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Killed or bricked my Phone

Was using Odin , got stuck forever. The phone won't do anything now, won't reboot normally won't boot into recovery , won't boot into download mode. Totally non reponsive , nothing ever on screen , no charging icon . Battery out then back in , plugged into usb then put in battery.. tried it all.
looking for suggestions, phone is going back to t-mobile if I cant fix this

Try entering download mode again and reflash your phone. Download the tar again in case the previous was corrupt.
Pull out the battery and put it back in. hold vol up and down at the same time and then connect the USB cable. This will get you back into download mode.
Good luck!
Also, I believe this is in the wrong forum. I'm not a mod but I believe it belongs in the general section.
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I have tried for an hour straight to enter DL mode , no soap

ransome7 said:
I have tried for an hour straight to enter DL mode , no soap
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It's a common misconception (I did it myself) that the power button is also used in the sequence to enter download mode, this isn't the case. Just hold down vol up & down and connect the usb cable, do not press the power button.
Just trying to rule everything out
If this doesn't work for you then I'm out of ideas. Are you still able to get into recovery? If you are, try flashing a ROM and see what happens.
Just to clarify, what does your phone do when you turn it on? Does it boot loop or get stuck somewhere?
EDIT:NVM reread original post (selfn00b'd myself). Totally unresponsive? I believe you should still be able to get into d/l mode since I think they set that up as failsafe. If you can't then it probably will have to go back. Bummer

I'v herd that it somtimes helps to take the battery out and let it sit for 30 min
But thankfully I can not confirm!
May also want to try different computer and cable

Try ADB
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quest4fire said:
Try ADB
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Can You ADB if your phone won't power up?

You need your PC to recognize it. Is it seeing your phone or is it completely dead?
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DOWNLOAD MODE
power off phone
pull out battery
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode
make sure u have the proper samsung drivers

movieaddict said:
DOWNLOAD MODE
power off phone
pull out battery
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode
make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
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You did not read the OP , The phone died after using Odin(which DL mode is required) , obviously the phone is easy to get into DL mode. The phone is stone dead and won't power into anything

its funny when people suggest you try something to power on your phone even after youve just told them you have tried it all. kind of annoying actually.
but same thing happen to me man. i finally gave up and sent it to samsung today, that would probably be your best option. either that or tmobile

k2worldwweapon said:
its funny when people suggest you try something to power on your phone even after youve just told them you have tried it all. kind of annoying actually.
but same thing happen to me man. i finally gave up and sent it to samsung today, that would probably be your best option. either that or tmobile
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Thats what I ended up doing , they are sending out a new phone. It is disturbing that you can actually KILL your phone using Odin. I have flashed a ton of phones a million times and never ended up with a door stop.

Im surprised the GS2 is brickable. I came from a Vibrant (Galaxy S) and that phone was impossible to brick. I was always able to bring it back to download mode but sometimes i had to try different combinations of things to get it into DL mode like remove sim or battery etc. What I'm saying is your phone can be fussy.
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I bricked mine flashing a boot.img to the wrong partition in recovery. This phone is very brickable. T-Mobile gave me a new one but the first thing they asked me was if I rooted it. I said what's that mean
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My brother, myself, and my fiancee all got s2's. Day of, I odin'd recovery to both mine and my brother's and rooted with no problem. tried it on my fiance's, dead in the water. did the same exact thing to all 3, didn't change any procedures. If you keep trying to turn it on, sometimes the led flashlight from the camera will flash for a second, other times it actually turns on and continues to work as normal but once you turn it off again, it may not turn on again. i got it to turn on again and actually odin'd back to stock recovery. problem was NOT fixed even after this, and after i turned it off again, it turned on again once, but never again after that. filed for warranty exchange. i used to think as long as you can odin back to stock you're fine, but it clearly wasn't the case. looks like we just got unlucky. if you bought the phone from a corporate tmobile store, bring your receipt and trade it in at the store because they give you a new phone. if you do a warranty exchange, they send you a refurbished phone (although the s2 is new enough that they might send you a new one anyway if you're lucky).

[Q] T-Mobile update bricked my phone?

This morning I woke up to a message saying there was a software update from T-Mo for my T-Mo SGS2. I made a backup and then let it start, just to see. Now the phone is off and I cannot turn it back on, either to Recovery Mode or just to power on! I even plugged in the USB to my comp, still nothing. Not sure what to do? Am I bricked? I was running Juggernaut 3.7 (rooted). I thought if it wasnt a compatible update then I'd just flash the backup. but now I cant even do that. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

I'm having the similar troubles.
Mine's still works, but everytime i attempt to update it goes back to CM manager screen, and i don't know how to proceed past that. So curious to find out what the update is all about. (I am on factory rom + rooted only).

Have you tried odin back to stock?
If it turns on its might be soft bricked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321811
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Will it go into download mode? If not then it's bricked. If it will then use odin to push one of the stock ROM's and go from there.
I won't take up screen space describing how to get into download mode... a google or forum search will result in you finding those directions.
Hope you can fix it... Otherwise call TMobile and they'll send you a replacement.

I cant even get the phone to turn on to go to any mode. I cant get the computer to recognize that there is even a device. When I hold the power button the phone doesnt even vibrate. I cant upload ODIN to the phone to set back to stock. I feel liike Ive tried everything:
Holding each of the volume buttons individually + power
Holding both volume + power
Power only.
Remove and replace battery + Above
Remove battery completely + steps above.
Im lost. Probably SOL.

Plug a USB into your computer, hold volume up and down at the same time then plug USB into your phone while holding volume buttons and see if in enters download mode.
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Just tried. still nothing. the computer makes the noise like it knows something was plugged in, but nothing happens on my phone screen and a pop up comes up and says device not recognized, one of the devices connected to this compute has malfunctioned, etc.
I think this might be terminal. FML.

Might need to redownload the device drivers them try again.
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Yeah. Still no dice. I re-installed device drivers twice. on two computers. Still cant get any response from the Phone. I've rooted and Rom'd 7 different phones from all the major manufacturers. This is the first one I have bricked.

That sucks. Might have to call warrenty on it.
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Yeah it does. I appreciate everyone's help here though.

http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-t-mobile/
I came across this in the sgs4g forum and it seems they offer a brick fix. I am not sure of the sites reputation or anything about it but it may be worth looking into.
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Bricked, need help.

Phone won't boot into anything. When trying to boot into download mode windows does make noise but that's it. Tried a jig but still nothing. Suggestions?

any possibility the battery is dead? other then that not sure *bump* to the top maybe someone else has a better idea

blkbltwrestler said:
any possibility the battery is dead? other then that not sure *bump* to the top maybe someone else has a better idea
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Try a battery? How would we know if it was dead?
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if it was just a bad battery the phone would power on when plugged into an outlet

Tried a good battery from another phone, forgot to mention thst
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what did you do before it died custom rom? flash a new recovery?

You sure its bricked fully? Cuz i had a brick a few weeks ago flashing something and testing it. My phone would not do anything with any of the button combos, no dl mode no recovery and when i plugged it into computer via usb i didnt get any sound or nothing. Thats a brick! Do u get any sound when connecting to comp? Idk if u cant figure it out call jtag but not sure if the debrick our device yet that will take around ten days u can google them i think its mobile tech. And what they do is take the board out of the phone sodder some wires on to it then run there software to debrick it then put phone back together. Now an easier option is ro just tell tmobile your phone died on charger and wont turn on tell them it was hot. They will never know especiallt if the phone wont turn on they will overnite one and it should only be 5bucks for a warranty exchange thats all it cost for me since our phones do have a warranty for year that is your best option u will get it the next day and it will be a refurb but mine is beautiful and looks brand new and the scree has like no lines actually nice. Now if u lost it or have damage that what insurance is for. That if u got it but like i said do the warranty exchange

yep that phone thejron is talking about, it became silent after trying to install a zip via rom manager. immediately after running the manager, reboot phone now, it flashed a small white light in the middle of the screen like a old tube tv turning off and that was it. no button light up. no dl mode no recovery. we tried everything. when hooked up to a pc via usb, the pc makes a usb connected sound but doesn't recognize anything or show up anywhere. if i hold the power button down, the pc actually makes the usb disconnected sound and does the usb connected sound when released. makes no sense really.

i have had something like this happen before...even though obviously from screen phone is not on , have you tryed opening odin the plugging phone up to see if odin recognizes? also since when in dl mode you first have to hit vol up to get there, you should try doing that too
just because phone is black and non responsive does not mean that it will not work.

odin doesnt recognize it at all. and when the jig was hoked up to it on and identical phone, it immediately went to dl mode. on this phone, we got nothing. jig in or out, volume up or down. nothing

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yep that phone thejron is talking about, it became silent after trying to install a zip via rom manager. immediately after running the manager, reboot phone now, it flashed a small white light in the middle of the screen like a old tube tv turning off and that was it. no button light up. no dl mode no recovery. we tried everything. when hooked up to a pc via usb, the pc makes a usb connected sound but doesn't recognize anything or show up anywhere. if i hold the power button down, the pc actually makes the usb disconnected sound and does the usb connected sound when released. makes no sense really.
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Can you tell us what zip you flashed?
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[Q] ICS upgrade USB problems?

i can charge my phone with the usb and thats about it. i cant get any cpmputer to recgonize my gs2 and i think thats the reason i cant get into download mode which is what i really want. i have tried al of the different methods of getting into usb mode. i have tried re installing kies and nothing. i have odin running when i connect the phone to the usb and nothing. kkies doesnt recognise it either. i have tried to take out the batter and plug in the usb holding +- vol butttons and nothing.
PLZ HELP ME!!!!
any advice you have to offer would be very much appreciated
thanx

