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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rlmiller:
BRICK FIX

When all else fails...

I posted way up in this thread with boot troubles after flashing a ROM that was not for my E4G Touch Galaxy S II ... Tried for three days seeking help but none came my way with success. I found my help with MobileTechVideos.com... For very reasonable $$$ Josh fixed my phone perfectly. Sent it to him and had it back within 3days. Here is a youtube and his service page

Hope this helps some of you

Rlmiller
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neobirdrio:
Lol, sound a bit funny, but im not sayin its not working. But i dont think it worthy that way,

1 - u need to post ur phone to someone, let say you are asian people, are u going to send your phone to 'yu es ey' (USA) just to get fix? Your country dont have any expert phone tech can fix the phone?

2 - how if your phone will never come back again? Kiss and say goodbye then.

3 - u need to pay for the cost of fedex or any courier services. Then fixing cost,

As long as you are not lazy to read, i believe u can manage to fix it by yourself. Or bring your phone to the nearest phone shop. Just make sure your phone have enough battery when flashing, if something happened then, it still be able to fix.

Even if your phone hard bricked, ( phone died.. Cannot power on, cannot access recovery, cannot access download mode), there's still a way to fix it by your own, to force wake up the phone even the script corrupted or damage. Different model with different way to fix, just search it out in xda or google it. If your phone total bricked, post here or pm me, please give me details about your phone, ill try to help u to make your phone back to work as normal.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Celeb0rn:
I tried flashing MIUI and got a boot loop, tried flahsing other stuff now i have a black screen. Tried this and it didn't work. Can someone help me, please?

EDIT: Flashed the original rom and got the boot loop again... i dont know what i'm doing wrong.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neobirdrio:
Flash proper kernel, now running stock rom, get into download mode, flash miui then reboot, u should get boot loop again, then flash siyah 2.1.1 kernel. Then you are done.

If you dont want miui, then just simply flash cf-root kernel, check my signature, theres a link to complete guide with file download link.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Celeb0rn:
Thanks, I tried another ROM and now it's working! :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kramernunez:
Hey I have no idea what I just did... I had the endless never ending boot problem nothing worked and then i flashed the stock kernel etc via odin without my phone being in download mode, just turned off but plugged in, and this time it worked and my phone is now functioning so i can try and messwith it some more, and i guess it stayed rooted... so i guess yall can try flashing with your phone off? Sorry im not a master wizard like you guys, yall blow my mind... u guys are all great thanks!:)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leonne:
Is there a problem if I Flash a stock ROM that doesn't belong to my career? My career doesn't have it's own stock ROM, so I either flash a stock ROM from another career or find an alternative.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksantoshh:
We can just clear the Partition cache & Dalvik cache to remove the boot loop

---------- Post added at 01:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:43 PM ----------

You can always flash any latest ROM. I guess only u ned to check which Model are you using !!

---------- Post added at 01:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:49 PM ----------

You can flash any latest ROM for your Model.

Link : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xda138:
I have samsung galaxy s2 with current firmware version: PDA:KF4 / Phone:KF2 / CSC:KF1(H3G).

I tried to update XWKK5 with odin, and got the boot loop. My phone stuck on Samsung Galaxy SII logo.

I tried to flash stock firmware with odin 1.85. Firmware i used is GT-I9100_H3G_I9100XWKF4_I9100NEKF2_I9100H3GKF1.tar

I can not enter recovery mode by vol up + menu + power. I can only enter Download mode, and odin can flash any firmware successfully. But none of the firmware solved boot loop. I also tried to flash Villianrom1.1 with odin, but no success.

Later i installed wipe version of XWKI3 wipe version according to suggestion of jayceooi.com. and also installed CF-Root after that.

But still can not resolve boot loop problem.

Currently, My phone is not starting,

I can not enter recovery mode by vol up + menu + power. I can only enter Download mode, and odin can flash any firmware successfully.

But none of the firmware is helping. Can anyone help me?

Thanks in Advance.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CamoGeko:
Hmmm.....

Why can you not enter recovery after flashing a new firmware in ODIN?

That's what you need to do, then select the factory reset option. Once you reboot you should be fine.

Communicated from a Galaxy far far away via an XDA premium neurotransmitter while DJ'ing on The Enterprise. :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warnbroom:
it would save lots of time if people carefully back up their phone before making any changes. Latest properly working state is always in our hands
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drigz08:
I have a boot loop problem. I will explain it on my next post
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajaspidey:
did u tried updating new version of CheckROM??
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drigz08:
Hello, can someone please help me from my problems.

First of all, do not recommend reflash thru odin, wipe cache, devlik etc. because I did that already and problems are persisting again. I just need to check which process specifically is causing the problem.

"My main concern is to check what process is causing the soft bootloop"

I can turn on my phone and it can stay awake for about 1-5 mins then reboot. I saved logcat usng catlog app.

A solution for this problem is greatly appreciated.

12-11 21:19:46.137 I/Process (11548): Sending signal. PID: 11548 SIG: 9
12-11 21:19:46.137 W/Watchdog(11548): *** WATCHDOG KILLING SYSTEM PROCESS: null

Complete logcat attached

Using Checkrom v4 kk5 2.3.6

Siyah kernel 2.4.0

ki4 modem

and please dont ask me to post on their threads

Apparently, I am using the latest checkrom version.

Did you check the logcat?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pwnjabi:
I am new at this,so i accidently flashed wrong update file via CMW,n now its stuck at the Galaxy S II logo screen!

I am from India.

My firmware is PHONE - XXKI4

i dont know about PDA thingy..which file should i download from that thread?ANY HELP PLEASE?

PROVIDE LINK?:( :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drigz08:
12-11 21:19:46.137 I/Process (11548): Sending signal. PID: 11548 SIG: 9
12-11 21:19:46.137 W/Watchdog(11548): *** WATCHDOG KILLING SYSTEM PROCESS: null

No one even bothered looking at my logcat LoL.

Anyways, It looks like I was able to solve my own problem.

Hint: It is external SD related. At least for me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamienc:
nice

this topic saved me from sending my phone back
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CamoGeko:
Tried doing a factory reset?

Communicated from a Galaxy far far away via an XDA premium neurotransmitter while DJ'ing on The Enterprise. :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidburn:
use adb and wipe everything...ie format
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheesecakecutie:
Hello there,

I was updating firmware on my Galaaxy s2 on Talk mobile through Kies, when my phone rang..my hubby automatically disconnected the phone to pass it too me...I was like nooooooooooooooooooooooooo. As it was very clear about not unplugging phone. I plugged it back in only to discover it was on this weird screen little computer.....!......phone. After much searching online I figured out how to put it into download mode, but had no recover mode...

I followed your video and after 6 hours of frustrations managed to put VillianRom1.1 onto the phone (yes I am housewife mother of six, who only discovered yesterday what a bricked phone was!!).

Hey presto the phone is working..but I now have issues.

Internet keeps saying its flakey ??

Doesn't like searching on google, but will notify when I have an email?

What do I do now..I have no idea what firmware or kernals or anything that was on it before (I'm a girl, all I need is ebay and emails)...

Can you guide me gently through the process with some links as that is waht took me ages yesterday was trying to find all the bloody links !!

Thanks and your a star, so pleased phone is no longer bricked !!

just bricked "ish"
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drigz08:
reflash thru odin
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xpqter:
If you can't boot and the bootanimation just keep repeating, a factory reset should work.

This happens to me every time I install a new ROM.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergegryb:
Hi Galaxy experts. Can you please help with weird SGS2 case?

I had slightly troubled S2. It was causing troubles during initial boot. I flashed S2 with 2.3.5 through Odin using this manual: http://androidflip.com/install-andr...-samsung-galaxy-s2-gt-i9100-installing-guide/

S2 hangs during boot every time.

I tried flushing the Factory Kernel from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278

It flashed, but after reboot S2 was showing the following screen:

http://picasaweb.google.com/105310687707765718488/December172011

S2 boots to Download mode without problem.

What shall I flash to restore the phone?

Thank you for the help.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luigi_2:
everytime i flash cm7 or miui roms, my gs2 shows the "SS GS2 GT-9100" screen and then it restart to the same screen and again and again forever. Even if i take out the battery and press the hard keys, i can only get to downloading mode not clockworkmod, so this leaves me with the only choice that is going back to stock fw, is this the end of custom roms for me? :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pederzen:
Same here :/

Any good ideas plz?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yajirobe:
With my issue I was still able to get to the recovery menu.

I'd recommend trying one of the Frankenstein mods. Make sure you run stock kernel then BACK to the cracked kernel so you get the recovery menu back. (pushing stock kernel will remove root access). I hope this helps.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GypZ:
Stuck

Hi, I have tried your solution many times now and it doesn't seem to work. I have a Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 and the kernel version is XWKF3.

I am getting rather worried as my phone is only a few moths old. Help asap would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance.

Sam. :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sutty86:
hey guys major problem

ok i rang samsung up earlier this week about my faulty home button i believe its hardware because i tried rectifying via changing firmwares didnt help,

so i have no usb lead and no windows pc so i downloaded mobile odin and tried to change the firmware back to stock (orange uk)

i believe i flashed it without changing the kernal (my bad)

and now stuck in a bootloop.

anyway i can rectify this (remember my home button is broke)

i can get a usb lead but it will be a few days because of post (royal mail)

Please help

Katie
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CamoGeko:
Wait for the usb lead, change the firmware back then send the phone back to samsung.

I don't even understand why you thought changing firmware would fix it lol

Next time, it's a good idea to do a lot more research before doing anything like changing roms and kernels on your phone. Otherwise it's not going to last very long in your hands.

Communicated from a Galaxy far far away via an XDA premium neurotransmitter while DJ'ing on The Enterprise.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dw4:
Hi everyone, i have a white sgs2 i was and i am runing checko rom with siyah kernel.

I wanted to try the method to remove the yellow triangle and i think i broke something lol.

Let me explain i flashed a stock rom found on the forum, then my phone went into bootloop scared me a bit but anyway no worries still had acces to the download mode.

Since the stock rom wasnt working, i decided to forget removing the yellow triangle and just reflash with the same rom anyway everything is working fine.

Everything BUT and its supra ultra anoying my screen has a huge issue i've lost color depth its like everything is on 16bit now just oh my god so ugly.

I just want to know if there is a way to fix it otherwise well i dont know...

Solved by flashing 2.3.6 XWKK5 stock rom

Thank you all.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fdbailes:
saved my sgs2 from boot loop thanks to thsi post :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rikta:
So I think I’ve Bricked my phone… I’M SCREWED!

Here’s what I can do:

-	Power the device on

-	Boot into CWM Recovery

-	Boot into Download mode

-	Hear the little “Du Daa” sound that Windows makes when I plug in the device

Here’s what I can’t do:

-	See/Mount my microSD from CWM Recovery

o	Tried another microSD - didn’t work

-	See the device in Odin

-	Boot past the Samsung Galaxy SII logo

-	Get my Computer to recognize the device

o	Find/Install the right driver for the device

-	Restore through CWM

I was having some issues using my phone as Mass Storage through my Computers (1x Mac, 1x PC) and my Brother in-law’s was working fine so I thought I’d wipe my phone and start again from scratch.

I booted into CWM Recovery, and selected ‘Wipe Data/Factory Reset’ (I was running CheckROM 3.0 I think), then wiped Cache and then Installed the ROM from my microSD. The ROM was really buggy and unstable – not an issue with the ROM (I’ve installed it before) so I went and did it again, but this time also Formatted the Cache, System and Data. Now I can’t do anything!

Has anyone ever gotten out of this? I’ve got a USB Jig on the way, but it’ll still say I’m on a custom Kernel and I’m pretty sure they won’t cover it under Warranty.

I’d just rather fix it…

Forgot to do Nandroid backup too - I Know! IDIOT!!

Please let me know if you have any questions, I’ll answer anything if I’ve left it out

EDIT - I've downloaded the Android SDK and the Android USB Driver, but it keeps telling me that it's not compatible with an x64 - All my Windows PC's are on 64 Bit WIN 7
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CamoGeko:
Why the hell did you format cache, system and data separately?

It's obvious that you didn't do enough reading before starting to do serious flashes on your phone. Hate to tell you now and it probably won't help but you only need to wipe data, cache and dalvik before flashing a new rom. There is no need to go formatting separate partitions.

Hmm... try to get a rom zip copied onto an sd card and then put it back into your phone. Flash from recovery should still work.

Communicated from a Galaxy far far away via an XDA premium neurotransmitter while DJ'ing on The Enterprise.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rikta:
Hey, thanks for getting back to me.

The biggest issue is that I can't mount my SD from within CWM so I can't flash from a ZIP.

Is there any possible way to fix this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CamoGeko:
If you have CWM recovery you should still be able to view SD card contents and flash things. No need to mount anything.

Use an SD card reader or another device to get a rom zip on there.

Communicated from a Galaxy far far away via an XDA premium neurotransmitter while DJ'ing on The Enterprise.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rikta:
my sd card has ZIP files on it, it has Criskelo and CheckROM.

if I select install ZIP from SDcard

- choose zip from sdcard

the directory is empty.

when I go into mounts and storage /emmc isn't mounted (that's the SD card right?) and when I try to mount it, it says "Error Mounting /emmc!"

would this need a Jtag? Anyone know any places in Melbourne Australia that to Jtag repairs?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CamoGeko:
Tried choose zip from internal SD card? I remembered that few previous versions of CWM had those backwards.

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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rikta:
yep, tried it - no success :(

So, what are my options?

I'm starting to doubt I can repair this myself. Should I start looking for a new phone, a repair shop or what?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dullah:
Haven't read all your comments here, but have you got a recovery image saved on the mem card?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rikta:
Nah, one of the many lessons I've learnt from this ordeal.

Funnily enough this is something I've done heaps in the past. Memory was a little sketchy I guess...

Well it's at the shop now anyway :( I'll pick it up tomorrow afternoon - dropped it in for the JTAG treatment
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] legionxx:
helpful thread!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anirudh4444:
Well said!

Hear... Hear...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixate:
I have a boot loop on stock rom, can't get back to life...

My phone has had the boot loop a few times, which was always resolved via a factory reset. This time it doesn't fix things, and is still stuck. The reset factory settings does show a can't access log error in red when it resets, but not sure if thats the problem or not.

I've got an issue with Samsung service. I sent it back to them to reapir this fault and they sent it back claiming the phones got liquid damage, although it's not had any exposure to water, so sending it back isn't an option. The fault has been there for months and had a repair via CPW before, so don't think the water detection is the fault.

The phones only ever been updated via Kies, and until I work out what to do regarding the legal routes with my voided warranty , i don't want to do anything too drastic like root it.

Can anyone offer any advice?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RDDraco:
Thanks this helped me allot when my phone was in boot load when trying to install CyanogenMOD
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
You could odin flash the stock rom for your device?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixate:
I did try to flash the stock rom, but the same problem persists. I gave up on this and called my insurance company, it's going to cost me £100 to make a claim, but that's better than the full replacement cost. Think I'll be moving away from Samsung after all this moisture nonsense...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phyrephoxed:
Thank you thank you!!! Simple, to the point, works! Anytime you get to Barbados the rum is on me!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l7ani:
Thanks you saved my sgs2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daniver:
Has anyone else noticed that when you move too many apps to the SD card (>80) the phone can get stuck in a "boot loop" after it is restarted.

The problem seems to be a watchdog thread started by system processes to detect deadlocks. My guess is that with so many applications on the SD card, the process that has to mount all the encrypted loop-back mounts is taking so long that the watchdog thread thinks there is a deadlock and restarts the main system process, effectively rebooting the phone. The kernel isn't restarted, only the android system - an adb shell session remains connected and live during the "restart".

Question is, can anyone suggest any permanent fixes? Temp fix is to move some of the .asec files from the .android_secure directory, but obviously the corresponding applications are then not accessible.

One of my "fixes" is to try and get app2sd working, where I have a 6GB ext4 partition set up on my SD card and have all applications installed on there, but I can't work out how to get the app2sd script run at phone start up due to the SGS2's odd init sequence.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joshs415:
S2 Stuck in Boot loader

I flashed my phone through clockwork mod to cyanogenmod 7.1 (galaxy s2 uk) and even when i press the home power and vol down it still goes to the boot loader i heard someone say something about revolutionary if that helps anyone?

HELP :'(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mawbkk:
Asking for password!!!! When trying to wipe/factory reset

Hi,

When trying to flash to 9100T official firmware I got stuck in a boot loop. I tried to do a factory reset but it asked me for a password!

I got the firmware from sammobile and have tried their usual passwords and my gmail but no luck!

Anyone got any ideas???????????
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael.38:
I have the Exynos 7.2 (I9100XXKI4 if that's important) and i was trying to change to the Hyperandroid androidmeda 5.2.21 (to put on the soul bound ICS theme). I got stuck in the bootloop and then i needed to restore to have it usable again. I did the wipe data/factory reset before trying to install the hyperandroid.

Am i doing anything wrong? is there additional information that i should be aware about when changing rom?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
That password is your regular screen unlock password I believe
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Sounds right to me.

1. Make backup

2. Wipe data, cache

3. Flash rom

4. Reboot

That usually works, unless there are specific other instructions
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] longcat:
i tried to format after deleting, but its still stuck on the boot logo...

can go into both recovery and download...

i think i nuked the cyanogenmod, so is there any more ideas on how to solve this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinglee:
Boot Loop on other custom ROMs

I had done many successful ROMs flashing and now I have this behavior that any custom ROM flashed will go into a bootloop, and only to be solved if I flash a supporting kernel over it.

This happens even after a successful ODIN flashed a sammy ROM, ODIN flash CWM...

To elaborate:

1. ODIN Flash 3 files XXKI3, boot up ok

2. ODIN Flash a CMW(siyah or speedmod), reboot ok

3. CWM flash(with full/dalvik wipe) a custom ROM(GalnetMiui, VililanROM or any others), bootloop!

4. ODIN flash a kernel(siyah), boot ok into custom ROM

5. Any future CWM(with wipes) flashing resulting in bootloops

Anyone having this behavior or knows the way to fix this without the need to do kernel flashing after each custom ROM flash?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mawbkk:
I had no screen lock on, just the ring from cm7. Never solved it in the end, just flashed another ROM. Would love to know what was going on though as I need to flash back to stock soon to get a repair.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kclc7:
My problem at the moment is that Odin v1.85 stops responding every time I start to flash...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CamoGeko:
Make sure no KIES processes are running in the background. Also, reinstalling USB drivers might help.

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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barazin:
Hi

After I upgrader my stock ROM to latest firmware, I got some errors with SIM card not being readable. As I wanted to do a factory reset anyway, I did so.

Now I'm stuck with the boot loop.

- I've cleared user data

- I've installed stock rom via ODIN

But I still get the same boot loop.

I've even tried different stock roms + villain 1.1, but the issue is still there.

Also, when ODIN restarts after installation, I'm sent to Recovery Mode. I've tried both restarting directly, and clearing cache/user data again, with no luck.

Any idea what I can do?