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Bricked captivate fixed

Well my captivate is repaired. I didn't think it was possible but Josh Groce of the famed rom in a flash review videos was able to fix it for me.
Price is great and turn around time, atleast for my phone was awesome.
You can find more info at mobiletechreview.com
It is well worth the time it takes to contact him. Chances are if you have bricked your phone he will be able to fix it for you and it's a lot cheaper than buying a new phone.
I can't say enough good things about him and his work, he is a brilliant young man and we should all be thankful that he is a part of the xda community and wants to help people. I don't believe he does it for the money, off he did he would charge alot more than he does.
I hope this helps some of you that are in a bind with your phone, he certainly helped me.
Thanks Josh, for saving my phone.
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How did you brick it?

Your phone wasn't bricked if a jig fixed your problem.
P.s. you can't make jigs yourself for $5. That's not buying the supplies at a bulk discount. Takes approximately 1 minute to make when you have everything you need in front of you. So charging 8-10$ is actually a huge profit. Say 3$ Evey minute you work times 60 minutes in an hour. $180 an hour for what equates to monkey work. Not to shabby.
Edit: yes I oversimplified the process and math to exaggerate my opinion. Point remains the same.

I don't think he was talking about a jig. Probably he had to have his flashed.

His videos r helpful. But I would like to know how u bricked it and what he did to unbrick it...did he just gave u a jig? or changed something in the hardware? I am bricking a lot lately...would be great to take his help...

Don't quote me. But I think be is talking about a jtag type flash
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viny2cool said:
His videos r helpful. But I would like to know how u bricked it and what he did to unbrick it...did he just gave u a jig? or changed something in the hardware? I am bricking a lot lately...would be great to take his help...
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Pretty sure it involved a riff box and removing the motherboard. That's the only way to recover a completely bricked phone.

How long did shipping take? I ask because I ordered a jig from him a while ago to have just in case and I ail don't have it...

I was able to get into d/l mode with a jig but it would just shut itself off basically. Josh worked some magic on it for me.
I bricked it going back to stock from cm7. Like a dummy I didn't follow the directions.
It was truly fubared, before it started shutting off I was getting different colored screens. Green, blue, purple, then all black. This happened each time I tried to use odin to flash stock again.
To me his work was well worth it, now I can take this p.o.s atrix back and wait for the sgs2 or infuse to come out.
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bobapunk said:
How long did shipping take? I ask because I ordered a jig from him a while ago to have just in case and I ail don't have it...
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I shipped it out last fri, he got it yesterday and is shipping it out today. How long ago did you order the jig? I would just ask him about it, he seems like a very nice person. Ill let you know more when I get the phone back, shouldn't take long.
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To be honest I'm not 100% sure how he fixed it, I dont really care about that. Just glad I will have it back. Ive tried 3 inspires and then bought an atrix. They may be slightly faster than the captivate but screen quality doesn't come close to me. Maybe my eyes are getting old.
I am pretty sure though that he had to use his jtag box on it, I could be wrong. All I know for sure is that he fixed it and I can't wait to get it back.
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donharden2002 said:
I was able to get into d/l mode with a jig but it would just shut itself off basically. Josh worked some magic on it for me.
I bricked it going back to stock from cm7. Like a dummy I didn't follow the directions.
It was truly fubared, before it started shutting off I was getting different colored screens. Green, blue, purple, then all black. This happened each time I tried to use odin to flash stock again.
To me his work was well worth it, now I can take this p.o.s atrix back and wait for the sgs2 or infuse to come out.
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i actually had this same brick last night (funny colors mid way through odin and everything). i bricked doing the EXACT same thing that you did, however, i was able to repair it by going into download mode (mine i can hold the volume rockers and put in usb to go to d/l mode, so no need for a jig) downloaded odin 1-click that DG put out (worst 40 minute wait of my life, felt like an eternity) and flashed it back to stock with odin 1-click.

ballz0iron said:
i actually had this same brick last night (funny colors mid way through odin and everything). i bricked doing the EXACT same thing that you did, however, i was able to repair it by going into download mode (mine i can hold the volume rockers and put in usb to go to d/l mode, so no need for a jig) downloaded odin 1-click that DG put out (worst 40 minute wait of my life, felt like an eternity) and flashed it back to stock with odin 1-click.
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I did try the odin version that dg put out but for some reason no matter what I tried my phone would just shut down. I'm not very tech savvy. I know just enough to get into trouble.
I'm glad you were able to fix yours, I just thought I'd post this for dummies like myself that tinker too much and beak things. Hopefully it will hellp someone.
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Got my phone back today and it works like new.
My thanks goes out to Josh
Now just have to wait for the infuse to come out so I can screw it up too.
Wife will someday kill me.
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going to retry

after being bricked for 6 hours i got my phone to work again...........
and i have decided to go for it again.lol
we learn as we go.....
no harm in trying right?
lets c how it goes.

