so i have a few questions
,first off im not a noobie on the flashing, rooting,unlocking etc , my friend flashed the wrong rom to this phone it appears to have suffered from a hard brick just due to its unresponsiveness. I was wondering if the bootloader files or some sort of files have to be on an sdcard and be placed inside of the phone for a jig to properly work. i ask this because if the phones bootloader is corrupted how is it going to boot any other way. Im trying to avoid this jtagging thing. Any ideas would be helpful or references would also be appreciated.
yes i have a jig, yes ive tried the recovery button, yes i have odin, i also have a external battery charger, etc etc :fingers-crossed:
Sorry. Wrong ROM = JTAG.
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rangercaptain said:
Sorry. Wrong ROM = JTAG.
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my phone was hard bricked last week. i sent it to mobiletechvideo to repair
Mobiletechvideos.com
JTAG is the only way back at this point I'm sorry to say ....g
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-note-jtag-brick-repair/
ugh i was afraid of that thanks guys appreciate it, i figured that would be the solution.
bricked my phone how to send to mobitech videos
Josephchan said:
my phone was hard bricked last week. i sent it to mobiletechvideo to repair
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i am from india ...
how cani send the bricked phone to mobitech videos...
could u say me the address
sri.nafi said:
i am from india ...
how cani send the bricked phone to mobitech videos...
could u say me the address
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think this is what you're looking for.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/
rangercaptain said:
Sorry. Wrong ROM = JTAG.
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NVM...was thinking of a jig. That's sucks.
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My phone is bricked after accidently repartitioned with a bad jfd file and now it's hard bricked
the download link is down and i tried to use the mirrors but it doesn't seem to help can someone upload a working tar file so i can try to save it
procedures would be appreciated
it seem to be dead is there a way i can get a warranty?
edit: nvm there still hopes please upload the tar file
Did you get odin to connect? If so use vibrant toolbox.. Its the very first sticky in vibrant development. On my phone so cant post link.
If odin isnt connecting you will need a jig
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madguitarist63 said:
Did you get odin to connect? If so use vibrant toolbox.. Its the very first sticky in vibrant development. On my phone so cant post link.
If odin isnt connecting you will need a jig
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what im talking about is the files are corrupted i think and couldnt get pass factoryfs.rfs
kulzboy said:
what im talking about is the files are corrupted i think and couldnt get pass factoryfs.rfs
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Download Vibrant toolbox it will have the files in there titled PDA and PIT
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
If you still have trouble let me know and I'll upload the files. This will also have the ability to root your phone again. It is a very handy tool whenever you need to odin back to stock
kulzboy said:
My phone is bricked after accidently repartitioned with a bad jfd file and now it's hard bricked
the download link is down and i tried to use the mirrors but it doesn't seem to help can someone upload a working tar file so i can try to save it
procedures would be appreciated
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I f you can get into download mode, you're not bricked.
CrazyCharlie said:
I f you can get into download mode, you're not bricked.
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Well not completely true there's two types of brick's soft and hard if he can get into download mode he's not hard bricked =)
well since it's too late ill try it later
1 more quest, will sammy agree to fix this phone in the worst case if i installed custom roms on it?
Very appreciated
this happened when i was trying to get back to stock from cm7
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well since it's too late ill try it later
1 more quest, will sammy agree to fix this phone in the worst case if i installed custom roms on it?
Very appreciated
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not if you cant get stock back on there. By flashing the rom and rooting you technically voided your warranty
madguitarist63 said:
not if you cant get stock back on there. By flashing the rom and rooting you technically voided your warranty
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wait so i technically can't get any replacement even though i have esuron?
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wait so i technically can't get any replacement even though i have esuron?
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depends on the fine print my friend. I dont personally know I use T-Mobiles insurance. I'd read the policy to find that out.
the problem is it keep stucking in factoryfs.rfs is this normal and how do i solve it?
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the problem is it keep stucking in factoryfs.rfs is this normal and how do i solve it?
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Did it do it when following my instructions? You shouldn't get stuck anywhere.
Read more, search more(google is ur friend). Ur not bricked. Dont give up on ODIN. If you decide you cant fix it try saying samsung kies bricked it.
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kawika said:
Read more, search more(google is ur friend). Ur not bricked. Dont give up on ODIN. If you decide you cant fix it try saying samsung kies bricked it.
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+1 reading is the best thing you can do. That's how I got to where I am
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wait so i technically can't get any replacement even though i have esuron?
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If you try to do a warranty exchange thru t-mobile and after you send your phone back they discover it is rooted, you WILL be charged for the replacement. Your best bet is to report it lost to assurion and file a claim for a replacement. Although you will have to pay a deductible
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Marvlet said:
If you try to do a warranty exchange thru t-mobile and after you send your phone back they discover it is rooted, you WILL be charged for the replacement. Your best bet is to report it lost to assurion and file a claim for a replacement. Although you will have to pay a deductible
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Agreed but worse come to worse you can get a usb jig and fix it. Your phone is fine you can get it back
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wait do i check the repartition box?
alright thanks to everyone in this thread my phone is alive!!!
after all it wasnt stucking at factoryfs at all its just my impatience
OK, i managed to corrupt the efs folder. Now i have no efs backup, no IMEI and no baseband. I know, my bad, i should have made a backup, flame me if you want.
Basically i can't even return the phone for repair because they won't accept a phone with no IMEI. Good eh? Any suggestions? What should i do? Should i just give up and stick with this overpriced media player?
I'm very, very sad right now.
Jst give a try....
Take back to Sammy and tell them things got messed up while updating through kies....
And a few week before I saw a thread explaining how to generate fake imei.. Look on it....
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koolshubh said:
Jst give a try....
Take back to Sammy and tell them things got messed up while updating through kies....
And a few week before I saw a thread explaining how to generate fake imei.. Look on it....
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Yeah that's what i thought. Also i'm not really confident about changing the imei, i don't wanna void my warranty if i can, so i guess i'll send it in for repair, tho generally samsung has always been slow with this kind of things...we'll see.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336635
read the above first before you go ahead and do anything and see if that helps you
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336635
read the above first before you go ahead and do anything and see if that helps you
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Wow thanks a bunch. There's a lot of information there, i'll give that method a go as soon as i get home. Maybe there's still hope.
vnvman said:
Wow thanks a bunch. There's a lot of information there, i'll give that method a go as soon as i get home. Maybe there's still hope.
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No problem mate..let me know how you get on
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Yeah that's what i thought. Also i'm not really confident about changing the imei, i don't wanna void my warranty if i can, so i guess i'll send it in for repair, tho generally samsung has always been slow with this kind of things...we'll see.
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If you already flashed a custom ROM via Odin, you have also no warranty, because the custom binary counter is not 0. You have to get a JIG to reset the counter, before they will believe something happened with KIES....
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If you already flashed a custom ROM via Odin, you have also no warranty, because the custom binary counter is not 0. You have to get a JIG to reset the counter, before they will believe something happened with KIES....
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I do have a jig actually, that's why i was considering that option.
Somebody help me with my issue
I was having RR ROM with Siyah 3.3.3b Kernel and the secondary boot is port JB
I was on the secondary boot and I was restarting I found that the device is crashed
I thought it’s the kernel so I booted the phone to the download mood and flashed a kernel again and its not working also
I tried to add new software from Odin and it was giving me errors like | failed to mount emmc
I searched the internet and by mistake I flashed the device with i9100G PIT files and I re-partitioned the device and also I flashed a new boot loader not only this but also during the flashing process my pc crashed and it restarts leaving my device with no life
I can’t even turn the device on or go to download mood or anything the only thing that let me have a faith that the mobile is still a live that its getting heat while the battery is plugged in
Anyone can help with this?
Hard Brick?
As far a I know flashing a wrong bootloader hard-bricks your phone. the bootloader is what loads first, ans then in turn loads the rest of the system. if your bootloader is broken, it will neither load recovery, DL-Mode nor the system. maybe you can find a solution to this by searching for wrong bootloader or anything of the sort.
if everything fails you would need to get a new motherboard or whatever it is called in an android phone. there are guides in this forum on this, I once used this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253969 althogh the photos only seem to work with the old xda2010 theme.
I hope it is not what it looks like and you get your phone up and ruing again.
Bootloader had nothing to do with what went wrong for him. He flashed an I9100G pit file to an I9100.
