[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] LeBricked James:
Let me start off by saying, I'm completely ignorant whenever it comes to rooting/flashing or any advance knowledge with phones, so I will not be too shocked if I screwed up my phone to no hope...

My brother recently got a new phone and sent me his Epic 4 G Touch which is a nice upgrade to my older Smart Phone. However, since the first day I received it, I've had issues. After activation with Sprint (a few days back), I didn't have service, I told him about the issue and he said I would need to flash the phone to solve my problem, he directly linked me to a tutorial here by Rwilco12 on how to 'root' the phone.

I've never done anything remotely similar to rooting a phone, but I figured I'm not an idiot, I can follow step by step directions....

So I thought. :silly:

I'm not big on the history of the phone but whenever I could actually turn it on, (without service) all I know is, it was running 'Jelly Bam', I assumed it was a variant of Jelly Bean, was that stupid? After downloading the Samsung Drivers, Kies, Superuser and one of the one click kernels (Jelly Bean: Agat63's Source-Built GB27 Recovery - which is where I originally believe I messed up)

I had the biggest issue getting my CPU to recognize my phone.

I was stuck trying to figure out the solution to that issue for days, mostly because I didn't have the time. I re-installed the drivers multiple times, uninstalled Kies, re-installed Kies, tried to update driver software, uninstalled all the USB Host Controllers/ Root Hubs, cleaned the USB Port, tried different USB ports/computers, restarted...FINALLY, I believe after changing my phones USB Storage, it finally recognized it, and at that time Kies was running as well.

I was finally able to go to the next step which was opening the ODIN program I downloaded in the tutorial as well, turned my phone into ODIN MODE, (closed Kies) completed the step by step process and it successfully finished flashing the Jelly Bean recovery. (I was initially happy, I thought I may have gotten all of this completed!)

Well, I go to turn my phone on and it loads up the Galaxy S 2 screen with the yellow triangle, then the screen turns black and nothing happens afterwards. I've been stuck here ever since. I figured if I could just flash an original stock rom onto the phone, all of my problems would be solved.

I can still go into Download mode and Recovery Mode..., to go into recovery mode the LED blinks once, shows me the Galaxy S2 logo, repeats and then puts me into AGAT_Recovery tREC_v0.2.2

My biggest problem is, I'm back stuck to where I can't get my CPU to recognize my phone no matter what I do, re-install the drivers, use Kies, don't use Kies, use different ports or computers, clean the USB port...the only thing I haven't tried is a different USB cord, only because I don't have ANOTHER one that actually seems to work with the phone, even though they fit the port.

Any suggestions are much appreciated, any answers, or next step in directions if I can ever get my phone to sync so I can run ODIN again.

My biggest questions at this point are, is my phone bricked? Can it still be saved? (I'm hopeful, just due to that fact I can get into recovery/DL modes.)

And how the FK do I fix this mess? :laugh: