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[Q] Is replacing the motherboard is feasible solution for a bricked captivate?

I completely killed my phone.
I was flashing with Odin 1 click, and it got stuck at the factoryfs.rfs. After I long while I had to disconnect it and now it is dead. No PC--!--Phone screen, no battery charging indicator, nothing. Not even my home made jig is working. 3 button combo not working, USB + VolUP + VolDown not working either. The Vol UP + Power HW test screen is gone too,
This happened to me once before with a failed Odin flash too. Completely unresponsive device. I did manage to get it back with the jig. But this time it seems I completely killed it.
It's weird though, because the most important step went fine (the bootloader/sbl.bin step). This sucks

Hmm idk got that yesterday check your jig. If you have a Meter to test its output is wound up having to rebuild my jig with 6 resistors to get the ohm I needed to force download. Do a search there is a guy that made a jig using a igo micro usb tip is used the same thing today but had to test out several different sets of resistors before I got dl mode
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The only way to completely brick the captivate is to have a phone that did not come with the 3-button combo and have not flashed dg's 3 button fix and to have a broken micro-usb port so that a jig will not work. So in reality no its not possible.
If I were you I would check your jig and try again

bencaptivate said:
The only way to completely brick the captivate is to have a phone that did not come with the 3-button combo and have not flashed dg's 3 button fix and to have a broken micro-usb port so that a jig will not work. So in reality no its not possible.
If I were you I would check your jig and try again
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this is false.
i bricked one with a bootloader flash from armani....i was stupid to leave it in the CWM flashable i made
and i have another one that is completely dead...unrelated to flashing, as it was stock JH7...even my jig wont bring it back

Yeah well. I'm going to buy a jig from ebay (does the Fascinate jig works with the Captivate as well?
Otherwise, I'll just get a used Captivate for cheap. Would love a new phone, but can't justify the expense of a Nexus S or something.
Another option, is it possible to just replace the motherboard? would that work? If so, I can get one for spare parts.
I'll be going back to a feature phone for the next couple of weeks though : ( . I loved my cappy. It's been a terrible week though, it's like I'm on a roll of bad news. Oh well, it's just a phone.

cumanzor said:
Yeah well. I'm going to buy a jig from ebay (does the Fascinate jig works with the Captivate as well?
Otherwise, I'll just get a used Captivate for cheap. Would love a new phone, but can't justify the expense of a Nexus S or something.
Another option, is it possible to just replace the motherboard? would that work? If so, I can get one for spare parts.
I'll be going back to a feature phone for the next couple of weeks though : ( . I loved my cappy. It's been a terrible week though, it's like I'm on a roll of bad news. Oh well, it's just a phone.
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How much are you planning on spending? I would just go to to Radio Shack massive bag of resistors is 12 bucks and the iGo micro usb connector is 10 bucks so 22 bucks and you have an easy jig and pretty much unlimited resistors for all the bricks. I say thats the best way. i have enough resistors now to unbrick everyones captivates for the next year.

Go for the new Infuse, its a faster and upgraded captivate. Or just wait for the Iphone 5
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Dupontrocks11 said:
Or just wait for the Iphone 5
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Uh oh, is gonna start another apple flame? Lol, if so I'll have something to read when bored
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the Iphone5 really? what did he ever do to you?
thats just rude...

Trusselo said:
the Iphone5 really? what did he ever do to you?
thats just rude...
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Lol its supposed to be 4 inches dual core, face regonition, aluminum back. It looks pretty good except i know apple is going to rape your wallet for it. But after 4 defective captivates, anything that works looks good
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[Q] Who has two thumbs and hard bricked his cappy? This guy.

Hey guys. I've had my cappy since last august (one year, obviously) and today an act of god happened while I was trying to flash my phone to serendipity 6.4 - lightning struck my dorm building (poor college student), and the power went out.
anywho, as you know the warranty period is one year (stupid if you're locked in for 2 years, imho) and guess what? my warranty expired YESTERDAY. FML. called AT&T and they won't let me get a new one now, and I'm not eligible for an upgrade. so... i have two options - shell out a lot of cash that I don't have for an insurance replacement or new phone, or fix my phone. I've tried making a jig, and it didn't work. None of the key combos work. It always goes to the phone-warning-computer screen. I searched and searched for a miracle solution but found nothing. Does anyone have anything I can try?
If not... is there anyone out there with an HTC inspire or captivate they'd be willing to sell me? This is the only phone I have, I don't have a backup, nor a home phone line.

With the pc screen you can't hold down the volume buttons and plug in usb with Odin running? If you're on gb kf1 bootloaders I remember seeing somewhere that screen is download mode. Worth a try.
That's one of my biggest fears. Precisely why I started using my laptop for flashes.
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If ur seeing signs of some kind of life, then ur not hard bricked.
Edit: This may get u into download mode... Pull battery, insert usb into computer (with Odin already open), insert micro usb into ur phone, replace battery. If u get into download mode, put the battery cover on then proceed.
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For2ndtwin said:
If ur seeing signs of some kind of life, then ur not hard bricked.
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well, it gives me the phone-!-computer screen but nothing else. Jig failed, odin fails, nothing will put it in download.
Edit: for the record, I was using Serendipity 7 before, and had that horrid battery drain problem, so I was trying to flash back to 6.4... if it matters.

^ If u can't get into Recovery, I edited my post above to maybe help with download mode.
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You said JIG failed i really doubt that it will fail try with another JIG.
What bootloaders you are on ?

You try only holding volume down or only holding volume up while plugging into pc from phone off state. ( best way to make sure is pull battery and replace without pushing any buttons. )??
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rkkaranrk said:
You said JIG failed i really doubt that it will fail try with another JIG.
What bootloaders you are on ?
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I owe you a beer, sir.
didn't feel like buying another connector so I sacrificed my backup car charger and made a jig with better soldering and all that jaz, and voila, it worked!

edit: See ya got it...good deal.
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For2ndtwin said:
^^ Yeah, reboot ur computer and then try connecting to Odin to flash stock ecair or stock ginger i 9000 or i897 ginger...whichever way u want to go with it.
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Computer's up, flashing stock currently.
my dormmates thought I was insane when i ran down the hall to my bud's dorm yelling IT'S ALIIIIIIIIVVVVVEEEEEE! I FIXED IT!!!!!! lol
But seriously. If you ever want a free beer...

^^^Hahaha ITS ALIIIVVVVVVEEEE, Yeah i know that feeling how it feels when u fix something.

rkkaranrk said:
^^^Hahaha ITS ALIIIVVVVVVEEEE, Yeah i know that feeling how it feels when u fix something.
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Yup, complete with waving my phone above my head and everything =)

Lol awesome. Glad you got it working again good to always have a jig on standby.
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This is precisely the reason why I do all my flashing from my laptop and I have a jig (or two) around me...and an entire pack of resistors on my desk somewhere. I went to the shack the other day and bought the 10 dollar super pack of resistors, and as a Computer Engineering major, I should never have to buy resistors ever again...I gives you somewhere around 500 resistors of differing resistance.

worked with another jig (a better made one)? Gratz!!

Have 4 hours to unbrick my phone. Nothing working. Phone ! Computer

I was in download mode trying to download a SpeedMod Kernel following this CyanogenMod tutorial:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Captivate:_Full_Update_Guide
It locked, I had to unplug the cable in the middle of download mode and take out the phone battery.
Now I'm getting the Phone ! Computer error message and I've tried all the unbricking methods. Battery, SD, SIM card out, ODIN3, USB IN, Vol UP+DOWN+POWER buttons pressed, BATTERY IN, ODIN3, etc etc. NOTHING IS WORKING.
Doesn't work: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775911&highlight=bricked
The above without Odin doesn't work either.
This is urgent because I'm leaving for Taiwan in 8 hours and I was depending on the phone to make calls when I get there. I can't believe that this bull**** is happening at this time, out of all times. I'm about to email everyone on Craigslist selling a Captivate, and I don't have time for a jig.

Which bootloaders r u on?
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Nevermind! I finally fixed it with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15330252#post15330252
Merry Christmas!

mbc663 said:
Which bootloaders r u on?
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Stock bootloader.

Have a safe trip and merry Christmas to u too. Glad it worked out for u
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Anyone have any advice for a hard brick captivate with no soldering skills?

There are several ways to make a jig or you can buy a jig. Soldering wouldn't be required unless u are trying to jtag or make the phone unbrickable.

Anyone can solder a Jig.... Its not difficult. If your phone is hard bricked (no signs of life) then you will either need to develop epic soldering skills OR send it Adams or Joshs way to get it modded.

You can make a jig from radio shack for a dollar. Don't solder anything.
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USB Jig Dongle

In case anyone is wondering, I bought this USB Jig Dongle from EBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300738858103 and it works fine with my Galaxy Note II LTE.

michaeljwestii said:
In case anyone is wondering, I bought this USB Jig Dongle from EBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300738858103 and it works fine with my Galaxy Note II LTE.
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Does it just boot the phone into download mode and not reset the counter as the ad says? I tried mine from my E4GT in my Note 2 and it didn't do anything other than boot to download mode too. It didn't reset the counter, although the Triangle Away app leaves my counter at 1 also.

JimSmith94 said:
Does it just boot the phone into download mode and not reset the counter as the ad says? I tried mine from my E4GT in my Note 2 and it didn't do anything other than boot to download mode too. It didn't reset the counter, although the Triangle Away app leaves my counter at 1 also.
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It just boots into download mode, no resetting of the flash counter.

the jig only allow you to easily booth into bootloader mode, and nothing more.
I have this one that I got for about USD 0.16 dirct from china.

kms108 said:
the jig only allow you to easily booth into bootloader mode, and nothing more.
I have this one that I got for about USD 0.16 dirct from china.
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The jig is a convenient way to boot into download mode. Even with soft brick. If you catch a hardbrick though it wont work
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cdshepherd said:
The jig is a convenient way to boot into download mode. Even with soft brick. If you catch a hardbrick though it wont work
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actually i don't know about that, never did hardbrick my phone, then again never really did much flashing before.:fingers-crossed:

kms108 said:
actually i don't know about that, never did hardbrick my phone, then again never really did much flashing before.:fingers-crossed:
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I assure you it wont
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I needed this for my Note II, unfortunately I can't find any 100k ohm resistors in any electronic shop near my place so I tried 6pcs of 50K ohm resistors but still it won't work. =(

red_hanks said:
I needed this for my Note II, unfortunately I can't find any 100k ohm resistors in any electronic shop near my place so I tried 6pcs of 50K ohm resistors but still it won't work. =(
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Tell me you put 2 of them in series (end-to-end) not 6 in parallel......

ttabbal said:
Tell me you put 2 of them in series (end-to-end) not 6 in parallel......
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Or he put 2 series legs of 3 in parallel with each other and rounded up to the nearest 100k?

JimSmith94 said:
Does it just boot the phone into download mode and not reset the counter as the ad says? I tried mine from my E4GT in my Note 2 and it didn't do anything other than boot to download mode too. It didn't reset the counter, although the Triangle Away app leaves my counter at 1 also.
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If you have a custom recovery it will always say 1, if you install stock recovery then use triangle away it will say 0.
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There's Gotta Be a Solution
cdshepherd said:
I assure you it wont
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So far it seems the jig is up for me with my Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II because every which way I've tried to use my thing-a-ma-jig on this phone, it hasn't woken it up from its coma. But I'm not giving up! There's got to be a solution for a hard brick!

USB jig

After a conversation with AD last night, I am pretty sure my Exhibit is "semi-hard" bricked. It will power up after you remove the battery, but not go into recovery. After reading a little, I have discovered a tool called a "USB jig" which will force a device behaving in this way into recovery mode. It can then be recovered via ODIN. Has anyone used a USB jig on our phone? The phones listed as compatible don't include the Exhibit, but often the Exhibit is not included on lists of devices, even when it's compatible. So, I was asking if anyone here has experience with a USB jig. If so, what was your experience and how did it go? I will need to get ODIN and learn to use it, as the second part of bringing my phone back from the dead. Thanks for your help.

About the jig i read a long time ago because some soft brick fear but was never used by me, its basically a small resistence circuit that somebody with electronic knowledge can do. Easely you could get one in ebay. So im almost sure it could work with the galaxy exhibit (because is simillar to galaxy W).
About Odin, the instructions are in the las thread (... not good thread). Download the file. Unzip anywhere you like in the PC. read the instructions. Read again. Then do it. Its easy because it was/is the main way to write stock firmware in samsung any devices.

Yes the USB jig works on this phone. I had need of it once and made my own, it was rather easy and very useful.
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Dvarl said:
Yes the USB jig works on this phone. I had need of it once and made my own, it was rather easy and very useful.
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That is awesome to hear! It looks simple enough to build one. Too bad I'm not in grad school, anymore, where there was an electronics building station in the lab. I will have to see if I can get all the components together to make one, as buying off ebay will take a few days and be annoying. Unless someone here has one I can borrow.....
Added note: bought a jig off ebay for 99 cents. Hopefully, it will work. Now, I just wait....