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Bricked my phone. Then fixed it.

keredini

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Jul 16, 2010
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Long story short, after rooting my phone and customizing it exactly the way i wanted it, i decided to see if I could get Mimocan's lag-fix to work on the Captivate. For those that don't know, this speeds up I/O by placing the some of the inner workings of the phone onto a EXT3 (or 4) partition on the SD Card. Some users have seen benchmark scores double using this method on other versions of the Galaxy S.

I was too anxious though and didn't read through all the forums, as seems like Captivate owners trying this method have bricked their phones. For me, I was stuck so that no matter what happened when I booted up I went into recovery mode, however from recovery mode i couldn't select any of the options.

I finally found this thread that has a one-click program to revert the phone back to it's stock state. I lost my apps, contacts, etc. But my phone was back up and running.

[STOCK ROM] Odin3 One-Click Downloader - xda-developers

tl;dr If you brick your phone, or you want to revert back to a clean stock ROM so AT&T doesn't know you have been playing around, use the program above to restore to factory ROM.
 
I "bricked" mine too. I think SetCPU messed up my phone, and didn't want to wake up regardless if it was on or off. Ended up doing a nandroid restore (thank goodness I did one), and everything is fine. It's a little dated (3 days, but Ive done alot in those days, haha), but I'm just glad its working again.
 
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I "bricked" mine too. I think SetCPU messed up my phone, and didn't want to wake up regardless if it was on or off. Ended up doing a nandroid restore (thank goodness I did one), and everything is fine. It's a little dated (3 days, but Ive done alot in those days, haha), but I'm just glad its working again.

I'll need to look into that. I know about the Clockwork Mod, but I would like a solution that will allow me to take a full backup of my phone (with contacts, apps, settings, etc) and then allow me to restore to that backup should I mess up my phone playing around with it. Do you know if Clockwork does that, or does your method allow that?
 
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