Hi. I'm new here and first, want to say hello. I've been on iPhones for many years. Finally got bored and crossed over to the "Dark Side" lol.
Second....I need help!!! lol or just some good old advice. I've searched and searched but can't really find a definitive answer. Too much conflicting info out there. One thing I did learn is that this forum is thee best so here I am!
I successfully rooted my i747 Galaxy S3 (Rogers). The trouble arose when I tried to install a Custom ROM. I kept getting errors, and after a bunch of research, I read that I should update my CWM. I did and that's when the trouble started. It went into a loop. It would just stay on a black screen. I can't get into Recovery mode or anything else for that matter. It will not power up in any way. It will now show the charging indicator light when it's charging. It's as dead as my ex-wife in the sack . Obviously I've bricked it. I've learned that a jtag repair would fix it....and have since been told by an android buddy that it won't. Any advice or info would be appreciated!
The phone was on 4.1.1 and it's the Rogers i747 model (same as AT&T)
P.S, Rooting on a Mac sucks! I'm thankful that I had a PC at home too! Not that turned out too good
Update...as per Tech Support at Rogers, I removed the battery and plugged it in. The red indicator light came on. But it does not stay on and it goes out shortly after, battery in or not. Thought one more piece of info may help someone figuring this out.
Charge it as much as you can, search for the return to stock thread on here (make sure you get the one for your carrier), do that and if it isn't working after that, then you'll probably have to get it replaced.
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Monkeymannnn said:
Charge it as much as you can, search for the return to stock thread on here (make sure you get the one for your carrier), do that and if it isn't working after that, then you'll probably have to get it replaced.
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I appreciate the reply but I can't connect to the phone at all. Couldn't return it to stock even if I wanted to.
mrkay said:
I appreciate the reply but I can't connect to the phone at all. Couldn't return it to stock even if I wanted to.
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Once it's charged, are you able to get in download mode? If so, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Odin can bring you back up.
If your pc doesn't recognize it, reboot it (pc). Try a different cable/usb port. Reinstalling the drivers is an option too.
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BWolf56 said:
Once it's charged, are you able to get in download mode? If so, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Odin can bring you back up.
If your pc doesn't recognize it, reboot it (pc). Try a different cable/usb port. Reinstalling the drivers is an option too.
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It won't charge at all. Left it overnight and nada. I'll try again, but highly unlikely that it will. I also tried different ports as well as different computers to connect to. My only concern is that I take it back and Samsung discovers that it's been messed with. Oh well, it's only money
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It won't charge at all. Left it overnight and nada. I'll try again, but highly unlikely that it will. I also tried different ports as well as different computers to connect to. My only concern is that I take it back and Samsung discovers that it's been messed with. Oh well, it's only money
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Could say that you tried to update with kies and that's what you got.. Works like a charm usually
In my stupidity I've hard bricked not one but TWO AT&T GS3's same thing black screened and nothing else. I doubt very seriously you'll get it to charge. Here's the good news I'm assuming it's still under warranty and if it is when you take it to the warranty store at AT&T they will try two batteries to see if it boots and when it doesn't you'll get a new phone. You don't have to tell them nothing. As far as you know you shut it down to charge when you went to bed and it wouldn't boot in the morning.
Worked for me needless to say I'm WAAAAAY more carefull and spend a lot of time here reading and double and triple checking everything!
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In my stupidity I've hard bricked not one but TWO AT&T GS3's same thing black screened and nothing else. I doubt very seriously you'll get it to charge. Here's the good news I'm assuming it's still under warranty and if it is when you take it to the warranty store at AT&T they will try two batteries to see if it boots and when it doesn't you'll get a new phone. You don't have to tell them nothing. As far as you know you shut it down to charge when you went to bed and it wouldn't boot in the morning.
Worked for me needless to say I'm WAAAAAY more carefull and spend a lot of time here reading and double and triple checking everything!
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Not to make you sound stupid, there are no such things as stupid questions here at least I've learned that while enjoy my stay here at xda, but did you accidentally flash an international ROM? This sounds like a case of it.
The first phone I hard bricked I'm sure that's what I did. It became a beautiful paper weight. Not sure what happened the second time I had got off work late and instead of going to bed I was tinkering with my phone. I don't really know what happened. Careless and not reading, not making sure of what I was doing. I learned the hard way and I spend a lot more time studying and staying with the AT&T forums for my phone.
I have to admit I've really had fun here learning.
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my phone wont start again after i flashed that Rom, its for Gt-I9100 International version, they phone wont boot at all, and when i plug it to the usb the computer ask me to install: QHSUSB_DLOAD.
Please any help
Can u get into dl mode
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Also this should be in general
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no deosnt boot at all ?????
People would be more likely to help you if you posted in the correct place.
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You flashed an i9100 rom?!!?! I'm blown away. Why...why...why? Why in god's name would you do that? We have completely different hardware, of course your phone won't boot. Dude...
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There's a really good chance you're hard-bricked.
As a warning to other people out there who are just starting to do this stuff. DO NOT THINK THAT BECAUSE YOU HEARD SOMEWHERE THAT IS IS EASY THAT YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT READING OR LEARNING ANYTHING. We here at XDA are all for helping people but this OP clearly did not read about flashing, read about what our phone is compared to the international version, or even do a search before posting this because then he would know how to attempt to get it into download mode and odin new firmware onto the device. We're not your personal, 24-hour tech support. If you want that, do not expect us to do it for free. If you genuinely want to learn about things and want someone to teach you how to fix something you did wrong, we'll be happy to do that. I'm going to repeat this one more time for effect:
We are not your personal, 24-hour/7-days-a-week, free tech support.
Yea. Im not gonna preach because i bricked my first phone yesterday :/
But its very important we dont flash software from other phones. This phone is different than any other Samsung and GS2 out there. You can often recover a phone if you flash the wrong rom, apparently that will not be the case on this phone..
If you cant get into recovery or dl mode theres no chance of a recovery. Sorry. Recovery can be accessed by pulling the battery, putting it back in, holding volume up and down and power all at the same time. Release the power button while continuing to hold both volume buttons ONLY if the samsung logo pops up. If nothing, try dl mode. That is done by pulling battery, putting it back in. Hold volume up and down while inserting the usb cord. If it does nothing your pretty much sol.
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this is my first android phone and you best believe that i would rather be put in a sweat box with 10 sumo wrestlers and have to clean and floss some ass before I flash add rom or anything else that has to do with rooting this phone that didnt have t989 in it or that wasn't confirmed by plenty of devs... just saying dont really understand how someone thats been a member for over a year and has cleary had years of exp with andriod phones would do this..... unless hes about 13 yrs old and wanted to run around his school saying i got mine rooted i got mine rooted..
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Yea. Im not gonna preach because i bricked my first phone yesterday :/
But its very important we dont flash software from other phones. This phone is different than any other Samsung and GS2 out there. You can often recover a phone if you flash the wrong rom, apparently that will not be the case on this phone..
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How did you do that? I want to make sure I don't do the same thing when I root or flash a rom
You are hard bricked. Needs a non existent jtag to repair. Pray that connexion learns to unbrick them.
Also, WHY???? Please click on the word friend in my signature.
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alibox87 said:
my phone wont start again after i flashed that Rom, its for Gt-I9100 International version, they phone wont boot at all, and when i plug it to the usb the computer ask me to install: QHSUSB_DLOAD.
Please any help
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Dude....., there is good chance you hard bricked your phone your only option is (JTAG).
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/
I flashed a kernel using the mount point for epic touch. Not sure which partition it actually flashed to but as soon as it flashed the phone shutdown and wouldnt do anything. Part of trying to get things going here we now know the right partition to flash a kernel too just working on the path.