Good luck. I have screwed up several times. Thats the fun of it to see if you can make your phone best it can be tweaked and learn along the way. And as always if you need help just ask.

you have bigger balls than i do after i recovered from a brick it took me like 2 weeks for me to gain the courage to flash odin again.... 2 weeks if a eterenity for me not having a rooted device lol.. just ask my wife i normallly don't go 2 days of having my new phone..

If at first you don't succeed, ODIN and try again, lol
I screwed my phone up last night as well. Used Tegrak and OC'd to 1.3 ghz and it ran fine for a few hours then rebooted. It would lock up at the boot animation. I reflashed 5.0 and all was well again.
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Kryptonian_Knight said:
after being bricked for 6 hours i got my phone to work again...........
and i have decided to go for it again.lol
we learn as we go.....
no harm in trying right?
lets c how it goes.
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Good luck to you. It really is no big deal once you get use to it. And bricked usually means gone for good. Most people just erase everything from the phone and then just fail to load the replacement operating which means the phone is just brand new again.
Here are some videos I have made to help people who need visuals like me...
Let me know if you need some help along the way.
www.youtube.com/kraisydave
www.kdtech.org
Dave
Everyone deserves to get the most out of their phone!

kraisydave said:
Good luck to you. It really is no big deal once you get use to it. And bricked usually means gone for good. Most people just erase everything from the phone and then just fail to load the replacement operating which means the phone is just brand new again.
Here are some videos I have made to help people who need visuals like me...
Let me know if you need some help along the way.
www.youtube.com/kraisydave
www.kdtech.org
Dave
Everyone deserves to get the most out of their phone!
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Lol its your video i was using thanks for that man
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so my wife went in to labor a few hours after i fixed my phone and now im just sitting at the hospital with my baby girl(getting her started early lol) trying to flash the GB leak(rooted)n but just like before it stops at lte modem been 25 min on this and nothing happens.... any ideas y? the only thing i can think of is that my actual phone is jacked up, cause when i do try to go back to stock it take about 8 to 9 trys before flashing back.

Hmm I dont know but congrats. Did you try re downloading the file? I know it works part of the way but maybe it got screwed somehow. It work for stock so phone cant be to screwed up.
LOL yeah I just did something and stuck. Wont do anything. Have to re install Humble RC2. Oh well.

[Q] bricked at&t world phone

okay so i thought id try the odin 1 click for my gt 19000 and then it decided to brick im thinking about buying a jig thing to help but im not sure i'll do anything to get my phone back only had it 2 days and bricked i brought it used
i ask nicely for any ones help, thanks in advance

ummmm....you have an i9000 and you used a one click from the captivate section?
that is beyond comprehensible.

uuummm okay crazy i know i couldnt update it i should'a read more into it i know but is it fixable? =/

if the phone turns on at all yes it is normally fixiable with a jig. double and triple check before you flash next time lol

Lol okay thanks i brought a jig iunno how to use it though would i need a different version of odin or some thin and do i need to download anything else like roms or what ever

wheatly=) said:
Lol okay thanks i brought a jig iunno how to use it though would i need a different version of odin or some thin and do i need to download anything else like roms or what ever
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yeah well just to be sure check your model number and make sure you have the I9000. then go to the i9000 forums and find a flash to stock. and with the jig just pull your battery and put it back in and plug in the jig and that will put you into download mode. any other questions just ask

thank you ever so much, so i just go into the forms on here and find i9000 flash thingy (if you havent guessed im entirely new to this ) maybe i should have NEVER attempted to do this at all its all kies fault if it would just upate my phone then i would be happy lololololol

is it really an i9000? like with 1 physical home button and 2 capacative buttons?
there is an entire i9000 section specifically for your device...i have no idea why you would use captivate anything.

yeah its really a i9000 good phone lol ima bit of a numpty but ill learn from my mistakes just samsung's ****e kies that made me think there was summit wrong with it.

i know it seems silly but can some one give me a quick guide maybe and before i do this again i wanna know if i need anything else apart from my phone and odin ( is there any different versions of it apart from 1click ) maybe summit like firmware?????? thanks in advance

dude. there are f'ing tutorials EVERYWHERE for this sort of thing. of course there are other ODINS aside from the one click. what you need to do, as has been stated already, is GO TO THE I9000 FORUMS AND READ, READ, READ, and get your information for your phone from the section dedicated to it.
laziness is not an excuse.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DID IT i fixed im excited thank you so much for help =) this form is now in active as i dont need any more help xD be the last time im doing that

wheatly=) said:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DID IT i fixed im excited thank you so much for help =) this form is now in active as i dont need any more help xD be the last time im doing that
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nice work.....read read read read then flash always

It has finally happened...

I finally managed to do it. I officially bricked my Infuse. No clue how I did it but it's finally borked for good. Cant access download mode when I try nothing happens. Used 4 different computers, 5 different cords and approx 23 different USB slots. 3 different batteries(just incase it was a bad battery) Nothing haha. Infuse is completely dead!.... My backup infuse is pretty messed up as well (screen is cracked all to hell) This happened after I Heimdall'd my phone phone to clean the slate. It booted up, then bootlopped once then just didnt turn on again.

i would try letting it sit with the battery out overnight then giving it a shot again, also try differnt tools like gtg unbrick
also try using a usb jig
(i once messed mine up badly enough that when you put in in download mode it was a black screen with red green and blue dots on it, using gtg unbrick fixed it for me !
fingers crossed that itll come back to life for ya.

if you didnt open it, crack the screen, or drop it in water, att will replace it under warranty. give em a call tomorrow at 18008011101. have your iemi ready.

The Jack of Clubs said:
if you didnt open it, crack the screen, or drop it in water, att will replace it under warranty. give em a call tomorrow at 18008011101. have your iemi ready.
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also try you could always send it in under warranty

The_Zodiac said:
i would try letting it sit with the battery out overnight then giving it a shot again, also try differnt tools like gtg unbrick
also try using a usb jig
fingers crossed that itll come back to life for ya.
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The batteries been out for a bit now gonna leave it out and put it in tomorrow see if maybe that does something. If anything theres a couple Infuse 4G's on Craigslist for pretty cheap. And if this one doesnt end up working, I'll throw it up on there for parts, might be useful to someone.
Also I dont have an actuall plan with AT&T so thats a no go haha

The Jack of Clubs said:
if you didnt open it, crack the screen, or drop it in water, att will replace it under warranty. give em a call tomorrow at 18008011101. have your iemi ready.
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Yeah, after paying a $200 deductable. That's how much it would have been to replace my stolen infuse even under warranty.
Try a pizza taco sometime, if you don't know what it is, look it up then

Dont give up hope... if you didnt flash any bootloaders i dont think its bricked
this looks almost like what happened to me last night..
Odined to stock only to find phone booting up to nothing just a black
screen... i thought i was done for good but i kept trying and one of the times
odin managed to see the device...
even with a completaly black screen it still booted up to "download mode"
even tho i couldnt see that particular screen
i ran odin and it booted up fine
keep trying buddy dont lose hope

jayRokk said:
Dont give up hope... if you didnt flash any bootloaders i dont think its bricked
this looks almost like what happened to me last night..
Odined to stock only to find phone booting up to nothing just a black
screen... i thought i was done for good but i kept trying and one of the times
odin managed to see the device...
even with a completaly black screen it still booted up to "download mode"
even tho i couldnt see that particular screen
i ran odin and it booted up fine
keep trying buddy dont lose hope
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Hehe I wont give up just yet. Honestly I think it's something wrong in the Hardware of the phone. I'm gonna take it apart later and have a look see. Might be able to replace the problem with a part from my old Infuse

MaliciousIntent69 said:
Hehe I wont give up just yet. Honestly I think it's something wrong in the Hardware of the phone. I'm gonna take it apart later and have a look see. Might be able to replace the problem with a part from my old Infuse
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if it is that might as well take the whole motherboard and switch it out right??
if you know how to do all that of course
but good luck to you and hopefully its nothing major

warranty is different than insurance. even if you buy it off contract or from someone else, you should still have the warranty. they provide 1 year for all branded phones. its only been on sale for 11 months so everyone should be under warranty.

jayRokk said:
if it is that might as well take the whole motherboard and switch it out right??
if you know how to do all that of course
but good luck to you and hopefully its nothing major
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Yeah thats pretty much what I was gonna do if there is something wrong with this ones motherboard xD Plus I wouldn't mind the camera off my old one cause on this one the lens is scratched

MaliciousIntent69 said:
Yeah thats pretty much what I was gonna do if there is something wrong with this ones motherboard xD Plus I wouldn't mind the camera off my old one cause on this one the lens is scratched
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Nice!!
Win win situation!!

