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I am such a Dumba~~ -- Have bricked my wife's brand new I747 AT&T Galaxy S-III

I am officially an idiot. I've been on Android since Donut, but today I bought my wife here first ever Android phone (to replace her iPhone). And I've managed to brick it.
I successfully rooted her phone and successfully installed Clockwork Mod on her ATT version I747 Galaxy S3. Then I STOOPIDLY tried to install a tethering script from post no. 1 of this thread, but since trying, her phone has been dead, dead, DEAD. I have tried both (1) VOL_UP, Home and Power and (2) VOL_DOWN, Home and Power to wake it, but it's just dead, dead, dead. I can't get it to wake up, no matter what I try to do.
What can I do

So by wake it up do you mean it was off and holding down those keys while it was powering on?
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SoonerLater said:
I am officially an idiot. I've been on Android since Donut, but today I bought my wife here first ever Android phone (to replace her iPhone). And I've managed to brick it.
I successfully rooted her phone and successfully installed Clockwork Mod on her ATT version I747 Galaxy S3. Then I STOOPIDLY tried to install a tethering script from post no. 1 of this thread, but since trying, her phone has been dead, dead, DEAD. I have tried both (1) VOL_UP, Home and Power and (2) VOL_DOWN, Home and Power to wake it, but it's just dead, dead, dead. I can't get it to wake up, no matter what I try to do.
What can I do
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If you can't get the phone into download mode -- well it seems like you have hard-bricked the phone. For some reason I managed to do the same thing a week ago on my brand new s3 after installing a faulty ZIP (slimbean for that matter, and no I wasn't so dumb to flash the wrong file for the wrong model). It seems like that it requires a JTAG fix which we can't do without special tools in terms of hardware.
There's a dude on eB** named mitpick22 that sells the unbrick service. I have just received my phone back today and couldn't be happier.

SoonerLater said:
I am officially an idiot. I've been on Android since Donut, but today I bought my wife here first ever Android phone (to replace her iPhone). And I've managed to brick it.
I successfully rooted her phone and successfully installed Clockwork Mod on her ATT version I747 Galaxy S3. Then I STOOPIDLY tried to install a tethering script from post no. 1 of this thread, but since trying, her phone has been dead, dead, DEAD. I have tried both (1) VOL_UP, Home and Power and (2) VOL_DOWN, Home and Power to wake it, but it's just dead, dead, dead. I can't get it to wake up, no matter what I try to do.
What can I do
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pull the battery then check out this page http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-unroot/how-to-unroot-att-galaxy-s3-sgh-i747/
maybe you get back to stock and start over

SoonerLater said:
I am officially an idiot. I've been on Android since Donut, but today I bought my wife here first ever Android phone (to replace her iPhone). And I've managed to brick it.
I successfully rooted her phone and successfully installed Clockwork Mod on her ATT version I747 Galaxy S3. Then I STOOPIDLY tried to install a tethering script from post no. 1 of this thread, but since trying, her phone has been dead, dead, DEAD. I have tried both (1) VOL_UP, Home and Power and (2) VOL_DOWN, Home and Power to wake it, but it's just dead, dead, dead. I can't get it to wake up, no matter what I try to do.
What can I do
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Send it to a jtag or samsung!! when i was hardbricked sent it to samsung they cud fix it for free! blame samsungs software update!

I have tried:
(1) holding Vol-Down, Home and Power for over 30 seconds with a battery in;
(2) holding Vol-Down, Home and Power for over 30 seconds with no battery in, while connected via usb to my computer;
(3) holding Vol-Up, Home and Power for over 30 seconds with a battery in
(4) holding Vol-Up, Home and Power for over 30 seconds with no battery in, while connected via usb to my computer. ​Nothing ever comes on the screen. The closest that I can find to life is that when I first plug the phone into my PC with no battery inserted, the LED glows red for about 10 seconds. But no matter what I do, nothing ever comes on screen.

Have you tried removing the battery, holding home+vol+power for a while and reinsert battery while holding the buttons?
After a few try of this kind of buttons/battery dance it finally booted in download mode when I first ****ed up mine the same day I bought it
Good luck pal.
Oh and you should bake something for your gf.

UPDATE
So I went back to Sam's Club. They said that they'd be happy to replace, but they had no inventory and none of the other Sam's in my town had any either; that it would be about a week before they would have any more. The suggested I go to the AT&T Warranty Center which was a few miles away.
The Warranty Center put it on diagnostic equipment and tried a different battery. They confirmed that it's completely dead too. The W.C. said that an AT&T corporate store could replace it. They called the nearest one; spoke to the Mgr., who said that he'd be happy to replace it.
Drove to the corporate store, but by the time I was there, the Mgr. had changed his mind; said that he couldn't replace it without messing up his inventory levels and violating company rules; said that I had to return to Sam's.
Sam's says that they'll give me another when they get a shipment.

SoonerLater said:
So I went back to Sam's Club. They said that they'd be happy to replace, but they had no inventory and none of the other Sam's in my town had any either; that it would be about a week before they would have any more. The suggested I go to the AT&T Warranty Center which was a few miles away.
The Warranty Center put it on diagnostic equipment and tried a different battery. They confirmed that it's completely dead too. The W.C. said that an AT&T corporate store could replace it. They called the nearest one; spoke to the Mgr., who said that he'd be happy to replace it.
Drove to the corporate store, but by the time I was there, the Mgr. had changed his mind; said that he couldn't replace it without messing up his inventory levels and violating company rules; said that I had to return to Sam's.
Sam's says that they'll give me another when they get a shipment.
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The corporate store manager is bull****ting you. If he said that he would change it for you over phone, he can most likely do it without much trouble. He just didn't want to go through all the paperwork.
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Trying to reset before warranty claim

Hey guys,
Kind of an interesting question here. I've had my GS3 since summer and it's been running great. I was on a custom ROM with root (done without tripping binary), so it still says Samsung official and 0 flashes on the download screen, but it does say "custom" on the system status. Anyway, I hadn't done anything with flashing in several months. But the other day my phone just shut off and wouldn't turn back on. When I try, it vibrates, goes to the samsung splash screen, then shuts back down. Doesn't matter what I do, it won't get further than this. Can't boot into recovery or download mode with the button combos either. Won't read it on the computer or anything either. So I went out today and made a jig, thinking this would help. Well, it kind of did. It boots it into download for about five seconds, then shuts back off. So it's not enough time for me to get it to the computer and flash the stock ROM through Odin. I was thinking about trying to send it in to Samsung for warranty claim, because I had seen that people had luck with this when this was happening to a lot of GS3s in December. On several forums people said that Samsung was doing it no questions asked, regardless of root because they knew it was a hardware problem. So my question was just whether anyone here had any experience with it/Samsung? Or whether you guys thought I would be smarter to try and do it with AT&T? Anyway, thanks a lot for your time and input.

xThaNaturalx said:
Hey guys,
Kind of an interesting question here. I've had my GS3 since summer and it's been running great. I was on a custom ROM with root (done without tripping binary), so it still says Samsung official and 0 flashes on the download screen, but it does say "custom" on the system status. Anyway, I hadn't done anything with flashing in several months. But the other day my phone just shut off and wouldn't turn back on. When I try, it vibrates, goes to the samsung splash screen, then shuts back down. Doesn't matter what I do, it won't get further than this. Can't boot into recovery or download mode with the button combos either. Won't read it on the computer or anything either. So I went out today and made a jig, thinking this would help. Well, it kind of did. It boots it into download for about five seconds, then shuts back off. So it's not enough time for me to get it to the computer and flash the stock ROM through Odin. I was thinking about trying to send it in to Samsung for warranty claim, because I had seen that people had luck with this when this was happening to a lot of GS3s in December. On several forums people said that Samsung was doing it no questions asked, regardless of root because they knew it was a hardware problem. So my question was just whether anyone here had any experience with it/Samsung? Or whether you guys thought I would be smarter to try and do it with AT&T? Anyway, thanks a lot for your time and input.
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Did you get a new battery? Worth a try. AT&T might get you one on the spot to try at a corporate store. Otherwise I doubt AT&T will be able to tell if you rooted if you can't boot up.

aybarrap1 said:
Did you get a new battery? Worth a try. AT&T might get you one on the spot to try at a corporate store. Otherwise I doubt AT&T will be able to tell if you rooted if you can't boot up.
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Absolutely true, but if its not the battery the atat rep will point you to an atat service center for assistance and its a safe bet that they have a few more tools at their disposal to troubleshoot the phone. If they somehow see any system modification, you are capital F****d. Do you have the wireless insurance with atat? I just dealt with this except I dropped the phone, shattered the screen and it would only power on for 10 mins at a time and then reboot. I paid my $$$ deductable and sent the broken phone to the insurance provider and yes the system still showed as being "modified" when I sent it to them.
Sent from my Atat S3 that now thinks its a Galaxy Nexus........

I would send your s3 to Samsung if it still under warranty. I sent over my bricked s3 and they fixed it.
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[Q] I think it's bricked?

So my phone running CM 10.1, turned off randomly. So I tried to reboot but kept getting stuck on the Samsung boot logo. I rebooted to CWM recovery mode, wiped cache and dalvik and rebooted which I thought would fix the problem somehow which it did. However, when it said "Android upgrading, optimizing apps", my phone lost battery (thought the phone charger was plugged in). When I plugged it in the outlet properly this time, I got through the battery charging logo. But when I tried turning it on afterwards, nothing. The phone doesn't respond when I tried to turn it on. Took the battery off, placed it back and when I plug it into the outlet, there is no more battery charging logo and I can no longer reboot. How can I fix this? Somehow, the phone might be trying to continue to turn on but is not responding when I try to actually turn it on. When I plug the charger, take off the battery, unplug and replug charger, the battery charging led lights up for 5 minutes (which is weird cause I disabled the indicator led when charging in the system settings). I allowed it to be plugged in to the charger overnight and when I checked this morning, nothing. No symptoms that it was charging; no heat on the phone. Is not being able to charge a symptom of a bricked phone. I have yet to try using another battery.

If you can't power on or get to DL mode or anything and none of the buttons respond it could be a hard brick
Check here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2369125
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I checked at a Sprint store and the device they have couldn't make a reading off my battery meaning it was most likely dead. I'm gonna try with a new battery and hopefully my phone isn't actually bricked.

Best of luck sir
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Ah, just my luck. A Sprint representative placed another battery on it (I didn't see it though) and told me that the phone still won't turn on and told me he can open and check the phone if I pay. So, I think it is hard bricked. :crying: How did I brick it? Ugh..I'm just dismayed on the information and data I lost. What are my options? I heard Mobiletechvideos.com does a jtag brick repair with an option for internal sd card recovery?

bonsly16 said:
Ah, just my luck. A Sprint representative placed another battery on it (I didn't see it though) and told me that the phone still won't turn on and told me he can open and check the phone if I pay. So, I think it is hard bricked. :crying: How did I brick it? Ugh..I'm just dismayed on the information and data I lost. What are my options? I heard Mobiletechvideos.com does a jtag brick repair with an option for internal sd card recovery?
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I had to get a JTAG when I flashed a wrong kernel. Although when I got it back I had lost nothing still had custom ROM and recovery and all my data and apps were there. If its hard bricked its because something happened to the bootloader
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IDontKnowMang said:
I had to get a JTAG when I flashed a wrong kernel. Although when I got it back I had lost nothing still had custom ROM and recovery and all my data and apps were there. If its hard bricked its because something happened to the bootloader
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How can I know if I need a JTAG or my phone need an eMMC Chip Repair Replacement. What if my phone experienced a sudden death. If it's the latter, it's expensive as the website lists it for $150, almost the price of a new two-year contract phone.
Oh well, I'll send it in anyways for a jtag. Hopefully they can fix it.

bonsly16 said:
How can I know if I need a JTAG or my phone need an eMMC Chip Repair Replacement. What if my phone experienced a sudden death. If it's the latter, it's expensive as the website lists it for $150, almost the price of a new two-year contract phone.
Oh well, I'll send it in anyways for a jtag. Hopefully they can fix it.
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Its kind if hard to say if this was a brick or not. Usually sudden death is out of the blue, as far as I know the only way to achieve a hard brick is flashing a bad or international zip file
What's 150$ though? The emmc or the jtag
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I just experienced a similar problem as OP, and I didn't even flash a new ROM or international ROM. Since January, I've been using the ICS version of FreeGS3, stock kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748818
I haven't flashed any new ROM's since January 2013 and have not experienced any problems until now.
This morning, however, when I woke up, I discovered that my Sprint S3 was stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S III" logo. I pulled the battery and powered up, and it got stuck on the same logo again. I repeated this process several times and the same thing happened. After looking at some XDA threads, I went into recovery and decided to wipe cache and dalvik to see if that fixed anything. Again, the phone booted up and got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S III" logo again.
However, when I tried to boot into recovery again, I wasn't able to do so. I tried several times without any luck. I decided to see if I could put the phone into download mode. I did, and it was successful. I didn't do anything just yet because I needed to research more fixes before seeing what needed to be done. I put the phone into download mode several times without doing anything, but then later, the phone itself wouldn't power on.
No matter what combination of buttons I pressed, the phone simply wouldn't power on. I even tried other batteries which I knew were fully charged. When I put the phone on the charger or plug it into my PC, no charging lights light up. However, when I pull the battery an plug the phone into my PC, the charging light lights up and it the PC seems to try to install drivers. However, despite the charging light lighting up with the battery pulled, but phone plugged into the PC, I still can't get the phone to power on at all and therefore can't get into recovery or download mode.
It's similar to the problem the person in this video is having where he uses a jig to get back into download mode.
http://youtu.be/FdrdWqaXUBE
I have a jig on the way, so hopefully that helps fix my problems, but I don't really understand how the phone got bricked in the first place; First it was soft bricked when it got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S III" logo, but I was still able to get into recovery and download mode. Then, it was hard bricked when it wouldn't even power on to get into recovery or download mode. Did it get hard bricked because I went into download mode too many times? What might have caused it to be soft bricked. The thread for my ROM is now closed, so I don't know where else to ask these questions. I'll update you as I try to fix this problem. Any other suggestions are welcome.

Your device is not bricked your device doesn't even have a software failure. What you are describing is SDS sudden death syndrome.
Your power button has failed. It's defective and the manufacturer knows it. It fails at the motherboard not the physical button itself. Since you where able to get into download mode I suggest you return the device to stock unrooted, do a triangle away function and take it to Sprint. They usually repair of exchange it for you.
Have a great day!

edfunkycold said:
Your device is not bricked your device doesn't even have a software failure. What you are describing is SDS sudden death syndrome.
Your power button has failed. It's defective and the manufacturer knows it. It fails at the motherboard not the physical button itself. Since you where able to get into download mode I suggest you return the device to stock unrooted, do a triangle away function and take it to Sprint. They usually repair of exchange it for you.
Have a great day!
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Hmm...I suggest you are talking about the other poster since I am not able to power it on at all (Recovery nor Download mode). I don't have insurance nor have warranty, I don't think Sprint would be able to fix it without me paying an incredibly huge amount. I was hoping that my data would be recovered but now that you mention the possibility of sudden death syndrome, there's no way I can recover the data if it is. A sudden death syndrome would require a replacement of the eMMC which is rather costly.

@bonsly16 My apologies yes my reply was to Lawyerman... But you do have an alternative option, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43724690 many have had success and in many cases everything was there for them.
Have a great day!

[Q] Galaxy S3 wont boot passed logo screen please help me!!

My phone was charging while I was taking an nap and when I woke up my phone was off I also noticed it was hot so I turned it on and it wouldn't boot passed logo screen. I then went to bell and they would not replace it because there is a small crack at the top right of the screen which voids software warranty. One of the bell store employees attempted to put the phone in recovery mode but the process was stopped multiple times due to the fact that the phone only powers on for a few seconds. I don't have the money to buy another gs3, is there anyways to fix this. Doing some research on the phone and i believe it is hard bricked or something of that matter
*Update* Went to a cell repair shop, turns out its actually the power button that needs replacing and this is why the phone continually turns off and on and never reaches passed the logo screen. Apparently it's common for the power button to stop working or get all messed up on the gs3, if you have not rooted your phone or played around with the software the power button may be the cause of it not passing the logo screen and your phone might actually not be bricked

me too
KeeKeeB said:
My phone was charging while I was taking an nap and when I woke up my phone was off I also noticed it was hot so I turned it on and it wouldn't boot passed logo screen. I then went to bell and they would not replace it because there is a small crack at the top right of the screen which voids software warranty. One of the bell store employees attempted to put the phone in recovery mode but the process was stopped multiple times due to the fact that the phone only powers on for a few seconds. I don't have the money to buy another gs3, is there anyways to fix this. Doing some research on the phone and i believe it is hard bricked or something of that matter
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i have the same problem, my phone is from bell too but warranty is over its been like a month like this xS.

keviinricoy said:
i have the same problem, my phone is from bell too but warranty is over its been like a month like this xS.
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Im sorry mate, Bell is awful just a bunch of scumbags. If i can't find any help from here im going to go visit a cell repair shop to get some help. You should try to find some as well, google search cellphone repair shops in your area! I have very little knowledge of software on androids but apparently my phone needs to be flashed

Have you tried another battery. ...thats what I would try. Also make sure all your ports are clean and debris free.
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KeeKeeB said:
Im sorry mate, Bell is awful just a bunch of scumbags. If i can't find any help from here im going to go visit a cell repair shop to get some help. You should try to find some as well, google search cellphone repair shops in your area! I have very little knowledge of software on androids but apparently my phone needs to be flashed
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Yes i tried my friends battery, this sadly did not work.

recovery
Have you tried to boot into the phones stock recovery and clear it ? Or how about odin a stock rom ? Just trying to brainstorm, but I seriously do not think your phone is toast. I would try seaching these ideas and see if you have any luck....otherwise search for how to recover a bricked phone for your carrier...the same method might work to get you up and running again???

same thing happening to me...i can boot into recovery/download mode but only for 2-3 seconds and then the phone reboots itself...all started after I dropped it from my sofa earlier today. any suggestions anybody?

turns out it was the power button that was malfunctioning for me..got it repaired and now its working fine..

Screen is not working

My phone screen is not working, sometimes it displays pink color, sometimes black, nothing works.
I am sending it back to ATT for warranty replacement. How can I reset it to stock? how i will know, whether there is a water damage?
TIA

After search, I found that water damage, can be found on the battery or white strip under the battery.
How to get back to stock? I am unable to go into download mode, as I cannot see anything on screen.

atrix4nag said:
After search, I found that water damage, can be found on the battery or white strip under the battery.
How to get back to stock? I am unable to go into download mode, as I cannot see anything on screen.
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Try using Kies to install the stock ROM, i believe it will reboot the phone to download mode automatically from the normal power on state. This will not change your flash counter however, if it has been tripped.

I recently had to get a note 2 with a broken screen into download mode. It takes a bit of patience, but try holding power, volume down and home for around 5 seconds and then press volume up and plug it in. It took me a few tries to get right, but it's possible.
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Try this
It's up to you...
I had a water damage issue once with a phone, about 5-6 months ago. A friend told me to go to best buy and get their insurance for $12 per month, NO DEDUCTIBLE. I waited almost two weeks and went into a different Best Buy and said my son accidentally tipped my drink and spilled water on my phone and now it doesn't work. I got a new one, no questions asked without paying ANYTHING, except the first months payment when I signed up. Hell its worth a shot of you have nothing else to fall back on.
-Semper Fi

dntesinfrno said:
Try using Kies to install the stock ROM, i believe it will reboot the phone to download mode automatically from the normal power on state. This will not change your flash counter however, if it has been tripped.
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can you guide me how can I go back to stock ROM using kies, Thanks in advance.
after that is there a way to reset the counter/?

Greycloak42 said:
I recently had to get a note 2 with a broken screen into download mode. It takes a bit of patience, but try holding power, volume down and home for around 5 seconds and then press volume up and plug it in. It took me a few tries to get right, but it's possible.
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2 days back, when I used it, nothing displaying on screen, so I dont know, whether I am in download mode or normal mode. Now its in side the rice. I will check your method, once my phone starts showing something on screen.

DirtTrash said:
It's up to you...
I had a water damage issue once with a phone, about 5-6 months ago. A friend told me to go to best buy and get their insurance for $12 per month, NO DEDUCTIBLE. I waited almost two weeks and went into a different Best Buy and said my son accidentally tipped my drink and spilled water on my phone and now it doesn't work. I got a new one, no questions asked without paying ANYTHING, except the first months payment when I signed up. Hell its worth a shot of you have nothing else to fall back on.
-Semper Fi
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I am already getting warranty replacement. So I just want to get phone back to stock, before returning it.

atrix4nag said:
can you guide me how can I go back to stock ROM using kies, Thanks in advance.
after that is there a way to reset the counter/?
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I've never used it so someone can correct me if im wrong, but from what i understand all you need is to download kies, plug the phone in and it will recognize the device, then just tell it to update the firmware. I (think) it will download the latest full package, reboot the phone into download mode and install it. As far as reseting the flash counter the only way i know of is the triangleaway app which would be pretty hard to do with no display. Not really sure if something could possibly be done from an ADB shell.

dntesinfrno said:
I've never used it so someone can correct me if im wrong, but from what i understand all you need is to download kies, plug the phone in and it will recognize the device, then just tell it to update the firmware. I (think) it will download the latest full package, reboot the phone into download mode and install it. As far as reseting the flash counter the only way i know of is the triangleaway app which would be pretty hard to do with no display. Not really sure if something could possibly be done from an ADB shell.
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Sorry for late response.
After 2 days of keeping it inside rice, screen started working with some random colors and menu and back button not working. So i used tirangleaway app to reset the counter, and then installed stock rom, using ODIN.
Already sent it for warranty exchange, Lets wait for couple of weeks, if I didnt hear anything, then its all good.
No news is always a good news

If the flash counter is 0 and the rom is unmodified and unrooted then you are fine on that end, water damage is another story .