Hi everyone, I earlier today tried to upgrade the official firmware on my Galaxy S though Keiss and it seemed to go well, it said that when the phone finishes rebooting the upgrade will be successful but the phone never did finish rebooting, all it does now is show the S logo for a minute or 2 then the screen goes blank and every 30 seconds or so it vibrates.
Unfortunately my phone is one of the ones that does not have the 3 button recovery option and Keiss no longer recognises the phone so I haven't got a clue what to do to sort out this mess..
Please please please help me.......
Thanks,
Gareth
Yea.
Can you get in root menu. Search in the forums for bricked phone fixes
I hope you find a solution for it.
If not well just send it back to the shop and tell about it. DOnt worry,
Its not your fault since its official update
A old member
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App xD
hello all,
I got a problem , when update to 7.5 (from version 7.0) i got a black screen and after that nothing. Waited for half an hour but still nothing. Now my Galaxy S cant start up , not even the starting screen.It seems that I have taken the wrong update , itake this one(darkytt3r_v7.5_BLN_voodooOff). The 3button way doesn't work (it did before). And can't get in download mode.
So I have only a black screen and nothing else. Battery replace doesn't work.
Does someone have an idea.
Greetz
so you can't even see the 'galaxy s gt i9000'-screen?
No cant see that.
mightyfreak said:
No cant see that.
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i think its totally bricked man, i think the only solution is to go to samsung for repair.
What caused the black screen?
The wrong ROM installed. Does a jig work for it?
Greetz
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890243
The main discussion on this is in the link above
mightyfreak said:
The wrong ROM installed. Does a jig work for it?
Greetz
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i think you should try the homemade jig
i tried to downgrade my Samsung galaxy s i9000 with this guide:
theandroidsoul.com/ezbase-ezrom-for-android-2-2-install-revert-back/ (copy & paste in the address bar)
but in the middle of the flashing the ezodin just stopped and got stuck (during the file "factoryfs.rfs")
so i have waited something like an hour and a half but it didn't help so i did what my friends told me and shot-off my SGS then when i tried to power it on again it just stayed like it's off- black screen, wont light, wont go either to download or recovery mod
what should i do!?!?!? even when i eject the battery it won't turn on!!
please help me !!! im clueless and my dad will kill me if i'll tell him
please help me!!! im sorry that i kinda spamming this thread nut i must figure it out
Read this thread. Maybe it might help.
yea its bricked too bad.. but dont worry try usb jig(search it here in xda)..i'm sure ur problem will b solved
hard brick
Hello
it looks like you r hard bricked.
your bootloader is toust.
you still can fix it with riff jtag.
look it up
hope it helps.
I also bricked my captivate.
hi mike i'm from israel too[= do u know any store that sells that "jig" thing?
xpboy7 said:
hi mike i'm from israel too[= do u know any store that sells that "jig" thing?
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you can get it on amazon or they are very easy to make with basic soldering skills
Hello everyone
I've got problem with my I9305 lte. I bought it from my friend. It was working fine till my friend try to root phone with software dedicated to i9300. Galaxy right now stay on logo , goes in recovery mode and download mode. In a photo you can see cause of this thread.
I tried to flash oryginal software by Odin. Everything looks fine. Odin doesn't see any error. Galaxy still stay on logo with red error in recovery mode. I don't have backup with EFS folder... If it help i9305 is from vadofone Germany.
Could anyone help me ?
RIP, motherboard replacement is needed now
Does anyone have more positive idea ? Phone is like new , near 2 mounths of use...
Motherboard replacement....
Is that more positive??
And next time, read everything you can before you stuff around with something! Damn, the first thing I did was backup my efs folder :banghead:
I found this. I'll try it tommorow when I'll come back home. : alliance-rom.com/community/wiki/imei/
I was looking for motherboard for i9305 on ebay etc. but there is nothing...
So you have no backup of the efs folder, a phone that won't boot properly, and you obviously didn't read your link properly either.
Good luck, enjoy buying a new phone
fridgie said:
So you have no backup of the efs folder, a phone that won't boot properly, and you obviously didn't read your link properly either.
Good luck, enjoy buying a new phone
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My galaxy works right now ! There's no need to replace mothernoard.
Krasza said:
My galaxy works right now ! There's no need to replace mothernoard.
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I am in a similar situation.
Could you please share your knowledge on how you got it sorted?
Thanks
EDIT****
Sorted it.
jh787 said:
I am in a similar situation.
Could you please share your knowledge on how you got it sorted?
Thanks
EDIT****
Sorted it.
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Could you post a fix mate on how you sorted your problem? I have an S3 with the same issue - failed to mount efs. I have a back up of my efs folder on my PC.
hustlergraham said:
Could you post a fix mate on how you sorted your problem? I have an S3 with the same issue - failed to mount efs. I have a back up of my efs folder on my PC.
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I should begin with explaining my problem first.
The phone would not boot,charge or show any signs of life.
I had another S3, so i swapped the battery over and to my surprise it came on.
Luckily i could boot into download mode.
Moving onto how i sorted it.
First i went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33048706&postcount=1
and downloaded, extracted and flashed the Param_Bin_I9305.zip .
