Hi.. please know that a) I am a complete beginner at all things 'Forums' and programming mobile 'phones and b) hand on heart I have searched everywhere as your video states and 5 hours later I am still stuck... sooooo:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 XWKI8 which I got through 3. I am trying to root my phone BUT in order to start I need to re-boot in download mode - problem... my phone will not respond to the three button press action and just happily starts up as normal. Any ideas? I did, just once earlier to day get a screen with yellow and green writing but no yellow triangle. I went to reload but my eventual odin message said succeed 0/failed 0 and my phone didn't re-boot either. My main problem is that I just can't get my phone to re-boot. Can you help?
Try the three button combo again, but hold volume down and power at the same time then press the menu button, as soon as you see the Samsung splash screen, let go of all three. Works for me. If not then you could always buy a USB Jig from ebay.
Hope this helps.
Edit: To get a reboot, try removing the battery, then power up as normal.
Thank you so much for responding. I'll give it a go and let you know - THANK YOU
No... sadly it's not working - weird. I seem to get the Samsung Galaxy version screen come up twice and then the '3' logo and then a rainbow 'S' - it all takes a bit of a while! Would paying for an unlock service be a better idea?? OR... what is a JIG and what does one do with it...!
Strange...you should be able to get into download mode?
Does your phone boot up so that you can use the phone or are you stuck at the bootscreen (rainbow S).
You should not need to pay to get your phone unlocked there are plenty of resources and help on here to unlock it.
The USB jig boots your phone into download mode and resets the ROM flash counter so that if you have to return your phone to Sammy, they won't know you have flashed a custom ROM.
Try searching for other threads regarding 'not being able to get into download mode', you may find someone else has had the same problem.
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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.
Hello all.
Today, I tried to root my TELUS Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate by using Odin and CWM3-Voodoo-blue.tar.md5. I received a "FAIL!" message, so I pressed Start again, which yielded nothing. So, I removed the USB cord from the phone and tried to boot it up. Nothing happened. I tried to use cwm-recovery-ALL.tar, but, again, I received a "FAIL!" message, and ended up with nothing.
It seems, at the moment, the phone can boot up in download mode (Vol Up + Vol Down + Power). However, the screen appears filled with randomly coloured pixels, and nothing else works on the phone. Is there a way to recover my phone from this state?
I'm going to sleep right now, so I won't be able to reply right away, but I'll check replies as soon as possible.
EDIT: Now, it seems as if the screen isn't booting up at all. However, I can still see the download screen with Vol Up+Vol Down. I don't think the phone was rooted at all, so I'm thinking of sending it back to Samsung so they can fix it. Is there a way to check if a phone is fully rooted or not?
So my phone is not even a week old and it may already be bricked...
I flashed this rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1713470) with Siyah v3.4.1 and xxLPS.
Was working for about 6 or so hours. Then following instructions in above thread i flashed the widgets pack.zip. About 10 min after i tried to reboot my phone and that was it.
The first samsung screen with the triangle pops up and then it goes into a black screen with faint sporadic flashes.
I cant get recovery or download mode to work. ive tried taking the battery out and putting it back in...
Im from Sydney so no Jtag options available to me... so what are my options here guys???
Pull the battery out, wait for about 15 sec, put it back in, quickly press and hold Vol Up + Home + Power, it should be able to get into recovery mode. Wipe data / factory reset should get you boot up successfully.
i wish it was that easy
Even that doesnt work...just loads up the first samsung screen with the yellow triangle, and then straight into the black screen with the periodic flash....
No recovery, no download mode, it seems the best solution you have left is the usb jig.
Phone: Samsung fascinate SGH t959D
Current state: Bricked beyond my abilities to fix or find a solution for
Tried to restore phone back to stock using this guide. After odin finished, I got an error message and then first the phone shows that the battery is unsupported. I fixed this by removing the battery and putting it back in again. Then it is now stuck on recovery boot-loop. What I mean by this is that when I turn on the phone (which needs to be plugged in now to turn on), it either shows the battery with the loading animation on it or it boots straight to recovery mode (with 4 options). Then after a little while in either of these 2 states, it will power off and do the same thing again. It does not allow me to use the up vol key to choose options in the recovery mode, only down. And I can't boot into download mode because like I said before it only shows battery or recovery mode and it doesn't stay in those states for long enough to do anything useful.
Conclusion:
-Can't enter download mode
-Randomly boots to either recovery or shows battery with animation star
-Randomly shuts off
-Can't choose options in recovery using the home key
-Can't use up vol key
Diagnostics: Dead or trolling
Please help
First off, to charge your battery you can use http://www.ebay.com/itm/Battery-Cha...00-Galaxy-S-Fascinate-Mesmerize-/180750832498. When you said you got an error with ODIN, do you mean ODIN actually gave an error, or you got an error when you booted the pbone up after usjng ODIN.l?
Odin gave the actual error; it showed FAIL
Thanks
You need to look at this guide for your phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540809
Sent from my SCH-I500 using xda premium
God bless you man, I will be heading to future shop now and see if I can find some of those gizmos mentioned.
If this works, there is hope for my phone afterall and I don't need to pay another $150 for some guy at telus to tell me it is not fixable...again.
Cheers
Thanks everyone who replied to this thread. After I bought everything I needed, which took longer to arrive than I expected. The phone is now working properly. I used this guide after using the jig:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540809
New member here out of desperation...I have a galaxy Note 2 on At&t its the SGH-I317 16gig.
Itsbeen updated everytime, but i cannot tell you the exact firmware (jellybean etc.)
Myproblem is that i rooted it thru Odin...It worked fine...but for somereason unknown to me it messed up. so now ineed to go back to stock so i can redo the flash. I am a complete newbie and dont understand the lingo well but i will try to explain whats going on in detail,
when i turn the phone on it just goes to the white screen with the AT&T logo...it will then kinda restart and do it again and stop there. it doesnt turn off, it doesnt do anything. just stays lit with the logo. no buttons work and i cant do anything until i pull the battery.
Now when i try to go into recovery mode (volume down,home button, and power button) itsays
WARNING
A custom OScan cause problems blah blah blah
volume up -coninue
volume down cancel
It says that every time. when i volume down it does the at&t logo thing again...volume up it shows the android logo...and upper left corner says in red
ODIN mode
current binary- ccustom
current status-custom
knox warranty void-1
RP SWREV:A2
and under the android it says downloading do not turn off target. with nothing plugged in.
Is there any help for me? Ive tried to locate some answers but i dont understand much of what im reading. i really love my note 2 and would like to try to use it again but it isnt doing ANYTHING!!!!!
PLEASE HELP!!!!