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[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] I_Ahmad:
First check your wall outlet, charger, cable are working or not.

If yes, Then plug the cable to ur tab and pc

then press power button for at least 10 seconds,

then while holding power button press volume down button

for another 10 seconds, then release the volume button while still holding the power button for more then 10 seconds.

the battery icon will appear.wait for some time b4 releasing the power button.

then just put the charger cable back to the wall unit the tab should start charging then boot up.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merka_zh:
Hi, thank you, but this method also doesn't working for me.

I've tried with connected to PC cable, and with connected to wall outlet charger. Cable, charger and wall outlet 100% working. I've connected cable to PC and Tab and holding Power button (I tried in differents orders). After 10 sec I've pressed volume down button and after 10 sec I've released volume button - nothing...

When I connect Tab to PC and holding power button more than 5 seconds - new device appears in Windows (it is OMAP 4430 USB device, see image)

Nothing happens with tab, only device in Windows connected. After 2-3 seconds after new device connected - this device disconnected from Windows. And after 5-6 seconds "OMAP 4430" connected again and after 2-3 seconds disconnected again. This is infinite loop (while I'm holding Power button, or Power+Volume Down). All my actions with power/volume buttons during this loop no given effect. Charging icon doesn't appears .

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[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merka_zh:
Here is more information about my device.

This is a new Tab P5100 (I've used it 4-5 days only). I've installed CWM and root to it and used 2 days after this. All worked fine. But I wanted to try creating swap on SD-card. I've partitioned my SD card with CWM - Tab worked fine. Later I've installed several programs to work with swap. I'm sure that one of this programs has formatted internal partitions (because I've seen message that partitions formatted, but NO CONFIRMATION PROMPTED... i've been confused... but thought that is normal). I've saw that nothing changed on my Tab (it worked!) and thought that I should try reboot it. I've selected "Reboot" option in Android Power-Off menu - and can't enable my Tab more.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sean_Seany:
What ROM was you using and what recovery did you flash for it ?

Charge tab up fully overnight.

Unplug the charger from your device.

For Recovery mode :

Hold down power button + volume up key( next to power button). Let the Samsung galaxy tab logo play cycle twice as you hold both buttons down. Then let go of both buttons at once.

Few seconds later you will be in recovery .

For Download mode :

Unplug charger

Hold down power button and volume down button (furthest away from the power button) at the same time. Let the Samsung Galaxy logo play twice and it will kick into download mode. You need to hold them down firmly.

Read screen instructions and you should be good to go.

I take it you have been into recovery / download mode before ? Sorry for the simplistic instructions but just checking you know how to do it correctly. So something has deleted your system partitions ? If you cant access recovery /download mode your fuc...err... in trouble and will need to send it back to Samsung.

How long have you had it for ? If its recent bring it back to the shop n complain its not working. I had my tab 2 weeks and messed it up hahaha. I just played dumb and they swapped it for a new one. Luckily i could not get into recovery or download mode so they couldn't check to see if i had rooted it.

If that wont work your tab is FUBAR lol

EDIT

: Sorry was typing this out and you left the post above .

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Sounds like you have deleted everything so have nothing to boot into. Id just bring it back , complain its not working and act dumb ! Root ? what's root lol. If they cant boot it , they cant say its your fault can they. Tell them it just went off and wont work any more....must be a faulty unit. :good:
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merka_zh:
Hi Sean_Seany. Thanks for your advice. Sure I would do as you say. "just bring it back" - it is easy if you live on Earth :cyclops: But i bought my Tab in other country because it costs over 800$ in shops in my city - I can buy 2 Galaxy Tabs 2 in Europe for this money.. So I need visa and much time to bring it back. i'll do it if i can't repair my tab
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sean_Seany:
Oppz ! Not good then.

The only thing I can think of is bringing it to a service centre to get it repaired by an expert using JTAG or something along those lines to reflash the firmware.

I know you are not in the UK, but a company like this would be able to fix it :

http://uk-repair.com/repair/jtag-service/samsung-galaxy-tab-2-10-1-p5100/360/3602.html
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peslap:
Conect it to the PC and with the command "adb devices" see if you can see it.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruben00:
I did a little looking around, and it seems that your problem is one that is common among the kindle fire folks

they have a tool called Firekit LiveUSB repair

I unpacked it into my ubuntu box, and looked around.

