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Bricked my Galaxy Gio

Hi XDA,
I've searched in many threads but i can't find an anwser.
I've bricked my Galaxy Gio when i flashed a custom kernel. It was the kernel in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319816
Now it does nothing, I can't boot in any mode, not in download mode, not in recovery mode...
I have android 2.3.3 Gingerbread.
Is there any way to unbrick or is my phone just an expensive decoration now.
Thanks in Advance.

Hi !!!
same new here
This ll work in some cases
Hope this will work in your device as well
Pull the battery to kill the boot loop (or whatever is hosed up), put the phone into downloading mode and re-flash the stock ROM.
Free to try...

Thanks for quick reply but i can't go into download mode as i said. Also my phone is just totally off and won't boot at all. My pc also doesn't detect it when it is plugged in.

SuperUub said:
Thanks for quick reply but i can't go into download mode as i said. Also my phone is just totally off and won't boot at all. My pc also doesn't detect it when it is plugged in.
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If not even adb detects it, i'm pretty sure you're buggered, mate.

did you try and leave the battery out for some 10 min or more?
If adb does not detect the phone after that, then it seems to be a brick for real.

Is your phone stop at the "samsung" when you turn on your phone?
If is this,it's very easy to unbrick

One easy procedure which you might want to try with no guarantee it'll work:
-Remove the battery, microSD and SIM from the phone.
-Prepare the Odin software and your ROM on a known working system
-Connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable.
-With one hand, simultaneously hold Volume down, home and power.
-With your other hand, put the battery in the phone.
I was able to get Odin to detect an otherwise bricked phone this way. I was however unable to get further than the "setup connection" step. Maybe your outcome will be better.
Regards,
Darkshado

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Yes this way usually works. I've tested this way.

that worked for me to on a brick when it didnt even went on, no recovery, download mode etc, after waiting 2 weeks and trying to repair it myself I nearly throw it away, and then suddenly it went into download mode for about 1 or 2 seconds, wich told me the battery whasn't working.. so I started to charge the battery, and hoped it would boot, but it didn't.. using that method given above, I could get into download mode again, and flashes a new stock ROM. now I still have my phone, working.

Odin to detect
Darkshado said:
One easy procedure which you might want to try with no guarantee it'll work:
-Remove the battery, microSD and SIM from the phone.
-Prepare the Odin software and your ROM on a known working system
-Connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable.
-With one hand, simultaneously hold Volume down, home and power.
-With your other hand, put the battery in the phone.
I was able to get Odin to detect an otherwise bricked phone this way. I was however unable to get further than the "setup connection" step. Maybe your outcome will be better.
Regards,
Darkshado
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i i need help, odin detects my phone but dont pass from -"setup connection", did you have news?

I had my mainboard replaced at a service center... Probably not the news you would have liked, but I'm afraid that's your next step as well.

Darkshado said:
One easy procedure which you might want to try with no guarantee it'll work:
-Remove the battery, microSD and SIM from the phone.
-Prepare the Odin software and your ROM on a known working system
-Connect the phone to the computer with the USB cable.
-With one hand, simultaneously hold Volume down, home and power.
-With your other hand, put the battery in the phone.
I was able to get Odin to detect an otherwise bricked phone this way. I was however unable to get further than the "setup connection" step. Maybe your outcome will be better.
Regards,
Darkshado
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This worked for me too, try to charge your battery in another phone if possible

bobcota said:
i i need help, odin detects my phone but dont pass from -"setup connection", did you have news?
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same problem

same problem here
voetbalremco said:
that worked for me to on a brick when it didnt even went on, no recovery, download mode etc, after waiting 2 weeks and trying to repair it myself I nearly throw it away, and then suddenly it went into download mode for about 1 or 2 seconds, wich told me the battery whasn't working.. so I started to charge the battery, and hoped it would boot, but it didn't.. using that method given above, I could get into download mode again, and flashes a new stock ROM. now I still have my phone, working.
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i also have the same prblem here just now , i tried to flash this ROM but i forgot to wipe data/factory reset the phne and i unintentionally flashed the rom without wiping it :'( and now, dont boot at all but can still turned on and ended up just "samsung" appearing on the screen . please help :crying::crying:

I've bricked my Galaxy Gio when i flashed a custom kernel.
Hi There I also have the same problem. I installed Galaxy Ace's Kernel onto my Galaxi Gio, Now it does nothing, I can't boot in any mode, not in download mode, not in recovery mode...
S[B said:
[/B]uperUub;20668671]Hi XDA!
I've searched in many threads but i can't find an anwser.
I've bricked my Galaxy Gio when i flashed a custom kernel. It was the kernel in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319816
Now it does nothing, I can't boot in any mode, not in download mode, not in recovery mode...
I have android 2.3.3 Gingerbread.
Is there any way to unbrick or is my phone just an expensive decoration now.
Thanks in Advance.
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Not either going to Download Mode
trackIDtracker said:
Hi !!!
same new here
This ll work in some cases
Hope this will work in your device as well
Pull the battery to kill the boot loop (or whatever is hosed up), put the phone into downloading mode and re-flash the stock ROM.
Free to try...
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[Q] bricked device

Hi There all,
I bricked my device!
I installed multi window manager and ran the patch.
I should have not done this.
After one last message (something like copy binary from SD card) the device was dead.
Any help is highly appreciated

HANSB57 said:
Hi There all,
I bricked my device!
I installed multi window manager and ran the patch.
I should have not done this.
After one last message (something like copy binary from SD card) the device was dead.
Any help is highly appreciated
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Can you access recovery or download mode?

sefrcoko said:
Can you access recovery or download mode?
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No I cant.
All combinations (power, volume home etc.. failed)
Removed back cover, disconencted battery
No result.

How did you remove the back cover?
I've been able to get mine out of pickles not involving the /boot partition by holding down the volume down, home and power keys simultaneously. Shortly after the model 5110 message displays, I release power and am asked if I really want to put the device into update mode.
I use Odin to write in the firmware I downloaded from samfirmware a few weeks ago.
I needed to do this last night after trying to disable a few system apps. I'm not sure which, probably a thing called "bubble," but as soon as I had, the device froze. A reboot went all the way through but then locked up after my startups finished.
I also needed to do this after something much closer to a soft brick involving trying to use the Xposed framework to change lcd density.
I reflashed and was able to defrost and I was back in business.

roustabout said:
How did you remove the back cover?
I removed it by gently prying the white back cover of.
I would recommend agains it because its delicate.
But I think you would advice me agains bricking my device. :angel:
I cant get it in download mode.
It wont show the charging again when charging.
It seems dead
Anybody might have a clue??
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something just occurred to me - you've pulled out your sdcard and set it aside? sometimes a bodgy sdcard can get in the way of boot up, though it seems unlikely here.
It doesn't seem that patching the framework, even if it keeps you from booting past the model # screen, should be able to keep the device from at least powering on.
If you connect it to your PC and try holding in power for ~30 seconds, does any USB device or android device activity occur at all, even if a device appears and disappears again?
I did find that I had a "konawifi" device attached to my PC and needed to update its driver to access the device in CWR mode.

roustabout said:
something just occurred to me - you've pulled out your sdcard and set it aside? sometimes a bodgy sdcard can get in the way of boot up, though it seems unlikely here.
It doesn't seem that patching the framework, even if it keeps you from booting past the model # screen, should be able to keep the device from at least powering on.
If you connect it to your PC and try holding in power for ~30 seconds, does any USB device or android device activity occur at all, even if a device appears and disappears again?
I did find that I had a "konawifi" device attached to my PC and needed to update its driver to access the device in CWR mode.
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I pulled the SD card
This afternoon I will try your tip (connecting it to the PC)
I also will try a jig although I think this is useless
My last resort is back to Samsung. I have 2 choices, repair or make a frisbee out of it. I prefer the first option especially beacause I was rather pleased with the device

I tried making a jig when I bricked my Galaxy Media Player, and it did not work. Samsung repaired it, eventually.

roustabout said:
I tried making a jig when I bricked my Galaxy Media Player, and it did not work. Samsung repaired it, eventually.
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Just brought it back to shop. Will sent it back to Samsung.
will take 3 weeks. Luckely I have my trusted tab 10.1 to use.