OP, unfortunately there's nothing you can do at this point short of JTag service, or visiting/sending the phone to a Samsung service center.
find a repair center that preforms jtag near you, it should cost you about 40$
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As far a I know flashing a wrong bootloader hard-bricks your phone. the bootloader is what loads first, ans then in turn loads the rest of the system. if your bootloader is broken, it will neither load recovery, DL-Mode nor the system. maybe you can find a solution to this by searching for wrong bootloader or anything of the sort.
if everything fails you would need to get a new motherboard or whatever it is called in an android phone. there are guides in this forum on this, I once used this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253969 althogh the photos only seem to work with the old xda2010 theme.
I hope it is not what it looks like and you get your phone up and ruing again.
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thanks for the reply but let me tell you that it has nothing to do with my boot loader I just flashed wrong PIT file
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Bootloader had nothing to do with what went wrong for him. He flashed an I9100G pit file to an I9100.
OP, unfortunately there's nothing you can do at this point short of JTag service, or visiting/sending the phone to a Samsung service center.
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remorema said:
find a repair center that preforms jtag near you, it should cost you about 40$
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am living in Egypt we don't have Jtag services .. i saw what they can make on you-tube and am still in warranty so i don't know what to do should i pass it by the warranty should they let me pay or it will be free ?
From what i've read on this forum its better if you try to send it to samsung for warranty your chances to get it repaired is 50/50 just play dump you have nothing to loose
thanks guys for your reply i think i made an issue with the MB BOIS firmware hence it has to be hard flashed in the warranty so am scheduling the same on next Friday i hope that they will not ask for money as it was on a custom ROM
because here in Egypt Warranty is make fool of us and they always take much money to fix noob issues so guess what they can do regarding mine.
I've got my device from the warranty , its working fine now .. i need to inform you that Warranty in Egypt confirmed that flashing custom ROMs is not voiding the Warranty its just black listing the device in their records .
They are flashing boot loaders smoothly.
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moe.nassef said:
I've got my device from the warranty , its working fine now .. i need to inform you that Warranty in Egypt confirmed that flashing custom ROMs is not voiding the Warranty its just black listing the device in their records .
They are flashing boot loaders smoothly.
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u r lucky
its not the same case as evrywhr arnd .. may got the warranty void
i know am lucky lool if any body ia facing the same he/she can ship the device to Egypt and it will get the correct treatment lol
Am proud to have this kind of Samsung store in Egypt
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moe.nassef said:
i know am lucky lool if any body ia facing the same he/she can ship the device to egypt and it will get the correct treatment lol
am proud to have this kind of samsung store in egypt
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haha i wish samsung gave international warranrty
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haha i wish samsung gave international warranrty
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I'd like to thank you rele for your support in my issue from the beginning.
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moe.nassef said:
I'd like to thank you rele for your support in my issue from the beginning.
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haha
cheers mate
glad that ur warranty is not void and u got it fixed
Cheers..!!!
Hello XDA,
I was trying to flash CM9 on my Samsung Galaxy S2, was running Stock ICS XWLP7, successfully flashed it, proceeded to CWM and Wipe Data/Factory Reset unaware of the eMMC Brick Bug, went away during the wipe process, as I came back, I saw that the phone was completely bricked. Download/Recovery Modes don't work, Odin doesn't recognize anything, can't charge phone, the phone is cold and dead. Jig or JTAG don't work either.
btw. I can't get it replaced.
1. Is this the infamous superbrick?
2.If yes, what can I do about it? If no, what is it?
Yes, looks like you've encountered the infamous superbrick
The only way to revive a superbricked phone is to send it to Samsung service center.
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Hello XDA,
I was trying to flash CM9 on my Samsung Galaxy S2, was running Stock ICS XWLP7, successfully flashed it, proceeded to CWM and Wipe Data/Factory Reset unaware of the eMMC Brick Bug, went away during the wipe process, as I came back, I saw that the phone was completely bricked. Download/Recovery Modes don't work, Odin doesn't recognize anything, can't charge phone, the phone is cold and dead. Jig or JTAG don't work either.
btw. I can't get it replaced.
1. Is this the infamous superbrick?
2.If yes, what can I do about it? If no, what is it?
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you were on 4.0.4?
jtag service didn't brought it back to life.
hmmmm...man................cold stuff
gastonw said:
you were on 4.0.4?
jtag service didn't brought it back to life.
hmmmm...man................cold stuff
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Yes I was, the version mentioned is wrong.
