In this tutorial we will guide you step-by-step on how to repair a soft bricked Samsung Galaxy Y. Just follow the simple steps given below:
In some rare cases, when an Android phone is rooted or a customized ROM is installed over it, then it might be possible that your Android phone gets soft-bricked. In that case, when you switch on your phone, it’ll just restart, but doesn’t boot normally or show some other errors. However, you can repair it by flashing it and again installing the original ROM on your phone.
Samsung Galaxy Y is featured with 830 MHz ARM 6 Processor, a RAM of just 290 MB, and a 32 GB upgradable storage.Like the previous Samsung’s Smartphones, it has also created a large user base or the fan base. With an affordable price range, they also have provided some really good features with an elegant design and stunning look
Android Smartphone are an excellent way to take all your private and important files, images, data, and all other imperative data with you. Thus we can declare that it is one of the finest gadgets in our pocket, which has plenty of information regarding you.
So in this tutorial we will be showing you how to repair a soft bricked Samsung Galaxy Y. Just follow the simple steps given below:
Disclaimer:
This tutorial will definitely work when using Samsung Galaxy Y only. While working of it on others is not yet confirmed. On applying this installation to another model or device may give an unwanted result. While applying this update we will not be responsible if anything occurs to your device, so continue at your own risk.
Pre-Requisite:
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For successful completion of this rooting process charge your phone up to a minimum of 75% battery.
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You must take a back-up of all your personal items and other important data, such as Call Logs, SMS, Contacts, Audios, Images, Videos, APN (Access Point Names) settings, Bookmarks, MMS settings, on your phone.
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One must install a custom recovery image, particularly for his Android device. To do this, ClockworkMod Recovery should be downloaded using the Internet.
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If you have not, then you must unlock your Android device’s Bootloader.
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You must enable USB Debugging mode on your Samsung Galaxy Y. Just follow, Settings-> Applications-> Development-> USB debugging. There select the USB Debugging icon.
Steps for Repair a Soft Bricked Samsung Galaxy Y:
Step 1
Firstly, download Odin3 v1.85.zipfiles to your computer.
Step 2
After transferring this file, switch off your phone to enter into the Download Mode. For this just press the Down Volume button, & Home button simultaneously, and while pressing these buttons, press down your Power button at the same time.
Step 3
Now start Odin on your PC and then connect your Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini to it.
Step 4
After the successful connection, wait for a while and then you’ll see an ID:COM box with its COM port id will swap into yellow color.
NOTE: Here the COM port id will be 0:[COM6], as shown below:
Step 5
Now in the above downloaded and then extracted files, flash and install the following files in your Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini.
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Click on the PDA option, and then choose a file named as CODE.
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Click on the Phone option, and then choose a file named as MODEM.
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Click on the CSC option, and then choose a file named as CSC.
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Other fields should be kept empty.
Step 6
Now click the Start option for initializing the installation process and then wait for the process to get finished.
Step 7
When the process completes, you’ll view a text “PASS” in Green color as shown below:
Step 8
After the completion of this process, you should select the “reboot system now” option to restart your device, and then reboot it in the Normal Mode.
Step 9
After this, you’ll have an unbricked Samsung Galaxy Y.
Finished!
