Database Develop

[Q] Bricked Samsung Galaxy S

I already read all kinds of guides to unbrick the Galaxy S but none of them worked.
First, the patient:
Samsung Galaxy S International Version, factory free. Froyo 2.2.1 (I don't know if it is related with this problem, but 2 or 3 weeks ago I updated from Froyo 2.2 to 2.2.1)
Now the symptoms:
Two days ago, several settings changed to default, and even though it looked weird I didn't worry.
Yesterday, when I went into the Android Market web, a message appeared, saying that I didn't have any phone registered in my account. I thought it was a phone problem (and boy, it was!) so I restarted it. It didn't. It shows the Samsung logo with the model, then the Galaxy S animation and that's it! a minute later the screen goes black and vibrates randomly, every 2 minutes or so.
The 'treatment':
I already had a problem like this in the past, but then it was really my fault. After desperately looking for the solution, I managed to do a hard reset by using the 'adb reboot recovery' command, because the 3 button combo didn't work. This time I used the combo, just in case, and it worked! but before showing me the recovery options some weird message about installing some csc stuff appeared. When the recovery menu appeared, I thought that the phone was OK, so I rebooted it without doing anything else (I should have done the factory reset, right!? but I didn't want to lose anything :S). Big mistake: the problem continues, and now the 3 button combo doesn't work!
The 'adb reboot recovery' command doesn't work either. When I use it, this message appears:
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
I have already done *almost* everything I found in the forums. The only thing I haven't tried is the USB jig method.
I should mention that I've never used Odin, or downloaded a custom ROM or anything like that. When I had Froyo 2.2 I rooted the phone but with the update it was gone. And that's it! no lagfixes, no custom ROMs, no nothing!
Can somebody help me?
PD: Sorry for my English, I am Peruvian .

I suggest that you flash back to stock Froyo 2.2 via Odin with pit 512 and repartition checked .
jje

How can I do it if my computer can't find my phone? Can Odin find it?

ultrachilled said:
How can I do it if my computer can't find my phone? Can Odin find it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry missed out use the USB jig .
jje

Does it really work?
Is it the only thing to do?
Besides, I have no electronic skills...

ultrachilled said:
I already read all kinds of guides to unbrick the Galaxy S but none of them worked.
First, the patient:
Samsung Galaxy S International Version, factory free. Froyo 2.2.1 (I don't know if it is related with this problem, but 2 or 3 weeks ago I updated from Froyo 2.2 to 2.2.1)
Now the symptoms:
Two days ago, several settings changed to default, and even though it looked weird I didn't worry.
Yesterday, when I went into the Android Market web, a message appeared, saying that I didn't have any phone registered in my account. I thought it was a phone problem (and boy, it was!) so I restarted it. It didn't. It shows the Samsung logo with the model, then the Galaxy S animation and that's it! a minute later the screen goes black and vibrates randomly, every 2 minutes or so.
The 'treatment':
I already had a problem like this in the past, but then it was really my fault. After desperately looking for the solution, I managed to do a hard reset by using the 'adb reboot recovery' command, because the 3 button combo didn't work. This time I used the combo, just in case, and it worked! but before showing me the recovery options some weird message about installing some csc stuff appeared. When the recovery menu appeared, I thought that the phone was OK, so I rebooted it without doing anything else (I should have done the factory reset, right!? but I didn't want to lose anything :S). Big mistake: the problem continues, and now the 3 button combo doesn't work!
The 'adb reboot recovery' command doesn't work either. When I use it, this message appears:
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
error: device not found
I have already done *almost* everything I found in the forums. The only thing I haven't tried is the USB jig method.
I should mention that I've never used Odin, or downloaded a custom ROM or anything like that. When I had Froyo 2.2 I rooted the phone but with the update it was gone. And that's it! no lagfixes, no custom ROMs, no nothing!
Can somebody help me?
PD: Sorry for my English, I am Peruvian .
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Had a similar problem with mine, went from 2.1 to 2.2 on a factory unlocked phone and wound up in the same position you are in, first the pics in gallery started doubling up, then problem with market. 3 button combo no longer worked. Was pretty new to xda and sgs so didn't try adb. What I did do was bring it to my local vodafone shop, and even though it wasn't bought from them, they sent it off. Got it back within 4 days, free of charge, and the maintenance report stated that they had replaced a faulty display module, and upgraded it to 2.2.1, which wasn't available here at the time. (Doesn't make sense to me, but it must have been a hardware fail of some sort) but it got fixed, fast and for free.

ultrachilled said:
Does it really work?
Is it the only thing to do?
Besides, I have no electronic skills...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes it works, I used it. Now I have stashed my home made electric component at a very safe place as I know while working with hacks I am going to need it again.
You literally don't need much electronic skills. What you need is a Micro USB cable (buy the cheapest one that u can find if u have to buy).
Buy a 301K resistor (if not available then get as many to bring total to 301k, I bought 3 300K and 1 1K to make a total to 301K).
There are tutorials with pictures on this site, search and u will find them.
One last thing don't worry at all up to this moment your phone is fine. Once you have your JIG ready, post a message or I am sure some one will guide you through or PM me I most certainly will as I know exactly how frustrated you might be right now.
Cheers

Try to go to download mode (volume down+home+power) if you can do that, send me a private message and i will explain you about odin.
Something more: what is USB jig?
Espera. ¿he leido que eres peruano? ¿k c*j*n*s hago diciendotelo en ingles?

