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[Q] need help fast (brick)

I flashed a rom, i didn't like it so i wanted to go back to infused. after i flashed infused i got stuck at the infused boot screen, i figured it was bricked. I than opened odin and tried to go back to slock, odin failed. I tried several more times and it failed each time, now i can't even get download mode anymore...all i can get is a screen that shows a phone ! pc.
what can i do?

nash2000 said:
I flashed a rom, i didn't like it so i wanted to go back to infused. after i flashed infused i got stuck at the infused boot screen, i figured it was bricked. I than opened odin and tried to go back to slock, odin failed. I tried several more times and it failed each time, now i can't even get download mode anymore...all i can get is a screen that shows a phone ! pc.
what can i do?
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Did you use GTG's Ultimate Unbrick. While powered of hold both vol and plug in usb.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251

bigfau said:
Did you use GTG's Ultimate Unbrick. While powered of hold both vol and plug in usb.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251
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yes, i've done that several times. As i said, download mode worked at first which is when odin failed, i unplugged and tried again, it also failed. I than unplugged it again but now when i try to enter download mode by using the volume keys and usb i get a little picture on my screen that shows a cell phone and a computer and in between the 2 pictures is a orange triangle with an ! in the middle of the triangle...i think its a hard brick.

after about 12 attempts it worked. for some reason or another all of my usb charger cords seem to be loose within the port, i know this because while its charging it seems to always go off and on. I think it was acting up when i was running odin which is why it wouldn't work. I have already made a replacement report with ATT, i'll call them back up and either cancel the order or talk to them about the charging port.

nash2000 said:
yes, i've done that several times. As i said, download mode worked at first which is when odin failed, i unplugged and tried again, it also failed. I than unplugged it again but now when i try to enter download mode by using the volume keys and usb i get a little picture on my screen that shows a cell phone and a computer and in between the 2 pictures is a orange triangle with an ! in the middle of the triangle...i think its a hard brick.
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You should try to make a jig to put your phone into download mode. The sell them at MobileTech.com,but you need one sooner. I think it's 3 100ohm resistors. Google download mode jig, they have a video on how to make one. I bought one for my Captivate and found out it works on Infuse. I use it all the time.
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FYI
Phone/PC screen is just like download mode. When you get that screen, unplug USB cable. Launch Odin, plug in USB and wait for COM port to light up in Odin. Flash away after that

Thank you so much Uncle Irish. I've been stressing for the last hour trying to get away from the phone/PC screen so I could flash lol. Works fine and dandy just as you said.

Yeah, the only difference between Phone/PC screen and download mode is:
Phone/PC screen is forced, it's telling you that you're not going to be able to do anything without flashing something.

[Q]

I think I bricked my Infuse, rooted with odin kernel hack, worked fine, left it in the charger for the night, wake up, its not responding to any buttons, odd, pull out battery, reinsert battery and I get nothing no response from it. Plug in in the wall charger, and I get a little loading circle on the screen thats frozen, unplugged it, pulled out battery, reinsert battery and try booting again, this time it got as far as a ROGERS boot screen, but no Samsung boot screen. Left it for 15 minutes and it was still at rogers boot screen. haven't been able to get past the loading circle since, tried recovery mode and it just stays black. only time I can get anything up now is if I plug it into a computer/wall and it comes up with the frozen circle
Any chance of survival for my week old Infuse, or is it dead?

It's doing something, so it's saveable.
You don't say whether or not you tried download mode.
Do that then reflash.

Truckerglenn said:
It's doing something, so it's saveable.
You don't say whether or not you tried download mode.
Do that then reflash.
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I just tried to get it into download mode, had to use a different computer. I used GTG Unbricking tool and Odin said success, my Rogers phone booted to AT&T screen and then to a Samsung screen where it sat on for about 10-20 minutes before it shut itself off, now when I plug it in it shows a empty battery with a frozen loading circle overtop it.
Glad to hear it's salvageable anyway!

