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I was trying to flash from Gummy charge GBE back down to Gummy 1.9.1 and it flashed okay but after trying to reboot the phone. I kept getting bootloop and now the phone wont go into download. Any suggestions?
It displays the Samsung logo, though? If so, then you're only soft-bricked and can almost certainly recover. There are several things you can try. I'd try the one-click unbrick. If that doesn't work, you can buy or make usb jig to hoodwink it into download. At the VERY worst, you can pay to have someone JTAG it with a riff box, which can typically save even hard-bricked phones.
Here's some more information, including a link to the one-click unbrick (steps you should try to get it into download are at the very top of his original post):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1153310
I've got the same problem but one step further, it won't even go into downlaod mode. No matter what I try it is just a black screen like the device is completely dead.
What happen was I was in the middle of a flash last night taking it device back to stock as I just received a replacement unit from VZW becasue of a hardware issue and had ep1w on the one getting returned. So before sending it back I wanted to get EE4 back on it. Well in the middle of the flashing the dam power went out at the house for no reason as there was no bad weather. Anywhoo once it came back on I was going to try reflashing obviously but as I mentioned above its like the device is toasted as nothing happens no matter what I try. Is there any hope of reviving it, or should I not worry about it and just send it back to VZW seeing as I got my refurb now anyways and this was a defect. My only concern is I don't need to get hit retail on it if they seeing it has a different OS on it then what it should. However I'm not even sure what is on it because I don't know where the flashing process was when the power went out. Any input or advise is greatly appreciated.
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Use UnBrickable Mod. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245391
I can work with you directly and its free. I don't have a droid charge but it's based on the exact same System on a Chip as Galaxy S phones. This is the DIY method when a 301kOhm Jig fails.
Your other option is sending it in for JTAG. MobileTechVideos.com will do it for $40.
AdamOutler said:
Use UnBrickable Mod. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245391
I can work with you directly and its free. I don't have a droid charge but it's based on the exact same System on a Chip as Galaxy S phones. This is the DIY method when a 301kOhm Jig fails.
Your other option is sending it in for JTAG. MobileTechVideos.com will do it for $40.
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He's soft bricked, not hard bricked.
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AdamOutler said:
Use UnBrickable Mod. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245391
I can work with you directly and its free. I don't have a droid charge but it's based on the exact same System on a Chip as Galaxy S phones. This is the DIY method when a 301kOhm Jig fails.
Your other option is sending it in for JTAG. MobileTechVideos.com will do it for $40.
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I might have a candidate. This one's (Droid Charge) basically new, never been wet. Battery warms up after charger plugged it but as far as any other indications i.e. lcd, keys, lights.... nothing, totally dead. This is how I bought it so no other info other than I tried the well documented boot/recovery/upload procedures. Ive done alot of small electronic repairs on numerous devices(not always successful) but other than the fascinate I just changed the lower key interface on I never worked on Samsungs before. I am going to open it to look for something abvious next.
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I might have a candidate. This one's (Droid Charge) basically new, never been wet. Battery warms up after charger plugged it but as far as any other indications i.e. lcd, keys, lights.... nothing, totally dead. This is how I bought it so no other info other than I tried the well documented boot/recovery/upload procedures. Ive done alot of small electronic repairs on numerous devices(not always successful) but other than the fascinate I just changed the lower key interface on I never worked on Samsungs before. I am going to open it to look for something abvious next.
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Send me a pm.
After 3 months with Samsung repair they finally agreed their Chinese knockoff 1010 Captivate was faulty and gave me a brand new 1108.
The Samsung repair guy even told me that they had different runs of 1007-1010, half of the batches were Korean parts and built solid, and other runs where it had many Chinese made parts and built hastily.
My 1010 had to be from China town. It had a bad speaker, flimsy power button, flimsy latch on bottom of phone that holds back cover on, it wouldn't stay in place. And the GPS didn't work for squat, which if it wasn't for the fact it sometimes locked onto one sat, I would think there wasn't a GPS chip in that phone at all.
I never dropped my old phone, and it even had a Bodyglove case on it since I got it. And now that I think about it, the old 1010 Captivate battery definitely said Made in China, this 1108 has a battery that says Made in Korea. I'm really happy with this new 1108 Captivate, GPS works great and everything is a lot better.
Anyway, long story short I used Odin3 1-click to flash KH1 and it failed midway through the flash for no reason apparent to me, except that newer phones are specific about how they like to be flashed? I used Odin3 1-click for some other bootloaders and it worked. I read about it before trying anything with this new Captivate and heard that Odin3 was supposed to be OK...
