[Q] Phone .. Bricked? Please Help! - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

my brother tried to install a skyrocket rom on his phone and now it doesn't boot. No Download Mode / No Recovery / No vibration/bootup even while holding down the power button. Is this phone screwed? Please help ASAP!

theprogram1 said:
my brother tried to install a skyrocket rom on his phone and now it doesn't boot. No Download Mode / No Recovery / No vibration/bootup even while holding down the power button. Is this phone screwed? Please help ASAP!
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Try holding vol up and down and plugging the USB cable in while connected to your pc. If that don't get you in download mode then your phone may be bricked.
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payazo915 said:
Try holding vol up and down and plugging the USB cable in while connected to your pc. If that don't get you in download mode then your phone may be bricked.
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Oh Man this phone is screwed is there any way to fix it? :fingers-crossed:

theprogram1 said:
my brother tried to install a skyrocket rom on his phone and now it doesn't boot. No Download Mode / No Recovery / No vibration/bootup even while holding down the power button. Is this phone screwed? Please help ASAP!
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Maybe a bit more info? Skyrocket roms are totally safe to flash and do not cause bricks... so what else did your brother do?
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theprogram1 said:
Oh Man this phone is screwed is there any way to fix it? :fingers-crossed:
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Search on eBay for t989 repair. There's a JTAG repair service you can send the phone to fix it for around $40
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PJcastaldo said:
Maybe a bit more info? Skyrocket roms are totally safe to flash and do not cause bricks... so what else did your brother do?
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Nothing much; just the typical rom download and CWM flash of the rom after a TDJ Super Wipe. When he rebooted the phone, no response what so ever!
Think T-Mobile can help him?

theprogram1 said:
Nothing much; just the typical rom download and CWM flash of the rom after a TDJ Super Wipe. When he rebooted the phone, no response what so ever!
Think T-Mobile can help him?
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If he super wiped after, he deleted your rom. Put a t989 ROM on your SD card , flash in recovery, your good!!
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Lmao classic.... Always wondered what would happen if you did that
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LoopDoGG79 said:
If he super wiped after, he deleted your rom. Put a t989 ROM on your SD card , flash in recovery, your good!!
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Dude ... read the OP man. NO RECOVERY ACCESS :crying:

theprogram1 said:
Dude ... read the OP man. NO RECOVERY ACCESS :crying:
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How are you trying to access recovery? While the phone is turning on hold on to both volumne rockers, the Samsung logo pops up, let go. Unless there is more info, you should still be able to access recovery and download mode. Skyrocket roms, by themselves, will not brick a T989
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Sounds bricked to me, if theres no life/vibration or anything.
send it to someone and jtag it and it should work

sc300jz said:
Sounds bricked to me, if theres no life/vibration or anything.
send it to someone and jtag it and it should work
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Maybe he broke the power button or the battery is dead and can't be charged? There's nothing you've done so far that should've resulted in a bricked phone unless your brother isn't telling you everything.

LoopDoGG79 said:
How are you trying to access recovery? While the phone is turning on hold on to both volumne rockers, the Samsung logo pops up, let go. Unless there is more info, you should still be able to access recovery and download mode. Skyrocket roms, by themselves, will not brick a T989
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He must have done something wrong flashing then! Maybe a corrupt superwipe rom was downloaded; he was going from a gingerbread rom to jb. Oh well ...he has warranty left on it. Hopefully he can get an exchange
Thanks all for your help! Much appreciated!

find a repair center near you and ask if they have a riff box. if yes, ask them if they do JTag Ressurection. If you cant find one, google 'jtag ressurection' and look for a store called mtech service out in toronto. you can fedex them your phone and they do the repair for $50. i just hard bricked my tmo sgs2 and im sending mine out to them. my dumb ass decided to flash a .pit alongside a modem in odin. i did ALOT of research on this and they are the closest jtag repair shop to me in boston, mass. i couldnt even find a mail in center in the usa, unless you choose to go through samsung or tmobile.

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Won't boot, 5 vibrations? dead?

