NOTE:
So far this has been the only sure fire method I've found to 100% get around any brick situation regardless of firmware, etc. This only works for the captivate, not any other galaxy s variant.
Situations: phone-!-Computer / no download mode
Black Screen / RST_STATUS 0x0
Procedure:
1. Remove the battery, external SD card and SIM card.
2. Wait 10 seconds.
3. Open odin3
4. Connect usb cable.
5. Hold volume up + volume down + Power.
6. Insert battery.
7. Release POWER BUTTON ONLY.
You should now be in immediate download mode.
Please forgive me if this is duplicate some where, but I tried every procedure I could find on google to no avail, then accidentally found this method just before I was going to box it back up and see if my buddy at AT&T would make me eat it or not.
My situation was: Launched Odin3 to flash H3 firmware, died twice in the middle, and on the third time locked up half ways just at the beginning of factoryfs.rfs -- Then the phone did nothing. Blackscreen is all. Interestingly enough, while in the state if you hold volume up + power, it will give a hw diagnostic screen. Beyond that I could get no where. Just a black screen, no acknowledgement when connected to PC, no charging indicator, nothing.
If this is a dupe Im sorry but this method I could not find and hope to make it readily available to people who may think their phones bricked.
Update 12/22/2010:
How to BRICK the phone / WARNING!!!
If for whatever reason you decide to use Odin to flash a stock GTI9000 ROM and manually add the kernels and modems using a "pure" 2.2.1 sammy rom. BEWARE.
Researching a lot, it seems the consensus is that the sbl in the 2.2.1 versions of the GTI9000 has *hard* download mode crippled.. Meaning if there is a software screw up YOU CANNOT USE A USB JIG OR ANY OTHER METHOD OF GETTING THE PHONE IN DOWNLOAD MODE!!! To fix it you'll need a new one or JTAG to replace the bootloader.
As far as I can tell, beyond getting completely rid of the AT&T logo, there is no need to flash boot/sbl to get the "purity" of the 2.2.1 sammy roms.
Extract all files from the tar EXCEPT boot/sbl and re-tar and flash just those to avoid overwriting the stock captivate boot loader.
Also, it does not appear the boot/sbl from the captivate 2.2 leak suffers this same problem.
For any one iffy on bricking their phones, stay away from roms that remove COMPLETELY the AT&T logo on boot. This generally means the boot loader has been messed with any you may be screwed if you soft brick the phone. Most CWM roms dont overwrite the boot/sbl, but some can and do. Watch yourself.. if it the AT&T logo goes away COMPLETELY, I recommend flashing JF6 with One click while the roms alive using adb reboot download and try another rom.
thanks!
worked...took a few tries but some trick with this captivate to get it into download mode.. i was totally bricked too, diag screen with PC/Phone icons and exclamation mark. for me 1.) plug usb, 2.) hold power and vol up/down and connect battery (it fell out) and i was in download mode
I guess a similar procedure was on the odin3 one click thread, but there is something different in your procedure, it's not my case but it would be nice if some people confirms this as this may be useful and if it really works it should be included in odin thread
What worked for me was: Pull the battery, sim and micro sd card. Open odin on the PC. Insert the battery. Hold vol up and down then with the buttons held connect the usb cable. Just remember to plug in the usb cable with the vol up and down held in and odin must be open on the computer.
I also ran into the vol up plus power red text screen. Interesting to note that one of the fields will change depending if the usb cable is connected or not.
mine is dead
mi samsung captivate was working great but, suddenly it go black and only the touch bottom have light, when i plug it in the a/c it show is charging. i'm mac user and a read that i ned to use odin3 but it not work on mac. how i can unbrick the phone???
is rooted with one click lag
the dbdata was modif to
thats all
HEEEEELLLLLPPPPPP
Odin will not open on the mac?
Cant you use a virtual machine and use Odin on a Mac that way?
Or else take the odin 3 single click for JF6 and use on a friends Windows Computer.
Please help - unable to flash back with Odin3
I have pretty much tried it all at this point and am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I followed the directions just in case get to the big yellow triangle with the droid shoveling and the screen stays at "downloading, do not turn off target..."
Of course I had Odin3 open already but its not seeing my phone, USB drives are installed am using Odin3 ver. 1.30.
Any help would be appreciated, TIA!
TechNut* said:
I have pretty much tried it all at this point and am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I followed the directions just in case get to the big yellow triangle with the droid shoveling and the screen stays at "downloading, do not turn off target..."
Of course I had Odin3 open already but its not seeing my phone, USB drives are installed am using Odin3 ver. 1.30.
Any help would be appreciated, TIA!
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Best way to get download mode is use adb and type adb reboot download.
Or follow the volume up/down held with odin open on the computer, then you plug in the usb cable to the computer.
askpcguy said:
What worked for me was: Pull the battery, sim and micro sd card. Open odin on the PC. Insert the battery. Hold vol up and down then with the buttons held connect the usb cable. Just remember to plug in the usb cable with the vol up and down held in and odin must be open on the computer.
I also ran into the vol up plus power red text screen. Interesting to note that one of the fields will change depending if the usb cable is connected or not.
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Thank you thank you thank you. i had a totally dead no boot or anything and this worked, i was going through the whole returning the phone senerio in my head
mattbeau said:
Thank you thank you thank you. i had a totally dead no boot or anything and this worked, i was going through the whole returning the phone senerio in my head
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Just sharing the info! Makes you think twice about trying something else don't it?
does not seem to work because as soon as my battery touches the contacts it goes to the diag screen. do I have to release the power button in super human speed times there?
looked at all threads here, looked elsewhere -- there are some that are not fixable. Wanted to add that in case others come here and think that they might be the only ones that can't get it to work.
Ended up sending mine off to Samsung to reset today. :/
I love you! I called AT&T to send me documentation to sign and it was going to cost me 125 dollars to get it replaced even with warranty. And you fixed it !
i have tried just about every single method detailed in these forums, and nothing works.
Trying what OP suggested just sends me to the battery charging animation screen.
Anybody have any ideas ?
file analysis
I keep can get to the download screen and I hit start and it does the same thing everytime it just does File analysis i cant figure what i am doing wrong here somebody please help me
I think the issue was it had something to do with 64 bit windows 7 i just re did the stock rom one click solution and it worked fine
thekurrgan said:
NOTE:
5. Hold volume up + volume down + Power.
6. Insert battery.
7. Release POWER BUTTON ONLY.
You should now be in immediate download mode.
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Thank you for sharing your experience.
I don't have a Captivate yet but am doing research on it and hopeful of getting one. I am confused about one thing.
Every where that I have read about how to enter Recovery mode or Download mode on the Captivate using the 3 button method, it says holding down both Volume UP + Volume Down (plus Power button) will enter Recovery mode. But you say it enters Download mode which is confusing to me. As I recall, to enter Download mode you must press the Vol Down only (plus Power button). Could it be because the phone won't go into Recovery mode, it goes into Download mode instead? Am I missing something?
Thank you!
Download mode is for updating the phone's firmware.
Remove battery, plug in the usb cable to the phone, open ODIN on the computer (need usb drivers installed before hand) on the phone hold volume up and down then plug the phone into the computer. Your phone will say DOWNLOADING. This method works even if you run into problems and the phone refuses to boot properly.
Recovery mode is for installing Update.zip. The method is tricky but involves holding volume up/down and power, the phone will show ATT then go black. It will repeat that but after the second time it goes black let go of power.
If that doesnt work, android debug tools ADB reboot recovery will work even better.
Or root the phone and use Clockwork Rom manager to boot into recovery, just press the menu item.
askpcguy said:
Download mode is for updating the phone's firmware.
Remove battery, plug in the usb cable to the phone, open ODIN on the computer (need usb drivers installed before hand) on the phone hold volume up and down then plug the phone into the computer. Your phone will say DOWNLOADING. This method works even if you run into problems and the phone refuses to boot properly.
Recovery mode is for installing Update.zip. The method is tricky but involves holding volume up/down and power, the phone will show ATT then go black. It will repeat that but after the second time it goes black let go of power.
If that doesn't work, android debug tools ADB reboot recovery will work even better.
Or root the phone and use Clockwork Rom manager to boot into recovery, just press the menu item.
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Thank you askpcguy! I understand the difference between Download and Recovery modes.
So the procedural difference here is having the battery in + Power button, versus battery not in (use USB cable instead) and no Power button. Can the phone get power from the PC via the USB cable? This seems to differ from what the original poster said about download mode. Perhaps OP could edit his original post for clarification? Or am I still missing something? Thanks to all
The phone does get power from the USB cable.
The difference is one procedure uses the USB cable (download mode) and the other does not (Recovery mode).
The volume up+down method does not use the power button, the phone is powered on into download mode once you plug in the USB cable.
We say pull the battery to get the phone powered off. If a firmware flash stalled or doesn't complete, pull the battery and try again!
I now understand the precedural difference.
Thank you askpcguy!
I recently flash my Xperia Mini Pro with ICS ftf File.
