Hi. for the longest time i've been running Cyanogen 10.1 on my device. Recently I've updated to 10.2. IN the instructions, it just said flash the new zip and the gapps then reboot. I did just that and my phone initially loaded well. it was able to update and such. However, I noticed that after booting, it would hang at the lockscreen for 2-3 seconds then reboot. To end the loop, i tried pulling out the battery. I then tried turning it on but it would only stop at the sII splash screen. I then pulled out the battery again. When plugged in, it would go to the battery charging screen but would hang after awhile so i pulled the batt once again. Now, even plugged, the battery screen won't load anymore. the screen would just open w/ a battery and hang there, then the screen would close and repeat. I tried entering download mode by the button-combo or the USB jig but still none. can anyone help me?
No download mode = not good. Try searching through king_rat (xda user) posts for his method to jump start into download mode.
You can also try:
1. Pull the battery, leave it out for a minute.
2. Replace the battery, but don't turn it on.
3. Hold the button combo for DL mode.
4. Get a friend to plug in the phone charger.
On a working phone, the above procedure would boot into DL mode.
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flashing a zip wont make ur phone dead... u should try another battery and make sure the combo u are trying to enter download mode is correct
usb jig i guess doesnt works wid jb or later (due to bootloader updates bt i may b wrong so plz pardon)
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Was attempting to flash one of the leaked samsung roms using ODIN. Only way we were able to get phone into download mode as using the ADB command line with ADB Reboot Download.
Odin saw it, we started the process. Seemed to be working, but it got stuck with a black screen for over an hour (when I flashed my Vibrant process to all of 10 minutes). We thought the phone just didn't reset, so we unplugged it and hit the power button...and the dreaded cell phone...!...PC screen came up.
I've tried all manner of trying to get into recovery/download mode with no avail. Again, we tried EVERY combination of button presses to get INTO download mode initially, but only the ADB command line method worked.
Now we cannot get past this screen. Any ideas???
SCREWED!!!! Call TMO and have them send you a new one. Nothing you can do if it is hardware locked.
That's what I was afraid of. That is what he is going to do, glad mine didn't have that happen as that ROM has my Vibrant working like it should (GPS works now!!)
I wonder if having to force download mode via ADB was an indication that this phone would have a problem with flashing anything to it??
Never had a brick as many times as I fooled with my Dash and G1. Guess it was bound to happen sometime.
if the battery pull method won't get you into download mode you're likely screwed...
- Make sure USB cable is connected to PC, but disconnected from phone
- pull battery
- hold down VOL+UP & VOL+DOWN and do not release
- insert battery
- insert USB cable into phone
If after a few seconds download mode appears, release VOL keys...and....you've got download mode...if not, it's safe to say your gonna replace the phone..
If that works, I'd also recommend using Odin3 v1.30 instead of v1.00 that most people use. Available here... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790026
Wishing you the best of luck!
Try runnin odin with NO pit or pda file. Ive been at that screen like 100 times, let me kniw what it does
You mean start ODIN and just plug in the phone?
tweak89 said:
You mean start ODIN and just plug in the phone?
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try my steps in this post , works every time for me, to get to download mode ...
My x10 is bricked and won't boot past the Sony Ericsson screen. I have trouble getting it to turn on at all, it takes a weird combination of removing the battery and holding whatever keys. All I know is that it won't turn on unless I take out the battery, put it back in, hold the volume buttons, and press power. If i'm lucky, the phone will vibrate, and seconds later I'll have the SE screen. If there is no usb plugged in, it will go to recovery. I cannot, to save my life, get this phone into flash mode. I had it like an hour ago, but for some reason flashtool got stuck on reading device information, and I couldn't get it back into flash mode since then. Can someone help?
FireFreek said:
My x10 is bricked and won't boot past the Sony Ericsson screen. I have trouble getting it to turn on at all, it takes a weird combination of removing the battery and holding whatever keys. All I know is that it won't turn on unless I take out the battery, put it back in, hold the volume buttons, and press power. If i'm lucky, the phone will vibrate, and seconds later I'll have the SE screen. If there is no usb plugged in, it will go to recovery. I cannot, to save my life, get this phone into flash mode. I had it like an hour ago, but for some reason flashtool got stuck on reading device information, and I couldn't get it back into flash mode since then. Can someone help?
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try out the REPAIR option in SEUS or PC companion.
(also to get into flash mode follow the following steps in the same order as mentioned below :
1. remove battery and plug it in.
2. connect the usb to the x10 first.
3. finally connect the other end of the usb cable to the pc holding the back button. )
OR
you can also try out this method too
Okay, I finally got it working. But the problem is that sometimes it just randomly turns off, and doesn't turn back on again. And when it does I'm not sure why. It might be a battery but I've got three of them, and two of them are new. So it shouldn't be that. (BTW, I managed to root it, unlock the bootloader, and install FXP125 7.2 cyanogen mod. It works fine when it's turned on.) It's like it has moments where the phone works perfectly, turning on, being able to get to recovery and flash mode, and moments where it does absolutely nothing.
strange behaviour !
try to wipe cache partition and dalvik cache
or may be you could reinstall clockwork mod nd CM7 once again right from the beginning
also you should let the ROM settle before its regular use.
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i am also on FXP125 CM7 and so far no such behaviour.
Hi there,
I followed the wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_i9100g instructions to install CM10.1 on my i9100g (up from stock samsung 4.1.2).
It worked fine until step 6 of installing CM Recovery: A blue transfer bar will appear on the device showing the recovery being transferred.
Since the reboot follwing the install, my phone does nothing but displaying the samsung boot logo (showing the device number).
When the logo is shown, I have two options:
1. Long press power, or up+home+power, or down+home+power.
The phone will then reboot and start over showing the boot logo.
2. Take out the battery.
When I re-insert the battery, the display will first display an empty battery logo, and after a few seconds it will switch to the half-full battery logo, as if it was charging (even though no cable is attached).
I have tried the following:
1. Get into download or recovery mode.
Nope, that doesn't seem to work, it always starts the normal boot logo, when I press up/down+home+power.
Taking out the battery for minutes, or holding up/down+home+power veeerry long doesn't help either.
2. start adb reboot recovery
Nope, adb can't find the device.
Kies doesn't connect to the device either, even though windows shows the USB device when the phone hangs at boot logo.
3. Followed the un-soft-brick-my-SGS2 guide.
It doen't apply, since I can't get to download mode.
4. Reflash the kernel/ROM.
Nope, I can't get to download mode, remember?
Any Ideas?
How about just batt pull + normal power up? Did it go straight to boot logo still? Because last time I crapped a flash, it'll show the phone + PC logo instead and that's good thing because that still mean you can hook to Odin and fall back to stock fw.
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How about just batt pull + normal power up? Did it go straight to boot logo still? Because last time I crapped a flash, it'll show the phone + PC logo instead and that's good thing because that still mean you can hook to Odin and fall back to stock fw.
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No, normal power up shows the same behavior, its showing the boot logo. But thank you anyway.
Yesterday I could borrow a USB jig get the phone right into download mode. Didn't work either. So I guess my only option is to send it in.
WTF? After having the Battery removed for two days the phone suddenly showed normal behavior and allowed to go into download mode.
Strange... Maybe the hardware is indeed defective, because it often says that a cable is attached even if its not the case.
I have a rooted i777 with SHOstock rom, I haven't updated the rom for a few months so I'm not sure which version it is.
The phone was working yesterday and it suddenly got stuck so I tried to reboot it (had to take out the battery because the power button didn't respond) but now each time I try to turn it on it is stuck on a black screen with the logo "Samsung Galaxy SII" and won't progress.
I tried to boot to recovery but it shows a screen saying "CWM-based Recovery v6.0.2.7" but it doesn't go pass the screen to show the recovery menu (it just reboots after being stuck on this screen for about a minute).