Nexcore said:
Yes I was, the version mentioned is wrong.
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man, look into hard brick threads, maybe there's a way out.
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man, look into hard brick threads, maybe there's a way out.
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What ? If it superbricked only help is mb changing
Happy new year
Paulius
Paulius7 said:
What ? If it superbricked only help is mb changing
Happy new year
Paulius
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i'm trying to give this guy some hope.....it's saturday man.
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i'm trying to give this guy some hope.....it's saturday man.
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I know dude but there only fix changing mb...
Happy new year
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Actually it's not my device, it belongs to a friend of mine, he gave it to me to fix it yet I couldn't do it
He can't get it replaced because his warranty is over.
Do your friend had warranty ?
Happy new year
Paulius
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Actually it's not my device, it belongs to a friend of mine, he gave it to me to fix it yet I couldn't do it
He can't get it replaced because his warranty is over.
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Then he needs to pay for a motherboard replacement, simple as that.
Also, by the way, why did you create this thread when we already have plenty of this exact topic? You could have diagnosed this easily by looking at one or more of the threads we already have without creating yet another one and waiting for same answers.
Is it insured under home insurance or bank/credit card? Otherwise it's buy a new phone or send back to Samsung for repair and pay. Good luck.
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Then he needs to pay for a motherboard replacement, simple as that.
Also, by the way, why did you create this thread when we already have plenty of this exact topic? You could have diagnosed this easily by looking at one or more of the threads we already have without creating yet another one and waiting for same answers.
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Because all the fixes were like, flash X from Odin, but the phone doesn't get recognized by Odin.
The phone was bought from Germany, Samsung Turkey refuses to replace it, it must be sent to Germany for replacement.(if possible)
Nexcore said:
Because all the fixes were like, flash X from Odin, but the phone doesn't get recognized by Odin.
The phone was bought from Germany, Samsung Turkey refuses to replace it, it must be sent to Germany for replacement.(if possible)
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And in those cases the devices were never actually "bricked" at all, those were just n00bs who couldn't fix their system boot problem and like to describe their device as "soft-bricked". In your case your device is actually "bricked" what the n00bs call "hard-bricked" when in reality their is only "bricked". If you can flash via odin or recovery your device is not bricked.
In your case you wiped your device with a buggy kernel (which has been discussed at length as I said) and only option is mobo replacement.
Well, I upgraded my android device from CM-9.1.0 to CM-10.1-20130102-NIGHTLY just to try it, and i find a lot of bugs on it, so I downgraded the phone, and when it almost finished, the phone just won't started, so I tried to load CWM Recovery with help of this post (I should have read the comments...): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1814801 because I just could enter download mode.
So, my phone got bricked, well at least I think that, because it won't turn on, and my PC won't recognize my phone (nor in the Device Manager). I have tried removing the battery and the SIM card, connect it to a PC hold Volume Up + Down and insert the battery, and it neither works :c.
It's a Hard Brick or a soft one? do you think that i should try this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lojU5bvGz3c Please help! :c
Well, the problem might be that you flashed a ROM for an i9100 and this is the forum for the i777. Either you have the wrong phone or the wrong ROM. If you do indeed have an i9100 I hope your underwear are flame retardant because it is going to get warm up in here.
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Well, the problem might be that you flashed a ROM for an i9100 and this is the forum for the i777. Either you have the wrong phone or the wrong ROM. If you do indeed have an i9100 I hope your underwear are flame retardant because it is going to get warm up in here.
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ya, i got an I-777, and i know I have do something really stupid -_-, that's why i'm asking for some help, for my stupidity :c
Try it ... what can you lose ? It is bricked alredy
donate so i can get a kfhd i promise i will try to unlock bootloader and post how
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Try it ... what can you lose ? It is bricked alredy
donate so i can get a kfhd i promise i will try to unlock bootloader and post how
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What are you even saying? Donate to you?
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I don't think that the USB Jig would work, because it is totally dead, so i'm going to send it to MobileTechVideos, and hope they can fix it.
Thanks everyone
Wherezz said:
I don't think that the USB Jig would work, because it is totally dead, so i'm going to send it to MobileTechVideos, and hope they can fix it.
Thanks everyone
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What's 2 bucks compared to a JTAG service. I would try it first