I was flashing from MIUI 1.9 to MIUI ICS in CWM and all seemed well until upon boot it hung on the MIUI bootup screen. After waiting about 15 minutes I figured I would simply ODIN back to stock and try again as I normally do when I have a problem flashing. In ODIN however I was unable to make it past the boot.inf stage of the flashing. Stupidly I unplugged the usb cable mid flash and tried again, and again same result, it would hang at boot.inf. After trying a couple different stock ODIN files the phone will not turn on at all. Even if I pull the battery and connect the phone to the pc I cannot boot into download mode. When I connect to the wall charger the battery screen does not come on either.
Strangely if I press the power button on the phone with the phone connected to the pc, windows will make the sound of a usb device being connected, however, if I release the power button it makes the sound of a usb device being disconnected. ODIN does not seem to be recognizing my phone anymore since I haven't been able to boot into download mode.
I've bought a usb jib hoping this would solve the problem but it hasn't seemed to work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Please someone help me get my phone up and running again. I've flashed numerous roms before and had trouble but nothing as serious as this.
Try reading up on Droidstyles Guide . Its in General section .
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Thanks for that. I went through his guide but unfortunately I think my problem is a little more serious. My phone will not turn on at all. I cannot boot into CWM, download mode or boot normally. The screen just remains black. It doesn't show up as a recognized device in windows but when I connect the usb cable it makes a sound of it being connected.
If any has any ideas on things I could try I would be really grateful. I bought my phone out of contract and can't really afford to buy a new one right now.
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Thanks for that. I went through his guide but unfortunately I think my problem is a little more serious. My phone will not turn on at all. I cannot boot into CWM, download mode or boot normally. The screen just remains black. It doesn't show up as a recognized device in windows but when I connect the usb cable it makes a sound of it being connected.
If any has any ideas on things I could try I would be really grateful. I bought my phone out of contract and can't really afford to buy a new one right now.
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Can you "3 finger" into recovery ?
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No, when I try to use the 3 buttons to boot into recovery the screen stays black.
Another strange thing it's doing is when I connect the phone to my Mac with the SD card in the phone the Mac will continuously popup a window that asks whether I want to connect the usb device to the Mac or my virtual machine. It flashes so fast I'm unable to click either option. If I connect the phone without the SD card in this menu never comes up but I'm still unable to boot into download mode.
Hmm....I've never heard this before...have you tried plugging phone charger in ( wall outlet ) and let it charge 8 full hours
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You say you bought " out of contract", from a private seller ? No warranty?
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I charged it from the wall charger overnight still no luck. Yeah, I bought it a year and a half ago used from ebay. I think it's really strange too. I've had plenty of hiccups flashing roms before but it's never been something ODIN couldn't fix and I'd at least be able to get into download mode.
I think you are going to have to use UnbrickableMod.
Thanks MM. I bit the bullet and bought a used Galaxy S II. I may still try that unbrickable mod so I can give my Fassy to my mom who's overdue for a smartphone. I've never used a soldering iron though and not too certain how successful I'll be.
iztel said:
Thanks MM. I bit the bullet and bought a used Galaxy S II. I may still try that unbrickable mod so I can give my Fassy to my mom who's overdue for a smartphone. I've never used a soldering iron though and not too certain how successful I'll be.
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Have you tried the wall plug trick?
I had been running a Fascinate rom on a Showcase for almost a year & the same thing happened to me. Initially, the battery had run completely down and after full charge, I had nothing but bootloops. At first I could connect via odin, but could not complete flash.
After messing with it & yanking out the cable as you did, I had same issue, blank screen, pc would beep but that was it, pc/odin would not recognize or show the comm port. I would get unknown device.
Ultimately, I successfully repartitioned & odined a stock Fascinate Froyo EB01 rom by doing several things -- not sure which worked, but perhaps might work for you rather than soldering
First, I fully charged an oem battery using a spare battery charger (not in the fassy)
After charge, I put the batt in the fasc & plugged the fasc in to the wall charger while holding down the volume button & got the download mode to show up.
I left batt in when I unplugged from wall & the download mode stuck.
Odin still didnt recognize on my laptop, so I tried 3 other machines till I Odin finally saw the fascinate, at which point I odined Froyo with .pit & repartitioning as my starting point, then clockworked & rooted etc. I think I left battery in during the flash, then reflashed later in download mode with battery out.
I was also successful using heimdall a few times, when another pc wasn't available & odin wasn't playing nice. Was very odd, as 2 of those laptops ALWAYS worked fine with odin & the fascinated showcase before. Now they still won't recognize, but I can easily odin if I try diff computers --- some windows 7 some xp & some vista.
Magickly said:
Have you tried the wall plug trick?
I had been running a Fascinate rom on a Showcase for almost a year & the same thing happened to me. Initially, the battery had run completely down and after full charge, I had nothing but bootloops. At first I could connect via odin, but could not complete flash.
After messing with it & yanking out the cable as you did, I had same issue, blank screen, pc would beep but that was it, pc/odin would not recognize or show the comm port. I would get unknown device.
Ultimately, I successfully repartitioned & odined a stock Fascinate Froyo EB01 rom by doing several things -- not sure which worked, but perhaps might work for you rather than soldering
First, I fully charged an oem battery using a spare battery charger (not in the fassy)
After charge, I put the batt in the fasc & plugged the fasc in to the wall charger while holding down the volume button & got the download mode to show up.
I left batt in when I unplugged from wall & the download mode stuck.
Odin still didnt recognize on my laptop, so I tried 3 other machines till I Odin finally saw the fascinate, at which point I odined Froyo with .pit & repartitioning as my starting point, then clockworked & rooted etc. I think I left battery in during the flash, then reflashed later in download mode with battery out.
