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[Guide Lines] HARD / SOFT BRICKS FOR GALAXY Y GT-S5360 MOBILE

HARD BRICKS YOUR MOBILE​
• When your phone does NOT turn on,
• Combo buttons are NOT working and Power Button does nothing. Follow this steps
1. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, SIM and Battery).
2. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT Battery.
3. Press and HOLD Volume up and Volume down Keys continuously.
4. As you are HOLDING these buttons, re-attach your battery.
5. You should be in Download Mode.
6. Unplug phone from USB
7. Follow steps from the "SOFT BRICKS" Post.
SOFT BRICKS YOUR MOBILE​
1. Get into Download Mode (WITH THE PHONE PLUGGED IN TO PC) by following the steps below
* Turn off the phone until you get to the charging battery screen (keep in mind, your phone is currently PLUGGED IN)
* Press Volume up, Volume down and Power buttons all at once continuously.
* As soon as the screen turns black, release your power button.
2. Unplug phone from USB
3. Open Odin (in Administrator if you're running W7 or Vista
4. Plug in your phone with the Download Mode.
5. Update OS with ODIN SOFTWARE.
DO NOT Load “.pit” Tool
DO NOT CHECK “RE-PARTITION box”
I'm not resposible for any DAMAGE or any other things.
Source:- http://galaxy-y-rom.blogspot.in/search/label/SOFT BRICKS/HARD BRICKS

nice, thanks for this...but still i dont know how to use odin

ronnieryan said:
nice, thanks for this...but still i dont know how to use odin
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Odin Guide on How to Flash and Install stock ROM Firmware on Samsung Galaxy Y S5360
http://galaxy-y-rom.blogspot.in/2012/01/odin-guide-on-how-to-flash-and-install.html

is this really work?

bad advice IMHO
krishna_nirvana said:
1. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, SIM and Battery).
2. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT Battery.
3. Press and HOLD Volume up and Volume down Keys continuously.
4. As you are HOLDING these buttons, re-attach your battery.
5. You should be in Download Mode.
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you ever tried that yourself ?
please post result here !

or screenshots

you guess what I am trying to say ...

How To press the Volume up and down simultaneously
Any Help on pressing volume up and down simultaneoulsy , how to press the two button at the same thime since the volume up and down is combined in only one button ??

Sean De Jesus said:
Any Help on pressing volume up and down simultaneoulsy , how to press the two button at the same thime since the volume up and down is combined in only one button ??
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Just put ur phone like a landscape mode and press it with ur thumbnail that's why god give u ten fingger to use it full hahaha
Maybe helped
:rolleyes
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Device:samsung galaxy y gt s5360
Rom:hybrid v21 creed mod
Recovery:faqby cwm

sorry to say but none of these helped me when my phone was soft bricked ...so as for me...these didn't work.......but it doesn't mean it wont work in other brick conditions...mine were different..just try it out....you never know

The soft brick ODIN mode worked perfect for me when I got my phone stuck in a bootloop. I've yet to be unlucky enough to have a hard brick as of yet so it's good to know there's an option available if I ever do. Thanks dude! ;D
Sent from my GT-S5360 using XDA

Does usb jig solves hard brick? Coz' im planning to buy a jig. Just for 150pesos (3Dollars)
Sent from my GT-S5360

jeffcleds said:
Does usb jig solves hard brick? Coz' im planning to buy a jig. Just for 150pesos (3Dollars)
Sent from my GT-S5360
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may be it will work, I don't know correctly.

is it hard to hard brick galaxy y?

the only one who have hard bricked his SGY is doky. I've never heard anyone else reports about hard brick in sgy. In doky's case, its a super hard brick that even usb jig couldn't help him.

jeffcleds said:
is it hard to hard brick galaxy y?
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search on google "how to brick" sgy

i've searched it, youtube,google, anywhere! none showed up.
i want a video of hard brick issues so badly

I've heard that SGY even survived against washing machine.
btw, there's an easy way. remove the back cover and just put your sgy in salt solution or seawater. it will definetely "hard" brick your SGY (lol)

kurotsugi said:
I've heard that SGY even survived against washing machine.
btw, there's an easy way. remove the back cover and just put your sgy in salt solution or seawater. it will definetely "hard" brick your SGY (lol)
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and again who in the world with a proper state of mind would do that!! just saying but nice suggestion though for those curious people

or...drop it from 15th floor. when it reach those 'hard' cement, it will get a super 'hard' brick ever (lol)

Finally I Got Hardbrick

Hi Friends ...
I have bricked my phone when I was trying to port one of HERO roms.
every thing was good but i forgot to change internal memo format from yaffs to emmc
and when i reboot the phone doesnt turn and just can connect to emergency mod and the screen is fully black and i cant see any anything

farzad.u235 said:
Hi Friends ...
I have bricked my phone when I was trying to port one of HERO roms.
every thing was good but i forgot to change internal memo format from yaffs to emmc
and when i reboot the phone doesnt turn and just can connect to emergency mod and the screen is fully black and i cant see any anything
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here is the problem dont try to port roms
try to put gio roms

I had that emergency mode only brick some time ago. i took it to service center and they repaired it for free, LOL
they said that they replaced the chipset.
if you have warranty, try if they repair it for free.

if you can entry into the recovery mode unroot the phone and go it to repair

Oh shoot! Sorry to hear man!

any ideas i am w8ing

Msulviu said:
here is the problem dont try to port roms
try to put gio roms
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He was trying to port the ROM, not just blindly flashing something from another phone.
If no one bothered trying these sometimes crazy things, there wouldn't be much going on here at XDA.
Missing one line in your updater-script is all it takes. I had a similar incident while trying to flash ICS on my Gio. Way before Maclaw released anything here. Took that phone out for a while.
farzad.u235 said:
any ideas i am w8ing
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You might get download mode to work by removing the battery, plugging the USB cable in, holding Volume Down, Home and Power simultaneously, and putting the battery back in. Odin should recognize the phone, but in my case it went no further than trying to set up the connection.
I've also read reports on here that the USB jigs that put the proper resistance between pins (4 and 5 iirc) also work on the Gio to trigger a different "Factory" download mode. (Same ones as used on the Galaxy S GT-I9000.)
Good luck,
Darkshado

thank u my friend today i will take my gio to a phone repairer and he can unhardbrick by using box

Galaxy gio problem

Hi guys
I do not know what made ​​the kid from a cell phone, but I have a problem does not turn on, nor download mode or recovery only black obrazovka.V Odin I get, but I end up at connection setup, usb jig also nothing one click unbrick nothing too please thanks for your help everyone , sorry for my English:crying::crying::crying:

putpuda said:
Hi guys
I do not know what made ​​the kid from a cell phone, but I have a problem does not turn on, nor download mode or recovery only black obrazovka.V Odin I get, but I end up at connection setup, usb jig also nothing one click unbrick nothing too please thanks for your help everyone , sorry for my English:crying::crying::crying:
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U hardbricked it. U'll have to take it to service centre and tell them a lie tht u upgraded with kies and this happen. dont mention about root,custom rom nothing which makes ur warranty invaild

Does anyone have a better solution?

sgw hard brick

hi all, my sgw hard brick because i wrong flash kernel, any idea to unbrick.
I had tried this method , but still cant power on.
1. Unplug your phone from usb
2. Take out battery (and mini sd and sim)
3. Plug usb back into phone.
4. Hold down up and down volume keys while putting battery back into the phone.

WOW..!! You got it bro..!!
I also had a HardBrick and I'm very confused how to unbrick my SGW.
I'm looking for many thread and post about unbrick the HardBrick, but I just got same answer.
so., Solution for your problem is "Change the PDA/MainBoard"

Theres a solution on that.. just search here..

skylai82 said:
hi all, my sgw hard brick because i wrong flash kernel, any idea to unbrick.
I had tried this method , but still cant power on.
1. Unplug your phone from usb
2. Take out battery (and mini sd and sim)
3. Plug usb back into phone.
4. Hold down up and down volume keys while putting battery back into the phone.
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eza azami said:
WOW..!! You got it bro..!!
I also had a HardBrick and I'm very confused how to unbrick my SGW.
I'm looking for many thread and post about unbrick the HardBrick, but I just got same answer.
so., Solution for your problem is "Change the PDA/MainBoard"
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hi bro, u r correct, I go samsung service center, answer is change main board. design too bad, may be main samsung factory no send out how to re-flash phone for all samsung service center.
And samsung android system without fastboot / hboot. maybe only jtagbox can help us.
sad sad... no more support samsung, I ready change to suppot miui phone xiaomi2. cheap and powerfull hardware the android system support fastboot like sony and htc.
pre-order now...

skylai82 said:
hi bro, u r correct, I go samsung service center, answer is change main board. design too bad, may be main samsung factory no send out how to re-flash phone for all samsung service center.
And samsung android system without fastboot / hboot. maybe only jtagbox can help us.
sad sad... no more support samsung, I ready change to suppot miui phone xiaomi2. cheap and powerfull hardware the android system support fastboot like sony and htc.
pre-order now...
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http://androidforums.com/vibrant-tips-tricks/223806-guide-fixing-bricks-odin-errors.html
NO-BOOT BRICKS
This is where your phone does NOT turn on, no combo of buttons works and power button does nothing.
DO THIS ONLY WHEN YOU PLUG IN YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SHOWS UP ON THE SCREEN!!! If else, follow the steps from above.
This method is basically same as above, EXCEPT the way you get into Download Mode as your phone is HARD BROKEN.
1. Download all the files required in the "SOFT BRICKS" section of this post.
2. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, sim, battery).
3. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT the battery, as you have already taken it out in the last step.
4. Press and HOLD vol. up and vol. down.
5. As you are HOLDING these buttons, reattach your battery.
6. You should be in Download Mode.
7. Unplug phone from USB
8. Follow steps 4-8 from the "SOFT BRICKS" section.
Troubleshooting:
-Odin stuck at some random process?
*Switch to another odin
*Make sure you did NOT check repartition, if you did, just repeat all the steps over again, of course for the downloading parts, obviously.
-Phone not responsive?
*Try the hard brick section right under
-Phone stuck at Galaxy S logo screen?
*Put it in to DL mode, and run Odin again, it's just a bad install.
-All three ODIN is nonfunctional, stuck or giving "FAILED" errors?
*DO NOT CLOSE ODIN ONCE IT HAS FAILED!
*Unplug your phone
*Replug in your phone, get it into DL mode
* Unplug once it is in DL mode
*Replug and ODIN should recognize your phone
*Leave all the settings the same, then click "Start" again.

skylai82 said:
http://androidforums.com/vibrant-tips-tricks/223806-guide-fixing-bricks-odin-errors.html
NO-BOOT BRICKS
This is where your phone does NOT turn on, no combo of buttons works and power button does nothing.
DO THIS ONLY WHEN YOU PLUG IN YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SHOWS UP ON THE SCREEN!!! If else, follow the steps from above.
This method is basically same as above, EXCEPT the way you get into Download Mode as your phone is HARD BROKEN.
1. Download all the files required in the "SOFT BRICKS" section of this post.
2. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, sim, battery).
3. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT the battery, as you have already taken it out in the last step.
4. Press and HOLD vol. up and vol. down.
5. As you are HOLDING these buttons, reattach your battery.
6. You should be in Download Mode.
7. Unplug phone from USB
8. Follow steps 4-8 from the "SOFT BRICKS" section.
Troubleshooting:
-Odin stuck at some random process?
*Switch to another odin
*Make sure you did NOT check repartition, if you did, just repeat all the steps over again, of course for the downloading parts, obviously.
-Phone not responsive?
*Try the hard brick section right under
-Phone stuck at Galaxy S logo screen?
*Put it in to DL mode, and run Odin again, it's just a bad install.
-All three ODIN is nonfunctional, stuck or giving "FAILED" errors?
*DO NOT CLOSE ODIN ONCE IT HAS FAILED!
*Unplug your phone
*Replug in your phone, get it into DL mode
* Unplug once it is in DL mode
*Replug and ODIN should recognize your phone
*Leave all the settings the same, then click "Start" again.
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Is this method worked with you ?

you hold the wrong button..
while you plugin the charge/usb cable, hold power button+vol down(not both up&down,only down)+home button then put again your battery..
if it still like that just go to ssc..
Sent from my GT-I8150 using Tapatalk 2

stpdkid said:
you hold the wrong button..
while you plugin the charge/usb cable, hold power button+vol down(not both up&down,only down)+home button then put again your battery..
if it still like that just go to ssc..
Sent from my GT-I8150 using Tapatalk 2
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Try already.. also no working....

skylai82 said:
Try already.. also no working....
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Send for phone repair shop, repair price RM150.00
Shop girl told me change Main board, actual no! imei number still same.

skylai82 said:
Send for phone repair shop, repair price RM150.00
Shop girl told me change Main board, actual no! imei number still same.
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Means u got cheated with a software solution since imei no change which means same board?

egagah said:
Means u got cheated with a software solution since imei no change which means same board?
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yes.

skylai82 said:
yes.
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Oops what happened here ? I thought I wanted to share a solution...NVM

[Q] Hard bricked Ace II when updating to 4.1.2

Just yesterday I flashed my galaxy Ace 2 with 4.1.2 on Odin (which I've done hundreds of times), but I wasn't so lucky on the other side. I seem to have hard bricked my phone, no boot, no download, nothing . I made sure I put the tar.md5 in the PDA as usual, can someone please help me try and revive my bricked ace 2. I hear a usb jig will work for soft brick but will it work on a hard bricked phone?

Mitchpeep said:
Just yesterday I flashed my galaxy Ace 2 with 4.1.2 on Odin (which I've done hundreds of times), but I wasn't so lucky on the other side. I seem to have hard bricked my phone, no boot, no download, nothing . I made sure I put the tar.md5 in the PDA as usual, can someone please help me try and revive my bricked ace 2. I hear a usb jig will work for soft brick but will it work on a hard bricked phone?
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bump?

try using JTAG, it's work on my ace 2, i've bricked my ace 2 when i flash the china FW

fauzanskywalker said:
try using JTAG, it's work on my ace 2, i've bricked my ace 2 when i flash the china FW
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Yeah I flashed with china 4.1.2 >.<, later to find out china does not support other countries. I ordered a Jig off ebay, should be coming soon

Well, if your phone doesn't even turns on or enters to download mode with the 3button combination it's hard bricked.
Probably corrupted pbl and/or sbl which means the jig will not work.
Send back to samsung if it's still under warranty or ask someone who has JTAG and upload the bootloaders to the nand, this will bring back dl mode - a JTAG repair will cost approx. 30-50 USD.

Mitchpeep said:
Yeah I flashed with china 4.1.2 >.<, later to find out china does not support other countries. I ordered a Jig off ebay, should be coming soon
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Jig doesn't work.
Sent from my GT-I8160 using xda premium

Same in here. Bricked Ace2 when flashing chinese 4.1.2.
All those f... saying chinese firmawe is "just a 4.1.2 without all that bloatware so go ahead" should now burn

so guys no solution?
i havent been using my phone for week

Szaby59 said:
Well, if your phone doesn't even turns on or enters to download mode with the 3button combination it's hard bricked.
Probably corrupted pbl and/or sbl which means the jig will not work.
Send back to samsung if it's still under warranty or ask someone who has JTAG and upload the bootloaders to the nand, this will bring back dl mode - a JTAG repair will cost approx. 30-50 USD.
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Hmmm, It seems to be when I plug my phone into the computer it makes the USB connected sound and stays like that, but after about 5-6 seconds it makes the disconnect sound. Does this mean anything at all?

It confirms your bootloader is corrupted.
I guess it will show an "U8500 USB ROM" in device manager when you connect the USB cable.
That's because the phones internal rom (I don't know what exactly called) tries to load the primary bootloader but it can't find a valid one.
The boot process of Ace 2 and I guess for a few other Samsung devices:
Internal rom -> PBL -> Search for valid SBL -> Loading SBL -> SBL Checks if any 3key combo or JIG/UART/charger/etc connected ?
NO -> Normal boot, loading kernel, etc.
YES -> Charging, Download mode or Recovery mode (depending which buttons are pressed or device is connected).
Or something similar, but the point is you should NEVER flash bootloaders, if one of them gets corrupted you can't recover your phone with the usual tools.
I doubt it can be recovered, but try this:
Pull out the battery, connect the phone to the PC (Odin should be started before) press vol_down+home+power and reinsert the battery (still hold the 3 buttons!)
See if odin detects the phone.

Szaby59 said:
It confirms your bootloader is corrupted.
I guess it will show an "U8500 USB ROM" in device manager when you connect the USB cable.
That's because the phones internal rom (I don't know what exactly called) tries to load the primary bootloader but it can't find a valid one.
The boot process of Ace 2 and I guess for a few other Samsung devices:
Internal rom -> PBL -> Search for valid SBL -> Loading SBL -> SBL Checks if any 3key combo or JIG/UART/charger/etc connected ?
NO -> Normal boot, loading kernel, etc.
YES -> Charging, Download mode or Recovery mode (depending which buttons are pressed or device is connected).
Or something similar, but the point is you should NEVER flash bootloaders, if one of them gets corrupted you can't recover your phone with the usual tools.
I doubt it can be recovered, but try this:
Pull out the battery, connect the phone to the PC (Odin should be started before) press vol_down+home+power and reinsert the battery (still hold the 3 buttons!)
See if odin detects the phone.
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No luck , I think I might send the phone back to the place I bought it from and act dumb.

Szaby59 said:
It confirms your bootloader is corrupted.
I guess it will show an "U8500 USB ROM" in device manager when you connect the USB cable.
That's because the phones internal rom (I don't know what exactly called) tries to load the primary bootloader but it can't find a valid one.
The boot process of Ace 2 and I guess for a few other Samsung devices:
Internal rom -> PBL -> Search for valid SBL -> Loading SBL -> SBL Checks if any 3key combo or JIG/UART/charger/etc connected ?
NO -> Normal boot, loading kernel, etc.
YES -> Charging, Download mode or Recovery mode (depending which buttons are pressed or device is connected).
Or something similar, but the point is you should NEVER flash bootloaders, if one of them gets corrupted you can't recover your phone with the usual tools.
I doubt it can be recovered, but try this:
Pull out the battery, connect the phone to the PC (Odin should be started before) press vol_down+home+power and reinsert the battery (still hold the 3 buttons!)
See if odin detects the phone.
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I plugged the phone into a different usb port and it said U8500 USB ROM then it says no driver found. Does this basically mean Ive screwed the boot? IS there any other way than JTAG to fix?

Hi
There is a trick that in most of cases can fix bircked phones!
Just remove battery and wait for a minute , then hold vol. down + Home + power button and ask someone to place battery while you are holding buttons!

sorset said:
Hi
There is a trick that in most of cases can fix bircked phones!
Just remove battery and wait for a minute , then hold vol. down + Home + power button and ask someone to place battery while you are holding buttons!
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Doesn't work sorry . I think its something to do with the boot loader.

Mitchpeep said:
Doesn't work sorry . I think its something to do with the boot loader.
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You mean the screen didnt turn on?! even its background light?

sorset said:
You mean the screen didnt turn on?! even its background light?
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Yes thats right, screen or background lighting wont even turn on. Its a hard brick unfortunately . Luckily its still under waranty, I'm sending it away to be repaired today .

hi any update? I also screwed up my i8160p during Odin process and face actually the same symptoms as you.
Samsung service center claimed need to replace motherboard and mine without warranty covered.:crying:
if need to Jtag what and which files to flashed?
thanks!!

testwater2 said:
hi any update? I also screwed up my i8160p during Odin process and face actually the same symptoms as you.
Samsung service center claimed need to replace motherboard and mine without warranty covered.:crying:
if need to Jtag what and which files to flashed?
thanks!!
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I think your pretty much screwed unless you take it to someone who J/TAGS or can revive hard bricked devices, a usb jig will not work. I have learnt my lesson now, to always read the comments at least 10 times before flashing any rom, that goes for stock roms too .

Mitchpeep said:
I think your pretty much screwed unless you take it to someone who J/TAGS or can revive hard bricked devices, a usb jig will not work. I have learnt my lesson now, to always read the comments at least 10 times before flashing any rom, that goes for stock roms too .
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Hello! I had exactly the same thing as you. Gave my phone to Sammy (flash counter was 2 and still is) and they've revived it for free :victory: I've got the phone back today. When leaving my device at Sammy, I've told (more or less ) what happened - OTA have crashed.
Anyway - I had the alternative way. Guys at GSM stalls told they may place a new bootloader too, but for money. Prices varied so be careful - from ~50 euros to even as cheap as 15 euros.
BR

piecho said:
Hello! I had exactly the same thing as you. Gave my phone to Sammy (flash counter was 2 and still is) and they've revived it for free :victory: I've got the phone back today. When leaving my device at Sammy, I've told (more or less ) what happened - OTA have crashed.
Anyway - I had the alternative way. Guys at GSM stalls told they may place a new bootloader too, but for money. Prices varied so be careful - from ~50 euros to even as cheap as 15 euros.
BR
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also happened with me and my counter was maybe 6 but they repair it for free:good: