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Killed or bricked my Phone

Was using Odin , got stuck forever. The phone won't do anything now, won't reboot normally won't boot into recovery , won't boot into download mode. Totally non reponsive , nothing ever on screen , no charging icon . Battery out then back in , plugged into usb then put in battery.. tried it all.
looking for suggestions, phone is going back to t-mobile if I cant fix this

Try entering download mode again and reflash your phone. Download the tar again in case the previous was corrupt.
Pull out the battery and put it back in. hold vol up and down at the same time and then connect the USB cable. This will get you back into download mode.
Good luck!
Also, I believe this is in the wrong forum. I'm not a mod but I believe it belongs in the general section.
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I have tried for an hour straight to enter DL mode , no soap

ransome7 said:
I have tried for an hour straight to enter DL mode , no soap
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It's a common misconception (I did it myself) that the power button is also used in the sequence to enter download mode, this isn't the case. Just hold down vol up & down and connect the usb cable, do not press the power button.
Just trying to rule everything out
If this doesn't work for you then I'm out of ideas. Are you still able to get into recovery? If you are, try flashing a ROM and see what happens.
Just to clarify, what does your phone do when you turn it on? Does it boot loop or get stuck somewhere?
EDIT:NVM reread original post (selfn00b'd myself). Totally unresponsive? I believe you should still be able to get into d/l mode since I think they set that up as failsafe. If you can't then it probably will have to go back. Bummer

I'v herd that it somtimes helps to take the battery out and let it sit for 30 min
But thankfully I can not confirm!
May also want to try different computer and cable

Try ADB
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quest4fire said:
Try ADB
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Can You ADB if your phone won't power up?

You need your PC to recognize it. Is it seeing your phone or is it completely dead?
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DOWNLOAD MODE
power off phone
pull out battery
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode
make sure u have the proper samsung drivers

movieaddict said:
DOWNLOAD MODE
power off phone
pull out battery
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode
make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
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You did not read the OP , The phone died after using Odin(which DL mode is required) , obviously the phone is easy to get into DL mode. The phone is stone dead and won't power into anything

its funny when people suggest you try something to power on your phone even after youve just told them you have tried it all. kind of annoying actually.
but same thing happen to me man. i finally gave up and sent it to samsung today, that would probably be your best option. either that or tmobile

k2worldwweapon said:
its funny when people suggest you try something to power on your phone even after youve just told them you have tried it all. kind of annoying actually.
but same thing happen to me man. i finally gave up and sent it to samsung today, that would probably be your best option. either that or tmobile
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Thats what I ended up doing , they are sending out a new phone. It is disturbing that you can actually KILL your phone using Odin. I have flashed a ton of phones a million times and never ended up with a door stop.

Im surprised the GS2 is brickable. I came from a Vibrant (Galaxy S) and that phone was impossible to brick. I was always able to bring it back to download mode but sometimes i had to try different combinations of things to get it into DL mode like remove sim or battery etc. What I'm saying is your phone can be fussy.
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I bricked mine flashing a boot.img to the wrong partition in recovery. This phone is very brickable. T-Mobile gave me a new one but the first thing they asked me was if I rooted it. I said what's that mean
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My brother, myself, and my fiancee all got s2's. Day of, I odin'd recovery to both mine and my brother's and rooted with no problem. tried it on my fiance's, dead in the water. did the same exact thing to all 3, didn't change any procedures. If you keep trying to turn it on, sometimes the led flashlight from the camera will flash for a second, other times it actually turns on and continues to work as normal but once you turn it off again, it may not turn on again. i got it to turn on again and actually odin'd back to stock recovery. problem was NOT fixed even after this, and after i turned it off again, it turned on again once, but never again after that. filed for warranty exchange. i used to think as long as you can odin back to stock you're fine, but it clearly wasn't the case. looks like we just got unlucky. if you bought the phone from a corporate tmobile store, bring your receipt and trade it in at the store because they give you a new phone. if you do a warranty exchange, they send you a refurbished phone (although the s2 is new enough that they might send you a new one anyway if you're lucky).

BRICKED-download mode not detected-

A friend messed his epic up and I'm trying to fix it but it isn't going well...
Boot....just stayed at Samsung screen..bottom keys don't light
Wont boot into recovery
Tries to boot immediately once the battery is put in.
Download mode is not detected on ANY computer, whatever bit, whatever rom...
What r my options? With out the phones drivers being detected...Odin and heimdoll r useless...
Any options ideas??
Sent from the future

thatdudepoops said:
A friend messed his epic up and I'm trying to fix it but it isn't going well...
Boot....just stayed at Samsung screen..bottom keys don't light
Wont boot into recovery
Tries to boot immediately once the battery is put in.
Download mode is not detected on ANY computer, whatever bit, whatever rom...
What r my options? With out the phones drivers being detected...Odin and heimdoll r useless...
Any options ideas??
Sent from the future
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Ok some questions:
Stock cable?
Reinstalled the drivers?
Is windows sayings an unknown device?
Solutions:
Take the battery out and sd card and leave it out use the computer as the power source and see if odin will com.
What windows bit are you using I know 64 and windows 7 has issues but I have drivers that should work for you.
Most importantly use a different cable 99.99% of unknown problems are caused by the cable being faulty.
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If you can't get it to work id say send it to me ill get it detected if not ill pay for shipping it back
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thatdudepoops said:
A friend messed his epic up and I'm trying to fix it but it isn't going well...
Boot....just stayed at Samsung screen..bottom keys don't light
Wont boot into recovery
Tries to boot immediately once the battery is put in.
Download mode is not detected on ANY computer, whatever bit, whatever rom...
What r my options? With out the phones drivers being detected...Odin and heimdoll r useless...
Any options ideas??
Sent from the future
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Heimdall uses its own drivers so the phones drivers are not a problem...
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flastnoles11 said:
Heimdall uses its own drivers so the phones drivers are not a problem...
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Yeah but only works if the computer will detect it..... or if heimdalls driver app will
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Biggoron said:
Ok some questions:
Stock cable?
Reinstalled the drivers?
Is windows sayings an unknown device?
Solutions:
Take the battery out and sd card and leave it out use the computer as the power source and see if odin will com.
What windows bit are you using I know 64 and windows 7 has issues but I have drivers that should work for you.
Most importantly use a different cable 99.99% of unknown problems are caused by the cable being faulty.
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Yes I having working cable. Using USB from epic touch and it works on my other epic 4g. USB not problem.
Drivers work on other epic 4g...drivers not problem.
Windows does not *ting when plugged in..the phone is simply not putting out any sort of USB drivers...
Tried on win 7 ,vista, and XP...all of which work with other epic..computer rom not problem
SD card has been removed since start...
I can get it into download mode...but the computer simply doesn't read it
Sent from the future

Biggoron said:
If you can't get it to work id say send it to me ill get it detected if not ill pay for shipping it back
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Ilk keep that In consideration thx
Sent from the future

flastnoles11 said:
Heimdall uses its own drivers so the phones drivers are not a problem...
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Tried heimdall. It doesn't recognize the device...
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Seems to me like there's something wrong with the usb port on the phone. I know that download mode produces a less amount of voltage than the phone on/off and if its not the correct amount the phone won't be recognise means anything I would try wouldn't work...
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thatdudepoops said:
Tried heimdall. It doesn't recognize the device...
Sent from the future
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uninstall your drivers. reboot your computer, reinstall your drivers manually http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/sprint/SPH-D700ZKASPR
then put the cable into your phone..once it's in , check the end that's in the computer.. wiggle both ends around a little... see if you get a "com" on odin..

