Heres one for you all. Just got my GS3. Rooted it..bla bla..bla. Was running on stock rom of course and decided to try out one of the cm10 nightlies. Did my back up..bla bla bla and new rom would not flash. tried another and got the same thing. I was reading around and came across someone asking another guy if he had unlocked his bootloader because the same thing was happening to him.. The guy provided the .apk to unlock bootloader so I figured Id try it. Unlocked fine. Went to Rom Manager and booted into recovery.
Thats the last time my phone has been on. I cant get to anything. I can plug it into computer and hold power, vol, home buttons down for download mode and recovery but nothing. The computer will beep like its acknowledging it but still doesn't do anything. PLEASE HELP. This is my first Samsung and Ive always been able to get to recovery or bootloader to fastboot but this has me completely shut out. Im desperate. Thanks.
EDIT: remember, I never got to flash a new rom. All I did was use that unlocker.apk(not sure of the name) to unlock then booted into recovery from rom manager. Using that unlocker i believe is what did it. Like I said, im new to samsung, besides rooting some s2's for people at work and never had to unlock bootloader on their S2's
Unlocker.apk? Maybe it's a good thing I don't know what that is? But I would guess that may be part of your issue .
How did you get root?
Did you use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28019751 ???
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Unlocker.Apk? Never heard of that and the at&t gs3 doesn't even have a locked bootloader. What user gave you that? If you can get into download mode.. (power off phone ..hold volume down + power button + home button) then flash back to stock.
I see that you CAN get into recovery? Since you made a backup ...why not just use it?
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Assuming you're running the AT&T version, your bootloader was never locked. So, running an app to unlock your bootloader (which would be for a different phone), seems like a sure-fire ticket to brick town.
Seeing as how you can't boot into recovery or download mode at the moment, I would imagine your only recourse would be to try a USB jig to get into download mode to try to flash back to stock. Else, if the jig doesn't get you into download mode you'll either have to seek out JTAG service, try to get a replacement via warranty (make up some story), or enjoy your new paperweight and buy a new phone.
Good luck.
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Unlocker.Apk? Never heard of that and the at&t gs3 doesn't even have a locked bootloader. What user gave you that? If you can get into download mode.. (power off phone ..hold volume down + power button + home button) then flash back to stock.
I see that you CAN get into recovery? Since you made a backup ...why not just use it?
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I too have never heard of this apk. It sounds malicious. He should return to stock. One time after rebooting my phone the Rom would never boot; the screen was black. I even tried restoring a backup but that yielded the same results. Get into Odin and flash a stock package from the dev thread.
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If you need JTAG this guy who posted this thread evidently had good luck. Check it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30942252
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Have you tried...
There really aren't enough details in your initial post to properly speculate on what is happening or happened with your phone, but...
I found that the easiest way to enter Recovery and Download mode is when the phone is not connected via USB.
Have you tried entering Download mode while the phone is not plugged in via USB?
Unlocker.apk meant for the Verizon s3?
Yeah..
Congratulations on your shiny new paperweight!
JTag is your only hope.
Goodluck!
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Ok, so I searched high and low and saw nothing about anyone who couldn't get there GS3 to boot at all . . .
So My rogers I747M was succesfully rooted with Odin root not trip. And then i flashed It with the generic rooted jelly bean ROM. Successful again everything seemed fine. So i was confident in shooting for CM10(even though ive had troubles in the past) And i put the zip. in the sd and booted into CWM recovery and did a factory reset, cache and dalvik. Went to install CM10 from sd and it gave me error 7. so i reboot device and loaded into the stock rooted jellybean again to try and put another fill in the SD. Tried booting into recovery again. Now nothing at all, I have tried pulling the battery, even for hours. And then button combos..Nothing. Leaving cord in with battery out,button combos,battery in...Nothing
I'm afraid of the worst ATM, i had the unbrickable Captivate before this with my JIG and all, I'd did this to that phone, but the JIG saved me.
So the phone doesn't boot and you can't enter recovery?
The error 7 was cause by you not having the latest version of cwm.
Now for the brick part: try pulling out the battery, put it back and do the button com to enter recovery , old it for like ten seconds. Then plug it to your computer to see if Odin dectects it.
Once you tried it give me some feedback and I will check for further help. But if you are sure you didn't flash a wrong ROM for your device or a wrong kernel. The error 7 shouldn't have bricked your phone
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liltitiz said:
So the phone doesn't boot and you can't enter recovery?
The error 7 was cause by you not having the latest version of cwm.
Now for the brick part: try pulling out the battery, put it back and do the button com to enter recovery , old it for like ten seconds. Then plug it to your computer to see if Odin dectects it.
