Hallo brothers and sister,
I own a beautiful white Samsung Galaxy S2 since December 2011.
A couple of months ago I flashed my SGS2 to Jellybean Spain(My phone is XEN, Benelux).
Everything went fine, and I didn't screw up while flashing.
But about 2 hours ago, sh*t went down..
My SGS2 suddenly frooze.
Pressing the home button and even pressing the power button didn't recover my SGS2 from the freeze.
So I decided to pull my battery out.
After about 2 seconds, I placed my battery back, but my SGS2 wouldn't reboot.
It was stuck at 'Samsung i9100'.
So I pulled the battery out for the second time.
But this time it wouldn't reboot at all!
It also won't go to download mode.
I've ordered a JIG, but there is a chance it is hardbricked.
Does somebody had/has the same problem?
And does somebody know if my SGS2 is a hard- or softbrick?
Maybe battery is busted, borrow one from a friend or sonething like that.
Phone don't die just like that.
Sent from the little guy
Skuzi said:
Hallo brothers and sister,
I own a beautiful white Samsung Galaxy S2 since December 2011.
A couple of months ago I flashed my SGS2 to Jellybean Spain(My phone is XEN, Benelux).
Everything went fine, and I didn't screw up while flashing.
But about 2 hours ago, sh*t went down..
My SGS2 suddenly frooze.
Pressing the home button and even pressing the power button didn't recover my SGS2 from the freeze.
So I decided to pull my battery out.
After about 2 seconds, I placed my battery back, but my SGS2 wouldn't reboot.
It was stuck at 'Samsung i9100'.
So I pulled the battery out for the second time.
But this time it wouldn't reboot at all!
It also won't go to download mode.
I've ordered a JIG, but there is a chance it is hardbricked.
Does somebody had/has the same problem?
And does somebody know if my SGS2 is a hard- or softbrick?
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i bricked mine once pulling the battery when it was turning off...
and it ddint wanted to boot up again, had to flash stock from odin and wipe for ti to work again
Does your phone get warm (the screen mostly at the sensors and the back of your phone) when you have your battery inserted?
Yes, it does.
But after a while it stops getting warm, and it starts again when I connect my charger to my phone.
C4SCA said:
i bricked mine once pulling the battery when it was turning off...
and it ddint wanted to boot up again, had to flash stock from odin and wipe for ti to work again
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Sorry for double post, but he said that he can't enter download mode so how is he supposed to make it work through Odin?
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Skuzi said:
Yes, it does.
But after a while it stops getting warm, and it starts again when I connect my charger to my phone.
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I can't tell you for sure what the problem is but that sort of happened to my phone too, and it was a hardbrick, my emmc chip got f****d. The warranty covered it up so I got it fixed at the shop. And i called Samsung Support Service and they told me that Samsung phone has 2 years warranty so just go to your shop and they should fix it.
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Sorry for double post, but he said that he can't enter download mode so how is he supposed to make it work through Odin?
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I can't tell you for sure what the problem is but that sort of happened to my phone too, and it was a hardbrick, my emmc chip got f****d. The warranty covered it up so I got it fixed at the shop. And i called Samsung Support Service and they told me that Samsung phone has 2 years warranty so just go to your shop and they should fix it.
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I have flashed my phone, do you think they will see that?
If it's dead dead they won't, if it's not they might.
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That is what happed this morning:
Woke up, whatsapp for a bit, suddenly, reboot itself, stuck in siya logo.
waited for 30mins, no luck, hard turn off (long press power button)..
after that, no more reboot, no download mode, no CWM, try the three button trick no luck, remove battery and three button trick no luck......
Here is what I have done with my phone before, It runs perfectly for like months:
Resurrection Remix Rom 2.2
Siyah Kernal (latest S2 version)
BLN
Overclock (200-1300) but stable with siyah
Apex launcher...
I sincerely beg for all genius developers to give me a hand...........
Try a download jig and see if that makes it respond.
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Try a download jig and see if that makes it respond.
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ordered.... still waiting for that..
any other solution yet to be discovered?
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as i didn't "flash" dead my phone, I think there might be some solution.....
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you are damn right, I can't live without it...
my phone is out of warranty plus flashed count.......
plus still looking for a shop that do jtag in sydney...
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Call wireless provider tell them a crazy story about an accident you had and your phone is crushed and bloody and if they provide upgrade then ask for an early upgrade due to no warranty that is what I did for my $3
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i just hardbricked my galaxy2
no download screen, no recovery screen no boot...
its only a week old! in virgin warranty...
have you had any luck with finding a shop to to jtag in sydney????
only option is to claim on insurance...
duleim said:
i just hardbricked my galaxy2
no download screen, no recovery screen no boot...
its only a week old! in virgin warranty...
have you had any luck with finding a shop to to jtag in sydney????
only option is to claim on insurance...
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If there is jo Jtag shop in Syndey, you can send it overseas for Jtag repair. But I suppose it costs a lot of money.
Alternatively, you can send it to Samsung, play stupid (phone didnt turn on this morning) and keep your fingers crossed.
Wish you luck mate.
Sent from my Galaxy S2 GT i9100
Could anyone shed some light on all these bricked phones that were bricked out of the blue - without users fault? I mean, there are so many threads about bricking phones while doing nothing - the phone was just normally used, or even with the screen off, and it just turned off by itself/rebooted itself/froze and there was no way to recover it... Similar thing happened to me month ago - I was on a safe stock 4.0.3 ROM with safe kernel (mmc_cap_erase disabled), I have just started a game that I play regularly, the screen froze, I have waited for some time, then tried to do a hard reboot, got stuck at booot logo, and that was it. Recovery was erased - no way to enter it, download mode was still alive but it was stuck while trying to flash anything - there was an error while trying to write rom, kernel etc. I had to sent it to repair centre...
Thos was just an example, one of many. So, the question is - is this bad Samsung hardware in action, or software bugs that are causing hardware malfunctions or something else? I mean, I had few HTC Android phones before, and I have never saw anything like SGS2 Q&A forum - every second thread is about bricked phone...
Any thoughts?
I think people jump in with both feet without doing much research.I don't blame them,as I just flashed RR3 and I didn't fancy reading 62,000 posts.
Plus its a very popular phone,so maybe its only a tiny %age that are faulty.
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i am using resurrection remix 3.0.6 with siyah kernal 4.1.5. i believe rr 3.0.6 is still not stable due to sudden lag spike. it happen so suddenly, my screen just freeze. so i make the option to pull out the battery and re-insert the battery to reboot the phone.
then it happen, it doesn't seems to be able to boot up my primary rom which is the RR 3.0.6, i try to boot up secondary rom, which happen to be the same RR 3.0.6, but nothing, the phone auto shut down. i still can go into recovery mode using 3 button combo, then i try to wipe cache, but still the same, not able to boot up RR 3.0.6.
i am very frustrated already, i choose to reinstall the ROM by doing a factory wipe/data wipe, but the data wipe thing just stay there for very long... the worst thing happen. i pull out my battery again. this is when all hell break lose... i can't on my phone, can't do 3 button combo, usb jig no use. simply nothing, like a dead fish.
however, i realise my phone started to heat up around the camera area with the battery in it... that mean a sign of life? anyone face this problem and manage to revive the phone without sending to jtag?...
This is why i am afraid of rooting GS2. GS1 was soo easy...
its not the rooting process that break my phone, its the ROM. rooting doesn't give me trouble, just 2 min using zergrush.
my phone can do nothing but heat up when the battery is put in...
Aha.. zergrush? You suggest me to not flash this rom?
Somebody know how to help this guy?
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Well same kind a thing happen for me little different but yeahhh almost the same. Apparently I burn up my motherboard, that might be the warm up around your camera. Anyway still to early to say something but my suggestion is before you do anything take it to the Samsung customer service, if they can bring your phone alive then you can do it as well, but if they come up with no then you have no choice but to order new motherboard.
Hope it helps..
thanks for your suggestion... sounds like doom day... how much is the motherboard cost?
Well I just received mine today. I find a guy on ebay and you sell your bricked motherboard for 50$ bucks and you can get yours for 130$ bucks.
I install it today and works perfectly fine. But again just check with the Samsung Service then do what you need to do.
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Well I just received mine today. I find a guy on ebay and you sell your bricked motherboard for 50$ bucks and you can get yours for 130$ bucks.
I install it today and works perfectly fine. But again just check with the Samsung Service then do what you need to do.
same here.
installed resurrection remix rom and when install rebooted phone it would not turn on. dead. So I sendt my phone inn to my provider (only had it for under a year), and from the service log they have changed the mainboard.
I have the same problem guys...
Last night my phone gone dead..
It is still in warranty..
Is there any chance from the service to deny the warranty?
(maybe they can see if it was rooted etc..?)
I'm so so sad.....
alexisgt said:
I have the same problem guys...
Last night my phone gone dead..
It is still in warranty..
Is there any chance from the service to deny the warranty?
(maybe they can see if it was rooted etc..?)
I'm so so sad.....
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There is no way can know that. Try your luck. they will most likely accept it
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There is no way can know that. Try your luck. they will most likely accept it
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I hope so..
