I couldn't find any threads that sounded similar to this, so I had no choice but to make a new thread. I apologize if my title is misleading in any way, however, I'm not sure of what else to call it. Also, sorry if I typed anything that didn't make sense, It's late, I'm tired, and I'm in trouble.
So, I had the Dream Ultima ROM flashed on my YP-G1/Player 4.0, and my sister was complaining about insane lagging and whatnot. Before I decided to flash back to stock, I had decided to clean up the internal memory.
I transferred some photos and music from the device to my computer as backup, and then decided to factory reset it, and I think that's where things went wrong.
The device rebooted itself, and booted into stock recovery, saying that it couldnt wipe a few things.
I didn't think much of it at first, and just booted into download mode and continued onto flashing back to stock using Heimdall. When it finished, it booted me into recovery again (can't remember whether it was stock or CWM, I think it was CWM). I didn't think much of that either, so I just rebooted. When it rebooted itself, the Download mode screen showed up, with the progress bar full, and then switched to the steve's kernel icon, and then once again, booted into recovery.
A few more reboots, and I end up getting a forced download mode icon. Reflash.
After a few more tries, doing the same thing over and over again, I ended up not being able to get into recovery at all. When the device boots up, it looks like this:
See attached thumbnail
Oh yes, I should probably add that, none of the times where I tried to flash back to stock were successful, and that I have tried it with Odin as well, with Zaclimon's FullRestore.tar, it claimed to be successful, however, nothing really ended up changing. I can also still get into download mode, but not recovery.
LuthicaBlue said:
I couldn't find any threads that sounded similar to this, so I had no choice but to make a new thread. I apologize if my title is misleading in any way, however, I'm not sure of what else to call it. Also, sorry if I typed anything that didn't make sense, It's late, I'm tired, and I'm in trouble.
So, I had the Dream Ultima ROM flashed on my YP-G1/Player 4.0, and my sister was complaining about insane lagging and whatnot. Before I decided to flash back to stock, I had decided to clean up the internal memory.
I transferred some photos and music from the device to my computer as backup, and then decided to factory reset it, and I think that's where things went wrong.
The device rebooted itself, and booted into stock recovery, saying that it couldnt wipe a few things.
I didn't think much of it at first, and just booted into download mode and continued onto flashing back to stock using Heimdall. When it finished, it booted me into recovery again (can't remember whether it was stock or CWM, I think it was CWM). I didn't think much of that either, so I just rebooted. When it rebooted itself, the Download mode screen showed up, with the progress bar full, and then switched to the steve's kernel icon, and then once again, booted into recovery.
A few more reboots, and I end up getting a forced download mode icon. Reflash.
After a few more tries, doing the same thing over and over again, I ended up not being able to get into recovery at all. When the device boots up, it looks like this:
See attached thumbnail
Oh yes, I should probably add that, none of the times where I tried to flash back to stock were successful, and that I have tried it with Odin as well, with Zaclimon's FullRestore.tar, it claimed to be successful, however, nothing really ended up changing. I can also still get into download mode, but not recovery.
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Yeah well the odin's method isn't that sucessfull compared to the heimdall one. Try the heimdall one, You will have a better rate of success.
zaclimon said:
Yeah well the odin's method isn't that sucessfull compared to the heimdall one. Try the heimdall one, You will have a better rate of success.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear, I actually tried the heimdall one first, but the problem is, no matter how many times I try, heimdall won't upload the kernel or anything to the device.
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LuthicaBlue said:
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I actually tried the heimdall one first, but the problem is, no matter how many times I try, heimdall won't upload the kernel or anything to the device.
Sent from my SPH-D710
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Do you have some kind of error? If yes were you in download mode during that time and what does heimdall showed you?
zaclimon said:
Do you have some kind of error? If yes were you in download mode during that time and what does heimdall showed you?
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Code:
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...
Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
Handshaking with Loke...
Beginning session...
Session begun with device of type: 0
Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download sucessful
Uploading KERNEL
0%
ERROR: Failed to send file part packet!
KERNEL upload failed!
Ending session...
Yes, I was in downloadmode. It's the only thing i can boot into, besides the picture attached to the OP.
LuthicaBlue said:
Code:
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...
Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
Handshaking with Loke...
Beginning session...
Session begun with device of type: 0
Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download sucessful
Uploading KERNEL
0%
ERROR: Failed to send file part packet!
KERNEL upload failed!
Ending session...
