Hey peeps, i have this i9300 that was brought to me not working. Thing is that the phone will enter download mode without any problems. I used the JiG and also the 3 button combo and both works. Problem is that i tried flashing with a bunch of different firmwares and it wont work. And if i try the 3 files plus pit firmware it stays on the get partition forever and wont flash. If i dont use 3 files firmware it just state fail without even starting almost. On download mode it cant identify itself (Product Name: {blank}. Even tried that supposed to resurrect the phone firmware and it doesnt work neither. Hardware or software?? What you guys think?
What does it say in download mode? Were you rooted? Did you use search?
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Yes i used search, and if you read my post youll see that ive even tried the CheckRom firmware and it has not worked. Like i said before, i dont know how the phone ended up like this since its not mine. But i guess sometime or some moment it should have been customized or something(Rooted or something). Because it says system is running custom. I just want to make sure if its not hardware. If its hardware, which i am starting to think it is, ill give the guy some money and keep the lcd lol....
Just change your usb port on pc...
Before using odin...
Happened to me before....
Odin wont flash anything.
So I changed my usb port and data cable...
And after that the issue was gone....
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P.S if you see a red exclamation mark on top left corner while the device boot...
Means device has been modified before...
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enelyam said:
Yes i used search, and if you read my post youll see that ive even tried the CheckRom firmware and it has not worked. Like i said before, i dont know how the phone ended up like this since its not mine. But i guess sometime or some moment it should have been customized or something(Rooted or something). Because it says system is running custom. I just want to make sure if its not hardware. If its hardware, which i am starting to think it is, ill give the guy some money and keep the lcd lol....
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Well actually sudden death syndrome (or half sudden death in this case) actually download mode says "custom" hence my question. Please read my sds thread stuck at the top of general
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Ok thanks M8, i thought sudden death only applies to phones that stop responding at all. Since this one reaches download mode i didnt think it has to do with SDS. But then again what do i know compare to others
So, after reading the thread, from what i understood from there im screwed, right? The fix is for the people who still have a working phone, right? I mean i will still have the LCD so, and since i own a shop there are many parts to use from that phone so....
SDS fix can only be applied before it happens, if too late then only motherboard change will fix.
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I am beginning to think it isn't actually possible. I've tried everything, but I can't seem to brick my Vibrant to a point that I can't recover and Odin back to life. I read that flashing ROMs over bootloaders that aren't compatible can do it, but I was still able to force DL mode (never used a jig--haven't had a need yet) and Odin to stock even after doing that.
I say "with experience" because it is obvious that there are probably thousands of Vibrants that either hit the trash or are sitting in desk drawers somewhere..."bricked." I consider myself experienced with this phone. Been flashing on it for a year, tweaking signal settings, build.prop settings, and scheduler settings. The guys on here that have abused and really pushed their devices to discover the limitations are the ones who I want to hear from if possible. I don't particularly know if, short of dunking it in my coffee, I can be more abusive to this thing. This is one limitation I haven't yet discovered. Is it TRULY unbrickable?
It is possible. I have bricked 2 - most of the older devs have bricked at least one. This sucks for the guys that did the bricking but is good for the guys just starting out because they come into it knowing what not to do.
True bricks generally come about by way of flashing an incorrect sbl or have even happened by interrupting the flashing of a proper sbl.
Most non sbl "bricks", however, are nothing more than soft bricks that patience and perseverance will remedy.
I bricked my phone twice since I started rooting my vibrant. The first one when the usb disconnected from the laptop while it was half way odin. The second time was a hardware brick. The phone just simply has no light lolz. What happened was that I selected all the checkboxes when I odin the GB loader. However, I was able to bring her back to life after trying every possible combination while my heart was pumping 3,000 gallons of my blood in every minutes and my forehead was soaking with smelling sweat. lolz
Oh it can be done, install gb bootloaders from the old days, through light roms, flash the original axura rom, try to flash to stock. spend a week with a black screen, get warranty. Bootloaders are the kiss of death. Odin really only works if you can boot, and p.c. recognizes, through yellow com. If you dont have that your attitude will change dramatically. Youve only had soft bricks, not "The BlackScreen Of Death"
okies try harder, yada yada, yada
yea just try to update your phone using kies
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S#*T, how could anyone forget, my bad....
jellette said:
It is possible. I have bricked 2 - most of the older devs have bricked at least one. This sucks for the guys that did the bricking but is good for the guys just starting out because they come into it knowing what not to do.
True bricks generally come about by way of flashing an incorrect sbl or have even happened by interrupting the flashing of a proper sbl.
Most non sbl "bricks", however, are nothing more than soft bricks that patience and perseverance will remedy.
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And I definitely do appreciate the work that you guys do--I was sitting nearly in tears (ok, maybe a little buzz brought the tears) about a month after I bought my vibrant in October 2010. The kid in the T-Mobile store actually rooted it for me when I went back for some help with my bill, so I had access to files that I didn't know what to do with. I tried to apply some crap theme that, at the time, I thought destroyed my phone and turned it into a piece of $400 coffee table art. My wife would have probably beaten me if I hadn't discovered XDA and the brilliant work you guys do. After that little ordeal, I got heavy into reading the threads here and slowly but surely, got pretty fearless thanks to the research you guys had already done for me.
One other question for you: If you had those bricked phones today, would you be able to revive them after an sbl brick?
I believe even the worst brick can be fixed via JTAG Service.
from my understanding and from my noob experiences this phone is unbrickable
Don't forget about the hardware mod that let's you flash boot loaders
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It's NOT unbrickable. It's just hard to, unless if your just a total absolute idiot or a accident happens. I know my dogs pulled my usb cord while i was odining once, it caused a brick.
As the vibrant and the sgs are nearly the same, I've never bricked it at all... I just lost my IMEI that's all but that doesn't seem to make any problems at all. That's the only bad thing that happened to me : )
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It's NOT unbrickable. It's just hard to, unless if your just a total absolute idiot or a accident happens. I know my dogs pulled my usb cord while i was odining once, it caused a brick.
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It is unbrickable you can fix it even if bootloader get deleted the only way you can brick it is if USB port is broken
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Hi,
I've soft bricked my phone several times and restored it with no problems till last night. I had GB bootloader on my vibrant flashed back stock rom using odin and then upgraded to stock 2.2 rom using KIES. Now phone is not responding to anything. I've spend hours on forums and chats i've tried almost every thing and nothing could bring back my phone I even let it chard over night like some people say did not help.
Please let me know if there any way to restore it? Again it has GB bootloader with stock 2.1 and than upgraded to stock 2.2 via KIES.
Thanks in advance!
Did u get a USB jig yet that should work
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Did u get a USB jig yet that should work
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No not yet...I still want to find a way to restore it without JIG. It should be a way!
I think problem is that most of solutions where posted for Vibrant stock Bootloader not a GB Bootloader. May be there are different steps are required for GB Bootloaders. I don't want to give up
With GB BL you have to use vol+ and power to get into download mode. Just an fyi in case you didnt know.
What he said!
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yea just try to update your phone using kies
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Thats exactly how I bricked mine, and found out a day after by stumbling across a thread on the dangers of using KIES, when I was newbee dumb!
Also, if you can power the phone on in any way shape or form, meaning if you see anything on the screen, or the LED's illuminate, then you are NOT HARDBRICKED, that is still a softbrick senario!!
And BTW the primary Btloader is what powers the phone one, and the 2ndary Btloader is what loads the OS or ROM!
And when the primary is corrupted, that's a TRUE HARDBRICK scenario, because if you cant power the phone on, then nothing short of JTAGing it , will resurrect it!!
Although Adam Outler, supposedly has a Resurrection program, to JTAG the solder-less way, using pin point test probes and his Resurrection program, to inject and re-flash the Btloaders and thus, bring a dead non powered phone to life!
Link to Adam's Work: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
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anatoliyus said:
No not yet...I still want to find a way to restore it without JIG. It should be a way!
