Did I brick my phone :'( ?

[Michael von Glasow]

Hi,

Just a guess... but you should be able to get into recovery without ADB. All you need to do is press some key combination while switching on your phone (depends on model, Volume Up is a frequently used one). This will take you to the recovery menu. From there you can flash a boot image using fastboot (described on CyanogenMod wiki) or heimdall (see Replicant wiki).

Hope it helps
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Benjamin Rochefort <ben at benwen.info> wrote:

Hello freedom lovers!

I was a happy user of CyanogenMod 10 and decided to try out Replicant. 
Unfortunately, the install procedure failed at some point and I am now 
stuck in an endless boot loop which goes like this:

10 Galaxy S GT-I9000M splash screen
20 Galaxy S cyanogen(mod) splash screen
30 A screen with text scrolling so fast that I can't make anything out 
of it, the android robot icon in the background which seems to change to 
a 'dead' robot lying on its back with a red error icon just before rebooting
40 GOTO 10

I had the following chat with paulk yesterday:

(16:51:20) paulk-desktop: oysterboy, so CyanogenMod bootsplash appears 
at some point?
(16:51:33) paulk-desktop: if so, then do "adb reboot recovery" at this 
moment
(16:51:38) paulk-desktop: and press the key combination
(16:51:47) paulk-desktop: then when you're in download mode, reflash 
replicant boot.img
(16:52:10) paulk-desktop: and it'll boot in replicant recovery, and 
there you'll be able to flash replicant following the next instructions 
(or reflash cyanogenmod)
(16:52:51) paulk-desktop: oysterboy, I'll need to leave very soon though
(16:52:57) paulk-desktop: so i hope this will work
(16:53:13) oysterboy: will try...
(16:53:21) oysterboy: hope I can get it back to a normal state...
(16:53:40) paulk-desktop: you always can
(16:53:50) paulk-desktop: unless you reflash the bootloader, but that 
doesn't happen a lot

Unfortunately, I am unable to run any adb commands on my phone in its 
current state.

adb reboot recovery -> error: device not found
adb devices -> List of devices attached

[I do a have a udev rule that enabled my phone to be recognized, but it 
doesn't seem to be taken into account anymore]

Any help much appreciated. I've searched so much on the internet today 
and I am really stuck :(. If the #replicant irc channel is a better 
place for discussing this problem, please let me know.

Thanks!

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