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[Q] URGENT: I cant get past Samsung screen on my epic

I tried to do a harmless one click root 3.006 for eb13 downloaded of xda. USB debugging was on and then i ran the unzipped folder to install cwm3 on my phone. i had an error the first time and the second time everything seemed to work fine until the very end it said error phone offline error zimage file missing. so i went to exit out and reboot my phone, and when i when to turn my phone back on i could not get past the 1st screen the SAMSUNG samsungmobile screen. usb debugging is still on and my computer still recognizes the phone when plugged into usb but... Is there anything at all i can do? please help

Try and odin back to stock. If you click on the link in my signature I've made a video showing you how to use odin.
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yup, try to ODIN back to stock.
Also you may want to try re-downloading the once click root, just to be safe. Run it again and make sure you have an EXT4 compatible kernel/ROM on your sd card before hand. You'll have to flash that once you boot into CWM.

i can get into download mode, but i havent flashed a rom yet. all i did was try to root my phone with one click root. should i still try odin

yes, ODIN back to stock and try again. One click root 3.0.0.6 is only if you want to convert to EXT4. If this is the case, you have to flash a compatible kernel and rom.
If you do NOT want to convert, then use the one click root 2.X.X.X. You will not have flash anything else and you will be rooted.
Or if you want to make things even easier, check out the development section and ODIN the stock plus rom. It's pre-rooted, RFS or EXT4, and has additional tweaks to make life good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061912

what pit file should i use for odin, and where can i find it?

qbking77 your videos good but the pit file is no longer available in the link you provided

Current Odin, PIT, TAR, and instructions: http://tinyurl.com/epicfix
Dyehya/Cyc's guide, my files.
Ignorance1, please don't double post.

Wont recognize usb when in download mode
should i just plan on getting a new phone? Now that my phone is effed my computer will not recognize it in download mode it says device unknown or malfunctioned, It wont let me choose samsung drivers when selecting drivers from disk or anything

Ignorance1 said:
should i just plan on getting a new phone? Now that my phone is effed my computer will not recognize it in download mode it says device unknown or malfunctioned, It wont let me choose samsung drivers when selecting drivers from disk or anything
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No. Uninstall the drivers and reinstall them, then switch to a non-stock USB cable.

Make the following boxes are checked:
Re-Partiton, Auto-reboot, F. Reset Time. You say check all 3, while qbking77 says to just check auto reboot. what should i do?

Ignorance1 said:
Make the following boxes are checked:
Re-Partiton, Auto-reboot, F. Reset Time. You say check all 3, while qbking77 says to just check auto reboot. what should i do?
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I don't say check all three - Cyc does. I say check only auto reboot.

screen turned blue at factoryfs.rfs
I saw a progress bar and then when odin got to factoryfs.rfs my phone screen turned blurple, wtf is that?

Ignorance1 said:
I saw a progress bar and then when odin got to factoryfs.rfs my phone screen turned blurple, wtf is that?
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Good question, are you using the stock cable still? If so... dump it.

Ignorance1 said:
I saw a progress bar and then when odin got to factoryfs.rfs my phone screen turned blurple, wtf is that?
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possibly a bad flash. Did it fail or pass?
If it failed, try a different USB cable and/or a different USB port. If you are using a desktop computer, make sure you are using USB ports on the back of the tower, instead of front USB ports.
ODIN is a bit wonky at times. If it fails, try, try, try again.

What version of Odin are you using? I still use the old 1.6. The newer versions seem more picky.

after messing around with odin for a good hour and a half qbkings method seemed to work. the newer version of odin blue screened my phone every time. omg im ridiculously thankful for this forum right now. Seeing as one click root effed me in the a last time i think im gonna try to learn how to root manually

Ignorance1 said:
after messing around with odin for a good hour and a half qbkings method seemed to work. the newer version of odin blue screened my phone every time. omg im ridiculously thankful for this forum right now. Seeing as one click root effed me in the a last time i think im gonna try to learn how to root manually
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It's not the one-click root... It's the horrible stock cable! Trust me!
Buy this and never look back. It's $1.36. Don't have Prime? Choose another seller who ships free from the options.

k0nane said:
It's not the one-click root... It's the horrible stock cable! Trust me!
Buy this and never look back. It's $1.36. Don't have Prime? Choose another seller who ships free from the options.
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That and not having a compatible EXT4 ROM to flash after the EXT4 conversion was done before rebooting.

ive been using the htc evo cable which works like a charm, im new but not retarded. If you guys swear by one click root i might give it another go. Honestly im running xp and i think the file wasnt fully extracted because one file kept on having an error.

