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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikzDHD:
Usually I've seen them go for lower than that, around 310-320 I've seen on other forums.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evildave_666:
Used price from shops here (Tokyo) is equivalent of about 325-350 gbp with 30-day store warranty. (This assumes original box, all accessories, etc.)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleeco:
Have a look on ebay, last time i looked they were going for £300/£350
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrPhilo:
On Ebay UK £300 - 400. But if you live nearby one of them, you might be able to do a cash on collection and make the 'price' cheaper. Since you have to pay eBay final fee and paypal interest fee, he might kindly accept a lower value than he/she has listed on eBay.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
i would say about €360 is a fair enough price, if was selling mine which is in pristine condition that's what id probably sell it for.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj03:
white gs2 in cex in manchester going for 300. looks in mint condition. i'd pay no more than that. i'd sack ebay...plenty of rip off's.

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[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
Sorry to annoy you guys with the same things over and over again. Me - used to flash and customize WM devices quite alot - was a bit to fast with Android I guess.

Had Samsung with stock firmware (about 3-4 months ago, cant tell more).

Wanted to start getting into flashing new Roms, so tried to flash semphore kernel first (Yes.. i know now..).

Went trough somehow anyways, Odin gave green light, I disconnected from USB.

But instead of device booting into somethin I got the white I9100 letters and a big "!" sign below.

(Guess I know now why..)

So.. i tried to flash again with repartition on. I left it running for about 45 minutes, but nothing was happening. Red some posts - guess the wrong ones - that told me if it is stuck for that long you should disconnect, remove bat, retry. Did so, and to my shock odin suddenly replied with:

<ID:0/003> Re-Partition operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

<ID:0/003> Removed!!

I should have listended... " DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!" And read more before I try. I know. Now its not even powering on - guess this means some serious money I gotta pay for repair? Or is there anything left I could try???

Sorry for the noob action....
[Galaxy S II General] Deleted member 4038153:
Is that a kernel for a different phone by any chance (i.e. Samsung Galaxy S)?
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
Try getting into download mode from the phone, volume down, home button and power button, press all 3, and report back.
[Galaxy S II General] Flowlance:
The ! sign is normal. its just there to tell that you are using an unofficial kernel. the repartition is the reason why your device is bricked. Never tick that one :P
[Galaxy S II General] redmaner:
First off all you don't need to repartition when only flashing a kernel.

If you are able to boot in download-mode

You can flash a stock firmware from http://www.sammobile.com and everything should be okay again

And semaphore is not for the S II

Sent from my GT-I9100 using CyanogenMod7
[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
No way to get into download mode.. no battery sign on charge, just black.

So guess there is no way out if it? I red about a special usb cable you can solder yourself, I would not mind doing so... But the pure black on the phones display tells me somehow this time it went worst case... hit me!!!

What would you tell em if you bring it back? I only have it 3 months, kept in case, looks brandnew, guess I still get some good service.

Tell them it got stuck on Kies Update?

Tell them it simply turned off and stayed?

Any other ideas?

Guess telling them "tried to flash wrong, unofficial firmware, then re-partioned and plugged off to early" wont help much to get the repair for free. :(

I can only hope I bricked it that bad that they cant revive and think its a hardware problem.
[Galaxy S II General] redmaner:
Buy a JIG on e-bay for a few bucks

Sent from my GT-I9100 using CyanogenMod7
[Galaxy S II General] mudferret:
They'll tell you to pound sand if you try to get it warrantied; it will cost you money to get it fixed. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you have to pay to play.

Order a USB jig, it MIGHT help you get into DL mode.

Ninja Edit; beat by one minute.
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
Get a jig as mentioned, can you get into recovery mode? Vol up, home, power button combo.
[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
I could get into download & recovery mode before without problems. Now I dont even get charging symbol. Does JIG really helps in such an extreme case?

edit: Bought JIG from ebay, will see if it helps. Not much hope..

Will report back, thanks for the help guys.
[Galaxy S II General] mudferret:
Potentially yes.
[Galaxy S II General] hofinho:
Maybe you are lucky and they would accept it when you say kies messed it up.

But i think you don't have bricked it

... If i got it right you just flashed a kernel from a wrong device, right? this means your bootloader is still intact... So no need to worry, your second flash didn't even start according to the odin log you posted.

Here a few things you can try:

1. Maybe your battery is empty because if the long time in download mode (it doesn't get charged there) -> either charge it with some cheap exterenal charger or find someone who borrows his

2. If you have ensured your battery isn't empty, take it out, wait a few minutes and insert it WHILE you hold three button combo for download mode (needs some acrobatic skills ;) ) hold it a bit to see what happens (can be up to 10sec.), if you are in download mode make sure to flash a fw with three files plus re partition with pit!!!

3. If this gets stuck again try to flash just a pit file and nothing else, this will erase every single partition and then repeat step 2

4. Buy a jig for 5 bucks on ebay or amazon (or do it yourself as you said)

A jig will be your last resort but to 99% you will be successful with it. As i said because your bootloader is still intact.

And take care to use only files for i9100 this time ;)
[Galaxy S II General] redmaner:
Most off the time it does! But sometimes it doesn't.

But it costs a lot less when you need to repair it by samsung or service store ect.

Sent from my GT-I9100 using CyanogenMod7
[Galaxy S II General] samH4Sung:
Invest in a Jig. They cost <$3 on ebay or you can make one yourself just youtube

"How to Make a USB Jig for $2! [Galaxy S2] [Download Mode][Reset Odin Counter] "

Ive had my phone brick on me SOOOO MANY TIMES but ive always managed to revive it. Belive me and anyone else who says "get a JIG".....GET ONE! Better <$3 jib that saves your phone or spend another X amount on a repair/new phone
[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
You guys give me hope. Thx!

I ordered a Jig from ebay yesterday already. (7 € but fast delivery).

I can´t believe the battery was empty, I had it on about 80 % when starting odin

with "repartition" on. And it was showing the "do not disconnect message" on screen

when I plugged it off, which did not dissapear. Then I turned it off, removed battery, instantly after that it was only giving me black.

So I guess it was in the middle of repartitioning.. I really did not expect it to take THAT long, at least not after the first flashing went trough in about 10 seconds. Dunno what this means exactly, does this hurt the bootloader itself? I thought (...) it was only the userfile space / system space.

And sure, I will try each and every trick before I send it in and tell it was evil, evil kies.

Cause IF they are able to revive, they will instantly see on the counter that I did mess with it.

Lets hope I dont pay to much for my little playing - actually I just wanted all functions I bought the phone for to work.... get rid of the beta they sold with it..
[Galaxy S II General] bassie1995:
I guess it's best for it to wait till it finishes, but next time, read more :P

I hope the JIG works for you, man...
[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
Gosh, you can really count on that. I have no idea what was riding me, I have been flashing WM phones since 2006 and never bricked one, always red alot before.

And the I kick my shiny new SGS2 in about 10 minutes into darkness...
[Galaxy S II General] KixMe:
haha :) hey did the jig work?
[Galaxy S II General] bassie1995:
Same here, always flashing and I always read (I'm too chicken **** to not read :P).

I will heed this warning, and keep reading. For now, I can only say that I hope it works.

How you doin'? Greetings from my GT-I9000!
[Galaxy S II General] devilkin:
You flashed a kernel from the galaxy s instead of the s2. Did you use the ops file for the s also? I've read that using a wrong ops file is bad..... Anyone else here that maybe knows a bit more, does this file contain the partition layouts for the phone?
[Galaxy S II General] hofinho:
It doesnt matter if you have wrong partitions or "no partition at all" because an intact bootloader allows always a fresh partition table set-up through odin.

Btw meierhans did you try to connect your phone with usb and odin although it shows black screen after the three button combo? maybe your param.lfs (basically the visual part of the whole boot process and download mode) is corrupted and it will be recognized anyway
[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
No, I will this try this first when coming home from work. Hope the JIG will arrive today or tomorrow so I can make sure I tried everything. Thx for the input!!!

About exact details how I produced this f#*&#n mess:

- Flashed semphore kernel .TAR (gnaa!)

- After that Phone would still start booting, show Logo and ! Sign, could get into Download mode, but nothing more. In this state all would have been a matter of the right new kernel / rom I guess.

- Reflashed semphore kernel .TAR with re-partition on, in hope it would boot further (GNAAA! RTFM!)

- waited about 45 minutes

- disconnected Phone from USB, tried to turn off, removed battery (GNAAAAAAAA!!!!! RTFM dumbass...!!!)

- black screen

(- red alot more, hit my head against wall, felt very stupid, started this tread..)
[Galaxy S II General] chrisjcks:
1. Ive never heard of that kernel, is it even for the Galaxy S2? (doh!)

2. Re-partition is NEVER needed when flashing kernels, ive never used it even when flashing roms. (on the SGS2)

Never reparition, never tick clear efs, never tick update bootloader.

Infact - tick nothing, leave odin at default.

Kernels and roms go into PdA section (.tar files), dont click start until phone is in download mode already and odin has detected your phone on the com port.
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
You've flashed an i9000 kernel on an I9100!
[Galaxy S II General] htc9420:
...whoaaaa....S1 kernel...great.

Guess this one, huh? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1112908

You really would've escaped the bad flashing if had fulfilled few decent requirements:

-Realize that flashing with ODIN is

like

-open heart surgery for you phone ( that's why ODIN is SAMMY tool)

so

-you need to PAY attention and READ the PROPER FORUMS

also

-you would've LEARNED that it's reasonable to flash an ORIGINAL rom first ( ODIA posted that there are two bootloader allocations, written and erased alternatively)

but

-you chose to tick the repartition button when on this thread it clearly states

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1075278

ANYWAY

IF the bootloader is FUNKED you're so FUNKED also, repartitioning tends to PHUNK the BOOT TABLE....

Please, people, try to learn how to read before going extreme with your toys.

If jiggin doesn't work, please change the topic to " How to brick a SGS2-easy steps "
[Galaxy S II General] hofinho:
Feel free to contact me via pm if you are unsuccesful :)
[Galaxy S II General] xieh:
i've made it even worse... my phone won't even turn on... nothing, it's dead... :S i only installed a CF-Root with odin, no problems there, then i tried to instal, Darky's 10.2 but odin diden't moved for a while, and i closed it, and turned off the phone, and *dead* :'(
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Darky's 10.2 is for the Galaxy S so you killed the phone!

You're going to need JTAG Service to revive that device.
[Galaxy S II General] Kur0saki:
i hope you are kidding, i dont know how its possible.

You are writing this thread in samsung galaxy s i9100 forum, but you are flashing stuff from samsung galaxy s?

doesnt make sense, feel sorry for ya.
[Galaxy S II General] unleashed12:
Some of the other guys are 100% right, the jig will not help you at all, Id be bet money on it, when it says re partitioning failed or w/e that means something went wrong at the bootloader level (hence why they say never to check re partitioning anyway) what likely happened is you flashed an i9000 pit file, and now your phone is a 100% paper weight unless you do a jtag/warrenty repair.

because if you flash the wrong kernel, you can still easily recovery through download mode. But by checking re partition or by putting through a pit file, the phones partitions get totally destroyed.

Sorry its harsh but its the truth...
[Galaxy S II General] Robi-K:
Did the jig help you? Guessing not. You have two options. Either go to a samsung service center or go to a normal mobile repair shop and ask them if they can fix it. There is a servicing tool called Riff box that can revive dead boot phones. I also have one and succesfully revived two I9000's and a couple of others with it. Basically its a jtag tool.

One thing to note is that if you first take it to a shop then samsungs repair center may not repair it afterwards if the shop fail to do so. The phone needs to be disassembled in order to connect jtag points.

The S2 can be repaired with jtag but you need skills to work with it so ask the shop if you decide to take it there if they can revive a dead boot S2
[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
The jig did not arrive jet, but I doubt as well that it will help.

Still need to try if battery might be empty, gotta charge at a friends phone today,but again I doubt it will work.

(And please, I really know how stupid I acted, don´t repeat that I did.)

In worst case I think I will tell in the shop (I bought it with contract, so O2/Telefonica is the giving the garantee) that I tried to do the Firmware Update in Samsung Apps, then it frooze, then stayed black. Quite sure a skilled techie will find out what happened for real, but still there is a chance they will do it for free.

Or does anybody has a better idea? I got ensurance, if I would completly trash the phone I would get a new one...
[Galaxy S II General] byted:
I sent in a Galaxy S Captivate back to Samsung directly after I screwed up my bootloader. I just told them nothing happened when i powered on. They fixed it because it was still under warranty. I wouldnt worry about them. They are pretty easy going.
[Galaxy S II General] NightFreaker:
good luck to the unlucky 1... hopefully can see good message :)
[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
Thank you all for the input, I will report back how it went.

