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How to unbrick the captivate

Last night i was flashing the rogers orignal rom through odin and my phone was on download mode. I use rogers tar file on pda and pit file that came with odin1.7 zip. So i press start nothing was happening for like 10 mins it kept saying setupconnection.... So i unplugged my usb took the battery out and the phone was bricked with cellphone and computer logo so i plugged my usb and odin recoqnized my usb that yellow box was highlighted and i press start again WOW it was flashing and got my 2.1 back. So Thanks odin for saving me. I hope this helps people with brick phone.
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Congrats on unbricking your phone without making any "OMG MY FONE IS BRICKED, WAT DO I DOOO?!?" posts.

Lmao
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sofia-captivate said:
Last night i was flashing the rogers orignal rom through odin and my phone was on download mode. I use rogers tar file on pda and pit file that came with odin1.7 zip. So i press start nothing was happening for like 10 mins it kept saying setupconnection.... So i unplugged my usb took the battery out and the phone was bricked with cellphone and computer logo so i plugged my usb and odin recoqnized my usb that yellow box was highlighted and i press start again WOW it was flashing and got my 2.1 back. So Thanks odin for saving me. I hope this helps people with brick phone.
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u r one lucky person...same thing happened to me and i am trying to get my cappy recognized but with no luck...

Hi,
I just bought a captivate (rogers) 2h ago and was trying to put my phone ready for customization and I had the same long/no moving message under odin.
I removed the phone, and now I have the phone/warning/pc icon and nothing more.
And odin doesn't recognize it at all...
Is it bricked?

Soween said:
Hi,
I just bought a captivate (rogers) 2h ago and was trying to put my phone ready for customization and I had the same long/no moving message under odin.
I removed the phone, and now I have the phone/warning/pc icon and nothing more.
And odin doesn't recognize it at all...
Is it bricked?
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use jig...it will go in download mode and u can use Odin3 v1.7 after that

Actually I used this method (from xda) :
1. power off phone
2. remove battery.
3. plug in USB cable to computer and phone (with battery out)
4. hold Vol Up and Vol Down
5. drop in the battery while still holding the vol buttons
6. in 2 secs you'll be in download mode
And now it works!!! Thanks to adzidek!!

Soween said:
Actually I used this method (from xda) :
1. power off phone
2. remove battery.
3. plug in USB cable to computer and phone (with battery out)
4. hold Vol Up and Vol Down
5. drop in the battery while still holding the vol buttons
6. in 2 secs you'll be in download mode
And now it works!!! Thanks to adzidek!!
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You made what I thought might be a major issue easy to fix. Thanks

Soween said:
Actually I used this method (from xda) :
1. power off phone
2. remove battery.
3. plug in USB cable to computer and phone (with battery out)
4. hold Vol Up and Vol Down
5. drop in the battery while still holding the vol buttons
6. in 2 secs you'll be in download mode
And now it works!!! Thanks to adzidek!!
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for this method to work, do u need ur phone to have 3 button combo working?

You guys are lucky. My phone got stuck in the factoryfs.rfs step. Now it's dead. No response to charger to power button, or 3 button combo. Nothing.
Still under warranty so I'm sending back to Samsung next week.
edit: well, I managed to get it up after struggling with my jig for a while.///

I didn't
viny2cool said:
for this method to work, do u need ur phone to have 3 button combo working?
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Pulled my cord while using odin bricked captivate. No response at all need to try linux phone still gets warm i downloaded ubuntu but dont know the process if anyone could give me a little help i would appreciate it.

If ur phone has no signs of life...even when plugged into the wall charger, then it is hard bricked.
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cumanzor said:
You guys are lucky. My phone got stuck in the factoryfs.rfs step. Now it's dead. No response to charger to power button, or 3 button combo. Nothing.
Still under warranty so I'm sending back to Samsung next week.
edit: well, I managed to get it up after struggling with my jig for a while.///
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4-2ndtwin said:
If ur phone has no signs of life...even when plugged into the wall charger, then it is hard bricked.
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PHone still gets warm when plugged in.

