[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rikmeister17:
Hello to all the devs in the forum and thanks in advance for the help that you will give me. Please bear with me, trust me I have made sure that seeking for help was my last resort seeing as I don't want to be just another guy with a bricked phone problem. Fortunately the forum has been quite educational and I have all you guys to thank you for that.

Now then, last night I decided to root my phone because it was running a bit slow and decided it was time to do it.

Everything went fine, I managed to root it successfully, installed Clockwork Recovery and all that, although when it said that backing up the image I think was an error, I sort of just disregarded it. I booted up my phone and everything is fine, I installed Titanium Backup Pro and deleted some of the bloatware that was in my phone.

Now this probably where my phone got on its way to being bricked.

Along with the bloatware that was deemed safe on the website, I also mindlessly uninstalled the Samsung Home and probably the stock keyboard app.

I deemed them unnecessary because I was running Go Launcher EX app as my launcher and Swiftkey as my keyboard app.

What I didn't know is that all the custom roms are probably going to be using those stock apps as base. Did I assume this correctly?

So then I tried to flash the custom rom that I found appealing, followed the steps in the guide that accompanied it, and when rebooted it, it was stuck in the Samsung logo screen. :(

Fortunately I planned ahead a bit, although not as much as I'd hope for, I knew that I can restore through CWM but unfortunately, the restore point that it created presented with an error and I can't restore it.

So I resorted to flashing a stock rom through ODIN and followed the steps in unbricking the phone.

I encountered some difficulties with regard to the drivers and all that but I managed to have the correct ones installed.

Now comes the final problem

As I am trying to have ODIN flash the stock rom, it wouldn't continue as it does in the videos that I watched. It would always stop in about 10 seconds and say that it failed.

I tried another stock rom from a different location and it still wouldn't work.

I have also run ODIN as an administrator, and this presented:

<ID:0/007> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> S5830iDXMC1_S5830iOLBLD1_S5830iDXMC2_HOME.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..

<ID:0/007> File analysis..

<ID:0/007> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/007> Initialzation..

<ID:0/007> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/007> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/007> sbl.bin

<ID:0/007> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/007> BcmCP.img

<ID:0/007>

<ID:0/007> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Again it only took about 10 seconds to stop.

I am running ODIN 3 v1.85

I have also uninstalled KIES.

Whenever I would cleared all the cache and mount everything sometimes it would bring me to the android setup at startup, but if I try to type there is no keyboard that would popup. And if I choose skip it, it's just black, but if I lock it, the blue stock lockscreen appears. Nothing else after that.

I decided to post as a last resort and knowing that I have done all in my ability to repair it. :(

So there it is, I tried to be as specific as possible to the things that I have done throughout the day,

A couple of solutions I found as I searched was to try to flash a stock rom through CWM, another suggested to use a different version of ODIN.

If someone could please point me to the right direction as to how to repair my device, it would be hugely appreciated. :)

Thank you very much for your time.

UPDATE: While I'm writing this I tried the latest version of ODIN and it still won't work. Same issue. Please help :(