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I tried to unroot my phone via OCLF from the market. It went dark, then got the normal Vibrant screen, the the Galaxy S screen, then it went dark again. Now, it just sits. Black screen. All the buttons at the bottom are lit up. :-/
Anyone?
Silly question, I know. But did you have a nandroid backup, by any chance?
This is probably a last resort, but try boot into recovery and wipe everything. This fix the problem for me, the downside is you lose all you data.
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If you are anything like me, recovery didn't work and using Odin and reflashing Stock with repartition didn't work either.
You'll need to use odin to flash Eugenes "Vibrant that doesn't brick" (NO REPARTITION), then use odin again to flash Stock (check repartition this time) and you'll be good to go.
You can try to flash the froyo rom with odin...... I had that same exact problem and this is what fixed it for me. Once froyo us flashed then you can flash whatever rom you want. Hth
Ok, I probably should have stated that I'm a complete newby and have no idea what I'm doing. I believe I do have nandroid, but other than that you all are speaking French to me.
Right now I'm in the recover mode (I think). It's hooked up to my computer and I'm in the "Downloading... Do not turn off target!!" mode. This is where I'm stuck...I have no idea where to go from here.
Please talk to me like I'm a 5 year old, because as far as this is concerned, I am!
Oh, and thank you so much for any help you can give me!
hospo said:
Ok, I probably should have stated that I'm a complete newby and have no idea what I'm doing. I believe I do have nandroid, but other than that you all are speaking French to me.
Right now I'm in the recover mode (I think). It's hooked up to my computer and I'm in the "Downloading... Do not turn off target!!" mode. This is where I'm stuck...I have no idea where to go from here.
Please talk to me like I'm a 5 year old, because as far as this is concerned, I am!
Oh, and thank you so much for any help you can give me!
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Well, good news is... you didn't brick your phone, this is recoverable. Best idea would be to search the forums on how to ODIN back to Stock. Theres plenty of posts on how to do it. You should also be able to find this in the tips & tricks threads. Good Luck.
Thank you all for your help! I recovered it!! Seems as though I was just going about it the wrong way!! I got into the actual recovery mode and cleared it all out. Now it's as good as new!
Again, appreciate your help and patience with what I'm sure is the 120,000th post on this subject. ;-)
Kienz said:
Silly question, I know. But did you have a nandroid backup, by any chance?
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Is it even possible to make a nandroid backup before rooting?
hospo said:
Thank you all for your help! I recovered it!! Seems as though I was just going about it the wrong way!! I got into the actual recovery mode and cleared it all out. Now it's as good as new!
Again, appreciate your help and patience with what I'm sure is the 120,000th post on this subject. ;-)
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Hey - what does you doing? Please told me, I've the same problem:
If I start the phone with an USB cable and the battery symbol with the running point under this, the PC recognize that something is connected, but Windows found no driver....
How could you could flash the Stackfirmware back, if the recovery and download menu does not work ?
PLS help !!!
Check out this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=8129898
Go to the section where it says "Did You Flash Something Before Disabling Voodoo? 2 Fixes to Help You Out."
And do fix #1 it is pretty easy and it wont take you more than 20 minutes.
Let us know if that works
And do fix #1 it is pretty easy and it wont take you more than 20 minutes.
Let us know if that works
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If I following the link and the next one, I can read:
Caution!!! You Must be on STOCK Vibrant Rom & NEVER Have Already Flashed the JP3 Froyo Image
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It isn't -> it's a Firmware for the normal Galaxy (3key)[I'm a idiot]
First,
You must already Have Odin installed & Know how to boot into Down-loader Mode!!
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Thats also the problem as described in front : I have had no chance to received the DL Mode.. maybe I make something wrong? The phone is booting up till the "S" is there, after that, the screen is black, keys are lightning...
The recovery 3button are blocked from the beginning; the DL Menu - I did not have reached it successfully
The PC recognize, that is something on USB, but not what ... so Odin did not see the Mobile, too.
Okay a whole combination of events lead to me now not being able to get into download mode (I was able to before). Only a cellphone -- ! -- computer image shows up now. Am I really bricked now? Is there any way around it?
