odin is not working - Vibrant Themes and Apps

having problems with my vibrant and or odin. The issue with my phone is when i turn it on im in recovery mode it think. My options are reboot system now, reinstall packages, delete all user data, and delet cache data. I select reboot and then the screen goes black then it shows the vibrant logo then goes black again then the vibrant logo shows up again then it goes right back to the recovery mode again. I have done the reinstall packages but only showes that it cant open no such files. Now i did have a rom on here for a while i think it was the Nero rom. I then got stupid and tried to flash back to stock. That did not work. Ive tried Odin but keep getting a wierd pop up message right when i click start. Cant remeber what the message is but i think thats where the problem lies. Ive even tried it on my wifes laptop and get the same pop up. Thats where i think that it the phone and not Odin. Please help.

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spacecasespiff said:
having problems with my vibrant and or odin. The issue with my phone is when i turn it on im in recovery mode it think. My options are reboot system now, reinstall packages, delete all user data, and delet cache data. I select reboot and then the screen goes black then it shows the vibrant logo then goes black again then the vibrant logo shows up again then it goes right back to the recovery mode again. I have done the reinstall packages but only showes that it cant open no such files. Now i did have a rom on here for a while i think it was the Nero rom. I then got stupid and tried to flash back to stock. That did not work. Ive tried Odin but keep getting a wierd pop up message right when i click start. Cant remeber what the message is but i think thats where the problem lies. Ive even tried it on my wifes laptop and get the same pop up. Thats where i think that it the phone and not Odin. Please help.
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Hey try this to get into download mode.
Take out battery. Open up odin. Connect usb to phone and pc. Press up and down volume buttons firmly with one hand, reinsert battery with second hand. Odin should recognize.
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mulcahyd said:
Hey try this to get into download mode.
Take out battery. Open up odin. Connect usb to phone and pc. Press up and down volume buttons firmly with one hand, reinsert battery with second hand. Odin should recognize.
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Had this problem too, samsung says hold down volume and power but that doesnt work, what ALWAYS works for me is to hold both volume buttons down and plug in the mini usb. Itll skip the vibrant screen and go straight to the yellow triangle and download mode. Learned that on youtube
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I can get it into download mode and odin does reconize it. I place the pit and pat files and then hit start and that where im getting the error message. Now I unzip the pit file but where I think its not right is the pat file I don't unzip that one is that correct. The youtube vid that I watched the pat file was a rar file (I think ) and what I have is tar file. Sorry if im confusing you im new to this.
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Edit after seeing reply. Dont unzip anything. The pit file should just have the pit extension. And in the pda section should have the rom .tar in it. What rom are you trying to flash?
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Sorry its the pda file not pad. It does show up as a com port. Its windows 7.
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I would still try opening odin by right clicking and running as administrator. Which rom are you using and what error do you get?
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Man this is a pretty cool theme/app

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ionic7 said:
Man this is a pretty cool theme/app
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Really dude
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i was using Nero rom and now just trying to get back to stock. I did do a back up before putting on a new rom but the back up is where i started to see the recovery screen. The message is
a big red circle with and x and c:\user\nikki\decktop\odin_v1.0exe. And i know that this was not the place for my question but i never get any responses when i put my question on the other threads. If its a big problem i can repost on a defferent tread. This is my phone and it does not work because of what i did and now i have no phone so im a little bit mad. Thanks for any help im getting.

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Sounds like an error with windows. Do you have any firewalls that would prevent programs from accessing usb ports? Also I would upgrade to a newer version of odin. 1.0 was very buggy. Check the bible sticky in the dev section for links.
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This is a pic of what's going on
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Ok so not firewall. Try a newer version of odin. Theres also an open source program called heimdall that supposedly does the same job, though ive never used it.
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I downloaded a newer version of odin and downloaded the pda file again and swithched han cables and it seems to be working. Thank you for the help
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