I then went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023527
and flashed all 3 sections (phone/pda/csc)
and hey presto all was sorted.
Hope this helps and if i can be of any more help or i have omitted something please ask
jh787 said:
I should begin with explaining my problem first.
The phone would not boot,charge or show any signs of life.
I had another S3, so i swapped the battery over and to my surprise it came on.
Luckily i could boot into download mode.
Moving onto how i sorted it.
First i went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33048706&postcount=1
and downloaded, extracted and flashed the Param_Bin_I9305.zip .
I then went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023527
and flashed all 3 sections (phone/pda/csc)
and hey presto all was sorted.
Hope this helps and if i can be of any more help or i have omitted something please ask
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Thanks for the quick reply mate. Will this work on my International GTi9300 do you know? Sorry I should have said that earlier. I've had all previous versions of the Galaxy models and never got a problem like this.
One guy above says a new motherboard is the only option, I left mine in for repair and because the custom binary was at 2 the warranty was Void. So they quoted me €150 just today. I can't afford that at the moment. But after so many searches here on XDA, it seems some people with the same issue as myself have managed to fix it. Thats why i am a bit sceptical, because I have my EFS folder backed up. Maybe it might work.
I should have my phone back on Monday so if you think this will work on mine I will give it a go and let you know?
Really appreciate the help.
Sorry to hear about your problem.
I did this on a I9305 which is very different to the standard I9300.
These files and methods i used are **ONLY FOR THE I9305***
The only reason i had the problem in the first place is that i flashed I9300 software onto a I9305.
Sorry i cant be of any more help but i am sure if you head over to the i9300 q+a section, someone is bound to know what you should do.
PM me with your exact issue and what you messed up on and i will try and see if i can find some helpful info
ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AW: [Q] I9305 stay on logo , problem with mount EFS. How to repair it?
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What's this?
Sent from my GT-I9305 using xda premium
jjpro45 said:
What's this?
Sent from my GT-I9305 using xda premium
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Corrected (formats) efs folder makes it empty
and the phone turns on
use ODIN
then http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946915
Has anyone else tried this ??
My i9305 is in bootloop on yhe samsung logo. Every ROM i put tought odin goes right, then loop again.
jh787 said:
I should begin with explaining my problem first.
The phone would not boot,charge or show any signs of life.
I had another S3, so i swapped the battery over and to my surprise it came on.
Luckily i could boot into download mode.
Moving onto how i sorted it.
First i went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33048706&postcount=1
and downloaded, extracted and flashed the Param_Bin_I9305.zip .
I then went here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023527
and flashed all 3 sections (phone/pda/csc)
and hey presto all was sorted.
Hope this helps and if i can be of any more help or i have omitted something please ask
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drmspidi said:
Has anyone else tried this ??
My i9305 is in bootloop on yhe samsung logo. Every ROM i put tought odin goes right, then loop again.
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Yes.... The chap on eBay who saved himself 200 quid after he agreed to sell his phone to me extra cheap but managed to fix it after I told him to have 1 last try with this method. elf
jh787 said:
Yes.... The chap on eBay who saved himself 200 quid after he agreed to sell his phone to me extra cheap but managed to fix it after I told him to have 1 last try with this method. elf
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So you were able to recovery the phone with the same symotmes as mine ?
drmspidi said:
So you were able to recovery the phone with the same symotmes as mine ?
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Yes.. you got nothing to lose and everything to gain
jh787 said:
Yes.. you got nothing to lose and everything to gain
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Oh, OK. I'll try and post the results later !!
Thanks
Hi..
Facing this problem with my phone..have tried a lot of googling but couldnt find anything..was just able to install the drivers for qualcomm msm..phone is not going beyond this screen after starting..any help is appreciated..
Well, that's less bad than what happened to *my* T899M... Have you tried hitting the Windows button to start recovery, as the screen suggests? Alternatively, you may be able to do a boot-time hard reset (the kind done by holding some buttons - I forget which ones, but it's documented online - while turning the phone on) since you were able to get as far as the Windows bootloader.
Without knowing more about what in particular has died, I can't really help.
hitting windows button doesnt do anything. although i was able to enter into something by holding the vol up+ power..but dunno what to do after that..
hard reset doesnt work either..im not able to reach the "exclamation" screen.the phone just vibrates and goes looping the windows screen..
any suggestions please..?? seems like a paper weight in the making..
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any suggestions please..?? seems like a paper weight in the making..
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First : start explaining when this happend ?
did you update the phone with the Cortana alpha firmware ? ( the last update on preview for developers)
if you did that then you can sent your phone back because there is no rom for your phone , only repair center can help you with that.
ceesheim said:
First : start explaining when this happend ?
did you update the phone with the Cortana alpha firmware ? ( the last update on preview for developers)
if you did that then you can sent your phone back because there is no rom for your phone , only repair center can help you with that.
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this actually happened when my friend flashed ATIV's rom into this.. is there any way i can bring it back to life??
l2azoredge said:
this actually happened when my friend flashed ATIV's rom into this.. is there any way i can bring it back to life??
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nope , only sent it back to Samsung or a Samsung repair center.