So last night I was flashing Gingerbread onto my phone. Did everything I was suppose to do. Followed the write up on here from gtg465x. I back upped my current rom just in case something went south.
Well, it went bad. Go figure. Well it didnt flash the gingerbread rom. It stayed at the red, blue, green, and yellow X screen for about an hour before shutting off.
Well I went ahead and went into recovery and tryed to restore my old rom. Well It didnt work at all. All that happens is that the Samsung screen comes up then like thousands of different colored dots are everywhere on the screen . It just keeps cycling from Samsung to Colored dots.
Well I downloaded Odin. Also did everything in the "How-To" that gtg465x put together to get it back to stock. My phone goes into download mode but thats it.
I cant get it to go into recovery mode anymore. It will just go into download mode.
Well my phone is not recognized by both of my PC's. I have also tried 4 Cables, and uninstalled and reinstalled all the Samsung drivers.
Im pretty stuck here. I have no idea what to do anymore. Do I just have a nice paper weight now?
Hopefully the pro's can come out and help my Infuse.
Thanks.
You don't need to get into recovery mode (it could help, but it is not your only hope). Your device needs to be recognized by your PC while in download mode before anything else can be done.
Theonew said:
You don't need to get into recovery mode (it could help, but it is not your only hope). Your device needs to be recognized by your PC while in download mode before anything else can be done.
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I have tried multiple uninstalls and reinstalls on different Samsung drivers aswell as USB Cords. I have also used my other PC too and nothing.
Ive literally been on the computer all day with absolutely no luck at all.
Have went to the store to buy a new USB cable, Installed countless drivers, Etc.
I have no idea what else to do. My computer just wont recognize the phone whatsoever.
Any ideas at all guys???
banshee04 said:
Ive literally been on the computer all day with absolutely no luck at all.
Have went to the store to buy a new USB cable, Installed countless drivers, Etc.
I have no idea what else to do. My computer just wont recognize the phone whatsoever.
Any ideas at all guys???
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You'll probably just have to carry it in under warranty .
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So I just received a replacement phone because I bricked my previous one and I think I may have bricked this one as well (because I'm an idiot).
I can't get anything to show up on my screen except the screen that has a phone a yellow triangle with a ! and a computer. They're little icons lined up in the middle of the screen when I try to turn it on.
How this happened:
I upgraded my stock phone to Froyo using Kies and then I tried to flash the KA6+Voodoo firmware that I found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870480 using Heimdall on my mac.
I had put the phone into download mode, selected the zImage and clicked start and it just sat there for a little bit before it said "Failed to receive device info response!"
I didn't know what to do after that so I just tried to restart the phone and I ended up with that error screen that I'm becoming more familiar with than I would like to be...
If anybody can help save my phone I would really appreciate it.
You just need to go through the normal odin steps to go back to stock.
The instructions on how to odin are in this forum.. I'm kinda lazy this morning sorry.
Odin isn't recognizing my phone right now and Windows is saying that it's detecting a "gadget serial" device but can't successfully install drivers for it. Based on some advice I found elsewhere, I'm installing Samsung PC Studio which should contain the drivers for the "gadget serial" device.
Hopefully Odin will work then...
also try a different cable. I know that if I use certain cables odin will not work. I have to use the cable that came with my phone.
Google Galaxy s USB drivers and install those.
And your phone is only bricked if nothing ever comes on. So your still golden. Just use the volume button download mode method and odin to stock.
IT'S WORKING. THank you!
The only problem now is that it's not recognizing my sim card...
blim8183 said:
IT'S WORKING. THank you!
The only problem now is that it's not recognizing my sim card...
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Turn off the phone and pull out the sim card. Reinsert the sim card and reboot the phone. It should be recognized.
I just tried that a couple times and it's still not recognizing it.
blim8183 said:
I just tried that a couple times and it's still not recognizing it.
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OMG PANIC! Insert another sim and see if that works. If so, pull the battery for a minute and try again with your sim. If that doesn't work call T-Mo and confess that you broke it.
XPLANE9 said:
Google Galaxy s USB drivers and install those.
And your phone is only bricked if nothing ever comes on. So your still golden. Just use the volume button download mode method and odin to stock.
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I'm trying to restore my phone to factory settings using (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475) but once again I've gotten the phone ! computer error. However, this time when I plug the phone into the computer to try to use Odin, it's no longer recognizing that a USB device has been plugged in.
I've been trying different combinations of battery pulls, plugging it in after the phone is on, plugging it in before it's on, etc. and nothing is working.
EDIT: Nevermind, I got it. Ignore me... it case it wasn't clear already, I'm a n00b and have no idea what I'm doing.
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Hi Everyone, Really need help here
I (drunkenly) messed around with CWM on my phone and formatted a few partitions that I shouldn't have. Result - brick!
Had a JTAG done and it was revived and placed back onto Stock 2.3.3
Got my phone home and went to flash Litening ROM 6.1 onto it to regain root access... ODIN got about 2/3 through and failed.
Now I've got a phone that my computer's won't recognise. Windows is saying that the USB device has malfunctioned. Is there any way I can fix this without having to shell out for another JTAG repair?
When I turn on the phone I get that A....!....A looking symbol on my screen. Recovery mode does the same thing.
I can get to Download mode, but again my PC can't recognise it.
Any ideas?
try reinstalling the drivers.. That may work..
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thanks, giving it a go now.
...you did mean from within Kies though right?
I'll let you know how I go.
rikta said:
thanks, giving it a go now.
...you did mean from within Kies though right?
I'll let you know how I go.
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Yes, you can uninstall kies and install it again. It worked for some users.. Make sure kies is off when flashing a new firmware..
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Odin the God of rom flashing is telling you flash stock and stop playing with your phone as next time you will get Thor .
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Odin the god of flashing is being a pain in my ass!
All I want is for my GS2 to be rooted and working - I still don't get how it's failed
Kies is still uninstalling...
do you have a usb jig? that normally forces it into download mode.. dirt cheap from ebay......... have a search
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do you have a usb jig? that normally forces it into download mode..
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I can get to Download mode. Or am I missing something?
As far as I'm aware, the JIG will reset my binary counter and take me to DL mode - isn't that what Vol Down + Power + Home does?
with a JIG would my phone be more likely recognised by my PC's?
Thanks for all the reply's too by the way guys!
Okay, so I removed and reinstalled Kies - No luck
Download Mode is still showing Current Binary as Samsung Official though, so at least I can have it warranty repaired if need be.
I'm just finding it really hard to believe that it's bricked again, I've flashed heaps of ROM's to this phone without any issues. I just don't see how I could have two problems so close together.
Any other ideas?
You may find an answer within this thread > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1382838
I had an i9000 jtaged a while back and what i noticed was that when it came back from the shop it didnt have recovery mode at all.What I had to do was flash a couple of stock ROMs to get stock recovery back so I could Root it again.It took several atempts and fails too.Not having any type of recovery at the time of a flash might be what has caused the problem.Quite possible that if thats the case you will need another jtag
One thing you could try thats worked for me in the past is boot to download,plug in your phone and open Odin last.Sometimes its works.
cooza said:
One thing you could try thats worked for me in the past is boot to download,plug in your phone and open Odin last.Sometimes its works.
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Thanks, gave that a go and it didn't work. Tried it about 5-6 times
Is there a specific driver that can be used to allow Odin to see my phone? I've tried all that Kies has to offer and it's still coming up as unrecognisable - Windows is seeing a USB Mass Storage controller and a Bluetooth Peripheral Device, but it's unable to locate or install any drivers since the failed Flash.
I also tried the other linked thread. This didn't work either
I only spent $180 on a JTAG repair yesterday - Should've just bought my own RIFF box so that I could do it myself.
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Thanks, gave that a go and it didn't work. Tried it about 5-6 times
Is there a specific driver that can be used to allow Odin to see my phone? I've tried all that Kies has to offer and it's still coming up as unrecognisable - Windows is seeing a USB Mass Storage controller and a Bluetooth Peripheral Device, but it's unable to locate or install any drivers since the failed Flash.
I also tried the other linked thread. This didn't work either
I only spent $180 on a JTAG repair yesterday - Should've just bought my own RIFF box so that I could do it myself.
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If you have access to a window xp computer give it a try, I had this issue with my captivate and my windows 7 machine wouldn't work but my old xp computer did.
An obvious and well known issue... Did you end process tree of both Kies processes in your PC's task manager?
Sorry if you have, it is all I can think of at the moment.
Sounds like it's time for you to give up flashing ROM's. Clearly someone up there doesn't like it. If your computer doesn't recognise it at all then its a faulty USB cable. So maybe that get that replaced before you demand Samsung fix your mistakes again.
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its a faulty USB cable. So maybe that get that replaced before you demand Samsung fix your mistakes again.
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Hi,
I'm using more than one cable. They seemed to both work fine too until the failed flash.
I didn't get Samsung to fix it, I took it to a mobile repair shop, I didn't demand anyone do anything either - I paid royally to have it fixed and would prefer to fix it myself than be charged again.
@jhernand1102 - I'll give this a shot now, fingers crossed!
was messing around in cwm and formatted boot among other things i'm sure, because my phone wasn't able to be recognized by my pc due to what I believe was debugging not working... tried onecosmics ics and my debug just malfuntioned? Now I'm stuck at the Vibrant screen and although I can get into download without a problem, no computers recognize it... therefor I cannot odin. No CWM no nothing... just vibrant boot or download mode. Phones a year old, absolutely loved it and i messed up bad... If anyone can help me get her up and running through odin I will donate something to ya lol... Have all drivers needed just wont recognize... Geez I just can't leave things alone haha
thanks for reading and replying in advance
Make sure you are plugging the USB on the back end of your computer, closer to the motherboard. I never had any luck with ODIN when plugging into the front USB ports; seems not enough power goes to those.
Try a different version of ODIN. The link is available in a sticky around here somewhere. If you're entering download mode, all is not lost. I would try to click Start on ODIN just in case.
Try using the Toolbox. It has all the drivers, pit/tar files and Odin too. I use it all the time. I agree, if you can get anything to even show up on your screen, you are not "hard" bricked. Just have to find that sweet spot.
Remember that you don't have to have Download showing up on your screen, just a yellow COM box in Odin. Sometimes people forget that and freak out but I know you said it (the computer) doesn't recognize. Is this bc you are not seeing any Mass Storage devices? Just keep trying to get that little yellow box.
Edit:: Try to keep one thread on the subject so that you aren't getting confused.
I agree with the comments above.I recall going into DL mode and just hooking up the phone to the pc and it wasn't recognizing it but I flashed the 512 pit and it worked without the COM.
Try a different USB cable
You can always use linux, that's an option at this moment
I'm sorry for making two threads, didn't want people coming into the last thread and answering an old issue... I'm gonna keep trying...
I guess my days with the Vibrant are sadly over, although I can get into download mode, tried 2 cables, 3 computers... Can't get anything recognized or ODIN to work period... I'm 16 days past my tmobile warranty for the phone and they refuse to help me... onecosmics rom was the biggest mistake I made. I lost the ability to debug because of it, which is now my downfall. Nothing gets recognized and I believe it wont because debug is broken...
AIO couldn't help me... I would have much rather bricked my phone essentially than this because I would at least know where I stood and knew a Jig may work, this issue I'm having is just false hope... There are no answers anywhere that have a happy ending in my case, just threads that get left without a true method or answer, I have looked. I don't know if a Jig would work for a device that can boot in download mode but can't get recognized? I don't know anything, I just know I wish wouldn't have tried that rom and then lose my cool because of it.
