I know I'll be the millionth idiot who asked this question, but I've never come across this before. I am running Bionix 1.9 with Jac's OCUV kernal. I tried flashing a newer kernal to help battery life, but found the phone froze up alot and after playing around with some different settings, I realized I should have just been happy with what I had. Long story short, I tried flashing a stock JI6 kernal and then found myself stuck at the boot screen. I've tried to work with ODIN, but am not very familiar with it, and I think i've just found a new brick for the front of the house. I tried running ODIN and now there is a logo of a computer and a phone with a yellow triangle in between. I've tried to boot into download mode, but it just flashes once and then back to the phone and computer logo. I am seriously scared I bricked this thing and I just wish I'd left things alone. I have read various forums and most of what it sounds like I need to do is over my head. Sure I shouldn't have done this, but it really didn't sound too difficult and I've done similar things before....any help would be greatly appreciated. I wonder if there is anyone on the forums in the Syracuse or central New York region who might be able to help in person if possible. HEEEEEEELLLLLLPPPPP!!!!
This is fixable. I've had this issue and fixed it before. It requires odin though. Odin interacts with the phone through download mode, so if you aren't in download mode while you are ODINing, it won't work. How are you trying to get into download mode? I usually plug it into USB as I'm holding both the volume buttons and it always works for me. Once you get it into download mode its simple, you just need to go to the Vibrant Bible and get the Stock JFD and flash that with repartition checked in Odin.
Follow this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
Also, to get into download mode I:
1. Pull, then re-insert battery (to make sure it is completely off)
2. Hold both volume up and down buttons
3. Plug into computer (while still holding the buttons down)
I'm gonna try this when I get home since alot of download sites are blocked here at work. I just tried your method to get into download mode and it at least I got the yellow triangle with the digging android. So far, so good. My next question really is more procedural. I am wondering where exactly the .pit and .tar files go and exactly what do I do with the drivers I downloaded? I apologize in advance if the thread contains this, but since I'm at work now, I can't really open more than a browser window or else the badnwidth police comiong storming into my office. Thanks in advance and I will post update later. Thanks again for your help so far, you've at least given me hope!!!!
Seems I'm able to get a few files to download. I have looked at the other forum posts, but my question is when I do get stock JFD, in what window of ODIN do I put it in? I am running ODIN3 v1.3. Also, I cannot get my phone to show up in a com window on ODIN either. I am using a USB hub, not sure if that's interfering or not.
Pit file goes in the PIT section, JFD tar file goes in PDA.
I would ditch the USB hub.
Have Odin opened before you put your phone into download mode. When it's in download mode Odin should recognize the phone. It'll recognize the COM port it's plugged into. If it doesn't you don't have the drivers installed properly or there's a problem with the USB connection. Try plugging it into other USB ports. Always remember to close Odin and pull your battery and start fresh if you are attempting to reconnect the phone to the computer.
OK i plugged into the back of the computer and ditched the hub. Got ODIN to recognize the device. Unfortunately I didn't load the .pit file as the first reply didn't mention it (not upset, not complaining, I should have known better). ODIN reads file analysis for over 10 minutes now. Not sure if I should unplug and restart the process with the .pit file or am I going to permanently brick the phone?
edit: unplugged and restarted process. Now the pit file will not come up in the ODIN screen when I search for it with the pit button.......I've tried every download I can, but it doesn't see the file. I've tried to extract it, but nothing happens. What am i doing wrong, beside being over my head?
Download the 512 pit file from here. It's compressed in RAR format so you will need to unRAR it. The pit file should end in .pit
When you click the PIT button in Odin it will allow you to browse to the *.pit file
Ok, now I'm back up to stock and it seems as though everything is working ok. Have a new problem trying to root. Will research and start a new thread if needed.
