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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
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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 apologize if this is a duplicate but I have a problem.
The USB cable came out of the phone while loading GR-10 ROM so of course the flash failed. The phone will boot up in Android System Recovery but go no further. Download mode does not appear to be available. Tried several times (5).
There is bunch of failed message string below.
My questions are:
Is this a soft boot where a Jig would make it go into Download mode?
Or is this a hard boot and I need to do something else?
Thanks in advance for any replies!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049294
you should be able to reach download with adb comands.
if it still boots at all you should still have a good combination of bootloaders. have you tried the i9000 combos as well? volume down+power untill the splash screen pops up, volume down for 2 sec then plug in usb cable with odin open? volume down+menu+power? pull battery then vol down + power + put battery back in?
also have you tried the captivate variations? volume up+vol down+power till att splash goes away, vol up + vol down+ usb cable, pull battery then vol up+vol down+usb +put battery back in?
id try them all or use adb while into recovery mode.
I went to take a shower and came back to try it again.
I got it to go into download mode. I believe it was the I9000 version which worked - volume down+power untill the splash screen pops up, volume down for 2 sec then plug in usb cable with odin open
However, it appears to be stuck trying to load. In Odin 3 app, I am at factoryfs.rfs and the progress bar has not moved for about 20 mins. Also my COM window is yellow.
It looks like Odin3 and Captivate are not talking and that the Captivate drivers did not load. Does that sound right?
Wanderer000 said:
I went to take a shower and came back to try it again.
I got it to go into download mode. I believe it was the I9000 version which worked - volume down+power untill the splash screen pops up, volume down for 2 sec then plug in usb cable with odin open
However, it appears to be stuck trying to load. In Odin 3 app, I am at factoryfs.rfs and the progress bar has not moved for about 20 mins. Also my COM window is yellow.
It looks like Odin3 and Captivate are not talking and that the Captivate drivers did not load. Does that sound right?
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Yeah, sounds like odin is detecting your phone, but having trouble transferring junk to it. Try a different usb port, or perhaps a different usb cable if you happen to have a spare one?
You can also try it again if it's stuck on factoryfs.rfs, since it's not in the process of flashing bootloaders it should be "ok" to pull the cable and try again.
Also, it shouldn't take more than 2 minutes to flash factoryfs.rfs, anything longer is a pretty good indicator that something went terribly wrong.
Also try restarting your computer.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Just so you know - I tried everything mentioned here and I was not able to get the phone working.
The phone would not communicate with the computer correctly. I could never get the Odin3 to show anything other than yellow when I connected the phone and was in download mode.
I could not get it to boot at all at the end. So I took it to the local ATT&T repair center and got a replacement.
Thanks again.
Hi Guys,
I have the Samsung galaxy S duos (7582) and I believe that my phone has soft bricked.
1. At first the phone will switch on only while connected to charger. Even if its switched on it will just show the start page with Samsung logo and phone model only.
2. I have replaced the battery and tried but it shows the same result. Doesn’t charged up but can switch on the phone (only to start screen with Samsung logo and phone model) with connecting to charger e or PC.
3. The mobile phone is not detected by the PC, but the same has detected by odin. I have passed in odin but unable to access the recovery mode by pressing volume up+home+power buttons. ( i can access downloading mode)
4. Finally I tried to flash stock rom with Odin and it shows Fail.
Appreciate your help.
:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
i have tried to flash the stock rom with odin
[email protected] said:
Hi Guys,
I have the Samsung galaxy S duos (7582) and I believe that my phone has soft bricked.
1. At first the phone will switch on only while connected to charger. Even if its switched on it will just show the start page with Samsung logo and phone model only.
2. I have replaced the battery and tried but it shows the same result. Doesn’t charged up but can switch on the phone (only to start screen with Samsung logo and phone model) with connecting to charger e or PC.
3. The mobile phone is not detected by the PC, but the same has detected by odin. I have passed in odin but unable to access the recovery mode by pressing volume up+home+power buttons. ( i can access downloading mode)
4. Finally I tried to flash stock rom with Odin and it shows Fail.
Appreciate your help.
:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
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i have tried to falsh the stock frimware with odin.
downloaded the pack from sammobile.com/firmwares/confirm/36920/S7582DDUANJ1_S7582ODDANJ1_INS/[/url]
flashed with odin- at first it showed reset on blue back ground. the phone re started and again struck on the page with samsung logo and model number. then odin showed pass.
but still my phone struck on the same screen. nothing works
[email protected] said:
i have tried to falsh the stock frimware with odin.
downloaded the pack from sammobile.com/firmwares/confirm/36920/S7582DDUANJ1_S7582ODDANJ1_INS/[/url]
flashed with odin- at first it showed reset on blue back ground. the phone re started and again struck on the page with samsung logo and model number. then odin showed pass.
but still my phone struck on the same screen. nothing works
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any luck guys. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeees help
[email protected] said:
Hi Guys,
I have the Samsung galaxy S duos (7582) and I believe that my phone has soft bricked.
1.At first the phone will switch on only while connected to charger. Even if its switched on it will just show the start page with Samsung logo and phone model only.
2.I have replaced the battery and tried but it shows the same result. Doesn’t charged up but can switch on the phone (only to start screen with Samsung logo and phone model) with connecting to charger e or PC.
3.The mobile phone is not detected by the PC, but the same has detected by odin. I have passed in odin but unable to access the recovery mode by pressing volume up+home+power buttons. ( i can access downloading mode)
4.Finally I tried to flash stock rom with Odin and it shows Fail.
Appreciate your help.
:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
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Bro exact same things happened with me, listen just connect it to a charger, after hmmmm approx 15mint you will see the phone is charging, and then turn on your device while in charging it will take around 40mint boot up, and after booting every thing will work fine, trust me this had happened with me in past, i hate Samsung and s duos 2 gt-s7582. And you know what every time i turn off the phone its take around 40mint to turn on again. I don't know why it take that much time in boot. Just try my method that will help.
Hi,
I tried flashing a ROM on my Galaxy S8+ using Odin yesterday and as I haven't flashed a Samsung before, I failed, which led to a bootloop.
By pressing and holding VOL - and POWER, I can turn the device off.
What doesn't work is putting the phone in either Download or Recovery mode.
It's not recognized by my computer through the USB-C cable and it doesn't always respond to being charged.
Sometimes when charging it, it boots up by its own and thus bootloops.
Is there any way to fix this? The Samsung Logo in the bootloop gives me hope.
Greetings
maybe if u datail what u did spet by step and how r u trying to go to download/recovery more can help.
Phone: J4+ (SM-J415F)
I wanted flash the stock ROM via Odin on pc and something went wrong (i don't know what) and now the phone shows "An error has occured while updating the device software. Use the emergency function in the Smart Switch PC software." I tried to go in the download mode but the phone "restarts" every 2 seconds when i connect it to the pc or the charger.The recovery didn't work either.
Note: The phone doesn't start even if it is not connected to the PC or to a charger.
I'm also stuck in this weird .non. bootloop
Hey, I had this problem before. The Battery maybe depleted during flashing. You have to find a way to charge it.
Try to boot into Odin warning screen or the IMEI screen, it's where the device won't reboot while your connected to a charger, then give it some time to charge until you have enough time to flash your stock ROM.
Its what I did xd, just watch out for overheating. Using a GN variant.
I solved it by holding all 3 buttons and plugging into USB, it did the whole rebooting thing as usual but I kept the buttons held for about 15/20 reboots and then it FINALLY went into download and I could flash stock rom. If important or not, I'd left it charging all night but showed no sign of life whilst it 'charged'
Something to Try!
The issue seems to be with the HOME CSC is corrupted on the latest version - Probably something by Samsung to outdo the Combo files being produced.
PLUG-IN THE PHONE to PC (NOT WALL), Press and hold POWER + VOL UP + VOL DOWN to BOOT the phone to the ODIN message screen (with the warning), not the Download Screen itself > in this Screen release all the buttons at the same time, if you do this right you should still be on that same screen. Then simply press the POWER once. This should show a Barcode IMEI Serial, etc (Then leave for 5-15 mins on USB Charge then quickly swap with a wall charger).
Then leave it to charge for normally phone charging time. Later PUT INTO ODIN MODE and retry.
I have done this 3 times on this device to make sure this is the correct way.
You might get away booting it to ODIN and trying to swap the power but unsure about that.
After this Go to GOOGLE Search on your laptop/pc > search for SAMFIRM > Put in the model and Download the Combination for J415FXXU5ASK1 and then in SAMFIRM software click Download ROM > Tick the Binary Nature box and then Flash the Combination file in the AP button of ODIN then the on that ROM go to Orange Calculator (IME) type in *#0808# on the next screen select the option with ADB and RM & DMT (normally the bottom) then select PDA on the next and then SAVE and RESET then flash the SAMSUNG ROM with the CSC, not the HOME!<< Just a NOTE! Not Responsible for bricked devices if you do this wrong! Advice only! :good: