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[Q] Fix brick? (failed theme update)

I tried to install an update on my Galaxy S 4G to my Gingerbread theme on KD1 and I can't get past the original boot screen.....is there any way to boot into CWM? I installed it, except i can't seem to boot into recovery.
Any ideas?
I'd like to use ODIN as a last resort (and yes, download mode does work.)

If it doesn't boot pass the Samsung screen then you'll have to use Odin to fix. I had a similar issue this week with thay
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I have the same issue but mine is a little more severe. I don't even get a boot screen. Nothing displays. I tried doing many variations to get into download mode but I cannot. So I'm stuck with a blank screen Odin doesn't recognize it my computer doesn't even recognize it. Please Help!!!

pepuhz said:
I have the same issue but mine is a little more severe. I don't even get a boot screen. Nothing displays. I tried doing many variations to get into download mode but I cannot. So I'm stuck with a blank screen Odin doesn't recognize it my computer doesn't even recognize it. Please Help!!!
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Pull out your battery. With your phone unplugged put your battery in but leave it powered off.
Plug your phones cord in your PC. Just the cord not the phone.
Now hold just the volume up and down buttons. While holding the buttons in plug that cord from your PC into your phone. You will see a yellow triangle or if your firmware is messed a symbol with a small phone and a computer. You can use Odin either way. You will see Odin recognize the phone if its done correct and you have the Samsung usb drivers installed.
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I know I have to be doing something wrong. I have read everything everywhere and have a Samsung Galaxy S 4G & Vibrant 3G T959 BOTH stuck in recovery. Haven't touched them in about a week buttons just checked & still they go through the load to the TMO chime then black or I can get to download & recovery but have mounting issues. The Vibrant was rooted & SGS lost root when flashing joedevelopers rom (placing no blame on thread just providing information for possible help).
I read somewhere yesterday about using NVFash or SuperOneClick to get it going but each search leads me to instructions for other devices. I don't want brick either phone using the wrong files so I'm pretty much stuck.
Would appreciate instructions if anyone has the answer. I really have tried everything. The SGS was stuck at the phone ! computer screen shot first but the reloading the drivers and piecing together some code brought it back & now the SD card is not ready.
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[Q] Phone will Not go into recovery..

I Had it rooted.. Tried to flash RCMix3D Kingdom V1.9.
Followed the Video Exactly. The phone sat for 30 min at the HTC screen and would not boot. So then i tried to get into recovery by holding down the Power and Vol. It went into it 1 time and reloaded the Rooted img. Since then i cant get the phone into recovery either with Rom Manager or by Holding down the Power and Vol buttons. Fast boot is disabled.
Any Ideas?

Will the phone boot up fully?
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Mosius said:
I Had it rooted.. Tried to flash RCMix3D Kingdom V1.9.
Followed the Video Exactly. The phone sat for 30 min at the HTC screen and would not boot. So then i tried to get into recovery by holding down the Power and Vol. It went into it 1 time and reloaded the Rooted img. Since then i cant get the phone into recovery either with Rom Manager or by Holding down the Power and Vol buttons. Fast boot is disabled.
Any Ideas?
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Remove the SD card from the phone.
Reboot into hboot.
Once it is unable to find the SD card (and therefore no PD98IMG.zip), you'll be able to choose recovery.
Put SD card back in phone.

Doesn't rom manager have an option to flash alternate recovery? (I dont use rom manager, Is there an amonRA recovery for inspire?) If so, try that.
Or put the recovery you wanna use on root of sd card, and use terminal emulator from market to flash/push a new recovery. (I forget the exact commands to use, but I know they can be found in OP of amonRAs recovery thread in the evo 4g subforum)
Hope ya get it.
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wvmedic said:
Will the phone boot up fully?
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Yes it will boot up.. It shows Superuser and rom manager.. I tried to use rom manager to get into recovery and the screen just fades to a black screen.. And sits there till i restart. I have S -off on the menu still.. I got into it by replacing the SD card with the Original one.
But now i'm trying to figure out if i need to re-root the phone or go back to stock and start over.. These phones are alot harder to mess with than the Iphone..

Took the SD card out went into hboot and selected recovery.. The screen just fades to black and sits there..