Once you tried it give me some feedback and I will check for further help. But if you are sure you didn't flash a wrong ROM for your device or a wrong kernel. The error 7 shouldn't have bricked your phone
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Still No luck, whenever i try to plug it in the computer, it just gives me three quick "DUH_DUH_DUH"s as is to tell me the computer failed to recognize. I'm afraid i may have to take it back to rogers, it's not two weeks old yet so perhaps ill get away with defective, i wonder if they deem that sort of thing in store or at the depot. Because i know they wont get it too boot there, so if they did it in store perhaps ill just get an exchange
Yeah go ahead with the replacement they will not check into it. Worst case scenario, they will fix it and send it back to you
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And luckily i woke up early this morning with confidence that I could spill some crazy story that made it sound like it overheated and died, and now I've got a new one, best be careful with this, i think im going to stay away from CM10, its killed 2 phones of mine lol, I believe any answer i will get will say that it was a user error thanks anyway !!!
So I recently rooted my phone with this tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkkcCCjeUpI
Everything went great and I was rooted. So next I decided I wanted to flash a rom. So I decided this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1817345
I looked over it and followed its instructions. So I flashed it. I also flashed the google apps.
This is where the problems started. I rebooted my phone, and It never would show the boot logo. I kept pulling the battery and it would not start. I thought the battery might be dead so I charged it, and still nothing. I noticed when I plug it into my computer and it makes the little connection noise. (Like my computer is reconising the device) But still nothing on the screen. I tried to connect it to odin and it does not show the device.
So I have looked all over the internet (including these forums) and have found no help. Sounds like I might have bricked my device.
So my last question, If I did indeed brick my device will this fix it? (I mean will it atleast get it into download mode?)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Samsung...369526?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item3a77c2f8b6
Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks, Griffsbrown
Boot into recovery and restore the nandroid you made before you flashed.
Man sure sounds like most the people having problems are cause they are rooted/modded. Hope its a simple fix for you. GL.
You flashed a rom for a different phone, its dead pretty much. research jtag I read its about 60-100$ read more in the future.
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You flashed a ROM for a different phone. That is why you can not boot. Are you able to get into download mode? from the power off state, press and hold the volume down and home bottons and the power button. This should bring you into download mode. IF you can get there then you should be able to recover.
always be careful when flashing roms if you can get into download mode like the above poster said then your lucky and can odin a root66 and you will be back to before you installed the wrong ROM.
If you cant ........... your bricked my friend time to learn a lot more about jtag (which is a lot more difficult than odin READ READ READ
The only thing is people have been installing ATT roms for some reason their phones are not bricking but unless the dev says it works i wont try it.
ONLY USE ROMS FOR YOUR PHONE im really new and one of the first things to know.
Bricked! Search for mobile tech videos jtag fix.
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it seems that my friend has bricked his phone by installing a verizon boot loader in a at&t gs3 i tried going into recovery and download but nothing the phone wont boot or anything seems to be dead.
question is is there any way to fix it I tried many methods but all failed ):
Why would he install a verizon bootloader? He might have to get a jtag service to fix it. Bummer
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it seems that my friend has bricked his phone by installing a verizon boot loader in a at&t gs3 i tried going into recovery and download but nothing the phone wont boot or anything seems to be dead.
question is is there any way to fix it I tried many methods but all failed ):
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Jtag once i was having same issue with my brothers phone tried tiresly but no go
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1) Charge battery & phone for an hour.
2) Pull battery for five minutes
3) Put battery back in
4) Press and hold VolumeDown+Power+Home
If that doesn't get you ANY display at all, not even a splash screen, then it's a "hard brick" and he'll need to send his phone out for "JTAG" repair. They are available on eBay for ~$50.
If you do get display, then come back and let us know for the next step (odin).
Some people think the phone is bootloader Locked. When they see that verizon version has bootloader unlock, they flash that.
I almost made that mistake, but I read and re-read everything for a week before even downloading stuff to try
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Is it possible for a usb jig to fix my problem?
undecided323 said:
Is it possible for a usb jig to fix my problem?
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HIGHLY doubtful at the moment. Have you tried the above listed options?
Deoxlar said:
Some people think the phone is bootloader Locked. When they see that verizon version has bootloader unlock, they flash that.
I almost made that mistake, but I read and re-read everything for a week before even downloading stuff to try
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Deoxlea...... WHAT.... HOW DARE YOU..... You mean you READ stickies? What are you trying to do. Set a good example?
My only option for the phone to start working is a jtag or a usb jig. I I ordered a usb jig and will report back if it fixes my phone
I have a jig from my old captivate that has worked both times I've tried to get into download.
Really messed up when i tried to root my phone with THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 TOOLKIT [SNAPDRAGON EDITION]. I'm sure i followed all of the directions to the letter but at the end of the flash my phone rebooted into a "soft brick"(Black screen and solid blue led) .Hindsight is truly my ex and I just know i should've flashed cwm before attempting the root. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please dont tell me i effed up my christmas present before i could even put a new rom on it..
Edit: Using the toolkit I can still get into download mode, and (I think) I flashed cmw onto my phone. Although Im unable to enter cmw manually and I can only enter cmw by rebooting the phone through the toolkit.
If you still see lights opened like an LED then you arn't hard bricked which means there's still a way out.
ODIN! thats might help you out bro
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Don't worry, the same thing happened to me when I used that tool to root my phone. First off, don't freak out, its fixable. If you turn your phone off, then press and hold Power + Volume Down + Home, you should be able to get into download mode. If you do, just use this to flash a rooted version of stock onto the phone and go from there. If it won't go to download mode for some reason, come back here and let us know and we can go from there.
Hey folks,
I was trying to flash a custom kernel (Phenomenal Extreme 4.0) from Clockworkmod on a rooted stock 4.1.2 rom and kernel. I placed the zips on my sd card, then flashed, but it was unsuccessful. Then, when I rebooted from CWM's main menu, the phone went dead. Nothing worked, no buttons, no nothing. Any combination I tried failed, from a simple reboot, to reboot into recovery, to a reboot into download mode. Took battery out, and placed it back in, still nothing.
I'd appreciate any help you can give me! If there's anything like a factory cable, that is still better than nothing. I think I bricked it, and no warranty (Samsung's 3 month is quite short). When I plug the phone in, the laptop responds with a sound but it's not the usual sound when you dock the device. A balloon says that device driver installation failed. Then nothing happens. In any case, I rooted it and there's a flash counter of 1 on it, even if I'm running stock everything. Again, I appreciate any help!
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Hey folks,
I was trying to flash a custom kernel (Phenomenal Extreme 4.0) from Clockworkmod on a rooted stock 4.1.2 rom and kernel. I placed the zips on my sd card, then flashed, but it was unsuccessful. Then, when I rebooted from CWM's main menu, the phone went dead. Nothing worked, no buttons, no nothing. Any combination I tried failed, from a simple reboot, to reboot into recovery, to a reboot into download mode. Took battery out, and placed it back in, still nothing.
I'd appreciate any help you can give me! If there's anything like a factory cable, that is still better than nothing. I think I bricked it, and no warranty (Samsung's 3 month is quite short). When I plug the phone in, the laptop responds with a sound but it's not the usual sound when you dock the device. A balloon says that device driver installation failed. Then nothing happens. In any case, I rooted it and there's a flash counter of 1 on it, even if I'm running stock everything. Again, I appreciate any help!
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What forum did you find that kernel? Hopefully it was made for d2tmo.
+Bound for Valhalla!
I just checked, it wasn't. It's actually made for the international version -- my fault. Oh crap, I'm totally screwed, aren't I? *rolling eyes and a long sigh*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917234 My question is, it failed regardless, and why would it die AFTER I reboot the phone? It should've died right when I tried to install it through CWM.
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I just checked, it wasn't. It's actually made for the international version -- my fault. Oh crap, I'm totally screwed, aren't I? *rolling eyes and a long sigh*
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917234 My question is, it failed regardless, and why would it die AFTER I reboot the phone? It should've died right when I tried to install it through CWM.
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Google jtag repair.
That's an expensive paper weight.
|When Emotion Goes Up, Logic Goes Down|
I made a Nandroid before messing around.
Once I do the JTAG repair, can I restore using that Nandroid after re-rooting and flashing CWM? The guy who will be doing the JTAG said that it's dangerous because there's a risk of bricking involved.
I would just restore things individually, personally. I don't know what you had on there, but is there anything that you can't restore some other way ?
That happened to me when i flash wromg kernel. And I had a panic attack...but I somehow manage to go into recovery mod....if you can go into recovery mod...have no fear back up is there lol
Just wipe everything and restore your backup.
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Send it back
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Send it back
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Hopefully you can get odin to recognise it...
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Hopefully you can get odin to recognise it...
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I had the same problem when I first got my S3. I flashed a file that was for my S2 not realizing and the phone responded the same way or didnt respond at all. Im not saying this will work but you can try. Do the proper button combo to get into download. It wont show anything on your scrren but the phone could still be in download mode. Go ahead and try connecting it to your computer and see if odin will recognize it. Make sure you have your drivers installed and dont forget to push volume up to get all the way into download mode. It worked for me once before and I hope to never have to try it again. If you have already tried this then your out of luck and will have to jtag.
JTAG is no scam. It is a VERY reliable source! Go for it.
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Never mind, warranty exchange. I don't want to send my phone to strangers, even if it's legitimate. Still $45-$60 on the credit card.
I have a question though, as long as the phone is under warranty, I can exchange for a replacement an unlimited number of times, right?
Warranty Exchange!
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Never mind, warranty exchange. I don't want to send my phone to strangers, even if it's legitimate. Still $45-$60 on the credit card.
I have a question though, as long as the phone is under warranty, I can exchange for a replacement an unlimited number of times, right?
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Yes you can...I did it with my S2 until I got one that did'nt have any signs of being refurbished. It looked brand new! I have even told them that something was wrong with the phone (hardware issue) when there was nothing wrong just because the one year warranty was about to run out and it had a few cosmedic blemishes..I have given them a lot of money in the past 9 years so I do'nt feel too bad... I did it with my Vibrant as well.