Thanks for your reply! It gave me hopes! :good:
Last night I was able to root my phone flashed the recovery mod and used the overclocked kernel that was listed in the dev forums for my phone. The phone was running fine until I went to bed, this morning I had woke up and went to look at my phone and it was off. Thinking the battery died while I left it unplugged all night I found meh.. might be the reason. Let the phone charge while I was in the shower for about 15 minutes got out and tried to turn the phone on and unable to get a response. Tried to boot the phone to Odin mode with no luck also tried getting my computer to pick up the device with no luck at all. Few questions, is my phone bricked? If so I've only had the phone for 15 days do you think I would have any luck getting the phone replaced at a store? and is there anyway that they would be able to tell that I had rooted my phone flashed recovery and installed a kernel if I cant even get the phone to respond in any way shape or form? Any advice you have or situations where you where in the same boat would be a great help. Thanks again.
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Last night I was able to root my phone flashed the recovery mod and used the overclocked kernel that was listed in the dev forums for my phone. The phone was running fine until I went to bed, this morning I had woke up and went to look at my phone and it was off. Thinking the battery died while I left it unplugged all night I found meh.. might be the reason. Let the phone charge while I was in the shower for about 15 minutes got out and tried to turn the phone on and unable to get a response. Tried to boot the phone to Odin mode with no luck also tried getting my computer to pick up the device with no luck at all. Few questions, is my phone bricked? If so I've only had the phone for 15 days do you think I would have any luck getting the phone replaced at a store? and is there anyway that they would be able to tell that I had rooted my phone flashed recovery and installed a kernel if I cant even get the phone to respond in any way shape or form? Any advice you have or situations where you where in the same boat would be a great help. Thanks again.
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Did you try a battery pull?
Sent from my SCH-I605
Android_Fr3ak said:
Did you try a battery pull?
Sent from my SCH-I605
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Indeed sir, removed the battery let it sit for a minute or two...
According to your post...You are bricked
Samething happend to me..just few days ago but my phone was out of warranty...so I need to pay for ...a board change (I9100) tht was the solution for me not for uh
Now as you said ...if you are fully bricked and you just bought the phone 15 days ago ...then you have still 99.9% chances that they will replace your main board
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Last year when I bought my phone S2...after some time when I came hyr on xda rooted my phone ...once I bricked ...so I went to samsung care ...and made a story...and bang they taken my phone got my job sheet ...and after 4 days got my phone they changed my main board...
Main topic...they can't check whtr you are rooted...or not if you are bricked fully...so just visit samsung care...and make a fake story...all set just sit back for few days ...
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2
I was able to get my phone on after reseating the SIM? No worries thanks for the help :] Glad I don't have to get a replacement.
smOBudda said:
I was able to get my phone on after reseating the SIM? No worries thanks for the help :] Glad I don't have to get a replacement.
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Explain?
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As I had mentioned this morning I woke up and plugged my phone in for a good 15-20 minutes while I took a shower. There after when I looked at my phone it didn't show as if it was even charging most of the time it will at least show a charging logo. I let the phone sit plugged in for about 45 minutes and tried to soft reboot the phone holding volume and power still nothing came of it. Had taken the battery from the phone and put it back in with the same process to no success. I had removed the SIM Card from the phone replaced it back in the device and as soon as I plugged in the phone it showed the phone was charging. From that point I was able to reboot the phone with no issues.
I was worried due to the fact I had flashed the kernel last night and was toying with the settings given in the stweek that came after I flashed the recovery and kernel using the recovery options on reboot. Really don't have an idea as to why I had the issue that I had. But at the end of the day I'm just glad I didn't have to pay for a replacement.
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Hi People of the world! As you can see im new to here so yeah i just might be in the wrong section...
So, I just got my shiny android a week ago, and know it sits on my desk, lifeless, like a brick. Like literally its dead! I don't know if I can fix it or the BIOS (if theres one in Samsung Galaxies) is fried, or maybe the motherboard is fried, or the battery overcharged, etc. But I just cant do anything! I'm totally out of ideas!
Heres the problem, I first rooted my android successfully, and played around with my android a while. But as you expect I just coudn't wait for the jelly bean update! So, I desided I would give a try to take the Russian firmware instead. That was already a bad idea, but I read on some threads that it would work fine, so I downloaded one from Sammobile.com. The real mistake? I downloaded the wrong phone. I own a Samsung Galaxy S Advance NFC Version;GT-I9070P The one I downloaded was UnNFC version; GT-I9070. Well, I didn't realize that, and proceeded with entering download mode and eventually flashing the PDA file from Sammobile with ODIN. So I pressed start. It started the process, and after 5 min it said in blue: RESET. I saw the phone rebooting. Now, another big mistake: I started touching the power button, which I shouldn't have done. Then, instead of waiting, as soon as seeing the thing wasnt booting, I took out the battery and unplugged the USB cable. Then after a while the PASS appeared in green. So it went successfully? NONONO Now it wont boot! More specifically, it wont TURN ON! like it wont whow any sign of life. As if it had no battery or USB.
Today I discovered, If I hold Vol UP+Power+Home when its connected to my PC, it makes the beep, shows that it failed to install the driver for "U8500 USB ROM" What the (*^&(&%*(&^&* is that??? Also, in 5 seconds, the device disappears, meaning that I must hold the button combo for another 20 seconds.
So, I've got no connectivity to ODIN, nor Kies, and I cant go into download mode, nor recovery mode.
Any Help?
Pleeaase if you can help youre a super god of androids!
ok, so if I understand correctly, You can't even turn on a phone - no samsung logo, no yellow triangle, nothing, right?
MikeSome1 said:
ok, so if I understand correctly, You can't even turn on a phone - no samsung logo, no yellow triangle, nothing, right?
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Exactly. Nothing at all.
The only evidence that its not fried is that the computer detects it as U8500 USB ROM for 5 seconds whenever i hold the power button or any combination. Nothing on the phone though.
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Hey man got the same problem... I have put mine to a service center i will see what the'll do
pafiking said:
Hey man got the same problem... I have put mine to a service center i will see what the'll do
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Yeah i think I should take it to service too, but I want to try at least first:cyclops:
I've just repeated exactly the same steps as the OP on my GT-9070P and have "successfully" bricked my two-week-old phone. If someone happens to find a solution, please share. :crying:
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I've just repeated exactly the same steps as the OP on my GT-9070P and have "successfully" bricked my two-week-old phone. If someone happens to find a solution, please share. :crying:
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Ikr its really bad to break your phone as soon as i get it. Worse, for me its a few of days to my birthday! Worse thing that could happen. I will PM you if i happen to find a good solution. Also, to make it really the worst thing, the GT-I9070 is one of the less popular phones (not like the s3). The NFC version? Even rarer! So not only are there not many developers working for that phone, not many people have really encountered problems with the phone at all.
Surge
Surge411 said:
Ikr its really bad to break your phone as soon as i get it. Worse, for me its a few of days to my birthday! Worse thing that could happen. I will PM you if i happen to find a good solution. Also, to make it really the worst thing, the GT-I9070 is one of the less popular phones (not like the s3). The NFC version? Even rarer! So not only are there not many developers working for that phone, not many people have really encountered problems with the phone at all.
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Please help! I also bricked my Samsung S Advance I9070P after downgrading from JB to GB, since JB was updated for India I9070...but the phone bricked after downgrade. Everything was successful and it had auto-rebooted after the downgrade and stuck with Start up screen. When I removed battery and tried again..it bricked! No recovery mode, No download mode, no power on.
Surge411 said:
Ikr its really bad to break your phone as soon as i get it. Worse, for me its a few of days to my birthday! Worse thing that could happen. I will PM you if i happen to find a good solution. Also, to make it really the worst thing, the GT-I9070 is one of the less popular phones (not like the s3). The NFC version? Even rarer! So not only are there not many developers working for that phone, not many people have really encountered problems with the phone at all.
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So you find any solution? I have a similar problem right now.
Hi friends
The incident started in the last day afternon when my phone (GT-S5312) fell down from my desk.It works fine, though at evening it hangs alot and switched off i thought battery gone empty.I realized the problem when it does not boot even after 2 hours of charge After 15 minutes i somehow managed to goto download mode (AT that time i was download stock rom, so i restart it ,without flashing stock rom) .The phones boots well and everything works fine:good: .But the real thing started after 10 minutes ,the screen goes blank suddenly ,and went tried to goto downlaod mode nothing happens it continues vibrates then i removed battery and tried nothing happens :crying:..Please guys help me to get my phone back ..
Current rom :-Cm12
Recovery :-cwn
Looking for a good friend with good mind to help ..
This won't probably help you a lot
I'm not really sure that you can do something about it . Think about it that problem doesn't exist because of your rom or something like that those problems shown up after your phone fell of your desk so probably something broke inside your pone and that's what causes your problems (This is my theory it might not be right).
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I'm not really sure that you can do something about it . Think about it that problem doesn't exist because of your rom or something like that those problems shown up after your phone fell of your desk so probably something broke inside your pone and that's what causes your problems (This is my theory it might not be right).
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You Are Right
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It Happens Only When A Phone Fell Down
try to flash it via Odin
try odin maybe it works......