My Inc. won't boot and I get 5 vibrations alerts with blank screen. I can get into fastboot, tried flashing RA and Clockworks recovery which flashes, but when I go into recovery it does the same thing.
Is my phone bricked?
Flash a kernel
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MicroMod777 said:
Is my phone bricked?
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Prob so, check q&a, theres a few threads on it.
johnb1972 said:
Flash a kernel
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...and head over to the Q & A forum. So many question marks, just not the right forum
do some research on this. it's happened to me twice. call for a refurb.
johnb1972 said:
Flash a kernel
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I can't get into recovery. It just goes blank with 5 vibrations.
spacemanps said:
u flash a PB31IMG.zip yet?
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Yea, it flashed but then when it went to boot did the same thing.
ACD168 said:
do some research on this. it's happened to me twice. call for a refurb.
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Called VZW and they say its dead. Won't even do factory reset. Their sending me a CLNR.
Plug in your usb cable then power it on.
That sucks! What's the last thing you did on it?
Its not bricked. Happened to my brothers Inc and I was able tto fix it.
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texanaustinite said:
That sucks! What's the last thing you did on it?
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Well I bought it as a Certified Pre-Owned, and I guess it was just bad from the beginning. It just rebooted on its own and went dead.
chingy51o said:
Its not bricked. Happened to my brothers Inc and I was able tto fix it.
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How he fix it then?
MicroMod777 said:
Well I bought it as a Certified Pre-Owned, and I guess it was just bad from the beginning. It just rebooted on its own and went dead.
How he fix it then?
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Keeptrying to reboot into recovery. Try various things. Like for example take the battery out and plug it into the charger and then try boot into recovery without the battery and just keep trying different things. It will go eventually.
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chingy51o said:
Keeptrying to reboot into recovery. Try various things. Like for example take the battery out and plug it into the charger and then try boot into recovery without the battery and just keep trying different things. It will go eventually.
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I didn't think the phone ran without the battery, Hence the reason why it's been said not to try and flash a ROM without 25% battery.
Am I wrong there?
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6433-solved-messed-up-partitions-on-internal-storage/
happened to mine... vzn just sent me a new phone but this is might work
MicroMod777 said:
Yea, it flashed but then when it went to boot did the same thing.
Called VZW and they say its dead. Won't even do factory reset. Their sending me a CLNR.
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CLNR? Ok what is that? what ever happened? what is the ending to the story?
fader01 said:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6433-solved-messed-up-partitions-on-internal-storage/
happened to mine... vzn just sent me a new phone but this is might work
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Ok, thanks. I'll check it out. I should get replacement phone hopefully tomorrow.
Kent_Davis said:
CLNR? Ok what is that? what ever happened? what is the ending to the story?
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CLNR (Certified Like New Replacement). Waiting for new phones, still bricked.
If you can get into hboot then go into recovery and re flash a rom. I had the same problem but got into recovery and rehashed a rom and it booted
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Treken said:
If you can get into hboot then go into recovery and re flash a rom. I had the same problem but got into recovery and rehashed a rom and it booted
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Wont go into recovery. Does 5 vibs instead. Already got replacement from VZW.
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HARD Bricked Phone - using TWRP 2.1.2 -

So I wanted to flash the new DARKSIDE.UCLE2 rom and i had non-touch recovery. So I flash the TWRP 2.1.2 and I wipe everything then click reboot into recovery. I always do this in clockwork recovery and never have a problem. It reboots back to recovery. But with TWRP 2.1.2 it no responding. Since i wipe my system i can boot my phone. I try getting in download mode but can't do that either.
CAN ANYONE HELP ME? Please I need my phone
No boot screen, recovery or download mode? I'd send it back.
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Lol, TEAM BRICK recovery
VoiD_Dweller said:
No boot screen, recovery or download mode? I'd send it back.
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Yeah I have nothing will T-Mobile take it since I had a warranty
peconaut said:
Yeah I have nothing will T-Mobile take it since I had a warranty
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The device carries a one year warranty with samsung. They will take it
xcrazydx said:
The device carries a one year warranty with samsung. They will take it
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Do I just go to a T-Mobile store or contact Samsung somehow?
Could you please tell me how to do it
Also will it cost me extra money
Okay I sign up but I'm stuck at the troubleshooting part cause they ask me what kind of problem the phone has and they said you from the option below
The only option is Physical Damage
any clue what to do
Thread closed due to XDA not supporting Fraud.
If you brick your device due to something you did then it is not the carriers place to fix it. You can send it to samsung And have them fix it for a price.

Help me pleaseeeee like nowww please

ok well i was going to go back to stock rom to do something and my computer did something stupid that it showed it was done copying the stock back up and via twrp i flashed the back up and it turns out it wasnt done now it boot up samsung then samsung galaxy s3 logo and black screen i tried to acces recovery or download but nothing im in serious **** help me
You should be able to get to recovery. You pulled the battery and held volume up, home button and power? It does nothing?
THORMUNZ said:
ok well i was going to go back to stock rom to do something and my computer did something stupid that it showed it was done copying the stock back up and via twrp i flashed the back up and it turns out it wasnt done now it boot up samsung then samsung galaxy s3 logo and black screen i tried to acces recovery or download but nothing im in serious **** help me
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Gonna have to get a jig from ebay and force it into download.
epic4GEE said:
You should be able to get to recovery. You pulled the battery and held volume up, home button and power? It does nothing?
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omfg i fu**n love u my dumb a** was pressing power and volume up
THORMUNZ said:
omfg i fu**n love u my dumb a** was pressing power and volume up
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Lmao....I figured a bad backup can only mean a bricked system, not a phone. You should be able to properly transfer your backup or flash a rom to get going again.
epic4GEE said:
Lmao....I figured a bad backup can only mean a bricked system, not a phone. You should be able to properly transfer your backup or flash a rom to get going again.
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yeah i always have a backup inside my phone incase anything happens and yeah i got up to recovery and im good thanks man
THORMUNZ said:
yeah i always have a backup inside my phone incase anything happens and yeah i got up to recovery and im good thanks man
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:good:
mongo41 said:
Gonna have to get a jig from ebay and force it into download.
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I see you fixed it but just for everyone to now jigs don't work with the sIII.
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[Q] Strange problems with my Gio...

