[Q] Not another PHONE! PC brick!! - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Two weeks ago I tried to make a flash with ODIN (did everything by the book), but the flashing process stuck on a blue screen (probably the reason was my PC USB connection).
After that I couldn't get into recovery mode , the phone screen displaying every time "PHONE! PC. "
All my attempts to re-flash failed.
Phone can still be placed in the "Download Mode", ODIN recognize it, but can not make the saving flash.
I read all previous threads and I haven't found a solution or a single unified approach to recovery.
Now the phone is in service.The question is: if they fail to fix it (or refuse to cover the warranty), can I make it reusable by any method?
Thanks for your answers.
Any information would be helpful.

frank_zappa said:
Two weeks ago I tried to make a flash with ODIN (did everything by the book), but the flashing process stuck on a blue screen (probably the reason was my PC USB connection).
After that I couldn't get into recovery mode , the phone screen displaying every time "PHONE! PC. "
All my attempts to re-flash failed.
Phone can still be placed in the "Download Mode", ODIN recognize it, but can not make the saving flash.
I read all previous threads and I haven't found a solution or a single unified approach to recovery.
Now the phone is in service.The question is: if they fail to fix it (or refuse to cover the warranty), can I make it reusable by any method?
Thanks for your answers.
Any information would be helpful.
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Use the original Samsung USB-cable, flash a Gingerbread firmware for your region from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881
Use 512.pit and re-partition, you should be able to enter recovery mode after that. To make sure that your device is clean after the flash, try to do a wipe/factory reset from recovery.
Good luck

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Help me please...galaxy tab Exclamation mark

i want to flash new firmware but i have little problem...now my tab is show exclamation point between a phone and a computer.
but Galaxy tab can not remove battery for reset this error...
Help me please....
water30 said:
i want to flash new firmware but i have little problem...now my tab is show exclamation point between a phone and a computer.
but Galaxy tab can not remove battery for reset this error...
Help me please....
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what did you do to get to this screen? Is this after or before you upgraded firmware?
GANJDROID said:
what did you do to get to this screen? Is this after or before you upgraded firmware?
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after upgrade firmware odin show reset but the my tab not reset then i just manual reset (i can take this method for my galaxys ) after that.....
Edit:
Had the exact same thing happen to me, but its just a bad flash.
Download the JM6 zip (in the development forum) and flash it via Odin. after the device has rebooted, if the previous apps havent been deleted, go into recovery and perform a factory reset and reboot again
i have the same problem, phone - exclamation point - computer ... but i can't get into recovery mode to do a wipe .
is i press VOLUME UP or DOWN + POWER i always end up with the same exclamation point screen ... any help?
primeroz said:
i have the same problem, phone - exclamation point - computer ... but i can't get into recovery mode to do a wipe .
is i press VOLUME UP or DOWN + POWER i always end up with the same exclamation point screen ... any help?
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Read my above post. Go into download mode (volume down + home + power) you'll still have the same image but the phone WILL be in download mode. Then flash your previous firmware and you're sorted.