LORDFIRE00 said:
uninstall your drivers. reboot your computer, reinstall your drivers manually http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/sprint/SPH-D700ZKASPR
then put the cable into your phone..once it's in , check the end that's in the computer.. wiggle both ends around a little... see if you get a "com" on odin..
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Doubt that this will work. It works for his other epic so there's something wrong with the current one he's haing an issue iwth.
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Biggoron said:
Doubt that this will work. It works for his other epic so there's something wrong with the current one he's haing an issue iwth.
Sent From My Cyan Samurai
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I did try completely reinstalling drivers and plugging in phone randomly during process to get it to catch but no go. Yea its definitely the phone not being recognizable and not my set up...I even tried having it recognize my other epic and switching phones right at start of flash...but it disconnected EVERY time lol...thought it was worth a shot lol. Wonder if I split a USB into a 2 headed snake I can reflash both phones at once?...maybe unplug one once it gets going....
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thatdudepoops said:
I did try completely reinstalling drivers and plugging in phone randomly during process to get it to catch but no go. Yea its definitely the phone not being recognizable and not my set up...I even tried having it recognize my other epic and switching phones right at start of flash...but it disconnected EVERY time lol...thought it was worth a shot lol. Wonder if I split a USB into a 2 headed snake I can reflash both phones at once?...maybe unplug one once it gets going....
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No it will only head to the phone that it recognises
Sorry but I think your sol unless you take it back to sprint and see if they replace it or fix it.
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Yep...its a usb problem...
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You tried getting into download mode with no battery just cable right? And I still wouldn't trust the E4GT stock cable either

ac16313 said:
You tried getting into download mode with no battery just cable right? And I still wouldn't trust the E4GT stock cable either
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Oh duh didn't know it was the epic4gt stock cable yeah bud try it with a blackberry cable and it should work then
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i had the same problem on a phone i flashed today, used a cable from a different phone and it worked. also once i installed cwm i couldnt use the action button to make my selection. i had to use the camera button. I have flashed alot of these and never seen that until today.

edit: sorry, I read about it on XDA here a couple of weeks ago, thought it was OK but now I cannot find the post that I was refering to. So disreguard my reference please......
re-edit: found it!!! It was farther back then I thought. All I read the first time was the main page of the post & not the whole thread, I read deeper into it now & realized that even though some Dev's that I recognized started the post, it seems like it is unlikely to be true.......sorry again guys......
[acs][how-to]hardware reset

monke30butt said:
Have you tried doing a hardware reset with the reset button on the back of the Epic below & to the left of the camera?
If you try this, you should go directly to download mode & use Odin afterwards.
I don't know if this will work, but at this point it can't hurt anything.
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Hiejole spanish for "son of a"
There is no magical reset button.... take it apart and there's no button. Most people believe this to be true because they left the battery out long enough for charge to go away.
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Biggoron said:
Hiejole spanish for "son of a"
There is no magical reset button.... take it apart and there's no button. Most people believe this to be true because they left the battery out long enough for charge to go away.
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You're not going to quote the tale of the magic button?

[Q] Bricked during el13 frimware upgrade

Hello all, my name is Matt.
I bricked my Epic 4G Galaxy S installing the EL13 firmware.
I had it rooted with CWM 5.0.2.7 (or whatever) with CleanGB 1.03 and the Samurai kernal (think it's 1.06, whichever is the latest). I was flashing it through Odin3 and it abruptly aborted and failed the transfer. I'm thinking it may have been a bad USB cable. I pulled the battery since it didn't reboot or take any button commands.
I does not show the Samsung logo, and when i plug in power/usb cable it does not show a red light. Do i have to do the Unbrickable MOD or is there anything I can do through a PC?

emtee40 said:
Hello all, my name is Matt.
I bricked my Epic 4G Galaxy S installing the EL13 firmware.
I had it rooted with CWM 5.0.2.7 (or whatever) with CleanGB 1.03 and the Samurai kernal (think it's 1.06, whichever is the latest). I was flashing it through Odin3 and it abruptly aborted and failed the transfer. I'm thinking it may have been a bad USB cable. I pulled the battery since it didn't reboot or take any button commands.
I does not show the Samsung logo, and when i plug in power/usb cable it does not show a red light. Do i have to do the Unbrickable MOD or is there anything I can do through a PC?
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EL13? Could you link what you were trying to flash? I don't think its for our phone buddy
But either way have you tried taking out the battery and sdcard only plugging it in?
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It's the firmware/2.3.6 leaked from samsung I found here.
Is it for the S2?
*EDIT*
Effin crap. Rookie mistake I'm taking it. I didn't pay attention to the 'Touch' in the column for phone. Can I use the Unbrickable MOD to put in the files I need back in it after flashing it in the wrong firmware???