It seems to me that there are 2 files which are specific to the particular device (TWRP and the blk0p1 Dump), the rest are Texas Instrument files

If someone who has a P5100 can get you a dump of stock mmcblk0p1

get a version of twrp for the 5100

get yourself an ubuntu box if you don't already have one

get the Firekit Zip from the thread above

replace the kindle fire version of those 2 files in the firekit directory with the ones for the p5100

Try to boot TWRP

by the looks of it, the command highlighted here won't change anything in the tablet, it looks like it will just boot into TWRP

if that works, you can try to restore your device from there or you can try running the repair command

Good Luck
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merka_zh:
Hello,

only "List of devices attached" message seen and no devices in list.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merka_zh:
ruben00,

thank you for instructions, i'll trying your method and report here about result.

Also I've turned around and found repair utility for GT-I9250, i9100G which can repair OMAP devices. this is OMAP flasher. I've tried to recover my Tab with OMAP flasher but it was unsuccessful. But I've found that my Tab is visible for OMAP Flasher and this utility can read something form my Brick and write to.

here is logs of OMAP Flasher - this messages will appears when I've connected my Tab and pressed power button.

п OMAPFlash v4.15 (Aug 12 2011)

п -v
п Entering parameter file:Targets\Projects\espresso\omap4430hs_1200MHZ.txt at li
ne: 1
п -omap 4
п -t 36000
п -p OMAP4430_8G_HS
п -2
п chip_download EMMC Targets\Projects\espresso\MLO.hs
п chip_download EMMC Targets\Projects\espresso\Sbl.bin
п command cold_sw_reset
п Leaving parameter file:Targets\Projects\espresso\omap4430hs_1200MHZ.txt
п @Targets\Projects\espresso\omap4430hs_1200MHZ.txt
п Looking for device (omap usb)
п Please turn on device
п Waiting for device (omap usb)
п Found device (omap usb)
п Requesting ASIC id
п AsicId items 05
п AsicId id 01 05 01 44 30 07 04
п AsicId secure_mode 13 02 01 00
п AsicId public_id 12 15 01 F2 8C F5 50 1D C8 E6 8D BA F0 DD CB 95 CA 73
75 54 92 D2 71
п AsicId root_key_hash 14 21 01 B5 85 AC F1 DD 15 B0 6A 74 81 3B FD DD 6E CD
64 22 7C E4 C9 06 58 C6 5B 4C 53 AC 22 9B 4C 6D C0
п AsicId checksum 15 09 01 9C 66 9A D9 68 2A DC CF
п Searching 2nd for: OMAP4430_8G_HS 443007 04 HS
п Loading second file Targets\2nd-Downloaders\dnld_startup_omap4_hs_4g_es2.s2.si
gned.2nd.hs
п Entering parameter file:omapflash2nd.txt at line: 45
п -pheriphalboot_reopen
п Reading board configuration file Targets\Configurations\configuration_omap4430
_8g.txt
п Reading definition file .\targets\definitions\definitions_omap4.txt
п -board_config Targets\Configurations\configuration_omap4430_8g.txt
п Leaving parameter file:omapflash2nd.txt
п Sending size of second file (0x00006E60 bytes)
п Transferring second file to target (0x6E60 bytes)
п Closing boot connection
п Waiting for device (omap usb)
п Found device (omap usb)
п Waiting for 2nd
п Unknown status message '????D0??????' during peripheral boot (waiting for 2nd)

Also I've found different configuration files in /Targets/Projects directory of OMAP flasher. I've tried to connect my Tab with different configs - but each time error occured like on 1st or 2nd log. I guess that problem in configuration files - no configuration for P5100 (or OMAP 4430 16G). Maybe anyone have guesses how repair P5100 Tab with OMAP Flasher?

I've found info about OMAP Flasher here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1701471
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astler:
Do you have any news about bootloader repair?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merka_zh:
Hi. I've took my GT2 to repair service (not official) and master tells me that only one way to repair my Tab - is replace internal flash memory. No other way exist to repair bootloader on this device yet. But i had conversation with other service center and they told me that is it possible to repair bootloader without soldering/replacing parts. I'll go to last service tomorrow and if they can't software repair bootloader, i'll proceed to replacing flash memory.

So users of Galaxy Tab 2 - be careful with your rooted devices because in case of mistake it is very hard to repair bootloader.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stevep99:
same problem here

It looks like I have this exact problem also with my Galaxy Tab 2 10.1". In my case the device is a couple of months old and has NOT been rooted. Also, it has been working well up until now. But now it's stuck in an infinite loop where it shows the battety chargin icon briefly , then turns itself off, then after a few seconds the process repeats. I have tried pressing buttons, press-and-holding buttons, all to no avail.

I posted a video clip on youtube showing the problem, but because I am noob links are not allowed. But you can see it by going to youtube and adding this to the url:

/watch?v=o3i_G7Zfa1M

Would love to be able to get my device working again! Any suggestions or advice appreciated.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AladdinSy:
I think you have a battery without any charge....:eek:

Charge your Tab2 over Original charger about 3-4 hours then flash it with Odin v1.85:good:

Sorry for my bad English

Hit Thanks if i helped!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kibosh1981:
Ok so I purchased an i9000M that was advertised as broken (got it for cheap) to see if I could get it going for my step daughter. I turn it on.... I get the samsung boot screen and goes black when it should be booting OS.

Windows still recognizes it somewhat. If I look in device manager under "portable devices" It shows a "j" and "k" drive that are identified as i9000 and i9000 sd or something like that. Although Windows sees it.... It wont mount these drives unfortunately.

Things I've tried ( Before someone suggests I use a JIG............. It doesn't and will not work on this phone)

USB JIG (tested and working on my Hercules)

SD Card Partition (EXT4 and FAT32) because I suspect borked internal storage

SD Card Partition (ReiserFS and FAT32) Still nothing......... then I realized the phone probably wasnt rooted

3 button combos ( every single combination) nada

plugging in USB cable while holding volume up and down...

ADB Reboot recovery/download ( not recognized because I cant turn on debugging)

ETC ETC ETC........

I have been searching google for hours for some kind of clue as to what can be done other than JTAG repair and All I come up with (no matter what site im on) is " Use a USB JIG" duhhhh Its getting rather annoying.

Im no stranger to flashing ( no expert) but this one has me stumped. I was considering buying a RIFFbox anyways but I thought maybe some experienced users out there might be able to suggest something.

My hope is that something can be done with the J and K drive that was mentioned. Perhaps I can format and somehow push a rom straight to the internal storage without any assistance from the phone itself...... I know..... wishful thinking. or perhaps boot straight from external SD???? That would be interesting!

More to this.... I realize this question has probably been asked a million times because it seems to be a common issue on this phone but I suppose my long winded question really boils down to my last paragraph which I havent seen suggested yet.

EDIT: I have a Windows 7 AND kubuntu 12.04 dual boot if any suggestions require linux

Any help would be greatly appriciated.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
My Android Solutions should get you started but FIRST ensure your battery is no malfunctioning and Battery contacts are good and not loose.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kibosh1981:
Thanks. i will have a look and experiment tomorrow.

I'll report back my progress
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taz0697:
if it pops up when you plug it into the computer, check if it does in odin. if does in there too try to flash a stock rom. or better yet take this download and follow the read me intructions, except the dl mode part cause you said it doesnt work. try both with the phone on and off. no it isnt the bell version of the pom but it will work. you will problably want to root it then install galaxy s unlock tool from the market and use that to unlock the phone aswell.(cause it not the bell rom)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?34oxweahfpy53dj
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kibosh1981:
As I mentioned.... no download mode, therefore.... No ODIN. Unless someone has some magical way to make it work otherwise. The computer knows its an I9000 at least. Kies says its in the wrong mode and I have no UI so debugging is out of the question.

Also: Xsenmen. I was unable to get any of the tools to connect. In one section you mention that AndroPlatina attempts to connect while booting? I was unable to get this to happen. I even tried the "heat trick" to no avail
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
I think I bricked my gs3. I rooted it and than i installed cwm . It went fine. I tried to install cwm-touch from cwm and installation was succesfull than i choose to reboot into recovery option and than it never turn it on. Nothing works cant boot into recovery or download. Any suggestion .
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
Try to connect it to your computer and see if Odin detects it. I don't think cwm recovery touch work on the i747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
I tried odin but it doesnt detect. If i put in charge i dont see it charging but when i remove the battery and connect usb to pc there is red light , i dont if that means anything or not. I tried kies , odin . If u can give some idea that will be really helpful.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1746665

Have you tried this toolkit? If not give it a try. If it still doesn't work you may try a jig to force your phone into download mode
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
Yeah i rooted my phone with tool kit than i flashed cwm touch zip since than its not doing anything. Now when i connect device the tool kit doesnt recognize any device.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
IS this jig really works . I have seen videos on youtube but i wasnt sure if that works or not.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
Well... your last resort will be the jig. I will do a research to see if I can find a work around. I may be wrong but the recovery is on the same partition as the boot so flashing the wrong cwm recovery can brick your phone you can always try to send it back to Samsung they will fix it for you
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
I hope there is any way i can do it with a mac , pc or linux. this is my third android and first day with s3 and this happened .

If anyone knows any method it will be really helpfull . thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.ca/viewitem?itemId=150867974652

With this it will fierce your phone to enter download mode so you may be able to fix your phone via Odin, if it works . It is worth a try for 3.75

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If it doesn't work with the jig return your phone on warranty usually they won't check if you rooted it and will fix it or give you another phone! Can you show me what you flashed?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
I flashed one of the touch recoveries posted in thread here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739426&page=56
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
With which carrier are you?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
Att ( i747 )
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tonymtl:
CWM touch recovery work on att, I use the att version on my i747m. It's version 6.0.1.4
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
I checked on clockworkmod.com first to see what latest cwm is available for gs3 ..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tonymtl:
If you press the power button for about 10sec does the phone vibrate?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
Nope it doesnt vibrate. It doesnt even charge ...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
I didn't know this thanks for the info ! :) so now that we know touch recovery works on the i747 you must have done something else while flashing it? Can you explain everything you did?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
I use the s3 qcom tool kit to root the phone ( i did exactly shown in video )

Than i downloaded the touch cwm , put it on ext-sd card

Reboot to recovery and install the zip

Installed successfully

So i choose reboot to recovery from cwm and than it never came back to life again.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tonymtl:
If you downloaded the cwm touch from clockworkmod.com it should be an .IMG file not .zip and you can't flash it it's for manual installation.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
I didnt downloaded it from clockworkmod , i got the file from xda , it was flashable zip file.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tonymtl:
The one form that thread you posted is not the latest version and I think there was a problem with it and clockworkmod removed it till they got the 6.0.1.4 version
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
damn i wasnt following that thread , i just got gs3 after galaxy note so i thought that touch cwm will work.

My bad luck.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
Always read the op and do some research before flashing something
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
I always do that. But i never though cwm can mesh up this bad.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...plained-boot-system-recovery-data-cache-misc/

Read this , y ou will understand why it happened.

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I may be wrong but it looks like the recovery was flashed on the boot partition.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
i understand the partitions but i dont understand how it can happen that recover can be installed on boot partition ...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
I dont know but it's the only way I see to brick your phone with a recovery. Otherwise you could boot normally but not in recovery. :/ I hope the jig will work!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
I talk to the guy who sells jig on ebay and he told me it wont work with hard brick..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
Dang :( ! No other choice give it back to the store they won't check if its rooted or not and probably reflash the stock partitions and send it back to you
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
Yeah i m trying to get that. Talking to samsung agent lets see what happens.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
Good luck to you!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
Thanks ....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] qwahchees:
Speaking of letting Samsung fix it, how do they exactly "fix it"?

Do they open up the phone and put in internal SD's or something? I've always found it weird to how the manufacturer can fix literally every problem.

Sorry to hear your phone bricked by the way :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
Sometimes they change the motherboard
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
i just finish talking to agent she said she can provide me with repair ticket if att cant provide me with support as i didnt buy phone from att.

she said it take nearly 10 days to get everything done.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
At no charge?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
Yeah as i havent bought the phone from them but phone is still under samsung warranty .I told them that this happened after att software update .
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adi_scorpios:
Issue resolved.

So after talking to att , i just went to att store today and they replaced my phone with new device as they didnt have refurbished one to replace it.

I bought the phone from ebay still they helped me out that was the good part. The reason they told me was display went bad due to software issue though i didnt think it was the case . so anybody in usa having problem just like me dont worry they just check that u r still under warranty and u dont have any physical or liquid damage .

Thanks for everyone who tried to help.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Kriss_Hietala:
How to install recovery or how to get (if already installed). I have custom rom, yet I don't know how to get into recovery :P
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Pakman123:
start up the phone wait for a vibrate n the press volume up key
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astrokarim:
Hello everyone , I just bought ly Samsung Galaxy S III today and got it rooted and unlocked , but when I got home I noticed that there's a notification about a OTA update so the question is : if I ever accept the update will my phone become SIM locked again ? ad will I lose Root as well ?

if that's the case , then how can I unlock it again ?

Thank you in advance. :)

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] art_arev:
Yes and yes. You will lose root and you will get locked. Unlock it the same way you unlocked it now....If you buy a unlock code from your service provider than it will be forevermore...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astrokarim:
thank you for the information. however, It was't me who rooted/unlocked it :confused: it was someone that the vendor sent me to

so I'm wondering if you have a useful link to an Unlocking guide and/or rooting the S III :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] art_arev:
Use this link for rooting http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1695238

Use this for unlocking http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1846451&highlight=voodoo

Both procedures are fairly simple. Read the instructions well have a good idea of what and how you are going to do the procedure.

AND when you use Odin make sure repartition is NOT ticked!!!!!!! NOT ticked.

Thats it good luck
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cruisx:
Any way to kill that update notification? Keeps asking every 3 hours....