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I tried to Odin to stock T-Mo but I cant get passed the Galaxy S boot screen. It just goes black and if I touch the buttons they light up but phone stays black. I tried a number of times also clicked on repartition in Odin. Odin tells me everything passed but when the phones boots ROM Manager screen comes up goes through a check list with one line in red that reads "Data wipe Failed"
Can someone please help me out. Ran Odin many times but I cant get the phone to go back to full stock. I click repartition but it seems Odin does not wipe the internal SD. I am so vexed. Someone help
I have never partitioned. Or whatever. That can cause a soft brick.
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I have before in it went well. The phone (my wifes) was bricked to begin with. It would not go past the white vibrant screen. So I Odined back to stock. It goes through the T Mo stick together screen then gets to the Galaxy S animation. But after the galaxy s logo he screen turns black and only if I touch the buttons to the buttons light up. I tried to reflash via Odin a number of times but I cant get the phone to fully boot.
What ROM you had before going back to stock?
Any lagfix? If yes disable it..
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You should do it again. No repartition. Wipe data. Dont touch it. Odin will boot up the phone when its fully done.
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Ive done this several times. Works everytime
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Try eugenes froyo that doesn't brick then reset odin and then go to stock firmware I mean it couldn't really hurt anything
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Try eugenes froyo that doesn't brick then reset odin and then go to stock firmware I mean it couldn't really hurt anything
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Okay it also accured to me to try Eugenes. So I did and it worked. But I can not install any programs. It tells me there is not enough space. Then when I look at settings/storage on the bottom it reads 0 space for apps.
Strange no? Any ideas
Thanks to everyone so far. I really appreciate it!
As I understand it as soon as you odin eugenes froyo you have to reset odin get the phone into dl mode again then use odin to put in the stock firmware
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What ROM you had before going back to stock?
Any lagfix? If yes disable it..
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he female voice came on, everything went well but when the phone went to reboot it got hung up on the white vibrant screen. So I tried to Odin to JDF stock. Then it would get passed the galaxy S animation and go black screen.
Eugenes froyo works but my app storage is at 0.
arrggg!
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As I understand it as soon as you odin eugenes froyo you have to reset odin get the phone into dl mode again then use odin to put in the stock firmware
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Damn. I tried but it doesnt want to flash back to stock. When I flash stock the I get the same results. Phone goes black after the galaxy s animation
Anyone? Any ideas? I have been at this for four hours
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What ROM you had before going back to stock?
Any lagfix? If yes disable it..
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I was unable to disable voodoo because it would not boot the first time. (and just to be clear. I was on stock eclair and used JOC kernel/uv/voodoo
stock eclair and used JOC kernel/uv/voodoo
Thats good stuff I rocked it for a while
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stock eclair and used JOC kernel/uv/voodoo
Thats good stuff I rocked it for a while
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Yeah. Tried it on this phone which is my wifes and it bricked for some reason.
You gotta find a way to disable voodoo. Theres a way to disable it by putting something directly into the Voodoo folder but I cant find it =/
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Yeah. Tried it on this phone which is my wifes and it bricked for some reason.
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Jacs kernel always gave me bricks for some reason. Do what they said again. Flash to eugenes froyo that doesnt brick with repartition checked. Then RIGHT AWAY make sure you have the jfd rom for odin and flash that using odin with repartition unchecked. Dont try to flash a clockwork recovery rom from eugenes froyo that doesnt brick because you arent done fixing it at that point.
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once this is fixed if you want voodoo, upgrade to a 2.2 rom and use supercurios own modified kernels. Never had a problem with them.
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You gotta find a way to disable voodoo. Theres a way to disable it by putting something directly into the Voodoo folder but I cant find it =/
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I cant get to the voodoo folder. I tried every firmware there is and only Eugenes froyo will fully boot. But I cant install any apps so I can get to me system folders so i can see whats going on.
Im so stressed and tired it aint funny.
