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SK 4g brick while flashing ROM

Hi, so i just rooted my sidekick 4g today with superoneclick, and it went well. After the rooting i downloaded the ROM manager tried to flash the ROM, because of the 3e problem on the CWM, i had to use the fix on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052991
So I got the fix and had the ROM i wanted (GingerClone+v2+[AospMod]+Update2), I went to recovery mode and everything started loading. Few seconds later my phone rebooted itself, when my phone turns up, and the flashy Samsung Sidekick 4G graphics came out, nothing else came up. The screen froze at the start up flash.
So can anyone tell me is there any solution to this? i tried http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775911 this thread and it didnt help, when i press those 3 buttons, only thing came out was the sign of battery charging and that was it, nothing happened.

You must have the bttery out then slide the usb in then do the 3 button combo with the download screen as the first screen to odin it
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xtrem88 said:
You must have the bttery out then slide the usb in then do the 3 button combo with the download screen as the first screen to odin it
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ye, i did.
I took out battery and then connect usb, then press 3 buttons and insert battery, the screen then freezes again at charging. The download mode didnt come up

sheolito said:
ye, i did.
I took out battery and then connect usb, then press 3 buttons and insert battery, the screen then freezes again at charging. The download mode didnt come up
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keep trying, you shouldnt make it to the charging screen if you do it right

xmeatizmurderx said:
keep trying, you shouldnt make it to the charging screen if you do it right
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ok.. now this is even worse
i got into download mode, i used odin3, run start, and at the end it says All threads completed (1 pass 1 failed), and now i cant even boot the phone

sheolito said:
ok.. now this is even worse
i got into download mode, i used odin3, run start, and at the end it says All threads completed (1 pass 1 failed), and now i cant even boot the phone
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Make sure you have all the files in the right place in odin and correctly named, you shouldn't be having this many issues

Samsung looping

phone is on infused v2 and is now just looping after i restarted it, samsung samsung samsung.... how to fix this?

aviationmech406 said:
phone is on infused v2 and is now just looping after i restarted it, samsung samsung samsung.... how to fix this?
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Have you tried anything to fix this......??
if not just pull batt, hold power and both volume up/down at the same time....when the first samsung logo appears let go of power and continue to hold till you get into recovery. should be like 10 sec maybe 15
wipe data factory reset and you should boot past the loop....if not you most likely have to reflash or use the ultimate unbrick.

mine did this when i deleted the lagfix folder by accident (trying to fee up space) i ended up booting into red recovery and disabling voodo lagfix, rebooted then went back in to recovery and re enabled it.

Im not able to get the recovery to come up, everything is jacked, im trying to track down instructions for that ultimate unbrick..
Ok found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251&highlight=unbrick but the part where it says make sure your phone is com## in the odin, mine isnt showing up with that?

aviationmech406 said:
Im not able to get the recovery to come up, everything is jacked, im trying to track down instructions for that ultimate unbrick..
Ok found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251&highlight=unbrick but the part where it says make sure your phone is com## in the odin, mine isnt showing up with that?
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Did you get this working? When I was running Infused I had to repeatedly do battery pulls and the three button meth. to get the recovery. Should seriously try to get recovery to start before doing a back to stock.
As for Odin recognizing the phone, did you make sure you have the kies with the drivers installed, did you try different usb ports and/or computers caus sometimes the drivers act funky. Have seen other people have problems with Odin and the drivers.

Got odin to work and its back to stock, only problem i have now is when the date/time is set to automatic it sends it completely off the grid, i have to manually set it which i dont like to do, any quick fix to this?

I'm having a similar problem. My phone is bootlooping and my pc and odin are recognizing it, however the issue is that the phone only turns on for half a second before shutting back off, not allowing me to do anything with it. Anyone know of a way to fix this?

aviationmech406 said:
Got odin to work and its back to stock, only problem i have now is when the date/time is set to automatic it sends it completely off the grid, i have to manually set it which i dont like to do, any quick fix to this?
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Even on stock? Ive seen this problem with custom roms like dlevrom 5.0 but not on stock? Cruise over there and see what he did to fix it. I believe there is a program called fastfix to force the locales to show up with North America. Nevertheless, check your locale and text in settings to make sure if the correct locale for your area is shown. If not there is a program in the market to force the correct one. Sorry, dont recall the programs name. Maybe the fastfix or fasterfix.
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Astirnon said:
I'm having a similar problem. My phone is bootlooping and my pc and odin are recognizing it, however the issue is that the phone only turns on for half a second before shutting back off, not allowing me to do anything with it. Anyone know of a way to fix this?
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Go to either the thread on the Heimdall one click back to stock or the thread on the Unbrickable mod, read up on your download mode access problem and figure which direction to go. Sounds like a soft brick but anything other than a black screen period is salvagable so your all good.
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Pull battery plug in USB cable hold volume s power buttons insert battery should put you at download screen to odin to stock.
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JLR9914 said:
Go to either the thread on the Heimdall one click back to stock or the thread on the Unbrickable mod, read up on your download mode access problem and figure which direction to go. Sounds like a soft brick but anything other than a black screen period is salvagable so your all good.
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Ok I did both, Odin had a different "modem" I guess so my time was off, I tried the heimdall one and it gave me the gingerbread update which is nice but im having a problem I turn on phone after and after the Samsung comes on it does this sketchy screen with a lot of colors then boots into "atts rethink possible" not sure if anyone can help with that.

aviationmech406 said:
Ok I did both, Odin had a different "modem" I guess so my time was off, I tried the heimdall one and it gave me the gingerbread update which is nice but im having a problem I turn on phone after and after the Samsung comes on it does this sketchy screen with a lot of colors then boots into "atts rethink possible" not sure if anyone can help with that.
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Sounds like the rainbow thing peeps were getting when they used gb leaks with the froyo bootloaders? You are still booting up fine so that is good. Head over to one of the leaks like UCKJ2 or 4 and study first because the gb bootloaders might solve your rainbow but they are to be used with caution, you could brick your phone real quick.
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[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] Phone won't boot into ROM or recovery--Possible hardware issue?

I've been having a bit of a hard time with a friend's Skyrocket tonight. I flashed CM9 for her before, and it seems to work well. In the past two to three weeks, though, she tells me that her phone's been randomly turning off. Tonight, I finally decided to install CM10 on the Skyrocket, thinking that this would fix the issue. I installed it through CWM like normal (I've flashed many a ROM, so I couldn't have messed up this process).
With everything installed, I reboot through CWM. The issue is, the phone just goes black. After pulling the battery and trying to boot again, I see the Samsung logo, followed by a black screen. The phone sort of pulsates for a bit at this point, giving me a short vibration here and there, before finally stopping. Attempting to get into recovery doesn't work either. I also, due to me not being used to the download mode feature (I personally have a Galaxy Nexus), accidentally tried to start it by holding the power and volume buttons (rather than holding volume and plugging the phone in, not touching power). The yellow triangle would show up very briefly, and then the phone shuts off.
When getting into download mode the proper way, I was able to get into Odin and flash CWM again. At this point, I should definitely be able to get into Recovery. But alas, I cannot... Same issues as before. At this point, it's revealed to me that, after the random shutoffs that my friend had been experiencing, she would sometimes also have trouble turning the phone back on. Noticing a trend?
I'd like to know what you guys think: Is this a software issue, or is it a hardware issue? For the former, what do you guys recommend so the phone could boot normally again? And for the latter, well... I don't suppose there are any easy hardware fixes I could try?

If you pull the battery and reinsert does the phone start on its own with no button pushes? If so... Stuck power button.
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stoopendis said:
If you pull the battery and reinsert does the phone start on its own with no button pushes? If so... Stuck power button.
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Nope, not at all. I need to press the power button for it to start.

It'd flash back to stock with Odin and then go from there.
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jd1639 said:
It'd flash back to stock with Odin and then go from there.
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I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't try flashing to stock because I figured it would work, but somehow, it did. I still feel that there's something wrong with the power button, and I'll be doing some more testing, but for now, everything's okay. Thanks for your help.

I bet you can reflash cm10 and it'll work fine. Just do a factory reset and the wipes and you'll be fine.
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Wipe ALL the things, then Odin back to stock and reinstall. I'd bet that solves it
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Phone wont start after restoring boot partition through TWRP

Guys,
Have been running MIUI V5 on my d2vzw (ported from d2spr) for a couple of days now. Noticed today that the videos were playing reversed (probably due to the ROM running on sprint kernel, correct me if i am wrong). So i flashed one of the kernels for vzw and had a bootloop.
So, in a moment of inspiration :crying:, i restored the boot partition from my MIUI v4 backup in TWRP (thinking that must be the kernel part) and the phone wont boot. No Download mode, no vibration, get the red indicator on for some seconds but thats it. I get QHSUSB_DLOAD error when connected to my computer.
Guess this is a hard brick. Would i be able to get into download mode with USB JIG (i would need to make one, if there is no chance i will not try it). Is JTAG my only option? I have no warranty between since i am using this phone in India.

Guys,
Any Help??

I doubt it, have you trying taking out the battery holding vol up, power, and home for about 3 seconds and letting go to get into recovery to wipe the miuiv4 boot
They are different versions so flashing different rom boots won't boot the rom.
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Addiso said:
I doubt it, have you trying taking out the battery holding vol up, power, and home for about 3 seconds and letting go to get into recovery to wipe the miuiv4 boot
They are different versions so flashing different rom boots won't boot the rom.
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Well, my thinking was since both were 4.1.2, it should not be a problem. I was proved wrong anyway. The phone has no life at all. Is JTAG my only option??

killmastern3 said:
Well, my thinking was since both were 4.1.2, it should not be a problem. I was proved wrong anyway. The phone has no life at all. Is JTAG my only option??
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I believe so if nothing comes up but it's weird it was just the boot that you messed with. And you still get at least a red light. If it's hard bricked I believe there is no light whatsoever.
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What is the reality of this thought anyone have the truth?, ThanksQ
Is this statement TRUE for certain? Quote: "I believe so if nothing comes up but it's weird it was just the boot that you messed with. And you still get at least a red light. If it's hard bricked I believe there is no light whatsoever."
Thanks in advance! moi
killmastern3 said:
Well, my thinking was since both were 4.1.2, it should not be a problem. I was proved wrong anyway. The phone has no life at all. Is JTAG my only option??
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Pull battery and let sit an hour so everything discharges and try again. If still blacked out most likely J-Tag. QHSUSB_DLOAD error is a bad sign.