S7 Black screen and unresponsive

[Pleinair]

Last night I was talking to a friend on discord and plugged the phone into the wall and then Samsung forced an update.. I'd been pushing it off for ages but still it should've asked this time too. Instead I have the phone plugged into the wall and I look at the screen and it's blue and telling me that it's downloading an update and not to turn it off. I was leaving my family's house and I unplug the phone getting ready to leave and the phone shuts off. I thought the update was over so I try to turn the phone back on and it's unresponsive.

Plugged it up to a computer for a second and it flashed samsung for a second and then just does nothing. What happened is the phone died during a software update that shouldn't have even happened to begin with. Every single reset is useless. The three button combo isn't working, no matter what I try. I've looked for methods on how to get passed it or use a usb to force it into download mode so I can at least rewrite the firmware.

I found a program that could do it apparently, like Samsung 300k or something but I can't find a place to download it and the places that I have found when I download it the windows defender says it's a virus or whatever so... I'm at a loss as to what to do.

Sending it in would be a no-go because I don't have the money to send it in and the phone is over a year old.

 

[El Presidente]

Can you get it to boot in to download mode? I'm guessing that's what you mean by "3 button combo"?

 

[Pleinair]

Yeah that's what I meant, and the phone is completely unresponsive. Can't even hard reset it or anything. That's why I was looking for something to force it into download mode via USB.

 

[James L]

Volume down + power for a minute or two gives no response? They used to sell jigs on ebay to force download mode.

It's been awhile ago i saw them though.