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[q] screen of death on froyo :(

So this morning I was checking out the new choices in my Froyo leak - rooted Captivate, I clicked on every one of them to see what it is and then I clicked on one that said something like user accounts, well ever since then my phone has been a black screen only displaying the top clock and a no signal bar. What should I do next? Unfortunately Im stuck at work with no programs. So Im wondering what would you do, which Odin should I use? Ill be checkin in cause at least I can do this and plan fixing my phone for later

Im guessing you tried pulling the battery?
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sure did tried the reboot screen.

and the other thing, now the phone wont go into sleep mode so my battery is slowly dying too

try to boot into recovery and clear out the cache...

I did that too and it clears and then i reboot then it goes right back to black screen

The same thing happened to me, but I wasn't digging around in the settings. Like previously mentioned, I booted into recovery, and cleared cache/factory wipe, and it booted back fresh. Luckily, I had a Titanium Backup from a few hours before it happened, so I didn't really lose anything.

I had something like this too. Can you get into Download mode and use Odin to return to stock rom? It took me several tries before Odin worked.

Well I still haven't heard anyone who has completely bricked there samsung captivate yet so I think you'll be alright. Just to be the 1 click Odin when you get home.
I'm pretty new myself at this But I think the only way were really screwed Is if we kill the bootloader.
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i will try when i get home, im stuck at work unfortunately, at least i know im not the only one, i was also fooling with settings

thank you

Theres been a few people that have fully bricked their captivates... Including me.
If you got your captivate within the last couple weeks be careful using odin with a froyo kernel. Check the Q&A thread for a post titled "phone-pc something" (Using my phone otherwise I'd provide a link)

loserskater said:
Theres been a few people that have fully bricked their captivates... Including me.
If you got your captivate within the last couple weeks be careful using odin with a froyo kernel. Check the Q&A thread for a post titled "phone-pc something" (Using my phone otherwise I'd provide a link)
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Well that sucks.
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theMaginator said:
Well I still haven't heard anyone who has completely bricked there samsung captivate yet so I think you'll be alright. Just to be the 1 click Odin when you get home.
I'm pretty new myself at this But I think the only way were really screwed Is if we kill the bootloader.
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I had one. OTA update. And I wasn't the only one. I couldn't even get into download mode.

yeah, bricked here too trying to go to Froyo. Sent to Samsung, they fixed it.

theMaginator said:
Well I still haven't heard anyone who has completely bricked there samsung captivate yet so I think you'll be alright. Just to be the 1 click Odin when you get home.
I'm pretty new myself at this But I think the only way were really screwed Is if we kill the bootloader.
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lol its happened to many people, myself included.

Bricked captivate

It looks like I've done the impossible. I was running cm 7 gb on it and like a dummy went back to stock. Tried flashing continuum 3.1 and phone got stuck in a vibration loop.
Was able to get into d/l mode with jig and tried to odin stock again. Phone screen went all green and odin was stuck at rfs. Can still get into d/l mode with jig but now phone just shuts off while running odin.
I think my biggest issue is that I didn't follow the steps properly and repartition while going back to stock.
I just ordered an inspire 4g, hopefully I will be able to get the cappy up and running again so I can sell one of them later.
Anyone have any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Did you use Odin one click
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donharden2002 said:
It looks like I've done the impossible. I was running cm 7 gb on it and like a dummy went back to stock. Tried flashing continuum 3.1 and phone got stuck in a vibration loop.
Was able to get into d/l mode with jig and tried to odin stock again. Phone screen went all green and odin was stuck at rfs. Can still get into d/l mode with jig but now phone just shuts off while running odin.
I think my biggest issue is that I didn't follow the steps properly and repartition while going back to stock.
I just ordered an inspire 4g, hopefully I will be able to get the cappy up and running again so I can sell one of them later.
Anyone have any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Been there, done this, fixed it doing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36

donharden2002 said:
It looks like I've done the impossible. I was running cm 7 gb on it and like a dummy went back to stock. Tried flashing continuum 3.1 and phone got stuck in a vibration loop.
Was able to get into d/l mode with jig and tried to odin stock again. Phone screen went all green and odin was stuck at rfs. Can still get into d/l mode with jig but now phone just shuts off while running odin.
I think my biggest issue is that I didn't follow the steps properly and repartition while going back to stock.
I just ordered an inspire 4g, hopefully I will be able to get the cappy up and running again so I can sell one of them later.
Anyone have any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Next time just use the one click package

Have you tried pulling the battery for a minute or so before putting the phone in download mode?

