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[Q] Disconnected phone while flashing new boatloader... bricked phone? please help

so I was installing a new boatloader through odin and it failed to install; so I disconnected it. Ever since then, my computer simply will NOT recognize my phone. I have tried every possible method (using different slots and cable). Still, it will not recognize my phone at all.
Has anyone here ever encountered a similar situation and have found a solution?
I would highly appreciate any help. Thanks

What does the phone boot to?
Have you tried a USB jig?
The bootloader takes seconds to flash. Did you really press start and immediatly pull the USB cord? or did it not complete then you pulled the cord? If the latter, what did ODIN say in the logs?

I can get into odin or recovery mode with no problem, I loaded a custom testing version of an ICS Rom that failed to completely install.
I am waiting for my usb jig to come in the mail.
It installed like 80% and then said failed, then I removed it because it said it failed.
I know all my drivers are good because my sister has the same phone and it is unrooted and odin recognizes it fine.

sabatheman said:
I can get into odin or recovery mode with no problem, I loaded a custom testing version of an ICS Rom that failed to completely install.
I am waiting for my usb jig to come in the mail.
It installed like 80% and then said failed, then I removed it because it said it failed.
I know all my drivers are good because my sister has the same phone and it is unrooted and odin recognizes it fine.
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If you can get into Odin mode then Odin should be able to recognize your phone. Are you sure that Odin on your PC is not recognizing your phone?
Also, try flashing the el26 stock rooted update through cwm. Calk has the appropriate zip over in the dev section.
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sabatheman said:
so I was installing a new boatloader through odin and it failed to install; so I disconnected it. Ever since then, my computer simply will NOT recognize my phone. I have tried every possible method (using different slots and cable). Still, it will not recognize my phone at all.
Has anyone here ever encountered a similar situation and have found a solution?
I would highly appreciate any help. Thanks
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Where did you find a boatloader for our phones?!?!?!? That would be a truly Epic accessory for all boatloading enthusiasts! Think of the activities!
Haha, in all seriousness though, I hope you can get it figured out man, bricked phones are no fun!

yes, im 100% sure, Ive read of a few cases of people having similar problem. Problem that come from disconnecting a phone while loading a new boatloader. Once that happens, odin will not recognize a phone even if it is in Odin mode. Ive spent atleast 15 hours in total trying to get it to work

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sabatheman said:
I loaded a custom testing version of an ICS Rom that failed to completely install.
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Is this one made for E4GT or one for the european GS2?

If you can get into recovery just take the sd card out and put it in a sd reader and put a rom on there and flash it. I would use the stock rom. Something simillar happened to me and this is how I fixed it. I didnt have a card reader so I just used my digital camera, Thank god for that!!! Hope it all works out.
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sfhub said:
Is this one made for E4GT or one for the european GS2?
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Good question! I almost bricked my phone by putting a rom on there that was for the international version! You need to triple check to make sure what you are putting on is actually for your phone!

sabatheman said:
I can get into odin or recovery mode with no problem, I loaded a custom testing version of an ICS Rom that failed to completely install.
I am waiting for my usb jig to come in the mail.
It installed like 80% and then said failed, then I removed it because it said it failed.
I know all my drivers are good because my sister has the same phone and it is unrooted and odin recognizes it fine.
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Omg again people don't read. We don't have ics from for our phone! Gosh try to download the international gs2 drivers of get your phone jtaged. If not you got a paperweight
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I installed the one for the european s2 version,
rbtrucking, Ive tried doing that, but it says unable to mount the sd card when i go into recovery mode and applying update from external storage? any idea why?

sabatheman said:
I installed the one for the european s2 version,
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Your problem isn't that you disconnected the phone while flashing a new bootloader.
Your problem is you flashed the european GS2 version of the bootloader. After doing that the USB port is pretty much disabled and nobody has found how to enable it.

interesting... any theoretical methods to get it to work? do you think there will be a solution to fix it?

sfhub said:
Your problem isn't that you disconnected the phone while flashing a new bootloader.
Your problem is you flashed the european GS2 version of the bootloader. After doing that the USB port is pretty much disabled and nobody has found how to enable it.
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Nothing should be flashed to the Epic Touch unless its in the development section for the Epic Touch. Even then you should read up and know the pros and cons of flashing it. I don't recall anyone getting their phone back after doing this.
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Well Mobile ODIN won't flash the bootloader AFAIK, so if you have no way to flash the bootloader, the only other possibility will probably be JTAG, which is basically opening up the phone connecting to some pins/leads on the board and using some software to flash. I haven't seem anyone posting about this but probably there are techs who have the proper setup to do it.

damn, do you think if I go to a sprint corporate store and just say I was trying to update the phone via samsung kies OTA or something, will they be able to fix it? I am waiting for my jig to come in the mail to clear the download count, any opinions what I should tell sprint to avoid getting my warrenty voided?

sabatheman said:
I installed the one for the european s2 version,
rbtrucking, Ive tried doing that, but it says unable to mount the sd card when i go into recovery mode and applying update from external storage? any idea why?
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Ya because like everyone else said flashing that file that wasnt for your phone messed up the sd reader. Same thing happened to me once but I was still able to acess the internal storage that the phone has built in but i didnt have any roms on there. I was however able to flash through odin and dowload mode. Thank god that worked for me! If that isnt working for you I gotta be honest I really dont see a way to get the phone back up and running but I am by no means a pro. I would keep at it. When I almost bricked my phone I was going to give up too but I stuck with it and the fine people on this site pulled me through! You are at the right place trust me very smart people here!

thanks, this phone has been bricked for a week, Im still waiting on my usb jig to come in the mail so i can hopefully clear the binary download count because I want to take it to sprint? since my usb and sd reader isnt working, will the usb clear the odin thing? if it doesnt, im completely screwed. im willing to short out my phone worst case scenario... I need it a replacement (i dont have insurance but i have warrenty)... any ideas? should i short it out or take it to sprint... what excuse should I make up if I decide to take it?
Will the usb jig clear the download count even though my usb and sd reader doesnt work. (the phone still charges through usb)

sabatheman said:
thanks, this phone has been bricked for a week, Im still waiting on my usb jig to come in the mail so i can hopefully clear the binary download count because I want to take it to sprint? since my usb and sd reader isnt working, will the usb clear the odin thing? if it doesnt, im completely screwed. im willing to short out my phone worst case scenario... I need it a replacement (i dont have insurance but i have warrenty)... any ideas? should i short it out or take it to sprint... what excuse should I make up if I decide to take it?
Will the usb jig clear the download count even though my usb and sd reader doesnt work. (the phone still charges through usb)
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Ya if you have warranty i would actually just short it out! I had a friend that had an iPhone and he hooked it up to a computer with a messed up usb. It shorted it out, he took it back with his warranty info and walked out with a brand new iPhone no questions asked. If you dont and they see that it was routed you are going to be **** out of luck I can tell ya that. They definitely will inspect it to make sure there was no foul play with it trust me, best bet if you cant get it running is to short it out, and use the warranty. When you take it in just say it went off and you couldn't get it to go back on.

Honestly breaking the phone is your best option since the insurance will cover that. If you short it out or make the batter overload while it's in the phone then it's covered by the warranty. Also, clearing the download counter is pointless - if Sprint does manage to fix your phone it'll be pretty obvious you did something that made it FUBAR - mostly the international GS2 bootloader. Also, isn't the international GS2 GSM? Which means you can't reset it using a JIG, GSM versions don't support it.
Either way when you get a new one - make sure you read EVERYTHINGlet me say this again since people seem to take this stuff lightly: READ EVERYTHING BEFORE FLASHING if we had ICS for this phone don't you think the Dev section would be blowing up with ICS ROMs? Common sense seems to be the one thing that isn't common anymore....
Hope you figure something out though but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Possible Brick

Possibly bricked this phone... was trying to flash ICS, this specific one.
Used the EL27 script from here but i think where i went wrong was i installed CWM also. Then in the middle of flashing ICS through ODIN, the setup failed. Now i got a yellow triangle, and no response from USB. ODIN doesnt pick it up anymore so i cant flash stock, and i cant boot into recovery. Is this really bricked? Is JTAG my only option?

Got another one....dude that was for the international version....yes you are perma bricked.....only option is jtag or take it back to sprint and play very very dumb...
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Can you point me in the direction for the right one?

It is not for daily use....but look in the development section....it is only at alpha 1 right now
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No wifi or Bluetooth.l or camera......and many many more bugs
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Thank you for your help. I didnt see anything about international version, must have went completely over my head.

No problem....just be sure to stick to the epic 4g touch threads here and you will be okay
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Hey te5ter, unfortunately yes you are bricked, and yes that is the international version of ics, totally not compatible with our device. The one you flashed disables the USB port so that it is no longer recognized by a computer. You can test this by plugging into a USB port on your computer and if you do not hear a "ding" your device is most definite ly bricked. Sorry man you for sure are not the first person to do this, I have seen this numerous times in the last month.
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Hardbricked. Help

I've done some searching ever since my S2 hardbricked and I found some similar but also very different stories with man different answers.
In my case, my gs2 is out of warranty. I was running CM9 but I had poor audio transmittance so I decided to flash a stock rom. That worked and was easy enough. I assumed I wasn't rooted since I just flashed stock. So I go to root my phone, and then it dies. Does not respond to the computer. It doesn't turn on nor can it go into recovery/download mode. Also doesn't chrge. I'm pretty sure I'm hardbricked. I made sure my battery was full too (I have an external charger). I tried a homemade usb jig. I think it didn't work due to my poor soldering skills. Given this situation, should I buy a usb jig and try to get it started or is it at the point where I should JTAG it.
Thanks all.

Feel for u bro mine did the same except I could access recovery but I couldn't boot up. I just Odin back to stock but that didn't work at first I had to do it a few times. You shouldnt flash to stock always odin it back
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my phone isent turning on

bought this galaxy s2 from a friend perfect condition nothing was wrong with it. rooted it flashed a rom(made backups)didnt really like the rom very much. tryed to flash another one and it said it failed to install so i restored to orignal stock and i guess when it was done turned off and now it wont turn on. i have tryed going into recovery. nothing. when i plug into computer (at school computer it looks like it found something but my computer wont install it so i will say somthing when i get home. please help this phone is wonderfull i dont know what i did im very pissed i cant send it to samsung because its not my phone phone.

when i looked at the rom zip on the sd card i had it said i777 im sure thats meaning the sgh i777 soo.....

You flashed a ROM for a completely different phone. This is a T989 not an I777... Your totally bricked and you'll need a jig to force it into download mode to Odin back to the correct firmware . if you do some searching you'll figure it out I'm sure..
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i now know i flashed from a different phone... but it was in this forun that i got the rom from so.. also do you know if it is easyer to mak a usb jig or buy one?

Trozzul said:
i now know i flashed from a different phone... but it was in this forun that i got the rom from so.. also do you know if it is easyer to mak a usb jig or buy one?
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If it's hard bricked this might be your only option. They charge $50 for fixing a bricked t989.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/
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you can make a jig but if your not good with building stuff like that then just buy a jig
btw please im not trying to flame you but please read what phone the rom is for next time
and if your not sure ask questions!
thats what we are here for!!!!

i did read what the rom was it was from this forum that i got it from. also when i build the usb jig what do i do from there? i dont know how to flash a rom from odin

i built a usb jig and it still wont turn on. i just got this why does this always happens to my phones...

Just buy one. Correct me if I'm wrong but they usually cost around $1-2

[Q] T-Mobile S2 T989 - hardbricked / can jtag fix it?

I received an SGH-T989 that wouldn't boot. It had TWRP on it, so I was able to flash latest stable CWM. Upon reboot, it apparently became hard-bricked.
Currently, I'm unable to enter download or recovery modes. USB Jig does not work. There is no output on the screen, even when charging the battery. When connected in Windows (32 or 64), I get a usb error message: "This device is disabled because the firmware of the device did not give it the required resources. (Code 29)"
My question: Is the motherboard dead, or could a jtag repair fix it?
What I've tried:
multiple micro usb cables
usb jig
odin
keis
heimdall
Thanks xda!

Dostoevsky said:
I received an SGH-T989 that wouldn't boot. It had TWRP on it, so I was able to flash latest stable CWM. Upon reboot, it apparently became hard-bricked.
Currently, I'm unable to enter download or recovery modes. USB Jig does not work. There is no output on the screen, even when charging the battery. When connected in Windows (32 or 64), I get a usb error message: "This device is disabled because the firmware of the device did not give it the required resources. (Code 29)"
My question: Is the motherboard dead, or could a jtag repair fix it?
What I've tried:
multiple micro usb cables
usb jig
odin
keis
heimdall
Thanks xda!
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so the qhsusb_dload does not apear when your device is plugged into the computer? if so please hold on a little longer, somebody found a method of unhard bricking S3's and eventually Note 3's and the galaxy megas and im getting closer to being able to do this aswell im going to try to fix mine when i get home so hold on

Trozzul said:
so the qhsusb_dload does not apear when your device is plugged into the computer? if so please hold on a little longer, somebody found a method of unhard bricking S3's and eventually Note 3's and the galaxy megas and im getting closer to being able to do this aswell im going to try to fix mine when i get home so hold on
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That would be great! I did see the S3 fix that loads a debrick.img from sdcard - would that work with hardbricked? Windows wouldn't load the usb drive for my phone, complaining that the firmware didn't give the "required resources". So if the firmware is borked, I'm not sure it would be able to load an external img.
I couldn't wait, though. Sent it out for jtag repair :fingers-crossed:

Dostoevsky said:
That would be great! I did see the S3 fix that loads a debrick.img from sdcard - would that work with hardbricked? Windows wouldn't load the usb drive for my phone, complaining that the firmware didn't give the "required resources". So if the firmware is borked, I'm not sure it would be able to load an external img.
I couldn't wait, though. Sent it out for jtag repair :fingers-crossed:
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Hello I was wondering if the Jtag did its job?

sirsmokey said:
Hello I was wondering if the Jtag did its job?
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Jtag should always do the job, unless there was physical damage done to the motherboard.

Dostoevsky said:
That would be great! I did see the S3 fix that loads a debrick.img from sdcard - would that work with hardbricked? Windows wouldn't load the usb drive for my phone, complaining that the firmware didn't give the "required resources". So if the firmware is borked, I'm not sure it would be able to load an external img.
I couldn't wait, though. Sent it out for jtag repair :fingers-crossed:
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Jtag should always do the job, unless there was physical damage done to the motherboard.
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Thanks for the quick reply , i guess the next question i should ask , is it really worth the 100 bux for the j tag service or to put the money towards a newer phone ?,hmmm rhetorical i guess

sirsmokey said:
Thanks for the quick reply , i guess the next question i should ask , is it really worth the 100 bux for the j tag service or to put the money towards a newer phone ?,hmmm rhetorical i guess
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The t989 has great specs, only downside is its PPI (really low) if you still love it, I would wait if you want to send it into JTAG repairs, we are on the verge of unbricking our t989 without JTAG! Looks like we need someone with a working t989D though

I have been studying the other 'unbrick' methods, its definatly mind expanding, the amount of knowledge absorbed can seriously make you forget time n space.
If there is anything I can do / contribute holler at me.
Now ill tell you something weird so I flashed a rom not meant for T989D plus I did it all without being rooted. (if it matters) since Since the flash the phone doesn't boot into recovery or show a bootanimation, just darkness.Yet it felt operational in hand.
Once I plugged it back into the PC all I got was a constant notification of drivers that cannot be identified Also it keeps connecting and disconnecting the device.
None of this is weird until I installed OMAP flash and the T.I. drivers for which was used to fix my friends nexus. After he left I plugged my s2 to the PC still nothing. I looked away for a brief moment . Then i noticed MobileGo for Android popped on screen. Visually showing my s2 as an Alcatel rom.
just bizzare.....

The unbrick method on the S2 is a little different, but in General, at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646310 after a little work, I resurrected a QHSUSB_DLOAD 9025 T989D to the point of ODIN and fully working Android OS working, just missing recovery.. Soon to follow in a day or so.

Lord Zog said:
The unbrick method on the S2 is a little different, but in General, at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646310 after a little work, I resurrected a QHSUSB_DLOAD 9025 T989D to the point of ODIN and fully working Android OS working, just missing recovery.. Soon to follow in a day or so.
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:goodude I could kiss you, thank you so much!!!! that is exactly where my phone was (QHSUSB_DLOAD):good:
Thanks to the devs behind the unbrick , all of your hard work is deeply appreciated, One Luv :laugh:
Now my 989 is working again, ive had it stuck for the past half year. Life saver you are sir

sirsmokey said:
:goodude I could kiss you, thank you so much!!!! that is exactly where my phone was (QHSUSB_DLOAD):good:
Thanks to the devs behind the unbrick , all of your hard work is deeply appreciated, One Luv :laugh:
Now my 989 is working again, ive had it stuck for the past half year. Life saver you are sir
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glad to hear its working again! might i ask how you went about this?

sirsmokey said:
:goodude I could kiss you, thank you so much!!!! that is exactly where my phone was (QHSUSB_DLOAD):good:
Thanks to the devs behind the unbrick , all of your hard work is deeply appreciated, One Luv :laugh:
Now my 989 is working again, ive had it stuck for the past half year. Life saver you are sir
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Lord Zog said:
The unbrick method on the S2 is a little different, but in General, at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646310 after a little work, I resurrected a QHSUSB_DLOAD 9025 T989D to the point of ODIN and fully working Android OS working, just missing recovery.. Soon to follow in a day or so.
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Hi, so I also have a hard bricked t989 galaxy s2 (tmobile variant) and I'm attempting to understand the instructions. However my phone has another issue...usb connection to the computer does not work, it hasn't worked since the micro usb port on the phone was replaced because the old one broke. So really the phone could charge but never connect to my pc as it cant be detected...so what are my options? If i create the sd card with the image, will i still need to connect it to a pc in order to force the phone into download mode? Please help...