Hello Sirs,
Today I was about to flash the long awaited CM9-RC1 on my Samsung Galaxy S2 device with ROM Manager. After downloading it with Rom Manager I checked the three options:
Wipe Factory/Reset
Wipe Dalvik
Backup Device
Phone reboots and screen turns black. I waited for a good 15 minutes yet nothing happens. I popped the battery out and tried to fire it up again but now it wont start properly. It will be detected by computer as a "Unrecognized Device" only. The phone shows the Samsung logo + the flashcounter warning I assume? (Yellow triangle with exclamation mark.).
I cant access recovery-mode (clockworkmod) the only thing I am able to access is "Downloading Mode" but the device remains "Unrecognized Device" by computer. I did a little research about this problem - I only found some tips on changing cables/clean usb-port. None of which worked out to any advantage. I cant access the phone with adb either, and USB Debugging is not enabled as far as I know.
Odin nor Heimdall wont recognize the phone.
Downloading Mode
Code:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-i9100
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: YES (2 Counts)
CURRENT BINARY: CUSTOM
Previously installed on the phone was 20120624-CM9-NIGHTLY along with Siyah Kernel SGS2 v3.3.2.
Worth to mention is that this happened to two phones at the same time. My brother also flashed his today and got the same result. Also with Siyah kernel as mentioned above.
I've tried 4 different USB-cables, and two different Windows 7 computer. Also I've reinstalled one of the computers to try a little more. No success.
This tells me that there is something with the Siyah kernel that borks the phone somehow. Yet it seems possible to fix it since I can access the "Downloading Mode". Dont you think? Anyone with similiar issues and maybe have a solution for this?
And if there is no software solution to this is it possible that a USB-JIG would sort this out?
Sincerely,
Your problem is likely rom manager instead of siyah kernel or otherwise. Rom Manager does not work properly on our phone and is known to cause problems when installing things with it. Did you install drivers with the other computers you tried?
Went through this today too. My fault for using Siyah
Don't freak out, just grab Odin 1.85, and flash the noob-proof build available in the Discussion thread from Download Mode.
Your data will be wiped btw. A safer way would be to flash the Recovery via Odin, and once in recovery, reflash CM9.
The lesson of the story is to not use Siyah, as it's not supported under CM9
Nushio said:
The lesson of the story is to not use Siyah, as it's not supported under CM9
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That's not true. There's a whole thread full of people using Siyah and CM9 here.
Nushio said:
Went through this today too. My fault for using Siyah
Don't freak out, just grab Odin 1.85, and flash the noob-proof build available in the Discussion thread from Download Mode.
Your data will be wiped btw. A safer way would be to flash the Recovery via Odin, and once in recovery, reflash CM9.
The lesson of the story is to not use Siyah, as it's not supported under CM9
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Well I am kinda freaking out since the device keeps showing up as "Unrecognized Device"! So I am not able to flash anything since it doesnt show up anywhere. I cant do anything to touch the phones software. Its just b0rked I guess.
I actually have the same problem with a S2 LTE which suffered from the same symptoms as stated above. Im starting to suspect maybe a crappy USB cable is the underlying reason for this, causing the usbport on the phone to fry or something.
Did you install drivers with the other computers you tried? Yes sir I installed the proper drivers there aswell.
I tried flashing the latest RC of cm9 and it went well even though i have siyah as the kernel. You shouldn't have flashed through rom manager. I flashed it through recovery
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ephraim033 said:
I tried flashing the latest RC of cm9 and it went well even though i have siyah as the kernel. You shouldn't have flashed through rom manager. I flashed it through recovery
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I hate ROM Manager. Is some app that I will never trust. The only purpose of ROM Manager: money, and placebo [you think it's the easiest way to flash stuff]. Can't find out why they put this in the ROM. At least they could make some OTA download. What is the Software update for at settings? Don't know...
ROM manager is crap. Never use it. That is what caused the issue. I am using CM9 based ROM with Siyah without any problem.
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I hate ROM Manager. Is some app that I will never trust. The only purpose of ROM Manager: money, and placebo [you think it's the easiest way to flash stuff]. Can't find out why they put this in the ROM. At least they could make some OTA download. What is the Software update for at settings? Don't know...
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ROM manager is crap. Never use it. That is what caused the issue. I am using CM9 based ROM with Siyah without any problem.
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So what are you suggesting I should use instead? I'm hoping to return
the phone in topic when ive jigged it and demand a new one since there is still warranty hehe.
Don't use Rom Manager with kernels which have CWM/CWRecovery I.E. Siyah, CWM is more than capable of doing all the flashing/backups/restores/etc you need. If you end up using CM9 & Siyah again, make sure you freeze Rom Manager with TI or similar.
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So what are you suggesting I should use instead ?
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MistahBungle said:
Don't use Rom Manager with kernels which have CWM/CWRecovery I.E. Siyah, CWM is more than capable of doing all the flashing/backups/restores/etc you need. If you end up using CM9 & Siyah again, make sure you freeze Rom Manager with TI or similar.
