Help Captivate bricked!

edoreply · Dec 4, 2012

Folks, just managed to brick the un-brickable phone....aaaarg! Just being stooopid.

On boot, flashes ATT screen and stops. Power button doesn't do anything - only removing the battery will.

I can get it into download and tried flashing "Corn" ROM from Odin but it doesn't help.

I can get it into recovery mode and have "wiped data/factor reset" without success - just gives a bunch of "failed to..." and "Can't..." messages.

Tried OneClick with no success.

Anything else to flash using Odin?

Just gimme back my good ol' gingerbread....please!

Thanks for any help you might offer.

lunatic59 · Dec 4, 2012

No biggie ... I know because as they say "been there, done that." What you have to do is take it all the way back to stock 2.1.1 (yeah, I know. I sighed so hard that I blew my coffee cup off my desk).

You'll need ... I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0. The link's in this thread (the mediafire link, megaupload is kaput) http://androidforums.com/captivate-all-things-root/162909-returning-stock.html.

Once you get it back to stock you'll need to update it through kies mini to 2.2 and then to 2.3. From there you can flash the corn kernel and get a working recovery. It's a pain, but it works.

edoreply · Dec 4, 2012

Thanks, lunitic. Will give it a try....I'm gonin' to find something to weight down my coffee cup.

lunatic59 · Dec 4, 2012

When you're ready to flash, you can go right to JB with CM10. I've got it running beautifully on one of my captivates (I have two

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edoreply · Dec 4, 2012

Well, from bad-to-worse time.

The Odin window that popped up when I ran I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0 didn't recognize my device. I check Odin3 and it didn't either.

The code that is generated when I use ""wiped data/factor reset" from recovery mode is as follows:

E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)

--Wiping data...
Formatting /data
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Formatting /dbdata...
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/stl10
Formatting /cache...
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/stl11
Data wipe complete.
E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
E:Can’t mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can’t open /cache/recovery/log
E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
E:Can’t mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Cant open /cache/recovery/last_log
E:failed to mount /cache (invalid argument)

Doesn't look good. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

edoreply

lunatic59 · Dec 4, 2012

You did put your phone into download mode prior to running odin?

edoreply · Dec 4, 2012

Yes. I get the download screen and the pc knows something has attached to the USB but it doesn't show up in win explorer.

Apparently I've overwritten CWM recovery and the only thing running in recovery mode is Samsung Recovery Utils.

I've tried wiping data and cache a dozen times - all with the same outcome.

Is it time to see if this thing skips across the lake?

lunatic59 · Dec 4, 2012

Just to be absolutely clear, this is the screen?

Have you installed kies mini? It will contain the appropriate drivers for the phone.

edoreply · Dec 4, 2012

Yeah, that's the screen.

I have Kies loaded and updated since all this nonsense started. It doesn't give me the the "update device" button when the phone is connected.

I'll try it again now. Just in case....

lunatic59 · Dec 4, 2012

Do you have a different cable to try? Samsung phones have a history of being very fussy with cables and the stock cable has been known to go bad without warning.

edoreply · Dec 4, 2012

lunatic - you're a genius. I'm back to a working phone. I'll have to work back up to GB, but this is right on.

I do appreciate your help - I am grateful.

Hope you have a Merry Christmas.

edoreply · Dec 5, 2012

One more thing...

This is eclair. Do I have to step up each build? Are there any I can skip? I know that I bought this phone with froyo and used kies to u/g to gb.

just asking.

again, thank you.

lunatic59 · Dec 5, 2012

edoreply said:
lunatic - you're a genius. I'm back to a working phone. I'll have to work back up to GB, but this is right on.

I do appreciate your help - I am grateful.

Hope you have a Merry Christmas.

I'm not a genius, I just screw up a lot of phones that I have to fix.

If you want to root, you need to bring it up to 2.3.5 and that a two step process. First to FroYo then to GB.

Once you have updated to 2.3.5 then you can root with http://androidforums.com/captivate-all-things-root/493850-guide-rooting-adding-cwm-recovery-2-3-5-corn-kernel.html

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