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i just flashed simply honey 3.8 via odin, i did back to stock before via odin (came from cm7) but after flashed simply honey, my phone stucked at rainbow screen sayin partition partition stupid partition, so i read that to get rid that rainbow i should flash gb bootloader, then i flashed the bootloader via odin, yeah the rainbow has gone but my phone keeps bootloping in vibrant and bullet screen then sayin partition2 bla bla, i can't get to odin with 2 button combo, it's just go to charging wtf, i can't even get to cwm via 3 buttons combo, help me guys, thx in advance
Have you tried
1. Start Odin
2. Plug USB cable into pc
3. Power off the Phone.
3. Pull the Battery.
5. Plug USB cable into Phone.
6. Press and Hold: Volume UP + Volume DOWN + Power, all at the same time.
7. Re-insert the battery.
8. The phone will power now, when the screen starts a cycle of going to a BLACK screen, release ONLY the POWER button.
9. When you see the download icon release the volume buttons,
10. Odin back to stock by putting the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.
Just checking, did you take out your battery, unplugged the usb, put the battery back in, then held vol up, vol down, and power and released all three as soon as you saw the Vibrant logo?
and if that doesnt work try all the steps above but minus one step! hold down both volume buttons except power and see if that works!
nomadrider123 said:
Have you tried
1. Start Odin
2. Plug USB cable into pc
3. Power off the Phone.
3. Pull the Battery.
5. Plug USB cable into Phone.
6. Press and Hold: Volume UP + Volume DOWN + Power, all at the same time.
7. Re-insert the battery.
8. The phone will power now, when the screen starts a cycle of going to a BLACK screen, release ONLY the POWER button.
9. When you see the download icon release the volume buttons,
10. Odin back to stock by putting the PIT file into the appropriate area and the .tar in the PDA area.
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nah, it doesn't work, it just keep showing the charging screen, even i keep holding the three button then reinsert the battery it just keep goin to charge mode over and over and if i release the power button only the phone sayin "partition" in chargin mode but not get into download mode at all, im pretty desperate right now, this is my first smartphone and i bricked it, how stupid i am
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and if that doesnt work try all the steps above but minus one step! hold down both volume buttons except power and see if that works!
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no it doesn't work it still can't go to download mode, its in charging mode keep saying that stupid partition, thx for replying my thread btw
It's not bricked, I know you're mad and frustrated, trust me, I've been there a million times!
Lets try taking out the battery and leave it out for 15 minutes. Reboot your computer and unplug every usb.
Then try the above steps again.
crazy25000 said:
It's not bricked, I know you're mad and frustrated, trust me, I've been there a million times!
Lets try taking out the battery and leave it out for 15 minutes. Reboot your computer and unplug every usb.
Then try the above steps again.
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tried it, still my phone can't see the download mode screen, i can't bring it to t-mobile since i don't live in states
If you flashed the bootloaders then the mapping is different. Try power button and volume up without the usb plugged and with the battery in. That should get you in download mode.
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tried it, still my phone can't see the download mode screen, i can't bring it to t-mobile since i don't live in states
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You are not bricked. I just had the same thing happen flashing the light version with Rom Manager. Since you flashed the Bootloaders, the key combination has changed. Hold down the volume up and power key. Release when you see the vibrant logo-that should take you into red recovery. When there, go to voodoo, choose disable. It will tell you it is 'actually enable' and will be disabled next boot. So reboot and let it do its thing. When I did it the Android in space finally showed up.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure you don't need to go into download mode to reflash with odin, just disable the lagfix. If it doesn't boot into the Android, then volume down+power will take you into download and reflash after the lagfix is finished disabling.
EDIT 2: And with the Gingerbread bootloader, you can't go into download mode if plugged in anymore. It will not go past the charger like on the Froyo Bootloaders.
EDIT 3: Sorry got the key mapping backwards, lol here it is straight from the Bootloaders site.
Gingerbread Bootloaders - No Rainbow - Fully visible Recovery on all ROMs
Benefits - No more rainbows on Gingerbread 2.3 ROMs like Simply Honey GB, LiDroid, Asgard, etc.
Convenient Key Maps for entering Recovery and Download Modes. (I personally like these mappings over the Standard Vibrant Mapping as you can enter download mode directly without needing to turn off phone or remove battery etc...)
For Recovery - Lower Volume Key + Power Button
For Download - Upper Volume Key + Power Button
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RaymondPJR said:
You are not bricked. I just had the same thing happen flashing the light version with Rom Manager. Since you flashed the Bootloaders, the key combination has changed. Hold down the volume up and power key. Release when you see the vibrant logo-that should take you into red recovery. When there, go to voodoo, choose disable. It will tell you it is 'actually enable' and will be disabled next boot. So reboot and let it do its thing. When I did it the Android in space finally showed up.
EDIT: I'm pretty sure you don't need to go into download mode to reflash with odin, just disable the lagfix. If it doesn't boot into the Android, then volume down+power will take you into download and reflash after the lagfix is finished disabling.
EDIT 2: And with the Gingerbread bootloader, you can't go into download mode if plugged in anymore. It will not go past the charger like on the Froyo Bootloaders.
EDIT 3: Sorry got the key mapping backwards, lol here it is straight from the Bootloaders site.
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YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! THAAAAAAAAAANKSSSSSSSSS I can go to download mode, sorry for my noooobnesss
bricked
YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! THAAAAAAAAAANKSSSSSSSSS I can go to download mode, sorry for my noooobnesss
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Glad you are happy, lol! I'm flashing the medium version right now from recovery and will do the full whenever it finishes downloading.
Glad you got it worked out!
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YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! THAAAAAAAAAANKSSSSSSSSS I can go to download mode, sorry for my noooobnesss
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I'm impressed with your risk taking capabilities man... Dont know how old you are to Android, and I'm not commenting on that, but from what I see, you are just 15 posts old, and you managed to flash Bootloaders to your phone...
Do read the OP for possible solutions before you flash anything... That said, till you have a screen, its not a brick.
Flash the bootloaders, using the new key mapping, and then flash the ROM, you should be good to go !!!
maybe one of you guys can help me here
i have the rainbow screen and i cannot get computer to recognize phone. i have to get into download mode with a dongle and odin still does not recognize my phone. i cannot boot into recover as the screen is completely rainbowed out and I cannot see what I am doing.
Are there any suggestions on what to do from here?
Thank you
Hey everybody
A few days ago i rooted my phone with CF-Root and installed the Super Nexus Rom Stable 1. It run really
fast and worked great :good:
This morning I saw that the second version released. So I downloaded it and also the gapps again. But after installing i recognized
that the screen flashed and the rom didn't run smooth.I decided to roll it back with my backup.
But after starting the backup, the screen got black. I waited 30 minutes, then i took the battery out of my smartphone. As I put it back and started my phone
again, i just saw a purple screen. No samsung logo or somthing else. after 2 minutes i saw the status bar at the top, but the rest of the screen kept purple. I tried to bring it in download mode, but the screen is always purple and odin don't recognize the phone.
Please help me
Did you try entering download mode with a jig? Sometimes even when button combo or cable /volume combos don't work a jig will.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using Tapatalk 2
pull out battery for 20-30 min then put battery then charge ur phone and after 30 min try to enter in download mode
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pull out battery for 20-30 min then put battery then charge ur phone and after 30 min try to enter in download mode
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Mmh, It didn't work . I let the battery out of the phone for 2 hours and tried to start it again in Download Mode, but just earned a purple screen.
spagman72 said:
Did you try entering download mode with a jig? Sometimes even when button combo or cable /volume combos don't work a jig will.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using Tapatalk 2
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No, i think i should buy one.
I think my problem is that the phone gets into the Download Mode. But at the s3 we have to confirm that we really want to get into this mode.
I think i just hang at this screen, but can't check the right box, cause i just see the purple screen
Get I immediatly into the Download Mode with a jig, or have i also to check the accept button?
charge phone via pc for sumtime then try to enter in downlaod mode
Just because the screen is purple/black doesnt mean that phone is not in download mode.
If you hold the combo buttons to get into download mode but cant see the screen where it says press up to go into download mode just wait a sec and press up anyway.
then plug your phone up to odin.....it may still be able to go into download mode even though you are SEEING the screen.
the2rrell said:
Just because the screen is purple/black doesnt mean that phone is not in download mode.
If you hold the combo buttons to get into download mode but cant see the screen where it says press up to go into download mode just wait a sec and press up anyway.
then plug your phone up to odin.....it may still be able to go into download mode even though you are SEEING the screen.
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I started my phone normal and wait some time. Then I connected it to the pc. The explorer starts and show me a window with the title GWT-I9300.
But instead to see any content the folder is absolutly empty. Bad sign??? Or good sign that i can connect it?
I start it again with the 3 key combo in Debug Mode. I think i'm in cause if i connect it again to the pc nothing happened. Odin also doesn't recognized the phone
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I started my phone normal and wait some time. Then I connected it to the pc. The explorer starts and show me a window with the title GWT-I9300.
But instead to see any content the folder is absolutly empty. Bad sign??? Or good sign that i can connect it?
I start it again with the 3 key combo in Debug Mode. I think i'm in cause if i connect it again to the pc nothing happened. Odin also doesn't recognized the phone
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Did you press up before you plugged it up to the pc??
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Did you press up before you plugged it up to the pc??
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Hey. I forget that it was the up key. i think i have to press a button at the screen. so now it works :good:
Odin recognize my phone. Really great.
But what is the next step. Should i flash CF-Root or a stable ROM?
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Hey. I forget that it was the up key. in think i have to press a button at the screen. so now it works :good:
Odin recognized my phone. Really great.
But what is the next step. Should i flash CF-Root or a stable ROM?
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You should return it to stock with a full flash give me a sec I'll grab a link this will restore everything. You then should go into recovery volume up middle button and power and do a full wipe to make sure you get everything out as odin doesn't do that it will only override what is there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610
Download file from there and just to make sure we are talking international gt-i9300 CORRECT? The file is big like 750 megs it contains stock everything and will restore the entire device to stock. It will not erase the on board store partitioned for the SD heck it doesn't erase anything just overrides.
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You should return it to stock with a full flash give me a sec I'll grab a link this will restore everything. You then should go into recovery volume up middle button and power and do a full wipe to make sure you get everything out as odin doesn't do that it will only override what is there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610
Download file from there and just to make sure we are talking international gt-i9300 CORRECT? The file is big like 750 megs it contains stock everything and will restore the entire device to stock. It will not erase the on board store partitioned for the SD heck it doesn't erase anything just overrides.
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thank you verry much
that's my last hope. before you have written it, i flashed again the cf-kernel. odin said that the operation was succesfull. but the screen keep purple.
hope that it is not a hardware brick
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thank you verry much
that's my last hope. before you have writtent it, i flashed again the cf-kernel. odin say it was succesfull. but the screan keep purple.
hope that it is no hardware brick
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Doesn't sound like a hardware brick. After you flash the stock again if you still have the purple screen let me know and i'll find the button combo so you can wipe the data as there could still be something lingering that could cause that. And don't be to worried you have a colored screen that's not too bad it's when you get nothing no matter what that you should get very scared
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Doesn't sound like a hardware brick. After you flash the stock again if you still have the purple screen let me know and i'll find the button combo so you can wipe the data as there could still be something lingering that could cause that. And don't be to worried you have a colored screen that's not too bad it's when you get nothing no matter what that you should get very scared
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Now Odin finished with all operations succesfull. After restart I can hear the samsung sound but screen keeps purple
It's also a bit strange, if i start my phone normal and connect it to the pc. No explorer window opens, but odin still recognize the phone. I don't started it in Download Mode???
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Now Odin finished with all operations succesfull. After restart I can hear the samsung sound but screen keeps purple
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Yeah that's what I thought so last thing
Pull battery
Hold Volume UP Middle Button and Power Button for ten seconds
wait like another 20 seconds then press volume down twice then press power after a min press power again with any luck this will do a full wipe for you. It is blind but I did confirm on my phone the times it takes.
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After you volume down twice and then press power volume down three times and press power again then wait ten seconds and press power a last time. The third press is to wipe the cache which is the problem I bet.
Was there any info about GPU overclocking/volting on that custom rom you installed? I mean on that version 2.
For me this sounds like that your graphical chip on the phone might have damaged.
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GalaxyS3man said:
Was there any info about GPU overclocking/volting on that custom rom you installed? I mean on that version 2.
For me this sounds like that your graphical chip on the phone might have damaged.
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It could be but lets not scare the dude yet. I have had many phones do blue and purple screens just as he describes it is generally a bad flash or file or forgetting to wipe. I do not think at this point we are looking at a bad GPU. I have also had this phone give me weird colored screen flashed upon starting or going into recovery that had to do with a improper restore.
