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I'm trying to load the Unofficial 2.2 ROM onto my phone and I'm using the Odin method. I got into Download mode, got the pit and the ROM and put it all in place, the process starts but it just keeps getting stuck at "Do not turn off the Target." Now if I restart it, it won't even go into my phone.
Any suggestions why it keeps stopping at that point?
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ferhanmm said:
I'm trying to load the Unofficial 2.2 ROM onto my phone and I'm using the Odin method. I got into Download mode, got the pit and the ROM and put it all in place, the process starts but it just keeps getting stuck at "Do not turn off the Target." Now if I restart it, it won't even go into my phone.
Any suggestions why it keeps stopping at that point?
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My advice is to repost this question in the Q and A section and then edit your OP, to indicate you've done as much... Add a link in THIS OP to your Q and A thread. You should get some help after that i'm sure.
does you phone just sit at a black screen? mine did the same thing black screen to where i doesnt look like its on but if you turn the lights off in the room your in you will see the screen is actually lit! no idea on how to fix this myself... on mine if you press and hold the vol up, vol down, and power buttons for a while, (until your fingers hurt) you will eventually see a black screen with red writing with some stuff i was unable to understand! but thats all i could get out of the phone... called t-mobile and they sent a replacement... but i would like to know what i did wrong because i will be flashing froyo alot and i dont want to run into this problem again... btw can get odin to recognize the phone at all!
If your phone is not Hardkey locked.
1) Remove battery from phone and put it back in again
2) Plug your USB into your computer (and make sure it is not in your phone yet)
3) Push and hold down your two volume keys (DO NOT HOLD DOWN THE POWER BUTTON)
4) Plug in the USB cable into your phone
This takes me into Download every time. I did what you did. I had problem with Odin my phone and it just got stuck. I unplugged the phone and rebooted it. Or I should say I tried. It was dead to the world. Black screen. Power button did not start etc. Ran into a note from Kazer and he suggested the above procedure and it worked every time for me. Holding down the power button did not work for me.
Try it out and let me know if it worked.
I had a rooted vibrant running pretty nicely with all my apps optimized. ive always tried to install lagfix (voodoo, OCLF, UFL,), but none of them would ever work, they would just brick my phone and i would be stuck at the vibrant screen recovery loop.
no problem, i would go to download mode and flash odin...
few months later thought id give it another shot with the updates and such with voodoo...
again same thing... **** didn't work..
back to eugenes that does not brick and i was going to do the whole process again of getting back to the stock ji6.
in the middle of eugnes, there was a com error, dont know why, nothing was moved. the flashed had stopped in the middle.
took out the battery. and nothing. phone does nothing. plug it in, black screen. 3 button combo. black screen. not even the vibrant logo. and no charging screen.
black screen no matter what.
do i need to do the 'jumpstart' jtag method?
Google search it! It says dl odin and stuff just unbricked mine
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stealthj said:
I had a rooted vibrant running pretty nicely with all my apps optimized. ive always tried to install lagfix (voodoo, OCLF, UFL,), but none of them would ever work, they would just brick my phone and i would be stuck at the vibrant screen recovery loop.
no problem, i would go to download mode and flash odin...
few months later thought id give it another shot with the updates and such with voodoo...
again same thing... **** didn't work..
back to eugenes that does not brick and i was going to do the whole process again of getting back to the stock ji6.
in the middle of eugnes, there was a com error, dont know why, nothing was moved. the flashed had stopped in the middle.
took out the battery. and nothing. phone does nothing. plug it in, black screen. 3 button combo. black screen. not even the vibrant logo. and no charging screen.
black screen no matter what.
do i need to do the 'jumpstart' jtag method?
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you should post in Q & A next time. Anywhoo, can you get your phone into download mode?
I can tell you that I've been there, I can say with all certainty that this phone has recovered from the brink of of death so many times I don't even scare anymore. I just flash. You got to be patient I dug around Google and the forma and found the right combo that put me in download mode.
It was power and vol. down. No sim no sd.
I've learned that every phone responds to a different combo. Your phone isn't dead, just Samsung hibernating.
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You seem to know what you are doing when it comes to flashing. All I can suggest is to try the various methods to get into download mode again. Some people have methods that work best for them. For instance, the 3 button combo never works for me. But pulling the battery, putting back in, holding down only the up and down volume keys (NOT POWER) and while holding insert the usb that the other end should already have been plugged into the computer.
but i'd say its safe to assume if you cant get to download mode by any of the methods on this forum, there is no going back.
