[Q] Soft Bricked phone!

ArtificialMusik · 18th March 2012, 06:44 AM

[Q] Soft Bricked phone!

I believe I may have a soft brick on my SGS II. I had updated my CM9 to the latest in the thread and started to have a few problems. I had my phone overheat and die on me one time and take forever to charge back up. It originally had a yellow triangle next to the battery. After several hours of charging it booted up and I was able to use my phone again. I had never had an issue with CM9 before this and since this day, I had many outstanding issues with it.

As of last night I have had a soft brick I am assuming. But it doesn't seem to be recoverable either. Which is insanely strange. I had flashed many stock firmware and firmware files in Odin but can't see to get the phone to boot bast the AT&T Rethink Possible screen. It's been sitting for two days like this and I can only get to this screen after I have flashed something in Download mode. (doesn't matter, as long as odin resets device I get here) tried repartitioning, flashing stock modem, flashing stock rom in the how to get your device ready to be replaced thread, flashed kernels, flash stock PARAM. and I have got nothing.
Anyway to tell if my phone is saveable? I have the download counter set back to 0 so if push comes to shove i can try to get a new phone from at&t on tuesday.
But i'd really like to see my phone get fixed, the experience is good. Hopefully we can figure this out. All I can get access to is Download mode so recovery is pretty much out of the question.

Any advice guys? Google has done me no good.

trell959 · 04:53 PM

Flash a rooted, cwm kernel through Odin, reboot into recovery, flash a rom.

^ that method has never failed me.

Also, when using Odin, use the USB ports on the back of your computer!

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Biporch · 18th March 2012, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trell959

Flash a rooted, cwm kernel through Odin, reboot into recovery, flash a rom.

^ that method has never failed me.

Also, when using Odin, use the USB ports on the back of your computer!

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This.
Be careful, I have noticed that Odin acts like a bitch when you talk him about extended usb ports.

ryude · 18th March 2012, 08:04 PM

Reboot your pc, strange as it seems that can fix a lot of ODIN problems.

MWTTRON · 17th March 2013, 05:20 PM

Does ODIN like x64 based systems?

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryude

Reboot your pc, strange as it seems that can fix a lot of ODIN problems.

I am running ODIN on an x64 based laptop. it has worked flawlessly until now! I have a soft bricked I777 also so I'm watching this thread for any good stuff to try.
My odin freezes right at the beginning of the FACTORYFS.img push.

It just sits and sits and sits. Drains the battery also.
I'm gonna go try a CWM kernel to see if that will help. My issue I think is the partitions are screwed somehow.
I can't flash back to factory standard because I had JB on my I777 and the flashes are getting stopped up by the partitions.
thanks for the input ...
I never thought of flashing just a kernel! DUHHH...

Nick281051 · 17th March 2013, 10:02 PM

Re: [Q] Soft Bricked phone!

Quote:

Originally Posted by MWTTRON

I am running ODIN on an x64 based laptop. it has worked flawlessly until now! I have a soft bricked I777 also so I'm watching this thread for any good stuff to try.
My odin freezes right at the beginning of the FACTORYFS.img push.

It just sits and sits and sits. Drains the battery also.
I'm gonna go try a CWM kernel to see if that will help. My issue I think is the partitions are screwed somehow.
I can't flash back to factory standard because I had JB on my I777 and the flashes are getting stopped up by the partitions.
thanks for the input ...
I never thought of flashing just a kernel! DUHHH...

Next time please don't necro a thread if you figured out your problem.

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MWTTRON · 17th March 2013, 11:30 PM

Did Not NECRO anything!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick281051

Next time please don't necro a thread if you figured out your problem.

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I simply realized there was something I didn't try!
Why are you people so UPTIGHT!!!

The simple fact that NOTHING save a PIT file is able to be written to my phone is the ISSUE here!

So no the Kernal did NOT work. I cannot flash a ROM either as they are all .zips requiring me to have access to my phone. Obviously there is no solution at least on this site! All you people can do is criticize! Does that REALLY make you feel superior?
How about FIXING something? Give me some text I can use!
Thank You

Nick281051 · 18th March 2013, 12:28 AM

Re: [Q] Soft Bricked phone!

Quote:

Originally Posted by MWTTRON

I simply realized there was something I didn't try!
Why are you people so UPTIGHT!!!

The simple fact that NOTHING save a PIT file is able to be written to my phone is the ISSUE here!

So no the Kernal did NOT work. I cannot flash a ROM either as they are all .zips requiring me to have access to my phone. Obviously there is no solution at least on this site! All you people can do is criticize! Does that REALLY make you feel superior?
How about FIXING something? Give me some text I can use!
Thank You

I'm not even going to dignify that with a response, because of an attitude like that. You're not entitled to anything here.

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MWTTRON · 18th March 2013, 01:45 AM

Thanks for your Supurb HELP!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick281051

I'm not even going to dignify that with a response, because of an attitude like that. You're not entitled to anything here.

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Ya know what Nick28...1, Thank you. Please don't respond and take up my bandwidth with your useless text.
I'll figure it out. Now because of you (Be happy with yourself) it won't get posted here and the other that need the info won't get it from here.
So be proud of yourself. You ... Oh whats the use... Later DUD. I did leave the E off the end on purpose!!!

---------- Post added at 07:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:15 PM ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick281051

I'm not even going to dignify that with a response, because of an attitude like that. You're not entitled to anything here.

Sent from my Zanpakuto using Getsuga Tensho!

Ya know Oh forget it...
I hope you find what you aren't finding. You will be a much better person when you do!

Good Luck!

brandonarev · 18th March 2013, 04:13 AM

Re: [Q] Soft Bricked phone!

Quote:

Originally Posted by MWTTRON

Ya know what Nick28...1, Thank you. Please don't respond and take up my bandwidth with your useless text.
I'll figure it out. Now because of you (Be happy with yourself) it won't get posted here and the other that need the info won't get it from here.
So be proud of yourself. You ... Oh whats the use... Later DUD. I did leave the E off the end on purpose!!!

---------- Post added at 07:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:15 PM ----------

Ya know Oh forget it...
I hope you find what you aren't finding. You will be a much better person when you do!

Good Luck!

Good. We want you to figure it out.

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