HANSB57 said:
Hi There all,
I bricked my device!
I installed multi window manager and ran the patch.
I should have not done this.
After one last message (something like copy binary from SD card) the device was dead.
Any help is highly appreciated
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Its totally impossible that patching the FlashBarService.apk could completely brick your device... A Boot loop is possible, but not a brick.
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk HD

Flashed the wrong recovery!
Hi there, Ive soft bricked my Note 8.0 by accidentally flashing Note 2 recovery. Anyone know how I can fix this? Stuck in boot screen. I can get to download mode and Odin recognizes it, but I have no idea what to do from there.
Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated..

no problem flash the note 8 recovery with odin

Sorry but I am new to soft brick. Have 3 rooted devices and never brick before. Can put device in download mode as kennielsen but I'm lost after that. Details on what to do and how to do it would be very nice, please!
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[Q] [HELP] Gnex bricked

I was using PA rom (3.69) with Franco kernel, my recovery was TWRP 2.6.0.0
yesterday I was backing up my sd card (I'm doing it every 2 months) and then some error was showing up an my pc's screen I don't really remember what the error said but I found out that was from my twrp folder, so to find what happend I just wanted to boot up into the recovery and then my nexus wont boot up I found out that my Gnex was hard bricked (with no reason why) so I used this page (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1760787/) to unbrick and it helped alot but I can't find my backups , and when I'm trying to boot into Fastboot,the recovery or even to reboot, it's funny that my nexus was working excellent befor what happend :crying: (btw my nexus was pluged to my pc when i tried to boot into twrp)
so yeah can not do anything I'm stuck with a broken PA (all my apps are still installed but I can not find my backups)
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME !!!!
My Device : White Galaxy nexus (takju) 16GB
Rom: PA: latest 4.2.2
Kernel: Franco latest
Recovery: Stupid TWRP (I'm going back to CWM after this)

There is no possible way in hell to brick a gnex unless your NAND fries lol, download mode is hard coded into the chips and you can always get into it no matter what happens. I suggest using ODIN and flashing all the factory images, there are guides floating around, a factory reset usually fixes all your problems
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus VZW @1.2 GHz on Stock 4.3

seldom ssightsl
IRX120 said:
There is no possible way in hell to brick a gnex unless your NAND fries lol, download mode is hard coded into the chips and you can always get into it no matter what happens. I suggest using ODIN and flashing all the factory images, there are guides floating around, a factory reset usually fixes all your problems
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus VZW @1.2 GHz on Stock 4.3
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I can't go into download mode :crying:

How can I know that my NAND fried??
EDIT I have the same problem that the user rekrapg had but I don't have my backups anymore

Wait what? So what exactly happens when you try and get in to fastboot?

GldRush98 said:
Wait what? So what exactly happens when you try and get in to fastboot?
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nothing happened

Are you sure that is ur battery not working anymore?

e753 said:
Are you sure that is ur battery not working anymore?
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my battery was on 97%

Well I guess that my Gnex Was killed, I can't even use the OMAP Flash
guessing that twrp killed it

So, you take out the battery, put it back in, hold vol+ and vol- and then hit the power button, and absolutely nothing happens? The screen doesn't come on at all?
What if you take the battery out, put the batter back in, and plug it in to the wall charger (don't try and turn it on). Have you left it on the wall charger for a couple hours?

GldRush98 said:
So, you take out the battery, put it back in, hold vol+ and vol- and then hit the power button, and absolutely nothing happens? The screen doesn't come on at all?
What if you take the battery out, put the batter back in, and plug it in to the wall charger (don't try and turn it on). Have you left it on the wall charger for a couple hours?
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I tried that method and it didn't work.
I know very well how to use android (I used android for 3 years) and I never saw this thing before ,It's weird that you can not even brick (Kill) nexus devices.

