ive researched for hours on the forums trying to fix my vibrant and I cant seem to find a situation similar to mine.
So i tried to install a rom from the romkitchen website. before that I did not have any rom I was just rooted via OCLF and i had just updated to the newest clockwork recovery. i did a nandroid backup and proceeded to install the rom. after it installed it just hangs at the first screen that says vibrant samsung. only it doesnt say that. it say galaxy s gt i9000. i tried to restore my nandroid file but it says it cant mount the sdcard. anything regarding the internal or external sdcard wont work. the recovery also looks different from the one i had before. it says clockworkmod recovery v2.5.1.0 speedmod ULFK at the top. and thats the only recovery i am able to access. i tried to odin back to stock and i tried so many different methods but no matter what i do it wont register in any odin version nor in that alternate odin program. i keep disconnecting/ reconnecting but nothing. i just get a a popup in the bottom corner that says one of the usb devices attached to the computer has malfunctioned. i dont know what else to do. any help would be greatly appreciated. im getting off the computer now so please email me at [email protected] if you can help. ive gone back to using my g1 for the time being
Use a usb port on the back of the computer .
hook up yer phone to computer , reinstall drivers , if u are not bricked because i dont know i didnt read everything u posted lol enable usb denbug and reinstall drivers than .
Im pretty sure I did the same thing a long time ago. I thought my phone was screwed.
Definitely try plugging it into another usb port if you have one first. Supposedly the ones in the back of the computer are better. If you have to, try every usb port you have.
Also, make sure youre downloading the drivers that are right for your opertaing system. For example, if you have windows xp 32bit, dont download the drivers for windows 7 64bit.
Even just reinstalling the drivers didnt work. I dont remember step by step, but I got into recovery, and wiped my cache and user data and was then able to have odin recognize my phone. Be careful in recovery mode though, because if I remember right it remapped my volume buttons, (up was down and down was up)
Lastly, make sure if/when you get odin to recognize it, you put the .tar file in the right spot (PDA) and make sure its checked. you need to have the .pit file there too, the 512 pit is the one Im pretty sure you want to have, not the 513, one is just newer. You probably want to make sure the re-partition box isnt checked in odin too.
Its been a while since Ive had to use odin, so I may be wrong on a few things, like which pit file is newer and so forth.
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My Vibrant suddenly will not mount. I have it set to MASS STORAGE as it always has been, and now it won't bring up the USB notification on the phone and I get a USB Device not recognized error in Windows XP and Windows 7.
The phone is NOT rooted. I flashed JI2 with ODIN. I know it worked after that because I copied back my music movies and games back to the Vibrant from pc's running XP and 7.
Any ideas?
I had that happen to me, too, after I had soft-bricked my phone and then tried to use Odin to recover. I ended up getting the phone back through Clockwork Recovery, but by then it had stopped being recognized in Windows. Try re-installing the drivers (available here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929). That fixed the problem for me.
Tried those, don't work for me. Not sure what the heck is going on. Finally get the phone working nicely with the JI2 update and now this...sheesh.
Any other suggestions?? I confirmed that it's not a driver issue, I tried my coworkers vibrant on my PC and his and it mounts fine. When I connect mine, same old error. I even did a factory reset, same results.
I have the exact same problem.. my vibrant soft bricked, so I reflashed stock rom with ODIN and it seemed to be fine.. then after a while it just stopped being recognized on my computer. Tried both on mine and my husband's. It's not the drivers, I've installed and reinstalled. There doesn't seem to be any fix for this??
sorry to bump an old thread but was there ever a solution for this?
Same happend to me today . I nandroid back to a point it was working and did not help . I read somewhere that formatting the drives help some but im not sure I want to lose all my **** .
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Same happend to me today . I nandroid back to a point it was working and did not help . I read somewhere that formatting the drives help some but im not sure I want to lose all my **** .
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I don't know if it's the drivers. I think it has something to do with Odin. I softbricked my vibrant twice and had to use Eugene's Froyo that won't brick then back to 2.1 and finally a custom rom. I think somewhere in there something happened...
I havent used odin lately . It was working fine then it just stoped working . I got the drives to show up but it window say "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it" .
Couple of things you can try:
1) Try setting the USB mode to Samsung Kies. Somehow, mass storage never worked for me, but Kies mode works just fine.
2) Try installing ES File Explorer from the market. With that you can get into a home network while on WiFi, thus allowing you to transfer data between your computer and phone using your WiFi network, thereby eliminating the need for cables.
So far I've done a few things and i still get "USB device not recognized" .
Here's what I've done .