I tried to boot to download mode and succeeded, but every time I connect the device to my pc, the pc doesn't recognize it
(I tried re-installing kies, but it didn't help and probably the problem is not with the pc drivers because if I connect my wife's unrooted i777 to the pc it does recognize it).
so now I don't have clue what else to try.
any advice will be appreciated.
Make sure you have Odin v1.85 on your Windows PC. Look in the Windows Add/Remove programs dialog (or Uninstall a Program dialog) to see if you have SAMSUNG USB driver for mobile phones.
Open Odin on the desktop. Next put the phone into download mode by holding down vol + and vol - while plugging in the USB cable.
If Odin recognizes your phone, flash back to stock. I would recommend UCMD8 stock firmware, which you can get from the Download Repository.
don't know what happened to it but now it doesn't even turn on.
it's stopped turning on before I had a chance to try what you suggested.
now even if I connect it to the charger it doesn't show the charging status.
is there any other "force something" I can try?
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is there any other "force something" I can try?
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Remove the battery and leave it out. Connect the USB cable to your PC. While holding down the vol- button (also try it with both vol- and vol+) but not the power button, plug the USB cable into the phone. The computer will provide the power. If this works, your phone will go into download mode. If not... you have very likely had some kind of hardware failure.
unfortunately it didn't work.
can't get it to download mode.
I'll try to leave the battery out for a longer time and try again.
should I try ordering a JTAG usb and see if it puts it in download mode or
probably my only option is to send it to mobiletechvideos?
I had the same problem, Your battery got too low. Pull your battery and leave it out for a while 15 mins or so. Put the battery back in and connect charger. Let the battery charge for a while without trying to turn on phone. The phone will not turn on with a dead battery even if it is connected to charger.
I just solved a problem that I didn't find any help with, so I thought I would post it here in case somebody else needs help out of this situation, and this is a recent and related thread.
After I pulled the battery of my i777 to test in another phone, without remembering to power my phone off first, it would only hang at the Samsung boot logo (stock UCMD8 ROM, rooted, stock recovery). Normally the Samsung boot screen shows for only about five seconds. Pulling the battery wouldn't get it to boot right. Holding Power to force a reboot didn't solve it. After clearing the cache it would move to the AT&T Rethink Possible screen once, then reboot and then again get hung on the Samsung logo screen. Also my battery was heating up a lot as it was hung.
I could get into both download mode and recovery. I tried reflashing my ROM from the stock file in ODIN since that would save all of my data IF it worked. This still didn't get it to boot past the first logo. Finally doing a factory reset on stock recovery is what solved my problem. I had to re-add my account and reload apps from scratch, etc.
So I have had the phone for a while and have been running Task's AOKP ROM with minimal hiccups.
I had the phone charging and when I unplugged it it would not turn on.
After pulling the battery and rebooting, I noticed that the stock AOKP boot image appeared (as opposed to my custom one) and the phone got stuck in a boot loop. Booting in to CWM I could see that something had gone wrong as it kept popping up about a recovery log file not being found.
When I tried to reboot the phone it did not do so, even after charging. No sign of life at all. Buying a new battery didn't help - it still shows no signs of life at all.
Anyone any ideas? Anything I can try? I'm willing to flash back to stock if that's what it takes but I can't even get it to power on in to CWM to do so.
Would the USB JIG help?
The jig might help. If you have one on hand try that first. Otherwise, try to boot into download mode with the battery out. Do the following:
Pull the battery and leave it out.
Open Odin3 (v1.85 recommended) on the desktop.
Have USB cable plugged in to appropriate port on computer but not connected to the phone.
Hold the vol down button (or holding both volume buttons is okay) but not the power button and plug the usb cable in to the usb port on the phone. The computer will supply the power.
If you get download mode, and Odin recognizes the phone, flash the full stock package from the Download Repository. UCMD8 is the latest stock.
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The jig might help. If you have one on hand try that first. Otherwise, try to boot into download mode with the battery out. Do the following:
Pull the battery and leave it out.
Open Odin3 (v1.85 recommended) on the desktop.
Have USB cable plugged in to appropriate port on computer but not connected to the phone.
Hold the vol down button (or holding both volume buttons is okay) but not the power button and plug the USB cable in to the USB port on the phone. The computer will supply the power.
If you get download mode, and Odin recognizes the phone, flash the full stock package from the Download Repository. UCMD8 is the latest stock.
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So I tried your suggestion but plugging the phone in with the battery out does nothing. No sign of life. Do I need to have specific drivers installed?
I have the most recent SAMSUNG drivers for the S2 found here on XDA and have ODIN 1.85 installed but the phone just remains blank and nothing happens. Any other options/thoughts? I it perhaps the USB charging port? Or is it fully bricked? Any way to check?
EDIT: With the phone plugged in and the battery either out or in, the top of the phone does become warmer so it seems like the USB port IS working perhaps? This is very frustrating...
I'm far from experienced with this sort of failure. I can only make suggestions based on my collected knowledge from reading the forum every day, and my understanding of trouble shooting principles. So don't take anything I say as definitive.
Generally, if the phone shows no sign of life, that is the definition of a brick. If it shows no sign of life except getting warm when plugged in, that is a different symptom than "no sign of life."
Do you have a jig, and have you tried inserting the jig with a charged battery in the phone? That would be the third troubleshooting step to see if the phone can enter download mode. 1) standard method to enter download mode with a charged battery. 2) attempt download mode with the battery out 3) attempt download mode using a usb jig with a charged battery.
As far as the usb port, were you aware of any problem with it before this issue came up? As far as I can remember from what people have said in the forum, they know that they have a usb port issue because of wonky behavior, before complete port failure. Also, most people report that their phone still boots when they have usb port failure.
I always hate to suggest spending money, but if you are unable to get into download mode through any method, then I can't think of anything else to do but send it off for repair.
I just resurrected my S2 two days ago when I bought my laptop. Used a jig I made from a YouTube video and all went well other than some slight USB issues like the phone thinks its plugged in sometimes.
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I was using CyanDelta for over months without any problem. Today (1 December 2013), I downloaded an update of about 21 MB of Cyanogenmod Nightly 10.2 for Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH I777. While trying to install it, the phone booted into recovery and installed it. However, during the process of Upgrading, i.e. when the screen says “Android is Upgrading”, “Optimizing App”, the phone got stuck at “Optimizing app 271 of 313”. I waited for about 30 minutes before I manually switched off the phone using the power button. Then I restarted the phone and saw a new boot logo of cyanogenmod; but it got into boot loop. Then I booted into recovery and manually installed the new zip (of 1 December 2013) found in CyanDelta folder. Still the phone could not boot. Now I saw “Samsung” logo only once and then the phone completely turned off. Now I could not turn my phone on, nor could I boot into recovery or download mode. Also I fully charged the battery before flashing the new Zip.
I tried all other steps to boot my phone like removing the battery and pressing power button for a minute, plugging the usb cable into PC and pressing the volume down button and also all sorts of other key combinations. Nothing could boot the phone. Please help. Is my phone completely bricked or is there any issue with my battery ?
Phone : Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH I777 (AT&T)
ROM : Cyanogenmod Nightly 10.2
Battery Condition : Poor (But it was fully charged and also charger was plugged in while flashing the Zip)
Email : [email protected]
... and this is the 3rd time you've posted this. Please wait for your answer in the thread you created, or try the steps creepy has laid out. I guarantee you've not tried everything.
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... and this is the 3rd time you've posted this. Please wait for your answer in the thread you created, or try the steps creepy has laid out. I guarantee you've not tried everything.
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Sorry for the same post being posted thrice. And I have already tried all the methods except for the USB Jig method. I may think of buying usb jig, but is there any specific usb jig available for S2 sgh i777 ? And my phone usually gets warmed up when I put in my battery, but could not do anything with the phone.