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[TUT]How to unbrick your Galaxy Ace

As a user called chismay said that it would be helpful for some of you users to know how to unbrick your phone, i decided to post how i unbricked my phone..
Remove your battery(not necessary sim card and sd card, but you can always do it for safety)hold the vol-, home and power button and put the battery back in while doing this after a few seconds you will see the downloading screen and then flash your firmware...
And as pujitjuneja said its actually easy ;)
 
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The above method will work with most of the bricked phones.
If your phone was bricked when rooted and all, the service center isn't going to do anything for free, so the best option is to use this, and then, if the phone is still not unbricked, you can just send it to samsung service center, and pay for it if you have to or just fake a problem.
And no one talked about ROM manager, don't go off topic.
Please test a method and only then comment about it.
 
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I was setting up adfree app and the phone went off and now nothing happens, wont turn on, screen nothing.

Tried this method, got as far as odin detecting phone, then it just stops at settin up connection on odin and does nothing for ages.

I had used odin to upgrade to 2.3.3 and was working fine.

Anybody know anything about this issue?
 
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I was setting up adfree app and the phone went off and now nothing happens, wont turn on, screen nothing.

Tried this method, got as far as odin detecting phone, then it just stops at settin up connection on odin and does nothing for ages.

I had used odin to upgrade to 2.3.3 and was working fine.

Anybody know anything about this issue?

Do one thing, just try to boot it into recovery, and then open kies.. and try emergency recovery.. if even that doesn't work, then you'll have to send it to samsung service (sorry :( )
 
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Do one thing, just try to boot it into recovery, and then open kies.. and try emergency recovery.. if even that doesn't work, then you'll have to send it to samsung service (sorry :( )

I've tried recovery, download all modes. I'm gonna go back to orange shop and get a replacement, they've said they'll do that for me. I dont really know if anything happens when going into these modes as nothing comes up on the screen.

Slightly off topic. I DID manage to get flash player 10.3 to install on gingerbread, which apparently you cannot do so i dunno how that happened lol!!
 
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It wud usually just say application not installed, but it said application installed, didnt try it on any flash websites as couldnt think of any heavy flash web sites off top of my head.

Anyway back on topic. The odin recovery method did work sort of the 1st time i tried it. I pressed in vol -,home then on and put battery in then. PC did start installing drivers and the com port was detected on odin, but it just got to stage of setting up the connection to phone. Dont matter now as they'll give me a new phone anyways!!
 
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Did u tick any of the additional boxes to do this?

i had that bug when odin just got stuck at "setting up connection" when i tried to flash villainrom, i just removed it and did it again but i ticked debug mode or sth like this and it worked, so you might wanna try that out too

There's your answer buddy :)
 
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well i asked google back then and Stuck at setup connection... ODIN solved it.

my dead phone,no download mod,
i try to connect by usb
,then remove battery,
then press 3 button,
then put battery again,
then odin add,show yeallow colour
,but phone screen no show nothing.
then i try flash.try all ways,includ debug etc.
but always set connection.......fail

som help pls
 
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