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[Captivate General] miketucky350:
Amazing!! very nice instructions. I hacked my oem cable though! I was flashing perception II and i downloaded the wrong bootloader file. It would bring up i9000 then ATT world phone. oops! so my dl mode and recovery was screwed. In amazement the phone would still boot, and ran samsung kies update. I figured the update would fix download mode. It did not. Where my mistake was is i was able to get into recovery mode via rom manager so i flashed a jh7 rom that says fixes 3 button combo. After that it was stuck on world home screen. BRICK. So the jig had to be made. I could not wait to buy one, and wait for it to ship here.

just remember 1/2 watt WILL NOT WORK. ive made jigs in past with the results of FAIL. they were 1/2 watt. Back then my 3 button combo was good. so effort was minimal. Now today my phone was bricked to the fullest. Which is good ive flashed everything under the sun on my 2 cappys. Daily flashing and finally bricked it!. Now stuck with no phone, i was determined! Found out i was making jigs right just using 1/2 watt was where i was going wrong. It must be 100k ohm 1/4 resisters not just 100 ohm. 100k 1/4 watt and it will work perfect. Everytime you try. If a flasher, you must have a correct jig.
[Captivate General] DLaakman:
I did it, and it works. You are the man! Saved my captivate!
[Captivate General] AdamOutler:
you're fine with pulling the cable during flashing except if you're flashing the PBL or SBL with a different version then what is on there. Those two files WILL kill your phone. Nothing else will do it.
[Captivate General] alperto51:
what is the worst thing if i try every method and my captivate doesnt get in to DL mode? and what is the solution of this situation...
[Captivate General] SkOrPn:
Might be late, but PIN 4 is the non used pin in microUSB connector cables. PIN 4 is usually reserved for special uses like charger cradles. They use that PIN simply by applying a specified amount of resistance which then tells the phone what mode its going to enter, charge, turn into a mp3 player, etc etc. If you buy the female microUSB breakout board you will notice it does not even have a trace on the board for PIN 4. Although the male breakout boards do have all 5 pins available.

Ive manufactured over several hundred JIG's and have not yet come across a sgs phone that does not enter download mode at 300k (hint: what it says on the package is not always what you get, you need to absolutely verify with a meter), although I use single 301k resistors myself, preferably 1/4 watt 1% +/- tolerance (would prefer 0.1% tolerance but there expensive), simply because there smaller. My two phones both enter DL mode between 299k and 304k just as specified. But with that said, I throw away resistors that are not at least 300k, or are over 302k but that is rare.

SkOrPn
[Captivate General] lucid160:
yooooo

ok so i tried this and it still is stuck in a boot loop?!?!?! any suggestions!!!!!
[Captivate General] Xstop:
If the jig is powering on the phone, it's usually a good indicator that the jig will work.

Your just changing the resistance by touching the metal part, good tip posted somewhere in here. Use tape to cover the part you'll be touching.
[Captivate General] jbaskew:
Going to the shack after this tut prints out. Thanks, op. You described my situation exactly; no button combo is working to get my cappy int download mode nor can I get into cwm. This soft brick happened after a 'bad' cm7 which is crazy but real so...help me jig. you're my only hope.
[Captivate General] jbaskew:
unbelievable! It's in download mode. I'm so excited right now. I was able to get it to work with just the 300k resistors. Also I soldered the connections with very good joints that seemed to make it work. I couldn't get into dl mode by just touching the connections. Thanks again!
[Captivate General] nateysmith:
Yes, thank you so much for this guide. I have never done any soldering and my phone was stuck in a boot loop. This saved me from using my upgrade and now I can wait for a GS2 or Nexus "Prime" lol
[Captivate General] KnightCrusader:
Wow, the fact that this even works boggles my mind. My friend and his wife each has Captivates, and he wants to put Cyanogenmod on his phone. For the life of me, I could not get the dang phone into download mode no matter what key combinations I tried. The adb reboot download mode did work, but in case of a brick, we didn't want to be stuck without a manual way of doing it. So we headed out to the Shack and got the parts and after some fussing, it finally worked!

Some things to mention though:

- The iGo connector is pretty fragile. Try not to put much force on it or it will come apart on you at the USB plug itself...

- One of the pictures you have, you point to the wrong two wires. It should be the ones on the opposite sides of the plug.

- I put the 1k in series with the 3 100ohm resistors and it worked that time. I guess YMMV.
[Captivate General] metalfangs:
Is there an easier way of removing the clear plastic frome the iGo? My nails are like nearly gone and I havent gotten very far haha. Any tips? Here's where I am currently at.

EDIT: Took a sharp blade to the 6 plug end and just cut away, worked great and now im jiggin :D Thanks to all for the info I am off to flashin!
[Captivate General] drdays:
cool instructions.

followed it and with some modification managed to make my own jig.

took apart the Micro-B connector, cut the cables about 2 inches from the connector, joined 1 cm of naked black cable (connects to pin 5) to my 300 k ohm serial resistors, wrapped everything up in cellophane tape leaving about 2 cm of the other end of the serial resistors mobile and 0.5 cm of that naked. i just touch the metallic part of pin 4 and i'm in download mode.

how cool is that. :D
[Captivate General] C3LL0PHANE:
None of these Jig fixes seem to work on my phone. I must've really messed it up.

I get the continuous AT&T World Phone loop.. or if I plug it into my computer I get a loop of the grey battery with a load symbol.

Should this fix work? Or do I need to do an entirely different thing?
[Captivate General] drdays:
@ c3llophane: these jig fixes definitely work for soft bricked phones like yours. Follow the instructions and make your own jig or order a premade jig.

Always remove sim and external sd card and put aside, and take out the battery for a few seconds before applying jig.

All the best.
[Captivate General] doodaa1:
If you're looking to go as cheap as possible and avoid some soldering you may want to check on one of these. http://hoffcobrands.com/Power-Tips/Celltronix-Power-Tips/flypage.tpl/

I found mine at a truck stop, of all places. Cost me $4.99 and it's much easier to get at the plug than the iGo stuff is. They're pretty delicate though. Tip 28 should do the trick. I've seen them with other brand names on them too, basically they're "universal" chargers with interchangeable tips, Duracell, Car & Driver come to mind..... Another place to get connectors cheap is a flea market, if you dig through the piles of chargers you might get lucky enough to find one you can hack up for less than a dollar.
[Captivate General] kant5t1km3:
i got phone ! computer screen :(:(

tried that didnt work, maybe my pins were wrong idk

ordered a jig from MTV, 8 bucks!!!!

hope it works;):D
[Captivate General] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
The phone ! computer, is actually another form of download mode. I betcha if you tried to Odin or Heimdall it would still work.

For the record though, that JIG you are getting is super sweet. Very handy to have and I use mine all the time for basic tasks that require download mode! :D
[Captivate General] kant5t1km3:
IVE tried to get dlw mode for like 6 hrs. every combo, driver install etc

the jig just arrived :DD AND it works YAAY:DDDDD
[Captivate General] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
That's great! but what I was saying is the phone-!-computer I think is basically another type of download mode. Had you tried whatever you were going to do in dl mode it probably would have still worked from that screen.. :p
[Captivate General] kant5t1km3:
yep ik that haha
[Captivate General] lordpipa:
My phone is on a loop, the att logo comes and goes, thats softbrick right? anyhow y made my own jig and got the resistors and being tryn but the phones starts the loop again no download mode, any suggestions?
[Captivate General] EnemyOfGlaDOS:
Try the jig again.. should work. Might have to re-make it :(
[Captivate General] radicaleggnog:
I managed to brick my phone trying to update a kernel (glitch beta12 on CM7) I don't get the phone ! computer screen. It looks like it's going to boot up, but hangs at the CM7 skateboard riding android. I built this jig exactly as shown and it doesn't seem to do anything. I've got the resistors in series as shown with the tape to prevent me from messing it up. Tried both the 3x100k resistors and 3x100k+1k to no avail. I've also tried just about every button combo I could find. I'm at a loss for what to do next. I can turn the phone on with the power button, but using the jig seems to get no response at all. Computer/ODIN won't recognize it. Am going to try re-installing the drivers when I get home from work but don't have high expectations.

Also, for anyone thinking they don't have to cut it apart to get the jig to work, in the A97 power tip only two of the wires are actually connected.
[Captivate General] Markolic:
same issue

i tried installing glitch kernel on cm7 = bootloops
[Captivate General] jbaskew:
While I still used a captivate that was my setup exactly. Never had boot loops. Maybe things have changed in the past few months.
[Captivate General] guilleglad:
No download mode at all

Hi there, i've got a question. If i can't get into download mode using the 3 button combination nor the PC-Phone Screen, do i have chance to get into download mode using the YIG? Thank you

I've lost the 3combo after installing the GB bootloaders with CM7 but the Odin Connection was lost on the SBL :(
[Captivate General] MexxT:
Works like a charm.

only... my usb whas the other way around.

so needed to connect the opposite pins.

then it booted in download modus.
[Captivate General] rafaelgimenes:
I need have a 100% sure if this hack works on Samsung Galaxy SII.

Is it works on SII?

cya
[Captivate General] ericd1:
copy and clear.
[Captivate General] boo139:
just made a new home-made jig

i built the jig out of a 330Kohms resistor and a micro-usb cable that came with the phone (cut the plug off the cable and soldered the resistor on to 4 and 5 pins)

the jig does not do anything when i plug it in, download mode is not coming up.

if i touch the resistor with both of my hands the phone will just turn on.

is my jig built up the right way?

any answers?

thank you!
[Captivate General] ubnjacked:
this worked great for me great job... now is there any instrucktions on what to do with oden once u get in download mode?
[Captivate General] mrhaley30705:
Wrong resistance. Quoted value is 301kohms.
[Captivate General] ubnjacked:
first off thank u for this great idea.. it works and it seems that i hope that this might help some people that are having issues getting this into download mode. u have to follow each step in sequence to un-brick ur phone.

first when using this method to get into download mode i found that it does one of 2 things... it either gets u in download mode or it gets u into the phone ----! computer thing. in doing that it may take more than one try to get it into download mode( y i dont know it took me 3 trys of doing the same thing to get it to go into download mode.

next. now that the phone is in download mode; and this is key... u need to have

"I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0"

already open...(u need to run this in windows 7 as an admin or it will stay in "file analysis forever) and then plug in your phone.

also. i have had problems doing this process on my net-book that runs windows 7 starter x86 and my other computer that runs windows xp pro x86... the only computer that worked for me was my laptop that runs windows 7 64bit. on all computers i re-installed the samsung drivers fresh to insure drivers were good and not tainted.

i bricked my phone 3 more times just to make sue that these instructions weren't just a fluke... computer o.s does have something to do with it for some reason idk y but it does. anti virus protection wasnt an issue on my laptop(microsoft security essentials)

odin does the rest.

hope this helps

p.s this was also done without any soldering just the resistors the micro usb and some shrink tube so my skin doesn't change the resistance value.

oh and one last thing the picture might be a little off... when i look at it... it shows 3 at the bottom and 2 on the top(wires on the usb connector)... with the head phone jack on the right, well when i did it mine was the opposite

2 on the bottom and 3 on the top. the wires that i used were the one from the top and bottom closest to the headphone jack.
[Captivate General] XeoNoX:
thanks for the instructions on this no solder jig for the Samsung captivate . I was able to use a USB charger from the 99 cents store and just bought the resistors from radioshack and was able to unbrick my captivate and was able to get into download mode , total cost was under $3.00!!! thank god for the .99c store!!!
[Captivate General] uncannyrt:
Ha, nice jigging solution, no 99 cent store where I live though

sent from my uberclocled I896
[Captivate General] wintermute931:
Great Job, as a previous poster mentioned the iGo socket i got from 'The Source' had the pin the other way round (3 on top, 2 on bottom) but it worked like a charm with the 3 twisted 100k resistors.

Got my phone back to Rogers 2.1 with ODIN 1.82 after i screwed up messing with Bay_Wolf's AIO
[Captivate General] isa.ahmed:
this will work if the phone it fully dead?

nothing is there

and then what will i do in Odin?
[Captivate General] jeromechrome1:
this was very helpful.
[Captivate General] derek4484:
For what you spent on parts there, you could have just bought a professional jig from online for 7.99

I bought one a few months back and its great.
[Captivate General] JCORU001:
Just wanted to say thanks for unbricking my bricked cappy!
[Captivate General] tejas offroad:
So i must have really F'd up my phone. Ive tried every way to get it into download mode and nothing has worked, even this. I went back to a stock version and somehow no button combos work and now after i built the jig. all it does is turn the phone on. I NEED HELP!
[Captivate General] Silencer96:
Easier solution: Buy it online for $1.

That's what I did and it works every time.

Although I have to admit, this is a good solution too seeing as to how if you order it online, you'll have to wait over a month to get it :-/
[Captivate General] s0ul_ali:
NO Power in phone

I was doing Odin when the phone goes to restart I accidently pulled my battery, Since then my phone is dead tried 3 batten jig & iGo Jig nothing happed any suggestions ? :(
[Captivate General] grndnl:
This is great thanks OP...
[Captivate General] cangzhang:
excellent!
[Captivate General] brentett:
while this is a good guide, I hope you guys know you can find a professionally made jig for 2 dollars on ebay.
[Captivate General] powerserge1:
Well I have tried everything...

If i power on the phone I get AT&T logo and reboots..

If I try the USB cable with any button combo all I get is the grey charging icon.

The phone is soft bricked but I tried the 300-301ohm resistor trick, tried it with a couple of usb connectors (made my own jig) and nothing! So pissed off, for 2 days I been trying to get the phone in download mode to flash to stock.

I got tired of waiting for my jig I bought off of a member here to get here so I tried it myself. Hopefully the one I ordered will work but I do not see how it will be any different then what I have tried already! So frustrating...

I made sure to use tape to not touch the resistors and used an ohm meter to check for the proper resistance. Just sayin, I was not guessing and been trying for hours to get my phone back.
[Captivate General] sjsicilia:
Thanks for the post. So much fun to do these techy geeky things. HOWEVER, when I stripped the IGO power tip for the Motorola/Nokia phone, and I matched my tip to your picture of your tip with the USB inserted in the phone. My plug is backwards with the set of two on the bottom and the set of three on the top. Yes, I am holding the phone the same way you have it in the picture. Would four and five still be the ones you pointed out except upside down?

Mine looks like this. Pin four and five would face out to the left instead of the right. Is there a standard way to count these?

---------- Post added at 10:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:34 AM ----------

Figured it out latex and gloves all!. It's the far right top and bottom no matter how the plug looks when in phone. Wear latex gloves so your hands do not "alter" the ohm.

It waited about 5 to 10 seconds and POOF, download mode. Now from my understanding since I am trying to get this Cappy back to stock mode. I open Odin and plug in the regular USB and Im off.

Thanks fellow Tech. How did you learn this stuff? Is there a book on basic techy? LOL
[Captivate General] powerserge1:
Well I got my phone working again thanks to the jig! Worth the $$$. I have an 11/05 build so the One clicks did not work for me. I had to use ODIN with the .tar and PIT file and bam back to stock. Rooted, installed speedmod Kernel to get CWM then installed ICS
[Captivate General] XeoNoX:
this post might be helpfull too!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=889128
[Captivate General] juanma945:
would this work with a htc sensation 4g?

Hi im wondering if this method of unbricking a phone would work with my htc sensation 4g, bcuz i bricked it and i would really like to fix it, specially this way which is really cheap :) thanks
[Captivate General] wickedninjalo:
I just wanted to share this http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=140497761183 with my fellow lazy people. 6 bucks for premade jig free shipping.
[Captivate General] MarcEcko:
You saved my life, or hundreds of dollars..

My case was this: I tried flashing with Odin, but the power went out and I just couldn't get it into Download mode at all, no button combo or anything, it was plain dead on the Phone ! PC screen, but the jig worked just fine (even though it went to said screen once)..

THANKS!
[Captivate General] lillejord:
For all you people say that you can buy one online... yeah, you can wait for shipping or you can just go to Radio Shack and have you phone up and running the same day.

Radio Shack was out of the iGo so I bought the Enercell microUSB adapter for $6.99. It actually has the same five wire layout as the iGo (once you cut through the plastic housing).
[Captivate General] idiotshere:
jig is a must have when developing
[Captivate General] cjman250:
genius!

i cannot thank you enough! i bought everything in the pictures and worked great! really needed this since im leaving town wednesday... :victory:

UPDATE: bad flash updating to froyo, now touching resistors only causes the phone to show the phone-!-computer screen
[Captivate General] 4-2ndtwin:
Use that screen as the Download mode screen. Or pull battery for a minute or so, replace and then try the jig.
[Captivate General] Sun0fNothing:
Used this method a while ago when I softbricked and it worked perfectly. To those saying that others should just buy a $2 jig on Ebay, you should probably consider that some people need their Cappy as their daily phone and can't go without it while they wait for the jig to come in the mail.

One thing to point out is that this worked perfectly on my Captivate, but it takes a while to strip down the USB piece. Don't get discouraged if it doesn't seem like you're getting anywhere, just keep hacking at it. It took me like 20 minutes.
[Captivate General] marniel647:
I wanna try this guide i will create a jig . Basically i just hard brick my phone(Galaxy 551) it does not boot and does not boot at recovery only black screen..? If i get into download mode i will remove the jig and attach the phone into computer i am correct?
[Captivate General] 4-2ndtwin:
Correct as far as the Captivate, but your device I am not sure of.
[Captivate General] marniel647:
Basically i know that the USB Jig will work in our device one of the user of my phone use the USB Jig (But he buy one not homemade) and it get's into download mode i hope that i can get the same result. :) do i need a resistor that is 1/4 watts?
[Captivate General] 4-2ndtwin:
1/4 watt ---- Yes.
[Captivate General] crazykid74:
thanks for the tip and just finish doing the jig and work perfect with 3 risistor thank u.
[Captivate General] apristel:
Thanks, saved my phone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGSQsagdexc
[Captivate General] Limitz Cash:
You can just buy a USB jig from eBay , for about $3 - $5. I bought mine awhile ago, but I think I payed about $4. Free shipping too.
[Captivate General] Ha1cy0n:
I bought a Captivate to sell, it had a custom ROM that was missing the kernel when I factory reset it.

Was able to do Download mode the correct way (volume up + down and insert USB cable) the first time, tried using an all-in-one Odin flasher off some other lame site, and it pretty much bricked it up. Wasn't able to use the normal Download mode method, but after running across this thread whilst doing some Googling, I ran to RadioShack and created a new tool =D

The silicone sucked getting out from between the wires, but other than that, it worked like a CHARM!

Thank you so much!!!
[Captivate General] Espaleno:
Still not working

My captivate is really bricked I cant even see anything in the screen, when I plug it there is not battery charging, not download mode, no recovery no anything.

I did the jig full of faith but it didn't work either! I got black out when flashing a wrong kernal :(

what can I do???
[Captivate General] xlmarkielx:
Little help please

Want to start off saying that I love your instructibles. Very helpful and thorough. I've come upon a bit of a problem tho. I had followed your method as well as others to the T. Including the exact same parts and all. Sadly my resistors cost $1.49 each. bleh. So when i try to connect it, nothing shows up after the 2-3 seconds i'm supposed to make contact. So I followed all the steps that you had listed, but to my dismay, it still doesn't work. I also tried the stripping of a micro usb dongle. It still wont react to the resistors. I'm sure i make connection with the copper strips but not sure why its still not working. Any ideas? Here is some information regarding my phone. Samsung galaxy S vibrant. Soft-bricked (shows computer and phone with caution sign in the middle). Bought the 100k x 3 resistors from radioshack. as well as the 1k resistors just in case. Not sure what it could be but any helpful replies would be appreciated.
[Captivate General] BWolf56:
Please don't double post, I replied to your other one.
[Captivate General] htrowpiks:
proactive jig building

This thread actually inspired me to build my jig before my cappy arrived in the mail.
[Captivate General] ArchTyriel:
+1

I definitely enjoyed this one. I'll have to try it as a project and report back. It's just a matter of time before I brick this poor phone...
[Captivate General] icytux:
Hey, I'm trying to do the USB JiG for my Sprint galaxy S 3 which I believe is hard bricked, it doesn't go into download mode, doesn't turn on or recovery, the computer recognizes the phone as QHSUSB_DLOAD, this happened after I tried installing the Avatar Rom , I bought a 5 pack of 100-0 Ohm carbon film resistors at 1/2 watt, will these work?
[Captivate General] aryankhan792:
can i use it for china clone MTK 6575 my phone is completely dead not detect on PC not work with volume up +power and other key combination
[Captivate General] arturdgl:
Igo
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bazinga:
Does it matter if I use 512 or 1gb? I am using TMOUS HD2, so does it matter which data.img I use?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] motoman234:
No it doesn't matter, just depends on if you want a full gig to store apps and data or not. Some people use 512mb to save room on there SD card.

P.S. Just a heads up, questions should go in the Q&A section.