Alright, here's the deal, this happened about a month ago (ive been stuck with the hero since lol).
I was running ERA EH06 Leak 1.1 (name of the file, i think it was the unnamed rom at the time) which was running perfectly for a few days until I get the google services etc force closes. Anyway I get home from work, I go to switch to stock and reflash to something else (at the time I was flashing roms like crazy lol). Anyway, as im odin'ing to stock, I accidentally pull the usb from the phone in the middle of it and the phone is stuck on the download screen, so I pull the battery and try again.
Now the phone isnt connecting to my computer, and its not even turning on. It wont show anything when I have it plugged into usb, I cant go into recovery or download mode. I saw on another thread a power cycle reset thing that didnt work.
I took it into the sprint store to have them see whats up and they said the usb was pulled off of the motherboard. I open it up myself (im semi experienced in this, and i found a good tutorial online) and nothing is noticeably wrong and the usb isnt pulled off the motherboard.
Also, the battery indicator is red because of "water damage" ( i have taken it in the bathroom with me as I showered, but that was only a few times and I stopped weeks before this happened, so I dont think water damage could be the main problem).
So basically has anyone else had the same or similar issue? Or at least can point me in some direction?
No dl mode? Try taking the battery and SD card out, and holding power and 1 THEN plugging it in still without the battery or SD. No odin then, well...
sent from my epic 4g. with the key skips.
holy s*** its in dl mode, i havent tried anything yet, but i didnt expect that lol
Lmao I assume you know what to do from there. But yeah, I always odin with the battery out after I found out you could
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Sweet, yeah I got it up n running, thanks yo! I looked up all over the place and couldnt find anything saying to go into dl mode then plug in the usb! Oh well its working now!
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Okay so here is the deal. I just picked this sweet Epic up and started rooting it and I can't get it connected to the pc to get into the files. I set the phone to debugging, and even tried it with it off as well, then I connected the usb (and yes I tried alt cords too) to the pc and selected mass storage (I tried charging too). The pc says it's installing the drivers and even says completed and ready to use but on my computer screen it only shows my hard drive . I downloaded the starter sdk and tried those drivers as well. Even though I could not get it to recognize I started Odin and while phone was on it showed 2 ports, but once I turned the phone off and set it to download mode I get zero, zip, nada for ports available. Now I did see somewhere to set the code back to PDA and top to Modem so I did that as well. Still no luck. I am running stock Froyo EC05 2.2.1 and 2.6.32.9 kernel. Can someone please help me out? I had a Moment before this and never this many issues. Is there a way to just put the card in a reader and install the files and then put it back in my phone and run recovery from there? I've never had to do that before so I was wondering if it's an option if I can't fix this. Last thing is the charging time is way long and the hold isn't lasting long either. I'm no expert or developer, but I'm flashed many ROMs on my moment so I guess you can say I know a little. Please no tech jargon/lingo though to prevent unnecessary communication issues. Suggestions on GB ROMs would be nice too. I tried RandomKing but the links were no good. I hate the stock garbage on there and would love it if someone could help me get them off so I can continue with my rooting agenda.
Try with USB debugging on, connect to the computer then go into control panel and device manager, find phone entry, probably samsung android, then hit update drivers from Windows Update. Takes a while to load all drivers, sometimes more than 30 minutes. Then reboot computer and phone and try it.
As for ROMs they are ALL good. Read the description of each to find out what's in it and if you like it, try it.
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Thanks for the reply. I tried that (unknown device) but I just keep getting windows has decided your driver is the best message when I even disabled, re-enabled, removed and re-installed all drivers. It's really bugging me and I'm not one to give up but I spent over 6 hours on this last night and I'm stumped. BTW what 2.3 ROMs do you know of that are stable with the least issues? Just suggestions of course as everyone has their own style...
Stick to the EG22 ROMs since EH06 and EH17 caused many phones to random reboot. After a few days EH17 started disconnected my calls. I have been using a ROM not listed on XDA. It is Bonsai B14 EG22 based. You can google Bonsai Android or click my signature. There are a few good ones in the development section here too.
Sounds like it is definitely a driver issue. There are samsung drivers floating around here. If you don't find a working set I will hunt them down tonight for you.
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You can try the drivers in the first post of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Thanks...
Cool I will try that out when I get home since work computers are usb restricted
Thanks for all your help and I'll update you tomorrow.