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You probably got that by messing with the kernel. Fund the zImage from the firmware, extract it with a .tar extractor then use something like heimdall to flash the kernel and it should work.
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Hi. I'm looking for solution for my problem but nothing has helped me. I cannot restart mu GTab or put it in download mode. I always land into Android system recovery <3e>.
My problem: I cannot restart my GTab anymore. It started when I wanted to do a backup with ROM Manager. Unfortunately EURO TAB isn't supported yet. Then I want to find out whether nandroid backup is possible. From ROM manager I booted into recovery. But there isn't nandroid backup. And now I cannot boot GTab anymore. Every time I restart it brings me back to Android system recovery <3e>. I would be grateful for every solution.
Help please
slaia said:
Hi. I'm looking for solution for my problem but nothing has helped me. I cannot restart mu GTab or put it in download mode. I always land into Android system recovery <3e>.
My problem: I cannot restart my GTab anymore. It started when I wanted to do a backup with ROM Manager. Unfortunately EURO TAB isn't supported yet. Then I want to find out whether nandroid backup is possible. From ROM manager I booted into recovery. But there isn't nandroid backup. And now I cannot boot GTab anymore. Every time I restart it brings me back to Android system recovery <3e>. I would be grateful for every solution.
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Having the same problem too... anyone can help?
If you see Phone-!-Pc on the Tab screen it is the download mode.
You can reflash it using Odin, however, you will need to do full Rom flash. I had similar problem and solved it by replashing.
I followed the latest guide published in this forum and Roto-JME rom with reformatting of internal sd.
Phone ! PC error FML!!!
GANJDROID said:
Edit:
Had the exact same thing happen to me, but its just a bad flash.
Download the JM6 zip (in the development forum) and flash it via Odin. after the device has rebooted, if the previous apps havent been deleted, go into recovery and perform a factory reset and reboot again
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Where can i download the JM6 zip??
Hey guys,
I tried to manually update my tab to Gingerbread today via Odin, but it kept hanging on select partition (I discovered I used the wrong PIT for the firmware I was going to flash, but as I didn't select the firmware yet that shouldn't be a problem). At last I decided to quit Odin (which might have been stupid...) and try it again. Then it kept haning even earlier, so I tried to restart the device in download mode. However, whatever I try it keeps giving the Phone ! PC sign. If I try to just boot, if I try to go into recovery mode or if I try to go into download mode. I saw a lot of possible ways to solve the problem, but my PC doesn't recognize the tab anymore. If I connect it, it does give the "usb device connected" sound, but there is a popup which sais "USB Device not recognized. One of the USB Devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, click this message". I already tried to reinstall the driver but it doesn't work. Also Odin and Heimdall don't detect any device.
Does anyone know a solution for this problem? Maybe taking the battery out? (for which I have to buy a new triangle screwdriver, so I need to know if it could possibly work first. It takes some weeks to order such a thing I think...)
EDIT: I played around a bit with the drivers again, and suddenly both Heimdall and Odin recognized it. However Odin stopped recognizing it again. Then I pressed "read PIT" in Heimdall, which worked. After that the device started booting up to the Samsung logo animation and then powered off again. Now it doesn't do anything anymore, not even showing the Phone ! PC screen. I'll charge it overnight (maybe it's gone empty during the process), so I hope that helps.....
In some strange way, the phone works again..... So never mind my post above.

[Q] Captivate Soft Brick - Need a rooted Odin solution.

Hi
My brother (a no-geek) has a captivate, and lives in a different city (I donot have physical access to the phone). He visited me few weeks ago and I installed CM-7 on his phone, i know my bad. Some of his videos were not working, so i asked him to update to the latest CM-7 build. He download the build, saved it on int sd_card and used ClockWork Recovery to install the selected ROM. Upon reboot it entered in never-ending splash screen. I found couple of odin ROMs, and posted him link, we tried to flash them, but no good.
Status --
The COM ports are detected, but the process at times halts at <SET PARTITION> at times at <SET UP>... at times all thread completed successful would show up as soon as hitting START.
I dont have a captivate, can someone please suggest a sure shot solution and post me a link for ODIN, with a root rom. I am using Team Whiskey on my Vibrant, and I prefer stable modified ROM because of its features and power.
I can explain him the process on skype using desktop sharing, but the ROM should be good. Thankyou very much in advance.
if he can access recovery, try wiping everything thru recovery then start again
Phone is in Soft Brick state.
Phone is in Soft Brick state. So i cannot boot into the phone and go to CW recovery.
What he needs is just a stable usb connection that's how he got to this point, bad communication between the phone and computer. On cm7 I beleive you need the nexus s drivers installed. Also make sure it's plugged into a usb port that's attached directly to the motherboard (back of pc, port 1 on laptop)
@studacris
I think the drivers are already installed good. The connection is also good, as i can the COM port detection in the ODIN, with one of the boxes changing its colour from NO-COLOUR to YELLOW-COLOUR.
I think the ROM builds are not good. They go action-less during flashing, actually nothing (progress bar) comes on phone, it keeps showing the Downloading screen, endlessly. Odin usually is stuck at at <SET PARTITION> at times at <SET UP>...
Can someone post a link for a test one click odin. Well i would prefer one click.
You did try DG's JF6 one click, thats the only one I use, how are you establishing dowload mode on the phone or are you even doing this.
REMY4223 said:
I would suggest to Odin back to stock then update to Froyo via Kies.
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if you could do all that, why would you need to send back for a new phone ? If you could do any of that, the OP wouldn't be in a non-functioning predicament
Ragin Caucasian said:
if you could do all that, why would you need to send back for a new phone ? If you could do any of that, the OP wouldn't be in a non-functioning predicament
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+1 If you read the OP the problem is he can't flash back to stock he is having problems flashing anything period, @ the OP correct me if I'm wrong but I have a strong hunch that you are leaving out some pretty crucial steps, I have a feeling that you are not putting the phone into download mode, I also believe that you are gonna need to make a jig and pay a visit to your brother to help him out especially if its bricked the same way mine just was flashing with cm7 roms. But if you are getting a com port to show without having to put in download mode then you are farther along in the boot process. If this is the case you may be able to adb into recovery do a full wipe excluding /boot and reflash. Will the PC recognize the phone with it in its current boot locked state? If so then recovering should be somewhat of a breeze.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829392 read this post it may help otherwise there are tons others
- I am getting to downloading mode by
--- pressing the "vol +" and "vol -" buttons and then connecting the usb cable to the computer.
--- then removing the cable, after the phone enters the download mode. Then, start the odin and connect the phone through usb cable again. The odin detects the phone on one of the COM port.
- I havent tired wiping the phone through recovery. But i need to get to recovery first. I dont know in a soft brick state if i can get into recovery.
- regarding getting back to 2.1... i would like to flash to the latest version. Kies update is not an option for me, as i not in US.
This phone was purchased from craiglist, i used one click root method to root it and the same script an option to get the unlock codes. After that i experimented a lot on the phone with various scripts. Last i was using congnition on it. Then saw CM7, i liked it on my vibrant, so i flashed it on my captivate (which i got for my brother). Now i have to get back to some stable modified ROM... I am thinking about trying Srendipity or cog ROM... but before than i have to install a rooted stock ROM.
That is the story and issue... but thanks a lot for help. Any more suggestions.
viveksharma2108 said:
- I am getting to downloading mode by
--- pressing the "vol +" and "vol -" buttons and then connecting the usb cable to the computer.
--- then removing the cable, after the phone enters the download mode. Then, start the odin and connect the phone through usb cable again. The odin detects the phone on one of the COM port.
- I havent tired wiping the phone through recovery. But i need to get to recovery first. I dont know in a soft brick state if i can get into recovery.
- regarding getting back to 2.1... i would like to flash to the latest version. Kies update is not an option for me, as i not in US.
This phone was purchased from craiglist, i used one click root method to root it and the same script an option to get the unlock codes. After that i experimented a lot on the phone with various scripts. Last i was using congnition on it. Then saw CM7, i liked it on my vibrant, so i flashed it on my captivate (which i got for my brother). Now i have to get back to some stable modified ROM... I am thinking about trying Srendipity or cog ROM... but before than i have to install a rooted stock ROM.
That is the story and issue... but thanks a lot for help. Any more suggestions.
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Try putting the phone into download mode after you open Odin. Which version of Odin is this? Also, installing the nightly build of CM7 again often fixes the boot loop on the newer builds. I would try that if you can get to recovery.
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[Q] Messed it up and need help

This WAS the situation before the problems:
Rooted Gingerbread rom, all working fine. Decided to unroot and install the full version of the official German ICS rom by using PC Odin. All went fine and used my Note for over two days. Because of the lags en slow responses I decided to reflash the ICS rom. From that moment on I messed it up. I've been reading and searching hundreds of posts for almost a day but didn't find a solution.
This IS the current situation:
I can get into download mode
I can get in recovery mode
However, in recovery mode I can not install a rom, every flash (CWM, both ICS and GB - even using chainfire's rom needed for rooting) stops on a random moment...but never gets it to the end, even if I wait several hours. Installing is very...very....very slow.
In recovery mode i can not restore a Nandroid backup, both ICS and GB. Every backup stops when /system has te be installed. errormessage.
In download mode I can connect my Note to PC Odin. I can select a rom and start flashing. However, after appr. 80% installation halts during "nand write start", no error message. The flashing does not finish, even after hours.
Funny is, i can install a kernel like Abyss.
So, I can't restore, i can't flash using cwm in recovery and I can't flash using PC Odin. My device seems not fully bricked. The max I get when rebooting (knowing that the process has not finished) is the triangle screen.
Any advise is appreciated.
Do not flash thru CWM... Flash a good GB kernel like "franco.Kernel" but thru PC Odin then u can flash whatever u want from franco's CWM... Good luck
Don't need help anymore
Note is officially bricked. After several attempts to recover from a softbrick the screen of my Note didn't turn on anymore. No button or button combination works, no recovery and no download mode, just a black screen.
Ce said:
Don't need help anymore
Note is officially bricked. After several attempts to recover from a softbrick the screen of my Note didn't turn on anymore. No button or button combination works, no recovery and no download mode, just a black screen.
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Flat battery? It's also possible that it's just the screen that's not working. Try entering download mode "blind". So hold power+home+vol down for ~10 seconds, then press vol up. Hook it up via usb and see if Odin can recognize it.
Thanks, didn't think of that. But unfortunately no response from the device.
So now that it looks like your phone is officially bricked, I think you should just take it to Samsung and make up a story. Like you were updating your software with Kies and something happened and the phone is just not booting up.
I am sorry you bricked your note though..
try AMORA Filemanager.. flash via recovery and you have a file manager,,, take a look on your partitions
just my idea, you got nothing to lose
musashiro said:
try AMORA Filemanager.. flash via recovery and you have a file manager,,, take a look on your partitions
just my idea, you got nothing to lose
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I would like to but it's very hard when you can't see anything on the screen...
Maybe it's just the battery, try to charge it externally and try a JIG also
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Just a quick, final, update.
My Note was superbricked. Had to send it to a Samsung Service Center. No additional questions were asked. Samsung replaced the mainboard. Didn't have to pay anything.
Great service!!!
try this out buddy, do it on your own risk!!! anyways you have messed it up.
Ce said:
This WAS the situation before the problems:
Rooted Gingerbread rom, all working fine. Decided to unroot and install the full version of the official German ICS rom by using PC Odin. All went fine and used my Note for over two days. Because of the lags en slow responses I decided to reflash the ICS rom. From that moment on I messed it up. I've been reading and searching hundreds of posts for almost a day but didn't find a solution.
This IS the current situation:
I can get into download mode
I can get in recovery mode
However, in recovery mode I can not install a rom, every flash (CWM, both ICS and GB - even using chainfire's rom needed for rooting) stops on a random moment...but never gets it to the end, even if I wait several hours. Installing is very...very....very slow.
In recovery mode i can not restore a Nandroid backup, both ICS and GB. Every backup stops when /system has te be installed. errormessage.
In download mode I can connect my Note to PC Odin. I can select a rom and start flashing. However, after appr. 80% installation halts during "nand write start", no error message. The flashing does not finish, even after hours.
Funny is, i can install a kernel like Abyss.
So, I can't restore, i can't flash using cwm in recovery and I can't flash using PC Odin. My device seems not fully bricked. The max I get when rebooting (knowing that the process has not finished) is the triangle screen.
Any advise is appreciated.
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i was not a member when i commited this mistake. but then big thanks to this community it helped me back from softbrick.
first you do is install a stock kernel of ics on your note go into recovery and just clear cache partition, thats it no wipe/data factory reset.
then,
install the pit file from this thread, also read it completely before proceeding. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1667886 , hoping yours is 16gb version and also read this thread for additional info but its quite complicated for me so im just telling you the direct method and hopefully itll get your note back to work. so once you download the 16gb pit file unzip it and in the unzip folder you will find a separately lying pit of 16gb stating patched-standard thats the one you want.
then,
goto samfirmware and download the latest ics firmware(i downloaded the indian one as it is in file .tar),
unzip it till you get .tar file.
open odin- click pit-select 16gb patched standard pit- check wether repartion is ticked- click pda-select the .tar file you extracted connect your phone and start. this time i wont stop at factory.fs.....
NOTE THAT AFTER THIS PROCEDURE IS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY YOUR INTERNAL STORAGE WOULD BE ONLY 8GB INSTEAD OF 11 GB STOCK WHICH YOU WERE GETTING.
I REVIVED MY NOTE THROUGH THIS PROCEDURE. PROCEES AT YOUR OWN RISK.
one your phone is working you'll be able to reset the counter with a jig and get your phone under warranty and get your motherboard changed by teliing at the Samsung Service that you are getting only 8gb instead of 11gb you used to get earlier(warranty only if you had any).
hope this helps mate.
BEST OF LUCK!!
A BIG HUGE THANKS TO hg42.....

Reactivation Lock!

My phone is stuck on a black screen with a yellow 'caution(?)" sign and it says "Custom Binary blocked by Reactivation Lock - SECURE FAIL: RECOVERY"
I tried these steps from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2486564&page=12#post63798831 but I have a problem where Odin isn't reading my ID:COM. I feel like these steps are the only one that will help me get my phone back, but I need Odin to read my phone. How can I fix this???
Note: I can't turn on the phone at all. If I try, it automatically assumes I'm trying to go into recovery and it just goes back to this black screen.
Can you get into download mode? That shouldn't have been damaged by anything you've done. If you can then that's a good sign.
Now here's the annoying part, I've noticed (personally) that Odin is a finicky beast. So what I recommend is you re-download odin from the N910T thread, unzip it into a folder with a similar name, and now that's the ODIN that will (again from my experience) will only work with the N910T. I also recommend for good measure reinstalling the Samsung Drivers. The phone should also have 80% battery life or 3hrs of charge in it to be sure. In odin, load up the image first before connecting your phone, and only connect the phone when the image is fully loaded. That should help.
FirelordSin said:
My phone is stuck on a black screen with a yellow 'caution(?)" sign and it says "Custom Binary blocked by Reactivation Lock - SECURE FAIL: RECOVERY"
I tried these steps from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2486564&page=12#post63798831 but I have a problem where Odin isn't reading my ID:COM. I feel like these steps are the only one that will help me get my phone back, but I need Odin to read my phone. How can I fix this???
Note: I can't turn on the phone at all. If I try, it automatically assumes I'm trying to go into recovery and it just goes back to this black screen.
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its happened to me a few times,
Easiet way, is with chainfire autoroot, it gives you an error message through Odin, but just restart your phone and ur back to ur rom..
or
Odin Stock both are in my signature file on my download firmwares page...
after I have my rom all setup. I put back the stock recovery, then I activate reactivation lock...

N7000 special case of superbrick, please help!

OK guys, let me explain my problem in shortest possible form;
Few days ago I bought N7000 with a "software issue"- as seller described his item, and I supposed that it would be easy to fix this kind of problem, because I never had any problem repairing soft bricked phones, but this one driving me crazy. I read all about N7000 brick states, and closest what I found related to my phone is "superbrick", because I can't enter recovery mode, the only mode it enters is Download Mode.
Let me give you some more info about the phone's status before any ODIN flash I tried:
-Seller told me that phone didn't finnish update (thats all he said, and that was OTA update);
-when I received phone, when I tured it on, it was stuck at "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." (then I said to myself "this is goidg to be easy....")
-I could enter download mode, and when it is in downlad mode it says that no custom binary is installed (custom binary counter:0, so I suppose there wasn't custom ROMs or kernels installed)
Then I tried to flash stock ROM, but failed. Odin always stuck when it have to write (write operation failed), and that is happening on every rom I've tried (it fails writing "data.img", it fails writing zImage, also stuck at "NAND write start"). I have tried almost any Odin version available, changing USB ports, USB cable (I have original SAMSUNG cable also), but nothing worked.
Then I read here on some threads that is possible to solve this problem with flashing custom .pit file, and I decided to give a try, and it stuck at "Do not turn off target!", and later it says "FAILED" in red rectangle, and then Odin disconnects my phone by itself (I never disconnect phone during flash, unless Odin is stuck for a unusally long time(which is the case with my phone)).
The ONLY thing I have managed to flash to my phone is "Q1_CHN_bridge_bootloader.tar", chinese version of bootloader (whit full success, Odin passed "start NAND write"), so I tought it will chinese firmware version (i9220)., but I was wrong, it get stuck at usual. (when bootloader was flashed, "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." message disappeared, and it showed yellow triangle with SAMSUNG NOTE N7000 logo instead).
Before I tried .pit flashing, I tried to flash custom kernel with custom recovery (GB, ICS and JB kernel version), but that also didn't work (custom binary changing when trying to flash kernel).
So, to conclude:
-Note N7000 enters download mode
-I can't flash anything (.pit, kernel with (custom) recovery, N7000 bootloader) except "Q1_CHN_bridge_bootloader.tar", chinese (i9220) version bootloader (That leads me to conclusion that Odin still can write something to phone)
I would like to ask you guys if you have any suggestion or advice what should I try to revive my phone. Any help is more than welcome!
Thanks for reading such a long post! Cheers

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