It's alive !!!! Alive !!!!!!!!!
So I searched a bit on xda and found some helpful Pages
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f63...9250-galaxy-nexus-gt-i9100g-gt-i9300-1465412/
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2065470
and it helped

flash stock rom with toolkit

KnighthooD said:
flash stock rom with toolkit
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already did that

I have the same thing with a buddies GNex. I flashed stock images using a toolkit, nada. SuperWiped, flashed stock, nada. Even did an ODIN flash several times, and still nothing.
We can boot into Fastboot and various custom recoveries, but nothing is booting.

player911 said:
I have the same thing with a buddies GNex. I flashed stock images using a toolkit, nada. SuperWiped, flashed stock, nada. Even did an ODIN flash several times, and still nothing.
We can boot into Fastboot and various custom recoveries, but nothing is booting.
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Did you do what i am going to mention?
Part 1:
Now you will need these things before you're proceeding
**USB cable**
**I suggest using windows 7 (because my windows 8 pc didn't install the drivers)**
**A bricked Gnex (of course) without the battery installed **
** and these files "https://www.dropbox.com/sh/owi65iy2xvvpzf0/i5rgGJFJwO" **
1 go ahead and download the files that I provided
2 extract the "9250 omapflash_tuna.zip" to the desktop (recommend)
3 go into your device manager [Control Panel ---> Hardware and Sound ---> Device Manager]
4 go to Actions Menu and select Add Legacy Hardware then click on add manually double click on Snow All Devices, Have Disk, now go into the omapflash folder and choose "usb_drv_windows", "omap_winusb.inf".
Now now, it will take some time so please be patient .
5 after the drivers are installed plug in the Gnex into the USB cable that you have.
6 go back to the omapflash folder and open the "omap4460_tuna_hs_pro.bat" it will some scripts that will "semi unbrick" your nexus
7 close the .bat program and install back the battery to your nexus and boot into DOWNLOAD MODE (if your gnex had USB debugging on before it was bricked, if not boot into your rom and enable it and then afterwards
perform 1-6 if your nexus can't boot back into download mode)
Part 2:
**you will need t charge your Gnex to 80%-90%**
**you will need your Gnex installed USB drivers on your pc (the best way is to install kies)**
1 unzip the second zip file "Odin.stock Gnex I9250 4.3" to the desktop (again recommend)
2 open the folder and then open "Odin307" after that open Odin307.exe (once your phone is successfully connected to your pc, the ID:COM box on ODIN will turn blue and will show the COM port number)
3 click the PIT icon and choose "I9250_partition-table-0915.pit" from the ODIM folder
then click the PDA box. then click the button and choose "odin.takju.4.3.tar.md5"
4 now click on start button and it will fully unbrick you Sexy Galaxy Nexus (don't be afraid it will take some minutes)
plus you just updated to android 4.3
special thanks to samersh72, rekrapg and legija

[Q] cyanogenmod stopped during installation

Hello.
I just try Cyanogenmod installer and everything was ok till during installation, with blue cyanogen guy displayed on my Note II, the PC application says : sorry, can't talk to your phone. And since then i stuck with this blue guy on my phone. And application in PC stuck on Detecting Device screen. Can't even go to recovery mode on phone, holding down volume up\home\power do nothing, this blue guy shows again. Anyone have situation like this and find some solution maybe ? Every help will be appriciated
small update : ODIN don't see the phone.

withoutnickname said:
Hello.
I just try Cyanogenmod installer and everything was ok till during installation, with blue cyanogen guy displayed on my Note II, the PC application says : sorry, can't talk to your phone. And since then i stuck with this blue guy on my phone. And application in PC stuck on Detecting Device screen. Can't even go to recovery mode on phone, holding down volume up\home\power do nothing, this blue guy shows again. Anyone have situation like this and find some solution maybe ? Every help will be appriciated
small update : ODIN don't see the phone.
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Hold on Vol up + Menu and then Power key for 4~8sec it'd reboot into recovery mode. Otherwise remove phones battery & insert and try boot into recovery/download menu.