We root and change ROMs because we can. We make our ****s faster or slower if we wish, i could run porn ,the newiest movies, dl songs.there is nothing better than freedom my bro
How about reinstalling the drivers while phone is connected to PC with Odin running.
And what buttons are you using to get into CWM?
I am using the standard 3 button combo for CWM cant get past vibrant logo just resets and does it again... I tried everything with odin no dice... Lol, it's my own damn fault truthfully lol... I was irresponsible in CWM due to a bit of anger and this is the result. shouldnt have formatted everything and reset. Dumb dumb dumb... especially after I knew debug was broke and disabled...
Yo are, you good finally
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YO if you can't fix it nOOOb,don't waste our time.I /They have gave u great advice.
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I say blow your phone up
Have you tried the jiggy yet? Last time, I was messing around with CWM and other ported GB and things didn't go well to the point where I got no download screen at all - just black screen after power up. Download finger combos didn't work anymore. I thought I hard brick it and about to be real brick. Since jiggy was only around $5, so I thought why not and got it off ebay (something like this one). After I hooked it in, boom I get download mode. I was so glad and didn't bother going forward anymore. I just load back old stock eclair rom with all the files in it then reload froyo.
If you odin it before, I assume driver still good. If it still good, IMO, you shouldn't try new driver. If you install other drivers over it, you can't tell if good one still there. Do you have another vibrant phone that you can hook in just too see odin and driver works good (in recognizing the phone)? This is to isolate issue if limited to your pc/odin/driver or limited to your phone only. If odin can recognize another vibrant phone, then everything on your pc is good and just need to get your phone in download mode. If your pc can't recognize other vibrant or other galaxy s phone, then it's likely your driver messed up and just need to uninstall all the sgs driver and reinstall only the one that worked for you before all this mess. I'm saying other galaxy s, because my pc was able to recognize my sister Verizon Fascinate phone and I can odin through it with the samsung driver i installed for my vibrant.
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Thanks, but I have tried a million drivers to no avail lol... It's the ICS rom I flashed... It disabled my debug mode (although it said it was enabled). I believe with debug off, your phone is not recognized by ODIN... I can get into download mode, the only thing I need the Jig to do is get debug to be enabled lol, and I don't think it can do that?...
You ought to find another member near you and see if they can look at it. Sometimes another set of eyes can make a difference. You could also try mobiletechvideos.com. They do JTAG repairs (unbrick phones).
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Thanks, but I have tried a million drivers to no avail lol... It's the ICS rom I flashed... It disabled my debug mode (although it said it was enabled). I believe with debug off, your phone is not recognized by ODIN... I can get into download mode, the only thing I need the Jig to do is get debug to be enabled lol, and I don't think it can do that?...
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Are you saying the "debug" inside the ICS rom? I don't think that matter, because I have ODINed mine to stock eclair rom before which has debug disabled by default if I remember correctly, then I just ODINed over other rom and it work...if that work, the debug setting shouldn't matter. Ok maybe driver...
If you strongly believe it is a driver, why not just try remove ALL samsung driver then start back with the one that work for you initially. Or use only driver from more trusted reliable site. Try one at a time. Or even reboot to safe mode and remove all the drivers. Don't install anything sparingly on your machines. Do you have another pc to try? Or have another friend with ODINed already installed w/ working samsung driver...so you reload eclair rom over it? You should have test it in VM or Virtualbox or Sandboxie.... If you can get into download mode, it should work...
Also make sure your machine is virus or spyware free. Spyware can affect other apps on your machine. If you haven't already have a good one, go to download.com and download Avast and Malwarebytes Antispyware. Then reboot into safe mode (F8), then scan virus and antispyware with both of the lattter programs. Anything it find, just delete them and keep scan until it finds 0 under safe mode. Then boot back normally and reinstall a good trusted samsung driver executable. That's what I would do if i were you.
This happened to me a while back onky thing different was my phone was working fine, but computer didnt recognize. Like others say COMPLETELY uninstall all samsung drivers, and I dont know if it will change anything for you but odin 1.7 and 1.1 didnt work for me but 1.3 was perfect, in other words try to get your hands on as many different odin files as possible, and if you have to heimdall has worked for me once before too
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Have you tried nexus s or galaxy nexus drivers yet? Your running ics you might need them....
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update to the ICS drivers, they are in the i9000 cm thread, also then connect your phone open odin with admin privileges, install usbdeview, run it in admin privileges and uninstall any driver that starts when you plug the phone in, then un plug and plug back in your phone, should work
Hey.... A friend of mine has a problem. She has a Galaxy S2 and it is stuck in an endless boot loop. She said it's running a stock rom and nothing funny was done to that phone. Being the nice person I am, I said "sure, it's an easy fix...just have to reflash it". Well....not so easy.
I can get the phone into recovery mode, but there's nothing I'm able to do productive on there except wipe the user data, which I didn't want to do. I thought I could install CWM through it to back it up, but it only allows files that are on the internal sdcard, not the external one. Argh.
So, I put the phone into download mode, but the computer does not recognize the phone. I've installed Kies, uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. I am doing this on OSX that is running a virtual machine in parallels. On my S3, Parallels detects the phone being in download mode....on the S2, it does nothing. Odin doesn't recognize anything.
OK, next....try it on OSX with Heimdell. Did that, nothing. Tried Android SDK and did a adb detect, and it didn't find the phone. Tried it on Linux on another laptop. Linux at least recognized it in dmesg as a Samsung Phone when it is connected, but doesn't do anything else with Heimdell or Android SDK.
My next trick I might try the usb jig, but I'm not sure if it's going to get me anywhere if the phone will go into the download mode by me forcing it. Another oddity is that the phone shows it charging, but it doesn't charge. For example, the screen still shows the battery at the lowest level.
Before I break out the soldering iron, I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions. Who knows, the phone just may be fubar'ed.
What kinda S2 is it?
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Do you have samsung drivers installed on your computer?
You dont need a jig because you said the phone goes into download mode anyway.
Mistahbungle posted a checklist to do when your phones not recognized by pc.
Check his previous posts and see if that helps....
theunderling said:
You dont need a jig because you said the phone goes into download mode anyway.
Mistahbungle posted a checklist to do when your phones not recognized by pc.
Check his previous posts and see if that helps....
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Yeah, I saw that list. Believe it or not, it's the usb port. I saw something later that said the usb port on these things can go bad. I've never ran into this before, but apparently, this is the problem.
After jiggling the connector around, I was able to reflash the stock on there, but unfortunately, it didn't fix the problem. I then put siyah on there and I was at least able to back everything up through CWM to the extsdcard.
So, I don't know if the flakey connector would prevent a boot, but who knows. I do know that it's not charging anymore and I can't get back into CWM, so maybe that was the last bit where I was able to get it backed up.
im pretty good with changing roms and doing back ups and all that good stuff. but i installed a 4.3 rom and it wouldnt connect to my pc after that, so i went back to the back up i made and still no connection, so i decided to just do a factory reset to see if that was the problem and it wasnt. ive tried multiple usb cords. no good. i have all drivers installed in my pc and still no connection. all it does is charge. so now im stuck with no root. and doesnt connect to my pc. ive tried the phone thing it was like *#8734# or something like that, just would like to get my s3 to connect again. anyhelp?
What else can i try?
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im pretty good with changing roms and doing back ups and all that good stuff. but i installed a 4.3 rom and it wouldnt connect to my pc after that, so i went back to the back up i made and still no connection, so i decided to just do a factory reset to see if that was the problem and it wasnt. ive tried multiple usb cords. no good. i have all drivers installed in my pc and still no connection. all it does is charge. so now im stuck with no root. and doesnt connect to my pc. ive tried the phone thing it was like *#8734# or something like that, just would like to get my s3 to connect again. anyhelp?
What else can i try?
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first I would suggest you to choose the right forum.
this here is i9300 international s3
sprint s3 forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint