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[Q] Messed up my Samsung Google Nexus S while updating

i had android gingerbread on my phone and wanted the ICS . .
i downloaded the ICS update file , switched off my phone
then switched it on with (Power + vol. up) combination and chose install update from sd card
it installed and i chose 'reboot system now' .. . .but now it wont reboot and phone is like it doesnt have a battery
please help me !
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P.S
it might have happened because i unplugged its USB from comp. while it was updating , not sure though

I had the exact same problem.. you are bricked...
Sent from my Crespo using xda premium

Try flashing a different rom, that's what I do when I get problems.
Anyway good luck man
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA

bad update...and I guess u need to flash a stock rom all over again
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA

the phone cant boot. it wont turn on.. i had the same problem.. I'll link you to my debrick thread
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447040
follow instructions here OP

thegtfusion said:
the phone cant boot. it wont turn on.. i had the same problem.. I'll link you to my debrick thread
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447040
follow instructions here OP
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i managed to do exactly as above till step 12 , i lost it after that
how do i setup fastboot and get those images from ?
help out a noob please !

Here are all images (make sure you use the proper images for your device. If you are unsure, remove battery and check label):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063664
For fastboot, you basically need to follow the first part on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
It basically setting your machine with the proper drivers for Nexus S and installing SDK tools so that you can use fastboot and install bootloader, boot and recovery.

Oogway13 said:
Here are all images (make sure you use the proper images for your device. If you are unsure, remove battery and check label):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063664
For fastboot, you basically need to follow the first part on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1007782
It basically setting your machine with the proper drivers for Nexus S and installing SDK tools so that you can use fastboot and install bootloader, boot and recovery.
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how do i do this , ' '9 - Boot the SNS into the Bootloader Interface, by holding Volume UP & Power button ' '
i cant get a thing on the screen !
thanks

draotic said:
how do i do this , ' '9 - Boot the SNS into the Bootloader Interface, by holding Volume UP & Power button ' '
i cant get a thing on the screen !
thanks
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Are you using a i9023? Are you sure you didn't update to ICS with it and just can't see it because the backlight bug in that release? If that is the case, it is possible you just didn't clear your cache before upgrading.

bozzykid said:
Are you using a i9023? Are you sure you didn't update to ICS with it and just can't see it because the backlight bug in that release? If that is the case, it is possible you just didn't clear your cache before upgrading.
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thanks , i will give everything another try . , else i am going to samsung . ..
are they gonna charge me if the phone's in warranty?

[Q] need boot for nexus s i9023 urgent

i need boot for my nexus because i tried tu update it to android 4.0.3 but i didn't save his rom either boot so the new boot dosn't work so it erase the ancien boot and the new one so my phone doesn't work since
so please give me the rom and the boot for nexus s i9023 and even the way how to install them
thanks

How did you update? That's really important to know. If it was an OTA update and your phone was stock, then you'd better go to Samsung service center, because you do not seem to know what happened.
If you used some tool like recovery or fastboot or adb, then you can find the info you are looking for in the same thread where you downloaded this tools.
Just look into the stickies and look for the OTA factory images for exactly your phone model.
Good luck
Lionhe
Inviato dal mio Nexus S

What I'm wondering is what you mean with boot?
Sent from my Nexus S

aymen.vs said:
i need boot for my nexus because i tried tu update it to android 4.0.3 but i didn't save his rom either boot so the new boot dosn't work so it erase the ancien boot and the new one so my phone doesn't work since
so please give me the rom and the boot for nexus s i9023 and even the way how to install them
thanks
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Need to use fastboot!!!!!!!
Follow this tutorial to get jellybean, if u want ics just do the same but with ics images.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572307

thnx
thank you very much but this stuff works for the phone that light up but mine does not light

thnx
yes I did the update in fastboot mine is Nexus S i9023 but I did it with the i9023T and everything from upset

Ok. Calm down your attention deficit for a moment and explain to us in a few points what you did and what is happening now.
1) Nexus S lights up when pressing power (Y/N)
2) Can you access fastboot (Y/N)
3) Do you have a custom recovery (Y/N)
If 1 is Y, then nothing is lost, but you'll need to be clear and follow to the letter. 2 and 3 are helpful but not necessary.

