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[Galaxy S II General] pejmany:
Hey guys,

I'm trying to help entropy and GM with some diagnostic stuff

If any is able to enter recover, running

cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p9/size

from adb shell can give some info as to what's going on with partition sizes

Try that ^ out with mmcblk0p7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Also, try out

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10

to see if and how much can be written to each partition

once again with 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

I get the feeling this might be partition rewriting, but I don't know anything and that's not from any dev

But still, information's helpful, here and in for the future

EDIT: also, let's try and keep the back and forth between whose fault it was to a minimum, and not restate what's been said (and is fact) too much.

This was sammy's error.

People have egos

People have expectations

Stupid people exist (who don't read and/or realize what this community sets as rules

The kernel patch caused the brick, not the kernel

Modders and devs are people, not corporations, they can't beta test (and neither can samsung apparently ;P )
[Galaxy S II General] xBlackDroid:
Trying top back to the topic...

Pone month ago ive bricked my sii instaling an update from cm9...was a full bricked no cwm orden download Mód... i tryied use a usbjig and nothing..

I sent to samsung and the only way was a physical change....
[Galaxy S II General] ashzoomerintrack:
Yup this turning out to be a siyah lovers and haters riot. Come on guys get your things buckled up and spend that energy in reviving those unfortunately bricked devices. Stay focused on the purpose of this thread.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
How many people recovered their bricked S2 yet?
[Galaxy S II General] Elvispen:
Lesson learned here to.

Should be careful to use the RC:s.

Got my S2 hardbricked too when on the rc6 and full wipe.

Only blaming myself due to not using a stable kernel, rc is rc and not fully thrustworthy.

Hoping service center wont go deep enough to see the flash counter. I don't think they got the effort to do it when it's hard bricked with no download or recovery mode but just switching the mainboard on warranty.

I'll tell you how it went when getting it back.

I'll be waiting for the stable siyah.
[Galaxy S II General] Elvispen:
And I don't understand all the whining. Buhuu, bricked.

It's not a newsflash that you'll always risking a brick when flashing anything.

Use it as an excuse to get the S3 instead. :-)
[Galaxy S II General] haasgo:
I think that there should be sumting such as a standard procedure such as:

1. Which rom have u been on?

2. Which bootloader/kernel did u use beforehand?

3. Soft/hard bricked?

4. Did u have a dual booting device?

5. What was the exact procedure till the brick?

6. Can u adb ur device?

7. And so on.....

So the devs can MAYBE get sumtin sorted...just an approach.

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[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Devs didn't found any solution to the issue yet:(
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Mine was sent to Samsung, I am looking for news...
[Galaxy S II General] ATN24:
its really sad reading peeps blaming GM now although they forgot the "flash at ur own risk" sign ...
[Galaxy S II General] PepsiMaxIsti:
I will get mine back on monday, the had to replace the motherboard, and will change it on warrenty :)

My fault for bricking, I flashed my phone, and no one forced me :D
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
How many days have passed since you delivered your S2 assistance for repair?

I am in Italy and the times are very slow, they told me 15 days! :(

I delivered my S2 on april the 25th
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Same here
[Galaxy S II General] adamski123:
Hang on so lemme get this straight. The latest siyah kernel for ics caused some peoples phones to do a hard brick :0 with no recovery or download at all? :0 :0
[Galaxy S II General] ZonyX:
Not the latest.. it was an rc6 version.

Running 3.2b1 with no issues
[Galaxy S II General] adamski123:
Ahh ok my bad ;) cheers Zony.
[Galaxy S II General] normally_crazy:
Happened to me too. phone went dead - did not turn on at all.

Took it to the Samsung service fellows - they said MB is gone will have to be replaced. I said do it.

After 2 days they called and told me - Sir it's done, collect your phone.

Thank God for warranties :D

Sad news - I am back on GB 2.3.6
[Galaxy S II General] sinancetinkaya:
And it was not the kernel, Samsung new source update 5 has that bug.

Gökhan unluckily was the first developer used that source.

He fixed the bug but it was too late.

Even some Korean Samsung devices got bricked with official Samsung update, so it was not just Gökhan's siyah kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] PepsiMaxIsti:
I took mine on 23.04, to my phone company, so they could send the phone to SC, they sen't the phone on 25.4 and I got a call yesterday and I was told that they had to replace the MB, and would give me my phone back on monday.

Hope they will do that.
[Galaxy S II General] xethor:
Thank god your post has been deleted.
[Galaxy S II General] xBlackDroid:
Ive wait 20 data without phone :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] r3vo:
RC6 is the best kernel for me so far. No over-heating issue, great speed and very good battery life. I had serious over-heating issues with later versions so i'm sticking with rc6 :)

Hydrog3n + Siyah
[Galaxy S II General] jchusted:
It seems like that the hard bricked phones are repaired under warranty.

Sounds so great, think I gonny bring in my phone on monday.

I will report how the progress will be.

Thanks for the post which are relevant regarding our bricked devices.

No thank to the guys which are filling this thread with irrelevant stuff.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
well I am pleased with Samsung..
[Galaxy S II General] Nio9345:
New problem : Siyah Kernel Update Problem! Read Before Flash It!!!

Resently I update my Kernel to Siyah Kernel v3.1rc6 . The ROM that i used it with was ICS Resurrection Remix 1.5 and I wanted to update to 1.7 .... Until 1.5 the update was fast and nice .... But since I update my kernel to the Siyah i coundn't update my ROM ! When it was ready to update it started to show a list of Galaxy's ex. gt-i9100G-P-I and so on and then stopped with the error status 7. I tried another ROM ,the same thing. I update the kernel to 3.1.2, nothing changed. So I formatted with original ROM through Odin and then tried the same ROM i tried from the first try and Bingo!!!!! The update proceeded with no problem! So the final concution is this: The Siyah Kernel might have a bug, and from the error that was listed in my device screen, considering the comparison of the phone type like "gt-i9001->gt-i9001t :No","gt-i9001->gt-i91001 :Yes, continue the update". I am not a developer and i don't want to play the guy that knows everything .... This crossed my mind consedering a similar post that a skillful guy twicked his "build.ini" and he fixed the problem. If anyone can give a strayed answer about this problem and what should I do (because maybe I did something wrong, I am an n00b after all) or someone talk to Siyah Dev. Team to inform them about that problem.....

(I originaly post it in an original thread of mine but the chief moderator told me to put better here so the people with Siyah kernel doesn't look around):confused:
[Galaxy S II General] fedort:
I've also been using that bad kernel, but right now I've already switched to a thoravukk kernel.

I'm about to do a full wipe, but I'm still worried about bricking my phone because I've used the RC6 kernel in the past... Am I safe to do a full wipe, or might there be some leftover files from the RC6 kernel, which may cause a brick?
[Galaxy S II General] itchetrigr:
can you access your external sdcard with it? has anyone tried reflashing original clockworkmod recovery cwm.zip if possible?

I really wish those that have been unfortunate enough to have thier phones bricked find a solution. I am really sorry this has happened to you all, I can imagine the feeling as I was just about to install that kernel and flash a new rom minutes before luckily by chance i decided to check the thread for new updates from GM.

On a side note how can a kernel stray so wrong when the 19.04.2012 build of Siyah-v3.1rc6 has been phenomenal in stability, performance and battery?
[Galaxy S II General] hiepgia:
Ok! You have problem with partition and you have pit file to fix.

1. Enter Download Mode

2. get pit file from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?vla921y1ivyq8ff

3. select *.pit file

4. Recheck if re-partition is checked

5. select a firmware you download from

a. http://www.sammobile.com/firmware

b. http://www.samsung-updates.com/​

6. Flash it

7. Report if it work.

I have this problem and fix it by this way. Hopeful it work for you!:D
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
GM was reuploaded rc6 with wifi fix on 21st, that was culprit
[Galaxy S II General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
It asks for a password!

