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Am I in brick city?

So i tried to update my AOKP with just using my phone. And after the reboot.. nothing happened. So i did a battery pull and now when I turn on my baby the led goes blue and stays there.. frozen. No access to recovery or download.
Black screen and blue led.. so yeah.
What I'm asking is.. there's no way of coming back?
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Also.. I semi-bricked before and was able to fix via download mode.. so I know my way around.
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When you updated AOKP you flashed the EL26 CWM kernel as per the instructions in all AOSP roms up until now? Both the recovery in AOKP 37 and the Zip for AOKP 39 (as far as I am aware) are not safe to flash in ICS Recovery.
BLoD is a sign that the bootloader is borked. Normally this is something fixable via JTAG. But it is also caused at Random by the Super Brick bug which can not be fixed. Sounds like you flashed not only an unsafe Zip but in an unsafe recovery and if you tell me you factory reset that would be even worse.
Our phone has a bug in its eMMC firmware which needs to be patched. All of the former ICS leaks have had kernels that can trigger it and last i checked only the Nighlies for CM9 have a safe updater binary used in conjunction with a made safe recovery are generally safe to flash from ICS. Which is exactly why the threads tell you to use the EL26 CWM kernel which if mobile can be flashed via mobile odin. Failure to do so will eventually at random trigger the bug.

Blue LED and not able to get phone into Odin mode = Hard Brick

another one bites the dust......i just don't know how the directions could be any more clear on flashing ICS ROM's. Maybe we need a sticky in every forum in bold letters that says:
"READ ME BEFORE FLASHING!"

I read the warnings and all that jazz. It was just a bad download thanks to the 4G. Mistakes happen. Relax @ above poster.
Yeah I went about it the right way. I have insurance with Sprint, hopefully I'll get lucky and get a new phone.
Thanks to the rest that answered.
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I agree with Rican Bomba... Not everyone is a Android hacking Guru. We are all trying to learn here. I bricked my phone and i did follow QBking77's instructions (Who i believe to be the best at explaining things thoroughly in his videos) yet, there are so many post that aren't clear. I had force closes like crazy on AOKP and before i found the one poster that said don't wipe in ICS... I had done it and lights out R.I.P. First E4GT. I have flashed way too many times to count without incident. Some posters put more info on how not to brick than others. I followed QBking's method to a tee and something was still wrong... I don't blame him (He makes things crystal clear and is great at what he does), things happened and that was that. I learned something from a poster who was very clear and i won't make the mistake again (not to mention I'm leaving AOKP alone lol). Take it easy on these guys, they will learn soon with a little friendly direction

Rican Bx Bomba said:
I read the warnings and all that jazz. It was just a bad download thanks to the 4G. Mistakes happen. Relax @ above poster.
Yeah I went about it the right way. I have insurance with Sprint, hopefully I'll get lucky and get a new phone.
Thanks to the rest that answered.
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Never never never never download a ROM through Mobile Network... and if you do, make sure you check the md5. I think almost all of my 4G ROM downloads have been corrupt

iniz94 said:
Never never never never download a ROM through Mobile Network... and if you do, make sure you check the md5. I think almost all of my 4G ROM downloads have been corrupt
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Flashaholic lol no computer access at my job and at home at the moment.
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Last night I bricked my phone.

Long story short.... I wanted to change the recovery for another and didnt notice i was reading the galaxy nexus post and BAM!
Today I sent my phone to the Samsung repair center, they told it was on warranty so i packed and now its on it's way.
Has anybody here use their service ? what can you tell me abou it. Thanks in advance.

They may deny your warranty if they can tell it was modified. I had to previously send my gf's phone in for screen repair and I made sure to bring it back to stock / reset counter.
In their notes they mentioned "phone unmodified". Overall though they're pretty good about it, they included 2 day shipping to and from for free. Took about 5 days (4 days of shipping).

Thanks for your answer, the thing is there was no way to reset the counter or bring it back to stock, it died in a second. So, how much will they charge me in that case ?

You'll be fine. From what I understand, after its revived they can tell it was modified but they'll still send it back no charge. They still will treat it like a mgr's defect

Thanks, that will make my life a bit easier.

You couldn't Odin a new recovery partition?
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I lost my imei # and had to end up taking back to the repair center. Before I did I made sure to return everything back to stock. Nothing came of if and got new phone, now I am very cautious about flashing things on the S3. Just hope you did a good wipe on your phone before you sent it!
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Swiftks said:
You couldn't Odin a new recovery partition?
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No I wasn't able to access Download mode, althoug odin regonized there was something on port X. but since i couldn't put it on download mode it was useless
sailoroid said:
I lost my imei # and had to end up taking back to the repair center. Before I did I made sure to return everything back to stock. Nothing came of if and got new phone, now I am very cautious about flashing things on the S3. Just hope you did a good wipe on your phone before you sent it!
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Again, it was like a blackout, i didn't know(and for some stupid reason i was fast reading) that flashing a wrong recovery could damage my phone so badly, so there was nothing to do.
My phone was like 2 weeks old and i bough it like new on ebay, from a nice seller, he never rooted or installed custom rom. Me, I only rooted and debloated but never installed custom rom, i was about to, but then it happened....
Question!
Does the binary counter, reads the number of times a rom was flashed ok ? but what if only rooted and didn't installed a Custom ROM ?

munkyboy said:
No I wasn't able to access Download mode, althoug odin regonized there was something on port X. but since i couldn't put it on download mode it was useless
Again, it was like a blackout, i didn't know(and for some stupid reason i was fast reading) that flashing a wrong recovery could damage my phone so badly, so there was nothing to do.
My phone was like 2 weeks old and i bough it like new on ebay, from a nice seller, he never rooted or installed custom rom. Me, I only rooted and debloated but never installed custom rom, i was about to, but then it happened....
Question!
Does the binary counter, reads the number of times a rom was flashed ok ? but what if only rooted and didn't installed a Custom ROM ?
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The counter reads if the phone was flashed with an unofficial rom (Samsung/att official will not set this counter off). billard412 is probably right, they'll most likely fix it and pass it off. Worst case scenario they void your warranty after the repair, though I've never seen/read it actually happening to anyone.

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For all the flashers here for the T989

The whole process is pretty simple on what I have done. I will explain my situation here and my question that has got be baffled.
So it all started about two weeks ago, where I was flashing LiquidSmooth on my phone. I had a Touch-type CWM. It isn't mega old but it's pretty old for CWM, I haven't updated in a while (as i've seen there are updates to recent ones).
Anywho, I did a complete wipe, used the darkside wipe, alongside with the darkside cache wipe.
I think this was my fault, so please correct me anyone if I am wrong here. I accidentally hit "reboot phone" instead of "reboot bootloader"
I got a permabrick from this whole ordeal. It was a permabrick because It said QHSUSB_DLOAD in the device manager, looking this up further confirmed my reasoning. I didn't want to jtag because that invovles removing the phone to pieces and soldering on wires etc. etc.
So I resorted to send it out to Samsung.
All is well when it came back. I made sure this time the whole phone was setup properly.
So I use Odin install for CWM and SU was installed via CWM. I install an older version of CWM (non-touch, i believe 1st revision as i've posted in one of the threads).
I kept stock ROM, everything was working okay and suddenly, KERPLUNK, it went back into permanent brick after I deleted cache partition, dalvik cache, and battery cache wipe. I didn't do fix permissions or anything, just hit reboot afterwards.
This is a super head scratcher here..... Anyone know where I went wrong?
Any insight here is greatly appreciated! :good:
P.S. I am now sending in my phone TWICE to Samsung for repairs.

