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PLEASE HELP: Calling all experts!!!
After installing the: [STOCK ROM] Odin3 One-Click Downloader and Drivers CAPTIVATE ONLY
My Galaxy S 19000 is stuck on the at&t boot screen.. the at&t logo just keeps flashing...
I cannot get into download mode...
PC is not recognising phone via Kies, odin or anything else...
Something tells me I have made a huge mistake somewhere along the line.. any fix???
Thank you
If no recovery/download mode working...
Only UART/JTAG, check on progress on this.
Thank you for your help...
Quite expensive options aren't these, GOOD THING I HAVE INSURANCE!!!
There must be a software way around this thou...
HELP!!!!
If your phone can't get into download mode due to it being disabled it looks like your pretty much screwed. You could phone samsung and see if they'd fix it.
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If you can get to the AT&T logo part, I'm assuming you should still be able to get to download mode. Did your phone have dl mode before?
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Yes my phone could get into dl mode b4 but now it doesn't work any more, phone just keeps on showing at&t logo and rebooting.
When I put the USB lead in the phone does not switch on at all..
thanks 2 all for assistance in this horrible mess negligence has left me in.
the USA models goes into download mode by using the volume up + volume down + power
see if that works
Thanks for your reply...
no joy... any other viable button combinations I could try? I've already tried many to no avail...
I'm no expert on the matter but don't you think that since you flashed a Captivate ROM on an I9000 that the home button wouldn't work since the Captivate doesn't share the same home button? Logically I would try looking for what the combo is for the Captivate to get into download or recovery mode. Now, I may be wrong and it may not work if the captivate uses its home button to enter the home button but it's worth a shot.
Edit: I just checked here and it says you hold both the volume up and volume down button while you press the power button. Try that.
With the device off, try holding both vol + & - then plugging in usb cable. Thats how a captivate enters download mode. If flashing the i9000 on captivate changes the button sequence it could not hurt to try.
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@ Bell & foom....
I understand both your thought pattern and YES this was mine also...
However thus far no combinations have worked, still continually looping the at&t logo.
If I plug in the charger or USB whilst its doing this it kills the device, it wont switch on...
Knowing the different CAPTIVATE button comb. to recovery or download mode would be a big help right now.. also how the buttons would be mapped... i.e Captivate rom. on GALAXY S device?
How would one fix a captivate that was continually re-booting at operator logo start-up? Might be another way to angle this?
Thanks....
Think u are better off paying the guys at samsung or phone repair store to load the right firmware back in if u dont have the 3 btn combo...
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try downloading that one click unroot program, plug the sgs into the computer and then force unroot, although the unroot won't work it should then allow the sgs to enter recovery mode.
Unfortunately my PC is not recognising the phone...
Plugging the USB in while the phone is switched OFF does nothing....
lugging the USB in while the phone is switched ON.. Turns it off...
Same things happen when the Charger is plugged in.. Althou the phone seems to still charge!!!
Arghhh..
Thanks for your suggestion thou.. Any more help/ ideas are welcomed...
Last resort maybe try heating up the phone like the others did to force download mode?
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so any news on this? i too have successfully flashed the captivate rom on my unbranded i9000 the official repair shop i first took it to (mttc <Lithuania>) told me that it needs a new motherboard, and it would cost me 700LTL(270 $us)... kinda sounded like bull****, so a week ago i took it to a private repair shop, they said they had jtag, so i should be hearing from them this week, if not, i'll buy the stupid riff box myself and repair it..
no button combination worked for me, and the symptoms were exactly the same, flashing att, usb kills it etc. etc.
well, my advice would be to keep contacting different local repair shops, and asking do they have a jtag that supports the samsung galaxy s, if they do, the repair shouldn't cost more than 25$, at least thats what I've been told. good luck, and stay in touch, update on your process, cause the number of people flashing the wrong rom on the i9000 is horrifying.
it kinda sux that its so easy to brick the sgs... and its wrong for people to state that "if you have 3button combo enabled, you are safe", well thats just bull****.
No GOOD news as of yet, but I am in the process of to admitting my SGS to a official samsung service centre.. I was also thinking of sending it directly to them for repair...
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Still been trying some other things to try and jump-start this blasted thing in the meantime but NOTHING IS WORKING!!!!
I to am thinking about purchasing this riff box or JTAG but it would be for a ONE TIME USE only... Seems like a waste of money when I can just claim a new SGS through insurance only thing is playing the WAITING GAME!!!
I Shall definitely update this thread with any progress made in the coming days...
Here I was thinking I was a lone soldier with this dilemma...
Also I agree... SGS = Too easily bricked.. and no solution?? Other than splashing out 100+ £/$... in your words truly SUXXXXXXX!!!!
Konshens said:
Also I agree... SGS = Too easily bricked.. and no solution??
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Sorry, but ANY phone (or even any electronic component for that matter) is easily bricked if you flash firmware from a completely different device onto it.
Electroz said:
Sorry, but ANY phone (or even any electronic component for that matter) is easily bricked if you flash firmware from a completely different device onto it.
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well, afaik, its very hard to fully brick a new htc device.
anyway, i suggest you try finding a jtag repair shop first, as samsung will take a lot of time to "repair" it, or even tell you that it needs a new motherboard..
Ok, heres the deal.
My girlfriend has the same Galaxy S as i do, and i wanted to go back to stock.
Id grabbed all the needed files off her galaxy (boot.bin, cache.rfs, dbdata.rfs, factory.rfs, modem.bin, param.lfs, sbl.bin and zImage) and loaded up heimdall to flash them all back.
The flash finished successfully, the phone switched off, and i awaited a reboot.
It never came.
The phone is now in a Non- Functional state, wont turn on at all.
The battery was fully charged at the time, and ive also pulled her battery out and tried it, but still no go.
Im thinking something inside is fried.
Just thought id share my misfortune with you, just in case someone else was going to try the same thing.
If you were gonna try....think twice
So i guess its back to Optus shop on tuesday, and see what i can do about a replacement.
Cheers all.
you shouldn't use boot.bin ,Sbl.bin and param.lfs. It is not safe to play around these files, you could dump other files and flash it,without any problem,
Ok, well maybe thats what has killed it.
Ive tried all key combinations, but nothing at all.
Pretty convinced its fried.
OzzYGuY said:
Ok, well maybe thats what has killed it.
Ive tried all key combinations, but nothing at all.
Pretty convinced its fried.
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I did the same thing on my phone and happened so, but I took it to service center and they repaired without changing the board or opening it(this is what I think because there were no trace of any physical repair), anyhow its working again. but before you may try some methods which I read in some forum as below:
Remove everything from your phone (SD card, sim, battery).
Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT the battery, as you have already taken it out in the last step.
Press and HOLD vol. up and vol. down.
As you are HOLDING these buttons, reattach your battery.
You should be in Download Mode.
there is another method which I will try to find and inform you
Thanks for the tip....but no go.
Screen still black....
Its like its not getting power at all.
Try and force it in to download mode [vol down - home key - power button] and then reflash it with a stock rom. If that fails then you could try holding just the power button in for a minute or 2 but if that also fails then your last option is to try and either get hold of a jig or make one to try and get it in to download mode.
Using the application Odin should fix this problem. as above said, about vol up vol down, im sure it is volume down,powerbutton and homekey when connecting to a comp when odin is open. Odin is ure failsafe. correct me if i am wrong with this information!
jonnyb
sean2476 said:
Try and force it in to download mode [vol down - home key - power button] and then reflash it with a stock rom. If that fails then you could try holding just the power button in for a minute or 2 but if that also fails then your last option is to try and either get hold of a jig or make one to try and get it in to download mode.
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Ive tried all key combinations that we know.
Ive flashed it many times before, but i think this time after the flash, something has blown, in between the battery, and the power switch, so its not getting any power.
I think the only cure is to return to samsung for repair.
Ive tried everything that ive read from various google searches for the last 8 hours or so...and no hope.
Im almost positive theres no power getting from battery to the power switch.
Phone is Dead - A warning for others.
Yes follow instructions understand what you are doing first dont make it up as you go along .
I would guess you have destroyed boot loader .
Possible fix is download mode recovery jig .
Samsung service centre possible charge .
jje
Grabbing some resistors tomorrow, will see how that goes.
JJEgan said:
I would guess you have destroyed boot loader .
Possible fix is download mode recovery jig .
Samsung service centre possible charge .
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If the Sbl.bin id non functional, the Jig can't do anything, you must use a RiffBox or equivalent sadly.
sad story, hope never will happen to me
If its still under warranty just go to samsung service centre and tel them you tried upgrading firm ware over the kies and phone did not boot after that. Its not easy for samsung to find what you did with the phone. they will replace mobo free if warranty is valid.
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trip007in said:
If its still under warranty just go to samsung service centre and tel them you tried upgrading firm ware over the kies and phone did not boot after that. Its not easy for samsung to find what you did with the phone. they will replace mobo free if warranty is valid.
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Yeah will do.
Mrs will take the phone in to where she bought it on tuesday, and see what the process is.
Phone still under warranty so i doubt ill have any worries getting it repaired.
Bought a jig this morning for $8.00.
Knew it wouldnt get my phone goin after reading that if the secondary boot loader was not intact that it wouldnt work. As id flashed the sbl.bin i knew it was toasted, but for 8.00, having a jig handy is worth every cent anyhow.
Have my Galaxy Tab to use as a phone untill the "S" is repaired, so thats a bonus.
Although im without a phone for possibly 2 weeks or so, i dont regret flashing it.
Its a good learning curve, and one ill remember.
At least i know now, that even though heimdal has slots for the bootloaders, DONT USE THEM
Its all good, and im not discouraged in any way from flashing it again as soon as its repaired lol.
All in all its been a good lesson learned.
Ive learned about the download jig, which of was unaware of earlier.
Thanks to all those who replied with info....i do appreciate it.
Will post back results of the phone return....when i know more.
Cheers
Thats the spirirt dude. I was in the same situation as yours. Got my motherboard replaced under warranty period, they took 2 weeks but were quite helpful. I said kies update bricked my phone. They replaced it for me. All happened within 2 weeks of the phone purchase. so it was bit tenseful situation. I own I9003.
Got my Galaxy back yesterday.
Turns out the main board was fried.
They replaced the board...and am now functional again...
Its the stock DTJP3 firmware.....but not for long LOL
Think ill leave heimdalls boot options blank from now on...better still, ill use Odin instead.
OzzYGuY said:
Got my Galaxy back yesterday.
Turns out the main board was fried.
They replaced the board...and am now functional again...
Its the stock DTJP3 firmware.....but not for long LOL
Think ill leave heimdalls boot options blank from now on...better still, ill use Odin instead.
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hey..i have the same problem..going to svc tmmr...how long did it take?
Galaxy S does not power on, nor boot, stays like dead phone.
I tested the battery also in other Galaxy S Phone and it is ok, the other phone worked fine.
i tried putting other battery in my phone and same thing. no life.
i tried for power on.
i tried download mode.
i tried recovery mode,
nothing works.
this situation happened due to,... i was trying to flash stock rom for my phone by odin3 and all went fine (with the "s1_odin_20100512.pit" file), the set rebooted but after that.
it never started.
please help.....
Well it sounds dead but...
Do you get any port connection when you go through the motions of download mode in odin? Saw something about sometimes the screen driver gets screwed.
Have you left the battery out for a while and then tried again (I've seen 15 minutes suggested)?
Otherwise there seems to be a JTAG method that is a deep hardware recovery (specialized shops and equipment) you could find a shop near you or that you could look into (google it).
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if theres no way you can get to the download method on your own i suggest you try the jig method already on the internet if not there are many websites that fix the brick for a fee :/ sorry to hear bout ur situation
Yes sorry jig method definitely before jtag.
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Thank you guys for your quick responses, but i think it's definitely the JIG method that is my last chance to recover my phone... I tried already to pull out the battery for 15mns, but nothing works. Will keep you informed.
You tried to connect it to your PC? maybe you can resuscitate it by sending some adb commands.
so a buddy of mine possibly hard bricked his captivate today. he tried to odin a stock rooted rom and it messed up completely, i was able to get it into download mode again and odined back to a normal stock non rooted rom but it was like the odin didnt stick and it started doing the same thing. essentially when the phone is off if you turn it on it stays on the att screen for roughly ten seconds and bootloops. if you plug it in it acts like it is charging for a second then freezes and loops through acting like its charging over and over. if you power it on and then plug it in it goes to the charging screen and then loops. any suggestions since i can no longer get into download mode? do i need to buy a jig?
Sounds like you need a jig. You can buy what you need at radio shack and make it yourself though
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It's not a hard brick unless nothing ever comes on screen
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korockinout13 said:
It's not a hard brick unless nothing ever comes on screen
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well its a heck of a lot more than a soft brick haha
fosdos4790 said:
well its a heck of a lot more than a soft brick haha
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Use one of the heimdall one clicks, they repartition and flash twice with bootloaders.
fosdos4790 said:
well its a heck of a lot more than a soft brick haha
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No it's not. Only 3 states of being (without hardware damage), working, soft bricked, and hard bricked.
Working doesn't need defined
Hard brick is missing or corrupted bootloaders, and you get absolutely no response from it whatsoever.
A soft brick is any state where the phone does something, but doesn't boot all the way into Android. So if it was "a heck of a lot more than a soft brick" it would be dead, and you would need to zombify it with unbrickable mod, which isn't the case here. A jig will force download mode in seconds.
studacris said:
No it's not. Only 3 states of being (without hardware damage), working, soft bricked, and hard bricked.
Working doesn't need defined
Hard brick is missing or corrupted bootloaders, and you get absolutely no response from it whatsoever.
A soft brick is any state where the phone does something, but doesn't boot all the way into Android. So if it was "a heck of a lot more than a soft brick" it would be dead, and you would need to zombify it with unbrickable mod, which isn't the case here. A jig will force download mode in seconds.
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I was mostly kidding but here's an interesting tidbit for you since you are apparently well versed in this, the jig didn't work.
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fosdos4790 said:
I was mostly kidding but here's an interesting tidbit for you since you are apparently well versed in this, the jig didn't work.
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Did you buy one prebuilt, or rig one together from capacitors and such?
I just bricked my Captivate using Odin.
It only shows the "phone yellow triangle computer" symbol and isn't recognized by the computer...
I just ordered a jig, hopefully when it arrives in two weeks it will work...
Until then, any options on getting this recognized by my computer so I can try Odin again ?
Thanks.
gn2 said:
I just bricked my Captivate using Odin.
It only shows the "phone yellow triangle computer" symbol and isn't recognized by the computer...
I just ordered a jig, hopefully when it arrives in two weeks it will work...
Until then, any options on getting this recognized by my computer so I can try Odin again ?
Thanks.
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Make sure the odin is ready, pull your battery, plug your usb into your phone, hold both volume up/down, and reinstall your battery.
Don't freak out, it's going to come back up as the same screen this time, this screen will keep showing until you have a succesful flash, but your device should now show up on Odin.
gn2 said:
I just bricked my Captivate using Odin.
It only shows the "phone yellow triangle computer" symbol and isn't recognized by the computer...
I just ordered a jig, hopefully when it arrives in two weeks it will work...
Until then, any options on getting this recognized by my computer so I can try Odin again ?
Thanks.
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Open Odin as admin, hold the two volume buttons of your phone, plug in the microusb cable, press "start" on Odin. Most of the time, the phone pc screen can be treated as a download screen.
I had a similar problem once, and I could've stop panicing! Just calm down and try what I said. I don't think that a Jig is necessary in your case.
An update, nothing worked on my phone, no button combinations, nothing at all, it just never would show up in Odin for me to reflash...got my jig in the mail finally and it did the trick within seconds. The phone is totally recovered now. Thanks for all the suggestions.
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Hi, I read some earlier posts about same problem as mine but they all failed ad changing boot loader or something else, but my situation is different.
I was chatting with friend on whatsapp nothing unusually battery was at 35% (btw I recently installed swapper maybe this has something with problem) and phone get freeze, I wait a little and I notice it is not working at all, I waited another 1 min and tryed to pull out battery but before I done that phone turned off itself, and I tryed to turn it on again but phone won't turn on, nothing shows on display, I tryed to put it in recovery mode, download mode nothing, I tryed to connect it on charger and pc with and without battery still nothing...
Did time came to spend a few bucks to repair it or this is just software fault ?
benossa said:
Hi, I read some earlier posts about same problem as mine but they all failed ad changing boot loader or something else, but my situation is different.
I was chatting with friend on whatsapp nothing unusually battery was at 35% (btw I recently installed swapper maybe this has something with problem) and phone get freeze, I wait a little and I notice it is not working at all, I waited another 1 min and tryed to pull out battery but before I done that phone turned off itself, and I tryed to turn it on again but phone won't turn on, nothing shows on display, I tryed to put it in recovery mode, download mode nothing, I tryed to connect it on charger and pc with and without battery still nothing...
Did time came to spend a few bucks to repair it or this is just software fault ?
P.S. I recently installed cyanogen mod Smoothie V2 and CWM5504-CM9-recovery.
It was working almost as perfect except some short freezing when web browsing.
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You could try to use a JIG. It will force the device to boot in download mode and them you can try to flash with Odin
You can find a guide here: http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&sourc...94HoAw&usg=AFQjCNHbzGIi_e55lP8M8jFMmcqpKCtkxw
If its not working tell me back
Hope i helped
markey97 said:
You could try to use a JIG. It will force the device to boot in download mode and them you can try to flash with Odin
You can find a guide here: http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&sourc...94HoAw&usg=AFQjCNHbzGIi_e55lP8M8jFMmcqpKCtkxw
If its not working tell me back
Hope i helped
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Iwill bring phone to my friend has phone service center and tell him about this Jig "bridge" if I can call it that way.
Will tell you more info did he succeded or not in few days.
Thanks
benossa said:
Iwill bring phone to my friend has phone service center and tell him about this Jig "bridge" if I can call it that way.
Will tell you more info did he succeded or not in few days.
Thanks
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Good idea
Hope that you have success and get your phone working
Good luck
markey97
markey97 said:
Good idea
Hope that you have success and get your phone working
Good luck
markey97
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Bad news my friend, phone may never work again... Luckly I still have warranty on device.
I hope I will get new one.
If it is rooted them not: (
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