hi,
I want to upgrade my Samsung GT-i5510 phone into GingerBread. I downloaded some firmware before and the firmware for my phone got mix up with them and I end up selecting the wrong one. I use Odin to upgrade the phone and it says "PASS" so I thought it was successful but when it didn't reboot I check the files and found out that I selected the wrong firmware. What should I do?
I tried hard reset (power + Q) and download mode (power + W or T) but nothing. It won't even light up. Is there any possible way for it to work again?
Please, I badly need your help. You can call me stupid for not double checking, I don't care. I just want my phone back.
no reply? no one experience this problem before?
Chances are that you might have accidentally hard bricked it. You have go to your phone's thread. They might help you.
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Heres one for you all. Just got my GS3. Rooted it..bla bla..bla. Was running on stock rom of course and decided to try out one of the cm10 nightlies. Did my back up..bla bla bla and new rom would not flash. tried another and got the same thing. I was reading around and came across someone asking another guy if he had unlocked his bootloader because the same thing was happening to him.. The guy provided the .apk to unlock bootloader so I figured Id try it. Unlocked fine. Went to Rom Manager and booted into recovery.
Thats the last time my phone has been on. I cant get to anything. I can plug it into computer and hold power, vol, home buttons down for download mode and recovery but nothing. The computer will beep like its acknowledging it but still doesn't do anything. PLEASE HELP. This is my first Samsung and Ive always been able to get to recovery or bootloader to fastboot but this has me completely shut out. Im desperate. Thanks.
EDIT: remember, I never got to flash a new rom. All I did was use that unlocker.apk(not sure of the name) to unlock then booted into recovery from rom manager. Using that unlocker i believe is what did it. Like I said, im new to samsung, besides rooting some s2's for people at work and never had to unlock bootloader on their S2's
Unlocker.apk? Maybe it's a good thing I don't know what that is? But I would guess that may be part of your issue .
How did you get root?
Did you use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28019751 ???
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Unlocker.Apk? Never heard of that and the at&t gs3 doesn't even have a locked bootloader. What user gave you that? If you can get into download mode.. (power off phone ..hold volume down + power button + home button) then flash back to stock.
I see that you CAN get into recovery? Since you made a backup ...why not just use it?
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Assuming you're running the AT&T version, your bootloader was never locked. So, running an app to unlock your bootloader (which would be for a different phone), seems like a sure-fire ticket to brick town.
Seeing as how you can't boot into recovery or download mode at the moment, I would imagine your only recourse would be to try a USB jig to get into download mode to try to flash back to stock. Else, if the jig doesn't get you into download mode you'll either have to seek out JTAG service, try to get a replacement via warranty (make up some story), or enjoy your new paperweight and buy a new phone.
Good luck.
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Unlocker.Apk? Never heard of that and the at&t gs3 doesn't even have a locked bootloader. What user gave you that? If you can get into download mode.. (power off phone ..hold volume down + power button + home button) then flash back to stock.
I see that you CAN get into recovery? Since you made a backup ...why not just use it?
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I too have never heard of this apk. It sounds malicious. He should return to stock. One time after rebooting my phone the Rom would never boot; the screen was black. I even tried restoring a backup but that yielded the same results. Get into Odin and flash a stock package from the dev thread.
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If you need JTAG this guy who posted this thread evidently had good luck. Check it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30942252
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Have you tried...
There really aren't enough details in your initial post to properly speculate on what is happening or happened with your phone, but...
I found that the easiest way to enter Recovery and Download mode is when the phone is not connected via USB.
Have you tried entering Download mode while the phone is not plugged in via USB?
Unlocker.apk meant for the Verizon s3?
Yeah..
Congratulations on your shiny new paperweight!
JTag is your only hope.
Goodluck!
Really messed up when i tried to root my phone with THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 TOOLKIT [SNAPDRAGON EDITION]. I'm sure i followed all of the directions to the letter but at the end of the flash my phone rebooted into a "soft brick"(Black screen and solid blue led) .Hindsight is truly my ex and I just know i should've flashed cwm before attempting the root. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please dont tell me i effed up my christmas present before i could even put a new rom on it..
Edit: Using the toolkit I can still get into download mode, and (I think) I flashed cmw onto my phone. Although Im unable to enter cmw manually and I can only enter cmw by rebooting the phone through the toolkit.
If you still see lights opened like an LED then you arn't hard bricked which means there's still a way out.