I was also successful using heimdall a few times, when another pc wasn't available & odin wasn't playing nice. Was very odd, as 2 of those laptops ALWAYS worked fine with odin & the fascinated showcase before. Now they still won't recognize, but I can easily odin if I try diff computers --- some windows 7 some xp & some vista.
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I had the same issue. I think it had to do with the battery being too low. I think that ODIN could have a check in place to allow only to flash if the battery is not clos to low in case things go wrong. I had a second fully charged battery and when i read the above post, i changed the battery across and it set it to download and ODIN eventually detected it. Thanks for the help guys.
I have a similar problem, I was on PA JB rom 2.18, and I decided to flash latest devil kernel [1.5.2? or something like that]
so then it would just boot into devil recovery. and that's all. Tried to flash pa rom over it [to get stock recovery back] but it failed. also it had lots of errors about mounting.
So I did advanced restore, and chose to restore boot from other JB backup. This just made it worse, bootlooping into an android recovery with a "!" triangle, then immediately rebooting, over and over again..
So I put into download mode, and heimdall a boot.img extracted from the JB rom [paranoid android], and it still didn't work right.
So then I heimdall'ed the atlas.2.2.pit, thinking the partition was screwed. Then I was booted into cwm 6.x! So I thought I was out of the woods, and wiped, then flashed PA 2.18 jb rom, and then rebooted.. and then I had no samsung logo bootloop. I could tell cuz it was dark, and I could see the backlight coming on and off. on, off... on... off... endlessly.
I tried download mode, and it didn't work. That's when I got scared.. I tried it again, nothing. just the black [very dim black, because of super amoled technology] screen, coming on and off..
So I finally tried taking the battery out, and then it went into download mode!
But I still cannot figure out why it will not let me flash any rom. I'm gonna have to boot into windows and odin back to EH03.
Good thing I have a 3-4 day old backup.
So, do not use devil kernel unless you want a softbrick.
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I have a similar problem, I was on PA JB rom 2.18, and I decided to flash latest devil kernel [1.5.2? or something like that]
so then it would just boot into devil recovery. and that's all. Tried to flash pa rom over it [to get stock recovery back] but it failed. also it had lots of errors about mounting.
So I did advanced restore, and chose to restore boot from other JB backup. This just made it worse, bootlooping into an android recovery with a "!" triangle, then immediately rebooting, over and over again..
So I put into download mode, and heimdall a boot.img extracted from the JB rom [paranoid android], and it still didn't work right.
So then I heimdall'ed the atlas.2.2.pit, thinking the partition was screwed. Then I was booted into cwm 6.x! So I thought I was out of the woods, and wiped, then flashed PA 2.18 jb rom, and then rebooted.. and then I had no samsung logo bootloop. I could tell cuz it was dark, and I could see the backlight coming on and off. on, off... on... off... endlessly.
I tried download mode, and it didn't work. That's when I got scared.. I tried it again, nothing. just the black [very dim black, because of super amoled technology] screen, coming on and off..
So I finally tried taking the battery out, and then it went into download mode!
But I still cannot figure out why it will not let me flash any rom. I'm gonna have to boot into windows and odin back to EH03.
Good thing I have a 3-4 day old backup.
So, do not use devil kernel unless you want a softbrick.
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I think the problem is you used the wrong Devil... the latest is 1.6.1 and the older ones will not work with the new partition layout. Get it from http://rootaxbox.no-ip.org/derteufel/
Here is some FYI for you guys. If you are using a pc with a USB 2.0 or higher then it provides the power to go into download mode for Odin. That's why people say to remove the battery and then plug in the USB cable and hold the volume and power to go into download mode for odin. IF you are using a desktop then it's best to use one of the hardwired usb ports on the back of your pc, if it's a laptop then they are all hardwired to the motherboard. USB 2.0 and up all provide power through the usb port, therefore if you leave the battery in while Odin'ing it may not be a good outcome, this is just a suggestion.
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Here is some FYI for you guys. If you are using a pc with a USB 2.0 or higher then it provides the power to go into download mode for Odin. That's why people say to remove the battery and then plug in the USB cable and hold the volume and power to go into download mode for odin. IF you are using a desktop then it's best to use one of the hardwired usb ports on the back of your pc, if it's a laptop then they are all hardwired to the motherboard. USB 2.0 and up all provide power through the usb port, therefore if you leave the battery in while Odin'ing it may not be a good outcome, this is just a suggestion.
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You are suggesting we leave the battery out while Odining? what good would that do?
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You are suggesting we leave the battery out while Odining? what good would that do?
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I always Odin without battery. Try it. Remove battery, connect to PC with Odin opened, hold volume down button for dl mode, and fash.
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mezster said:
I always Odin without battery. Try it. Remove battery, connect to PC with Odin opened, hold volume down button for dl mode, and fash.
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Yet again, I ask, what good would taking the battery out?
I'd have to set it and the cover down and put them back after Odin..
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mvmacd said:
Yet again, I ask, what good would taking the battery out?
I'd have to set it and the cover down and put them back after Odin..
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It's probably just a precaution so you don't accidentally reboot the phone while flashing or something like that. Every guide I have read says to pull battery before using Odin so I do... and I haven't had any problems. I think it'll probably work fine with the battery in, but why bother taking the risk?
Crawshayi said:
It's probably just a precaution so you don't accidentally reboot the phone while flashing or something like that. Every guide I have read says to pull battery before using Odin so I do... and I haven't had any problems. I think it'll probably work fine with the battery in, but why bother taking the risk?
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how would the battery cause the phone to reboot?
I have never Odin'd without the battery. And I never had any problems
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I'm not sure where to go for help or what to do next, so I'm posting on here (I've read a lot of great stuff on here in the past and now!). So, here's the story:
Tmobile came out with their 2.2 update and I decided to get on the band wagon and update my phone. What I didn't know after I started was that the stupid Samsung program doesn't want to work with Win7 x64 for whatever reason. So after my phone is sitting at 2% for two hours, I decide enough is enough and I disconnect it and reset it.
Now it's got the phone...!...PC picture on it (or black screen o' death).
I've tried just about every combination of the 3-button push to get it into the "download" screen I've been able to find on this forum and others, but all I ever get is the black screen of death. I've got Odin installed and it sees it when I connect the phone via the USB cable, but I still never get onto the download screen. I thought "what the hell" and tried to flash it anyways with Odin. The phone went to a completely purple screen. Reset and back to the Black screen of death.
So, there you have it. Is there anything else I can try? Or is my phone dead dead? I've read about some kind of micro-usb-resister thing I can try, but I'm not positive of being able to reproduce that item. I've also read a lot of terms and procedures that I'm very unfamiliar with. I'm a compelte noob when it comes to flashing and rooting my phone in fears of this exact problem. Now I'm facing it and need some help.
Thanks in advance for your help!
All I can tell you is keep trying to get into dl mode. It can be a real pain in the ass getting the three button to work sometimes. Good luck.
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Pull everything out, battery, sim, microsd
Have ODIN open
Plug the usb into the PC
Plug usb into the Phone
Hold down ONLY the volume buttons
Put the battery in
Take your battery, sim, and everything out of your phone. Open odin. Connect usb cable to your computer only. Put your battery back in. Hold volume up + volume down. Connect usb to your phone. BOOM. You should be in download mode and recognized in odin.
Flash back to stock. If it's that messed up, you may have to use eugenes froyo that doesn't brick first. Search the stickies for that.
Hope this helps.
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jmcghee1973 said:
Pull everything out, battery, sim, microsd
Have ODIN open
Plug the usb into the PC
Plug usb into the Phone
Hold down ONLY the volume buttons
Put the battery in
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Lol! You posted as I was typing it out.
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offdutyninja808 said:
Take your battery, sim, and everything out of your phone. Open odin. Connect usb cable to your computer only. Put your battery back in. Hold volume up + volume down. Connect usb to your phone. BOOM. You should be in download mode and recognized in odin.
Flash back to stock. If it's that messed up, you may have to use eugenes froyo that doesn't brick first. Search the stickies for that.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for posting! So, I tried both methods that you two mentioned, but I'm still only getting the phone..!..PC image. SD card, SIM, and Battery removed; connected USB, held down volumen buttons, and put in battery. Odin does appear to see the device attached (shows up "0:[COM5]" highlighted in yellow), however. Any other thoughts or perhaps there is something I'm missing?
Thanks again for your help!
Addition: I'm using Windows 7 Pro x64 if it matter..
Try odin on different pc. Or try different version of odin. Did you make sure you had proper Samsung drivers installed? 64 bit drivers. After opening odin make sure you have micro usb plugged to pc. Hold only the volume up and volume down buttons at the same time. Now plug usb to cell and that should do it.
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Try it with the phone just powered off.
Pull the battery and unplug the USB from the phone.
Leave it plugged into the PC.
When you put the battery back in it should stay powered off.
Now with the battery back in, ODIN open, and your holding both of the volume buttons down, plug the phone in to the usb.
***Opps looks like rayvil already posted this method
It's working!!
So, when the xda forums went down last night and I didn't have much other guidance I decided "what's the worse that could happen if I keep on screwing with it?". Well, I could never get to the actual download screen no matter what buttons or combination of buttons I pressed. However, my computer would always recognize the device and so would Odin.
I downloaded a .PIT file, loaded it into Odin with the new 2.2 .TAR file. Then I hit "Start". To my amazement, the thing started to update the phone! Even while the phone was still on the "phone..!..PC" image. There was even the download/process bar showing up on the phone itself. 10-15 minutes later and the phone is up and running. The best part, though, was that all my settings and apps were still loaded and working! Odin must have taken over what samsung's piece-of-crap Kies program couldn't do and finished the upgrade process.
Thanks to everyone's input and this forum! It's a lifesaver!
Lappitude said:
It's working!!
So, when the xda forums went down last night and I didn't have much other guidance I decided "what's the worse that could happen if I keep on screwing with it?". Well, I could never get to the actual download screen no matter what buttons or combination of buttons I pressed. However, my computer would always recognize the device and so would Odin.
I downloaded a .PIT file, loaded it into Odin with the new 2.2 .TAR file. Then I hit "Start". To my amazement, the thing started to update the phone! Even while the phone was still on the "phone..!..PC" image. There was even the download/process bar showing up on the phone itself. 10-15 minutes later and the phone is up and running. The best part, though, was that all my settings and apps were still loaded and working! Odin must have taken over what samsung's piece-of-crap Kies program couldn't do and finished the upgrade process.
Thanks to everyone's input and this forum! It's a lifesaver!
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Great ! Congratulation !
BTW ODIN is made by Samsung also if you didn't know that !
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I'm not one to ask many questions i usually just read everything and tinker until i fix it but this has me stumped.
I have a fascinate with MIUI on it currently it runs fine for the most part.
