Oct 31, 2016 By in Tags:,, Here is a tutorial which will be helping you in the procedure to unbrick your Samsung GALAXY S5 (SM-G900T). So if you are looking to do the same, this post will be surely of help to you. What is a Bricked Device? The term brick is used unconventionally these days, without actually knowing what it actually is, and let us have a look that what it really means. An android device is said to be bricked, if it does not start up.
Apr 25, 2016 - 'Today I reinstalled my Samsung Galaxy S6's system. However,not the result I had hoped,the first time to enter the system, my S6 crashed. Apr 22, 2014 - How to unbrick Samsung Galaxy S5: Turn your Samsung Galaxy S5 off, remove battery and re-insert after some ten seconds. Boot Galaxy S5 in Download Mode. Launch Odin on your computer and connect your Galaxy S5 to PC using a USB cable. Once successfully connected, click on the AP button on Odin. To unbrick the Samsung Galaxy S5 we will using the official stock firmware built for it and flash it using the Odin program. We recommend to follow the exact and all steps listed here to successfully restore the device to its native state. This post here is to unbrick soft bricked Samsung Galaxy S5 only. This tutorial applies to all versions of Samsung Galaxy S5, just make sure that you download the firmware for your model of S5 only. Also this post is for soft bricked devices only not hard bricked ( see the difference between soft brick and hard brick).
Now if you're device is not charged up, and it doesn't start, please don't make a mockery of yourself and call it bricked. Bricking is when the device does not start up, may boot into recovery mode, and the fastboot or the download mode. Now the type of brick can be classified into two broad categories, which are soft bricked, and hard bricked. Soft Brick: A Device is said to be soft bricked when it doesn't start up, but it can still boot into recovery mode, and the fastboot mode or the download mode. So if that is the case with your Samsung GALAXY S5 (SM-G900T), then it is soft bricked. Mostly in all the cases, when things go wrong, a device can become soft bricked, and you can easily come out of it, and treat all by yourself, with just a little bit of assistance which this post will help you out with.
Hard Brick: On the other hand, hard bricked it termed to the state when the device doesn't boot up in the interface, nor any of the recovery or the download or the fastboot mode. It becomes completely extinct, and doesn't respond to anything.
Now this rarely happens, unless you mess up badly. Even if you do things horribly wrong, the recovery mode can go away, but still the fastboot mode or the download mode is there for the backup, which you can use too recover. This happens very very rarely, when even the fastboot mode can't be accessed of the phone, as it is the last resort. And if you have a hard bricked phone, i.e., none of the modes are working, then it falls into the category hard bricked.