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So the weirdest of things just happened. I left the phone discharging with the download mode active during the night. Today I bought a new phone (4100SEK /$585USD) and I thought maybe, just maybe it works now. I put the device in Download Mode and now popped it into the computer with the same cable as yesterday. And there it was "Device installed successfully!". Holy ****. Fired up Odin v1.85 and just pushed that damn recovery image onto the phone and bam! Rebooting, works like a charm. Now thats just f**king unbeliveable. But of course this wouldnt have happened if I DIDNT buy a totally new phone. The irony.
Moderator you may close this thread and save it for future reading.
Sincerely,
Another satisfied customer
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So I rooted my Note a few weeks back using the non-counter advancing rooting method via odin. Worked flawlessly, and I'm rooted without issue. Tired of waiting for stock ICS to come out so I want to start flashing ROM's. Trying to install the newest CWM through Odin....well Odin doesn't recognize when the phone is connected. Tried 2 different windows 7 VM's and one W7 machine. I flashed via one of the VM's and it worked fine. It's not working on any machine that I have. I also have a mac book pro, but no idea if there is a apple Odin. What do I do? Don't have the android APK and really don't wanna go that route through ADB.
Can I just reboot into recovery and 'install via sd' or whatever the selection is, navigate to CWM touch recovery zip and install? or will that potentially do some serious damage?
Also if it's available on the CWM website as a DL why isn't it an option through the app to install? Would make my life WORLDS easier at this point.
A rooted phone would not interfere with Odin, completely unrelated. Perhaps your cable is bad, or you are installing the wrong drivers.
That said, once you have CWM on your phone, there should be no reason to use odin again. The updates for CWM are flashable via CWM. Most every single ROM is flashable via CWM. I can't really tell from your description if you were successful installing a custom recovery yet.
jpeg42 said:
A rooted phone would not interfere with Odin, completely unrelated. Perhaps your cable is bad, or you are installing the wrong drivers.
That said, once you have CWM on your phone, there should be no reason to use odin again. The updates for CWM are flashable via CWM. Most every single ROM is flashable via CWM. I can't really tell from your description if you were successful installing a custom recovery yet.
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Trying to install a custom recovery. Sorry may not have made that clear in my rant. I've tried a couple different cables, and same luck. I DLed the CWM app from the Google Play, but have not installed a custom recovery. Trying to get CWM touch installed. Galaxy Note isn't an option when I try and install a custom recovery(CWM Touch Recovery...or hell any CWM recovery Note isn't an avialable model) via CWM.
So the options I've found so far are: Install custom recovery(CWM) via Odin, or install via ADB using android APK.
Are there other options to installing CWM recovery?
Sorry kind of a newb to all of this. I had a Dell Streak before this as my first android and it was a PITA to install Custom ROM's and root that I didn't mess with it much. Did root it and managed to soft brick my phone and bring her back to life. lol Then figured it was too much a pain to deal with.
ROM manager does not support our phone. I wouldn't use that app for now. So you're booting into download mode and Odin doesn't see your phone? I'm assuming you're in download mode?
froidroid said:
ROM manager does not support our phone. I wouldn't use that app for now. So you're booting into download mode and Odin doesn't see your phone? I'm assuming you're in download mode?
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This...if not restart everything from scratch. Uninstall the drivers and re-install them again and restart Odin. Also make sure you are using the latest version of Odin.
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ROM manager does not support our phone. I wouldn't use that app for now. So you're booting into download mode and Odin doesn't see your phone? I'm assuming you're in download mode?
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Correct isn't recognized in DL mode. The phone is recognized just fine when I plug it in regularly. Can transfer back and forth all day long.
The ICS ROM I wanna try uses CWM recovery to install. So trying to get everything to line up as to not end up with a brick. lol
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This...if not restart everything from scratch. Uninstall the drivers and re-install them again and restart Odin. Also make sure you are using the latest version of Odin.
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Believe I've done that before, but will try again. Latest version of Odin higher than 1.8.5 or something like that? If so that's what I'm using.
ROM manager does not support our phone. I wouldn't use that app for now. So you're booting into download mode and Odin doesn't see your phone? I'm assuming you're in download mode?
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ROM manager does not support our phone. I wouldn't use that app for now. So you're booting into download mode and Odin doesn't see your phone? I'm assuming you're in download mode?
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Not sure what's going on with XDA, but my reply didn't post. So here goes: Yes that is correct I would boot into DL mode and odin didn't see my phone.
So I opened one of my VM's( the one previously used to root) uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers and voila odin sees my phone again. CWM touch recovery installed. Now off to flash Team Perfections ICS. Only chose them as they have a step by step video of installation and it seems stupid easy. Also seems to be the most stable from reading. Could be wrong. I'll try it out and wait for official CM9.
Have you tried using a different PC. I remeber my desktop wouldnt let me odin all the sudden one day. I tried my laptop worked no problem. using a VM sounds sketchy id be afraid there were too many facets or some risk of data corruption on its way. That may be incorrect but data > virtual hardware > hardware > phone. just too much for me -_-
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Have you tried using a different PC. I remeber my desktop wouldnt let me odin all the sudden one day. I tried my laptop worked no problem. using a VM sounds sketchy id be afraid there were too many facets or some risk of data corruption on its way. That may be incorrect but data > virtual hardware > hardware > phone. just too much for me -_-
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I tried my physical windows machine and it wouldn't even install the drivers. Failed every time regardless what I did.
I got the VM to work fine. CWM recovery touch is installed now.
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Not sure what's going on with XDA, but my reply didn't post. So here goes: Yes that is correct I would boot into DL mode and odin didn't see my phone.
So I opened one of my VM's( the one previously used to root) uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers and voila odin sees my phone again. CWM touch recovery installed. Now off to flash Team Perfections ICS. Only chose them as they have a step by step video of installation and it seems stupid easy. Also seems to be the most stable from reading. Could be wrong. I'll try it out and wait for official CM9.
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All roms are that easy to flash once you have cwm, it's just booting into recovery, wiping, and flashing.
Try em all and see which one works best fir you
studacris said:
All roms are that easy to flash once you have cwm, it's just booting into recovery, wiping, and flashing.
Try em all and see which one works best fir you
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I hear ya. Just when I start reading about some ROM's they say: oh and you need to flash this, this and this or else your phone will blow up and likely kill your whole family.
Being somewhat new to the flashing business just flashing ONE zip file is enough for me. Yet alone a bunch of other things. Just starts to confuse me with the multiple flashes......do I install all the same( as far as "flashing" goes)? Just boot into recovery navigate to file...double click and it'll do it's thing? If so I suppose that's not all that difficult. I like the one and done approach though. lol
Yup.
If there are multiple zips, flash them all like the main ROM.
Sweet! Flashed the Objection ICS. Like it so far. Seems like the modem is kinda all over the map for lte speeds.
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Hey I have a i9100 that I had running on cm9 nightly. I updated my phone to the latest one at the time which was jul 22 and was 101.56 megs I believe. I went into cwm to install the firmware, wiped user data then installed the update. Install went fine, no errors in cwm. Although when I did wipe data I did not wipe cache with it.( I just wiped data accidentally because it was a force of habit since I flash alot)
Now the phone is in a boot loop. It won't go into recovery mode but will do download mode. Although when it is in download mode windows is saying that the device is malfunctioning. The setup I'm using is the same I've used to flash the phone atleast 30 times via oden so it should be working in theory.
Any ideas guys, I'm at the end of my rope as far as what to do.
Read this and see if that can help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
That's the First thing I read when I searched for a solution. But that relies on the computer seeing the phone, which mine doesnt. It's looking like jtag may be the route I have to go. Any have any experience with those services
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Hey I have a i9100 that I had running on cm9 nightly. I updated my phone to the latest one at the time which was jul 22 and was 101.56 megs I believe. I went into cwm to install the firmware, wiped user data then installed the update. Install went fine, no errors in cwm. Although when I did wipe data I did not wipe cache with it.( I just wiped data accidentally because it was a force of habit since I flash alot)
Now the phone is in a boot loop. It won't go into recovery mode but will do download mode. Although when it is in download mode windows is saying that the device is malfunctioning. The setup I'm using is the same I've used to flash the phone atleast 30 times via oden so it should be working in theory.
Any ideas guys, I'm at the end of my rope as far as what to do.
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No CM9 nightly is 101.56MB. They are usually around 130MB. You probably flashed a CM7 nightly. AS long as download mode is working, you can flash resurrection and then the correct nightly.... or odin back to stock, root... then flash the nightly, but make sure you have the correct version as the CM7 and CM9 nightlies appear in the same list and it's easy to grab the wrong one if you aren't careful.
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No CM9 nightly is 101.56MB. They are usually around 130MB. You probably flashed a CM7 nightly. AS long as download mode is working, you can flash resurrection and then the correct nightly.... or odin back to stock, root... then flash the nightly, but make sure you have the correct version as the CM7 and CM9 nightlies appear in the same list and it's easy to grab the wrong one if you aren't careful.
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Thanks that is what happened. Now I have to pick up the pieces
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Thanks that is what happened. Now I have to pick up the pieces
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I figured that's what it was. It could be much worse though. Let me know if you need more help.
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I figured that's what it was. It could be much worse though. Let me know if you need more help.
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Both the computers that I have Won't talk to the phone when it is in download mode. I have windows 7 and 8 and neither want to be friends with my phone. I am killing kies before I start Odin. windows says the the device is malfunctioning. Any ideas?
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Both the computers that I have Won't talk to the phone when it is in download mode. I have windows 7 and 8 and neither want to be friends with my phone. I am killing kies before I start Odin. windows says the the device is malfunctioning. Any ideas?