Sorry...sounds like hard brick.
Check out mobiletechvideos.com for the fix.
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Built a jig fixed phone thanx
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Thanks very much, this helped me out a lot.

cumanzor said:
You guys are lucky. My phone got stuck in the factoryfs.rfs step. Now it's dead. No response to charger to power button, or 3 button combo. Nothing.
Still under warranty so I'm sending back to Samsung next week.
edit: well, I managed to get it up after struggling with my jig for a while.///
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could u pls tell how u used the jig
i too have the same problem and am unable to use the jig
i mean the jig has no effect
pls tell
regards

strategist99 said:
could u pls tell how u used the jig
i too have the same problem and am unable to use the jig
i mean the jig has no effect
pls tell
regards
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Do you have a self built jig (3x 100k resistors) or a USB jig?
USB jib is pretty straight forward, you simply put it in the phone's USB port and it will force the phone into download mode. Whether the phone is on or off doesn't matter. (You do need a charged battery in)

sofia-captivate said:
Last night i was flashing the rogers orignal rom through odin and my phone was on download mode. I use rogers tar file on pda and pit file that came with odin1.7 zip. So i press start nothing was happening for like 10 mins it kept saying setupconnection.... So i unplugged my usb took the battery out and the phone was bricked with cellphone and computer logo so i plugged my usb and odin recoqnized my usb that yellow box was highlighted and i press start again WOW it was flashing and got my 2.1 back. So Thanks odin for saving me. I hope this helps people with brick phone.
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I have to say thank you so much. I have been flashing my captivate for over two years now and have soft bricked it many times but I have always been able to 3-button or buttons with USB cable recover it. Last night my brother asked me to flash his phone to CM10. I agreed to and I was shocked with ODIN failed and got stuck on setting connection. I was even more upset when nothing would put me in download mode.
I stumbled on this thread whilst waiting for radio shack to open this morning and my stock 2.2 ODIN saw the phone! Yay. Now the phone is happily running CM10. I think this is a sign anyways that I should make a JIG anyways. Third time in need of one and yet I always find the most obscure way of getting by without it. I am such a bad elec. eng. to not have make a single usb JIG.
Thank you again for posting this so long ago. And thank you XDA for (putting me in trouble but) always having the solutions to save me.
PS. The only difference in the two phones that I can tell is mine is batch 1012 and shipped stock eclair and his is 1xxx and shipped stock froyo.

Helpppppppp.....

OK nice and simple got my g2x flashed the clockwork via NFFlash rooted after with oneclick everything was fine working great then my screen turned off and wont turn on full battery please tell me its not bricked i dont have or did not have one in when i did the NVFlash So please tell me its not bricked because it was on one second and off the next let me say that if i pull the battery and hold vol up and dow and plug in the usb to the phone i can see it search for the drives is that a good thing like its not bricked good thing and just needs to be reflashed please help??????

Have you read this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046831

has this problem already came up if so I missed it a link would be nice to fix my phone Thanks

I could be misunderstanding your problem here but I think i had a similar issue... first of all make sure you're holding down the power button long enough to boot up. Seems to take 4 or 5 seconds with this phone.
Also when I had the issue i took out the bat, put it back, plugged into a wall charger and then held the power button that worked. But I think really my issue was impatience not holding the power button the first time long enough.

no i am the screen wont say updating or whatever when i hold the up and down button but it looks for a driver ?? and installs the Right driver

helpppppppppp your way to the search button.

Thread moved to proper forum.

You only hold volume down and power. I had the same issue. Holding both volumes will cause the phone to not boot.
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kangxi said:
You only hold volume down and power. I had the same issue. Holding both volumes will cause the phone to not boot.
When Doing what? ...And your device would not turn on as well let me know
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I need to not be bricked

nucentury08 said:
I need to not be bricked
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People in Hell want Ice Water!

So you flashed the recovery before you rooted. Try reflashing the original recovery. I don't know if that will work. You should have rooted then flashed recovery.
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thats what im doing now but gewt stuck at waiting for bootloader to int for some reason

Well your g2x will never go out of the updating screen you have to wait until one click says it has transfered the file. Wait a minute or so after that and unplug the USB and put your battery back in the I would do a master rest.
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thing is my lg screen is black can i still root with a black screen ? like i said only action i get out of the g2x is if i hold the vol up And Down and plug it in then i hear the sound of the computer finding it witch gives me hope

I would try recovering recovery befor trying to root again. I would do the nvflash but pick the original recovery instead of cm. Then after that master reset by original recovery which is hold power and down volume. Recovery will rest your rom. Rooting puts you root permissions I believe into a different partition any ways that's how a master reset does not wipe them. Your problem sounds like more of a recovery issue then root.
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scooter247 said:
I would try recovering recovery befor trying to root again. I would do the nvflash but pick the original recovery instead of cm. Then after that master reset by original recovery which is hold power and down volume. Recovery will rest your rom. Rooting puts you root permissions I believe into a different partition any ways that's how a master reset does not wipe them. Your problem sounds like more of a recovery issue then root.
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It is problem is it stays at Waiting for Bootloader int how long should that be there?

are you holding the volume buttons down and plunging in the usb before you select the version? you have to continue holding them the whole time. should pick it up in matter of seconds.

[Q] Galaxy S Bricked phone flashing the 6/28 odin root+deodex 2.3.3 file

I just flashed this rom on ODIN on the pda part of the md5 tar file. I was originally on the heimdall deodex and root rom. I just wanted to flash this to see if it would fix the call log problem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146145
Now my phone is semi bricked, none of the combos work, so I am going to buy the JIG. What went wrong, and what do I need to do to correct the flashing process in odin once I get into download mode. Thanks.

You tried the vol down and power with no usb that works for me
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SMASHERSONLY said:
You tried the vol down and power with no usb that works for me
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+1 on this.. try this method.

did you try all of these?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069032
method 2 worked for me when i soft bricked.

SMASHERSONLY said:
You tried the vol down and power with no usb that works for me
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chadster214 said:
+1 on this.. try this method.
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+2 on this method. The key combination got messed up when you flashed Gingerbread. Try taking out the battery if you can't power off the phone too. Then hold volume down and power and put the battery back in.
jager555 said:
did you try all of these?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069032
method 2 worked for me when i soft bricked.
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Those methods don't work cuz they flashed gingerbread and it messes up the key combos.

+1
try holding vol down + power
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Go to the captivate forum and search buy usb jig. I got one for $7.99 and free shipping . All u need is a paypall acct. Or just make one! all u need is a few things from an electronics store and u can do it in like 20 mins. Theres some awesome guides on the web. I bought mine cause im lazy and the free shipping got me sold. Its awesome and pretty much makes it impossible to wreck your device. (not saying you can't hard brick) Pretty hard though unless u don't know what you're doing and being reckless. I think the jig is so cool i use it to get into download mode everytime even when the conventional ways are working! Get the jig! Best 8 bucks i ever spent. Like a form of insurance for the phone.hehe
I have to admit that having the jig has made me a little more adventurous!!

hold vol down and power button without the battery in the phone then insert battery.. IF that combo doesnt work
vol up vol down insert usb
then insert battery.
make sure u have odin up lol cause if u can get it to connect flash even if it fails that will brick it enough to cause a forced download mode on the phone which then u can reflash without to much issue

RaverX3X said:
hold vol down and power button without the battery in the phone then insert battery.. IF that combo doesnt work
vol up vol down insert usb
then insert battery.
make sure u have odin up lol cause if u can get it to connect flash even if it fails that will brick it enough to cause a forced download mode on the phone which then u can reflash without to much issue
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Sometimes u can soft brick to the point that no method will work besides a jig to get anything to recognize the phone. I would say that out of all of my 20 or so soft bricks on galaxy s phones (captivate,vibrant,sgs 4g,ect) i have had at liest 5 that were not recoverable by any method but the jig! If this is the problem because no method gets you to download mode including not having adb or odin recognize the phone then U WILL NEED A JIG.

fatherof4 said:
Sometimes u can soft brick to the point that no method will work besides a jig to get anything to recognize the phone. I would say that out of all of my 20 or so soft bricks on galaxy s phones (captivate,vibrant,sgs 4g,ect) i have had at liest 5 that were not recoverable by any method but the jig! If this is the problem because no method gets you to download mode including not having adb or odin recognize the phone then U WILL NEED A JIG.
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i have my own riff box n stuff so even hard bricks are not insurmountable

Nevermind guys i fixed it...None of those methods worked..it turned out i could flash the rom while on the semi-bricked screen.neverthless i still ordered a JIG just in case for future....So i used odin and flashed it to PDA..works great..call logs fixed.i think it was causing problems before because of the gingerbread bootloaders...thanks guys for your help..

Bricked phone 6/28 odin root+deodex 2.3.3
did you reinstall the same rom over the previous one next time go to stock rom and reflash the new one of stock that's what i always do haven't had a problem yet just takes more time that's all

I got the rainbow fuzz after a flash fail and using a different USB port on the computer gave me a connection to reflash.
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Need serious help

hi all
i was flashing xxkpe(latona pit) with odin i press start when i connect my phone and i wait for 2 minutes and it says fail what to do ?

Does ur phone boot..

you must be in download mode. turn off phone, hold volume down + power button + home button and when you see color yellow says download mode then you can statrt flashing.

does the com turn yellow?? If not install kies for usb drivers .did it stop at setup connection?? If so it'shardware problem...try another computer/another usb port

Ditbardh said:
hi all
i was flashing xxkpe(latona pit) with odin i press start when i connect my phone and i wait for 2 minutes and it says fail what to do ?
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Just plug it out, remove the batt and boot to download. Happened to me twice. Do it at ur own risk, don't flame me if it doesn't work for you
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bscraze said:
Just plug it out, remove the batt and boot to download. Happened to me twice. Do it at ur own risk, don't flame me if it doesn't work for you
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yeah this worked thanks mate <3 i removed the battery for about 4 minutes and than it worked. My samsung Kies wasnt closed i think this could be the problem to, i closed it and it worked hmm the point is that is working, thanks all.

[Q] LG P500 Bricked? Plz help!

Hi
I've a O1 with CM10 (Rashed build 7) and I try to change the DPI with LCD Density Modder for install a HDPI theme. When I try to reboot, the phone stucks on CM logo and the ADB on my computer doesn't work, so i'm unable to enter to recovery. Is my phone bricked? Is there any other solution that is not use KDZ to flash the phone with the system ROM?
Thanks.

xsam123 said:
Hi
I've a O1 with CM10 (Rashed build 7) and I try to change the DPI with LCD Density Modder for install a HDPI theme. When I try to reboot, the phone stucks on CM logo and the ADB on my computer doesn't work, so i'm unable to enter to recovery. Is my phone bricked? Is there any other solution that is not use KDZ to flash the phone with the system ROM?
Thanks.
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did u flashed a custom recovery like clockworkmode ? enter recovery via long press power+home+vol up and do a factory reset

grigtm said:
did u flashed a custom recovery like clockworkmode ? enter recovery via long press power+home+vol up and do a factory reset
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Thanks, it works. I was tried to use the keys, but I used Power+VolDown+Home.LOL, my mistake.

Help I Bricked My Phone I Have A LG Optimus T And After Using CM9 I Tried Flashing CM10 Failed Booting So I Used KDZ To Go Back To Stock And Failed So I Panicked And Removed The Battery It Won't Boot Up No Lights No Recovery No LG Logo Nothing Computer Won't Recognize The Phone Please Help Me
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put back battery and long press power
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put back battery and long press power+vol up+home to go into recovery, conect also charger cable, maybe your battery is dead

Well I've Tired That No Response
Samsung Has A Jig
Motorola Has A Factory Cable
LG Has? Anything Similar??
Any Unbrick Tool/Device By Or For LG Phones?
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my O1 has a problem with power button, if I don't press hard it abouth maybe 3-5 seconds it wont start, so....

Well When I Connect It To Charge Nothing Happens No Charging Symbol Or No Lights, Nothing
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ok, my phone does same if switched off , w8 abouth 5 minutes, unplug, remove battery and press power abouth 5-10 sec, put back batt and plug charger and try again

I'm At School Now Had A Delayed Start Due To Snow I Will Try When I Get Home And I Will Post My Results Later Today Around 5:30 Or 6 PM Central Time Zone USA
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xsam123 said:
Thanks, it works. I was tried to use the keys, but I used Power+VolDown+Home.LOL, my mistake.
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but for recovery its vol down only

Didn't Work... Thanks Tho
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Jserrano56 said:
Didn't Work... Thanks Tho
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You shouldn't have used kdz.. you could easy recover by flashing a new rom.
Now that you might have bricked it.. try home + vol down then power.. hold these buttons for few seconds.. see if it works.
If not.. hold Vol Up and Power and see if it enters emergency mode.. if it does.. you can use kdz again but carefull.... Have complete knowledge of using kdz.

None Of Those Worked But Thanks For The Help.
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Here.

Didn't Work
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Its a hard brick then.. you have no other option other than LG service centre.

kdz
what is kdz???

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1184056

Yeah But I'll Think About It Cuz JTAG Is $40 At mobiletechvideos.com and I have a Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G I Don't Know If It's Worth It?
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