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Bricked my Phone

I require help....
How to unbrick my Galaxy Ace Duos? i cannot go into download or recovery mode. its just a blank black screen.
I cannot go into download or recovery mode. Its just a blank black screen? - I rooted my galaxy ace duos then flash cwm. Then reboot the device till then everything went blank. I cannot get it into recovery mode at all. I have tried the all 3 buttons methos but no luck. Please help ::
Maulin

rawalmaulin said:
... I cannot go into download or recovery mode ...
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If you can't enter download or recovery.. bad thing

I dont think that's possible.

Take out the battery, put it back in, hold the vol down and plug in the phone?

Can anyone provide odin downloader link so I can do something with it? I have several times try to start the phone but its not starting at all. No logo or no vibration or just nothing. I am lot worried and trying everything. Can't understand what has happened? Earlier I was using Galaxy Y and have perform all this things in it for several times but can't understand what is happening in this phone. Its a new model so no help or nothing available even here at XDA-forums...
Please anyone can help me out..
kobekoy said:
I dont think that's possible.
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orangekid said:
Take out the battery, put it back in, hold the vol down and plug in the phone?
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I have several times try to start the phone but its not starting at all. No logo or no vibration or just nothing. I am lot worried and trying everything. Can't understand what has happened? Earlier I was using Galaxy Y and have perform all this things in it for several times but can't understand what is happening in this phone. Its a new model so no help or nothing available even here at XDA-forums...

orangekid said:
Take out the battery, put it back in, hold the vol down and plug in the phone?
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I am trying to lookout for the usb storage of the phone by connecting usb cable but even it is not get recognized by the windows. And if I connect charger no battery charging is also visible. Please any senior member of the forum try to figure it out and give some suggestion..

rawalmaulin said:
I am trying to lookout for the usb storage of the phone by connecting usb cable but even it is not get recognized by the windows. And if I connect charger no battery charging is also visible. Please any senior member of the forum try to figure it out and give some suggestion..
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If nothing recognizes it and has no signs of life, I'm sorry but it seems hard bricked.
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iKoolkid said:
If nothing recognizes it and has no signs of life, I'm sorry but it seems hard bricked.
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Isn't that possible if I could flash bootloader and my phone could atleast start. Or should I go to Samsung and reclaim the device as I have purchased just 10 days back...

rawalmaulin said:
Isn't that possible if I could flash bootloader and my phone could atleast start. Or should I go to Samsung and reclaim the device as I have purchased just 10 days back...
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Go to Samsung and make up something, if Odin can't recognize it or you can't get into recovery, you cannot flash anything.
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Galaxy Tab 2 won't start

Hi!
I'm new to flashing and tried to install clearRom in my P3115. The problem is that after reboot, the tablet wont start!
If I tried to connect it to the pc, drivers is nos installed / recognized and the batery logo appears but never charges. It show as is it is empty.
I can´t start it neither or access download mode or CWR mode. Odin does not recognize it neither!
Please, help! It's like dead!
Thanks a lot! :good:

Explain exactly what you did, and maybe someone can help you further. Good luck.
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JeramyEggs said:
Explain exactly what you did, and maybe someone can help you further. Good luck.
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Thanks for the tip.
I just used Odin to flash clear Rom like explained here:
theandroidsoul cleanrom-custom-rom-for-galaxy-tab-2-10-1-guide/
Everything seems to be fine, but after restart nothing happened. I noted that if you plug the tablet to the usb port, it keeps looping the sound as when any usb is connected. Over and Over again.
It never starts, not even the Samsung logo. The only thing it does is, once plugged in, I can see the battery charge logo, but always empty.
Please, help!!
Thanks!

What kind of message do you get from Odin if you try to connect it and load a ROM? My tab was stuck also but I was able to get Odin load even when it looked like it was connecting.

jgfan1972 said:
What kind of message do you get from Odin if you try to connect it and load a ROM? My tab was stuck also but I was able to get Odin load even when it looked like it was connecting.
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Hi jgfan!
It just worn´t work, I cant flash anything because i's like it never connects as the usb makes his connect / disconnect loop sound.
Odin never shows the ID:COM PORT rectangle as connected or colored!
Thanks for any tip.

