IF you happened to have a hard brick, showing a pic of phone--!-->PC, then you've ended up having a paper weight brick.

For those who have 3 button recovery disabled, even rooting poses significant risk.

I wish you good luck.

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Added on September 14, 2010, 8:16 pm
I'm curious to know. Would Maxis or other Samsung dealer let you break the seal and honor return when the phone does not get into recovery mode? The rules are not clearly defined. You may have regarded a SGS without recovery mode as defective, but would Samsung consider that?

So far, only Samsung Canada responded on their Facebook fan page. The owner of the fan page is yet to be known; it could be false news. Samsung in all other countries, especially UK, have denied exchanging the phone.

In other words, I doubt someone can deliberately avoid getting a recovery-disabled SGS. Rather, it's a luck game.

It will attract dust u still want it?

   
Another question for those who are on Voodoo, are u guys able to mount USB storage to ur computer? used to work, but now even i click Mount, my computer doesn't even detect. 

thanks for the link, though i gave up hope in doing anything to fix the 3 button problem, this method seems very simple and easy to understand

now reading all the comment there, not all good though...

is that true froyo for malaysia coming in Dec?? then i have no choice rather than to use the stock eclair...

actually scared to do anything to my phone, lots of RM invested mah, better be careful myself 

The new KIES broke the perfectness in my system. Now, if I press firmware upgrade button, it says no new firmware like usual. When I close it, that firmware update windows hangs and require force closing.

I think I'd return back to old version or uninstall it entirely. KIES is pretty useless in my needs.