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Do a search for the jig also as a last resort, try checking in the bible I can't remember where that thread is, but it has helped quite a few people..
try two buttons combo up and power or down and power with the usb plug in
This is the absolute surefire way to get your phone into DL mode:
1.) Take out battery, SIM, and Memory card
2.) Connect phone to the computer
3.) Put battery back into phone while holding down up and down vol buttons
If your phone can still get into DL mode this way will do it guaranteed. The jig might also help but as far as I know it really only helps if your phone is hardware locked. If the above steps dont work for you then I'm afraid that the bootloader is gone and you are screwed =/
I saw a jig offered as a for sale item on the Team Whiskey forum. I believe it was around 9 or 10 dollars (maybe less) If you decide to go that route. Good luck!!!!!!!!!
thanks for all the replies everyone.... from what it looks like and to the extent of my knowledge, it looks like the bootloader is gone. my guess is it was flashing the bootloader? while the computer randomely decided to drop the com port?
anyhow, i refuse to let it die and am going to keep trying!
well that was weird. it worked. sim, battery, everything out, i held all 3 buttons, plugged USB and battery and let go of power all at EXACT same time and wallah! download mode. flashed eugenes, flashed UFD, then JI6. rooted, installed busybox, downloaded rom manager. found the backup i made before trying to install lagfix.... vibrant is stuck at 'vibrant' screen now... so flashed again eugenes, UFD, then JI6 again....
working normal again but i want my data from the backup....
advanced restore should i do? NOT restore the boot? only restore the data/system or or other options in clockwork recovery advanded restore? any help would be appreciated. first time trying to actually restore data from a clockwork backup.
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I have had the phone to pc screen before but plugging in the USB and holding the volume buttons arent working this time. Is there any other trick or special way to get around this?
What shows on your screen? R u completely bricked? Do u get a logo?. If u get the computer logo. Plug it in. Let the logo show up. Hold the 3 buttons. As soon as the screen turns black let go of power... let me know how it goes
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I tried to not start a new thread but ... I'm at a loss so here's the sitch..
I rooted, unlocked, and installed CWM using ViperMOD tool here
I got successful on upon running the program. Confirmed root, proceeded to unlock and install CWM. Like I said, the messages informed me of no errors and got successful. HOWEVER, when I power off the prime and attempt to button combo into recovery, the phone just boots up. I don't see text to even press the volume up button.. the only text I see is the asus kernel splash and boot ani..
I then went to RM and tried to flash CWM that way.. again i got successful but button combo's aren't working or I'm just not getting it right.. (thought, you should know I tried bout every damn combo I could think of, AFTER reading an trying what is suggested.) So then I tried rebooting into recovery via RM.. phone just reboots. I then tried installing touch recovery via RM.. got successful but again, no way to boot into recovery.
According to RM my current recovery is 5.8.x.x
I read another way to install CWM via BLOB, but I've also read installing anything BLOB after installing CWM will lead to a brick. Obviously I'm trying to avoid that. For the love Android, if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be really happy. Thank you!
*EDIT****UPDATE**
This is a little confusing as i just watched yet another how-to vid.. and this one showed booting into recovery from power on .. and I don't believe it but it worked. Finally saw the 3 text lines at the top when Asus spash showed up. I powered off the Prime and tried again.. no problems whatsoever.
I'm sorry for starting a new thread.. believe me, I started searching yesterday and gave up at 11:30 last night.. started my quest again this morning and no dice so I started a new thread. Again.. Jerdog, I'm sorry man. Ugh.. feeling pretty bad about this thread now. If it can be deleted, please do. Otherwise close.. :-\
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Coreym said:
I tried to not start a new thread but ... I'm at a loss so here's the sitch..
I rooted, unlocked, and installed CWM using ViperMOD tool here
I got successful on upon running the program. Confirmed root, proceeded to unlock and install CWM. Like I said, the messages informed me of no errors and got successful. HOWEVER, when I power off the prime and attempt to button combo into recovery, the phone just boots up. I don't see text to even press the volume up button.. the only text I see is the asus kernel splash and boot ani..
I then went to RM and tried to flash CWM that way.. again i got successful but button combo's aren't working or I'm just not getting it right.. (thought, you should know I tried bout every damn combo I could think of, AFTER reading an trying what is suggested.) So then I tried rebooting into recovery via RM.. phone just reboots. I then tried installing touch recovery via RM.. got successful but again, no way to boot into recovery.
According to RM my current recovery is 5.8.x.x
I read another way to install CWM via BLOB, but I've also read installing anything BLOB after installing CWM will lead to a brick. Obviously I'm trying to avoid that. For the love Android, if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be really happy. Thank you!
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I had the same issue with the TF101, TF201 is the same...POWER OFF completly, now POWER ON HOLDING POWER AND VOLUME DOWN until white writting comes up on TOP LEFT OF SCREEN, then let go of power and volume down and press VOLUME UP you should see "ENTERING RECOVERY IMG"
i did a quick vid and put on YOUTUBE for you check it out,
hope it helps
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I had the same issue with the TF101, TF201 is the same...POWER OFF completly, now POWER ON HOLDING POWER AND VOLUME DOWN until white writting comes up on TOP LEFT OF SCREEN, then let go of power and volume down and press VOLUME UP you should see "ENTERING RECOVERY IMG"
i did a quick vid and put on YOUTUBE for you check it out,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VOiCogOQJ0&list=UUdwXLQixIUNxzkX0zHVsYpQ&index=1&feature=plcp
hope it helps
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Thanks dude.. Yeah, this was a stumper for me. As I did the button combo right, and maybe just maybe I let go too soon when seeing the asus screen, but I can tell you I tried endlessly last night and never saw the little text in the top left corner. Just watched zedo's vid and he started from power on.. so I tried, and it worked. Now i see the little text everytime I button combo..
Oh well.. really glad I got it figured out.. and thank you so much for the reply and help. Really!
Coreym said:
Thanks dude.. Yeah, this was a stumper for me. As I did the button combo right, and maybe just maybe I let go too soon when seeing the asus screen, but I can tell you I tried endlessly last night and never saw the little text in the top left corner. Just watched zedo's vid and he started from power on.. so I tried, and it worked. Now i see the little text everytime I button combo..
Oh well.. really glad I got it figured out.. and thank you so much for the reply and help. Really!
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I must have NVFlashed my TF101 100x cause i thought CWM didnt do on because i use quickboot and it didnt go to recovery and i didnt know how to get it there but then i figured it out, so since my prime is the same its GRAVY, at least you got it now!!!
food for thought: i have flashed my sgs and my maguro countless times both combined, and i never ever encountered such an error. Either adb reboot recovery, native rom option or if neither are available, button combo.
/offtopic: i'm eager to see what nvflash can do. definately more powerful than fastboot
I'm just going to get straight to the problem here: my Atrix won't boot because something went wrong with a ROM I was trying to install. I was using the package from here Project kitchen sink, and selected aokp. I have Clockwork Recovery 5.8.1.8, so it boots into recovery.
The problem is that my volume rocker is broken, I *think* because of pds, so I cannot navigate the menu. I have tried using RSDLite and Fastboot, hoping that I could work through the recovery boot menu, but it's useless. And since my volume keys refuse to work, I can't set the phone to boot into RSD mode. I'm stuck in an endless loop of not-able-to-do-jack-****, and I don't think I'll be able to send it in to Moto for a replacement.
I don't know if the failure is due to a hardware issue (my Atrix was shipped to me from my family, since I live in Puerto Rico), the CM7 ROM I had before, or a recent crash (the battery was also giving me problems, and lately crashed the phone several times, not turning on unless I pulled it.)
Sparr159 said:
I'm just going to get straight to the problem here: my Atrix won't boot because something went wrong with a ROM I was trying to install. I was using the package from here Project kitchen sink, and selected aokp. I have Clockwork Recovery 5.8.1.8, so it boots into recovery.
The problem is that my volume rocker is broken, I *think* because of pds, so I cannot navigate the menu. I have tried using RSDLite and Fastboot, hoping that I could work through the recovery boot menu, but it's useless. And since my volume keys refuse to work, I can't set the phone to boot into RSD mode. I'm stuck in an endless loop of not-able-to-do-jack-****, and I don't think I'll be able to send it in to Moto for a replacement.
I don't know if the failure is due to a hardware issue (my Atrix was shipped to me from my family, since I live in Puerto Rico), the CM7 ROM I had before, or a recent crash (the battery was also giving me problems, and lately crashed the phone several times, not turning on unless I pulled it.)
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PDS does not affect volume buttons.
And what happens when you boot? Boot loop is not very specific...
I read a post on here that said it did...
And what happens is that it boots once, stays on the Moto logo, then blacks out, boots again and goes into recovery. Since I have no way to do anything, I press the power button and it goes again.
What I need is either
1) A way to work with RSD through the recovery, or
2) A way to work with ADB through recovery, or
3) Someone to just tell it to me straight: I'm f*cked and I need to send it in to Moto (Which I doubt they would take it.)
Sparr159 said:
I read a post on here that said it did...
And what happens is that it boots once, stays on the Moto logo, then blacks out, boots again and goes into recovery. Since I have no way to do anything, I press the power button and it goes again.
What I need is either
1) A way to work with RSD through the recovery, or
2) A way to work with ADB through recovery, or
3) Someone to just tell it to me straight: I'm f*cked and I need to send it in to Moto (Which I doubt they would take it.)
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I would tell you to flash touch recovery however I don't think you can and how it would help you recover from this situation.
Sent from my MB860 running Jokersax's CM9
The weird thing is that I had flashed touch recovery before I started with kitchen sink, and it fixed the touch problems I was having there, but now the touch doesn't work. I downloaded it from the clockwork website, because I don't want to pay for something that is available for free, and I flashed it in fastboot.
Now I have Clockwork Recovery 1.8, which should be touch, no?
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The weird thing is that I had flashed touch recovery before I started with kitchen sink, and it fixed the touch problems I was having there, but now the touch doesn't work. I downloaded it from the clockwork website, because I don't want to pay for something that is available for free, and I flashed it in fastboot.
Now I have Clockwork Recovery 1.8, which should be touch, no?
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You mean 5.8.1.8? If so then yes. And if touch is not working in touch recovery then it does sorta confirm you need the PDS fix...
We are finally getting somewhere: yes, it is 5.8.1.8, touch doesn't work. I know I need the PDS fix, and I applied it. Twice. I patched in fastboot before I started with kitchen sink, and I thought it had worked, since the Aroma installer was touch-enabled after I patched. But now the recovery menu is not working. I tried pressing the search key, like with the Aroma installer, but I knew it wouldn't have any effect.
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We are finally getting somewhere: yes, it is 5.8.1.8, touch doesn't work. I know I need the PDS fix, and I applied it. Twice. I patched in fastboot before I started with kitchen sink, and I thought it had worked, since the Aroma installer was touch-enabled after I patched. But now the recovery menu is not working. I tried pressing the search key, like with the Aroma installer, but I knew it wouldn't have any effect.
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Can you point me to the thread where it says volumer rocker is linked to pds because i searched and cant find it.
How are you booting...i mean with what key combination? Im assuming your booting normally(only power button) and end up going into recovery. Try booting with power button and volume down.
Sorry I'm not quoting anybody, first off.
Second, I can't find the link. I spent around an hour searching and found it through duckduckgo, but now I can't remember the search term I used. If I find it, I'll post it.
And yes, I'm booting only with power button, because the volume down key isn't working. That is where the pds problem comes in: I can't use the volume down or up key because the keys don't work.
My friend told me that I could use adb to manually boot it into fastboot mode. That works fine, but I don't know how to flash anything other than the recovery/pds partitions. I know fastboot has a "flashall" command, but I don't know how to use that or if it is even going to help. **Essentially** I can boot into fastboot mode, but I want to know if it is even possible to just flash a rom through that. Messy, of course, but if I can just get even a basic ROM working, I can go on from there.
I think you have 2 options:
1. if you can get to fastboot you can reflash everything using uncle cemka's method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501532
you basically take an .sbf unpack it and flash each part separately.
2. buy a atrix audio jack/camera flex cable from ebay and install it yourself, be especially careful when installing because the very small flex/ribbon that goes to your volume buttons stress fractures very easily if bent very much when installing, hence your volume buttons stop working.
I'm using cemka's method now. I'm waiting for the stock ROM to download, the one from his post. When I finish the whole process, I'll let you guys know how it worked out.
UPDATE: Thank you to whoever referred me to uncle cemka's method, I was able to use it to flash stock ROM. I have functionality back, can boot, and won't waste around $90 on a paperweight.
However, the first problem is still there: The volume keys still don't work. I still need to fix those before everything is %100 percent, so this issue is still open... Sorry guys
HELP!!! I installed shostock rom that worked well for sometime….however yesterday when I went running, I was listening to audio and at the same time I was using an app called Mapmyrun, The phone then suddenly just died. No matter what I pressed it wouldn’t come on. Eventually it did come back on after I pressed the volume up button along with the power button and the home button together and at the same time putting the battery back in. Since then I can’t make a call without using the speaker and while trying to play audio, the audio sticks. I decided I needed to reinstall rom or even try a new one but discovered the phone will not boot into clock work mod. When I try the phone just goes dead again and I then have to do the whole volume up button along with the power button and the home button together and at the same time putting the battery back in again. How do I get CWM again so I can wipe?
So holding down the power button doesn't pull up the boot to Recovery option?
What version of Shostock are you running?
XWLP7-SHOstock2-v2.2.2
Now I've actually got it to go to cmw by holding volume up and down together while pressing the home button and replacing the battery simultaneously. When Itry to reboot however it just goes dead and I have to do the whole process again. How do I get it to reboot?
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Now I've actually got it to go to cmw by holding volume up and down together while pressing the home button and replacing the battery simultaneously. When Itry to reboot however it just goes dead and I have to do the whole process again. How do I get it to reboot?
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What phone do you have?
EDIT: XWLP7? I9100?
You're flashing a I777 rom on a I9100?
Alright, you get closer.
At first you said you lost CwMR, then you described how to get into CwMR a totally wrong way, then you got in CwMR eventually.
I suggest you spend time and read more on those threads created by creepy. He shows you everything from how to get into the Download mode, how to get into the 3e, .......
Also, fundamental thing, do list your device info if you want more useful help.
Back to your stage, you said you got into CwMR successfully, then reboot???
Have you done anything when you got there? reflashing? wiping? ...... or just got there and reboot and did nothing else?