Have you install the driver in your computer?

michaelzzz said:
Have you install the driver in your computer?
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Hi Michaelzzz, I did!
I also installed Kies, but it's like a usb loop and never ends recognizin it!
I keep hearing the sound when you connect the usb over and over...

Not sure, what problem you face exactly.
This is what i understand, you get a battery logo while your device starts and wont boot up right? If yes, try these steps, might help you.
1. battery logo you get in the boot thats because, you have connected USB Cable to computer/Charger.
2. Make sure you have charge in battery so that while doing below steps, would be a problem.
3. Once you find, it has a enough battery charge you can disconnect the cable safely (If not place it for a wallcharger, untill the battery logo fills up the juice and you find it as charged completly)
4. While booting Press the POWER+VOLUME DOWN for Download mode.
5. Now connect your tablet to PC which has ODIN and sufficient drivers installed,
6. ODIN should detect to flash the ROM.
7. Download extact Firmwares from Sammobile site / from XDA links, which is suitable.
Hopefully it should bootup with no issues.

nagabushan.c said:
Not sure, what problem you face exactly.
This is what i understand, you get a battery logo while your device starts and wont boot up right? If yes, try these steps, might help you.
1. battery logo you get in the boot thats because, you have connected USB Cable to computer/Charger.
2. Make sure you have charge in battery so that while doing below steps, would be a problem.
3. Once you find, it has a enough battery charge you can disconnect the cable safely (If not place it for a wallcharger, untill the battery logo fills up the juice and you find it as charged completly)
4. While booting Press the POWER+VOLUME DOWN for Download mode.
5. Now connect your tablet to PC which has ODIN and sufficient drivers installed,
6. ODIN should detect to flash the ROM.
7. Download extact Firmwares from Sammobile site / from XDA links, which is suitable.
Hopefully it should bootup with no issues.
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Dear nagabushan, thanks for your help!
I think the problem is battery related, cause the icon never fills up. It's like it cant charge batteries! The juice never even apears!
I'll leave it plugged in to the wall for a few our, and see what is going on.
I'll be back in a few hours!

Bootloader messed up. Sorry, only JTAG works with this.

jonttuv said:
Bootloader messed up. Sorry, only JTAG works with this.
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Thanks jonttuv. Actually, after 6 hours, the battery juice is the same.
I'll check in the forum about this procedure.
If you already know anything, Can you please provide a good step by step to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance to all.

melbos said:
Thanks jonttuv. Actually, after 6 hours, the battery juice is the same.
I'll check in the forum about this procedure.
If you already know anything, Can you please provide a good step by step to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance to all.
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This is just a guess, but i think that there is no JTAG unit(that is just plugged to the tablet and DOWNLOAD MODE ) There is a method that can be extremely dangerous.
This method is to open the tab, take the motherboard, find the correct pins and flash JTAG. I DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS METHOD NEITHER DO I SUPPORT IT!
The second method is to take it to the warranty. Download mode is not accessible so they can't tell if it's rooted, custom rom or anything like that. They will either send you a new device and voilá. That's it. Or they try to fix it. Google samsung galaxy tab 2 jtag. It will help you if you prefer the first option.

Phone not turning ON

Hi Guys
Today I was talking over phone when suddenly it went blank and I could not hear any sound. No display. So I took out battery, left it for a min, kept it back and tried. Now it is not turning on.
Tried connecting to charger and even PC. It was having 80% charge and was on Angeeks ROM.
What could be the problem?
BTW Phone is out of warranty

F3niX said:
Hi Guys
Today I was talking over phone when suddenly it went blank and I could not hear any sound. No display. So I took out battery, left it for a min, kept it back and tried. Now it is not turning on.
Tried connecting to charger and even PC. It was having 80% charge and was on Angeeks ROM.
What could be the problem?
BTW Phone is out of warranty
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Is it going into recovery or download mode?
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Nope. If it went into either, I wouldve flashed some stock ROM.
NO display whatsoever. Totally blank. It is not even vibrating a bit, so it isnt turning ON!

Check APX mode. Hold Volume Up + Home + Power, wait for a bit, then connect your phone to PC. You will hear Windows' sound that it detects it.

If it's going to APX mode you can use unbrick method.....
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Connect the charger and let it charge for some time. Then if you get the charging animation you can try rebooting.
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It is going to APX Mode. Will check unbrick method
Ok. Tried this
After running the .bat file, nothing happens. It is still blank! Am I missing anything?

F3niX said:
It is going to APX Mode. Will check unbrick method
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Do you have EFS back up....

mj.vikram said:
Do you have EFS back up....
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I don't think I have. What options do I have?

F3niX said:
I don't think I have. What options do I have?
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if you don't have you will lose IMEI...

Well, I am prepared for it. I checked the whole guide.
If I dont backup, I would loose IMEI but phone will boot. Then I can take to SSC, and tell them I lost network and they would fix it.
But now, It is not booting into any mode except APX. Tried the drivers too. Shows APX in eject and Nvidia USB Boot-recovery.
The .bat file wont work!

What is the output of the bat file?

Adam77Root said:
What is the output of the bat file?
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The bat just exits. It shows till BCT and just exits then

F3niX said:
The bat just exits. It shows till BCT and just exits then
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Try to open a separate command line and run the bat file there. It will not close at least.
After the bat file had exited, did you try to reboot into download mode and flash a rom?

Adam77Root said:
Try to open a separate command line and run the bat file there. It will not close at least.
After the bat file had exited, did you try to reboot into download mode and flash a rom?
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He says that he cant enter download mode.
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Problem is Nothing is showing up on Display!!
Will try as you said.

Here is the output.

F3niX said:
Here is the output.
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I am not sure but by seeing the error i guess your eMMC chip is corrupted because its not able to create the partition, Do you have warranty..

I dont know is it help you or not but this guys is claiming that he has solved that issue-> Read it fully

Out of warranty!
@Kataria It is for Optimus 2X, I Doubt it will work for our phone, can anyone confirm if it is safe to try?

[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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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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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.

Can't enter download mode for stock flash

Every time I try it (no batt, up on vol) I get a missing battery sign.
When I try to do it with the battery and plugged in it shows up and I can assign ports but flashtool cannot see it!
Any ideas?

Do you have latest drivers installed?if not install them first.and always keep better in when flashing.

ComradeZ said:
Every time I try it (no batt, up on vol) I get a missing battery sign.
When I try to do it with the battery and plugged in it shows up and I can assign ports but flashtool cannot see it!
Any ideas?
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It's not really supposed to work with the battery out of the phone anyway.
You are using a USB 2.0 correct? USB 3.0 will not work.
What do you mean flashtool won't see it?
Your selecting the tot file clicking the yellow button and when it says ready you've unplugged and re plugged the device?
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I'm using 2.0 usb.
How exactly do I get to download mode with battery in it?
Flashtool never gets a yellow go color. It just sits there. When I click go, it fails out.
hyelton said:
It's not really supposed to work with the battery out of the phone anyway.
You are using a USB 2.0 correct? USB 3.0 will not work.
What do you mean flashtool won't see it?
Your selecting the tot file clicking the yellow button and when it says ready you've unplugged and re plugged the device?
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Post the screenshots of what you are doing.

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Post the screenshots of what you are doing.
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Nevermind, got a new battery and I was able to go back to stock kitkat just fine. Now problem of getting no OTAs

ComradeZ said:
Nevermind, got a new battery and I was able to go back to stock kitkat just fine. Now problem of getting no OTAs
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If you don't have at&t sim,you will never recieve updates ota.

Does it need to be activated or can it be just the sim and no plan on it?

ComradeZ said:
Does it need to be activated or can it be just the sim and no plan on it?
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It must be activated and functional.