By the way I was playing a HD game on it today while charging and I got a charging paused, battery too hot or cold... Is this a problem with the EG22 build?
Another thing to make sure of is if your dial ##8778# it will bring up a menu, make sure your device is on pda.. believe it or not this helps some people
* PDA should be selcted under the USB Section.. the other section should be on modem
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Yeah that's what I was talking about that I tried.
Now I did see somewhere to set the code back to PDA and top to Modem so I did that as well.
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rooted!!!
Got Odin working and downloading now... Had to sneek my laptop into work to get her done but... LOL... Now time to get rooting!!!
Thanx guys... Will let you know what ROM I went with later today...
Working on putting on 2.3.4 EG22 v. Alpha "Hawk" [Journaled] EG22 AIO Volume/Hotspot/Lockscreen/Overscroll/Lag Fix but the download is taking over 2 hrs!
Phone isd not working at all now...
I put it through Odin and was following the prompts on the odin page that said to put victory_8G_100528.pit in pit and the tar in, hit start it went through and said something about partition and then the phone shut off and never came back on. It won't even charge now... NO life at all.
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Okay I took the battery and sd card out, and then plugged the usb in while holding 1 & power down. That put it into download mode. From there I just put the battery and card back in and installed clockwork. BTW the only cord that would work was the one that came with the phone. Took me 12 hr to figure that one out because all the forums said to not use it. UGH
Thanks for all the help.
Also watch out for launchers that hide you notification bar, this can bork USB/sdcard detection, I just made a tip thread.
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Okay I took the battery and sd card out, and then plugged the usb in while holding 1 & power down. That put it into download mode. From there I just put the battery and card back in and installed clockwork. BTW the only cord that would work was the one that came with the phone. Took me 12 hr to figure that one out because all the forums said to not use it. UGH
Thanks for all the help.
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There is a manufacturers cord that is the same connector but doesn't work, not sure which one but I use my old Palm Pre cable and a lot of others use Blackberry cables.
Oh so nice
Okay the new ROM is running great and is oh so sexy, fast and powerful, although I do not like the home page dock layout. I see no issues yet and I'm switching back to the Epic today after I beef up my old moment (which I had swapped to for the day because I thought I soft bricked the Epic beyond recovery) I promised to my mom. I'd like to find a stable GB build for her too but it doesn't look like the programmers have figured that one out yet.
BTW the cord I have is the one that looks a little weird on the end you plug into the phone and seems to be real stiff. I got more phones to mess with so thanks all...
Anyone know of any good tutorial sites that teaches how to develop and write codes? Flashing is one thing but getting to know the nuts and bolts to help others out is where I want to be.
Hey guys im just looking to get pointed in the right direction, i never like asking for handouts but im butfuzzled,
this is what happened, some kid messed up the settings on the phone so i needed to return it to stock. i tried to do a master reset through the settings but it just stayed at the download screen for about 30 min so i decided to hold the power button down and do a hard restart, the phone comes back on and i go through and put the phone back to stock manually, remove all sorts of widgets, bla bla bla.
the phone was good for about a week and half then all of a sudden it just went dead, no lights come on when i charge it, no battery indicator on the screen, its not recognized by usb, it does not charge by usb, it wont go into download mode holding the three buttons down.
things ive done so far, search for about an hour and i still cant figure this out
ive tried doing battery pulls, ive tried downloading kies and odin as well. Ive followed the how to get the phone working with odin but nothing the phone still has a black screen, no lights come on, no nothing.
what is going on with this thing? can someone please help me cause this thing is jacked up and my boss is going to make me pay for it if its broken
Ninosmaxima said:
Hey guys im just looking to get pointed in the right direction, i never like asking for handouts but im butfuzzled,
this is what happened, some kid messed up the settings on the phone so i needed to return it to stock. i tried to do a master reset through the settings but it just stayed at the download screen for about 30 min so i decided to hold the power button down and do a hard restart, the phone comes back on and i go through and put the phone back to stock manually, remove all sorts of widgets, bla bla bla.
the phone was good for about a week and half then all of a sudden it just went dead, no lights come on when i charge it, no battery indicator on the screen, its not recognized by usb, it does not charge by usb, it wont go into download mode holding the three buttons down.
things ive done so far, search for about an hour and i still cant figure this out
ive tried doing battery pulls, ive tried downloading kies and odin as well. Ive followed the how to get the phone working with odin but nothing the phone still has a black screen, no lights come on, no nothing.
what is going on with this thing? can someone please help me cause this thing is jacked up and my boss is going to make me pay for it if its broken
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Sounds like you are having the same problem I have with my Galaxy S II. Did you or anyone else install any custom roms on the device? If so there are many known issues with this happening and NO solutions as of this far. Try getting a battery that is fully charged and see if the phone will come one with that, if it will then you are not completely stuck but there still is no way to fix it without getting a USB JIG from ebay/amazon etc. to try and get into download mode and restore the stock rom through Odin. hope this helps
Also read this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1372823&highlight=USB+-working
Agree with the above post, but the Samsung USB jigs are very inexpensive on eBay, only a few dollars shipped. I have one, and it saved my formerly bricked (no download mode and unresponsive) Galaxy S 4G.
So I have been a long time follower of XDA, did all sorts of things with my Vibrant and just recently got the SGS2 from Sprint. A few days ago I flashed Calkulin's E4GT v2.6 and since then everything has gone down hill:
> The phone started acting like it was "charging" with nothing plugged in, red LED light stayed on and the battery had the charge symbol.
> Car mode began coming on over and over again.
> The phone would freeze and after I took out the battery it would automatically restart with me pushing the power button once the battery was re-inserted.
In hopes to just be down with it I flashed it back to stock with ODIN and everything seemed fine...
Now the phone is constantly freezing, Displaying that I have no service, The touch screen becomes unresponsive while charging, Car mode is still trying to launch.. not as frequently but it has happened. Other minor issues was the pattern lock would display when I woke up the phone even though I never set one...but I could do anything with the pattern to unlock it, even just touching a circle. Worse part in my opinion is either the phone will not recognize the PC or the PC will no longer recognize the phone so I can try ODIN again, same PC, drivers and USB cord being is.
Any suggestions on how I can remedy the situation?
Same thing happened to me, when I tried flashing an AIO over Calkulins you're pretty much done. You'll have to unroot and go to sprint. I ended up getting a new one since I was within the 2 week exchange.
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So I have been a long time follower of XDA, did all sorts of things with my Vibrant and just recently got the SGS2 from Sprint. A few days ago I flashed Calkulin's E4GT v2.6 and since then everything has gone down hill:
> The phone started acting like it was "charging" with nothing plugged in, red LED light stayed on and the battery had the charge symbol.
> Car mode began coming on over and over again.
> The phone would freeze and after I took out the battery it would automatically restart with me pushing the power button once the battery was re-inserted.
In hopes to just be down with it I flashed it back to stock with ODIN and everything seemed fine...
Now the phone is constantly freezing, Displaying that I have no service, The touch screen becomes unresponsive while charging, Car mode is still trying to launch.. not as frequently but it has happened. Other minor issues was the pattern lock would display when I woke up the phone even though I never set one...but I could do anything with the pattern to unlock it, even just touching a circle. Worse part in my opinion is either the phone will not recognize the PC or the PC will no longer recognize the phone so I can try ODIN again, same PC, drivers and USB cord being is.
Any suggestions on how I can remedy the situation?
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What exactly did you use when you did this? I flashed it back to stock with ODIN
Maybe link to the file(s) you used?
Also maybe the exact steps you took. None of this sounds right. And if you flashed the complete EG30 tar you would be back exactly to when you purchased the phone. Everything would be overwritten so there really wouldn't be anything left to linger and cause issues.
Try a ##786# reset
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What exactly did you use when you did this? I flashed it back to stock with ODIN
Maybe link to the file(s) you used?
Also maybe the exact steps you took. None of this sounds right. And if you flashed the complete EG30 tar you would be back exactly to when you purchased the phone. Everything would be overwritten so there really wouldn't be anything left to linger and cause issues.
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Once the device started acting funny, I basically pulled out the battery until I got home where I could flash it back.
This is the stock files I have saved to my computer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
The phone is still somewhat usable, 3G, voice calls, everything works as normal until some of the symptoms start up again. Primarily the issues I am having is the phone completely freezing and occasionally displaying no service and of course not recognizing any PC connection.
Try a ##786# reset from dialer.
To get your MSL, in adb shell, type "getprop ril.MSL" without the quotes. If you use Android Terminal make sure you aren't using the Swype keyboard or it'll auto capitalize the "I" despite being told not to.
Initially, sounds like the USB port has some **** in it or damaged ;p
First off thank you everyone who has replied, I have definitely looked into all of your suggestions throughout the day. Here is what I have come up with.
I tried the ##786# for a clear reboot, all the symptoms still continued =(
I started figiding with the micro USB port and finally was able to get my computer and phone to connect to each other, I have also been reading that the port also causes the phone to spontaneous "ghost" charge and activate car mode.
So I am pretty sure it is a hardware issue, in particular the usb port. Tomorrow I am going to get the parts and make a jig to reset the binary counter and just take it in to Sprint and get an exchange.
I literally transferred some files via usb.. disconnected.. reset the phone.. and now it just pulses.. i cant get into download mode..
If i put the battery in (charged) i get NO response..
If i put the cord in and try any combination of buttons all i get is a pulse of the vibrating mech.. no other response.
Any ideas?
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I literally transferred some files via usb.. disconnected.. reset the phone.. and now it just pulses.. i cant get into download mode..
If i put the battery in (charged) i get NO response..
If i put the cord in and try any combination of buttons all i get is a pulse of the vibrating mech.. no other response.
Any ideas?
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Headache free method would be just to call tmobile, spend the 5 dollars shipping fee and get another one under warranty overnight
m0bmentality said:
I literally transferred some files via usb.. disconnected.. reset the phone.. and now it just pulses.. i cant get into download mode..
If i put the battery in (charged) i get NO response..
If i put the cord in and try any combination of buttons all i get is a pulse of the vibrating mech.. no other response.
Any ideas?
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Why did you reset the device after transferring files. I copy files all the time and never reset the device after the transfer is complete. Did you flash after transferring the files, what kind of files did you copy, are you running a custom rom?
Brick threads aren't bad if you give us more information so we can maybe help you, or maybe prevent someone else from doing the same thing.
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im having the exact same issue... just got the phone for repair tho, it's not mine
I reset it because i was going into clockwork but i wasnt paying attention and reset instead of turned off.. so the phone shutdown and was restarting... but never lit back up.
Im going to just send it back to tmo.. was just hoping this had happened before and someone hoping i was missing something obvious.
Definitely not my first phone or my first flash i used to be part of a dev crew on here.. but this is the first time i have had a ghost brick... im thinking now maybe its a hardware issue? Hopefully tmo will agree with me
I have had a similar experience kinda. My battery was really low and died on me but when I plugged the phone it doesnt act like it is charging and just pulsates when I tried to turn it on.
I dont know if this will work for you but I left my phone plugged in for an hour unplugged it from the charger and it turned on.
Are you doing the right combo to get into download mode? Hold vol up and vol down while the phone is off, then plug in the USB while still holding the buttons.
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Yea i was def trying the right combo.. i even tried other variations of it just to see.. in the end i think maybe it was a power button short/failure. not sure.. sent it back to Tmo , getting a new one today and diving right back in!
Sorry i never found an answer.
Hello friends. recently my galaxy S3 stopped working while it was charging one day. here is what happend when it suddenly stopped working . I picked it up to send a message to a friend on facebook, after that i tossed my phone down on my pillow and i went back to doing what i was doing. about an hour or so went by and i decided to check my phone again to see if my friend replied. it was then i noticed that the phone was off for some reason. i thought that was kind of weird and just figured maybe it glitched out and just turned itself off or something. i attempted to turn the phone on and it did not respond, but for some reason when i shake the phone or something it would turn on. when its plugged into the charger it doesnt show the charging screen either. occasionally the red light at the top left corner of the device will light up like its charging but then it will turn off again and when it does turn on randomly it doesn't go past the samsung S3 screen when it is booting up. The phone is currently rooted as well but i dont think that has anything to do with my current issue. i just took the phone apart right now to check the motherboard to see if anything was wrong with it or maybe it was dirty ect and when i put the phone back together i actually got it to charge for a moment but i couldn't get it to turn on. ive looked up some videos on youtube about this issue but i couldn't find any info really about it.
so to be clear these are the things i have tried
1. tried to boot it into download mode and recovery mode with no luck.
2. checked to see if it was a hardware issue and everything looked ok.
3. swapped batteries still with no luck.
i dug a little deeper after posting this thread and found out my issue could be what is called SDS (sudden death syndrome) the one thing i didnt find out is if im completely screwed and need a new phone or not. i took it down to my local samsung store here in L.A. and they already turned me down because the phone was rooted and they could tell it was because my phone has a different bootup then normal.
so if anyone could help me out that would be awesome and i would be super grateful. thanks in advance
dev-meepo