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Sensation bricked.. I think anyway

My sensation went off last night and wont come back on, no charging light no screen etc...
the only thing is usb does kinda pick it up as QHSUSB_DLOAD with no drivers to install, any ideas?
edit: never mind i now know this is bricked and a jtag needs doing....

Help! Same problem
I have no power to the device. Tmobile sent me a new sensation but i would like to try and fix the old one before i send it back, only have 5 more days.
Its not the battery or the sd since they both work fine in new phone.
Windows reads the same thing when on usb. No drivers. No power No nothing????
Can anyone help please or am i done for?

anarchyuk said:
My sensation went off last night and wont come back on, no charging light no screen etc...
the only thing is usb does kinda pick it up as QHSUSB_DLOAD with no drivers to install, any ideas?
edit: never mind i now know this is bricked and a jtag needs doing....
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Could you explain what you did to cause this? I really hope you were messing with things other than what most people have done, otherwise, this could be a real problem for the rest of us.
Matt

Yes i would also like toknow what You did please
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mrg02d said:
Could you explain what you did to cause this? I really hope you were messing with things other than what most people have done, otherwise, this could be a real problem for the rest of us.
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10Char

If you did brick there is a thred in the dev's that can and will show you how to unbrick and you can shop and decide on witch Rom you won't to go with look at it this way you have the best of both worlds good luck
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

Had an issue today similar to yours, unlocked the bootloader today and kept the stock rom. Tonight I started deleting the bloatware, mainly using root explorer, no issues really. Used titanium backup to "force remove by exploit" I think its called. Did that and phone went black, tried powering back on, pulled battery etc, nada.
Ended up plugging device to usb charger and booted into bootloader, rebooted from there and its fine.

I ran into this tonight. See this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585
Short story -- Clockwork Recovery is bugged and won't charge the phone. Your battery level is too low to power on, so you need to use another method to get some power into it.
I did this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15034469/tmp/recovery_fail.jpg
And yeah it's a lame problem.

Ahh, so this is not really a bricked phone, but a case of CWM dead battery! Good to know, as its an "easy" fix then. I was afraid that the phone, simply S-off and perm rooted, had somehow crashed permanently.
Matt

Straight Bricked
For me its not the battery, when tmobile sent me a new sensation i used my old battery, sdcard and sim and the battery still had around a 75% charge. I cant boot from usb i cant do anything. Its completely dead.

As for what i did?
I had been flashing multiple roms and kernels for 2 weeks. Overclocking, undervloting bla bla. No issues a wipe and flash couldnt take care of. I think i did a wipe and flash of a new rom and thats it. Dead. Wish i could remember exactly what it was. I guess im gonna mail it back since i have a new one and probably get charged full retail if they see its s-off and root.

blackstarnino said:
I had been flashing multiple roms and kernels for 2 weeks. Overclocking, undervloting bla bla. No issues a wipe and flash couldnt take care of. I think i did a wipe and flash of a new rom and thats it. Dead. Wish i could remember exactly what it was. I guess im gonna mail it back since i have a new one and probably get charged full retail if they see its s-off and root.
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Ahh..So it wasnt the silly CWM ordeal then. That sucks!
Try to pinpoint what you were doing right before this happened. Were you wiping something? (what were you wiping) Were you flashing a ROM? (What were to flashing)
Try to provide more details, as I am sure some of the devs here will be looking to jump all over it shortly.
EDIT: Were to making sure to check that the ROM you were flashing was meant for your version of the phone as well as the files not corrupted? I know it sounds silly, but its something to rule out.
Matt

happened to me too on two batteries. I believe that it is due to overclocking the cpu. because the battery stats are calibrated for a slower CPU speed, it drains it past the failsafe point to pure failure. CWM will recognize CPU for the given ROM. i flashed back to S-ON and regular RUU 1.29 and charging my batteries again for the correct CPU + battery stats. wish me best of luck

Wow, am i that stupid
Not positive but i think i figured out what i did. Something really stupid.
I think i flashed: [Desire] InsertCoin CM7/STOCK 1.1.0
So am i fully bricked?
Gotta put the phone in the mail tomorrow.
Do you think they will see that its s-off or if its (truly) bricked can they not?
Nino

blackstarnino said:
Not positive but i think i figured out what i did. Something really stupid.
I think i flashed: [Desire] InsertCoin CM7/STOCK 1.1.0
So am i fully bricked?
Gotta put the phone in the mail tomorrow.
Do you think they will see that its s-off or if its (truly) bricked can they not?
Nino
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They'll know....

actually... having worked in a few cell phone repair / refurbish facilities... i can tell you that they won't even look. they just plug the phone up to their bench and it overides everything and does a fresh flash. from there they just replace plastics to make it look like a brand new phone. if they are unable to flash it at the bench, they replace internals. so relax... no one will know or care what you did to it. these places get thousands of phones a day. and each tech at the bench has a quota to get through.

Thanks for your feedback guys. Shipping it off now...
Still cant believe it. Still have my n1 from launch day and it took everything i could throw at it. Still kicking like a beast. **** my g1 is still running cm4 i think lol.

anarchyuk said:
My sensation went off last night and wont come back on, no charging light no screen etc...
the only thing is usb does kinda pick it up as QHSUSB_DLOAD with no drivers to install, any ideas?
edit: never mind i now know this is bricked and a jtag needs doing....
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I'm in the same situation. This sucks. I tried to get back S-ON. Did you receive a new phone?

So you flashed a desire ROM.... Well no ****...
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Another dead phone

Hi, I have flashed many different roms with no problems on HD2 and Desire S. This evening I thought I would try another Rom (why oh why), so duly wiped and done the usual preparation, but this time it just stuck at HTC for over half an hour, tried rebooting but nothing, tried all the ways on the forum to restart without taking the battery out, in the end I made the stupid mistake of taking the battery out and putting it back in . Well you know the rest, dead phone fried chip I think.
Now my questions are 1) its on contract from Tmobile 6 months ago, the device is obviously S-off so am wondering if I can still get it fixed by them. 2) How much does it cost to have a fried emmc chip replaced if I send it to HTC.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I sent it to HTC without the battery and got a repaired phone free of charge
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium

Hi Dan. Can you tell me the process you went through and is your a contract phone

Can you boot into Recovery or Bootloader? The bootloop can be caused by many reasons, not only eMMC

Hi, can't boot into anything , the phone is just dead, doesn't do anything, no power.

correct me if im wrong but dosnt emmc failure still boot? im not 100% sure thats your problem

Ok, but I tried everything to power up with no luck, I know there was at least 80% battery when I used it, also nothing when I plug it in to the mains.

pandollar said:
Hi, can't boot into anything , the phone is just dead, doesn't do anything, no power.
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This is a completely bricked phone (whatever the reason that caused it). But in this case the repair cannot state that it is S-Off. So go ahead for a replacement. There is a way to unbrick it (JTAG), but never heard so far that the HTC repair centres use that - all the problematic devices were just replaced, not repaired. Good luck

Ok, I will have to try and get them to replace it then. Many thanks for your help.

amidabuddha said:
This is a completely bricked phone (whatever the reason that caused it). But in this case the repair cannot state that it is S-Off. So go ahead for a replacement. There is a way to unbrick it (JTAG), but never heard so far that the HTC repair centres use that - all the problematic devices were just replaced, not repaired. Good luck
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This is great..I have two bricked phones lying about that I have no idea what to do with...

virtu0s0 said:
This is great..I have two bricked phones lying about that I have no idea what to do with...
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Find a person in your area that owns a JTAG, there is a great chance to fix them.

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)
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using Tapatalk

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
Sent from my phone.

[q] need opinion!!

Hey guys
I gave my cousin my infuse 4g, which was running gtg's Infused latest ROM.
According to her, she was at the mall and she pulled out the phone from her pocket and all she saw was infinite logo bootloop.
At first to me it seemed like a soft brick but it's not recoverable.
When I put the battery in, it goes into infinite samsung logo bootloop.
Three button combo to CWM doesn't work, the download mode jig also does not work.
when i put the download jig in, the yellow downloading mode logo shows up for 2 seconds and then the phone turns off. and the process repeats.
When i put the charging cable in, it infinitely loops the "battery picture", turning off 1 second later everytime and turning back on...
I plan on taking it back to the AT&T Service Shop for a chance at claiming a replacement device.
So here's my question.
I've tried everything I can to get this thing back to a working state, but to no avail.
Does this mean that the engineers at the service center will also not be able to get it back up (meaning that they won't be able to tell that i've voided the warranty)?
I mean, something is seriously wrong with this infuse. it won't even go to download mode.
I bought this device back in July 2011, so I'm still under that 1 year manufacturer's warranty.
Do you guys think I will be able to get a replacement device?
Thanks guys!
EDIT: here are the visual descriptions of what i'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYiZbgI3rnk&feature=channel&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxvIj76MkjA&feature=channel&list=UL

jhong91 said:
Hey guys
I gave my cousin my infuse 4g, which was running gtg's Infused latest ROM.
According to her, she was at the mall and she pulled out the phone from her pocket and all she saw was infinite logo bootloop.
At first to me it seemed like a soft brick but it's not recoverable.
When I put the battery in, it goes into infinite samsung logo bootloop.
Three button combo to CWM doesn't work, the download mode jig also does not work.
when i put the download jig in, the yellow downloading mode logo shows up for 2 seconds and then the phone turns off. and the process repeats.
When i put the charging cable in, it infinitely loops the "battery picture", turning off 1 second later everytime and turning back on...
I plan on taking it back to the AT&T Service Shop for a chance at claiming a replacement device.
So here's my question.
I've tried everything I can to get this thing back to a working state, but to no avail.
Does this mean that the engineers at the service center will also not be able to get it back up (meaning that they won't be able to tell that i've voided the warranty)?
I mean, something is seriously wrong with this infuse. it won't even go to download mode.
I bought this device back in July 2011, so I'm still under that 1 year manufacturer's warranty.
Do you guys think I will be able to get a replacement device?
Thanks guys!
EDIT: here are the visual descriptions of what i'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYiZbgI3rnk&feature=channel&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxvIj76MkjA&feature=channel&list=UL
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jhong91,
It is not often but several other users have reported similar hard power loops that you're describing.
If you go back through the Q/A thread, there are a few with this.
Some users have succeeded in restoring their device via jtag method - by mobiletech or something like that.
Others opted for the replacement and was successful too.
Look through the last 20-40 pages...(garen21, brazcub may have similar situation ) Others have been told that it was due to corrosion of the battery terminal or bad circuit board.

qkster said:
jhong91,
It is not often but several other users have reported similar hard power loops that you're describing.
If you go back through the Q/A thread, there are a few with this.
Some users have succeeded in restoring their device via jtag method - by mobiletech or something like that.
Others opted for the replacement and was successful too.
Look through the last 20-40 pages...(garen21, brazcub may have similar situation ) Others have been told that it was due to corrosion of the battery terminal or bad circuit board.
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Hello,
thanks for the reply!
if the problem really is, as you may have kindly pointed out, with the circuit board or bad battery terminal, do you think it's unrecoverable even by the AT&T technicians (or mobiletechvideo's jtag service)?
Also, this is my first time dealing with warranties on smartphone.
If they happen to find out that I have voided the warranty by rooting the phone, the worst thing that could happen is not getting a replacement device right? they can't charge me or penalize me right?
Thanks in advance!

You will be OK.
I bricked mine and sent it in, they didn't even realize it was rooted and sent me a new one. Just don't mention it man. Also its better if you take it to a smaller att store, they seem to be a bit cooler then the big corporate stores
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eZdubzitmk4 said:
You will be OK.
I bricked mine and sent it in, they didn't even realize it was rooted and sent me a new one. Just don't mention it man. Also its better if you take it to a smaller att store, they seem to be a bit cooler then the big corporate stores
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did you go to a retail store? or an official device support center?
thanks!

A retail store
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eZdubzitmk4 said:
A retail store
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ok, i thought I was supposed to go to device support center..
i guess i'll go to retail first and then device support center if they should redirect me there..
anyways,
thanks man!

Yeah it all depends on the person, most are pretty cool and try to help.
But others just send you away to support
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Hard Bricked My US Cellular S3, I think, please help!

I haven't tried the jig, but all the other symptoms such as dead screen,functionless buttons and all are there, so I think it is Hard Bricked. It's really weird what happened, I rooted my S3, it was working perfectly, then I unlocked the bootloader, it was perfectly fine even after that, then using ROM Manager I installed clockwork recovery mod, it was was working great. Then, I deleted my android market using ES File Explorer, and the guide for replacing the market told me to look for Vending.apk and then delete it, I looked but couldn't find it, so I 100% remember I tapped the search button in ES File Explorer and searched for Vending.apk, then suddenly a window popped up with names of files flashing but it didn't say searching or anything just three dots (...) and under there were two options YES and NO. I pressed No, it closed and then popped up again so this time I pressed Yes. then the names of files kept flashing and then it finished but didn't give me any search result, But my Phone memory was showing Empty, only the sd card folder was there and nothing else so I closed the app and opened it again, still the phone memory was empty, I was freaked out, so I restarted the phone and then, it never started :crying: I don't know what happened. Please help?

odin back to stock and start over....your device is far from hardbricked.

Really?? Can you please tell me step by step what to do?? I'm a complete noob at this!
droidstyle said:
odin back to stock and start over....your device is far from hardbricked.
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My device does not go into download mode, nor in recovery, it's buttons are useless and there's a completely dead screen.
droidstyle said:
odin back to stock and start over....your device is far from hardbricked.
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have you tried a different battery?

I forgot to mention, it's brand new, this happened the second day I bought it. So, the battery is flawless and perfect.
droidstyle said:
have you tried a different battery?
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No its dead for sure. He tried to unlock the us cellualr S3 which would result in a perma brick.
You don't need to unlock the bootloader of the us cellular S3. That is why everything is labeled "verizon unlock" and stuff.

con247 said:
No its dead for sure. He tried to unlock the us cellualr S3 which would result in a perma brick.
You don't need to unlock the bootloader of the us cellular S3. That is why everything is labeled "verizon unlock" and stuff.
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ahh i missed that detail...yes i agree its dead for sure! jtag or new replacement time.

Since it's only a couple days, take it back into USCC store. You're in your 15 day Window, they should swap it for a new one. Act dumb, don't tell them you rooted it. Just say you heard it buzz and it died. They'll mark it down as defective and give you a new one

How the hell was I supposed to know that? The US Cellular S3 is completely identical to the Verizon one, the only difference is the carrier logo, I rooted it with the Verizon S3's guide everything went perfectly fine, so I continued to do all the other stuff. I just got it 2 days ago :crying: . Huff, I've sent it for JTAG to a friend.
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ahh i missed that detail...yes i agree its dead for sure! jtag or new replacement time.
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ShazzyK-IDEOS said:
How the hell was I supposed to know that? The US Cellular S3 is completely identical to the Verizon one, the only difference is the carrier logo, I rooted it with the Verizon S3's guide everything went perfectly fine, so I continued to do all the other stuff. I just got it 2 days ago :crying: . Huff, I've sent it for JTAG to a friend.
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a simple google search would of told ya that...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+the+bootloader+unlocked+on+the+usc+galaxy+s3
research then flash dont flash then research!

tallgrasshawk said:
Since it's only a couple days, take it back into USCC store. You're in your 15 day Window, they should swap it for a new one. Act dumb, don't tell them you rooted it. Just say you heard it buzz and it died. They'll mark it down as defective and give you a new one
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Great idea, but, I'm not in the US. I bought this phone from a guy who brought it from the US, I got it for half the price of an S3 here. So now, I don't know what to do, I gave it to friend, I hope he'll fix it, but if he's unable to can I give it to Samsung?

True, well said :'( I messed up big time.
droidstyle said:
a simple google search would of told ya that...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+the+bootloader+unlocked+on+the+usc+galaxy+s3
research then flash dont flash then research!
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Hi everyone,
I think my fiance might have hard-bricked his (new! Less than 24 hrs old!) Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III. He researched, rooted, set up bit-defender and it was working fine but when he tried to copy music files onto the micro-SD, they appeared to have gone onto the hard-drive instead and made his phone uber sluggish. We had some friends over, so he dropped the issue for a while and then went back to try to fix it only to make things worse. I know there isn't enough detail there about what *else* he tried to do, but when he came to bed last night he was kicking himself for not researching it enough and mentioned that he tried taking the batter out, resetting it, taking the sim card out, resetting it, telling bit defending to wipe the phone, etc. but all it would do last night was just display the 'samsung' logo then go to black.
This morning, I found your threads and tried to do the power+down+home advice that I've seen on a few threads here but it didn't work (obviously).
I suggested using the micro-SD adapter to try to explore the files on a PC, so we might look into that later.
Is there anything else you guys would recommend? I'm thinking the only thing to fix it now is the dopey route. :silly:
-Ami

Your phone is Soft Bricked not hard bricked, otherwise it wouldn't even turn on, Use A USB JIG to force it into download mode, then reflash with Odin.
Aminarra said:
Hi everyone,
I think my fiance might have hard-bricked his (new! Less than 24 hrs old!) Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III. He researched, rooted, set up bit-defender and it was working fine but when he tried to copy music files onto the micro-SD, they appeared to have gone onto the hard-drive instead and made his phone uber sluggish. We had some friends over, so he dropped the issue for a while and then went back to try to fix it only to make things worse. I know there isn't enough detail there about what *else* he tried to do, but when he came to bed last night he was kicking himself for not researching it enough and mentioned that he tried taking the batter out, resetting it, taking the sim card out, resetting it, telling bit defending to wipe the phone, etc. but all it would do last night was just display the 'samsung' logo then go to black.
This morning, I found your threads and tried to do the power+down+home advice that I've seen on a few threads here but it didn't work (obviously).
I suggested using the micro-SD adapter to try to explore the files on a PC, so we might look into that later.
Is there anything else you guys would recommend? I'm thinking the only thing to fix it now is the dopey route. :silly:
-Ami
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ShazzyK-IDEOS said:
Really?? Can you please tell me step by step what to do?? I'm a complete noob at this!
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If you're such a noob and unprepared for a brick, maybe you shouldn't have ventured down custom ROM/unlock avenue?
Just a thought.
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ShazzyK-IDEOS said:
Your phone is Soft Bricked not hard bricked, otherwise it wouldn't even turn on, Use A USB JIG to force it into download mode, then reflash with Odin.
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Yeah, this morning it won't even turn on no Samsung, no hope. Lesson learned... hopefully not a very expensive one.. :fingers-crossed:

Aminarra said:
Yeah, this morning it won't even turn on no Samsung, no hope. Lesson learned... hopefully not a very expensive one.. :fingers-crossed:
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Pull the battery, put it in and let it charge for a while couple hours. Then hold vol - , home and power. If it week go into download/Odin mode you're fine. If so then go to the development thread stickies and follow droid style guide section 6
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Great thought, but let me tell you before my Galaxy S3 I owned a Wildfire S, tinkered with it every bit, OC,Rom,bootloader and everything, before that I owned a Huawei U8150, my first android, I literally went bezerk modding that thing. So, I'm not a noob at this,I was a noob at this different Carrier different software kinda thing, I thought the phone was the same and indeed it is, but the difference is that the Verizon's Bootloader is locked. I'm well familiar with everything, I just messed up by not researching that if the bootloader was unlocked already, mainly because I was a bit too excited about getting my S3.
1ManWolfePack said:
If you're such a noob and unprepared for a brick, maybe you shouldn't have ventured down custom ROM/unlock avenue?
Just a thought.
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tallgrasshawk said:
Since it's only a couple days, take it back into USCC store. You're in your 15 day Window, they should swap it for a new one. Act dumb, don't tell them you rooted it. Just say you heard it buzz and it died. They'll mark it down as defective and give you a new one
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Yup!