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[Q] flashed superwipe and battery fell out need help!

I flashed a superwipe on my phone and then i dropped the phone and battery fell out now phone just stays stuck loading old rom but does nothing else . is there a way to fix this or am i ****ed? plz help !!!

Can you get into recovery?
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no i cant

You can still get to ddownload mode. Hold power + volume up and down and plug in USB cable quick. Once you're in download mode use Odin and flash to stock
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how about download mode? Try to odin back to stock and start over.

i downloaded the stock files but cant figure out how to extract it and be able to get it on odin... sry im a newbie

i cant put it into download mode either

First put the files on the desktop so you can find it easily then open odin and go to PDA press it it will ask for a file go to the desktop and select the file. Next thing is shut your phone off take out the battery then replace it then plug the usb cable into the pc. After that then do as instructerd above hold down vol up and down and power and right away plug in the usb to the phone then follow the instructions on the screen. You should be in download mode. Once that is done your phone should register in odin you should see a yellow box with a com# then you are good to go. DO NOT CHECK ANYTHING IN ODIN ONLY WHAT I SAID ABOVE. make sure the file is there and press start let it do its thing it should take about 5 minutes or so depending on your pc. Good luck let me know how it goes

newtotheworld said:
I flashed a superwipe on my phone and then i dropped the phone and battery fell out now phone just stays stuck loading old rom but does nothing else . is there a way to fix this or am i ****ed? plz help !!!
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There you go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
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I bet you don't know how to get into CWM.
pull battery
Hold volume up, down, and power at the same time
when samsung logo appears, release only the power button and stay holding the volume buttons until CWM appears

xcrazydx said:
I bet you don't know how to get into CWM.
pull battery
Hold volume up, down, and power at the same time
when samsung logo appears, release only the power button and stay holding the volume buttons until CWM appears
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I bet it will too! I've never not been able to get into CWM. This phone is very user friendly.
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thanks everyone for your help i figured it out and im back to stock!!!

newtotheworld said:
thanks everyone for your help i figured it out and im back to stock!!!
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congrats, much better than having an expensive paperweight.

newtotheworld said:
thanks everyone for your help i figured it out and im back to stock!!!
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it would be helpful for future reference for others to share your solution. But i'm thinking that it was just that you didn't know how to put it into recovery properly lol

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T-Mobile Galaxy S3 won't boot after Odin-HELP

So I just flashed the stock image through Odin (used the USB cable that came with the phone) and it boots past the boot animation(the T-Mobile 4g one) and then just hangs on "SAMSUNG" and it's still glowing and so is the notification LED but it won't boot, it just stays there. Can someone point me in the right direction to get this thing going? Is this a brick? I don't know what is wrong with it.

I believe It is hanging on the kernel (panic.... not you, the phone). Have you tried booting into recovery and wiping cache? (volume up + home button during hard reset)
Edit: Also what are you flashing from (i.e. CM, AOKP, TW custom ROM)?

if you were on a custom rom prior to reverting to stock, you need to do a wipe in recovery

Serious_Beans said:
So I just flashed the stock image through Odin (used the USB cable that came with the phone) and it boots past the boot animation(the T-Mobile 4g one) and then just hangs on "SAMSUNG" and it's still glowing and so is the notification LED but it won't boot, it just stays there. Can someone point me in the right direction to get this thing going? Is this a brick? I don't know what is wrong with it.
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It took mine a very long time to boot after odin stock flash. But i dont think your screwed since it still powers on. Can you still get into download mode? Try to flash it again and see what happens.

Go into stock recovery and do a factory reset. Then reboot, that should do the trick.
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sswb27 said:
It took mine a very long time to boot after odin stock flash. But i dont think your screwed since it still powers on. Can you still get into download mode? Try to flash it again and see what happens.
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OK, I am sure I am going to get blasted for putting this on the wrong thread but I have search!
Ran the boot program through ODIN on the Sprint version SPH-L710 and phone will not reboot now and cannot power on
toolkit says waiting for device
get the battery, Samsung and download screen briefly then it dies,
Afraid that I bricked it!
Any help would be appreciated!

rvshaw said:
OK, I am sure I am going to get blasted for putting this on the wrong thread but I have search!
Ran the boot program through ODIN on the Sprint version SPH-L710 and phone will not reboot now and cannot power on
toolkit says waiting for device
get the battery, Samsung and download screen briefly then it dies,
Afraid that I bricked it!
Any help would be appreciated!
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Take out battery, unplug from computer, press and hold volume keys, plug in cable and insert battery again.
See if it goes into download mode.
Powered by the SGSIII

ThC23 said:
Take out battery, unplug from computer, press and hold volume keys, plug in cable and insert battery again.
See if it goes into download mode.
Powered by the SGSIII
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red light does come on in the left
then battery symbol flash for a minute and nothing else

I ran into this exact same issue. I tried flashing kernal and everything after I did odin. What I had to do in order for my phone to boot was boot into recovery and do a factory reset. Keep in mind this was stock recovery so everything on your sd card will be gone after the wipe.

crash822 said:
I ran into this exact same issue. I tried flashing kernal and everything after I did odin. What I had to do in order for my phone to boot was boot into recovery and do a factory reset. Keep in mind this was stock recovery so everything on your sd card will be gone after the wipe.
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Yes, wish I could boot into recovery but it will not even boot into recovery. Not sure if is a soft brick cannot load a screen regardless

Volume down + home screen + power button doesn't work for download mode? If you're screen is still powering on and showing the battery charging icon and samsung logo you haven't bricked your phone. I know on previous phones I have had that even though it showed nothing but a black screen odin still picked the phone up and was able to flash it.

crash822 said:
Volume down + home screen + power button doesn't work for download mode? If you're screen is still powering on and showing the battery charging icon and samsung logo you haven't bricked your phone. I know on previous phones I have had that even though it showed nothing but a black screen odin still picked the phone up and was able to flash it.
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No, Volume down+home screen+power button only produces the Samsung or the Battery symbol for about a second, goes away and nothing else after that but a black screen, ODIN does not see the phone as it is not powered on, hope that makes sense

Factory reset worked perfectly. Too bad T-Mobile already shipped the replacement.
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Johnny Blaze says ________?
I can't believe you called T-Mo for a replacement before performing a simple factory reset. Talk about a waste of money. As a future business owner this upsets me.

Eh lol oh well. Didn't think it would boot.
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Serious_Beans said:
Eh lol oh well. Didn't think it would boot.
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Well, if you're gonna play the system, might as well use your old phone to help us diagnose the imei lost problem and help the community. If you feel like helping us out, get ahold of lordmorphus or someone closely involved in this situation to have you run a few tests so we can figure this thing out. Ill be your bestest friend if you do

mrmako777 said:
Well, if you're gonna play the system, might as well use your old phone to help us diagnose the imei lost problem and help the community. If you feel like helping us out, get ahold of lordmorphus or someone closely involved in this situation to have you run a few tests so we can figure this thing out. Ill be your bestest friend if you do
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Sure I'll pm him and see what we can do.
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I pmed him. I'll see what we can do when he responds.
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Serious_Beans said:
Eh lol oh well. Didn't think it would boot.
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I can care less about exchanging the phone, but you did get a reply here of what to do.
What was the point of asking if you weren't gonna bother listening??
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Oh, Sh*t, I think I just bricked my phone - same thing happened. It now won't even allow me to boot. I took the battery out, unplugged the USB. Plugged the USB in and then put the battery back in. The LED light comes on for about 30 seconds and then goes off and stays OFF. I've tried POWER+UP/DOWN volume and HOME...still no avail.
The computer does recognize [the phone] when I plug it in by making a thumping sound and then it makes a few thumping sounds and then that's it.
PLEASE HELP!

[Q] Non-working, rooted and still under warrenty. Nothing I can do?

I've got a dilemma. My rooted Verizon GNex just stopped working today. Yesterday, it was working fine. I plugged it up at night before bed and about an hour ago, I grab it off the charge. Nothing happened when I hit the power button which was strange because I never turn it off and I didn't let the battery die. I pressed and held and "Google" and the little lock on the bottom came up so I set the phone down while it powered on. 5 minutes later, it's still in that state, then a few seconds later, the screen goes black and nothing happened. I took the battery out and put it back in twice and nothing happens. I can't remember downloading any apps other than Zagat and a guide for Ingress in the last few days. A PDF online or two. What do I do with a rooted phone that's still under warranty (just barely so time is a factor)? Can they really check if the phone won't even turn on?