Odin and downloading mode

I edited my post in the odin thread in dev because I felt like I was hijacking...
So odin see's my phone when the phone is on (yellow com port) . Even during boot up. But it doesn't see it in download mode. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers more than 5 times. I also just went out and bought a new data cable (NOT made my samsung)... Again, odin see's my phone while it's booting, and while it's on normal, but it just doesn't see it when in downloading mode.
Anyone have any tips? Is it possible to do this without being in downloading mode? I've tried every one of the "trouble shooting" tips for odin not seeing the device. Tried all of the usb ports, tried doing it without the battery, it's plugged into a usb port that is directly connected to the mobo.
I'm doing all of this on an older win xp comp. I had to use the win xp machine to root the phone, and it worked fine.
Even with Heimdall I get "failed to detect compatible device"

Have you tried it with the battery out and connected to computer to go into download mode?

kennyglass123 said:
Have you tried it with the battery out and connected to computer to go into download mode?
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Sorry, I know there's a bit to read in the OP. Just wanted to get all of the info I could in there... But yes, I tried that. Several times actually :-/

Zexter said:
Sorry I know there's a bit to read in the OP, but yes, I tried that. Several times :-/
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I guess I should have interpretted that from "tried all the troubleshooting tips"
Reading through the OP (again...really) sounds like there is something wrong with your download mode. How about using the Samsung EB13 tool thingy and let it OTA? It is supposed to be more hardy than Odin.

No I haven't tried that. I didn't even know there was a tool. I just came from the heroc to the epic yesterday
What is this tool thingy you speak of ?
[edit] im running syndicate and would like to get back to square one.

Zexter said:
No I haven't tried that. I didn't even know there was a tool. I just came from the heroc to the epic yesterday
What is this tool thingy you speak of ?
[edit] im running syndicate and would like to get back to square one.
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Here is the link for the updater tool. I think it gets you to EB13 wiping your phone:
http://db.tt/LttNmT9
The other option is to flash the ReRFS EC05 ROM and stock recovery in Development. Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1027904

kennyglass123 said:
Here is the link for the updater tool. I think it gets you to EB13 wiping your phone:
http://db.tt/LttNmT9
The other option is to flash the ReRFS EC05 ROM and stock recovery in Development. Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1027904
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Thank you very much man, I loved this phone yesterday, and really don't wanna hate it (not yet anyway)

kennyglass123 said:
Here is the link for the updater tool. I think it gets you to EB13 wiping your phone: http://db.tt/LttNmT9
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Is there anything special I need to know about this? Or is it a simple plug in and run?

Zexter said:
Is there anything special I need to know about this? Or is it a simple plug in and run?
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This is an Odin like interface that needs the computer and also asks for download mode but it detects the phone in most cases when Odin can't. Give it a try and if it still can't find your phone download mode is broken. Then go to plan B.

Downloading now! Will post the results. Thanks again for the hospitality.
[edit] That program didn't work either. It just stays at the "plug into computer" step
Gonna try plan B now

Zexter said:
Downloading now! Will post the results. Thanks again for the hospitality.
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Hope it works for you. I downloaded it, never used it, kept it as a backup in case Odin failed one day, just installed it now so I can answer your question..lol.

[Q] phone identified as i9100 and no wifi or ODIN support

hello all
title says it all
My friend has a d710 and the phone identifies itself as i9100 in the boot screen and download mode and settings -> about phone (2.3.4 kernel JPKI1, build jpkpi1)
my pc refuses to see it in ODIN and the phone is not rooted so i cant try to use mobile odin to force flash a proper d710 rom.
not sure what was done to the phone. (i mean even if he force flashed an i9100 firmware on it, i certainly dont expect it to boot into android.
can somebody help
thanks

For Odin do you have the proper drivers for it? Did you try a different cable? Maybe a different USB port? Also when you flash a custom kernel, the boot screen will have the international logo with the yellow triangle.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda app-developers app

i installed the latest USB drivers and they seems to be working fine
i changed cable and port but it didnt change anything
i tested odin on a Galaxy note and it worked fine. so its not the pc