DMD9 said:
Had a similar problem with mine, went from 1.6 to 2.2 on a factory unlocked phone and wound up in the same position you are in, first the pics in gallery started doubling up, then problem with market. 3 button combo no longer worked. Was pretty new to xda and sgs so didn't try adb. What I did do was bring it to my local vodafone shop, and even though it wasn't bought from them, they sent it off. Got it back within 4 days, free of charge, and the maintenance report stated that they had replaced a faulty display module, and upgraded it to 2.2.1, which wasn't available here at the time. (Doesn't make sense to me, but it must have been a hardware fail of some sort) but it got fixed, fast and for free.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A friend of mine bought this phone for me in Spain and sent it to me, and here in Peru only Movistar has this kind of phones. I'll take it to them, but something tells me that their won't be as good as Vodafone's.
Khalid Ali said:
Yes it works, I used it. Now I have stashed my home made electric component at a very safe place as I know while working with hacks I am going to need it again.
You literally don't need much electronic skills. What you need is a Micro USB cable (buy the cheapest one that u can find if u have to buy).
Buy a 301K resistor (if not available then get as many to bring total to 301k, I bought 3 300K and 1 1K to make a total to 301K).
There are tutorials with pictures on this site, search and u will find them.
One last thing don't worry at all up to this moment your phone is fine. Once you have your JIG ready, post a message or I am sure some one will guide you through or PM me I most certainly will as I know exactly how frustrated you might be right now.
Cheers
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thankfully, the only thing I am sure is that my phone is fine... It's very hard for a Galaxy S to completely go FUBAR (unbrickable, I heard). But I'm really frustrated, not only with this problem, but with the RFS lag. I watch some friends' android phones (LG Optimus One, for example) go really smoothly while mine sometimes goes choppy, and it makes me envious Actually, the first time I f*cked with my phone was when I tried to use OCLF. The only thing left was to resign myself.
I expect to make my jig tomorrow, even though I have a very unsteady hand
miguelici said:
Try to go to download mode (volume down+home+power) if you can do that, send me a private message and i will explain you about odin.
Something more: what is USB jig?
Espera. ¿he leido que eres peruano? ¿k c*j*n*s hago diciendotelo en ingles?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried to get the phone in download mode and recovery mode with the 3 button combo, and nothing happened. As I wrote before, I could get the phone in recovery mode once, but now I can't. I should have done the hard reset then, damn it!
And about Odin, I heard that I can brick my phone with it if I do something wrong, so I never used it (I don't want an expensive paperweight ).
About your question, a USB jig is a 'device' (so to speak) that one can manually make with a mini USB connector and a 301k resistor, as you can see in a previous comment. It's supposed to make the SGS go into download mode when you connect it to the phone.
Acerca de escribir las cosas en ingles, pues creo que asi nos entiende mas gente, jejeje.
PD: Is it true that flashing a ROM, even a stock one (stock froyo, for example), voids the warranty?

Khalid Ali said:
Yes it works, I used it. Now I have stashed my home made electric component at a very safe place as I know while working with hacks I am going to need it again.
You literally don't need much electronic skills. What you need is a Micro USB cable (buy the cheapest one that u can find if u have to buy).
Buy a 301K resistor (if not available then get as many to bring total to 301k, I bought 3 300K and 1 1K to make a total to 301K).
There are tutorials with pictures on this site, search and u will find them.
One last thing don't worry at all up to this moment your phone is fine. Once you have your JIG ready, post a message or I am sure some one will guide you through or PM me I most certainly will as I know exactly how frustrated you might be right now.
Cheers
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Let's say I use the jig. What should I do after that? right now my PC doesn't recognize my phone, it says there's no phone connected :S. When I get it in download mode, will my PC be able to recognize it?

Yes it should as I had the similar issue, Get the JIG working (when JIG works, ur phone will be in download mode) then using odin load the stock rom on your phone, first time after the load of ROM it will take several minutes to reboot so dont panic.
If you dont want to loose much of your data then make sure you DON'T click on repartition check box.
Send me a pm once u have jig working

Khalid Ali said:
Yes it should as I had the similar issue, Get the JIG working (when JIG works, ur phone will be in download mode) then using odin load the stock rom on your phone, first time after the load of ROM it will take several minutes to reboot so dont panic.
If you dont want to loose much of your data then make sure you DON'T click on repartition check box.
Send me a pm once u have jig working
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Tonight I'm going to try the jig. Now, I remember the USB debugging isn't enabled. It isn't a problem, is it?

nope. Do follow the instructions (you should be able to find that on xda dev site) on how to use JIG to get into download mode though.

OK I managed to get it into download mode. Now what?

flash a 3 file firmware, with 512 pit and re-partition
then flash this on top http://sourceforge.net/projects/teamhacksung/files/galaxys/GT-I9000_FROYO_FULL_PDA.tar/download
boot into recovery and do a factory reset.
then move onto what ever rom you want

I think your best bet would be trying to flash using EZBase to 2.2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991792&highlight=ezbase
Very user friendly instructions, meant for recovery purposes. After we get the phone booting and working again we can worry about trying a new ROM or Gingerbread.

I will continue the story where I left it.
I took the phone to customer service, and they managed to install an incorrect ROM, (my phone is I9000, they put a ROM for the I9000B) and they send it back to me, saying that my phone couldn't boot, so it should be a BIOS error. At least it goes into download mode. I want to flash stock Froyo 2.2 or 2.2.1. I have no idea how to do it, so please be very simple in your responses :$
PD: Once I get my phone working I'd like to try some other ROMs, I am really tired of the lag.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=939752
jje

What are the advantages of repartition?

re partitioning, repartitions the file system, along with flashing a new ROM with all 3 files, this restores the phone to a 'new like' state, as if it was out the box.
its also the best way to unbrick devices too !! i re-partition mine every couple of weeks. but i am a constant flasher

[Q] Bricked And JIG is not helping

HI,
I am from INDIA, few months back I got a Samsung Captivate , Till now i tried FIREFLY and CM7 ROMs . The first time flash i did it with ODIN i guess i did it with a wrong firmware ,So was stuck with AT&T screen boot loop issue. Searching the forums and found JIG may help and so made a JIG (as i can't get one here) . and recovered my phone and flashed stock and then FIREFLY and 2 weeks back i flashed CM7 for getting Gingerbread and not likeing the UI of the ROM tried to switch back to stock and then customize on my own.
So When i tried flashing Stock the installation was success the screen stuck few moments on AT&T logo and i thought it would go off, But as i was very eager to get my phone online again i pulled of the battery to restart manually (Which i dont think was nice idea ) Now the screen remains black even i use the JIG to get into download mode. But the phone heats UP when i plug it for charging on computer or directly to switch
HELP NEEDED as i am very addicted to this PHONE

I have the same issue. I was tryint to load Cognition and it just gets stuck on the ATT screen but I haven't tried a jig yet. I was wondering if I can replace the files on the phone with good files that aren't corrupted and see if it boots up because droid explorere can still pick up the phone and so does Odin but when I do a master reset nothing happens.

@rajasekhar - Have you tried: Removing all parts (battery, sim, sd) let it sit for a few min (my preference is around 10 min to insure no residual power is left in the system) then hold the jig in place and putting the battery back in? Keeping the jig in place, so that as soon as the device gets power it is immediately seeing the jig, before it can try any other processes.
A bit difficult to do with hand made jigs I know. If you still getting nothing then your in for the worst and the phone need a JTAG or service center visit.
Tho it sounds a little odd that it could boot up to seeing the AT&T logo, but does not respond to the jig. Might even be a hardware problem.
@i3oots - Since you say your still getting PC response your safe to try and reflash it or just pick something different altogether. Tho you might wanna let ODIN settle and just sit there doing nothing for a few min, w/o then w/ the phone plugged in. Or learn about Heimdall and go that route.

Would I be able to flash it even though it get's stuck on the ATT screen? It won't go into download mode. I'll look on the forums how to flash it too. I'm a newb at this which is why I bricked it but everyone has to start somewhere lol.

rajasekhar19489 said:
HI,
I am from INDIA, few months back I got a Samsung Captivate , Till now i tried FIREFLY and CM7 ROMs . The first time flash i did it with ODIN i guess i did it with a wrong firmware ,So was stuck with AT&T screen boot loop issue. Searching the forums and found JIG may help and so made a JIG (as i can't get one here) . and recovered my phone and flashed stock and then FIREFLY and 2 weeks back i flashed CM7 for getting Gingerbread and not likeing the UI of the ROM tried to switch back to stock and then customize on my own.
So When i tried flashing Stock the installation was success the screen stuck few moments on AT&T logo and i thought it would go off, But as i was very eager to get my phone online again i pulled of the battery to restart manually (Which i dont think was nice idea ) Now the screen remains black even i use the JIG to get into download mode. But the phone heats UP when i plug it for charging on computer or directly to switch
HELP NEEDED as i am very addicted to this PHONE
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You have probably Hard Bricked your phone. A JIG will not work to recover the phone. If the phone has any life at all, then the JIG will work. Else, u hard bricked it...you should never remove the usb cable when flashing bootloaders or odin or anything!
the only solution is to get a JTAG which can recover hard bricks OR you can go to a warranty store (don't know about india) and make up a sob story and have them replace it..

rajasekhar19489 said:
HI,
I am from INDIA, few months back I got a Samsung Captivate , Till now i tried FIREFLY and CM7 ROMs . The first time flash i did it with ODIN i guess i did it with a wrong firmware ,So was stuck with AT&T screen boot loop issue. Searching the forums and found JIG may help and so made a JIG (as i can't get one here) . and recovered my phone and flashed stock and then FIREFLY and 2 weeks back i flashed CM7 for getting Gingerbread and not likeing the UI of the ROM tried to switch back to stock and then customize on my own.
So When i tried flashing Stock the installation was success the screen stuck few moments on AT&T logo and i thought it would go off, But as i was very eager to get my phone online again i pulled of the battery to restart manually (Which i dont think was nice idea ) Now the screen remains black even i use the JIG to get into download mode. But the phone heats UP when i plug it for charging on computer or directly to switch
HELP NEEDED as i am very addicted to this PHONE
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Does your computer recognize the phone? If odin is open, does the box turn yellow when you connect your phone? Make sure you have the right drivers. I think cm7 and captivate drivers are different. Keep trying with the jig. Just because you can't see anything on the screen doesn't mean the phone is dead.

i3oots said:
Would I be able to flash it even though it get's stuck on the ATT screen? It won't go into download mode. I'll look on the forums how to flash it too. I'm a newb at this which is why I bricked it but everyone has to start somewhere lol.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If your phone is booting up far enough to send out USB info for ODIN and other PC programs to see it, then your still in a workable condition. This also means you can still get into download mode, but since things arn't working properly it will be harder. Depending on which bootloaders your phone has will direct which methods you'll have to try out to get into download mode.
AFTER you've had a chance to look around the forum and self-educate on the different ways of getting into download mode. If your still having problems give us a lil more info of what you were running before the flash and to which version of Cog you were trying to flash.

