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phone bricked i think

ok so out of no where my phone started flashing the boot screen i tried to odin it but it failed and it is now flashing a phone and a computer with a yellow warning sign in the middle how do i fix it if i can

also i cant get into recovery or download mode

You can still odin from the screen with the Yellow triangle on it. Try odin again, make sure that you put in the pit file, and that the odin package goes into the pda slot.

i cant odin it because the yellow triangle screen flashes so the phone is rebooting like every 5 seconds

The phone shouldn't reboot with the yellow triangle, are you sure you're holding down the trackpad and down vol buttons when turning on the phone (download mode)?

i cant turn the phone on as soon as i put the battery in the phone shows that screen and then 5 seconds later it goes off then 5 seconds comes back on ao so forth

Is this the screen you're seeing?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/576/sdc10776y.jpg/sr=1

yes and that screen keeps flashing on and off

Have you tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350060

my phone wont stay connected

like it connects then 5 seconds later it disconnects

Foorperif said:
ok so out of no where my phone started flashing the boot screen i tried to odin it but it failed and it is now flashing a phone and a computer with a yellow warning sign in the middle how do i fix it if i can
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So by reading this, I assuming that Odin did recognize it before and then failed during the flash. You didn't unplug it before it was finished, right? It can take a while sometimes (and seem longer when something is kinda broken).
SD- Do you think his bootloader might have been corrupted somehow?
Try the Heimdell like SD suggests. Adam's stuff is great. If it fails, do it again, I have had to do it multiple times to get a phone right again (Guy I know flashed a wrong rom onto a different model phone with the wrong bootloaders-- hence using the heimell to load the correct ones onto it).

can i get a new bootloader then

Foorperif said:
my phone wont stay connected
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There should be an option in Heimdall that you check for bootloaders. IF it is diminshed at first, run heimdall normally, and when it fails, it should be selectable. If this doesn't work out, there is a possibility of a hardware issue. If it works, make sure you hit thanks for Adam and SD for helping out...

my phone wont stay connected

any other help guys

If it won't stay connected long enough to flash in odin or heimdall then no, you have no other options.

thanks for trying guys

ok just found out my phone is hardware locked if it helps any of you guys

PLEASE HELP ME with galaxy S2 SHW-M250K Boot problem

Please guys, my galaxy S2 SHW-M20K (Korean) is in trouble.
I bought it from a 2nd hand shop , and it was runing Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean (rooted stock rom). I had no problem with it till today when I tried to install "CWM Recovery", After searching the web i found a post with two files that supposedly could do the task. These files are:
1. CWM_KT_M250K.tar
2. Tegrak-Kernel-Build-39-for-SHW-M250K-UE18.tar
Using Odin, I triedd the first file but it couldn't work, and the phone could not boot so i downloaded the "rooted factory firmware" and flashed the phone. Everything was ok. Later I tried the second file. Again the phone could not boot and stuck at the logo with a yellow triangle. After waiting for about 5 minutes I tried to shut it down by pressing the power button it did'nt respond. (Now this is a point that I regret), I removed the battery as a way of forcing to turn it off.
Now my phone cannot boot. It doesn't respond to power button, neither does it allow me to enter recovery mode nor download mode. But When i connect to the charger or pc, it start charging and keeps cutting off the charging frequently. But it only allows me to enter download mode when connected to pc. When I tried to flash the "rooted factory firmware", again, the flashing goes smoothly but when the phone starts rebooting it fails as if there is a power cut. Is my battery damaged? Can someone give me a guide on how to fix it?
I need your help gus, I am not an expert in the rootings and roms,
Pardon My English. It's a foreign language to me.

Gombyz said:
Please guys, my galaxy S2 SHW-M20K (Korean) is in trouble.
I bought it from a 2nd hand shop , and it was runing Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean (rooted stock rom). I had no problem with it till today when I tried to install "CWM Recovery", After searching the web i found a post with two files that supposedly could do the task. These files are:
1. CWM_KT_M250K.tar
2. Tegrak-Kernel-Build-39-for-SHW-M250K-UE18.tar
Using Odin, I triedd the first file but it couldn't work, and the phone could not boot so i downloaded the "rooted factory firmware" and flashed the phone. Everything was ok. Later I tried the second file. Again the phone could not boot and stuck at the logo with a yellow triangle. After waiting for about 5 minutes I tried to shut it down by pressing the power button it did'nt respond. (Now this is a point that I regret), I removed the battery as a way of forcing to turn it off.
Now my phone cannot boot. It doesn't respond to power button, neither does it allow me to enter recovery mode nor download mode. But When i connect to the charger or pc, it start charging and keeps cutting off the charging frequently. But it only allows me to enter download mode when connected to pc. When I tried to flash the "rooted factory firmware", again, the flashing goes smoothly but when the phone starts rebooting it fails as if there is a power cut. Is my battery damaged? Can someone give me a guide on how to fix it?
I need your help gus, I am not an expert in the rootings and roms,
Pardon My English. It's a foreign language to me.
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As u mentioned, I think that your phone has gone to a Soft Brick. I don't know much about the Korean build, so Google it to solve the Soft Brick. Try flashing the stock rom via odin but I don't recommend it since it may cause your phone to be hard bricked if not done properly.
So go to the service centre, you'll get more help there

Sushant Rohan said:
As u mentioned, I think that your phone has gone to a Hard Brick. I don't know much about the Korean build, so Google it to solve the Hard Brick. But it is very hard to solve
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I thank you sir for responding to this. From what you have said, I think the best decision is to take it to Samsung service center. (For I have tried to google it but I couldn't get a solution). I would also like to know if it is repairable, and about the cost, is it worth repairing or should I think of buying a new phone?
I am stranded.

Gombyz said:
Please guys, my galaxy S2 SHW-M20K (Korean) is in trouble.
I bought it from a 2nd hand shop , and it was runing Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean (rooted stock rom). I had no problem with it till today when I tried to install "CWM Recovery", After searching the web i found a post with two files that supposedly could do the task. These files are:
1. CWM_KT_M250K.tar
2. Tegrak-Kernel-Build-39-for-SHW-M250K-UE18.tar
Using Odin, I triedd the first file but it couldn't work, and the phone could not boot so i downloaded the "rooted factory firmware" and flashed the phone. Everything was ok. Later I tried the second file. Again the phone could not boot and stuck at the logo with a yellow triangle. After waiting for about 5 minutes I tried to shut it down by pressing the power button it did'nt respond. (Now this is a point that I regret), I removed the battery as a way of forcing to turn it off.
Now my phone cannot boot. It doesn't respond to power button, neither does it allow me to enter recovery mode nor download mode. But When i connect to the charger or pc, it start charging and keeps cutting off the charging frequently. But it only allows me to enter download mode when connected to pc. When I tried to flash the "rooted factory firmware", again, the flashing goes smoothly but when the phone starts rebooting it fails as if there is a power cut. Is my battery damaged? Can someone give me a guide on how to fix it?
I need your help gus, I am not an expert in the rootings and roms,
Pardon My English. It's a foreign language to me.
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Download stock firmware (like xxxx.tar.md5 full Odin package) of ur device ,enter into Download mode of ur device & flash stock firmware with Odin.
Try this...

Galaxy S6 stuck on first screen which says Galaxy S6 powered by Android

Hi Guys,
This is the first time i have had to contact a forum as my new samsung S6 has really disappointed me. The device is stuck on the first screen and wont even boot upto samsung screen. I can only go into the download mode but cant go to recovery mode no matter what. I have tried flashing stock ROM but it has not worked and unfortunately i bought this from someone so cant even go into claim warranty. Please help me with anything that can be done to fix this.

umair11april said:
Hi Guys,
This is the first time i have had to contact a forum as my new samsung S6 has really disappointed me. The device is stuck on the first screen and wont even boot upto samsung screen. I can only go into the download mode but cant go to recovery mode no matter what. I have tried flashing stock ROM but it has not worked and unfortunately i bought this from someone so cant even go into claim warranty. Please help me with anything that can be done to fix this.
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Hello,
Can you elaborate what exactly were you doing?
-Vatsal

Vatsal said:
Hello,
Can you elaborate what exactly were you doing?
-Vatsal
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Hi,
i put my phone on fast charging and the phone never started again. I had seen similar problem before where after fast charging my phone would restart once or twice with the entry screen facing blown up pixels and phone acting funny. But this time around after some resarts it just wont go anywhere ahead of the first samsung screen.

umair11april said:
Hi,
i put my phone on fast charging and the phone never started again. I had seen similar problem before where after fast charging my phone would restart once or twice with the entry screen facing blown up pixels and phone acting funny. But this time around after some resarts it just wont go anywhere ahead of the first samsung screen.
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Hello,
I have reported this thread to be moved to right Q&A in order to get expertise help.
-Vatsal

umair11april said:
Hi,
i put my phone on fast charging and the phone never started again. I had seen similar problem before where after fast charging my phone would restart once or twice with the entry screen facing blown up pixels and phone acting funny. But this time around after some resarts it just wont go anywhere ahead of the first samsung screen.
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Download Smart Switch (Kies for newer phones) on a computer, and use the option Emergency software recovery and initialization.

Uzair40 said:
Download Smart Switch (Kies for newer phones) on a computer, and use the option Emergency software recovery and initialization.
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I have an identical problem as above. Unfortunately Smart Switch will not recognize the device. When I put in the model and S/N manually it tells me the S/N is invalid. Samsung has been zero help with this.
I can access the download screen by pressing vol down + home + pwr, and I have reinstalled the latest update (5.1.1) which I had installed 2 months ago, but it still hangs after the restart.
I cannot power down the phone with the pwr button.
I cannot access recovery mode nor get it to be recognized via adb. It simply does not move past the first screen.
I am overseas (Indonesia) and the local Samsung Repair Center will not touch the S6 Active (despite it being under warranty). Shipping it to the US service center is unfeasible.
Any ideas on what I can do to even just get it to recovery mode? I was hoping to perform a factory reset as I (luckily!) transferred all my important docs and images/vids off the phone. I'm willing to wipe the puppy clean and start over, if it will only let me!
PS: I don't consider myself a developer, but I do have plenty of experience rooting and moding phones, and ironically, this unrooted, legitimate, Knox-approved phone is only thing that has ever stumped me like this!
Update: I managed to get it to BEGIN the recovery boot process... It showed the robot with the spinning thing for a few seconds while in the upper left corner it says "installing updates...". After about 3 seconds the screen goes blank and it restarts at the Samsung S6 Active and hangs. Now when I try to enter recovery mode it cycles through like it is attempting to start recovery mode but just ends up back at the first screen again...

im facing the same problem, anyone can help us please ?

U can't flash stock firmware over old firmware, you've gotta wipe first, and since you can't get into recovery, flash twrp and format data it worked for me, and since you don't have warranty, it won't matter unless u wanna use Samsung pay, don't flash twrp if u want to keep your Knox counter!!! It'll trip it 0x1 hope I helped

Help! my sm-n915t bricked

Hello all,
I have flashed ROMs via recovery and Odin plenty of times. I would say I generally know what I am doing and I flash ROMs on the regular. This is my third Samsung device and have been rooting/flashing for almost 3 years, so not a noob. And this is the first time I encounter problem with my phone while flashing ROM.
I was stuck in a bootloop on my Note and it wouldn't even let me boot into recovery, so I decided to Odin and back to stock and try again... I got the one-click, phone recognized, yellow COM box popped up, hit start, walked away for 10-15 minutes. Come back and there has barely been any progress at all... I could barely see the green progress bar. I figured something is wrong because I've done this before and it only takes a minute at most. What I did next is what I think messed me up...I pulled my phone and closed the Odin dialogue box and tried to redo it. Problem is, nothing I could do would get me the Yellow COM box. The phone goes into download mode but Odin doesn't seem to want to recognize it. I've tried EVERYTHING. When I boot the phone normally, I get the Samsung error screen saying there was an issue with a firmware upgrade and I should try Kies. I download Kies and attempt to upgrade firmware but my phone still not recognized. I already tried it to other PC still the same result.
I can't post the pic of my phone.
Is there nothing I can do to restore it?:crying::crying:

ton8_22 said:
Hello all,
I have flashed ROMs via recovery and Odin plenty of times. I would say I generally know what I am doing and I flash ROMs on the regular. This is my third Samsung device and have been rooting/flashing for almost 3 years, so not a noob. And this is the first time I encounter problem with my phone while flashing ROM.
I was stuck in a bootloop on my Note and it wouldn't even let me boot into recovery, so I decided to Odin and back to stock and try again... I got the one-click, phone recognized, yellow COM box popped up, hit start, walked away for 10-15 minutes. Come back and there has barely been any progress at all... I could barely see the green progress bar. I figured something is wrong because I've done this before and it only takes a minute at most. What I did next is what I think messed me up...I pulled my phone and closed the Odin dialogue box and tried to redo it. Problem is, nothing I could do would get me the Yellow COM box. The phone goes into download mode but Odin doesn't seem to want to recognize it. I've tried EVERYTHING. When I boot the phone normally, I get the Samsung error screen saying there was an issue with a firmware upgrade and I should try Kies. I download Kies and attempt to upgrade firmware but my phone still not recognized. I already tried it to other PC still the same result.
I can't post the pic of my phone.
Is there nothing I can do to restore it?:crying::crying:
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You sound like you have a problem similar to what I had.
I was downloading 6.01 to install using KIES 3 and got no recognition from my Windows 7 based computer when I connected up and ran KIES.
I had the Sammy 1.55.5 USB drivers installed.
What I did it was use KIES,not KIES 3.
Samsung says KIES 3 but that turned out to be wrong in my case,although I'm not sure why?
I'm now running M/M and happily gutting the bloat out of it.
It feels better than new now!

Solved
Anyway, I already solved it!

ton8_22 said:
Anyway, I already solved it!
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i have the same problem....
how did you solve it?

Hard Brick

Hi,
Samsung J6 prime, phone isnt booting, when trying to go to download mode it displays an error message for 2 sec then reboots into the same error message and so on, its my friends phone and i don't know much.
He had his phone upgrading through odin, when a problem accured (he says the phone disconnected), then that happened.
hope anyone knows what to do

Dalbah said:
Hi,
Samsung J6 prime, phone isnt booting, when trying to go to download mode it displays an error message for 2 sec then reboots into the same error message and so on, its my friends phone and i don't know much.
He had his phone upgrading through odin, when a problem accured (he says the phone disconnected), then that happened.
hope anyone knows what to do
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can you get to recovery?

InFam0us-1985 said:
can you get to recovery?
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thanks for answering,
the phone wont start at all but if u tried to get it to download mode it gives the problem:-
"an error has occurred while updating the device software.
Use the Emergency recovery function in the Smart Switch PC software"
for 2 seconds then reboots to the same error message.
tried every other special keys nothing happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXQUFrEWg4&vl=en-GB ??
might take a while tho if the reboot persists

Dalbah said:
Hi,
Samsung J6 prime, phone isnt booting, when trying to go to download mode it displays an error message for 2 sec then reboots into the same error message and so on, its my friends phone and i don't know much.
He had his phone upgrading through odin, when a problem accured (he says the phone disconnected), then that happened.
hope anyone knows what to do
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For future reference, when flashing via Odin, make sure you have a good cable that makes a good connection with your device, it can't be a cable that is loose or is tricky about getting it to keep a consistent connection. Also, when flashing the device, do not touch or move the device and do not disturb the surface that it is resting on. These things can cause the device to disconnect during flashing, if that happens, that is what causes the issue that you are having.
Samsung devices can still be flashed via Odin while it is booted into the "encountered an issue" screen. The problem you are going to have is getting the device to stay on the "encountered an issue" screen long enough to allow Odin to completely flash the device.
Sent from my SM-S767VL using Tapatalk

Sorry, this is completely unrelated from the current topic but I reallly need help..I tried to flash a rom on my HTC but thr preloader got corrupted xo my phone go hard bricked. Pluging the phone into a computer just shows a red led and the computer shows nothing in device manager.
I tried uninstalling the MTK Preload VCOM driver and reinstalling it but that still didn't work.
Even pressing volume keys while connecting still gave nothing.
I also tried disconnecting the battery and reconnecting the phone to the computer but still nothing.
If there is anyone, please help me.....
I need to unbrick my phone................... I am begging, please help me.