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Bricked Captivate

My captivate wont start it just stalls at the AT&T screen when you boot it up, i have tried odin but the computer dosent read read the phone when its in download mode. i just got the phone lessed than 2 weeks ago. i was running eclair 2.1 and i need serious help i paid good money for this phone and i need help so can someone please help me please. im begging for any type of help. Reaspond ASAP!!!!! HELP PLEASE!!!!!!

There are a bunch of threads about bricked phones. Which ones have you read?

BookBaG said:
My captivate wont start it just stalls at the AT&T screen when you boot it up, i have tried odin but the computer dosent read read the phone when its in download mode. i just got the phone lessed than 2 weeks ago. i was running eclair 2.1 and i need serious help i paid good money for this phone and i need help so can someone please help me please. im begging for any type of help. Reaspond ASAP!!!!! HELP PLEASE!!!!!!
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Read up more on odin. Some suggestions, make sure you are using the rear usb port. Right click odin and run as administrator. Read odin thread about different ways to enter download mode.
Did you flash anything, our are you just running stock? Where did you buy the phone?
Captivate
Cog 2.3b4

kegobeer said:
There are a bunch of threads about bricked phones. Which ones have you read?
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basicly all of them when i put the phone into downloader mode odin dosent reconize the phone. but when i put the phone in recovery odin reconizes it but i still cant fix it because odin requires it to be in downloader mode

BookBaG said:
basicly all of them when i put the phone into downloader mode odin dosent reconize the phone. but when i put the phone in recovery odin reconizes it but i still cant fix it because odin requires it to be in downloader mode
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Try other usb ports. Try another computer. Try running odin as administrator
Captivate
Cog 2.3b4

What did you do to your phone? Obviously it didn't just screw itself up.

kegobeer said:
What did you do to your phone? Obviously it didn't just screw itself up.
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And if it did just all of a sudden go bat **** return it to where you purchased it. Or call samsung and send your phone to be reflashed. Odin can and will fix this 9 out of 10 times
Captivate
Cog 2.3b4

Ok pls listen carefully I tried this so many times you don't even have to do the 3 button combo.
When you are on the atnt screen plug your phone to the computer. When it recognize it, run the one click root and hit one click root and your phone should go to clockwork recovery (you should have cwm) and there is an option in cwm that can get you to download mode.
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BookBaG said:
My captivate wont start it just stalls at the AT&T screen when you boot it up, i have tried odin but the computer dosent read read the phone when its in download mode. i just got the phone lessed than 2 weeks ago. i was running eclair 2.1 and i need serious help i paid good money for this phone and i need help so can someone please help me please. im begging for any type of help. Reaspond ASAP!!!!! HELP PLEASE!!!!!!
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Did you make sure to open Odin "BEFORE" you plug your Captivate (in download mode).

I am presently having a very similar problem. My phone stalls at the ATT screen and none of the methods offered in the myriad of other threads has worked. I have tried all of the button combos, I have attempted the one-click, and I have let the screen flash 2-3 times before releasing the button, all of it has failed. I am at a point where a hard reset might be the answer, but I do not know if one exists. This afternoon I am getting the parts to attempt the 3ohm method.
I would appreciate any input or suggestion of a method I have not yet tried.
TIA
I wanted to mention too that when the phone is off and I plug it into a wall charger, the picture of the battery comes up with the little pinwheel, and stays. The pinwheel does not spin, nor does it go away.

[Q] Bricked UK I9000

Hi all,
I was just trying to flash a friend's phone after flashing my own Galaxy S countless times, but it wouldn't get into download mode. After searching the forum I tried one of the methods of getting it to go into download mode - Aries_P-SBL.tar.md5 the file was called. However, it failed, and now I can't get anything on the phone other than the phone to computer error icon. Tried 3-button download mode, no joy.
Is there anything we can do, or should he send it back and get a new one?
Cheers in advance!

GeoH2102 said:
Hi all,
I was just trying to flash a friend's phone after flashing my own Galaxy S countless times, but it wouldn't get into download mode. After searching the forum I tried one of the methods of getting it to go into download mode - Aries_P-SBL.tar.md5 the file was called. However, it failed, and now I can't get anything on the phone other than the phone to computer error icon. Tried 3-button download mode, no joy.
Is there anything we can do, or should he send it back and get a new one?
Cheers in advance!
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Did it go in to download/ recovery mode before you flashed it? Sounds like you need a jig to force it in to download mode!

I could only get it into download mode by using ADB whilst the phone was on and correctly booted. It won't go back in now as I can't get the phone to boot!

make a home made jig resistor between pin 4 and 5 .... i think is a thread about it somewhere on this forum...

[Q] Need Help Bad

K, SO i have been searching for the past two days. I have a Samsung SGH-1897, I installed a new rom and it wasn't what I hoped so I tried to go back and was unable. So I use odin but and here is the problem. So I put 19000 gingerbread 2.3 and didn't realize it wasn't for my phone till to late. Now I cant get into recovery or download mode, Also i cant find the stock firmware for the phone.
Hope this info will help and that i did everthing a newbie should do.
Thanks.

Button combo is different with gb boot loaders. Try volume up and usb or volume down and usb.
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Power+vol down = download
power+vol up = recovery

In development, Odin 1 click by Designgears. Thats stock JF6. There are instructions in the op of the thread.

Please use more descriptive titles so that members who are considerate and actually try to use the search can find help. Your title is of no use to someone doing a search who may have the same issue.

you could make a jig and get it into download mode in a few seconds. costs almost nothing to make as well (3, 100k ohm resistors)

Does your phone power on at all?

Bricked captivate help please!!

i have bricked my step dads captivate. i put Cyanogenmod 9 on his phone he has been using it for a while now but he wanted to go back to the stock rom that came on the phone. i made a back up before i installed cm9 but when i was restoring it back to stock it said error restoring boot image then stopped so i tried it again the it went black. now every time i try to turn it on it gets stuck at the at&t world phone screen and wont do anything. so i made a jig to get it into download mode so i could flash it back to stock. but now on my widows 7 computer it says usb device not recognized. it gives a error code 43, and says device has malfunctioned. i have uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them but the same message keeps popping up. i don't know what to do now im all out of ideas and i cant find anything that relates to my problem anywhere on the internet. please someone help me!!!

See the Captivate Connection Issues and Download Mode Help stickied thread in the General Forum.
Also u could try one of the Heimdall One Clicks instead of Odin.......see the stickied thread in the Dev Forum of the Master Collection of Stock Rom One Clicks.
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No one tells you that you can't restore a factory image from CWM... but as you have seen, you can't. :thumbup:
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seen this just few days back.... if you get stuck at the at&t screen, phone is soft-bricked and you dont need a jig to solve that problem.
I was under similar impression first, then read a post about a ROM installation and found out that to get to download mode, you can hold both the volume buttons and connect the phone to the usb with computer (phone initially is turned off) ... dont press the power button... this will give you download mode.... once in download mode ODIN to stock, root, flash to any ROM that you like by carefully following the instruction to "T".
i couldn't post outside link but look for captivate wikia download mode on google. it will give you a site with all options of bricked phone and solutions.

[Q] HELP ME unbrick samsung galaxy S i9000 please! nothing works- kies,odin,adb,

Hi,
I am sorry to post this topic but i badly need some experts to help me out with this. It would be very grateful if anyone of you could help me.
I have bricked my friend's samsung galaxy s i9000. Now i need to buy a new phone for her incase i dont get this one working.
I have searched on this forum and googled extensively, i tried almost every method on this forum to unbrick except the USB jig, all of them failed.
I have ordered USB jig online, and it is yet to be delivered to me. So that method is yet to be tested.
Meanwhile all i want now is some guidance, so that i could be self assured if what I am doing is right and i need some questions answered.
Please read the following to comprehend the entire problem.
1) The phone has froyo and it was working very slow, and i couldnt boot into download or recovery mode via 3 button combo. (why couldnt i boot into those modes?)
2) I connected the phone to samsung kies, and it said that there is an upgrade available. But the details for the upgrade were blank.
I went ahead and tried upgrading it, and it gave me 403 error. (why did it give null details of the upgrade firmware? and why did i get 403 forbidden access error? )
3) Next i connected to the phone via ADB, and i could successfully boot into download mode.
4) After booting into download mode, i connected it to odin. Then i tried flashing semaphore kernel v2.7.
I gave an error, write operation failed, and the flashing failed. (why did it happen?)
5) Next I couldnt boot the phone at all, I am stuck at the black screen of death aka bsod or the phone-!-computer screen.
6) I tried taking out battery, reinserting and tried severl combination of button to boot as explained at several places here, but none of them works. Neither am i able to connect it to odin, or adb.
WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW? IS IT HARD BRICKED OR SOFT BRICKED?
WHAT SHOULD I DO INCASE I AM ABLE TO BOOT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE USING USB JIG?
WHAT SHOULD I DO INCASE I AM NOT ABLE TO BOOT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE USING USB JIG?
Please help me, it will save me a new phone cost. I can hardly afford it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30415128 follow the link it may help
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I have already tried all this.
can you answer my questions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RoZU5ZPMS4&list=UUawwqTCK5egDfXdJe3EH0XQ&index=13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKS6zEkIydM&list=UUawwqTCK5egDfXdJe3EH0XQ&index=14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwHVm90HO1w&list=UUawwqTCK5egDfXdJe3EH0XQ&index=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GJUcQl3wr8&list=UUawwqTCK5egDfXdJe3EH0XQ&index=16
if your still stuck check out darkyrom.firstaid

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551 read this

a big thanks foe all above links..
I am still trying and waiting for the jig. i hope to get it working..

Was the phone rooted? I've had problems with rooted apps deleting system files.
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