[Q] Bricked Phone Help - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi there, I'm sorry to bother you all but somehow I've managed to brick my phone.
Phone info prior to brick:
gt-i9000m
using a rom developed in darky's rom kitchen
rooted
Phone info on way to brick:
Flashed European gingerbread 2.3.2 (successful)
Rooted (successful)
Phone info where became bricked:
Tried to flash seeARMS gingerbread rom onto phone using clockworkmod
Place update file into root folder of internal SD and entered rom manager app to attempt to flash rom, phone enters boot screen and stays there five minutes.
I at this point pulled the battery and reentered download mode attempting to flash european gingerbread again.. Odin runs and then hangs up while it's trying to execute the boot.ini thing, phone's screen turns off I left it running for 5 minutes to make sure that it wasn't working..
Pulled battery and tried to turn on phone enters black screen of death wear the computer exclamation mark and phone symbol pops up.
I attempt to enter download mode and succeed! Then I try to reflash 2.3.2 but again Odin hangs up at boot.ini and screen turns off.
So anyway, my question is since I can still enter download mode is there any possible way to fix my phone? I will be downloading the stock rom tomorrow and attempting to flash it again using Odin. Any suggestions?

I would flash one of the stock 2.1 roms and start all over.
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Alright, thanks is there any chance you know where I could fine one?
I was able to unbrick my phone by removing the battery, holding the power button and letting all the residual energy drain from the unit, then booting into download mode and flashing 2.3.2 using Odin3. It turns out, the revision of 2.3.2 I have is without a recovery mode so I'll have to reflash a stock JL2 firmware before I can use seeArm's 2.3.2.

ikuba said:
Alright, thanks is there any chance you know where I could fine one?
Plastered all over XDA amongs many post .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846913
Unbrick it by flashing stockrom with pit 512 and repartition checked via Odin .
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Alright guys i have got a galaxy s. Have got some issues with my galaxy basically i have been using rom manager i was running rombie v_2a via rom manager with clock work mod installed then my phone ran out of battery one day. So i picked up the phone plugged in charger and the phone loads with a round circle then the picture of the battery will show up and then the phone turns off. So i left the phone to charge for a while it kept showing a pic of the battery on start up then totally turning off again. So tried recovery and it wont boot into recovery. But it will boot into download and odin detects the phone. Flashed the phone booted me into froyo after flash but as soon as i turn off the phone it does the same thing again round circle picture of battery then off. I can flash the fone and all runs fine as soon as i turn it off i get the reboot problem anyone got any ideas cheers wattsy1612
can anyone help i got no recovery but i have d/l mode the fone will launch only from clean flash it will only boot if auto reboot is ticked in odin with clean flash i had clockwork but ssems the phone stopped booting evertime power is lost
Still cant reboot my phone totally screwed it will reboot if i tick auto reboot in odin after flashing from download mode but if i simply turn it off it just wont boot it just goes too white loading circle and shows a picture of the battery and then just powers off i cant enter recovery anymore either only download mode can any one help me out pls guys
That icon means kernel is screwed. See if u can flash eclair jm8 using pit 512 as its a known good state to start with. Also its the recommened rom to use before flash to froyos
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icky boo have tried what you said and still the same mate no recovery and no start up like i say if auto reboot in odin is ticked the phone will boot any ideas mate
That's how I updated and recover when ever a kernel update fails. Maybe your phone is actually screwed. Can you enter recovery mode? Using vol up instead of vol down. If you can means your bootloader still works.
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Also there seems to be a lot of problems with Canadian i9000m phones with internal memory dying. Uf you have one of them that maybe the reason
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[Q] Help!!, How to recover i9000 from Soft Brick?

I was on Froyo 2.2 and i tried to downgrade using Odin n it completed but now my Galaxy S doesn't reboot fully, it turns on like normal, the animation comes up too but when the S in the middle of the screen comes it flashes like it normally does but after a mim or so it jus goes black n turns off!, i removed the battery n sim card n tried it again but still nothing, i can go into download mode and recovery mode which i did to wipe the data but that still didnt work, can anyone help please?!
If you can go to download mode, try flashing again.
I tried that but the flashing fails for sum reason =/
You haven't said what you ROM you were flashing. It does sound like a bad flash. Have you tried downloading the ROM again, maybe from a different source, or possibly go to the samfirmwares page and choose something like the JM8 ROM ( and use odin with repartition ticked). I have had a similar problem like this and this route solved the problem.
Best of luck.
What version of odin are you using? I softbricked my sgs trying to flash voodoo lagfix with odin 1.3, then i reflashed with odin 1.7 and that did the trick to bring the phone back to life. Good luck!
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i9000 bricked, but goes to download mode - rescuable?

