I accidentally flashed a pit file in Odin which I think was made for a Galaxy Vibrant, my other phone.
The phone wont boot at all. When I plug it into the computer, the computer makes noise like it registers it though. The normal 'ding' sound followed by an error-like sound.
Is there any fix?
steelefriese said:
I accidentally flashed a pit file in Odin which I think was made for a Galaxy Vibrant, my other phone.
The phone wont boot at all. When I plug it into the computer, the computer makes noise like it registers it though. The normal 'ding' sound followed by an error-like sound.
Is there any fix?
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Please don't spam your post all over xda I anwered it in general
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If your phone does not enter download mode, or turn on to samsung logo, or enter recovery or anything then you're hard bricked. Your last resort would be to hope that Odin could somehow recognize your phone and you do a complete reset to factory ICS with no roots or anything. If you cant get any of those you are screwed. Your options? T-Mobile does not check on hard-bricked phones and does a replacement in 2 ways. 1. If your phone is under 20 days of purchase date you can get a full replacement (brand new) overnighted to you and just send your old one back and the amount is credited to your account when they process the return. 2. If your phone is under the 1 year warranty you can get a refurbished replacement for the 20$ processing fee as long as you turn yours in (just give it to the T-mobile rep and they should mail it for you so you dont gotta worry about dropping it off or making sure its packaged correctly) and then just wait for your refurbished.
NOTE: If there is any physical damage or water damage they will not replace it under any circumstances. I gave you your best options.
SOURCE: I've bricked mine on like the 18th day and got a overnighted replacement and sent my old one back.
i did something with the pit file and my phone does the same thing do u guys thing i can get a new phone through tmobile no recovery no boot no vibrate nothing any help would be appreciated but what do u mean damage i got a ding or two but nothing bad no water damage i was thinking i would tell them i have had problems wit the hard key power button and started into boot loop so i pulled the batt then this happen ive read that these phones have had problems wit the power button
Waiting for my replacement right now ups should be pulling up any min thank god
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I know there must be somewhere in the thread but i can't find one with the same problem as mine. I was in middle of odin to put my phone back to stock. and it was stuck for over a half hr at the same place. so i unplugged it and tried to put it back on but it wont go the only thing that turns on is the blue light. i already tried the jig. its a no go. how can i unbrick this phone?
My phone has shut itself off then when i try to turn it back on i get nothing but a blue light what worked for me was taking the battery out for a couple minutes then trying it again. Have you tried that?
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That happened to me when the phone first came out. Only a blue light came on and nothing else. Even the jig didn't work. I ended up just selling it and buying a new one. I hope someone has figured out a way to fix it for you
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You have hard bricked your phone most likely. Like it was said, you can try to remove the battery for a few minutes to see if resetting the capacitors will fix it but I am ninety nine percent sure that it will not work. You have two options.
1) Play dumb at a sprint store
2) JTAG repair from mobiletechvideos
What you have done is flashed over the bootloader so you can no longer boot it or plug it into the computer. Can you post a link to the file that you flashed? My guess is that you flashed an i9000 tar and PIT which is not compatible with the E4GT. Not all Galaxy S2 phones are the same. In fact, they are all different.
iSkylla said:
You have hard bricked your phone most likely. Like it was said, you can try to remove the battery for a few minutes to see if resetting the capacitors will fix it but I am ninety nine percent sure that it will not work. You have two options.
1) Play dumb at a sprint store
2) JTAG repair from mobiletechvideos
What you have done is flashed over the bootloader so you can no longer boot it or plug it into the computer. Can you post a link to the file that you flashed? My guess is that you flashed an i9000 tar and PIT which is not compatible with the E4GT. Not all Galaxy S2 phones are the same. In fact, they are all different.
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I did the exact same thing when I first rooted my phone but by the grace of god odin still recognized it so I was able to flash back to stock.
iSkylla said:
You have hard bricked your phone most likely. Like it was said, you can try to remove the battery for a few minutes to see if resetting the capacitors will fix it but I am ninety nine percent sure that it will not work. You have two options.
1) Play dumb at a sprint store
2) JTAG repair from mobiletechvideos
What you have done is flashed over the bootloader so you can no longer boot it or plug it into the computer. Can you post a link to the file that you flashed? My guess is that you flashed an i9000 tar and PIT which is not compatible with the E4GT. Not all Galaxy S2 phones are the same. In fact, they are all different.
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That my friend is exactly right. Your cell is gone... Swap or jtag is your only options.
I am going to give the, "taking the battery out for a couple of min", a shot... I was afraid that those two were my last options. The phone is maybe 2 months old and I am not with sprint anymore. Is there a way to claim through warranty or something?
kmoshkovich said:
I am going to give the, "taking the battery out for a couple of min", a shot... I was afraid that those two were my last options. The phone is maybe 2 months old and I am not with sprint anymore. Is there a way to claim through warranty or something?
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Good question... I do believe that there is a one year manufacturer warranty, but don't know how you would go about making a claim. I would definitely recommend the jtag service its only like $50. Even sprint would charge you $35 to swap if you were still with the m. So if you look at out that way $15 more ain't so bad.
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Remove battery. Replace. Plug into charger. Does the batt charging screen come on? If so hold power until it boots. Done. Do your happy dance.. If no charge indication = brick.
The batt recharge didnt come on ill see if i can somehow claim by samsung if not then ill have to send it in to jtag
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The batt recharge didnt come on ill see if i can somehow claim by samsung if not then ill have to send it in to jtag
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Dude that's a bummer. Good luck. Hwy keep us updated on how it turns out.
This same thing happened to me!
What did you end up doing?
This happened to me too, but after flashing gunslinger kernel. I did a battery pull, then it let me boot into recovery.
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same thing happened to me, went back to best buy where i got it and said "i dont know what happened", got a new one on the spot.
On top of it, when i got it at best buy they price matched amazon mobile, so i got it for 130
I Also bought it from Best Buy! But it was two months ago... You think i can still do it by them?
After an hour of searching forums I had realized that the phone was dead and wasn't coming back on. I too had the same blue light problem, couldn't get into recovery, couldn't do anything with the black screen. I took it to Sprint, and they don't have the capability of turning it back on in store. I believe this needs to be done by Samsung, and I imagine Best Buy wouldn't be able to either. The tech told me if he could not repair it, it would be replaced. My concern was the ship time and getting a refurbished unit. He told me because the phone was so new they are almost always replaced with a new unit. He said it was $35 because I didn't have insurance, but to "Come back after an hour, and if I can't fix it and it is insured it will be replaced free of charge." I went home, had Sprint add insurance, went back to the store a couple hours later. They swapped out my unit for a brand new one, free of charge, in about 5 minutes, activated and all. I was very pleased with how everything went as I was PISSED at myself for bricking my phone so bad! In all my years of hacking Palm Pres and Evos I never bricked a phone so bad that it couldn't be powered back on! But now I have a new GS2 (ROOTED )!
I recommend just trying a Sprint Repair Center. I bought mine over the phone. I played dumb and said that I let it die completely, which I rarely do, and when I charged it the blue light went on and it never powered back up. They said that was weird but gave no qualm about it. Hope this helps..
My phone hardbricked for no apparent reason, and I'm not sure what to do. Battery was at about 50% yesterday, it turned off and wouldn't turn back on. I did a soft reset, and it turned on. I watched it go as far as the logo and then had to walk away. When I came back, the phone was black again. And it hasn't turned on since. No logo, nothing. I've tried a soft reset, plus multiple other reset combinations. I plugged my phone to the computer, I get the normal connecting 'ding', but then it says that driver's device cannot be found.
I'm running stock firmware, no mods. No history of battery issues (except the normal slow decline). I've had the phone for a year and three weeks, so I'm out of warranty too. I called T-mobile and they said it sounds like a hardbrick and are willing to switch it out for $20 since I'm out of warranty. I can't do that since I'm out of the country for the next 1.5 months, so I was wondering if anyone out there had any suggestions on what to do or why this even happened?
Thanks!
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My phone hardbricked for no apparent reason, and I'm not sure what to do. Battery was at about 50% yesterday, it turned off and wouldn't turn back on. I did a soft reset, and it turned on. I watched it go as far as the logo and then had to walk away. When I came back, the phone was black again. And it hasn't turned on since. No logo, nothing. I've tried a soft reset, plus multiple other reset combinations. I plugged my phone to the computer, I get the normal connecting 'ding', but then it says that driver's device cannot be found.