I think problem is that most of solutions where posted for Vibrant stock Bootloader not a GB Bootloader. May be there are different steps are required for GB Bootloaders. I don't want to give up
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A JIG will not work, if the primary Bootloader is corrupted it wont power on , JIG's only work with phones that will power on, and in his case he corrupted the primary, and only JTAGing it will resurrect it, unless he has the intelligence to try this alternative below, otherwise send it to Adam or TechMobile, the only two guys I know who are true Ninja's with this type of micro surgery!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
It sucks...Just 2 weeks ago I've installed FFC, ordered 1800 Battery...invested money.
Don't want to spend any more money on this old cell phone I may just go and buy new phone then.
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dseldown said:
Thats exactly how I bricked mine, and found out a day after by stumbling across a thread on the dangers of using KIES, when I was newbee dumb!
Also, if you can power the phone on in any way shape or form, meaning if you see anything on the screen, or the LED's illuminate, then you are NOT HARDBRICKED, that is still a softbrick senario!!
And BTW the primary Btloader is what powers the phone one, and the 2ndary Btloader is what loads the OS or ROM!
And when the primary is corrupted, that's a TRUE HARDBRICK scenario, because if you cant power the phone on, then nothing short of JTAGing it , will resurrect it!!
Although Adam Outler, supposedly has a Resurrection program, to JTAG the solder-less way, using pin point test probes and his Resurrection program, to inject and re-flash the Btloaders and thus, bring a dead non powered phone to life!
Link to Adam's Work: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
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A JIG will not work, if the primary Bootloader is corrupted it wont power on , JIG's only work with phones that will power on, and in his case he corrupted the primary, and only JTAGing it will resurrect it, unless he has the intelligence to try this alternative below, otherwise send it to Adam or TechMobile, the only two guys I know who are true Ninja's with this type of micro surgery!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
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Thanks...will try this solution. Downloading Ubuntu...
heysoos said:
I am beginning to think it isn't actually possible. I've tried everything, but I can't seem to brick my Vibrant to a point that I can't recover and Odin back to life. I read that flashing ROMs over bootloaders that aren't compatible can do it, but I was still able to force DL mode (never used a jig--haven't had a need yet) and Odin to stock even after doing that.
I say "with experience" because it is obvious that there are probably thousands of Vibrants that either hit the trash or are sitting in desk drawers somewhere..."bricked." I consider myself experienced with this phone. Been flashing on it for a year, tweaking signal settings, build.prop settings, and scheduler settings. The guys on here that have abused and really pushed their devices to discover the limitations are the ones who I want to hear from if possible. I don't particularly know if, short of dunking it in my coffee, I can be more abusive to this thing. This is one limitation I haven't yet discovered. Is it TRULY unbrickable?
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There are several of us that have including myself, heathen and Eugene just to name a few. We've actually taken the bullet previously so you don't have to. We pretty much know now what will cause a hard brick and that's why you rarely here of one now.
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My friend broke his i777 when trying to update to the newest AOKP (he used rom manager) I wasn't home to help him fix it and he accidentally used some vibrant tool to fix it instead of normal Odin.
So it is hard bricked, he got a jig and that's not working either. Any ideas?
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If it is a hard brick and the jig does not work then i think you need to buy a new phone
If it's truely hard bricked, then the only option is jtag recovery. Mobile Tech Videos is a reputable vendor who can do that.
If there is absolutely no sign of life, then that is your only option. If there is any sign of life at all, then you possibly might recover the phone without that.
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If it is a hard brick and the jig does not work then i think you need to buy a new phone
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Negative. There is plenty of JTAG brick repairs. Google: mobile tech videos
Edit: sorry creepy, didn't see your post
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MTV repaired my captivate when i hard bricked it. Odin hanged on me during a boot-loader revert and it was toast. The guy that does the repair must have some special tools cause you'd never even know my phone had been opened up just by looking at it.
He flashed a vibrant rom with bootloaders?, that's the only way to hard brick a galaxy s2 from what I've read. Did you try connecting to computer and pressing volume up and down to enter in download mode?
Provide more information.
I don't know what vibrant thing he used it could have had boot loaders he doesn't know also yes I tried all those combinations
Also I am looking into JTAG repair now thanks for the help
Edit: are we sure this will work 50$ is allot (although not too much if it works) also where can I find this MTV guy?
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bbm21 said:
I don't know what vibrant thing he used it could have had boot loaders he doesn't know also yes I tried all those combinations
Also I am looking into JTAG repair now thanks for the help
Edit: are we sure this will work 50$ is allot (although not too much if it works) also where can I find this MTV guy?
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Go to mobiletechvideos.com. $50 is worth it and he can fix it. And for whatever reason, they can't get it working , they refund your money. But they're a trusted site. They unbricked my captivate
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Before you send it in for jtag repair...
If you havn't tried it already, try putting the phone into download mode by first removing the battery, then holding down Vol+ and vol- (but not power) while you plug in the usb cable connected to your pc. The key here is to have the battery out. If this puts you into download mode, then go to the Download Repository and flash the I777UCKH7-CL503881 Stock Binaries including bootloaders.
Re: jtag. From what I have read, you can trust mobile tech videos. $50.00 is a bit less than replacing the phone. The XDA developer Adam Outler also has done some jtag repair for folks on the captivate, and may also do the sgsII. I havn't heard lately, but some time ago he was a little cheaper than MTV.
Yes Mobile Tech videos will work perfectly for getting it fixed. I have also spoken to him on the phone many of times and he is a really cool person and very knowledgeable. He fixed my cappy back in the day and he got it to work with our sgs2s back when they first came out. Also you may see if he can apply the unbreakable mod for you while he is at it. Makes it darn near impossible to ever brick it again with bad flashes of even wrong/bad boot loaders. And $50 is way cheaper than a new phone or even insurance if you now decide to accident run it over with your car before calling att.
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I bricked my mother-inlaws captivate a while back and sent it to MTV. Had it back in 8 days, he also keeps you updated of the process. Seeing the "your phone has been resurrected " e-mail arrive was a sigh of relief. Didn't feel like hearing the wife or mom-inlaws grief
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Nuskul said:
I bricked my mother-inlaws captivate a while back and sent it to MTV. Had it back in 8 days, he also keeps you updated of the process. Seeing the "your phone has been resurrected " e-mail arrive was a sigh of relief. Didn't feel like hearing the wife or mom-inlaws grief
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Erhmm, if it's not broken, don't fix it. Should've thought of that before you flashed her device lol
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Thanks guys I guess I'll have him do that
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SGS2 AT&T Brick
Hey, Is that problem solved? I did not flash the wrong ROM but was flashing CM9 nightly on top of LD3.
Now my phone wont turn on.
I don't have JIG so if you say your problem got resolved, then I will send it to MobileTechVideo.com
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Hey, Is that problem solved? I did not flash the wrong ROM but was flashing CM9 nightly on top of LD3.
Now my phone wont turn on.
I don't have JIG so if you say your problem got resolved, then I will send it to MobileTechVideo.com
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Hi,
Pretty much the same problem here,tried to update hydrogen rom,wiped cache/dalvik through CWM. Installation was hanging for 10-15 minutes,i pressed power button and phone died.Doesnt respond to any button and action.
I am awaiting jig to arrive today ,and will post back if it worked,i doubt though...
2 months later...
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Jig couldnt bring it to life. Probably only thing that helps is jtag...
I felt twice with my I777..I 'played" different options, and use SuperOneClick and Odin. I did know how, but Unroot, install Stock Kernel, reinstal CWMR 5.0.5.4 and enter in Download Mode and later ..uuulaaa.....Dont ask me how...In my desesperation test all I can imagine and had a good look to save my phone.