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Wait, don't upload your kernel with this. Restore your device totally with the full restore and don't forget to re-partition (your SGP looks like a tv? )
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Do you have some kind of error? If yes were you in download mode during that time and what does heimdall showed you?
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zaclimon said:
Wait, don't upload your kernel with this. Restore your device totally with the full restore and don't forget to re-partition (your SGP looks like a tv? )
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I've been using the full restore.... anyways....
Sir, I have enough reason to believe that you are the man. I actually tried repartitioning once, but it didnt work the first time, I'm assuming it might've been because some of my usb ports are a little odd. Repartitioning it fixed it right up for me. Thanks alot!
LuthicaBlue said:
I've been using the full restore.... anyways....
Sir, I have enough reason to believe that you are the man. I actually tried repartitioning once, but it didnt work the first time, I'm assuming it might've been because some of my usb ports are a little odd. Repartitioning it fixed it right up for me. Thanks alot!
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Oh sorry, I tought you always used odin soo... Anyway no problem for the help.
so we are lucky to have zaclimon in this section the real hero that saves our device
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rockerblood said:
so we are lucky to have zaclimon in this section the real hero that saves our device
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Yeah, he should be made the official device savior or something, lol! For future reference people, it might be simpler to simply use zaclimon's thread then starting a new thread for every bricked device.
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I was in the same situation. Go to the Dev area make sure you get the 7 zip file use hemidall. Extract all the files. Open hemidall load your pit file check repartion follow the order in the OP for US player. Check your list before flashing the Partition files. I had the same problem i just had top really read what he was saying. It does work. PM me and i will try to help
Samsung Epic 4G Touch on xda premium
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Semi-bricked: PIT upload failed in Heimdall/Odin, cannot flash anything; cannot mount/wipe cache in CWM...any ideas, how do I check whether the eMMC chip is fried or not? Thanks.
You probably have done all this a thousand times but I would redownload your files again and follow droudstyles guide to the t and see if you catch a mistake or something. These are pretty hard to brick.
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shelby04861 said:
You probably have done all this a thousand times but I would redownload your files again and follow droudstyles guide to the t and see if you catch a mistake or something. These are pretty hard to brick.
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Yes, it's still alive, I can get into CWM and download mode. The experts out there...please?
Based on trying to help in your previous thread I know I can't do much more to help you get your device working again. All I can do at this point is point you in the direction of Gizmodroid who was a pretty regular and reliable guy around here for awhile before his screen shattered. I have no idea if he is still looking for a replacement, but you might want to reach out to him if you decide to sell it for parts.
Since everything else has failed, Unbrickable Mod may be your only option. But it is not for the feint of heart and won't help you if the flash memory is truly corrupted.
The weirdest thing. I tried to flash the ED05 Heimdall package AGAIN today, and IT WORKED (repartition unchecked). But, then I tried flashing CWM with Heimdall and it failed. I had to reboot the device and of course it's semi-bricked again (now it's back to stock recovery) and I get this error when I try to re-flash ED05 (or anything):
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
ERROR: Failed to retrieve config descriptor
What is going on??
anybody knows of this error message (Failed to retrieve config descriptor) in Heimdall, please?
Let me just start out by saying that I am a noob at this stuff, and that I don't have much experience, hence why I am here, cause i screwed up.
Basically, I have a player 4.0 that i am trying to get the stock ROM reinstalled on that is not being "cooperative". I have followed many different XDA forum guides, downloaded about a dozen different files, and nothing is working. Here is what works/doesnt work:
- I can access the Download function (hold down volume and plug into computer)
- I have a windows 7 computer
- I downloaded and tried three different versions of Odin, all with no success.
- Downloaded about 6 different files of the stock rom, each in a .tar or other compressed (i think) file type (even tried Icy Fusion, no luck).
- Downloaded heimdall and tried to make the partitions myself, no success.
I am hoping someone on this forum can please help me through the process of restoring my droid back to either the stock ROM or some other ROM, I just want my droid working again.
Also, I have read a multitude of similar XDA forums on this issue (yes I saw the "your a noob XDA" video and i am only making a thread because im desperate) and have had no luck.
Thanks in Advance,
TechnoD11
TechnoD11 said:
Let me just start out by saying that I am a noob at this stuff, and that I don't have much experience, hence why I am here, cause i screwed up.
Basically, I have a player 4.0 that i am trying to get the stock ROM reinstalled on that is not being "cooperative". I have followed many different XDA forum guides, downloaded about a dozen different files, and nothing is working. Here is what works/doesnt work:
- I can access the Download function (hold down volume and plug into computer)
- I have a windows 7 computer
- I downloaded and tried three different versions of Odin, all with no success.
