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[Galaxy S I9000 General] DrunkenWonton:
hi, is there anyone in the Toronto area that is able to sell/ or let me borrow the jig for my to use just once. or to help me with the procedure.

I would gladly pay for the procedure.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxgg:
See my thread,

If you look at the pictures I have posted, I only needed to solder one connection. It wasn't even a point of connection because it obviously has wire connected, I just didn't bother cutting it off so I could solder direct to the wire which makes it super easy. As for the other connection point, I didn't bother soldering either, I simple touched it with other end of resistor after pluggin in first.

Also, soldering each resistors are easy too unless u find a 301k resistor.

I have used a USB to miniUSB adapter.

Now, yes, if you do not have a soldering iron and such, it will cost you few $.

I am sure someone you know have a soldering iron, if not visit a local electronic shop and take your prepared parts and i am sure they'll do it for you free if the r kind enough. I mean heating up the soldering iron take longer than the process.

TIP:

If you look at my picture, I have soldered one end of resistor to black wire (i stripped the black housing),

If you are not sure which other pin to connect to, well than it's simple.

Since I personally did not soldered the other end but simple made contact after I plugged in, I did a trial and error and guessed which one is the other end point to trigger the access to 'download mode'

But usually, it's easy because pin 5 is usually the one that is not being used.

Like I have said before, regardless where your miniUSB cable is from, there will be 4 out of 5 pins will already have wires connected, so do not cut those off from the connection, just keep about 2 inch or more. Just make sure bare wires or pins are not touching each other.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jotafk:
My phone was recovered using this method.

It was looping on startup, showing the Samsung logo then restarting.

I had the 3 button mode disabled so my last chance was trying this method and it worked like a charm.

Put the phone in download mode then flashed again using Odin and now my phone is brand new, running 2.2.

Thanks to the person discovering and sharing this, and a big F*** YOU to Samsung for disabling the 3 button combination on my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alneez2000:
i m now in download mode.... pls tell me wat nxt....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] longwellryan:
Very impressive

All I have to say is "Wow". I thought there is no way this is going to work for me but having exhausted all other avenues, I said what the hell. Went to radio shack and bought the necessary resistors, a soldering gun and a micro usb adapter plug. The plug came apart fairly easily and I was careful not to cut the wires. I left the ground wire #5 intact and connected to the adapter. So all I had to do was splice the black ground wire, solder one end of the resistors to it and used a clothes pin to hold the other end to the #4 spot(didn't want to risk joining spots with a bad solder) as I plugged it in. Worked first try.

I'm blown away by the ingenuity from the members on this forum. I can't thank you enough.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] .Sam.:
Sorry for the newb questions, I'm going out to buy these tomorrow and I'd just like to make sure I've got everything ok.

The names of the resistors I'm buying are:

100KΩ to 300KΩ Metal Film 0.6W Resistor

1KΩ to 3KΩ Metal Film 0.6W Resistor

Links:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=341656

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=341607

Are these ok? I originally thought I needed 300Ω and a 1Ω, but everybody here is referring to them as "301K", so I assume the ones I now am thinking of buying are correct.

I don't have any experience soldering, would a 12W Mini Soldering iron with a 0.5mm tip to the job? Would it be worth buying another USB to MicroUSB adapter just in case?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] daylefmp:
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in Canada, and have an AT&T Captivate that I bricked because I forgot to un lag fix when I was flashing a rom.... Samsung USA wouldn't help, because I was in Canada, Samsung Canada wouldn't help because it's an American phone.... We even took it back to the States, and still couldn't get anyone to fix it...

My hubby is really handy and made the jig, and it worked perfectly !!!!!! I am now back to Stock, ready to play again - with lessons learned :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] .Sam.:
I'll check once before I go and buy these in the morning, let's hope I've got it right :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] love_xda_devs:
Thank You!

Another confirmation. Samsung Captivate At&t USA working with Sparkfun board and 3x 100K + 1x 1K resistors from Radio Shack.

Thank you so much!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
Yes, "k" is short for "kohms".

