So, the day before yesterday I decided on advice from a friend to root my phone, a Galaxy S 4G (T959) from T-Mobs I got in January. The process itself was easy and made me feel (apparently) over confident.
After doing a little reading I decided if it was that easy, I should upgrade it from 2.3.6 Gingerbread up to Ice Cream Sandwich, I mean what could possibly go wrong?
I ran into more than my fair share of glitches.
Well at some point I tried solutions for problems with ExRom 2.0
E:Short write of /tmp/sideload/package.zip (no space left on device)
and then from code.google zip
E:signature verification failed
New ROM Data fix
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
At some point I should have stopped myself, but I kept reading tips and solutions. 9 hours of reading post on XDA and half a dozen other forums, thinking, "I used to build desktops, I'm sure I can do this myself."
Now 3 days later and some 35 hours of reading posts, I've managed to get my phone to a point where, no three button combo seems to bring it download mode. It will only bring up "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again" when i hit any key or plug it into a USB power source.
I'm assuming this is the everlasting reference I keep finding of "soft bricking" as I can't do much with the phone.
So, I've got Odin v1.85 and a bunch of downloads I don't think I know which are which anymore. I've not spent the better part of 35 hours in the past three days trying to fix my phone. I'm on the road for work and the only communication tool I have is my laptop (thank goodness for this at least).
Since my brain is fried, could someone tell me is it fixable, or is it really what I think and the phone just doesn't like me anymore and wants to do nothing? Could someone point me to right files for ICS for T959 and installation instructions, or to the right thread with instructions. I'm worried I followed the wrong instructions enough already. Any help would be appreciated.
THANKS GUYS,
Regards
Well, you are in the wrong forum. Vibrant 4G is a different phone from Vibrant 3G. What you have is T959V. Here is Vibrant 4G forum...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1065
Different ways to get into download mode..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=998545
Here is one of the odin rom you can flash..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063696&highlight=odin+files
Also read this, it might be useful..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953878&postcount=2
Alex9090 said:
Well, you are in the wrong forum. Vibrant 4G is a different phone from Vibrant 3G. What you have is T959V. Here is Vibrant 4G forum...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1065
Different ways to get into download mode..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=998545
Here is one of the odin rom you can flash..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1063696&highlight=odin+files
Also read this, it might be useful..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953878&postcount=2
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Thanks, I didn't even notice I was in the wrong section. Thanks for point in the right direction. Most of the download file links are cold so I'll try reposting to the correct forum.
Regards.
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i have just tried to load the new rom of MiChY. At 88% th pda stop updating and now i have black and white lines to the screen, even i done a hard reset. the pc shows me the mesange "260 error". (so i can' t use ActiveSync). propably i done something wrong
please help
Sorry for my english!!!
i have the same issue only i got to 92% of the rom before it kicked out and left me with the corrupted romm image i can kick off an udate but because the rom is screwed the updater is not getting a valid device id back and i get kicked out at 1% with invalid device id.
anyone with any help or advice would be appreciated
cheers
my apologies for asking a question that seems to have been asked before ifn a different thread, somehow missed those threads when i was looking through the forum the first couple of times.
anyway followed the advice on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=387454&highlight=mtty&page=4 and then flashed a fresh rom straight onto the device,
so thanks to everyone who contributed to those threads that the soloution was in
it s all ok now
Apologies if this is a repeat/stupid question - I've looked and looked and can't find/understand a solution that fits my problem. I just acquired a Fascinate, and couldn't help myself - I wanted it rooted. I previously owned multiple Erises and rooted them all, so I figured it couldn't be that bad.
I followed the one-click instructions in the Android Central forums, as I had trouble finding instructions for a Mac user that I could comprehend anywhere else (sorry, I'm new enough that I can't post a full link): forums dot androidcentral dot com/verizon-fascinate-rooting-roms-hacks/65924-guide-tools-information-mac-os-x-users-updated-04-07-a.html
Somewhere between steps 3 and 5, my phone got stuck in recovery mode and won't come out. Everything looked like installed successfully. But now it's a black background, blue text. Clicking "apply sdcard:update.zip" gets me an error message. Wiping seems to work. Rebooting just gets me back to the same screen. No option to choose a zip.
I googled around all last night, and can't find a solution. It looks like there are lots of options to use Odin in some way, but I have a Mac. In this case, there's TOO much information out there, and I can't decipher it. HELP!
I realize I'm totally at fault for jumping the gun on rooting, but here I am. The thread I used has been quiet for weeks and no one's answering. Can anyone help? How can I get my phone back on track?
Thank you!
Since you're using a mac you need heimdall to fix it...or find a friend who has a pc to use odin.your phone is recoverable so your not really screwed yet but I have little knowledge on how to use heimdall...do some searching on the site, dale v had an excellent walk through on how to use it but I just can't find the link right now...maybe someone else will see this and post a link for ya.
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How To Recover Your Fascinate From Any Brick, And Rooting Methods
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746
You are welcome.
Edit:
[GUIDE] Flashing with Heimdall
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878686
Thank you both - I will check all of the links out. Much, much appreciated.
Hello, im new to the android scene as i am coming from apple. I have a Samsung Captivate and i have recently rooted my phone. I learned about CydrogenMod and looked into it and i wanted to install it on my phone. As i was flashing ClockworkRecovery my phone went into this mode and i cant get out of it. I tried plugging and unpluging and i also tried to go into recovery and download mode but nothing works. It just keeps going into this screen. Help would be very much appreciated. The image is attached to the post.
First please post in your device forum. You will be able to get better answers. Next do a search for USB jig. This will fix your problem. While your at it. Please for the love of all that is tech. Take a few hours and read up on what your doing before you do it. Flashing roms is nothing like the childsplay that is jail breaking an iPhone.
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Okay, So I am as NOOB as NOOB can be,
I got a used SGS2 (Bell/Virgin), I am on Telus so I figured, how hard can it be to unlock it instead of paying some dude to do it for me? (First mistake, and have been humbled every step of the way since!...)
Anyway I will try to keep this relatively short (it will be difficult)... ...I read a few things online and saw that I needed ODIN and a Rooting software, I originally used SuperOneClick, and to download the right insecure kernel to match my original one etc... ...problem is I obviously didn't read nearly enough when I started because I was almost done and then there was a hiccup when SuperOneClick said that I needed to enable SU in Kies. So I decided to go into Kies to try and do so but the instructions before I started Rooting said to put the phone in USB debugging mode. Apparently Kies doesn't see the phone if it is in that mode. Well by this time I can't get past the logo screen and this is where my downward spiral begins.
I then tried to unroot the phone to go back to stock but didn't really know what I was doing and then I read something about the cache needing to be wiped and then after that I read that maybe my OS was wiped. So at this point I did lots of reading (what I should have done in the first place) and most of anything useful I found was on XDA so that is why I am here. It seemed like yes, in fact my OS was wiped because of one of my not so S-M-R-T actions. So I fumbled through and found the right OS for my S2 and I had ODIN going strong and I had the OS loading, the green bar getting bigger in ODIN and the blue bar working it's way across the screen of my S2...I thought "finally!!, I rock!!"... ...then for some reason everything stopped! I had seen in a post that I had to uninstall Kies before doing anything, which I did...but I didn't see until after the fact that my anti-virus likely interfered (I didn't disable it for the process before I started).
At that point of course I was left with a phone that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
So then I was afraid to try anything else because many say to steer clear of Kies and also I had read that I may need a USB jig to be able to get it back into download mode because all I was getting was the "firmware upgrade issue" screen. I did make a USB jig with a resistance of 300K Ohms and I *can* get the phone into download mode. (Though another concern is that when I plug the USB jig in and it brings the phone into download mode, the counter is not reset and I read that that was supposed to be reset by the jig.)
So last night I got brave and decided to try and run ODIN and to have another attempt at installation of OS. Now I can get ODIN to detect the phone, but I put the I9100MUGLD3_I9100MBMCLD3_I9100MXXLD3_HOME.tar.md5 file into the PDA section of ODIN and it starts and gets to the part where it says loading firmware or something and then bootload.bin and it stayed like that for like, an hour and then I gave up, fearing that I am just going to screw it up even more.
So now I decided that I am not even close to knowing what to do next but every time I found anything to move forward it was on this site so I figured I may as well join the site since I have been here so often. Now I am hoping for some kind of miracle...so, in advance, please please please and thank you thank you thank you all for your input. (Sorry for the length of this I just wanted to get all the info I could into this)
Its quite a long story and didnt bother reading it.
If you can still access your phone via odin at downloadmode. Flash a stock firmware for your device and it should fix if it is just a soft brick.
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UnwiredDroid said:
Its quite a long story and didnt bother reading it.
If you can still access your phone via odin at downloadmode. Flash a stock firmware for your device and it should fix if it is just a soft brick.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
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Sorry for the length of the story, I thought there may be alot of useful info mixed in with the useless info... ...when you say use stock firmware do you mean the kernel or the actual OS? I tried loading ICS onto it (which I thought was stock but I may be wrong). Is it supposed to be gingerbread or something else? Also where would I find a good file for it.
Thank you again for any input, very much appreciated!
Hey ,
I also have a Virgin Samsung S2 i9100 and the first time I tried rooting it, it got stuck on the screen with the yellow triangle and wouldnt move at all. I believe it was bricked?
anyways, I m not sure I totally understand your situation, but I solved my problem using this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21493413
look it under the i9100M section. hope this helps
schtiven said:
Hey ,
I also have a Virgin Samsung S2 i9100 and the first time I tried rooting it, it got stuck on the screen with the yellow triangle and wouldnt move at all. I believe it was bricked?
anyways, I m not sure I totally understand your situation, but I solved my problem using this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21493413
look it under the i9100M section. hope this helps
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Thank you all so much for your help, I could not get it to work after several tries, I even tried three or 4 different USB cables and ports on my PC and still no. I read on another thread that one person tried another PC and it worked so I tried my friend's laptop and it worked!...my SGS2 boots up and all that now! Very very happy thank you all.
I apologize up front if this is has been previously asked. I found lots of helpful info on here searching through old threads but being a bit of a luddite I was a bit confused exactly which situation applied to me. I live in China and recently bought a s3 I9300I and attempted to root it using the chainfire method from the video on this site. Odin declared success but when the phone rebooted it just went back to download mode with a message at top saying, "Could not do normal boot, ODIN MODE." Turning it off and on, removing battery and retrying Odin flash produce no results. The most important thing of course is just to get the phone back to functioning but I'd also like it rooted if at all possible. I read that using Odin to install a custom kernel would root it and I would not be at all opposed to a good custom kernel. I read something about a binary counter that may need to be reset but that seemed to require doing something with the actual phone functions which don't seem to work. Odin still recognizes it when I plug it in and attempts to let me redo the rooting but it just shows a progress bar then reboots right back into download mode. Sorry if this is basic stuff but I'm kind of terrified of bricking this thing and am just not sure what the best course of action is here. Thanks for any help you can offer.
Chinese stock firmware is different to the international, there is a special thread in general forum on rooting etc.
Do you have a link to that thread? I have looked and cannot find anything that seems specific to this problem.
Please. Searching for "China" or "Chinese" gets me absolutely no relevant results. If this has already been covered can someone please direct me to the thread. I really need to get this phone working and am at a loss. Thanks.