- Downloaded about 6 different files of the stock rom, each in a .tar or other compressed (i think) file type (even tried Icy Fusion, no luck).
- Downloaded heimdall and tried to make the partitions myself, no success.
I am hoping someone on this forum can please help me through the process of restoring my droid back to either the stock ROM or some other ROM, I just want my droid working again.
Also, I have read a multitude of similar XDA forums on this issue (yes I saw the "your a noob XDA" video and i am only making a thread because im desperate) and have had no luck.
Thanks in Advance,
TechnoD11
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Well first of all, welcome to XDA. Hmm, it's better that you use the heimdall method of reflashing to stock ROM.
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zaclimon said:
Well first of all, welcome to XDA. Hmm, it's better that you use the heimdall method of reflashing to stock ROM.
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Thanks for the welcome! I would like my droid working ASAP, so where do i start? remember, i can access the download function. i have the samsung usb drivers installed. If someone could post some detailed, step-by-step instructions, that would be great!
TechnoD11
TechnoD11 said:
Thanks for the welcome! I would like my droid working ASAP, so where do i start? remember, i can access the download function. i have the samsung usb drivers installed. If someone could post some detailed, step-by-step instructions, that would be great!
TechnoD11
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Check on the reference(all-in-one) thread in the development section. In the recovery section, click the first link. I can't post the link because I'm on my tablet.
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zaclimon said:
Check on the reference(all-in-one) thread in the development section. In the recovery section, click the first link. I can't post the link because I'm on my tablet.
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This link (from the recovery section) brings me to a guide i already tried that did not work for me. when i perform those instructions, my droid boots into "android system recovery <3e>". from there, i reboot, or try to wipe the cache, or data (factory reset), or both. after reboot, just goes back into recovery. There is an option for applying update from SD card. is it possible i can load the rom on my SD card and flash it through there?
TechnoD11
Don't call an android device a droid unless you actually own a droid device (Motorola Droid Razr, Droid X, etc.) It drives people like me bonkers
Anyways, the best way to handle this is to solely use Heimdall. This thread should take you through the steps quite nicely, thanks to zaclimon. However, you have to read everything carefully, as you don't want to flash the wrong files within heimdall. If you own an International device (the one with the physical home button), follow the INTL walkthrough. If not, use the US one.
All you will need is the PIT file and the full recovery package, never the Odin. I recommend you try it again if you already have, as you may have done something wrong. If the problem still prevails, I will give you step by step instructions, if not done so already.
LuthicaBlue said:
Don't call an android device a droid unless you actually own a droid device (Motorola Droid Razr, Droid X, etc.) It drives people like me bonkers
Anyways, the best way to handle this is to solely use Heimdall. This thread should take you through the steps quite nicely, thanks to zaclimon. However, you have to read everything carefully, as you don't want to flash the wrong files within heimdall. If you own an International device (the one with the physical home button), follow the INTL walkthrough. If not, use the US one.
All you will need is the PIT file and the full recovery package, never the Odin. I recommend you try it again if you already have, as you may have done something wrong. If the problem still prevails, I will give you step by step instructions, if not done so already.
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First try: Heimdall Crashed
Second try: heimdall crashed again
I have included the Status log for viewing:
Heimdall v1.3.2, Copyright (c) 2010-2012, Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna
(removed link cause im a noob)
This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is
encouraged.
If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
(removed link cause im a noob) lol
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...
Checking if protocol is initialised...
Protocol is not initialised.
Initialising protocol...
Handshaking with Loke...
Beginning session...
Session begun with device of type: 0
Uploading PIT
ERROR: Failed to confirm end of PIT file transfer!
PIT upload failed!
Ending session...
Rebooting device...
here is the list of files i am using (that I downloaded from a different post):
PIT: ypgi1cb.pit
CACHE: cache.rfs
PARAM: param.lfs
DBDATA: dbdata.rfs
FACTORYFS: factoryfs.rfs
KERNEL: zImage (listed in windows as just a 'file')
following the heimdall crash, my SAMSUNG GALAXY PLAYER (cough cough droid cough) reboots and enters...drumroll.... recovery mode!
If someone could explain to me what i might have done wrong, or if there is something else i should try, let me know
thanks for the help,
TechnoD11
THANK YOU COMMUNITY!!!
well, i decided to try it for a third time, and third time is the charm!. It, for some unknown reason, decided to work, and the stock ROM is now back on my droid!