1) reinstalled drivers
2) formatted internal and external
3) restored to a previous nandroid
guruchimi said:
Couple of things you can try:
1) Try setting the USB mode to Samsung Kies. Somehow, mass storage never worked for me, but Kies mode works just fine.
2) Try installing ES File Explorer from the market. With that you can get into a home network while on WiFi, thus allowing you to transfer data between your computer and phone using your WiFi network, thereby eliminating the need for cables.
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It is recognized when switched to kies but the drive int/ex still dont show up . I was going to odin to stock but odin does see it . Im probly going to download a the stk nandroid and exchange it .
sorry, I have to bump this up in hopes of the night crowd having an idea. Seriously wtf...
help please
heeeeeeelp
Is it recognized in any other computer ?
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Mine is not recognized by any computer, by odin or kies at all. This happened after I flashed a rom using odin fixing a soft brick. I don't know if it is a hardware problem or not, I have flashed to different roms using rom manager and usb is still not being recognized.
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So after searching the vast horizons of XDA I haven't found an answer that really helped me. Nor have I found someone with this distinct issue. I have an unlocked Samsung Vibrant. I have not rooted it. I updated to J16 with that P.O.S. Kies Mini a few months ago. I hadn't noticed this problem until the last month or so but I haven't had time to sit down and curse at my computer long enough or offer supplications to Google until now. I've just been using Awesome Drop to get what few files I wanted onto my phone. I've had enough of that now. And...I also want to update it to Froyo but I can't do that if I can't get my computer to see my phone. I'm running a Toshiba Satellite A205 with Windows Vista 32bit.
I have checked the drivers and as far as I can tell, I'm using the right ones. I downloaded Kies Mini again today (I deleted it after I was finished with J16 because I wanted it as far away from me as possible) and it seemed to say something about downloading drivers as well. I tried plugging in my phone. Nothing new. So, I went in search of drivers again. I have searched and tried a few different ones but nothing has solved my problem.
The phone charges fine from my laptop. It hooks up immediately and charges without a problem. Unfortunately, my phone seems to regard the PC as a complex wall-wart. Debugging on/off, USB Settings on Mass Storage, Kies, or Ask on connection, it doesn't matter. It doesn't give me the option to "mount" as it has in the past. It doesn't do anything except charge. I've seen some people say it's a problem with their cables (I've only got one at the moment) but since my phone charges fine, how can it be a problem with the cable?
Only thing I hadn't tried was a factory reset. So, I sucked it up and tried that. Nope. No change. At this point I'm wondering if it's a hardware problem, not a software problem.
I'm out of ideas. Anybody else?
Well you can always root it, install ROM manager from the market, install clockwork recovery, download the ROM you want to install in flashable .zip format from your phone and flash away. A new ROM might fix your USB issue.
If you don't want to root it, see if you can get into download mode, and flash a new ROM using Odin. I would check with a different cable first, just to be sure that's not the problem though. It might save you some headaches.
If it was me, I would just root it and load a custom 2.2 ROM. I would also get Titanium Backup from the market and backup my apps and would do a nandroid backup from recovery before flashing anything new just to be on the safe side.
There's some good info on how to do most of that in this sticky post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
Ok, please, anyone, help me!
I've rooted my phone, using a zerg method ive seen on galaxys2root.com, at first everything worked brilliantly, customs roms and all, but the phone usb drivers are gone.
no pc or mac ive tried can detect my phone, i cant move any files (unless i do it over wi-fi), i cant select usb debug mode, it say cable is connected even when there is no cable connected, ive tried many methods to connect the phone but none work.
so now i cant use odin to flash anything since my phone is always being detected as an unknown device.
im desperate, i dont know what to do.
so please anyone help me out there ... i guess all i can offer for help is a 10$ steam game to whoever finds a solutiin
im not quite sure whats wrong with your usb but you can try mobile odin to flash.
The are 2 things that I Would try, try this first:
Download the CWM version of "Siyah kernel" (v3 is best)
Here is a link
http://www.gokhanmoral.com/gm/2012/05/10/siyahkernel-v3-2-1/
Flash it in to CWM recovery (if you need instructions on how to flash in to CWM let me know) (to enter cwm recovery do the following:
Turn phone off
Press the home+ volume up+ power button, and do not release your fingers off the buttons till you see the sgs2 boot logo)
If your phone still doesn't work properly after the above, do the following:
Find a CWM flasherble rom (any will do as you are only flashing it so as to be able to use Odin for what ever rom it is you want to install, although you can also find a nice rom that is cwm flasherble, pure ics v7. 3 is very nice!) and download it from your phone
Make titanium backup of all your apps
Go in to CWM recovery and select "install zip from sd card"
Click "yes"
And hopefully when that has finished it should have fixed the issue you are having, and then you can install the rom you were on originally or a rom that you like.
