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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.

Help (if possible)! think my phone is done :(

This is going to be long!
If anyone has insight to this would be appreciated
Precursor: I am on CM9 nightly (7-27-12) with 6.0.1.0 non touch recovery (NS4G)
So last night I go to open my opera web browser and it would flash like it would open and instant close (no error message). I say OK thats weird and decide to reboot. Upon rebooted I am greeted with never ending amount of FC's from every app and service imaginable. I again say OK EXTREMELY weird and decide its time to restore my backup from yesterday.
I reboot in recovery and what do I get greeted with? Unable to mount /sdcard! Long story short after scouring google for about an hour I find that if I do a fastboot oem lock/unlock I should get back up and running. Thankfully that works and I install the newest 7/31 CM9 nightly.
I wake up today without my phone alarm going off when it should. Weird huh? I go to open the clock and get a FC from the clock application. Reboot and it works just fine. OK weird again.
Go to work and leave my phone on the counter to help a customer. I come back to the desk and my phone is in recovery mode? Uhhh what? I reboot the phone and it says "encryption unsuccessful" and the phone needs to wipe data and reboot to continue use...
I decide WTF why not, not like I can use it. At this point I'm worried though. The phone reboots to recovery and I guess does a data wipe (takes 3-5 mins) and reboots. Now I am stuck on the CM9 bootscreen and won't go past.
I have some ideas as to get the phone (hopefully) back up and running. Just curious what this sounds like to anyone more knowledgeable then me (especially the part where it tried to encrypt my phone without me touching it!)
Any thoughts or help is appreciated!
Edit: I tried copying files to sdcard from recovery using mount usb storage. The files copy over and as soon as I leave the mount menu and go to install the zip files WHICH I SAW ON THE SDCARD they ARE NOT THERE anymore.
Edit2: It still lets me install the CM9 7/31 nightly which I had saved on the phone yesterday. Even after wiping everything and reinstalling the ROM I can't get past the CM9 bootscreen
Edit3: Tried fastboot, odin, nothing works. Even after odin I still get the CM9 boot screen. Pretty sure something is messed up to the point of I need a new phone. FML!

YESS!!!
YES I WANT ATTENTION.
I Have exactly the same. Mother of smartphones Somebody help us!
Its the internal Memory thats messed up yes, But Please somebody fix this Bullcrap. We don't have the knowledge but I will gladly donate to you who fixes it!
I just bought a brand new screen for my phone and I don't freaking want to buy a new Phone At the moment, So if you find a way to help us then let us know since that could be lifesaving right now.

Pretty sure I've given up. Everything I've tried has failed... looks like it might be gnex time.

NYYFan325 said:
Pretty sure I've given up. Everything I've tried has failed... looks like it might be gnex time.
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Have you tried just going back to the stock rom/recovery/bootloader with the samsung application?

ronnygunz said:
Have you tried just going back to the stock rom/recovery/bootloader with the samsung application?
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I would Love to get an link to that. if it helps us out i'd sh1t goldbricks. seriously.

Moonystorm said:
I would Love to get an link to that. if it helps us out i'd sh1t goldbricks. seriously.
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I couldn't post the link because I have less than 10 posts here so I pm'd you. At least I hope I did. Let me know if you didn't get it.

Can you send me the PM as well. I know of the tool you are referring to but can't seem to find it anymore

NYYFan325 said:
Can you send me the PM as well. I know of the tool you are referring to but can't seem to find it anymore
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I tried to send it, I hope it worked but it doesn't show up in my sent messages so I am in the dark.