Yes that should be fine, you might as well get a spare adapter. Practice on some scrap electronics first if possible. This is a good beginner's guide to soldering: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-solder/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Stelatti:
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[Galaxy S I9000 General] forgetmyname:
USB Micro settings: transposing colours cables to USB pin names

Hi,

I have bought a 301kΩ resistor (1% tolerance), and a Sparkfun breakout box.

I have reviewed the diagrammes for connecting the wires and resistor to the USB breakout box and these refer to pins 1 2 3 4 5 6.

The breakout box from Sparkfun does not label the pins as 1 to 6, but as :

GND

ID

D+

D-

VCC

There is a drawing here that transposes the pins numbers to actual purpose:

http://pinouts.ru/Slots/USB_pinout.shtml

It only lists pins 1 2 3 4, but since there are only five then the fifth ought to be self-evident. I would be grateful if someone would verify this for me.

The wires on the standard USB cable have 4 colour coded cables. I have not managed to locate a diagramme stating which colour cable should connect to the above PINs i.e GND -> green, ID -> white and so on. The four coloured cables are such:-

Green

Black

Red

White

Does anyone know how these should connect ; I don't fancy buying another breakout box for a standard USB as well as the one from Sparkfun already cost me about 13 USD (this includes postage from the US to the Netherlands).

I look forward to your assistance.

Regards.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] .Sam.:
Just got my Galaxy S into download mode. Thanks, TheBeano for the confirmation. I'll post my poorly constructed rig which consists of 3x100Kohms and 6x150Ohms.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] othermark:
See my post, with picture even! Sparkfun Jig

It's not even that far back in this thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bader1980jo:
full bricked

i have my phone fully bricked, means that the phone do not display anything, just black screen as if it still turned off,

my question is does anybody have the same problem and tried this method and he was able to unbrick the phone
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
Yes someone has tried this and no it didn't work sadly. Your only options at this point are Samsung repair or get someone to repair it using JTAG (this thread).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] forgetmyname:
I had not checked that far. The thought of trawling through hundreds of pages ;)

Thank-you for the PINS. Attached is the picture that brought a very large grin to my face.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] othermark:
Before you give up just make sure that you have power! This jig won't work if your battery is not supplying power. This is why the Samsung Anyway device has leads to attach to the battery connector.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] donkeydan18:
THANKS This worked perfect i used 3 100k and 1 1k resistor all were 5% tolerance and bought at radio shack.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kchh90:
Used a 220k and 82k resistor with 5% tolerance bought at circuit city. Worked perfectly. Soldered resistors together and soldered to pin4 which still had protruding wires, then simply held the other end of the resistor carefully to touch the pin 5 which had no wires initially and too small for my shaky hands to solder.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] o2cool:
I had a problem when i flashed Bionix core 1.1 where my phone would randomly reboot. To fix this i thought "this sucks i'll try the non overclocked kernel" and boom bricked. Phone would go to the samsung screen and freeze, adb could find the phone for a second and then it was gone so i couldn't get it to download mode and i tried making this JIG but still no luck. Well phone was useless for a week or two so i started messing with it and i was able to get into recovery by:

1: remove the battery

2: hold both volume buttons and the power button

3: put the battery back in and release the power button after about half a second and keep holding the volume buttons

4: phone came up to recovery so i did a reinstall packages and got to clockwork

I did this a few times, first i tried installing the 1.1 kernel and it would get stuck (bar on bottom did not move and no green status)

So i fixed it by reflashing my rom

Not sure if you could repeat the process to get into download mode

If i held the buttons without removing the battery the phone would either bootloop or freeze.

Hope this helps
[Galaxy S I9000 General] freakonaleash:
i made my jig but didn't work for me :(

in my friend's phone works great.

i think my galaxy is F....D:mad::mad:

SAMSUUUUUUNGGGGGGG
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Casio1987:
1) What's the state of your phone (not bricked, semibricked or fully bricked)?

2) Did you attached on the right pins?