SK17i_4.1.B.0.431__1249-7380.ftf
after flashing the device according to ( the link to the post cannot be written since I'm a new user! ) the device worked fine. No flaws at all. I've to say that, I'm a beginner in android development and wanted to restore the device to factory settings couple of time. and even after resetting ( about 8-9 times ) it worked fine. Nothing went wrong. ( except for one thing that is, the thumbnails of the pictures are blurred. )
Then I tried to root my device using flash tools. but I realized at that point I cannot connect my device to flash tools using volume down key. ( Connecting the usb cable while pressing volume down key )
After realizing the problem, I tried to repair it with the SE Update Service but in that, the same thing happens. ( When I connect the USB cable after switching off and while pressing the volume down key, the phone boots up and goes to charge mode. only the red LED is displayed and after few seconds, PC companion recognizes it as a mobile phone connected but, notifies me that the memory card might have been removed. )
that's all the response I get when I try to boot the device from flash mode. I even tried an application that makes the device boot in flash mode, but half way the application crashed. ( an android app. )
what can I do to this problem. first I thought something wrong with my volume down key, but it works fine when the phone is switched on. I tried everything that I could find in xda, or any other forum. ( tried switching USB ports, Cables, tried different computers, reinstalled PC companion, SEUS, Even Windows, and even tried with different key combinations such as pressing volume + home or pressing volume down + Power on and everything imaginable. ) :crying:
1. Does any one have thins issue on xperia range of products
2. How did you over come this issue
3. Is it a so called USB Brick on my device
4. If so, how can I repair it to work
5. Is there a way to flash the device by placing the .ftf file in the MicroSD card.
Please help me on this matter since I have lot of trouble getting this sorted out.
[email protected] said:
I recently flash my Xperia Mini Pro with ICS ftf File.
SK17i_4.1.B.0.431__1249-7380.ftf
after flashing the device according to ( the link to the post cannot be written since I'm a new user! ) the device worked fine. No flaws at all. I've to say that, I'm a beginner in android development and wanted to restore the device to factory settings couple of time. and even after resetting ( about 8-9 times ) it worked fine. Nothing went wrong. ( except for one thing that is, the thumbnails of the pictures are blurred. )
Then I tried to root my device using flash tools. but I realized at that point I cannot connect my device to flash tools using volume down key. ( Connecting the usb cable while pressing volume down key )
After realizing the problem, I tried to repair it with the SE Update Service but in that, the same thing happens. ( When I connect the USB cable after switching off and while pressing the volume down key, the phone boots up and goes to charge mode. only the red LED is displayed and after few seconds, PC companion recognizes it as a mobile phone connected but, notifies me that the memory card might have been removed. )
that's all the response I get when I try to boot the device from flash mode. I even tried an application that makes the device boot in flash mode, but half way the application crashed. ( an android app. )
what can I do to this problem. first I thought something wrong with my volume down key, but it works fine when the phone is switched on. I tried everything that I could find in xda, or any other forum. ( tried switching USB ports, Cables, tried different computers, reinstalled PC companion, SEUS, Even Windows, and even tried with different key combinations such as pressing volume + home or pressing volume down + Power on and everything imaginable. ) :crying:
1. Does any one have thins issue on xperia range of products
2. How did you over come this issue
3. Is it a so called USB Brick on my device
4. If so, how can I repair it to work
5. Is there a way to flash the device by placing the .ftf file in the MicroSD card.
Please help me on this matter since I have lot of trouble getting this sorted out.
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Hi
you should try a desktop app called flash enabler .
just connect your phone with the computer and open the app and wait .
check the attachment
hlamoudni said:
Hi
you should try a desktop app called flash enabler .
just connect your phone with the computer and open the app and wait .
check the attachment
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I tried the app provided but nothing happens.. I''m using windows 7 and is it compatible with windows 7?
Hi I am new to this forum and I tried to post this question before but I don't think it was posted so I will try again here:
So after that kitkat update my galaxy note 2014 P605 tablet couldn't download to my external SD-card so I attempted to root my tablet by following the instructions on "root samsung galaxy note 10.1 sm p605" by androidxda (I am new so I cannot post links but simply google it you wont miss it)
However as I reached "step 10" in the instructions I noticed that although I could see the green "PASS!" sign on Odin, my tablet wasn't rebooting but simply flashing/turning on as it did during the whole process.
Because the instructions said that I could disconnect the USB from the PC once I saw the green sign, I took the USB cable off the PC but my tablet kept flashing/turning on as it did during the whole process.
I pushed down the power button but it didn't turn off so I pushed down the volume button as well as the power button for 5-8 seconds and it turned off.
But it won't turn on again no matter what, I have tried to charge it , connect it to the PC etc. but nothing works
Can someone please help me out with this? Do I need to take off the battery and put it back in?
HelplessMoeJoe said:
Hi I am new to this forum and I tried to post this question before but I don't think it was posted so I will try again here:
So after that kitkat update my galaxy note 2014 P605 tablet couldn't download to my external SD-card so I attempted to root my tablet by following the instructions on "root samsung galaxy note 10.1 sm p605" by androidxda (I am new so I cannot post links but simply google it you wont miss it)
However as I reached "step 10" in the instructions I noticed that although I could see the green "PASS!" sign on Odin, my tablet wasn't rebooting but simply flashing/turning on as it did during the whole process.
Because the instructions said that I could disconnect the USB from the PC once I saw the green sign, I took the USB cable off the PC but my tablet kept flashing/turning on as it did during the whole process.
I pushed down the power button but it didn't turn off so I pushed down the volume button as well as the power button for 5-8 seconds and it turned off.
But it won't turn on again no matter what, I have tried to charge it , connect it to the PC etc. but nothing works
Can someone please help me out with this? Do I need to take off the battery and put it back in?
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I read the instructions and those are good. So I'm guessing the problem is somewhere else. First of all, you mention the tablet: "flashing/turning on" during the process. This is not normal during flashing with Odin. You should only see a blue bar loading on the screen of the device. Also, at the end, along with the green PASS you should see in the log something like: 1 succeeded / 0 failed. It's also in the printscreen of the tutorial you followed. The tablet should reboot only if you check Auto Reboot in Odin.
It sounds a bit like you bricked your device. You can try removing and reinserting the battery. Try turning it on. If nothing nothing happens (device vibrates, screen turns on but stays black, anything) no matter the combination of keys you press, then you probably hard bricked your device and need a JTAG. In other words, you need to take it to a service to have its software rewritten on the board.
There's also a device called a USB Jig (search on google for it). It's a tiny microusb that when plugged in the device, boots it into Download mode and you can reflash the original firmware. But I doubt it would work in your case.
Good luck.
HelplessMoeJoe said:
Hi I am new to this forum and I tried to post this question before but I don't think it was posted so I will try again here:
So after that kitkat update my galaxy note 2014 P605 tablet couldn't download to my external SD-card so I attempted to root my tablet by following the instructions on "root samsung galaxy note 10.1 sm p605" by androidxda (I am new so I cannot post links but simply google it you wont miss it)
However as I reached "step 10" in the instructions I noticed that although I could see the green "PASS!" sign on Odin, my tablet wasn't rebooting but simply flashing/turning on as it did during the whole process.
Because the instructions said that I could disconnect the USB from the PC once I saw the green sign, I took the USB cable off the PC but my tablet kept flashing/turning on as it did during the whole process.
I pushed down the power button but it didn't turn off so I pushed down the volume button as well as the power button for 5-8 seconds and it turned off.
But it won't turn on again no matter what, I have tried to charge it , connect it to the PC etc. but nothing works
Can someone please help me out with this? Do I need to take off the battery and put it back in?
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Will it show battery charging animation if you connect your tablet to a PC or a charger?
Hi my fellow XDA people,
I recently got a Zenpad S 8.0 (Z580CA) for close to nothing and I loved the little thing. However it was still running 6.0.1 and I decided I wanted a custom ROM and root it. Starting with some guides how to unlock the bootloader I started with the whole ADB/Fastboot thing, but it got stuck and now I got a bricked device
The situation now:
Charging works fine
The tablet starts, but without the ASUS logo and immediately enters a bootloop with the following:
the Android robot with a hardhat
A USB image with the text: "No USB Cable connected!" (No matter if there is or isn't any USB cable connected)
To fix it I'm hoping to get to a recovery/droidboot menu to do a hard reset or update from SD or via a PC, but I've tried the following without any result:
Power + volume up
Power + volume down
Power + volume up + volume down
Drain the battery and one of the options above
Connecting to a PC and using adb/fastboot/asus flashtool
Unfortunately this option doesn't work, because the PC only recognizes the tablet for a second when the android man shows, but disconnects as soon as the " no usb cable connected!" is in screen.
A different Cable/PC makes no difference
I'm afraid it's really dead now, but I'm hoping anyone has an idea or finds this a challenge .
Hey all,
a couple years back I messed up this S7 where I tried to get LineageOS running on it. Phone bricked, and has been stuck on Bootloop ever since.
Now I wanted to reflash a stock image, only problem is that I can't completely access download mode.
I reach the green screen with the warning message, but I can't press Volume Up or Volume Down to do anything else. Odin doesn't recognize it either.
So I am kinda stuck not being able to connect my phone to my computer at all for debugging purposes. I also tried to the VolUp + VolDown with USB cable with no success.
If anyone has clues where I could start my debugging, that would be great. Thanks.
I do have access to the battery to unplug it.
EDIT: I somehow managed to get into Odin Mode on my phone (I dont even know how, I held the button for more than a minute), but it's still not recognized on my Desktop.
EDIT 2: I tested the cable on my second S7, so it's not the connection. My PC won't pickup the damn thing no matter what I do