I soft bricked my phone after trying to apply voodoo lag fix yesterday. I tried to use Eugene's froyo that does not brick to Odin back to stock, but I couldn't select the .tar file in Odin, so I pulled the battery while the phone was in download mode. Now my phone only shows a picture of a phone and a computer with a triangle with a ! in the middle. I assume this means to connect the phone to a computer, but I do have it connected so I am very confused. Is this fixable? Please help!
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I soft bricked my phone after trying to apply voodoo lag fix yesterday. I tried to use Eugene's froyo that does not brick to Odin back to stock, but I couldn't select the .tar file in Odin, so I pulled the battery while the phone was in download mode. Now my phone only shows a picture of a phone and a computer with a triangle with a ! in the middle. I assume this means to connect the phone to a computer, but I do have it connected so I am very confused. Is this fixable? Please help!
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Pull the battery so the phone is off (no phone!computer symbol anymore). Plug the battery back in and plug a USB cable into your computer.
Hold both the volume up & volume down buttons at the same time and plug the USB cable into the phone WHILE holding both buttons and it should enter download mode again.
Run ODIN and get back your phone!!!
I've had that symbol show up before... it's not the end of the road, it's just frustrating. You shouldn't lose any data in this process either, so that's something to look forward to!
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Pull the battery so the phone is off (no phone!computer symbol anymore). Plug the battery back in and plug a USB cable into your computer.
Hold both the volume up & volume down buttons at the same time and plug the USB cable into the phone WHILE holding both buttons and it should enter download mode again.
Run ODIN and get back your phone!!!
I've had that symbol show up before... it's not the end of the road, it's just frustrating. You shouldn't lose any data in this process either, so that's something to look forward to!
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I am not sure what has happend but I am baffled. I had attempted to odin to ji6 and entered down load fine I could not get odin to continue after setting up connection. I cncled becaust there was no progross for it did not begin. No after exiting download mode my screen shows somthing I have never seen. A image of a phone with dots conneting to a warning sign and the dots to a pc image.
Any Ideas?
If you press menu or home or any other row keys, does the screen change? If not, odin stock JFD and try again. To enter download mode: remove battery, plug phone into PC, with one hand holding vol up and vol down, put battery back in. Then odin. Sorry if this is redundant...
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belial20xx said:
I am not sure what has happend but I am baffled. I had attempted to odin to ji6 and entered down load fine I could not get odin to continue after setting up connection. I cncled becaust there was no progross for it did not begin. No after exiting download mode my screen shows somthing I have never seen. A image of a phone with dots conneting to a warning sign and the dots to a pc image.
Any Ideas?
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Im not sure what happend to get you in that situation. I was in the same boat a while back and did some searching and came up with a solution.
Your phone isnt bricked but what you have to do is put your phone back in to "Download" mode.
To do this turn the phone all the way off with no cords attached to it. Take your USB cable and connect the USB end to the PC but leaving the phone end dissconected.
Next, on the phone with battery in and phone OFF, press and hold both Vol UP and Vol Down at the same time. While holding connect the other end of the USB cable to the phone (while holding down Vol UP+Down) Doing this will power up the phone straight to "Download Mode" *Green Android with a Shovel)*
In this mode the phone can be connected to odin to truble shoot it.
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Hey everyone.
So the other day I got excited about the CM7. I was following the steps to install it. i made a mistake. after i flashed the kernel. i rebooted my phone now all i get is a screen with picture of phone with a yellow triangle attached to a pc.
The thing i've tried to do was
1.take out the battery
2. take out the sim(which was already taken out to be in my gs4g)
3.took sd card out.
4.plug usb into phone and computer
5.put battery in while hitting the vol +/- minus rocker and nothing happens.i have odin open when I( try this.
my computer just wont pick it up.
when I plug in my gs4g it picks it up right away.
I've spent all weekend working on this.
also i think they only way before hand for me to get into download/recovery was for me to use adb. could that be why I'm not getting any progress?
Thanks in advance. Also sorry if this question has been asked so many times..
Is your problem getting into download mode? Or is it that you get into download mode but Odin won't recognize the device?
If its the former, getting into download mode is a bit tricky in CM7, I've done it plenty of times though. This worked for me.
1. Unplug the usb cord.
2. Pull out the battery.
3. Plug usb cord in.
4. Hold down vol+ & vol- and power button
5. You will see the loading circle or whatever it's called, when the screen goes black let go of power button.
You should be in download mode now. Sometimes you won't get the loading screen and the phone'll just boot up, if so pull the batt and try again.
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Is your problem getting into download mode? Or is it that you get into download mode but Odin won't recognize the device?
If its the former, getting into download mode is a bit tricky in CM7, I've done it plenty of times though. This worked for me.
1. Unplug the usb cord.
2. Pull out the battery.
3. Plug usb cord in.
4. Hold down vol+ & vol- and power button
5. You will see the loading circle or whatever it's called, when the screen goes black let go of power button.
You should be in download mode now. Sometimes you won't get the loading screen and the phone'll just boot up, if so pull the batt and try again.
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I've done that many times. I've tried for several hours during the weekend. Also CM7 is not installed yet. was in the middle of installing then this happend.
just open odin and plug your phone in to your pc and see if you get a COM port...if you do then flash it from there..
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just open odin and plug your phone in to your pc and see if you get a COM port...if you do then flash it from there..
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not getting that at all no com ports show up.. I'm going to try this on a different computer.
When I get the black screen with that icon in the middle and I plug it in, Odin recognizes it right away. Furthermore, I've only gotten it before when I go into download mode(yellow sign + android sweeping) and Odin doesn't recognize my phone and I pull the battery then turn it back on.
Get odin up usb cord connected to the computer but not the phone
Remove the sim card the sd card and the battery and do the vol up and down boot. Then while holding the vol buttons down at the same time plug in the usb.
That should get you back to recovery.
READ the STICKY for NOOBS......... S15274N did a wonderful job of explaining all the methods on how to get into recovery from a soft brick
good luck
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Get odin up usb cord connected to the computer but not the phone
Remove the sim card the sd card and the battery and do the vol up and down boot. Then while holding the vol buttons down at the same time plug in the usb.
That should get you back to recovery.
READ the STICKY for NOOBS......... S15274N did a wonderful job of explaining all the methods on how to get into recovery from a soft brick
good luck
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I've been trying all of those methods. Before this happened the only way for me to get into download was using adb reboot download command in adb.
The computer does not recognize in odin. I've tired this on two computers now.
I have all the drivers installed. i uninstalled ed reinstalled etc. used two different usb cables etc.
not sure what else to try. other than a baseball bat....
so i looked around and i bought a jig on ebay from skisky1. hopefully it will be here soon . to try this out .
and tried every method short of the jig to enter download mode. The rom I was on started force closing so I used a backup that was on my card and got stuck at the vibrant screen. When I pull the battery and plug in, the charge icon pops up but stays gray, if i leave it plugged in for a few minutes, kernel panic pops up. No 3 button combo seems to work for download or recovery, Iv'e used both many times, adb nor odin has recognized my phone. Any suggestions?
What rom were you on?
Holding in both volume buttons?
Have odin open and usb connected to pc already?
I was on the Beast and tried Private Stock without disabling voo doo, for some reason the usual usb button combo wont work, computer doesn't recognize at all
So, you tried to get into download mode these ways:
1-
On PC, open ODIN
Connect USB to PC (not phone)
Pull Battery on phone and replace it
Press and hold in both volume buttons
Connect USB to phone (volume buttons still pressed in)
Wait at least 3 seconds (still holding volume)
Release when you see the Yellow Triangle
2-
Open ODIN
Connect usb to pc
pull battery, sim, sd card
on odin, load the pit and tar files for jfd
connect usb to phone
hold in both volume buttons and insert the battery
3 seconds.. download mode?
Now, is your phone getting into download mode and the pc is not recognizing it? ie, the COM # is not showing? If that's the case, it sounds like you need the drivers... some other usb device is connecting and messing up odin (happens to me with my webcam)... or the usb cable you are using could be the issue, guesses
You should be good to go with s15274n second method. Good luck
I recently had a Phone ... ! ... PC that refused to disappear. I was able to see a COM port in ODIN, but could not get it to show Download Mode on the phone. I went ahead and tried to start the ODIN flash anyway, and it worked like a charm. If you see a COM port in ODIN, try flashing anyway.
No luck with either of those methods, odin doesn't see it at all.The only thing other than kernel panic, a gray battery symbol, or the vibrant screen was a button forced upload screen similar to kernel panic.
I just downloaded fresh jfd files, method 2, got a power reset or unknown upload mode, popped up in an odin window but hung up on file analysis
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I just downloaded fresh jfd files, method 2, got a power reset or unknown upload mode, popped up in an odin window but hung up on file analysis
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Have you tried using the toolbox?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
So I was trying to get one of the simply honey roms onto my phone and long story short I accidentally formatted the internal storage of my phone with my computer therefore deleting ALL the files and folders of the android operating system! When I plug my phone into my computer i see the charging battery but non of the button combinations will allow me to get into download mode to flash it back to normal with odin. Just seeing if my phone is a lost cause or if there is a way to get the phone into download mode.
Take out battery, plug back into computer, plug back into phone, hold volume up and volume down at same time, place battery back into phone, make sure odin is up and waiting, try until it works.
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tried that as well and no luck. just keeps going to the battery charging screen. When i try and turn my phone on normally it just shows Samsung Galaxy S i9000 not Vibrant and just sits there till it dies. could that be the problem?
did you try the steps while holding down just the volume down & the power button?
Just tried that same thing. Is download mode something that any android phone should go to no matter what or do the system files for th phone have to be there?
Should...how about recovery..can you get there??
unplug usb cable ..power off the phone.. hold all three buttons down...Vibrant screen will pop up & go off...then it will pop up again..release only the power button..keep both volume keys down and it should go into recovery.
you might be able to factory reset from there.
ok, got it to go into downloading mode. forgot that my phone thinks its an i9000, the volume up and down buttons are reversed! thanks so much for the help though!
I messed up my phoen flashing a rom and now when I am trying reset with odin it hangs up on file analysisI tried looking for a solution online nothing worked...
Changed usb ports
was wondering if someone knew how I could go about fixing this thanks...
Can you still get into download mode?
I would think he should be OK to get into DL mode. Sometimes ODIN likes to be difficult like that. Just unplug the phone, reset, and put it back into DL mode again. Any of those things could be the source, but doing them all shouldn't hurt, and I wouldn't expect the same issue to happen again. If it does, check your pit and tar files.
As long as you can get into download mode or recovery, you're fine. Just try different combinations as prince stated.
Verify the md5, or download again
Remove other usb items (my webcam hates odin)
Reboot pc
other usb
Using cable that came with phone? (my n1 cable didn't work)
i haven't been able to try that now when i connect my phone there is an image of a phone a computer and a triangular sign with and exclamation point cant get into download mode....? any clues why?
ace8187 said:
i haven't been able to try that now when i connect my phone there is an image of a phone a computer and a triangular sign with and exclamation point cant get into download mode....? any clues why?
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Pull the battery, put it back in, Hold down volume up and down and plug in usb and that will get you back into D/l mode. Did it ten times today. That will happen when you pull the usb cord off the phone while in D/L mode. Always pull the usb out of the pc instead.
ace8187 said:
i haven't been able to try that now when i connect my phone there is an image of a phone a computer and a triangular sign with and exclamation point cant get into download mode....? any clues why?
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Unplug the usb from the phone and computer
Unplug every usb from the computer
Take out your battery
Restart your computer
Open Heimdall software once computer is booted
Plug the usb into the computer
Hold the vol up and down on your phone, while holding them, connect the usb to the phone, then insert the battery. Hold the two buttons until it's in download mode.
Edit...try bada method first. Both work.
problem solved
Thanks a lot i removed all the usb drives rebooted and ran odin it went trhough and froze up at another part but then i put the usb cable on the back of the pc and it was fixed thanks a lot guys i loaded it back to stock.