Hello guys, first of all sorry for my English. I've got my Samsung Omnia 3 days ago as a gift and I was very happy with it, I was reading forums about the Samsung Omnia and I saw many people saying that there Samsung Omnia was being better after an upgrade. I was thinking to make an upgrade too.
So i went to the official Samsung Mobile website and made the upgrade. Then the programm said start the device manually/on demand. So I did, but there happened nothing just a blank screen. So I pulled in panic the USB cable out and tryed to starting the phone by the power button but no response from the phone. Only the red power button was on. And now my Samsung Omnia is bricked ! I'm reading now for 2 days on the internet for how to unbrick my Samsung Omnia. But I couldn't find things that helped. I red many topics in this forum and I didn't found here either something that can help. Please guys, help me!
Hello guys, first of all sorry for my English. I've got my Samsung Omnia 3 days ago as a gift and I was very happy with it, I was reading forums about the Samsung Omnia and I saw many people saying that there Samsung Omnia was being better after an upgrade. I was thinking to make an upgrade too.
So i went to the official Samsung Mobile website and made the upgrade. Then the programm said start the device manually/on demand. So I did, but there happened nothing just a blank screen. So I pulled in panic the USB cable out and tryed to starting the phone by the power button but no response from the phone. Only the red power button was on. And now my Samsung Omnia is bricked ! I'm reading now for 2 days on the internet for how to unbrick my Samsung Omnia. But I couldn't find things that helped. I red many topics in this forum and I didn't found here either something that can help. Please guys, help me!
If the computer will still recognize your Omnia and your phone battery is all charged up, you might be able to launch the Vzw Upgrade Tool in Emergency Upgrade mode and flash over whatever happened to your phone. I had an independent battery charger, so I could charge my battery and know it was charged without using my phone. Perhaps the computer you used and the USB port deserves part of the blame. I bricked my original Omnia on 1st try using an old, slow WinXP machine and a port in a Cardbus card, not directly connected to the motherboard. With a refurb Omnia that Vzw supplied, I used a relatively fast 32-bit Vista computer, a direct USB port, and turned off antivirus and firewall. The Vzw Downloads are different for XP and Vista. You could also try the UDML loader used to flash cooked ROMs and the CF03 image from PPCGeeks to see if that would work instead of the Vzw tool.
The easiest thing if your original phone was obtained directly from Vzw and is still under warranty is to go to a Verizon store, tell them it failed during the upgrade, and perhaps they will offer you a no-charge refurb replacement as they did for me. The replacement phone will have whatever is left on your original warranty or 90 days, whichever is greater, as a warranty. If you're emotionally attached to your Omnia, you can try all of the above 1st.
If the computer will still recognize your Omnia and your phone battery is all charged up, you might be able to launch the Vzw Upgrade Tool in Emergency Upgrade mode and flash over whatever happened to your phone. I had an independent battery charger, so I could charge my battery and know it was charged without using my phone. Perhaps the computer you used and the USB port deserves part of the blame. I bricked my original Omnia on 1st try using an old, slow WinXP machine and a port in a Cardbus card, not directly connected to the motherboard. With a refurb Omnia that Vzw supplied, I used a relatively fast 32-bit Vista computer, a direct USB port, and turned off antivirus and firewall. The Vzw downloads are different for XP and Vista. You could also try the UDML loader used to flash cooked ROMs and the CF03 image from PPCGeeks to see if that would work instead of the Vzw tool.
The easiest thing if your original phone was obtained directly from Vzw and is still under warranty is to go to a Verizon store, tell them it failed during the upgrade, and perhaps they will offer you a no-charge refurb replacement as they did for me. The replacement phone will have whatever is left on your original warranty or 90 days, whichever is greater, as a warranty. If you're emotionally attached to your Omnia, you can try all of the above 1st.
Thanks for your help! My computer don't recognize my Samsung Omnia . And I don't want to take it back to the shop because I don't have warranty on it. Isn't there another option to unbrick my phone?
Thanks for your help! My computer don't recognize my Samsung Omnia . And I don't want to take it back to the shop because I don't have warranty on it. Isn't there another option to unbrick my phone?
Gurkan,
All of the omnias should still be under warranty (one year) as it hasn't been one year yet since the phone was released (correct me folks in case my memory is wrong). Most of the vzw stores will help you honor the manufacturer warranty. You don't have to purchase the asurion insurance (additional) offered by vzw to be covered under one year warranty. If for some reason this is not an option for you, my understanding is that there is no way to recover the bricked phone. There is someone supposedly in Romania that folks in Europe have used for i900 (GSM version) and he charges some minimal amount. However, he hasn't posted the solution in any public forum.
! I'm reading now for 2 days on the internet for how to unbrick my Samsung Omnia. But I couldn't find things that helped. I red many topics in this forum and I didn't found here either something that can help. Please guys, help me!
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