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[Q] Did I fully brick my phone?

I was updating to froyo using the Odin installer and for some reason it stalled. I waited 10 minutes and nothing happened, it was stuck on DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!! aaand being the genius that I am reset the Odin installer and phone...now I get nothing. The phone is completely unresponsive, no ! screen or anything.
Am I screwed?
edit: sorry for posting this in the wrong forum, please move to Q&A if a mod gets a chance.

close EVERYTHING, take everything out of your phone (sim, battery, and sd card.) then put the battery in but DONT TURN IT ON. have your usb cable ready. hold the two volume buttons down, and then plug in your usb cable to the phone (it should be plugged into your comp) WITHOUT PRESSING ANY POWER BUTTONS. if you get back into downloader mode, you are fine and can then restore using odin or the i click restore

hmmm, well try this take out the battery sim card and ex sd if u got one, open odin, put the battery back in and plug the usb in while holdin the volume buttons, aka download mode... sometimes it doesnt work the first time just try it a couple more...

I did this with my phone. If nothing comes on screen when you plug in the USB cable and entering recovery and download mode don't work, then take thye phone back to AT&T, they accepted my bricked phone back. Just act dumb like you have no clue why it's broken.

I have a similar issue, however I can still get into the downloader..but it just hangs when restoring on factoryfs.rfs....
Any suggestions on that?

hazard96 said:
close EVERYTHING, take everything out of your phone (sim, battery, and sd card.) then put the battery in but DONT TURN IT ON. have your usb cable ready. hold the two volume buttons down, and then plug in your usb cable to the phone (it should be plugged into your comp) WITHOUT PRESSING ANY POWER BUTTONS. if you get back into downloader mode, you are fine and can then restore using odin or the i click restore
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I cannot explain how much you have just helped me at this moment. I did NOT expect this to work at all, and it did.
thank you, thank you THANK YOU truly

haha well seeing as you're new...
Welcome to the warm hearts at xda-developers

Have I mentioned how good it feels to see resolvable brick threads after the JH7 OTA disaster?

texasryno said:
I have a similar issue, however I can still get into the downloader..but it just hangs when restoring on factoryfs.rfs....
Any suggestions on that?
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This happened to me as well, is there anything I can do?

jonttu said:
This happened to me as well, is there anything I can do?
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Try a computer reboot / different USB port... sometimes USB gets interrupted when its flashing in big files like the factory.rfs

Zilch25 said:
Try a computer reboot / different USB port... sometimes USB gets interrupted when its flashing in big files like the factory.rfs
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Thank you, had to switch the usb to one that was directly on the board, again much gratitude

It seems my phone is fully bricked, I tryed the download method with taking out everything. Nothing turns on, its completley blackscreened. I did have it working, but now its completley unresponsive.

mrbloog said:
It seems my phone is fully bricked, I tryed the download method with taking out everything. Nothing turns on, its completley blackscreened. I did have it working, but now its completley unresponsive.
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Are you doing the method where you remove the battery first, hold the volume buttons (without power) and plug into USB? That *SHOULD* get you into download mode- if not, maybe check a different USB port.

Up and running, with Froyo to boot! Thanks again and good luck to those with problems. Thanks for the welcome again and I've made a donation in the site for saving my ass $500

HELP please HELP !!
I upgrade to Froyo and then wanted to go back to 2.1. The problem now I can only boot into download mode, but I tried to load other roms (one click, odin i9000 and Froy) and nothing happens! need help please!

dude, i love you for this.

monkas said:
I upgrade to Froyo and then wanted to go back to 2.1. The problem now I can only boot into download mode, but I tried to load other roms (one click, odin i9000 and Froy) and nothing happens! need help please!
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Can you clarify? Did you successfully upgrade to froyo or incur and error somewhere in the process. When you say that "nothing happens" what exactly does that mean?
What does ODIN show when you try to upload?

vsboxerboy1 said:
Can you clarify? Did you successfully upgrade to froyo or incur and error somewhere in the process. When you say that "nothing happens" what exactly does that mean?
What does ODIN show when you try to upload?
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Upgrade to Froyo successfully. Want to go back to 2.1 after using One Click Odin JF6 rom, it never ends. Following on from here, probe with OCD Froyo, eclair, odin and any rom could do to finish flashing. He stays in zImage and shows the status bar.
Any idea I can try?

monkas said:
Upgrade to Froyo successfully. Want to go back to 2.1 after using One Click Odin JF6 rom, it never ends. Following on from here, probe with OCD Froyo, eclair, odin and any rom could do to finish flashing. He stays in zImage and shows the status bar.
Any idea I can try?
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This may seem elementary but I noticed your tag says your location says Buenos Aires. Are you sure you have a Captivate and not an i9000?

JOe K. said:
This may seem elementary but I noticed your tag says your location says Buenos Aires. Are you sure you have a Captivate and not an i9000?
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Guys, good news! I recovered the phone and install Froyo. My error was that it came to how to download and then disconnect the USB and reconnected.
Joe K Captivate works perfect in Argentina because it uses the same bands as AT & T, send me a friend who lives in NYC, obviously unlocked.
Thank you all for your concern, I return to live!

[Q] Hard bricked Sidekick 4g. Is there a fix?

I was attempting to ODIN back to stock and it hung. Waited like 20min and got frustrated and pulled the battery. Now I get this screen. Is all hope lost?
I did try searching the forum before posting and all I found was soft brick action.
HELP!!!!
Since I a noob, no pics. The screen has cellphone with and error triangle then a computer. I can link to image in a pm.

So put it back into download mode and use Odin again.

I cannot get DL mode. The three button/battery out mode doesn't work. All I can get is the phone!comp icon.

whybillwhy said:
I was attempting to ODIN back to stock and it hung. Waited like 20min and got frustrated and pulled the battery. Now I get this screen. Is all hope lost?
I did try searching the forum before posting and all I found was soft brick action.
HELP!!!!
Since I a noob, no pics. The screen has cellphone with and error triangle then a computer. I can link to image in a pm.
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that isnt a hard brick you can still get into download mode and ODIN usually works from the screen with the triangle/computer. have ODIN open then pull out your battery then try reconnecting

ayoteddy said:
that isnt a hard brick you can still get into download mode and ODIN usually works from the screen with the triangle/computer. have ODIN open then pull out your battery then try reconnecting
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You are correct sir. I switched USB ports and ODN saw the phone. I couldn't get it to any other mode other than phone..!..comp. Tried ODIN and a little blue progress bar showed up. Thanks for the replys fellas, if you ever need a bartenders expertise, hit me up.
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Also want to let you guys know, if you didnt know already, that the usb jigs work on this device.

Help, my phone is not booting. only showing light on the button.

Please help me. My Infuse 4G doesn't boot. All I see was light on the button. This what happened. I want to go back to stock and use [ODIN][UCKE3] Return to stock (Updated 06/08/11) by gtg465x . I right click on Odin and run as Admin. Odin see my phone on a download mode. I select infuse.pit on PIT, PDA in Pda, and Phone in Phone. then click Start. It got stuck at factory.fs (don't remember the name actual name). It stuck there for so long, maybe like an hour. Then I decide to unplug and pull battery out. close the Odin and redo the step again. This time the status bar went half way and then got stuck again. I left it overnight just to see if it's actually finish and it never did. Just stuck there. Turn the phone on and i only see light on the button. Is my phone dead? I can still able to get to download mode but the phone won't boot.
I done return to stock so many times and was successful. This was the first encounter I had where Odin stuck and never complete it flashing.

Try things like reinstalling the drivers, another pc, another usb cable etc.

Thanks. Will try that and also i will try this [ODIN][UCKD5] Odin - Stock (100% or Root+3e) - (Update 06/05/11) since on FAQ #4 seem to be in my case. But if members had other recommendation, please post. thx in advance

cat2115 said:
Thanks. Will try that and also i will try this [ODIN][UCKD5] Odin - Stock (100% or Root+3e) - (Update 06/05/11) since on FAQ #4 seem to be in my case. But if members had other recommendation, please post. thx in advance
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Getting stuck on the factory.fs is pretty common here. You might try charging for a bit to see if you can get it to show signs of life. And that link up there^^^(UCKD5 Stock+Root+3e) has worked for me when gtg's didn't. Read the instructions for it carefully as you don't have to check as many boxes. You only need to load the file into the PDA slot. Also if you didn't have the drivers installed your phone wouldn't show up, so that's not your problem (although you could try re-installing them for **** and giggles)...
If THAT doesn't work try Adam's Heimdall one click HERE

If all else fails try a different PC. I had to and it worked like a charm.
Good Luck
Just my 2¢
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App

I had a similar problem last week I tried on my dads computer, nothing, then went to my computer since my computer had the drivers already on it cuz I used it to put music on my sd card it read it fine and they process went smoothly, so try on a computer that had had it
plugged it in before the problem and if it doesn't find threw phone restart they computer and re put the phone in download mode and try again and keep doing that till it recognizes the phone and it should work then
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Some times just trying a different USB port on the same computer will help to. Not sure why but on my laptop the USB port on the right my Captivate did not like for flashing but the one on the left side always worked right.

Thank you all for helping me out. My infuse is now back in business. I use [ODIN][UCKD5] Odin - Stock (100% or Root+3e) - (Update 06/05/11) but this one got my phone to always boot in recovery mode no matter what i did. So i decide to try Heimdall One-Click Back-To-Stock UCKJ4 + Easy CWM install [2.3.6] (FOR AT&T USERS) and then flash LinuxBozo's Defuse 1.5 kernel. Successfully flash it . However after using Heimdall One-Click, ODIN did not see my phone when it's in download mode. Besides that, everything went well.

cat2115 said:
Please help me. My Infuse 4G doesn't boot. All I see was light on the button. This what happened. I want to go back to stock and use [ODIN][UCKE3] Return to stock (Updated 06/08/11) by gtg465x . I right click on Odin and run as Admin. Odin see my phone on a download mode. I select infuse.pit on PIT, PDA in Pda, and Phone in Phone. then click Start. It got stuck at factory.fs (don't remember the name actual name). It stuck there for so long, maybe like an hour. Then I decide to unplug and pull battery out. close the Odin and redo the step again. This time the status bar went half way and then got stuck again. I left it overnight just to see if it's actually finish and it never did. Just stuck there. Turn the phone on and i only see light on the button. Is my phone dead? I can still able to get to download mode but the phone won't boot.
I done return to stock so many times and was successful. This was the first encounter I had where Odin stuck and never complete it flashing.
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I was stuck in Samsung logo. And cannot get into the Download mode. Could you help me with that? Or anyone?

pkayrat said:
I was stuck in Samsung logo. And cannot get into the Download mode. Could you help me with that? Or anyone?
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What have you tried so far to get in to Download mode?
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[Q] Bricked GT-P5113

I was trying to root my Galaxy Tab 2 for the first time. The process started, but failed. Now I'm stuck on the "firmware upgrade encountered an issue" screen. The device will turn off and back on, but remains on error screen. Seems to be trapped in download mode (as I can still see the download progress bar). Go Mobile and Odin say the device has connected to PC.
Anyone know of anything to fix this? Should I just revert to stock ROM and try again later?

davick said:
I was trying to root my Galaxy Tab 2 for the first time. The process started, but failed. Now I'm stuck on the "firmware upgrade encountered an issue" screen. The device will turn off and back on, but remains on error screen. Seems to be trapped in download mode (as I can still see the download progress bar). Go Mobile and Odin say the device has connected to PC.
Anyone know of anything to fix this? Should I just revert to stock ROM and try again later?
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can you actually boot in to download mode? power and vol down after power off? I know you say it seems to trapped in download mode but they're different! If you can, flash a stock rom from sammobile.com

squ89r97 said:
can you actually boot in to download mode? power and vol down after power off? I know you say it seems to trapped in download mode but they're different! If you can, flash a stock rom from sammobile.com
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I cannot boot into download mode. When I turn it off, it simply flashes off for a few secs then goes back to the error screen on its own. Does the same thing when I turn it back on myself. No logo screen. No droid. Nothing.
EDIT: Unplugged device entirely and retried the stock ROM in Odin. Finally worked! Looks like it might be fixed now.

davick said:
I cannot boot into download mode. When I turn it off, it simply flashes off for a few secs then goes back to the error screen on its own. Does the same thing when I turn it back on myself. No logo screen. No droid. Nothing.
EDIT: Unplugged device entirely and retried the stock ROM in Odin. Finally worked! Looks like it might be fixed now.
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Phew, glad to hear it. I've been there myself with the P3110 - take a step back, breath and relax. compose and BOOM! make backups! and backup some more!

squ89r97 said:
Phew, glad to hear it. I've been there myself with the P3110 - take a step back, breath and relax. compose and BOOM! make backups! and backup some more!
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One can never have too many backups. I back-up EVERYTHING, even software and drivers I know will become outdated eventually.
Thanks for the help. I also pressed the button. Plz don't thanksrage on me! *cowers*

davick said:
One can never have too many backups. I back-up EVERYTHING, even software and drivers I know will become outdated eventually.
Thanks for the help. I also pressed the button. Plz don't Thank Rage on me. *cowers*
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Better to have them and not need them, than not have them and need them - Thanks for thanking *Shakes fist and shouts "I'll let you off this once"*

davick said:
I cannot boot into download mode. When I turn it off, it simply flashes off for a few secs then goes back to the error screen on its own. Does the same thing when I turn it back on myself. No logo screen. No droid. Nothing.
EDIT: Unplugged device entirely and retried the stock ROM in Odin. Finally worked! Looks like it might be fixed now.
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It was already in download mode.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2

I think my cord might have an issue (or they're just testy in general). I was noticing the battery wasn't fully charging for a while before all this. After the whole brick issue, I plugged it in to charge and it started flashing the "loading charge (empty battery + loading circle)" screen on and off until I unplugged and re-plugged it. I suspect that this is why the rooting failed in the first place.

Hi you may use cf auto root for gt p5113 with odin.this happend to me couple days ago.
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I also bricked my tablet. Searched wide and low for ideas on how to fix. But I can't find a thing. I cannot get into Odin mode or recovery. Just hangs on the battery charging screen. My windows 7 computer can't even recognize it in Kies or odin. Yes the tablet is rooted.

Help please, think ive bricked one day old s6 edge

Flashed my o2 s6 edge with odin but it got stuck at nand write for over an hour, so i pulled the cable out, now the screen is stuck on download mode. Obviously cant pull the battery and the power button does nothing. Tried doing procedure again but then stuck on setupconnection. Is there anything i can do. Cant even switch phone off. Please help. Is it hard bricked, im so upset.

jadaress1 said:
Flashed my o2 s6 edge with odin but it got stuck at nand write for over an hour, so i pulled the cable out, now the screen is stuck on download mode. Obviously cant pull the battery and the power button does nothing. Tried doing procedure again but then stuck on setupconnection. Is there anything i can do. Cant even switch phone off. Please help. Is it hard bricked, im so upset.
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Try holding down power + volume down for a couple seconds. You should see the phone reboot. When it does, quickly press and hold the home button in addition to the power + volume down to re-enter download mode. Now you should be able to flash back to stock or whatever else.

Im so thankful of your reply, seriously. Im at work atm so ill try that in about 2 hours, really hope it works.. Anychance it could be hard bricked, im so scared.

jadaress1 said:
Im so thankful of your reply, seriously. Im at work atm so ill try that in about 2 hours, really hope it works.. Anychance it could be hard bricked, im so scared.
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I highly doubt your phone is hardbricked. I was in the same position you are now while trying to flash TWRP and the method has worked fine for me

Hope so

Thanks for your help, thankfully after it rebooted all was well. But still stuck with o2 branded handset, tried over again the dame thing keeps getting stuck at nand write. Im using odin 3.09 and ive updated kies, used different usb sockets. Any idea why its not workin?

use 3.10 odin if im not mistaken

jadaress1 said:
Thanks for your help, thankfully after it rebooted all was well. But still stuck with o2 branded handset, tried over again the dame thing keeps getting stuck at nand write. Im using odin 3.09 and ive updated kies, used different usb sockets. Any idea why its not workin?
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Disable Kies in Windows task manager before you use Odin or the flash may fail.

Yeh u were right i usrd odin 3.10 and it worked flawlessly, thanks to all who replyed and helped, id only received it a few hours ago, thanks so much x

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