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Bricked my phone

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Droopie28

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I've only had it for a week, so how do I exchange it?, or what do I do?
thanks

In case you wonder how I know, the screen goes to blackness after the galaxy S screen
 
numba3 said:
how did you brick it?
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I was trying to do too much, rooted , then un rooted, then did that "superoot", then did a lag fix (which didnt work), so I did "remove fix", and it BRICKED, lol

I shouldnt have done anything anyways, im not tech savy enough
 
I did the lag fix and it bricked me. My phone would turn on then immediately go off. I followed the steps in this thread and got my phone back. This has saved me several times from disaster.
 
Do a search for Odin one click downloader. I thought I bricked mine and that worked like a charm. On the road in traffic now. Ill post a link when I get home.
 
mine bricked on me the other day
my browser wouldnt load any websites
i restarted the phone then it would boot up to the galaxy s screen
the screen would go black but all 4 of the bottom buttons would stay lit up
unrooted with a few apps on it
returned it got a new one
 
Well just got home, from errands, and a new captivate came back with me, thanks to their stupid employees in the store who dont know what root is, because most of them only have iphone 4's...

Heres to breaking in a new battery, lol!!
 
Hey its not bricked i had the same problem. Hold down the vol up and dn buttons when turning it on then select reset user data or whatever. I had the galaxy s screen stuck then black and all buttons lit up. I pulled batt and did this. Perfect now.
 
TBull74 said:
Hey its not bricked i had the same problem. Hold down the vol up and dn buttons when turning it on then select reset user data or whatever. I had the galaxy s screen stuck then black and all buttons lit up. I pulled batt and did this. Perfect now.
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That doesnt work, at least it hasn't, im having the same problem again
 
Vissionary said:
From what I've read this phone is unbrickable.
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Yep, the only people bricking them permanently are the people that don't know how to recover. There are guys trying to flash the upcoming tablet ROM on their phones and recovering.

There are methods to get it into recovery mode even if the buttons are out of whack, so i don't know how you can really brick it.
 
I just "bricked" mine this afternoon :D I'm at least glad I waited before my trip to screw around with a speed fix.

Anyway, I had a ROM Recovery backup, so I went into download mode, flashed a stock ROM with Odin, mounted the phone via USB, setup the ROM Recovery update.zip, went into recovery, launched the .zip, went into Nandroid backup/restore and I'm back 101% to my whole setup (every app, data, etc.)

It's actually running INSANELY fast now.
 
sparker366 said:
I did the lag fix and it bricked me. My phone would turn on then immediately go off. I followed the steps in this thread and got my phone back. This has saved me several times from disaster.
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Ditto. I wasn't too happy with that lag fix and I think he's coming out with an updated version that won't brick the phone. It was a good learning process, though...
 
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