I'm running stock firmware, no mods. No history of battery issues (except the normal slow decline). I've had the phone for a year and three weeks, so I'm out of warranty too. I called T-mobile and they said it sounds like a hardbrick and are willing to switch it out for $20 since I'm out of warranty. I can't do that since I'm out of the country for the next 1.5 months, so I was wondering if anyone out there had any suggestions on what to do or why this even happened?
Thanks!
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does it respond to plugging in to charge? im not 100% but if its responding at all when it gets plugged in its not hardbricked only softbricked so go from there. when i hardbricked my first s2 due to a corrupt kernel file i flashed it would not react to anything at all. complete dead weight
U stated that when u plugged it into ur computer u got a ding then says driver device not found. Sounds to me that ur not in a hard birck when I bricked mine I didn't even get that. Check out the link it well help.
http://galaxys2root.com/t-mobile-ga...ck-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-sgh-t989-android-2-3-6/
on my t989 enjoying sith3, thank u to all
Thanks for everyone's help. I ended up sending in my phone to a Samsung service center (while I was in Korea). They confirmed that it is a hardbrick. They opened it up and said it looked like there was a short and it fried the motherboard. They couldn't tell me what caused the short--they said maybe some water got into the phone through the charging port, but I know that isn't true... I had it plugged into an old power strip and maybe that's why? :crying:
Either way, I was told my only option was to get the motherboard replaced which would be $200. I told them no thanks and that I'd just get a replacement phone from T-mobile for $20.
sounds like another " I swear i didn't do anything.. it just happened" story.. classic..
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sounds like another " I swear i didn't do anything.. it just happened" story.. classic..
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I know my story sounds unlikely, but it's the truth. Isn't this forum around to help fellow users? I have no reason to lie here. I actually take very good care of my phone and (after almost losing a laptop to a water spill) am extremely cautious about liquids around my electronic devices. You don't have to believe me since I'll get my phone replaced regardless. I just thought I would share the information in case someone else ends up facing the same problem.
Even now, the only cause I can come up with still is the old power strip frying the motherboard. *shrug* I would love to hear any other explanations.
Think I just borked by AT&T Galaxy S3, and yes it is completely my fault. This is probably a dead end, buy I figured I'd ask as a last resort.
I've got a lot of experience rooting and flashing ROMS and flashing custom recoveries and was rushing a proceedure when the problem occurred. I was trying to flash the CWM touch recovery using the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
I tried to do all this through my phone using Terminal Emulator and typed in the portion "mmcblk0p18" one letter off from what I should have (I think I typed in "mmcblk0p08" ... sick sinking feeling my stomach right now). The code went through as I started to power down the phone as I was looking at the code I wrote. Noticed the mispelled line of code right as the screen was powering off. Now my phone is completely unresponsive, after I rebooted. The phone does not power on, cannot boot into recovery mode, and worst of all seemingly will not boot into download mode. I've had boot loops before and am familiar with how to traditionally boot into Download mode via POWER + Vol Down + Home Button and used Odin to flash a fix.
Are there any other options, short of taking it to a repair shop, that I can try? I'm guessing it's completely bricked, but I just wanted to see if there were any options I was missing that are worth trying.
About to start calling repair shops to see if they can take a look at it as well.
Warranty replacement. Just say you don't know why it won't turn on. I did this after dropping my rooted phone and they asked no questions.
On the phone now, I'll let you know if they're able to assist with troubleshooting or otherwise.
I did the same thing.... I had insurance through att reported the phone lost... I repeat lost not stolen.. Got a replacement in 2 days brand new white and used that to pull the stock rom and flash it to my old phone. The then turned around and sold the replacement phone
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That doesn't make sense why the phone won't even turn on, were you trying to flash on a low battery?
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That doesn't make sense why the phone won't even turn on, were you trying to flash on a low battery?
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I agree that it doesn't make sense. It's behaving almost as if the battery is just flat out dead. I have a spare battery, but when I tried that one it made no difference. I plugged the phone into a couple of different chargers while the AT&T rep was helping me troubleshoot and the charging light wouldn't turn on. The phone was not responding to anything at all, no matter what we tried.
