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Is there a way to get this phone unbricked?

i cannot even tell you how i got it bricked in the first place. I was just trying to flash a new rom (Valhalla 1.3.2 to be exact) and it went into a bootloop so i flashed back to stock via odin, but it kept failing. When I finally got it to work and come on, it only stayed on for about 10 minutes and then it shut off and nothing. There are no lights and when i plug it into the computer the computer makes the sound like something is connected, but when I go in to the devices it says unknown device with a little yellow ! next to it? Can this be fixed? Please help, I have been reading this forum for hours.

When you plug it in & the PC makes.the hardware found noise, have you tried firing up ODIN to see if it detects the phone? If so, see if you can flash KG4. It was the first GB ROM to come with boot loaders (I think).
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after holding the power button down for almost 10 minutes i tried to get it into download mode and i got it...but it isn't being read by the pc it is still saying unknown device. im afraid to pull the battery or unplug it because i am afraid it wont go back into download mode

pammiecaykz said:
after holding the power button down for almost 10 minutes i tried to get it into download mode and i got it...but it isn't being read by the pc it is still saying unknown device. im afraid to pull the battery or unplug it because i am afraid it wont go back into download mode
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When you say it isn't being read by the PC, do you mean in Odin or in Windows' device manager? Even if dev mgr doesn't recognize it there's a chance Odin might.
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or gasp mabe reboot your pc

RaverX3X said:
or gasp mabe reboot your pc
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lol I have had that solve my problem more than once

RaverX3X said:
or gasp mabe reboot your pc
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LOL, then there's that ;-)
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OK WTH ... rebooted phone now i get a phone ! pc image and nothing else ?

phone wont go past this ... can't get in to download mode recovery NOTHING how can i fix this ?

Oh noes! What did you do!?
So your phone randomly took a poo? or where you doing something before hand?

was using odin to restore to factory .... said everything went fine and rebooted and i see this

CheesyNutz said:
was using odin to restore to factory .... said everything went fine and rebooted and i see this
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Ok this actually sounds similiar to something that happened to me, so here goes:
Was using Odin back to stock and something went wrong during. The phone screen went into a rainbow/starry clusterfack and then black. Couldn't get into download mode or anything, everytime I booted the stars came back or nothing at all. So eventually I just did what I would do if going into download, pulled batt, plugged in while holding volumes. Nothing came on to the screen but decided to continue, so I hit the volume up do accept the warning screen even though I couldn't see it and finally my phone showed up on my PC. Hit start in Odin and it worked and downloaded luckily. Sorry for the long explanation but, give this a try.

odins not seeing nothing from left to right i see
a phone --!--and a pc with a black screen some how it looks like its in some ultra low download mode :/

i see this

CheesyNutz said:
i see this
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Never seen that but, it looks like your phone is having problems connecting to your PC, try rebooting the PC and then reconnect usb and phone.
Also I did a little googling, and I believe it means a bad flash, some ppl have fixed by a hard reset so try that link.
Here's the thread with different options, not our phone but same situation: thread

xIC-MACIx said:
Never seen that but, it looks like your phone is having problems connecting to your PC, try rebooting the PC and then reconnect usb and phone.
Also I did a little googling, and I believe it means a bad flash, some ppl have fixed by a hard reset so try that link.
Here's the thread with different options, not our phone but same situation: thread
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thanks for the help and info ... a reboot of my laptop fixed the odin not seeing my phone reflashing now ... and its back up and seems fine atm

CheesyNutz said:
thanks for the help and info ... a reboot of my laptop fixed the odin not seeing my phone reflashing now ... and its back up and seems fine atm
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Sweet, glad I could help, usually something simple man lol

yea normally is just freaked me out lol

CheesyNutz said:
yea normally is just freaked me out lol
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Oooh yeah, been there lol

That screen its pretty rare on the infuse, good thing!. They really made this phone pretty much unbrickable under normal conditions.

CheesyNutz said:
i see this
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That is a form of download mode. Open odin and try connecting phone to pc ans see if odin reads it. If it doesnt kerp trying it will eventually. I had this hapoen to my captivate
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bigbadwolf311 said:
That is a form of download mode. Open odin and try connecting phone to pc ans see if odin reads it. If it doesnt kerp trying it will eventually. I had this hapoen to my captivate
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yeah this phone its hardcore unbrickable... haha as bbwolf said its just a DL screen that usually appears (at least to me) when i connect the infuse and use odin with front or externally conected USB ports also happened to me in all 3 ports of my bro laptop
Instead using the back USB ports will prevent the outpowering of the usb port and you will flash flawlessly but Infuse its harcore you really have to mess things up to brick it... if even possible 0.o
If happens again relax... go to a desktop and flash with a back USB u will be back on track in notime

Samething happened to me, I ended up getting a factory replacement. The same day I placed the order with att I finally got Odin to work.
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Had that exact screen when my phone took a tumble half way in a odin flash I took battery out plugged back in and odin recognized and flashed took a really long time though to flash longer than normal not sure why

[BRICK] my sgr died today :(

before 20 mins i was surfing xda using tapatalk whith my sgr with wifi connected, than i put my phone and gone away for just a moment and after that when i picked up my phone it was maybe switched off, i thought its gone hang so i tried reseting phone with long pressing power button but no luck, than i removed battery re inserted it but my phone is not powering up, i tried connecting both charger and usb cable but nothing its f...ked up.
now main problem is i cant give it to SSC as i was running XWLA4 build with titanium and unknownzd's kerne any suggestions guys? plz suggest
(i have tried inserting usb jig after re inserting battery but its not powering up)
EDIT: my odin counter is 0, is there any way to flash all the data stored on phone (including system memory) so that i can claim in ssc that its not booting, and after they boot it they dont find that its using custom stuff?

xlm13x said:
before 20 mins i was surfing xda using tapatalk whith my sgr with wifi connected, than i put my phone and gone away for just a moment and after that when i picked up my phone it was maybe switched off, i thought its gone hang so i tried reseting phone with long pressing power button but no luck, than i removed battery re inserted it but my phone is not powering up, i tried connecting both charger and usb cable but nothing its f...ked up.
now main problem is i cant give it to SSC as i was running XWLA4 build with titanium and unknownzd's kerne any suggestions guys? plz suggest
(i have tried inserting usb jig after re inserting battery but its not powering up)
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Try to start it by removing sim card...
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not starting tried it

xlm13x said:
not starting tried it
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sorry, i think you are in problem nothing we can do now better take it to Service Center..

You can try repair dead APX mode method if you have a backup of your efs folder. Tried that once just to reset counter, maybe it could bring your phone back from the dead.
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parajsinghal said:
You can try repair dead APX mode method if you have a backup of your efs folder. Tried that once just to reset counter, maybe it could bring your phone back from the dead.
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but how to do it when phone is not even powering up its not being connected to pc

just my pc detected APX device when i connected my phone this time, plz anyone provide me package of this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528256&highlight=jtag link is dead in that topic

PMed you the link..
Anyway. Here it is..
http://hotfile.com/dl/148617629/d678966/GT-I9103_Dead_Repair_By_Xiaoyuz.rar.html

F3niX said:
PMed you the link..
Anyway. Here it is..
http://hotfile.com/dl/148617629/d678966/GT-I9103_Dead_Repair_By_Xiaoyuz.rar.html
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million thanks to u buddy trying it, hope this will boot my phone

Great. I will try and find it on my system.
But do you have a backup of efs, otherwise there is no point trying that.
EDIT: Looks like you already got it. Best of luck buddy

xlm13x said:
million thanks to u buddy trying it, hope this will boot my phone
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You are Welcome dude..
Hope your phone boots up!

parajsinghal said:
Great. I will try and find it on my system.
But do you have a backup of efs, otherwise there is no point trying that.
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i do have backup. i just wanna boot my phone in download phone so that i can flash stock indian and atleast can dive in ssc

update: just phone booted in download mode but not able flash using odin its saying error: nand size big

My R died once too, but when I removed sdcard and put it in a freezer for like 10 minutes and then I could boot it up and it was working as long as I didn't turn the screen off - it was enough to do a backup and so on.

Stupid questions, but are you following the guide in 4-5th post? Did the steps above Odin went fine? Last but not the least are you using PIT file to re-partition with Odin?

after trying some times finaly i succeed to falsh but now my phone is in boot loop

guys my phone is not displaying storage drives in recovery mode what the hell is happening now
have anyone tried this method before to recover his sgr? have faced such prob?

Congrats. Now you can atleast take it ssc right?
Maybe you could try the process again just one more time to be sure, only if you want. I'd prefer taking it to ssc
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finally my phone is booted perfectly, restored cwm backup and now its going ok but my imei is messed up, my whole 3.5 gb internal sd has been flashed (it was full of game data files which i took many night times to download )
if i want now i can claim a BRAND NEW MOTHERBOARD as my imei is messed lol

Didn't you restore the efs folder? That should solve the imei issue.
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[Q] Possibly bricked phone

I had no idea where else to go for help I have a vzw gs3 and wanted to install a custom rom. When I was trying to flash the bootloader which I was doing following this video youtube .com/watch?v=K4b9hcWHrW8#t=155 after I did the first bootloader unlock step my phone did not restart and now is just black. Nothing happens when i plug it in or hold power button. Please help I do not have the money for a replacement phone and i figured this would be my first place to try for help. Also i have installed custom roms before and it worked fine just never on a phone. Sorry for the space in the link it wouldn't let me post with it because i am a new user.

mitchh718 said:
I had no idea where else to go for help I have a vzw gs3 and wanted to install a custom rom. When I was trying to flash the bootloader which I was doing following this video youtube .com/watch?v=K4b9hcWHrW8#t=155 after I did the first bootloader unlock step my phone did not restart and now is just black. Nothing happens when i plug it in or hold power button. Please help I do not have the money for a replacement phone and i figured this would be my first place to try for help. Also i have installed custom roms before and it worked fine just never on a phone. Sorry for the space in the link it wouldn't let me post with it because i am a new user.
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You probably hard bricked it.
Can you boot into recovery or download mode?
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mitchh718 said:
I had no idea where else to go for help I have a vzw gs3 and wanted to install a custom rom. When I was trying to flash the bootloader which I was doing following this video youtube .com/watch?v=K4b9hcWHrW8#t=155 after I did the first bootloader unlock step my phone did not restart and now is just black. Nothing happens when i plug it in or hold power button. Please help I do not have the money for a replacement phone and i figured this would be my first place to try for help. Also i have installed custom roms before and it worked fine just never on a phone. Sorry for the space in the link it wouldn't let me post with it because i am a new user.
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Have you tried booting into download or recovery mode? Here's how http://www.knowtechbetter.net/how-t...-download-mode-on-samsung-galaxy-s3-tutorial/
If you can get into download mode I would odin back to stock and then use this tool to root, unlock the bootloader, and flash a custom recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2332825
As for why your phone won't turn on or anything I'm not really sure. My best guess would to take out the battery and plug the phone in without the battery to see if anything happens, and then put the battery back in.

BadUsername said:
You probably hard bricked it.
Can you boot into recovery or download mode?
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No is there no fix for a bricked one

mitchh718 said:
No is there no fix for a bricked one
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There are options here.
Use this method, but you need a class 10 external SD card with the exact same size as your internal card, and you need to follow the directions exactly, it should work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45595912
Other option is you can send it into somebody for a jtag repair, mobile tech videos will do it for $60 I think, either way you go you won't be buying a new phone.
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JennyLikesSka said:
Have you tried booting into download or recovery mode? Here's how http://www.knowtechbetter.net/how-t...-download-mode-on-samsung-galaxy-s3-tutorial/
If you can get into download mode I would odin back to stock and then use this tool to root, unlock the bootloader, and flash a custom recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2332825
As for why your phone won't turn on or anything I'm not really sure. My best guess would to take out the battery and plug the phone in without the battery to see if anything happens, and then put the battery back in.
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I'm hoping this is a good sign I took out the battery and plugged it in the red light comes up then goes away after 10 or 15 seconds.

