galaxy s II'' there's a thread about this on the cyanogenmod forum.
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oh mine was just straight up dead...no download mode or anything visible on the screen (and nothing to do with CM13 either)
hope you get yours sorted out! have you tried reflashing anything via Odin while in download mode?
Its hard to tell you and hard to accept. You can almost give up the hope, your NAND Chip is just what we call " wear-out ". In the most cases no write is possible anymore, the funny part is -> sometimes read is still fine. If that is the case: The system is booting and working, but saving just nothing. The NAND is frozen to its state before it broke.
At our local store, customers come to us with issues like " Factory Reset impossible ", "Can't delete my Files" "Can't create files". All these Devices have inaccessible NAND's and inaccessible Recovery. Only Bootloader is working, but as the NAND is broken, flashing doesn't change anything.
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oh mine was just straight up dead...no download mode or anything visible on the screen (and nothing to do with CM13 either)
hope you get yours sorted out! have you tried reflashing anything via Odin while in download mode?
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yeah, flashing with odin did the trick. now running cm13 and everything works fine. sorry to hear that your phone turned to brick.