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[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
You didn't tried anything?
[Galaxy S II General] spike86:
Hi, I also have bricked GS2 after wiping data with siyah rc6 kernel. The phone doesnt respond at all. No download mode or cwm. Tried to bring it to life with a jig and tried to connect jtag twice, but it didn't help. Seems like motherboard replacement is only a solution left, but will it help?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
I guess yes, it will solve.
[Galaxy S II General] PepsiMaxIsti:
That is what I did, just flashed andoird 2.3.4 to make use of the usb jig, to get the yellow triangle and the counter down, then flashed ICS with odin, and took it to my local samsung dealer, hope they will be able to fix it, will report when I know anything :D
[Galaxy S II General] zezol:
Hi all.

Unfortunately, but I also have "soft brick" - for everything I have access, excluding the data partition.

I see that those who have a complete brick, it does not work J-TAG​​. Is anyone having a "soft brick" tried J-TAG​​?

I found a company away from me 40 km. For a fee (using a J-TAG​​) can fix the "boot". The question is whether this will help?
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
My phone is not able to boot from recovery and download mode, I remember I deleted (log time ago) the yellow triangle thru jig adapter. So I can tell to the assistance that my phone was dead during kies firmware update?

Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
when you don't have much options, try it. it is just 40km away.

Here not available in whole country..
[Galaxy S II General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
I see that somebody has a complete brick of the device, and somebody can at least access download mode...

For those who can access download mode, what did you do when you wiped data?

I remember that after about 10-15 seconds, seeing that the process of wiping was stuck, I rebooted the recovery... I think that maybe this someway "limited" the damage and so I am able to go to dl mode... maybe if I had waited longer the phone would have been completely dead. Is it possible?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
I did wiped everything in cwm to flash hydro rom, I flashed it successfully after full wipe.

when I pressed reboot option, it didn't!
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Same here. Motherboard replacement is almost guaranteed to fix the issue, but those who have jtag success would be interesting.

JTAG is not something Samsung service centers seem to be familiar with... Their recovery abilities seem to be limited and they fall back to a motherboard replacement fairly quickly.

If you can get into DL mode, see if you can fix data by wiping it from a Gingerbread kernel. There's still a possibility you might have permanently damaged hardware, but TBH anyone who is able to get into DL mode is only softbricked and SHOULD be able to recover.
[Galaxy S II General] craig877471:
jtag didn't work

Sent my phone in for jtag repair after bricking my phone (full wipe having Siyah kernel 3.1RC6 on the 22nd). Sent in to fonefunshop in Sheffield in England. Here is a copy of the Engineers comments after jtag service "CANT REPAIR: Repaired damaged boot via JTAG, but will not write to eMMC Chip damaged, Needs samsung warranty".
[Galaxy S II General] zezol:
I have one question. This is important. Have you got a soft brick or total brick?

If soft, nobody of us cannot fix SGS2 using J-TAG. :/ This is a deeper issue in the hardware.
[Galaxy S II General] Ghost-of-the-Sun:
I tried everything... I flashed .pit files, bootloaders, different stock roms and recoveries... nothing to do :-( I can never access internal sd card
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Then Motherboard replacement is the last option..How much it costs in your country

its eMMC corrupted bro. Need new one
[Galaxy S II General] zezol:
This is weird, because I have access to internal sdcard.
[Galaxy S II General] spike86:
where can i order a new mainboard? I've looked on ebay, and there is only one seller but he doesn't ship worldwide.
[Galaxy S II General] craig877471:
Origionally it was a soft brick and could get into download mode but after trying everything i could from my home to repair damaged phone (flashed .pit files, bootloaders, different stock roms and recoveries etc etc..) i could not even get into download mode. Jtag service unfortunatlly does not work. This is a serious issue and think the only real way to go is Samsung warranty and just pray they can't access binarry count etc..
[Galaxy S II General] ermacwins:
So how many people have bricked their phone Siyah?
[Galaxy S II General] zezol:
Can you give me a link? Thanks...
[Galaxy S II General] koolshubh:
211.....

I guess
[Galaxy S II General] spike86:
can't post external links here...

To prevent spam to the forums, ALL new users are not permitted to post outside links in their messages. After approximately eight posts, you will be able to post outside links. Thanks for understanding!
[Galaxy S II General] mahtew:
This will flood thread.

Maybe someone would create some kind of form??

Mine is bricked (datafs..)

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I'm also intrested :) maybe PM?
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Are you able to flash a Gingerbread kernel?

If so, ADB into recovery and try these:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12

This will overwrite cache, system, data, internal SD card, and /preload with all zeroes.

This is different from erasing these partitions on flash memory - with flash, there's a difference between "contains all zeros" and "erased".

I'm wondering if the cause of the problem is the fact that MMC_CAP_ERASE is enabled for all machine types on some kernels, and our eMMC doesn't like it - https://github.com/Entropy512/kerne...59551eaf5afc3d68f2da96b0249937bd5e13#L12R2597
[Galaxy S II General] zezol:
At each command the same:
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
what was samsung smoking when they released those sources
[Galaxy S II General] irios86:
Mine hung on the wipe as well. I sent the phone to FoneFunShop.co.uk. THey tried the JTAG but it wouldn't write to the eMMC chip. They said I need to send it to Samsung. What a shame too, Siyah's kernels are usually awesome! Oh, I don't blame him, **** happens. Going to send it to Samsung and see if they'll repair it.

Mine was hard bricked. Jig didn't work either.
[Galaxy S II General] Roger00:
There's an item number on the listing, copy and paste that without using the add link facility.
[Galaxy S II General] zezol:
This is SiyahKernel v2.6.14. Interesting, but it's just a placebo. While Flash by Odin, stop at the "data".
[Galaxy S II General] :
You're not running as root. su first.
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Please type that out, your image is blocked in many places.

I'm starting to think that it is due to Samsung enabling MMC_CAP_ERASE in the SDHCI/MSHCI controllers - this allows the OS to tell the eMMC that a block of memory is no longer used and can be erased (for flash memory, writing zeros is different from erasing a sector) - but perhaps our eMMC chip does not like erase commands, especially large piles of them like you'd find in a wipe.

Of course it could be another change, but that's the one I really suspect now.
[Galaxy S II General] zezol:
Unfortunately, the recovery stuck in "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10" - this is probably DATA.

This is a serious hardware problem. There is no fix via software. :/

I start to think what I do with my phone, because I have no warranty.
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
With ADB I tried to input : adb shell

I have an error : device not found

Question:

The S2 must be switched on and connected as download mode?
[Galaxy S II General] zezol:
No. S2 must have recovery with access to the su and busybox, like CWM, Siyah.

Too bad your effort.
[Galaxy S II General] Freement:
I also sent my phone off to FunFoneShop and got the same response, CANT REPAIR: Repaired damaged boot via JTAG, but will not write to eMMC Chip damaged, Needs samsung warranty.

I also eBayed mine so most I can do now is sell it for parts I guess.
[Galaxy S II General] craiggers:
Im just after reading this whole thread and im lucky to say i hadnt flashed the kernel in question but after reading the whole thread and the blame that has been put on you i absolutely 100% respect you for commenting and stating what happened. I Can also see that it was not your fault and people need to realise what they are doing when flashing their phones. I Hope you keep developing because alot of us appreciate it.
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Dear friend gokhanmoral, when I agreed to download your kernel on my phone I did under my responsibility and I accept any risk!!

So, I respect as well 100% your job, please don't stop and go ahead with the development of your project.

Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] lockmunk:
hii...how to get SU??

i use siyah 2.6.1.4...

i type su..then it still be "$" not "#"

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forget it...already done with cf-root
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
If I change motherboard will it have eMMC chip attached?

or do I need to pay extra for eMMC??
[Galaxy S II General] rete:
The chip is soldered to the motherboard.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
oh.. means only Exynos chip and camera assembly are devided from motherboard.

As there is little chances to recover my s2 with J-tag due to corrupt eMMC, I am going to replace motherboard
[Galaxy S II General] rete:
i9100 has a Samsung KMVYL000LM Multi-memory chip. It is shown in the attached photo (green arrow). I suppose if you are real handy you can buy that chip and desolder/resolder it (like this guy did).

And by the way, the processor is the larger chip right next to the multi-memory chip (it's a Samsung K3PE7E700B)...so on the same board.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
This is really handy information for me.

I am not that handy to desloder /resolder thing.

and if I decided for eMMC chip then I will have to recover bootloader first with Jtag service which is not available in my country, then this eMMC chip thing. RIGHT?
[Galaxy S II General] jchusted:
Hi Guys

Is there anyone, with a total bricked phone which have some response from a service center?

Will they be able to see that the phone where rooted, or is it so dead, that they just replace the motherboard. Is the counter intergrated in the motherboard, or will they see that it's rooted when they turn it on with the new motherboard ?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
well, here in my country, service center have to answer, if motherboard found rooted to Samsung headquarter.

This means if local service center agreed in replacing the board, you are good to go.
[Galaxy S II General] rete:
Soldering here is pretty specialized - you are unlikely to succeed if you have never reflow-soldered a BGA chip. You can do it with a toaster oven or butane lighter but you still need to know what you are doing.

No bootloader recovery should be necessary - you are replacing the entire flashdisk.
[Galaxy S II General] jchusted:
But is it sure, that they will see it's rooted ? Mine is totally dead, so if they can't get into it, they may just replace the motherboard. But will they then be able to see if it's rooted afterwards?

Would be nice to hear the experience from they guys, which have tried to sent a totally bricked phone to SC.

Right now I'm thinking about buying a phone with a damage screen and take the motherboard and install in my bricked phone. There are a lot of good videos which describe the process.

I miss my phone :-)
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
local service center will send your motherboard to headquarter.

If headquarter tries to recover the board they will find it rooted and then the local service center will be in some sort of trouble.

Customer don't need to be worried
[Galaxy S II General] rete:
From Chainfire's research (here) the reset counter is located in a hidden partition mmcblk0boot0. If the service center cannot read the contents of that partition before the motherboard swap, they certainly won't be able to get to it after the swap either.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
In that case my IMEI number will be changed, right?
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Yup. If the eMMC chip is so fried it can't even be JTAGed, it will be so fried it'll be impossible to tell what killed it either.

If a new blank chip is soldered on, it'll need to be JTAGed to flash the partition table and bootloader onto it.
[Galaxy S II General] rete:
IMEI is stored in the communications chip (specifically, the baseband processor). So if you change the motherboard you will get a new IMEI.
[Galaxy S II General] ninbert:
and what if i kept efs folder in my pc? the imei number is saved?
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Yes, but you cant overwrite it on different board. In this case you will have corrupted efs I guess
[Galaxy S II General] ninbert:
but the carrier should replace my imei at his servers if I tell them i replaced motherboard because of a problem. no?
[Galaxy S II General] Roger00:
After reading some of the posts from earlier where people got the results back from repair shops and were told the jtag wouldn't work, I decided to see locally how much a motherboard replacement would be, I got a massive shock when he said €250! :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
If you replace your motherboard you will have new IMEI. Your carrier will change New IMEI on their server if you ask them.

What I am trying to say is if have backed up your old efs, it cant be written on New motherboard.
[Galaxy S II General] ninbert:
ahh so people backing efs folder up in case that there is a problem that doesnt require mb replacement. got it. thanks
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
My S2 need assistance...

Today afternoon I handed my S2 to the store where I bought it and got two guys to check it ... suddenly one of them exclaims: "so we lose time, we need a jig" and the other responds: "what?"

Yes, the jig that is miraculous, tomorrow I will bring with me to the store and instantly takes you back to the state of download ... No news for me, I tried for 2 days with this blessed jig!! :confused:

Tomorrow, the guy let me know if the recovery goes well (but I doubt) and if not, send it to Samsung

Anyway I told him I was doing an update via Kies and over 15 minutes was still standing, just thinking about a freeze so I disconnected, and the phone was dead!

I am really sad 'cause aside from the problem of this release of Siyah rc6 ... all the rest was a blast. If I had not immediately noticed the bug on the camera (I'm not snap photos every day) who knows how I would go ahead?

I keep you updated.

Take care everybody :)
[Galaxy S II General] KennyLegend:
Yeah I got a similar price on eBay here. Where u at dude?

Trust me guys...unless u have experience in surface mount soldering please dont attempt to change the emmc chip. You will end up with open pins, solder shorts or damaged pad & tracks. I have years of this experience and I would be dodgy about doing it.

If its BGA like mentioned above then don't even attempt it. You can't even see the dozens of solder ball joints never mind try solder them with a butane torch or heat gun etc. This is a specialist skill.

Just replace the board.
[Galaxy S II General] MrSerious92:
Tomorrow i will get my phone back :) Support repaired it for free :D Thats why i love germany :cool:
[Galaxy S II General] Roger00:
Yeah I got a similar price on eBay here. Where u at dude?

I'm in Sligo Kenny.

I've just emailed phone solutions in Dublin asking for a quote.

I can't find any motherboards on ebay or any sgsII with broken screen so I could

whip out the motherboard lol

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I only bought the phone about 3 weeks ago from the UK on ebay, it was Virgin mobile but was unlocked and had no branding on it, I reckon it is still under samsung warranty, I just ran the IMEI number here:http://www.numberingplans.com/?page=analysis&sub=imeinr and it says the Est. Date of Range Issuance is around Q2 2011, as far as I know there's a 2 year manufacturers warranty, Anybody know how I would go about getting it sorted under warranty, there's no Virgin mobile here in Ireland.
[Galaxy S II General] rete:
Cannot say I disagree. This video shows more or less what is involved (assuming you get it right first time).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkjOwuSEzKU
[Galaxy S II General] pejmany:
I AM able to get into recovery,

Flashed pit by itself

Flashed KI3 (it failed fullout this time, not just stopped)

Flashed Rogue Recovery 1.1

Did adb, this happened
[Galaxy S II General] Crescendo Xenomorph:
The hurried update is because people like YOU:mad: always rushing the developer to repair this and that in a hurry, pushing the developer to fix the bug (like battery) ASAP, screaming out loud something (again battery) that already mentioned thousand times in the thread and don't want to read.

When the developer pushing out beta/RC, you said that they should test it 1000times before release it? Test it 1000times when you screaming out loud: GIVE ME THE FIX ASAP!!!

Then how to test it properly? Please, they have life also, they're not our slave.

I know how it feels when I got my old phone bricked (back when using WM6.5), then its our fault, we always pushing the developer and don't want to take the risk.
[Galaxy S II General] ghostsofkarelia:
JTAG service

Hey Guys

go to this site called mobiletechvideo . A chappie over there is offering JTAG repair service with international shipping as well.
[Galaxy S II General] slk-A4:
read the thread before posting please, mobiletechvideo gave his answer HARDWARE FAILURE, so device cannot be recovered. I quoted his answers, so read this entire thread please.

I´ve bought a new SGS2 and I´m sorry to say, but no SIYAH from Gokhanmoral for me anaymore, it cost me 320 EUR. I do not blame him, but reading all this I presume there are at least 20 bricked SGS2s.

I did the flashing, so I´m not blaming anybody but myself.
[Galaxy S II General] torpce:
Hi, my SG II came back from service yesterday and unfortunately, even the soft brick can not be solved through the JTAG / service box, they had to change the entire motherboard :D Fortunately, I was resolved under warranty because I did everything back to factory rom and reset the counter ;)

I emphasize once again, I had "only" soft brick, i could get into the download and recovery mode, i was able to flash rom and everything else, but there was no help other than replacing the motherboard.

Good luck to the rest;)
[Galaxy S II General] Crescendo Xenomorph:
@all: Have you try to flash any bootloader to fix the corrupted bootloader?
[Galaxy S II General] torpce:
yes, no luck :(
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
It's not only bootloader but eMMC chip is also corrupted. I ordered new board, cost is 8100 INR.
[Galaxy S II General] Crescendo Xenomorph:
Sounds like internal voltage/power to the eMMC chip also get changed with "factory reset" code that can cause eMMC chip broken.

Otherwise its impossible for a software to kill the hardware.

I thought it was the bootloader that got corrupted so the device can't even flash any firmware properly.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
It's more serious issue than what I thought
[Galaxy S II General] torpce:
Yes, it is true. I questioned it (discreetly) in the service and how I figured - absolutely nothing could revive my galaxy, except for replacing the entire motherboard. And it was just a soft brick ...
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
250-300 euros motherboard.Might as well use it as a heater or a plate and buy a new device
[Galaxy S II General] screamworks:
+1 on this (and all comments like it), but minus the aggression.

We all knew the risks before flashing, and gokhanmoral isn't responsible for the incident. Unless he maliciously intended to ruin our device, he can't possible be held accountable. Yes, it's unfortunate, and yes, it's annoying - but guess what? Life moves on. The Earth keeps spinning, birds keep singing and the clock ticks forward. Deal with it.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Well in India it costs $150 without tax..
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Mine is still under warranty, if they see that I made ​​some procedures that have invalidated the warranty and asking me for the replacement 300€, I will buy a new S2 and I'll keep this one for parts! Unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to return the device to factory settings because there was no way to access the recovery and to download mode. About yhe yellow triangle, I removed some time ago by JIG.

Let's hope so ...
[Galaxy S II General] yamen.meddeb:
Happens to me too even i tried to wipe data/cache after camera problem when trying Siyah kernel.

Result : Wipe stucks, flashing with odin ashived properly but stucks on data.img on XXKI3, i think that the DATA partition is broken i mean "/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 /data ext4" i think it can be fixed with some adb partition commands.

a .zip flashable recovery script maybe solve problem :confused::confused:
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Motherboards for S2 available:

http://annunci.ebay.it/annunci/cell...s2-motherboard-mainboard-pcb-s-2-sii/27576692
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
The chances are very less due corrupt eMMC, they won't find anything without storage chip.

Seems flashable zip won't help you when storage chip is broken.
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
Sounds good... TY :)
[Galaxy S II General] yamen.meddeb:
my idea is to do like fdisk and format in dos but with adb for data partition, it's impossible ?

sorry i'm noob.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
It is not impossible, but where it will be written is the question?

No disk available to write..
[Galaxy S II General] yamen.meddeb:
i mean create data (2Go) partition like a broken sdcard (fdisk) and then format it to ext4.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
AFAIK any hack or command won't restore corrupted disk, It need to be replaced.
[Galaxy S II General] yamen.meddeb:
Ok thank you, i'll replace it. :(
[Galaxy S II General] reza1reza1:
in my opinion the siah kernel is the best
[Galaxy S II General] yamen.meddeb:
the best in bricking phones
[Galaxy S II General] dabrain23:
shut up. its not like he wanted to do this ...

b2t

i got a call from the samsung service center. they said the mainboard is fried and will be replaced. they just wanted to tell me that they cant recover the data. i ll get mine back on monday or tuesday. so all in all,,, i am happy
[Galaxy S II General] sauron96t6:
IMHO the Siyah not to blame, it could happen with any other kernel ... unless we take risks we must leave the phone's original factory and we will never have problems. If we want something more than the original product, then we must accept and assume any risks.
[Galaxy S II General] AndroidGX:
Nice piece of metal ! :D
[Galaxy S II General] yamen.meddeb:
i'm happy for u 2

i know that syiah don't like to brick phones keep cool :)

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Yes we assume
[Galaxy S II General] fedort:
I feel for all of you who have bricked their phone because of the kernel... I consider myself really lucky, as I also was using that bad kernel, but lucky switched to another kernel in time and didn't do a full wipe.
[Galaxy S II General] gasgustav:
I know this threads is for people with already bricked phones but..

Im on 3.0.28-Siyah -V3.1RC6+Foxhound since a week ago and I cant see any problem.

What if theres no camera issues or wifi problem.

Should I act,and if so...what to do?

YES,Im a noob,just rooted my phone with CF-Root-SGS2_XX_XEO_LPQ-v5.3-CWM5.tar

and then flashed FoxHound_PsychoMantis_V2_LP7_ICS_GSII_By_SnakeS (which include Siyah -V3.1RC6 as I understand)

and as I said..it works great,cant see any issues.
[Galaxy S II General] kachrukamble:
Again I would say this thread is for those who bricked their devices and trying to recover anyhow. So Pl. Stick on the subject..