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How did you do that? I want to make sure I don't do the same thing when I root or flash a rom
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Idk if someone already mentioned this but try this:
1.Pull battery out
2.Download Odin 1.85 or above
3.Install drivers
4.Open Odin.exe
5.Put your battery back in to the phone
6.While holding both volume keys, plug the USB in and if your phone goes into.download mode then you are set and can pick up all the stock stuff and flash it via Odin.
And if that doesn't work then you will need a jig to get into download and I dnt knw if someone had made one yet or not.
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my phone wont start again after i flashed that Rom, its for Gt-I9100 International version, they phone wont boot at all, and when i plug it to the usb the computer ask me to install: QHSUSB_DLOAD.
Please any help
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Ouch
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Goodluck.. I had my first hard brick long time ago when I flashed my moto razr with the firmware for moto razr v3i.
this is rhetorical by why even reply to someone's stupidity its plain and simple all it takes is a little bit of ****ing reading! jesus christ! topics like this annoy the crap out of me and should be deleted ! im not cool with helping someone that doesn't help themselves first sorry !
I wouldn't be so quick. Difficult and unexpected situations happen to all of us I am sure.
From the original post, I think OP may have an international version of the SGS2, and flashed the T989 Rom. He's just looking for a way back.
goldeman said:
this is rhetorical by why even reply to someone's stupidity its plain and simple all it takes is a little bit of ****ing reading! jesus christ! topics like this annoy the crap out of me and should be deleted ! im not cool with helping someone that doesn't help themselves first sorry !
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i understand that! ive bricked a phone because i DIDNT READ. and even then i still didnt make a topic of it ... i tried every way possible to recover, when that didnt work i took the phone back. Seriously if you can type you can obviously read. trust me it helps.
So i was stupid and tried to install vilian rom on my sgs2 which apparently is not for the t989. Now phone wont turn on or do anything. Is it completly bricked?
iunno if this helps but when i plug it into computer still makes noise like its connected =/ nothing on screen tho
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So i was stupid and tried to install vilian rom on my sgs2 which apparently is not for the t989. Now phone wont turn on or do anything. Is it completly bricked?
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Try to put your phone in download mode, using the key combination (volume up/volume down) at the same time, then plug in your USB cable that will put you in download mode, and then use Odin to flash Bubby stock kernel. If you have access to recovery, (volume up/volume down/power) and let go the power as soon you can see the Samsung logo, then just flash the last ROM you were using before your mistake. This is if you already have a ROM that you can flash via CWM in the SDCARD of your phone. If you don't have a CWM ROM in your SD Card ODIN is your best friend. Hope this can help you.
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cant turn on or anything or get into download mode odin doesnt seem to be recognizing it. it asks for qhsusb dload drivers which from what ive read means brick?
Sorarn said:
So i was stupid and tried to install vilian rom on my sgs2 which apparently is not for the t989. Now phone wont turn on or do anything. Is it completly bricked?
iunno if this helps but when i plug it into computer still makes noise like its connected =/ nothing on screen tho
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One Web site.... www.mobiletechvideos.com
The way I see it we all screw up but having the balls to take a risk to hack your device... There's no shame in that. Just read up on things before. N s who they will be able to restore your phone for 40 to 50 bucks
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yes t was a stupid mistake, anyway is that the only thing to send it out? no other way
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yes t was a stupid mistake, anyway is that the only thing to send it out? no other way
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You can try to exchange calling Tmobile and tell them that something wierd happen to your phone, and you don't know what is going on. Don't tell them about the flashing; that happened to me one time with my Vibrant, and they exchanged no questions asked. No charges or fees. Hope this can help you.
parusia said:
You can try to exchange calling Tmobile and tell them that something wierd happen to your phone, and you don't know what is going on. Don't tell them about the flashing; that happened to me one time with my Vibrant, and they exchanged no questions asked. No charges or fees. Hope this can help you.
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Yeah. If you're within your 14 days, this maybe a good option. The Apple store was great for this also.
good luck & keep us posted!
dont think im inside the 14days more like a month. i may give that a shot still tho take it in and ***** a little just say i went to turn it on in the morning and nothing. see what happens if not ill send it out and let you know how that goes
so update as promised, took it to tmobile today they tried switching the battery out thats all and he goes well i guess this is why we get warrentys so i get a free one over nighted will be here tomorrow
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so update as promised, took it to tmobile today they tried switching the battery out thats all and he goes well i guess this is why we get warrentys so i get a free one over nighted will be here tomorrow
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Nice! New phone, over night shipping, and lesson learned! I'm still waiting for my phone to be mailed here... They say Wednesday
Nice, Samsung loses some money, the world dies due to carbon emissions from delivery and you get a replacement phone for the one you broke.
Bravo
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the guy at the store said this was the first galaxy s 2 returned there for any issues haha
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the guy at the store said this was the first galaxy s 2 returned there for any issues haha
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They are trained to say that. If you call tech support they will also say the same thing.. Which is highly doubtful that out of the millions of customers you would be the first with phone issues.
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Need a answer not a polititian
Towle said:
They are trained to say that. If you call tech support they will also say the same thing.. Which is highly doubtful that out of the millions of customers you would be the first with phone issues.
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OK SO HOW ABOUT US WHO BOUGHT AND PAID FOR OURS ? I HAVE SWITCHED OVER TO MY FAMILY MOBILE AND THERE ARE NO WARRANTY FRAUD CLAIMS FOR ME WILL A USB JIG FIX THIS PROBLEM IM THINKING SO AND I DAMN SURE AINT ABOUT TO PAY ANYONE $50 TO DO THE SAME THING I CAN DO JUST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THAT WILL WORK BEFORE I WASTE ANYMORE TIME MESSING AROUND. P.S. DONT DOWNLOAD PA DIRTY UNICORNS 4.4.2 FOR SHG T989 FROM "GALAXY S2 ROOT.COM" THIS IS WHAT BRICKED MINE IVE HAD A SGH T989 SINCE THEY WERE RELEASED AND ITS ALWAYS BEEN ROOTED AND I CANT TELL YOU HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF ROMS RECOVERIES KERNELS IVE FLASHED AND I HAVE NEVER EVER DONE ANYTHINBG TO THIS PHONE I COULDNT FIX ONE WAY OR ANOTHER WHICH IS WHY I CONTINUE TO USE IT. WITH THAT SAID I HAVE TO WONDER IS IT KIT KATs DIFFERENCES THAT MAKE THIS EVEN POSSIBLE TO OCCUR OR IS MAX LEE HAD ONE TOO MANY WHEN HE POSTED THIS ROM TO THE SITE????.........
First, easy on the caps friend.
Second, your taking your life (phones anyway) flashing anything not on XDA....made by reputable devs.
Darth said:
First, easy on the caps friend.
Second, your taking your life (phones anyway) flashing anything not on XDA....made by reputable devs.
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My phone is cant boot up
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Sorarn said:
So i was stupid and tried to install vilian rom on my sgs2 which apparently is not for the t989. Now phone wont turn on or do anything. Is it completly bricked?
iunno if this helps but when i plug it into computer still makes noise like its connected =/ nothing on screen tho
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*Gasp* same here i installed some mediatech celluar drivers on the phone and it just stopped working and the sound it makes use another port or cord it will stop making the sound if you have found a solution please tell me
L3G1TN00BZ said:
*Gasp* same here i installed some mediatech celluar drivers on the phone and it just stopped working and the sound it makes use another port or cord it will stop making the sound if you have found a solution please tell me
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He replaced his phone, it's the fastest and easiest way
Ok, so like...two days ago, I followed qbkings video on how to root & clockworkmod an epic with EI22, well it worked. I got recovery working A ok and played around with some roms and stuff. They all worked for the most part, but after rebooting my phone, the SAMSUNG loading screen wouldnt fade away, realizing it had been soft bricked. I tried recoveries but they didnt work. tried tutorial after tutorial after tutoria, but no luck. When trying the Odin unroot method It'd always be stuck on like a factory. file, and keep getting the phone - ! - computer error afterwards. Ive tried looking around the forums and such, but no go. I really need help with this.
