I had my wife's vibrant rooted a while back. Now when I try to update from 2.1 to 2.2 it says "No firmware". So I started doing update with download mode and all and ended up with 2.2 but my phone won't recognize the sim card or let me make a call anymore. Wifi and all works but phone wont. So I had to flash back to 2.1. Any clues? In the process of going to 2.2 and coming back I semi bricked my phone a few times but thankfully was able to get it back alive.
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I cannot get this thing into download mode. Im trying to use ODIN to get back onto the stock firmware. Ive tried holding down on the volume button. Ive tried holding down volume up as well as both of them and nothing. I recently unrooted. I was running Bioix1.7 and i decided I didnt want use it anymore.
I nandroided back to stock ROM so my baseband is still ji2. I tried to upgrade via kies seeing that it says on the website that it would work even on ji5. I got the unegistered device error. Ok.
Solution from what Ive read is to ODIN back to jfd. So here I am nt able to get into download mode.
What worked for me was:
Remove battery from phone
Plug USB into PC
Re-insert battery into phone
While holding down volume up and volume down, plug USB into phone
Note: You'll need to have the correct drivers installed on your PC in order for Odin to see your phone.
adamboyd83 said:
I cannot get this thing into download mode. Im trying to use ODIN to get back onto the stock firmware. Ive tried holding down on the volume button. Ive tried holding down volume up as well as both of them and nothing. I recently unrooted. I was running Bioix1.7 and i decided I didnt want use it anymore.
I nandroided back to stock ROM so my baseband is still ji2. I tried to upgrade via kies seeing that it says on the website that it would work even on ji5. I got the unegistered device error. Ok.
Solution from what Ive read is to ODIN back to jfd. So here I am nt able to get into download mode.
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If your phone is not soft bricked just use ADB .
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Odin sees my phone so I have the right drivers. I will have to give it another shot tomm. Tim for bed. God this thing is a pain in the a%# to mess with. My Hero was so easy once you got it rooted.
It was bothering me last night so I couldnt sleep. Ended up getting it working flashed back to stock all is good. Wake up this morning with the notification of the update.
Being back to stock I figured sure wy the hell not. And I should have done the Kies way.
Phone is now bricked. Just ot off the phone with T-Mobile and they are sending me a new one. So at least there is that.
Hm, so you had Odin'd back to 100 percent JFD stock and when you used Odin to flash JI6 it bricked the phone?
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Hm, so you had Odin'd back to 100 percent JFD stock and when you used Odin to flash JI6 it bricked the phone?
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No the OTA bricked it. I thought it was odd and so I looked on the T-mobile forums and there have been a few people with that problem. I actually got a tech that said she had seen the issue on the forums but it was teh first call she had gotten about it.
Oh I see, the OTA bricked it. That's the same problem tons of people are having, and the same problem I had. I used Odin to get back to stock (unbrick my phone) and now I'm deciding whether to update to JI6 with Odin or Kies, or just wait for another OTA notification.
yeah I am wondering the same thing my self. I think I may give it a day or so see if i get the update when i get the new phoen or just do it with kies.
First I unrooted my phone. I downlaoded mini kies. Ran the Froyo update 2.2. Let it reboot my phone, and now it won't load... What should I do??? All it does is keep vibrating, and the keys stay lit. I'm really lost...
well i would forget anything update from samsung myself
and i would ODIN back to 2.1 stock and flash custom ROMs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747335
the third one on this page
and a video that shows what to do
http://martint.net/2010/how-to-use-odin-to-go-back-to-stock-jfd-2/
IM NOT RESPONSIBLE OF WHAT NIGHT HAPPEN TO YOUR PHONE IF SOMETHING DOES GO WRONG!!!
good luck
Im not sure wheather it was the KA6 or the KB5 update, but I finally got mini kies working. updated my phone, it restarted, and now its just vibrating and showing the white Vibrant and Samsung words on a black screen, like when it first starts up. What should I do?
I am able to get into download mode but pressing the volume buttons, but now since I guess its not really fully on, mini kies wont recognize it.
Now im doing what I found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
So I ended up having to factory reset my phone. Gayest. ****. Ever. never buying another phone from Samsung. I just wanted the update!!
Kies Mini ended up having an error midway through installation. Luckily, even though I was getting the softbrick icons (the exclamation point in a yellow triangle between the phone and the computer) odin recognized my phone and I could flash back to JFD.
I'm disappointed that Samsung can't even successfully update their own line of phones with their proprietary software. Do they even test things with the end user software?
I completely agree! I really didnt like spending my saturday night putting all my stuff/apps back on my phone
so i got my replacement phone yesterday and the 1st thing i did was root it then it updated to 2.2 and i lost root then i followed these steps here
http://www.fascinateforums.com/forum/fascinate-rs-guides/2012-how-root-ed01-froyo.html
this worked just fine and i had 2.2 stock rooted
next i wanted to load Red Voodoo CWM 3.x
so i followed this post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046905
this is where i had the problem
while odin was running i closed odin by mistake leaving my phone in download mode with out odin finishing
now when i turn the phone on i get the phone to pc icon and i don't know what to do next because i am worried about bricking it again and verizon getting wise to me if i have to get another phone after 2days of having this one
please help
never mind ran odin again and got it fixed
Hello...I'm new here...
so when i downloading the upgrade from 2.3.4 to 2.3.5 through kies, it stopped responding,
and i left it so for about an hour or so, but it didn't respond....
so i switched the phone off and removed the cable...so...now when I switch it on,
it just comes downloading....and through kies,it says device not responding,reboot.....but nothing happens then too...please help...
Its probably mess up. You will need to use ODIN to flash the ROM.
right, another case of kies going berserk.
use odin to reflash and hopefully fix it.