thnx
thank you polobunny
firstly (1) my phone will not turn on ,just the 4 keys down at the bottom of the menu and back
(2) I can not get to fastboot if the case is settled
(3) the most imortant, me when I did the update I forget to save everything but i could recover the ROM, is what I have done but the custom recovery I did not
and my device is Nexus S i9023 rest I do not souvients for i9020 I tried but it does not
if you can send me any (ROM karnel custom recovery) and even the method how to install thank you

aymen.vs said:
thank you polobunny
firstly (1) my phone will not turn on ,just the 4 keys down at the bottom of the menu and back
(2) I can not get to fastboot if the case is settled
(3) the most imortant, me when I did the update I forget to save everything but i could recover the ROM, is what I have done but the custom recovery I did not
and my device is Nexus S i9023 rest I do not souvients for i9020 I tried but it does not
if you can send me any (ROM karnel custom recovery) and even the method how to install thank you
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If the keys at the bottom light up, then your phone is not bricked.
Pull your battery out, then put it back in. Hold VOL + and press power while holding it. This should bring you to fastboot menu.
Tell me if that works.

If your keys ligth up, use this method wich is specific for your case :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
sent from my Nyan NeXus S
"You're either NEXUS or against us!"

to polobunny
polobunny said:
If the keys at the bottom light up, then your phone is not bricked.
Pull your battery out, then put it back in. Hold VOL + and press power while holding it. This should bring you to fastboot menu.
Tell me if that works.
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my fastboot does not work I tried
so what should i do!!!!

Read the post before! I posted a link with a thread with people that had the same issue!
sent from my Nyan NeXus S
"You're either NEXUS or against us!"
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Cascabreu said:
Read the post before! I posted a link with a thread with people that had the same issue!
sent from my Nyan NeXus S
"You're either NEXUS or against us!"
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HERE IT IS:
If your keys ligth up, use this method wich is specific for your case :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1397393

to cascabreu
Cascabreu said:
If your keys ligth up, use this method wich is specific for your case :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397393
sent from my Nyan NeXus S
"You're either NEXUS or against us!"
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thank you Cascabreu but this thread does not respond to my problem ,I have ever seen. because my phone is showing anything on-screen

aymen.vs said:
thank you Cascabreu but this thread does not respond to my problem ,I have ever seen. because my phone is showing anything on-screen
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but your keys light up... the thread ask for keys to light up or the screen to light up. if your keys light up, it means that ur pc will recognize it. but android is based on linux. so windows will not recognize it. go for what im saying try that thread! it takes up 30 min of your time to a usb flash with linux and use that program. u have nothing to loose!
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check this guy:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396056

Cascabreu said:
but your keys light up... the thread ask for keys to light up or the screen to light up. if your keys light up, it means that ur pc will recognize it. but android is based on linux. so windows will not recognize it. go for what im saying try that thread! it takes up 30 min of your time to a usb flash with linux and use that program. u have nothing to loose!
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check this guy:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396056
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apparently you found me a solution I'll try it and reminds so thank you

[Q] Htc One S Black screen Brick

Hello... I was using CM nightly then i wanted to overclock my phone so i flashed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2061577 Then everything was working fine but i wasnt able to enable the Wi-Fi it was grayed out on disabled.Then i wanted to fix it so i flashed another kernel(i will post what kernel about tomorrow it probably is for ICS)(yes im a noob i realised that later with an awesome facepalm)so... now im stuck in a black screen and i cannot hear anything from my phone. i cant boot it into bootloader and/or TWRP recovery there is only a black screen i can see that it works cuz if i have it connected on my laptop the laptop makes the USB connection sound and/or disconnection one so it is probably working (i tryed holding the power button for 10 and then VOL down to put it on bootloader after the 10 sec's my laptop made a sound but i wasnt able to make it work...) so im stuck here.
P.S.:I would really apriciate your help.Sorry for F*cking English Grammar
Thanasis,15,Greece.

man, you need to reduce your font
and you flashed a kernel for the one x
sorry about your situation, but you are going to have to read more stuff and more carefully
this happened to someone else forget solution if any
try a google on flashing one x kernel on a one s, unless someone replies soon
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btw i never saw much advantage to overclocking for me anyway
if you get this sorted, i would stay with stock kernels for now. have a nandroid and sdcard bu on pc.
i prefer twrp recovery, but not the latest one as it has issues
read all OP pages very carefully and i read first/last 20 pages or so of the thread
always include System as part of your full wipes
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also, hold vol- then pwr at same time until the soft keys blink 3 times. release pwr but continue holding vol-
hold it down til phone boots--give it a minute
you can try using adb if you have that set up on pc

rugmankc said:
man, you need to reduce your font
and you flashed a kernel for the one x
sorry about your situation, but you are going to have to read more stuff and more carefully
this happened to someone else forget solution if any
try a google on flashing one x kernel on a one s, unless someone replies soon
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btw i never saw much advantage to overclocking for me anyway
if you get this sorted, i would stay with stock kernels for now. have a nandroid and sdcard bu on pc.
i prefer twrp recovery, but not the latest one as it has issues
read all OP pages very carefully and i read first/last 20 pages or so of the thread
always include System as part of your full wipes
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also, hold vol- then pwr at same time until the soft keys blink 3 times. release pwr but continue holding vol-
hold it down til phone boots--give it a minute
you can try using adb if you have that set up on pc
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will do/try all of your tip's
about the vol- and then pwr... this just doesnt work cuz the second kernel i flashed was for ICS and they wont light up if they were lightning up it would be easy cuz i cound access bootloader and then all fixed :crying:

Sorry OP, but it sounds like you're bricked. You see QHSUSB_DLOAD when you connect your phone to the PC? You flashed a One X kernel, which is probably why.
You can try the steps in the development unbricking thread.

yeah, don't sound good
you didn't say is you know how to use adb from a command window on pc
you could try rebooting bootloader from there as a try before unbricking
or go the jtag route

well i tryed accessing adb even when unbricken but couldn't manage to make it work... (tryed enabling it from developer options&usb mode) i read somewhere that JB 4.2.2 has an extra security level and it wont be supported by cyanogenmod 10.1

you don't access it you need to have htc drivers on phone and install the adb and fastboot files onto your pc. put hem in a folder of your choice with only them there.
you then open a command window on pc and cd to that folder and type "adb reboot bootloader" with no quotes
if you meant that, sorry i misunderstood
most people install the android sdk if they plan on doing a lot of adb/fastboot commands

So im stuck?
So im stuck? i cant do anything else i mean i cant get into the partitions and edit'em... probably not so my phone is over had it less than a month :crying:

xakersas said:
well i tryed accessing adb even when unbricken but couldn't manage to make it work... (tryed enabling it from developer options&usb mode) i read somewhere that JB 4.2.2 has an extra security level and it wont be supported by cyanogenmod 10.1
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Wait, how did you even manage to et into developer options if you're bricked??
Sent from my One S using Tapatalk 2

usaff22 said:
Wait, how did you even manage to et into developer options if you're bricked??
Sent from my One S using Tapatalk 2
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no i got in there before bricking the device

xakersas said:
no i got in there before bricking the device
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OK then. Have you tried the unbricking thread in the Android Development forum?
Some of the steps you don't need, since you are already bricked.
Sent from my One S using Tapatalk 2

here is the second kernel i installed (it is a donwload link couldn't retrive the download page i got this from google sync) http://www.mediafire.com/?acu5fiil0c4o0gu

usaff22 said:
Sorry OP, but it sounds like you're bricked. You see QHSUSB_DLOAD when you connect your phone to the PC? You flashed a One X kernel, which is probably why.
You can try the steps in the development unbricking thread.
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hello im back yes i can see QHSUSB_DLOAD what can i do?
Edit: i see i got at the unbrick thread but stuck at step step 4 (Enumerating) i dont know which one is my phone's

xakersas said:
here is the second kernel i installed (it is a donwload link couldn't retrive the download page i got this from google sync) http://www.mediafire.com/?acu5fiil0c4o0gu
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Yes. You flashed an unknown kernel, which just says CM10.1 nightly without reading what devices the kernel is for! It would be a good idea to check if it is for the One S, or Ville, since CM10.1 is available for more than 20 devices!
xakersas said:
hello im back yes i can see QHSUSB_DLOAD what can i do?
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You shouldn't be smiling too much, you have a bricked device
You will have to try and recover your device using the thread below. You can skip the "creating the brick" section, since you already have a brick. DO NOT USE THE UNLIMITED.IO tool to reset the phone, since it will not work and make the situation worse.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990043

[Q] Help I think i hard bricked my phone

Recently, i've been trying out a ROM for my Samsung S 4G.
i think i screwd up
wont even let me in past the Galaxy S 4G Screen...
any solutions....or should i throw away the phone?

05wuz said:
Recently, i've been trying out a ROM for my Samsung S 4G.
i think i screwd up
wont even let me in past the Galaxy S 4G Screen...
any solutions....or should i throw away the phone?
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Go to this forum and download the "heimdall" package. This will return the phone back to stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498

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AgainstTheFlow said:
Go to this forum and download the "heimdall" package. This will return the phone back to stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
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It wont even let me go into Download or Recovery Mode

05wuz said:
It wont even let me go into Download or Recovery Mode
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Pull the battery out of the phone. Plug the usb cable into the COMPUTER ONLY. replace battery, hold the vol up and vol down keys ONLY, while plugging in the usb cable to phone. This will put the phone in down load mode. Then flash the package.

