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Hi all experts,
I am a newbie on this. I am in Canada, since here we dont have i780, so I brought it on ebay and didn't realize its not really an unlock phone.(been cheated) although is sim free but GPS and many other 3rd party app don't work. so i was looking for solutions and found your thread here.
I followed the flashing guide and everything seems to be ok until the russians rom is flashed. The phone turned off itself and cannot turn on anymore. I have tried holding ENTER and FUNCTION button, solf reset hole, and Start + End buttons to turn it on but it doesn't response at all.
I have spent my hard earned $500 on this phone and i am so depressed now... Please kindly help me on fixing my "not just bricked, but dead phone" or i have to save up for months for a new one... sigh..
your response is highly appreciated
Jack
I feel your pain and I had the same issue as you before.
Phone won't turn on after flashing and the mirage reported the flash was 100% done.
I suspect this is due to the samsung modem driver was not installed properly. I had forgotten to do a reboot after the driver install or it might be due to something else.
The way I fixed it was to send to ther service center as it is still under warranty. They had to replace some chips to make it work again and I think that might be your last hope.
thanks for your advise. I did install the samsung modem driver and did reboot the PC before starting mirage updater..... but somehow turn that way.
I brought it from ebay, do you think it can still be warranty? anyways.. gotta try my luck.
thanks tho
I just contacted Canada's samsung service centre. They said They dont have this model here in Canada, so cannot fix my phone.
Please, anyone can give me a hand?
What about a hard reset? have you try it?
try to re load the rom.. i am using HH1 for phone and HH5 for the PDA... works good... with the russian ROM PU (if i am not wrong) i had to load few times as the process stopped at 80% or so... and u can load the ROM from this thread without loading the PU rom..
i have the same troubled too~~
Please post here if your i780 was bricked.
1)Symptoms before brick
2)Name of firmware (PDA/Phone)
3)Kind of repair after.
Thank you for helping community to figure out how to avoid this future
28/01/2010 SOLUTION:
If you have suddenly (or) after flashing of new ROM strange things:
read this post.
i have one bricked i780
hi heniken78,my bricked i780 as follow
1.when flash your 28008 rom dated 13.12.09,it cann't get into desktop suceesefully,and system goes very slow
2.firmware is PDXIB1
3.noway,because i cann't get in bootloader.even plug in charge cable,the led couldn't light on.
sunnyjiang said:
hi heniken78,my bricked i780 as follow
1.when flash your 28008 rom dated 13.12.09,it cann't get into desktop suceesefully,and system goes very slow
2.firmware is PDXIB1
3.noway,because i cann't get in bootloader.even plug in charge cable,the led couldn't light on.
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have you tried hardreset(red+green+power) or emergency(b/w+enter)mode?
might you can solve this way =)
hashtowent said:
have you tried hardreset(red+green+power) or emergency(b/w+enter)mode?
might you can solve this way =)
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No when led is not on anymore- you cant get in bootloader.
heineken78 said:
Please post here if your i780 was bricked.
1)Symptoms before brick
2)Name of firmware (PDA/Phone)
3)Kind of repair after.
Thank you for helping community to figure out this BLACK future.
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My phone was bricked two times
1) The phone rest stuck to Samsung screen when I open it
2) PDXIB1
3) Samsung Center changed the motherboard of the phone
Symptoms:
Every application will respond with message: Application is not signed or missing components (or something else). Only soft reset worked - but phone did a hard reset every time. Sometimes after hard reset contacts stayed as it was (everything else was deleted). These troubles last for 3 days for me until my phone died. Board is damaged and repair will cost 310,- €.
ROM version:
28205 @96 DPI made by ironeagle
Repair:
To buy a new board and a new battery (cause the old one has been damaged too - or just use a second battery instead).
how to execute emergency mode
hashtowent said:
have you tried hardreset(red+green+power) or emergency(b/w+enter)mode?
might you can solve this way =)
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i donn't know how to getin emergency mode,can you explain what i should to do
emergency mode is the mode u use when u flash a new rom
fn+enter+power(5 seconds).
Anyway, when my device bricked...it was almost 6 months back.
