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OK so ive look for hours around xda at tons of threads and i cant find anyone with the same problem as me, my phone got stuck on the tmobile vibrant boot up screen after trying to flash an oc kernal from update.zip. so i decided to fix it with odin. im on a mac and i have a windows 7 virtual machine with odin3, kies, and the 32 bit vibrant drivers installed and it doesn't register my phone in download mode. it does recognized it in recovery but, for some reason not in download mode. please help
Won't work on Mac
For what I know, Odin won't recognize your phone in a virtual machine on a mac. I tried, it never worked, luckily I have a physical windows machine at home, maybe this is not your case. Good luck.
Searched and did not find this in the Vibrant forum.
My Vibrant suddenly will not mount. I have it set to MASS STORAGE as it always has been, and now it won't bring up the USB notification on the phone and I get a USB Device not recognized error in Windows XP and Windows 7.
The phone is NOT rooted. I flashed JI2 with ODIN. I know it worked after that because I copied back my music movies and games back to the Vibrant from pc's running XP and 7.
Any ideas?
I had that happen to me, too, after I had soft-bricked my phone and then tried to use Odin to recover. I ended up getting the phone back through Clockwork Recovery, but by then it had stopped being recognized in Windows. Try re-installing the drivers (available here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929). That fixed the problem for me.
Tried those, don't work for me. Not sure what the heck is going on. Finally get the phone working nicely with the JI2 update and now this...sheesh.
Any other suggestions?? I confirmed that it's not a driver issue, I tried my coworkers vibrant on my PC and his and it mounts fine. When I connect mine, same old error. I even did a factory reset, same results.
I have the exact same problem.. my vibrant soft bricked, so I reflashed stock rom with ODIN and it seemed to be fine.. then after a while it just stopped being recognized on my computer. Tried both on mine and my husband's. It's not the drivers, I've installed and reinstalled. There doesn't seem to be any fix for this??
sorry to bump an old thread but was there ever a solution for this?
Same happend to me today . I nandroid back to a point it was working and did not help . I read somewhere that formatting the drives help some but im not sure I want to lose all my **** .
AgentFour20 said:
Same happend to me today . I nandroid back to a point it was working and did not help . I read somewhere that formatting the drives help some but im not sure I want to lose all my **** .
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I don't know if it's the drivers. I think it has something to do with Odin. I softbricked my vibrant twice and had to use Eugene's Froyo that won't brick then back to 2.1 and finally a custom rom. I think somewhere in there something happened...
I havent used odin lately . It was working fine then it just stoped working . I got the drives to show up but it window say "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it" .
Couple of things you can try:
1) Try setting the USB mode to Samsung Kies. Somehow, mass storage never worked for me, but Kies mode works just fine.
2) Try installing ES File Explorer from the market. With that you can get into a home network while on WiFi, thus allowing you to transfer data between your computer and phone using your WiFi network, thereby eliminating the need for cables.
So far I've done a few things and i still get "USB device not recognized" .
Here's what I've done .
1) reinstalled drivers
2) formatted internal and external
3) restored to a previous nandroid
guruchimi said:
Couple of things you can try:
1) Try setting the USB mode to Samsung Kies. Somehow, mass storage never worked for me, but Kies mode works just fine.
2) Try installing ES File Explorer from the market. With that you can get into a home network while on WiFi, thus allowing you to transfer data between your computer and phone using your WiFi network, thereby eliminating the need for cables.
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It is recognized when switched to kies but the drive int/ex still dont show up . I was going to odin to stock but odin does see it . Im probly going to download a the stk nandroid and exchange it .
sorry, I have to bump this up in hopes of the night crowd having an idea. Seriously wtf...
help please
heeeeeeelp
Is it recognized in any other computer ?
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Mine is not recognized by any computer, by odin or kies at all. This happened after I flashed a rom using odin fixing a soft brick. I don't know if it is a hardware problem or not, I have flashed to different roms using rom manager and usb is still not being recognized.
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ive researched for hours on the forums trying to fix my vibrant and I cant seem to find a situation similar to mine.
So i tried to install a rom from the romkitchen website. before that I did not have any rom I was just rooted via OCLF and i had just updated to the newest clockwork recovery. i did a nandroid backup and proceeded to install the rom. after it installed it just hangs at the first screen that says vibrant samsung. only it doesnt say that. it say galaxy s gt i9000. i tried to restore my nandroid file but it says it cant mount the sdcard. anything regarding the internal or external sdcard wont work. the recovery also looks different from the one i had before. it says clockworkmod recovery v2.5.1.0 speedmod ULFK at the top. and thats the only recovery i am able to access. i tried to odin back to stock and i tried so many different methods but no matter what i do it wont register in any odin version nor in that alternate odin program. i keep disconnecting/ reconnecting but nothing. i just get a a popup in the bottom corner that says one of the usb devices attached to the computer has malfunctioned. i dont know what else to do. any help would be greatly appreciated. im getting off the computer now so please email me at [email protected] if you can help. ive gone back to using my g1 for the time being
Use a usb port on the back of the computer .
hook up yer phone to computer , reinstall drivers , if u are not bricked because i dont know i didnt read everything u posted lol enable usb denbug and reinstall drivers than .
Im pretty sure I did the same thing a long time ago. I thought my phone was screwed.
Definitely try plugging it into another usb port if you have one first. Supposedly the ones in the back of the computer are better. If you have to, try every usb port you have.
Also, make sure youre downloading the drivers that are right for your opertaing system. For example, if you have windows xp 32bit, dont download the drivers for windows 7 64bit.
Even just reinstalling the drivers didnt work. I dont remember step by step, but I got into recovery, and wiped my cache and user data and was then able to have odin recognize my phone. Be careful in recovery mode though, because if I remember right it remapped my volume buttons, (up was down and down was up)
Lastly, make sure if/when you get odin to recognize it, you put the .tar file in the right spot (PDA) and make sure its checked. you need to have the .pit file there too, the 512 pit is the one Im pretty sure you want to have, not the 513, one is just newer. You probably want to make sure the re-partition box isnt checked in odin too.
Its been a while since Ive had to use odin, so I may be wrong on a few things, like which pit file is newer and so forth.
Ok, to start off, im new here. i have read a TON of threads about rooting and flashing roms to my vibrant. i have watched a dozen youtube videos on many different ways to do this but nothing seems to work for me. i am trying to get the team whiskey bionix v rom. i previously rooted my phone when i was on 2.1 but ended up unrooting because i didn't really know what to do yet. after upgrading to android 2.2 i tried to root again so i could get this new rom. i eventually got rooted after some difficulty. i used superoneclick root to do this. however i was stopped when i could not boot into clockwork recovery mode. i searched for hours on how to make it boot into this recovery mode but nothing worked. so i tried using odin but ran into a massive problem with it not recognizing my phone in download mode(YES I HAVE ALL THE DRIVERS). so i tried to unroot my phone and re-root it. however it wouldn't let my unroot it through superoneclick. it would not recognize my device. i got very frustrated and uninstalled the superuser app on my phone which actually got rid of my root access but now i cant re-root my phone.
I am very frustrated having spent a good 8 hours on this by now and getting stuck at every turn. should i go back to factory default? or is there something i should do to try and salvage this? also if i do restore to factory default will i end up on 2.1 or 2.2?
And yes i have read the entire noob guide and vibrant bible thread.
(BTW i have tried making this work on a windows 7 machine, windows xp, and a mac)
When you connect to pc in download mode, do you already have odin up on the pc?
Does it show a com #?
i have Odin. when i connect normally with my vibrant it picks up a com port. however it doesn't during download mode. i have tried with it up. with it down and then opining it up. plugging in my phone and reconnecting it over and over again and pretty much every combination i could think of because i read that it is a really finicky program.
btw i have done a complete factory reset and cleared all my sd card data(i backed it up on my computer beforehand) it is on froyo and still refuses to be rooted and Odin still wont find it while in download mode. I have followed every step of every walk through to a tee and yet i still have had no luck. maybe ill switch back to my windows 7 computer and try that again.
Hello all, I have a GS3 international GT-I9300
I'll try to go through the story as fast as I can and give as much detail so you guys can understand how I got here.
Bought the phone unlocked, I was stock, I rooted and then I decided to install a new ROM. I went with Resurrection Remix, it was working great. I did this on a desktop back home. They released a new update to RR so I did a OTA update with "Update Me" apparently the thing flashed but it didn't, the phone still worked but NFC wasn't working as well as having lost root access and some other stuff wasn't working correctly, but I lived with it.
I moved to Florida (home is in NY) and I have a laptop with me, for some reason my laptop used to be able to transfer files to my S3, but it wasn't doing it any more after a while. So it would just charge it. I was in a hotel room last week trying to tether via USB but the PC wasnt having it, it could not locate the phone. This week I moved to a different hotel with internet and decided I would flash stock on my S3 to get rid of all these bugs and get root again, I tried flashing stock through recovery and it wasn't going, so I tried flashing RR again (this time downloaded from the site RR site) and it worked. Still no USB connection but I had root back. I looked around my PC and apparently the Samsung drives are not installing or something on my PC. I installed Kies, but nothing, I tried a stand alone driver install and nothing, so I just gave up and bought Mobile Odin pro from Gplay to try to flash again.
Mobile Odin for some reason (I blame it on myself) wasn't finding/flashing stock so again I decided to try and flash RR and see what would happen. It flashed RR and turned on fine. Then I just decided to look for an NFC fix on XDA. Once I found my NFC fix (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32029713&postcount=8367) I decided to just copy the files to the system folder, NFC still not working, rebooted and NFC still no working, so I figured I would try to flash the fix through mobile odin seeing as how I can't get my PC to pick up on the USB. I tried flashing but MO just kept bouncing it back and re-booting into RR. Tried again and no flash. So I decided to again try and flash stock. I tried going into Recovery, the phone shut off like it always does, came back on but stayed in the Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 logo and would not move. I shut it off again, tried turning it on again and still stuck on the galaxy logo. Now, if I leave the phone off and plug in the USB, it won't show the battery charging image, it will actually turn straight onto the galaxy logo again and stay there. I can get the phone into download mode, but like I said my pc won't recognize the drivers.
Now, here are my questions:
What happened?
Can this be fixed?
Am I an idiot?
If I can get the drivers installed on another PC as well as Odin (1.85), will the new PC "see" the S3 or are the drivers on the phone deleted as well? (if that sort of thing can happen, idk.)
I'm going to see if I can borrow a buddy's PC and download the drivers as well as odin to try and bring my S3 back to life, I just want to know, what happens if I can't get the other PC to pick it up ether because the drivers on the phone are deleted (if that's a thing) or what I can expect if it is connected.
What are the steps or guides to follow here? I just got it into Download mode and it says on the top of the screen:
ODIN MODE
Product name: GT-I9300
Custom Binary Download: Yes (2 counts)
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Custom
sorry , i am sometime getting headache reading long english text so i just briefly look over.
your PC doesn't recognize your S3 ? is that correct ? hmmm , is it possible that your PC (Microsoft Windows I assume?) system is damaged due to something like virus or some reasons ? i have encountered that kinda problem before and be OK after i reinstalled the system.
If it's a soft brick, then it can defiantly be fixed. You might, however, lose your data along the process.
Be glad it's not hard bricked
It happened to me many times, USB error "unknown device" connected. Only fix for it was reinstalling Windows so better if you can use different PC or laptop. Install Kies and other USB drivers. Restart computer, download and run Odin v 3.0x. Flash your phone.
If this doesn't work then maybe your phone have a problem with USB port?
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djembey said:
It happened to me many times, USB error "unknown device" connected. Only fix for it was reinstalling Windows so better if you can use different PC or laptop. Install Kies and other USB drivers. Restart computer, download and run Odin v 3.0x. Flash your phone.
If this doesn't work then maybe your phone have a problem with USB port?
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Don't forget to delete kies as you only need the drivers
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Thanks for the replies guys. I'll try to fix tit today, I didn't get a chance to do it last night. If anything I'll update you guys with what's going on.
Like I was saying, I'll try using a different PC to fix it. Now, if I can't get Odin to recognize the phone, what would be the next step?