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[Galaxy S II General] gokhanmoral:
this is exactly what happened.

I used M250(S/L/K) sources as base. that device has the same specs as our device.

I flash the kernel to my device and then upload. but there is no way that I can test/review Samsung's official kernel sources in every detail. I always avoid changes which can harm our devices but the problem is not caused by a change made by me.

The same problem occurred with other devices which use exynos4 such as galaxy note, i777 and korean variants. we are just lucky that our stock kernel doesn't have that problem or everybody using cfroot would be having the same problem. other devices had the same problem and people were blaming improper packing of cwm recovery because there was no other change in the kernel image (it was not compiled), until we had the same problem by changing only the Samsung base.

In other words, if you download and compile the official ICS sources for korean variant from Samsung's site and pack it with CWM Recovery, you will have the same problem. I doubt it happens only on high I/O load.

although there is no proof of that some of us think that it only occurs if you use old gingerbread bootloader to be able to use jig to reset binary counter.

I feel terribly bad for those who had that problem and I am very sorry for what happened. I wish I had a solution for that.

I wish there was a way for me to foreseen that problem or test but there wasn't.

I understand that people who had their devices bricked are angry and think that the problem is caused by me. In a way, they are right, it was my existence which made that problem occur. However, I want to restate that it was not caused by any of my changes and it was not my intention to brick your devices.

I hope Service Center's will fix the problem.
[Galaxy S II General] Diliban:
This is what I did when I bricked my SG Ace using rom manager. You can easily replace your mother board under warranty.
[Galaxy S II General] Goku80:
at the end of the day people know the score mate when flashing stuff just not yours only. HOX still early in development but i still felt scared doing things because of how different it is to S2. But my flashing urges got the best of me and even though i know i had a chance to brick my phone i still went ahead and flashed stuff because i could not wait any longer..but that does not mean it is the developers fault for me getting the urges..i knew the risk and still went ahead....so really it us the users who know the score just unfortunately it was one in a million kinda thing that happened..just a mistake that is all...it is like the cwm recovery for the HOX...if you flash that on your phone and you let your battery die down you get kinda like a softbrick..to avoid that happening you have to flash stock recovery for now till the problem gets fixed..people know that but they still flash it me included...so we know the score but we just can not help ourselfs

what i am trying to say with my post here is that no matter how scared we get to flashing things we still go ahead and do it cause our urges get the best of us and we want to have the latest and greatest on our phones
[Galaxy S II General] ninbert:
for sure Service center will fix the phones that was not hard bricked, i mean the ones who boot into download, recovery mode. but the question is the costs.

there should be a way to reset all the counters and get back as stock as possible before going to the SC and keep the warranty. is there?
[Galaxy S II General] ZonyX:
really...surely everybody knows that when you flash stuff...you are opening yourself up to these potential issues.

i mean you even get a warning if you go into download mode!

to people moaning about GM - grow some balls, you flashed something custom...it didnt go well... that was a risk you took.

its like going out knowing it will rain... then not taking a jacket... but then moaning that you got wet!
[Galaxy S II General] spaxxilein:
any chance fixxing it with an update GM ?

best regards

vincent
[Galaxy S II General] PepsiMaxIsti:
i was able to flash GB 2.3.4 to my SGS2 so I could use a usbjig to reset the counter, and then took it to the service center, and hope they can fix it, and now know what happend, and the warrenty will cover it.

My phone was able to boot to recovery and download mode, but alwasys stoped at the datafile when flashing it, so I just hope they can fix it.

At least my counter said that I hadn't flashed anything on it, and say samsung stock rom.

ps. I don't blame anyone but me, but I just hope my phone will be okey :) :)

Kind Regards PepsiMaxIsti Iceland
[Galaxy S II General] alferret:
Agreed, the onus is on the flasher, they know that doing anything outside of kies runs a risk & yet when something goes wrong the first person they blame is the dev. Its time some people got over what has happened, chalk it up to experience & move on.

There is nothing to be gained by *****ing about the brick, get it into a SC & cross your fingers!

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] sebarkh:
Idled

This is Development Area. New features are tested everyday...

Flashing means testing, here.

GM is the guy we love. Believe me. It's our luck we have him, it is especially visible in other forums, where sometimes there is nobody even to develop a rooting method...

Even if some devices were bricked it was still worth it.
[Galaxy S II General] Rawi666:
I think that we all should change our way of thinking that flashing everything except bootloader is "safe".

Many believed that you can always revive your phone if only you hadn't flashed bootloader.

In fact every flash can be deadly.

Actually it's good that it happened in siyah kernel.

Imagine what could happen if the bug were also in samsung sources and in cf-root kernels...
[Galaxy S II General] ivanoalbergo@gmail.com:
Hy GM,thanks for all

Is it possibile that during the wipe data something drain the battery?i always use your kernel or neak and i never had some problem with kernel but sometimes i noted that the battery go down to 20 or 30%
[Galaxy S II General] lfabresm:
I have a bricked SGS2 because of this kernel, and I'm not blaming you.

Nobody obligate me to flash anything on my phone. Is not in the user manual.

Everybody must know that this involve a risk.

Please, keep developing great things for our devices, but don't feel pressure to bring updates every hour or every day, just release them when you feel you are in the right point to do it.
[Galaxy S II General] asrock37:
J-Tag

Bootloader problem? J-Tag can do it
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Its not available in many countries!
[Galaxy S II General] asrock37:
so sad... I know J-Tag can do it, I have experienced it with my SGS-GT-i9000 and only J-Tag can solved.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
and what about motherboard replacement? will it solve?
[Galaxy S II General] asrock37:
I think yes, because motherboard has it's own loader so, you can go to download mode.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
as I don't have J-Tag service available here, thinking of replacing my S2's motherboard..
[Galaxy S II General] harise100:
That's a problem of our battery, not the kernel. When you restart your phone, the battery can get "out of synch" or something like that. It'll be back to normal after a while.

OT: I feel with you guys. I had the 0%-Battery-Problem on my Xperia Neo. Sony Service had to replace my MB in order to fix it.
[Galaxy S II General] Roger00:
JTAG SERVICE IN EUROPE via eBay

I posted this last night but I'm posting it again.

I couldn't find anyone here in Ireland to JTAG it so I've purchased the service via ebay of a guy in Portugal who I bought the jig of a few weeks ago, with very quick turn around I should add. He offers the service to Europe only and costs £25.50 inc shipping (he's posting on ebay.co.uk that way he can charge in British pounds instead of euro's).

This is his item number on ebay 320882225132 just copy and paste it into ebay's search box and it will bring you to his listing.

Also found a guy in the UK on ebay but deals only with orders from the UK, This is the ebay item number for UK only seller 221002739538 he charges £30.49 inc shipping
[Galaxy S II General] Goku80:
you are missing my point here though what i am trying to say. even when i was on my s2 his kernel was my main kernel i ever used. but the way things have evolved more and more people ask him to add things that he himself tries to do and tries to satisfy everyone. but that is his nature from what i have gathered..he is such a great guy and developer that he tries to do so many things in so little time cause he knows people expect him to deliver..hence why sometimes mistakes happen. he will not probably admit it but sometimes building yourself such a massive and good reputation and high standards people expect to have something straight away...anyways i am kinda going off topic here but what i wanted to say is maybe to slow down and take his time instead of rushing
[Galaxy S II General] asrock37:
They used J-Tag to put a loader in the motherboard, by replacing the motherboard, it just like you are buying new phone, and I am sure it will work, so better buy new motherboard and replaced it.
[Galaxy S II General] OrrPenn18:
SC will replace your motherboard :)

They do for every single case! Indian SC are dumb! Even if you soft-bricked your phone, they still gonna replace the motherboard :D

Have faith mate! All izz well! ;)
[Galaxy S II General] sebarkh:
Sorry, but I disagree. You are pointing GM's good nature as the reason for what happened.

The truth is nobody asked him to use Korean sources. And these sources caused this mess.

So even if he released one kernel every month (not everyday), and used the sources this would have happened.
[Galaxy S II General] :
The truth is nobody asked you to use his kernel.

There must be another variable apart form the sources causing those bricks. I have a GT-I9100 flashed with ODIN to LPQ then updated to different ROMs using CWM. I have wiped with 3.1rc6 many times that day. (switching between AOKP, LPS and LP8). I wiped everytime and did not brick my device. I also restored my backup of LPS after flashing AOKP as I didn't like it.
[Galaxy S II General] confusedmuse:
If you had missed out this part in the first place, then this discussion most propably would be only about fixing the issue.

...and free of all that unnecessary blaming. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] PepsiMaxIsti:
Has anyone tried Jtag service?

Does anyone know of Jtag service located in Iceland, so I don't have to send my phone somwhere.

Kind Regards PepsiMaxIsti
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Whatever the problem is, it's intermittent - for example, over in I777-land, a whole bunch of people hardbricked with a CWM-repacked UCLD3 kernel in a matter of 2-3 days - however neither of the developers who were maintaining the UCLD3 leak deodex ever had any problems nandroiding or flashing.

This issue in the sources might only affect 1-2% of users - but that's much higher than the nearly 0% for the I9100 update4 sources under the same workloads. It may also only affect some devices in a timing-specific manner, such that it might have been impossible for GM to ever hardbrick no matter how much he might test.
[Galaxy S II General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
Please stop discussing about fault.

We need to use this topic to:

1- look for a solution, if it exists

2- gather information about j-tag availability.

Does anyone have a j-tag in Italy?
[Galaxy S II General] PepsiMaxIsti:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25249736#post25249736

Hear is a threat that people can post in if they are offering Jtag, would be nice if they who do jtag would post in there, and how to contact them.
[Galaxy S II General] slk-A4:
Yesterdag I received this answer from a firm that offers jtag in USA: I wrote to them about my problem.

I can start up the phone, I can flash a kernel, can flash pit, can flash a bootloader, can flash the csc. I can flash and start up various versions of CWM.

But I cannot flash a rom because all versions I tried, are hanging when writing /data.....

This is what we mailed:

Hi,

I've got this problem with my SGSII.

Could you unbrick it for me? Or have a solution for me? Of course I would pay for it.

The problem is: returning to the stock Samsung rom is impossible because the /data cannot be written to.

I cannot flash the rom package because at the end the installation Odin hangs when the datafs is flashed, I can wait for an hour or so, and the installationproces does not proceed.

This is what Odin reports:

<ID:0/003> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/003> boot.bin

<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/003> Sbl.bin

<ID:0/003> param.lfs

<ID:0/003> zImage

<ID:0/003> factoryfs.img

<ID:0/003> data.img

SO, when flashing data the installation stops. Same in CWM, when flashing a rom.

PIT - PHONE -BOOTLOADER -KERNEL: they all can be flashed. It is just in the last minute that /data cannot be written to. And afterwards, the SGSII is stuck on the boot logo.

I would love hearing from you,

Regards,

P

Josh Groce

23 apr.

Is this an i9100?

Josh Groce

Site Owner / Operator

www.mobiletechvideos.com

Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 7:02 AM

To: mobiletechvideos@gmail.com

Subject: SGSII

yes it is, the european version Galaxy S2.,greets

Josh Groce

Hi,

did this happen after your played with an ICS rom?

Josh Groce

Site Owner / Operator

www.mobiletechvideos.com

To: Josh Groce

Subject: Re: SGSII

Josh

Hi, yes indeed, it seems that the /data is corrupt because of the combination of an ics rom with a kernel. I´ve seen more ´bricked´ devices on XDA in the past two days, that all suffer from the same...

Hope you could help.

Josh Groce

Unfortunately, I'd put my money on this being a h/w failure of the EMMC chip. I can offer you $100 for the device but that is about all I can do in terms of help...

Josh Groce

Site Owner / Operator

www.mobiletechvideos.com
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
So what you going to do now?
[Galaxy S II General] :
I doubt any hardware fault has been caused. Try sending the phone off and say the bootloader was unsuccessfully flashed.
[Galaxy S II General] karendar:
I think the guy just doesn't wanna bother trying. ;) I'm sure recreating the partitions on that phone would fix it. Which is why I find it odd that you couldn't fix it.
[Galaxy S II General] spaxxilein:
flashing pit file ( = recreating partitions ) dosnt help. tried for hours...
[Galaxy S II General] jchusted:
Hi Guys.

My phone is also Bricked. It's not starting at all and not even charging.

I have tried to get into recovery and download mode, but it doesn't react on anything.

It's also getting very hot around the camera when it's charging.

What i did:

I where on Resurrection Remix ics with SiyahKernel v3.1rc6.

I actually had the camera issue yesterday, but used a camera fix in the resurrection thread to fix it.

Today I wanted to install the latest version if resurrection.

I did following:

1. Went to recovery mode and wiped partition and dalvik cache.

2.Tried to install the new rom

3. Waited for 10minutes on the Rom would be installed, nothing happend. The status bare did not move at all.

4.Then i thougt the phone maybe had freezed so I took out the battery.

5 Replaced the battery and tried to start it up, without any response.

It has be dead since. Really hop someone has some good experiences with warranty cases. Would nice if the phone are so damaged, that the service center even not are able to get into the phone and just replace the hardware.

I fully understand the risk by using costum kernel and rom's. I have been lucky until know. People which are blaming the developer instead if themselves, really needs to come back to reality.

Looking forward to follow this thread.

Please come with some constructive, instead of spamming the thread with stupid things there are not relevant.

/JC
[Galaxy S II General] dandroid13:
Have you tried the jig?
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Hi guys!

Today I noticed that the camera application of my phone was in error. I thought to solve the problem by restoring the backup of this application using titanium. Unfortunately I could not make it work, so I rebooted in CWM, I did a wipe data cache and Dalvik cache, then I did a restore on my previous good backup. After making the first steps (usually this takes 5-6 minutes) and while the display visualized on restoring data for more than 10 minutes with no success I thought about a block. I removed the battery and I rebooted but nothing happened. Can not start in download mode and even in recovery mode. If I connect the phone to the home line, nothing happens, not even light up the battery icon! Virtually dead phone! DAMN! :eek:

Amazing with all the great experts around the world there was no one able to create a software via USB cable and reprogram the bootloader from PC long enough to turn it on and do have access to a restore point!
[Galaxy S II General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
Probably it would be too much time-consuming (if it is even possible) and since we are not so many, it's just easier to send the phone to samsung assistence :-(
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
I bought my phone last October and is still under warranty. Fortunately, I removed the yellow triangle with the jig a long time ago. I understand that the only possible alternative is mom samsung and I'm hoping that they fix in repair service ... for sure is a negative experience and certainly no more changes I will apply due the risk having the phone brick again.

Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] svardman:
I did the same today so i`ll gonna report back in this thread when my phone returns:)
[Galaxy S II General] kjplasma:
worst case scenario!

Last week i had drowned my s2 (no warranty)..needed a board replacement..the fee was 8000INR with a bill or 5000INR without the bill at the SC...got it back replaced 2 days later..

I am on rc6 now, almost did wipe but didnt ..sigh
[Galaxy S II General] KennyLegend:
That is cheap.. 6000 inr = approx €86.

Would be at least double that here.
[Galaxy S II General] 8ESP:
Was on 3.1rc6

Flashed 3.1.2 in CWM

Camera still isn't working.

Am I safe yet?

[edit]

The camera works now, for some reason. I guess I'm safe now?
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Hardware failure in EMMC chip makes gokhan's suspicion more likely to be valid, considering that the code he was worried about involved control of the EMMC voltage regulators...
[Galaxy S II General] DJBoxer:
Not really cause as a dev this should not effect users this is to no offence to OP please as im just stated a fact or my view or maybe slate me if wrong.

But yes my english is crap lol check my flag :rolleyes: but devs create adjustments may this suit all ?? or just the dev in question?? each to there own??

if You damge your device in the process others will lend a hand??
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Any positive report yet?
[Galaxy S II General] jchusted:
No i haven't. I have never used a JIG before, so the experience with that is very low.

Do you think it can get in contact with a phone, there are not responding on anything ?
[Hardware Hacking General] aaricchavez:
Ok, so i'm ordering a replacement digitizer and I figure this would be a good time to try this out.

As you all know, we Kindle Fire owners have neither expandable storage or bluetooth. Hashcode's new 3.0 kernel has the proper kernel modules/support for USB hosting. Instead of having to plug things in every time I need/want extra storage I figure that i'll try and hook up the stuff inside.

So here's what I figure i'll do when I get all the materials:

I already have a mini bluetooth USB dongle that i've disassembled.

And i'll be getting a mini USB microsd adapter that I can tear apart down to the same type of thing as the bluetooth dongle.

Now, the easy part is finding space to put them, there are a few gaps/spaces that I found for the bluetooth dongle, and placing the microsd adapter should be just as easy.

The hard part is getting the wiring all wired up on the inside, and this is where I need advice/input. Trying to solder the wires to the pins on the charge/USB port would be too hard and risky since they're so close.

I took apart a mini-b USB cable to use the pins to try and hook them up like that some way, but I don't have everything I need yet, so it's just a thought.

Ideas, advice, thoughts and/or comments?

Also, I will be documenting what i'm doing so that I can post a tutorial if I succeed.

I've also posted this in the Kindle Fire general forums. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25212300
[Hardware Hacking General] Entropy512:
Main problem with the SD adapter is that many USB SD readers behave badly if you insert the SD when the adapter is live - you need to insert the SD THEN plug the reader into a PC.
[Hardware Hacking General] aaricchavez:
Hmmm, thanks for bringing that up, I didn't think of that. I'll have to see about putting a small switch in somewhere if I run into that issue.
[Hardware Hacking General] AraKs:
Have you looked for another USB pinout on the board?

There might be one, if you can post an hi-res picture of the PCB I can try to find something useful :)
[Hardware Hacking General] aaricchavez:
I was going to try and do that myself, but I couldn't find anything. Right now I ended up scraping off some of the black plastic around the pins at the point that they're going up and i'm trying to solder them alternating the top and bottom.

If you can find other places though that would be great. It might help me out, and it would def help others out if I succeed and write a tutorial.

Here are some hi-res shots from ifixit, unfortunately my real camera has a broken lens at the moment.

http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/BWbx2gTOKoo2SInC.huge

http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/SejZs5a65UTRcAYv.huge
[Hardware Hacking General] scidon37:
There's something I don't understand here; won't doing this render the USB port unusable? Don't you need a hub if connecting more than one USB device? Can the USB port provide enough power for these additional devices?
[Hardware Hacking General] aaricchavez:
You need the USB hub for power from what I understand. The microsd adapter doesn't require any power and i'm not sure how much the bluetooth takes, but since the other takes none it might work out. If they don't work together then it doesn't really matter to me cause I don't need bluetooth.

Also, about it making the USB port unusable, yes and no. If you look at this pinout diagram here http://www.kineteka.com/microusb-b.aspx you'll see that there are 5 pins. On a USB cable only 4 are used. On a USB otg cable pins 4 and 5 ar econnected telling the device that it's a host and not a slave. When pins 4 and 5 are connected are connected USB will not work at all(So no adb or file transfers, etc.) because the cable is being told it's a host device. Once those two wires are separated then USB will work again because it will see itself as a slave device.
[Hardware Hacking General] AraKs:
I searched info trought the TI OMAP 4430 documentation about the USB implementation.

(i have to "hide" the link or i won't be able to post!)

Here you can find a block diagram of a reference USB implementation:

h_t_t_p://w!w!w.ti.com/pdfs /wtbu/OMAP4430_ES2.x_DM_Public_Book_V_D .pdf

Section

A.4.4.2 USBA0 PHY Implementation Example

Also, Section

2.1 Terminal Assignments

Shows the pinout of the processor

Table

Table 2-1. Ball Characteristics

Shows the chip connections

The document lists also USB0, USB1 and USB2 but i can only see ball pinouts for "usba0_*" and anything like "usba1_*" or "usba2_*".

So i think that there's only one USB connection and you'll have to solder a USB HUB somewhere between the CPU and the USB connector. :confused: