Hello. I have a Galaxy Mega GT-I9205. It's hard bricked and so far nothing helped to get it back to work.
I've tried to flash a firmware with Odin but the Program stucks on Initialisation step and the firmwares can't be flashed.
Current state:
-If normally powered, device shows "Firmware Upgrade encountered an issue. Please selekt recovery mode in Kies & try again." a.k.a Death Screen. Also shows the same screen when trying to go into recovery.
- Can't go into recovery mode but still able to go into Download mode.
-Can't connect with Kies.
Also tried odin on different Pc and still the same .
Is there any solution to make Odin do it's job ?
Or an alternative way like if it's possible to flash a custom recovery through Odin and make it able to boot into or
flashing a custom rom through odin?
Sincerely Thanks!
It would seem that you are trying to restore with Kies and not try to install via Odin. Find the ROM for your carrier and your phone and load it. If you OTA'd the device and it has a ROM that cannot be rolled back, you just might have to take your phone to the store for a restore. Otherwise check to see what is the best ROM to use for a brick (RTMF/Search the entire database and Google a bit) to get your phone up.
Most OEM ROMS are available for various devices. I'd try an older ROM and see if you can OTA with that or flash the most advanced one that is able to be rooted. Your call....
Update: Maybe this link will help -- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600976
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Hi,
after 24h of searching and try and error im writing this post. If i really missed some important informations, please be gentle
long story short:
was installing new kernel and theme via some kitchen app, and ended in a boot loop. would not be a big problem, if i could access the recovery menu, but i could not. i always tried also with pulled battery for some time before.
The only accessible "door" was the download / odin mode.
But Odin could not write the stock fw i wanted to install as "recovery"
Extracted the tar and installed via heimdall. worked. Now a kind of stock fw installed. FW was: GT-I9100_DBT_I9100XWKE2_I9100XXKDJ_I9100OXXKE2
Modem: XXKDJ
Phone: XWKE2
Well... If i remember correctly, i flashed in heimdall those files:
- cache.img
- hidden.img
- zImage
- facotryfs.img
- modem.bin
im not sure at those, but i know i flashed one or more of them also.
- Sbl.bin
- boot.bin
- param.lfs
so. heimdall did flash them, heureka i thought. but wrong. things would get worse.
NOW the situation looks like that:
- Download mode not longer working. lsusb under linux didtn show any output, windows recognizes it as "unknown device"
- stock recovery console is working and shows a few leftovers from my formerly working internal flash memory (the 12gb, u know?)
- stock fw cant access the internal flash mentioned above. nor will show it. android says: no sd card inserted.
- kies wont recognize the device in normal mode
- adb works in debug enabled mode.
- superoneclick wont work.
- installing any app wont work since there is no accessible flash/sdcard
im stuck, f*cked off, p*ssed on and really really tiered.
i dont know what to do now.
maybe someone has an idea or a sugestion i didnt mention or have forgotten?
any kind of logs i could provide?
with kind regards,
alteregon
i'm assuming you tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1108499
if so, i don't have another idea to rescue your device...
Thank you for your reply,
since the phone is not recognized from the pc in download mode, odin nor heimdall see it.
So recovery through download mode is no option, right now.
Two choices one USB recovery jig to se if it will get to download mode .
Second service centre .
No warranty with hacked phones so i suggest saying it stopped during a Kies update .
jje
Sooo. Yesterday i set up a clean xp install to sort out pc-side problems.
- the phone is only recognized correctly in debug-mode.
- normal mode gets error 10 and is not useable i.e. for kies.
- odin mode gets recognized as unknown device.
tomorrow i will solder me a 301k jig. But i dont exoect much from it. since it can go to download mode, but wont be recogniced from the pc.
at least the custom binary counter will be reset i hope.
for today, i will try to do everything possible via adb in debug-mode. since the sys is kind of working, i have still hope
does someone know how to flash the phone via running android?
Phone specs:
Samsung Galaxy S3 Verizon SCH-i535
It was already running KitKat 4.4.2 before I rooted
This is my first time rooting and flashing ROMs to my Samsung Galaxy s3 and I have bricked it. I'm pretty sure it can be salvaged but have yet to find anything that works.
I have written the long version for those who need it, but the short version is that I screwed up and can no longer boot into recovery mode or normal mode, I'm not even sure if Download mode is working, and my device isn't recognized by Kies or Odin on my PC so I cannot yet do a recovery from there.
As of now my phone only boots into Odin Mode and gives the following info:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SCH-I535
CURRENT BINARY: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL
SYSTEM STATUS: OFFICIAL
QUALCOM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
BOOTLOADER AP SWREV: 2
and displays the yellow triangle error and says: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please use Software repair Assistant & try again.
I tried to use Samsung Kies which has an emergency firmware tool but my device will not connect and become recognized by the program.
This is pretty much where I'm stuck.
Keep reading if you need additional info.
Steps leading up to problem:
I was able to Root the device succesfully
I then downloaded the latest CM11 package (cm-11-20140217-NIGHTLY-d2vzw.zip) and Gapps
I also downloaded the TWRP recovery img (openrecovery-twrp-2.7.1.0-d2vzw.img)
Once I had these downloaded I got the app [ROOT] Rashr - Flash Tool
I opened the app and tried to do a backup but I'm pretty sure it failed, or at least it said it failed. I couldn't find out how to check, but was not worried since I have already backed up my important files to the verizon cloud.
On the app I went to recover using other file and found the TWRP recovery img I downloaded.
From here I booted into recovery manually, but it did not bring up the TEAMWIN screen for TWRP like I've seen in other video tutorials so I rebooted into normal mode went to the Rashr app again and followed the prompt to do a Recovery boot using the TWRP img.
THIS IS WHERE THE PROBLEMS BEGAN:
It began to lead into recovery mode but it gave a message that said something along the lines that I have tried installing a custom OS and to take my phone to the nearest verizon store.
I turned it off and tried to boot back normally but got the same error.
I tried to boot into Download mode and was successful! So I thought yaay!
Read a tutorial to reload a stock version of android here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2586319
I followed all the steps but when i got to 7. which said You should see your phone under ID:COM (you should also see it has been added in message) I was not seeing my phone there. I figured it may be OK since I was able to install the drivers so that meant the USB was working so I went ahead and ran Odin to recover Jelly Bean 4.3 onto the device.
My thoughts and guesses as to what the problem is:
I think that it may be because I was already running 4.4.2 and/ or didn't have the proper bootloader when I tried to do the TWRP recovery.
Am I on the right track? Thanks for any help!
Please ask. In correct forum this is int'l s3 (i9300) forum
I was flashing stock rom with root from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1885374 and oden failed during. Now I cant get to download mode. The screen says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
Kies doesn't recognize it even if I go to emergency firmware recovery. Heimdall doesn't see it. Odin crashes or fails depending on the version I use. Any suggestions?
Are you still stuck?
I had exactly the same problem and just followed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1884071
It worked for me.
Good luck
Hey guys I flashed my i9300 with cm13 and GApps, but i didint want the cwm so i decided to flash twrp recovery. When I rebooted the phone, it was stuck at download mode. Can anyone help me? Can anyone give me the link for the firmware? And if there is a firmware my pc can't detect the phone. Tried samsung drivers already.
Please I need a step by step procedure to get out of softbrick.
Try with turn off your device reboot to recovery reset everything and reboot if not and your still on download mod update drivers using Samsung kies and here is firmware list (pls filter your country) http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/GT-I9300/
CM13 was not successful. I can only use Odin D/L in my phone. I can not get into recovery mode.
I can see from many articles here that it is easy to get out of this semi brick mode, but I am spoilt for choice and do not want to ruin the phone completely.
My computer runs Ubuntu 16.04 therefore I need to use Heimdall.
Boot into download mode, connect it to your PC, flash a recent version of TWRP with Heimdall and go from there.
but I was unable to find a TWRP version for Ace 2:
I have tried to follow this guide:
[Guide/How-To] Install, Use Heimdall, and flash back to stock https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113195
I do not know what stock file to download. I assume I have to match my region. My phone was unlocked. I am in the UK. Could you please point me to a source for the right stock file?
In the definitive guide to brickin
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049294
It is advised that I should not use a version with boot loaders, because my phone is showing signs of booting (but not proceeding beyond the Samsung logo).
I am getting very muddled with this process although it is supposed to be easy.
What I had intended to do is:
Put the phone into d/l mode odin
Use Haimdall -frontend and run the oneclick process after loading into Haimdall the correct file for my phone
and here I am stuck because I do not know what to load because the list does not include my phone, but I have Haimdall installed on my computer.