If you are on the most up to date CWM, do not use the scripts. They are no longer needed, and will cause problems( hard brick though, never heard of) The second time, im stumped. I suggest go to TWRP and ditch the scripts. Latest TWRP does not need it

LoopDoGG79 said:
If you are on the most up to date CWM, do not use the scripts. They are no longer needed, and will cause problems( hard brick though, never heard of) The second time, im stumped. I suggest go to TWRP and ditch the scripts. Latest TWRP does not need it
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I finally jumped in the water and flashed twrp! Yay!
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All the steps you say you did don't point to a brick. But one thing caught my eye! You said you were flashing liquidsmooth? What File did you flash? Did it have Hercules in the name? Because if it didn't then it's not for our phone.. I only ask because a lot of other people made that mistake
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rymanh said:
All the steps you say you did don't point to a brick. But one thing caught my eye! You said you were flashing liquidsmooth? What File did you flash? Did it have Hercules in the name? Because if it didn't then it's not for our phone.. I only ask because a lot of other people made that mistake
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great call on that I had to educate a few users that the d2tmo is not for our phone but indeed the S3. Good catch on your part and it sounds like user error as well

LoopDoGG79 said:
If you are on the most up to date CWM, do not use the scripts. They are no longer needed, and will cause problems( hard brick though, never heard of) The second time, im stumped. I suggest go to TWRP and ditch the scripts. Latest TWRP does not need it
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Could you please educate me with a link referring to what TWRP is? Sorry, i'm still fairly new to the scene and all i've ever been educated upon is CWM.
suaverc118 said:
I finally jumped in the water and flashed twrp! Yay!
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Nice! What is TWRP and how is it like?
rymanh said:
All the steps you say you did don't point to a brick. But one thing caught my eye! You said you were flashing liquidsmooth? What File did you flash? Did it have Hercules in the name? Because if it didn't then it's not for our phone.. I only ask because a lot of other people made that mistake
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I've flashed the hercules ROM. I know this for sure because Liquidsmooth was working, it was extremely glitchy (playing games gave me pixelated actions sometimes, and using something like gameCIH/Game Guardian was unworkable). So i decided to ditch it and was getting ready to flash Jedi Mind Trick.
After the whole hard bricking ordeal, I decided to stick to stock rom, and even on that, I just flashed CWM and SU ONLY. Rebooted, and deleted the cache's (like i've posted to you) with absolutely no success. It baffled me that I bricked the phone AGAIN too!
playya said:
great call on that I had to educate a few users that the d2tmo is not for our phone but indeed the S3. Good catch on your part and it sounds like user error as well
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Yes..... there is something wrong, i feel it is a user error also, but i'm very unsure where to even start
Once again, all of your insight is well appreciated! I just do not want to hardbrick my phone AGAIN and have to send it to Samsung. I am not allowed to even think of a replacement because this was a b-day present a year or two ago from my fiance.

You say that it is bricked again. Do you mean by that, that you cannot get into recovery?
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XxGoKoUxX said:
Could you please educate me with a link referring to what TWRP is? Sorry, i'm still fairly new to the scene and all i've ever been educated upon is CWM.
Nice! What is TWRP and how is it like?
I've flashed the hercules ROM. I know this for sure because Liquidsmooth was working, it was extremely glitchy (playing games gave me pixelated actions sometimes, and using something like gameCIH/Game Guardian was unworkable). So i decided to ditch it and was getting ready to flash Jedi Mind Trick.
After the whole hard bricking ordeal, I decided to stick to stock rom, and even on that, I just flashed CWM and SU ONLY. Rebooted, and deleted the cache's (like i've posted to you) with absolutely no success. It baffled me that I bricked the phone AGAIN too!
Yes..... there is something wrong, i feel it is a user error also, but i'm very unsure where to even start
Once again, all of your insight is well appreciated! I just do not want to hardbrick my phone AGAIN and have to send it to Samsung. I am not allowed to even think of a replacement because this was a b-day present a year or two ago from my fiance.
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Flash this in recovery, reboot recovery, and you will have TWRP!!
TWRP 2.3.1.1

DM_Sledge said:
You say that it is bricked again. Do you mean by that, that you cannot get into recovery?
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Yes, it is perma-bricked, meaning the only method of fixing the brick is jtagg'ing
Upon plugging it into device manager, I get the prompt "QHSUSB_DLOAD" and phone doesn't even boot on no matter what combinations I make.
LoopDoGG79 said:
Flash this in recovery, reboot recovery, and you will have TWRP!!
TWRP 2.3.1.1
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Thank you LoopDo, I will do this after I get my phone home again.

I have this phone, and none of the steps you listed would brick the device. Even with no ROM on the phone, you should still be able to get into recovery.
Is there something you aren't telling us?
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Nope, wouldn't be a reason why I would lie because then the problem will never be resolved.... I'm kind of nervous on reflashing ONE more time after the phone comes home again....
The phone has been fixed once AGAIN, and it is in the process of being shipped back to me.
Phone will be home Wednesday and I will give it ONE more try
Wish me luck!
P.S. my PC has been glitchy lately, so that MAY or MAY NOT contribute to the permabrick, then again the brick doesn't happen until I flash stuff via CWM.
P.S.S. I've since re-installed Win 7 again, it hasn't been glitchy since

XxGoKoUxX said:
Nope, wouldn't be a reason why I would lie because then the problem will never be resolved.... I'm kind of nervous on reflashing ONE more time after the phone comes home again....
The phone has been fixed once AGAIN, and it is in the process of being shipped back to me.
Phone will be home Wednesday and I will give it ONE more try
Wish me luck!
P.S. my PC has been glitchy lately, so that MAY or MAY NOT contribute to the permabrick, then again the brick doesn't happen until I flash stuff via CWM.
P.S.S. I've since re-installed Win 7 again, it hasn't been glitchy since
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You most likely flashed the Wrong Liquidsmooth ROM (incompatible Kernel), and it hard bricked the phone. It happened to me the same way, and I had to send it in for JTAG.

I have bricked my phone installing the Liquidsmooth ROM too. I downloaded the wrong ROM, though. The thread should have a big ****in warning to double check the ROM you are about to download, otherwise your phone is a toast. There were more people who bricked their phones by installing the Liquidsmooth.
Well, I got it back from the warranty and the phone looks good. Installed that Liquidsmooth again and played for a day. Tried other JB ROMs. Most of them are OK in terms of battery life and smoothness, but there is something wrong with the signal. People always say my voice isn't clear. I got tired of all this BS and testing new ROMs and went to back to ICS and won't look back, not anytime.
Don't use darkside scripts, btw. You don't need that anymore.

I'd like to say thank you for everyone's patience. All of your insight is more than helpful!
DroidDonX said:
You most likely flashed the Wrong Liquidsmooth ROM (incompatible Kernel), and it hard bricked the phone. It happened to me the same way, and I had to send it in for JTAG.
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I might have, but the one i downloaded (which is still on the phone's memory card) is a hercules ROM. Either way on my second try there was a hard brick also, in return of which I had to resend it in. The second try was just simply: Odin---->CWM---->Root---->SU---->wipe cache partition+fix permissions+wipe dalvik cache via CWM (not the super scripts).
cipsaz said:
I have bricked my phone installing the Liquidsmooth ROM too. I downloaded the wrong ROM, though. The thread should have a big ****in warning to double check the ROM you are about to download, otherwise your phone is a toast. There were more people who bricked their phones by installing the Liquidsmooth.
Well, I got it back from the warranty and the phone looks good. Installed that Liquidsmooth again and played for a day. Tried other JB ROMs. Most of them are OK in terms of battery life and smoothness, but there is something wrong with the signal. People always say my voice isn't clear. I got tired of all this BS and testing new ROMs and went to back to ICS and won't look back, not anytime.
Don't use darkside scripts, btw. You don't need that anymore.
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Thanks again for your insight I think i'm done with flashing for a little bit for now.... I kind of want as factory of a JB Rom as possible. :good:
If anyone has any idea where I can get that, please let me know as my Stock ICS is a bit laggy at times, with the facial recognition system, it lags even worse!

rymanh said:
All the steps you say you did don't point to a brick. But one thing caught my eye! You said you were flashing liquidsmooth? What File did you flash? Did it have Hercules in the name? Because if it didn't then it's not for our phone.. I only ask because a lot of other people made that mistake
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that just happened to me today with liquid smooth. i had to unroot, flash stock, and start over. im pretty sure i got it from goo.im under hercules. unfortunate mislabeling? oh yeah, and if your phone shows anything other than nothing, youre not hard bricked. thats why its called Hercules, i think. ive been soft bricked so many times from dumb **** like. ****ing with the governors and all that **** cm gives you the option to do when there aint even a 1080p camera that works fully = / lol <3 Cm I Love Yew!! But yeah, odin will set you free!!!

