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SCREWED

Earlier today I tried the OTA update and failed. When I got home from work. I used odin to go back to stock without root, and it let me run the upgrade again. This time it failed again and now my phone won't even boot up. It acts like it is getting no power.
Any suggestions?

batt pull?

Ive tried everything. It won't even let me get into download or recovery mode. How strange.

same here, canceled the download to turn on wifi, went back to download then update and now it's totally bricked...

on the phone now with ATT waiting to speak with tech support.

hmmm....let me know what happens! im scared now :/

dabuddha said:
same here, canceled the download to turn on wifi, went back to download then update and now it's totally bricked...
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plug your phone into your computer and let me know if a strange file appears on your desktop.

plugged it in and nothing happened, attempted to get to download mode and still failed, gonna call in tonight when I have time

dabuddha said:
plugged it in and nothing happened, attempted to get to download mode and still failed, gonna call in tonight when I have time
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Not sure if its related but I found a file saying this on my desktop.
"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<REFLASH><UNIT><ESN>MY IMEI # WAS HERE</ESN><TIMESTAMP>20100922154841</TIMESTAMP><RESULT>PASS</RESULT><SOFTWARE_NAME>Downloader</SOFTWARE_NAME><SOFTWARE_VER>3.00</SOFTWARE_VER><OEM_NAME>SAMSUNG</OEM_NAME></UNIT></REFLASH>"

Happened to a few of us. Nothing works. The phone is completely dead.

I found out that if you even pause the download, it will make your phone become inoperable. This came straight from ATT tech support. They said once it starts the update you pretty much can't touch the screen or do anything with the phone. Once it because inoperable there isn't anything you can do to get it back in working order. You pretty much are left with a pretty paper weight.

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I found out that if you even pause the download, it will make your phone become inoperable. This came straight from ATT tech support. They said once it starts the update you pretty much can't touch the screen or do anything with the phone. Once it because inoperable there isn't anything you can do to get it back in working order. You pretty much are left with a pretty paper weight.
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Yep. I had to go exchange mine yesterday. They looked at the phone like 'how did that happen...?'. Told them the FW update cancelled in the middle but still tried to apply and now we have a nice paperweight. He just looked at me like 'wow, that sucks...' and set me up a new Captivate.
It really doesn't make sense though. The resume button is there but it doesn't resume the D/L. How can you code a FW update to apply a partial file....

qwertyaas said:
Yep. I had to go exchange mine yesterday. They looked at the phone like 'how did that happen...?'. Told them the FW update cancelled in the middle but still tried to apply and now we have a nice paperweight. He just looked at me like 'wow, that sucks...' and set me up a new Captivate.
It really doesn't make sense though. The resume button is there but it doesn't resume the D/L. How can you code a FW update to apply a partial file....
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Yeah it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I got my new captivate in the mail today. They over nighted it to me. The strange part is my battery was completely dead when I put it in the new captivate. I'm trying to charge it now but its going up very very slow. I had a full charge when I started to update yesterday. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

To be honest I'm almost afraid to try and use any OTA updates anymore.

to be honest, im tempted to try this just to see what happens.
must......resist....curiosity

mdsannihilation said:
to be honest, im tempted to try this just to see what happens.
must......resist....curiosity
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Curiosity kills the cat Captivate...?

Got my Captivate exchanged yesterday and it of course didn't work well. Got a new one today, GPS does not work what-so-ever...
I'm thinking of just returning this phone and that's it. What's sad is the phone that bricked worked perfectly.

jmahaffey said:
Yeah it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I got my new captivate in the mail today. They over nighted it to me. The strange part is my battery was completely dead when I put it in the new captivate. I'm trying to charge it now but its going up very very slow. I had a full charge when I started to update yesterday. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
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SAME HERE!!! I made sure mine was fully charged before I started the update. Update failed, phone wouldn't turn on, got a new one this morning and my battery was critically low.

qwertyaas said:
Got my Captivate exchanged yesterday and it of course didn't work well. Got a new one today, GPS does not work what-so-ever...
I'm thinking of just returning this phone and that's it. What's sad is the phone that bricked worked perfectly.
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I had to re-adjust the settings in Lbs test mode to get the gps to work again.

majinzen said:
I had to re-adjust the settings in Lbs test mode to get the gps to work again.
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I tried both www.spirent.lcs.com and supl.google.com and non work. I'm having more issues in the last 20 hours than I had in 3 1/2 weeks with my first Captivate. AT&T rep just told me to go exchange the phone again and not to leave the store until I get a fully functional phone - and wrote that in special instructions to the store on my account notes.