However KI3 contains a .pit file and it didn't work. Isn't this the same?
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
How exactly can a kernel brick a phone? A jig can't boot the phone in download mode? I find that hard to believe... What are the symptoms?
[Galaxy S II General] hiepgia:
## = samfirmware.com

# = samsung-firmwares.com

Try 2 password. 4 me, it work perfectly. You can try flash pit file without firmware file and then flash pit+tar file after that. As dual boot change mount point /data to root/.secondrom/data.img. Repartition is needed!
[Galaxy S II General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
What I did:

- flash .pit + firmware (PDA) -> bootloop

- flash only .pit -> bootloop

- flash again .pit + firmware -> bootloop

:(

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It probably messed up with system and data partition. Internal sdcard can't be mounted so the os can't boot.
[Galaxy S II General] PepsiMaxIsti:
This happend to me, hope I will be able to fix this soon,:confused:
[Galaxy S II General] Cristiano Matos:
Did you try pit + bootloader or only bootloader?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
what you going to do for fix?
[Galaxy S II General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
No... where do I find a bootloader?

Actually this is the first time I use Odin apart from the cfroot flash
[Galaxy S II General] migsguerra:
Katchara phone ! only can solve to bring it back to samsung service center:D
[Galaxy S II General] Cristiano Matos:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1419102

CM9 thread. There you'll find, in red, a link for download of a ICS bootloader.
[Galaxy S II General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
I'm flashing a Gingerbread ROM... is it compatible?
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
ICS bootloaders are compatible with Gingerbread. But if you boot into download mode, don't think flashing the bootloader will change much... No harm in trying though if you're bricked. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] lfabresm:
I'm one of the lucky "siyah-3.1rc6 guys", and I'm agree on that you said.

That's why I'm not blaming GM, everyone should get their own lessons learned.

so, let's focus on learn how-to-unbrick science.

In my case my phone is totally dead... no power on, no usb jig reaction, nothing... I guess the only way is a JTAG programmer

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you are really lucky! my bricked phone is totally dead... is not turning on :(
[Galaxy S II General] Cristiano Matos:
Try flashing pit + bootloader only. Not full rom.
[Galaxy S II General] lfabresm:
no... my phone is not turning on... even no reaction to USB jig :(
[Galaxy S II General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
Right... nothing changed
[Galaxy S II General] lfabresm:
that's my case... completely dead...

I tried:

- voldown+power+home w/ battery plugged in

- voldown+power+home inserting battery

- voldown+power+home wo/ battery but charger plugged in

- USB Jig w/ battery

- USB Jig inserting battery

- USB Jig wo/ battery

- everything through USB cable.. no success
[Galaxy S II General] Ayroth:
Bricked mine today as i wasn't aware about this, mine doesn't turn on anymore, only thing is that when i press the power button, after few minutes, the phone turns a bit hot
[Galaxy S II General] nidalius:
Stole a new one 9100R or buy new mobo :)
[Galaxy S II General] Galactus:
Fail. Samsung will fix your motherboard under warranty. Return your phone to service if it really is bricked
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Basically rc6 were uploads gokhanmoral multiple versions and it seems that he did build a kernel-based Korean (?)... did not present any particular problems except for an error when you went to use the camera. Now here depended somewhat on how one behaved, if decided to flash a new kernel was fine and nothing happened, if (like me) decided to restore a backup done before the bug was manifested when it was made ​​a wipe.

The same thing happened to those who made even a simple wipe with no other special operations.

It therefore seems that once entered into cmw if you wipe / data / wipe the system does, but it also goes to wipped PBL / SBL, or otherwise corrupting ... and here you make a nice paperweight!

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BRICK STATUS - Samsung Galaxy S2 Android 4.0.3© SAMSUNG ASSISTANCE

Rom FoxHound Psycho Mantis V2 - XWLP7

BB: BULP6 - Kernel: 3.0.15 - Siyah-v3.1rc6+ bug release
[Galaxy S II General] Nio9345:
When you flash a new kernel is like switching a Word file with the same name "Boot.txt" . The old one will be overwriten by the new one ,deleting everything inside the file.... The merge fanction occures only in folders ... So no worry .... I tested it my self... But if wand toi be better saved than sorry there is a thread with the original Samsung android ... Find your android version "ex. XLPQ" and download the second file that has and flash it with Odin....
[Galaxy S II General] fedort:
Thanks for the explanation
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Is there a website where I can find the terminal for repair via IMEI?
[Galaxy S II General] ykadoura:
been using siyah3.1-rc6 with Foxhound PsychoMantis V2. today i did a full wipe data / system / cache and flashed the new Foxhound GreyfoxV2. everything worked fine.. but i didnt like the new rom(some bugs) so i nandroid restored and am back on the siyah3.1rc6.. I was gonna try flashing again and then i saw this thread :) thank god.

the siyah3.1rc6 kernel in PsychoMantisV2 is customized for Foxhound, so does it not have those problems found in the normal 3.1rc6? (since i didnt brick my phone)

should i flash another kernel (siyah 3.1.2?) before attempting to wipe again?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Seems you have earlier version of 3.1rc6. The problem was with reuploaded rc6 on 2204.

For security flash another version of the kernel asap.
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
If you are using rc6 and camera app doesn’t work download and reinstall rc6 immediately without wiping any data or installing anything else.
[Galaxy S II General] ykadoura:
camera app works fine.

mine is 3.0.28-siyah3.1rc6, probably doesnt contain the bug, but will flash siyah3.1.2 to stay on the safe side. thx for the reply.
[Galaxy S II General] Elvispen:
It was due to camera issues in WanamLite 11.1 and Siyah rc6 I went on uninstalling camera.apk, then wipe (hardbricked here) with intension to reinstalling WanamLite 11.1 to get the camera running again.

Still waiting for SC reply.
[Galaxy S II General] shubham.dhand:
same problem here.

this same problem happened to my phone also. is there a way out? what can i do now?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Only SC can do your help!

Deposit your S2 at SC and don't tell what happened, seems eMMC chip is also bricked so hopefully you will get new motherboard under warranty
[Galaxy S II General] shubham.dhand:
thanks for your advice

but i have another doubt my binary counts are 16 is that any any problem?

if sc see that they will know that my phone was rooted and rooted phone voids the warranty..

so still it will be repaired under warranty.?

or i can reduce the binary counts in any way?
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
They cannot see it

Storage chip is damaged
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Did you try using a JIG?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Your boot loaders well as eMMC that is your phone storage chip is also corrupted so Samsung or anyone can not read anything form your plate..
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Yes it is... if he are not able to access recovery/download mode, all informations stored are not available. The S2 must be fixed changing hardware, motherboard. Hoping he are still under warranty to save the money!
[Galaxy S II General] shubham.dhand:
no ididnt use JIG

i just used odin for flashing some roms (.tar or MD5 )(PDA) or for rooting my phone and also flashing some roms through cwm recovery but didnt use any other file.

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phone goes into downloading(odin) mode or recovery mode,i cant detect the problem. i can flash all roms and kernels through odin or cwm recovery but phone hangs after showing the GALAXY S2 GT-I9100 logo.

just now i tried flashing the stock indian GB rom but after flashing ,phone goes in installation mode and while installing it shows that it "cant open data/recovery.log and cant open kernel/__ "something like that..this comes written in red colour while this procedure

it happens so fast that i couldn't read that..
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
I bet samsung did it on purpose to brick some devices causing a chaos here and making us stick to their crap=making us buy their future devices due to no updates from their part
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Then if you able, try flashing old bootloader 2.3.3 and clear binary counter with usb jig.

This is happening because of eMMC storage corrupted and not available to write anything on the phone
[Galaxy S II General] shubham.dhand:
thanks buddy now i'm trying your advice.

if it don't work then should i flash my phone with the .pit file?

is this dangerous?
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
LOL what?

I was answering him, my phone is alright
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
Guys if ur going to continue with this attidude gok will leave .U know how time it takes to do this?u know how much real life time he must sacrifice to do these kernels (which is not only copy and paste code ,the type u do while ur sitting on the toilet waiting for it to fall down and splash in the water) and share them with arrogant and egoist ppl like you,like ME. he doesnt even know who we are and he is still sharing it with us.He does this for free...for u...Noone forced U to flash his kernel.It was ur choice ,every choice u make in life has its consequences which can be both positive and negative.Now when gok loses his motivation to make more kernels he will leave and then some douche bags will spam with threads like,"What happened to gok?","Gok stopped deving?" That question then answer it yourself,place ur hand on top of ur chest and say"It was my fault" and cry like a baby because u will start appreciating his work when he is absent.
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
LOL, sorry for the misunderstood my reply was for shubham.dhand.

Sorry for my bad quote! ;)
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
http://liquorandkarate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/****-that-*****-scared-yao.png
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
I believe and I respect in gokhanmoral work! :cool:

I believe in Siyah kernel!
[Galaxy S II General] shubham.dhand:
bootloader is also not working.

now only .pit file is left..

please tell that should i go to SC or install .pit file also.

i'm asking this because i read in some threads that .pit is dangerous and can further hard brick my phone
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
Your hardware is already damaged so you have to go to samsung center but reflash stock 2.3.3 Indian firmware and reset counter by USB jig
[Galaxy S II General] shubham.dhand:
where should i get usb jig??

is it available in india?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
from here..

http://www.ebay.in/itm/Micro-USB-JI...?pt=IN_Mobile_Accessories&hash=item256fb53778
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
I am disagree with you in other manner,

'Nothing will be stopped in the world due to anyone's absence!

The Earth will be still spinning, if you believe in nature'
[Galaxy S II General] shubham.dhand:
i think there is no problem with emmc i can still format my emmc but the problem is that i can't format my user data in any case.

and you know what when ever i flash a rom through odin the binary count stay same and when i flash a kernel then the binary count increases by 1.

why is it so?
[Galaxy S II General] Ogy77:
I need small question and need answer,whether it has a certain jig for SGS2 or we can use any on ebay?Thanks God I dont need,just ask:).
[Galaxy S II General] shubham.dhand:
yes you can use any of them that will work because it just have 3kilo ohm resistor attached with it. and its same for all
[Galaxy S II General] puppyko:
It's really unfortunate that we have people bricked their phone thru flashing a kernel that had a bad source.

It's also thru this unfortunate incident that we now know the saying that "SG2 is impossible to brick" is proven wrong and that people will be more careful when they next flash.

At the end of the day, once you decide to root your SG2, flash kernel, flash ROM, you are taking your own risk and when things go unfortunately wrong, you are responsible for your own action. Blame no one else.

This thread would be useful for people to know how the brick happen, any working solution etc.

Just a wishful thought...if Entropy512 or some dev could get hold of a bricked SG2...may be they could look into how to prevent...or possibly revive a bricked phone :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] PepsiMaxIsti:
Got mine back to day, they replaced the MB, and I didn't have to pay anything, but they keept the same IME number.
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
the brick was a hardware issue there is no fix besides replacing the damaged chips
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Counterproductive - since it's causing quite a few developers to swear off Samsung unless they start handling this properly. (Properly - acknowledge the problem and work with the developers here on fixing it so that we know when it's safe again.) I'm not going to trust any further leak kernels from Samsung or even their source drops until they acknowledge this issue and state exactly what in the latest M250S/K/L sources caused it. As stated before - this same issue is causing bricks in the Epic 4G Touch forums and in the Galaxy Note forums.

People with more experience resurrecting devices than I do, such as Josh Groce of mobiletechvideos.com, have been unable to resurrect devices damaged in this way. The only way to resurrect the device is to resolder a new flash chip, but Josh hasn't figured out a practical way to do this yet. (Partly due to the fact that I believe it's a specialty Samsung part that can't be obtained on its own.)
[Galaxy S II General] Rawi666:
Is there any way to report such a bug to samsung?

If they don't read this forum they might even don't know about the bug....

Maybe someone from here knows some ppl from samsung?
[Galaxy S II General] dandroid13:
Took my phone to Samsung monday, they'll fix it for free (I hope) in 7 to 10 days. I'm back to Froyo now, using a Motorola Milestone 2.
[Galaxy S II General] A|ex:
Is anyone able to tell what the hardware issue was that caused this. I think as others that its important to find out why this happened? Those that did brisk and are moaning, I think its bang out of order as this is what your sign up for if you root.
[Galaxy S II General] gokhanmoral:
I received an email today about a request of that bricking rc6 version.

he wants to get his MB replaced on guarantee to have newer exynos chip which can handle more undervolting :D

ironic...
[Galaxy S II General] exynoss:
No dear kachru it is available here in delhi @gaffar market :p:p
[Galaxy S II General] haasgo:
Rofl! U always find someone to take advantage of something like that. Stupid idea imho...there will be no "newer/better" chip, but a compatible one which might even be worse :D

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[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
diversity of ppl...

Sent from my SGS2 powered by cm9 love