[Q] any perFECT MOD?

I have tried CM9b4...
NICE, COOL! but TO BAD. some apps always error in installation,
such as facebook, google map, horoscope, and others...
Also, i cant play Modern Combat Sandstrom!
Thats really really DISSAPOINTED.
Cm10alpha3, never tried it, cuz, Camera not work...
If u know a good mod for gaming + no bug + all apps compatible in play store,
please write here...
and 1 more question, is there any way to restore rom?
I thnk it's better if my galaxy w return to normal (Gingerbread 2.3.6) than using MOD ROM which not working on some apps.

ghost141 said:
I have tried CM9b4...
NICE, COOL! but TO BAD. some apps always error in installation,
such as facebook, google map, horoscope, and others...
Also, i cant play Modern Combat Sandstrom!
Thats really really DISSAPOINTED.
Cm10alpha3, never tried it, cuz, Camera not work...
If u know a good mod for gaming + no bug + all apps compatible in play store,
please write here...
and 1 more question, is there any way to restore rom?
I thnk it's better if my galaxy w return to normal (Gingerbread 2.3.6) than using MOD ROM which not working on some apps.
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For reverting back to stock rom just flash it using odin and download the stock rom from samsung official's web pages
Sent from my GT-I8150 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2

Well thx...
If it's possible... can u gimme the proper link to get orignal ROM?

Hey man, you can easily find stock roms on the Development section of Galaxy W's xda. Please be careful! I bricked my galaxy W (soft-brick) using Odin. I was able to get Clockworkmod (custom recovery) flashed with odin though. When flashing the stock rom i got a bootloop. IF you get a bootloop, try flashing clockworkmod with odin and installing a rom through clockworkmod. Good luck and happy flashing
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Well thx...
If it's possible... can u gimme the proper link to get orignal ROM?
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Brick? what's brick?
Willl it harm phone?
Sometime i went reboot download n it stuck, its hang, so i remove my phone batt....
Hope it wont hurt my phone seriously...
Odin wont work for me cuz driver not found.
btw, thx y

ghost141 said:
Well thx...
If it's possible... can u gimme the proper link to get orignal ROM?
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Pressing thank will be more appreciated rather than posting it
And for your answer just look in this thread, there are a flashable zip file for easy use. And link to find stock rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33205786
And remember read all the instructions CAREFULLY if you are new to this to reduce the chance of brick
Brick: there are 2 kinds of brick
A) soft brick: a situation where your phone cannot enter
the home screen / boot
Solution: flash stock rom via odin / restore backup
B) hard brick: a situation where your phone cannot boot
at all, can be caused by hardware failures, etc
Solution: bring it to SCC to be repaired.
For how to flash using ODIN try and read in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21875819
In that thread he provide some stock rom to use too, and give him a proper thanks if that thread helps you.
Hope this helps and answers your question. If it is then pressing thank will be much appreciated
Sent from my GT-I8150 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2

ghost141 said:
Brick? what's brick?
Willl it harm phone?
Sometime i went reboot download n it stuck, its hang, so i remove my phone batt....
Hope it wont hurt my phone seriously...
Odin wont work for me cuz driver not found.
btw, thx y
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brick means when you ruin your phone making it as worthless as a brick. Usually things which are tested and those which user "the-e" post wont brick your phone. There are two types of bricks, soft brick and hard brick meaning that soft brick can be brought to life easier than Hard brick.
Regarding "driver not found" have you installed kies on your computer? this might help. Also maybe you need to enable USB mass storage from your phone when you are connected too; im not sure but these might help you.

I found the problem happening to me.
You need to go Pristine.
About how check the General Section.
Fragments of data will remain in phone causing failures of certain installation of apps.
And CM10 camera is working. There's just one small bug which does not affect of taken picture AT ALL.
My CM9 is working fine. All apps I failed to install before is now fine after going Pristine. Cheers! :victory:

ghost141 said:
I have tried CM9b4...
NICE, COOL! but TO BAD. some apps always error in installation,
such as facebook, google map, horoscope, and others...
Also, i cant play Modern Combat Sandstrom!
Thats really really DISSAPOINTED.
Cm10alpha3, never tried it, cuz, Camera not work...
If u know a good mod for gaming + no bug + all apps compatible in play store,
please write here...
and 1 more question, is there any way to restore rom?
I thnk it's better if my galaxy w return to normal (Gingerbread 2.3.6) than using MOD ROM which not working on some apps.
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yup.as our friend said mayb u could try pristine method.there's a thread made by our friend pepoluan in the general section bout the guide on how to go pristine.give it a try.as for me im using the gaming rom by bacrot.all apps compatible.no bugs so far.give it a try and compare
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try flash seeder for your current rom and see the diff.

Who said our cm10 camera not work? Our cm10 by arco's camera work from alpha1-alpha3
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[Q] Please help me

(((dear developer,
I have a
Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
This device completely stopped working and no longer capable of being opened again at that time ,later i went to the engineer in charge who did a " ........ " which it returned to work as it was .
after that, i started to download files from network , and during the downloading,it suddenly stopped again. I returned it to the engineer to fix the problem that occurred during loading . he fixed it , but this time when I wanted to use it , I discovered that the " logo" is for another device , namely Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II , not mine 1
I think that my device were charged with " bootloader " Other than that allotted to mine!
Now , the device works with me naturally , but I am having some problems which are as follows :
1 - its not capable to charge when it is off , and it appears to me that it fails every time i try to link it to its charger ! It then goes on to state the case for the recovery mode each time , and then I restart it which goes back to work as usual.
2 - I noticed a difference between the previous state and now in terms of the quality of the work and also problems in charging .
NB:i downloaded a new "Karnel" and and " Bootloader " but that did not work too !
After all what i have wrote to you dear, I want to know ,am i gonna be able to reload the " Flash " without needing "Riff box" ,
Any directly from my computer ?
What if i kept it on its current status , is there any damage to my device now or later? ?
i really need your help ,
Thank you ))))

My advice is to read up really good on PC Odin, and how to flash using it. Then flash a stock, unrooted rom to get you 100% back to where you started. Good luck!
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am sorry ,
jdsingle76 said:
My advice is to read up really good on PC Odin, and how to flash using it. Then flash a stock, unrooted rom to get you 100% back to where you started. Good luck!
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I will download SPH-L710 rom
, even you have to know that the one in my device is SPH-D710 .....
and according to your advice i will download what you have said
thank you

mazenbs said:
I will download SPH-L710 rom
, even you have to know that the one in my device is SPH-D710 .....
and according to your advice i will download what you have said
thank you
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Hey buddy... I'm going to jump in on this, even though JD is the Man. I just don't want you to brick you're device.
Don't download a rom not made for this device ( epic 4g touch ). That is what has put you in this position to begin with. Go to rwilco12's repo. Its in the epic 4g touch forum and go to Android development. Then pick stock roms. Read...read... read. :good:
If you picked the sph - L710...because you saw JD was running that.... consider this.. not everybody who is in here helping, is still running an epic 4g touch anymore. If I'm not mistaken... JD is running an S3 from boost mobile. That is probably why it says L710..I'm not positive. But I am positive that you need to use the roms for this specific device or you're going to brick. It's a miracle you haven't already.
Ask youre buddy if he flashed a bootloader... because I think he did and if that's the case you need to get the epic 4g touch one back.. should be as easy as using Odin and flashing a one click... I'm not positive... but I think this devices bootloader is all tied up in the one clicks... but look around and make sure. You might have to Odin a bootloader first. I'm just not sure as I've never looked into it, but from what I ( think ) I know. Because of this devices kernel/recovery issue. The bootloader is different than most devices and might be all tied together.
I'm sure JD will pop in later after he gets free and let us both know for sure...

Thanks @Gil81. And OP, you may want to thank him as well, because if you had flashed L710 you world have surely bricked. I have moved on to the Galaxy S3(L710), but as Gil can attest to, I was on this phone for a few days . And as usual, he isn't steering you wrong. Download the Samsung drivers to your pc and Pc Odin, then the stock tar of your choice(sph-d710), located here:
http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p...(SPH-D710)/Stock ROMs/JB/GB27/No Data Restore
You can find full restore, no data restore, rooted, unrooted, your call. Read, read, read, before you mess with odin. Then when you're ready, flash the Odin tar, reboot, profit. Good luck, and thanks Gil, good seeing you again bro.
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@jdsingle76
Thanks for the kind words good sir..
Just try to help out... I've been absent of late... life is busy, I'm sure you understand.
But I'm back now and ready to go... lol
Thanks again for the kind words and all the guidance...the s3 forum doesn't know how lucky they are to have you over there.. :good: I'll be heading that way shortly too.
Happy Turkey Day to you and the family... may you're day be blessed with joy and laughter.

And to add to this, youtube has videos on how to do all of this as well. Search for QBKING77
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mazenbs said:
(((dear developer,
I have a
Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
This device completely stopped working and no longer capable of being opened again at that time ,later i went to the engineer in charge who did a " ........ " which it returned to work as it was .
after that, i started to download files from network , and during the downloading,it suddenly stopped again. I returned it to the engineer to fix the problem that occurred during loading . he fixed it , but this time when I wanted to use it , I discovered that the " logo" is for another device , namely Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II , not mine 1
I think that my device were charged with " bootloader " Other than that allotted to mine!
Now , the device works with me naturally , but I am having some problems which are as follows :
1 - its not capable to charge when it is off , and it appears to me that it fails every time i try to link it to its charger ! It then goes on to state the case for the recovery mode each time , and then I restart it which goes back to work as usual.
2 - I noticed a difference between the previous state and now in terms of the quality of the work and also problems in charging .
NB:i downloaded a new "Karnel" and and " Bootloader " but that did not work too !
After all what i have wrote to you dear, I want to know ,am i gonna be able to reload the " Flash " without needing "Riff box" ,
Any directly from my computer ?
What if i kept it on its current status , is there any damage to my device now or later? ?
i really need your help ,
Thank you ))))
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Sounds like he loaded the wrong rom on your phone ?

>_<
oh thanx alot for both of you man , for interacting with my problem , by the way i want you to know that in the last time i used the Odin i chose flash lock ,So can I use the Odin after that?? and i did "Jtag" for it after flashed it last time,too >_<

SuperGoober said:
Sounds like he loaded the wrong rom on your phone ?
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mazenbs said:
oh thanx alot for both of you man , for interacting with my problem , by the way i want you to know that in the last time i used the Odin i chose flash lock ,So can I use the Odin after that?? and i did "Jtag" for it after flashed it last time,too >_<
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As you have mentioned my brother, it looks like that the maintenance engineer has uplaoded the wrong program>_<

The issue is resolved:laugh:
jdsingle76 said:
Thanks @Gil81. And OP, you may want to thank him as well, because if you had flashed L710 you world have surely bricked. I have moved on to the Galaxy S3(L710), but as Gil can attest to, I was on this phone for a few days . And as usual, he isn't steering you wrong. Download the Samsung drivers to your pc and Pc Odin, then the stock tar of your choice(sph-d710), located here:
http://www.rwilco12.com/downloads.p...(SPH-D710)/Stock ROMs/JB/GB27/No Data Restore
You can find full restore, no data restore, rooted, unrooted, your call. Read, read, read, before you mess with odin. Then when you're ready, flash the Odin tar, reboot, profit. Good luck, and thanks Gil, good seeing you again bro.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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The issue is resolved:laugh:
This way
Code:
dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 if=/mnt/sdcard/2.img
dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 if=/mnt/sdcard/3.img
/ dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 if=/mnt/sdcard/4.img
http://androidyemen.net/vb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1909