possibly bricked my phone

[andcircuit]

I was installing a new boot animation and now it wont turn on. It just sticks to trhe "Samsung" screen. I tried booting it in recovery but its not working at all. I looked at other previous threads but they were all able to do boot recovery.

 

[Sheepdog Elite]

Don't panic.

I would say try reflashing CWM first though. It's strange that it won't come up. Are you sure you just flashed a boot animation?

 

[andcircuit]

Don't panic.

I would say try reflashing CWM first though. It's strange that it won't come up. Are you sure you just flashed a boot animation?

How can I flash if I can't get into my phone? I am positive it was just a boot animation, I restarted it and this is what happened.

 

[Sheepdog Elite]

Use odin to flash CWM from droidxcons post.

 

[andcircuit]

Use odin to flash CWM from droidxcons post.

I have a mac.

 

[Sheepdog Elite]

I have a mac.

And with that I'll gladly hand this off to anyone else who can help. I'm officially ZERO help with a mac.

 

[andcircuit]

Wow I'm screwed.

 

[Sheepdog Elite]

Wow I'm screwed.

Sorry, I'm a total apple hater. Kinda bummed I'm not of more use to you I know you can use something called boot camp to run virtual windows somehow? Probably the best way to work on the fascinate. I wish corey was here. He's a mac user with a fascinate.

 

[andcircuit]

thats okay, thanks for helping. I officially dislike apple now.

 

[DroidXcon]

thats okay, thanks for helping. I officially dislike apple now.

so you cant boot into even blue recovery?

 

[andcircuit]

so you cant boot into even blue recovery?

How do I blue recovery?

 

[DroidXcon]

How do I blue recovery?

try this remove your battery,, press and hold Volume up and volume down (dont let go) insert the battery ,, continue to hold the buttons and press and hold the power button till samsung flashes twice,, after that let go of the buttons

 

[andcircuit]

try this remove your battery,, press and hold Volume up and volume down (dont let go) insert the battery ,, continue to hold the buttons and press and hold the power button till samsung flashes twice,, after that let go of the buttons

Nothing happened

 

[DroidXcon]

Nothing happened

do you even see a samsung logo?

 

[andcircuit]

do you even see a samsung logo?

yes, thats all i see unless i plug in my phone then i see the charging battery, not charging though. I'm downloading "paralles desktop 6" for mac its supposed to run windows apps. its 14 day trial, thats all i'd need...
EDIT: after waiting 30 minutes the blue recovery came up. what should i do?

 

[DroidXcon]

yes, thats all i see unless i plug in my phone then i see the charging battery, not charging though. I'm downloading "paralles desktop 6" for mac its supposed to run windows apps. its 14 day trial, thats all i'd need...
EDIT: after waiting 30 minutes the blue recovery came up. what should i do?

cannot really do much , you need red, and im assuming you never placed an update.zip file on your sdcard, but just incase you did somehow go to apply sdcard:update.zip and hit the home button hopefully it will lead you into red,,,, if not then we will need that windows things..... at least its not a brick.

oh and do not try to do a factory restore it wont help

 

[andcircuit]

cannot really do much , you need red, and im assuming you never placed an update.zip file on your sdcard, but just incase you did somehow go to apply sdcard:update.zip and hit the home button hopefully it will lead you into red,,,, if not then we will need that windows things..... at least its not a brick.

oh and do not try to do a factory restore it wont help

i thought i put an update.zip on but it said it failed. should i try rebooting the system? or just turn it off and wait for that program?
FYI I owe you so much! I'm definitely going to buy you your coffee when i can lol.
EDIT: I went ahead and rebooted it anyway and everything is good!

 

[DroidXcon]

i thought i put an update.zip on but it said it failed. should i try rebooting the system? or just turn it off and wait for that program?
FYI I owe you so much! I'm definitely going to buy you your coffee when i can lol.

thank you but ,dont feel obligated my friend

yes try to reboot you have nothing to lose at this point

 

[Tobii1]

I too got into the same situation with 'SAMSUNG' logo sitting there (do to a failed Titanium Backup uninstall of Swype). I have a PC so I used ODIN to re-flash 2.9. Clearing of Cash and Dev Cash did the trick. BTW I used explorer to delete Swype.apk. All is well for me at this point.

 

[dark96]

and: i know this is going to help much at all, but i did have this problem, i had to boot into cwm, using the manual method of holding the vol up and down buttons and the power buttons till the logo flashed twice, and just reflashed sc 2.9. I dunno if you tried that yet or hell even got it working by now. Also I'm totally unfamiliar with the process with mac, but can you connect the usb and sc again with odin?

Edit: man by the time i try to type up my idea like 5 other post appear from what i saw last... i'm never any help