Are you using the stock charging cable? Not all micro usb will be recognized on a comp with this device.
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To get into recovery is when you press volume+- and power. For download it think it's volume down and power.
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I had the same problem with my SGH-T989 phone. I attempted the upgrade on Kies via two different Windows 7 laptops, and even resorted to using an iMac to attempt the upgrade via Kies for Mac. After 7 factory resets, attempting the use Samsung's factory code to change my USB port to 'PDA' I ended up spending about 2 hours on the phone with T-Mobile and subsequently Samsung's technical support.
To make a long story short, they proceeded to RMA my phone and its taken them about 3 weeks to perform a repair on the USB port on my device. I don't know if this is a widespread problem or if I was just unlucky, but I am just hoping that when I get the phone back tonight (its on the UPS truck now) they went to the trouble up upgrading the ROM for me!
Best of luck!

I hate to say it, but its more than likely user error. If your phone is on, do a battery pull. Then once you put the battery back in, what you're going to do is hold down both the volume up and down buttons and press and hold the power button. When it vibrates once, let go of the power button and continue to hold the volume + and - buttons. It'll go into recovery.
To get into download mode, you do the same as above, but when the phones vibrates once, release the power button and insert your USB cable into the phone. It'll kick you into download mode.

In my case, I had successfully gotten my phone into recovery mode a number of times. I got the phone back last night and Samsung had gone through the effort of loading 4.0.3 on it. So far ICS is working very well and I'm happy to have my SG2 back.
I dread if there is another pushed update that is available only through the kies software. Hopefully there will be an alternative method available via the SD card, else one may resort to rooting and a custom rom for good measure.

Please HELP. Phone won't turn on

Hi guys. Have a problem with my phone. Seems like I screwed it up. I was running sacs custom rom and I downloaded the TWRP (maybe a wrong version), the thing is that I downloaded it and flashed through Clockwork recovery and after that the phone went black and now doesn't turn on. Not even with home+vol up+power and not even with vol down+home+power. Nothing. Removed battery for 30 seconds and nothing.
any advice? I know I was a dumb. I'm paying insurance for it so I guess I could turn it in. But if there's something I can do, please let me know.
Thanks!

You might be hard bricked and have to take it into repair or replacement
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Where did u get the twrp u flashed? gotta link?

Double check you didn't flash something for the I9300 or another version. If it won't give you any sort of life (Try getting to download (Odin) mode) Then more then likely it's bricked..

Same problem here. No joy so far. The PC detects something (USB connected device) when I plug it in, but nothing that Odin is picking up.

ok. I downloaded TWRP 2.3 BL or something. Downloaded through GooManager doing a search,. Then rebooted the phone on recovery mode and installed it from CW. After it was flashed, the phone went black and never turned back on. If I connect usb cable to a PC I get the sound on the PC when you put any USB device but phone doesn't turn on. Tried removing the battery for a few hours and back in but nothing. tried conecting usb without the battery and it turns on the red light as if it's charging. then goes off. tried with vol up (and down), home and power but nothing.
I guess I got a hard bricked phone and I'm screwed for being stupid and install something I wasn't sure. It wasn't a ROM, so I thought it would not harm the device. Was wrong.

^ you say it all.
But when you got a replacement. Just press menu key in Goo Manager and select "install open recovery"
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yeap. asked sprint about repair it, since I have the insurance but they told me I had to pay a deductible. So I just called insurance I reported lost. Rather pay the same deductible amount and have it for spare parts than give it to them, plus the deductible. hehe. maybe someday I find way to make it work or just use it a spare parts.
thanks you guys for all the advices given. Still, if there's something else I could try, let me know.
Just hope no one else do that.
Once again... Thanks!

Since you found it via searching it could have been for any phone, probably not yours. a link would have helped here to confirm. The best way to confirm it's a paperweight is to plug in PC n see what windows calls it. If it shows up as QHSUSB_DLOAD then it's fukd.

billard412 said:
Since you found it via searching it could have been for any phone, probably not yours. a link would have helped here to confirm. The best way to confirm it's a paperweight is to plug in PC n see what windows calls it. If it shows up as QHSUSB_DLOAD then it's fukd.
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yes. for sure was for any other phone that mine. so, should I put a bootloader on the micro sd and try lo connect it through odin to see if it detects it? where it's supposed to show that QHSUSB_DLOAD ?

Anyone know if OMAPFlash works for the GSIII? I'd suggest trying that. Google it.
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I saw on ebay selling a Jig for the galaxy s3 but it says for: S3 /SIII I-9300 / I-747 Samsung Galaxy.
Does anyone knows if that device may work also for the Sprint S3? also if it may work for this kind of brick?