For the life of me I couldn't get the pit file to populate the ODIN box for the file. In the end I reverted to the original post and just dropped in the JFD. I did not click on repartition and left the pit file blank. Everything came back up fine without the pit file. I am trying to re-root the phone, but when I boot the update.zip file in recovery it says something about e:/sdcard/update.zip not being valid and I have to reboot..but everything comes back fine in stock. I am happy the phone is back, but I would love to re-root it and get back to where it was or maybe flash a 2.2 rom. Thanks again for all of your guys' help. Definitely saved me from being at T-Mo looking at a new phone......
You may have to put the root file back on. I have had to odin hundreds of times and sometimes the file on my cell somehow gets lost. Even of it still says it is there.
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Try this update.zip file. It's from one of the early root methods for JFD.
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You may have to put the root file back on. I have had to odin hundreds of times and sometimes the file on my cell somehow gets lost. Even of it still says it is there.
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That's because when you install ROM Manager, it replaces the root "Update.zip" with a ClockworkMod "Update.zip". So when Odin back to stock you need to replace the ClockworkMod "Update.zip" with the root "Update.zip".
Thanks again for the help. I am having a hard time even getting into recovery mode. Can't seem to get it right. Is this problem I'm having possibly related the fact that I didn't repartition the sd card? Just wondering. Also an earlier post said that I needed to replace the root update.zip instead of having the clockwork update.zip. How would I go about replacing this file? Getting closer to the end of the road.....
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after I accidently did EFS on ODIN, I cannot get the phone to go into the DM mode. I tried to flash again using atlas v2.2.pit and EB01 Stock rom, but no luck yet.
I have the phone flashed to metro, so I need to update PRL on it.
Could somebody direct me into the right direction?
Right now on QPST, it's saying no phone,
and in CDMA workshop, I can connect to the port, but cannot read from it.
It's keep on searching for the phone in DM mode which I had put it in with **usbui.
Thank you in advance.
the meid is stil intact, I did manual programming for MDN, MIN, but since PRL is from verizon, I have to flash metro's. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I tried:
EB01 - **usbui
Eclair - Dial up networking
no luck so far..
Bump. Anybody?
You Might be able to re odin in PDA, always pda never anywhere else. if not your gonna need to heimdall it back. dont worry your phone IS recoverable from this, i know i've done it one on accident, and a few times on purpose just to see if the Fascinate was as impossible to truly brick as i've heard. Turns out the damn thing is pretty much brickproof as a phone can get. if you need files or help either post here or pm me and i will walk you thru it.
thank you.
I am just keep on trying to odin the different PDAs right now without the pit or the EFS checked, but I've tried DI01, DL09, EB01 and still no luck..
still no luck in QPST / CDMA workshop.
I've flashed using the pit files with it, and so on..
wow this is really getting onto me.
Ok so your gomma have to use heimdall to get it back. I will be back home in 30 mins where i have access to my computer and i can send you the files you need wirh a walk thru. Be patient we will get you back up and running.
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Ok so i don't know how to change it to metro pcs but it sounds like you already know how to and have successfully done that before. I am not trying to insult anyone's intelligence but this walk-through will be step by step so follow along, although i don't think it is possible to completely brick this phone short of actually smashing it, lets not take unnecessary chances. First go here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0zpydb4mt5o8vo3, unzip this and open the folder. In this folder you will find another folder labeled Drivers, open it and you will see a program called zadig. Now put your Phone into download mode, that is take out the battery and plug it into your PC with the cable that came with the phone when you got it, then press and hold the down volume button till a yellow triangle and droid digging show up, now you are in download mode. Next double click zadig and when it opens, click on options and click list all devices. Now drop the usb dropdown box and you will find an option for samsung usb driver, select it then click install drivers. the usual install stuff from windows about do you want to install this, yes you do. Now If the warning about publisher could not be verified, whatever, install anyway. You are almost ready to get your phone working again. Now you need the files for this program to install, so go Here http://www.multiupload.com/I9HBT8MXN1 and get them. Then here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?26xbh796jmwvwqb for the pit file. After download is complete unzip the .tar.md5 file winzip/7zip/jzip, whatever zip file program you use, extract to a file, mine is named EB01heimdall, so i know when i need it again. Now back into the heimdall file you opened earlier and click the application called heimdall-frontend. here is where you can go wrong so i will do this side by side with heimdall names and eb01 file names.
heimdallon this side of =eb01 file names on this side.
In Repartition:
PIT=atlas_v2.2.pit
In PDA/Code:
FactoryFS=factoryfs.frs
Kernel(zImage)=zImage
Param.lfs=param.lfs
Primary Bootloader=boot.bin
Secondary Bootloader=slb.bin
In CSC:
Cache=cache.rfs
Database Data=dbdata.rfs
In Other:
Modem=modem.bin
Recovery=recovery.bin
Now you are ready to run heimdall, but you say you have a file in eb01 left called movinand.bin? why, yes you are correct and since there are no places left in heimdall to put it, now what? Nothing it wont be used in this program and yes your phone will still work. So after a simple answer of data, i went looking for more info, movinand.bin is a flash program to access data storage at less cost than using soldered in hardware, REALLY, see herehttp://www.letsgodigital.org/en/13819/samsung_8gb_movinand/. Now that we have all the files loaded into the correct spots, the necessary drivers installed, and our phone in download mode, the start button will be able to be clicked, not shaded outlines like before, did you even notice that? If everything was fallowed step by step in this tutorial than go ahead and click the START button and get your brick back to being a Fascinate. After heimdall finishes reboot your working VWZ stock, bing bloated, working Fascinate. after this is completed successfully you use odin again.
Why was this necessary, as far as i can find out, through research, and the five yes that's right i said 5, times i have HAD to do this because my phone would not recover through odin, it seems to be, dbdata, can not mount. This has happened to me because I didn't remove voodoo, or flashed a pre edify rom after accidently putting clockwork orange, which is for edify, on a non edify rom. So moral of the story is twofold, yes it is very likely it can be fixed, and remove voodoo before going to nonvoodoo, and unless you are on an edify rom stay away from clockwork orange.
Thank you. I'm at work right now so I cannot read it throughly, but I'll make sure to try your method. Hopefully this will get me back on to the network.
Thanks!
sorry, but while I am at it, do you have links to where I can download the softwares mentioned above? Thank you
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sorry, but while I am at it, do you have links to where I can download the softwares mentioned above? Thank you
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Updated OP above, fixed links.
ok. I still haven't been able to connect it to the computer..
and I did heimdall for 7 times but no luck.
What could be the problem?
I found something strange..
when I go into system selection, and choose home only, I lose the signal.
But when I use the Automatic, it goes into Roaming mode.
When I go into about phone, choose status, the network is unknown.
Hmmm, no idea?? Since the Mod wont let us post questions in the Development section and none of our resident geniuses have found your post yet, i will PM the link to a few and ask if they can help you out, this is above me, Sorry.
thank you very much. I'll be keep on trying to figure out what is what..
I am wondering if I should do something with odin and try to see if it brings back anything..
seems like something is messed up in the /efs.
The MEID is still intact, but the QPST is not recognizing the phone..
Funny thing is, it creates a port for the diagnosis WDM so I can connect to it without a problem. The only thing is it's not connecting it to the DM mode..
does anybody have a backup of /efs? seems like the guys in Captivate forums backup their efs but I haven't came across a single one in our forum..
ok... so I checked my /efs
and it's empty!!!
is there any way to recover /efs ?
I think this is the only reason it's not connecting to the QPST
So i found this thread today and thought it might be helpful to you. Also the Devs that have been able to get back to me don't really know anything useful about QTSP. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850233
Also links to get some generic use Samsung drivers, maybe they will let you connect. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6uol6mb2pcwiuxc and http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tixlaab9iiokk9q
Let me know whether this helps you or not, if not I will look more for some info on it and post here for you as I find anything that might be useful.
Thank you for looking after me. I really appreciate it.
Those were the instructions given to flash it to Metro.
The thing is, I cannot get it to enter DM mode.
I guess I'll be comparing my epic's /efs and see if that does anything..
If I had access to another Fascinate, I think I can compare what's different, but I guess I'll have to start with epic for now..
Try google for Verizon Samsung Fascinate efs, maybe someone has a post out there with the info you need. i was looking into that last night but without being able to see exactly what your missing I can't be certain anything i found would have helped.
I am sorry if this is covered somewhere, I've honestly looked and can't find up to date info on this.
I currently have a Vibrant flashed with CM7.
Right now,
i can't even flash other ROMs for some reason, as they all come up with some sort of compatibility issue when trying to flash the .zip. I think it has something to do with recovery 4.0 being used. it won't let me flash 3.0 (which is pretty silly).
Anyway, I'd like to go back to the latest stock ROM. How exactly should I go about doing this, once I am already on CM7?
power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
How about just flashing another ROM? Downloaded two 2.2 ROMS and neither of them seemed to flash, complained about some sort of error with the format of the zip file. Didn't make a whole lot of sense...
I am on CM7.
Basically, I am just looking to flash (while already on CM7) a relatively stable ROM that has support for wifi calling. Any suggestions in that area would be much appreciated.
Coming from CM7 you will have to go back to stock if you want to flash a pre-Ginger rom. No way around it. Just follow the guide movieaddict posted and it will get you there.
I recommend Bi-Winning, Project-V, or ZenDroid. But there are plenty of good choices. Good luck.
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Basically, I am just looking to flash (while already on CM7) a relatively stable ROM that has support for wifi calling. Any suggestions in that area would be much appreciated.
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CM7 uses MTD/yaffs2 file system which is different from stock Samsung roms. If you don't want to soft brick your phone, I would suggest using the link @movieaddict posted. I know Odin sucks
I must be dense or something, haven't been messing with android devices for a while now, but these directions aren't making a lot of sense to me at all. Didn't know what to do once I had Odin up to be honest. Seems really really complex.
I just need a working stable ROM (could be 2.3 or whatever) with wifi-calling. Will pay someone honestly if they can give me the steps to get there.
did u odin back to stock? or are u having trouble going back to stock? or are u having trouble working ur phone after going to stock??? wht are u having trouble understanding??
I put the phone into download mode and opened odin.exe. From there, I have no clue what to do.
i.e. on the attached screen, what do I do here to get back to a stock ROM?
ok heres wht u do! go to this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
now do not extract the pit and tar file, just download them and put them on ur desktop.
now click on pit ON ODIN and u find ur pit fle on ur desktop
Now click on pda ON ODIN and u find ur pda file on ur desktop
Now both of these should be showing these files next to them on odin
now after both the files are in there places under pda and pit
now if ur in download mode and ur phone is hooked up to a usb cable to pc and the files are in there places on odin the top left hand corner box shuld be yellow, The big white box above re-repartition should be yellow.
Now if allthat is correct press start!
just let it go through the process and it will reboot and u will be back to stock.
Just let it sit for like 15 min and will be done, just leave it alone.
ITS REALLY EASY!
NOW IF MY INSTRUCTIONS DONT HELP U! FOLLOW HIS INSTRUCTIONS ON THE LINK ABOVE I GAVE U. THERES A TUTORIAL ON THERE ALSO
I think I'm getting somewhere, currently have the process going. It has been about 10 minutes though, and still got the same "Downloading..." screen
Odin says
<ID:0/005> Added!!
<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..
<ID:0/005> File analysis..
<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..
hasn't shown any other messages yet. Do you think everything is fine?
Nope..pull the plug and you should end up with a soft brick...your phone should turn on to a phone-!-computer screen. Odin should still recognize your phone..so try again.
Don't blame me if it doesn't soft brick..
Sent from my T959 using XDA App
The next time I try this, how do I know that the process is going correctly? Will its how something different on the phone's screen or in Odin?
EDIT: Ok, this time, thinks look a bit better. Have an actual status bar going. Thanks for the tip.
Well it should actually take about 2 minutes so if it finishes in about that time you should be fine.
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Nope..pull the plug and you should end up with a soft brick...your phone should turn on to a phone-!-computer screen. Odin should still recognize your phone..so try again.
Don't blame me if it doesn't soft brick..
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And it may not even turn on at all. Don't freak out. Pull out the battery for 5-10 seconds and put it back in. Then hold down Volume up+down while plugging in your usb cable. That should get you back into Download Mode with the yellow triangle. Open Odin back up and you should have a yellow box that says COM and a number. Then press the PDA button and choose the stock JFD file, and then click PIT and load the PIT file. Click start and just let it do its thing until it says PASS and your phone reboots.
Also I've attached version 1.85 of Odin which I find to work the best. Good luck.
Edit: Looks like you already got it started up again while I was typing...
Thanks everyone, was able to get back to factory...now to root again and go for a stable 2.2 ROM.
Thanks for the info.
Hello, I was attempting to flash Clockwork Mod on my G5, whilst doing it Odin crashed and now my phone is messed up.
It will turn on but a PC-Triangle with a ! in the middle-Phone, it will go into Download Mode but Odin doesn't recognise it so i can't re-flash it, any ideas?
Please help, this is urgent.
The phone itself is on stock, it turns on but displays the error i have described above, it will go into download mode but Odin doesn't recognsie it.
Thanks, Curtis.
CurtisAndroid5 said:
Hello, I was attempting to flash Clockwork Mod on my G5, whilst doing it Odin crashed and now my phone is messed up.
It will turn on but a PC-Triangle with a ! in the middle-Phone, it will go into Download Mode but Odin doesn't recognise it so i can't re-flash it, any ideas?
Please help, this is urgent.
The phone itself is on stock, it turns on but displays the error i have described above, it will go into download mode but Odin doesn't recognsie it.
Thanks, Curtis.
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No need to worry about it.
Uninstall the drivers associated with the phone. Are you using Windows?
For XP: Go to start > Control Panel > System > Click on the Hardware tab and then Device Manager. Find the driver for the phone. I remember it has a yellow icon, and the drivers name is a mix of capital letters
It's probably similar for Windows 7, but i wouldn't know.
Uninstall the driver associated with the phone, then reinstall by plugging your phone into the computer in download mode. It would help to uninstall and reinstall Odin as well, just in case.
If you get Odin to work, just work away like you would.
Thanks for your reply, i have uninstalled the drivers, but when i plugged my phone back in, the drivers are not being installed and i can not find them on the internet. Any ideas?
I know how i messed up, i completely forgot to root my phone before i started to flash, any ideas on how i can just get my phone back to its normal working everyday self?
Will i just need to get the device recognised by Odin then insert the Ops file and the I5500.tar file and flash it back to stock?
edit- managed to get drivers installed, now how do i fix my phone? Just flash the .OPS and the stock I5500.tar file?
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Thanks for your reply, i have uninstalled the drivers, but when i plugged my phone back in, the drivers are not being installed and i can not find them on the internet. Any ideas?
I know how i messed up, i completely forgot to root my phone before i started to flash, any ideas on how i can just get my phone back to its normal working everyday self?
Will i just need to get the device recognised by Odin then insert the Ops file and the I5500.tar file and flash it back to stock?
edit- managed to get drivers installed, now how do i fix my phone? Just flash the .OPS and the stock I5500.tar file?
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I think it'll fail again if your phone isn't rooted. You can't get rid of the Computer-Caution-Phone image without succesfully using Odin.
You could try to flash the .tar and .ops file again. I can't see it working though unfortunately.
Any ideas then? Is there a way to root my phone via Odin or anything?
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Any ideas then? Is there a way to root my phone via Odin or anything?
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I've never heard of rooting your phone through the download mode or through Odin.
Maybe there's a file you can put on your phone through Odin which doesn't require root? I'll take a look around for you.
Thank you so much, i appreciate it, I'm 16, can't really live without a phone especially with college parties coming up in the next few days aha, I knew i shouldn't of risked around with flashing again!
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Thank you so much, i appreciate it, I'm 16, can't really live without a phone especially with college parties coming up in the next few days aha, I knew i shouldn't of risked around with flashing again!
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Just thinking that Odin is a program which requires root so there won't be any file you can transfer when unrooted. I had a quick glance over at the Odin thread, and the first step is that you have to root your phone.
I'm sorry, but there's nothing else I can think of which might help. Maybe if somebody with a bit more knowledge/expeerience sees this thread, they might help.
Can Odin detect your phone?
Ah man, thanks anyway, yes Odin detects my phone, I'm trying to use SuperOneClick Root on my PC- Do you know any other Root software that works on PC?
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Ah man, thanks anyway, yes Odin detects my phone, I'm trying to use SuperOneClick Root on my PC- Do you know any other Root software that works on PC?
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I don't know of any others, but Superoneclick works fine for the Galaxy 5. Like I said, I've never heard of using it during download mode so just be careful with that.
If Odin detects your phone, have you tried just closing Odin and plugging out the USB safely?
Can't use Superoneclick as my phone isn't in USB Debugging and i obviously can't change that aha I have just tried that, no luck with the closing Odin and unplugging it, should i try installing CWM again or is that a bad idea?
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Can't use Superoneclick as my phone isn't in USB Debugging and i obviously can't change that aha I have just tried that, no luck with the closing Odin and unplugging it, should i try installing CWM again or is that a bad idea?
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It's a bad idea because it just won't work. Odin will crash again.
I don't know what to do I'm afraid.
Looks like my phone is shagged due to my own stupidity, I forgot to root it because my phone was previously rooted and it went back for repairs, then I completely forgot i didnt install Root access -.-
Do you think i can recover my phone or is it well and truly gone?
Well it's not like your phone is bricked or anything. It's just broken a connection to Odin and it won't boot until it's completed.
You could always return it for repairs again. Your warranty might be broken though.
If I happen to come across a DIY fix then I'll post it here.
Thanks for your help mate, i've decided to just send my phone back for repairs, buy a new phone (Probably a Blackberry for BBM and stuff with all my mates), and sell my phone once i get it back.I have gave up on Samsung mobiles.
Thank you.
Did you send your phone alredy? Uncompress the firmware.tar file and unselect "one package in Odin" . On the boot in odin select the boot file of the .tar and run odin. Maybe that will help
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Dude have u tryd using samsung kies it might detect it n let u do an emergancy firmware recovery or maybe (a verry unlikely maybe but still a maybe) it will detect the problem and provide u a solution hope this helps.
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Ah man, thanks anyway, yes Odin detects my phone, I'm trying to use SuperOneClick Root on my PC- Do you know any other Root software that works on PC?
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Hi, had the very same issue as you. Odin crashed just few sec after start. What I did ; uninstalled everything (Odin & files comes with it, KIES). Then restart PC, go to Samsung.com and download latest KIES, when downloaded go to Tools and check for updates. Accept/run them, when done restart PC. Now, read the steps bellow, and see the attached picture.
1. Extract Odin v4.28 and Ops File.zip I5500XXXX.rar
2. Open Odin v4.28,
- Select OPS tab: EUROPA_v1.0.ops
- Make sure Auto Reboot & Protect OPS selected in Option tab
- get this I5500XFJPQ from samfirware.com ( for some strange reason only this package worked!), download, and unzipp to folder called GT-I5500. In to this folder place Odin and ops as well.
- Make sure One Package selected in Option tab
3. Turn off phone, remove battery for 5second, put it back
4. Hold "Volume Down, Center button & Power button" in the same time to enter Download Mode (yellow triangle)
5. Connect to PC with USB cable
6. When the data line and the phone connection is successful, com port shows yellow in Odin
7. Press Start on Odin
8. Waitin & Pray!
9. PASS, its done!
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Note: my i5500 was rooted, so if was yours then ok. When pressing buttons you must see an yellow triangle! If you don't see it don't try connect. Remove battery for 3-5 minutes and try again...
Thanks for the replies, I've got my 'broken' phone in its box on my wardrobe, Carphone Warehouse have ordered me a brand new G5 to replace mine, I should get that sometime next week, but I'm buying a HTC Wildfire S pretty soon anyway!
Thanks for your help, I'd rather keep my broken phone well, broke aha.
Have you tried flashing twrp recovery then using cf-autoroot?
Hello,
Complete Noob here. I'm hopeful that I can get some assistance restoring my phone to a semi-useful function. I've searched these forums, and while I've found some solutions, none of them seem to work when you can get your phone past the initial boot screen when turning on the phone. Here's the story, appreciate it if you can help.
Yesterday I saw that there was an update from Samsung for the vibrant, so I installed Kies Mini on my computer and followed the instructions. It would have been nice if the program would have detected that I was running the 64 bit version of Windows 7 as a Samsung Tech person told me afterward that it wasn't compatible with that version of W7.
When Samsung heard that the screen on my phone showed a picture of a cell phone, with a orange triangle connected to a computer they said I'd need to mail them the phone and wait over a week to get a working phone. I figured I have nothing to lose at this point, and searched for a "do it yourself" solution. I found one click unbrick or something like that, and it went to work, but my phone now is stuck in the initial boot screen for the Vibrant. So all you see is "Vibrant" and "Samsung" on the phone.
I've read several posts about putting the phone into developer or restore mode, pushing combinations of the up/down vol button with the power button, etc., perhaps I'm doing this incorrectly, but nothing seems to get my computer to recognize the phone. I downloaded Odin, and the pit and pda files to start back at Eclair, but odin doesn't detect the device, nor does it have anything listed in the id-com section. I also tried the heimdall one click for the vibrant, but again it can find the device.
Couple of questions -
Can the phone be returned to a working status or should I just return it to Samsung and wait a week for the phone?
Is there any chance that I will be able to recover anything that was on the phone? I expect not, but wonder if so. I backed up my important files, but it would be nice not to have to start from scratch.
sounds like you are able to get your phone into download mode, but odin is not recognizing, which means we have a driver issue. Put your phone into download mode, and then uninstall kies on your computer, then re-install it, this will uninstall and then reinstall the drivers, I have to do this nearly every time I use odin.
Thanks for the quick response. I assume I'll need to do this on an XP machine, and not a 64 bit W7 machine? Plugged the phone into a XP machine, and now the phone is able to get to the downloading... yellow icons. I hope this means I'm making progress
Try the drivers here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11633550#post11633550
And stay away from Kies. It will murder you're phone.
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Okay, thanks for the link. I see what I can do with that. Prior to your post, I got into download mode, download the pit file s1_odin_20100512.pit and the pda file T959UVJI6.tar. Tried to reload things on the phone. The phone now boots to a screen where it says
Android system recover (2e)
Samsung Recovery Utils
Vol up
Vol down
Power - select items
etc, given the option to reboot, reinstall packages, clear user data, or delete cache
below it says...
Movi_check Start
checksum confirmation need_checksum[0]
Not need checksum confirmation
Movi_check already executed...
movi_checking done!
update media, please wait
E:Can't mount /dev/block/st110
(Invalid argument)
E:copy_dbdate_media: Can't mount DBDATA:
copy default media content failed
The ji6 Odin file is known for doing that. Pull the battery, get back into download mode, and use these two files in Odin.
http://www.justanotherdev.slackdev.com/T959UVJFD.tar
http://www.justanotherdev.slackdev.com/s1_odin_20100512.rar
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Same thing here, but I got it finally by using an ancient version of odin to flash to stock jfd. Kies picked it up right away after that.
That said, now that I have no fear of odin there are no traces of kies left on my pc...
Do you know if those file are located some place else, the link doesn't appear to have either file?
Sorry about that. Didn't realize the links were dead.
http://www.multiupload.com/NP507B6P8A
This should have both the pit and tar files in it.
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SUCCESS!!!!!
Thanks so much. It worked. Now to replace my backup files. No more Kies for me.
Hi, I'm pretty new to Android and stuff, but I bricked my SGP 5.0 with a mod.. At first I was able to go into download mode but then I think I flashed the wrong firmware and now the device is completely unresponsive. Any advice on what to do would be great. I also already checked out all the forums on here but none have been able to work for me. Thanks in advance!
Yup. I was in the same boat as you. Exact same one actually. However i managed to get best buy to to switch mine out because i said it was "defective". I tried the linux tutorial with resurrector and nothing as well. And i also tried.... Well everything. From my thread i posted I gathered that no one (at leasr on xda) knows how to unbrick these damn things. So until these get more popular. Your sunk. Sorry pal:/
try the resurrector.. it's worked for me on a few occasions. it brought mine back from not even being able to turn on.
one thing that's not incredibly obvious with it though is you have to hold "vol up" for download mode while the program is doing its thing. if you don't hold the button it wont work.
Tried it.
I tried that already though and it wouldn't let me unbrick it, but I'll give it another try with what you said about the Vol.+Up keys! Thanks!
I don't have a 4.0 player but my 5.0 player was bricked initially the first time I tried to root... To get it into Download mode you need to hold Vol-(Vol down) button and Power button as the unit is powering up. Hold both for a few seconds until you see the yellow download mode picture.
Good luck
Are you able to get to the download mode? If so I have a simple solution. If not, start a download of Ubuntu to have the proper stuff to fix your problem.
I'm running Ubuntu with the Unbrickable Mod and I have it in download mode and I have virtualmachine installed with windows and sammy drivers but my player wont show up in odin3. Any ideas to get it shwoing?
Either, shutdown VM and see if usb device shows up in windows. If it still does not then unplug usb from pc and then plug it back in, or transfer usb back to host in VM.
I tried that already.. It still doesn't show up in Odin3.
Check device manager for vm drivers for usb and remove them?
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Hmmm.... I don't really understand what you mean.. Sorry!
When you attach a usb device to a VM the vm software replaces the drivers of the USB device on the host with virtual drivers that redirects IO from the USB device to guest If the original driver does not get put back in during a detach then IO never goes back to the host.
I know that sounds complicated but I do not know how else to explain it...
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Okay, i fixed that. I have it in download mode, i uploaded the bootloaders that adamoutler has. I uploaded the stock rom you have. Odin3 said pass. But its still in download mode, autoreboot was checked. when i try turning it on, the download screen appears but the icon for download goes all over the screen then stops. Its still recognizeable in odin3 too. Any ways to get this thing going?
My stock rom does not include bootloaders and adam outler's bootloaders are only a temporary solution. What you need to do is flash a full international rom that has bootloaders. Then flash my stock rom to fix the capacitive buttons.
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Alright I see what you mean!! Where can I get a full stock rom though?
Well, I'm not exactly sure. I used to get mine from samfirmware.com but they have recently changed their site. You might try rumirands stock recovery in the dev section. You'll want to open it up and look for files like: boot.bin and Sbl.bin . These are the bootloader files. This will verify that you have a rom with bootloaders in it.
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Alright thanks a lot! Ill try rumirands stock and if that doesnt work ill go to samfirmware.com. Ill be back with the results in a few hours!!
Well Rumirands ROM did not. work. samfirmware.com only has the French and Chinese Rom versions so that doesnt help either. I downloaded a .tar.md5 from here : http://www.4shared.com/file/zhZjh0EY/package_us235tar.html..... Should I flash this by itself or do I need a pit file too?
The language of the ROM does not matter. What matters is that is has the boot loaders. Flashing my Stock ROM over it will fix language and capacitive buttons.
Make sure you have followed AdamOutler's intructions precisely. I don't recall having to use a pit file other than the one in his intructions but if comes to it, it is another troubleshooting point.
Realyy? Hm alright so what your saying is that when I have it in download mode, and with, lets the the chinese firmware, I flash that, turn on my sgp to see if it loads and then put it in download mode again and flash your stock rom, that it might work fine again???