My old roommate sent her unlocked/rooted Gnex back to VZW when her charging port stopped working. They never charged her for it or anything, but it did say something like "you would be responsible to pay $X if rooted blah blah.." Either they are bluffing or she slipped in.
Did you try clearing data, factory reset?

How can I do a factor reset if it won't turn on? All I know is pulling the battery or holding the power and volume buttons at once.
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WiredPirate said:
My old roommate sent her unlocked/rooted Gnex back to VZW when her charging port stopped working. They never charged her for it or anything, but it did say something like "you would be responsible to pay $X if rooted blah blah.." Either they are bluffing or she slipped in.
Did you try clearing data, factory reset?
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I don't think a factory reset wipes root.
If you hold volume (-) and power from a powered off state can you boot to fastboot mode and is it still recognized by your PC?
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RoyJ said:
I don't think a factory reset wipes root.
If you hold volume (-) and power can you boot to fastboot mode and is it still recognized by your PC?
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Unless it's different on the VZW than a GSM phone you need to hold volume up & volume down + power to get to the bootloader (fastboot mode)

LaWolfe said:
How can I do a factor reset if it won't turn on? All I know is pulling the battery or holding the power and volume buttons at once.
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With the phone off hold both volume buttons and the power button, then use the down volume key to navigate to recovery, and power to select the option. Once in recovery you will see wipe data/ factory reset option.
Also if you have a backup you can restore it from recovery.
RoyJ said:
I don't think a factory reset wipes root.
If you hold volume (-) and power can you boot to fastboot mode and is it still recognized by your PC?
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No a factory reset wont wipe root, but if it solves his problem and the phone is functional again he wont need to exchange it through warranty, so no need to unroot.

Holy crud that worked! It's on and it shows the green start arrow pointing toward the power button which does nothing when I press it (I hear some Samsungs have issues with the power button not working). Under the Android bot it says, "Downloading... Do not turn off target!" but my PC (W7) couldn't download whatever driver it needed. And I just realized I do have the Wugs toolkit. Can I unroot if I'm unable to get critical buttons on my phone top act properly?

Try the factory reset first. If that works you get to keep the phone like WiredPirate said. Check out this guide to install drivers and flash stock Google images if you have to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25477039
Edit: sorry I have been up for a while. Power off the phone. Pull battery if you need to. Power + BOTH volume buttons at the same time. Use the volume keys to navigate to recovery mode and power to select it. If the phone will boot to recovery try a factory reset and reboot. If that works, awesome. If not follow the guide above to flash the phone to stock.
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Instead of plugging it up to your computer before/after it boots, can you press the volume down key twice for it to display "recovery" on that green arrow?.. Then hit the power button to boot into recovery. No USB, no toolkit or computer. Then do a factory reset and/or restore a backup and see if the phone boots normal.

It wasn't working working without being plugged up to the computer and now the phone is on the lock screen. What I'm going to do is unroot, backup, and decide whether or not to take it to Verizon. I want to but if I can't actually show them anything, I wonder what they'll do. Looks like everything seemss normal for now. Thanks for the help!

Oh okay, well good deal.. Glad everything is back to a more stable state now. :good:

Hey!
I have got the same Problem (though GSM version)! I cant boot up my system. When I turn the device on the Google screen appears along with the unlocked lock.
I have already tried to full whipe it and restore it but it did not work. Bevore that the restore did not work either!
Can someone help me?

Andraxx said:
Hey!
I have got the same Problem (though GSM version)! I cant boot up my system. When I turn the device on the Google screen appears along with the unlocked lock.
I have already tried to full whipe it and restore it but it did not work. Bevore that the restore did not work either!
Can someone help me?
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RoyJ said:
Try the factory reset first. If that works you get to keep the phone like WiredPirate said. Check out this guide to install drivers and flash stock Google images if you have to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25477039
Edit: sorry I have been up for a while. Power off the phone. Pull battery if you need to. Power + BOTH volume buttons at the same time. Use the volume keys to navigate to recovery mode and power to select it. If the phone will boot to recovery try a factory reset and reboot. If that works, awesome. If not follow the guide above to flash the phone to stock.
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Problem is that my PC does not recognize my device even though I have installed the drivers and in device menager it says: Samsung Android ADB Interface

Andraxx said:
Problem is that my PC does not recognize my device even though I have installed the drivers and in device menager it says: Samsung Android ADB Interface
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Delete the drivers you see for the phone inside of device manager. Now go back to that topic, scroll all the way up to the very beginning and follow the steps. It tells you exactly how to correctly install the drivers to get your phone recognized.
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[Q] AT&T Galaxy Note 2 not booting

First of all, I apologize if this has been asked before, I've been searching for info on this but I haven't found anything regarding to exactly what happened to my phone. Anyways I had my phone charging in my bed today for a while and when I look at it, it had the Samsung logo in the display, I waited a bit to see what it would do and it did nothing. I decided to take the battery off and back on, and it rebooted normally but again would stay at the Samsung logo screen, did this a couple of times and then tried to get it into recovery mode but with no luck. The phone brought up the Team Win logo when I did this since my note is rooted but then rebooted into the same process and stayed in the Samsung logo again; gave it another try and this time it did the same thing with the Team Win logo but now it just turned itself off. Now the phone won't boot at all and I have no idea what to do, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

AciiD312 said:
First of all, I apologize if this has been asked before, I've been searching for info on this but I haven't found anything regarding to exactly what happened to my phone. Anyways I had my phone charging in my bed today for a while and when I look at it, it had the Samsung logo in the display, I waited a bit to see what it would do and it did nothing. I decided to take the battery off and back on, and it rebooted normally but again would stay at the Samsung logo screen, did this a couple of times and then tried to get it into recovery mode but with no luck. The phone brought up the Team Win logo when I did this since my note is rooted but then rebooted into the same process and stayed in the Samsung logo again; gave it another try and this time it did the same thing with the Team Win logo but now it just turned itself off. Now the phone won't boot at all and I have no idea what to do, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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If you can't boot to recovery try rebooting your device to download mode and flash rom via Odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
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jon3sh said:
If you can't boot to recovery try rebooting your device to download mode and flash rom via Odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
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How do I do this exactly? The phone doesn't turn on at all.

To get Ino download mode pull the battery and put it back in, then hold volume down + home + power buttons and that should take you to download.
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LittleRedDot said:
To get Ino download mode pull the battery and put it back in, then hold volume down + home + power buttons and that should take you to download.
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Ok, thanks for the reply. I'll try it and see if I manage to do something.

Be careful...and read every step...
You can get into trouble very quickly with Odin and file flashing...g
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Ok so I tried putting the phone into downloading mode but it did nothing. The phone doesn't turn on at all, it behaves like if I tried flashing the ROM and it went wrong. I'm guessing what's wrong is the bootloader for some reason, the phone blinks a red light whenever I try to power it, any other suggestions?

um, hard brick?

I was running the 08/20 nightly of CM10.2 and I was typing a SMS in the CM 10.2 default app, then the screen went black. I left it there for sometime (~25 min) then tried to turn the screen on before doing a battery pull, didn't work, so I pulled the battery and then rebooted but it goes to the samsung screen then goes black. I can't boot a ROM, I can't go into recovery, and I can't go into download mode. Hard bricked? What are my choices.
EDIT: the battery is charged because I was able to boot my step dad's VZW sIII using my battery.

Sounds like a hard brick. I think a USB jig might work.
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Whiplashh said:
Sounds like a hard brick. I think a USB jig might work.
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Do you mean "USB jig" or JTAG? To my understanding USB jigs only worked on the sII, but that's just my understanding, which could be wrong.

Did you try this method?-click here

@jamcar If your phone turns on and you get Samsung screen it is NOT BRICKED.
A bricked device does not even turn on.
Hook your phone up to a computer and use odin to flash it back to stock. Or if you can boot into recovery just wipe cache, Dalvik and do factory reset and reflash the rom you are on.
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edfunkycold said:
@jamcar If your phone turns on and you get Samsung screen it is NOT BRICKED.
A bricked device does not even turn on.
Hook your phone up to a computer and use odin to flash it back to stock. Or if you can boot into recovery just wipe cache, Dalvik and do factory reset and reflash the rom you are on.
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I can't get past the first screen that says: SAMSUNG. I can't get into recovery, I can't get into download mode (which means I can't flash a new ROM and can't use ODIN), and can't boot my ROM.

jamcar said:
Do you mean "USB jig" or JTAG? To my understanding USB jigs only worked on the sII, but that's just my understanding, which could be wrong.
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I thought I saw some people
using them on the s3 to get into Download mode. I heard some had worked.
edfunkycold said:
@jamcar If your phone turns on and you get Samsung screen it is NOT BRICKED.
A bricked device does not even turn on.
Hook your phone up to a computer and use odin to flash it back to stock. Or if you can boot into recovery just wipe cache, Dalvik and do factory reset and reflash the rom you are on.
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He said he couldn't get into recovery. Sounds like somehow his system and recovery got corrupted.
Edit: ALTHOUGH he did say hook it up to a computer then try booting it up!
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Ed is right, I done this for a friend who recently thought he bricked his phone.

joeyhdownsouth said:
Did you try this method?-click here
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I have not, I'll start working on that now.
@joeyhdownsouth so far it is a no go.
But I also don't have a class 10 SD card, so I'll try again when I can get one, hopefully tomorrow. Anyone know why this happened?

jamcar said:
I have not, I'll start working on that now.
@joeyhdownsouth so far it is a no go.
But I also don't have a class 10 SD card, so I'll try again when I can get one, hopefully tomorrow. Anyone know why this happened?
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I've had plenty of Samsung phones in some pretty bad states (including several hard bricks). Some very similar to your current situation. This includes the s2, s3, note 2, stellar and that's just naming a few. I've never had a phone that booted in any way shape or form and couldn't reach download mode. So if you're situation is as you describe then I'm pretty sure it's a first. Unless it's some sort of corruption (similar to the emmc brickbug that plauged the s2). Maybe even a less severe case of SDS. Just throwing some ideas out there but I bet this ends in needing a warranty repair from Samsung.

@jamcar How are you trying to boot into recovery the 3 finger method? Again I stand solidly on if the phone powers on and you see Samsung it's not bricked. You have other things going on but going through deBricker method is not the answer.
If your phone is powering on and you see Samsung logo then it goes black like it shut off you could be also experiencing the 'sudden death syndrome' which is a power button failure.
Try blowing some compressed air and paying with the power button. It is a known defect on the S3 and Sprint does replace the phone for this issue.
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edfunkycold said:
@jamcar How are you trying to boot into recovery the 3 finger method? Again I stand solidly on if the phone powers on and you see Samsung it's not bricked. You have other things going on but going through deBricker method is not the answer.
If your phone is powering on and you see Samsung logo then it goes black like it shut off you could be also experiencing the 'sudden death syndrome' which is a power button failure.
Try blowing some compressed air and paying with the power button. It is a known defect on the S3 and Sprint does replace the phone for this issue.
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I'm trying to boot into recovery by holding down power+vol up+home then in the corner I see "RECOVERY BOOTING..." then the screen goes black and nothing else happens. I try to go into download mode by holding power+vol down+home, I then get the custom OS warning sign, then if I push vol up the screen goes black, if I push vol down the screen goes black. This is with and without deBricker's SD card mod. (It has no affect).
EDIT: I have been looking into SDS for the sIII and most, if not all, threads are for the international sIII and most people say they fixed it by going through Samsung.
EDIT: if they [Samsung] some how get it into download mode, are they going to care that it looks modified? Custom download count (around 5), modified system status, etc.

If it works at all its not a hard brick. A hard brick needs a JTAG to recovery. Put it in Odin mode and flash from there
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IDontKnowMang said:
If it works at all its not a hard brick. A hard brick needs a JTAG to recovery. Put it in Odin mode and flash from there
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ODIN mode is really called download mode, and if you read the post above yours and the OP then you'll see I can't get into download mode only the Custom OS Warning screen, which isn't download mode

You can't continue from the custom OS warning screen? That leads you to download mode doesn't it?

metalfan78 said:
You can't continue from the custom OS warning screen? That leads you to download mode doesn't it?
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Usually but no matter what button I hit (vol up to continue into download mode---vol down to reboot) I just get a black screen. Every once in awhile (it has happened twice and I've tried many many times [~50+]) the Green android comes and it say "downloading..." but then the screen goes black and it is never seen by my computer / ODIN.
EDIT: the android comes up a for a spit second

Correct that's because his device is shutting down. The power button is bad. SDS... I sent you a reply to your PM. Worth a shot.
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Okay I'll try Sprint then Samsung.

That explains why. You should definitely follow edfunkycold's suggestions.

edfunkycold said:
Correct that's because his device is shutting down. The power button is bad. SDS... I sent you a reply to your PM. Worth a shot.
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You say it is the power button other people say it is the eMMC. Which is it? I'm only trying to understand this SDS problem better.