Yesterday, my gio was working totally normal, I was running the CM7 Apocalypse rom. It was acting kind of funny, so I decided to flash back to my stock rom. The flash seemed to go as expected, except now when I boot my phone, its a totally black screen. It plays the sound that it makes when it starts, so its doing something. There is also no recovery. I can get it into download mode, except no matter what rom i flash it still has the black screen. The backlight is on and the screen turns on for download mode, so there isn't anything wrong with the screen. Also, my phone is the GT-S5660M model from Bell. Help?
no matter what rom i flash it still has the black screen
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How do You "flash" without download mode or recovery? Oo
Jaball said:
How do You "flash" without download mode or recovery? Oo
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I CAN get into download mode. I've tried to flash back to stock. I've also tried to flash CWM but none of it worked. I dont think its bricked because when I flashed the stock rom it played the sound it makes when it starts. The screen is just screwed up somehow.
A short search reveals this, apparently we've been there already:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1619401
Flash your stock rom using Odin....
walaoehh said:
Flash your stock rom using Odin....
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Thats the weird thing, I've already done that a bunch of times and the black screen is still there. The screen isn't damaged or anything. It's like something is persisting across flashes.
Did you wipe before installing stock with Odin?
Which one you're trying to flash? S5660XXKTL_S5660DBTKT1_DBT?
crlgio said:
Did you wipe before installing stock with Odin?
Which one you're trying to flash? S5660XXKTL_S5660DBTKT1_DBT?
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I didn't wipe. Is there a way to wipe if you can't get to CWM? The package I was trying to flash is called S5660MUGKG3_S5660MBMCKG3_BMC.
geckoguy said:
Thats the weird thing, I've already done that a bunch of times and the black screen is still there. The screen isn't damaged or anything. It's like something is persisting across flashes.
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Omg... See how if u choose auto reboot when flashing...
have you tried the Emergency firmware recovery in Kies?
Try redownloading firmware, btw be sure that is for canadian gio ...
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Frankin96 said:
Try redownloading firmware, btw be sure that is for canadian gio ...
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I've tried all of your guys suggestions and none have worked. I guess I'm going to use this as an exuse to get a new phone. Do you guys have any suggestions for a phone around $200? I'm trying to find one that has at least a 1 Ghz processor.
geckoguy said:
I've tried all of your guys suggestions and none have worked. I guess I'm going to use this as an exuse to get a new phone. Do you guys have any suggestions for a phone around $200? I'm trying to find one that has at least a 1 Ghz processor.
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ace plus/ace 2
Xperia U, updated to ics by sony ,dual core
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voetbalremco said:
ace plus/ace 2
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I have found a HTC Sensation online and I think I'm going to get that. Thanks for all your help guys.

[Q] Galaxy S3 Stuck in bootloop!

Hi, my galaxy s3 bell i747m is stuck in boot loop, after it just shut off on its own one day. I cant even use the recovery or download mode. Is there anything i can do to fix this or is it done.
thanks,
Have you tried download jig?
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leezrd said:
Have you tried download jig?
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No, i have to order one? and then it gets me into download mode and i flash stock firmware? sorry im a noob.
androidswag said:
Hi, my galaxy s3 bell i747m is stuck in boot loop, after it just shut off on its own one day. I cant even use the recovery or download mode. Is there anything i can do to fix this or is it done.
thanks,
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What exactly did you try to do? And try a jig.. If you cant get to download mode or recovery most likely sending to samsung/JTAG service can fix it up for you
amzi said:
What exactly did you try to do? And try a jig.. If you cant get to download mode or recovery most likely sending to samsung/JTAG service can fix it up for you
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i didnt do anything to it, i didnt flash nothing just one day i took out of my pocket and it was in boot loop and i can get to download mood and recovery for like 1 second then it just reboots.. so do i have to order a jig online than it gets me into download mode?
androidswag said:
i didnt do anything to it, i didnt flash nothing just one day i took out of my pocket and it was in boot loop and i can get to download mood and recovery for like 1 second then it just reboots.. so do i have to order a jig online than it gets me into download mode?
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You can... If stock Samsung should fix
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