ODIN! thats might help you out bro
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Don't worry, the same thing happened to me when I used that tool to root my phone. First off, don't freak out, its fixable. If you turn your phone off, then press and hold Power + Volume Down + Home, you should be able to get into download mode. If you do, just use this to flash a rooted version of stock onto the phone and go from there. If it won't go to download mode for some reason, come back here and let us know and we can go from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I added a few build.prop tweaks to my Verizon SCH-I435 S4 mini and apparently it did not like it.
Now it will not boot past S4 mini screen.
The phone is rooted via kingo, xposed framework installed with Wanam tweaks
Everything is stock with some bloatware frozen via My backup Pro.
I did do a system dump prior to these issues, so I do have the stock build.prop
Any one know of a way to replace the build.prop?
You probably didn't give build.prop the right permissions when you replaced it. That's the worst I could think you can do if that's what you did just fix if you have access and try again.
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You probably didn't give build.prop the right permissions when you replaced it. That's the worst I could think you can do if that's what you did just fix if you have access and try again.
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Cant boot, Just will have to wait for firmware.
Tried everything I can.
Have you tried putting the phone is safe mode? I'm not positive it will work but its supposed to put all settings back to stock temporarily. To enter safe mode remove and reinsert battery then push and hold the volume down and power button until phone boots to the home screen. You must hold the volume and power completely through both the Verizon and Samsung boot screens otherwise the phone with try to boot as normal.
hellrose1228 said:
Have you tried putting the phone is safe mode? I'm not positive it will work but its supposed to put all settings back to stock temporarily. To enter safe mode remove and reinsert battery then push and hold the volume down and power button until phone boots to the home screen. You must hold the volume and power completely through both the Verizon and Samsung boot screens otherwise the phone with try to boot as normal.
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Thanks, Yes I did Still no go.
I have tried everything that I know possably even the new update and throws error "system/build.prop\" has unexpected contents".
I got a replacement through warranty so its just been a very costly mistake.
just gonna wait for firmware i Guess.
Yeah its that build.prop is it 755 permissions? I think if I had your phone I'd unbrick it. Your build.prop is what's causing it in my opinion. A brick is a completely dead device you're soft bricked it turns on? You're golden if you fix that build.prop I'd say.
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justlovejoy said:
Yeah its that build.prop is it 755 permissions? I think if I had your phone I'd unbrick it. Your build.prop is what's causing it in my opinion. A brick is a completely dead device you're soft bricked it turns on? You're golden if you fix that build.prop I'd say.
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Yes, I know thats what is is. I need to replace it with the original.
It will boot to stock recovery (with the padlock icon) and download mode but wont let me do anything without errors
Do you know of a way?
Solved
Thanks @Chris-M.
used VZW software to repair.
Also was able to pull the I435VRUAMK5 firmware that the software download.
can post if anyone is interested. Havent tried it with oden.
Here is the name of it
"COMBINATION_I435VRUAMK5_I435VZWAMK5_2145735_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5" 1.67GB file
Can I have the firmware file. I messed up my mini by deleting a file. It will not boot pass the verizon.
Thanks.
triple5 said:
Can I have the firmware file. I messed up my mini by deleting a file. It will not boot pass the verizon.
Thanks.
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http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319199780
I'm not sure this will work with oden (I did not try) but if you have the verizon software installed,you can do a repair but it will erase everything.
Let my know, i can upload the VZW software also.
If you don't mine..
Can you upload the vzw software also....Thanks
triple5 said:
If you don't mine..
Can you upload the vzw software also....Thanks
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sure here
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319200837
The VZW software keep giving me an error #3. But I used odin and it did the job.
Everything working now..Thanks for your Help..
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
So do i put this in pda? Can you kindly give me instructions on how to flash this via odin, i really dont want to brick my new phone. Thanks in advance.
Hi guys.
Soft bricked today.
I downloaded your files to my Mac (Heindall, I might use Odin on my PC).
Can you walk me through the Odin steps?
RobinDean said:
Hi guys.
Soft bricked today.
I downloaded your files to my Mac (Heindall, I might use Odin on my PC).
Can you walk me through the Odin steps?
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Odin is pretty easy the file goes in pda. I suggest using Kies to restore your phone. Should be easy as plugging in and choosing to restore it. Soft brick? That needs to be explained more.
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I figured it out. A simple Google search for "how to flash with Odin" and some careful selection did the trick.
By "soft bricked", I mean that the phone would power on and display the Samsung logo but, beyond that, it was useless.
Switching to download mode, flash stock firmware and rebuilding my settings solved it.
what?
RobinDean said:
I figured it out. A simple Google search for "how to flash with Odin" and some careful selection did the trick.
By "soft bricked", I mean that the phone would power on and display the Samsung logo but, beyond that, it was useless.
Switching to download mode, flash stock firmware and rebuilding my settings solved it.
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I apologize I left out in a funk the other day.
Still working on it but yes always research first. Awesome.
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what?
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What phone do you have?
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Does the software repair assistant basically flash stock rom for you or do you have to repair and then also use ODIN?
Hi,
My Note-II has some issues with the power button, most probably something with the power chip.
The Technicians say that repairing it might leave the phone useless.
I was OK with that as I was using a widget to put the phone to sleep and using some battery removal tweaks to start it if it was switched off.
The problem now is that my phone is still on 4.1.2 I am in Oman my friends having the same model and build got the update but I haven't received it yet so thought I would upgrade manually via Odin or maybe Root it.
Is there any way I could put the phone in Recovery Mode without using the power button????
Please suggest a work around.
TIA
syed hasan rizvi said:
Hi,
My Note-II has some issues with the power button, most probably something with the power chip.
The Technicians say that repairing it might leave the phone useless.
I was OK with that as I was using a widget to put the phone to sleep and using some battery removal tweaks to start it if it was switched off.
The problem now is that my phone is still on 4.1.2 I am in Oman my friends having the same model and build got the update but I haven't received it yet so thought I would upgrade manually via Odin or maybe Root it.
Is there any way I could put the phone in Recovery Mode without using the power button????
Please suggest a work around.
TIA
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Strange question lol...
If you are rooted you can use quick reboot app to boot into recovery...
Not an issue..
And prefer rooting and updating Cz official updates give you knox.. And thats what most of the people dont want...
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Yes I know it's a strange situation.
No I'm not rooted.
I want to enter recovery to either root the phone or just update it.
But as the power button is messed up so I can't do any of the above by the normal method.
I need to know if there is any other method to enter the recovery...
SM-n750s hard bricked any method to make it up and running again?
It hsd Knox i was trying to change the bootloader when i flash the new bootloader it did not turn on? any ideas on how to make it boot up again?
does it even turn on
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reply to me fast so i can help you
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well it is stuck on the logo and nothing happens.
droidevil said:
well it is stuck on the logo and nothing happens.
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put it in download mode and flash the stock rom from sammobile with odin.
you can do 2 things
1. factory reset by turning off your phone and holding home button and lock button and volume up and release the lock button when it shows note 3 neo and keep pressing the other 2 keys It Will bring you to stock recovery navigate by volume up down and lock to confirm go to factory reset and press yes if it doesn't boot up then
2. put in downlaod mod turn off your phone and press home lock volume down and then confirm press volume up
download the official firmware from sammobile and download Odin run as administrator and press pda and navigate to the firmware you downloaded and connect your phone to your pc via USB and press start
hope I helped you
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dear, i have n750S. due to bad flashing, partitions are corrupted.i need pit file to flash. kindly kindly upload pit file so that i could revive my phone again.i am seraching for it from last 3 weeks.plzz
Hey there,
got my issue fixed.. it was bad recovery which triggered the problem.
so after lot of trial and error was able to get phone in download mode and flash recovery which bought back phone alive.
flashed all stock recovery and kernels and it is all set
funny part went to service station to get it flashed as I had slow internet connection and couldnt handle the wait time ..
service station guys suggesetd a motherboard replacement..
well you guys at xda rocks..!!
3 cheerrsss to our community..
droidevil said:
Hey there,
got my issue fixed.. it was bad recovery which triggered the problem.
so after lot of trial and error was able to get phone in download mode and flash recovery which bought back phone alive.
flashed all stock recovery and kernels and it is all set
funny part went to service station to get it flashed as I had slow internet connection and couldnt handle the wait time ..
service station guys suggesetd a motherboard replacement.. [emoji14]
well you guys at xda rocks..!!
3 cheerrsss to our community..
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same here bro when i soft bricked my phone i went to samsung service centre as i didnt felt like downloading 1 gb,they told me too that motherboard will be replaced for INR 7k and flashing stock rom will not work...I said to them just goto download mode and flash the stock rom....they were a bit amazed by my knowledge about odin and flashing,etc and went on to flash it....everything got fixed and they were left red faced......
Hey next time when you brick your phone just try flashing root file with odin (simple rooting procedure) this works for me all the time when i brick my phone and saves my time and data too.
Keep calm and stay rooted
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my phone dont open anymore no power and dont read in a computer ..i need your help plss.