But When the battery runs out or it gets powered off it ends up in a boot loop after i change the battery or plug it in. (the screen flashed the battery icon for a second then goes black then flashes the battery icon)
I can temp fix it by ODIN'ing a recovery (usually CWM-recovery all i have tried a few others one for Cyanogen mtd , etc) and it will boot up fine and run perfect until i need to shut it down. then it loops again
I have done a ext4 format before loading miui.
when it is loaded and up and running if i plugg it in to a pc it connects and disconnects over and over.
any suggestions?
I was wondering if there was a possibility that i screwed up the samsung recovery and it isn't loading up the custom recovery unless i odin it each time?
Thanks in advance!
edit: i odin'd an old eclair stock rom and get the same thing
Dustin1980 said:
I'm not one to ask many questions i usually just read everything and tinker until i fix it but this has me stumped.
I have a fascinate with MIUI on it currently it runs fine for the most part.
But When the battery runs out or it gets powered off it ends up in a boot loop after i change the battery or plug it in. (the screen flashed the battery icon for a second then goes black then flashes the battery icon)
I can temp fix it by ODIN'ing a recovery (usually CWM-recovery all i have tried a few others one for Cyanogen mtd , etc) and it will boot up fine and run perfect until i need to shut it down. then it loops again
I have done a ext4 format before loading miui. any suggestions?
I was wondering if there was a possibility that i screwed up the samsung recovery and it isn't loading up the custom recovery unless i odin it each time?
Thanks in advance!
edit: i odin'd an old eclair stock rom and get the same thing
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when you odin back to the stock rom did you put the atlas 2.2 pit file in the pit function of odin and make sure repartition is checkd?
I've had this happen a couple of times. Just hold vol up and power till you see samsung.
good day.
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when you odin back to the stock rom did you put the atlas 2.2 pit file in the pit function of odin and make sure repartition is checkd?
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yes. I used the atlas 2.2 file when i went back to stock. I have tried a few stock roms too.
chopper the dog said:
I've had this happen a couple of times. Just hold vol up and power till you see samsung.
good day.
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How long should that take?
I pulled the battery and replaced it to start a loop.
Then I held volume up and the power button and nothing happened but the same loop?
Should i pull the battery and put it back that way?
I can't even get volup voldown power to work only vol down and power.
the vol up key does work when a rom is up and running
****now it just flashes the battery logo once and turns off unless you hold down the power***
I should know better than to attempt fixes when i'm not near a pc to undo it...
now i'm phoneless until 5pm...
oh well
odining a recovery got me back running but i still can't shutdown or remove the battery with out having to odin a recovery
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odining a recovery got me back running but i still can't shutdown or remove the battery with out having to odin a recovery
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edit* Thats a wierd one not sure what the issue is. Normally repartitioning will take care of issues like that.
droidstyle said:
edit* Thats a wierd one not sure what the issue is. Normally repartitioning will take care of issues like that.
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Yeah I can wipe everything back to stock use it like normal just if the battey dies, i shut down, or the battery gets pulled i get a loop of the battery screen then black. i can't even do a power off charge on it( power off the phone and plug it in so you get the green battery charging screen)
battery draining strange
I also have noticed that the batteries have been draining in an odd manner. after i take it off the charger it will stay at 100% for a long time then drain very quickly.
Have you by chance tried another battery? Maybe it's starting to crap out on you??
I have a few batteries. One is brand new. I have the OEM that came with it, a replacement oem, and a generic.
None will allow me to power the phone off and boot it back up successfully. All show the battery charge screen for a second then go black.
use a download mode jig (301kohms between USB pins 4 and 5). If that does not work, then just say funk it and install the Fascinate UnBrickable Mod. UBM allows you to upload "Download Mode" to any kind of bricked device when it's powered off.
I can get into download mode holding down volume so it's not as if it is totally fubar it just doesn't like being powered off and back on.
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when i'm on a stock rom i can occasionally get into recovery after a shut don and get booted back up with a custom rom i can't with out odining another copy over top
usb issue too
I also have issues with a usb connection connecting and disconnecting repeatedly when i have any rom loaded
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I also have issues with a usb connection connecting and disconnecting repeatedly when i have any rom loaded
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You've got a bad cable.
I have a few cables. they all do that.
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on the brightside my gps seems to be locking much much quicker!
Hi!
First off, I've done about 6 hours of searching and other troubleshooting. I couldn't find really any thread on the the problem my Vibrant has. I apologize if there is a thread, and I couldn't find it.
Extra info: I had a Vibrant last summer and I rooted it and installed quite a few custom roms. I wouldn't consider myself a noob, but I'm definitely not close to an expert.
I have a Samsung Vibrant. It was running Android 2.2 and 3e recovery. I wanted to install an ICS rom, so I rooted it. I then install Clockworkmod recovery. I flashed CM7(Android 2.3), and that's when it started having problems.
It syncs perfectly, I can transfer files between SD cards and everything. The problem is, it doesn't charge. The battery icon has the lightning bolt on it, but it doesn't charge.
The other issue is that it won't go into download mode. I believe I've tried all the available button combinations. I also installed ADB(and the appropriate drivers) and did the "reboot download" command. It rebooted, but didn't go into recovery mode. I also tried that command on the phone, in the terminal app. Same result.
I've tried 5 different USB cables.
The problem seems to have started after I rooted it and flashed CM7.
I have two batteries, but over the course of troubleshooting, both have died.
Oddly enough, I plugged it into my mom's Atrix 4G charger and it started charging? That's charger number 6!
This might get you download:
Pull battery. Some people think you need to pull sim and sdcard. I didn't need to.
Plug phone to host.
Fire up Odin on host.
Insert battery. If no luck, pull battery and reinsert while trying the three permutations of volume keys.
Once in Odin, reflash bootloader.