Phone acting is up. Help?

Ok yesterday i got my i9000m. Rooted, and one click lag fixed. Stock 2.2 Froyo.
Today the phone would not wake up from sleep. Turned it off and on again and got past boot animation then just get a black screen (the buttons light up). Restarted a few times with same result.
Then i reformatted through recovery and rebooted. Got through to TouchWiz but it was very laggy and found no Google apps along with the phone saying there was no SDcard. So i reformatted again. Now the phone has the same problem, gets past boot animation but does not wake up.
Can someone please help me.

Do you know what build it was running? (JK4 or JL2)
If you got it through a store/Bell store, take it back and demand a new one on the spot. You've got symptoms of Internal SD card failure.
If you bought it off of eBay or some other source, you can try to take it in to Bell and hope they'll fix/replace it, or call up Samsung (1-800-726-7864) to send it in to them.
Best of luck.

I got mine today and right out of the box it was running JK4, the 1st phone they gave me was a boot loop, 2nd phone worked flawlessly, just return it if it's less than 2 week old they'll replace it on the spot

I bought it 2nd hand and im a rogers customer... :\ not sure if its JL2 or JK4
maybe a friend on bell can try and send it back for me?

Also I AM able to get into recovery and downloader mode. Suggestions?

You could try grabbing the official JL2 build and flash via Odin, if that doesn't help you could always call Samsung, they don't seem to care who you're signed up with and their turnaround time is apparently pretty fast.

got_milk said:
You could try grabbing the official JL2 build and flash via Odin, if that doesn't help you could always call Samsung, they don't seem to care who you're signed up with and their turnaround time is apparently pretty fast.
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I agree you got nothing to lose..Flash stock and see how you go

Bricked. Like completely. Ugh...
Thanks anyways.

[Q] Froze while playing Angry Birds then won't reboot

I haven't done much with my Captivate other than the One Click Lag Fix. I did one OTA firmware upgrade to the "JH7" version. The phone's been working fine for the most part since I got it in September (it had on rare occasion turned itself off, but it wasn't frequent enough to bother me). This morning, while playing Angry Birds, it froze and became unresponsive. So I opened the back and took out the battery, reinserted the battery and restarted the phone. It would not do anything past the Galaxy S splash screen and shut off. I tried the 3-button restart several times, even did the "reinstall packages" option, but no improvement. The phone just won't go beyond the Galaxy S splash screen and shuts off.
I think there's something wrong with the system recovery too. It stopped on "installing muti csc" and going no further. I don't know much about the system but that doesn't seem normal to me.
What can I do now to get my phone working again? Thanks!

Safest thing to do is probably to use Odin and flash back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989

Try using Odin 1 Click to go back to stock. Will require for you to go into DOWNLOAD mode instead of RECOVERY.
Read the sticky to get Odin and basics on how to get into DOWNLOAD mode.
If it won't restore using Odin? Probably something fried internally (SDCard might have corrupted) BUT.. that is very rare and 99% of the time Odin should fix things up for you.

Thank you to both of you! I did the Odin reset and upgraded to the JH7 with the Kies mini. Now the phone is working again. Yay!
But it looks like all the programs I've installed are gone. :-( I remember installing an app that would download and restore all the apps from the market for me (I think it stores my app info online), but now I can't remember what that app is called to find it in the market. LOL! Anybody knows?

Root your phone. TiB it. Flash new rom.

singingmomof6 said:
Thank you to both of you! I did the Odin reset and upgraded to the JH7 with the Kies mini. Now the phone is working again. Yay!
But it looks like all the programs I've installed are gone. :-( I remember installing an app that would download and restore all the apps from the market for me (I think it stores my app info online), but now I can't remember what that app is called to find it in the market. LOL! Anybody knows?
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lol, looks like your angry birds were really ANGRY last time ...
regarding to your apps, is it Titanium Backup or MyBackup ?

Yeah, and I finally got all the stars and golden eggs too--On both the regular Angry Birds and Seasons. Darn! Guess I'll have to play it all over again. Fun! Should go faster this time, now that I'm an expert. LOL!
The app restore program I had was a free one, and the icon looked a lot like the Android Market app icon. That's OK. Come to think of it, I've been wanting to clean out some junk anyway, so a clean reinstall of the apps I really want to keep is probably good.
Thanks again to everyone for all your help! Now on to installing Angry Birds. LOL!

You are very welcome!! Glad to hear that you're back up and running. When I started getting into rooting and flashing, I did the One Click Lag Fix and ran into problems with it and pretty much made my phone unstable.... So after that first fiasco, I flashed one of the custom ROM's with a lagfix in the kernel and haven't looked back since.

Speedmod kernel lagfix works best.
Never overclock your phone. It leads to problems.
when your phone sticks, hold vol+ vol- and power for 10 seconds to reboot to recovery mode, or remove the battery.

OK. You've talked me into flashing ROM. I was hesitant because I was afraid I'd brick my phone, but after what I did to fix this problem, I took the plunge and flashed Cogniton. Glad to be free from the bloatware. I've got a few questions, but I'll post in another forum where it belongs. Thanks again!

[Q] another bricked captivate

i just went thru a problem with a broken power button. long story short i claimed my warranty and got a refurb. the refurb had 2.2 on it. like a jerk i thought it would be fine to use this guide ( https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ItSONRa9nzI7MKeKqwIdHCTRA3RRiOM_6LcJGnK4p6Y ) just like i did with my previous phone to get miui back on my phone. i had to downgrade to 2.1 on my old phone but for some reason i thought it would be fine to use the 'safe froyo base' with my already froyo phone...
anyways i got as far as odin saying it was setting partition and it would go any further. no option but to unplug and try again. before trying i tried to boot and take a look at kies. the phone wouldnt boot. just a black screen. so.. i went ahead and tried odin again since i could still get into download mode. it still hung at the same spot. pulled the plug again and put it into download mode and got the great idea of using 1-click to go back to 2.1 stock. then it hung after, i think the 3rd message that it spits out in the log. cant remember what it said but it was a normal msg. so i pulled the plug and tried to put it into download mode again. NO LUCK. and still doesnt boot.
SO, i have a non-booting, non-download mode, non-recovery mode, no signs of life captivate...
is it a refurbished turd or is there hope with a jig or something else?
i know, long story short

those instructions were for i9000 not captivate...
odin sometimes gets stuck on set partition and i wipes the params.lfs partition where the download mode image is stored.
ill bet you 100 bucks if you restart odin. take out your battery, put back in, hold both volume buttons and plug in usb, THE SCREEN WILL NOT come on, BUT odin WILL turn YELLOW in the first box and windows will beep that it found the device.
Odin will flash with a black screen. when the flash starts, you will see a blue bar on the black screen.
use the one click stock roms in the XDA CAPTIVATE development section.
use XDA. period.

so you're saying use the same method again? or use an odin 1-click stock. 2.1, 2.2, or does it even matter? cuz im pretty sure in my rage of panic i tried both one click and full another time and nothing happened. ive got nothing to lose by trying again tho. thanks for the reply.
edit: just tried what you said with the one click i have and no go. ran odin as administrator. dont have time til after work for the full method or a different one click. but i will definatley try.

FYI, regarding your question about a jig, I just had a similar problem (thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19581785#post19581785 I tried every option on this board and many others to get into download mode without success. The jig worked (thankfully!). might be worth trying it before giving up. as for me, no more flashing until I get Outler's Unbrickable Mod.

befreewv said:
FYI, regarding your question about a jig, I just had a similar problem (thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19581785#post19581785 I tried every option on this board and many others to get into download mode without success. The jig worked (thankfully!). might be worth trying it before giving up. as for me, no more flashing until I get Outler's Unbrickable Mod.
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thanks for the reply. im gonna give it a few more tries before attempting the jig. my power has been out for the last 11 hours so i havent been able to use my pc... or anything really. lost all my food in refrigerator and freezer too .
im gonna mess with this thing a bit more to see if i can make a pearl out of swine poop.

maybe someone can answer me this:
considering what i did to get the phone into this state, if i try to exchange it and tell at&t that i just powered off and it simpy wouldnt power back on is there any way for them tell if it was because of what i did?

anyone? still searching and trying to get dl mode or at least my pc/odin to recognize the device. nothing has worked yet. im downloading sdk now to try adb. i have a feeling that if adb doesnt work then AdamOutler will be $30 richer . and i have an even bigger feeling that adb will not work.

nawlage, PM sent.