Thanks to everyone that Helped... I finally got it up and running with the new Rom.....
And thanks to legend221 His post in the Rom Info area Helped me get it installed right.

ok, the problem your having is the same exact one my friend is having... can you please link the post where you found the solution???

Is my phone dead?

Hi All
Hoping someone can tell me if I've completely killed my phone. It was working absolutely fine with no problems whatsoever until earlier today when it froze. Without looking around at what to do I just held down Vol + & Vol - & power. This restarted the phone and it went through the T-Mobile logo and then just sat there. I then took out the battery, put it back in and held vol - and hit power, got into the clockworkmod menu and used the recovery option to wipe then restore an earlier backup, this all seemed to go fine and I used the power off option to restart the phone.
Nowwww though it just vibrates 7 times and stops, if I then pull the battery and replace it and hit power it vibrates 7 times again and then nothing unless I pull the battery again.
Am I screwed?
The phone is S-Off and had clockworkmod installed. Has the clockworkmod boot loader thingy some how been damaged? Anything I can do?
Appreciate any advice. Thanks

can you get into recovery? if so try wiping everything and then doing a fresh install of something
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dont keep pulling the battery if you dont already have emmc failure you will soon if you continue to pull the battery!

Yea I didn't realise pulling the battery was that bad. I haven't done it since reading this forum. But no I can't get in to recovery any more since that time I wiped everything and restored a backup. Since then it just vibrates 7 times when I push the power button and that's all.

can it connext to adb? if so, id try flashing an ruu via fastboot. that will set everything back to stock. then you can reroot and flash a rom, and id get rid of that backup
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Is there a guide for adb anywhere? I haven't used it before, but I've tried plugging the phone in by USB and Windows doesn't say new hardware found so I assume that's a bad sign?

rlzzzz said:
Is there a guide for adb anywhere? I haven't used it before, but I've tried plugging the phone in by USB and Windows doesn't say new hardware found so I assume that's a bad sign?
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theres tons of guides but if you give me a few minutes ill upload a auto installer for you, so then you just have to add the path in
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I looked for adb guides and they all seem to show how to install the drivers etc but my phone doesn't even get detected as a new device in Windows so I assume it's not going to show up?
I mean it looks completely dead right now, won't turn on or even vibrate. Unless I was to pull the battery again I think it would probably then vibrate 7 times when I push the power button for the first time and that would be it again.
Do you think the clockworkmod boot loader got overwritten some how when I did the restore?

rlzzzz said:
I looked for adb guides and they all seem to show how to install the drivers etc but my phone doesn't even get detected as a new device in Windows so I assume it's not going to show up?
I mean it looks completely dead right now, won't turn on or even vibrate. Unless I was to pull the battery again I think it would probably then vibrate 7 times when I push the power button for the first time and that would be it again.
Do you think the clockworkmod boot loader got overwritten some how when I did the restore?
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it could of, and its worth a shot, it might be recognized. just get adb working, and install the drivers. plug the phone into your computer, and wait a minute or 2 and the screen should turn on but be black. then just boot into the bootloader and flash the ruu via fastboot
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So I installed Java JDK, then Android SDK, then downloaded the HTC adb drivers but it says to install the drivers plug in your phone and wait for Windows to detect it... which is as far as I can go because Windows doesn't detect the phone.
I don't even seem to be able to reset the phone by holding Vol + & Vol - & power at the same time. It's not looking good.

In fact you say about the phone going to a black screen, it did do this after I initially restored the image. But it was just after that that I pulled the battery and now it doesn't do that anymore.
I assume basically what has happened then is first some thing froze and corrupted my normal install, so to fix this I tried the restore and the restore image somehow overwrote clockworkmod but at this point the phone was still recoverable via adb? but then I pulled the battery and now it's definately dead?
Seems like an unfortunate string of events but at least I know now to avoid pulling the battery next time! Thanks for all your help stumpyz9 and djisgod, I don't suppose you know why pulling the battery can so easily kill the phone?
Btw if anyone would like to jump in and make my day by saying nooo everything is fine here is a quick fix please feel free