bmar577 said:
I just tried to get it into download mode, had to use a different computer. I used GTG Unbricking tool and Odin said success, my Rogers phone booted to AT&T screen and then to a Samsung screen where it sat on for about 10-20 minutes before it shut itself off, now when I plug it in it shows a empty battery with a frozen loading circle overtop it.
Glad to hear it's salvageable anyway!
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Sounds like you flashed the wrong Odin package. I would try heimdall one click ) the older one from Adam outler then super one click to root, flash kernel (with cwm support) and flash ROM of choice
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teknhard said:
Sounds like you flashed the wrong Odin package. I would try heimdall one click ) the older one from Adam outler then super one click to root, flash kernel (with cwm support) and flash ROM of choice
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Thanks so much! Solved my issue after trying 4 times with Adam Outler. for custom roms and kernels I think Im going to stick to my O3D, this Infuse 4G doesn't seem as easy to recover after I accidentally kill it, my O3D seems more reliable. The Infuse shall remain stock with root!

Thread belongs in Q&A not in General

jayRokk said:
Thread belongs in Q&A not in General
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Move it then; I'm new to this website, I didn't know it made a difference when more than 50% of posts are under General.

If your issues have been taken care of post solved in your title...

i just got an infused and its doing this hheeelllpppp
i just got an infused off craigslist it was working fine until i turned it off to insert my sim and now its doing that any help???? i dont know how to get it into download mode or stock recovery any help???

bigjoe2675 said:
If your issues have been taken care of post solved in your title...
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If I had the slightest idea how I would! Believe me haha

horr1blek1tten said:
i just got an infused off craigslist it was working fine until i turned it off to insert my sim and now its doing that any help???? i dont know how to get it into download mode or stock recovery any help???
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Have you tried taking the sim out? The first time mine did this, I took out my sim and SD card and it worked fine until it randomly shut off in the night.

[Q] Bootloop on Samsung Logo + No Download Mode

Hey community.
Long time lurker, first time poster.
Anyhow, my brother bricked his infuse last night. Apparently he tried to flash an incompatible cwm fw (Nexus S) and rebooted it, and now its stuck at the samsung logo. Secondly, i tried to push it into download mode and it continues to loop. I tried to connect it to Odin and it does not recongize the phone, however it freezes at a picture of a wheel (similar to windows hourglass) and doesnt move from there.
i'm assuming its perm bricked at this point, unless you have suggestions.
Others have mentioned "jig" and "unbrickable mod" although I could not find any details further than the terms.
Any help would be appreciated.

Just checking, have you tried this?:
Remove the battery, and disconnect USB.
Hold, and continue to hold both volume keys.
Continue to hold vol. keys, connect USB.
Insert battery and continue to hold vol. keys for awhile.
That should put you in download mode.
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After retrying with 4 different cables, 3 different machines, and 2 different O.S. I finally got the infuse to be found by odin.
Thanks for all the help

BaconTelevision said:
After retrying with 4 different cables, 3 different machines, and 2 different O.S. I finally got the infuse to be found by odin.
Thanks for all the help
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Lol next time try heimdale. It for me anyways works first try all the time. I only use Odin when i have to, other then that i always use heimdale. Make sure when you use heimdale plug your phone into another port. Ive figured out that a usb port only recognizes the phone a certain way, as heimdale uses different drivers that you install. On my laptop i have two ports that i do not usually use (one is dedicated to a bluetooth dongle/mouse) so one is set up for odin, the other for heimdale.

Yeah heimdall is the way to go...don't even need drivers...it uses its own special drivers that it will download for you if you don't already have them
Heimdall never fails me...but Odin...well Odin is kinda iffy
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Heimdall unbricked me twice
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How ?
10 Ch.

rkkaranrk said:
How ?
10 Ch.
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How....what do you mean how?

rkkaranrk said:
How ?
10 Ch.
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You talking to me?
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Oppps i am sorry guys i was posting this somewhere else.

