I follow the instructions correctly, from the Samsung Toolkit thing.
When I press start, some time later it says 'Fail' and my Galaxy S3 just hangs in downloading mode.
I would have to take out the battery and the USB to turn the phone off.
Could anyone help me?
I want the AdAway/Faceniff app and you need to have your phone rooted.
I've done this before on my Galaxy Fit without a problem.
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i know what most of you are thinking, i have already read through forum after forum for 4, going on 5, hours now. several people have similar situations to mine, but not similar enough to actually help me.
i rooted my s2 earlier today and it went perfectly. then i tried to use odin to flash jellybean to my phone, it was the stock rom. but since that little box wasn't yellow, it failed. my drivers were not properly installed. i forgot to install kies and get my drivers before i did this process. i thought i had already properly installed the drivers i needed, and i am still unsure of what the heck im supposed to have in order to make odin work. well i got this lovely little screen saying "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again."
so i installed kies. immediately it said that no device was connected. so i unplugged and replugged my phone, said "connecting" but it never connected. not even twenty minutes later. so i rebooted my computer. nothing worked. i tried to boot my phone up to turn off "usb debugging" in case i had turned it on a few days ago without realizing it. the phone wont boot. its stuck on the screen that tells me "firmware upgrade encountered a problem".
however, i can get it to go back into downloading mode, but that doesnt really help me much since odin still cant flash my firmware correctly. it keeps bringing me back to that dreaded screen, im to the point of wanting to rip all my hair out. what else can i do?
someone must know how to deal with this situation. please please please help me! i dont want a $150 paperweight ):
thank you!
jennalking1992 said:
i know what most of you are thinking, i have already read through forum after forum for 4, going on 5, hours now. several people have similar situations to mine, but not similar enough to actually help me.
i rooted my s2 earlier today and it went perfectly. then i tried to use odin to flash jellybean to my phone, it was the stock rom. but since that little box wasn't yellow, it failed. my drivers were not properly installed. i forgot to install kies and get my drivers before i did this process. i thought i had already properly installed the drivers i needed, and i am still unsure of what the heck im supposed to have in order to make odin work. well i got this lovely little screen saying "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again."
so i installed kies. immediately it said that no device was connected. so i unplugged and replugged my phone, said "connecting" but it never connected. not even twenty minutes later. so i rebooted my computer. nothing worked. i tried to boot my phone up to turn off "usb debugging" in case i had turned it on a few days ago without realizing it. the phone wont boot. its stuck on the screen that tells me "firmware upgrade encountered a problem".
however, i can get it to go back into downloading mode, but that doesnt really help me much since odin still cant flash my firmware correctly. it keeps bringing me back to that dreaded screen, im to the point of wanting to rip all my hair out. what else can i do?
someone must know how to deal with this situation. please please please help me! i dont want a $150 paperweight ):
thank you!
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Disconnect the cable. Remove the battery and let it out for 10 minutes. Put it back in, go into download mode. Connect with odin and flash again. Hope this will work for you.
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Christiaan91 said:
Disconnect the cable. Remove the battery and let it out for 10 minutes. Put it back in, go into download mode. Connect with odin and flash again. Hope this will work for you.
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Also, remember to exit Kies using Task manager (and maybe disable Antivirus in ur PC) before connecting to Odin.
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Hi everyone,
I'm sorry if ever I'm posting this on the wrong section cause I'm not sure if this is a problem from android or samsung.
I'm not good at all when it comes to phone troubleshooting so I will try my luck and ask questions about what have happened to my phone just awhile ago. I got this phone from Japan(Samsung Galaxy SII Wimax isw11sc) months ago and I only use it for multimedia purposes as it is region locked and I am at another country atm. everything is running fine until my phone asked for a software update(not really sure what upgrade that was) and I decided to give it a shot and let it download the updates. I left it to do some chores and when I came back to check on it, it reboot looped itself on the AU(mobile phone company from japan) logo.
I did some research and found some things like hard reset and download mode. I tried to do the hard reset(power/home/volume up) method but I can't seem to access the settings instead, the phone keeps on showing me this "Preparing for S/W update. Please wait." after a few seconds, the phone will reset itself back to the reboot loop.
