[Q] Help! I Bricked my Epic

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When I turn my phone on, it will stay on the "Samsung" boot screen indefinitely. I left it on over night to see if it needed to load and it just froze there. I booted into the recovery and wiped everything, and still no success. I tried to connect to my cpu using odin and had no success. I tried to use an update.zip to try and it didn't work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I tried on both PC and Mac.

Please follow the directions here to get your phone working

Your phone isn't bricked. Are you using CWM3? If you aren't you most likely tried to flash an EXT4 rom without an EXT4 compatible recovery, boot into recovery and restore and old NAND backup if you have one, otherwise remove the SD card, then install a different rfs compatible ROM and try to flash it.

Originally Posted by 063_XOBX

Your phone isn't bricked. Are you using CWM3? If you aren't you most likely tried to flash an EXT4 rom without an EXT4 compatible recovery, boot into recovery and restore and old NAND backup if you have one, otherwise remove the SD card, then install a different rfs compatible ROM and try to flash it.

Can you tell me how? Sorry, I'm a n00b.

Originally Posted by theimpaler747

Please follow the directions here to get your phone working

Originally Posted by lucky_moon_357

Can you tell me how? Sorry, I'm a n00b.

I did tell you how to restore your phone

Originally Posted by theimpaler747

I did tell you how to restore your phone

that didn't work for me, I've been trying that all night.

Originally Posted by lucky_moon_357

Can you tell me how? Sorry, I'm a n00b.

What part don't you understand?

The most fail safe way to fix a splash load issue is to ODIN back to stock and then reflash. You said you are having issues. Let me throw out some popular issues.

• DON'T USE THE STOCK USB CABLE. ITS SUCKS!!!! it will likely cause fails
  
  Use a USB port in the back of your computer
  
  Install Samsung Galaxy Drivers (if you are on 64bit you obviously need 64 bit drivers)
  
  place your phone into download mode (slide open the phone press 1 + power)
  Its a yield symbol with an android, not your recovery ROM.
  
  Open Odin first, then plug the (non stock) usb cable into your phone. You will see a Port number verifying the connection
  
  then re-flash to what ever stock version of android you want via the corresponding .tar file.
  
  afterwards, you can use the one click root to regain root access.
  

I would like to mention that it IS possible he could be permanently bricked. Now I don't know exactly what he did to cause this or whether if Odin/cwm will work for him, but if they don't he is bricked.
Believe me, I have had bad luck when it doesn't get that past Samsung screen ...

Sent from my Epic 4G

Originally Posted by acer1096xxx

I would like to mention that it IS possible he could be permanently bricked. Now I don't know exactly what he did to cause this or whether if Odin/cwm will work for him, but if they don't he is bricked.
Believe me, I have had bad luck when it doesn't get that past Samsung screen ...

Sent from my Epic 4G

As long as there is any reaction from the phone (in this case booting to the Samsung screen it is recoverable and therefore not bricked.