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It could be but lets not scare the dude yet. I have had many phones do blue and purple screens just as he describes it is generally a bad flash or file or forgetting to wipe. I do not think at this point we are looking at a bad GPU. I have also had this phone give me weird colored screen flashed upon starting or going into recovery that had to do with a improper restore.
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mmh, really sad. i need more runs to get it to work. but then after some the phone do somthing and restart after last pressing power. But screen keeps in this ugly purple.
The rom i installed was the Super Nexus Rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1817345)
develpoer23 said:
mmh, really sad. i need more runs to get it to work. but then after some the phone do somthing and restart after last pressing power. But screen keeps in this ugly purple.
The rom i installed was the Super Nexus Rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1817345)
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keep playing with it after you are sure you've gotten the three and two try to odin one more time.
Another option you have is to go into odin and and flash a know stable recovery then see if you can boot into it recovery.
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Hey. I forget that it was the up key. i think i have to press a button at the screen. so now it works :good:
Odin recognize my phone. Really great.
But what is the next step. Should i flash CF-Root or a stable ROM?
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Stable Rom....get your phone booting up first, then worry about rooting
You over zelous flasher.....lol
I have a Galaxy Player 3.6 YP-GS1CB/XAA Nothing was modified from the factory image, It went dead while a game was running and now when I start it, it comes up with the samsung logo and restarts. I havent been able to get it connected to the PC either. I left it charge for hours, when off the charge icon doesnt come up on the screen either. How would i reset it to the default rom, I havent been able to get it to start in download mode either, if im doing it right.
I have a few of these around so I did try putting a full charge battery in it and using its battery in another player and the other player works fine, the battery is full. So basically its stuck in a boot loop and I would prefer fixing it myself then sending it off for repair if possible, any ideas?
Edit: I managed to get into recovery mode and reset it to defaults but its still stuck in a boot loop after recovery and clearing caches, I can now get it into download mode, it seems i need to reflash the stock firmware if possible. Where could I download it and how would i flash it? I have another player available if i need to download the firmware off of it
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I have a Galaxy Player 3.6 YP-GS1CB/XAA Nothing was modified from the factory image, It went dead while a game was running and now when I start it, it comes up with the samsung logo and restarts. I havent been able to get it connected to the PC either. I left it charge for hours, when off the charge icon doesnt come up on the screen either. How would i reset it to the default rom, I havent been able to get it to start in download mode either, if im doing it right.
I have a few of these around so I did try putting a full charge battery in it and using its battery in another player and the other player works fine, the battery is full. So basically its stuck in a boot loop and I would prefer fixing it myself then sending it off for repair if possible, any ideas?
Edit: I managed to get into recovery mode and reset it to defaults but its still stuck in a boot loop after recovery and clearing caches, I can now get it into download mode, it seems i need to reflash the stock firmware if possible. Where could I download it and how would i flash it? I have another player available if i need to download the firmware off of it
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if your device has a physical home button, it is eu/int
if your device has a capacitive home button, it is usa
you can find the files here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1864741
this wont be 100% default, you will have root too
you will need to use odin in windows, do NOT check "repartition", just check PDA and load the factoryfs.tar.md5 file (at least i know thats the filename for usa version, as that is all i use)
Relevant Wing said:
Edit: I managed to get into recovery mode and reset it to defaults but its still stuck in a boot loop after recovery and clearing caches, I can now get it into download mode, it seems i need to reflash the stock firmware if possible. Where could I download it and how would i flash it? I have another player available if i need to download the firmware off of it
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My little brother ran into the exact same problem with his Galaxy Player 3.6 he sent it to me to try and fix. The problem is identical to the one you had. My question is, do you recall how you were able to get it into recovery mode? I've tried pressing the Power and Down button which does bring me to the "Warning Custom OS" screen but as soon as I try pressing the Up key it just reboots and goes back to the Samsung screen.
Keep holding it.
Relevant Wing said:
I have a Galaxy Player 3.6 YP-GS1CB/XAA Nothing was modified from the factory image, It went dead while a game was running and now when I start it, it comes up with the samsung logo and restarts. I havent been able to get it connected to the PC either. I left it charge for hours, when off the charge icon doesnt come up on the screen either. How would i reset it to the default rom, I havent been able to get it to start in download mode either, if im doing it right.
I have a few of these around so I did try putting a full charge battery in it and using its battery in another player and the other player works fine, the battery is full. So basically its stuck in a boot loop and I would prefer fixing it myself then sending it off for repair...
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Hello,
Try these steps:
1. Download stock rom (tar file/for EU or US, if you got the US edition, download factoryfs.img and normalboot.img and repack them both into a tar file, maybe with 7zip)
2. Download and install Samsung Kies for the drivers
3. Download ODIN3 (This is a flashing toolkit, just search on the internet for it and make sure you download V1.85 or higher)
4. Take out the battery from your player and wait a few seconds
5. Put the battery back into your device and wait also a few seconds
6. Boot player into Download Mode
7. Open ODIN (odin3.exe)
8. Click "PDA" button and select the tar file which includes factoryfs.img and normalboot.img
9. Make sure nothing except "Auto reboot" and "F.Reset time" are checked
10. Connect device and wait until ODIN recognizes it (you will "Added!!" in the white box
11. Click "Start" and wait until flashing process is fully finished
12. Unplug and reboot!
Good luck!
If this helped --> Let me know and hit thanks
If not --> PM me or answer the thread
For future --> Please post questions in the Q&A thread, thanks
MrBrubble
Sent from my YP-GS1 using xda app-developers app
similar issue,
Relevant Wing said:
I have a Galaxy Player 3.6 YP-GS1CB/XAA Nothing was modified from the factory image, It went dead while a game was running and now when I start it, it comes up with the samsung logo and restarts. I havent been able to get it connected to the PC either. I left it charge for hours, when off the charge icon doesnt come up on the screen either. How would i reset it to the default rom, I havent been able to get it to start in download mode either, if im doing it right.
I have a few of these around so I did try putting a full charge battery in it and using its battery in another player and the other player works fine, the battery is full. So basically its stuck in a boot loop and I would prefer fixing it myself then sending it off for repair if possible, any ideas?
Edit: I managed to get into recovery mode and reset it to defaults but its still stuck in a boot loop after recovery and clearing caches, I can now get it into download mode, it seems i need to reflash the stock firmware if possible. Where could I download it and how would i flash it? I have another player available if i need to download the firmware off of it
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i had the same issue with my galaxy 3.6 media player, the only difference is after the annoying ass bootloop the player just stopped turning on entirely. is there any way to fix this? my pc wont recognize it, it wont start up at all, so i have no idea if its even taking a charge. any help would be appreciated greatly...
Try to charge the player completely and take the battery out for 15 seconds. After that you need to go into download mode, download Odin, and load a stock ROM that fits your region. Fill it in as PDA and press start.
If that didn't work then you can try to download a kernel that best fits your device aka clockworkmod recovery and put in PDA and press start. After that your device should boot up in the recovery.
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Dead in reboot
troy5890 said:
Try to charge the player completely and take the battery out for 15 seconds. After that you need to go into download mode, download Odin, and load a stock ROM that fits your region. Fill it in as PDA and press start.
If that didn't work then you can try to download a kernel that best fits your device aka clockworkmod recovery and put in PDA and press start. After that your device should boot up in the recovery.
Sent from my YP-G70 using XDA Free mobile app
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I think I have the same story.
I have a Samsung Galaxy player 3.6 model: YP-GS1CB/XAA, that seems to be dead. I have looked a long time at different ways to solve this own my own and am at a dead end.
Symptoms:
1. Device shows only the Samsung Logo when I try to turn it on, looks like it is in a reboot loop.
2. When hooked to a charger or computer, it shows a small pinwheel on screen.
Actions: I hold down power and volume down buttons to try to go into Odin download and the logo goes away(blank screen). Then it vibrates and logo reappears. If I continue to hold the buttons down it just repeats, hence reboot loop.
I tried the restore mode, power and volume up buttons with no results.
I attempted Odin and Unsoft Brick. Both did not recognize the device. I also tried two different windows computers and different USB ports. Still no progress.
Question: Do I have a brick or is there some other way to breathe life back into my little toy?
Thanks for any light you might be able to shine on this.
Clydew said:
I think I have the same story.