When I flash a T Mo rom and the phone reboots and goes through a series of line checks (yellow text) I get red text that reads "data wipe failed". Then the phone boots, t mo jingle, then galaxy s screen, then black.
Anyone??? Devs? PLease?
Do you have root explorer?
Installed the DoW kernel over Bionix-v and wound up in a boot loop, unable to get into recovery, but I was able to get into download mode. Tried using ODIN to flash back to stock, but it won't boot past the 1st Vibrant splash screen.
The ONLY rom I've been able to boot is Eugene's JK2+2e Froyo ROM, but it's not recognizing both the internal and external storage (shows unavailable). I'm assuming this is due to ODINing with voodoo enabled, so I tried flashing one of SuperCurio's voodoo kernels on top, but that seemed to have no effect.
I've tried using Eugene's Froyo that doesnt brick and then downgrading to stock JFD, but it still refuses to boot, same as if I negated the Froyo step. I'm fairly lost as to what my next step should be besides randomly changing settings, but I dont want to get to a state where I can't enter download mode.
ANY help anyone can provide would be amazing and greatly appreciated, and I can of course provide any additional information that would be helpful.
Odin needs time. Odin is your solution.
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Thanks for the response, but could you be more specific? I'm aware that ODIN is the solution, because I'm unable to flash anything in recovery.
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Thanks for the response, but could you be more specific? I'm aware that ODIN is the solution, because I'm unable to flash anything in recovery.
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Sure. If it was me id download an older odin version. Just try it. Id also go back to stock.
Remember to back up a program to root.
I still use odin 1.3 myself. Works every single time.
Let me know.
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Using Odin 1.7 now, I'll try 1.3 and report back on that. The problem is, every time I attempt to revert back to stock (JFD or JI6), the phone refuses to boot, shows Vibrant splashscreen for ~1.5 sec and then shuts off. No boot animations.
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Using Odin 1.7 now, I'll try 1.3 and report back on that. The problem is, every time I attempt to revert back to stock (JFD or JI6), the phone refuses to boot, shows Vibrant splashscreen for ~1.5 sec and then shuts off. No boot animations.
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Keep trying. It will work eventually for no reason.
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Leave it alone for at least 5 to 10 min on splash screen. Sometimes that takes a while.
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Leave it alone for at least 5 to 10 min on splash screen. Sometimes that takes a while.
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15 max
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Would you recommend flashing Eugene's Froyo that does not brick first and then flashing stock on top? Or straight to flash? And should "re-partition" be checked at any point, since the ext4 system needs to be rebuilt to RFS.
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Would you recommend flashing Eugene's Froyo that does not brick first and then flashing stock on top? Or straight to flash? And should "re-partition" be checked at any point, since the ext4 system needs to be rebuilt to RFS.
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No to repartition on my end. But u may want to ask about the ext4 going back to rfs. Ive always done it in cwm honestly.
Someone else with more expirience will have to answer that.
But I have never and read it doesnt need to be done.
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Tried, still wont turn on on stock, just vibrant screen.
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Tried, still wont turn on on stock, just vibrant screen.
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Its not bricked. Keep trying.
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Its not bricked. Keep trying.
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+1. If your phone boots at all it's in my experience 100% recoverable. I own a RIFF box as well so if you brick it dead then I can still fix it... . I'll be getting a video up on ODIN usage for Vibrant/i9000 owners tomorrow. Check out my Boot Logo video on my website for a little bit of ODIN usage to give you an idea. You just need to open ODIN. The put the phone in download mode and plug in via USB. Then select your PIT and PDA file and click start. Then you can reflash stock firmware. PM me as I offer this as a service as well.
Thanks for the reply. Usage of ODIN is not my problem, the problem is that flashing to JFD (whether I use Eugene's Froyo 1st or not) results in a failed boot. The phone shows the 1st Vibrant splash screen for ~2 sec and then shuts off. No process I have tried results in a successful stock boot.
Thinking about trying both of these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=823300
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=940671
HOPEFULLY, one of these will let me get into CWM or access the filesystem in order to disable Voodoo.