Hope this helped
Cheers
corey
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Probable not following instruction like
Question in wrong forum
Clean Slate for those that balls up the firmware .Or need to return to service or decide if its hardware/firmware problem .
Backup data first if phone is working .
Boot CWM recovery
Mounts and Storage
Format cache data system sd card .
Remove battery
Boot to download mode
Open Odin
Install correct stock firmware .
jje
Well, thanks for the reply guys but still not working, its driving me nuts, no pc can pick up my phone, its only being seen as unknown device, ODIN cant see my phone when its in download mode.
i installed that room, ICS resurrection remix, the problem managed to find its away to that also.
EDIT: Sorry about posting in the wrong forum.
Stuff to try when Odin doesn't work:-
*Must run Odin as administrator in Windoze.
*Ensure Kies & it's processes aren't running in Windoze task manager. Kill them if they are.
*Try different USB ports; you must be using a 'powered' or mainboard port.
*Try different USB cables (particularly the cable that came with the phone if you're not using it now)
*Try different versions of Odin (search on here/Google).
*Uninstall Kies, reboot, redownload & reinstall it, reboot, try the flash again.
*Check the rom/kernel you download for corruption. Programs like 7Zip, IZarc, WinRar, etc will allow you to 'test' the rom file you download. If there are any errors/any of the files fail the test, bad download. Try again/try downloading with a different internet connection if it keeps happening.
*Run Windoze Update.
Try all of these steps if necessary.
And if all this fails, try a different PC. And if the different PC doesn't work first try, go thru all the above steps on the different PC if necessary.
And if you still don't have any joy, probably user error somewhere along the line or a hardware issue.
I'm sure its a user error, cause the phone realizes that usb is connected when i connect. but no other device can recognize the phone (i tried 2 windows pc's and one os x machine).
I'm not an expert but is it possible that the phone information got deleted?
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I'm sure its a user error, cause the phone realizes that usb is connected when i connect. but no other device can recognize the phone (i tried 2 windows pc's and one os x machine).
I'm not an expert but is it possible that the phone information got deleted?
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Yes if Kies is not installed no USB drivers .
Also clean USB port on the phone .
Getting a lot of i used that xxx site and rooted or flashed now broke help asked from here without knowing what the original site asked you to do or firmware used .It becomes hard to guess what's wrong .
jje
Did you o a factory reset, and full wipe before you installed the rom?
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Ok, Kies is installed with drivers, everything was working fine, then i used a Zerg method i found on galaxys2root.com to root the phone, after that it all went to hell.
Well, for the heck of it, i install MIUI, and usb mount is still not working, this is driving me nuts!
Did you make sure you did a full wipe of the phone before you installed the rom?.
And have you tried flashing siyah v3.2?
Flash the kernel and tell me how you get on.
Cheers corey
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i made a full swipe, well ill flash siyah with miui now, just a sec mate, and really, thanks for replying everyone.
fishingfon, i installed Siyah, rebooted the phone, the pc picked it up and opened the autoplay, then it declared it as unkown device and back to square one.
everytime i reboot the phone, the pc sees it for a few secs now then unknown device... i THINK that we're on to something o.o
Have you tried using another usb cable? As if it is broken that would explain the problems you are having. Abd have you tried it of a different pc?
And if you have an external sd card in the phone, try removing it And then rebooting.
Cheers corey
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And make sure you "uncheck" the "usb debugging" in developer options,I dont know why but I have often not been able to connect my phone to the pc if the above is kept checked.
Cheers corey
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Same thing, could be an appilcation conflict on the phone ? when i reboot the window show and then goes, maybe the phone is a loading an app which screws up with the USB?
Have you tried the above?.
Have you tried enabling usb mass storage?.
I dint think it would be an app, as they are apps that people use all the time.
Did you make sure you used the currect root method for your model?
Did you make sure your phone was either a I9100 or and I9100T model before before tou rooted. If it was the wring model rhat might explain your problems, what model is your phone?
If none of the above works the only thing I can think of is that the phones hardware is broken.
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If you remove the backplate off the phone, and remove the battery, rhe should be a label with the model on it
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You could try downloading Mobile Odin Pro from Google Play. Then go to Samfirmware.com and download your original firmware that came with the phone,( NOT A CUSTOM ROM). Put the firmware on the root directory of your sd card. Run Mobile Odin and install the firmware.
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My phone has the AT&T installed ICS, using odin and the ics .tar files my friend found for me the phone went through most of the process, and failed right at the end. It is now stuck at the recovery mode screen and I can't get Kies to recognize it at all, but it is recognized by both computers I have tried it on. I am really not sure what exactly I can do to get it back running again. I have tried to read all I can, but honestly I just don't know what I am doing enough to be sure of what to do next to recover it and if that relates to other problems people have had that have been solved.
I found this post about odin tips for better success - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1863995, but nothing I have seen has helped me from it. I found a few other occurrences of the same thing, but no solution within those threads, so I have no idea how even to proceed.
Any help is appreciated!
Make sure you reboot your pc, start odin, put phone in recovery, then connect usb cable. Make sure Kies isn't running in the background.
Agreed....
Run the process again........but you must ensure a clean working environment, and "NO" kies running while Odin is running....g
I did those steps multiple times on two separate computers. The first initially didn't even have kies installed, just the samsung drivers, but Odin failed repeatedly without even really starting. I restarted computers no USB hubs, tried different cables, different USB ports, nothing changes. Even the kies recovery doesn't recognize the phone at all, but it does still appear to the computers. I appreciate the responses, but what other steps can I take to ensure I am doing this properly? Could it potentially have been the tar file I have, and if so, can I just do the process from this screen, and where can I find the correct files if it wasn't include in one of the tons of threads on here about it?
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I did those steps multiple times on two separate computers. The first initially didn't even have kies installed, just the samsung drivers, but Odin failed repeatedly without even really starting. I restarted computers no USB hubs, tried different cables, different USB ports, nothing changes. Even the kies recovery doesn't recognize the phone at all, but it does still appear to the computers. I appreciate the responses, but what other steps can I take to ensure I am doing this properly? Could it potentially have been the tar file I have, and if so, can I just do the process from this screen, and where can I find the correct files if it wasn't include in one of the tons of threads on here about it?
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Go to samfirmware.com, and restore the device from the website direct...
It appears that you may have the download mode drivers, or a portion of them damaged or unreadable...( due in large part, to the fact that Odin "must" complete the flash process, then disconnect and reboot the device, in order for the flash to stick, and this didnt happen)
Be very careful here my friend, you are one step away from needing a JTAG repair....(BAD)
The website will push a recovery rom image to your device without the need for Odin drivers....and should give you a factory rom that functions correctly....
I dont have a direct link...(sorry) but this is the last attempt before the device is needing much deeper attention....g
Again..its samfirmware.com, or very near that....g
Edit: I'm very sorry you are having this issue, but we are here to help you through it.....So take a few deep breaths, and relax a bit, then hit the website I gave you..
then look in the tools section at the top, and go from there.....you got this....g
Ok, I will take a look at that when I get home! typical of me to push it to the limits. Thanks for the help, much appreciated!
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Ok, I will take a look at that when I get home! typical of me to push it to the limits. Thanks for the help, much appreciated!
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Always welcome my friend.......g
Hey I'll spare the story but basically I've softbricked/bootlooped my S4 in a way I have many times and fixed easily, however now I can't. Basically I tried to launch a bad ROM; same one thats failed me multiple times, stupid to try again but I've fixed this exact problem with this ROM before many times by flashing back to stock with Odin. The problem is my family computer was recently reformatted so I lost Odin, Kies, Drivers, anything I was using before. I redownloaded all those things only now none of them are working properly... When I load up Odin like I always have with my phone in download mode of course, select the tar and run. Only now it recognized a device is connected and I get a COM:03 or whatever but when I hit run it basically goes nowhere and just says "all threads complete completed 0 failed 0" or sometimes "completed 0 failed 1" can someone tell me what these messages are trying to tell me? I though maybe it was cuz I hadn't installed Kies but Kies says my device isn't responding, which I was told could be cuz I have a custom bootloader and my phone needs be 100% for Kies to recognize it but I feel like it used to recognize it with the custom loader. Maybe not. I also tried updating the windows USB drivers but everything was up to date. My computer makes a noise when I plug my phone in and charges it but can't be viewed in windows file explorer. Maybe that's cuz I'm in download mode.
I don't understand why it isn't working but I think its my computer. It's software is the only variable thats changed, I'm doing everything exactly as I used to. I think one of the many components to make this work isn't lined up properly and I don't know what it could be at this point. And PLEASE no answers like "did you check the USB port?". . . yes of course I checked the USB port, yes I'm in download mode, yes my cable works, redownloaded every program in multiple firmware versions. those are the only answers I've been able to find on this topic and none of them get me anywhere.
Can someone tell me what is different on my computers end now? As I've said, I've done this successfully 100 times on my computer before doing exactly what I'm now it just isn't working after the harddrive reset so I assume something has to be wrong on the computers end.
I have a VZWJFLTE SCH-I5454 galaxy s4 and I'm trying to boot back to stock (4.4.2 NC5 found on galxys4root.com).