Again, thanks all for your help.
Lesson learned: don't download stuff for the Galaxy player 5.0 thinking it will work on yours (4.0).
TechnoD11
Oh, and administrators, you can delete this thread.
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
Silly Billy said:
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.
gastonw;37017081- Download this ROM.[/QUOTE 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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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...
theunderling said:
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}
theunderling said:
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
gastonw said:
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've searched the forums and haven't found a solution to my problem. I have rooted S4 MK2 and wanted to put Gummy ROM on it, only finding out after I had installed TWRP that this wouldn't be possible. No big deal, but now, I can't get away from the stupid downloading screen for TWRP. No longer do I get the screen before it warning about tinkering with your operating system, and once it's stuck on the screen, getting the phone to boot properly sometimes takes a while, and a lot of foul language. I've tried several things to bypass/delete/overwrite TWRP, to no avail. ODIN doesn't work for me, tried several versions, ROM Manager and CWM doesn't work, when I try to boot into CWM mode it goes to downloading screen of TWRP. I finally gave up, decided to nuke it from space and do a factory reset... which took me straight to the damnedable downloading screen! This tells me I will probably be unable to update or use any ASOP ROMs that I might run into, because once on the downloading screen, nothing works, the phone isn't recognized by my computer, two different versions of ODIN failed to get its attention, unable to to load .pit or .tar files... I'm at wits end folks, and haven't found a solution in any other threads on xda, or the net in general, any help and suggestions would be much appreciated. I've not used ADB before, but if need be, I'll learn if there's a fix going that route.
roshane said:
I've searched the forums and haven't found a solution to my problem. I have rooted S4 MK2 and wanted to put Gummy ROM on it, only finding out after I had installed TWRP that this wouldn't be possible. No big deal, but now, I can't get away from the stupid downloading screen for TWRP. No longer do I get the screen before it warning about tinkering with your operating system, and once it's stuck on the screen, getting the phone to boot properly sometimes takes a while, and a lot of foul language. I've tried several things to bypass/delete/overwrite TWRP, to no avail. ODIN doesn't work for me, tried several versions, ROM Manager and CWM doesn't work, when I try to boot into CWM mode it goes to downloading screen of TWRP. I finally gave up, decided to nuke it from space and do a factory reset... which took me straight to the damnedable downloading screen! This tells me I will probably be unable to update or use any ASOP ROMs that I might run into, because once on the downloading screen, nothing works, the phone isn't recognized by my computer, two different versions of ODIN failed to get its attention, unable to to load .pit or .tar files... I'm at wits end folks, and haven't found a solution in any other threads on xda, or the net in general, any help and suggestions would be much appreciated. I've not used ADB before, but if need be, I'll learn if there's a fix going that route.
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Does Odin "see" your phone? If so, what build are you trying to install?
I know the damage is done, but a little reading before hand would have let you know that with MK2 you can't install a custom recovery. Only Safestrap works with compatible Touchwiz 4.3 Roms
Edit: Maybe this thread will help. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2578209
Edit #2: My apologies. Just re-read your post and I see you said, more than once, that Odin isn't seeing your phone. I'm afraid I won't be any help. Good luck.
Odin sees the phone, but fails at all attempts to install anything. .pit, .tar etc. I originally wanted to install Gummy but now I know that won't ever work, then I just tried to install stock .tar file and it also fails.
roshane said:
I've searched the forums and haven't found a solution to my problem. I have rooted S4 MK2 and wanted to put Gummy ROM on it, only finding out after I had installed TWRP that this wouldn't be possible. No big deal, but now, I can't get away from the stupid downloading screen for TWRP. No longer do I get the screen before it warning about tinkering with your operating system, and once it's stuck on the screen, getting the phone to boot properly sometimes takes a while, and a lot of foul language. I've tried several things to bypass/delete/overwrite TWRP, to no avail. ODIN doesn't work for me, tried several versions, ROM Manager and CWM doesn't work, when I try to boot into CWM mode it goes to downloading screen of TWRP. I finally gave up, decided to nuke it from space and do a factory reset... which took me straight to the damnedable downloading screen! This tells me I will probably be unable to update or use any ASOP ROMs that I might run into, because once on the downloading screen, nothing works, the phone isn't recognized by my computer, two different versions of ODIN failed to get its attention, unable to to load .pit or .tar files... I'm at wits end folks, and haven't found a solution in any other threads on xda, or the net in general, any help and suggestions would be much appreciated. I've not used ADB before, but if need be, I'll learn if there's a fix going that route.
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If you had taken 5 minutes of time to research...you wouldn't have bricked your phone...Countless threads on this very thing.
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roshane said:
Odin sees the phone, but fails at all attempts to install anything. .pit, .tar etc. I originally wanted to install Gummy but now I know that won't ever work, then I just tried to install stock .tar file and it also fails.
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What exactly are you trying to install with Odin?
no bricking, just, let's say a small pebble.
riker147 said:
What exactly are you trying to install with Odin?
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My most recent attempt was SCH-I545.pit, didn't work... I also tried Philz_Touch, gummy, and one other ROM which, of course didn't work, now I know why the roms didn't, but no sure why the .pit file won't work. All I really want to do now is remove all traces of TWRP. My phone isn't bricked, totally usable, it just won't be able to be updated or customized until I get rid of TWRP
roshane said:
My most recent attempt was SCH-I545.pit, didn't work... I also tried Philz_Touch, gummy, and one other ROM which, of course didn't work, now I know why the roms didn't, but no sure why the .pit file won't work. All I really want to do now is remove all traces of TWRP. My phone isn't bricked, totally usable, it just won't be able to be updated or customized until I get rid of TWRP
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It looks to me like your only option is to Odin back to stock MK2. Did you check out the link I gave you in my first post?
riker147 said:
It looks to me like your only option is to Odin back to stock MK2. Did you check out the link I gave you in my first post?
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I'm reading over it now, considering doing the full wipe. Now that I know custom ROMS are going to be limited to ASOP I don't mind going stock and unrooted. I really appreciate your help
roshane said:
I'm reading over it now, considering doing the full wipe. Now that I know custom ROMS are going to be limited to ASOP I don't mind going stock and unrooted. I really appreciate your help
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If you get it straightened out I would recommend reading this thread after. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606501
Let me know how you make out. Good luck.
From reading this I think you're confusing TWRP with Odin. TWRP doesnt have a downloading screen, but Odin does and thats exactly the screen you want to be on to flash a stock Odin tar. You will need to flash a full stock tar. And if you respond saying it didnt work please include the Odin error log.
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riker147 said:
If you get it straightened out I would recommend reading this thread after. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606501
Let me know how you make out. Good luck.
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no luck so far, got the full wipe downloaded, put everything into Odin, and in the Odin message box it says setupconnection.. not real sure what to do...
roshane said:
no luck so far, got the full wipe downloaded, put everything into Odin, and in the Odin message box it says setupconnection.. not real sure what to do...
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You making sure you have the proper USB drivers as well as a good USB cable?
Also like surge said its kind of confusing I think you're confusing Odin with twrp as well at times.
So now your trying to load which file from within Odin???
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Mistertac said:
You making sure you have the proper USB drivers as well as a good USB cable?
Also like surge said its kind of confusing I think you're confusing Odin with twrp as well at times.
So now your trying to load which file from within Odin???
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Got everything working, I'm all stock and all systems are go. Thank you very much for your kind help. I'm going to now patiently wait for the official 4.4 update to arrive and otherwise leave my phone stock.
Hey,
So I successfully rooted my galaxy s4 vruemk2 using saferoot. Then I did goomanager and tried installing a custom recovery. May have been twrp. Anyway, I tried rebooting into recovery and I get the downloading do not turn off target message. Red text at top left saying could not boot.
I tried following this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2578209
I downloaded both the No-Wipe and full wipe versions. And the PIT file. I started with using the full wipe version. I include the PIT file linked there. Odin hangs at setupconnection. So I wait 5 minutes then 10 then 15 and still stuck there. So I pull the battery, reboot into download/recovery and try again. This time using the No-Wipe version. It starts to show a progress bar on the phone but then fails citing a misssing PIT file. So I go through it again. This time using the PIT file. And what does it do? It hangs at setupconnection in Odin.
I go from Odin 3.09 to 3.07 and try both processes again. Same result. I uninstall the samsung usb drivers, reboot the computer and reinstall. Try it again. Still hangs at setupconnection. Same error with No-Wipe if I do not include the PIT file. I run both versions of Odin as administrator, they both still hang at the same step. Even after trying multiple USB ports on my computer.
I'm completely in awe as to why I am the only person this will not work for.
Any suggestions?
MindController said:
Hey,
So I successfully rooted my galaxy s4 vruemk2 using saferoot. Then I did goomanager and tried installing a custom recovery. May have been twrp. Anyway, I tried rebooting into recovery and I get the downloading do not turn off target message. Red text at top left saying could not boot.
I tried following this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2578209
I downloaded both the No-Wipe and full wipe versions. And the PIT file. I started with using the full wipe version. I include the PIT file linked there. Odin hangs at setupconnection. So I wait 5 minutes then 10 then 15 and still stuck there. So I pull the battery, reboot into download/recovery and try again. This time using the No-Wipe version. It starts to show a progress bar on the phone but then fails citing a misssing PIT file. So I go through it again. This time using the PIT file. And what does it do? It hangs at setupconnection in Odin.
I go from Odin 3.09 to 3.07 and try both processes again. Same result. I uninstall the samsung usb drivers, reboot the computer and reinstall. Try it again. Still hangs at setupconnection. Same error with No-Wipe if I do not include the PIT file. I run both versions of Odin as administrator, they both still hang at the same step. Even after trying multiple USB ports on my computer.
I'm completely in awe as to why I am the only person this will not work for.
Any suggestions?
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first mistake is you used goo manager and tried to load twrp.
you can't do this with mk2 phone (or any phone released after mdk)
there is a stickie in general forum that you should have read first thing in this S4 forum. I'm really not sure what to tell you now......
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606501
So yes. It appears that I followed the wrong guide to begin with. That's definitely on me. But putting that aside, should I just give up and say oh well, or is there any kind of helpful instruction that you can give me?
MindController said:
So yes. It appears that I followed the wrong guide to begin with. That's definitely on me. But putting that aside, should I just give up and say oh well, or is there any kind of helpful instruction that you can give me?
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hopefully some one else can jump into this. I don't have any knowledge what to do at this point.
are your sure the odin tar file downloads are good? Did you verify the md5 checksum of the download?
did you follow this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL8XwuRYoWU&feature=youtu.be
decaturbob said:
hopefully some one else can jump into this. I don't have any knowledge what to do at this point.
are your sure the odin tar file downloads are good? Did you verify the md5 checksum of the download?
did you follow this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL8XwuRYoWU&feature=youtu.be
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It's the strangest thing now. Every time i attempt to download the files listed in the post, the checksum always comes back as something different then what the poster has on the page. This then of course fails in Odin. This whole situation keeps getting worse and worse. I've downloaded the same file 5 times so far, and each time the checksum is incorrect.
Should I be using some kind of download manager for a file like that? Would that make any difference?
MindController said:
It's the strangest thing now. Every time i attempt to download the files listed in the post, the checksum always comes back as something different then what the poster has on the page. This then of course fails in Odin. This whole situation keeps getting worse and worse. I've downloaded the same file 5 times so far, and each time the checksum is incorrect.
Should I be using some kind of download manager for a file like that? Would that make any difference?
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is md5 the same between all your download attempts. You are downloading to a computer right?
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MindController said:
It's the strangest thing now. Every time i attempt to download the files listed in the post, the checksum always comes back as something different then what the poster has on the page. This then of course fails in Odin. This whole situation keeps getting worse and worse. I've downloaded the same file 5 times so far, and each time the checksum is incorrect.
Should I be using some kind of download manager for a file like that? Would that make any difference?
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I downloaded these files without issue and the md5s were correct as listed.
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is md5 the same between all your download attempts. You are downloading to a computer right?
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I downloaded these files without issue and the md5s were correct as listed.
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Well I was able to finally get back into the phone and load another rom. Properly this time with Safestrap. However, upon going back through download mode to do anything associated with odin, it continues to get stuck on SetupConnection. I've disconnected all of my external harddrives and moved the usb cable in between at least 5 different usb slots, but it always yields the same result! Even after uninstalling and reinstalling the samsung usb drivers! Arghhh It's so maddening.
Odin just doesn't want to work for me whatsoever!
MindController said:
Well I was able to finally get back into the phone and load another rom. Properly this time with Safestrap. However, upon going back through download mode to do anything associated with odin, it continues to get stuck on SetupConnection. I've disconnected all of my external harddrives and moved the usb cable in between at least 5 different usb slots, but it always yields the same result! Even after uninstalling and reinstalling the samsung usb drivers! Arghhh It's so maddening.
Odin just doesn't want to work for me whatsoever!
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Okay. Tried it on another computer. Worked fine. May have to reinstall stuff here. Sorry for the drama. But thanks for your patience
MindController said:
Okay. Tried it on another computer. Worked fine. May have to reinstall stuff here. Sorry for the drama. But thanks for your patience
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Lots of little things can cause big headaches
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