I'm not able do anything except boot in download mode, but then i can't do anything, Odin still don't see phone

Do you've right drivers installed for PC & os?, because of missing drivers it doesn't show the phone.
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withoutnickname said:
I'm not able do anything except boot in download mode, but then i can't do anything, Odin still don't see phone
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what m.b.jikre said or make sure you use original samsung usb cable to connect your phone and try another USB port on your computer/laptop

for some mysterious reason, using win 7 installed on my mac.......works . now i run cyanogen, so far without problema, just after every reboot of phone i must agree to terms of play store

same problem
Having the same problem, except I don't have Odin, the blue guy keeps appearing when I try to boot into recovery or download mode. Using Samsung galaxy S2 gt-i9100. I rebooted my PC as suggested by the cyanogenmod installer, but now it doesn't detect device. Pls help

HELP!! SGH-T989 is bricked, or dead... i dont know

Hello there!
I have a problem with my samsung sgh-t989, the phone does not start, good start, but goes the screen "samsung" and restarts.
I followed this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1414341
but can not get it to boot, I have access to download mode and tried to install multiple ROMS, all is the same.
I can not know what else to do ...
sorry for my English, I used google translator ...
I hope that a brilliant mind can help me solve this great problem.
Thank you!
PD: i'm form Chile...

jpgallardo said:
Hello there!
I have a problem with my samsung sgh-t989, the phone does not start, good start, but goes the screen "samsung" and restarts.
I followed this tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1414341
but can not get it to boot, I have access to download mode and tried to install multiple ROMS, all is the same.
I can not know what else to do ...
sorry for my English, I used google translator ...
I hope that a brilliant mind can help me solve this great problem.
Thank you!
PD: i'm form Chile...
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Do a clean install of the stock rom using fastboot.

Lokke9191 said:
Do a clean install of the stock rom using fastboot.
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no, not really familiar with that method, you have a tutorial that I could follow? I'd appreciate it

jpgallardo said:
no, not really familiar with that method, you have a tutorial that I could follow? I'd appreciate it
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Sorry, I forgot the s2 does not have fastboot mode. You should download the stock rom zip and gapps onto your SD card. Then factory reset. Install the stock rom and gapps. Then factory reset again. Make sure you have the proper rom. I've had bootloops like you when trying to install certain roms. Currently my wife's s2 t989 is running cm 10.1.2 with no problems. Cm 10.2 would cause bootloops. If you are getting to the Samsung logo your phone is not bricked, so don't worry. We just have to figure out what's going wrong with your install process. Let me know what happens.
Did you flash a custom recovery? And if so which one? This will be needed before flashing roms.

Lokke9191 said:
Sorry, I forgot the s2 does not have fastboot mode. You should download the stock rom zip and gapps onto your SD card. Then factory reset. Install the stock rom and gapps. Then factory reset again. Make sure you have the proper rom. I've had bootloops like you when trying to install certain roms. Currently my wife's s2 t989 is running cm 10.1.2 with no problems. Cm 10.2 would cause bootloops. If you are getting to the Samsung logo your phone is not bricked, so don't worry. We just have to figure out what's going wrong with your install process. Let me know what happens.
Did you flash a custom recovery? And if so which one? This will be needed before flashing roms.
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the way I'm working is THE FOLLOWING:
First, I have samsung drivers installed on my notebook and the phone is recognized.
Second, open the odin program, and on the phone I press vol +, vol + and connect the USB cable, the phone starts in download mode ...
third, odin in pda select rom with. tar.md5, I remove the selection to "re-partition" (sometimes I leave selected)
Fourth, I start ...
wait a while, the installation goes well (I sometimes appears "fail") but usually completes the installation, the phone restarts (odin says that ended with "pass") once it restarts in case of using a rom T-Mobile, the logo appears on the screen, shuts down or restarts ... and no more lights, again only shows the samsung logo and restart every two seconds about ...
I guess I'm doing the procedure well, do not know if anything else can fail ...
I do not know if it's possible to "format" the phone, leave it completely to zero and see if that way I can mount a rom ... by the way, a couple of the rom I downloaded from sammmobile.com so I think that should be the corresponding ...
I hope someone can help me please ...

respect to recovery, well this phone apparently was installed a wrong rom, had no recovery, I try to install the cwm apparently installed fine, but when trying to enter the recovery, as it appears again, the phone restarts just what mentioned earlier

Did you preform a NANDROID backup before flashing?
If not you probably will have to install KIES and firmware upgrade from there. I had to do this a few times with bad roms/recoveries.
You can try CMinstaller (easiest way to flash rom), but unless you enabled usb debugging, it may not work...
jtgr94
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII T989D Hercules CM11 Android 4.4.4

jtgr94 said:
Did you preform a NANDROID backup before flashing?
If not you probably will have to install KIES and firmware upgrade from there. I had to do this a few times with bad roms/recoveries.
You can try CMinstaller (easiest way to flash rom), but unless you enabled usb debugging, it may not work...
jtgr94
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII T989D Hercules CM11 Android 4.4.4
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the truth of the matter is that this phone I received in that state, do not know if they have enabled the usb debugging mode, the last thing I tried was to install cwm apparently installed fine, but when the phone happens always the same, I recorded a video youtube ... do not know if I can post it here but I will send it.
Thanks for trying to help!

jpgallardo said:
the truth of the matter is that this phone I received in that state, do not know if they have enabled the usb debugging mode, the last thing I tried was to install cwm apparently installed fine, but when the phone happens always the same, I recorded a video youtube ... do not know if I can post it here but I will send it.
Thanks for trying to help!
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Can you boot into recovery by holding the vol up and down while powering the device on?
jtgr94
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII T989D Hercules CM11 Android 4.4.4

jtgr94 said:
Can you boot into recovery by holding the vol up and down while powering the device on?
jtgr94
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII T989D Hercules CM11 Android 4.4.4
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noup... i can´t... not to recovery, just to download mode

jpgallardo said:
noup... i can´t... not to recovery, just to download mode
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Download this recovery and flash it with Odin, and then try to reboot to recovery.http://www.mrwodtke.com/android/t989_guide/recovery.tar
jtgr94
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII T989D Hercules CM11 Android 4.4.4

jtgr94 said:
Download this recovery and flash it with Odin, and then try to reboot to recovery.http://www.mrwodtke.com/android/t989_guide/recovery.tar
jtgr94
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII T989D Hercules CM11 Android 4.4.4
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the installation was performed correctly, but the recovery does not start the samsung logo again just load and restarts

jpgallardo said:
the installation was performed correctly, but the recovery does not start the samsung logo again just load and restarts
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This is the only thing that I can think of that may work. I've done this a few times.
Download and install Samsung Kies on your computer if you do not have it already installed on it.
Note down your phone’s Serial number somewhere. You can find it under the battery of your device or the box your brand new device came with.
Launch Kies and click Tools > Firmware Upgrade and Initialization
Connect your device to computer using USB cable.
Enter your device model name in all CAPS (GT-I9500, for example) and click on OK.
Then you will be asked to enter the Serial Number of your device.
Once again, select OK on the next screen.
Doing this will force Kies to download the require firmware update files for your device.
Respond and confirm all securities warnings to clear the way for emergency firmware installation and then select Start Upgrade.samsung-firmware-restore
Kies will now start downloading firmware files and the process might take several minutes depending or data connection speed.
When it is finished, new firmware will be installed on your device and you will see: samsung-firmware-restore-complete
Click on OK and disconnect the cable.
Reboot your device and done!
jtgr94
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII T989D Hercules CM11 Android 4.4.4
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jtgr94 said:
This is the only thing that I can think of that may work. I've done this a few times.
Download and install Samsung Kies on your computer if you do not have it already installed on it.
Note down your phone’s Serial number somewhere. You can find it under the battery of your device or the box your brand new device came with.
Launch Kies and click Tools > Firmware Upgrade and Initialization
Connect your device to computer using USB cable.
Enter your device model name in all CAPS (GT-I9500, for example) and click on OK.
Then you will be asked to enter the Serial Number of your device.
Once again, select OK on the next screen.
Doing this will force Kies to download the require firmware update files for your device.
Respond and confirm all securities warnings to clear the way for emergency firmware installation and then select Start Upgrade.samsung-firmware-restore
Kies will now start downloading firmware files and the process might take several minutes depending or data connection speed.
When it is finished, new firmware will be installed on your device and you will see: samsung-firmware-restore-complete
Click on OK and disconnect the cable.
Reboot your device and done!
jtgr94
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII T989D Hercules CM11 Android 4.4.4
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Boot your phone into download mode to do this, by the way.
jtgr94
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jtgr94 said:
This is the only thing that I can think of that may work. I've done this a few times.
Download and install Samsung Kies on your computer if you do not have it already installed on it.
Note down your phone’s Serial number somewhere. You can find it under the battery of your device or the box your brand new device came with.
Launch Kies and click Tools > Firmware Upgrade and Initialization
Connect your device to computer using USB cable.
Enter your device model name in all CAPS (GT-I9500, for example) and click on OK.
Then you will be asked to enter the Serial Number of your device.
Once again, select OK on the next screen.
Doing this will force Kies to download the require firmware update files for your device.
Respond and confirm all securities warnings to clear the way for emergency firmware installation and then select Start Upgrade.samsung-firmware-restore
Kies will now start downloading firmware files and the process might take several minutes depending or data connection speed.
When it is finished, new firmware will be installed on your device and you will see: samsung-firmware-restore-complete
Click on OK and disconnect the cable.
Reboot your device and done!
jtgr94
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I already have kies installed, I'll try, thanks!

