Right now all my tablet does is show the charging screen when plugged in. I can't get to the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" boot screen unless it is plugged in, otherwise it will not respond to anything. Once it gets to the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" boot screen, if I don't go to the "downloading..." + open envelope screen (using power + volume down) it will take a minute or so and then return to the charging screen. I am pretty sure this isn't a battery issue because I've unplugged it after getting to the "downloading..." + open envelope screen multiple long times (attempting to do something with Oden). Please please please help me at least restore it to the original firmware. I've tried multiple times using Oden but it always fails half-way through the Oden process.
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Right now all my tablet does is show the charging screen when plugged in. I can't get to the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" boot screen unless it is plugged in, otherwise it will not respond to anything. Once it gets to the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" boot screen, if I don't go to the "downloading..." + open envelope screen (using power + volume down) it will take a minute or so and then return to the charging screen. I am pretty sure this isn't a battery issue because I've unplugged it after getting to the "downloading..." + open envelope screen multiple long times (attempting to do something with Oden). Please please please help me at least restore it to the original firmware. I've tried multiple times using Oden but it always fails half-way through the Oden process.
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Wipe cache and dalvik cache ( under advanced )..reboot. If that doent do it....see below..wait r you rooted...? If not..just go ahead and odin the stock gingerbread firmware...
Try a different version of Odin and the firmware that it came with...I'm talking when you got it... I know its a pain , but I've seen problems solved by going back to the original firmware...in this case...gingerbread..
After the Odin flash..and it boots. Let it set in..twenty minutes or so...then flash the latest ICS ROM from sammobile..
Let me know how it goes or if you have any questions...we are here to help..:good:
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So my phone is not even a week old and it may already be bricked...
I flashed this rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1713470) with Siyah v3.4.1 and xxLPS.
Was working for about 6 or so hours. Then following instructions in above thread i flashed the widgets pack.zip. About 10 min after i tried to reboot my phone and that was it.
The first samsung screen with the triangle pops up and then it goes into a black screen with faint sporadic flashes.
I cant get recovery or download mode to work. ive tried taking the battery out and putting it back in...
Im from Sydney so no Jtag options available to me... so what are my options here guys???
Pull the battery out, wait for about 15 sec, put it back in, quickly press and hold Vol Up + Home + Power, it should be able to get into recovery mode. Wipe data / factory reset should get you boot up successfully.
i wish it was that easy
Even that doesnt work...just loads up the first samsung screen with the yellow triangle, and then straight into the black screen with the periodic flash....
No recovery, no download mode, it seems the best solution you have left is the usb jig.
So, I wanted to update the Rom, so tried to go into recovery mode. Pushed the volume down button instead of up, so got into download mode. Pushed the volume down button to cancel. Then pushed the right combination, but nothing past the Galaxy S2 logo with the warning triangle happened.
Tried to reboot a couple of times, but now the phone is completely dead.
Everytime I turn it on the Galaxy S2 logo appear, and when it dissappear the phone seems to be dead. However if I look closely, the screen is not turned off, it it just black (but turned on), and every 5 seconds or so I can see it "blinking", but it blinks "black" if you could say that, you won't notice it if you don't look careful, or you are in a dark room.
If you triple click the home button you normally "invert" the colours on the screen, and this also works in this case. Instead of it flashing with an almost unnoticable black, it is now white and every 5 seconds the screen turns off very briefly, but then the screen is white again.
To get it to stop doing this I need to remove battery. If I push and hold the power button the phone just restarts with the galaxy s2 logo, and then does the same again.
When I connect the phone to a charger or to a PC (while it's powered down), the battery logo appears for a couple of seconds, and then it enters this "blinking" screen thing again.
When connected to a PC it does not appear as a drive - however it seems like windows detects it, it installs the GT-9100 drivers. Samsung Kies can't connect, it just keeps trying to connect forever, without coming with an error, but it's not connecting.
Hard reset is not working in any of the described ways, whatever I do, if its to get it into recovery mode, download mode, or just trying to turn the damn phone on, it just do the blinking thing.
Is this some sort of a boot loop from hell!!?
sounds strange, can you still get it in download mode without issues?
If you can i would advice to flash back to stock(!!)
or you could try to flash a cf-root to see if thats gets you into recovery format system, data, cache, dalvik and flash the new rom.
but im not sure if that would work, a clean install from stock would be better i believe,
as to why it went this way i have no idea!
Good luck!
If you can get in download mode, flash a stock rom with odin and that should do the trick
yes!
Well, that was odd, thought I had tried that several times, but yes now at least I can get it into download.
Now I used ODIN to flash a file (CF-Root-SGS2_XX_XEO_LPQ-v5.3-CWM5.tar) that I had laying on my PC from back when I was originally rooting my phone. ODIN gave me a "Pass" reply and I got the phone into a bootloader. I quickly wiped everything I could, and at the moment I'm seeing if I can boot the phone normally.
Thanks!!
Well my rom is f***** it won't boot, but atleast I can get it into recovery mode.
Have just installed cyanogen 9 stable + gapps, it is now booting up!
Luckily I backed my phone up with Titanium backup just a couple of hours ago!!!
it's working!
Well that saved my ass. I was so close to throwing my phone out of the window and going online to order a S3...
Now I'm setting up my phone - nice, wanted to try Cyanogen 9 anyway.
Cool.. Always be patient.... Rather than thinking of purchasin a new phone when these kind of situations occur. Keep a usb jig with you
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I recently bought a soft bricked galaxy S 3 from a gentleman who said he rooted it and one day it wouldn't boot.
When i turned it on, it would vibrate, then say Samsung, move to the galaxy s 3 logo, then shut off. I hooked it up to ODIN and flashed the original stock 4.0.4 rom to the phone by pressing the PDA button. I selected the Auto Reboot, F. Reset Time, and Nand Erase All options before flashing.
The flash was successful, but when i booted up the phone afterwards (by unplugging it, then taking out the battery and putting it back in) I held down power, home, and volume down, and it took me to the download screen, but then shut off. I cant boot into recovery either because when i hold down the appropriate buttons it says "booting recovery" but then shuts off.
I know its not the battery because i tried a different one and both batteries were fully charged.
I did not flash a boot chain, because i could not find one for ATT S3
The phone will also not boot while plugged in via USB to computer or wall charger.
Phone Info:
Model: SGH-1747
If you could find links to the things needed or any solutions to this almost unbricked s3 please help me!!
Thanks in Advance
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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?
kokoman said:
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.
Hello,
New to the forum and all of this, so please go easy on me.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S9+ (SM-G960F).
On Thursday evening, I went to the device and it was completely dead. It wouldn't turn on and I attempted to do power key/volume down and various other button combinations I found online that would normally boot the device. Obviously, I attempted to charge the phone, but the charging light did not come on yet the phone did warm up slightly as if it was charging. After leaving it plugged in for so long, a 'Downloading... Do Not Turn Target Off' screen appeared. It also states I can restart the phone by holding volume down/power button for seven seconds. However, when I do this the phone just goes dead and doesn't boot up. After plugging in the charger again trying various buttons, I eventually end up back at the same download screen.
I've read about recovery mode, safe mode etc but I am unable to access them using the instructions I've read.
Any help would be appreciated. Ideally I'd like to be able to access my photos/videos/messages on the device and be able to use it again.
Jamfocus said:
Hello,
New to the forum and all of this, so please go easy on me.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S9+ (SM-G960F).
On Thursday evening, I went to the device and it was completely dead. It wouldn't turn on and I attempted to do power key/volume down and various other button combinations I found online that would normally boot the device. Obviously, I attempted to charge the phone, but the charging light did not come on yet the phone did warm up slightly as if it was charging. After leaving it plugged in for so long, a 'Downloading... Do Not Turn Target Off' screen appeared. It also states I can restart the phone by holding volume down/power button for seven seconds. However, when I do this the phone just goes dead and doesn't boot up. After plugging in the charger again trying various buttons, I eventually end up back at the same download screen.
I've read about recovery mode, safe mode etc but I am unable to access them using the instructions I've read.
Any help would be appreciated. Ideally I'd like to be able to access my photos/videos/messages on the device and be able to use it again.
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-Download odin
-Download firmware for your phone
-unrar firmware file
-open odin
-flash AP , BL , CP , HOME_CSC (HOME_CSC goes on USERDATA) if you haven t formated your phone by mistake your files will be there and your phone working.