Guess telling them: "It just did not turn" on is the best...
[Galaxy S II General] surya_mca:
dear @Meierhans , the same thing happen to me not because of flashing kernal but some thing wiped/mounted i did while flashing some Cutome ROM.. nor JIG nor Download/Recover Worked for me...

While Charging the phone get heated up but wont shown any charging symbol...

I googled tried every possible scenario but none worked...

But last not least took my phone to my Sam service Center told them while updating firmware thru KIES(guess wht i lied) power goes off and phone dead never powerup...

They took my phone for 3 hrs and returned me with Srock firmware.. i asked them what was happened.. they said some Ssyetm files got corrupted and they kept back my SAM firmware they said(my phone was 9 months old that time and in Custom ROM also).

So my suggestion is to take up ur phone to them and tell the same story(if u have new u can) instead of wasting time and money...

Hope it helps you a bit...

*Press Thanks Button if it helps you*
[Galaxy S II General] xieh:
Guess we made a mistake, it happens when u try something and it doesn't work...

because i tried CF_root and it worked fine, then i tried to install other Rom's from here but there wasn't any, "instal zip from card" on cwm =/ and so i tried the darky's on odin... yeah now i know it's only for galaxy s no for galaxy SII... but still no need to be mean,

i'll try to take it to "vodafone" and tell them i was watching a movie, and then tried to update with kies, and it died... because the phone was actually very very hot =/ i'll try to blame that... cause it was yesterday, and it's only a month since yesterday since i have it... so it has that warranty of on month and they give u a new one... let's try and see, if it can be fixed, i'll be sure to give u a HUGE THANKS ;)
[Galaxy S II General] e-RickNET:
Hi there!

First of all, download a Stock Firmware for your region

Try to charge your phone for some minutes

Get it into Download Mode (Volumen down + Home + Power)

Flash the stock fw with odin (if you find a ~700MB .md5 file, just flash it using PDA)

Only Auto Reboot, F. Reset Time and PDA would be activated, uncheck Re-Partion

Start and wait for a while until you phone reboot by itself

That´s All

If you want to root your phone, there's some tutorials about that.
[Galaxy S II General] lawtq:
Hi peeps

To the poor person with the suspected bricked phone, I think the jig will work, as my lovely beautiful daughter unplugged my usb connection as I was updating firmware!! I could have killed her

After resuscitating her, I simply removed battery, put it back, put jig in which put it into dowload mode and flashed away with her firmly locked away under the stairs until it was finished flashing.

So I hope all goes well for you m8!
[Galaxy S II General] xieh:
Well i send it back to tecnicall suport, let's wait and hope they don't notice anything... btw my phone was smelling burned, and the battery even with phone dead, was very hot =/ probably fried up inside :S no? :X
[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
Just for the records: I tried everything, Jig + fully charged battery from a friend, holding buttons while jig insertet..not holding them.. Switching USB, connecting mini USB to jig.. all combinations. Result: Nada. Nothing. Black.

I returned it now, told them I had no idea what went wrong. Guess if they wanna find out they will, but hoping they just dont care.

lets pray a bit..
[Galaxy S II General] xieh:
i would if i were a bealiver... :p but u can still pray for me xD
[Galaxy S II General] Meierhans:
Normally I do not pray as well. Looks like it helped this time, just got a call from the shop that it was repaired for free. PHHEEEWWW!!!!

Thank you guys for your support and empathy.

Well then, lets read _deep_ into matter now and choose right this time...
[Galaxy S II General] xieh:
well my SG2 is back as new and without any additional costs :p hehe but with the new official 2.3.5, and i DON'T like it, it consumes way more battery then the previous version 2.3.3 =/ well but since it looks like ICS is coming in January, i'll wait for the official one :) thanks for trying to help ;)
[Galaxy S II General] bassie1995:
Lucky man right here.

You could flash a ROM now, just be sure of what you're doing or ask someone.

How you doin'? Greetings from my GT-I9000!
[Galaxy S II General] xieh:
i think i'll wait for the ICS in January :)
[Galaxy S II General] bassie1995:
Playing it safe, good choice :D

How you doin'? Greetings from my GT-I9000!
[HTC EVO 3D] flashinglights:
Thought I would post this up for anyone that is interested in it. This will add "ROM tweaks" to your rom. If you've used my ROM, myn's warmtwopointthree or virus's eternity rom you probably know what kind of features it adds to your rom.

In case you haven't seen them this gives you extra options to your rom like the ability to hide/move your clock around, change lockscreen style etc.. This should work on any stock rom and can probably be ported to any other rom by the developer of that rom. Most ROMs have the tweaks named differently and have them modified to match their rom, but these are completely stock to match any rom.

I take no credit for the tweaks, most of them were written by Romanbb for his bulletproof rom found here. I'm pretty sure myn and the warm team added some more tweaks so credit to them as well. I thought I would post them up for users to use or for developers to use for their rom. Everything was ported manually by myself onto stock files to be used by everyone.

Integrating the tweaks into your stock files is a long process but if you want further details feel free to ask and I'll help you out. Most devs should know how to port the code over either way, if not I'd recommend reading up a bit further before planning on porting them. With that being said this is intended for users who aren't able to do the work themselves but would like the options, if you are a developer please don't just kang off these files for your rom without giving credit.

If you're on a heavily modified ROM ask the developer if it's okay to use this before flashing. Otherwise it might break something in that ROM.

Hope you'll find this useful. I know I would have instead of having to go searching around inside the smali to see what was needed.

ROM Tweaks Options:

Show/Hide Quicksettings

Lockscreen options:

[-]choose between stock sense 3.0, aosp, and honeycomb lockscreen

[-]custom carrier caption (doesn't always work, can be changed manually by editing the lock_carrier.txt found in /system/customize/

[-]volume keys wake screen

Clock Options:

[-]Hide, Show, Center clock

[-]Show, Hide, and small AM/PM style

[-]clock color

[-]Hide alarm icon

Battery Options

[-]Show batter icon

[-]Battery text style

[-]Various coloring options

Signal Options:

[-]Show signal bars

[-]Various signal text styles

[-]Various coloring options

Sense Options:

[-]custom personalize button

[-]enable unlock animation

[-]5 column app drawer

[-]paginated app drawer

[-]show recent apps

[-]quick-quick settings

Misc Options

[-] capacative backlight brightness

[-]Phone info (hidden htc diagnostics screen)

Enable/Disable crt animations

Various overscroll options

If crt animations are not enabled in the rom you want to use these for you have to add the the following anywhere in your build.prop, otherwise the crt animations will not work:

# Render GPU/UI Tweaks
debug.sf.hw=1
debug.performance.tuning=1
video.accelerate.hw=1

Screenshots:

Download Link:

- [MOD] Tweaks_Stock_v0.1

OLD VERSION:

- [MOD] Tweaks_Stock [mirror]

Changelog:
[HTC EVO 3D] rahditzz:
This is for cdma only? :'(
[HTC EVO 3D] flashinglights:
Yeah, it uses framework from a cdma stock rom so it might bork something up for GSM 3D's.
[HTC EVO 3D] rahditzz:
Can u port it please? :) Glad to be beta tester then.. :P
[HTC EVO 3D] flashinglights:
Sorry but that would be to much of a hassle uploading and waiting for a response would take to long. I'm sure a developer for you'll can port them over.
[HTC EVO 3D] riku-vomoto:
thank you so much for this!!!
[HTC EVO 3D] asbury:
Thank you so much. It is exactly what I need.
[HTC EVO 3D] youngpro83:
So just flash this?

Sent from my Beastly EVO.. And did I mention it has 3D?
[HTC EVO 3D] mayfield103:
Jan already ported tweaks to the gsm 3d. :) great work on this thanks!
[HTC EVO 3D] rahditzz:
Not all of the tweaks..

Sent from a sad Evo 3d gsm owner, using xda app! :'(
[HTC EVO 3D] flashinglights:
Yes, if your on a stock rom then just flash it. If flashed onto a themed rom it will probably untheme most of it.

He should be able to port these if he did the ones from leedroid.
[HTC EVO 3D] mexiking713:
Thank you for this

Sent from my HTC Evo in 3D
[HTC EVO 3D] s4audi:
I tried flashing and no go. I have Clean ROM 2.8 with 1.50 hboot.

And guesses why not?