mitchh718 said:
I'm hoping this is a good sign I took out the battery and plugged it in the red light comes up then goes away after 10 or 15 seconds.
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It was a guess suggestion. I would try booting into download mode or any mode with the battery out. But if you can get something to happen to show you're phone isn't completely broken I would leave the battery in and just let in charge for a little while.
Can you get to the charging animation the phone makes it's charging while it's off?
And have your tried putting the battery back in while the red light is on?
(again these are just suggestions, I've only soft bricked my phone twice so idk if it will work for you)

JennyLikesSka said:
It was a guess suggestion. I would try booting into download mode or any mode with the battery out. But if you can get something to happen to show you're phone isn't completely broken I would leave the battery in and just let in charge for a little while.
Can you get to the charging animation the phone makes it's charging while it's off?
And have your tried putting the battery back in while the red light is on?
(again these are just suggestions, I've only soft bricked my phone twice so idk if it will work for you)
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Still no luck booting and no animation and no luck putting the battery back in.

mitchh718 said:
Still no luck booting and no animation and no luck putting the battery back in.
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My last idea would be to just try different combinations of having the battery in and out, when you put it back in, having it plugged into the wall and computer, and trying to boot into any of the 3 boot modes. Otherwise I have no idea, but when in doubt just try everything.

mitchh718 said:
I'm hoping this is a good sign I took out the battery and plugged it in the red light comes up then goes away after 10 or 15 seconds.
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This is a classic sign of a hard brick...
To make sure, when you plug it into your computer, what does it recognize it as?
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BadUsername said:
This is a classic sign of a hard brick...
To make sure, when you plug it into your computer, what does it recognize it as?
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It doesn't recognize it but i just went and got a sd card so I'm about to start that.

mitchh718 said:
It doesn't recognize it but i just went and got a sd card so I'm about to start that.
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Let me know how it works, you need to use that thread along with the sprint thread linked. But you need to use the Verizon specific files, he also posted a helpful video also.
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BadUsername said:
Let me know how it works, you need to use that thread along with the sprint thread linked. But you need to use the Verizon specific files, he also posted a helpful video also.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU5H8NJ7vTM can i follow this video?

mitchh718 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU5H8NJ7vTM can i follow this video?
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Yes, that's the one.
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BadUsername said:
Yes, that's the one.
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Well i put the img on the sd card and my phone still wont do anything

mitchh718 said:
Well i put the img on the sd card and my phone still wont do anything
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Sometimes it takes repeated attempts, also are you following the sprint guide? You have to do it in a Linux environment, either the full os or a live CD of Ubuntu.
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BadUsername said:
Sometimes it takes repeated attempts, also are you following the sprint guide? You have to do it in a Linux environment, either the full os or a live CD of Ubuntu.
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I was not ill load up a live environment and try that.

might be soft bricked...???

i was restoring to an older rom and it said it was restoring boot and then the main maenu came on...it never said it was complete and the menu never comes back on till its done so i figured it was done but now i cant get into recovery or download mode and it gets stuck at the samsung logo..so im screwed ain't i...please help...thanks in advance...

pcrack05 said:
i was restoring to an older rom and it said it was restoring boot and then the main maenu came on...it never said it was complete and the menu never comes back on till its done so i figured it was done but now i cant get into recovery or download mode and it gets stuck at the samsung logo..so im screwed ain't i...please help...thanks in advance...
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Most likely. Just fubared mine by interrupting a CWM flash thinking it was far enough along to matter. Use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260

callihn said:
Most likely. Just fubared mine by interrupting a CWM flash thinking it was far enough along to matter. Use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260
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how can i use that if i cant get into recovery...?

pcrack05 said:
how can i use that if i cant get into recovery...?
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Have you had any resolution?
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Sorry for the delay, been busy. Try the instructions? Has nothing to do with recovery working. You need odin on your oc and kies ti install the drivers, if it wil go into download mode it can be flashed.

Agreed. Should still be a way to get into download mode, although you may have to use an alternate route. The most reliable method (without extra hardware) is to (once USB cable connected to PC):
Pull battery.
Reinsert battery.
Hold down both volume buttons and plug in the USB cable.
Voila!
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If that fails, then may need a jig.