[Q] Bootloader broken, USB hub damaged, Can't ODIN - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

This all happened so suddenly the past few days:
1. After flashing AOKP M6, I couldn't mount my phone through USB. I kept getting a "device unrecognized" error, followed by an installation failed error. Wasn't sure what the problem was because my USB was working right before I flashed Milestone 6.
2. I was having random FCs with AOKPM6 + Eugene's kernel so I backed up my data and did a full wipe/reset from CWM. This lead to a black screen on every boot after the Samsung logo faded away, and the ROM wouldn't boot. Freaked out so I tried multiple times with multiple cables and multiple computers to get to ODIN and prevent further damage...
3. Can't get into Download mode for ODIN. I've ODIN-ed my phone at least 2-3 times when official ICS came out for our T-989 so I know I'm doing it properly. When I unplug my battery, plug it back in and hold down both volume keys, it takes me to CWM, not Download mode. I've experienced this before on the Vibrant T-959 and the reason for this would be because the bootloader is broken.
I've heard of Mobile ODIN but it does not support our T-989 :crying:
Obviously my next motive is to send in my phone for replacement for T-Mo but I can't unroot or get back to stock firmware because the USB hub on the phone is damaged. I read elsewhere on XDA that by blowing air into the USB port or by pushing around the connector inside the USB hub with a precision screwdriver, I can temporarily regain USB connection...IT ALMOST WORKED. While my Win7 laptop recognizes my Samsung phone and allows me to mount the SDcards, this same does NOT apply for rebooting to Download mode from the power menu then reconnecting my USB cable when I open up ODIN.
Is there ANYTHING I can do?

Did you flash the Rom again after doing the full wipe?
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if not that's explain y it won't boot lol
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No I didn't even have the ROM .zip on my phone anymore. Either way I FIXED IT! I woke up earlier and was still content on getting it working somehow. I kept playing around a precision flat head screw driver after putting my phone into Download mode from the power menu. Button combination still wasn't working. My computer and ODIN detected the phone so I flashed right away and tried not moving my phone at all. The first time it lost connection to my phone half way so it didn't install properly and went to a weird alternate Download mode screen that said something like "your upgrade wasn't properly installed, connect to Kies and recovery"...Kies obviously didn't recognize my phone so I saw that ODIN still recognized my phone. Tried restoring from ODIN again and it worked! Went to a bootloop, displaying only the SAMSUNG logo but I went into stock recovery, wiped data/factory reset and everything is okay!
I called TMO to order a replacement- a phone with a working USB hub so I can mount mass storage and whatnot. Weird thing is that this phone's USB is working a-okay. I plugged it into all of my different ports on different PCs and, at least, this stock 2.3.6 TWROM is always asking me if I'd like to mount my phone as removable storage. Both internal and external sdcards are working fine. Very, very strange.
I hope this helps someone who comes across this problem.
**A precision flat-head screwdriver was used to poke the connector sticking in your USB port in your phone (it's the only thing somewhat popping out of your USB port). Don't go too hard, but push the connector up, down, left, right. There's obviously no "right way" to do this so be gentle as not to break it altogether. This is just a temporary fix. I don't know how long this will work for. The first few times I positioned the connector the right way it only stayed that way for a bit and my computer then recognized it as an "unrecognized/unknown device." Now, somehow it's been working for the last 4-5 hours, even after ODIN-ing and unplugging/replugging, etc.

Dude if you wiped the phone in cwm and just rebooted I'm pretty sure that's y you got the black screen after boot. To my understanding when you use super wipe that wiped the Rom off your phone so without flashing another Rom or restoring a nandroid your phone wouldn't boot cause there wasn't anything for it to boot.
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I believe u are just using the wrong key combo for download mode. For me its volume down and power for download mode and both volume for recovery.
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bobby3306 said:
Dude if you wiped the phone in cwm and just rebooted I'm pretty sure that's y you got the black screen after boot. To my understanding when you use super wipe that wiped the Rom off your phone so without flashing another Rom or restoring a nandroid your phone wouldn't boot cause there wasn't anything for it to boot.
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I was using aokp_hercules_unofficial but the seemed to be a problem of it sticking upside down. so i decided to reflash the phone. I tried to load the new rom on the phone but it would not be recognized by my computer. My galaxy s 3 had no problem connecting. so i loaded drop box before anything and downloaded it to the phone. did a back up and then i wiped everything and went to look for the file and could not find it nowhere. i tried restarting the phone and it would not go into cwm at all. the 3 button combo only takes me to odin mode (download) if i try to power the phone it flashes Samsung for a second and stays black. I dont want to have to send it in but if i do it shows no binary custom number and says Samsung official.

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Hello, this is kind of a long story but.......I was in clockworkmod recovery looking to restore back to a backed up rom. I saw a backup titled, 2000-01-01.00.00.16/. I didn't remember a backup that had that named and it said it was from the year 2000. Out of curiosity I decided to backup to it. Then It got stuck or what appeared to be stuck on "checking md5 sum". After ten minutes I pulled the battery thinking it hadn't even started restoring. When I put the battery back in I got the charging battery icon with a cloud and a thermometer, assuming this meant that the phone was to hot I felt the back and it wasn't hot at all. I tried to power the phone off but each time I turned it back on I got the same icon. Finally I tried plugging it in. Then the icon went away and the booted into clockworkmod. So then I restored to the Unnamed rom and the led notification light wouldn't go off. Then every time I turn the phone off I get the thermometer icon and have to plug it in. On top of that my computer won't recognize the phone. I want to use Odin to go back to stock but since the computer won't recognize it I'm stuck with a phone full of problems. Any suggestion?
First backups can't contains signs /&%*+# etc...
Second.. can you get to recovery?
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omg .. i THINK YOU BRICKED YOUR PHONE!!
But not to worry, most likely it's an easy fix. Reboot phone a couple times, MAKE SURE DRIVERS & EVERYTHING are INSTALLED FIRST, open ODIN with proper .TAR file, .PIT NOT needed. Only Auto Reboot box should be checked, then plug in to pc. Wait for phone to connect and hit start. BE PATIENT. If it doesn't work try booting into CMW, holding POWER and VOL UP buttons. Hope this helps!
Thanks everyone for the help. I ended up downloading mobile odin from the market, and then flashing the stock unrooted EK02.tar file. I still had the same problems and figured it was a hardware problem. So I took it into my local sprint store and they took one look and it and ordered me knew for free, no questions asked!

[Q] Can't boot into recover, Rom won't boot, and PC doesn't recognize USB

It's been a fantastic day for me.
I was in the middle of a nandroid restore (TWRP). I was restoring a PAC Rom, and the ROM I was running was MROM (I liked the Rom, but it didn't have the Nav Bar, so it wasn't for me - it was running fine).
In the middle of the restore, my phone turned off. I was relatively close to 100% battery when I started to do the restore.
When the phone turned off, I tried to turn it back up, and it kept looping. I then tried to enter recovery, which I did. I didn't want to try restoring again, so I started to wipe with the intentions of flashing a fresh rom. But the phone turned off again. Now, it still won't boot up, and now I can't enter recovery. I get to the TeamWin screen, and it turns off.
I can enter download mode.
However, for the last several months, my computer never recognized my phone. Today,I've tried maybe five different usb cords (2 are S3 OEM) and four different USB ports. I've tried with Kies, and I have removed Kies. I tried with Odin open and more. No luck. I think my phone's usb jack is busted, but it charges fine from the computer.
My wife has an S3, too. Last I checked, she connects just fine to the computer, but she's at work now.
What do I do?
Can I somehow use my wife's phone to fix this awesome problem?
UPDATE: The USB port/jack is messed up. I am going to try and get the warrant to cover it.
I just tried another PC with no luck, too.

Won't boot or anything

Hey,
My sisters galaxy gio won't boot. whenever i try to turn it on, the only thing that happens is that the screens goes on for half a second and then off and back on again forever. I already tried to flash a stock froyo, eclair & gingerbread but nothing works.
I only can go in to download mode (sometimes whitout the pink screen). I can NOT go into RECOVERY mode in any way. I wasn't able to flash cwm through odin either. Changing USB ports and usb cables didn't help either.
I am using the odin (4.4.2).
Is there any way to force it into recovery mode?
Thanks in advance
fluxerik said:
Hey,
My sisters galaxy gio won't boot. whenever i try to turn it on, the only thing that happens is that the screens goes on for half a second and then off and back on again forever. I already tried to flash a stock froyo, eclair & gingerbread but nothing works.
I only can go in to download mode (sometimes whitout the pink screen). I can NOT go into RECOVERY mode in any way. I wasn't able to flash cwm through odin either. Changing USB ports and usb cables didn't help either.
I am using the odin (4.4.2).
Is there any way to force it into recovery mode?
Thanks in advance
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i had a similar problem about a month ago. i took it to my provider and they said that its power circuit was damaged due to liquids.
Do you get any errors with odin?
Locthe said:
i had a similar problem about a month ago. i took it to my provider and they said that its power circuit was damaged due to liquids.
Do you get any errors with odin?
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Odin goes all well. It gets to the poiunt where it says "waiting for reboot" and that's when the phones screen starts flashing again.
I'm 100% it hasn't has anything to do with liquids, I think it began when changing the sd-card. But it was doing strange things before that.
Try this one
try this
Put your phone into recovery then do a factory reset and reboot your phone, it should work

[Q] another is it bricked thread after much research

hi folks, Well first time asking for help. Had jedi 8 installed and all was good. went to bed and plugged in the phone.
and bam! woke up and the phone wont boot. So those of you that are familiar with jedi rom it happens sometimes and
you just wipe data and restore your data backup per instructions. But here is the problem, it seems as though my twrp
mysteriously vanished by itself also! when i hold both buttons down and power i just get a black screen with the samsung
logo. it wont boot so i am stuck. i can get into download mode but odin will not see the phone tried a couple diff versions
and like six usb cords and all ports no go but when stuck on the boot screen then the computer does see it. any ideas itst mo version
by the way thanx
jamesh1979 said:
hi folks, Well first time asking for help. Had jedi 8 installed and all was good. went to bed and plugged in the phone.
and bam! woke up and the phone wont boot. So those of you that are familiar with jedi rom it happens sometimes and
you just wipe data and restore your data backup per instructions. But here is the problem, it seems as though my twrp
mysteriously vanished by itself also! when i hold both buttons down and power i just get a black screen with the samsung
logo. it wont boot so i am stuck. i can get into download mode but odin will not see the phone tried a couple diff versions
and like six usb cords and all ports no go but when stuck on the boot screen then the computer does see it. any ideas itst mo version
by the way thanx
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odin that ish and start from scratch.
be thankful you can boot tho, S2s have a sticky power button issue that renders the phone useless.

Soft Bricked Phone Tried a lot of stuff

recently I tried to put a rom on my phone (koodo s2x), so I rooted it went all good, did a back up.
went to put the mod on holy crap phone is dead
try to do recovery wont work
tried to do odin pda recovery but it wont recognize phone
tried kies recovery wont recognize phone
put a rom on my sd card for stock koodo rom on my phone
loads up but gets stuck on android welcome screen, literally 10 minutes in to get to add google account
Try odin pda for tmobile rom same thing
Please help, pretty desperate I like having the ability to communicate with people
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I just ran recovery again and now I can run about 10 seconds on first start up without lag then after that it craps out again and goes into unbelievable non forgiving lag mode
I'm pretty sure I have the same problem. My phone just sits here doing the very little vibrate it does when it starts. over an over again. I can't access recovery, or download mode, and when I just plug it into the wall, the charge thing shows up for a couple seconds, and then its back to the vibrating and restarts. I'm not even seeing the Samsung screen show up at all. THIS IS RIDICULOUS.
hoiychoiynoiy said:
I just ran recovery again and now I can run about 10 seconds on first start up without lag then after that it craps out again and goes into unbelievable non forgiving lag mode
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i had that problem due to a virus, rogue program, what i did, format usb storage(make sure you save all your music & pictures to ext sd or computer) then reflashed rom making sure to wipe data and such. hope that helps
What Odin version? I found 3.04 best for 4.1.2. No luck at all using Odin 3.07.
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