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.
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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.
richtertrevor78 said:
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.....
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?
CurtisAndroid5 said:
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?
CurtisAndroid5 said:
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!
CurtisAndroid5 said:
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?
CurtisAndroid5 said:
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!
*Hard reset after flashing *2767*3855#
*Check ur Phone Info *#*#1234#*#*
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?
I am using the UCKH7 one click w/root tool.
I start download mode by holding volume up and down while plugging in USB. I click the start button but the program hangs at 'factoryfs.img'
Please help. Thanks.
AT&T galaxy s2
Deenybird said:
I am using the UCKH7 one click w/root tool.
I start download mode by holding volume up and down while plugging in USB. I click the start button but the program hangs at 'factoryfs.img'
Please help. Thanks.
AT&T galaxy s2
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I use heimdall personally. Never had any problems with it. Do you have all the sgs2 drivers installed?
Also check md5 sums to make sure your download is ok.
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I'll try heimdall. Drivers should be fine as kies is installed. Rom should be good as I've tried 2 different download sources
Make sure you install the libusb drivers for heimdall before flashing. The instructions are in the heimdall readme. Good luck
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Just wanted to post that my problem is solved.
Summary: My AT&T Galaxy SII showed an error on boot (software upgrade failed. connect to kies...). Kies wouldn't even recognize the device so that route was a no go. So as everyone's recommended method of last resort, I decided to flash the device back to stock via odin. I entered download mode (volume up + volume down and plug in usb) and Odin would recognize the device, I would load the stock rom in the PDA slot and hit start and it would begin normally, but it would always fail after a few seconds on 'NAND write start', or 'factoryfs.img'. So I got a 1 click download solution using odin for reverting my phone back to stock. Same thing, it would recognize the phone, but stall out and fail. I also tried flashing clockworkmod via odin but and same problem. People recommended I try heimdall. It would recognize my device, and then fail after 'kernel 100%'.
I tried both programs on 3 different computers, and must have tried 12 different USB slots amongst all of them. I'm fairly handy with this stuff and I worked for hours on it.
xtra info: I had successfully used odin on my computer to flash a kernel just a week ago so I know my stock usb cable was working etc...
Resolution: So I hung my head and drove to the ATT store. After pressing a few buttons on the device and not getting anywhere they sent me to a nearby Device Support Center. I told the girl at the counter that my phone booted to this error screen and that connecting it to Kies did nothing. She asked if it was ok that in the case that she couldn't fix it she would offer me a replacement. I said that was fine and after 10 minutes in the back room she came out with a replacement (free of charge).
Well that was the good news. For the bad news, unfortunately I still don't know how to fix the problem I had, and don't really know how to avoid it in the future. I thought phone's could only get truly bricked if you messed with PIT files and such. There didn't seem to be anything more I could do than flash with odin or heimdall as those were already last resorts. I know I had the right files, the right drivers, and working usb. No matter how crazy I got with my iphone, a full restore was only a click away by plugging in to iTunes. Somehow I messed up my phone so bad that even the device support center couldn't fix it....? Shouldn't have had to be like that.
Thank yous: Thanks to ATT for having a walk-in store and for so easily offering up a replacement. Thanks to the many people on the web who offered remedies.
tl;dr - phone broke, att replaced, still a mystery
OK first, my rooted u.s. 4.0 running cm7 suddenly had a read on file system. Couldn't download anything, delete anything, or modify anything on /mnt/sdcard. So I thought I would go into Odin and restore from an old backup. In the middle of the process, Odin crashes and my device gives me a weird screen that I can't get rid of unless I remove the battery. I can't even go into cwm. The screen shows a phone and a computer with a yellow caution symbol between the them. I think it means there is an error with connection to the PC or something. I've tried to fix it with Odin but it won't recognize the device. What do I do???
Mine did this aswell. I found that although I could not get it into download mode to try and flash again, the symbol you spoke of lets it occur anyway. The issue with it not being recognised may be due driver problems so try uninstalling them compleyely then reinstalling.
Then basically, just try to reflash through odin whilst that symbol is there.
Hope I helped
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I've tried but it just says SetupConnection..... and stays there.
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the symbol described is a sort of default download mode that comes up when the OS i corrupted.
As others said... you are not totally out of luck yet.
Make sure you have the right drivers on you PC.
Start Odin and connect your player via USB.
Your device should now be recognized by PC if you have the correct drivers (since you were already trying to flash in the first place, you might be ok here).
Flash one of the stock roms you may find in the dev section for your player (make sure it's the right one, US or INT) and hit start. If you are not sure how to use Odin, there are some good guides you can search for also.
Your player should reboot once it's completed and you can start the rooting and flashing process again.
Good luck.
Yay fixed it. After many attempts with odin (it kept failing) it finally booted up. Thanks for the help guys
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Greetings,
My son has a Galaxy s2 running stock 2.3 which he bought in Singapore over a year ago, I think. He states that it has not been rooted. Over the last several weeks he has been getting the 'kernal panic upload mode' screen when the battery was getting low. Last week it became permenant regardless of the battery level. Yesterday I was able to talk him through entering recovery mode. He wiped the partition cache and rebooted with no apparent effect. A picture of the recovery mode screen idicates that the system was unable to mount /data (unknown error: 0). But it did show media files were copied succesfully. ... I've attached a picture of the screen. The phone is no longer recognized in Win7.
My basic question. How might we rescue the pictures and some text from the phone before redoing the os?
TIA,
Kim
Kim, flash siyah v5 and try cwm.
Also drill your son on what is that he did exactly, cause he must have done something.
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I had thought that if all else failed I would have him use Odin to re-apply his existing os. My thinking was that the file and partition structure would be close enough to what's there to allow normal usb connection and to d/l his pics and what not. Then I'd get him to install something with a little more support for recovery and snooping about. Decent enhancements!!
I don't know what he did other than I think he might have overloaded the little beast with too many apps constantly calling home on an older os. But, that's just a guess. Thanks for the upgrade suggestions. I'm only starting to research that aspect. I suspect that going direct to the better burns will be the way we'll end up going.
Be well,
Kim
Siyah is a custom kernel, no danger regarding existing data.
By flashing it you'll be able to access a temp recovery called clockwork mode.
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Greetings gastonw,
My son's getting the usb drivers from the Samsung site for the i9100. I found the tar Siyah-s2-v5.0.1.tar for Odin.
Odin3 version is 3.04. Don't know what else I need.
I'm going to be doing this long distance and I've not handled a smart phone personally so ...
1. Start the phone in download mode.
2. Connect phone to computer
3. Start Odin (making sure that Kies is not running), Odin should recognize the phone.
4. Load the tar in the pda section
5. check automatic reboot, and start.
6. I presume that I will know when it's done because odin will report success or finished, and the phone will boot.
To grab the data off this phone do we use the recovery mode or will it now be called clockwork mode?
At which point I presume we shut the phone down and do a normal start/boot.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks for your help. Reading the specs on the Siya work I'm almost tempted
to go get a phone for myself.
Be well,
Kim
Lol, that's awesome, your playing by the book
Custom recovery will become CWM instead of stock recovery.
And go ahead and get yourself a new phone, you're in for a hell of a ride.
Sent from the little guy
Thank!! My son called and said the usb still doesn't work. Hum .... I hope not, but I may be back to see if there's a way to transfer something from an sd card in order to save the data. On the flip side ...
Kim
Odin doesn't see his device or the pc calls it "unknown device"?
Can he get it to boot, he can use airdroid app or dropbox to transfer over wifi.
The custom kernel is just to get rid of that pabic message.
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Mornin' gastonw,
Well, as of a couple of minutes ago, win7 did not recognize the phone. Hopefully with a reinstallation of the Samsung specific usb drivers win7 and/or Odin will recognize the phone.
Interesting. When he booted into download mode the top of the screen said something like, 'Odin download mode'. Does this indicate that it might be rooted? To the best of my knowledge he was unaware of the three button boot loader mode and hence would not have changed the phone from the basic generic non-branded phone that he bought. Just wondering. If it is rooted is there a way to manually do, via the recovery mode, what Odin will be doing? It seems to me that if recovery allows to d/l from the sd card there must be a destination to be designated. I have no idea what the drive and directory layout is, and I'm a tad rusty on linix shell commands, don't even know what shell android uses. But, if I knew where the package had to go ... .
I'll write again when I know more.
Thanks again,
Kim
Well the last I heard is that no USB *and* it's probably a win7 problem!!!! Good golly miss molly!
Anyway, snooping about I found a thread [howto] which indicated that putting a clock work mod zip on an sd and d/ling it thru the recovery mode would install the clock work mod recovery boot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1814801
Now I can not find a further reference to a zip with the name format used in this post. However at the modclockwork site I do find two
http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager. One is for 'touch'. I don't know the difference between the two. But, am I understanding correctly that I can put the appropriate zip on an sd from which I can d/l thru the standard recovery mode which on restart I presume will give me access to cmw recovery mode? Seems to easy. LOL!!!
Any help would be appreciated.
Kim
This is how you root & flash cwm via recovery: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=7psIQU69h3M&desktop_uri=/watch?v=7psIQU69h3M&gl=MX
Tell him to try another PC to see if it sees the device.
Genuine s2 usb I assume?
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