RockRatt said:
Yes Mobile Tech videos will work perfectly for getting it fixed. I have also spoken to him on the phone many of times and he is a really cool person and very knowledgeable. He fixed my cappy back in the day and he got it to work with our sgs2s back when they first came out. Also you may see if he can apply the unbreakable mod for you while he is at it. Makes it darn near impossible to ever brick it again with bad flashes of even wrong/bad boot loaders. And $50 is way cheaper than a new phone or even insurance if you now decide to accident run it over with your car before calling att.
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I am wondering if AT&T would go to this level of trouble to determine if a ROM was uploaded to a phone or not to determine whether or not the warranty was voided? My phone froze under normal usage under one of the more popular ROMs. I wrote about it elsewhere so I won't write about it here again.. but it said something about encryption when rebooting and never came back from black.
My only concern is when sending it in under warranty at&t will reject and stick me for replacement bill..
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jcomana said:
I felt twice with my I777..I 'played" different options, and use SuperOneClick and Odin. I did know how, but Unroot, install Stock Kernel, reinstal CWMR 5.0.5.4 and enter in Download Mode and later ..uuulaaa.....Dont ask me how...In my desesperation test all I can imagine and had a good look to save my phone.
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Did you have a continually black nonresponsive screen?
HP
heartspeace said:
I am wondering if AT&T would go to this level of trouble to determine if a ROM was uploaded to a phone or not to determine whether or not the warranty was voided? My phone froze under normal usage under one of the more popular ROMs. I wrote about it elsewhere so I won't write about it here again.. but it said something about encryption when rebooting and never came back from black.
My only concern is when sending it in under warranty at&t will reject and stick me for replacement bill..
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Did you have a continually black nonresponsive screen?
HP
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Bleh
Hi
I have been using it for about ten months and my phone just died all of a sudden.
I tried everything but it doesn't work.
I currently have cm9 mod installed so the phone is rooted and unlocked.
However its not like I bricked ot while installing new firmware or anything.
I've sent it in for repair with samsung canada (thankfully still under one yr) but do u think they'll be able to find out that the phone's been rooted? I was thinking that since it doesn't even turn on they will have to replace the mainboard or something and won't be able to figure out but I'm a bit worried. Maybe I should've microwaved it for a bit before sending it off lol jks.
Anybody have experiences with this?
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Hi
I have been using it for about ten months and my phone just died all of a sudden.
I tried everything but it doesn't work.
I currently have cm9 mod installed so the phone is rooted and unlocked.
However its not like I bricked ot while installing new firmware or anything.
I've sent it in for repair with samsung canada (thankfully still under one yr) but do u think they'll be able to find out that the phone's been rooted? I was thinking that since it doesn't even turn on they will have to replace the mainboard or something and won't be able to figure out but I'm a bit worried. Maybe I should've microwaved it for a bit before sending it off lol jks.
Anybody have experiences with this?
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You have CM9 installed as your operating system, Got a feeling they will know its not a Samsung standard firmware," unless Stevie Wonder is repairing it ". Good luck but i think they will charge you..
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You have CM9 installed as your operating system, Got a feeling they will know its not a Samsung standard firmware," unless Stevie Wonder is repairing it ". Good luck but i think they will charge you..
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Sig'd for the lolz.
Depending on what's wrong with the phone, you might get lucky. I've seen a few posts on here about people sending phones in with custom firmwares that had bricked and getting them replaced under warranty.
Depends how bad it is - if they can't boot the phone themselves due to a hardware failure then there's no simple way for them to know you've voided the warranty.
Could you get the phone into download mode? If so then you probably could've fixed it yourself with Odin. If they can boot it into download mode then the first thing they'll see is the counter showing how many ROMs you've flashed over USB (doesn't count CWM flashing, mind).
Whatever happens, when you get the phone back maybe try Chainfire's Triangle Away, it resets your counter and gets rid of that pesky warning triangle. It's risky stuff mind and not for the faint-hearted - I'll admit I haven't run it yet XD
another one when your phone returned
most kernals now come with root and no yellow triangle eg siyah kernal etc etc
mayamo said:
Hi
I have been using it for about ten months and my phone just died all of a sudden.
I tried everything but it doesn't work.
I currently have cm9 mod installed so the phone is rooted and unlocked.
However its not like I bricked ot while installing new firmware or anything.
I've sent it in for repair with samsung canada (thankfully still under one yr) but do u think they'll be able to find out that the phone's been rooted? I was thinking that since it doesn't even turn on they will have to replace the mainboard or something and won't be able to figure out but I'm a bit worried. Maybe I should've microwaved it for a bit before sending it off lol jks.
Anybody have experiences with this?
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Did you tried to remove and insert a battery ?
so i've sent off the phone last week and according to the person at the repair centre, it's with the quality control folks right now to make sure that there's nothing wrong with it after the repair.
i was told that the 'mainboard' was replaced and that they've updated the os to the latest ics.
so does this mean that they never found out about the cm7 rom that was installed?
that's what a dead mainboard means right?
anxiously waiting for the phone to be shipped back now
If they haven't charged you for it, it's either that or they don't care. Either way you win.
so i flashed a new rom on my gs3 and now it will not boot i hold the power button and the screen is just black cannot boot into recovery or download mode plugging it in gives me no charging led either
so i took it to tmo and they ordered me a new one and when i got the replacement i rooted it and tried installing a rom (different rom this time) (liquid jelly bean) so i installed the rom via cwm everything went fine then rebooted and same black screen!!!! no lights nothing!!! wtf is going on!?!?!?!?!?
iv been installing roms for years and never seen a brick like this
You may have been flashing roms for years but your reading skills need major work.
THIS FORUM IS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NOT ANY AMERICAN VERSION.
not only did you stupidly flash the wrong rom on the wrong device, you did it twice.
LEARN TO READ.
And I apologise if I come across as a ****, but I am, so deal with it.
Sick of seeing these posts from people that don't read.
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You may have been flashing roms for years but your reading skills need major work.
THIS FORUM IS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NOT ANY AMERICAN VERSION.
not only did you stupidly flash the wrong rom on the wrong device, you did it twice.
LEARN TO READ.
And I apologise if I come across as a ****, but I am, so deal with it.
Sick of seeing these posts from people that don't read.
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lmfao!!! well that explains it.... so then theres no way to go back???
I can't answer that with any certainty, you'll have to hit up the tmo S3 forum and dig around in there.
Chances are you'll need a jig.
Be more careful in future, its not a phone in your hand, its $600+
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LOL..yea, you need a jig. I did had the same issue with my friend's Galaxy Tab.
What I did was to try to enter download mode (black screen) but when I plug it into my PC, odin still detects it. Perhaps yours is the same. Remove the battery and try entering download mode like how you normally do but just with a black screen.
So a guy is selling S2 very cheaply. In the description he wrote that the phone was working perfectly until he tried to root it. After that only samsung logo shows up and that's it.
From the description I think that I should be able to go to download mode, flash new ROM and everything should work.
However, I have never seen what happens when the phone gets soft or hard bricked (e.g. by MMC bug) or user ticks "repartiton" and flashes wrong PIT file.
So can someone with more experience help me out? What are the chances that this phone can not be repaired with odin/USB jig?
Just don't. If he wants money for it, just don't go there.
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So a guy is selling S2 very cheaply. In the description he wrote that the phone was working perfectly until he tried to root it. After that only samsung logo shows up and that's it.
From the description I think that I should be able to go to download mode, flash new ROM and everything should work.
However, I have never seen what happens when the phone gets soft or hard bricked (e.g. by MMC bug) or user ticks "repartiton" and flashes wrong PIT file.
So can someone with more experience help me out? What are the chances that this phone can not be repaired with odin/USB jig?
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Very high chance of that device being garbage, or the seller must be an absolute idiot who did not try to fix it (he was brave enough to try and root it, so go figure).
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Is this a website sell?
PM the link.
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It probably done the 200m backstroke at the last olympics.
thanks guys, I'll try and figure out something, most probably I won't buy it. It is a website sell, but the link is in Croatian so I won't post it here.
Yeah, don't; I don't do croatian.
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