Once again, if anyone knows of a way to revert EXT4 -> RFS through ADB or download mode, please let me know!
Well I have been working on it for a day straight and no luck. I have talked to several people and the phone has readonly partition now so it is ****ed! Nand death! I called T-Mobile yesterday and told them I have know idea why but my phone won't turn on, blah, blah, blah. So they are going to replace it under warranty and it will be here in a few days.
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Thinking about trying both of these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=823300
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=940671
HOPEFULLY, one of these will let me get into CWM or access the filesystem in order to disable Voodoo.
Once again, if anyone knows of a way to revert EXT4 -> RFS through ADB or download mode, please let me know!
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Hey, thank you so much for posting this up. These are great finds. I'd be more inclined though, to just call Tmobile and get another phone. I'm really tired of messing with the phone. I don't have time to be messing with this anymore.
The fact that I can get into download mode may be good news, but it does nothing for me right now. With what we know about bricking and unbricking phones, I've thrown every trick I know at it already. I hope you get it fixed, but I"m not messing with it anymore.
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Well I have been working on it for a day straight and no luck. I have talked to several people and the phone has readonly partition now so it is ****ed! Nand death! I called T-Mobile yesterday and told them I have know idea why but my phone won't turn on, blah, blah, blah. So they are going to replace it under warranty and it will be here in a few days.
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Yeah man, me too. I'm getting this thing exchanged. It's a paperweight right now. My phone is doing exactly the same thing.
Can you recap one more time? You are only having problems flashing a custom ROM? You said ODIN is not the problem so I'm taking it you could flash back to stock if you wanted to?
Size matters.
Hey, I haven't posted in here before, I've been a member for a while, just never had anything to contribute. So I got the whole soft brick problem. I spent countless hours trying to get into download mode. The size of the usb cable matters, I was using an LG Optimus cord, and my buddy tried his blackberry cord which had much more gerth, and BAM download mode everytime no problem. Maybe this might help some of you out there.
Also I would like to say, thank you for everyones hard work. I had to roll back to stock roms, and just got the Froyo.UVKA7 to work. I love it, it's quick, it's got color in the settings menu. I wanted to cry... Everyone that has ever had anything to do with the developement to make Android better. THANK YOU!
Absolutely,
I am having problems with the phone starting up and loading what I flashed.
I flashed JI5 Ji6, and Eugene's non bricking Froyo Rom
These 3 are the only ones I was able to find that is ODIN flashable
Why you ask?
I cannot get into Recovery, but I can get into Download mode. I can't get into any recovery at all. NOTHING. This is why ODIN seems to be my only option.
But regardless of any ROM i flash, my phone shuts off right after the Vibrant screen. No splash screen, no loading, no booting. .Nothing. It just shuts off.
I can't charge it either.
i get a Charging bootloop. HOurglass - battery shows up for a bit, then restarts over and over.
So in other words. it's ****ed.
Hope that explains it sufficiently. if you have any more questions or suggestions, Im open man, Im open.
Help me
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Can you recap one more time? You are only having problems flashing a custom ROM? You said ODIN is not the problem so I'm taking it you could flash back to stock if you wanted to?
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OK, Ive tried all day W/O any luck, using every method I came across here in the forums, I thought I had the solution with Eugenes stock Froyo with the 2E recovery mode ROM TAR file, but the link to get it is no longer working. And yes Im rooted with ROM MANAGER and have version CWM recovery flashed to: 2.5.1.2
This is a replacement phone I got last month, and all I can say is its a F--kin POS, compared to the earlier model, that wasn't HW locked and had the 2E recovery mode working with CMR. I tried updating the newer update.zip file, but it wont load because of signature verification! Does anyone know how to replace the update file with a script that will allow CMR to go into the 2e recovery [green] menu so I can once again start flashing a custom ROM again, this phones obviously HW locked and is preventing this, and all I keep getting is the Samsung 3E [Blue] menu which wont allow you to select a ROM from the SD card. I need the 2E menu!! Thanks!!