Thanks! -
Remove the battery and usb from the phone , put battery back hold vol up/down then plug the usb . It should boot in download mode
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throw your phone away, only because u cant read the other 349673294439598359843759347589 threads about this
xalucardx said:
Remove the battery and usb from the phone , put battery back hold vol up/down then plug the usb . It should boot in download mode
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You are a genius. Thx.
DarkAgent said:
You are a genius. Thx.
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I have the same problem. My phone was hardware locked and I was wondering if yours was? I have tried this method several times with no luck. Should I just keep trying it over and over? Has anyone else had a hard time getting into the download mode but finally got it to work? does it matter if the sim or sd card is in or not?
nomadrider123 said:
I have the same problem. My phone was hardware locked and I was wondering if yours was? I have tried this method several times with no luck. Should I just keep trying it over and over? Has anyone else had a hard time getting into the download mode but finally got it to work? does it matter if the sim or sd card is in or not?
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Its not "hardware lock" is just a bug in the os , its been fixed in ji6 , you can try using adb "adb reboot download" on you pc
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is the search button broken??? Everyone who thinks they are "hardware locked" do you not search or read? There is a fix for this! Not only does JI6 fix this, there is a thread with just the SBL file that also takes care of it.
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is the search button broken??? Everyone who thinks they are "hardware locked" do you not search or read? There is a fix for this! Not only does JI6 fix this, there is a thread with just the SBL file that also takes care of it.
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I did search and search I even started one count them one thread on this because I had not seen a thread with the same issue... look at ppls postings before you want to flame them I have not been one of those guys that you get ticked off about most of my replies were to say thank you for the hard work ppl put in here. Or to help other ppl out. I have tried a lot to get out of this and I was wondering if anyone ran across a phone that just wouldn,t come out of it. Sorry to rant on this but if it really bothers you that much why do you go into the threads to read them and get yourself all up tight about it?
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is the search button broken??? Everyone who thinks they are "hardware locked" do you not search or read? There is a fix for this! Not only does JI6 fix this, there is a thread with just the SBL file that also takes care of it.
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To be fair, JI6 did not fix this for me, but the standalone fix did work.
xalucardx said:
Its not "hardware lock" is just a bug in the os , its been fixed in ji6 , you can try using adb "adb reboot download" on you pc
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Sorry to bother you but adb doesn't see my phone.. I read in a thread about the buttons not working to get into the download mode. Some ppl swore it was a hardware issue well others swore it was a software issue. It was like taste great less filling debate lol. I found one other person with the exact same problem and he tried everything too but **** out of luck. I now own a bricked phone.
Still Does not work
all methods in the download/restore mode thread do not work on my phone, i had to have it replaced after a bad flash
Kubernetes said:
To be fair, JI6 did not fix this for me, but the standalone fix did work.
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JI6 doesn't fix it . The bootloader file are not in JI6 update but were in the leaked JI4 which were ripped and that how the fix was created .
Hi there,
I am pretty new with this stuff, as I just got this phone today. It came with Froyo2.2 so I unrooted it back to the original JFK.
It did not come with a sim card, so I do not have a sim inside the phone as of now. But I do have a bell sim that I will use after to put the unlock key in... Is that okay?
I Connected the vibrant through Mini Kies and the MTP application says its connected.
I just re rooted from J16 back to the original.
I have the 64 bit drivers installed.
When I try to run Generate Unlock Windows Script I get the following error message saying...
Copy nv_data.bin
*daemon not running. Starting it now *
*daemon started succesfully *
error: device not found
error unable to find file <.\nv_data.bin>
could not find C:\documents and settings\1\desktop\key\generateunlockwindows\nv_data.bin
Anyone know what this means?
Or know what to do in this situation?
I am not sure if I should try installing the 32bit drivers or what.
how did you downgrade the phone from android 2.2?
I just bought the phone through ebay with the OS already at 2.2, and the phone is locked to t-mobile. I've heard it is not possible to unlock it with the 2.2 update. Is that true?
molson24 said:
Hi there,
I am pretty new with this stuff, as I just got this phone today. It came with Froyo2.2 so I unrooted it back to the original JFK.
It did not come with a sim card, so I do not have a sim inside the phone as of now. But I do have a bell sim that I will use after to put the unlock key in... Is that okay?
I Connected the vibrant through Mini Kies and the MTP application says its connected.
I just re rooted from J16 back to the original.
I have the 64 bit drivers installed.
When I try to run Generate Unlock Windows Script I get the following error message saying...
Copy nv_data.bin
*daemon not running. Starting it now *
*daemon started succesfully *
error: device not found
error unable to find file <.\nv_data.bin>
could not find C:\documents and settings\1\desktop\key\generateunlockwindows\nv_data.bin
Anyone know what this means?
Or know what to do in this situation?
I am not sure if I should try installing the 32bit drivers or what.
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Yup, having exact same problem. If you find a fix let me know.
Make sure your usb setting is on debug and you have all of the files for the unlock on your pc. You also need java installed.
That method worked for me from stock.
can someone answer my question?
mbison83 said:
how did you downgrade the phone from android 2.2?
I just bought the phone through ebay with the OS already at 2.2, and the phone is locked to t-mobile. I've heard it is not possible to unlock it with the 2.2 update. Is that true?
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I don't know whether the unlock methods work with Froyo but you can download a 2.1 stock Odin in the forum.
pvspencer22 said:
I don't know whether the unlock methods work with Froyo but you can download a 2.1 stock Odin in the forum.
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where can i get it at and how do i do the rollback?
mbison83 said:
can someone answer my question?
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...... please?
koooba said:
...... please?
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very funny.
mbison83 said:
very funny.
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Wasn't meant to be. Usually please and thanks goes a long way when asking for something. Shows appreciation.
^ Hence the THANKS button.
koooba said:
Wasn't meant to be. Usually please and thanks goes a long way when asking for something. Shows appreciation.
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it also shows sarcasm and in this case thats what is seems like.
Read the stickies in the forum. If you can't figure it out ill grab the links tonight.
For the unlock this worked for me.
pvspencer22 said:
The windows tool worked for me from stock.
It doesn't generate a code though you input one.
Edit: link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822008&page=11
Scroll down for instructions.
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For going to stock. (From the general stickie)
draikz said:
Fixing so-called "Bricks"/Odin Errors
This guide is open to contribution/editing/correcting
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BOOT CYCLE
This is where you get the annoying Samsung Screen/Galaxy S screen.
DOWNLOAD REQUIRED (CREDITS TO JUSTANOTHERCROWD):
1. Get into Download Mode (WITH THE PHONE PLUGGED IN) by following the steps below
*Turn off the phone until you get to the charging battery screen (keep in mind, your phone is currently PLUGGED IN)
*Press volume up and down, and power all at once.
*As soon as the screen turns black, release your power button.
2. Unplug phone from USB
3. Open Odin (in Administrator if you're running W7 or Vista), try one of the ones I attached to this post, at least one of them is bound to work, some don't work for me, but works for others, some doesn't work for others, but works for me, whatever floats your boat
4. Load in the files into Odin that you have downloaded from above Just load in the files corresponding to the text field.
DO NOT CHECK REPARTITION.
5. Plug in your phone with the DL mode
6. Click start and wait for the magic
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NO-BOOT PHONES
This is where your phone does NOT turn on, no combo of buttons works and power button does nothing.
DO THIS ONLY WHEN YOU PLUG IN YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SHOWS UP ON THE SCREEN!!! If else, follow the steps from above.
This method is basically same as above, EXCEPT the way you get into Download Mode as your phone is HARD BROKEN.
1. Download all the files required in the "BOOT CYCLE" section of this post.
2. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, sim, battery).
3. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT the battery, as you have already taken it out in the last step.
4. Press and HOLD vol. up and vol. down.
5. As you are HOLDING these buttons, reattach your battery.
6. You should be in Download Mode.
7. Unplug phone from USB
8. Follow steps 4-8 from the "BOOT CYCLE" section.
Troubleshooting:
-Odin stuck at some random process?
*Switch to another odin
*Make sure you did NOT check repartition, if you did, just repeat all the steps over again, except for the downloading parts, obviously.
-Phone not responsive?
*Try "NO-BOOT PHONES"section of this guide
-Phone stuck at Galaxy S logo screen?
*Put it in to DL mode, and run Odin again, it's just a bad install.
-All three ODIN is nonfunctional, stuck or giving "FAILED" errors?
*DO NOT CLOSE ODIN ONCE IT HAS FAILED!
*Unplug your phone
*Replug in your phone, get it into DL mode
* Unplug once it is in DL mode
*Replug and ODIN should recognize your phone
*Leave all the settings the same, then click "Start" again.
-Cannot get into download mode using the method I listed? Use the method(s) below:
Soldering Method
More methods coming soon
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I know how much of a pain posting in the Q/A section can be and the wait time is pretty bad, so if you need help regarding UNBRICKING and ONLY UNBRICKING feel free to post in here.[/S
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I unlocked my phone w Galaxy_S unlock 2 days ago. It's in the market and I was running Bionix V when I did it.
draikz said:
^ Hence the THANKS button.
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Pretty soon we'll have apps that'll say hi and thanks and apps in general will replace everything we say, so much for what our parents taught us huh?
koooba said:
Pretty soon we'll have apps that'll say hi and thanks and apps in general will replace everything we say, so much for what our parents taught us huh?
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Technology > your parents.
Anyday.
Do you know any other way i could unlock my samsung vibriant .nothing on this site has worked for me,,,who do i pay get files to work on this site please help poor black boy
franjess said:
Do you know any other way i could unlock my samsung vibriant .nothing on this site has worked for me,,,who do i pay get files to work on this site please help poor black boy
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Poor with a few hundred dollars worth of phone. Lol
Did you try the PRO SGS app?
franjess said:
Do you know any other way i could unlock my samsung vibriant .nothing on this site has worked for me,,,who do i pay get files to work on this site please help poor black boy
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If you want help you are going to have to be a lot more specific. What have you actually tried?
Just a tip, people will not help you on these forums if you ask for help without showing you've tried to solve the problem and know how to search.
There are loads of unlock threads. Almost everyone get one method to work eventually.
hey guys, ive rooted my galaxy s5 and i messed with the lcd density of the phone.Ive done a reboot and then the phone got stuck in the bootloader showing only the samsung galaxy s5 logo. i dont know what to do. can anyone help me pls
also ive done a wipe data factory reset. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE HELP ME!!!! IM FREAKING OUT!!!!
Please guys, someone help me!!!!!!!!!!
didof993 said:
Please guys, someone help me!!!!!!!!!!
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Reflash a stock rom with Odin, data factory reset afterwards and reroot again.
is there any guide in the forum that can help me to do this?
didof993 said:
is there any guide in the forum that can help me to do this?
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Download the rom you need on sammobile.com/firmwares/2/ and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j--RS0bx5c4 is a guide to use Odin 3.09. Download Odin 3.09 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=NmzktT-NH8OzJXIuOXeylA&bvm=bv.74649129,d.ZWU.
i will do all these things but please if u can, stay with me online so u can help me cause im freaking out with this thing
didof993 said:
i will do all these things but please if u can, stay with me online so u can help me cause im freaking out with this thing
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Oke,
- First download the rom and Odin
- Unpack the rom with 7-zip once
- Unzip and open Odin as administrator
- Enable usb debugging on your phone and turn off the phone
- Pull the battery, wait for 20 seconds and boot into downloadmode
- Place the unpacked rom (.md5.file) in AP section of Odin
- Connect the phone to the pc
- If you see IDCOM light up and show a COM number you are connected
- Uncheck Auto Reboot (upper right corner)
- Press start and flash
- After the flash pull the battery again, wait 20 seconds and boot in to recovery mode and data factory reset and wipe caches and boot up.
- Done
hope this fix my phone but i highly doubt it...
didof993 said:
hope this fix my phone but i highly doubt it...
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Just follow the steps and all will be fine
weeeell, i cant do one of the steps that you said to me cause i cant open my phone so i cant enable usb debbuging but whatever, ill give it a shot
didof993 said:
weeeell, i cant do one of the steps that you said to me cause i cant open my phone so i cant enable usb debbuging but whatever, ill give it a shot
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It will also work without usb debugging.
if this is true then im really happy , now i'll just wait for the md5 file to download and then ill start
didof993 said:
if this is true then im really happy , now i'll just wait for the md5 file to download and then ill start
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Oke, i`am not here to brick devices but to help out users like you
im glad u say that but sammobile doesnt help at all. the chrome crashed twice while i was downloading the md5 file and now whenever i press the download button it says 502 bad gateway
didof993 said:
im glad u say that but sammobile doesnt help at all. the chrome crashed twice while i was downloading the md5 file and now whenever i press the download button it says 502 bad gateway
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www.sammobile.com/firmwares/2/, just opened it in Chrome.
it says 502 bad gateway when i press the download button. i know that the sammobile site works fine. the download doesnt
didof993 said:
it says 502 bad gateway when i press the download button. i know that the sammobile site works fine. the download doesnt
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Try this site http://samsung-updates.com/latest-firmware/, select your device and choose the correct rom.
well, i found the file but the page that i download it from has a download speed limitation and the download gonna last for about 10 hours.
So i'll go to sleep for now cause its already midnight ( here in greece ) and ill do this tomorrow morning.
Of course with all those things that happened i dont think that ill be able to sleep.
Im really stressed out. Whatever, ill try the steps that you told me to do and ill send you tomorrow the results.
Hope it get fixed. Goodnight
didof993 said:
well, i found the file but the page that i download it from has a download speed limitation and the download gonna last for about 10 hours.
So i'll go to sleep for now cause its already midnight ( here in greece ) and ill do this tomorrow morning.
Of course with all those things that happened i dont think that ill be able to sleep.
Im really stressed out. Whatever, ill try the steps that you told me to do and ill send you tomorrow the results.
Hope it get fixed. Goodnight
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Good night and good luck bro
Hi guys!
I would just like to start by apologizing for making another thread about a bricked note4, however I have read about so much I don't know which advice to go with anymore. I'm also a complete novice when it comes to this.
So long story short, my note 4 started playing up and lagging, eventually not turning back on at all. After endless attempts using odin and flashing what I seemed to have thought was the right firmware, it whittled down to about 1 in 5 attempts of trying to enter download mode (using the buttons) on the phone actually working. Now its completely bricked...no power, no download mode, nothing!
Just like to reiterate, I'm a complete novice,sorry if I'm not making sense, my knowledge doesn't go further than articles and google!
I have tried using kies to recover my phone and it cant recognize it...
I have read about using adb to get my phone into download mode, but I couldn't understand the explanation given well enough to use it...
I bought a 16gb micro sd card and have tried writing an unbrick image to it but I get no response off my phone, also tried another file, possibly sdc? cdc? cant quite remember, but that failed too.
I don't even know if the files I'm using are correct, I got them from a forum on here.
I'm at a loss!
The only hope I have left is if someone is able tell me if any steps I have tried are correct, and possibly provide me with the correct unbrick image?
Also, when I plug my phone into my computer via usb, there is a noise that sounds but nothing else happens, don't know if these means anything. As far as I'm aware I also have correct drivers installed.
Sorry about the long explanation!
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Lucy.
Only logical result from your explanation is you have a hardware problem.
I dont think you are gonna be able to solve it with software...
Time for service visit i guess..
Turkawa said:
Only logical result from your explanation is you have a hardware problem.
I dont think you are gonna be able to solve it with software...
Time for service visit i guess..
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Thanks for the reply!
I hope that's not the case forgot to mention,when I plug my phone into a computer and go into device manager, it shows qhsusb_bulk...if this means anything to you?
Lucyhenn123 said:
Thanks for the reply!
I hope that's not the case forgot to mention,when I plug my phone into a computer and go into device manager, it shows qhsusb_bulk...if this means anything to you?
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Nope.. I have no idea.. Sorry
Try the sd recovery method .
First you can try to flash the pit partion .
You can find that on xda .
Just search for note 4 pit files.
Download the n910f pit file with correct csc.
TRY flashing via download mode.
Try flashing .
Use this guide for using sd card to get into download mode if you cant access download mode
There is a method for http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/57e756f41dc6e/read me for brick fix.txt
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