[Q] (hard) bricked my captivate - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

short version: I have a Captivate, that does not boot to download menu, does not respond to Power button, does not have anything on the screen.
Question 1: how do I boot it to download mode?
Question 2: how do I flash from here?
Long version: phone was running Serendipity VII well. I wanted to upgrade it to SlimBean, but after flashing the ROM it did not recognize any mobile networks. I decided to flash it back to stock and go from there (this was successful with another phone). I was using Wolf's AIO toolbox > Odin 3 button fix. Odin finished flashing successfully (as per message window), but after it the phone's screen went dark. Could not power it up for nothing! Phone does not boot up to Download mode.
What I think might have happened, I somehow flashed/erased/damaged bootloaders by my last ODIN procedure (maybe had a checkmark when I shouldn't have)
I am at a loss. The worst part - it is my friend,s phone. Mine was flashed without a glitch.
so, assuming I can boot it to Download mode, what is the best way to end up with a slimbean rom. Do I need to flash it to froyo, GB, ICS? what about bootloaders? recovery?

The AIO Toolbox Odin 3 Button fix had a Warning attached to the OP of the thread informing users that it could brick their phone. Because the flash back to stock with the 3 button fix only had the sbl.bin bootloader and not the boot.bin bootloader. So in the end, because the bootloaders with Serendipity VII must have been i9000 GB, it sounds like u got mixed bootloaders which = Hard Brick. Ur only fix now is Jtag. Contact mobiletechvideos.com to get it repaired.
U could try a Jig to get into Download mode...but I believe u r hard bricked.
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I too bricked my phone 2 days back. No signs of life. It's dead. Not able to get into download node also. Jig works for me. So I suggest you to use jig..

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[Q] Captivate Boot Loader Brick?

Hi Everyone,
I had previously been running the stock I9000 JK3 ROM on my Captivate with xcal's reoriented kernel. Today I decided to install the I9000 JL2 Rom from samfirmware.com.
I started ODIN, entered Download Mode, and flashed the ROM (in the PDA section) with no problem. After the flash had completed, the phone attempted to reboot, but there was nothing but a black screen. I tried every way I know to get into Download mode but nothing works. I don't even get the Phone--!--Computer image that I've gotten in the past when I've messed up a flash.
I've read that this kind of brick occurs when the boot loader is corrupted, and that the only way to fix it is to use a RIFF JTAG box. My question is: what did I do wrong? I flashed many ROMs before, all through ODIN, but was always able to get back to stock if necessary.
My research suggests that it has something to do with sbl.bin. Can someone enlighten me? How can I tell if a ROM will mess up my bootloader? Do ROMs that mess up bootloaders contain the sbl.bin file?
Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated.
If your getting the phone / computer screen you should still be able to restore.
Use the following method to get into DOWNLOAD mode and then Odin 1 click back to stock.
Take out the battery,SIM, and external SDCard
Turn on Odin JH7 1 Click Back to Stock
Plug in your USB cable
While holding down the Volume +/- Button place the batter back in.
If you get the gray battery charging signal - you need to attempt it again. Should go into DOWNLOAD mode and you can restore your phone back to stock.
The SBL.bin is bad mojo if you fubar it as it has important things like being able to use your buttons to get into the different modes (download/recovery). I don't know what else it controls as I'm not a developer.
Also read this on the General thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775911
interesting stuff about the SBL.bin - so Flashers beware!
Thank you so much for the information. Unfortunately, I do not see the Phone--!--Computer icon, and I confirmed that the ROM that was flashed did indeed contain an SBL.bin file. The boot loader is most certainly bricked.
I really think a warning about the SBL.bin file should be stickied somewhere prominent, so other people don't make the same mistake that I did.
Thanks Again
It works for me
avgjoegeek said:
If your getting the phone / computer screen you should still be able to restore.
Use the following method to get into DOWNLOAD mode and then Odin 1 click back to stock.
Take out the battery,SIM, and external SDCard
Turn on Odin JH7 1 Click Back to Stock
Plug in your USB cable
While holding down the Volume +/- Button place the batter back in.
If you get the gray battery charging signal - you need to attempt it again. Should go into DOWNLOAD mode and you can restore your phone back to stock.
The SBL.bin is bad mojo if you fubar it as it has important things like being able to use your buttons to get into the different modes (download/recovery). I don't know what else it controls as I'm not a developer.
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Wow it works for my captivate, after a failed odin update the captivate was death black screen at all, with these procedure I can reflash with odin. thanks a lot.
after i got a soft brick with odin, all i used since were one click .jar's made for my phone.

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] install continium V5 with 3 button combo not working

Hi.Currently i am running continium V4 Android 2.2 .If i want to install another Foroyo rom it can be done via rom manager without 3 button combo.
Now i want to install gingerbread but i cant find any way to do it as all methods require 3 button combo to go to Download mode & recovery mode.
Actually i can go to download mode by a JIG.But recovery mode??????
Any alternate methods to update to gingerbread(continium V5)
I don't know how it does it, but I had a usb cable that had some bad terminals and when I plugged it into the phone when the phone was turned off, it went into recovery mode every time. I'm no electrical engineer so my theory had no basis but my thought is that the usb cable when coming from a charge dock has 2 pins for dc current, 1 positive and one negative. The 3 left (I think it's 5, not sure, not looking at one) must be for data transfer. Maybe 2 for synchronous travel and one for data corruption testing, not sure. Out of these pins, the only thing that makes sense to me that made it go into recovery was that one of the charge pins were not making contact, the positive or negative. I dont think any of the transfer pins would make a difference in this. Again, not sure if this is how it worked or not, just a theory. Maybe it can be replicated if recovery will help you, don't have any knowledge of CM.
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Only rom in rom manager is cm7.
If you want to make the jump to gingerbread all you need is the jig one time to get into download mode and flash the gingerbread bootloaders, from there you will have a new working combo because the button combos are in the secondary bootloader.
Once on the gingerbread bootloaders
Vol up + power = recovery
Vol down + power = download
Thats it, one jig use...bootloader flash...working combo. easy.
You're welcome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOyx5JQ_8_I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Just to inform you, but after you flash the GB bootloaders, you cannot flash Cognition. It has a secondary bootloader in its flash package that will cause your your phone to turn into a paperweight. Why? Because you can't mix bootloaders. A Gingerbread Primary bootloader must have a Gingerbread secondary. The secondary in Cog isn't a GB bootloader. For that reason, you also can't flash the Odin w/3button fix until AFTER you have flashed eclair/froyo bootloaders with Odin. So, if you do go to GB, ask more questions before you flash back to JF6 stock. It could be the difference in a working phone and a brick.
studacris said:
Only rom in rom manager is cm7.
If you want to make the jump to gingerbread all you need is the jig one time to get into download mode and flash the gingerbread bootloaders, from there you will have a new working combo because the button combos are in the secondary bootloader.
Once on the gingerbread bootloaders
Vol up + power = recovery
Vol down + power = download
Thats it, one jig use...bootloader flash...working combo. easy.
You're welcome [/Last night i again tried to flash gingerbread boot loaders.Here are the steps i followed.
1)Went back to stock(JF6) by ODIN.Initially i was running Continuum V4(Themed).Actually i did'nt perform a full wipe.
2)Went into DOWNLOAD MODE through ADB.
3)followed instructions given on ""[Rom][2.3.3] « GR-12 » **5/4"" in first post
Instruction i followed were
Installation Instructions:
1. Download this package.
2. Open Odin3 1.7
3. Select the PDA, PHONE, CSC, and PIT files in their correct spots
4. Connect phone in download mode
5. Ensure that Auto-reboot and Re-Partition are both checked. These have a tendency to change after plugging the phone in, so double check before you hit start.
6. This is where the bootloader will be flashed, along with stock Gingerbread. Hit Start.
7. Allow the phone to boot.
After hitting the START BUTTON,It got stuck on ""DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET.And my cappy is soft bricked again.
Any help is highly appreciated if i am doing anything wrong.]
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You have a wonky connection. Make sure your chord is good. Plug into the back of the pc, no front ports, if its in a back port already go ahead and switch it to another one on the back. Restart your computer and try again. No need to return to stock first you can flash gb from where you are ... If you get a good connection...
studacris said:
You have a wonky connection. Make sure your chord is good. Plug into the back of the pc, no front ports, if its in a back port already go ahead and switch it to another one on the back. Restart your computer and try again. No need to return to stock first you can flash gb from where you are ... If you get a good connection...
[May be ur rite.I'll buy a new cord.
Another reason may be that i am going to download mode by ADB.Next time i will go to download mode by JIG.
One more thing i am using same cord for installing Foroyo roms and there is no problem.I'll post if i get it rite.Thanks
EDIT:SOLVED:
Hi all i just installed gingerbread.Now all of you installing gingerbreadWith 3 button combo not working here is what i did different.
1)Main point is i was going into DOWNLOAD mode by ADB.After that i was installing gingerbread bootloaders n boom mobile is SOFT BRICKED.
This happened atleast five times.
Today i prepared the jig with 3 100K resistors(Search XDA forum).Got my cappy into DOWNLOAD mode by jig and unbricked it.
Now note my cappy is in stock JF6.Again with jig got cappy into download mode and followed method posted on UTUBE by CONNECTION2005 and installed bootloaders which i did like a piece of cake.
then i installed kernal and....................
So main thing is DO NOT USE ADB TO GO TO DOWNLOAD MODE
THANKS FOR EVERY ONE FOR HELPING]
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[Q] Ahhh!! I think i phucked my cappy!!! HELP!

Tried all day using the search tool but couldnt find anything like this.
Tried to install continuum 6.1 on my cappy from a previous froyo build. Odin said pass on the kernel but now my phone boots to the att screen, then a fuzzy, static-like screen then promptly reboots to do it all over again. I can get into download mode but cant boot the phone normaly. Help would be appreciated. Thanks for helping a noob guys.
Did you flash Gingerbread bootloaders? like Cezar says too?
Sounds like a bootloop
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savagefurai said:
Tried all day using the search tool but couldnt find anything like this.
Tried to install continuum 6.1 on my cappy from a previous froyo build. Odin said pass on the kernel but now my phone boots to the att screen, then a fuzzy, static-like screen then promptly reboots to do it all over again. I can get into download mode but cant boot the phone normaly. Help would be appreciated. Thanks for helping a noob guys.
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If you can get to download mode, you're not out of luck. Go to the ODIN3 One-click and you should be able to get yourself back to a stock state where you can start clean.
Quick warning - if the rom you were trying to flash had the GB bootloaders, be extremely careful. The one-click above will overwrite the bootloaders, and if something comes unplugged during that time, you will be in need of JTAG service.
jmtheiss said:
If you can get to download mode, you're not out of luck. Go to the ODIN3 One-click and you should be able to get yourself back to a stock state where you can start clean.
Quick warning - if the rom you were trying to flash had the GB bootloaders, be extremely careful. The one-click above will overwrite the bootloaders, and if something comes unplugged during that time, you will be in need of JTAG service.
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I don't think he did flash Bootloaders BUT if he did DO NOT use 3 button fix 1 click that will hard brick your phone.
prbassplayer said:
I don't think he did flash Bootloaders BUT if he did DO NOT use 3 button fix 1 click that will hard brick your phone.
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Very true. I've seen several people use the wrong one, and the naming convention of ODIN3 and ODIN 3-Button doesn't really help that.

[Q] HELP!! Some Serious Captivate Issues!! PLZ Read

So basically I have a Samsung Galaxy S Captivate (i896) and it was running 2.1, so I decided to try and upgrade to the newest stock available for the captivate (which is 2.3.5). I had to use heimdall because I bought the phone used and it was rooted and possibly running a custom ROM so kies is not an option. When I put the phone in download mode the computer wouldn't recognize it (I'm on a Mac). I did alot of reading online and I couldn't find a solution. So I decided to flash a new ROM hoping that this would solve the problem.
So I flashed a random ICS ROM. But with this ROM I couldn't even access download mode. I tried a 3 button fix, I tried to use terminal to boot into download mode, and I tried to use ADB from my computer; nothing worked. So I figured I would flash another ROM (this time I used Hellybean) but when I tried to install it, a bunch of code ran on the screen and it said "installation aborted". Before attempting to flash this ROM I completely wiped the phone (i formatted the system from the mounts menu in CWM) and now the phone is showing the at&t logo, then going to black, then some code runs on the screen, then it goes black and starts the whole thing again.
I cant get to recovery or download mode.
Is it bricked? How do I fix this?
I don't know what I did wrong! any help would be appreciated.
P.s. I would really like to avoid building a jig because I feel like Im not too good at that kind of stuff....but if that's what it comes to...
Thanx in advance
All the information you need is already available:
Putting the Phone into Download Mode
How To flash ANY Captivate ROM from Stock
Val D. said:
All the information you need is already available:
Putting the Phone into Download Mode
How To flash ANY Captivate ROM from Stock
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I've tried all of those methods except for using a jig. Is it possible that while flashing a ROM my phone somehow lost download mode?
Also if all of those combos didn't work is it likely that a jig will work?
Looks like you started reading after you messed up the phone. Update instructions say clearly that you need GB bootloaders before you proceed to ICS or JB. You provide no information what exactly ROM you started from, what GB ROM you attempted to flash (with or without bootloaders), what exactly ICS you flashed after, what "some code" runs on the screen now, etc. It's a lot of guessing here. If bootloaders are messed up, than you won't be able to fix your phone at home. I have never seen a problem you describe, so wait for someone with more experience to stop by.
I got it going! All it needed was a jig and then I was able to flash stock GB with bootloaders.
Thanks for the help.
Good news! :good:
I have a Cappy and gingerbread boot loaders come in three flavours i897, i896 and i9000 and they're backwards compatible with froyo and éclair roms. Don't mix froyo and gb boot loaders though you will hard brick your device. I have i896(Canadian) boot loaders and when I flash kk4 [email protected] Odin gingerbread my "i896" boot screen is garbled image of pixels until I flash the proper param.lfs file to match. Hope this helps. BTW I have a jig as well and for all galaxy devices it's a must.
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