Stock ROM. All the way back to Gingerbread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572307

Well nothing officially works
The samsung simple dl tool just says "error" when I hit "start download" nearly immediately. Now I have no recovery or anything. Going to sprint right after I get out of work to get a gnex

NYYFan325 said:
Well nothing officially works
The samsung simple dl tool just says "error" when I hit "start download" nearly immediately. Now I have no recovery or anything. Going to sprint right after I get out of work to get a gnex
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Ugh... I'm sorry people Who will get to our problem. Paid samsung services can Help. Nothing else. I be a smart guy and do like NYYFan here and get a galaxy nexus. thank You everyone for help. i set up 48hours for anybody to help me or i get a new device. Might sound rude but its a choice i made.
-Moon

I HAD THIS SAME EXACT PROBLEM
Temporary solution: heat the phone up with a hair blow dryer. get it hot but not so hot that it melts things. it will be able to boot up and work. I used this method so i could copy my sd card to my computer and wipe everything off
Permanent solution: turn your phone in for repair. there is no remedy to fixing this. apparently the circuit board or chip is bad and you can't fix it.
Luckily I had best buy black tie protection and I am waiting on my new replacement phone.

NicholasQ said:
I HAD THIS SAME EXACT PROBLEM
Temporary solution: heat the phone up with a hair blow dryer. get it hot but not so hot that it melts things. it will be able to boot up and work. I used this method so i could copy my sd card to my computer and wipe everything off
Permanent solution: turn your phone in for repair. there is no remedy to fixing this. apparently the circuit board or chip is bad and you can't fix it.
Luckily I had best buy black tie protection and I am waiting on my new replacement phone.
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I work in a computer repair shop and going by that solution...sounds like a problem I may be able to repair using a similar method as some of the board-level repairs I do pretty often...anyone want to send me a dead lab rat? Lol
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Xaelius said:
I work in a computer repair shop and going by that solution...sounds like a problem I may be able to repair using a similar method as some of the board-level repairs I do pretty often...anyone want to send me a dead lab rat? Lol
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You can have mine lol x) And Yep i fix computers for friends and so on their friends and this sounds like Nvidia was behind the chip... xD

It wouldn't matter who actually makes a chip if the heating it up is a temporary fix. That is a OEM issue. Basically think xbox360 rrod with the warped boards the solder melting/failing and the chips get loose etc.
Unless heating up failed flash storage temporarily makes it work. Which I doubt is the case but don't actually know. Brings back memories of putting failing HDD drives in the freezer though.

Well this is my official goodbye to the Nexus S forums (not like anyone cares haha). Just got my shiny new Galaxy Nexus. Have a great night everyone and happy modding!

NYYFan325 said:
Well this is my official goodbye to the Nexus S forums (not like anyone cares haha). Just got my shiny new Galaxy Nexus. Have a great night everyone and happy modding!
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Ugh. Congraz. xD

Try Adam outler unbrickable mod for nexus s
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
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Unfortunately that is good only if software screwed up your phone. In my case and I'm sure others when it is hardware failure, that won't work :\

Please Help!

Hello,
I'm brand new to the forums, been reading up on my phone and things to do with it. I've just been running stock everything, unrooted and using GO overlays which I really like. I was thinking of rooting my phone and let me friend play around with it... BIG MISTAKE. My phone won't turn on, boot, power up or anything... Have they bricked my phone and is there ANYTHING at all that I can do to recover it? I was using Kies and have my phone backed up and everything... but assuming it won't even turn on... Does anyone have any advice on some options?
Galaxy SII SkyRocket I727
Rogers - Canada
-Pixie

If it wont turn on it sounds like a hardbrick, what did your friend flash? my guess he probably flashed a SGS II rom. You will have to repair it using jtag for 50$.
If you still got warranty you could try using it.

Going Crazy!
Holding down the volume key doesn't work, I can't download emulators to get it up with the phone unable to function or device drivers be updated or detected at all... I've read and read and read and NOTHING is working... I can see if I can create a jig, I think the parts are all around here somewhere... But is that the ONLY option? If it's hard bricked and they've completely messed it up, does anyone know of ANY potentials whatsoever of how to rebuild this thing back to normal?? Please help, I'm going to ASDLKDJLSKDJ someone up... !!! In the meantime I need to see if I can save this thing!

As I said for hardbrick you'll have to find a jtag repair service nearby and send your phone nad pay 50$.

kishke said:
If it wont turn on it sounds like a hardbrick, what did your friend flash? my guess he probably flashed a SGS II rom. You will have to repair it using jtag for 50$.
If you still got warranty you could try using it.
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I'm pretty sure I'm under warranty... Pretty sure they're going to be extremely peeved when they find out it's hardbricked from god knows what...
It took a while but I finally found the ordering site for jtag... Going to try that route I s'pose, thank you. Good thing I have an old crap phone as a back-up in the meantime... They don't require the SIM do they? I don't really trust sending that off...

Pixielated said:
I'm pretty sure I'm under warranty... Pretty sure they're going to be extremely peeved when they find out it's hardbricked from god knows what...
It took a while but I finally found the ordering site for jtag... Going to try that route I s'pose, thank you. Good thing I have an old crap phone as a back-up in the meantime... They don't require the SIM do they? I don't really trust sending that off...
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No sim required. When you pull the battery out and put it back in and hold power do you even get a Samsung logo flash on the screen?
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Pixielated said:
I'm pretty sure I'm under warranty... Pretty sure they're going to be extremely peeved when they find out it's hardbricked from god knows what...
It took a while but I finally found the ordering site for jtag... Going to try that route I s'pose, thank you. Good thing I have an old crap phone as a back-up in the meantime... They don't require the SIM do they? I don't really trust sending that off...
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go the warranty way. you got nothing to loose

[Q] accessing memory on dead nexus s 4g

my son has/had a nexus s 4g, and my wife has one too. hers still works. his is dead. no nothing dead. i don't want to fix it, just get the data off the card.
the board that contains the sd is detachable. what i wanted to know, is if i dissassemble her phone and put his card board in place of hers, can i then read his data? then after replacing the original board, her phone should be unaffected? these are my thoughts, just wanting to get some kind of feedback/confirmation before i proceed.
i did try searching, but i think my question is unique. I have seen noone taking things apart, except to do JTAG Service or screen replacement.

I have not tried this so a little more research may be necessary.
Are the phones all for the same network? If so, I think this is plausible. Replace SD, boot, then copy all the information.
NOT 100% SURE
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They are both sprint ns4g.
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here is the deal, the answer is yes, kind of.
if you switch the board it will read. if the board is good.
turns out that it is the part that is bad.
put the good one in the phone that did not work, and it booted. so there is the answer. the bad one did not boot...
put board back in original, and it works as it did before.

diptenkrom said:
my son has/had a nexus s 4g, and my wife has one too. hers still works. his is dead. no nothing dead. i don't want to fix it, just get the data off the card.
the board that contains the sd is detachable. what i wanted to know, is if i dissassemble her phone and put his card board in place of hers, can i then read his data? then after replacing the original board, her phone should be unaffected? these are my thoughts, just wanting to get some kind of feedback/confirmation before i proceed.
i did try searching, but i think my question is unique. I have seen noone taking things apart, except to do JTAG Service or screen replacement.
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Why is it dead? How did it die?
Tell us more so perhaps there will be no taking the phone apart to get the data off SD card.
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[Q] Need Root (A long story)

So a friend of mine dragged me into trying to help this woman who thinks her son was taken in by a cult. (I call it crazy but what do I know) He dropped off the phone an Atrix 2 and bailed. They want to see the deleted messages. Issue is that recovering them requires root and it seems I have that fun little issue that requires a factory reset before adb can figure out its magic. (I think a factory reset would create the deleted messages unrecoverable) Been reading every darn thread I could and still can't seem to find a solution. I kinda doubt there is one to be honest. But if anyone has something that might work I don't mind giving it a shot. Oh yeah you might notice its my first post but I haven't really had any issues with rooting before and to be frank I am just not really into these types of things enough to be able to give back to the community well. My apologies.
I have tried 1click methods, apk's, adb (fresh install on a new hard drive, had one layin about) drivers, inf changes, you name it I probably tried it.
Anything to be done?
Here's to the hope someone can help.
It's a tough life for the friend that knows how a computer works

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It's a tough life for the friend that knows how a computer works
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Amen to that, brother! :sly:
Anyway, regarding your query, I looked around and found this. It doesn't seem to require root so it might be just what you're looking for. :thumbup:

Also if you factory reset it doesn't overwrite the memory so you should still be able to recover them if you know where to look and prey to god that the memory doesn't get overwritten by something else
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