3) Did you measure the total resistance? If so, what's the result?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] freakonaleash:
myphone is fully bricket,i used the microusb cable in bundle with sgs

i soldered pin 4 and pin 5 and i used 4 res for a total of 301 kohms 1/2 w

unfortunately nothing happens

my bootloader of course was deleted.....:(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] schwiz:
worked with my Vibrant stuck on the PC (!) PHONE screen, man I had quite the scare glad this worked!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RadAway:
This thing is a lifesaver. Thanks to OP an everyone who contributed. Worked great on my Vibrant, I couldn't get past the (Phone ... ! ... Computer) screen after trying all the other methods of getting into download mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Casio1987:
Sorry to hear that :(

You only can fix it by JTAG or sending back to Samsung tech center. I hope you still have some warranty on it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] freakonaleash:
yes,i know jtag but i don't want disassemble my phone,it has only 3 months :(

i'll try samsung tech center for free...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] _jamie:
Thanks guys this really saved me. It worked first time.

I used 1x300k resistor and 1x 1k.

twitpic.com/3895b4 (Sorry the forum isn't letting post a valid link)

Will definitely be hitting that donate button at the end of the month.

Cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chairstacker:
Works great for me

Thanks for this hint!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deodexter:
Extremely useful information, thanks for this TheBeano, worked a treat.

My notes as follows for people trying this - hardware folks please correct/clarify (my description is probably quite crap!):

I did not have access to a micro USB jack, and was too impatient to get one, so stripped a cable. The 4th pin hook seems to be at the bottom on the wider side of the port, more like a piece of (non-protruding) metal etched against the frame of the jack. Considering it's not used otherwise, on a regular micro USB cable, it's the one left unsoldered. If you consider the port shape as being a kind of a regular parallelogram drawing, it's at the base/longer edge, rather than the shorter edge.

I removed the SD card and SIM as precaution, I do not know if this was strictly necessary, but a good idea IMV.

Not quite ideal - so best not to follow unless you're highly desperate and impatient - but I managed to basically plug in the jack to the phone, then apply the ends of the resistors (used 300k + 1k in series, connected to each other by basically just twisting the wires together!) to the pins. So no soldering needed, just held it in place till it went to download mode.

Crucial: For me this was the sticking point, even 5 minutes was not enough. I had to leave the battery out 15-20 minutes each time prior to using the jig for it to go into download mode. This finally worked consistently. I kinda gave up, watched some TV at first, and tried again - found it by accident since I left the battery out.

Essentially, you cannot go into download mode using the jig (from my experience anyway), consecutively between boots, w/o removing the battery for a period of time first. Without waiting enough, it would just boot regularly into the Samsung I9000 black and white screen (and since mine was soft-bricked, get no further... which is why I'm here :p)

Once in download mode, the standard operations on flashing apply. I used Heimdall on Linux, doing an

lsusb | grep -i samsung

should display an entry for Samsung. It basically registers as a serial device of sorts.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] reojg:
beautiful

this is just beautiful,

worked greatly thank you!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
This may have just been coincidence, I've noticed that if you are holding the resistor on to the plug you have to keep holding it there until the download mode screen appears and if the contact is a bit intermittent it will just boot up normally. But anyway taking a break at times of great stress always helps. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deodexter:
Thanks for the reply, TheBeano - I'll give it a go at some point - don't think my grip was shaky, but yeah panic mode does things :). Again, thank you. I'll find some time to donate something if you have paypal or whatever, have been intending to.

As an aside, I made sure to install the Richthofen patched-bootloaders to bring back the 3-button functionality, and finally have Froyo w/ the project-voodoo kernel, beautiful :). Without the jig though, I would have no starting point after my soft-brick episode due to not properly RTFM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] red_herring:
Did finally anyone manage to get this working with a fully bricked phone? I'm thinking about giving it a try. As for my case, I flashed normally using odin consecutive times, just to try some stuff, and when I finished I simply switched the device off to put in the sim card and the sd card. When i tried to switch it on again, nothing happened and i have a fully black screen.

Even though I saw the post of someone in here who tried with a full bricked and didn't get it working, I think I'll give it a try. I've got nothing to lose, before I sent it to the repair center...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] boxii:
so i tried making a JIG and i totaly failed. wasted my 15 bucks for the cord basicly. is there anyone who had success with this and doesnt want theirs? id like to pay and get it shipped to my house. or if anyone lives in IL i would come get it.

my situation:

captivate

Phone-!-Computer error

no 3button or any button combination works

EDIT: the thing im having most problems with is stripping the cable correctly and finding the 5 pins. when i tried doing that i ended up pulling the pins out on accident
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pkspare:
Success after dismay!!!

Here's my sad story turned happy ending:

Well past midnight, 2 days ago, I decided I wanted to try upgrading my vibrant to Obsidian V4.2 (Froyo). Mine was already upgraded to JI6 through KIES without any lag fix so it still used to hang a lot, sometimes opening the gallery, sometimes starting an application so I figured it's about time to step it up.

The instructions to upgrade seemed straightforward. I had to start from Step 3 since I didn't already have a lag fix installed. So I followed through and sure enough I was then on 2.2 experienced a jazzy, snazzy, speedy vibrant in my hands. Only problem was it wouldn't let me install any application and kept losing all my settings on each boot. Turned out I had absolutely no application space left. A post I read up by another member in the same thread said he had the same problem so he had to reflash the stock room and do it all over again. Without reading anything else I started on this new task. Odin froze on cache.rfs and I read up another post which said disconnect the phone, restart and connect to Odin again. Well, this I did too ... and that's where it bricked ... phone to computer screen ... absolutely no going into download or recovery mode through the 3 button combo. I was distraught.

I spent a whole day without the phone ... reading up articles on the net and trying my luck ... I found the homemade jig article so ended up at an electrical components store this morning where I bought myself a throw away micro usb charger worth something like $2 and a 300K Ohm variable resistor (I figured he didn't have an exact 301K nor a simple 1K resistor so I could use this instead) for something like 50 cents. I got the guy to solder it up for me and I plugged into the phone ... ... no response ... I played around with the resistor dial ... no response ... dismayed I paid him the money and brought everything back home.

10pm in the night and I said I want a miracle ... I played with the variable dial a little more and the phone started up with the phone to computer screen. More disappointment.

10:45 pm and I figured the dial's a full circle and the phone responds in a certain position and not at the extremes so it might be a band of which I had only tried one end. So I started from the opposite extreme of the dial .. approaching the responsive band and Voila! I found the start of the band and the screen went yellow android diggidy dig! I am a happy man! :)

So next up is return to Stock ROM using ODIN ... then flashing the fix for 3 button combo ... then going for Froyo :)

So for everyone else out there with a bricked phone ... there is hope and this homemade jig is it!!! :D

Link to photo of the jig taken with my awesome recovered Vibrant :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkspare/5192737624/

Thanks a million to TheBeano for the solution. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nemethb:
Lol, you used a potentiometer. Why give yourself the hassle? Just use a 300k resistor...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jdub316:
Haha, you bought a potentiometer. It's a "variable resister" that has a maximum resistance at 300k ohms. It's quite a useful little thing when building signal circuits.

Almost exact same thing happened to me this morning when I was flashing Obsidian 4.2. I got into download mode finally by:

1. take out battery

2. Plug in USB cable without connecting to computer

3. hold both volume buttons at the same time (don't press the start button)

4. inserting battery

I think I will build a resistor jig just in case:p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] C_Rod_27:
Is anyone selling the entire 301K Ohm attached to the MicroUSB

Hello, I was wondering if anyone is willing to sell their "Test Jig". I soft bricked my vibrant and can't get it into download mode via the 3 button method. I don't know how to build one of these and I have never soldered anything before in my life. Please let me know as I would really appreciate it. Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hironalirayhan:
Worked!!

Firstly thank you to everyone for finding this fix!

Anyone confused like me and not good at soldering just follow these steps and it should work, it worked for me!

I used a Samsung USB and after opening 5 usb I could figured out which was the pin 4 and 5. Pin 4 and d 5 are on your right after inserting the usb in the phone. Take the other pins out if you can but you don’t have to. sellotape/adhesive tape the resistor (I used 1 300K resistor) so you don’t touch the metal part, now insert the usb and after you have done so just hold the 2 sides of the resistors on pin 4 and 5 after 2/5 sec your phone should be on the download mode

Don’t worry if you try few times, it took me 3 days trying to solder etc but this worked for me. Now I have also fixed my download mode using the same method I first used to brick the phone!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BeyHock:
I have looked a lot about this error but still have no answers, take a look to my problem:

www youtube com/ user/ BeyHock?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/OMPyQbh3Gn8

www youtube com/ user/ BeyHock?feature=mhum#p/a/u/1/MsGuKUv_s2s

can anybody help me and say what to do?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SkOrPn:
Anyone know what value resistor triggers Recovery Mode?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
Looks bad but please start another thread about this in the Q&A forum.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BeyHock:
i started, but nobody answer yet
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
Someone asked if I was accepting donations. If you found this info useful please donate to the CyanogenMod developers: go to this thread and click the "Donate to Me" link under Aery's name. Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] forcedv:
Anyone willing to put one up on ebay (for us who can't solder due to having only one hand) ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] the_colinater:
Another happy customer

You sir. Are a genius.

This worked perfectly. I used 3 crappy resistors totaling ~300K ohms. Had the wrong posts soldiered at first - just as a tip, the majority of connectors will have some form of breakout for the pins like a small PCB (green board thing), which you can soldier to instead of the pins. Also, I looked at a few connectors and it looks like for most of them, you'll be connecting 1 pin (or footprint) on each side.

Thanks again, this saved me from having to go back to my Hero for a few weeks while I waiting for Samsung's outsourced warranty company here in Canada!

If I get my phone back up and running (here's to hoping I'm not a victim of Bell's faulty SD cards) I'll take a pic and show my ghetto setup.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
See this thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sjavvaji:
will this work if your phone is boot-looping?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
Yes it should do, if it is displaying at least the white Galaxy S or AT&T logo and then rebooting.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxgg:
It'll work for everything*
[Galaxy S I9000 General] red_herring:
No it won't work for everything. I have a fully bricked phone, which cannot even turn on, I used the jig and nothing happened.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wang1chung:
i think that's why he put the asterisk beside 'everything'. seems like if you can't even get the charge screen to flash at least for a second when you plug it in, it won't work.....yet (some people are still testing).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dhiru1602:
Totally Dead Phone = Which has corrupted Bootloader.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sjavvaji:
nice, that is exactly what it is doing...odin failed and left me in this state...ill build a jig and report back
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxgg:
Thank you,

I think that if you phone can display anything, there is a chance of phone going in to download mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxgg:
Question:

Where can I purchase the some microUSB plug-end for cheap?

Some online shop had a very short microUSB to USB adapter cable for $1.90

Maybe there is a cheaper place to buy just the plug end ?

I thought I build a few and donate* to people for cheap*
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Neo-ST:
unnecessary post, pls delete. Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
Search aliexpress.com for "micro usb male plug", you can get 20 for $10, 100 for $25, or 1000 for $116 if you're really keen. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SkOrPn:
Yeah I just got 500 for $0.17 cents each, unbelievable deals.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gbohm:
i got my self a breakout board it works flawlesly

so can i now flash without worries?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DizzyEwok:
I was just thinking about the risks involved with this, are there any?

I'm not really an electrician or anything but surely there must be some risk involved?

Could you destroy the phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Neo-ST:
Just wanted to say thanks to this thread, it helped me get my SGS into download mode and solve my situation.

So, thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] abriggs:
Hey Guys, I've just transformed a £3 usb cable from ASDA into a galaxy s life saver. Thanks a million for the info. Worked first time!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] abriggs:
Just check that you haven't shorted any of the pins after you've finished and you will be fine!