Did your friend flash an international ROM?
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probably
apparently he took it to a local shop but he has no idea what they did to it. all he knows is that wifi doesn't work anymore.
i think he took it to a shop and they probably force flashed an i9100(GSM) firmware on this thing but it somehow failed midway or after flashing the kernel portion. which left iit in an odd state where its broken but with the ability to boot to the OS.
im sure that this can be fixed if i can flash a normal d710 firmware on the phone but ODIN does not see the phone when i put it in download mode

Is it only not seeing the phone when its in DL mode? have you tried when the phone is on, hook it up to the PC and under device management (start menu search, device management) right click on the USB drive, should show device with yellow triangle, update drivers via search online. Maybe bacause it is the GSM firmware it may need different drivers for odin. Im also assuming the you are trying to use sfhub's one-click odins?

i tried to use both ODINs same problem
in the contol panel i see 3 "android composite ADB Interface. two of which have the yellow triangle. making it go to online to download the updated driver, returns "windows has determined the driver software for your device is up to date"
btw. i used a real i9100 on the PC and odin sees it just fine

I found some stuff on it.
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-377774.html
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600203
its for the galexy nexus but similer situation. may shed some light on the subject.
Can you get into CWM or is it completely stock? I would see if your friend can take it back to the store that "fixed" it and ask what exactly the did to it. Also do you have a jig? that would force it into DL mode.

THE GRIZZ said:
hello all
title says it all
My friend has a d710 and the phone identifies itself as i9100 in the boot screen and download mode and settings -> about phone (2.3.4 kernel JPKI1, build jpkpi1)
my pc refuses to see it in ODIN and the phone is not rooted so i cant try to use mobile odin to force flash a proper d710 rom.
not sure what was done to the phone. (i mean even if he force flashed an i9100 firmware on it, i certainly dont expect it to boot into android.
can somebody help
thanks
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Silly question but can you pull the battery and see what model it shows on the sticker? Just curious because I have heard of people flashing i9100 builds on our phone but thought it usually results in a bootloop.

download skies and then go to download mode and use sfhub one click it happen to me once when i put and international version

mrej201 said:
download skies and then go to download mode and use sfhub one click it happen to me once when i put and international version
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not sure what skies is
but when i ran SPH-D710.FF18_CL663858_ROOTED-OneClick in admin mode, it (like odin) failed to recognize that the phone is connected in ODIN mode

THE GRIZZ said:
not sure what skies is
but when i ran SPH-D710.FF18_CL663858_ROOTED-OneClick in admin mode, it (like odin) failed to recognize that the phone is connected in ODIN mode
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Skies is the Samsung program with the driver built into it. It's a back up program.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda app-developers app

g_ding84 said:
Skies is the Samsung program with the driver built into it. It's a back up program.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda app-developers app
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ohh i already have kies (and the samsung phones USB drivers) installed. my PC connects just fine with a N7000(gNote and SGS2-i9100) just fine.
please note that the D710 is identifying itself as i9100 in the download mode screen!!??

I saw you said you had the right drivers (I assume you mean for the SPH-D710) I have heard of some people having luck when doing that kind of thing by installing the drivers for the phone they flashed onto their epic touch. (In your case the i9100 drivers)
Note: I am not responsible if doing this destroys your phone, usb, computer, or anything else.

All epics say i9100 in download mode.. why don't you try removing the drivers... and using heimdall, sounds like your drivers are messed up since you have some yellow triangles...
If there any wrong phone flashing going on, it wouldn't boot.
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[Q] help samsung i9250 16gb google brick

hi friends need your help a customer brought me a 16GB i9250 galaxy google just wanted to restart because I was so slow I then proceeded to do a hard reset .. now the phone only turns on and the display is only one cell .. .. . .. yellow triangle and a pc ..
I tried to restore it in many ways without success .. I used the flasher omap, I've also used the Galaxy Nexus ToolKit and also without any result.
when I remove the battery is detected as omap4440 I installed the drivers that are in the folder flasher omap but none of the programs I detect ... I tried
also with odin with versions 1.85 and 1.87 and nothing ever gets stuck in userdata and no longer goes from there
most humbly beseech your help because the client already want and do not want to give me more time-
I upload the images to see the errors thanks for your help
I'm desperate and do not know what else:crying:

So you bricked a customers phone. Nice.
Maybe you should read and learn more before attempting to work on other peoples devices.
From what I can see you need to use Odin to reflash the firmware back to stock. It needs to be in download mode. That's what that triangle means. Means its in download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405327
You can find lots of threads like that with different Odin firmwares. Find the right one for the right galaxy nexus.
After you flash that it will be all stock again and any and all data will be wiped.
This is why toolkits are bad. Make sure you have the right drivers installed. You don't have the right drivers installed or Odin would see the device.

thanks
scottx . said:
So you bricked a customers phone. Nice.
Maybe you should read and learn more before attempting to work on other peoples devices.
From what I can see you need to use Odin to reflash the firmware back to stock. It needs to be in download mode. That's what that triangle means. Means its in download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405327
You can find lots of threads like that with different Odin firmwares. Find the right one for the right galaxy nexus.
After you flash that it will be all stock again and any and all data will be wiped.
This is why toolkits are bad. Make sure you have the right drivers installed. You don't have the right drivers installed or Odin would see the device.
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ok thanks friend i solved my problem but not can flash with odin but odin in the area write userdata.imagen say error en only work to the 98%
excuse me for my english

Toolkit strikes again!

[Q] Tmobile Samsung galaxy S3 sgh-t999 is hard bricked, need help

Hi I have a samsung galaxt s3 sgh-t999, I rooted my phone with no problems and wanted to be able to move apps to sd card so I went to rom manager and clicked on partition sd card and it said it was going to reboot it shut off and now it wont turn back on, wont go into recovery mode, if i plug it into the computer, the computer dont pick it up, when i plug in the charger it does nothing... I really need help, is there away to fix it or do I have a $500 door stop or paper weight??? all help appreciated

I too Have a T999L that is hard bricked. No issues rooting. used swapper 2 and link2sd and got hard bricked. I am running du_d2tmo-2013-10-14 rom 4.3 JB. I attempted the debrick method using both nix and winblows.. no results whatsoever . not a single error. in fact, i cannot get my T999L to do anything at all. i plug it into the pc and IF the battery is out, the red light comes on. with the battery in, it does nothing at all. ANY help would be greatly appreciated

shawzaw said:
Hi I have a samsung galaxt s3 sgh-t999, I rooted my phone with no problems and wanted to be able to move apps to sd card so I went to rom manager and clicked on partition sd card and it said it was going to reboot it shut off and now it wont turn back on, wont go into recovery mode, if i plug it into the computer, the computer dont pick it up, when i plug in the charger it does nothing... I really need help, is there away to fix it or do I have a $500 door stop or paper weight??? all help appreciated
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Can you get into download mode? Does it show up on Odin? If it does then flash a root66 img root66_TMO_T999UVUEMJC for my Tmobile T999 This is what I used when I thought my phone was bricked. I used Odin to flash TWRP recovery and then format, and flash a custom rom. Good luck

shawzaw said:
Hi I have a samsung galaxt s3 sgh-t999, I rooted my phone with no problems and wanted to be able to move apps to sd card so I went to rom manager and clicked on partition sd card and it said it was going to reboot it shut off and now it wont turn back on, wont go into recovery mode, if i plug it into the computer, the computer dont pick it up, when i plug in the charger it does nothing... I really need help, is there away to fix it or do I have a $500 door stop or paper weight??? all help appreciated
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Rom Manager most likely partitioned your INTERNAL SD Card instead. You'd have to Flash Root66 for Android 4.2 via Odin.
BlazeUser said:
I too Have a T999L that is hard bricked. No issues rooting. used swapper 2 and link2sd and got hard bricked. I am running du_d2tmo-2013-10-14 rom 4.3 JB. I attempted the debrick method using both nix and winblows.. no results whatsoever . not a single error. in fact, i cannot get my T999L to do anything at all. i plug it into the pc and IF the battery is out, the red light comes on. with the battery in, it does nothing at all. ANY help would be greatly appreciated
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Did you try the De-Bricking Thread in Development sub forum ?

Perseus71 said:
Rom Manager most likely partitioned your INTERNAL SD Card instead. You'd have to Flash Root66 for Android 4.2 via Odin.
Did you try the De-Bricking Thread in Development sub forum ?
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yes i tried this method on both windows and ubuntu 12.04 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367

BlazeUser said:
yes i tried this method on both windows and ubuntu 12.04 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367
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What image did you use ?

Perseus71 said:
What image did you use ?
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i used the T999L image

Hey can someone help me where to find a tutorial to root my T999v, I only see tutorials for T999 and T999L can i use those same tutorial to root my phone on version 4.1.2 please i just don't wanna brick my phone so someone help me

BlazeUser said:
i used the T999L image
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Please use 4.3 image for T999
dorian2kx said:
Hey can someone help me where to find a tutorial to root my T999v, I only see tutorials for T999 and T999L can i use those same tutorial to root my phone on version 4.1.2 please i just don't wanna brick my phone so someone help me
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Yes.

acedik said:
Can you get into download mode? Does it show up on Odin? If it does then flash a root66 img root66_TMO_T999UVUEMJC for my Tmobile T999 This is what I used when I thought my phone was bricked. I used Odin to flash TWRP recovery and then format, and flash a custom rom. Good luck
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no i cant get into download mode or recovery mode, it loads nothing up, wont vibrate or anything, its hard bricked, i dont know what version of odin i need for my phone, it from tmobile samsung galaxy s3 sgh-t999

shawzaw said:
no i cant get into download mode or recovery mode, it loads nothing up, wont vibrate or anything, its hard bricked, i dont know what version of odin i need for my phone, it from tmobile samsung galaxy s3 sgh-t999
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Wow, so its still bricked from December? Did you recently try the debrick method in dev section?
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bricked
ive got a similar problem. tried this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 but it still will not do anything, no power, no reaction, just black screen. its tmobile sgh-t99l. really really need help if anyone can

syben7 said:
ive got a similar problem. tried this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 but it still will not do anything, no power, no reaction, just black screen. its tmobile sgh-t99l. really really need help if anyone can
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You may need a debrick.img created from a device with the NC1 firmware. Do you know what build you were on before it bricked?
We dont have that NC1 image yet, that im aware of, but ill see if I cant find someone to make one.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk

syben7 said:
ive got a similar problem. tried this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2439367 but it still will not do anything, no power, no reaction, just black screen. its tmobile sgh-t99l. really really need help if anyone can
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Sent you a pm with a new debrick.img to try. Please reply via pm to let me know how it goes. Good luck!
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk

DocHoliday77 said:
You may need a debrick.img created from a device with the NC1 firmware. Do you know what build you were on before it bricked?
We dont have that NC1 image yet, that im aware of, but ill see if I cant find someone to make one.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk
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I was on the pac 4.4 nightly, had flashed new nightly updates regularly for nearly a month with no problems, but then decided to switch to cm11, when I tried to flash that it gave me the bootloader error, so I went to the method that was a supposed fix for that and flashed it and thats when it went dead.

Same Problem
Hey guys I have the same exact problem heres how it started, which I think accurately describes everyone else with the same problem:
1) I downloaded the correct TWRP for my phone and unlocked it previously with ODIN.
2) So far everything is fine, now I find a nice new ROM which is stable and try to flash it. The rom was: FlashingDroid_S5_v2.2
3)First I deleted cache and dalvic cache as well, basically the default wipe.
4) I flashed the ROM and it said it was succesful, I click reboot, and nothing
Symptoms
1)No vibration
2)No screen image whatsoever
3)No signs of booting up with computer
4) Does not boot up using JIG method
5)Computer does not see phone
Notes
1) I tried checking the pulse of the phone W/out battery and gave me very little wattage, and eventually it drained out
2) Then I tried plugging it into my computer and the front red light went on but no power in phone and PC cannot see it
3) Sometimes when I put the battery in, it gives me a quick flash, from the flashlight on the back, OR it gives a millisecond of a vibration
4)Before I flashed I had android 4.3 Jellybean stock with root-again I tried to flash FlashingDroid_S5_v2.2 w/TWRP
Trials to resolve in which did NOT work
1) I tried putting it into download mode, with JIG but no battery and had someone put the battery in WHILE i was pressing HOME+POWER+VOLUME DOWN with the JIG
Results: It sometimes gave me a small vibration, but no results
2) Tried to install correct ODIN and KIES software
Result: Gave me negative sound on laptop meaning it does not recognize device-it does not show up in My Computer either

Having the same issue.
I used the FlashingDroid_S5_v2.2 rom. Wiped the phone before flashing, the prompt said successful and rebooted.
Then nothing.
No response from charging, power, download mode... nothing.