If still problems, Odin to stock.
try holding the home button + up/down, different combinations of that works to get into download after cm7 and up.
For what it's worth just holding volume up (no power button) while the phone was powered down and then plugging in a USB cable hooked to my PC always worked for me to get into download mode.
But whenever I've gone up to any of the Ginger or ICS ROMs I flash the Gingerbread bootloader in Odin first and then the ROM.
If you've got time, keep troubleshooting (espically if one cable worked... weird), but I say save yourself a headache and get all your goodies off, Odin back to stock, format the internal and external SDs, and then try again loading the GB bootloader first.
Thanks for the suggestions guys
Using the new cable, I was able to flash back to stock with Odin. Even back on stock 2.2, it still won't charge off any other cable. Oh well. I really don't mind using an Attix USB cable.
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It sounds as though you're dealing with a hardware issue and the malfunction simply happened at the same time as your recent upgrade. Possibly one of the USB pin connections is flaky.
I had tried to update my phone via Kies and the computer blue screened. Now the phone is stuck on the ODIN Mode screen with a picture of my phone on the left, a yellow triangle in the middle, and a computer on the right. Taking the battery out does nothing, restarting does nothing, restarting while holding down the volume buttons does nothing. No matter what, it always comes back to this screen.
When I plug the device into my windows based PC and open ODIN, ODIN does not see my phone. When I plug it into my linux computer and run lsusb, it does not list my phone in the output, so the computer definitely isn't recognizing that my phone is plugged in. A couple of weeks ago, I had this problem while trying to back up the phone, so I'm not sure if it's related to the botched upgrade or not.
Does anyone have any tips or advice here? I'd really love to be able to use my phone again. I am using the cable that came with the phone. I have the same results with other cables, as well....
I'm happy to provide more information if needed. Just tell me what you need to know.
That screen is a form of download mode. You should be able to flash stock or stock plus root from there.
When I plug the device into my windows based PC and open ODIN, ODIN does not see my phone.
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If this statement reflects what you actually did, then it suggests the wrong order. You must first open oden on the desktop, and then connect the phone to the computer in download mode.
Try that first.
Next you could try putting the phone into download mode with the battery pulled out. Open Odin on the desktop, then with the battery out, hold down the vol- button while plugging in the usb cable.
Thanks for your response.
So I went ahead and cleared out everything and then reinstalled the USB drivers. Opened ODIN, connected USB to computer, took battery out of phone, put battery back in, held down volume buttons and inserted the cord. The screen immediately loaded up the one I spoke of in my first post. Odin still did not recognize that I had my phone plugged in.
So then I installed Kies and went to the firmware restoration item under the tools menu. Entered my model and serial number and put my phone into recovery mode according to the instructions there, but the "Start Upgrade" button was grayed out and never became clickable.
One thing I did notice while doing this (On yet another new computer) is that when I plug in the phone, I get a "USB Device Not Recognized" error in Windows. I'm not sure if this is a result of it being in download mode or not, but I thought it worth mentioning. I did attempt to blow out my mini USB on the phone for good measure, but had the same result, even with another cord.
On ur Windows pc, did u try different usb ports ? And don't use a usb hub.
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Yes, multiple ports on multiple PCs.
The port was working fine yesterday when the Kies update failed.
Have u tried using a Jig to get ur phone into download mode ??
(See my signature link below. There r links there on how to make a jig and/or where to buy one)
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First of all make sure that your PC isnt running Kies in the background - Use Tsk Manager to kill Kies process
Then Plug In your Phone
Enter Download Mode by holding both volume buttons and powerbutton till the Boot Screen Appears.Let the power button go when you see the boot screen but keep holding the volume buttons.
In no time you'll be in Download mode
Then go to odin and check if your computer recognises it. Odin willl show you (Com:x) X - Any Number
Then you can easily flash stock rom or a custom recovery..
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First of all make sure that your PC isnt running Kies in the background - Use Tsk Manager to kill Kies process
Then Plug In your Phone
Enter Download Mode by holding both volume buttons and powerbutton till the Boot Screen Appears.Let the power button go when you see the boot screen but keep holding the volume buttons.
In no time you'll be in Download mode
Then go to odin and check if your computer recognises it. Odin willl show you (Com:x) X - Any Number
Then you can easily flash stock rom or a custom recovery..
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I have already made sure Kies is not running (And have tried this on a computer without Kies installed) and according to creepyncrawly in the second post here, the screen that I'm seeing IS download mode.
4-2ndtwin said:
Have u tried using a Jig to get ur phone into download mode ??
(See my signature link below. There r links there on how to make a jig and/or where to buy one)
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Again, according to creepyncrawly, this screen is a form of download mode. I am IN download mode already.
Special_Kev said:
I had tried to update my phone via Kies and the computer blue screened. Now the phone is stuck on the ODIN Mode screen with a picture of my phone on the left, a yellow triangle in the middle, and a computer on the right. Taking the battery out does nothing, restarting does nothing, restarting while holding down the volume buttons does nothing. No matter what, it always comes back to this screen.
When I plug the device into my windows based PC and open ODIN, ODIN does not see my phone. When I plug it into my linux computer and run lsusb, it does not list my phone in the output, so the computer definitely isn't recognizing that my phone is plugged in. A couple of weeks ago, I had this problem while trying to back up the phone, so I'm not sure if it's related to the botched upgrade or not.
Does anyone have any tips or advice here? I'd really love to be able to use my phone again. I am using the cable that came with the phone. I have the same results with other cables, as well....
I'm happy to provide more information if needed. Just tell me what you need to know.