Did anything worked for you, if not only a jtag can help you looks like u hard bricked the phone.

Hi guys
@DaNarki : Yea i tried that method to .
Thanx for ur suggestions guys .I really squeezed through xda for all possible ways of unbricking but no use. SO thought JTAG was the only option.But wanna know more about JTAG???????
Went for a samsung service centre they said they wont handle other country products of samsung. Just yesterday went to the local Cell phone Repair store , He said like he would try using a Ctool box they have for installin onto the rom directly. So i thought why not Give a shot to it ...
That store guy raised another question in me . Yesterday after giving it in the morning he said to call in the evening . I did so and he said the Phone is booting on the Ctool but it is sometimes throwing error . I dint get his intention in saying so . have to go to him today

bricked maybe not
I thought I was bricked also ...HARD BRICKED......no buttons no nothing ...tried odin on, phone plugged in, and hold down volume up and down and reinstall batt......nothing worked.......but this... it worked for me........ok first of all remember this will be a bit tricky because you will have to keep the volume keys pressed the whole time till you have download mode......should also have full batt......take out the sim and any flash cards you may have in the phone and the batt.....set the phone down and watch a couple hours of tv or try to brick your buddies phone so he can feel your pain...lol something.....ok now after your tv show has gone off turn on your computer and start up odin one click to stock.... put just the batt in the phone.....if your friend is still there you should try this with 100% batt.... use his phone to charge your batt.....any way put the batt in the phone....plug the usb cable into your computer......now for the tricky part .......press down the volume up and down now and do not let them go till the end of this and you should have download mode.......now plug in the usb to your phone IF YOU HAPPEN TO GET DL MODE HERE THEN GO AHEAD AND LET GO OF THE VOLUME BUTTONS AND FLASH YOUR PHONE ....if not... KEEP THE BUTTONS PRESSED.......now take the batt out of the phone.....keep them pressed......unplug your usb cable......keep them pressed.... restart odin...... keep them pressed....plug your usb cable back in.......keep them pressed... re-install the batt.....you should get download mode.......remember you have to keep them pressed... JUST... the volume up and down pressed through the whole process nothing else....This worked for me and I was dead bricked no nothing from any of the keys no nothing..... I DIDNT INVENT THIS METHOD I READ IT ON HERE SOMEWHERE AND CANT FIND IT AGAIN......It did work for me when nothing else did.....so if the person that posted it reads this THANK YOU...... ................................................. I hate to say this but I may have got the last two instructions backward you may have to put the batt in before plugging in the usb cable.......Like I said I cant find the original post
rajasekhar19489 said:
Hi guys
@DaNarki : Yea i tried that method to .
Thanx for ur suggestions guys .I really squeezed through xda for all possible ways of unbricking but no use. SO thought JTAG was the only option.But wanna know more about JTAG???????
Went for a samsung service centre they said they wont handle other country products of samsung. Just yesterday went to the local Cell phone Repair store , He said like he would try using a Ctool box they have for installin onto the rom directly. So i thought why not Give a shot to it ...
That store guy raised another question in me . Yesterday after giving it in the morning he said to call in the evening . I did so and he said the Phone is booting on the Ctool but it is sometimes throwing error . I dint get his intention in saying so . have to go to him today
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

rajasekhar19489 said:
Thanx for ur suggestions guys .I really squeezed through xda for all possible ways of unbricking but no use. SO thought JTAG was the only option.But wanna know more about JTAG???????
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you just wanna know a bit about the process ask this guy. He is pretty much the only person in the US (I know not all to useful to a person in India) that does JTAG for the cappy.
I can tell you this much, it requires a special device called a Riff box and it sends boot info directly to the chip on the main/mother board that is used for the booting process.
Somewhere I've seen a site that listed info of ppl around the world that will JTAG, but I can't seem to find it right now.

malebornin69 said:
I thought I was bricked also ...HARD BRICKED......no buttons no nothing ...tried odin on, phone plugged in, and hold down volume up and down and reinstall batt......nothing worked.......but this... it worked for me........ok first of all remember this will be a bit tricky because you will have to keep the volume keys pressed the whole time till you have download mode......should also have full batt......take out the sim and any flash cards you may have in the phone and the batt.....set the phone down and watch a couple hours of tv or try to brick your buddies phone so he can feel your pain...lol something.....ok now after your tv show has gone off turn on your computer and start up odin one click to stock.... put just the batt in the phone.....if your friend is still there you should try this with 100% batt.... use his phone to charge your batt.....any way put the batt in the phone....plug the usb cable into your computer......now for the tricky part .......press down the volume up and down now and do not let them go till the end of this and you should have download mode.......now plug in the usb to your phone IF YOU HAPPEN TO GET DL MODE HERE THEN GO AHEAD AND LET GO OF THE VOLUME BUTTONS AND FLASH YOUR PHONE ....if not... KEEP THE BUTTONS PRESSED.......now take the batt out of the phone.....keep them pressed......unplug your usb cable......keep them pressed.... restart odin...... keep them pressed....plug your usb cable back in.......keep them pressed... re-install the batt.....you should get download mode.......remember you have to keep them pressed... JUST... the volume up and down pressed through the whole process nothing else....This worked for me and I was dead bricked no nothing from any of the keys no nothing..... I DIDNT INVENT THIS METHOD I READ IT ON HERE SOMEWHERE AND CANT FIND IT AGAIN......It did work for me when nothing else did.....so if the person that posted it reads this THANK YOU......
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanx MAN!!!!!! . it seems interesting method to try .. but i have to wait 12 hrs to get my phone back from the guy i gave to repair that. he said his chances of getting it fixed are 50-50 so i might as well prepare for your method to ..

DaNaRkI said:
Somewhere I've seen a site that listed info of ppl around the world that will JTAG, but I can't seem to find it right now.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanx DaNaRkI .. hmm well i would now again start digging the threads for seeing wat u have suggested ..

rajasekhar19489 said:
HI,
I am from INDIA, few months back I got a Samsung Captivate , Till now i tried FIREFLY and CM7 ROMs . The first time flash i did it with ODIN i guess i did it with a wrong firmware ,So was stuck with AT&T screen boot loop issue. Searching the forums and found JIG may help and so made a JIG (as i can't get one here) . and recovered my phone and flashed stock and then FIREFLY and 2 weeks back i flashed CM7 for getting Gingerbread and not likeing the UI of the ROM tried to switch back to stock and then customize on my own.
So When i tried flashing Stock the installation was success the screen stuck few moments on AT&T logo and i thought it would go off, But as i was very eager to get my phone online again i pulled of the battery to restart manually (Which i dont think was nice idea ) Now the screen remains black even i use the JIG to get into download mode. But the phone heats UP when i plug it for charging on computer or directly to switch
HELP NEEDED as i am very addicted to this PHONE
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hello brother,,
u can find the Jig here in india... i also purchased... and it worked for me..
Download-Mode-USB-Jig
press thanx if it helps..

rajasekhar19489 said:
Thanx MAN!!!!!! . it seems interesting method to try .. but i have to wait 12 hrs to get my phone back from the guy i gave to repair that. he said his chances of getting it fixed are 50-50 so i might as well prepare for your method to ..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hope it helps I wish I could find the original post again to thank the guy that told me how to do it. I had sent that phone back to att and the promptly sent it back and told me the water dammage sticker in the bat compartment was missing and they wanted to charge me 409 bucks for the phone ....long story short it was there when I sent it and I told them to go pound sand up their ass because I wasnt paying them that much and ended up paying 125 bucks for a paper weight.So that is when I decided to have it jtaged but figured I would give it one more shot before mailing it off. That was when I found the post from that person and low and behold it worked........................... I hate to say this but I may have got the last two instructions backward you may have to put the batt in before plugging in the usb cable.......Like I said I cat find the original post

malebornin69 said:
Hope it helps
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Buddy tried it ... Thanx for that..But dint help . Now going for another options i mean in search for other options
But ppl help me with JTAG thing and its users(or developers) availability in india

Forgot to mention
I Missed to explain my flashing procedure i have done this time . Like I never tried flash a boot file along and so was reading some threads about boot loader variations between FROYO and GINGERBREAD so i tried flashing ablong with boot loader and then I got the stock gingerbread file i put the boot loader SBL in heimdall Firstboot loader path .And Boom the first reboot got stuck and i removed the battery and then again when i tried to restart the phone is dead
Thinking this might have where the whole thing went wrong and made the cell dead .

My Galaxy Note Is DEAD!!

Hi everybody, I searched everywhere for a solution but no luck
i love my note so much that if i couldnt fix it i think im gonna kill myself.
let me tell you the whole story, maybe you can revive my note again.
im a daily rom flasher, sometimes even 2 or 3 roms a day,
i wanted to flash ics stunner rom so i went into cwm recovery,flashed the zip file and wanted to format data\factory reset, but while the phone was formatting i accidently pressed the power button, the phone was stuck and didn't complete formatting, i took the battery out, put it back in and powered the phone, it was stuck at the bootscreen GTn7000 Galaxy Note.
I got into download mode and flashed a stock rom, but it was the same.
i downloaded and flashed other stock roms but it was stuck at the bootscreen.
then i wanted to flash a stock rom that came with a Pit file, i did everythig correctly, and Odin was stuck at the partition thing, for more than 15 minutes.
i unpluged the phone i pressed the power button, NOTHING!!
i officially bricked my phone which i worked so hard for months to get it.
i tried everything,even the jig thing, i couldn't buy so i had to make one.
maybe i did somethig wrong with the jig or maybe because i didnt solder it or the usb plug im using isnt working.
this may be relevant, i pluged the usb OTG in the phone and in the OTG was a bluetooth peice for computers, the piece had a light, and the light was ON.
Another thing that if i leave the battery in the phone for a while, the camera area in the back gets a little hot, my phone always did that meaning its still alive.
i may have written too much, forgive me but im really desperate.
Thanks in advance.

You probably end up going to Samsung. Pay €200 and get a new motherboard.
Good luck.
Sent from my CM9 GT-N7000 using XDA premium

hav0c said:
You probably end up going to Samsung. Pay €200 and get a new motherboard.
Good luck.
Sent from my CM9 GT-N7000 using XDA premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
WOW...
the problem is that i live in a fu**ed up country and we dont have samsung here.
all phones come without warranty and by smuggling from other countries

You mentioned killing yourself. Bro it's just a phone... Hang in there!!!
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2

First thing donot flash Ics now untill you are craze about it.2nd donot use CWM as much as possible.Read this.
Ok to the problem now.Since you say it gets hot,it might be still alive.Remove the battery and insert it after 10 secs and insert the jig and after few secs press vol up button.Now connect the phone to computer and see if its detected if it does try flashing abyy's kernel.I dont know which kernel for sure.Somebody might help you.People were able to get into DL mode when there screen were not showing anything.

There are situations when your phone is working, but your screen is black.
Let's hope yours is one of those...Try this:
1. Don't flash Abyss. Download a stock GB Rom instead.
2. Charge your phone for a couple of hours. You need your battery for the
following steps.
3. After charging, take out your battery and wait 1 minute
4. Put it back in
5. Boot into Download mode (Volume Down+Home+Power) (you will see only black screen)
6. Count to 10
7. Press Volume Up
8. Count to 10
9. Start your PC Odin
10. Connect your phone to PC
11. Wait untill PC installs the necessary drivers
12. If all goes well, your PC Odin will flash the yellow light with COM info in it
13. Flash your stock GB Rom
If this doesn't work, you'll need to think of the ways of getting your phone JTagged or where to get a new motherboard.

Dude, if you have no way of repairing a bricked phone in your country then stay away from flashing custom ROMs!!!
Sent from my superior GT-N7000 using Tapatalk

Bro as u mentioned already that u flashed stock once...all root and cmw will be wiped... i would prefer going to samsung service center and tell them that u were updating your phone through kies and after the update completed ur phone stopped working... they will fix it for free... and act innocent
Edit::: dint see the other post where u mentioned that there is no samsung center at your place... in that case theres only one thing u can do... buy the motherboard and fix it urself.... sorry that ur beast is dead

izzmohamed said:
Hi everybody, I searched everywhere for a solution but no luck
i love my note so much that if i couldnt fix it i think im gonna kill myself.
let me tell you the whole story, maybe you can revive my note again.
im a daily rom flasher, sometimes even 2 or 3 roms a day,
i wanted to flash ics stunner rom so i went into cwm recovery,flashed the zip file and wanted to format data\factory reset, but while the phone was formatting i accidently pressed the power button, the phone was stuck and didn't complete formatting, i took the battery out, put it back in and powered the phone, it was stuck at the bootscreen GTn7000 Galaxy Note.
I got into download mode and flashed a stock rom, but it was the same.
i downloaded and flashed other stock roms but it was stuck at the bootscreen.
then i wanted to flash a stock rom that came with a Pit file, i did everythig correctly, and Odin was stuck at the partition thing, for more than 15 minutes.
i unpluged the phone i pressed the power button, NOTHING!!
i officially bricked my phone which i worked so hard for months to get it.
i tried everything,even the jig thing, i couldn't buy so i had to make one.
maybe i did somethig wrong with the jig or maybe because i didnt solder it or the usb plug im using isnt working.
this may be relevant, i pluged the usb OTG in the phone and in the OTG was a bluetooth peice for computers, the piece had a light, and the light was ON.
Another thing that if i leave the battery in the phone for a while, the camera area in the back gets a little hot, my phone always did that meaning its still alive.
i may have written too much, forgive me but im really desperate.
Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Your phone is pretty much dead I'm afraid
Why didn't you bother to read stickies first?
It has been known for several weeks now that doing a wipe from CWM in a leaked recovery (I.e all ICS ROMs except cm9 official) will lead to a corrupted emmc drive ,thus a dead phone
And no ,you pressing the power button had nothing to do with it being stuck
The moment you hit wipe from ICS stunner's recovery your phone was dommed.
Anyway what's done is done ,now find an unofficial repair shop and replace your motherboard.
I hope this makes it clear ,and good luck to you.

izzmohamed said:
Hi everybody, I searched everywhere for a solution but no luck
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257434
To force your phone into Download mode !

octavian90 said:
You mentioned killing yourself. Bro it's just a phone... Hang in there!!!
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
if you had gone through what i went through to get the phone, you would probably do the same.Thanks for the reply, any thing would help me right now.

vijai2011 said:
First thing donot flash Ics now untill you are craze about it.2nd donot use CWM as much as possible.Read this.
Ok to the problem now.Since you say it gets hot,it might be still alive.Remove the battery and insert it after 10 secs and insert the jig and after few secs press vol up button.Now connect the phone to computer and see if its detected if it does try flashing abyy's kernel.I dont know which kernel for sure.Somebody might help you.People were able to get into DL mode when there screen were not showing anything.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks man, i will definitely try it right away.

mother board
mother board is gone due to kernel harm of ics leak
sorry
this is the fact...

chasmodo said:
There are situations when your phone is working, but your screen is black.
Let's hope yours is one of those...Try this:
1. Don't flash Abyss. Download a stock GB Rom instead.
2. Charge your phone for a couple of hours. You need your battery for the
following steps.
3. After charging, take out your battery and wait 1 minute
4. Put it back in
5. Boot into Download mode (Volume Down+Home+Power) (you will see only black screen)
6. Count to 10
7. Press Volume Up
8. Count to 10
9. Start your PC Odin
10. Connect your phone to PC
11. Wait untill PC installs the necessary drivers
12. If all goes well, your PC Odin will flash the yellow light with COM info in it
13. Flash your stock GB Rom
If this doesn't work, you'll need to think of the ways of getting your phone JTagged or where to get a new motherboard.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
kvsandeepreddy said:
Bro as u mentioned already that u flashed stock once...all root and cmw will be wiped... i would prefer going to samsung service center and tell them that u were updating your phone through kies and after the update completed ur phone stopped working... they will fix it for free... and act innocent
Edit::: dint see the other post where u mentioned that there is no samsung center at your place... in that case theres only one thing u can do... buy the motherboard and fix it urself.... sorry that ur beast is dead
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
kvsandeepreddy said:
Bro as u mentioned already that u flashed stock once...all root and cmw will be wiped... i would prefer going to samsung service center and tell them that u were updating your phone through kies and after the update completed ur phone stopped working... they will fix it for free... and act innocent
Edit::: dint see the other post where u mentioned that there is no samsung center at your place... in that case theres only one thing u can do... buy the motherboard and fix it urself.... sorry that ur beast is dead
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
MR.change said:
Your phone is pretty much dead I'm afraid
Why didn't you bother to read stickies first?
It has been known for several weeks now that doing a wipe from CWM in a leaked recovery (I.e all ICS ROMs except cm9 official) will lead to a corrupted emmc drive ,thus a dead phone
And no ,you pressing the power button had nothing to do with it being stuck
The moment you hit wipe from ICS stunner's recovery your phone was dommed.
Anyway what's done is done ,now find an unofficial repair shop and replace your motherboard.
I hope this makes it clear ,and good luck to you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
pvillasuso said:
Try this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257434
To force your phone into Download mode !
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You guys are awesome, im gonna do everything you said and get back with the results, fingers crossed.
I have a friend who's going to Dubai,UAE in a week or so. if nothing worked i'll send the phone with her to repair it at samsung,does anybody know if there's a samsung service center in Dubai and give me the location ?
i cant thank you enough,really appreciate all the help.

firasusman said:
mother board is gone due to kernel harm of ics leak
sorry
this is the fact...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
OK, how much will it cost me ?
by the way i forgot to mention that before i bricked the note, it had a charging problem, saying voltage too high,charging stopped,and when the phone is turned off the battery icon keeps appearing and disapearing, could it be that the jig is not working because of that??

Try a different USB cable?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA

izzmohamed said:
OK, how much will it cost me ?
by the way i forgot to mention that before i bricked the note, it had a charging problem, saying voltage too high,charging stopped,and when the phone is turned off the battery icon keeps appearing and disapearing, could it be that the jig is not working because of that??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You're not going to like this: I had to send my phone back to Samsung to get that fixed. Basically the charging port was shorting out, happens when stuff gets inside it (dirt, moisture, etc, from what I read). You could try cleaning it, but for me the port didn't break, it just acted like it was charging when there was nothing plugged in. So the JIG will work if it's supposed to.

jeffrey567 said:
Try a different USB cable?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did, still the same.
jayshah said:
You're not going to like this: I had to send my phone back to Samsung to get that fixed. Basically the charging port was shorting out, happens when stuff gets inside it (dirt, moisture, etc, from what I read). You could try cleaning it, but for me the port didn't break, it just acted like it was charging when there was nothing plugged in. So the JIG will work if it's supposed to.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hmmm,i'll try cleaning it.I had the same situation, so the jig should work fine despite this problem ?

jayshah said:
You're not going to like this: I had to send my phone back to Samsung to get that fixed. Basically the charging port was shorting out, happens when stuff gets inside it (dirt, moisture, etc, from what I read). You could try cleaning it, but for me the port didn't break, it just acted like it was charging when there was nothing plugged in. So the JIG will work if it's supposed to.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just out of curiosity: Are you in the US and had to send your international Note somewhere? I am wondering how one can get a support for an International Note if you're in the US.
I don't mind sending it to another country, but which Samsung center will accept it?

lanwarrior said:
Just out of curiosity: Are you in the US and had to send your international Note somewhere? I am wondering how one can get a support for an International Note if you're in the US.
I don't mind sending it to another country, but which Samsung center will accept it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am wondering the same thing, mine got bricked about a week ago and I don't really know what to do with it

[Q] Easy guide to JTAG without using expensive box

So yeah, I bricked my Samsung Galaxy Ace with the wrong kernel through Clock Work Recovery, chose reboot option, screen turned black.
I have tried all the button combos, with inserting battery method and all of that, I even bought a USB Jig but to no avail. The furthest I've come to entering Download Mode(button combinations, to then flash with Odin) is that the computer is detecting the samsung galaxy ace as a modem(If I do not press the button combinations the computer detects nothing at all) and I cannot establish connection with the phone with Odin nor adb shell.
I have searched these forums a few hours a week the last two weeks and the only possible option seems to be JTAG unbrick. I have no money to get me a 100$ jtag-box just to resurrect this phone, so my question is this:
Is there any other way that Is cheap and not too advanced for a tech newbie like myself to unbrick the phone? I have no problem with soldering, but my question is, is there any other module(or would a simple jtag cable work?) to access the phones internal workings?
Or maybe there is another way to save this phone? Please post if you have experiance!
No, I have no warranty left on the phone, and no I do not want to leave it to some jtag service. That is not the problem.
Help/tricks greatly appreciated!

I had the exact same delema I kept plugging the phone into the c in download.mode and in the end my computer rexonized it ans was able to flash back to stock phone resets every now and then but other than that works fine I now use in rooted fully stock on.not.running the risk
Sent from my GT-S5830 using xda app-developers app

chooky536 said:
I had the exact same delema I kept plugging the phone into the c in download.mode and in the end my computer rexonized it ans was able to flash back to stock phone resets every now and then but other than that works fine I now use in rooted fully stock on.not.running the risk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Was the screen black when you flashed It through Odin aswell? Cause all Im getting from Odin is "setting up connection..." and there it stops. Did I miss something?

Wrong kernel as in?
Another device? A jig "might" help you...
*emphasise the 'might'*

Prawesome said:
Wrong kernel as in?
Another device? A jig "might" help you...
*emphasise the 'might'*
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, I got ahold of a Jig tried on my friends Samsung S2, and It did not work. I don't remember what I tried to flash it with, It was through clockworkmod and I was going to flash with rafaels kernel but must have got ahold of the wrong one in his SkyDrive map. Anyayws, I applied the .zip and chose reboot and all went permanently black.
Anyone have experiance in UART-Jigs and whatnot?

Bricked phone ?!!

Hello everyone ! Two days ago I wanted to flash the stock firmware on my S6500D and the pc restarted when I was flashing the recovery.img I think..and now the phone shows only the Samsung logo ( but very very veeery low-quality resolution ) with some lines in right, how can I repair it..?

ye, it's a brick. I had the same problem when I bricked mine. At first it had corrupted graphics, after some minutes it didn't boot at all.

There's no way to reflash it..? Without replacing the motherboard , I mean..using the software side.

JTAG

deleted

man, try do self jtag, watch on youtube videos etc, its simply and not expensive and it can repair your phone. if it cant help, just go to mobile center for new board

Fallen_Knight said:
what happened to your phone before flashing stock?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
he said that the flashing process was interrupted, do you read?

deleted

i heard USBjig is working on our phone to force it in download mode.
maybe you should try it

tekkenl0rd13 said:
i heard USBjig is working on our phone to force it in download mode.
maybe you should try it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i read jtag also working on all galaxy family devices. try it, try.

I could give the device to a repair service ( GSMobile for me ) and they could repair it, but I don't want to give money for this device because the screen is also broken and I think in 2 months I'll buy a S3 Mini ( I love S3, belive me ) and if I find a way with a small amount of money to repair the phone I will do it ! But this jig..I also used some JIG for bricked PS3 but it's not the same way.. and I don't know a lot of things about making one for my phone, if you have a tutorial I will do it, but after I get the S3 Mini I'll surely repair this phone, I want to continue developing and searching and helping the other Mini2 owners, it is my first Android phone and it means very much to me.

JIG is only meant to force the phone into download mode. If the JIG works, your device is not hard bricked... Otherwise, I mean, if it is hard bricked, service center will take care of it. JTAG != JIG

I'll try to JIG tomorow , I'm using this tutorial : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1604707 , TheWhisp, the recovery.img file wasn't flashed totally, I mean it was about 60%..but the boot.img / system.ext4 ( I Think it was like that ) / other files were flashed with succes.. maybe the JIG will do it for me !

zalukajonet said:
i read jtag also working on all galaxy family devices. try it, try.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks.

I've tried the USBJig but the phone doesn't responds in any way, it still remains off..

This should be posted in Q n A not in Android Development.

dei.andrei98 said:
I've tried the USBJig but the phone doesn't responds in any way, it still remains off..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
bro try check all conections in jig. mayby there is some problem with pins.

LiskatFlow said:
This should be posted in Q n A not in Android Development.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's no such section for Mini2
zalukajonet said:
bro try check all conections in jig. mayby there is some problem with pins.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've tried all possible connections and sometimes the phones turns on ( I mean that the Samsung screen appears ) but sometimes nothing happen ( like when connecting PIN 4 to PIN 5 and this is the jig connection )

dei.andrei98 said:
There's no such section for Mini2
I've tried all possible connections and sometimes the phones turns on ( I mean that the Samsung screen appears ) but sometimes nothing happen ( like when connecting PIN 4 to PIN 5 and this is the jig connection )
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
my friend tell me something mayby usefull. push buttons to go to download mode and connect jig - in the same time. mayby it can help.

zalukajonet said:
my friend tell me something mayby usefull. push buttons to go to download mode and connect jig - in the same time. mayby it can help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's not working, if I enter in download mode by the buttons the screen shows only a white line, then I connect the jig and nothing happens, the screen remains the same..