I was doing the OTA update from AT&T this morning and halfway through the update during the reboot phone shut off and wouldnt turn back on. With or without charger connected...tried new battery, even tried using odin3 with no luck. Went to the AT&T store tech confirmed phone is fried. Really weird! Now I have to drive over an hour away just so im able to have a phone today.
Was you phone stock ? ie: No root or rom other than stock ?
Yes, just stock. Didn't plan on doing anything to it until i was completely satisfied with the phone.
did you hold both volume buttons and plug in the USB for download mode?
Yes everything possible.
Alright, well my phone won't turn on at all, as if there were no battery in or something, this is the result of several stupid things i did to it. It began with a not so stupid thing, i flash some new roms on it, was trying out a few, then eventually put stock back on and applied voodoo lag fix. well then i had some issues with haptic feedback so via odin i flashed stock back on it, without disabling lag fix or doing anything first. Well that wasn't such a huge problem as i could still get into recovery and all and so i assumed that it could be fixed somehow. Well after a few hours i got impatient and did something that i don't understand at all, but it resulting in my phone being in the stat it is right now. i download the file "s1_odin_20100512.pit" then i opened odin and put it in the PIT section. I checked Re-partition, Auto Reboot, and F. Reset Time. I hid start, the phone took it, odin showed success, only the phone hasn't done anything since shutting down. Please help me, and I really appreciate any taking the time to think about this.
[Edit]: Okay i think it might be more helpful to just as "Is there anyway to go from no software on the phone at all to put software on it?" I think this is basically the only it could be fixed since there's no way to access it to re flash the kernel, rom, etc.
Does the phone energize if it's plugged in to A/C? Despite the battery...
no
no, the phone doesn't do anything, although i do believe that it is charging because the battery warms up, im weary to leave it on the charger though because idk if it will overcharge without active software. But to be clear, it has the same issue when plugged in as when a only battery, it does nothing what so ever no matter what i do. Thanks for the reply btw.
did anyone get this figured out?? please let me know!!! I am having the same problem; it won't even show charging... and i can't go into download mode for Odin
Hello All,
I promise I've done 2 days of research before and while doing this.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S on ATT using ATT network. I tried to put Cognition on it 2.3b7 and something was wrong with the battery life, so I decided to start over and flash it again. In the meantime DG released 2.3b8.
I rooted it Mac (i'm on a mac), got superuser permission, did the whole clockwork thing. Then I decided to flash it using Odin3 1 click downloader back to ATT software. Well then I got phone...!...computer error. I couldn't do the 3 button combo to get it download mode. I made the 301k Jig, that worked and got me in to download mode. I used Odin3 again, got it back to ATT software but I think it was still custom.
The whole ODIN process was actually way more indepth because it wouldn't work, or the USB software wasn't installed correctly, my phone kept being a *****. But I got it to work eventually.
My phone would also say Samsung I9000 (it's a i897, idk if its the same) instead of just the ATT start up. I went through the rooting process a few times on the Mac and no super user app would show up. So I did it on a PC and it worked. Then I went through the standard process of installing Cognition. I backed it up using clockwork, then clicked install rom and selected the .zip file in the SD card.
It started working. Then after about 30 minutes, it just wouldn't turn on anymore. I've taken out the battery, it's fully charged and all that. It still just won't turn on. It's all black...
What happen, has it happen to anyone and how do I fix it?
It's seriously a paper wieght right now.
dnguyen527 said:
What happen, has it happen to anyone and how do I fix it?
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Exact same thing happened to me - except I have a genuine i9000.
ROM Flasher - selected ROM - booted into clockworkmod, which started flashing the ROM, it proceeded for about 10 minutes, displayed lots of activity on the screen, then the screen went black... and has remained black ever since.
The phone won't turn on, won't go into download mode, won't go into reset mode. I have a jog on order, but I don't think that will do much. I thought that maybe the battery had drained (it didn't - tried it in a different phone).
The phone is just dead, and an equal paperweight.
Are there any options left, or do I just need to send it back to Samsung?
RESOLVED!
I have been on these forums long enough that if you violate protocol you get spanked but please resist if you can. I am out of ideas, I have the flu, I have a sick phone, I think this is the correct forum, I hope I have dotted all my I’s and crossed all my T’s. I have searched this forum and I have searched using Google.
