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[Q] I think I bricked my phone!!

If anyone is able to assist me, I would really appreciate it. Being so sick of Samsung's slow upgrade service, I thought I would follow what so many have done and root my phone and flash android 2.3.3 to my Samsung Galaxy S.
Everything was going fine until Odin's screen changed from yellow to RED with FAILED across it. My phone had a blue progress bar only half way across the download screen and all things stopped. I removed the battery and tried to reboot, but now have only a small picture of a phone and a computer showing a broken link. I love the Galaxy I9000, is there any hope for repair?

If you can access download mode reflash it.
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Just try again, ive had it before and just reflashed 2.3.3 stock and everything was fine.
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help
i can help you. At odin chose "debug only" and then "PDA Format" and it will work 100%

Thank you "Thanks Meter"for responding... What version of Odin are you using and where do you get it?? I am using Odin 3 v1.82 and it doesn't have a "Debug Only"button or a "PDA Format"button. How do I select these things??
Also do you where there are any Australian based firmwares?? My Galaxy is a Vodafone based Australian phone and I would love to get a firmware that suited the phone, (if one exists that is).
Thank you again for trying to assist. You're a good bloke, not many try to assist.

I just thought I would let you know that I tried my best to follow your instructions. I have never had Odin successfully complete a flash even once. However, I did run it with only the PDA selected and that was the most helpful.
The problem is now that the phone is locked into a startup phase. I get to the "S"elblem on startup and then the phone reboots and starts again, over and over again without ever completing the log on cycle.
Have you heard of this before?
This is driving me nuts...

Thank you to all members who responded to my problem post. I have had no success but I really appreciate your efforts..

Multiburatino said:
i can help you. At odin chose "debug only" and then "PDA Format" and it will work 100%
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Have you worked so?
When I checked pda format, the odin always crashed.
Which version of odin did you use?
Thanks,
William

HELP!!!! I bricked my phone!!!

I had rooted my phone with ODIN and installed the Debloated Rom and everything was working fine. I had the urge to go back to the stock ROM so i went into CWM recovery and did a wipe and installed the original ROM and now my phone doesnt work. It stays stuck on the samsung screen, can anyone help me please? I am clueless on how to fix this. Oh and its also not mounting the sdcard i get and E:can't mound sdcard error....this is horrible.

Try this
www.mydroidworld.com/forums/droid-c...harge-full-factory-tar-flashing-software.html
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Thank you sooo much, will try right now

Do i flash the tar using ODIN? or do i use the samsung flashing software to flash the tar?

Use odin. Post results
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Not having any luck. I tried odin and it failed, i tried the flashing software and it keeps giving me an error.

Hey thanks man for all your help!!! I got it to work. Dont know what was wrong with the flashing but i just kept insisting and the error went away and it finally flashed it. Thank you soo much.!!!!

That's great news! Not just for you (glad it worked) but for others that may have potentially bricked their phones.

thareefer said:
Hey thanks man for all your help!!! I got it to work. Dont know what was wrong with the flashing but i just kept insisting and the error went away and it finally flashed it. Thank you soo much.!!!!
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I was going to tell you not to give up.... odin sometimes has a mind of its own.... glad I was able to help and good for you for not giving up!!
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Did you select just pda option on odin or pda as well as phone? I am stuck at setup connection

rukshmani said:
Did you select just pda option on odin or pda as well as phone? I am stuck at setup connection
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Pretty sure you have to use the flashing software in the post and follow the directions. Samsung PST or whatever its called.
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From other post that I have read, you always use PDA not phone when flashing roms. I soft bricked my phone is error and I flashed EE4Xstock_DXC.TAR helped on my end.

I found out what i was doing wrong. With odin its ok to remove the battery to load files and i accidently removed the battery using the samsung software and you are not suppose to do that, the battery must stay in for the process to work.

Bricked my mobile need help...

I was running ICS and flashing all the available on XDA which are relevant to ICS, all of sudden i was facing so many problem and want to Restore the previous backup so i tried to boot in to recovery but was stuck on Samsung splash screen with top written as Booting into Recovery.
So i thought Recovery partition is corrupted so i booted into download mode and flashed Stock ROM with ODIN and it was successfully flashed and mobile restarted.
Mobile restarted saying "Error in Recovery Kernel" in red color.
so i again thought some problem happend so i again flashed Stock ROM using ODIN, now it restarted and stuck on Samsung splash screen only no progress...
Finally i tried flashing pit file with re-partition option also still same problem..
have any one faced this kind of issue and any help will be appreciated....

It seems you tried also the possible tricks. The last resort i think is to apply the dead phone repair trick which i think should help. Warning it removes your imei so it is necessary that you have your efs backup.

first try to boot then take EFS as backup...
now flash stock rom and if the problem persists , take it to SSC...
it may so have happened that your flash on which recovery partition is stored on has been damaged...
all the best buddy...

Can this be eMMC Brickbug?

Fusrodah said:
Can this be eMMC Brickbug?
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Could be another version of that....
Our and the galaxy S2 and note have very different architectures...
The eMMC bug does corrupt some sectors on the flash which seems like a brick...
But i believe his phone can be recovered as it is only soft bricked...

mj.vikram said:
so i again thought some problem happend so i again flashed Stock ROM using ODIN, now it restarted and stuck on Samsung splash screen only no progress...
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Since you've successfully flashed stock ROM via Odin and stuck on Samsung splash screen, all you have to do is to boot in the stock recovery and perform a "wipe data/factory reset" and "wipe the cache". Then reboot and see if it worked. It worked for me when I was facing the same issue.
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It looks like you might get so called "kernel panic". It can happen when you switch between kernels, android versions.
Another thing...bootloaders. You guys restored ics-cwm backup but still use gb bootloader. It can cause booting problems sometimes.
If it was eMMC brickbug mj.vikram wouldn't be able to turn the device on.
Mj.vikram if you can flash gb-stock and you are able to boot into recovery, so wipe data and cache. No need for this heavy unbrick procedure yet, i think.

m.kochan10 said:
It looks like you might get so called "kernel panic". It can happen when you switch between kernels, android versions.
Another thing...bootloaders. You guys restored ics-cwm backup but still use gb bootloader. It can cause booting problems sometimes.
If it was eMMC brickbug mj.vikram wouldn't be able to turn the device on.
Mj.vikram if you can flash gb-stock and you are able to boot into recovery, so wipe data and cache. No need for this heavy unbrick procedure yet, i think.
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I am not able to boot in to recovery, when ever i try it will be stuck on the splash screen saying booting into recovery....
Only i am able to boot in Download mode...

One silly question from me... have you tried to re-insert the battery, sdcard and sim card? Thx.
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ardatdat said:
One silly question from me... have you tried to re-insert the battery, sdcard and sim card? Thx.
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yes i tried it also but no use...

mj.vikram said:
yes i tried it also but no use...
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I had a similar problem... My sgr used to get stuck on the splash screen for about a minute and then boot....
It had happened due to some unknown bug while flashing extensively with various ROMs and MODs, and resulted my SGR sensors (PROXIMITY & LIGHT SENSOR) not to work....
Then SSC people replaced sensors but it did not work... Then they replaced the entire board..
I think you are going through a similar situation... Take it to SSC as soon as possible and make sure... You have flashed Indian Stock and reset the counter... All the best...
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Why don't you try dead repair trick. You should have efs backup.

bhargav143 said:
I had a similar problem... My sgr used to get stuck on the splash screen for about a minute and then boot....
It had happened due to some unknown bug while flashing extensively with various ROMs and MODs, and resulted my SGR sensors (PROXIMITY & LIGHT SENSOR) not to work....
Then SSC people replaced sensors but it did not work... Then they replaced the entire board..
I think you are going through a similar situation... Take it to SSC as soon as possible and make sure... You have flashed Indian Stock and reset the counter... All the best...
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Luckily my flash counter is 0 only, thank you i will take it to service center and what i need to tell them if they as how it happened ...
I've tried all the possible methods but it haven't worked :crying:....

nvo2411 said:
Why don't you try dead repair trick. You should have efs backup.
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I've tried it buddy but no luck....

mj.vikram said:
Luckily my flash counter is 0 only, thank you i will take it to service center and what i need to tell them if they as how it happened ...
I've tried all the possible methods but it haven't worked :crying:....
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Just tell them... One day, after I installed a few apps it restarted automatically and after sometime it was stuck in bootscreen.... I was helpless...
Also, behave as if samsung is the culprit..does not have quality checks before putting phones into market... And also... Tell... If this problem happens again... I will go to the consumer court...
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mj.vikram said:
Luckily my flash counter is 0 only, thank you i will take it to service center and what i need to tell them if they as how it happened ...
I've tried all the possible methods but it haven't worked :crying:....
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I had random shutdown prob n once when i was installing stock firmware...it shutdown in mid way n i wasnt able to boot...so i just tld them...dat i gt some update via kies..n i updated it....
Bt in midway the phone stopped responding...
When i restarted..it didnt boot...
Luckily..they agreed n took in to consideration...
Hope this helps u
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vipul12389mehta said:
I had random shutdown prob n once when i was installing stock firmware...it shutdown in mid way n i wasnt able to boot...so i just tld them...dat i gt some update via kies..n i updated it....
Bt in midway the phone stopped responding...
When i restarted..it didnt boot...
Luckily..they agreed n took in to consideration...
Hope this helps u
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Its a good idea... But, in my case... They were scared of me... Eventually I went to the dealer and complined him... who also owned the service centre.... So the owner did my job in a 7days.... Sent my phone to a tier2 city(Bhubaneswar).. I live in a tier3 city(Berhampur).....
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this happened to me also buddy..
not just once.. but three times..
but i was lucky ..my ssc people didnt saying anything..
they just replaced the MB three times for me..
SO GIVE IT A TRY..

My MJ bro what you did.. Now just go to SSC and dont let them know that u know anything. Just tell them you were using it suddenly it switched off and didnt restart. Finally u charged ur mobile but didnt On. And you are scared..so came to SSC. If they got the clue that u are genius one then forget that they will do the needful. Also who knows may they give u ur mobile with ICS.
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Symptoms of super brick(caused by emmc bug):
1.Phone gets stuck at splash screen.
2.recovery gets stuck at whenever trying to access corrupted partition.
3.ODIN gets stuck at flashing factoryfs.
4.You can flash kernel but almost nothing else using both ODIN and cwm.
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[Q] Need emergency help to unbrick Galaxy 3 GT-i5801.

I have been using Samsung Galaxy 3 GT-i5801 for 2 years now.. It was having Android 2.1. Today I decided to install custom ROM to upgrade to Android 2.3.7. Used the below steps in the process:
1. Rooted the device using SuperOneClick
2. Installed ClockworkMode ROM manager 4.3.3.0. Installed G3RM as well.
3. I could not take the backup. G3RM when tried to open was opening a html code when i clicked the options. ClockworkMode did not have the option for Galaxy 3.
4. Downloaded the CM7.2.0-GT-i5800_Alpha8.3_CWM.zip from google code pages for cm7-i5800 (92.2 MB in size).
5. Copied the zip file to the base directory of SD card and renamed it to update.zip. Using CWM wiped the data/factory reset. Phone rebooted to Android 2.1 with all data erased.
6. Then I updated the ROM using CWM. It didn't throw any errors. Mobile rebooted. But it gets stuck in opening screen forever (display contains just GT-I5801 and Samsung). I assume this is a soft brick. As I recollect now, I forgot to clear the cache before the upgrade. Will this be a problem?
7. Tried to recover using Power + Vol Up+ Vol Down + Menu combination. This process is also stuck with a message "FORCED UPLOAD by KEY PRESSING".
8. I suspect the device is bricked now.
I am new to android ROM updates. I am looking forward for your help to unbrick the device now. Please suggest me the steps to unbrick the device (Or a link which i should follow).
Regards,
Shreekanth

At Step 7, try use ODIN and flash a Rom through it. Theres a guide somewhere on this forum. It should help save your.. Oh wait. I think you have to get a special i5801 ROM, but I might be wrong.

My phone does not boot up now.. Will it be possible to use ODIN to flash a ROM at this stage? Before step 6, I had cleared the wiped the data / factory reset using CWM. That time it rebooted to Android 2.1. Later i copied the ROM and tried the ROM update. I am facing the problem since then.
Since the display turns on, I assume this is kind of soft brick. So hoping for a fix. I am searching the entire forum for any possible answer. Please help me with your suggestions.
Regards,
Shreekanth
AzNTypeR said:
At Step 7, try use ODIN and flash a Rom through it. Theres a guide somewhere on this forum. It should help save your.. Oh wait. I think you have to get a special i5801 ROM, but I might be wrong.
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Hey,
After flashing/updating. Do factory reset/delete data all user data thing from recovery itself.
Also clear the cache.
It will boot for sure. Let mw knw if it did not help.
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tollboy said:
Hey,
After flashing/updating. Do factory reset/delete data all user data thing from recovery itself.
Also clear the cache.
It will boot for sure. Let mw knw if it did not help.
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The problem is resolved now and I am much relieved .. This time I have used ODIN. It detected the phone and now I have updated to Android 4.1.1.
A xda thread "How to use ODIN for dummies" was very helpful. Thanks a lot for all of your suggestion.

shreekanthts said:
The problem is resolved now and I am much relieved .. This time I have used ODIN. It detected the phone and now I have updated to Android 4.1.1.
A xda thread "How to use ODIN for dummies" was very helpful. Thanks a lot for all of your suggestion.
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tollboy said:
Hey,
After flashing/updating. Do factory reset/delete data all user data thing from recovery itself.
Also clear the cache.
It will boot for sure. Let mw knw if it did not help.
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Great...Enjoy!!!
Welcome to custom ROMs world.
Mark it as closed.
Regards,
:good::good:

IMPORTANT
excuse me but while installing kyrillos rom something happened and after i reboot my galaxy 3 on my screen after gt-15801 and samsung a
G3 MOD appears. thats sit its struck there PLZ HELP

addyrox said:
excuse me but while installing kyrillos rom something happened and after i reboot my galaxy 3 on my screen after gt-15801 and samsung a
G3 MOD appears. thats sit its struck there PLZ HELP
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Did you try wiping data, cache and dalvik?
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IMPORTANT
I HAD DONE EVERY THING BY THE STEPS OF KYRILLOS ROM.... BIT ITS STRUCK AT G3 MOD SCREEN AFTER I INSTALLED ROM 9.0 IN MY GALAXY 3!!!!!!!!! CAN I TRY RE-FLASHING THE ROM?//
yes i wiped the all the cache but still it didn't work. CAN U TELL ME SOME WAY TO RESTORE IT TO STOCK ROM 2.1????????????
PLZ HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You should try flashing one of these http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1497261
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HELP with Soft Brick

So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??

Just search in the stickies for bootloaders. That will solve your problems
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COfatboy said:
So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??
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If you'd like to try GTG's Ultimate Unbrick, you can find a working download here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22404446&postcount=391

Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.

COfatboy said:
Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.
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You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709

prairied0gg said:
You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709
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It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.

COfatboy said:
It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.
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I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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prairied0gg said:
I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.

COfatboy said:
Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.
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This happened to me earlier. What I did was-
1 Went to full stock using heimdal one click, After completetion, U may stuck in bootloop in at&t as you said
2 Flash efs.zip found in the link below using odin. put efs.zip in odin and untouch any other setting and flash, (Ur imei may be previously corrupted so u got bootloop). This doesnot do any harm. So flash with confidence. If ur device doesnot show up in odin after u flash with heimdal one click , reinstal drivers with kies mini
Link for download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729838
3 Now u'll be out of AT&T bootloop if ur imei was previously corrupted.
I was in similar situation. And this solved my proble.
Hit me thanks if I helped you :good:

Thanks for all the advise. Still not working. Tried everything above and much more. Different things I do give different results but pretty much the same in end. Either sticks in recovery or boot loops one way or another. Really don't see how this could be related to software but you never know I guess.
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