They declared it hardware failure and are sending a replacement, as part of the original warranty. It did not have any physical damage, scratches, no water damage, etc.
Let this be a lesson to others: Be very very VERY careful with ADB and read your commands carefully. Those warnings about bricking your phone are real and shouldn't be taken lightly. I've rooted 6 devices and flashed what I'd estimate as over 60 ROMs over all my Android devices. I let my guard down and rushed things, and really my carelessness is all to blame at this point.
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My cousins S2 randomly died. He could not give me much info about how.
It won't turn on, and it won't charge. It isn't the battery, we have tried other batteries. We don't know if its a brick, because he didn't do anything that could brick it (did not install a custom ROM, no custom kernel). Anyone have any idea? I don't have much to work off of. Anyone know a way I can get it to boot into recovery or download modes when it won't boot normally?
Plug it in press power if it doesn't boot but you see Samsung logo then you need a new power button
-if you can turn it on no logo just vibrates then you bricked it
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Same thing on my Galaxy S2
Mine did the exact same thing. One minute it was FTPing data to my server and (backup) and the next, it was dead... Luckily it was under factory warranty and they replaced all the guts (new everything inside, different MAC address, SN, and IMEI numbers... New SW too...
The folks on the phone at Samsung were great about the RMA process and the turn around was really quick! (sent back 2 days after receipt, via UPS 2 day!)
Samsung US Warranty Phone Number
FYI - I got much better response when talking on the phone than doing anything on the website. So here's their US contact info:
Samsung Warranty - 1-888-987-4357
My phone was charging while I was taking an nap and when I woke up my phone was off I also noticed it was hot so I turned it on and it wouldn't boot passed logo screen. I then went to bell and they would not replace it because there is a small crack at the top right of the screen which voids software warranty. One of the bell store employees attempted to put the phone in recovery mode but the process was stopped multiple times due to the fact that the phone only powers on for a few seconds. I don't have the money to buy another gs3, is there anyways to fix this. Doing some research on the phone and i believe it is hard bricked or something of that matter
*Update* Went to a cell repair shop, turns out its actually the power button that needs replacing and this is why the phone continually turns off and on and never reaches passed the logo screen. Apparently it's common for the power button to stop working or get all messed up on the gs3, if you have not rooted your phone or played around with the software the power button may be the cause of it not passing the logo screen and your phone might actually not be bricked
me too
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My phone was charging while I was taking an nap and when I woke up my phone was off I also noticed it was hot so I turned it on and it wouldn't boot passed logo screen. I then went to bell and they would not replace it because there is a small crack at the top right of the screen which voids software warranty. One of the bell store employees attempted to put the phone in recovery mode but the process was stopped multiple times due to the fact that the phone only powers on for a few seconds. I don't have the money to buy another gs3, is there anyways to fix this. Doing some research on the phone and i believe it is hard bricked or something of that matter
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i have the same problem, my phone is from bell too but warranty is over its been like a month like this xS.
keviinricoy said:
i have the same problem, my phone is from bell too but warranty is over its been like a month like this xS.
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Im sorry mate, Bell is awful just a bunch of scumbags. If i can't find any help from here im going to go visit a cell repair shop to get some help. You should try to find some as well, google search cellphone repair shops in your area! I have very little knowledge of software on androids but apparently my phone needs to be flashed
Have you tried another battery. ...thats what I would try. Also make sure all your ports are clean and debris free.
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KeeKeeB said:
Im sorry mate, Bell is awful just a bunch of scumbags. If i can't find any help from here im going to go visit a cell repair shop to get some help. You should try to find some as well, google search cellphone repair shops in your area! I have very little knowledge of software on androids but apparently my phone needs to be flashed
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Yes i tried my friends battery, this sadly did not work.
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Have you tried to boot into the phones stock recovery and clear it ? Or how about odin a stock rom ? Just trying to brainstorm, but I seriously do not think your phone is toast. I would try seaching these ideas and see if you have any luck....otherwise search for how to recover a bricked phone for your carrier...the same method might work to get you up and running again???
same thing happening to me...i can boot into recovery/download mode but only for 2-3 seconds and then the phone reboots itself...all started after I dropped it from my sofa earlier today. any suggestions anybody?
turns out it was the power button that was malfunctioning for me..got it repaired and now its working fine..