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[Galaxy S I9000 General] AlsoNamedBort:
One more success...

Just wanted to add a thanks and one more success story. I "soft-bricked" my Captivate last week while trying to flash to stock, apparently a fairly common story where Odin began the process (got past Analyzing files...) and then just hung for an eternity. FAQs all around said unplug the phone and try again, but like many, the 3-button trick was not working on my phone. I spent 6 hours trying every variation on the button tricks, and no matter what I did, I got the phone+!+computer (which I've affectionately call "P!C").

I stripped a cable I had handy and discovered it had only four pinouts, the critical ID pin wasn't on the connector for the cable I stripped. I ordered two of the breakout boards from SparkFun, paid $23 for next day shipping, and waited two lonely, phoneless nights. In the meantime, I picked through my parts box and tested resistors until I found the right combo.

I used 5% tolerance rad-shack resistors, and ended up with what should be a total resistance of 305.7kOhms (3x100k + 1x4.7k + 1x1k), but on my two multimeters comes up as exactly 301k. When the sparkfun boards arrived, I soldered everything together using a spare breadboard, and crossed my fingers.

Stuck the battery in, plugged the breakout board in, scrunched my face up real hard and... ta-da, the most beautiful yellow triangle I've ever seen.

An hour later I was rocking my custom rom, restoring my TiBu backups and reveling in my obvious superiority over everyone with a stock Captivate.

Thanks again to TheBeano and double-thanks to xredjokerx whose solderless jig post was the first mention I saw of SparkFun's breakout board. You're all life savers - I was not looking forward to trying to return this sucker :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
The seller is in Hong Kong and the price includes shipping to the UK.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AlsoNamedBort:
Back to download, but Odin won't see it?

I had this same problem when I succeeded last week. While I was trying to get my 3-button to work, I'd uninstalled all of my Samsung drivers and then installed the generic pack which was linked to from the Odin one-click tool I was using. Here's what I did to get Odin working again...

1) Reinstalled the Samsung drivers specific for my phone from the Samsung website, not the media-download ones, and rebooted the machine.

2) Tried Odin again, while this time more drivers loaded, Odin still didn't recognize my phone... :mad:

3) Unplugged phone again...

4) Went into the directory with the generic driver pack (the one linked to from the forums, not the one from Samsung's site) and looked at all the subdirectories, thinking perhaps I'd somehow uninstalled the actual driver I required...

5) Noticed "12_Symbian_USB_Download_Driver"

6) Opened that folder in Explorer, right-clicked on SSUSBDownload.inf, and clicked "install"...

7) Closed and re-opened Odin

8) Plugged in phone, Windows recognized it, Odin found it.

Really hope this helps. This was probably the trickiest thing I managed to figure out on my own, hopefully it's the same thing that happened to you.

P.S. all this assumes that you've already had Odin recognize the phone once. If not, then you probably just need the generic driver pack I mentioned, which is probably linked to from whichever thread you fetched your Odin from.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] yhbae01:
My Jabra 2080 charger didn't work on my i9000M so I guess not all chargers are created equal...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dani31:
**** yeah :D

So here's my success story.

Flashed an old JM1 to get Kies updates the official way, and it killed my 3BR - so watch out what you flash!

Then it froze while trying to flash a 3BR fix = soft brick. Nothing but the connection error with a small exclamation mark yellow bang.

So I bought a micro usb adaptor and two resisotors, a 300k and a 1k (1% tolerance). Asked the guy at the store to measure them on site, they totaled exactly 301k.

Then, the DIY part. Don't start without a sharp solder station and very steady hands, the connectors are less than 1mm wide.

So I cut out the micro usb jack out of the adaptor and soldered the two resistors. I'm attaching below two pictures to illustrate how, as the pins are located quite non-intuitively on the back of the jack.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BartT-GSM:
Hey , this Unbrick work on Samsung i5700 ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] davegilleo:
Thank you soooooo much for this! nothing would work for me but this did -now I have a extra phone for testing purposes.I "lost" the bricked one and the insurance sent me one with the buttons active -so now I am set on both.:):):)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TBrand:
Hey guys/gals,

I'm hoping to get some help with setting my jig here, I've tried a few times now and I just can't seem to get it to work!

I had a few questions:

I set up a jig with resistors that had 301k ohms -/+5% (fourth band gold), can this be the reason it won't work? Does it need to be -/+1%

What type of solder should I be using? Does this have any effect?

Is it possible to 'fry' the resistors if they get to hot?

Are there any tools that can used to measure the resistance in my jig to make sure its right? Im sure there is but I dont know what I'm looking for

Thanks guys, really appreciate it!

TBrand
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dominoslave:
i just used 3x 100k 1/4ohm +/-5% resistors seemed to work for me. I'd assume you can check the resistance load with a DMM (Digital Multi Meter).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EEKA:
Just to say THANKS for the tips.

Used a 300k Ohm +-1% resistor and it worked great. This easily saved me 100 bucks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Segitz:
So... two days ago I hit a "PC -!- Phone" screen and thought I need to make a JIG... wasn't too happy about it, but... well, as long as it was salvageable, there was no harm done.

Well, fast forward some hours, I put the battery back in while holding VolUp, VolDown, Home and Power my phone booted into Download Mode without the Jig... I don't know if this was just pure luck or what, but I actually didn't need a Jig to reanimate my phone! Woohoo :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ZaKaTRoN:
This worked for my SGS!

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] farthorner:
I've tried the steps suggested here, but I after clicking "install" on the SSUSBDownload.inf I just get an error that says "The INF file you selected does not support this method of installation" with only the option to close. Running Win7 64bit. Anybody able to help??

edit: nevermind, different micro-usb cord got it to work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] marvinhemstock:
free service i will assemble your jig for free just email me and you can send the parts with envolope and it will be sent back once assembled.:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dani31:
Your phone was not bricked. "PC -!- Phone" appears whenever you get a flash wrong, but as long as 3BR works and your bootloader is intact, you just reboot into Download Mode using 3BR and flash on.

You get a soft brick (solvable with this JIG) it you get a flash wrong and 3BR is not working, but the bootloader is still intact. The JIG will do the same thing as 3BR - get you into Download Mode.

You get a hard brick (not solvable at all) if you damage your bootloader.

Some comments directly in your post, in red. Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gabrielcorneanu:
:p

I have just succeeded with this "adapter".

Gabriel
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ampedrosa:
Little story:

I took the galaxy S to a store that fixes phones. I asked him if he could do it, if he had the needed tools. He said: "Of course, for Samsung I have all of them".

1 week later I call him asking if the phone was ready. his answer: "I can't do it"

I went to pick the phone up at the store, with the jig in my pocket, the moment he gave the phone to me I plugged the jig in, instant download mode.

To the guy: "See? I fixed it"

GG, awsome tool
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Segitz:
Well... 3 Buttons didn't work (which DID work beforehand)... I should've said that... but dismiss me anyways...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] themoose:
You guys f'in rock!!!

got the breakout board from sparkfun and resistors from digikey, soldered it together and WHAMO!!! Download Mode!!! you guys are awesome!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
Jaycar u must be in aus haha can u post video on how u made this device will help us all so so much and pics thnk you for your time to make and work this device its goin to save my galaxy a trip to samsung cuz black screen of death sux haha
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
does anyone no of a home job on the 300k resistor.. eg. were it could be like an old electrical device such as camera .. i found them at dicksmith electronics for 35cents but its 11:49pm i want too try this tonight thnx in advance
[Galaxy S I9000 General] brack11:
w0ow excellent! where have you been three weeks ago when I killed my first sgs?!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
i realy want to get my samsung galaxy off black screen of death.. how did you do it ..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sackofnoise:
Hi, i have the exact same problem (just that before i flashed it to a captivate, i were having a corrupted sdcard...) just ordered the breakout usb board (cost less than getting a soldering kit and all) :) can't wait to get it. Also, for the resistor, the howto was saying 301k but does a 300k work also? (i see more 300k than 301k....)

THANKS! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TimFr:
Good work all! My phone had the PC-!-Phone brick screen which I ended up with after a failed Odin flash. 3 button recovery didn't work so I was basically SOL. Did this and it worked for the first try.

I cut open the MicroUSB cable and soldered a wire onto the contact point for pin 4. I then connected the pin 4 wire and the existing USB pin 5 wire to a solderless breadboard and put in 3 100k resistors in series and voila it worked. I found this easier cause I wasn't happy with the soldering job and was afraid it would come lose if I handled it too much. This way, I could leave the connector plugged in and then just plug a wire into the breadboard to simulate "plugging-in" the connector.

You can get away with 300k instead of 301k if the tolerance is 1% on the resistor. If you have one where the tolerance is 5% it may not work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MarkyG82:
I used 3 x 100k and 1 x 1k. Worked a charm. With the tollerance in mind i wanted to use the exact value to bring it as close to the 301 ad pos.

On my way to takes pics of the jig now. See you soon i hope.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
Humm i realy want to try this but i dnt think i will be able to pull it off maybe make a youtube vid of ur work thnx
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MarkyG82:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55190726@N03/

Heres hoping the link works. check out the pics. bit hard to make out but:

- I removed all the pins and picked the 2 best (least distroyed) ones.

-I then tried to solder them while in the plug. After that took them out of the plug. Pointy pliers help loads. Also one of those helping hand things with croc clips and a magnifier would be good too (cant find mine).

-With the pins soldered I took a close look at them to make sure all connections were good and that they wouldnt foul each other.

-Slide the pins in to the back of the plug ensuring they are right side up (flat edge towards the plastic bit when looking head on)

-As you look at the plug head on with the plastic but bottom most, the pins 4 and 5 are on the left.

-After you have put them back in, make sure they do not touch and bend them carefully as needed. Make sure they dont touch any other metal bits of the plug too. Not sure if it would do anything but its good practice to get things right the first time.

Next job is to bung it in the phone. anything from 2-5 secs and it pops up.

job done.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
wow sounds promising haha too technical for me though i might pay an computer tech or an electrician too do it for me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MarkyG82:
Give it a try mate. Always useful to have these skills. Soldering is the first step to learning to weld.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
i was speaking to my jaycar rep and its very hard to cut down to the core on the micro usb cord ive tried and failed lol but he did surgest to cut the micro usb cord about 3 inches for the plug and strip all the wires out and he could sell me a meter to find were to put the resistors to solder onto the wires of the pins ... humm can someone explain wat pins connected to wires are the wires used to connect to the resistors thnx
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
just re - read your post soo its 4 and 5 the resistors connect too?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TimFr:
That won't work since the USB cable only has 4 wires whereas the microUSB connector has 5 pins. Normally, the extra pin isn't used and so it isn't connected to a wire but you'll need to access the extra pin in this case. To get access to that extra pin, you need to cut into the connector and directly access the pins. It takes a bit of work, but it shouldn't be too difficult to cut into it. Took me about 15 minutes and that was mostly because I was trying not to cut into any of the wires.

Also you don't need a meter since the wires are color coded to the pins. The ground pin (pin 5) is usually black.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tonymy01:
That won't work, as pin 4 is not taken out to a cable, only 4 wires are wired out of a microSD connect (pin 4 is not connected). Just be very careful when you strip the connector, or buy the connector from overseas. I managed to strip the connector of a car charger the other day, as I found many cheap micro-SD car chargers do not have the <200ohm short across D+ to D-, which is used to signal most modern microUSB connectored devices "this is a charger, you can draw charging currents from me". So I carefully stripped the connector tiny bit by tiny bit with a Stanley knife. Don't try to do it in one slice, you will destroy it. And the breakout of the connector to the rear circuit board of the connector is pretty tiny, you need a relatively fine tipped soldering iron to solder to it (and without holding it on for too long, as it will lift the tracks on the connector).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
http://i51.tinypic.com/30s8z7s.jpg

thats my home made micro usb male a port i stripped can someone edit my pic in paint and draw the lines were the resistors go im almost there and soo excited :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TimFr:
Hard to say looking at the picture. There are 5 pins. The two pins that have to be connected using the resistor would have been the pin that didn't have a wire connected to it (pin 4) and the pin attached to the black wire (pin 5)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
dnt tell me i stuffed it lol.. humm.. it was hard cutting that out too.. aint all the micro usb's the same ? cant u just tell me were the wires were on the pins too begin with
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
ill upload another pic showing all five pins hold on
[Galaxy S I9000 General] natao2nv:
http://i51.tinypic.com/f1w3yt.jpg

try that bro
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cyberdyne systems:
Hi, i'm wondering how far you are from Edenbridge as i've got no download or recovery and need to try a jig

Tried to pm you but can't seem to do it
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rramiro:
:D

Excellent and incredible post! Worked like a charm for me, last available option I had, you've save me!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bugmenever:
Thanks to everyone involved in sharing info in this post.

After a Kies update I was stuck with the dreaded black screen.

It also wiped out my 3 button fix which I had applied here from the guide in the forums. Samsung have a lot to answer for shipping phones/firmware without working 3 button combo in the first place. :mad:

Trying to do an 'adb reboot download' while the phone was starting did not work from a different guide. I guess cause USB debugging was probably off before the Kies flashing.

I was up **** creek until I found this thread. :D

Stripped down an old unused microusb cable, borrowed some resistors which added up to 301 exactly and built the beautiful device you see below.

Thanks all here on xda and happy holidays.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cypher_X:
Upped ^^

___________________________________

Sent from the smooth and shiny thing ....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PDY05:
I tried to use the "thanks" button but was limited to 5 thanks a day... which is a goofy limit.

This trick save my soft bricked vibrant after the JI6 update ota and me effing up the 3d gallery. I got 3 100k resistors but they were at 5% tolerance and came up about 303k - but IT WORKED!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU - here's a picture of it lol
[Galaxy S I9000 General] netmonsters:
Hey guys

I bricked my galaxy s i9000 while trying to install the 3 button fix in another thread, how ironic that trying to prevent this thing hapenning has caused it to happen.

Anyway my phone now only shows the Phone --!-- PC icon no matter what i do. I even created a A usb JIG but it doesnt seem to do anything.

Are these things supposed to work all of the time if you have a problem like mine "Phone --!-- PC". As it seems no one has been unsuccessfull with one apart from me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LaurensJ:
Just ordered it from eBay for $6,99 (shipping included).

Now waiting for delivery.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] shazbux:
Worked!

Worked first time for me,

Hats off to you, donation on the way...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] djfotizo:
+1 Worked!

Hahaa!! went to radio shack this morning and bought 1/4watt 5% tolerance. after using 3x100k and 1x1k resistance across the circuit was only 294k. tried it anyway. At first I followed a pinout guide for micro usb on the net, and it numbers 1-5 wrong. When looking down at the phone display side up, the circuit was on the leftmost pins and did NOT work. After putting the circuit across the right two pins, it worked!!! :D

probably buy an ebay jig though... good to have around and not quite as fragile :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Giorgiobin:
You had mine same problems, but in my case the usb jig works good .

Now i am very happy and redy to Christmas holiday.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pinballLooking:
I would check to see you have good resistor and it has the right resistance reading.

If that is good double check your jig is connected to the right pins. It will work if you get it all right.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cyberseer:
need some advise from you guys.

Hi fellow XDAs,

Need some input from you guys.

Device: TMo Samsung Galaxy Vibrant T959

Rom: T959UVJE8

Situation: Was trying to flash to T959UVJFD with Odin3 V1.00 and froze, so done as told, unplug the phone and etc..... and now I have the Phone ! Computer screen.

Things I have done to get to Download Mode:

1. Pulled Sim SD Battery out, start odin, hold both volume keys and plug in usb, and put in battery. No Go 50 out of 50 tries.

2. Pulled Sim SD Battery, Start Odin, hold all 3 keys, plug in usb, put in battery, let go power only ( also tried let go all 3 keys) after screen goes dark. No Go, 50 out of 50 tries.

3. DIYed 2 sets of the USB Jig, with 2 different usb plugs. 1 set with 3 x 100k + 1k resistors with 5% tolerance, second set with same amount of resistors but these are 2% tolerance. Both JIGs does nothing after pluged in. No Go 2 out of 2. (verified pins are correct, No multimeter so unable to test value, I can not be that unlucky to purchase two sets of bad resistors, or can I? )

Question: After reading as much posts as possible, I believe my unit is not completely bricked. What do you guys think? Can anyone show me some light?

Many thanks from Raining all week So. Cal.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pinballLooking:
“2. a 301k resistor. You can buy one from Digikey, or make one up by joining several resistors together in series, for example 3x100k and 1x1k. The resistor value does need to be fairly accurate (I would guess within 1% of 301k) to trigger download mode. 300K seems to work for everyone so far.”

This is from the first post.

I would say you need to make one with closer tolerances or buy a per made one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cyberseer:
I used 3x100k and 1x1k, even followed example of another guys, who used radio shack resistors, and it worked for him, but I didnt get anything to happen.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] IINexusII:
nice guide :) it would have been useful when i had my orange sgs which couldnt go into download mode, i ended up bricking it and sold it off as faulty
[Galaxy S I9000 General] othermark:
Have you tried adb reboot download?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] b0unceee:
thanks guys, the jig worked for me!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Hondo209:
Does it matter what pin the 1k resistor solders to? I have 3 100k and 1 1k resistors together. The 1k at the end. Should i solder the 1k on the number 4 pin and the 100k to number 5?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cyberseer:
yes, i have tried that, no go, since the phone won't even boot up to the point where the computer notice a connection, so adb won't help me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cyberseer:
Yeah, i am wondered about that, and tried at switching the pins to solder, still no go. wonder why our's won't boot, seemed like everyone else work fine with the jig.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Hondo209:
Do you have a tester? Even though i have the 3 100k and the 1 1k resistors wired together, the tester shows it dropping down to 296 ohms....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cyberseer:
no i haven't tested it yet, no multimeter. but i did see someone else post the exact same resistor I used, and it worked for him, but not me. sight.... anyways, new phone is coming in 7 days... sure wish i could of fixed it tho...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tonymy01:
resistors are built to a tolerance, and the common ones you buy/see are normally 5% tolerance which means a string of 3x100 could be from 285 to 315kohm (and be within designed tolerance). Try without the 1k or with a couple of 1k extra.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trazvan:
Worked for me, too with a 302 k measured resistance.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mildpoison:
Yeah it worked, awesome!! No one believed at my college that this could work, they called me fool and I shut their mouth.. thanks thanks, you rock
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxgg:
Is anyone still bother to build this USB Jig Dongle?

Or have you sent your phone to Samsung for repair ?

Regardless of the situation, I think it is a good tool to have.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cyberseer:
I build it, didn't work for me. Tried with 3 x 100k + 1 x 1k, later again with just 3 x 100k, even later with 3 x 100k + 2 x 1k, and last 3 x 100k + 3 x 1k. All no go. I don't have a multimeter, so I can not confirm the true value of my build.

Last resort, called Tmo, and told them I was charging at night, and woke up with P!C screen, and cant get it to do anything else, so they are sending me a new one to replace this one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PDY05:
it's a resistor... it has no bias... especially if you have it in series...

in short. No it makes no difference.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PDY05:
most cables have only 4 wires even though there are 5 pins... for that reason it's simply easier to chop into the connector housing itself and make sure you're connected to the correct pin location
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bjornj:
so don't strip the cable but the housing self?

grtz Bjorn
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ekinskofer:
guys, I've pulled back all the shielding.. I have what appears a different model then most. I have 4 wires coming out, black, white, green, red.. thats it.. there are no other pins. This one looks to be different then what I've seen in most of the pics I've seen. I've read that you need to make the connection between white and black.. is this correct? black is obviously ground from what I've read.

edit - I've pulled back additional plastic and theres only 4 pins.. do I need something else?

thanks, Eric
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
Yes you need to find one with 5 pins, try another cable or the breakout board.