I'm stuck at the brick screen that has the icon Phone--Exclamation Point--PC. Nothing works to get into download mode, USB battery pull, all different button combos and timing with unplugging usb and putting battery in, releasing power button.
I've tried everything but a jig. Is this a known problem with newer captivates that a jig is the only way to unbrick it from the Exclamation Point screen? What if a jig doesn't work? OMG I don't know if Samsung will even talk to me if I try to replace it again.
The screen you see is download mode, just slightly different. Odin should detect it, and you should be able to try flashing again.
No luck, bootloader is gone and for some reason Samsung disabled 3-button. I'd say I'm really lucky the flash didn't stop at another point. I'm gonna need to try a jig.
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No luck, bootloader is gone and for some reason Samsung disabled 3-button. I'd say I'm really lucky the flash didn't stop at another point. I'm gonna need to try a jig.
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If Odin doesn't read it then it's back to AT&T. Tell them you accidentally pulled the usb from the computer while you were transferring files. I had the captivate from sept 10 til oct 11. The jig won't work. Its either go to AT&T or send it off for jtag.
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Anyway, yesterday I ordered a jig off Amazon Prime overnight and the Lasership guy was delivering it as I was leaving for work 8AM EST. CBA with the 300k resistor cause lining up the pins is a pain, and my hands sweat too much, hyperhydrosis... But dang that was a fast delivery.
And the jig worked too, as I knew it would because 3-button was still rebooting the phone, just not going to DL mode. And the bootloader flash randomly stopping and saying flash failed wasn't completely user error. I should have flashed the individual pda, not used 1-click, but Samsung changed something in the newer captivate batches.
Samsung probably felt like screwing everyone who doesn't use their s**tty touchwiz, that or ATT had a hand in it. Then on top of that the 3-button is disabled.
Of course the jig is still going to work because Samsung isn't going to JTAG everything, they would just rather use a bluebox jig on any phones that came in bricked.
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No luck, bootloader is gone and for some reason Samsung disabled 3-button. I'd say I'm really lucky the flash didn't stop at another point. I'm gonna need to try a jig.
[steveo314]
If Odin doesn't read it then it's back to AT&T. Tell them you accidentally pulled the usb from the computer while you were transferring files. I had the captivate from sept 10 til oct 11. The jig won't work. Its either go to AT&T or send it off for jtag.
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Of course the jig is still going to work because Samsung isn't going to JTAG everything, they would just rather use a bluebox jig on any phones that came in bricked.
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WOW some people can't listen.
And no one said send it to Samsung for a JTAG. There's a guy here on xda that'll do it for $40. Samsung will charge you over $100.
Samsung does not do jtag.. at least not in their service manuals.
I do UnBrickable Mod for $30 + shipping. UBM is far superior to JTAG. You can delete all the bootloaders on your device or replace them with your favorite Justin Beiber MP3 and UnBrickable Mod will still allow you to access download mode.
We put the device into a debug mode where it will accept a memory input from USB rather than booting from a flash.
steveo314 said:
WOW some people can't listen.
And no one said send it to Samsung for a JTAG. There's a guy here on xda that'll do it for $40. Samsung will charge you over $100.
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Sorry if it sounded like I was replying to you, I wasn't. My friends were also telling me "o no! black screen of death, jig won't work, it's bricked for good."
It was just a general statement, it wasn't directed at you. I didn't mean I was going to send it to Samsung to have it unbricked/JTAGed whatever. I meant that Samsung has purposefully made newer of Captivates easier to brick, but they didn't go so far as to make them permanently brick, they didn't disable the jig method.
Samsung knows they will see a lot of those bricked phones come back to them from Asurion/ATT Warranty Repair to turn into refurbs and they don't want to have to crack open every single one to unbrick them, that's why they left the jig method in place.
AdamOutler said:
Samsung does not do jtag.. at least not in their service manuals.
I do UnBrickable Mod for $30 + shipping. UBM is far superior to JTAG. You can delete all the bootloaders on your device or replace them with your favorite Justin Beiber MP3 and UnBrickable Mod will still allow you to access download mode.
We put the device into a debug mode where it will accept a memory input from USB rather than booting from a flash.
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Dang, that's awesome. I want to get that mod because I have a feeling a bootloader flash will brick the phone again, and I won't be so lucky with a jig next time.
How long after you receive the phone before the mod is done and it's shipped back?
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Dang, that's awesome. I want to get that mod because I have a feeling a bootloader flash will brick the phone again, and I won't be so lucky with a jig next time.
How long after you receive the phone before the mod is done and it's shipped back?
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It takes me about 1-2 hours total and I send it back as soon as I can. Shipping is the major delay.
This thread has been closed due to unnecessary flaming and fighting. Finish your business with Adam via PM.
Soo I have a big problem,
My sidekick 4g suddenly shut off and directly went into Download Bootloader. It would only stay in that window for about 3 seconds then restart. So I tried doing Odin but it would never stay in download mode long enough. After a while, the phone stopped turning on and now it does not even charge. I believe I have hard bricked the phone. When I leave it on the charger. I see no indication that it is charging but the battery gets warm. Is there any hope for me to fix this phone?
Please let me know ASAP. Thanks!
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Soo I have a big problem,
My sidekick 4g suddenly shut off and directly went into Download Bootloader. It would only stay in that window for about 3 seconds then restart. So I tried doing Odin but it would never stay in download mode long enough. After a while, the phone stopped turning on and now it does not even charge. I believe I have hard bricked the phone. When I leave it on the charger. I see no indication that it is charging but the battery gets warm. Is there any hope for me to fix this phone?
Please let me know ASAP. Thanks!
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Does the device even show up as a USB vendor/product id? See that with `lsusb` on Linux or the Device Manager on Windows.
It might be worth trying ayoteddy's FOOL PROOF WAY TO GET INTO DOWNLOAD MODE here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1186954
Perhaps if you trigger the phone to enter download mode that way, it won't just continually reboot...
Beyond that, I think you'll be looking at hardware-level fixes. If the phone isn't literally fried, it can almost certainly be repaired with JTAG. But that would involve a JTAG interface which I am guessing you don't already have.
You might be able to find someone who will JTAG for you for free, or for a fee. A local phone repair shop might have this capability.
If you're damn good with a soldering iron, or have a friend who is, there's also AdamOutler's "UnbrickableMod":
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347984
That mod is not for the feint of heart, you need to take the phone almost entirely apart and do soldering work within the area of a grain of rice... but it is possible.
But all the options assume that the only problem with the device is a bad flash -- damaged boot loader, bad kernel/recovery, etc. The way you describe your phone's demise, a hardware failure certainly seems like a possibility.
Good luck, I hope your device is not dead.
FWIW, SK4G goes for ~$100-200 on eBay these days depending on condition. Locally you could probably find lower prices.
Wow thanks for all the info but i tried ayoteddy. Since the phone doesnt even power on , i cant do what teddy says. And no, after a few failed odins, the comp doesn't even see the phone. But that's also because the phone doesn't turn on. I even put a charged bat. Still no go
helodavelo said:
Wow thanks for all the info but i tried ayoteddy. Since the phone doesnt even power on , i cant do what teddy says. And no, after a few failed odins, the comp doesn't even see the phone. But that's also because the phone doesn't turn on. I even put a charged bat. Still no go
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It really sounds like a hardware failure.
If you are committed to trying everything to rescue your particular device, you could double down and try a new battery. You risk wasting whatever money you spend on it, of course.
If I recall correctly, the SK4G can't operate properly without some battery current, even when plugged into USB. And the other symptoms seem to leave the door open on battery problems -- sudden power down, brief signs of life which eventually cease, hot battery. The sudden failure of a lithium battery would hardly be unusual.
I have seen an issue very similar to this before. It turned out to be a loose connection inside the phone. Might want to disassemble and reassemble carefully to ensure that the connections are secure. Youtube has dis-assembly videos to guide you. You don't have to completely disassemble the phone, just til you reach the main board and secure the connections to it. If you don't feel like you can hand the task of dis-assembly you could always search for a local phone repair business, or even computer repair shop (they often do some phone repairs). Hope this helps
Hey there, I am trying to fix a SK4G with the exact same problems... download mode will show up, but then the screen will go blank again. I'm gonna look into what blk2dr suggested... did you ever fix yours, OP?
root? so Warranty it, not saying its the most "ethical way"
out of curiosity what was the last, well as samsung would put it, hac...ERRRR unsupported warranty voiding modification known to us as upgrade/flash eg. via cwm odin rom app add on modem kernel etc. that was done to the ol SK? or is it just straight up faulty craftsmanship from samsung...nooooo on a SK4g??? is that possible? lol moving a rom around from folder to root of sd once (zip prev passed md5 check) my 2nd or was it 3rd t839 had a lil hiccup that i didnt realize at the time made my custom Roms zip like 47kb smaller then it previously was and should of been, when flashing is 2nd nature and ur just moving it within the same sd card its already checked out on the md5 sum and ur dealing with a 200+/-mb file, whos gonna notice that minor change? to make a really long story just kinda long, into voodoo cwm flash, let it marinate... phone ran great for 4 days, then i decided i was going to clear cache davlik fix permish and reboot...yea went into cwm wiped wiped and half way thru fix permish phone crashed rebooted back into recov, when i tried to reboot sys it had your same exact issue. DL mode for just a second...then all black yet slightly backlit screen. could never get it to stay long enuff to odin back to stock, fullproof DL mode was a no go and of course the battery died, wouldnt recharge. i played dumb went to tmo store dude tesed phone with new batt my batt in other sk etc etc...anyways he charged my battery up enuff it flared back into dl mode for a few sec...my fix? hours and days headin into weeks of jackin with this thing i went with my cure all root REUPwarranty fix...flash a bad freakin bootloader thru odin and kill it once ad for all, DL mode only needs to be on about 4 sec, not long enough to go back to stock rom but long enuff to kill that B. prefered bootloader is i9000 haha works like a champ everytime to every rooted phone that had issues i needed a warranty exchange on(only been 4) seeing how i get a new phone every 3months on avg and always pay full price the ratio is tiny. yeah i know the trickle down effect raising costs from manufacture in long run yadayada. all is true, but i figure ive been kicked in the groin so many times by samsung,lg,moto,htc etc they can eat 1 every now and then. as a tmo employee in 07/08 i paid 500 upfront for the mda that got back ordered for 6 months had 2 bad dead spots in the touch screen within a month and screen went completely white in 3mnths. some employee/warranty fine print screwed me out of a new phone. and dont even get me started on the sidekick. 399 bucks for a phone that basically got abandoned 3 months later cuz it was junk compared to what it should be and breaks in high quanities. theyll still tax u 20 bucks and make u keep ur old battery and cover charger etc so im not losin any sleep, for real kill it for good, run it to the store get ur new err rebuilt refurb SK4g in 2 days then save up for a t989 s2 dl gmote/spashtop and poweramp on ur SK4g and let her roll as a wireless keyboard/mousepad for ur pc and let the voodoo and Pamp rock as a killer mp3 player. thats all the T-urd-839 is really good for anyways, oh yea and a mediocre bt controller for playin games on my S2's lol do the warranty, its samsung/TMOs fault for lettin this junk product get released, abandoning it and overcharging so many of us. Just do it, do it lol
pull battery, connect usb, hold power, volume up, volume down, camera, and tackpad and insert battery. It should FORCE the phone into download mode.
try it lol~
My motherboard has quit working probably from rooting and overclocking. If anybody has any or know somebody that does I would highly appreciate it.
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Can you describe in detail why you believe its the motherboard...rooting should have no affect on the mother board and the oc levels in the kernels are set at safe/stable levels...but being a fairly old phone it could've jut crapped out lol
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probably a stuck power button
The first thing that happen, I tried to flash the Samsung ics rom with touchwiz ui, then it would come back one. I finally fixed it once and it had froyo so I tried to flash gingerbread from Odin and that's the last place it messed up. I've tried everything from gtgs ultimate unbrick to heimdall one click. I'm stuck with an IPhone and I hate it I would love to get my phone working again.
I think its the motherboard because I have no other damage besides regular where and tear, no scratches in the screen just the back side. I have no water damage so I figured its the motherboard because nothing else makes sense
Well what exactly is wrong with the phone? Does it not turn on? Does it boot loop? Does what response happens when you attempt to turn it on?
It may sound sketchy...but if you can't get it going you can ship it to me and I can try...you'll just have to pay for shipping both ways...pm me if your interested in that -otherwise...well try our best to help you through the forums
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It gets into download mode and that's about it, I can sometimes get it into recovery but I can't do really anything. I only flash the kernel and I get into recovery and can't get anything out of it. I am very desperate and I'm thinking about sending it to you
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It gets into download mode and that's about it, I can sometimes get it into recovery but I can't do really anything. I only flash the kernel and I get into recovery and can't get anything out of it. I am very desperate and I'm thinking about sending it to you
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If you can get into download mode then you should be able to get it running. Nothing to do with the motherboard..
Try the uclb3 heimdall one-click unbrick from qkster or some odin pack. If you are getting stuck during the process, switch usb cables & ports and keep trying.
If you give up and are willing to send it to mg, then go ahead; he should be able to do the job
I have tried every heimdall and odin. i will try to switch usb cords and ports and possibly computers, but i will probaly have to send it away if this dosnt work
Hey guys i know its a very critical conditions but there are so many guide in XDA so just search for it and relax
well i received the device today...and its even got me stumped...it almost seems like a power button issue but i know its not because it stays powered on through download mode...you can successfully flash a one click heimdal but then it just boot loops the charging animation...
as of now i think it may be a bad battery or the little connecter..but even then, why would it stay on while in download mode??
gonna give odin a try and see what happens...if odin doesnt work then ill see about getting a replacement battery and see if that helps...and if that doesnt ill have to ask permission to open it up and look inside and see if i see anything unusual
alright...ive discovered this under the battery...appears that something was removed and an inner part was scratched...can anyone verify that that whole isnt supposed to be there? (my infuse got stolen from my car a couple weeks ago)
that part under there i suspect may be part of the motherboard..and if it is scratched could be the likely cause of the booting issues - but still, why does download mode have no booting issues??
again this "hole" is on the bottom left corner of where the battery should be placed
I lied...after actually looking at the end results of heimdal...the flash isn't finishing...its cutting off towards the end and then rebooting...so maybe it is the power button...still...I don't think it is as the charging boot cycle is a good 5x faster then when the phone reboots in heimdal...I'm leaning more on bad battery
edit: 99% sure its a bad battery...as soon as I unplug it while in download mode the phone turns off...I used to be able to leave my phone unplugged in download mode for hours...
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Mine has the hole, but it's black and not scratched.
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Tmac...please check your pms...I got the phone working - just need the shipping money so I can send it back...I have it all packed up...but I don't wanna keep a box laying around in my room
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mg2195 said:
Tmac...please check your pms...I got the phone working - just need the shipping money so I can send it back...I have it all packed up...but I don't wanna keep a box laying around in my room
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So was it the battery? Nosey people wanna know! :cyclops: :silly:
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So was it the battery? Nosey people wanna know! :cyclops: :silly:
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Kindve...he must've bricked while the battery died so the phone no longer knew how to charge a dead battery...
Once I got the battery charged a little the and ran heimdall I was able to charge the battery again with no loops
This is a common problem with the HTC vivid (my other phone). The vivid is known for not being able to charge a completely dead battery requiring you to get an external charger
Anyways...tmac I'm still waiting for your response...been about two weeks since I last heard from you...does this mean I get to keep your phone LOL message me asap
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mg,
Ship it to me.
I'll ship it to qkster.
He can ship it to bigjoe who will ship it to Zen.
From there it can go to truckerglenn, then who knows. lol
So, I rooted my wife's old Galaxy S3 (Verizon). It took a bit to figure out as this is my first Samsung device I've ever tried to root. I read as much as I could find before I did the deed. Basically I tried a few of the known methods out there. Nothing worked until the Towelroot method. Worked like a charm. I didn't do anything weird. I put Rom Manager on it to put a custom recovery on it. I did forget that I didn't unlock the bootloader. Now the phone is/was on Android 4.3 JellyBean. Anyways I did EZ-Unlock to unlock it. I removed the normal bloatware. Nothing that would harm the phone. Then because this phone is running off of WiFi only and I kept getting the no Sim card message I decided to power down and put a non active Sim card into it. That's where things went horribly wrong. I turned it off, put the Sim card in, powered it back on or tried to and the phone did nothing. I got no vibration no lights not a thing. So after trying several button combinations I pulled the battery and plugged it in and that got the red charging light. When I plug it into my lap top it makes the recognize device sound but can't find drivers for it. I tried to do the hard brick recovery where you download the hard brick onto an sd card and then the phone SHOULD boot off of it. Well that didn't even work. I just can't understand what exactly understand why this happened or what happened to get to this point. Any help would be amazing guys. It is just a play toy at this point. But it's important to have the phone working in case of needing it for a temporary phone.
It is impossible to downgrade from the 4.3 locked bootloader to the unlocked bootloader. Verizon killed the loophole, so yes you are hard bricked. You were right in trying the SD card de-brick. Did you try this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2581166?
Make sure you use a class 10 SD card and one that has the same storage size as the phone's internal storage (16/32).
If that doesn't work you need to get a JTAG repair. I know http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/ has a JTAG repair service. They even have a bootloader downgrade service to revert to the unlocked bootloader!
OK, so the de-brick method. The guy has 2 of those videos up. The one that I believe everyone is going off of is the one where he states you have to have a certain SD card. The other he states that it will work with anything and that it's much easier than the previous video. So having seen both, I don't honestly know what direction to go in. I don't have any income or money right now to go buy the right card if that's what I need to do. I also can't do the JTAG. However I did read up and watch a few videos on making my own jig. I also found one on ebay for 4 bucks with free shipping. That I could possibly swing. But 20 bucks or 50 bucks I can't. It sucks that this all happened, as much as I dislike Samsung phones because of their plastic feel and touchwiz I was looking forward to getting rid of touchwiz and seeing what the phone could really do. I was unaware that the loophole had not been reopened. I suppose I was reading things wrong then because while there are restrictions on what Roms you can flash I thought that we were still able to unlock the bootloader. I mean Ez-Unlock worked from what the phone said. Now if that's what hard bricked it then ok I guess, I just would have thought something would have went wrong right after and not wait until I powered the phone off. Meh, live and learn I suppose. Perhaps getting the jig or making my own for a buck is what I should do to see if I can get it to all work again so I can start from scratch. I should have known when I tried to root a Samsung phone from sprint a couple years ago that this was a bad idea. I soft bricked that one and couldn't get it to come back from it no matter what I did so a third party store had to do it for me. Then I soft bricked it again. Samsung phones hate me. LOL I appreciate the help. Any further help and or thoughts on this matter are totally welcome!!
Yeah once you use EZ Unlock the phone will still be fine until you try to reboot and it goes through the boot process. Once it doesn't recognize that part of the bootchain it bricks.
But yeah if you can make a jig to get yourself into download mode you can ODIN a stock 4.3 tar and be back up and running.
So it was EZ-Unlock huh? Alright well now I know. I'll run to radio shack and get the resistors I need and give it a shot. Doesn't seem like it's all that hard to do really, just a matter of hitting the right points in the charging port.
CoyotesFan4Evr said:
So it was EZ-Unlock huh? Alright well now I know. I'll run to radio shack and get the resistors I need and give it a shot. Doesn't seem like it's all that hard to do really, just a matter of hitting the right points in the charging port.
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Hope I am wrong but the jig won't help you. If it does make sure you tell us because using a jig would be preferred over the SD card trick.
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Hope I am wrong but the jig won't help you. If it does make sure you tell us because using a jig would be preferred over the SD card trick.
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Jig won't work, not even worth trying.
Well, I tried making the jig and that didn't work. Not sure if I'm just not hitting the right parts on it or what? Now the battery is totally dead but I swapped it with my father in law's fully charged S3. Now I went ahead and bought the little jig thing that they sell on E-bay. Yeah that hasn't worked yet. I'm going to research into it more and see if I'm just doing something wrong or not. But it should be plug in and boom it goes into download mode. If not then next month I'll get the SD card I need and try that method. Right now I'm just stuck. And not only stuck with this problem but also stuck waiting for my upgrade phone replacement to come in tomorrow as I upgraded from my DNA to the One M7 but that one is on a boot loop so now I'm waiting on the LG G2. Ugh, my luck with phones is just not going in the way of Good. LOL
CoyotesFan4Evr said:
Well, I tried making the jig and that didn't work. Not sure if I'm just not hitting the right parts on it or what? Now the battery is totally dead but I swapped it with my father in law's fully charged S3. Now I went ahead and bought the little jig thing that they sell on E-bay. Yeah that hasn't worked yet. I'm going to research into it more and see if I'm just doing something wrong or not. But it should be plug in and boom it goes into download mode. If not then next month I'll get the SD card I need and try that method. Right now I'm just stuck. And not only stuck with this problem but also stuck waiting for my upgrade phone replacement to come in tomorrow as I upgraded from my DNA to the One M7 but that one is on a boot loop so now I'm waiting on the LG G2. Ugh, my luck with phones is just not going in the way of Good. LOL
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You're hard bricked, you need to do the SD card method or send it out for a jtag repair.
A USB jig will never work in this situation.
Well I guess that's what I'll have to do next month when I get paid again. Go get the SD card and give that a try.
CoyotesFan4Evr said:
Well I guess that's what I'll have to do next month when I get paid again. Go get the SD card and give that a try.
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They're pretty cheap on Amazon, less than $20.
Or you can jtag for $30.