I've tried every method I could find. I tried with odin one click but don't think I have everything downloaded that I need to make it all work properly as far as the put files and everything.
I tried finding it to try it but have had no luck. When I tried odin I used a version that I've had since buying the phone. Its a very old version of stock that I think I got from ponack.net last yr some time.
thank you for the reply's. Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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thanks
carlsbl said:
Been there, done this, fixed it doing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36
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When I first replied about trying everything I hadn't read your full reply as i was using my wifes phone. After reading it on the pc I am going to give it a shot.
Will let you know how it goes, thank you for the help.

Tried method above with no success. No biggie, I'm going to send it to a guy to try to get it fixed so I have it as a backup in case I don't like the inspire.
The wife is ready to strangle me over this. Good thing she loves me.
Thank you all for your help. If I get it fixed and like the inspire enough I might end up selling it our keeping it for a play toy.
Thanks again.
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donharden2002 said:
I've tried every method I could find. I tried with odin one click but don't think I have everything downloaded that I need to make it all work properly as far as the put files and everything.
I tried finding it to try it but have had no luck. When I tried odin I used a version that I've had since buying the phone. Its a very old version of stock that I think I got from ponack.net last yr some time.
thank you for the reply's. Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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Sounds like you're trying the wrong thing. The one-click odin stock doesn't require you to download any extra files, that's why it's a one-click solution. Everything is already packaged into the program, so all you have to do is connect your phone to the computer in download mode and hit the start button in odin, and the software takes care of everything else to get it back to factory defaults.

modest_mandroid said:
Sounds like you're trying the wrong thing. The one-click odin stock doesn't require you to download any extra files, that's why it's a one-click solution. Everything is already packaged into the program, so all you have to do is connect your phone to the computer in download mode and hit the start button in odin, and the software takes care of everything else to get it back to factory defaults.
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I am able to get it into d/l mode only using a jig but no matter what I try it doesn't seem to work.
I'm going to send it to Josh from mobile tech reviews, he thinks he might be able to fix it.
If not then hopefully I will have learned a lesson from this. That lesson being, don't mess up my inspire or I might end up single again. Not a big fan of that happening.
Thanks again to you all for your time and suggestions. People like you guys are the reason I like xda so much.
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donharden2002 said:
I am able to get it into d/l mode only using a jig but no matter what I try it doesn't seem to work.
I'm going to send it to Justin from mobile tech reviews, he thinks he might be able to fix it.
If not then hopefully I will have learned a lesson from this. That lesson being, don't mess up my inspire or I might end up single again. Not a big fan of that happening.
Thanks again to you all for your time and suggestions. People like you guys are the reason I like xda so much.
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Weird, never heard of a situation where you could get into download mode but couldn't recover your phone. Keep us up to date about whether you could get it fixed, yeah?

[Q] Help! Bricked Skyrocket!!!

I don't really know what happened actually...I was on quickwiz 1.0.3 for about a week and last night my battery drained off completely and the skyrocket shut itself off...after I charged it up this morning, I saw a series of force closes and I did see some interesting message about "system UDI" or something not being compatible...dont remember what it was exactly though...
after that, i thought the device was soft bricked and used k0nane's method of odin to revert it back....the odin said that it was successful and rebooted my device...but, my mobile is now stuck at the bootlogo(at&t rethink possible) and keeps running that boot animation over and over without booting up entirely...
Any suggestions on how to recover from this plz?
I saw that the counter was incremented...so returning this is an issue now...trying to order my jig for that...any help will be greatly appreciated

Did you revert back to stock recovery? If so have you tried flashing cwm recovery using Odin?
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If you can get into cwm recovery try restoring a nandroid if you made one if not try flashing a rom but wipe data and cache first
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LoGaN- said:
I don't really know what happened actually...I was on quickwiz 1.0.3 for about a week and last night my battery drained off completely and the skyrocket shut itself off...after I charged it up this morning, I saw a series of force closes and I did see some interesting message about "system UDI" or something not being compatible...dont remember what it was exactly though...
after that, i thought the device was soft bricked and used k0nane's method of odin to revert it back....the odin said that it was successful and rebooted my device...but, my mobile is now stuck at the bootlogo(at&t rethink possible) and keeps running that boot animation over and over without booting up entirely...
Any suggestions on how to recover from this plz?
I saw that the counter was incremented...so returning this is an issue now...trying to order my jig for that...any help will be greatly appreciated
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you should go into stock recovery Which you have if you flashed Konanes stock file.....and wipe data. if that does not do the trick. i would try wiping data again....doing the stock one more time. i been in that exact same boat, as have others. this is what i did to get out. but others have had luck just flashing 3e recovery and wiping data 3 times, flash CMW via odin and restore a nandroid to get back up and running or staying at stock. its up to you.
hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply man...but I didnt really follow what u said back there ...odining back the tar that k0nane gave should return the unit back to stock-meaning i should have the stock recovery as well...but I dont know why my skyrocket didn't boot up the whole way
Lemme explain what I did initially with my device actually- After I got my skyrocket, I used copperhed's method to flash clockwork cwm thru odin and rooted the device..after that, I flashed the quickwiz 1.0.3 thru the clockwork recovery and the thing I mentioned before happened to me...nothing more, nothing less...after this force close thing I had initially on quickwiz, I tried restoring my previous nandoid backups and all of them stopped at the bootanimation looping...nothing booted the whole way up and yes, I wiped for each restore...with none of them working, I started the k0nane's odining
I actually got this all worked out somehow now and want to share this info as it might help someone who had the same issue...After flashing the k0nane's tar thru odin, I went into the 3e recover and tried a factory reset...it asked me for a password there and i typed in the wrong password a couple of times as i dont know what the right one is...after some wrong attempts, it formatted everything(/data, cache and even the sdcad) and voila...my skyrocket booted up fine...i didnt worry much to do this as I had nothing on my sdcard and also since i have nandroid's of all my previous ROM's
But I still wanna know why this all happened..
all this panic cost me about 30 bucks to order a jig faster thru EMS....and my counter is up by 2 as I odin'd the tar twice thinking it might work

Thanks for the reply man...just figured it out...

A similar thing happened to me once, i flashed cm7 then i flash da_g kernal. After that, my phone was stuck on cm7 logo. I went back to stock and i was stuck at the rethink possible logo. After that i restared my phone into the stock recovery mode and i wiped everything and i was able to get my phone back.

LoGaN- said:
Thanks for the reply man...just figured it out...
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i think you made this harder than it was, i honestly STILL dont know WHY this happens. but alot of people have had it happen. some say its undervolting( but i never did any of that) others thinks its Da 'gs Kernel which you were on if you flashed QuickWiz and i had his running as well. some think its the CWM itself that that is causing this because it is not for advice.
Over the past week i have STOPPED using Da g's kernel and have not that happen again.
either way, i think you went into a panic, the steps i listed WILL work weather you flashed 3e with odin or Return to stock to get 3e with Odin and WIPE ALL DATA, and CACHE. im glad you got it going though. sorry you waisted your 30 bucks bruh.

thanks for ur concern bro...i just panicked coz i wanted a working phone asap and i thought of returning mine at the att store...so used the ems shipping for faster delivery of the jig...and minutes after I ordered it, I got it all working...u can see the heights of irony here ...nyway....am glad to see it happen atleast once as I will know what to do if this happens again...for the moment, am gonna stay away from the OC kernels...

Did the flash counter reset?
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LoGaN- said:
After flashing the k0nane's tar thru odin, I went into the 3e recover and tried a factory reset...it asked me for a password there and i typed in the wrong password a couple of times as i dont know what the right one is.....
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So.... is there some secret 3e factory reset password we need??

DoctorQMM said:
So.... is there some secret 3e factory reset password we need??
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i have never seen this in 3e.....i would like to know how to get to that screen.

Yeah wtf? Ive never seen a password in any recovery post a picture of this please

hmn...i will try to see if i can do this on the weekend...my flash counter is already up by 2...what harm will it do for one more
if you want,you can follow my procedure and it will ask for it again...just odin the tar given by k0nan and go into the 3e recovery by holdin volume up+down and power on...do a wipe and it will ask for it...
and no, my flash counter didnt reset...have to wait for my jig and try resetting it
silver03wrx said:
Yeah wtf? Ive never seen a password in any recovery post a picture of this please
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now my skyrocket back screen wont turn on, everytime i tried to get into download my computer pop up messege that cant not find QHSUSB_Dload, anyone can help me out?