Got impatient so I switched out motherboards.... haha. got it up and running now. Weird as hell though I don't see how Using Heimdall would damage my motherboard? I highly doubt it was heimdall. but... who knows
But now I finally have a camera that doesn't take ****ty pics haha

MaliciousIntent69 said:
Got impatient so I switched out motherboards.... haha. got it up and running now. Weird as hell though I don't see how Using Heimdall would damage my motherboard? I highly doubt it was heimdall. but... who knows
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glad its up and running

jayRokk said:
glad its up and running
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Mee too now time to test the new build of ICS that jt released Working camera equalls DD for me

MaliciousIntent69 said:
Mee too now time to test the new build of ICS that jt released Working camera equalls DD for me
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its running great!! Switched from Trebuchet Launcher to Nova (found in Google Play) and its buttery smooth
camera works flawlessly..
front facing camera is zoomed in for some reason but i dont really use it so
who cares lol
but i think for a DD is good
at least for me haha

If your cracked screen infuse still works then I would just swap out the internals. Should be easy enough. I did it to my wife's phone.. screen cracked and we had an identical backup phone that my daughter played with. Swapped out the boards and all was well.
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I thought I did something similar but then tried a different method of reverting back to stock & it worked.
It wasn't going into download mode either and the screen was all pixilated but it worked. Maybe try a different method of reverting back to stock (gtg unbrick)
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The Jack of Clubs said:
warranty is different than insurance. even if you buy it off contract or from someone else, you should still have the warranty. they provide 1 year for all branded phones. its only been on sale for 11 months so everyone should be under warranty.
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Yup..what jack said. Someone else went that route too
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[Q] my phone wont turn on

Alright... heres the situation, I have an Samsung galaxy s2 LTE i7R2 from Rogers... rooted.. worked fine. tried to flash a rom after erasing all data... and now my phone wont turn on, cant boot whatsoever.. tried pulling battery and holding the volume buttons and plugging in usb to download boot and no dice...
ive had this thing for 3 months its for sure not the hardware... anyone know how the hell i can fix this situation without returning my phone... im not a dumby.. but i feel sort of dumb for trying to put a i777 rom on my phone and not realizing it until my phone doesnt boot anymore... uhg... someone please help me

Flashing a 777 rom is a hard brick so no you can't save it you f'd up jtag is your only hope
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are you sure ... theres nothing i can do!

She's dead, Jim.

thejbomb87 said:
are you sure ... theres nothing i can do!
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Yes I'm sure give up hope
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one of you guys have to be smart enough to find a way around this
uhg... i guess ill just take it back to rogers and say it crashed..

Uh oh, here it comes....

Its just common since to not flash anything for any other phone. You learned the hard way instead of reading.

oh believe me.. i was reading up all day.. i am not a tech noob either, i deploy computers for a living... i just had so many windows open i downloaded the wrong zip because i was checking other roms and features out... blah i guess ill just make a USB jig..

Jig won't help you you have damaged your partitions and can only fix with jtag why won't you listen I'm not stupid dude I been around for a while
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thejbomb87 said:
oh believe me.. i was reading up all day.. i am not a tech noob either, i deploy computers for a living... i just had so many windows open i downloaded the wrong zip because i was checking other roms and features out... blah i guess ill just make a USB jig..
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But there are no i777 roms in this forum. You would not look on the MAC forums for Lenovo support would you?

Okay so the USB jig wont work at all... damn... whats jtag.. i wonder if rogers will even take my phone back

thejbomb87 said:
Okay so the USB jig wont work at all... damn... whats jtag.. i wonder if rogers will even take my phone back
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Uhhhmmmm... have you tried google? You are not a tech noobie, right?
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Yea i have looked through google... its a hard brick so not much i can do at this point.. i was thinking a USB jig would get me to download mode... but im being told other wise.. blah this sucks

I suggest sending it off for jtag. You knew the risk, now pay the price. Its an expensive lesson. But a lesson learned hopefully. you can probably get your phone back instead of trying to con Rogers out of a new or refurb phone.

There's another one for noobs/ people who don't listen or read other peoples mistakes! Huh way to go to make skyrocket owners look like we like bricking our phones.... :thumbdown:
Android 4.0.4 AOKP

Ok first of all relax on the hate... im not making anyone look back but myself, i clearly made a simple mistake which cost me a working phone, not much i can do now... i may still try to USB JIG and see if i get anywhere... if not then i will send it in i guess.. anyone know the cost of a Jtag... and what are the chances of rogers just replacing it.. or reflashing it

Seriously.... http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-jtag-brick-repair/
This was recommended in the past. Next time search before you post.

Well i appreciate all the suggestions and help.. and sorry for the hostile people who clearly need to get girlfriends.. like calm down its a question first of all, second of all not everyone has time to spend 9 hours researching bricked phones, I agree i should have taken better steps towards not bricking my phone.. my bad, i guess JTag will get this one... or i will send my phone in to rogers most likely for repair..

It only takes 10 seconds to GOOGLE. Just saying. Its just thread after thread after thread of people flashing the wrong rom, asking for stuff that is right in front of them, or posting threads in the wrong forum all together.