I have a Samsung Galaxy player 3.6 model: YP-GS1CB/XAA, that seems to be dead. I have looked a long time at different ways to solve this own my own and am at a dead end.
Symptoms:
1. Device shows only the Samsung Logo when I try to turn it on, looks like it is in a reboot loop.
2. When hooked to a charger or computer, it shows a small pinwheel on screen.
Actions: I hold down power and volume down buttons to try to go into Odin download and the logo goes away(blank screen). Then it vibrates and logo reappears. If I continue to hold the buttons down it just repeats, hence reboot loop.
I tried the restore mode, power and volume up buttons with no results.
I attempted Odin and Unsoft Brick. Both did not recognize the device. I also tried two different windows computers and different USB ports. Still no progress.
Question: Do I have a brick or is there some other way to breathe life back into my little toy?
Thanks for any light you might be able to shine on this.
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No results on flashing custom/stock rom too?
kryptonify said:
No results on flashing custom/stock rom too?
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It does not go into the Odin download mode, so is there another way to flash rom?
Clydew said:
It does not go into the Odin download mode, so is there another way to flash rom?
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Yes, first download a ROM, choose from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1864741 try the Original ROM. Then boot into recovery by pressing Home, Volume Up and Power Button at the same time while the device is off! Then flash the ROM. Just ask if you need questions/help.
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Yes, first download a ROM, choose from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1864741 try the Original ROM. Then boot into recovery by pressing Home, Volume Up and Power Button at the same time while the device is off! Then flash the ROM. Just ask if you need questions/help.
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My Samsung player will not go into Odin download or restore mode. What is next other than a cute paper weight?:crying:
Clydew said:
My Samsung player will not go into Odin download or restore mode. What is next other than a cute paper weight?:crying:
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Well if that's the case, I guess its safe to say that your phone is dead?
Hm, have you tried using adb to go to recovery mode?
kryptonify said:
Well if that's the case, I guess its safe to say that your phone is dead?
Hm, have you tried using adb to go to recovery mode?
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Where can I find out about ADB and a procedure?
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Where can I find out about ADB and a procedure?
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Search on internet. Theres tons of it, mostly here on xda forum. try this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2141817
its a long way ahead.
It's still very early an I see a few people going stir crazy over finding a way to root their phones. I for one am not sure I want to root just yet, the reason being Samsung pay. If it's going to be as awesome as they say it will be I don't wanna miss out due to tripping Knox.
Now I do love flashing and all things root related but I'm willing to hold out.
What about you? Root or no root? Why?
I root right away even if I don't have a "good" reason too. Its the because I can. I don't really care about the tripping knox thing I guess because if you have insurance there is always a chance the device could get "broken". Then you don't have to worry about if its tripped or not. Thats the position Samsung has put me in I wouldn't typically do something like that. So ya now I'm just waiting for TWRP then I will try and make a ROM.
I tried to use chainroot, and got stuck on the logo screen. normally you'd battery pull, go to recovery and wipe data. but i can't find any way to shut down the phone, before doing power-upVol-home.
And now i've tried to odin a stock recovery to undo chainroot, odin fails. could re-run odin with auto-reboot off, but again, no way to shut off and go to recovery.
at this point i'm stuck with the blue screen asking me to use smart switch on PC to do emergency recovery. but smartswitch says the device is not recognized.
thoughts? thanks!
I don't care about warranty just samsung pay. I heard it was harder to make roms with exinos is that true?
jasonastley said:
I tried to use chainroot, and got stuck on the logo screen. normally you'd battery pull, go to recovery and wipe data. but i can't find any way to shut down the phone, before doing power-upVol-home.
And now i've tried to odin a stock recovery to undo chainroot, odin fails. could re-run odin with auto-reboot off, but again, no way to shut off and go to recovery.
at this point i'm stuck with the blue screen asking me to use smart switch on PC to do emergency recovery. but smartswitch says the device is not recognized.
thoughts? thanks!
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That sucks bro. I feel your pain. What happens if you press volume down, power and home for like 30 seconds?
jasonastley said:
I tried to use chainroot, and got stuck on the logo screen. normally you'd battery pull, go to recovery and wipe data. but i can't find any way to shut down the phone, before doing power-upVol-home.