You didn't look to hard. There have been 5 threads like this in the last 2 weeks. Go to the stickies, top of development and follow post 1 of How to restore a semi-bricked Epic.
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Uh yeah, that was one of the first posts I tried. Never worked for me. Followed exactly step by step and repeated the process five times, but ive been constantly getting stuck on factoryfs.rfs
oh ****, now it wont even turn on. tried charger usb, nothing! no indicator or anything. damn. am I screwed?
I think you were better off leaving your phone alone. If following instructions is difficult, than that should have been your first clue. Id post a link to help you, but you have already read and tried it, and even that didn't work........time for you to buy an iphone I guess.
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Try pulling the battery and sd card, let sit for an hour with usb unplugged, then connect to usb cable with odin running and try to boot into download mode.
If it goes, pop the battery in and load up ei22 or another odinable tar along with the recovery in qbkings videos. Make sure only reboot is checked in odin.
If not, go back and try every step in the sticky. I doubt that you have a problem that has not been experienced already.
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So you tried buying and using a better cable? And tried with both the battery and sd card out using only the computer as a power source like the thread in Development said to do?
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I think you were better off leaving your phone alone. If following instructions is difficult, than that should have been your first clue. Id post a link to help you, but you have already read and tried it, and even that didn't work........time for you to buy an iphone I guess.
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That's a bit flamish.
shane6374 said:
That's a bit flamish.
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Sometimes the truth hurts.
I tend to agree with that sentiment, nothing against you OP, but there are some that gravitate to technology and feel at home, and then there are some that gravitate and lack the necessary skills for something like this.
This is a very straight-forward task, especially with all of qbking's hard work in making those very easy to follow videos, and other's time typing out tutorials, so I really fail to see how most have so much trouble making it work. Maybe they belong in the latter analysis.
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azyouthinkeyeiz said:
Sometimes the truth hurts.
I tend to agree with that sentiment, nothing against you OP, but there are some that gravitate to technology and feel at home, and then there are some that gravitate and lack the necessary skills for something like this.
This is a very straight-forward task, especially with all of qbking's hard work in making those very easy to follow videos, and other's time typing out tutorials, so I really fail to see how most have so much trouble making it work. Maybe they belong in the latter analysis.
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We all started somewhere on this, and I bet most people didn't have success right away. I know I didn't on either platform I've worked on. I'm just sick of the n00b flaming around here. These people might be the ones who's roms or kernels you running in a year. Just show some respect.
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Youll have to find one of them jigs to get you back into download mode I assume usually time heals all mistakes though if your inpatient id look up how to make an odin(download) reset jig ( I think its called that). I think there a thread about that lying around here somewhere...
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Yeah, not trying to knock on you too hard, but qbkings videos should be all you need for successfully rooting and flashing. He works hard on them and is very clear with instructions.
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Yup, Ive tried different cables,ports, no battery, battery but got nothing. I thoroughly read through the entire post and tried what was suggested and got nothing. Phone wont turn on or do anything. I'm thinking that i'm screwed. I have been thinking about getting a replacement epic for a while, cause some time ago I actually accidentally dropped it from my desk and this happened to it http://imgur.com/ZBlNn still worked fine, so I didn't really bother thinking about replacing it, but now I'm guessing that I have to. If I do end up requesting for a replacement, any tips/fore warnings about what I should say when I talk to the guys over at sprint before i end up mumbling like an idiot.
Yup, Ive tried different cables,ports, no battery, battery but got nothing. I thoroughly read through the entire post and tried what was suggested and got nothing. Phone wont turn on or do anything. I'm thinking that i'm screwed. I have been thinking about getting a replacement epic for a while, cause some time ago I actually accidentally dropped it from my desk and this happened to it http://imgur.com/ZBlNn still worked fine, so I didn't really bother thinking about replacing it, but now I'm guessing that I have to. If I do end up requesting for a replacement, any tips/fore warnings about what I should say when I talk to the guys over at sprint before i end up mumbling like an idiot.
With the soft brick you might have been able to save it. It happened to my brothers phone and what I did to fix it was wipe everything, factory reset
Then flash stock rom. Wipe everything again
Then flash stock kernel
Wipe everything again
Then it was perfect.
If you had already been flashing roms.and such then your problem wasn't following directions.
You just might have flashed a rom without a supported kernal. Causing bootloop
As far as where you are now.. maybe tell then you dropped it and it never turned back on?
I don't think they can ever find out you rooted it if it never turns on again lol
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Yup, Ive tried different cables,ports, no battery, battery but got nothing. I thoroughly read through the entire post and tried what was suggested and got nothing. Phone wont turn on or do anything. I'm thinking that i'm screwed. I have been thinking about getting a replacement epic for a while, cause some time ago I actually accidentally dropped it from my desk and this happened to it http://imgur.com/ZBlNn still worked fine, so I didn't really bother thinking about replacing it, but now I'm guessing that I have to. If I do end up requesting for a replacement, any tips/fore warnings about what I should say when I talk to the guys over at sprint before i end up mumbling like an idiot.
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Don't use the broken screen as the reason or they will charge you around $100. Just try and make sure you get across the point that its the faulty phone (even if it isn't) and make sure you have an accurate believable story on how it got bricked. If you mention anything about messing with root or anything similar they won't replace it.
True. But on another note you can't say much. Only other thing I can think of is saying maybe you tried updating the device and it died
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Seriously you ignored the odin mode jig? it jumps you back into download mode and you should be able to odin back to eco5........ Ill find a how to for ya.
Its all over a simple google search and you can find a usb jig for about 8 bucks.
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I just unbricked my wife's EPIC with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
thanks dyehya for the howto tutorial!
Jus tell them you took it off charge this morning and it wouldn't come on.
Did you try the mythological magic button? The pin hole behind the cover next to the camera lens?
So it began with my computer not being able to read my phone, my phone wouldn't even give me the option to connect as a storage device. Then my phone would still say its charging even when its not plugged in and now my device won't charge unless I jiggle the cable around hard when plugged in. My phone keeps going into car mode and opens up the annoying car mode menu when i'm in the middle of things. This is obviously a hardware issue, a weak contact somewhere. My question is will Sprint or Samsung repair my phone or am I now stuck with a broken SII.
They will repair you no problem.
Great news, thanks for the response I was pretty worried for a second.
Thank goodness someone else was having this issue.... Here's MY question...
I've rooted and flashed a few roms on my phone, and I've heard things about how Sprint looks at the "Odin count" ... i puchased a usb jig, do i need to reset my count before i take it in?
I had the same problem, was running un-named when I brought it to Sprint.
Because it was a hardware problem and not a software problem (with the phone being rooted) they ordered me a replacement.
I searched and searched when this first happened to me, I spent so much time going back to out of the box stock, then reloading everything to see it was a bad port.
Now this problem pops up more and more in here.
Try one thing, do a battery pull.
Mine would not boot without going to recovery after a pull, the screen would come on just like it was plugged in and charging.
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did you even try different usb cords ? you really need to state what you have tried to do when posting something a bad usb cord will do everything you said
my1zamboni said:
I had the same problem, was running un-named when I brought it to Sprint.
Because it was a hardware problem and not a software problem (with the phone being rooted) they ordered me a replacement.
I searched and searched when this first happened to me, I spent so much time going back to out of the box stock, then reloading everything to see it was a bad port.
Now this problem pops up more and more in here.
Try one thing, do a battery pull.
Mine would not boot without going to recovery after a pull, the screen would come on just like it was plugged in and charging.
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Perfect, thanks! I've tried battery pulls, and reboots and it will return me to normal, but then it happens again... Going to the store now!
Does anybody still use Odin? Just seems so old school.
Vegasrich said:
Does anybody still use Odin? Just seems so old school.