So you phone wont so anything? No download mode and no recovery? If so order a usb jig

[Q] Stuck on SGSIII Bootscreen

Before you post, "BLAKDSKF READ OTHER FORUMS BLUSDFLU!!!!!!!111!!!", please, PLEASE, read the whole post. I am not illiterate or a fool. I've spent the last few days researching similar posts, both on xda and other sites, and as far as I've found, this is the only post of this kind on the Verizon SGSIII forums, though there are some that are somewhat similar in the other SGSIII forums (though I think the root of the problem is different). If you can prove me wrong, please redirect.
The Long Story:
ok. SO. I was trying to root my SGSIII, unlock the bootloader, and install CM10. Simple enough, right? Not so. I got through the rooting tutorial at Link 1 relatively smoothly. For the record, I did the composite root and bootloader combo, and I installed CWM Touch Recovery, as per the guide. I also restored the Jellybean Bootchain. I think it was at this point I downloaded Titanium Backup (because forethought is not my forte) and backed up all my apps. I also made a backup with CWM Recovery, but there were errors. I forget the reason, but it aborted backup. I then tried to make a backup onto my external sd card, and some other errors popped up. Mainly that it couldn't find /android.secure (something along those lines) or /sd-ext (might have been something else. I'm going off memory) and skipped them. It still made the backup, so my illiterate, foolish self decided to roll with it and go ahead.
I then went ahead to Link 2, and with it being 2 AM, I stupidly decided to screw trying to figure out how to use Heimdall 1.4rc1 and continue to use ODIN for flashing. After all what's the difference, I thought. One flashing program is the same as another. I flashed the first two files. Well, in truth, I'm not sure if I flashed the first file. Since I just made a single folder for all the SGSIII Verizon flashing stuff, I had two files with similar names at the time. One from Link 1 and one from Link 2. The only difference was one was a boot chain, the other was a boot loader. Also, one ended with .md5 while the other ended with .tar. Sadly I tiredly picked one and flashed it. I think it was the .md5 one, but I'm not sure. Around this point, my micro sd card reader broke, so I decided to just use my other phone (Motorola Photon 4g running Joker's CM9) as a reader of sorts. I swapped them, used my phone to put the zip from Link 2 on it, and swapped them back. I say this because I'm not sure if that is what broke my md5sums or not (more on that in a sec).
Well, surprise, surprise, my phone got stuck on the animated, colorful "4G LTE" boot screen, except it was fully black, though the noise was playing. I think to myself, "No biggie. I'll just restore my previous backup," so I go back to restore it when I get the error 'md5sum mismatch'. I look up the problem, and after extensive, 3AM research (read: clicked the first link on google and blindly followed), I went with one guys advice, which was to create a blank nandroid.md5 file to force the restore. I figured, "Hey. This is pretty risky. I think I'll just restore the bootloader instead of the whole restore." Or at least that's what was going through my head as I went through with restoring the whole backup. Lo and behold, /system was corrupted, I assume, and it aborted restoring it. I reboot my phone only to find out that my phone gets stuck on the SGSIII boot logo. This is where I am now. I would go through with flashing a stock rom onto it to undo everything I've done, but ODIN won't recognize my phone anymore. I can still get into Download and Recovery Mode. All my backups are useless at the moment.
In Short:
I tried to root, unlock the bootloader, and flash CM10 on it
I messed up and ended up restoring a broken backup, md5sums be screwed.
Now ODIN won't recognize my phone and it's stuck at the SGSIII boot screen.
Is there any way to fix this or at least return it back to stock so I can start again?
If there's any other information you need, just ask. I'd be happy to give it. :laugh: This is my first post on these forums, so I'm not sure what information is standard. If you have any idea of what it might be, please drop a comment or something rather than just leaving. I'd like to know that people are actually reading this post.
And on an unrelated note, every time I try to flash with Heimdall, I get an error about there not being a certain .dll file, even though I downloaded the package from Link 2. Am I doing something wrong?
EDIT: I've already tried factory resetting and wiping the cache/dalvik cache. Most of my info is backed up anyway.
Links:
Link 1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439
Link 2: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_d2vzw

What happens when you plug your phone into your PC? Have you tried deleting the drivers then reinstalling them either from Samsung or from the Kies program? You really have to try to mess up this phone and it seems like you definitely tried very hard in this regard.
Edit: Idk anything about Heimdall, I use Odin only so I can't help you there.

SlimSnoopOS said:
What happens when you plug your phone into your PC? Have you tried deleting the drivers then reinstalling them either from Samsung or from the Kies program? You really have to try to mess up this phone and it seems like you definitely tried very hard in this regard.
Edit: Idk anything about Heimdall, I use Odin only so I can't help you there.
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I hadn't noticed before, but my phone doesn't even show a charge screen when plugged in, but that might just be the settings on the phone pre-root. I'm not sure because I left the phone on to see if it was just a time thing. The phone died and I have to recharge it.
After goofing around with the phone while on the charger for a while, I can get a charge screen to show up for a second. The standard "battery with a loading circle" type symbol for this type of error.
I just reinstalled the drivers. I'll let the phone charge for about 10 minutes or so, then test the phone.

dudeman9199 said:
I hadn't noticed before, but my phone doesn't even show a charge screen when plugged in, but that might just be the settings on the phone pre-root. I'm not sure because I left the phone on to see if it was just a time thing. The phone died and I have to recharge it.
After goofing around with the phone while on the charger for a while, I can get a charge screen to show up for a second. The standard "battery with a loading circle" type symbol for this type of error.
I just reinstalled the drivers. I'll let the phone charge for about 10 minutes or so, then test the phone.
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Well if it died you should leave it on the charger longer than ten minutes if it is charging. If Odin recognizes it, your first step would be to try flashing a stock image.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Well if it died you should leave it on the charger longer than ten minutes if it is charging. If Odin recognizes it, your first step would be to try flashing a stock image.
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Thanks. It would seem that it now recognizes the phone, from what I can tell. As soon as I get a stock rom, I'll flash it and post an update.

dudeman9199 said:
Thanks. It would seem that it now recognizes the phone, from what I can tell. As soon as I get a stock rom, I'll flash it and post an update.
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Great! Use Droidstyle's guide or MrRobinson's thread for the proper images. Should be a good starting point.
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I just wanted to add that THIS is how you do a first post or any help needed post! Great details and is obvious you researchedyour problem as well.
The errors in cwm are actually normal. I think the corrupt backups are unrelated.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Great! Use Droidstyle's guide or MrRobinson's thread for the proper images. Should be a good starting point.
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Thanks. I've finally booted up into the setup wizard. I guess from here on I can re-root, unlock the bootloader, and *hopefully* get a working backup and eventually flash CM10.
I guess this means Problem Solved? Again, Thanks.
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I just wanted to add that THIS is how you do a first post or any help needed post! Great details and is obvious you researchedyour problem as well.
The errors in cwm are actually normal. I think the corrupt backups are unrelated.
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Thanks. I'm just gonna assume that the problems stemmed from swapping the sd card and leave it at that.

dudeman9199 said:
Thanks. I've finally booted up into the setup wizard. I guess from here on I can re-root, unlock the bootloader, and *hopefully* get a working backup and eventually flash CM10.
I guess this means Problem Solved? Again, Thanks.
Thanks. I'm just gonna assume that the problems stemmed from swapping the sd card and leave it at that.
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Perfect! Which thread did you end up using btw?
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Perfect! Which thread did you end up using btw?
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I used droidstyle's thread for getting the stock rom.

HELP with Soft Brick

So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??

Just search in the stickies for bootloaders. That will solve your problems
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COfatboy said:
So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??
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If you'd like to try GTG's Ultimate Unbrick, you can find a working download here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22404446&postcount=391

Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.

COfatboy said:
Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.
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You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709

prairied0gg said:
You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709
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It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.

COfatboy said:
It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.
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I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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prairied0gg said:
I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.

COfatboy said:
Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.
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This happened to me earlier. What I did was-
1 Went to full stock using heimdal one click, After completetion, U may stuck in bootloop in at&t as you said
2 Flash efs.zip found in the link below using odin. put efs.zip in odin and untouch any other setting and flash, (Ur imei may be previously corrupted so u got bootloop). This doesnot do any harm. So flash with confidence. If ur device doesnot show up in odin after u flash with heimdal one click , reinstal drivers with kies mini
Link for download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729838
3 Now u'll be out of AT&T bootloop if ur imei was previously corrupted.
I was in similar situation. And this solved my proble.
Hit me thanks if I helped you :good:

Thanks for all the advise. Still not working. Tried everything above and much more. Different things I do give different results but pretty much the same in end. Either sticks in recovery or boot loops one way or another. Really don't see how this could be related to software but you never know I guess.
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