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I tried everything you did, and the only way I got Odin to recognize my phone was use a USB jig to get it into the download mode other people are talking about
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I'm definitely open to making one, but I'm confused since everything I'm reading says that the screen I described IS download mode, just with a different screen. Are you saying that you had the exact same situation as me and a Jig fixed it?
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I'm definitely open to making one, but I'm confused since everything I'm reading says that the screen I described IS download mode, just with a different screen. Are you saying that you had the exact same situation as me and a Jig fixed it?
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You could order one fairly inexpensive. But order it or make it still takes some time. But as several have mentioned, it may help.
Did you try forcing download mode with the battery out as I suggested in the second post?
Yes, I have tried forcing download mode by taking the battery out, holding down Vol and inserting it again. These are also the instructions that Kies gives, but it didn't work there either.
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I'm definitely open to making one, but I'm confused since everything I'm reading says that the screen I described IS download mode, just with a different screen. Are you saying that you had the exact same situation as me and a Jig fixed it?
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My phones update failed and I got the same phone, triangle, computer. I tried different USBs, different USB ports, different computers, tried Odin, nothing worked. As soon as I found my USB jig that was lying around, and plugged it in before I put in the battery, and the regular download mode which I am used to seeing showed up. ODIN recognized the phone and I flashed back to stock ICS rooted I downloaded from XDA.
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My phones update failed and I got the same phone, triangle, computer. I tried different USBs, different USB ports, different computers, tried Odin, nothing worked. As soon as I found my USB jig that was lying around, and plugged it in before I put in the battery, and the regular download mode which I am used to seeing showed up. ODIN recognized the phone and I flashed back to stock ICS rooted I downloaded from XDA.
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Good enough for me. I'll give that a shot tomorrow.
Thanks for your help.
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Yes, I have tried forcing download mode by taking the battery out, holding down Vol and inserting it again. These are also the instructions that Kies gives, but it didn't work there either.
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That's different that what I suggested. Remove the battery and leave it out. If you have to, sit on it so you won't be tempted to put it back in, lol. While holding vol down button, plug in the usb cable. The usb will supply the power. The phone should boot into download mode.
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That's different that what I suggested. Remove the battery and leave it out. If you have to, sit on it so you won't be tempted to put it back in, lol. While holding vol down button, plug in the usb cable. The usb will supply the power. The phone should boot into download mode.
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I guess I misread that. I blame it on my stressful week ending with no phone
So I just did that and boom, download mode as I would expect loaded up first time, no issues after I held down both Volume buttons while plugging it in (Holding down just Vol - didn't do anything). Unfortunately, it still did not show up in Odin (Kies background processes were all killed and USB driver IS installed on this computer and Odin WAS open before I plugged the phone in)
So I unplugged, opened Kies, and was going to try a restore through there since I could finally get download mode working properly. Except when I tried it this time, nothing happened. I held down the vol buttons, plugged it in, got a single vibrate, but nothing showed up on the screen. Unplugged, put the battery in, and it turned on and screen worked. Took out the battery and just plugged it in and the screen worked after vibrating 6 short pulses (It pulled up the screen mentioned in my first post). Unplugged, held down vol buttons and plugged it in, same thing. Blank screen.
Now I'm really at a loss. I'm starting to wonder if there is something wrong with my USB port on the phone itself.
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Now I'm really at a loss. I'm starting to wonder if there is something wrong with my USB port on the phone itself.
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hey i think that i have got a solution for your problem because it also happened with me in my galaxy y and then i did this thing = :fingers-crossed: see i firstly opened odin in the desktop and then take out the battery so once the battery is out connect the usb to the phone and go onto download mode without the baterry then u'll notice in odin that ur phone is connected and then add the battery back and u r done hope it works :fingers-crossed:
ODIN doesn't detect my Samsung Galaxy ACE
personalsydic said:
hey i think that i have got a solution for your problem because it also happened with me in my galaxy y and then i did this thing = :fingers-crossed: see i firstly opened odin in the desktop and then take out the battery so once the battery is out connect the usb to the phone and go onto download mode without the baterry then u'll notice in odin that ur phone is connected and then add the battery back and u r done hope it works :fingers-crossed:
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Hi there,
i have same problem with my Galaxy ACE GT-S5839i: i can't get ODIN to detect my phone. Originally, i tried to flash my phone and made a mistake in the process (installed a ROM before i installed CWM). This caused my phone to stop booting. The only thing remaining working is the download mode. But i can't get ODIN to detect. I tried 2 PCs, different USB ports; i tried to install Kies, or just the drivers... nothing makes ODIN detect my phone... I hear my PCs detects the phone when in download mode (it bips) and my PCs both recognized my phone (Samsung Mobile USB CDC Composite Device). On PC uses windows 7 and the other Windows Vista. I ran ODIN v4.38 on both... Would be grateful for any idea what to do...
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canaver said:
Hi there,
i have same problem with my Galaxy ACE GT-S5839i: i can't get ODIN to detect my phone. Originally, i tried to flash my phone and made a mistake in the process (installed a ROM before i installed CWM). This caused my phone to stop booting. The only thing remaining working is the download mode. But i can't get ODIN to detect. I tried 2 PCs, different USB ports; i tried to install Kies, or just the drivers... nothing makes ODIN detect my phone... I hear my PCs detects the phone when in download mode (it bips) and my PCs both recognized my phone (Samsung Mobile USB CDC Composite Device). On PC uses windows 7 and the other Windows Vista. I ran ODIN v4.38 on both... Would be grateful for any idea what to do...
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Actually, it works with ODIN v3.07! Finally!
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canaver said:
Actually, it works with ODIN v3.07! Finally!
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Finally it works with ODIN v3.07!
Special_Kev said:
I had tried to update my phone via Kies and the computer blue screened. Now the phone is stuck on the ODIN Mode screen with a picture of my phone on the left, a yellow triangle in the middle, and a computer on the right. Taking the battery out does nothing, restarting does nothing, restarting while holding down the volume buttons does nothing. No matter what, it always comes back to this screen.
When I plug the device into my windows based PC and open ODIN, ODIN does not see my phone. When I plug it into my linux computer and run lsusb, it does not list my phone in the output, so the computer definitely isn't recognizing that my phone is plugged in. A couple of weeks ago, I had this problem while trying to back up the phone, so I'm not sure if it's related to the botched upgrade or not.
Does anyone have any tips or advice here? I'd really love to be able to use my phone again. I am using the cable that came with the phone. I have the same results with other cables, as well....
I'm happy to provide more information if needed. Just tell me what you need to know.
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I had the same problem with kies on a sprint s2. EXACT same problem. Cord got jerked out in the middle of Odin flash. THE ONLY screen i could get is the one you described.
Also went through the steps with keis, dl firmware, got to the last part but the start button was greyed out. I had to do this several times and finally the start button lit up. Idk why it didn't work before but it finally did. Have you tried doing it more than once?
I wished i could be more help but that was my experience. Maybe it will work for you.
So yesterday morning I went to turn on my phone, but nothing happened. It was on the charger all night so it should have been a full battery.
Here are my symptoms:
1) AC plugged in without battery - Phone's screen turns on for a second, turns off, and then repeats.
2) AC plugged in with battery - Phone will start to charge (has the loading symbol in the battery), but then turns off immediately. It cannot boot into recovery. It CAN boot into download mode, but my computer will not recognize it to restore the phone with odin.
Any ideas?
I don't have an official upgrade until October, but I'm going to call customer service to try and get them to bump the date up so I can get a new phone.
First possibility to suspect is a failed battery. If you know someone else with an s2, ask to borrow their battery temporarily to see if your phone will boot. Or perhaps go to an AT&T store to see if you can borrow a battery.
If it's not the battery, then the next step to try is to boot into download mode with the battery out of the phone to see if Odin will recognize the phone with the battery out. With the battery out of the phone and the USB cable plugged into the computer, hold down the vol down button while plugging the USB cable into the phone. The computer will supply the power. This assumes that you have the proper "Samsung USB driver for mobile phones" installed on your PC.
That's a start.
I am having the same issue with my s2. i had shostock installed on it a few weeks back and it was working fine. then it just stopped working. i tried rebooting but it keeps on going on bootloops. I tried using odin to flash back to stock but no go, just bootloops. kies just dont work for me. i know it isnt the battery cuz i have the charging cradle to charge the battery and the phone goes to odin mode without the battery. Any help is appreciated.
sfb14 said:
I am having the same issue with my s2. i had shostock installed on it a few weeks back and it was working fine. then it just stopped working. i tried rebooting but it keeps on going on bootloops. I tried using odin to flash back to stock but no go, just bootloops. kies just dont work for me. i know it isnt the battery cuz i have the charging cradle to charge the battery and the phone goes to odin mode without the battery. Any help is appreciated.
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It sounds like you got a successful flash of stock. Boot into recovery and perform a wipe data/factory reset.
creepyncrawly said:
It sounds like you got a successful flash of stock. Boot into recovery and perform a wipe data/factory reset.
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I just did. Still no boot.
sfb14 said:
I just did. Still no boot.
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OK. Did the flash to stock succeed? In other words, you got a pass in odin?
Which version of SHOstock was installed, the latest? And which version of stock did you flash?
i flashed SHOstock v3 before all of this happened. i flashed ucle5 stock rooted. battery icon flashes capacitive keys blink over and over again. if i unplug it nothing happens. i may have to try UCKH7 once im done downloading it.
** after flashing KH7, i go to recovery to wipe/factory reset... there is a message saying
Installing Multi-CSC...
"can't access to '/system/csc/ATT/system/'
Successfully applied multi-CSC
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i flashed SHOstock v3 before all of this happened. i flashed ucle5 stock rooted. battery icon flashes capacitive keys blink over and over again. if i unplug it nothing happens. i may have to try UCKH7 once im done downloading it.
** after flashing KH7, i go to recovery to wipe/factory reset... there is a message saying
Installing Multi-CSC...
"can't access to '/system/csc/ATT/system/'
Successfully applied multi-CSC
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This is sounding a bit like nand read/write corruption, which is fixable. Try this:
1)Go to this post and download the Tar version of Siyah 2.6.14 Kernel. Flash it in PDA without ticking Re-Partitioning.
2) Successful? Nice. Next, flash the full stock Gingerbread distribution from the Download Repository, I777UCKH7 including the bootloaders and everything, in the PDA slot.
3) If that is successful and boots normally you are done. If it is not, then:
4) Download the SBL Bootloader from the Download Repository. Flash it as PDA in ODIN, without ticking Re-Partitioning.
5) Flash the Kernel, as in step 1.
6) Flash the full stock Gingerbread distribution, as in step 2.
Will try that later. Thanks for your help!
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still no luck.. i did everything odin says "PASS" but it just wont boot. i'm going to try and get a different battery and see if that works.
thanks for your help sir. :good:
sfb14 said:
still no luck.. i did everything odin says "PASS" but it just wont boot. i'm going to try and get a different battery and see if that works.
thanks for your help sir. :good:
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Going through the exact same issue with my kids phone with the same results. Tried creepy's 6 steps, but still no luck.
I think it was caused by my kid killing the battery.
update: got it to boot into custom recovery, then reflashed ROM. It stills acts weird though. Very laggy.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-at-t-usb-port-repair/
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Having a very similar issue here.. Battery icon flashes then black screen. Boot to download mode.. Push up arrow, black screen. Computer does not register device connected.
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jvick920 said:
Having a very similar issue here.. Battery icon flashes then black screen. Boot to download mode.. Push up arrow, black screen. Computer does not register device connected.
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It's hard to give any suggestions with this little information. More information would be useful. A lot more information would be more helpful.
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It's hard to give any suggestions with this little information. More information would be useful. A lot more information would be more helpful.
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When I plug then phone in (automatically turns on when plugged in, power button is broken), the battery logo and hardware buttons flash erratically for up to a minute then nothing at all. I've tried different batteries and different cords. The only thing that seems to bring it back to life is letting the phone and battery sit unplugged for 2 weeks up to a month and trying again, but it's very hit or miss. This only seems to happen when the battery completely drains.
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When I plug then phone in (automatically turns on when plugged in, power button is broken), the battery logo and hardware buttons flash erratically for up to a minute then nothing at all. I've tried different batteries and different cords. The only thing that seems to bring it back to life is letting the phone and battery sit unplugged for 2 weeks up to a month and trying again, but it's very hit or miss. This only seems to happen when the battery completely drains.
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What phone do you have... the AT&T SGH-I777 does not have hardware buttons, but maybe you mean the capacitive buttons which are part of the display? Your previous post was sent from an Infuse? If it's not an I777 then you need a different forum.
If the phone that has the problem is an SGH-I777, then... what firmware is/was it running? Is it rooted? Is USB debugging turned on? Have you been able to boot into download mode since your first post? How long was the power button broken before this problem first manifested?
I think you need to get into download mode and flash stock firmware.
You also may need to see if you can do something about the broken power button, since that may be involved in the problem. That would mean either taking the phone apart and trying to mechanically clean the button or move/press/activate it a lot to get the dirt out so that the problem clears itself, or it may mean getting it replaced.
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What phone do you have... the AT&T SGH-I777 does not have hardware buttons, but maybe you mean the capacitive buttons which are part of the display? Your previous post was sent from an Infuse? If it's not an I777 then you need a different forum.
If the phone that has the problem is an SGH-I777, then... what firmware is/was it running? Is it rooted? Is USB debugging turned on? Have you been able to boot into download mode since your first post? How long was the power button broken before this problem first manifested?
I think you need to get into download mode and flash stock firmware.
You also may need to see if you can do something about the broken power button, since that may be involved in the problem. That would mean either taking the phone apart and trying to mechanically clean the button or move/press/activate it a lot to get the dirt out so that the problem clears itself, or it may mean getting it replaced.
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It is the I777, capacitive buttons is what I meant.. I apologize, I'm still fairly new with terminology.. Yes, I have an Infuse also, it's my backup phone because I can't get the s2 to charge. It is rooted and flashed, running 4.2.2 (Avatar ROM)
The problem is, it isn't holding enough of a charge to do anything. Aside from the previously stated issue, it will go into download mode, but the screen will only stay on for maybe 5 seconds max. The power button has been broken about 6 months before this issue arose. This only started happening about a month ago when I let the battery discharge completely. To test my theory that it's a battery/charging issue, I got a backup battery (which allowed the phone to work again) and I allowed that one to discharge completely. Now I'm having the same issue with both batteries. I was able to get the phone to power on once after letting the phone and battery sit disconnected for about 2 weeks.
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It is the I777, capacitive buttons is what I meant.. I apologize, I'm still fairly new with terminology.. Yes, I have an Infuse also, it's my backup phone because I can't get the s2 to charge. It is rooted and flashed, running 4.2.2 (Avatar ROM)
The problem is, it isn't holding enough of a charge to do anything. Aside from the previously stated issue, it will go into download mode, but the screen will only stay on for maybe 5 seconds max. The power button has been broken about 6 months before this issue arose. This only started happening about a month ago when I let the battery discharge completely. To test my theory that it's a battery/charging issue, I got a backup battery (which allowed the phone to work again) and I allowed that one to discharge completely. Now I'm having the same issue with both batteries. I was able to get the phone to power on once after letting the phone and battery sit disconnected for about 2 weeks.
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What firmware is/was it running?
Is it rooted?
Is USB debugging turned on?
Did it charge the second battery fully more than once?
How long did it operate with the second battery?
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What firmware is/was it running?
Is it rooted?
Is USB debugging turned on?
Did it charge the second battery fully more than once?
How long did it operate with the second battery?
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Firmware is CM 10.1, it is rooted, running AvatarROM. USB debugging and mock locations were turned on. It had no issue charging while it was working, it was after I allowed the batteries to die that I started having issues. Even on the second battery, it would continue operating as long as I kept it charged.
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Firmware is CM 10.1, it is rooted, running AvatarROM. USB debugging and mock locations were turned on. It had no issue charging while it was working, it was after I allowed the batteries to die that I started having issues. Even on the second battery, it would continue operating as long as I kept it charged.
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I have never used Cyanogen Mod or any of the other AOSP firmware, and I don't know how the firmware would affect this issue, if at all. But I suspect there may be some link.
I think what you need to do is to flash back to stock firmware, or perhaps use one of the stock plus root packages, and then a custom kernel, and then reload CM 10.1. So try this:
Pull the battery and leave it out. Open Odin3 on the desktop and then while holding down the volume buttons, plug in the usb cable. See if the phone will boot into download mode this way, and if Odin will recognize it. If so, then go ahead and flash the stock of your choosing. I think if it were me, I would flash 4.0.4 UCLL6 plus root.