Bricked Phone!!

[shazam1203]

Hey everyone so I bricked my phone and it is in QHSUSB_DLOAD mode, so I called tmobile and they are sending me a warranty exchange (backordered), really sucks as I got this phone last night, traded my one s for it, hated that phone lol, I dont know what I did wrong to get it in this mode, I have never bricked my phone before, I just used odin and tried flashing recovery in the pda section, and it said fail, so I unplugged the phone and pulled the battery, and that bricked it, dont want to do the same thing twice

 

[EnigmaticGeek]

Hey everyone so I bricked my phone and it is in QHSUSB_DLOAD mode, so I called tmobile and they are sending me a warranty exchange (backordered), really sucks as I got this phone last night, traded my one s for it, hated that phone lol, I dont know what I did wrong to get it in this mode, I have never bricked my phone before, I just used odin and tried flashing recovery in the pda section, and it said fail, so I unplugged the phone and pulled the battery, and that bricked it, dont want to do the same thing twice

what recovery? Could have been a bad d/l...we're you running Odin as admin? What version of Odin? Things we need to know

sent from my T989 full of CM awesomeness and a touch of Venom from the Darkside!!

 

[shazam1203]

what recovery? Could have been a bad d/l...we're you running Odin as admin? What version of Odin? Things we need to know

sent from my T989 full of CM awesomeness and a touch of Venom from the Darkside!!

I didnt run odin as admin.. im used to having htc phones.. I tried flashing a tar of the cwm recovery for t989.. and it was odin 3 v1.85 was flashing on windows 8

 

[EnigmaticGeek]

I didnt run odin as admin.. im used to having htc phones.. I tried flashing a tar of the cwm recovery for t989.. and it was odin 3 v1.85 was flashing on windows 8

hmmm...not sure about compatibility of that version of Odin and Windows 8. He'll don't know if Odin is supported with Windows 8 yet. I'll do some digging in that one...

sent from my T989 full of CM awesomeness and a touch of Venom from the Darkside!!

---------- Post added at 11:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:33 AM ----------

It would appear others are having trouble with Odin on Windows 8. Hmm...Samsung needs to get on it lol

sent from my T989 full of CM awesomeness and a touch of Venom from the Darkside!!

 

[shopealope]

I didnt run odin as admin.. im used to having htc phones.. I tried flashing a tar of the cwm recovery for t989.. and it was odin 3 v1.85 was flashing on windows 8

I have windows 8 as a secondary OS at work and occasionally use Odin on it, I have it set to xp compatibility mode and to run as admin, works for me

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using xda premium

 

[AznDud333]

when using odin...never pull the usb cable and battery..if flashing failed simply find something else to flash-.-

 

[AllGamer]

when using odin...never pull the usb cable and battery..if flashing failed simply find something else to flash-.-

that's the golden key

never unplug, until it says successful in Odin

 

[EnigmaticGeek]

that's the golden key

never unplug, until it says successful in Odin

Or until it says failed

Either way, that's the only time lol

sent from my T989 full of CM awesomeness and a touch of Venom from the Darkside!!

 

[Towle]

When you download the recovery file, only flash the .md5 file that's inside.

Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 2

 

[shazam1203]

When you download the recovery file, only flash the .md5 file that's inside.

Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 2

ok thanks I will do that next time.. LOL i flashed the whole tar

 

[quest4fire]

Dude as long as you can see something on the screen then you are soft bricked. You can restore via Odin. Keep trying. If you got nothing on your phone screen, complete darkness then you are hard bricked.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using xda premium

 

[shazam1203]

Dude as long as you can see something on the screen then you are soft bricked. You can restore via Odin. Keep trying. If you got nothing on your phone screen, complete darkness then you are hard bricked.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using xda premium

Yeah I got nothing on the screen.. but thats ok my warranty exchange will be here in a couple hours

 

[Teo032]

Yeah never pull the battery ever. never actually read on anyone bricking from flashing recovery unless they put a pit file in. A lot of soft bricks that says that error in firmware update thing. So really not sure how that happened.... Anyways backordered s2? Does that mean they might offer other phones??? Cough cough $3? Lol

Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app

 

[shazam1203]

Yeah never pull the battery ever. never actually read on anyone bricking from flashing recovery unless they put a pit file in. A lot of soft bricks that says that error in firmware update thing. So really not sure how that happened.... Anyways backordered s2? Does that mean they might offer other phones??? Cough cough $3? Lol

Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app

well they ended up getting some in stock.. so im impatiently waiting for it to get here in the next hour or two.. hurry up ups! does anyone have a link to the recovery/odin I should download it would really suck to brick it twice in a row haha..

 

[playya]

well they ended up getting some in stock.. so im impatiently waiting for it to get here in the next hour or two.. hurry up ups! does anyone have a link to the recovery/odin I should download it would really suck to brick it twice in a row haha..

My friend if you got time to wait for your phone then maybe you should use that time find all the proper things needed to root your phone and read up on how not to let this happen again. I am quite sure you want to do everything in your power to not have to go through this again.

If you need a link to recovery/odin to me it means you have not really done your homework on your phone. I know stuff happens but lets try and do our best to not have these Brick threads cause it gets everyone worried..... Jus Sayin

 

[shazam1203]

My friend if you got time to wait for your phone then maybe you should use that time find all the proper things needed to root your phone and read up on how not to let this happen again. I am quite sure you want to do everything in your power to not have to go through this again.

If you need a link to recovery/odin to me it means you have not really done your homework on your phone. I know stuff happens but lets try and do our best to not have these Brick threads cause it gets everyone worried..... Jus Sayin

Well I got my phone!! I think I am gonna leave it stock for a while haha.. dont need that scare again anytime soon.. plus I love touchwiz