Folks, I know there are dozens and dozens of "help me I've bricked my phone" threads. I have read and read and read but I can't seem to drill down to the exact issue I'm having. I used AIO Captivate Toolbox to attempt to install Cognitionv4.1.1.zip ROM on my newly updated to the official Froyo 2.2 Captivate. Having never seen the process before, but having been ROMing phones for several years it looked like it went ok. There was a progress bar on the phone as the file was downloaded, the phone restarted, and the screen displayed a gray battery alternating with a circular progress animation. Reading all the advice out there, and based on previous experience, I waited. And I waited some more. I went to watch a couple of TV shows and 90 minutes later it was doing the same thing. I pulled the USB, no affect; really nothing left I did a battery pull. When I returned the battery to the phone it went into a loop displaying the AT&T logo following by a black screen. Then I spent a few hours, seriously, trying to get the phone into the Download mode following what I read in the forums. I was unable to do the three button process so I cannibalized my Kindle USB to get a connector to make a jig. I had the resistors I needed to get the 301K I needed, soldered it all together and was able to get the phone in Download Mode. When I plug and unplug the phone I hear Windows make the sound it makes when it finds a USB device. I tried to use Odin to restore to factory, it said it was successful, the phone restarted, back to the gray battery and the spinning progress bar. Now when I run Odin, plug in the phone Odin doesn’t see the phone even though Windows does. Please, how can I get a working ROM on my phone?
Thanks,
Brian
U gotta give us the exact steps u took.
Number the steps u took
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
Have you tried one of the One click stock odins? Try that and see what happens
It might help you to note that that battery+spinner screen is what happens when you plug in the cable with the phone completely off - it's supposed to do that. This allows you to charge the battery with the phone off. You should be able to just press power and boot.
The boot might fail, but that battery screen alone isn't an indicator of any problem, it's just what's supposed to happen when your phone is off and plugged in.
This is assuming I'm reading your post correctly, of course.
I've had trouble getting Odin to work before, but never had it claim success and then be unable to boot (I've recovered from a complete soft brick twice now, yay DIY experimenting).
I just did a workstation restart, battery pull in the phone, put it back in Download mode with the jig, executed Odin, connected the phone and Windows sees it as a Samsung Composite USB device, hit start on Odin3, Odin returns this message and here it sits:
<ID:0/005> Added!!
<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..
<ID:0/005> File analysis..
Put your phone in download mode after connecting to USB and it should work
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Have you tried one of the One click stock odins? Try that and see what happens
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I know there are more than one version of Odin, do I need to look for a specific one? Obviously I need one for the Captivate.
Burstaholic said:
It might help you to note that that battery+spinner screen is what happens when you plug in the cable with the phone completely off - it's supposed to do that. This allows you to charge the battery with the phone off. You should be able to just press power and boot.
The boot might fail, but that battery screen alone isn't an indicator of any problem, it's just what's supposed to happen when your phone is off and plugged in.
This is assuming I'm reading your post correctly, of course.
I've had trouble getting Odin to work before, but never had it claim success and then be unable to boot (I've recovered from a complete soft brick twice now, yay DIY experimenting).
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When I first read this my jaw dropped. I was trying to remember if I tried powering on. Well Odin completed a moment ago and when I powered up it went back to the looping between AT&T and a black screen. If only were that simple.
when Odin fails you, you are doomed!
I'm kidding... but really... good luck
Look in the development section for an Odin 1 click, this will flash you back to stock... open Odin on your comp first...then plug in your usb and goto download mode, for me I have to take my battery out, plug in usb, hold both volume keys and insert battery while holding them...and then it goes to download mode and Odin sees it, its the only way I can get it to flash successfully, ...
As long as you can get into download mode, its not bricked... just finding the right combo can sometimes be tricky
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
I'm trying to be nice, what you need to do is figure out if odin 1 click will work. Without that it will be very hard to recover.
I (we) fixed it! The link below had the combination of files and steps to make this bad boy boot up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36
Thanks to all of you for any contribution. What pointed me the right direction was drilling down and searching for specific versions of Odin rather than "unbrick" my phone. It was that search that led to this link. Several folks above mentioned Odin, thank you.
What I didn't say in my original post, because I didn't want to sound any more pathetic than I already did was, I worked on this issue from noon yesterday until 2:00AM this morning. I was back up at 5:30 and worked on it pretty much continuously until now. I really do have the flu and I feel like crap, but the good feeling that comes with not having a bricked phone has been restored. I *know* you all understand. I am crawling back in bed where I should have been all along.
Thanks again!
Brian
Tmobile - Galaxy S7 SM-G930T
Firmware wouldn't update OTA and was stuck on 6.0.1. Wanted to update it to FW 8. Got odin and downloaded the appropiate files, Im not stranger to flashing other devices so I was being cautious.
The phone showed no progress as it was stuck in downloading... so I rebooted it. (I have done this before and it never went sour)
The phone shut down as it should and disconnected from the computer as it should.
Now the lame part is, I tried booting into recovery, download mode and just a plain old power on.
The phone will not do anything.
I connected it to the computer, no sign of life. Left it on the charger for 10 minutes, nothing.
Is this thing gone for good? It's my little sisters phone so I am kinda ****ting bricks right now.
USB Jig might save it https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/guide-how-to-make-usb-jig-reset-binary-t1604707
You can also buy them