[Captivate Android Development] maqbulsayed:
Past few days were the worst for me as I had Hard Bricked my Captivate.

*** History*** (You may skip this is you wish)

This all started few days ago, like every cappy owner I too had a craze of testing different Roms, untill i settled for RemICS. But soon after a month I got bored and moved to Nostalgic 6.2. The rom looks good, but then when I called someone, there was a lot of static on the line and the other person could not hear me. So I decided to try a different modem, so I installed a different modem and things went back to normal.

Later I found another post on XDA, a comparision table for different modems on captivate. So i wanted to give a try, & this is when things started to get rough.

I installed a few modems and then found that my mobile would not get any network signal. So I planned to use ODIN One-Click (I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0) and go back to factory. I used ODIN and was able to go back to factory and everything was back to normal.

***When & How I Messed up my Cappy:(***

As I was back to Factory (2.1) I wanted to upgrade it to GingerBread. I used Samsung Kies to update it to 2.2 Froyo and while this happened, Kies downloaded the firmware, however while flashing the phone it was stuck at 3% and was there for about 4 hours and wouldnt move further, and the screen was solid green and no images or characters. So I took the risk and manually killed Kies and rebooted the phone. Now the phone would come to AT&T screen and was stuck there, tried the firmware update again and still had the same issue. This is when I decided to go back to Factory using ODIN. Used Odin to flash the phone again and it wouldnt move ahead of Factoryfs.rfs and would be stuck there for hours. So I took the risk and disconnected the cable (I know there is a risk of hard brick, but I trust this phone so much and was impatient to give it another go) and restarted the process. It again did the same thing, but this time the phone shutdown and was on a Black Dead screen. I disconnected the phone and tried to put it to download mode and it wouldnt work. The phone would just not show any signs of life. Connected the charger to check if there is any display and still had a dead screen & no sound. ODin would not recognise the phone anymore and no signs of any PCI device in device manager. Even tried Heimdal and still no go. Tried this for the whole day and i was preety satisfied that this might need JTAG.

I had also left a post for connexion2005 on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1041042

By now I had started to surf ebay looking for another Cappy or Infuse. All the signs that the phone gave me were of a Hard Bricked Captivate. However I did notice that if I reseat the battery and then try to power ON the phone, there was no sign of life, but after leaving it for 20 minutes the phone would get a little warm. So I knew that the phone was still alive, just a no video/no post kind of situation.

It was 11:00 pm when it just struck to me that I should try Linux, as there was a faint possibility that Linux may recognise the phone if it was in any kind of life mode.

So i grabbed a copy of Ubuntu and installed it on the same laptop, where the phone showed no life and used the same usb cable. Well once the OS was installed all I did was tried using the Vol UP + Vol Down + USB to put it into download mode and to my surprize the phone immediately went into Download Mode and there was display. :good::good::good::laugh::good::good::good:

Then I just flashed the phone with ODIN and went back to factory........ and everything is back to normal. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

I wouldnt be trying to brick the phone again, but if anyone has a hard bricked phone can definately try this and hopefully should be able to boot back. Please let me know if it wokred for you.

I am not sure if this is the right section to post this but, definately it worked for me where the phone showed all the symptoms of a Hard Bricked Cappy. If the moderators feel it should move to a different section, please feel free to move it.

I am now convinced that Captivate is Immortal...... :angel:\m/:angel:

Please use the Thanks:good: button if this worked for you.:good:

I may not be able to recreate the issue and havent captured any images, but if you have a dead cappy, you can definitely try this and let me know.