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Help stuck at verizon logo when unbricking

maplewood

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Jul 26, 2010
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I thought I was getting pretty good at unbricking but:

I was running Hyperdrive 18.1 and went to upgrade to RLS19.
The flash didn't take care of the Wifi so I attempted to restore the 18.1 for the time being.

That restore failed (twice).
So I figured, what the hell. Unbrick and start over.

I unbricked with Odin 3.09 using I545VRUEMK2_I545VZWEMK2_I545VRUEMK2_HOME.tar.md5 file

But the phone is stuck at the Verizon logo. (After three attempts).

Next steps?
 
I thought I was getting pretty good at unbricking but:

I was running Hyperdrive 18.1 and went to upgrade to RLS19.
The flash didn't take care of the Wifi so I attempted to restore the 18.1 for the time being.

That restore failed (twice).
So I figured, what the hell. Unbrick and start over.

I unbricked with Odin 3.09 using I545VRUEMK2_I545VZWEMK2_I545VRUEMK2_HOME.tar.md5 file

But the phone is stuck at the Verizon logo. (After three attempts).

Next steps?

In Samsung devices such a situation can usually be remedied by doing a factory reset in recovery. The device will be in it's "fresh out of the box" state (provided you flashed a stock ROM of course), but that usually works for us with Sammy phones.
 
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In Samsung devices such a situation can usually be remedied by doing a factory reset in recovery. The device will be in it's "fresh out of the box" state (provided you flashed a stock ROM of course), but that usually works for us with Sammy phones.

Thanks. I hadn't thought to try that.
On a wing and a prayer I assumed MK2 and was lucky to be right.
 
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