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Doesn't power on at all, tried 3 botten /w battery in and out tried two w/battery in and out. and made a jig doesn't work. help I had this happen before and someone help me.
was running a custom 2.2 and the phone keeped rebooting so i loaded Samsung kies and it said everything was great. then morning
I think we need a sticky around here that says "Don't use Mini Kies, It might brick your phone!"
so is there hope? or
do i send off my phone to one off those repair shops
and is there a cheep one someone knows of, It been a great month quit job to move to AZ and then found out at 32 I have spine cancer so dont have much money
call tmobile and tell them that you were upgrading your phone using kies and it won't turn back on, should be covered under warranty
Yep has happened to others and T-Mobile has to cover it because its the "official" way to upgrade our phones.
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I did the hardware GPS fix so don't think it will be covered (be able to send it in)
You could run your phone over with your car, our leave it In a can and report it to insurance.
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davidtanis said:
I did the hardware GPS fix so don't think it will be covered (be able to send it in)
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Pm this guy, he can JTAG it but not sure of cost
bfranklin1986 said:
call tmobile and tell them that you were upgrading your phone using kies and it won't turn back on, should be covered under warranty
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WRONG!!! WRONG!!! Suggestion, I repeat do not tell them you were using KIES, unless you want to be without your phone for 3 plus weeks!!
They will immediately tell you, that is a Samsung problem, and you'll have to ship it to Plano, TX where they will take their sweet time in JTAGing it!!
Also unless you had extended warranty coverage/insurance, any physical damage or water damage etc they WILL NOT COVER IT, I know this for a FACT!!
They will only cover the replacement, if it hasn't been modded by SW or HW modding and it has no physical damage other than normal wear and tear. PERIOD!!
Also did you just bend the tabs a bit to improve signal reception for the GPS contact fix or did you build up solder on it??
Cause if you just bent it a little, your in the clear pal!! Unless you never got a chance to restore it back to JFD stock Froyo before you hosed it with Kies!!
I myself used solder, and had to use solder wick to remove it all so it looked OEM, and they never balked at it, = NO CHARGEBACK TO ME!!!
Instead tell them, you were using the phone to talk with your main Skeeezzer or whatever, and it just died= Period! TELL them no more than that, and they wont even question you, when you receive your new phone, you'll have to send the old one out in it, Once they receive it, they'll do a power up test, and that'll be it end of story. At that point, they will do a charge back to Samsung!! BUT NOT to you!!!
BTW KIES is notorious for corrupting the BL.bin and the SBL.bin files, You are truly hard bricked my friend!! BTW BL is Boot loader and SBL is 2ndary bootloader They were hosed by KIES, and once they are corrupted, its Either JTAG it or replacement
You do have 2 other options if you already ****ed up with TMO
1st suggestion, Pay $40 AND SEND IT TO TECH MOBILE, AND JOSH WILL RESURRECT IT FOR YOU WITH QUICK TURN TIMES!
lINK: http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-vibrant-jtag-brick-repair/
OR TRY THIS : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1220181
BTW Good luck, and wish you the best with your fight on the spine cancer!! That is truly a kick in the nut sack!! :[
When you plug the phone in to either a PC or charger does the phone get any life at all? As in do you see the "spindles" or battery charging icon?
If the phone is getting no life at all. Unfortunately a JTAG would seem to be the only fix for you.
Good luck!
Hello friends i jus accidentely bricked my Flyer, by flashing wrong Hboot. And warranty is in other country. What could i do? is there any way to ressurect ir on PC?
Thank you for your thoughts and advices
Sounds bleak. Does the device boot at all, what hboot did you flash? What were you trying to do?
it blinks orange when pressing and holding power button. Iwas trying to get back to Gingerbread from Honeycomb with Revolutionery Recovery
Flyer does not boot and the ac adator makes no sound of charging, neither is battery warming.
What hboot did you flash?
FlashENGHBOOT
sorry cant find link rught now
If you have the file upload it and I'll take a look, but in all honesty I'm not terribly hopeful, a different hboot is likely to reformat some of the critical partitions. It is likely that you have permanently bricked it and HTC support is the only option, have you tried contacting them at all?
Where did you find this hboot and why did you think it was a good idea
i was after night shift from work . theres no htc support in Lithuania. i think its still fixable just needs propably tearing part now. it was a desire somekind of hboot.
If it's from a desire or desire HD it is not fixable, if it came from a Desire S there is a slim chance but only if it will boot to hboot.
it was from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1187231&page=4
engHBOOToverARX.img
the next logical question would be can you get into hboot by holding volume down and power for a couple of seconds. keep holding as long as needed but if a minute passes, not a good sign
dam night shift
No i can't. Thats why i made this post i think everything is going to end like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zElsUERTzOU and will cost me about 100$ f***
and it might be that battery got empty.
It's worse than that I'm afraid, there is no JTAG service currently available for the flyer.
is there a possibility that authorized service might still fix it?
They might:
HTC customer service Lithuania
+ 880030766
If you bought in another EU country they are legally required to provide the same warranty cover as is available in the country you bought it.
its from US bestbuy (forever alone face)
tomorrow i'm calling htc, also i contacted few services by email. I will post all info here
gsmserver.com/shop/cables/gsm_products_cables/htc_jtag_adapter_set_9_in_1.php
i think i am going to buy this stuff
That won't help much. You need a RIFF box or similar JTAG adapter (or know someone who does) and you need to locate the JTAG testpoints on the board. What you linked to there is simply the board adapters for the phones listed. If you could find the jtag pin-outs on the board and forward the information to the RIFF box guys they could add support for it.
please help! My S2 suddenly hang... then it cant turn on anymore
I have tried to enter both download mode or recovery mode, but failed.
I want to get back the file in the internal SD , what can I do? I connect the phone to the PC but the PC cannot detect the phone..
could anyone kindly help me ?:crying:
Service centre or local mobile repair shop.
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Service centre or local mobile repair shop.
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i have tried to go these places but useless.. they only know how to replace the motherboard , they won't help us to deal with the back up issue
You can't solve that issue. It's not possible. The only people who might be able to (and this is probably a 1 in 1000 chance) is a company who specialises in data recovery from dead hard drives, and even that is very unlikely.
do others have methods to help me??
No.
i want to know what 's wrong with my phone....:crying:
when i try to turn on, i feel that the phone is still a bit warm... it's working right??
Something on the motherboard has crapped itself. No, the opposite. Having the phone warm up near the camera is symptomatic of every single case like this we see/have seen on here in 2.5 yrs. You're not fixing it yourself unless you replace the motherboard yourself, and you're not recovering your data regardless of what you or anyone else does.
Now, you can sit here for 4 days, a week, two weeks, a month in denial & maybe have people tell you to try things that might build your hopes up but have absolutely no chance of working, or you can bite the bullet & have the phone repaired or buy a new phone.
The choice is yours.
hahasir2000 said:
i want to know what 's wrong with my phone....:crying:
when i try to turn on, i feel that the phone is still a bit warm... it's working right??
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Take your phone to local mobile repair shop ... asks for checking short circuit for battery , and Two power IC's .. one located near camera and other lower Right..
ask him to check if something is wrong on both these..
if it does... asks for POWER IC replacement or Motherboard replacement..
If at last nothing works and you are finally going to replace your motherboard anyway
do this thing or ask a technician to do this.. may be it'll work:
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f258/samsung-galaxy-s2-i9100-short-circuit-solution-1537757/
Best of Luck..
Let us know what decision you will take.. it'll help others in the forum to solve same dead issue on their phones..
akhil17kr said:
Take your phone to local mobile repair shop ... asks for checking short circuit for battery , and Two power IC's .. one located near camera and other lower Right..
ask him to check if something is wrong on both these..
if it does... asks for POWER IC replacement or Motherboard replacement..
If at last nothing works and you are finally going to replace your motherboard anyway
do this thing or ask a technician to do this.. may be it'll work:
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f258/samsung-galaxy-s2-i9100-short-circuit-solution-1537757/
Best of Luck..
Let us know what decision you will take.. it'll help others in the forum to solve same dead issue on their phones..
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thanks for your suggestion ^^ i will try try
hahasir2000 said:
thanks for your suggestion ^^ i will try try
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Let us know when your problem is solved
Hi,
I wasn't doing anything special with the phone, but it was acting weird - didn't allow me to make calls, hang them up in the middle, and restarted the phone, until it didn't turn on again.
It's now completely black, connecting to charger doesn't do anything either.
I tried different batteries, didn't help.
update:
After putting the battery in and trying to turn it on, even though nothing is visible - the phone gets warmer after few minutes.
I'm pretty sure it's not the screen because I would've hear the opening sound and feel the vibration..
Please help!
Thank you
Nobody here can help you with a hardware issue, you should know that having been here for as long as you have. Service centre or local mobile repair shop for diagnosis.
I already saw posts here with the same problem and some suggestions to solutions from other users.
Thought somebody here might try to give an idea so I'll know better when I go to the repair center.
Does it boot in recovery (home+ volume up+power) then wipe data factory reset if it boots in download mode(home+vol down+power) the download stock tar and flash it via odin otherwise hardware issue
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'until it didn't turn on again. It's now completely black, connecting to charger doesn't do anything either'
Why won't people read OP/threads before sprouting nonsense on here.
OP - There's been one poster on here who seems to think this issue might be solvable by replacing the 'power IC' (whatever that is) on the motherboard, but the normal fix (if you want it fixed guaranteed) is to replace the motherboard. Reason being, if there's more than one component dead on the motherboard, you're going to pay twice - once for the individual component replacement which doesn't fix the problem, and again to replace the motherboard which will fix the problem.
Better to do it right first time.
Went to the service center
I gave it to the service center, they said it's a serious short circuit and they're probably going to have to "JTAG it".
I asked them if there is any way to save my information before they do that, they said no.
My question is to you - do you agree? Or can you think of a way to backup the phone before that?
Isn't there a way to read the memory using an external device and back it up?
I need a quick reply.
Thank you
Nope, if you don't have it backed up, no chance. Although, there's a very slim chance a company that specialises in recovery of data from dead hard drives might be able to. Expect this to be very expensive if it is at all possible.
Also, there's a fair chance a JTAG won't work as well, it's quite possible only a motherboard replacement will fix it. But you might be lucky.
Thank you for your quick reply
Another update
Hi,
There's another update - they now say they need to replace "power component".
Google search didn't find anything called "power component".
They also said that replacing that component will cause the data to be lose.
What do you think?
Thanks
Hello, yesterday my phone freezes and I couldn`t make a restart, I removed the battery but the screen still worked 30sec, now the phone does not want to start, I tried to make reset but nothing. Any suggest what happened or what can I do? Thank you.
If the phone won't boot at all, you don't really have many options. Try a jig & see if you can get into download mode. Also search for KingRat's 'jumpstart' method where you try and boot the phone with just the charger/without the battery.
Failing that, you could try another battery, but be aware that is unlikely to be the problem, and you'll end up with a new battery you can't use if you decide to get a new phone rather than have this one repaired.
Service centre or local mobile repair shop, most likely fix = motherboard replacement.
As to why/how it happened; who knows ? We don't have the phone in front of us & opened up in order to diagnose it. Nobody here can tell you that.
MistahBungle said:
If the phone won't boot at all, you don't really have many options. Try a jig & see if you can get into download mode. Also search for KingRat's 'jumpstart' method where you try and boot the phone with just the charger/without the battery.
Failing that, you could try another battery, but be aware that is unlikely to be the problem, and you'll end up with a new battery you can't use if you decide to get a new phone rather than have this one repaired.
Service centre or local mobile repair shop, most likely fix = motherboard replacement.
As to why/how it happened; who knows ? We don't have the phone in front of us & opened up in order to diagnose it. Nobody here can tell you that.
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what do you think, the problem is with a hardware (i need to replace something on the MO) or with the phone`s OS, can a JTAG help me?
@MistahBungle has spelt it out pretty clear......you CAN'T replace individual components on the motherboard..... attempting to do so is just asking for trouble......
If your phone still has warranty, DON'T try JTAGging, Samsung WILL see that this has been attempted (due to the fact that wires have to be soldered to the motherboard to connect the JTAG) and they WILL shout "unauthorized rework" and "warranty void".......
Sent from my infected_ KitKatted S2.....
phone is stuck on "samsung" logo or dosn't turn on?