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[Q] Help: I Bricked My Device?

I've been hacking away at this Captivate for a month since I got it. Maybe a hundred times going into download mode. But, now I cannot get my device into download mode from the: "PHONE --/\-- COMPUTER" screen.
Here's what I've been doing since I've had the phone:
- Pull battery, sd, sim
- Put battery in
- Put USB in
- Hold both Volume and Power down
- Once the PHONE--COMPUTER screen goes black, wait.
- After it goes black one more time, let go of Power button
What is going on? Am I screwed here? I was applying the Ext2 (2.3) lag fix over JH2 when this happened, here's my CMD:
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Was your phone rooted before you tried the fix?

NikAmi said:
Was your phone rooted before you tried the fix?
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Of course! I even pressed "Allow" on superuser. The fix won't continue past a few lines without root access.

pull the battery, sim card, sdacard...
put in the battery, hold volume down, plug in the usb cable and keep holding volume down until you get into download mode.

designgears said:
pull the battery, sim card, sdacard...
put in the battery, hold volume down, plug in the usb cable and keep holding volume down until you get into download mode.
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Worked like a charm!
Super super odd. I've been getting taking this thing into download mode like every 2 minutes since I've had the device. Never had a problem till now!
Why wouldn't my usual procedure in the OP work? It always has for me?

kennethpenn said:
Worked like a charm!
Super super odd. I've been getting taking this thing into download mode like every 2 minutes since I've had the device. Never had a problem till now!
Why wouldn't my usual procedure in the OP work? It always has for me?
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I think those are higher level methods, something may have been messed up and keeping them from working.
I am pretty sure this method is a lower level method that will always work.

[Q] Unknown Baseband?

I'm on the latest stable CM7 with Trinity's kernel. I decided I'd see if a Virgin Mobile Sim would work so I put it in and, it didn't. No biggie. I put my old (Wind) Sim card back in and it now can't find any networks.
It says, "Error while searching for networks." When I take the sim out and turn the phone back on, it doesn't recognize that there is no sim and the same error message pops up. The Baseband version is now, Unknown Anyone know what's wrong and any solutions?
Thanks in advance,
Juf
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Turn off phone. Remove the battery. Press the power key to make sure the phone is drained completely. Replace battery with correct sim. Turn back on and hope for the best. Once in a while this phone gets confused and this happens. It should be okay though.

jboxer said:
Turn off phone. Remove the battery. Press the power key to make sure the phone is drained completely. Replace battery with correct sim. Turn back on and hope for the best. Once in a while this phone gets confused and this happens. It should be okay though.
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No luck, I'm going to try draining the battery and see if that helps.

I guess them version mobile sims are dangerous. This is a very strange issue.

Quick update to anyone who finds this thread through search and wants to know what happened. I ended up flashing the newest nightly which fixed the baseband issue, then I flashed the old stable release back on and that's where I am now
PS I switched back to the stable release because of that pesky low mic issue everyone is having.

Unknown baseband
Jufjufjuf said:
Quick update to anyone who finds this thread through search and wants to know what happened. I ended up flashing the newest nightly which fixed the baseband issue, then I flashed the old stable release back on and that's where I am now
PS I switched back to the stable release because of that pesky low mic issue everyone is having.
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I have same problem as yours ! I would be glad if you can pull me out of this problem
Thanks in advance

question about motion activation...

is there any way to get the motion activation stuff like the galaxy s II has? (turn upside down for silent for example) on the infuse 4g? if it matters im running cm7

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draciel3492 said:
is there any way to get the motion activation stuff like the galaxy s II has? (turn upside down for silent for example) on the infuse 4g
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Wow, that's neat. I didn't know you could do that on the sgs2.
That's just goes to show you how the Infuse it's such a sucky POS.
I was able to silent the phone with a battery pull though.
I think the volume down button works too but I haven't tried it yet.
I have heard that if you found a certain feature on other Android device, and the said feature is important enough to you, you can try to get the source code for it. Compile it into Settings.apk, SystemUI, and framework or just rework the kernel and share it.

qk,
Pulling the battery is a lot of trouble- I always just let it get down to 0%.
Can confirm vol. down works- just can no longer hear my music.
These devices would be considerably cheaper if it were not for all the extra features - vol. down.... whose bright idea was that??? :silly:

qkster said:
Wow, that's neat. I didn't know you could do that on the sgs2.
That's just goes to show you how the Infuse it's such a sucky POS.
I was able to silent the phone with a battery pull though.
I think the volume down button works too but I haven't tried it yet.
I have heard that if you found a certain feature on other Android device, and the said feature is important enough to you, you can try to get the source code for it. Compile it into Settings.apk, SystemUI, and framework or just rework the kernel and share it.
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Pony Express said:
qk,
Pulling the battery is a lot of trouble- I always just let it get down to 0%.
Can confirm vol. down works- just can no longer hear my music.
These devices would be considerably cheaper if it were not for all the extra features - vol. down.... whose bright idea was that??? :silly:
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

[GUIDE] Here is How to Boot Into Safe Mode

As I was trying to take a screenshot of this to make a thread about how ridiculous Verizon is, I accidentally booted into safe mode.
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"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I pressed down the home button + volume down a few times, and that is how it happened. Perhaps devs already knew this. Here is a guide anyways.
1. Start phone
2. Once you hit Verizon screen (or any screen past bootloader screen), either hold down power + volume down, or press it a few times.
Note that doing this will reset your wallpaper and folders.

What good comes out of this?

charlieb620 said:
What good comes out of this?
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I figured the devs could find a good use for it.
Sent from my HTC One M8!

BFirebird101 said:
I figured the devs could find a good use for it.
Sent from my HTC One M8!
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I normally boot into it by accident as well lol.

if the phone is running, simply longpress the "Power off" prompt after you get the phone options popup. I believe it disables all the third party (Downloaded/sideloaded/etc...) apps.

l7777 said:
if the phone is running, simply longpress the "Power off" prompt after you get the phone options popup. I believe it disables all the third party (Downloaded/sideloaded/etc...) apps.
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This is correct. It's a good way to troubleshoot the phone and see if 3rd party apps are causing an issue

l7777 said:
if the phone is running, simply longpress the "Power off" prompt after you get the phone options popup. I believe it disables all the third party (Downloaded/sideloaded/etc...) apps.
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Please help! S5 encryption fail cannot reset phone to factory settings

I have the sprint samsung galaxy s5 north american version. SM-G900P.
It was working fine all day. sometime during the night it just restarted while i was browsing the internet (while waiting for Jurassic World to play) and the error popped up saying unable to complete encryption due to interruption. There is a button to that says "reset device" but it doesn't work.
I tried to do a factory reset by holding the "home+VOL UP+ power button" but after it loads past the recovery mode. All i see is the android with the red exclamation mark and then the phone just automatically restarts.
To my knowledge this phone isn't rooted.
I was wondering if anyone had any advice as to what i can do to fix my phone.
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Your screen shot shows your in download mode,which is home+power+volumne down. Need to make shjre to use volumne up for recovery mode
if i have helped in any way,please hit the thanks button.

autotech40 said:
Your screen shot shows your in download mode,which is home+power+volumne down. Need to make shjre to use volumne up for recovery mode
if i have helped in any way,please hit the thanks button.
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Hey I appreciate your input, I only included that download screen to show more info about the phone.... As I have stated in my post that I tried to do a factory reset via holding the PWR,VOL+,and HOME button but after the recovery mode loads. I just get the dead android with the red triangle of death. (red exclamation mark) and you know how usually after the recovery mode loads you have the list of options on the side that you can scroll through using the vol buttons it was not there. Then the phone would just restart after a few seconds. I tried to hold the VOL+ and POWER button after the recovery mode to see if maybe it would do something but it did't work...
So far I've ran into one other person with the problem and they just gave up and bought another phone! Wish me luck!

Found a solution yet?
I have the same issue, happened in the morning after my alarm went off. Luckily after and not before otherwise I might have been late to work...
Anyway I can't do a factory reset either. Was thinking about flashing the firmware but can't seem to load the bootloader screen either.
Have you found a work around?

Guys, I just went through somewhat similar, but for SM-G900F international version. You might want to take a look: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/help/s5-sm-g900f-multiple-fatality-soft-t3351343.

cool down
I know i am late but when the triangle comes up with dead android just use power button once and screen will show options