rkkaranrk said:
Oppps i am sorry guys i was posting this somewhere else.
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Lol that's alright.
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This is how i used the hemidall one click to stock here is what I do, below are how i perform using qkster's method...
The USB + Volume Down + Volume Up Method: Download mode (Noticeable by an Android robot digging with a shovel) is reached by taking everything out (Battery, SIM, MicroSD). plug in the USB cable to your computer and phone then putting in battery at the same time Holding the volume buttons both up and down, (Don't press the power button at all in this method).
How to INSTALL:
1. Put your phone into Download Mode.
2. If you have not used Heimdall, you will need to set up the driver for device recognition.
3. Once your device is connected, the DEVICE STATUS should show: CONNECTED. The long FLASH bar will also turn on for flashing.
4. Click on the FLASH button. (In my opinion: I recommend that you do this in a safe environment. Do not disturb your phone will flashing this firmware. Turn off Antivirus. Do not run any other programs, upload/download/youtube/burning DVD etc)
5. Once it has completed, your phone will reboot. You will hopefully see the ATT logo and reboot into STOCK UCLB3.
6. If it did not work, you will have to put it back into DOWNLOAD mode and reflash a second time, with the FLASH BOOTLOADER box checked. This is more likely if you never had proper Gingerbread bootloaders on your phone, if you are coming from FROYO or if you never had Odin a Gingerbread leak to get your bootloaders.
download this file for your one click to stock...and using above directions...
once that is done and you want to put CWM mod on for flashing a custom ROM, same directions to get in to download mod...
download this file to use the one click to put CWM mod on your phone
here is the link where i took all this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
Then I flash the dark night ICS rom like the op says and it run nice and smooth no lagg so far or any fc really other than when I put S voice onto my phone.. and like I said that Bluetooth, torch, HD video record is choppy, and no hdmi but I really like I just hope they get the flash light sorted out soon I use it all the time!!! Ya that's how
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Kdog71588 said:
This is how i used the hemidall one click to stock here is what I do, below are how i perform using qkster's method...
The USB + Volume Down + Volume Up Method: Download mode (Noticeable by an Android robot digging with a shovel) is reached by taking everything out (Battery, SIM, MicroSD). plug in the USB cable to your computer and phone then putting in battery at the same time Holding the volume buttons both up and down, (Don't press the power button at all in this method).
How to INSTALL:
1. Put your phone into Download Mode.
2. If you have not used Heimdall, you will need to set up the driver for device recognition.
3. Once your device is connected, the DEVICE STATUS should show: CONNECTED. The long FLASH bar will also turn on for flashing.
4. Click on the FLASH button. (In my opinion: I recommend that you do this in a safe environment. Do not disturb your phone will flashing this firmware. Turn off Antivirus. Do not run any other programs, upload/download/youtube/burning DVD etc)
5. Once it has completed, your phone will reboot. You will hopefully see the ATT logo and reboot into STOCK UCLB3.
6. If it did not work, you will have to put it back into DOWNLOAD mode and reflash a second time, with the FLASH BOOTLOADER box checked. This is more likely if you never had proper Gingerbread bootloaders on your phone, if you are coming from FROYO or if you never had Odin a Gingerbread leak to get your bootloaders.
download this file for your one click to stock...and using above directions...
once that is done and you want to put CWM mod on for flashing a custom ROM, same directions to get in to download mod...
download this file to use the one click to put CWM mod on your phone
here is the link where i took all this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
Then I flash the dark night ICS rom like the op says and it run nice and smooth no lagg so far or any fc really other than when I put S voice onto my phone.. and like I said that Bluetooth, torch, HD video record is choppy, and no hdmi but I really like I just hope they get the flash light sorted out soon I use it all the time!!! Ya that's how
Sent from my SGH-I997 using xda premium powered by Dark Knight
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That's the method I used too.
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BaconTelevision said:
Hey community.
Long time lurker, first time poster. Anyhow, my brother bricked his infuse last night. Apparently he tried to flash an incompatible cwm fw (Nexus S) and rebooted it, and now its stuck at the samsung logo. Secondly, i tried to push it into download mode and it continues to loop. I tried to connect it to Odin and it does not recongize the phone, however it freezes at a picture of a wheel (similar to windows hourglass) and doesnt move from there. i'm assuming its perm bricked at this point, unless you have suggestions. Others have mentioned "jig" and "unbrickable mod" although I could not find any details further than the terms. Any help would be appreciated.
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ok I lost my self here...Bacon...did you resolve your issues...??

bigjoe2675 said:
ok I lost my self here...Bacon...did you resolve your issues...??
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I don't think he did
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samsung i997 bootloop no bootloader solution
Dear guys i'm not saying this will be everybody's case but in my shop we got two of this phones with the issue mentioned above, in the two cases the issue was caused by faulty power button, so before you format or flash your samsung i997 i'll advice to go to youtube search for a diassemble video for your phone take out the main board and with your tester verify that your power button is working properly. If not try to replace the power button. i have soved the two cases that way.

[Q] Samsung infuse has gone crazy bricked!!!

ok so i had paranoid android v1.5 and i wanted to update it so i came here and updated to v 2 i believe what ever the newest version of it thats out. ok well i moved the zip folder along with gapps zip folder over the sd card 3 button comboed it to recovery and installed zip from sd card wiped dalviche cache and all it said everything was go i rebooted and it went directly back to recovery this time it updated my cmw to v6 something all looked ok except it didnt boot up so i tried to install again and after that everything went black ... it took me 2 hrs to figure out how to get it to the samsung boot loop screen.. download mode not working also not my computer isnt picking up right it keeps failing...
Now for everyone else they say remove battery wait 2 mins. plug usb into pc then into phone and quickly install battery while holding volume up and down. i usually hold the power button plus volume buttons down then plug in usb and insert battery and then release power to get recovery .\
now i dont have recovery or download mode and for me to get the samsung boot loop i have to use this combo
everything out of the phone battery sim card sdcard everything... plug usb into pc then hold volume down (only) plug in usb and insert battery
and ill get bootloop.
if i hold all three buttons my phone stays black but the pc still shows up that the usb is still not good.... is this a brick i can come back from???!!
o and ive installed kies about 40 times and when i check in my device manager i get the unknown device i uninstall that . what should my device manager look like for a windows 7
also if i unplug everything and remove everything from the phone all i have to do is plug in the usb to the pc and it gets the malfunction error like it always does except it shouldnt be powering on.. unless that the charger failing to iniciate
HOW DO I FIX THIS????!!

I think to get to download mode you don't actually press all three buttons.
pull battery
hold down volume buttons
insert usb
inserb battery
download should start up.

okie dokie
okay well i waited 12 hr.s and tried again and i got it into download mode i downloaded the return to stock odin package uclb3 stock root
flashed it no problems with the flash now it wont read sims card also when i power the phone down to reboot it wont power up...it flashes the little loading circle really fast and then nothing.. download mode is easy to get in and ive tried flashing like 4 times now.. one of those times the sims card was readable but the phone would not reboot. idk whats going on

ugh its late...
okay after gtg unbrick flash and a factory reset i now have signal!!! now let me try to power down and reboot.... i hope it works lol,

holy wtf.....
okay well that was another fail.... everything seems to work fine except rebooting the phone..... now when i go into heimdall suite and run zadig to reinstall deivce driver and then find device and then print pit file it reboots the phone and everything seems fine.. idk whats going on....

Okay i fixed it. Im getting better at trouble shooting. Lol
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jlboy85er said:
Okay i fixed it. Im getting better at trouble shooting. Lol
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Same happens to me some times, I try 3-4 times before success!!!, I prefer ODIN vs heimdall works better for me.

i dont know about that...
i dont i like to use half my pc ports for hiemdall and half for odin lol cant go wrong.,, i just use the sgh repartition java program to return to stock and i follow that up with odins return to stock. then uclb3 entrophy but i just remember i should be using ROM MANAGER to make a back up on the sd card duh!!!!! omg im a retard i swear..... heheh got it going now!

fml its done it again...
jlboy85er said:
i dont i like to use half my pc ports for hiemdall and half for odin lol cant go wrong.,, i just use the sgh repartition java program to return to stock and i follow that up with odins return to stock. then uclb3 entrophy but i just remember i should be using ROM MANAGER to make a back up on the sd card duh!!!!! omg im a retard i swear..... heheh got it going now!
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okay its been fine for 2 days and down for two days the moment my phone hits a charger it freaks out.... idk wtf igo thats the most accronyms
i could muster at one time :silly: well if anyone has more ideas on what i should do.

brian Marshall said:
I think to get to download mode you don't actually press all three buttons.
pull battery
hold down volume buttons
insert usb
inserb battery
download should start up.
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no i was just saying the recovery mode method and download mode i just didnt word it in correctly.but none the less none of them work for atleast 12 hr.s of no battery no sims, no sdcard. I can have nothing in the phone for an extended period of time in order to acheive dl mode
recovery mode doesnt come back until i reflash to stock then reflash to stock uclb3 rooted deo, zipalined,entrophy's, (modded e3 recovery) only way i get recovery back

[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.
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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.