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[Q] Help Me ASAP - Please read and post!!

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have a situation here. It seems that Mr Westwood here has decided to accidentally/on purpose install a rom (Axura 2.5) designed for a Samsung Vibrant on his Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000. Naturally, with everything designed for a completely different phone, my Galaxy appears to be bricked, or as i like to call it, f*cked. I cant get past the bootscreen where it starts off grey and fuzzy, and then changes into a Samsung Vibrant boot image.
So, my question is, can i recover my lovely Galaxy or am i going to have to drop it down the toilet and pretend to Virgin that it doesnt work.
N.B. I have tried to access recovery by pressing, power-volumeup-home but it stalls at the boot screen of 'samsiung vibrant' This has happeend to me before and i have been able to revive my phone by pressing volumedown-power-home, but that doesnt work and last time that was with a rom actually designed for the phone. So what to do? Suggestions will be mucho thanko.

Try the Vibrant recovery combination instead. Both volume button + power, or both volume button + plug in usb.

snapper.fishes said:
Try the Vibrant recovery combination instead. Both volume button + power, or both volume button + plug in usb.
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Well what can i say, we are getting closer to un-bricking the phone many say is un-brickable, basically, i managed to get passed the bootscreen by this method to a white fuzzy screen that was impossible to make out, then after 5 seconds, it went back to the boot screen... getting closer i guess.

Go to Download mode (Vol Down + Home + Power) and flash a stock fw via odin.
If you can go to Download mode or Recovery mode, than your phone is fine. Do a search for any other questions

Ladduro said:
Go to Download mode (Vol Down + Home + Power) and flash a stock fw via odin.
If you can go to Download mode or Recovery mode, than your phone is fine. Do a search for any other questions
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Hi there, i cant get into any settings other than the bootscreen, need help soon or i am just going to break it and send it to virgin with water damage....

Are you decent with electronics? Try searching for homemade factory jig. It's basically a usb connector with a resistor. By changing the resistance of the usb connection, you can boot the phone into download mode.

snapper.fishes said:
Are you decent with electronics? Try searching for homemade factory jig. It's basically a usb connector with a resistor. By changing the resistance of the usb connection, you can boot the phone into download mode.
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To be honest, i think the phone is just completely screwed up, i'm just going to water damage it and claim that is the fault, im good with electronics but that seems a little bit too far. Thanks anyway for the help.

You sure your warranty covers water damage? Here at least water damage voids your warranty, since it's in no way a hardware/software defect, user error.

I was gunna say water damage would void a warrenty but .... last summer my daughter threw my digitial camera in the paddling pool (doh) and it was completly dead. Left it to dry for a bit and still dead and sent it in to fujifilm playing dumb. A month later the phone was returned with new pcb and lens result
So try it and see

[Q] captivate won't boot after Axura clockwork

Help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hmy captivate died after flashing Axura using clockwork
now I can not boot up the phone, unplug the battery for 15 Min and put it back but still the same can not boot up the phone....
please help

You need to figure out a way to get into Download Mode, use ODIN, and flash back to JF6. Once you have JF6 running, you can flash whatever rom you want again.
If you search, you'll see a bunch of posts on the different methods to get to Download Mode.
Goodluck.

Yes, I know if I get download mode I can flash whatever rom, but the problem is that the phone completely dead nothing shown in the screen, I have tried the following
1- try the combination of Vol down + Power
2- try the combination of Vol up + Vol Down + Power
3- try Vol down and then connect USB
4- try Vol down + Vol Up and then connect USB
all these while opening ODIN
also I tried this on both windows 7, and windows XP.
do you have any other suggestions to do.
please help

Still have the problem, need heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp please

How did it exactly die? It'd be useful for people who may know a solution. I've heard of JIG a few times.

you get the little home lights on the bottom of the phone to light up at least?
Also.. does the computer recognize the device?
If not and it's completely black screen and you don't even feel it vibrate while booting? Its toast.
But.. try doing the battery/sim card pull - hold down both volume buttons plug in the USB and jam in the batter and see if that works.
Or.. to the ATT warranty center you shall go.