4-2ndtwin said:
nawlage, PM sent.
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thanks, just read it. the thing is, the phone has no signs of life. pbl or sbl seems to be borked but not possitive. ive heard that what i did shouldnt brick it like it has been bricked.
just tried using adb. couldnt even get to it after downloading sdk. there was a read me where adb normally is and said it was moved in the version i have. i tried to install it and it just said nothing was done. could create the directory. i gotta go to work now so i cant try anything else til i get home.

looks like im gonna try for another warranty claim on the grounds that i was putting my saved data from my old phone onto my replacement with kies when the power went out and my phone froze. pulled battery and wouldnt turn back on. if im denied then ill prolly pay for the unbrickable mod. might get the mod even if i get the warranty refurb. seems like a good investment. ill post the results. thanks to those who gave ideas.
EDIT 11/25: i ended up telling them that it worked fine when i went to bed and woke up 4 hours later and it was off and wouldnt turn on. the rep tried all the things i already tried while i snickered to myself and he said 'yeah its dead'. i got another refurb stock uckb2.

What's wrong with my Note 4? Slowdowns galore and freezing

DOK2 all stock firmware here.
Got my phone back in december. My phone has been chugging alone fine until yesterday. not sure what happened but the lock screen takes minutes to come back. I tried doing a factory reset via software and when I did that the phone was still sluggish. Tried a stock recovery reset, and afterwards when i tried signing into my account and connecting to wifi at the initial setup the phone just rebooted back to the start screen again which i thought was real odd. It's currently restoring apps from the app store right now and it intermittently reboots itself while doing stuff. all while it's completely stuttering if i try to use it...
Is my phone starting to have internal memory failure? no SD card in the phone at the moment.
Should I try reflashing the DOK2 firmware via odin and then doing a reset again? Is that even possible with all the restrictions?

used it for about 30 minutes on my way to work and then it rebooted on me with the following error :
ddi: mmc_read failed

Check this thread for a workaround. I use an app to keep my phone from going into deep sleep.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=64584244&postcount=39
dtrinh4000 said:
used it for about 30 minutes on my way to work and then it rebooted on me with the following error :
ddi: mmc_read failed
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Wouldn't hurt to reflash stock. Google usually restores apps when you check box at first boot for backup and restore. I'm wondering if you installed an app that doesn't agree with your phone... if so, you may continue seeing this issue so long as app is installed.

Bruce lee roy said:
Wouldn't hurt to reflash stock. Google usually restores apps when you check box at first boot for backup and restore. I'm wondering if you installed an app that doesn't agree with your phone... if so, you may continue seeing this issue so long as app is installed.
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Did a factory reset and cleared cache, reflashed stock DOK2 from sammobile website using odin, cleared cache. things were going a little bit better at first but now just stuttering all over the place and randomly rebooting still. I only have very few apps downloaded, including facebook updates, instagram, all the samsung and google crap that forces updates...
Also want to add that booting into recovery takes a very long time, longer than i've ever noticed it taking... 7 min+ sometimes it will say "installing system updates" with the android guy chugging along, other times it will just have the android guy chugging....
Is there anything else I can try? Is there something I can test to verify that it's a hardware issue and not a software problem, like a flash memory checker?
This phone is out of warranty, and knox has been tripped so I have very limited options here. Would the Tmobile store let me do an exchange for a fee?

bump... anyone? am i really screwed?

dtrinh4000 said:
bump... anyone? am i really screwed?
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Sprint user here. I thought it might be a carrier issue, but it would seem It's at least Tmo & Sprint
Can't seem to find any complaints on the Verizon/ATT forums but that doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Could it be Touchwhiz?
Here is the Sprint post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/help/random-shut-freezes-download-mode-stuff-t3302822

cuteman said:
Sprint user here. I thought it might be a carrier issue, but it would seem It's at least Tmo & Sprint
Can't seem to find any complaints on the Verizon/ATT forums but that doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Could it be Touchwhiz?
Here is the Sprint post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-sprint/help/random-shut-freezes-download-mode-stuff-t3302822
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I do get some touch wiz crashes and random app crashes . since I'm on dok2 is there any other rom or recovery I can flash ? Or so some super duper erase method? I'm pretty much ready to cut my losses and sell it for parts on eBay.

i'm not alone it seems
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-tmobile/help/note-4-major-slowdown-bugs-boot-loops-t3311297
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-tmobile/help/looping-screen-t3319204
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-tmobile/help/reboot-shutdown-wont-removing-battery-t3316875

I am having same issue. Was running stock until 3 days ago, when I got fed up with the stock reboot and slow-down. I guess it's time to save up and get a new phone.

Samsung must have activated some self destruct feature on their hardware to get people to upgrade to the galaxy s7 i guess....

dtrinh4000 said:
Samsung must have activated some self destruct feature on their hardware to get people to upgrade to the galaxy s7 i guess....
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Well, fool me once.... Having spent $800 on a phone that broke in just over a year, hell would have to freeze over before I give Samsung any money again.