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Help Phone bricked overnight...???

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Rezard

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I could really use some help this time. I woke up this morning to find my phone dead-- the battery. So, I charged it up, and turned it on. I get the brief Samsung logo, followed by the Galaxy SII logo. At that point, the screen goes blank, and the phone sort of sits there in limbo. I have to wait a bit, or pull the battery to even try to boot again.

I can boot into recovery (stock), or download mode, but neither seems to be helping me a bit. I've tried factory reset, as well as flashing my stock ROM, and download mode does absolutely no good when I can't enable debugging. I'm at a real loss as to how this even happened, let alone how to fix it. My biggest issue may be that my flash counter has somehow found it's way back to "1", and I can't just send it in for that reason.

Also-- my phone is on the stock ROM, and I've only rooted it. No custom ROMs, kernels or MODs to mess up, or conflict.

Please help with any advice you can,
or at least assure me this thing isn't totally bricked (with a tripped flash counter)...!

Thank you.
 
Sounds like it is "soft bricked" rather than "hard bricked" in which case you would have nothing on the screen.Have you tried pressing Power/Volume/Home buttons at the same time?
 
BEWARE EVERYONE!! when updating to jellybean some do go very wrong! not all! but some do!! and it will brick your phone!! i updated over the air.. and for a few days. my phone kept on freezing! and locking up! one night i went to bed woke up and the phone was stuck on the boot screen! i thought thats weird took battery out, put back in, as ya do.. nothing took sim out and back in nothing... so only option was to reapair it through kies. put serial in and model number in it found the sortware. i downloaded it. told me to put phone in recovery mode.. so i did,kies said it was gonna install it to my phone.. but everytime it tryed to install it kept on saying it couldnt find my phone.. i tryed this all day long used different usb ports. different computers. to know avail, so my only option was to take it in for repair.. so i took it back to phones 4 u! they sent it away, i waited over 2 weeks! which was undiscrible it was like i lost my right arm with no phone! as you can imagine.. than the repair center turned round and said that the phone has been rooted! which it hadnt!! and they said this in order to brake the terms and conditions of my warentee so phones 4 u can get out of giving me a new handset. so they all save money!! i wouldnt do that to a 500 pound phone!! the phone does everything you could want from a phone! im launching a full investigation into this matter.. and have writen a formall complaint to phones 4 u headoffice, and will be contacting trading standards, ofcom, watchdog, and the ombudsman, and plaster it on all the forums ,social networking sights i can think of, to give them as much bad press as possible!! untill my problem is resolved and i will restore there name and clear it once they have done the right thing by me!!
 
Not sure but if it had been rooted wouldn't there be a record in the phones software of when this was done? I am sure the onus would be on P4U to prove their case and the law would favour you.
 
Flashing custom roms increments the flash counter. Any leaks may also do this. However, if there was only OTA updates the binary should remain at 0
 
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