I did everything like you said ... but it did not work, I tried three times, but said "this device version can not be updated." ... I think this team definitely dead ...

jtgr94 said:
This is the only thing that I can think of that may work. I've done this a few times.
Download and install Samsung Kies on your computer if you do not have it already installed on it.
Note down your phone’s Serial number somewhere. You can find it under the battery of your device or the box your brand new device came with.
Launch Kies and click Tools > Firmware Upgrade and Initialization
Connect your device to computer using USB cable.
Enter your device model name in all CAPS (GT-I9500, for example) and click on OK.
Then you will be asked to enter the Serial Number of your device.
Once again, select OK on the next screen.
Doing this will force Kies to download the require firmware update files for your device.
Respond and confirm all securities warnings to clear the way for emergency firmware installation and then select Start Upgrade.samsung-firmware-restore
Kies will now start downloading firmware files and the process might take several minutes depending or data connection speed.
When it is finished, new firmware will be installed on your device and you will see: samsung-firmware-restore-complete
Click on OK and disconnect the cable.
Reboot your device and done!
jtgr94
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SII T989D Hercules CM11 Android 4.4.4
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Boot your phone into download mode to do this, by the way.
jtgr94
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I did everything like you said ... but it did not work, I tried three times, but said "this device version can not be updated." ... I think this team definitely dead ...

jpgallardo said:
I did everything like you said ... but it did not work, I tried three times, but said "this device version can not be updated." ... I think this team definitely dead ...
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It seems that way. But maybe someone else here knows how to go about fixing it. The only thing that leads me to believe it is dead, is that you can't boot into recovery even after Odin.
If anyone can figure out a fix, please share, I'm a bit curious...
Regards,
jtgr94
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I just want to confirm your method for entering recovery. With the phone off and not plugged in you hold down both volume buttons and the power button. When the phone vibrates release the power button, and continue to hold down both volume buttons. Do not release volume buttons until the phone boots into recovery. This is what you are doing? I just want to cover the simple things before asking you to try more in depth possible solutions.

Check out this thread about faulty/dirty power buttons.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1931310

you flashed with a nearly dead battery? I always charge mine to 100%. I've had issues where my phone won't boot up properly like what yours is doing when the battery hits 0%.
I'd plug it in and leave it for half an hour or so and see if it boots then. Let it charge to 100% and then put on either CWM or TWRP (I've had better luck with TWRP personally) and flash your ROM from there.
I've never had luck flashing anything but recovery and stock from Odin. Other things seemed to be a little flaky.
Also, since this is in the T989 forum, I'm presuming you have the T989 which I believe the recovery buttons are vol+ and power not both (but I could be wrong).
Once other thing you could try is grab a copy of the android SDK (specifically ADB) and run:
adb logcat > boot.log
and post the file it creates (called boot.log). Also, try running:
adb reboot recovery
to see if you can get into recovery mode. I THINK (but have never tried) that ADB should work from download mode. Try booting into download mode and running adb reboot recovery to see if that helps.
That is my best guess anyways.