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Do you have the drivers installed? If so, and it's still not working, you might try a different USB port and/or cable combo to see if one of them could be wonky.
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Do you have the drivers installed? If so, and it's still not working, you might try a different USB port and/or cable combo to see if one of them could be wonky.
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could it be that flashing cm7 on cm9 damaged the usb functionality. but the phone is still recognizing the jig that i have. the phone will go into download mode via button combo or jig. since the jig still works doesnt that mean that the usb port on the phone is still functional
HELP! Bricked Galaxy S2- GT-i9100
I have a galaxy s2 gt-i9100 and i love this phone but it's been bricked and i want to know if theres anything i can do. I was running cm10 no problem for awhile now even though one of my flashes took away my computers ability to see my phone when plugged in and i've tried everything. I thought mobile odin was what i was looking for to flash the official JB that came out. so i flashed it and then that was all she wrote for my phone. won't turn on at all i just see a greyed out battery on my screen.
i can get into download mode using button combos no problem but odin doesn't recognize just like computer.
I can get into recovery mode but it's not the same as when cm10 was on i think it's stock recovery from when i tried to flash with mobile odin and the options it shows me do not help me at all.
my question is: can i save my phone? or do i have to buy a new one?
P.S. It must be the phone cause i'm using a new computer and it can't see the phone either, i downloaded kies and when i plug in the phone it still goes through the process of finding and trying to DL the drivers but then it fails. same as my computer.
please and thank you
paul
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So here's the dealio guys, I've been researching about rooting and custom ROMs and such since I got my S2 (i777) a few months ago. I really don't like Touchwiz, and the stock ICS look is just better. So I found a nice-looking ROM (the AOKP ROM), rooted my phone with no problems using Siyah/Odin, and went ahead and put the ROM in an external SD card that I bought just for this purpose. So I boot into recovery mode (with ROM Manager), and then... nothing. I try to boot up my phone but it just flashes the start screen showing my model number, then just turns right back off. I've tried taking out my battery, still no dice. BUT, I can still get into download mode (but not recovery). So is there any way to restore the backup I made before installing the ROM using the download mode?
Thanks!
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New user yay
So here's the dealio guys, I've been researching about rooting and custom ROMs and such since I got my S2 (i777) a few months ago. I really don't like Touchwiz, and the stock ICS look is just better. So I found a nice-looking ROM (the AOKP ROM), rooted my phone with no problems using Siyah/Odin, and went ahead and put the ROM in an external SD card that I bought just for this purpose. So I boot into recovery mode (with ROM Manager), and then... nothing. I try to boot up my phone but it just flashes the start screen showing my model number, then just turns right back off. I've tried taking out my battery, still no dice. BUT, I can still get into download mode (but not recovery). So is there any way to restore the backup I made before installing the ROM using the download mode?
Thanks!
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Plug phone in odin and try again
JakeAuditore said:
New user yay
So here's the dealio guys, I've been researching about rooting and custom ROMs and such since I got my S2 (i777) a few months ago. I really don't like Touchwiz, and the stock ICS look is just better. So I found a nice-looking ROM (the AOKP ROM), rooted my phone with no problems using Siyah/Odin, and went ahead and put the ROM in an external SD card that I bought just for this purpose. So I boot into recovery mode (with ROM Manager), and then... nothing. I try to boot up my phone but it just flashes the start screen showing my model number, then just turns right back off. I've tried taking out my battery, still no dice. BUT, I can still get into download mode (but not recovery). So is there any way to restore the backup I made before installing the ROM using the download mode?
Thanks!
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1. Never use ROM manager.
2. reflash i777 kernal with Odin.
3. get to recovery the correct way. ROM Manager is a joke.
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Plug phone in odin and try again
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Alright, reinstalled Siyah, and it said successful, but now it's not getting past the battery indicator screen when charging. Still no dice.
MotoMudder77 said:
1. Never use ROM manager.
2. reflash i777 kernal with Odin.
3. get to recovery the correct way. ROM Manager is a joke.
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Plug phone in odin and try again
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Is there any way I can just factory restore vanilla ICS with Odin? Like, unroot it?
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Is there any way I can just factory restore vanilla ICS with Odin? Like, unroot it?
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vanilla android is google, or AOSP.
This device has samsungs ****ty touchjizz.
Yes you can get a stock file from the download repository and flash a crappy build onto your phone.
MotoMudder77 said:
vanilla android is google, or AOSP.
This device has samsungs ****ty touchjizz.
Yes you can get a stock file from the download repository and flash a crappy build onto your phone.
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Yeah, I hate Touchwiz. I found an unroot file, flashed it, and now I'm back to Gingerbread 2.3.4. I'm going to probably update to ICS again, then try once more to put that ROM on here. I won't use ROM Manager this time, hopefully it'll go alright.
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Yeah, I hate Touchwiz. I found an unroot file, flashed it, and now I'm back to Gingerbread 2.3.4. I'm going to probably update to ICS again, then try once more to put that ROM on here. I won't use ROM Manager this time, hopefully it'll go alright.
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iF you just want a custom ROM, just flash a custom kernel with odin, boot into recovery and flash said ROM. no need to go back to stock, update, flash another ROM, then root.....yada yada yada. waste of time and space on computer
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iF you just want a custom ROM, just flash a custom kernel with odin, boot into recovery and flash said ROM. no need to go back to stock, update, flash another ROM, then root.....yada yada yada. waste of time and space on computer
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So I can do all this from Gingerbread? It was an ICS ROM that basically is just like the stock Google version. That's what I have been wanting since the beginning.
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So I can do all this from Gingerbread? It was an ICS ROM that basically is just like the stock Google version. That's what I have been wanting since the beginning.
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yea, in order to flash a custom ROM, you need custom recovery, ahh hell, been so long i forgot about having a rooted system required or not.
think you do, so should be able to get a rooted package, flash that, enter recovery and flash the ROM that you like.
Maybe someone will chime in and refresh my memory on the rooted system requirement.
U can flash a custom kernel .tar with Odin. There are some siyah tar files floating around. Or u could make a .tar yourself if u really wanted to. Once flashed it'll have cwm built in and u can flash whatever u want.
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yea, in order to flash a custom ROM, you need custom recovery, ahh hell, been so long i forgot about having a rooted system required or not.
think you do, so should be able to get a rooted package, flash that, enter recovery and flash the ROM that you like.
Maybe someone will chime in and refresh my memory on the rooted system requirement.
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You only need root to install and use the Mobile Odin app, which is used for installing a custom kernel without tripping the flash counter. Once you've got Mobile Odin, download the custom kernel (e.g. Siyah) you want (ICS kernel if you're gonna install an ICS rom, same for GB), extract the zImage to your phone, and use Mobile Odin to install it. Note that if you're currently running GB and flash an ICS kernel, your phone won't boot but you can still get into CWM, which is all that matters because then you can flash the ICS rom of your choice and then your phone will boot.
Alternatively, you can do what Phalanx said and flash a custom kernel using PC version of Odin. Only difference between this and using Mobile Odin is you trip the flash counter, which can be fixed in any ICS rom by using the TriangleAway app.
The custom kernel will include CWM, which can then be used to flash any ROM/mod; in fact CWM is the ONLY safe method of flashing/wiping/restoring/backing up anything from that point forward.
karate104 said:
You only need root to install and use the Mobile Odin app, which is used for installing a custom kernel without tripping the flash counter. Once you've got Mobile Odin, download the custom kernel (e.g. Siyah) you want (ICS kernel if you're gonna install an ICS rom, same for GB), extract the zImage to your phone, and use Mobile Odin to install it. Note that if you're currently running GB and flash an ICS kernel, your phone won't boot but you can still get into CWM, which is all that matters because then you can flash the ICS rom of your choice and then your phone will boot.
Alternatively, you can do what Phalanx said and flash a custom kernel using PC version of Odin. Only difference between this and using Mobile Odin is you trip the flash counter, which can be fixed in any ICS rom by using the TriangleAway app.
The custom kernel will include CWM, which can then be used to flash any ROM/mod; in fact CWM is the ONLY safe method of flashing/wiping/restoring/backing up anything from that point forward.
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This may not be the place to ask but how can I reset the flash counter that pops up in download mode
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As long as you're running ICS, just download TriangleAway from the Play Store. That'll reset the flash counter to 0 and get rid of the yellow triangle that appears on start up.
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karate104 said:
As long as you're running ICS, just download TriangleAway from the Play Store. That'll reset the flash counter to 0 and get rid of the yellow triangle that appears on start up.
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Oh epic thought it only got rid of the triangle! Thanks!
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122ninjas said:
Oh epic thought it only got rid of the triangle! Thanks!
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It does. It does BOTH.
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Bricked S2 too!
I finally bricked my first phone.Its been a long ride but it caught up to me. I have had three different android phones within about 4 years and have successfully rooted all three myself and have successfully flashed them over and over close to 1000 times between all three phones including modems, kernals, gapps, themes etc. So what gives? Why today? To be honest I don't know. But here is what happened...
The past few days I have been going back and forth between different kernals for this device to try to get something that won't freeze up. ( I liked browsing on this phone but I would get freeze ups and therefore would flash something new to try and resolve it.) Today my phone froze so I tried a simple reboot. The boot then did a freeze on the kernal's "intro" picture. It wasn't a bootloop it just frooze. (I was on XWLPT with Skyfire Kernal). I decided to reboot into recovery and flash a different kernel. I flashed NEAK The flash went halfway then stuck and froze. I rebooted to try to get back to the phone's main screen. This time it would not boot. I couldn't tell if it was in bootloop or was froze. I went back into recovery. Here I should of wiped everything but in the back of my mind I thought I could just do it in odin if I lost recovery. So I tried flashing Siyah for sammy roms. This is when I lost everything. It froze in cmw on the flash again but this time when I tried going back into recovery it stayed on the Galaxy SII screen. So I put the phone in download mode and started Odin up. When trying to flash anything in Odin I got stuck on nand write start! I never heard of this. I thought Odin would work as this is how I rooted the phone when I first got it. Last thing I did was install kies which couldn't even connect to the phone. So all I am left with is download mode and taking way more caution when flashing. I think it may have been a case of the brickbug. Even though I was on a I9100 rom and using "safe" kernels I believe something happened to lock me out from writing anything to the phone.
As long as you don't mind overwriting any data on the device you can use Kies for a complete restore. Download the latest version from Samsung, then click on the Tools selection, then "Firmware Upgrade and Initalization." You'll need your devices model number and serial number from underneath the battery. Follow the directions to put the device in download mode and proceed. You'll end up with a new factory-fresh reload.
zancro said:
As long as you don't mind overwriting any data on the device you can use Kies for a complete restore. Download the latest version from Samsung, then click on the Tools selection, then "Firmware Upgrade and Initalization." You'll need your devices model number and serial number from underneath the battery. Follow the directions to put the device in download mode and proceed. You'll end up with a new factory-fresh reload.
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Now this i didn't know. My SII has been acting really weird ever since I unrooted. It won't let me update my firmware past 2.3.4 for some reason. So if I did this, it will most likely fix that problem?
Alright, I connected my phone to Kies, and went to Tools>Firmware Upgrade and Initialization, and it says my device does not support initialization. It also says this right under my device info:
Your device does not support software upgrading via Kies
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Current firmware version: PDA:KH7 / PHONE:LE5 / CSC:KH7 (ATT)
Ugh, really getting tired of this. Why is my phone being retarded? I don't think I want to bother rooting anymore, it seems like more of a hassle than a good thing. I really don't want to have to break my phone to get a replacement with my warranty. How do I fix this, guys?!
Hi Guys,
Sorry to bother you with this, but I'm out of ideas...
I decided to root my i9100 using this guide9.
As I was doing this, the recovery rom would reboot when using the volume buttons to navigate (only on the first "page") - This was easily worked around by using the touchscreen, but now I'm wondering if this was the start of my issues...
I applied the SU busy box installer, and got root. I installed rom manager, and noticed that it seemed to lock up when doing certain things. I put this down to CWM saying there was no official mod for the i9100.
The next day I decided to try and install a CM10.1 nightly, so I took a backup, wiped cache and data, and applied the rom and gapps.
When I rebooted, the phone wouldn't finished booting, it just sat at the initial logo screen.
After that, I tried following this recovery guide but the odin flash failed at around 80% (I retried and the same happened again).
Since then I've had difficulty getting in to recovery mode. I've tried flashing various stock roms with odin, and trying to restore with Kies.
In Kies I get as far as it conencting to the phone in download mode, but it pops up a "notice" in a foreign language - presumably Korean (and I can't copy the text to even attempt a google translation).
I tried flashing Siyah-s2-v5.0.1 to get a different recovery - that seemed to have a garbled progress bar, before hanging when I tried to wipe /data again.
When I use odin to flash a stock rom - is it supposed to restore absolutely everything? I'm not sure how I'm still getting problems if this is the case. Any ideas on what to try next?
(The current stock rom I'm try ing to use is this one)
Let me know if I'm missing any info, and thanks in advance for any help.
Using rom manager would have been the start of your problems-not the temp cwm recovery in the rooting guide.
If you can boot into download mode then I would download LP7 stock rom, disable kies and flash that with Odin.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
Thanks for the reply.
Rom manager didn't work properly for me, so I stopped using it. I used the temp cwm recovery to install the CM nightly.
I can boot in to download mode, but I've already tried an LP7 rom, - as with the others, it doesn't boot.
Any ideas on how to tell why it isn't booting? logcat doesn't seem to want to to work. Not sure if it's broken / too early in the boot process / etc
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Thanks for the reply.
Rom manager didn't work properly for me, so I stopped using it. I used the temp cwm recovery to install the CM nightly.
I can boot in to download mode, but I've already tried an LP7 rom, - as with the others, it doesn't boot.
Any ideas on how to tell why it isn't booting? logcat doesn't seem to want to to work. Not sure if it's broken / too early in the boot process / etc
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I9100 right?
Try this:
- Download this ROM.
- Kies installed? uninstall it, re install it. Close it all up with Task manager (3 or 4 applications running).
- Flash ROM via Odin (CSC, MODEM, PHONE).
- If that doesn't fly, try another usb port & usb cable. Another PC would also be recommended.
- Repeat the process.
- Still no luck? try flashing a previous siyah version.
- No go? repeat all the above.
- Let us know how you did.
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Thanks, I'll give it a go. (Will take a while for the file to download from hotfile...).
Are odin images for stock roms supposed to restore the stock recovery, or do they leave that alone?
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As a matter of interest, how far did you go with Phistachios repair guide.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
Silly Billy said:
Thanks, I'll give it a go. (Will take a while for the file to download from hotfile...).
Are odin images for stock roms supposed to restore the stock recovery, or do they leave that alone?
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Focus on getting a ROM to boot.
That ROM will install stock recovery.
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Let us know how you did.
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For some reason, I can't get Odin to flash that rom - it just hands for a while at the start of data.img, before saying "Complete(Write) operation failed."
There a .pit file in the archive, although the link says not to repartition (so I didn't).
Some roms seem to get written, some don't, I'm not sure why...
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As a matter of interest, how far did you go with Phistachios repair guide.
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Odin failed about 80% through flashing (step 4, after taking the ICS steps). I tried flashing the kernel afterwards, which flashed, but didn't help with my boot issues.
gastonw said:
Focus on getting a ROM to boot.
That ROM will install stock recovery.
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Of course, I was just trying to get a better understanding of how things work - I'd settle for anything booting right now.
I was meaning how far did you go with his guide.He says (near the end) to flash a bootloader/kernel/rom.
You can try everything in his guide, but understand about the risks involved with pit and bootloaders.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
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I was meaning how far did you go with his guide.He says (near the end) to flash a bootloader/kernel/rom.
You can try everything in his guide, but understand about the risks involved with pit and bootloaders.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
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He's right.
Keep trying, consider pit files & bootloaders as a last resort.
Tried everything?
Used another usb cable for the flash? tried in another PC? tried in a laptop?
Are you sure kies is all shut down?
I've read about so many people having the same issue than you, they keep on flashing as in trial & error and most times they come out winners.
GL!
gastonw said:
He's right.
Keep trying, consider pit files & bootloaders as a last resort.
Tried everything?
Used another usb cable for the flash? tried in another PC? tried in a laptop?
Are you sure kies is all shut down?
I've read about so many people having the same issue than you, they keep on flashing as in trial & error and most times they come out winners.
GL!
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I guess I'll keep at it then.
I'd tried another cable with kies shut down. Just tried a different machine, and flashed the ROM you suggested with heimdall. It flashed without complaining (unlike odin), but I'm still getting a boot loop.
Looking at the initial recovery guide I was following - I suspect that I might've flashed the bootloader (the guide shows in bold which file goes in which box, so I probably loaded them all). Maybe this is the source of my troubles...
I also noticed that heimdall can pull data from the phone too - if I can pull and mount these, am I likely to find any useful log files?
For completeness (and anyone else who finds themselves with the same issue): It seems I hit the EMMC brick bug, which rendered some of my EMMC storage unusable.
This helpful chap came up with a workaround to partition around the dead space. (Please read the post carefully and make sure this really is your problem before flashing!)
That method will let you know what part of your memory is corrupted. It's done via recovery as far as I remember.
Did you bring your device back to life?
Sent from the little guy
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That method will let you know what part of your memory is corrupted. It's done via recovery as far as I remember.
Did you bring your device back to life?
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Yes, that's right. IIRC, I flashed a working recovery with Odin, then did most of the work from adb shell.
I got my device back to life for the most part. I get the occasional hang but haven't investigated much (have since bought a Nexus 4, so not using the S2 so much).
Just thought I'd share for the next poor soul who has the same problem
I'm pretty good with computers even though I don't really code (I do pretty much everything but that) yet I've had nothing but trouble trying to flash CWM 6.0.1.9 to a GT-I9300 version of SGS3.
Here's a brief list of the various approaches I've tried, as a result of my own intuition and following the advice given to people in similar situations across this forum and dozens of others. I might not have achieved my goal yet, but I assure you I'm persistent and thorough!
I've tried four different PCs at this point, three running Windows 7 (one desktop, one laptop, one nettop - all 32-bit) and one running Windows XP.
I've tried installing Kies, then removing Kies and just installing standalone "SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones".
I've tried various USB ports on all the systems
I've tried various ways of plugging in the phone (you know, before/after it's in download mode), making sure there are no other devices in the USB ports, restarting before loading Odin, making sure Odin is run as Administrator, making sure Odin is running before/after the phone is plugged in, keeping the phone plugged in via USB with the battery out then putting the battery in and booting to download mode etc etc.
I've tried about five different versions of Odin at this point. The phone appears in all of them - sometimes the COM port is yellow, sometimes it's blue. Bit confusing but I've given to understand the colour differs depending on the Odin version.
Suffices to say I've been as thorough as I can think to be. But in all cases, the "GT-I9300_ClockworkMod-Recovery-Touch-6.0.1.9.tar" cannot be flashed to the phone... it just appears to start and then stalls, eventually failing when it's left long enough, with the word RECOVERY in a white box at the top of Odin but the file never getting sent to the phone, it seems. I have similar problems trying all the various different things when trying to flash an older version of CWM to a Galaxy Ace, except this time it gets stuck at the SetupConnection part and eventually fails. It's very frustrating!
Honestly I don't know what else I can try. I'm really hoping for as many suggestions as possible, because unless I can get CWM installed on the S III there's no way I can back up the stock version of Jellybean via Nandroid, install Cyanogenmod 10.1 and finally enjoy the benefits of a fully rooted phone.
Thanks in advance to anyone who throws out an idea that makes me look at this in a different way and helps me solve the problem.
Have you got Kies installed? If so make sure it is disabled I'm systray, also run Odin as administrator
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Have you got Kies installed? If so make sure it is disabled I'm systray
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I did have Kies installed, but then ditched it on all four PCs and just used the standalone drivers as mentioned, so I'm not having to worry about disabling Kies from systray or killing it completely via Task Manager,
As I understand it from reading lots of other threads across various forums, the drivers are all you really need Kies for. Unless there's something else it does I'm not aware of... as I say I'm trying every option I can think of, every combination of possibilities to get this thing done.
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also run Odin as administrator
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As I say, whether I run Odin as Admin or not doesn't appear to make a difference, sadly. I will say that all four Windows PCs I mentioned are logged on as the master Admin account and I have all the "nag screens" of Windows disable ("Open File - Security Warning" for example) too.
Thanks for the reply.
Try it with a newer version of ClockwordMod Recovery. That may help.
m0cha5hake said:
Try it with a newer version of ClockwordMod Recovery. That may help.
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I'm tempted to try this when I get the chance, but the thing is when I open the TAR file under the PDA column in Odin and try to flash the S III it correctly identifies the "recovery.img" file inside, it just never seems to send it to the phone even though USB Debugging is enabled before booting into download mode. I'd guess another version (older or newer) would have the same problem?
Using Samsung USB cable ???
jje
JJEgan said:
Using Samsung USB cable ???
jje
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Yep, official Samsung USB cables that came with the phones (Galax yS III/Galaxy Ace).
I wouldn't want to state the obvious, but have you tried flashing a different file?
The fault could be with the file, not with Odin/Windows/Phone
And as far as Kies goes, I know from experience that if you uninstall it, it still leaves bits of itself around so still worth checking in Task Manager that there are no parts still running in the background. As we know, Odin and Kies don't get along.
Something that springs to mind - what version of Android are you using? 4.0.x, 4.1.x, pre 4.x?
Still no joy trying to flash the S III via Odin on Windows. To be honest it's far too much trouble for what should be a simple recovery flash so I think I'd like to do it under Ubuntu instead, I can make a Live USB stick and boot from that then install any needed files (I'm guessing Heimdall via Terminal could do it). Any tips on the easiest way to install CWM on the S III when running Ubuntu? I watched this video and I'm wondering how accurate it is...
Ubuntoo no idea very little posted suggested a Google search might bring up a how to even if for a different model .
It reads like a critical step is missing in your attempts to root via windows for some reason .
It is a 5 min job for most users .
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JJEgan said:
It reads like a critical step is missing in your attempts to root via windows for some reason
It is a 5 min job for most users
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I know, and I've been thorough, that's why I'm so confused I can't seem to do something relatively easy. Odin just hangs and never sends the recovery.img from the TAR file to the phone... it looks like it goes to start with the RECOVERY box above the S III's ID:COM port and then never flashes. It's so odd.
Are you rooted?
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Are you rooted?
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No that's the thing - I don't want to root until I can do a full backup of the original Jelly Bean with CWM - getting CWM on there is basically the first hurdle. But at this point I suppose it might be a good idea to compromise, just to get it done. Not sure really. Don't have enough experience rooting phones to know for sure.
Not sure but I think you need root access to install CWM recovery
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Not sure but I think you need root access to install CWM recovery
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With the S III you might be right, however I couldn't install CWM for the Galaxy Ace using different Odin versions like 3.04 and 3.07 either, and that phone is already rooted with CM 7.2 and already has an older version of CWM on it. Which leads me to believe that something is amiss with Odin and Windows, seeing as I've tried it on four different Windows machines (3 WIndows 7, 1 Windows XP). It's baffling and frustrating.
If the Ace is already rooted just flash a newer version of CWM in recovery
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If the Ace is already rooted just flash a newer version of CWM in recovery
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I did. I was just making the point that even on an already rooted/CWM enabled phone a new version of CWM was not able to be flashed across via Odin.
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Not sure but I think you need root access to install CWM recovery
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Yes you need to be rooted to install cmw
Use chainfire recovery to root and install cwm recovery mate
Then you can flash touch version
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Yes you need to be rooted to install cmw
Use chainfire recovery to root and install cwm recovery mate
Then you can flash touch version
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I was under the impression that newer versions of Clockworkmod don't need Chainfire first, is that wrong?
I want to thank everyone who has chipped in so far - I'm learning a lot!
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I was under the impression that newer versions of Clockworkmod don't need Chainfire first, is that wrong?
I want to thank everyone who has chipped in so far - I'm learning a lot!
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Not sure mate I've always used chainfire to root and install cwm recovery works every time for me
Tried the touch version but always reverted back due to too many problems
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