Database Info

Think I just bricked my new captivate

So I was trying to follow the SRE tutorial (new user can't post links)
and I followed step one and pressed start on ODIN and the program seemed to hang on file analysis and then my usb cable came unplugged and now my phone won't come out of download mode.
If I remove the battery think I will reboot to a brick?

From what i've seen, it's impossible to brick a captivate unless you do something to the hardware.
Worst case, you just flash it back to a stock rom and go from there.
So, it might temporarily be a brick, but not permanent.

No worries man.
Pull the battery
Shut down and restart your Odin one click program.
Plug the USB cable back into the phone.
Hold volume up/down and power at the same time ( I find the pinch method works well to acomplish the next step )
Slide the battery back in place.
Let go of the power button.
It should fire up in download mode, click start in Odin one click and watch it do it's thing.

Odin is very picky and it only works when it wants too now, at least with my compy... If it gives you any errors like file analysis, or COM port errors, restart your computer, and give odin another try.

Diametunim said:
If I remove the battery think I will reboot to a brick?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same thing happened here. I visited a tutorial on a website to install the lagfix and the same thing occurred to me. No problems, though. Simply remove your battery and the phone will turn off as usual.
Here's what I did to fix the issue: I'm on Windows 7 32-bit. I simply put Odin in WinXP SP3 compatibility and had it run as Administrator. Once it's opened, I remove my SIM card, and then try the program again.
Strangely, under those settings, Odin worked 100%.

stock JF6

does anyone have the stock JF6 Rom without using ODIN?
is it possible to flash it using ROM Manager?
I dont have a 3 button combo and tried using Terminal Emulator to put
my cappy on download mode but my PC wont detect my Captivate.
i wanted to Flash Cognition Froyo on my cappy but cant seem to flash back to JF6.
Thanks in advance and delete this thread if its redundant.

What are you currently running?
Sent from me

im currently running JH7

jazua said:
im currently running JH7
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should be ok to flash cognition but without getting three button combo working flashing can get risky
What build are you on?
Look under battery, mine is 1008
Sent from me

we are the same... mine is 1008!
so is it ok to flash cognition 2.3b8?
but it is recommended to flash back to JF6

Please try this
pull bat, sim, and ext sd
Put bat back in, plug in usb while holding volume up and down
An orange android with a shovel should come on screen
Let me know if you could do this
You can disconnect usb, pull bat, turn phone back on to boot normal
Sent from me

still no luck... been trying every button combo on different threads but still no go.
i can make my cappy into download mode by terminal app using command
"reboot download" but my PC wont detect it.

You can flash cognition but I would try to figure this out first. You don't jump out a plane without a parachute.
Can you transfer files to and from your phone while on if you mount
Sent from me

Yes my cappy and PC communicates even kies recognizes my phone...
i can even transfer files easily.
only in download mode that my PC wont detect my cappy.
it says USB device not recognize...

Have you downloaded odin, have you tried different usb ports
Sent from me

Yes i tried One Click Odin and the 3 Button Fix odin3 v1.3
and still cant detect it when phone is on download mode.
Odin can detect it when cappy is on and usb is plug.
i tried different USB ports but still no luck.
Btw, thanks in advance for giving some time on my problem...

Not a problem. I think there its a way to run odin as an administrator, but sure if this would make a difference. I believe you have to right click on the program then select administrator. I know this had helped some
As I said you should be ok to flash cognition, but if something goes wrong odin is the safety net. Without it, a bad flash can screw you up, not to say you will have a bad flash
Sent from me

Try this, some one with the same our similar issue posted this elsewhere
TigerEnigma said:
Ok, this action enabled Windows to recognize the USB device and Odin opened the Com port.
Instead of plugging the USB to the computer first, I got the device in download mode, plugged in the USB cable to the device first, then plugged it into the USB port on the computer...picked it right up.
Note: It is an older model laptop...the USB ports on the back are USB 1.0. I have a USB 2.0 card installed on the side, worked through that.
Now I have to go find out why Odin3 One-Click is hanging up. There is a post for that
Regards,
TigerEnigma
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sent from me
Sent from me

I will give it a try and i will try on different pc and laptops.
Ill will post the result later.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989&highlight=odin+jf6
this odin always takes me back to jf6.....hope it helps

Try deleting/uninstalling ur usb drivers and then try going into download mode.
Sent from my Rogers Captivate using XDA app

Finally i got odin detected my phone... just use a laptop cause my pc wont detect my cappy on download mode.
Thanks for the advise to all!

I bricked my phone!!!!!!

HELP! I was trying to frehsly install a rom..
so i used odin to "master clear" everything
it deleted everything!
hoping that in recovery mode, it'll let me "mount storage" so i can transfer my new rom into the phone, that didnt happen!!!
so, then i tried to go with odin 1 click to install i896 stock...
and it doesnt work , so i unplugged phone, and now i get that mobile phone error..
please help, the only thing i can do successfully do is put my phone in download mode! D:
PLEASE! PLEASE!
THANK YOU!

Open Odin, turn off your phone, hold the volume buttons, and plug it in to get it in download mode. Then use Odin to get stock rom on, then go from there.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Read carefully.....
ags on board said:
Open Odin, turn off your phone, hold the volume buttons, and plug it in to get it in download mode. Then use Odin to get stock rom on, then go from there.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
Go into the ODIN thread and read extensively. Since you can get into download mode, make sure that once you connect your phone you get the COM notification in ODIN. Mine always appears in the small box in the upper left portion of ODIN one-click (if you don't get this, reinstall the samsung drivers found in the ODIN thread and reboot. If you're running Win7, make sure you run ODIN as admin).
Master Clear does exactly what it says...it wipes all of your data. MC is only supposed to be used when your phone is on and fully booted up with USB debugging on.
Flashing back to stock should only take ~5 minutes max - if it halts unplug, pull your battery, wait a few seconds, and restart. If it continues to fail, try a different USB port. If using a PC, use the back USB ports. If it still fails, try a different system. (I had this issue this weekend and finally got it on the first run on my friend's laptop - not sure what happened, had flashed 5-6 times on mine previously).
Hope this helps. Once you're back to stock, be sure to thank designgears for his killer dev work!
EDIT:
PS It's pretty tough to brick a cappy - read extensively in the ODIN thread and you'll see what I mean.

Its always good practice to back everything up and know the step by step procedures before you ever do anything. Good luck!

Connexxions "how to" videos are VERY detailed and shows you step by step how to do just about everything on this phone. I highly recommend them.

don't panic, ur lucky that u can still get into download mode. that is just soft brick I think..
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

[Q] Please, help, phone stuck/Droid Charge

well, I guess I bricked my phone.
I tried to install Humble on it. Long story short, phone is connecting to Odin, any flashing fails.
Odin says "no PIT partition". tried to Odin PIT file on it, failed again, repartition failed.
all I have is black screen with white cell phone outline..yellow triangle...PC outline. that's it.
sort of like cell has issues connecting to PC?
phjone will not restart, only jumps to that logo on the screen right away.
btw, is Droid Charge same thing as Fascinate? there's no Droid Charge section here.

you did put the odin file in the pda section and only the pda section and phone in download mode batery out volume up plug usb in to do this if you put this in any section you could have bricked your phone and/or if you unplugged your phone in the proccess...
p.s. this is the charge forum...

You dont use a pit with humble only going back to stock rom. Start Odin, plug usb to main usb port of computer, take battery out of phone, put battery in phone. Now hold the down volume key while connecting the usb cable to your phone. You should see your phone go into download mode. Select pda function and search for the humble .tar or .md5 file, Dont select re partition. Hit start and you should be good to go. The latest humble ep4d comes with cwm etc already in it. If you are coming from humble 5.0rc2 then you need to follow those instructions. I might go about things the long way but its the only way I know how. Its was easier for me to just install
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1365376
as it has everything all packaged.

fixed it. was simple cause - basically, it was telling that there was failing connection between phone and PC. that's what logos were about.
I moved USB cable to a different port, on a hunch, and suddenly it all worked like a charm.
got Humble on, done - almost - with set up.
thank you.

Wasn't I helping you over on AndroidForums.com?
Anyways, glad you got back up and running.

Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A

[Q] Soft Brick on the Phone (wonky SD Card twist)

Heya folks,
Sorry if this seems like a redundant post, but I'm unable to find anything specific for my little scenario which runs as follows:
So I was attempting to flash my phone w/ infinityROM through CWM, but after the flash, my Droid Charge will not get past the Samsung loading screen Now here is where it gets complicated before you start referring me to the Odin threads to flash it w/ the PIT file:
When hooking my phone up to ANY PC (regardless of Windows OS), Windows recognizes that my phone is connected, but will not let me access the SD card on the phone. It pops up as both a CD drive and a Removable drive in Windows and when navigating to it, Windows comes back saying, "Please insert disk into [drive]." Looking under Disk Management, it says that there is no media for the drive in question. I even swapped in a new microSD into it (after copying everything over from the original) and it was still coming up with the same thing, so same symptoms using both microSD cards.
(If you're wondering how I was able to flash infinityROM, I had to use a USB drive w/ a microSD adapter, put the .zip for the ROM on there then put it back into the phone and flashed it through CWM as normal; and yes, wiped the data and the Dalvik cache ).
As it stands right now, I can't load up into CWM to even try a restore (which I did before trying to flash it) and it won't boot up into Download mode to even try an Odin flash.
Any help on this would really, really be appreciated (the sooner, the better obviously ). If you need more information, let me know and I'll provide it as necessary.
Thanks!

can you get into download mode? by remove battery, then plug in usb cable , then hit the vol down button. You should see yellow triangle. Put battery backin and use Odin to recover.

I can't even get into Download mode. That was one of the first things I actually tried =(

This may work:
1. Removed SD and SIM card
2. Removed battery
3. plugged the phone into USB
4. held down vol-up and vol-down
5. popped the battery back in while holding vol buttons
good luck.

Got into D/L mode and Odin's recognizing it... trying the recovery right now. I'll let you know how it goes (and in advance, thank you mate! =D)

If you can get back into download mode you're 100% safe.

Quick question: Would a full recovery via Odin wipe out CWM thereby making me having to reinstall it?

Only If you're using PIT file method recovery, yes Odin will be wipe. But this is no big deal, just Odin the cwm back.

Eureka! Got it booting into a stock Gingerbread ROM! Now to re-do CWM and try flashing this thing again... thanks for your help buhohitr =D