my only guess of why pulling the battery killed it is when you where restoring it and then pulled the battery, it was restoring something very essential to even turning the phone on. i dont know why windows wouldnt detect your phone, it has derected my DHD even in the worst scenarios. and were you saying the drivers wanted you to hook the phone to the computer? if so dont and try to continue installation, because if you can get it hooked up to your computer and have adb recognize it, then tyere is a very good chance you can recover it. if not, then im sorry to say you have yourself a very pretty paper weight. if it is a paper weight, id say maybe check to see if a dev could use it or basically part it out on ebay and sell the lcd, digitizer, housing, camera and you can probably make some of your money back.
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The ADB HTC drivers I downloaded are not an installer file, you need to plug in the phone so Windows will recognise a new device and ask you to select the location of the drivers but I can't because it doesn't detect the phone being plugged in at all.
I've also been reading around a bit more and found a thread about a fried eMMC chip. I was actually getting the same errors they mention in that thread when I did the restore from clockworkmod.
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log" etc etc

dont use that, install htc sync, then plug the phone in and tell me if that works
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Yea I just gave that a go after reading someones adb guide and even with HTC sync installed when I run "adb devices" it lists nothing.
It's strange I thought once I had clockworkmod installed nothing could go wrong because I would always be able to restore from an old backup. I always assumed that clockworkmod would be sat on the boot partition and never touched even when restoring a backup. I can't understand how it went so wrong lol.
Although right now the phone seems so far gone maybe I could get away with a warranty repair as they won't be able to tell it was S-OFF.

yah if all of the chip has been fried and it wont power on, i think that would be your best bet, seeing as they probably wouldnt be able to tell.
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Ok well thanks for your patience I appreciate your help.

rlzzzz said:
Ok well thanks for your patience I appreciate your help.
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no prob, alwsys like to help out when i can
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My phone is Bricked? Help

Guys - I need help. I think i just blew my phone.
I flashed THE Sense-O-Maniac ICE ROM after a clean wife and my phone wouldn't boot. It kept getting stock on the Beats Logo. So I rewiped everything and reflashed this ROM. - Same result.
I then thought, maybe I should also update the firmware, though I am pretty sure, that my firmware was up to date.
So i reflashed the firmware on phone but it still wouldnt boot.
I took the memory card out and deleted the the firmware file so that I could not flash another rom. But when I tried to boot in Recovery my screen just went blank.
JUST BLANK
When I switch my phone on, I get a blank screen. The screen does light up though, but nothing shows.
If i connect the phone to USB, then the screen again lights up, even without the batter.
Has my phone gone poof??? Please help.

clean wife.
and why do u keep reflashing sense o maniac? why not try other rom?

Did you update your kernel or tried to use backup or install just old ROM, so far it doesn't sound bricked but just something missing, what was your previous ROM?
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Wrong section! This is not Q&A or Sensation General!

guptadh said:
Guys - I need help. I think i just blew my phone.
I flashed THE Sense-O-Maniac ICE ROM after a clean wife and my phone wouldn't boot. It kept getting stock on the Beats Logo. So I rewiped everything and reflashed this ROM. - Same result.
I then thought, maybe I should also update the firmware, though I am pretty sure, that my firmware was up to date.
So i reflashed the firmware on phone but it still wouldnt boot.
I took the memory card out and deleted the the firmware file so that I could not flash another rom. But when I tried to boot in Recovery my screen just went blank.
JUST BLANK
When I switch my phone on, I get a blank screen. The screen does light up though, but nothing shows.
If i connect the phone to USB, then the screen again lights up, even without the batter.
Has my phone gone poof??? Please help.
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try "adb reboot recovery" continuously when booting the phone, ignoring all of the "error: device not found"

Boot while holding the volume down key (meaning power btn+ vol-). that should take you to the boot loader. once you're there, go to fastboot and flash a recovery image. you seem to have corrupted yours.

I had the same troubles with that rom.
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frost_icewind said:
Boot while holding the volume down key (meaning power btn+ vol-). that should take you to the boot loader. once you're there, go to fastboot and flash a recovery image. you seem to have corrupted yours.
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I have already tried this continuously. No result with pressing boot with holding the volume key at all!! If I could do that, I knew i would be fine.

jufa2401 said:
I had the same troubles with that rom.
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What did you finally do ?

IMarks said:
Did you update your kernel or tried to use backup or install just old ROM, so far it doesn't sound bricked but just something missing, what was your previous ROM?
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I was using AOSP rom before this! I just can't get anything to show up on the screen no matter how I try!~

guptadh said:
What did you finally do ?
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Use a different ROM?

Moon2 said:
try "adb reboot recovery" continuously when booting the phone, ignoring all of the "error: device not found"
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i have been trying to do this for the past 10 mins, but I cant get anything.
All i keep getting is error:device not found.
The computer too does not give any indication of any device being connected to the Usb port..

You should boot into bootloader (vol- & power) then flash a stock gb ruu. After this you can proceed to s-off, root, firmware ... Etc
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guptadh said:
i have been trying to do this for the past 10 mins, but I cant get anything.
All i keep getting is error:device not found.
The computer too does not give any indication of any device being connected to the Usb port..
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have u try install new PG58IMG
with firmware 3.32 in an 4ext recovery in then it will start up in recovery again

Jeeez guys. He can't flash a PG58IMG because he CANT GET TO BOOTLOADER! I'm sorry I don't have am answer for you bit I want these people to stop giving you dumb answers that may lead to false hope. It might be bricked. I can't see anything you could do. Sorry
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what is the phone detected as when you connect it to your computer?

Sensation-al! said:
Jeeez guys. He can't flash a PG58IMG because he CANT GET TO BOOTLOADER! I'm sorry I don't have am answer for you bit I want these people to stop giving you dumb answers that may lead to false hope. It might be bricked. I can't see anything you could do. Sorry
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Thanks !! finally for getting it! The screen is just blank.. I can't get into bootloader!

RussianBear said:
what is the phone detected as when you connect it to your computer?
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The phone is not detected on the PC!! I am afraid, the phone might be bricked.
I hope i can get get it repaired in warranty!!

guptadh said:
Guys - I need help. I think i just blew my phone.
I flashed THE Sense-O-Maniac ICE ROM after a clean wife and my phone wouldn't boot. It kept getting stock on the Beats Logo. So I rewiped everything and reflashed this ROM. - Same result.
I then thought, maybe I should also update the firmware, though I am pretty sure, that my firmware was up to date.
So i reflashed the firmware on phone but it still wouldnt boot.
I took the memory card out and deleted the the firmware file so that I could not flash another rom. But when I tried to boot in Recovery my screen just went blank.
JUST BLANK
When I switch my phone on, I get a blank screen. The screen does light up though, but nothing shows.
If i connect the phone to USB, then the screen again lights up, even without the batter.
Has my phone gone poof??? Please help.
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Sjeez mate, what is your problem?
Posting here and in my thread with the same issue.
Without any detailed issue report.
I offered my help in my thread and tried to contact you for several days now via PM.
So i can help you out of this mess via Talk or IRC.
But if you fail to reply to me which i see as not accepting my help.
Sort it out for your self and going on by nailing me down.
But don't say i didn't want you to help.
With regards,
The cook of this rom who seems to killed his phone.

Solid amber light with no/long boot

I know this title comes up a lot but I can't seem to find my problem.
I wanted to go back to the stock rom and I used the proper RUU but totally forgot to use the S-ON tool before hand. It installed successfully but now I get a solid amber light and so far I got my inspire to boot once only to get stuck on the splash screen with it vibrating non-stop.
And now it just vibrated once, went to a black screen and then shut off. I really don't know what to do since I can't even get to HBOOT nor will the computer recognize it.
I've done numerous batter/sim card pulls as well as clean them out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Have you tried booting into the bootloader and doing a factory reset?
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I think he was referring to the bootloader as HBOOT. I had this problem while rooting my sisters Inspire. Might be a corrupted bootloader.
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lay012 said:
I think he was referring to the bootloader as HBOOT. I had this problem while rooting my sisters Inspire. Might be a corrupted bootloader.
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Last I remember my bootloader was TWRP which I guess I had accidentally installed somehow. If you think its a corrupted bootloader how would I go about solving this, if there is a solution?

moutansos said:
Have you tried booting into the bootloader and doing a factory reset?
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Never do a factory reset on a S-OFF device....it will jam u up.
greggyt79 said:
Last I remember my bootloader was TWRP which I guess I had accidentally installed somehow. If you think its a corrupted bootloader how would I go about solving this, if there is a solution?
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It seems that the RUU you flashed was a Froyo one and your phone was running GB so you messed the bootloader. Hit the Hack Kit IRC channel (is in the OP thread) and we will lend u a hand to fix that....

Alright so I went to the IRC and they told me they couldn't help because it did not deal with the hack kit, fair enough.
I have been able to get the phone to boot after waiting for about 10 minutes but I cannot get to the bootloader. I tried rooting the phone again this way I can turn s-on then flash the stock rom again but the phone ends up not being detected half way through the process.
I really don't know what else to do...
Forgot to mention, now my inspire boots but then fades to a greyed out screen. My computer recognizes the phone as something occupying the usb port but is not accessible. Wish the phone had a physical reset button somewhere that i can poke with a paperclip...
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greggyt79 said:
Alright so I went to the IRC and they told me they couldn't help because it did not deal with the hack kit, fair enough.
I have been able to get the phone to boot after waiting for about 10 minutes but I cannot get to the bootloader. I tried rooting the phone again this way I can turn s-on then flash the stock rom again but the phone ends up not being detected half way through the process.
I really don't know what else to do...
Forgot to mention, now my inspire boots but then fades to a greyed out screen. My computer recognizes the phone as something occupying the usb port but is not accessible. Wish the phone had a physical reset button somewhere that i can poke with a paperclip...
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Greggyt, Hit the IRC Channel again,.....it was a rough day and we were a bit pissed. I just connected after you were gone....=0) just hit the channel again....

glevitan said:
Greggyt, Hit the IRC Channel again,.....it was a rough day and we were a bit pissed. I just connected after you were gone....=0) just hit the channel again....
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I will get back on the IRC this evening when I get home from work thanks again!!!

Does it say anything about QHUSB_DLOAD USB device being connected?

I ran into a similar problem not too long ago, immediate vibrating followed by a solid amber light and no phone activity (nothing on the screen at all). I knew I had a backup in Recovery, but I couldn't even get into recovery.
In order to work around this, I did the following steps.
1. Deleted the PD98IMG file from my SD card (so I could get to recovery once I made it to the bootloader).
2. Take out the battery, then put it back in.
3. Plug in the phone, and let it sit for a few minutes.
4. Start into bootloader (hold power + Volume Down)
Now, in my case I was just trying to get back into recovery. if you don't have a working recovery, or no ROM to flash, you'll want to grab a few RUU 's to try from the bootloader. Try stock GB first, then try a stock Froyo just for the heck of it.
Hope this helps! Good luck to anyone else that's stumbled into this problem.
side note: I've also heard of this "power problem" occurring to other people without bootloops or screwed up bootloaders: which is solved by doing steps 2 and 3, then it'll boot up normally.

help
im having same issue i have gb stock and i accidtly did froyo ruu phones power bottun does nothing i have to plug it into computer and it will get solid amber light then eventually it either brings up battery charge icon and then if i press power button or unplug it. it just shuts off the i plug it back in and wait sometimes white htc screen comes up and it vibrates for a while then boots ad works like nothing is wrong but i cant flash gb ruu when i try to do that or re root and go to recovery to reistall ics that is on my sd as soon as phone restarts during process it doesnt reboot then i have to go threw whole procss of trying to get it to boot back up

glevitan said:
Never do a factory reset on a S-OFF device....it will jam u up.
It seems that the RUU you flashed was a Froyo one and your phone was running GB so you messed the bootloader. Hit the Hack Kit IRC channel (is in the OP thread) and we will lend u a hand to fix that....
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im new to this site but i did exactly what you said in your post and now my inspire wont reboot unless i go threw a few hour process of plugin my phone in and i get solid amber light for like 5 min then a battery charge screen comes up then i have to unplug my phone and plug it back in the last time i did this it took about 8 hours of tryin until it finally got amber light for like 5 min then started vibrating for a min or 2 then it booted up and its bin workin fine for like a week now ive tried to reflash gingerbread ruu ive tried doin upgrade from my phone and tried reroot but as soon as it shuts down to start upgrade my phone is off and wont reboot