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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...
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[/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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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.
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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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Dear all. I have a note II that has gone wild. The phone was working fine but then I received a note 4 and put the note 2 aside. Then I was trying to install root and was able to do so by installing TWRP V2.8.3 and everything went smooth and the phone was rooted. I then used the phone for a while but switched to the note 4 after. Now, 5 months after, I wanted to check something on my olde note II. I charged the phone and switched it on but it was stuck on the Galaxy note II screen I rebooted then rebooted but still the same. I went in the TWRP recovery to try to do something but I was not able to because it says that it cant mount storage, cant mount efs, cant mount data, cant mount cache and cant mount system.
Then I have decided to install the firmware image from zipped file but that did not work as it sees that the internal and external storags are 0 and cant mount them.
Then I opted to try and install the firmware PDA through Odin but that also did not work as Odin was not able to detect the phone. Now I'm clueless and not sure what to do the only thing I'm able to do is boot in TWRP recovery and that is all. Can any one help.
My phone had the latest official rom from samsung the 4.4.2
Please help
classic, just search. there is a thread with tutorial how to get your n2 back to life. you could also have sds, but try different odin and flash with pit
Ok now I'm in a worse situation. I have managed to get to the download mode and connected it to ODIN and tried to flash with the stock rom but at the end of the writing process it failed and started to get a message on the phone to connect my device to kies and try again. I tried that but did not do anything. Then I tried Odin again but this time I unticked the auto reboot. then clicked start. The same thing happened as before and writing failed now though my phone is blank it does not show anything and it does not want to turn on and no LED that is turning on nor the charging icon. I searched the net and someone suggested that the battery is damaged. I replaced the battery but still no go. Please I really need to get that phone back alive. I think I bricked it. any ideas or directions to help me with this annoying case. I cant even boot to recovery nor download please help
No one can help
sambosat said:
No one can help
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Odin dont detect Phone in Download mode, right?
So test another USB hub or an other or Official Samsung USB connector.. When nothing work try another PC and Flash the Firmware in PDA.
Christopher11 said:
Odin dont detect Phone in Download mode, right?
So test another USB hub or an other or Official Samsung USB connector.. When nothing work try another PC and Flash the Firmware in PDA.
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Finally someone gave me an advise. Thank you Chris. The problem is the phone is blank and cant go to download mode. It looks like that I have bricked it and not sure how to get back
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Finally someone gave me an advise. Thank you Chris. The problem is the phone is blank and cant go to download mode. It looks like that I have bricked it and not sure how to get back
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Can you make a Video what exactly happens when you :Remove battery and Restart phone, Restart phone into Download Mode and/or Recovery? Thx :good:
Christopher11 said:
Odin dont detect Phone in Download mode, right?
So test another USB hub or an other or Official Samsung USB connector.. When nothing work try another PC and Flash the Firmware in PDA.
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Christopher11 said:
Can you make a Video what exactly happens when you :Remove battery and Restart phone, Restart phone into Download Mode and/or Recovery? Thx :good:
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As I said when I remove the battery and insert it back the phone remains blank no response to any button pressed.
What I did is that my phone was stuck on opening screen samsung screen. Then someone suggested to flash it with the stock rom. So I went to Sammobile site and downloaded the latest firmware. I tried to install it to my phone using ODIN and just before the end. ODIN failed. I tried it the second time and the same happened. then the third time I read that I have to untick auto reboot. I did and tried ODIN for the 3rd time and on the third trial I got the same fail message and then I wanted to boot into download mode for the forth time but this time the phone went dead and not responding to any button press. I hope that this explains the situation
Hmmm.. That Sounds really tricky.. Never saw a Device before thats so bricked.. When really nothing worked from this Forum may you let an expert give a look on your Phone, i know some official Samsung shops, maybe they can help.. Sry that i cant hell you like you want it and sry for my Bad English.. Good Luck with your Note 2
Christopher11 said:
Hmmm.. That Sounds really tricky.. Never saw a Device before thats so bricked.. When really nothing worked from this Forum may you let an expert give a look on your Phone, i know some official Samsung shops, maybe they can help.. Sry that i cant hell you like you want it and sry for my Bad English.. Good Luck with your Note 2
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No worries bro. At least you are trying. I have never seen this before either and I'm stumped and where I'm I dont think I can find any samsung pro shop. All what they are going to say is the motherboard is dead and you need to change it. I do have another phone but I hate it when a devise does this to me
I installed TWRP on my note 7 then format everything and after that my note 7 does not turning on. Just stuck on Samsung Logo. I am trying to flash with stock ROM by ODIN but always failed to install the stock rom on note 7.
After formatting every thing my Recovery (TWRP) also go. there is no recovery on my Note 7. I am just able to enter download mode. I can not able to enter recovery mod. I am trying to install rom, twrp, pit file by odin but all are failed by odin.
last night I tried by smart switch also. I have download the whole data by smart switch. even I have download tree times the whole process of smart switch but after downloading the big file smart switch said can not communicate with my note 7. Though odin can communicate with my note 7 but smart switch can not able to communicate with my note 7
Add all your files in Odin (AP/BL/CSC etc etc) and under the options tab check update bootloader and press start. As soon as you press start hold down Home + VolDown so if it fails you go back into download mode straight away. As soon as you re-enter download mode click start in odin. Repeat until it succeeds. It took me 4 tries. Also make sure you're flashing the correct firmware. I used samfirm to download it. Good luck.
Edit: i didn't use pit file.
azzicles said:
Add all your files in Odin (AP/BL/CSC etc etc) and under the options tab check update bootloader and press start. As soon as you press start hold down Home + VolDown so if it fails you go back into download mode straight away. As soon as you re-enter download mode click start in odin. Repeat until it succeeds. It took me 4 tries. Also make sure you're flashing the correct firmware. I used samfirm to download it. Good luck.
Edit: i didn't use pit file.
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Trying more than 20 times, but no luck! Thanks
shaifullah.ahad said:
Trying more than 20 times, but no luck! Thanks
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I think you're gonna have to use sideload (ADB) to get your phone up and running again. There are a number of instruction guides
here on xda to guide you through the process. Also youtube has a number of instruction videos on how to sideload the necessary
files to get your phone up and running. Finally, be very careful when using the formatting feature in TWRP, make sure that you fully
understand what you're doing. As you've learned you can get into serious trouble tinkering with functions that you don't fully understand.
Good luck, I'm sure you'll have your phone back up and running soon
I appreciate you sir! Obviously I will let you know first if I could manage to unbrick my note 7.
Ozzief16a said:
I think you're gonna have to use sideload (ADB) to get your phone up and running again. There are a number of instruction guides
here on xda to guide you through the process. Also youtube has a number of instruction videos on how to sideload the necessary
files to get your phone up and running. Finally, be very careful when using the formatting feature in TWRP, make sure that you fully
understand what you're doing. As you've learned you can get into serious trouble tinkering with functions that you don't fully understand.
Good luck, I'm sure you'll have your phone back up and running soon
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I appreciate you sir! Obviously I will let you know first if I could manage to unbrick my note 7.
shaifullah.ahad said:
I appreciate you sir! Obviously I will let you know first if I could manage to unbrick my note 7.
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Yes at last I am able to flash my note 7 successfully. thanks.
shaifullah.ahad said:
Trying more than 20 times, but no luck! Thanks
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Did you do it quickly over and over again as fast as you can? I dunno if that's what helped me but I had a similar issue.
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Hi!
I follow a stupid tutorial about install TWRP.
After open bootloader and install TWRP my phone won't go throught bootloader.
Just show Samsung Galaxy A50 and bellow write, this not original samsung software and blah blah blah..
Not possible to turn on, when try to turn on, just restart and show again the same.
When plug down battery connectors, won't start only if press all 3 buttons on side.
Download mode also not working, volume up + power not working.
What can i do with this situation?
Thanks in advance!
I used that one, http://www.droidthunder.com/install-twrp-recovery-on-galaxy-a50/
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I used that one, http://www.droidthunder.com/install-twrp-recovery-on-galaxy-a50/
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Power off,connect phone to pc press volume up and down.Will go to download mode
you must reinstall the stock software and the bootloader, from wich country you are
EndlessGOD said:
I used that one, http://www.droidthunder.com/install-twrp-recovery-on-galaxy-a50/
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what are you doing? You make a question and you answer it by your self or you just want to put the web link to get more visitor to your website. If you know the answer why you ask it It's like ridiculous
I think you messed up your boot files. Use odin and set back to official firmware!
EndlessGOD said:
Hi!
I follow a stupid tutorial about install TWRP.
After open bootloader and install TWRP my phone won't go throught bootloader.
Just show Samsung Galaxy A50 and bellow write, this not original samsung software and blah blah blah..
Not possible to turn on, when try to turn on, just restart and show again the same.
When plug down battery connectors, won't start only if press all 3 buttons on side.
Download mode also not working, volume up + power not working.
What can i do with this situation?
Thanks in advance!
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i m also in this problem please anyone help us please