Have you tried flashing the fix for HW locked phones?
Ya got to be kidding
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Have you tried flashing the fix for HW locked phones?
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Ahhh, could we be any more vague in your suggestion.
Ahhh maybe a link, and procedure or something from you that sheds some light on what may be the only thing I did miss in scouring this forum for this problem!!!
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Ahhh, could we be any more vague in your suggestion.
Ahhh maybe a link, and procedure or something from you that sheds some light on what may be the only thing I did miss in scouring this forum for this problem!!!
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I had a H/W locked Vibrant. What I did was go to the main page of XDA and search for Hardware locked Vibrant and there is one that is for Odin made by Untermensch. Edit: here's the link for it. Good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
Sorry you can't click in it. I did this from my phone
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You can also use adb to reboot into recovery and flash an image that includes the bootloaders. As suggested, search the forums and it should turn up. On my phone, or I would link to a relevant thread.
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Actually if you have CWM recovery installed, you can install ROM Manager, and use it to reboot into recovery.
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Tried that one a couple of times Bro, did exactly like it said, problem is it wont go past the signature check, because its a zipped file, I also tried replacing the script with what was supposed to be the fix, using root explorer going into system/bin/recovery and overwriting that older script, and that didn't work either, and then I tried using the ADB program while in shell root, and it wouldn't co-operate either, I mean nothing outa all the things I found looking thru the forum is working, and the only one that would've worked for sure would have been Eugenes solid Froyo build with the 2E recovery and Busybox and the other goodies, if the link was somewhere that I could obtain that, I would've ODIN'd that and it would've taken care of the problem and Id be sleeping right now with my vibrant finally working like it used too. I just don't care for using stock Froyo. But, I should've never exchanged this phone after I bricked the first one, using KIE's- found out about that horror stories about 5 mins too late!! I should've just had it JTAG'd by Josh over a Mobile tech, Im so f--kin pissed that they sent me a HW locked phone. Older is better with these phones, the newer ones have all these issues you gotta deal with before you can even Mod the GD things now!!
Anyway, I'm still stuck with nothing but 3E menu and there seems to be no GD way i can flash another ROM until this is resolved. I already tried to flash a ROM using CWM with the install from SD card, but it wont allow the ROM to open because of the signature problem again plus it goes back to the 3e menu, and when ya only have one option saying re-install package, it wont follow thru, and hangs because of the signature issue. Its a vicious cycle, and unless 2E becomes doable, this phones stuck at Froyo, and thats un-acceptable!!
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Actually if you have CWM recovery installed, you can install ROM Manager, and use it to reboot into recovery.
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Well Ill just at least thank you for the effort of replying.
But you got it backwards pal, you gotta have root and ROM Manager installed first , then you get the flash clockwork recovery mandate, otherwise ya cant go into recovery W/O it!! thanks anyway. Oh and BTW, Im really not too keen on messing with the SBL by itself, as that one thing alone can brick these phones, if it gets corrupted during ODIN flashing and Ive already been down that route when KIES corrupted the primary and SBL and bricked my phone!! LOL
Nevermind...
Easiest is to Odin one of supercurio's voodoo kernels (Google "xda vibrant supercurio voodoo kernel"). This will bypass all the update.zip/2e/3e/signature verification error crap and give you cwm as the default recovery built in. No need to flash recovery with rom manager either.
Or, Odin back to jfd, flash recovery using rom manager (better yet, here it is; http://db.tt/Klybpxeo), then install the rom you want.
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Well, I managed to get a hold of Eugenes Froyo with the 2E recovery in it, and It still goes to the blue Samsung screen, but does say 2E, WTF!! I'm done I guess this phone will never be unlocked to get the green screen to flash a custom ROM, F--kin TMO screwed me hard. I cant believe that after 8 different attempts/methods I still cant get the green 2E screen. GDmt This just flat out sucks, I guess my Modding days are over with this phone!! F--kin Samsung Kies is what started this whole f--kin thing, and TMO then sends a HW locked phone you cant do **** with!! I wish someone works on this problem with a solution that actually works, cuz none of the ones I tried worked, and I tried them all, but were still stuck with the CMR blue screen even though it does say 2E, WTF, not understanding this, I thought flashing this ROM would've done it!!
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Well, I managed to get a hold of Eugenes Froyo with the 2E recovery in it, and It still goes to the blue Samsung screen, but does say 2E, WTF!! I'm done I guess this phone will never be unlocked to get the green screen to flash a custom ROM, F--kin TMO screwed me hard. I cant believe that after 8 different attempts/methods I still cant get the green 2E screen. GDmt This just flat out sucks, I guess my Modding days are over with this phone!! F--kin Samsung Kies is what started this whole f--kin thing, and TMO then sends a HW locked phone you cant do **** with!! I wish someone works on this problem with a solution that actually works, cuz none of the ones I tried worked, and I tried them all, but were still stuck with the CMR blue screen even though it does say 2E, WTF, not understanding this, I thought flashing this ROM would've done it!!
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Go back to my post right above this. I posted the cwm update.zip. since you have 2e recovery, select "reinstall packages" (or whatever it is), and you'll have your green cwm screen...
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Easiest is to Odin one of supercurio's voodoo kernels (Google "xda vibrant supercurio voodoo kernel"). This will bypass all the update.zip/2e/3e/signature verification error crap and give you cwm as the default recovery built in. No need to flash recovery with rom manager either.
Or, Odin back to jfd, flash recovery using rom manager (better yet, here it is; http://db.tt/Klybpxeo), then install the rom you want.
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Flashed it with SCio's 5.5 lag Fix, using ODIN and wholla, Got my 2e GREEN SCREEN AGAIN, WERE BACK IN BUSINESS!!! As Gomer Pyle would say" Thank ya, Thank ya, Thank Ya" !!! I wish I knew exactly how or why it worked, but writing a kernel seems to have alot of merit to it, when sidestepping a problem like this with a HW locked phone. Anyway Appreciate ya, oh and BTW, In the beginning when I did start with JFD, and rooted it, and installed Rom Manger, I never got it to cooperate either, in spite of about 2 to 3 suggestions to do just that!! IDK- Go figure right!! Seems alot of problems with these phones in flashing is to do it multiple times until it decides to give it up or you hit the sweet spot!!
Hello i have an sgs2 from At&t and i was trying to root but was unsuccesful and now i have this message on my screen when i turn it on " Frimware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". I could use any advice or help. I have search and tried alot of things but no luck. Please thanks.
What method did u use to root?
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And importantly did you attempt the recovery through kies?
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i used the "how to easily root your sgs2" method using odin. I tried to use the recovery through kies but it asks for a code and it wont connect to my phone.
It sounds like your phone is still half functioning. Try booting into recovery,
With the phone off hold down both volume keys and power button until you see the first screen, then let go of the power button.
If it's stock recovery you'll be able to do a factory restore(wipe). If CWM choose wipe data factory reset.
After rebooting it might work.
Worst case you can put it back in download mode and try odin again.
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If you can't get it into download mode you may have serious issues.
Might need to build a usb jig or buy one.
Contemplate a return.
If you tried everything, and I mean everything to get it into download mode, i.e. jig, "adb reboot", then neither can they. Can't see anything you did.
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I just tried that but all i get is the firmware error screen. And i would try reflashing through odin but i dont know what to reflash the kernal that i was trying to root or something else??
and i have thought about returning it but i want to eventually root it so i would like to know what im doing wrong or how to fix it. thanks for all the help
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and i have thought about returning it but i want to eventually root it so i would like to know what im doing wrong or how to fix it. thanks for all the help
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You never did tell us what KIES has to do with ROOTING ?
I would definitely flash back to stock. Stock will never further mess it up. Not to mention there is the stock rom that's prerooted. By using that one you won't get a yellow triangle on boot. Nor will the counter go up from changing the kernel.
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Can you get into download mode?
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You never did tell us what KIES has to do with ROOTING ?
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It doesnt but i was trying to go back to stock and i tried to do it from kies.
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I would definitely flash back to stock. Stock will never further mess it up. Not to mention there is the stock rom that's prerooted. By using that one you won't get a yellow triangle on boot. Nor will the counter go up from changing the kernel.
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Can you point in the direction of that prerooted stock rom, cuz i couldnt find it. thanks, i will try that once i find the right rom
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Can you get into download mode?
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Yes!!! thanks for all the help, i hope i can get it up and running and rooted
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It sounds like your phone is still half functioning. Try booting into recovery,
With the phone off hold down both volume keys and power button until you see the first screen, then let go of the power button.
If it's stock recovery you'll be able to do a factory restore(wipe). If CWM choose wipe data factory reset.
After rebooting it might work.
Worst case you can put it back in download mode and try odin again.
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If he downloaded an international rom then he can't use the stock recovery as the power button on the international roms aren't the select key. They have an actual hardware button to select. I found that out the hard way.
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@stalked_r/t Good point, I forgot about that happening to some people.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
Here's the link you want.
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If he downloaded an international rom then he can't use the stock recovery as the power button on the international roms aren't the select key. They have an actual hardware button to select. I found that out the hard way.
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That is probably true cuz i downloaded a 1900 or something odin file to get back to stock but it was not the right one as i now know it should have been I777.
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At least you got download mode working. With that working there should be no issue about fixing your phone.
Just keep in mind depending on if "everything flashed from the international version you possibly will also need to flash the right modem.
I wouldn't worry about that until you got the phone up and working.
It's best to keep each step as simple as possible, especially for the first time you're trying it.
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ok so i downloaded the stock rooted rom and im using odin 1.85 but it stops at factoryfs.img, any ideas??? thanks again for all the help
Not good. I wish I could offer more help. At least it didn't stop at flashing the bootloaders.
There's not too much you can do at this point. You can try waiting seeing if it changes.
You can hope if you do unplug it that you can get it back into download mode. Then try odin again. Though I'd make sure the checksum of the download matches up to make sure it downloaded properly.
No one wants to be the one to say unplug it in the middle of an odin procedure, but if no progress is being made after a reasonable amount of time, there's not much left to do.
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Ok im new to this whole rooting thing, i own a galaxy note i717 and i tried rooting it but when i used odin clicked pda then slected file and hit start it went through the process and even passed but now when i turn my phone on it shows the samsung logo then a blank screen i think i might have screwed up my phone really good, and can it be fixed? IF YOU would help me unbrick my phone please do. My phone is my whole life i have alot of important information on it. email @ [email protected]
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Ok im new to this whole rooting thing, i own a galaxy note i717 and i tried rooting it but when i used odin clicked pda then slected file and hit start it went through the process and even passed but now when i turn my phone on it shows the samsung logo then a blank screen i think i might have screwed up my phone really good, and can it be fixed? IF YOU would help me unbrick my phone please do. My phone is my whole life i have alot of important information on it. email @ [email protected]
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Do you have clockworkmod recovery installed? If so try going into recovery and wipe the cache and dalvik cache
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it's showing the Samsung logo, you aren't bricked it is still turning on.
just reflash a stock Odin file
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Ok im new to this whole rooting thing, i own a galaxy note i717 and i tried rooting it but when i used odin clicked pda then slected file and hit start it went through the process and even passed but now when i turn my phone on it shows the samsung logo then a blank screen i think i might have screwed up my phone really good, and can it be fixed? IF YOU would help me unbrick my phone please do. My phone is my whole life i have alot of important information on it. email @ [email protected]
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You might give some more info on what all you did or what file you were trying to flash....
Sounds like the problem of Gingerbread root on ICS system, or vice-versa. Just redo your work, ensuring you use the appropriate file for your system.
By the way, NEVER tweak your system until you learn to move important stuff to your external sd card or pc.
Boot into clockwork mod. Do factory wipe, wipe dalvik/cache. Should fix it.