I tried to do the download mode using odin mode but then, I realized that my phone and computer won' connect via USB port because well, my phone won't boot. Also downloaded the manual driver but my pc won't recognize it.(win7 if that helps.)
Please tell me what have happened and what I can do to fix this problem, I don't really care if i lose everything that I have stored on my phone, I just want it to work again. Help will be much appreciated, Thank you.
I am fairly certain that my phone can't be recovered, but I want to be sure so I'm asking for a bit of help here.
Phone is a Samsung S2X SGH-T989D, on Koodo (a child of Telus). It was running Android 4.1.2. Unfortunately I can't get into the phone for more details.
I tried to flash a custom recovery using Odin v1.85. It was a CWM recovery md5 file, but I don't have the version number (it wasn't listed in the guide I was using - http://www.theandroidsoul.com/easil...gh-t989-installs-busybox-superuser-app-52203/)
The process seemed to complete normally, but when I restarted the phone I ended up with a "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
Loading Kies (Odin not running) it detect when the phone is connected and tries to read the details from the phone, but after several minutes it complains of a connection error and tells me to reboot the device. This is all I can get Kies to do.
Odin detects the phone normally. I try to restore the stock Telus/Koodo firmware (T989DTLUMC4_T989OYBMC4_T989DTLUMC4_HOME.tar.md5) using Odin v3 or Odin v1.85 and Odin goes through all the steps successfully. After all is done I restart the phone and get the same error message.
"adb.exe devices" at a Windows 7 command prompt does not list any devices.
So this is where I am... I have a physically mint condition Samsung S2X SGH-T989D phone that I cannot get to boot past this error screen.
Is there anything else I can try?
FIXED!
Yay!
I solved my problem... Using Odin3 v1.85 I tried to flash the phone one more time. The only difference is that I left the Auto Reboot checkbox selected. The process went through like every other time except at the end the phone restarted. IT CAME UP LIKE NOTHING WAS WRONG!
So, I didn't lose any data and my phone is working fine now.
Makes me VERY happy. There are TOO MANY PHONES to choose from these days. My head was spinning trying to decide on a replacement phone.
Hope this helps someone in the future!
So I have a S4 i9545 for Verizon. It was on 4.2.2 rooted and I upgraded using Fireflash with I545_OC1_Stock_DeOdexed_ROMwNK4_BL.zip. Everything seemed fine so I was using Titanium back up to remove the bloatware and then my battery died. When I charged it and booted up it got to the Verizon screen and hung there. I reset and tried several more times. I tried to use odin and flash a stock ROM SCH-I545_VZW_1_20140330160240_yni63xq6zh and I also tried one more. Odin gave a an error and failed. I then tried going into the boot loder and flash the I545_OC1_Stock_DeOdexed_ROMwNK4_BL.zip. Not sure if this was foolish or not. When I booted up I got to a black screen and there was a voice talking, maybe some sort of training, but I couldn't do anything.
If anyone can point me in the right direction on how to unbrick my S4 I would appreciate it. I know I screwed up.
Right now when I turn on the phone it says firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again. I tried connected to my computer and opening kies but it doesn't find it.
Try disconnecting your phone, completely closing Kies, then re-launching it with your phone still disconnected. Then click Tools > Firmware Upgrade and Initialization then follow the prompts
Hello, I have attempted to root my galaxy s3 through Odin and although Odin said that the flashing passed, my device keeps sending me an error message that SuperSU has stopped. Also, the device randomly shuts off and then attempts to power on again, and fails 8/10 times. I can't even boot the device into download mode or recovery mode when it shuts down on its own. It successfully powers on occasionally and I can use the software for a short time, so I know its not bricked. Any way I can fix it?The device model is SGH-T999 (T-Mobile) and it is running Android 4.3 JellyBean (Im going to flash CM12.1 once I get it successfully rooted)
Best advice is to use one of the moments that it works to flash a stock rom via odin and start again. Make sure you are using the correct cfautoroot for your device. If no cfautoroot exists and you are using an app like kingroot etc then make sure your firewall or any other software isnt interfering, ie kies.
I think something didnt flash right..
I wish I stole my HTC M9.