And now i've tried to odin a stock recovery to undo chainroot, odin fails. could re-run odin with auto-reboot off, but again, no way to shut off and go to recovery.
at this point i'm stuck with the blue screen asking me to use smart switch on PC to do emergency recovery. but smartswitch says the device is not recognized.
thoughts? thanks!
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Not sure what device you have but there was a video that said not to use the edge version of the root, and to use the regular S6 version. Running the S6 version will fix your broken device. Take this with a grain of salt, I'm just telling you what I saw. I will post the video link if I get a chance.
PS not sure if this actually helps you or not..
Rooting broke Google Play Movies on my phone, battery life was miserable and phone never went to sleep. After I unrooted everything went back to normal. So I am not going to root and just wait until things are cleaned up.
Every phone I've ever had has been rooted as soon as I got it. Not this time though, because of Samsung Pay.
If rooting breaks Samsung Pay, I'll never root the phone
IakobosJ said:
Every phone I've ever had has been rooted as soon as I got it. Not this time though, because of Samsung Pay.
If rooting breaks Samsung Pay, I'll never root the phone
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You and me both!
mrnovanova said:
That sucks bro. I feel your pain. What happens if you press volume down, power and home for like 30 seconds?
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Volume down and power for 7 seconds = battery pull
alexkaye said:
Volume down and power for 7 seconds = battery pull
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not for me right now: i have the turquoise error screen telling me to use smart switch. volDown + power for 7 seconds turns the screen off... and then right back on a couple seconds later. and i can't seem to slip in the recovery key sequence during that gap.
volDown + power + home is a diff story: that brings me into download mode. but i don't have anything that works in odin right now without failing. very possible that i don't have the correct rom, or that the rom is fine but i just need to go into recovery mode to complete, but i can't seem to do that!
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not for me right now: i have the turquoise error screen telling me to use smart switch. volDown + power for 7 seconds turns the screen off... and then right back on a couple seconds later. and i can't seem to slip in the recovery key sequence during that gap.
volDown + power + home is a diff story: that brings me into download mode. but i don't have anything that works in odin right now without failing. very possible that i don't have the correct rom, or that the rom is fine but i just need to go into recovery mode to complete, but i can't seem to do that!
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How about volume up+power+home to stock recovery to perform a factory reset?
No root for me I'm afraid! If I root this device I lose my nfc payment app (Semble) as it checks for root and locks the app if it's detected. Besides I've rooted every other phone I've had since iPhone Gen 1 and I don't really have the time anymore now I've got a 1 year old boy!
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mrnovanova said:
How about volume up+power+home to stock recovery to perform a factory reset?
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nope. that's what i meant by "the recovery key combination" that i mentioned. only the dload mode key combo works, volUP + power + home does nothing.
jasonastley said:
nope. that's what i meant by "the recovery key combination" that i mentioned. only the dload mode key combo works, volUP + power + home does nothing.
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Oh shoot. Sorry to hear that.
jasonastley said:
I tried to use chainroot, and got stuck on the logo screen. normally you'd battery pull, go to recovery and wipe data. but i can't find any way to shut down the phone, before doing power-upVol-home.
And now i've tried to odin a stock recovery to undo chainroot, odin fails. could re-run odin with auto-reboot off, but again, no way to shut off and go to recovery.
at this point i'm stuck with the blue screen asking me to use smart switch on PC to do emergency recovery. but smartswitch says the device is not recognized.
thoughts? thanks!
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Why is ODIN failing? Drivers installed? Where did you get this recovery? If ODIN can see your device you flash back to unrooted stock firmware.
Also, someone mentioned that you can Vol down + power will shut the device down. As soon as the screen goes black take your finger off the power button, press and hold Vol up + home then press power. You can go right from download mode to recovery with just the buttons.
great questions:
jamcar said:
Why is ODIN failing? Drivers installed? Where did you get this recovery? If ODIN can see your device you flash back to unrooted stock firmware.
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1. i got them from mobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G925F/
I would love to hear if this is a good source. also, I don't know if it matters exactly which of those firmwares to choose (there are many, you choose country and carrier)-- i don't know which one came with this phone as it was sent as a demo to me and i didn't take a screen shot of the info screen (does it matter?)
Also, someone mentioned that you can Vol down + power will shut the device down. As soon as the screen goes black take your finger off the power button, press and hold Vol up + home then press power. You can go right from download mode to recovery with just the buttons.
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2. that doesn't work for me, tried 15 times. I'm stuck with this turquoise error screen telling me to use emergency recovery in smart switch. i can easily get over to dload mode too. From either place, volDown + power gets the black screen and then immediately goes right back to the turquoise error screen, ignores anything else i seem to press, can't get into recovery.
No root for me either. It's hard lol. I miss it mostly for the adblocker. But I'm too worried that rooting with make it so I wouldn't be able to use Samsung pay when it comes out! If a root method is released that won't trip the KNOX sensor then heck ya, I'll root right away!
jasonastley said:
great questions:
1. i got them from mobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G925F/
I would love to hear if this is a good source. also, I don't know if it matters exactly which of those firmwares to choose (there are many, you choose country and carrier)-- i don't know which one came with this phone as it was sent as a demo to me and i didn't take a screen shot of the info screen (does it matter?)
2. that doesn't work for me, tried 15 times. I'm stuck with this turquoise error screen telling me to use emergency recovery in smart switch. i can easily get over to dload mode too. From either place, volDown + power gets the black screen and then immediately goes right back to the turquoise error screen, ignores anything else i seem to press, can't get into recovery.
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Did you ever fix this? I'm having the same issue, but because I flashed TWRP...
I need to use Smart Switch, but that says my device is unsupported... SM-G925F
EDIT: Re-flashed root, and all good again!
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Did you ever fix this? I'm having the same issue, but because I flashed TWRP...
I need to use Smart Switch, but that says my device is unsupported... SM-G925F
EDIT: Re-flashed root, and all good again!
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yep, i think that was a key step for me too: re-flashed the root thing, after trying to re-flash stock a bunch of times.
i dont know what happened to my s6 edge , i tried to flash the firmware going to the download mode but it wont let me press the volume up button to go to the downlowding screen.
if i charge it it only shows the battery signal.but wont charge, and i can see a bar at the buttom of the scree and i dont know what it is.
Does anyone know how to deal with this?
Lucifer9345 said:
i dont know what happened to my s6 edge , i tried to flash the firmware going to the download mode but it wont let me press the volume up button to go to the downlowding screen.
if i charge it it only shows the battery signal.but wont charge, and i can see a bar at the buttom of the scree and i dont know what it is.
Does anyone know how to deal with this?
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You need to be able to get to download mode to be able to do anything.
Vol down and power and home then press up. Maybe the button is stuck so press it hard.
callumbr1 said:
You need to be able to get to download mode to be able to do anything.
Vol down and power and home then press up. Maybe the button is stuck so press it hard.
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No the button works fine but as soon as it goes to the screen where it asks press volume key to go to the download mode, the button becomes irressponsive however odin detects the phone,
Lucifer9345 said:
No the button works fine but as soon as it goes to the screen where it asks press volume key to go to the download mode, the button becomes irressponsive however odin detects the phone,
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Instead of clicking the volume up button in that screen, try clicking the home button. First time you click it, it shows you the SKU, IMEI etc, click the home button again to go into to ODIN mode.
I did as you said, odin detects after pressing the home button, i dowloaded the official firmware and install it using odin. odin says pass but nothing happens to my phone, it stucks in s6 edge screen and i cam still see the bar.
maybe you need to unplug your phone before going into d.loadmode. If nothing happens try to push the 3 buttons for a longer time, finely your phone will shutdown or reboting into downloadmode
Lucifer9345 said:
I did as you said, odin detects after pressing the home button, i dowloaded the official firmware and install it using odin. odin says pass but nothing happens to my phone, it stucks in s6 edge screen and i cam still see the bar.
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Try going into recovery mode now and see if it works. I had a similar problem where the flash passes but was still stuck in a bootloop, I couldn't even go into recovery mode, I visited a Best Buy store with a samsung experience shop and they flashed the stock firmware using SMART but it was still stuck in a bootloop. So, I sent my phone to the samsung repair center, I think it's a motherboard problem.
Maybe your flashed the wrong kernel?
If the kernel is incorrect then your phone will be as well.
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Lucifer9345 said:
I did as you said, odin detects after pressing the home button, i dowloaded the official firmware and install it using odin. odin says pass but nothing happens to my phone, it stucks in s6 edge screen and i cam still see the bar.
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Have you fixed this?
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Have you fixed this?
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No i tried it but it did not help. Anyways thanks for your help.