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Adonisd said:
Boot into clockwork mod. Do factory wipe, wipe dalvik/cache. Should fix it.
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Yea what i said.
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Its the best advice that's why it deserves an echo!
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Really? I think the best advice was rangercaptain's advice followed by crixley. OP was using odin which means he was trying to install a rooted kernel most likely from a different android version or he was installing CWM. So I highly doubt he has CWM installed and functioning. So how is he going to boot into CWM??
Well I guess I thought he followed the proper instructions and installed cwm first. I admittedly skimmed most of the posts.
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What if we can't get into clockwork mod any more?
Adonisd said:
Boot into clockwork mod. Do factory wipe, wipe dalvik/cache. Should fix it.
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I screwed mine up by not wiping after installing the new Cyanogenmod. The thing is, I can't get it to boot into clockwork mod recovery mode any more. Volume up + home + power is not doing it. Have I bricked it?
stinkyp00t said:
I screwed mine up by not wiping after installing the new Cyanogenmod. The thing is, I can't get it to boot into clockwork mod recovery mode any more. Volume up + home + power is not doing it. Have I bricked it?
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Its volume up + volume down + power hold those.
ROM: Jamie's 4.2.2. Previews\Jellybam v6.6.0\Sons Of Android.
Kernel: Chris's Aces Kernel.
Recovery: TWRP.
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I have to chime in here...I have bricked mine, too, started with 4.0.1...I installed cwm-LATEST touch-i717, followed by openrecovery-twrp-2.2-sgh-i717-signed, ran fine. Then I was going to use Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC8-d2att.zip, but used the wrong gapps (Google Apps) file, gapps-jb-20120726-signed, instead of Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC8-gapps. Now, I have a black screen, and on my Mac, the thing just connects and reconnects all by itself! Can I get out of this, if I can't get to a restore screen?
lildaddym said:
I have to chime in here...I have bricked mine, too, started with 4.0.1...I installed cwm-LATEST touch-i717, followed by openrecovery-twrp-2.2-sgh-i717-signed, ran fine. Then I was going to use Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC8-d2att.zip, but used the wrong gapps (Google Apps) file, gapps-jb-20120726-signed, instead of Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC8-gapps. Now, I have a black screen, and on my Mac, the thing just connects and reconnects all by itself! Can I get out of this, if I can't get to a restore screen?
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You were going to flash the wrong Rom anyways d2att is s3. Would have bricked you right there if you flashed it. If you can't get to download mode or recovery you will most likely need jtag
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Is that something one can do themselves? What is JTAG?
rquiett said:
You were going to flash the wrong Rom anyways d2att is s3. Would have bricked you right there if you flashed it. If you can't get to download mode or recovery you will most likely need jtag
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A JTAG is a recovery service offered for bricked phones. You can find one for your device at mobiletechvideos.com for 50$. Just Google android JTAG service. It will come up. Hit thanks
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There has to be another answer...
When you find it, come back here and share it with us.
JTAG service costs $50, takes a week, and restores a phone that cannot enter recovery, or download mode, or isn't recognised by a computer.
WWW.mobiletechvideos.com
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rangercaptain said:
When you find it, come back here and share it with us.
JTAG service costs $50, takes a week, and restores a phone that cannot enter recovery, or download mode, or isn't recognised by a computer.
WWW.mobiletechvideos.com
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Just to chime in here... I just got my AT&T Note back from MobileTechVideo. I had them do a JTAG repair ($50) and ordered a new jig. They replied with fast, reliable service. I highly recommend them if you decide to send your phone out for repair.
zancro said:
Just to chime in here... I just got my AT&T Note back from MobileTechVideo. I had them do a JTAG repair ($50) and ordered a new jig. They replied with fast, reliable service. I highly recommend them if you decide to send your phone out for repair.
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Thanks, but I found someone a little more personal...when I approached them, they simply recommended that I send it to them, rather than try some basic troubleshooting... Maybe just the way they do things...lots of volume with MobileTechVideo...