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So I lent my brother my nexus s that had cm7 on it. He got into the clockworkmod, went to mounts/storage, and proceeded to format everything (bootloader, boot data, etc. everything in there) he said he thought that would fix the force closes, I figured no biggie, but now I can't even get the phone into download mode and I have no idea what to do, the phone will simply not turn on

wow.... dont even know why he would do that.
rule 1: dont lend people your phone.
and i dont know why you would try and get into download mode, Odin isn't the first thing you want to go to.
1. turn the phone off (if it isnt already)
2. hold volume up + power
... what happens? does bootloader mode pop up?
- plug your phone in your computer's USB
- does the sound for USB plugged in occur?
- does computer detect it?

Can't access fastboot.
Phone sometimes recognizes it and says this device is not recognized and it couldn't install the usb driver, sometimes when i plug it in it does nothing.
Didn't want to lend it to him, had no choice. I told him he should have just fixed the permissions on the phone, but then again he's not exactly android literate.

thats just dumb on his part.. i dont know why he would try and mess with your device. if it has problems, just ask you first.
its probably bricked if you cant access download or bootloader... definitely bricked if the computer is unable to detect it
your only way out of it is to get a replacement

In Device/Drivers of windows under Unspecified there's this:
SEC S5PC110 Test/BD
says drivers are not installed

Anybody out there with a solution?

I think there is more than one driver you can try, though I've never flashed anything in Windows (Linux already comes with the driver ), so I don't know for sure. I think I've seen people mentioned a few drivers before, try search for all the "brick" threads here.

Easiest solution might be to download a Linux live distribution (f.e. ubuntu) and run fastboot from there. No need to install any drivers.

Kicking him in the nuts will probably make you feel better... I don't know if it'll fix your phone though.

jruweaver said:
Kicking him in the nuts will probably make you feel better... I don't know if it'll fix your phone though.
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lmao!!!!!!!!!!

KryPTiCk0d3 said:
lmao!!!!!!!!!!
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While funny, it doesn't help one bit.

I would try the various methods to get into download mode and use Odin to fix it ...you might be screwed tho
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SphericalPuma said:
While funny, it doesn't help one bit.
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Unfortunately with the state your phone is in it is probably going to be the best advice you get.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000175
any chance that this could help you?

Ddi you ever get your phone sorted ? I'm now in the same situation !

Yes, hit up http://www.mobiletechvideos.com/blog/?page_id=970 For 50 bucks they'll fix your phone and ship it back to you in no time. They got my phone on a Friday, I got it back on either Monday or Tuesday. Of course they're based in Texas and I'm in STL so it could differ for you, but the point is, they're fast, reliable, and professional.

Thanks for that - I'm based in Ireland but I'll give them a shout and see if we can do business......

Thanks a million for the reference PUMA. Please contact me when you are in need of a brick fix. I fix hundreds of Galaxy S / Samsung / HTC variants and several others in a brick of nearly any scenario. I've devoted a lot of time to providing and almost unseen service to people in need versus parting the phone out or trashing it.

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
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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.

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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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Anyone use Ready2Go?

Hi folks. First post.
Just upgraded to a Skyrocket from an Aria. I got a confirmation that it shipped and a link to set up my device via Ready2Go. Has anyone tried this? How does it work? Does it set it up exactly as if you were doing it manually? It seems like a cool feature, but it almost seems too good to be true, especially coming from AT&T. I just don't want anything setup incorrectly or differently (like having to use all the apps through some AT&T portal or something).

I've used it a few times. Works very well.

So I just got this lovely device from the ATT refurb store for ten bucks. And the problem I'm having is that ready2go will not sync to the device. I tried four times with reboots of phone and computer in between tries. What a stupid ass idea this is. Leave it to ATT to find a way to screw up a perfectly good system. Any way since it won't sync I can't use the phone at all. I've gotten Odin to recognize the device and know I can flash CWM then another ROM and that's what I'll end up doing but first just wanted to see if anyone else has run into this issue before or has any ideas.

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So I just got this lovely device from the ATT refurb store for ten bucks. And the problem I'm having is that ready2go will not sync to the device. I tried four times with reboots of phone and computer in between tries. What a stupid ass idea this is. Leave it to ATT to find a way to screw up a perfectly good system. Any way since it won't sync I can't use the phone at all. I've gotten Odin to recognize the device and know I can flash CWM then another ROM and that's what I'll end up doing but first just wanted to see if anyone else has run into this issue before or has any ideas.
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Why can't you use the phone at all because of ready to go? I always skip that ready to go crap and set up my phone myself. So be more specific when you say can't use. Is it locked up? Need more info...
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garydv2002 said:
Why can't you use the phone at all because of ready to go? I always skip that ready to go crap and set up my phone myself. So be more specific when you say can't use. Is it locked up? Need more info...
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Well there is no option to skip it. Just back or continue. So if you go to continue it gives web address to go to and the code to enter to sync up. I enter the code and it just sits at the spinning beachball of death forever. How where you able to bypass this setup? I think it may be new from ATT as far as putting in on the phone right after the splash screen.

I would just flash cwm in Odin and flash a custom rom. Skip the stock BS
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BS is right. Like I said in my first post I know how to get around it I was just seeing if anyone else had it happen.

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BS is right. Like I said in the OP I know how to get around it I was just seeing if anyone else had it happen.
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No, I skipped it. Then I looked around my new phone for a few minutes. Then I said, hmmm time for a new rom.
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hechoen said:
Well there is no option to skip it. Just back or continue. So if you go to continue it gives web address to go to and the code to enter to sync up. I enter the code and it just sits at the spinning beachball of death forever. How where you able to bypass this setup? I think it may be new from ATT as far as putting in on the phone right after the splash screen.
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Hit the home button and all that ready to go crap goes away and allows you to procede setting up the phone.
And xcrazydx is right you might just want to flash a custom rom if you can't figure out how to get past ready to go. Especially since you have a refurbished device and warranty is of little or no issue...
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garydv2002 said:
Hit the home button and all that ready to go crap goes away and allows you to procede setting up the phone.
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Negative. I'm not a noob and I'm very familiar with Samsung devices. lol It will go nowhere with out the sync that's not working. More annoying than anything else. And just seeing if anyone else had this happen.

hechoen said:
Negative. I'm not a noob and I'm very familiar with Samsung devices. lol It will go nowhere with out the sync that's not working. More annoying than anything else. And just seeing if anyone else had this happen.
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It's been so long I don't remember much about ready2go. I never used it, I know that much
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xcrazydx said:
It's been so long I don't remember much about ready2go. I never used it, I know that much
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Looks like it's off to odin touch recovery then flash ICS. Still really freakin annoying though.

hechoen said:
Looks like it's off to odin touch recovery then flash ICS. Still really freakin annoying though.
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Yeah, sorry I don't remember
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Hey I came from an Aria as well. Big change.
I don't use ready2go. Waste of effort. Might as well just customize on the phone itself. Why else is it a "smartphone" then?

I know for sure I skipped it just don't remember what button I pushed to do it. As much as I flash this phone and my wife's phone I don't take time to use that ready to go crap if I flash an update in Odin I usually turn right around and flash cwm then root then restore my apps data etc with titanium backup. Never has made me use ready to go....
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!

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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.
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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!
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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!

[Q] Bricked GS3

I've bricked my GS3. I got it rooted, custom recovery installed and bootloader unlocked then proceeded to flash the Foxhound rom. Now after the Foxhound flash, it is completely unresponsive. All I can guess is that I downloaded the wrong version of the rom.
When I plug it in, device manager recognizes it as QHSUSB_DLOAD. searching on this gives very disheartening results.
Is there any hope? I've found some references that certain phones are recoverable if a Linux machine is available to perform the operation. I do use Linux so if something is available, please clue me in.
Thanks,
Quintin

QU3U3 said:
I've bricked my GS3. I got it rooted, custom recovery installed and bootloader unlocked then proceeded to flash the Foxhound rom. Now after the Foxhound flash, it is completely unresponsive. All I can guess is that I downloaded the wrong version of the rom.
When I plug it in, device manager recognizes it as QHSUSB_DLOAD. searching on this gives very disheartening results.
Is there any hope? I've found some references that certain phones are recoverable if a Linux machine is available to perform the operation. I do use Linux so if something is available, please clue me in.
Thanks,
Quintin
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a brick is when the phone does nothing, like a brick.
your phone is in DLOAD MODE.
google is what id do, if i knew how to get out id tell you

I'm not 100% up to date on all roms, is that rom even for the Verizon galaxy s3?
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bobAbooE said:
I'm not 100% up to date on all roms, is that rom even for the Verizon galaxy s3?
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Apparently not.

Can you boot into down load mode or recovery?
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barrackOBAMA said:
Can you boot into down load mode or recovery?
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Nope ... I press any button, or combination thereof, and nothing happens. Well, not nothing. If I'm plugged into the computer it dings in recognition of a device being plugged in but there is zip displayed on the screen of the phone.
At this point, I've done enough reading to come to the understanding that the phone is dead ... may as well bury it in the back yard next to the cat for all it matters.

QU3U3 said:
Nope ... I press any button, or combination thereof, and nothing happens. Well, not nothing. If I'm plugged into the computer it dings in recognition of a device being plugged in but there is zip displayed on the screen of the phone.
At this point, I've done enough reading to come to the understanding that the phone is dead ... may as well bury it in the back yard next to the cat for all it matters.
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Foxhound? Did you flash an international ROM?
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TXI Kaze said:
Foxhound? Did you flash an international ROM?
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Yes, I'm guessing so. I ran across it when working with CM last weekend on the Nexus that the GS3 replaced. That was the fist I've worked with ROMs. I knew Foxhound was out of Italy but the light never went on.
Good thing I still have the Nexus.

JTAG is the only fix for the QHSUSB-DLOAD mode. Unless someone has very recently found a way to recovery from it which is doubtful.
Mobiletechvideos.com can fix you up for about $60 (plus shipping I believe) and a couple weeks.

JBO1018 said:
JTAG is the only fix for the QHSUSB-DLOAD mode. Unless someone has very recently found a way to recovery from it which is doubtful.
Mobiletechvideos.com can fix you up for about $60 (plus shipping I believe) and a couple weeks.
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Hey, man ... thanks! Everything I have read about JTAG was that I had to send it back to Verizon but it wold cost me so much that I may as well buy a new one.
Ya know ... when I started out with computers ump-teen years ago, you'd tweek the machine till it was fubar, wipe it and start over. Now you tweek this stuff till it's fubar, fork out a chunk-o-change and don't do it again. They've taken all the joy out of it.

I did the same exact thing about a month and a half ago.
it would make a noise when i plugged into the computer, but couldnt boot into download or recovery. and i also flashed an international version on accident!
Found a guy that does it for 45, and got it back 7 days later. just google brickedmyphone and his is the first link. I tried talking to the mobiletechvideos guy and he didnt respond for about 6 days which is a long time with a bricked phone! :laugh: Could've been a fluke, but this guy and brickedmyphone got back to me quick and was cheaper than mobiletechvideos. But the fact that he did it quicker than mobiletechvideos for me was because he's not as popular(i think) and lives closer. mobiletechvideos is in texas (as was 60 bucks before shipping) brickedmyphone is in michigan(45 before shipping), michigan being much closer to ohio, i chose him.
whoever you choose, it is well worth the month because it teaches you a very good life lesson to triple check everything before flashing a rom
yay for runon sentences and sounding like a poorly written testimony! oh well :b
good luck mang.