emtee40 said:
It's the firmware/2.3.6 leaked from samsung I found here.
Is it for the S2?
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Yes it is. Check the forum you are on...
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sonuvabitch
I'm not a forum newbie (I do a lot of audio engineering), so I feel like a BIG idiot for not double checking my info. I spent 2 week researching rooting before I did it.
I guess I had to much confidence...
I'll make a vid of me doing the Unbrickable MOD for ya guys when I get around to doing it. If I don't mess that up...

emtee40 said:
sonuvabitch
I'm not a forum newbie (I do a lot of audio engineering), so I feel like a BIG idiot for not double checking my info. I spent 2 week researching rooting before I did it.
I guess I had to much confidence...
I'll make a vid of me doing the Unbrickable MOD for ya guys when I get around to doing it. If I don't mess that up...
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Sorry man id try using odin, iirc the unbrickable mod didn't end up working for us?
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emtee40 said:
sonuvabitch
I'm not a forum newbie (I do a lot of audio engineering), so I feel like a BIG idiot for not double checking my info. I spent 2 week researching rooting before I did it.
I guess I had to much confidence...
I'll make a vid of me doing the Unbrickable MOD for ya guys when I get around to doing it. If I don't mess that up...
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Audio engineering ? How is it? I want to pursue that career after highschool
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don't do an unbrickable mod, just download the right file from the sticky in the android dev. section and odin it from download mode. make sure you have the right file!!! it's "EC05" ... good luck!

So if the Unbrickable mod don't work, how am i supposed to get odin to work? it doesn't show up in the COM list when i plug the phone in. I tried the no sdcard/battery trick, and it doesn't do anything.
Am I up the creek then?
*EDIT*
I can't get into download mode. No buttons re-act. It's a hard brick, not a soft brick. I've search everywhere. If it can't be fixed, anybody need parts???

emtee40 said:
So if the Unbrickable mod don't work, how am i supposed to get odin to work? it doesn't show up in the COM list when i plug the phone in. I tried the no sdcard/battery trick, and it doesn't do anything.
Am I up the creek then?
*EDIT*
I can't get into download mode. No buttons re-act. It's a hard brick, not a soft brick. I've search everywhere. If it can't be fixed, anybody need parts???
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Try popping the battery in and out repeatedly while attempting to go into download mode. It will eventually reset the phone and work. Then try all USB ports until Odin reacts. You will have to pull the battery and reset for Odin to successfully repeat after that. If no ports show the phone, try a Blackberry cable or any other one but stock. Also reinstall the drivers.

emtee40 said:
So if the Unbrickable mod don't work, how am i supposed to get odin to work? it doesn't show up in the COM list when i plug the phone in. I tried the no sdcard/battery trick, and it doesn't do anything.
Am I up the creek then?
*EDIT*
I can't get into download mode. No buttons re-act. It's a hard brick, not a soft brick. I've search everywhere. If it can't be fixed, anybody need parts???
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Try holding power and 1 with the battery and sd card out and plug in the cable at the same time.
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I'll try the download mode W/USB when I get home. I'll try the battery removal tip to. I let it sit for 1 hr then put in the battery and nothing happened. Like I said, even when I plug in the charger the LED don't come on.

emtee40 said:
I'll try the download mode W/USB when I get home. I'll try the battery removal tip to. I let it sit for 1 hr then put in the battery and nothing happened. Like I said, even when I plug in the charger the LED don't come on.
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Try plugging it in with no battery
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Don't Panick Yet
I had a problem flashing ACS recovery with a corrupt zip that effectively bricked my phone to the point Sprint Techs declared it dead and ordered me a replacement. Let me tell you something that worked to revive that phone. Pull off the battery cover. Look just down and to the left of the camera lens for a small button that you press with a pin/paper clip/etc. If I recall, press and hold it for about 5 - 10 seconds, and when you go to boot up, it will immediately boot into download mode. That let me revive my completely non responsive (No charging LED, battery ICON, boot, etc) Epic 4G

kennyglass123 said:
Try popping the battery in and out repeatedly while attempting to go into download mode. It will eventually reset the phone and work. Then try all USB ports until Odin reacts. You will have to pull the battery and reset for Odin to successfully repeat after that. If no ports show the phone, try a Blackberry cable or any other one but stock. Also reinstall the drivers.
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What kenny said... my neice has flashed the wrong roms on numerous occasions and not once was I not able to get her back into download mode with the slipping the battery in and out while holding 1 and power button while doing it... keep trying it will go... these phones are very hard to brick...
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emtee40 said:
So if the Unbrickable mod don't work, how am i supposed to get odin to work? it doesn't show up in the COM list when i plug the phone in. I tried the no sdcard/battery trick, and it doesn't do anything.
Am I up the creek then?
*EDIT*
I can't get into download mode. No buttons re-act. It's a hard brick, not a soft brick. I've search everywhere. If it can't be fixed, anybody need parts???
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Buttons don't work in download mode, nothing works in download mode. It's not standard user mode. Get a better USB cord, and/or plug the cord into the BACK of your computer (ie USB port directly on the motherboard). If that doesn't work, try a newer computer. Also make sure ALL the drivers are installed and fully updated. Also, have Odin open and set up before plugging your phone in (obviously, while in download mode). You're not bricked yet! Just sponged...
BEER!

HODriver said:
I had a problem flashing ACS recovery with a corrupt zip that effectively bricked my phone to the point Sprint Techs declared it dead and ordered me a replacement. Let me tell you something that worked to revive that phone. Pull off the battery cover. Look just down and to the left of the camera lens for a small button that you press with a pin/paper clip/etc. If I recall, press and hold it for about 5 - 10 seconds, and when you go to boot up, it will immediately boot into download mode. That let me revive my completely non responsive (No charging LED, battery ICON, boot, etc) Epic 4G
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Non exsistent button. I use to believe it, but it's fake.
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Originally Posted by emtee40 View Post
So if the Unbrickable mod don't work, how am i supposed to get odin to work? it doesn't show up in the COM list when i plug the phone in. I tried the no sdcard/battery trick, and it doesn't do anything.
Am I up the creek then?
*EDIT*
I can't get into download mode. No buttons re-act. It's a hard brick, not a soft brick. I've search everywhere. If it can't be fixed, anybody need parts???
bender beerman said:
Buttons don't work in download mode, nothing works in download mode. It's not standard user mode. Get a better USB cord, and/or plug the cord into the BACK of your computer (ie USB port directly on the motherboard). If that doesn't work, try a newer computer. Also make sure ALL the drivers are installed and fully updated. Also, have Odin open and set up before plugging your phone in (obviously, while in download mode). You're not bricked yet! Just sponged...
BEER!
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he said he can't get into download mode. but you could always take it to sprint if you have insurance. just play dumb say the phone wanted to update and the batttery fell out or something like that. before you do that if you have a stand alone battery charger charge your battery on that and retry. I have 2 batterys and when i tried to get my phone UN-bricked both of the batterys had no juice in them. hope you can get it working again.

The hardware reset button its there, I'm looking at it on my phone now. Don't try if you don't want to, I don't really care.
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HODriver said:
The hardware reset button its there, I'm looking at it on my phone now. Don't try if you don't want to, I don't really care.
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Take your phone apart and take a picture of the "button" then... 50 dollars says there is no button there... and no I'm not talking about the hole I want a pic of the actual button... 50 bucks to anybody that can take a pic of this so called resurection button!!.!!!
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[Q] bricked? and won't power up (while trying to unroot)

I may have bricked my phone, and now won't power up at all. Here's what happened.
Last night I tried to unroot my phone in order to install EL30. First I powered phone into download mode. Then used Odin to install EC05, but Odin seemed to be taking forever, as the instructions said it would take 7-8 minutes... It appeared to be working but very slowly. So after half an hour, I decided to let it work overnight and went to bed, leaving the Odin screen running on computer and the phone with yellow "Downloading" on screen.
This morning, the Odin screen had several more lines of successful completed steps, but did not say "Finished" yet. The phone screen was off. I thought maybe the battery had died because perhaps in download mode maybe the battery wasn't charging? So I unplugged it from USB cord, put in a fully charged battery, and now to my problem...
Phone won't power up or do ANYTHING. I know of 3 methods to power up phone, (pwr button, #1 + pwr, volume up + camera + pwr) and none of them are doing anything. screen never changes from black. I've removed battery, tried powering up while plugged into usb/computer, with & without sd card, etc. It's like the phone is just broke!
HELP?!

Hold down the little pin next to the camera. Also wait for awhile and eventually itll go into download mode. Make sure you keep the battery out when trying to go into download mode.
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Also, did you have repartition checked? Only auto reboot should be selected unless your coming from mtd.
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b16flybye said:
Hold down the little pin next to the camera. Also wait for awhile and eventually itll go into download mode. Make sure you keep the battery out when trying to go into download mode.
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DUDE THERES NO BUTTON [email protected]!?!$#%^?
To the OP:
Did you try leaving the battery out and having plugged into the back of the desktop *if of course its a desktop* and tried to go into download mode using the pc as its power source? Is it a nonstock cable that you used?. Its more than likely because you didn't have a non-stock cable or yours was bad and need a new one. Odin shouldn't take but 5 minutes top..... mine does it around 3:30 minutes..if it seems like its hangs then redo it pull the plug and start over. Usually factoryfs.rfs takes the longest around 2minutes.
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Biggoron said:
DUDE THERES NO BUTTON [email protected]!?!$#%^?
To the OP:
Did you try leaving the battery out and having plugged into the back of the desktop *if of course its a desktop* and tried to go into download mode using the pc as its power source? Is it a nonstock cable that you used?.
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I think he is talking about on the back of the phone it looks like there is a small recessed button under the left of the camera lens

K3VlN said:
I think he is talking about on the back of the phone it looks like there is a small recessed button under the left of the camera lens
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I know what he's talking about he "thinks" inside that hole there's a reset button. There's not....
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First get a better cable, that's why the data wouldn't transfer. 2nd take out the battery and sd card, with Odin up on the computer connect the New USB cable and quickly put it into download mode and Odin away. At this point include the PIT and check repartition. You will need to put the battery back in after it succeeds and tries to boot. For mor tips sea+ch the Development forum for "How to recover a semi-bricked epic" there is a whole thread on it.
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No luck on any of the suggestions above. Phone will not power up at all.
I removed battery and SD card, and plugged into usb cable with Odin open on computer and tried powering up phone into Download Mode (#1 + pwr), nothing (also tried holding #1 + pwr for a couple minutes patiently).
I have had a nightmare trying to find a usb cable and usb port on my computer that work together. No this is not the stock Samsung cable. I am using a cable that has worked for me in the past, but often times a cable/port that works one day won't work the next. So you are probably right in that my original issue getting Odin to download to phone last night may have been a cable problem, however my current problem is simply that the phone seems to be nothing more than a paper weight right now. Just won't power up at all.
And no, I didn't have repartition checked. Phone only had been rooted and CMW, no MTD.
Thank you all for your help, and eagerly awaiting additional suggestions?

Umm yeah man bad idea leaving it alone looks like its time to visit the morgue.... search online to see if someone will restore a solid brick its possible especialy if you cannt use a jig to get into download mode
There are people who will hook up their pc to the main chip on the phone and restore it that way.
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Biggoron said:
Umm yeah man bad idea leaving it alone looks like its time to visit the morgue.... search online to see if someone will restore a solid brick its possible especialy if you cannt use a jig to get into download mode
There are people who will hook up their pc to the main chip on the phone and restore it that way.
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Pardon my ignorance, I'm learning... But what is a jig?

jcole2424 said:
Pardon my ignorance, I'm learning... But what is a jig?
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Its basically a an ohm resister and a usb port you can google it "download mode jig
You can acutally make a homemade one google will find a how to also ..... this will "jump" you into DLmode and be able to odin.
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Biggoron said:
Its basically a an ohm resister and a usb port you can google it "download mode jig"
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Try holding 1 and power button and sliding the battery in and out until download mode boots... it has worked for numerous people in your position...
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flastnoles11 said:
Try holding 1 and power button and sliding the battery in and out until download mode boots... it has worked for numerous people in your position...
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Yes, exactly this^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It is like the phone goes into some kind of coma and popping the battery in and out while trying to get into download mode is CPR.

flastnoles11 said:
Try holding 1 and power button and sliding the battery in and out until download mode boots... it has worked for numerous people in your position...
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COMPLETELY forgot about that thanks flast
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I'm no pro a bringin epics back from the dead but in his condition I believe the phone is completely dead. I've done this to my phone on several different occasions just to get my phone replaced lol. My good friend works for a sprint repair center and he said that most times pulling the usb during odin will kill the device. I'm not tring to be pessamistic as I really hope you fix it but from what your saying then its VERY VERY unlikely! Especially if you hit repartition and then pulled the cord... if you don't belive me then try it and let me know how it goes lol
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travismoreno said:
I'm no pro a bringin epics back from the dead but in his condition I believe the phone is completely dead. I've done this to my phone on several different occasions just to get my phone replaced lol. My good friend works for a sprint repair center and he said that most times pulling the usb during odin will kill the device. I'm not tring to be pessamistic as I really hope you fix it but from what your saying then its VERY VERY unlikely! Especially if you hit repartition and then pulled the cord... if you don't belive me then try it and let me know how it goes lol
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Probably 4 out of 5 of these bricks caused by a failed Odin have come back to life by popping the battery in and out and trying to get into download mode. I can count the number that I have seen never come back on my hands. Some people give up to soon, others found leaving it overnight and trying again has worked. But a lot have been revived. Also he did not have repartition checked so has an even better chance.

When you try to put in download mode without the battery are you holding the buttons down while plugging the cable in? If not then do it that way
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Biggoron said:
DUDE THERES NO BUTTON [email protected]!?!$#%^?
No need to roll your eyes, geez. What is that button then? Cause there IS a button there.
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Man this sucks if any of the aforementioned methods dont work it sounds like you are going to have th make a JTAG to unbrick your phone i found this on the capitvate forums a while back been keeping it around just in case but you can give it a try. i have never had to try any of these methods so if you do let us know how it goes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15330252#post15330252
if nothing else you can always try to take it to sprint and act like you have no idea what happened and dont mention anything about rooting and take your sd card out cause it contains root files
hope you get this worked out bud

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Okay then take apart your phone and please take a picture of your non exisitent magical reset button.....there is no button never has been never will be..... people think there is because they usualy left their battery out long enough for the phone to lose charge.
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phone is not doing anything

soo umm i just flashed CWM touch 6.0.1.0 and restarted my phone and for some reason my phone wont turn on... i plug it in the charger and it does nothing at all. also plugged into USB on my computer and the drivers kept popping up to install but keep failing but the phone wont do anything at all.
also tried going into download mode and fastboot mode and nothing

This should have been asked in Q&A, but I'm going to ask the obligatory questions and hope a mod moves this thread to Q&A.
What version phone do you have (maguro(yakju**/takju**), toro, toroplus?
Did you install the correct ClockworkMod recovery for your phone?
Will it not turn on at all?
If it does turn on, does it hang at the Google screen, or do you not even feel the vibration confirming the phone is on?
Was your battery charged before attempting to install the recovery?
Can you get into fastboot mode by holding both volume buttons and the power button?
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infazzdar said:
What version phone do you have?
Did you install the correct ClockworkMod recovery for your phone?
Will it not turn on at all?
If it does turn on, does it hang at the Google screen?
Can you get into fastboot mode by holding both volume buttons and the power button?
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i have a CDMA verizon Toro and i'm pretty sure i have the right one i downloaded it a couple days ago and have not had time to flash it until today. on the rar file it just says cwm6010TOCUHinstall and i am pretty sure it was for verizon.
it wont turn on at all like no battery symbol or google symbol. screen wont even turn on. i tried plugging it into the computer with battery in and out holding vol down and power and nothing happens but windows keeps beeping to installing a driver over and over again until i unplug the phone. i cant get into any modes also no vibration at all
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i think i know why it bricked i think i flashed a Nexus 7 CWM..... how stupid of me to do i downloaded through my phone so i must of clicked the wrong link to download

icebear8 said:
.... Holding vol down and power and nothing happens....
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Well, did you mean vol up AND vol down AND power?
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KevinAlbrecht said:
Well, did you mean vol up AND vol down AND power?
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did both and also tried each one nothing. i am guessing i hard bricked this sucker as i cant even get into download mode and my computer wont even install the drivers for it (in my task bar it will just say OMAP 4440 drive failed to install drivers or something like that

icebear8 said:
i have a CDMA verizon Toro and i'm pretty sure i have the right one i downloaded it a couple days ago and have not had time to flash it until today. on the rar file it just says cwm6010TOCUHinstall and i am pretty sure it was for verizon.
it wont turn on at all like no battery symbol or google symbol. screen wont even turn on. i tried plugging it into the computer with battery in and out holding vol down and power and nothing happens but windows keeps beeping to installing a driver over and over again until i unplug the phone. i cant get into any modes also no vibration at all
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i think i know why it bricked i think i flashed a Nexus 7 CWM..... how stupid of me to do i downloaded through my phone so i must of clicked the wrong link to download
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I'm no expert, but can you use a toolkit to manually flash to the galaxy nexus version? I had no problem like this, so I'm not sure if this is even find work...
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kyokeun1234 said:
I'm no expert, but can you use a toolkit to manually flash to the galaxy nexus version? I had no problem like this, so I'm not sure if this is even find work...
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well the problem is i cant even boot into download mode or anything at all the phone will not even power on at all (no google sign or screen turn on and no vibe)
i was about to flash a new rom but i wanted to hurry and flash CWM touch but when i downloaded it i guess i clicked the wrong link and picked the nexus 7 CWM touch and flashed that

Yank battery, leave it out for a few minutes...maybe even ten. Plug phone into AC (not USB) wall charger. Let sit like that for two to three minutes. Put battery back in phone while phone is still plugged in. Let sit for an hour or so to get a charge on the battery (in case it dumped). Try powering on.
Just saw you think you flashed N7 recovery....ouch. Time to download Wugs kit and see if you can get it back. I'd still try the steps above for the hell of it.

icebear8 said:
well the problem is i cant even boot into download mode or anything at all the phone will not even power on at all (no google sign or screen turn on and no vibe)
i was about to flash a new rom but i wanted to hurry and flash CWM touch but when i downloaded it i guess i clicked the wrong link and picked the nexus 7 CWM touch and flashed that
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Hm........ I'm really sorry but I got nothing... if you can't even go to Odin, I don't know what you can do...
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got556 said:
Yank battery, leave it out for a few minutes...maybe even ten. Plug phone into AC (not USB) wall charger. Let sit like that for two to three minutes. Put battery back in phone while phone is still plugged in. Let sit for an hour or so to get a charge on the battery (in case it dumped). Try powering on.
Just saw you think you flashed N7 recovery....ouch. Time to download Wugs kit and see if you can get it back. I'd still try the steps above for the hell of it.
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tried what you said already left it charging for 20 mins and even left it with out battery and sim card out of the phone and still nothing i am 100% sure this is a hard bricked but did not know if there was a way to fix a hard brick as i never bricked a phone before (hard brick anyways)

Seriously, stop advertising toolkits already, OP don't need it to fix this problem..
OP, search for omap flash.
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You said when you plug it into your computer it fails to install a driver?
Plug in your phone and go to device manager and see if you see OMAP as a device listed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28486568&postcount=2
I would try following that guide IF your computer still detects your phone as OMAPxxx

biscuitownz said:
You said when you plug it into your computer it fails to install a driver?
Plug in your phone and go to device manager and see if you see OMAP as a device listed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28486568&postcount=2
I would try following that guide IF your computer still detects your phone as OMAPxxx
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yes it does come up in Device manger as OMAP4440

I'm sorry to hear that bro. Hopefully you can fix it if not maybe a warranty exchange. Hopefully everything works out for you
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Thanks everyone that omap thing fixed my phone thank you very much
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icebear8 said:
Thanks everyone that omap thing fixed my phone thank you very much
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Glad you fixed it

Awesome. I was reading through and I was like, "DAAAAAAMN!!! That would ruin my week. =\"
Glad u fixed it.
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icebear8 said:
Thanks everyone that omap thing fixed my phone thank you very much
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I guess you could at least press the thanks button for the guy who gave you the link.