I used quite a bit of wifi, and left my device on the charger with wifi on accidentally. When i woke up a couple hrs later...the device seemed like it was in standby charging. Pulled off the charger, but the charging LED was still glowing! Device didnt respond to anything, pulled the battery out and put it back in....and boom! went totally dead...tried different batteries, tried soft reset, format mode, emergency mode...nothing. no sign of life!
mobo had to be replaced....got it done free as it was just abt 15 days old when this happened
I think its more of a hardware fault....some units being faulty waiting to blow in your face!
Just spoke to Samsung service about bricked phones: From their experience they have changed mobo only once, when 780 wasnt charging, but was working.
But they told that in case of fault of bootloader - thay DONT restore it, just replacing motherboard!
So there is chance to repair you phone by JTAG tool.
I hope trizzio that helps.
heineken78 said:
Just spoke to Samsung service about bricked phones: From their experience they have changed mobo only once, when 780 wasnt charging, but was working.
But they told that in case of fault of bootloader - thay DONT restore it, just replacing motherboard!
So there is chance to repair you phone by JTAG tool.
I hope trizzio that helps.
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hey dude - where could I get that JTAG tool?
trizzo said:
hey dude - where could I get that JTAG tool?
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Dude I advise you to visit http://www.omnia-repair.com/ and ask on forum if someone can do this for you. Tool is about 300 EUR and Omnia is top brick phone, so you should find services that already have it, it does support i780.
tip: use google search for more options.
Hey guys,
my phone was bricked: I'd flashed heineken's "i780 WM 6.5.3 ver.28205 DPI 96" rom. After two days some errors appeared and I flashed (&hardreset) the rom again. While connecting to ActiveSync the connection was broken after some minutes. Then I have disconnected the USB-Cable and the phone was frozen. No reaction. No hard-reset keys, no LED reaction while power-connector.
So... I'm not shure whether this problem is because of heineken's rom. But the good news are: Samsung support switched the motherboard because of 24month guarantee
SAM-123 said:
Hey guys,
my phone was bricked: I'd flashed heineken's "i780 WM 6.5.3 ver.28205 DPI 96" rom. After two days some errors appeared and I flashed (&hardreset) the rom again. While connecting to ActiveSync the connection was broken after some minutes. Then I have disconnected the USB-Cable and the phone was frozen. No reaction. No hard-reset keys, no LED reaction while power-connector.
So... I'm not shure whether this problem is because of heineken's rom. But the good news are: Samsung support switched the motherboard because of 24month guarantee
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Im sorry SAM.
This first version was really weird, I have changed algorythms of compile again in version 2.
But there is always way when you get starnge glitches before you get brick - to flash offical rom to avoid a brick.
As for me I never had any of symptoms..flashed 1001 time.
About bricks...
I have experienced described situations (sudden out of memory, unable to run any app becouse of errors, dissapearing data and so on) around ten times during my cooking/flashing adventures, with different ROMs from different developers. Sometimes at the begining, when weird behaviors of my i780 started, I tried flashing device with other unoficial images, but problems remained. I think I even posted about my problem somewhere...
And I could always recover my device doing one simple thing.
Flashing official PDXIB1.
But important thing is that YOU SHOULD USE OFFICIAL UPDATER from Samsung site (in my case Vista version), not a .bin under Mirage!!
I know it is stupid, but it works better (and if something looks stupid and works better, then it is not stupid any more; Murphy`s law)
In my case Mirage not always proved to be a sollution.
SO every time when that situation emerge, thats what I would do very quick:
1. Hard reset.
2. Flashing oficial Samsung Updater (tutorial on Samsung site)
About reasons bricks happens; I have found no pattern. It happens with WM6, WM6.1 and WM6.5 or WM6.5.x. Sometimes one and the same ROM works perfect two weeks and flashed next time generates bricks.
As someone noticed previously, it is probobly a hardware-software problem, some kind of memory /filesystem/ FAT? damage and it is possible to revert that by flashing official ROM..
I am not a computer scientist, but thats only pattern/mark I can see..
Hello friends and experts , we are in 2013 now , i made all searches i can before i start this thread as i am a poor guy with an almost new samsung galaxy note 2
i got this phone as a gift , and after almost one month the phone rebooted and never turned on again , no one before rooted the phone , i tried to follow many instruction to recover the system and to enter to recovery mode or download mode and never succeeded and all i see first i put the battery is the a red small lamp flashes atleast every 5 secs , after search i found that this may mean SDS , this is the exact case i am facing , i dont live in the US , i took the phone to 2 maintenance offices here and both failed to make it run again, only weird this i faced is that the 2nd affice somehow left me a screen with error downloading , which mean he was able to enter the download mode i think,
i tried to press volume down + home + power or the same but volume up , never succeeded , so please , the phone has no warranty and i dont know what to do please please help me
did you get this issue resolved
Torayem said:
Hello friends and experts , we are in 2013 now , i made all searches i can before i start this thread as i am a poor guy with an almost new samsung galaxy note 2
i got this phone as a gift , and after almost one month the phone rebooted and never turned on again , no one before rooted the phone , i tried to follow many instruction to recover the system and to enter to recovery mode or download mode and never succeeded and all i see first i put the battery is the a red small lamp flashes atleast every 5 secs , after search i found that this may mean SDS , this is the exact case i am facing , i dont live in the US , i took the phone to 2 maintenance offices here and both failed to make it run again, only weird this i faced is that the 2nd affice somehow left me a screen with error downloading , which mean he was able to enter the download mode i think,
i tried to press volume down + home + power or the same but volume up , never succeeded , so please , the phone has no warranty and i dont know what to do please please help me
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I am having the exact same issue. please share how did you resolved it if you ever did?
Torayem said:
Hello friends and experts , we are in 2013 now , i made all searches i can before i start this thread as i am a poor guy with an almost new samsung galaxy note 2
i got this phone as a gift , and after almost one month the phone rebooted and never turned on again , no one before rooted the phone , i tried to follow many instruction to recover the system and to enter to recovery mode or download mode and never succeeded and all i see first i put the battery is the a red small lamp flashes atleast every 5 secs , after search i found that this may mean SDS , this is the exact case i am facing , i dont live in the US , i took the phone to 2 maintenance offices here and both failed to make it run again, only weird this i faced is that the 2nd affice somehow left me a screen with error downloading , which mean he was able to enter the download mode i think,
i tried to press volume down + home + power or the same but volume up , never succeeded , so please , the phone has no warranty and i dont know what to do please please help me
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try a USB jig:highfive: to enter force download mode.. then flash a stock rom
Suspect it to be sds but not sure let's wait for some experts or search profile Dr. Ketan and pm him he could help you he has expertise knowledge on these issues
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium
I had rooted this my galaxy note 2 N7100 and was using CWM recovery and had tried many roms, the last working rom was Hawkish rom with Perseus Kernel from XDA developers
It was working perfect since first week of June then it started some lagging ang I had to restart it everytime it stops responding
so i decided to try another rom and flashed it with some (I dont remember it right now but i will update this in evening) ROM through sideload
everything went well but device went into bootlop
so i tried to wipe cache as well as user data still it didnt help
so desperately I formatted ext sdcard from the recovery (I did not had ext sdcard in the device)
and then it just went off without any message or anything
it doenst go to recovery or download mode ?? :crying::crying:
also I had replaced the display in January but i dont think its a problem of display since i tried start it up and then connected to PC and when i say adb devices it doesnt show up but I am not sure ?
ok this seems to be an SDS problem suggest you to go trough SDS Threads in this forum see if you could get some info on this ,.
aukhan said:
ok this seems to be an SDS problem suggest you to go trough SDS Threads in this forum see if you could get some info on this ,.
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:good:Thank you very much for your reply and I have gone throught the SDS post but i dont think it is SDS problem
I think its something to do with formatting the ext sdcard from recovery as untill then it was working fine
hopefully i can repair it with fixing bootloader but I am not sure how to do that if phone does not start
unfortunately since i have replaced a lacd digitizer i dont have warranty from samsung so for my device i hope its not SDS :fingers-crossed:
kanchan.n.mahajan said:
:good:Thank you very much for your reply and I have gone throught the SDS post but i dont think it is SDS problem
I think its something to do with formatting the ext sdcard from recovery as untill then it was working fine
hopefully i can repair it with fixing bootloader but I am not sure how to do that if phone does not start
unfortunately since i have replaced a lacd digitizer i dont have warranty from samsung so for my device i hope its not SDS :fingers-crossed:
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Suggest you to go trough this thread which is by Ketan
Go Trough this Service manual thread. .. . . . . . . . . . . http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31987567&postcount=7
aukhan said:
Suggest you to go trough this thread which is by Ketan
Go Trough this Service manual thread. .. . . . . . . . . . . http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31987567&postcount=7
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thanks :good:
I have gone through that manual and I did all I could but still it didn't start up
expect the ANYWAY JIG thing since i didnt find the JIG anywhere online and was not sure how to connect all those cables shown in the picture
so desperately i had given it to repair shop and to my bad luck they dont know what is wrong with it
the only thing they told me is that the board (mother board) doesn't get power and they dont know the reason for that
now coming to repair the partition :
can it be because of partition or because of SDS ?
if its because of partition then at least i have some hopes
otherwise its a dead end
does anyone has any idea what can be the problem?
kanchan.n.mahajan said:
thanks :good:
I have gone through that manual and I did all I could but still it didn't start up
expect the ANYWAY JIG thing since i didnt find the JIG anywhere online and was not sure how to connect all those cables shown in the picture
so desperately i had given it to repair shop and to my bad luck they dont know what is wrong with it
the only thing they told me is that the board (mother board) doesn't get power and they dont know the reason for that
now coming to repair the partition :
can it be because of partition or because of SDS ?
if its because of partition then at least i have some hopes
otherwise its a dead end
does anyone has any idea what can be the problem?
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Did you try re flashing your stock recovery and then flashing the Stock ROM through ODIN pc ?
tutorial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VVyQRdsnaA
SAJdroid said:
Did you try re flashing your stock recovery and then flashing the Stock ROM through ODIN pc ?
tutorial : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VVyQRdsnaA
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FYI
I cannot get into the download or recovery mode using key combinations:crying:
so if you have any other way to boot Note 2 in download mode other that Vol.Down+power+OK
please let me know
Thanks
kanchan.n.mahajan said:
FYI
I cannot get into the download or recovery mode using key combinations:crying:
so if you have any other way to boot Note 2 in download mode other that Vol.Down+power+OK
please let me know
Thanks
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time for you to take it Service Center
extSDCard as emmc
is there any possibility that I can use this method to revive my note if i have SDS
https://leemn.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/galaxy-note-2-swapping-external-sd-card-as-internal-memory/
ok so bottom line is, I was in the middle of flashing official rom when at about 25% it failed. Don't ask why! (i still had recovery at this point) so I went ahead and cleaned absolutely everything thinking i'll just try and reflash as before. Now with power lead out it won't switch on at all and when power is supplied it shows message "An error has occured while udating the device software." loops at approx 3 sec intervals cant do anything with it.
Ive tried everything I can think of all to no avail! yes its my own fault bla bla bla just wondering if i act have f***** it.
Thanks to anyone with any ideas
You probably going to get a better help at TAB S2 board this is for the tab S1.
If it is hard bricked there is JTAG methods that can help, just need to find one for your device, not easy though.
But all I can do is share my experience with something like this, in a more "cheap" way than JTAGs, dunno if it helps:
I never had a similar problem on the tab S. But in the past a galaxy player 5.0 of mine had a very similar problem (as far I remember the screen just powered the back light but without any letters or simbols)
in 2012, I bricked it trying to mount a swap partition (280mb RAM ftw) accidentally pointing the wrong partition, and got the entire internal storage corrupted.. everything.. system, bootloader, recovery etc
My player was turning on only connected to a USB or charger, like yours. in fact It was hard bricked
I was able to recover it using Linux (because it is the only system able to communicate with the bricked device I had)
The problem is that everything need to be very specific, for example I used a software made for the galaxy s1 to "revive" my player 5 (both have the same hardware) it just made the device be detected via ADB. So I needed to prepare a SD with the same size as the internal storage (in this case 8gb) using the Linux terminal to mount in the SD an exactly schematic of the internal memory using a dump of another device that a xda user shared, (the dump was empty only with the bootloader, recovery etc) but it still had 8gb decompressed. So after that I used ADB to push the SD card content to the internal memory. And it get back to life \○/
Well.. it took me 1 week with a guide!! On the trial and error method. But it worked.. not perfectly, I get bootloops every time I try to flash a rom via Odin, but recovery works, and I have the device working until today
Hi, I Greatly appreciate your reply and advice. Think tho that your solution is a bit beyond my know how I know a little about ADB etc but i would have difficulties in compiling necessary files to sideload. Also many tanks for the link din't realise. Thanks Pal!
Alpha1BA said:
ok so bottom line is, I was in the middle of flashing official rom when at about 25% it failed. Don't ask why! (i still had recovery at this point) so I went ahead and cleaned absolutely everything thinking i'll just try and reflash as before. Now with power lead out it won't switch on at all and when power is supplied it shows message "An error has occured while udating the device software." loops at approx 3 sec intervals cant do anything with it.
Ive tried everything I can think of all to no avail! yes its my own fault bla bla bla just wondering if i act have f***** it.
Thanks to anyone with any ideas
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If you can get it in to download mode you can flash stock rom back on it.......refer to xda samsung tab s2 for more details on this........
thx for reply but it reboots approx every 3 seconds so I dont have enough time to do anything with it :/
Alpha1BA said:
thx for reply but it reboots approx every 3 seconds so I dont have enough time to do anything with it :/
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Plug in changer and push power and volume up and down all together and you will see the battery charger icon then you can get it in to download mode from there.....
stinka318 said:
Plug in changer and push power and volume up and down all together and you will see the battery charger icon then you can get it in to download mode from there.....
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Stinka ure a superstar (atm!) I did as you suggest to no avail but I noticed a slight increase in the time it took to start rebooting again. I do not know which buttons did this but some 20 later it lasted long enough for me to be able to flash twrp. Now i havent actually tried that as yet as i wanted to check with you first... I have the battery logo on screen, i tried recovery and it started as it should but then rebooted, now im unsure at this time whether the battery is almost dead or not so i got it on charge and have the grey battery with a white flash inside... is this what i want for now until its charged? if so i'll keep you informed thamnks more than u know if uve helped me fix this, the reason i was flashing was because when i received it (no warranty!!) the screen sometimes flickered and it would constaly end up rebboting after digging around re that im lead to believe it need a new battery and for the connecting wires to be resoldered. Anyways thanks again n as I say i'll keep this updated
Cheers
Tony
one of the probs i hab/have with this unit is that it takes approx a day to fully charge!!! when i received it the screen flickered on the odd occasion but it was rebooting much more frequently. It came with stock n not messed with previously (i new this prior to purchase so got it for right price thinking it only needed flashing, how wrong was I!!!) so I flashed and encountered the above mentioned problems! thanks to stinka I surprisingly managed to flash a recovery... now provided all goes to plan, which rom would one suggest for stability and generally hassle free and prusuming the aforementioned probs, rebooting etc are still there what could i try to stop that? other than a debloated stock I found Lineage an excellent rom but still the problems got so bad the unit became unusable and was lucky not to go out the window. Im thinking do i start with a replacement battery and check the wires etc or could this still be a software issue??
if i endevoured to do the hardware myself would I attempt it by removing screen or the base for access to battery/connector??
Thanks again
In the tab s1 the best way is removing the back cover, but for some reason tab s2 seen to be the screen... at least in this guide: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Tab+S2+Battery+Replacement/56616
Look like alot more complex than the s1 :/
RoIlingThunder said:
In the tab s1 the best way is removing the back cover, but for some reason tab s2 seen to be the screen... at least in this guide: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Tab+S2+Battery+Replacement/56616
Look like alot more complex than the s1 :/
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Thanks for that!!!
Tony
does look somewhat OTT!!!
will i have to odin stock first then flash rom i want or will it go straight from first flash via twrp considering there is absolutely nothing on phone at mo apart from twrp.
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if i endevoured to do the hardware myself would I attempt it by removing screen or the base for access to battery/connector??
Thanks again
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My guess is your issue is lack of charge in the device. That's the reason for the flashing failure and the reboot loop with the firmware error.
Bang it on charge for a while then irrespective of what it's doing, whether it's looping or not, hold POWER + HOME + VOL DOWN until download mode appears.
Reflash the stock firmware with odin.
swapped battery and reflashed stock via odin. It has helped although the issues are all still there its just they happen less frequently which doesnt mean its any less frustrating.