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I use mobile Odin does not add to the flash count and does same thing but better.... The pro will root it while flashing it
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Epix4G said:
I use mobile Odin does not add to the flash count and does same thing but better.... The pro will root it while flashing it
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I have read in this forum before of people trying to inject SU in a stock OTA update and not having it work and getting stuck. Ha e yoy had success with Mobile Odin working as far as injecting SU into a OTA update?
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bluefire808 said:
I have read in this forum before of people trying to inject SU in a stock OTA update and not having it work and getting stuck. Ha e yoy had success with Mobile Odin working as far as injecting SU into a OTA update?
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Yes I have done it multiple times and never had it mess up. I an running Cm7 with no triangle on boot...
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My phone bricked trying to flash a new rom. My screen doesnt light nor will it go into download mode. Only the blue led lights up. Anyone know if the jig will bring it back to life?
Jmelendez1 said:
My phone bricked trying to flash a new rom. My screen doesnt light nor will it go into download mode. Only the blue led lights up. Anyone know if the jig will bring it back to life?
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No sorry dude your hard bricked, gotta send it to be j-tagged or replace the phone
xST4T1K said:
No sorry dude your hard bricked, gotta send it to be j-tagged or replace the phone
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What are you talking about...
The point of a USB jig is to save your phone after a hard brick.
waxrock said:
What are you talking about...
The point of a USB jig is to save your phone after a hard brick.
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Not when your data partition is FUBAR, which unfortunately may be the case here.
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waxrock said:
What are you talking about...
The point of a USB jig is to save your phone after a hard brick.
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You really don't know anything at all do you?
A jigg will only save you if download mode is accessible, when flashing anything ICS incorrectly or using CWM touch you could easily destroy your partition, this means no more boot, no more odin no nada. The emmc chip is a gonner except with j-tag. If you don't know anything, you shouldn't speak, a usb jigg is for soft brick, not hard brick hence the terminology soft brick (repairable) hard brick (unrepairable) read my thread before your screw yourself too. if you don't believe me just try it, and then test your lil fancy jigg then you can hit the thanks button for knocking some knowledge into you noob.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525495
Actually you could've just corrected/linked me without this "better than thou" attitude that XDA is infamous for. Thanks for being the shining example.
OP: My bad, I was wrong and I guess you're effed. Statik was right.
Damn that sucks. This is one of the reasons I don't like hacking my device.
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waxrock said:
Actually you could've just corrected/linked me without this "better than thou" attitude that XDA is infamous for. Thanks for being the shining example.
OP: My bad, I was wrong and I guess you're effed. Statik was right.
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Just exerting the same attitude I felt I was given, I apologize, I probably perceived your words differently then you imagined they were meant.
xST4T1K said:
Just exerting the same attitude I felt I was given, I apologize, I probably perceived your words differently then you imagined they were meant.
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That's most likely the case. Waking up early for a midterm and then posting late that same night does that to me... I'm sorry.
Time to sleep this all away.
Don't let one little thing deter you from rooting and hacking, the upsides heavily outweigh the down sides. I did a little research and these guys will fix your phone for 50 bucks: http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-epic-4g-touch-jtag-brick-repair/
I'm quite surprised that i actually bricked. I've been downloading roms since i owned the thing. Always soft bricked with no issues. First time i tried to download Cyanogen mod. and boom, gone. I ordered a JiG to try out anyway. Will report back when i get it. Will try Jtag if it doesnt work. Thanks guys.
Good luck
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Jmelendez1 said:
I'm quite surprised that i actually bricked. I've been downloading roms since i owned the thing. Always soft bricked with no issues. First time i tried to download Cyanogen mod. and boom, gone. I ordered a JiG to try out anyway. Will report back when i get it. Will try Jtag if it doesnt work. Thanks guys.
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Yup. Screwed. I had the exact same problem. Josh at mobiletech gave it his best but it was something about the motherboard being ****d but hey, he did offer to do the replacement if I could find the part. But meh, I chalked it up, decided it was time for a contract/insurance (was using an e4gt flashed to cricket) and got my new one today and had AOKP running smooth 30 mins later
And!!! I have a fancy paperweight!
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