So here't the full background, it's not long, please read:
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...-bricked-my-sgs-wonder-what-i-did-wrong.2032/
Long story short, it looks like I bricked my SGS when trying to flash with Odin, even though I followed the tutorial very closely. When I power up the phone, it just gives me the image with phone, exclamation mark and PC on it. It does, however, go into download mode when powered up with VolDown and center button.
How do I save it? Do I need the JIG (God, please say no! )
Have you tried reflashing with odin.
Jig is only needed when you cant get into download mode.
Also i just looked inside the darky rom topic.
Have you flashed the jvk rom first with the bootloaders?
Edit: as said below. If you gonna reflash, flash a stock rom. Not the darky rom. First priority is to make your phone work.
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Yeah, you have download mode.
Now, fire up Odin and load a few rom files into it, connect the phone and see if the PC still recognises it. (Do not flash, Just a test)
If so...
Flash a stock rom.
Somehow, I was able to flash it with Odin in Download Mode this time. Phew! I read somewhere that the flash might fail if You're using wrong USB port. At first I connected my phone to a eSATA/USB combo port, and for the second time (after brick) I tried a normal USB 2.0 port in my laptop. Maybe that's what made the difference, I have no idea.
Anyway, I'm running stock Samsung 2.3 rom and am trying to install Darky's 10.0 RC3 on it - I am running into some problems, but thankfully they're much less serious than the brick that I was able to fix.
Thanks for Your help!
I ran into similar problems last week. A rom wouldn't flash, so I gave it an hour and it proceeded nowhere. Had to pull the plug on it.
Sometimes it just takes a few times plugging and unplugging repeatedly until it just happens to get detected by Windows. Maybe just a bit of luck too
Congrats on your recovery.
Just wondering which stock 2.3 rom did you use and which Odin setting you used to get your phone up and working again.
Here is my post / problem, seems similar to yours
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1020223
Thanks
I had the same issue like warnec on my first darkyy flash, finally everything went fine...don't worry!
just try to reflash with odin (maybe going for a stock version first is a good idea), be sure to do everything as mentioned in the guides out there. and be sure your computer works stable, maybe you want to quit some tasks in the background (however it should work even without but something crashed my odin once...)
Reflash with Odin to make your phone work again. I suggest using a stock 2.2.1/2.3.3 ROM. It is important that it consists of the 512.pit file, a PDA file, a Phone file and a CSC file. The ROM must have bootloaders included!
Now, disconnect your phone and turn it off.
Start Odin and load all the files. Tick 'Repartition'.
Start your phone in Download Mode by pressing Vol-Down, Home and Power.
Connect it to your PC and wait for Odin to say 'Added!'.
Now hit Start, wait 2-3 minutes until it is done and your phone should succesfully reboot!
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Thanks I tried this and my phone just keeps flashing i9000m screen, then blank and then back to the i9000m screen. Looks like the phone is unusable.
chriszak said:
Thanks I tried this and my phone just keeps flashing i9000m screen, then blank and then back to the i9000m screen. Looks like the phone is unusable.
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does not sound very good...could you solve your problem yet?
Had to take the phone into Bell. Waiting on return of it and currently using a loaner HTC Desire Z from Bell.

[Q] Firmware and Kernel?

I've got stock SG2, DVKF4, from Telstra and I rooted it using ODIN and XWKDD_insecure.
Last night, when I was updating the firmware on the phone, after reboot - all I got is SG2 boot screen with yellow triangle - after that blank screen/power off.
1) Did I brick the phone?
2) I 've been reading the forums and I can probably flash the original fireware, on there?
But I am not sure whethere I should do the kernel as well as it was rooted.
I've already got files from intratech but - not sure which steps to do - kernel and firmware or just firmware only.
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I've got stock SG2, DVKF4, from Telstra and I rooted it using ODIN and XWKDD_insecure.
Last night, when I was updating the firmware on the phone, after reboot - all I got is SG2 boot screen with yellow triangle - after that blank screen/power off.
1) Did I brick the phone?
2) I 've been reading the forums and I can probably flash the original fireware, on there?
But I am not sure whethere I should do the kernel as well as it was rooted.
I've already got files from intratech but - not sure which steps to do - kernel and firmware or just firmware only.
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First: If you can get into a download mode then you have NOT bricked the phone. You can call it a soft brick max. In my opinion get an odin flashable stock firmware and flash that by putting your phone into download mode. you can find a complete guide how to do that on samfirmware.com
hope this helps
who carez said:
I've got stock SG2, DVKF4, from Telstra and I rooted it using ODIN and XWKDD_insecure.
Last night, when I was updating the firmware on the phone, after reboot - all I got is SG2 boot screen with yellow triangle - after that blank screen/power off.
1) Did I brick the phone?
2) I 've been reading the forums and I can probably flash the original fireware, on there?
But I am not sure whethere I should do the kernel as well as it was rooted.
I've already got files from intratech but - not sure which steps to do - kernel and firmware or just firmware only.
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As described above, yellow triangle normally suggests Download Mode so no you have not bricked your phone yet. If you had you would see a different and rather obvious screen where you would know you have bricked your phone. As long as you can initiate Download Mode and you have the tools on your machine, Odin, Heimdall etc than you should be able to recover from this situation quite easily. It's always best to read as much as possible when choosing a Rom / Kernel pairing if you are moving away from stock. Even though we may have the same devices it does not mean we will all have the same experience when flashing new Roms...
I would suggest Firmware first, then Kernel.
Hope you resolve your issue.
black screen on sg2
Hi I had a problem with my sg2. I was trying to remove the yellow triangle after putting ICS on it. All of a sudden it went to yellow triangle screen and then went blank. However I did not noticed the the phone came on still but no Galaxy boot up screen. If you have this sort of problem, the phone can still go into download mode.
1. Take the battery out and put it back in
2. Hold the Home(middle) button, volume down and power on button for about 10 sec. Just as you would to put in download mode
3. Open Odin and leave it open
4 While Odin is open press the volume up (Odin will indicate that it is in Download mode since the phone cannot).
5. Download the files from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=788778&d=1321782075
6. Extract the files and click the PDA button in Odin and select the file called 1
7. The phone will start but only stays at yellow triangle and turn off.
8. Now u can easily put the phone in DL mode and Recovery mode and re-flash with an ICS version you your choice. Either using Odin or putting it on your SD.
This worked for me...Using the original Kernel did nothing at all. Enjoy...I still need to get rid of my triagle after reflashing but I think I need an original ICS kernel or something. I will experiment with my phone more...Hope this help.

[Q] After rooting phone is not starting, please help...

Hi,
I have Samsung Galaxy S I9000 running Ginger Bread.
I wanted to upgrade my phone to Ice Cream Sandwitch or Jelly Beans. In order to do it, I started with below steps to root my mobile.
1. Installed latest Clockwise Mode application into my phone.
2. Installed Odin3 v1.7 in my laptop.
3. Downloaded CF-Root-XX_XEU_JPY-v1.3-BusyBox-1.17.1.tar on my laptop.
4. Started Odin first.
5. Disconnected mobile and started in download mode with Volume Down + Home Button + Power Key.
5. After starting the download mode, connected mobile to laptop using the USB.
6. Keep all the default values in Odin3 i.e. Re-Partition option unchecked, Auto Reboot and F-Reset Time option enabled. Selected tar file CF-Root-XX_XEU_JPY-v1.3-BusyBox-1.17.1.tar in PDA option.
7. Connected mobile and it detected ID Comm [Highlighted in Yellow].
8. Finally click on Start button.
After starting the process was completed and Yellow color changed to Green one, phone was auto reboot.
But after reboot it is just stuck on start of screen and not going ahead. I wait for 2 hours but still not working.
Could you please help me how I can solve this issue now?
Did you try to pull battery out and restart the phone again?
Do you still can go in CWM with 3 button combo again?
If yes then try to flash a ICS or JB kernel (depending on what ROM you finally want to have on your phone) via CWM and then go in advanced and restart recovery (if available), otherwise just try to flash the rom.zip on top.
If CWM is not possible, the go in download mode an falsh a tar version of kernel via ODIN.
Here are different semaphore kernels for each android version:
http://78.46.194.137/downloads/gt-i9000-ics
http://www.semaphore.gr/downloads/gt-i9000-jb
For ics it should work after 1. flash, but for JB you have to flash it 2 or even 3 times, if after restart phone does not boot. Then battery out again, start in recovery and flash zip again.
Good luck and good success .
I think, at this position, installing a new gingerbread stock ROM will be preferable. Try installing XXJVU. Then root with cwm and install any slim bean version in case you are interested to use jelly bean.
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Sure that will be the best way....but my suggestions do not take much time, so why not give them a try .
But if its not going, then a restock is the best you are right:
What I always do for restock is using slappys rescue kit.
Unzip it and flash the Rom via Odin. There is everything, also a txt file with a guide included.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29114573&postcount=2
If you want to have slim rom then its recommended to flash CM9 first or flash a modem afterwards via cvm, because slim does not have a modem included.
And/Or just follow the installation guides/recommendations from the single ROM Threads.
Thanks Guys for your help.
My issue is resolved with below post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809098
phone not starting
guys i cant start my phone....even the three buttons ar not working...it is just loading and loading....help please
model-gt-s5830i
viral1999 said:
guys i cant start my phone....even the three buttons ar not working...it is just loading and loading....help please
model-gt-s5830i
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You are here in totally wrong section: this is a i9000 help thread section. Hopefully you didn't flash a i9000 rom, otherwise your phone is hard bricked.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
Me 2: It was from low battery in my case
I had similar problem when rooting my Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone with Odin3. After rooting with a success message my phone was showing just the Samsung Logo each time I was trying to turn it on without loading OS. I googled and directed here and connected my phone to the charger as its mentioned in a link you provided which solved your problem. It turned on automatically after a few minutes while of charging and when turned on it was charged approximately 40%.
As I was very afraid my phone got serious harm at first I hope this maybe a sedative probability for duds really worry about what happened to their smartphone.
I rooted my phone le tv without pc bt after rooting it is not starting pls help me how to start my mobile again
Imbhavya said:
I rooted my phone le tv without pc bt after rooting it is not starting pls help me how to start my mobile again
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What exactly did you do, which phone model and what does it display now?
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