I was flashing Axura rom using clockwork recovery, and after complete the installation and start reboot this back screen comes on, now not booting at all
Odin not recognize the phone, or even the computer does not detect any connected device,
I tried pull the battery, wait for 15 min then connect the USB, hold vol up, down and power keys then put the battery back while holding these three keys nothing happen, the screen still black and the computer not detect it.
I tired all ways but nothing works with me.
Now I think it is complete died, Even I tried the hair dryer trick but nothing works.
some posts talk about JIG
How this JIG works and how to do it?

up for heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp

hzeid said:
I was flashing Axura rom using clockwork recovery, and after complete the installation and start reboot this back screen comes on, now not booting at all
Odin not recognize the phone, or even the computer does not detect any connected device,
I tried pull the battery, wait for 15 min then connect the USB, hold vol up, down and power keys then put the battery back while holding these three keys nothing happen, the screen still black and the computer not detect it.
I tired all ways but nothing works with me.
Now I think it is complete died, Even I tried the hair dryer trick but nothing works.
some posts talk about JIG
How this JIG works and how to do it?
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USB Jig will trigger the phone into Download mode.
******Soldering Required******
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
****Solderless version****
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841512

I followed JIG solution, connect resistants of 301K on pin 4,5 on mini usb head, nothing works still black screen, no at&t log nothing
help any new suggestion

try charging the phone for a few hours, if possible try a different battery.
also you may be in download mode with a black screen. i had a bad crash once from too much overclock or a corrupted kernel flash with the manhatten project 1.6ghz kernel. it corrupted the image files for bootup and download mode, my startup screen was garbage and had a black screen for download mode. but download mode still worked. start odin, it may still show device connected.

I did connect the JIG for 10 sec then disconnect it, then connect the phone to the computer while ODIN open, but nothing happen the computer still not detecting the phone, also the screen still black, it does not even any sign of responding except it get heated when connect it to charger.

guys as posted in other thread, will reward 75 US$ for who will help me getting my phone back to life

if you got the phone through at&t, you might as well just go exchange it for a new one. the people there won't be able to determine if you've voided your warranty if they can't boot your phone either.

sorry I did not got the phone from AT&T, I bought it from Ebay so I can not send it back to them

[Q] goes download mode on battery insert

so after plugging wrong power adapter in my car I've got my phone entering download mode no matter what.
On battery insert it goes download mode
Odin doesn't recognize the device - tried on 2 computers with different cables
Ignores every possible keys combination - goes download mode eventually.
Holding power button does power down, but instantly goes back to download mode
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So I'm quite hopeless. Dear community, would you please help?!

that dont sound too good
seems to me like too much power has been sent to the phone and damaged it...
its not like you can flash a stock rom if you cant get it recognised by ODIN.
Have you tried to see if KIES will detect it ? if it doesnt i think it may be undetectable and you may need to send it off to samsung for repair.

that's exactly the case - 12v instead of 4.75v... i'm quite surprised it still shows me something....
fresh update... now it's definitely dead.... even the downloading screen doesn't appear...
omg...

send it off for repair and say that this is the outcome of a kies update.
most likely motherboard burnt out, so should be very tricky for samsung to point the finger.
they do repairs daily, i doubt they will waste time fault finding.
easier to just repair / replace

[Q] BRICKED!

Hi everyone. My Captivate is (I fear) permanently bricked.
The phone does not even turn on after a ROM flash gone bad. Is there anything I can do to repair it?

If you truly are getting no response from the phone (no lights, sound, or anything else, even with battery pulls, etc), then you have 2 options:
1. Look for someone to perform a JTAG reflash for you.
2. Take it to AT&T for a replacement and learn from this experience.

PM sent I can JTAG this for you and bring it back to life...

mailreau said:
Hi everyone. My Captivate is (I fear) permanently bricked.
The phone does not even turn on after a ROM flash gone bad. Is there anything I can do to repair it?
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1. Remove your battery and usb cable plug from your phone.
2. Plug in usb cable
3. hold volume down (sometimes it will work with volume up + down)
4. insert battery
That's how I got my captivate to work last time I had a bad flash and would not power on.

I ended up making a jig from 3 100K resistors from radio shack and a sacrificial car charger...puts me into download mode EVERY time...
although I have read of permanent bricks where the JTAG service is your only hope if you dont get a warranty replacement.

[Q] Samsung Returns - How hard to they check?

So the power button on my phone went out, which made getting to download mode and flashing back to stock a lot of fun, let me tell you. I eventually had to buy a JIG.
Anyway, I run ODIN to flash back to stock. It completes and as I'm disconnecting the cable, the battery falls out. (I was able to get into download mode because CM7 auto boots when it had power, something stock does not do.)
So it's flashed back to stock, it didn't have a micro SD card in... but am I right in thinking that the internal cards contents are still there? I.E. My pictures and apps and... the cyanogenmod nightly zip I was using? I can't hit the power button to turn it on so I can't check.
Needless to say, without the power button I can't get my phone back on (Unless a wizard here has an idea?), so my question is... will the files still be there and if they are, how hard does Samsung check these things for voided warranties? Anyone got any experience with their returns? The AT&T store guy says they only reject warranties for water damage, but I didn't exactly volunteer that I had flashed my own rom. If I'm likely to get a $400 hit on my cell bill, I'd rather buy a newer unlocked phone.
TLDR: warranty voiding files might still be on unbooting phone. Will Samsung care?

Do you have an att service center near you? Luckily I did and I just walked in and they checked it a bit (tested it for like 20 minutes). After a quick conversation, the actually just replaced my phone. I told them I wanted a phone with working GPS.
Now if you have to mail it in, that's maybe another story.

It will be mailed.

I assume your jig still gets you into download mode, no? If so, use heimdall/odin to flash something and set it to auto reboot. You could flash something as small as the kernel or maybe just go back to stock once again.
I also want to say that heimdall has an option to try and kick you our of the "phone --!--PC" state and when I tested it while in download mode it just rebooted the phone.
These may be a few ways for you to kick the phone on to let it boot so you can clear the internal SD.
Also, when I take out the battery, insert the USB cable and hold down both volume rockers and put the battery in, I'm kicked into download mode. Perhaps yet another way to turn your phone on?

Use your jig to get into download mode, the use the heimdall one click unbrick in this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1153310
It will reboot your phone from download mode.

I'm certain the JIG would work, if the phone would power on. Without a functional power button (or a rom that auto boots when powered like CM7), I don't think I can get to DL mode.

bobby98989 said:
I'm certain the JIG would work, if the phone would power on. Without a functional power button (or a rom that auto boots when powered like CM7), I don't think I can get to DL mode.
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You don't need use the power button to get into download mode. Just plug the jig in and your in download mode. also if your phone has captivate bootloaders just hold down the volume up/down buttons and plug in usb cable to a pc wait about 3 seconds and you should be in download mode, no need to touch the power button to get into download mode.

Ah, well I get no power up from JIG or USB cable hooked to PC holding vol up, vol down, neither or both. Nothing on the screen at all.

bobby98989 said:
Ah, well I get no power up from JIG or USB cable hooked to PC holding vol up, vol down, neither or both. Nothing on the screen at all.
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plug your phone into a wall socket to charge the battery and leave it for a while, the come back and check to see if you can feel the battery getting warm. If it does get warm try the jig again. If it doesn't get warm you may have something else wrong then just the power button.

If there is nothing else hardware wise wrong with the phone besides the power button and your boot loaders are not corrupted (and as long as nothing is wrong with your jig) the jig should put you into download mode every time.

charged phone, battery didn't warm, but area just above it did. Tried booting with JIG and USB cable and all combinations of volume buttons, to the same black screen.

Sounds like you should go ahead try with your warranty replacement.
But, if i were you i would try an going to an att store or service center, sometimes there with a hardware defect like your power button they will swap the phone right on the spot quick and easy. if not, the worst they will tell you at the store is to send it in for a warranty replacement, no harm in at least trying.

Yeah, I went to the store and best they did was watch me talk to the warranty people on the phone.
The disconcerting thing with the return is that they send me a phone, then I send them mine and if they have a problem $400 magically appears on my bill and there's nothing I can do about it.
If I can get it warrantied, great. If I can't, I'd rather spend $400 on a newer, better phone (instead of a factory refurbished version of the same phone).
I'm surprised there aren't more people with returns experience here...

I did a return for my wife's captivate at the att store. Her phone had random soft reboots. They did not even look at her phone, and just swapped it out with a new captivate.
Sent from my SGH-I897 using XDA App

My cappy was bricked because Odin failed while flashing the boot-loader.....so no boot-loader or anything was on there. I went into the att service center and told them I realized it was off and I couldn't get it to turn back on. Every question they asked me I just said I dunno im not sure. The guy said let me trouble shoot this to see whats wrong....lol he came back and they gave me a new one on the spot.
It seems that you really don't know whats wrong with it so there is no morality issues........IF there were any before lol.

bobby98989 said:
Yeah, I went to the store and best they did was watch me talk to the warranty people on the phone.
The disconcerting thing with the return is that they send me a phone, then I send them mine and if they have a problem $400 magically appears on my bill and there's nothing I can do about it.
If I can get it warrantied, great. If I can't, I'd rather spend $400 on a newer, better phone (instead of a factory refurbished version of the same phone).
I'm surprised there aren't more people with returns experience here...
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I've had two actual experiences. The first was a soft brick. This happened before anyone really knew about how to build a JIG. This happened within the first 30 days. I was basically in your boat, I had a bunch of crap on the internal SD card and I even still had some i9000 firmware still loaded to the phone. I exchanged it last October and never had any backlash.
The second time I messed up /efs. I was able to flash it back to stock and master clear the phone to remove traces that I had done anything to the phone. This time I dealt with samsung directly. They paid shipping both ways, made sure my phone was not water damaged and actually ended up replacing the mainboard (they seem to do that to fix a ton of issues).
Both experiences I mailed in my phone. I never dealt with a local service center.