Depending on what you flashed, you may have to get (worse case scenario) a download jig. They're easy to make if you got a solder iron. Google Samsung download jig or search xda for the how to make.
That's if you can't get it to go into download with the battery drop in trick.
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And btw, hard brick is a phone that does nothing.
Try a different cord to, some of the cheap phone chargers won't work (unable to transfer files, etc)

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Hey,
thanks for the hint ...downloading mode did appear for a second
but now, it's stuck in
"Downloading....
Do not turn off Target!!!"
is this a good sign?

Go to the link in second post. Read the thread (esp first couple posts) and flash away.

Samsung core plus G350 bricked on downloading mode

Hello guys!
This is a kind of newbie question. My daughter gave me its samsung galaxy core plus g350 because it was impossible to boot. It stayed on a picture of a grey battery. I try to fix it by flashing a new rom with odin. Stupidly, I do that from a laptop with an antivirus. Flashing stopped. And now, the grey battery is changed by the infamous yellow triangle and the message "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue..." . I've still access to the downloading menu. Then I've tried again from another desktop PC, many different rom, full rom, versions of odin, even a thing called cwm. Each flash, Odin says it is a success, but nothing changes. I've even tried Kies.
I've only the downloading mode and it is said on the first line :
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SM-G350
CURRENT BIN: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: custom.
My question is simple. What is the status of my phone? Hard or soft bricked? Is it a way out? For example, I've read that for hard bricked, changing the motherboard is a solution. But before that, I will be please to read your advice.
Thanks a lot for anybody who can help

fabien777 said:
Hello guys!
This is a kind of newbie question. My daughter gave me its samsung galaxy core plus g350 because it was impossible to boot. It stayed on a picture of a grey battery. I try to fix it by flashing a new rom with odin. Stupidly, I do that from a laptop with an antivirus. Flashing stopped. And now, the grey battery is changed by the infamous yellow triangle and the message "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue..." . I've still access to the downloading menu. Then I've tried again from another desktop PC, many different rom, full rom, versions of odin, even a thing called cwm. Each flash, Odin says it is a success, but nothing changes. I've even tried Kies.
I've only the downloading mode and it is said on the first line :
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SM-G350
CURRENT BIN: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: custom.
My question is simple. What is the status of my phone? Hard or soft bricked? Is it a way out? For example, I've read that for hard bricked, changing the motherboard is a solution. But before that, I will be please to read your advice.
Thanks a lot for anybody who can help
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.. so u can access dawnloading mode.. right?? then whats the prblm u facing..
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if nothing is working... then gently remove ur battery and put ur device in sunlinght for about 1/2 hour then take ur device at room temperature and then put the battery and then press home button+power button+volume button and keep pressing them until u feel some vibration and keep pressing them for about 1-2 minutes.. it will drain all static charges.. then again try to install stock firmware from odin... if this method don't work then contact me again...

avijwr said:
.. so u can access dawnloading mode.. right?? then whats the prblm u facing..
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if nothing is working... then gently remove ur battery and put ur device in sunlinght for about 1/2 hour then take ur device at room temperature and then put the battery and then press home button+power button+volume button and keep pressing them until u feel some vibration and keep pressing them for about 1-2 minutes.. it will drain all static charges.. then again try to install stock firmware from odin... if this method don't work then contact me again...
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Thanks Avijwr for your post.
I've tried again, several time. In fact the little vibration doesn't occur. Odin keeps saying me "success" and the phone sticks on its error message. What can I try in this situation?

fabien777 said:
Thanks Avijwr for your post.
I've tried again, several time. In fact the little vibration doesn't occur. Odin keeps saying me "success" and the phone sticks on its error message. What can I try in this situation?
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Sorry for my late post....u can do this ...as u can access dawnloading mode...first install twrp or cwm or any custom recovery mode....if ut suceede then reply to me i will make an flahable stock rom zip file for u....hope twrp will install ???

Thanks Avijwr,
Your are a nice guy. Even late every help is welcome. I will try as soon as I have a moment.

fabien777 said:
Thanks Avijwr,
Your are a nice guy. Even late every help is welcome. I will try as soon as I have a moment.
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Best of luck??
One thing also...did you try to open your recovery mode/menu...if not then go in ur stock recovery mode ...and reset ur mobile to factory data from there... Its the easiest way ...
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Stock rom flashable zip file created....i will upload it as soon as you request.....

Exactly the same problem and i can't fined a solution i tried to flash the device with octopus and still have no response....