This is where I am
That all depends on whether you want to continue "the legal way" or fix it yourself using stuff you find here. When a Kies upgrade fails I would go to the reseller where you bought the device to get it fixed. If you really want to do it yourself for whatever reason, find yourself a new ROM that belongs to your device (what was you ROM version before you started the upgrade?) and install it through ODIN. That will fix it...
Regards,
Nika.
All right.
It all started when I was going to download new firmware via Kies. Got stuck at 3%, tried recovering firmware through kies, still stuck at 3%. Tried another computer with recovery code. Didn't work at all. Called Samsung support, they showed me the forced recovery but it still doesn't work. When I do the [Vol+]+[Power]+[Home] (which is what Samsung support told me) it shows "RAMDUMP MODE,Cause:Force Upload". When I do the [Vol+]+[Power]-combo it goes into the [Phone--Exclamation Mark--Computer]-sing (Does that sign have a name? Like BSOD or RROD?).
So now I'm at the same crossroad as the last guy.
No matter what button-combinations I use I end up stuck (One time, don't know what buttons I pressed. It showed the Android-bot with the text "Downloading... Don't turn off target" (or "Don't unplug device" don't remember). I think it must be because it was in the middle of a firmware upgrade when all of this started).
So my question is what do I do now?
I can't go the legal way because I can't find my receipt and the store say "Without a receipt we can't do nothing".
I can't go directly to Samsung support because they say "Oh we're not quite sure, go to the store".
I don't know if I can install a new ROM through Odin since I don't know what ROM I had before the firmware upgrade.
(I'm a noob, I'm the kind of guy who, as long as it works, don't know what ROM I have installed).
Anyhow, if anyone out there have any idea what I should do I'd be very thankful.
I've already clicked the thank you-button on all the helpful posts in this thread.