Was on HellyBean.
Downloaded SlimICS and commons.
Flashed ROM.
ROM didn't take.
CWM Recovery didn't show internal storage, but showed external.
I went into advanced recovery to recover.
(Don't remember exact words)
Recovery says 'error recovering boot partition'
Rebooted itself won't get past "rainbow in my eye" boot screen.
Got into Download mode, tried to odin to jfd, failed at modem.
Try again, screen turns solid blue at modem and hangs.
Try again, screen turns washed out green at modem and hangs.
PC won't recognize phone after that, and phone--!--pc is on screen, but I can still get to download mode.
Tried Heimdall too, phone isn't connecting to flashers.
Maybe ADB can work, but I need help from the community please.
1freedude said:
Was on HellyBean.
Downloaded SlimICS and commons.
Flashed ROM.
ROM didn't take.
CWM Recovery didn't show internal storage, but showed external.
I went into advanced recovery to recover.
(Don't remember exact words)
Recovery says 'error recovering boot partition'
Rebooted itself won't get past "rainbow in my eye" boot screen.
Got into Download mode, tried to odin to jfd, failed at modem.
Try again, screen turns solid blue at modem and hangs.
Try again, screen turns washed out green at modem and hangs.
PC won't recognize phone after that, and phone--!--pc is on screen, but I can still get to download mode.
Tried Heimdall too, phone isn't connecting to flashers.
Maybe ADB can work, but I need help from the community please.
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Well first you shouldn't go from JB back to ICS. Second the rainbow is probably from not having GB bootloaders. Make sure re-partition is checked in Odin and try again. Hope this helps.
sent from the depths of helly bean
Thanks, rainbow is a adyscorpius GB splash.
I tried Odin 1.7 and it got a bit further in the process, but still flaked.
Now, phone is dead dead. Think I need to make a jig.
1freedude said:
Thanks, rainbow is a adyscorpius GB splash.
I tried Odin 1.7 and it got a bit further in the process, but still flaked.
Now, phone is dead dead. Think I need to make a jig.
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Wow that sucks, if you end up needing a JTAG repair mobiletechvideos.com is awesome. Very professional and very quick service.
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So the phone isn't so dead. If I try to put it into DL mode, the screen doesn't do anything, but it gets warm, not too warm.
All is not lost...
Thanks for heads up on mobiletechvideo.com
1freedude said:
So the phone isn't so dead. If I try to put it into DL mode, the screen doesn't do anything, but it gets warm, not too warm.
All is not lost...
Thanks for heads up on mobiletechvideo.com
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I think you might have a hard brick. I had the something, wouldn't display or do anything but got warm when I plugged into the charger. I never tried a jig though.
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Since your phone is getting warm, even though your not seeing any on screen activity, go ahead and open Odin. Do the button combo for download mode, see if Odin will get com.. may try it a few times.
There doesn't have to be anything on your screen for Odin to be able to see download mode.
Happens all the time. If you can get com then well go from there.
You are a trooper toaster.
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Toast6977 said:
Since your phone is getting warm, even though your not seeing any on screen activity, go ahead and open Odin. Do the button combo for download mode, see if Odin will get com.. may try it a few times.
There doesn't have to be anything on your screen for Odin to be able to see download mode.
Happens all the time. If you can get com then well go from there.
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No com, no nothing's
Broke down and bought SGS 2 and a half rack of Jubelale.
Its been great fun folks, I have had a really fun time here and with my T959.
So are you going to sell the vibrant?
Paranoid, sitting in a deep sweat...
For what, a battery charger?
1freedude said:
For what, a battery charger?
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Paranoid, sitting in a deep sweat...
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So, I just got my phone back from Samsung for this issue. Start my newly returned phone up, it's running 2.2. I turn it off, hold volume buttons and plug in my USB cable - I get download mode instantly. I start up Odin 1.7, select the files and click start.
Nothing happens. Hangs up SetupConnection. I unplug the battery, then the USB cable, plug everything back in and I'm back at square one with this ****ing screen.
Last time I tried every single ****ing button combination posted on this website. I know my phone isn't hardware locked because I've never had a problem getting in to Download Mode before. Hell, I'd never had a problem with Odin not working properly before. What the hell is wrong? I have all the proper drivers installed. Why is this happening?
Now, Odin still sees my phone when I plug it in. If I click Start, sometimes it hangs on SetupConnection, sometimes it hangs on Initialization. I've read that you should still be able to flash while on this screen? Is this true? Either way, I think I'm ****ed again. Any help?
Also, I've read that maybe a jig will help get me in to download mode? Where can I buy a jig from?
you can go to stock jfd from that screen, it acts like download mode.
Once on jfd, download mode will work fine.
try the files in my going back to stock... also make sure to remove any other usb components (they can cause odin to hang).
I love you.
Something must be wrong with the files on my desktop, or perhaps the other USB cable I'm using is ****ed.
This is a bit embarrassing. For some reason I can't get root. I can get in to recovery and select reinstall packages, but every time it boots right back in to the OS. Any hints? Never had this issue before.
EDIT: So it looks like I have Superuser installed but since I can't get into Clockwork I can't flash any roms. What's going on? I can't find any other links where people couldn't get in to Clockwork.
EDIT2: Well, I installed ROM Manager and used it to "flash" CWM. Reinstall Packages worked this time it seems. Weird. Anyway, thanks for the help!
Cool, glad you were able to get it all sorted.
I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
fugy56 said:
I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
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Odin will flash, takes less than 5 minutes.
Is there any data running that you can see? I mean at the bottom left. I would suggest you turn off the phone, battery pull, wait for 5 minutes, and reflash back.
If it semi bricked, use JIG to revive it.
Either way, you can't be letting the phone there for the next few days etc right?
Did you click Start in Odin??
Although i don't have an s2(will be getting one soon) did you try to reset your pc? When i was flasing my sgsl i was stuck in this situation where odin seems to freeze everytime. I restarted my pc and poof, flashed without a problem
Edit: was flashing successful? If so maybe you should follow the instruction from the post below.
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This might sound stupid but did you have 'auto-reboot' checked? It happened to me once even though I have flashed hundreds of times. Odin was still open after flashing a kernel and never reset.
Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
Flash CWM kernel, download CM7 rom, copy it on SDCard (mount USB storage in CWM, connect to PC via USB, copy ROM), flash ROM from CWM
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Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
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Try to go into recovery mode and factory reset and clear cache and try flashing again (make sure you are on download mode)
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Hold power button to off it (hold a lil longer for this).
Then Go into recovery mode (power, home button and volume up at same time). Try do wipe all data, cache and even dalvik. Reboot and see if that works.
Alternatively, at the same place, go into restore backup.
The man said: "I can't go into recovery mode"
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Recovery mode doesn't work - nope. But thanks anyway. It's nice to see that people at least try to help. Big hugs to you all.
If I try to flash CWM, I come into the same freeze again. Mindbending stuff ala Samsung, huh. They clearly don't make idiot-safe products. I'm stuck. My next phone might be a StarTAC...
Has happened to me before. KIES was opened. I closed all KIES files and the flashing fun started again~
Good point, make sure Kies isn't running when using Odin!
Also, now that you've flashed CWM, can't you boot on it?
Kies is not running and whatever I flash - it freezes. The green progress bar in Odin reaches maybe 1 cm, but no blue progress bar is visible on the phone as usually happens when flashing. It just says, "Downloading... Don't turn off target!!"
Am I slowly heading towards the brutal-axe-method?
Sounds like the NAND is damaged to me, but I'm no expert...
"NAND" means? Why does it sound like it's damaged? How can it get repaired?
NAND is the flash chip (internal sdcard). Seems that its damaged because you're unable to fully flash it.
I don't think you can have that repaired (if the NAND is truly damaged, like I said I'm no expert), you'd have to get the phone replaced.
With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
lol I hope for you that I'm wrong also!
fugy56 said:
With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
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Something similar had happened with me too. The phone was stuck b/w flashing with odin. And the startscreen was showing those 3 icons. It was soft bricked.
But I then finally fixed it by flashing CF and then a ROM
I flashed Trigger onto my Vibrant, all seemed well. ROM Manager was FCing, so I reinstalled from market, installed recovery from within ROM Manager, rebooted, went into the regular android recovery. Rebooted again, now it doesn't want to boot. Just loops at the Samsung Galaxy logo (after the vibrant, the little "movie" that plays after the Vibrant logo)
Stubborn bastard won't go into download mode, COM9 shows up in Odin, but it keeps looping the intro thing. If I try to flash, Odin just says SetupConnection and stays there.
Will a JIG do anything at this point?
I will admit, I got too eager and may have flashed a gingerbread ROM on top of a froyo bootloader. >.> I admit, that was stupid, but now all I want is to get the damn thing back into download mode...
It's not bricked. Probably just in a boot loop. Just need to play around and get into download mode.
speedy11131 said:
I will admit, I got too eager and may have flashed a gingerbread ROM on top of a froyo bootloader. >.> I admit, that was stupid, but now all I want is to get the damn thing back into download mode...
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that doesnt make a difference, i've been on simply honey like 2 month on froyo bootloaders and works fine apart from rainbow on boot and not being able to see recovery
speedy11131 said:
I flashed Trigger onto my Vibrant, all seemed well. ROM Manager was FCing, so I reinstalled from market, installed recovery from within ROM Manager, rebooted, went into the regular android recovery. Rebooted again, now it doesn't want to boot. Just loops at the Samsung Galaxy logo (after the vibrant, the little "movie" that plays after the Vibrant logo)
Stubborn bastard won't go into download mode, COM9 shows up in Odin, but it keeps looping the intro thing. If I try to flash, Odin just says SetupConnection and stays there.
Will a JIG do anything at this point?
I will admit, I got too eager and may have flashed a gingerbread ROM on top of a froyo bootloader. >.> I admit, that was stupid, but now all I want is to get the damn thing back into download mode...
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That happened to me before, I used and tried a different cable and got into download mode with functioning odin. Also, try removing battery, then put the battery back in. then with pressing volume up and down with power switch plug in usb. Hope this helps. Vibrant is hard to brick.
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It is not dead yet, follow the steps as follow thread to go back in beginning and flash rom you want again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
Depending on which version of ODIN you are using the sequence works best like this:
1) Get the phone into a download acceptable mode with use of a usb cable (JIG is most appropriate)
2) Have ODIN running BEFORE connecting the phone
3) Now connect your phone and attempt the flash. Version prior to 1.7 were extremely picky with following this sequence. As of 1.7 POST ODIN seems to not bug so much the sequence of when the phone was plugged in.
Report back with your results...
speedy11131 said:
I flashed Trigger onto my Vibrant, all seemed well. ROM Manager was FCing, so I reinstalled from market, installed recovery from within ROM Manager, rebooted, went into the regular android recovery. Rebooted again, now it doesn't want to boot. Just loops at the Samsung Galaxy logo (after the vibrant, the little "movie" that plays after the Vibrant logo)
Stubborn bastard won't go into download mode, COM9 shows up in Odin, but it keeps looping the intro thing. If I try to flash, Odin just says SetupConnection and stays there.
Will a JIG do anything at this point?
I will admit, I got too eager and may have flashed a gingerbread ROM on top of a froyo bootloader. >.> I admit, that was stupid, but now all I want is to get the damn thing back into download mode...
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1) take your battery out
2) plug your phone a laptop/desktop
3) hold volume up and volume down + put the battery in
...should be in download mode...I am assuming u have a froyo bootloader...
If that don't work then on step three instead of holding both volume buttons only hold volume up..that works for GB bootloader...
I was running the newest SKANK rom, and woke up this morning with it on the galaxy s screen. I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot, but the power button didnt work. it wouldnt boot into recovery either. I tried using odin, but it keeps hanging at either cache, or modem, and wont go any farther... I could really use some advice.
take it apart
kdaniels1986 said:
I was running the newest SKANK rom, and woke up this morning with it on the galaxy s screen. I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot, but the power button didnt work. it wouldnt boot into recovery either. I tried using odin, but it keeps hanging at either cache, or modem, and wont go any farther... I could really use some advice.
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hey bro whats up sorry to here that have u tried taken out your battery sim and micro for 5 minutes then putting back your battery only before this you should restart your computer then using a different usb port connect the usb then hold vol up and down same time hopefully download mode right away then you have to check repartition if your using some older version of odin it does not do it for you make sure you have correct files and you should be good odin will only hang usually due to wrong or mismatch pit and tar .... goto development section look for any of FISHMANs work he has plenty of odin images you can easily odin back to a rooted device and not have to go through all those steps in rerooting before any of my steps just make sure you have repartition checked on yes :good: hopefully that gets you some where :good:
kdaniels1986 said:
I was running the newest SKANK rom, and woke up this morning with it on the galaxy s screen. I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot, but the power button didnt work. it wouldnt boot into recovery either. I tried using odin, but it keeps hanging at either cache, or modem, and wont go any farther... I could really use some advice.
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Well try to get into download mode with the combo, then reinstall your Samsung drivers, try adding nexus drivers too. Idk much about this but skang, soft brick, and Odin problems caught me cause I run the same ROM.
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All,
I have a Verizon 16gb S4 that was already rooted and using CleanRom. I decided I was not happy with the 16 and have picked up a 32GB. In turn, I was going to format the old one using the Recovery mode and sell afterwards. During the wiping process the screen went black. Now, it just reboots to the Samsung S4 splash screen and reboots, over and over and over. It never goes past the S4 screen. If I hold POWER and VOL UP to go into recovery mode, it shows that it is going, reboots, and does that same crappy rebooting over and over. I can get into ODIN mode with success, but was unsure how/what to even do at this point.
Am I just screwed? I sure hope not.
boot loop
SimpleAtheist said:
All,
I have a Verizon 16gb S4 that was already rooted and using CleanRom. I decided I was not happy with the 16 and have picked up a 32GB. In turn, I was going to format the old one using the Recovery mode and sell afterwards. During the wiping process the screen went black. Now, it just reboots to the Samsung S4 splash screen and reboots, over and over and over. It never goes past the S4 screen. If I hold POWER and VOL UP to go into recovery mode, it shows that it is going, reboots, and does that same crappy rebooting over and over. I can get into ODIN mode with success, but was unsure how/what to even do at this point.
Am I just screwed? I sure hope not.
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after reading stories on here and other sites, I am assuming based on the fact I cannot get to the recovery mode that I am bricked for good. Correct? Anyone?
If you can get to Odin mode, you should be OK
If you can get into Odin mode, you should be able to get your phone back to a usable state. Follow the instructions in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41986600&postcount=1
SimpleAtheist said:
after reading stories on here and other sites, I am assuming based on the fact I cannot get to the recovery mode that I am bricked for good. Correct? Anyone?
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thanks!
maxyoda said:
If you can get into Odin mode, you should be able to get your phone back to a usable state. Follow the instructions in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41986600&postcount=1
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That is what I needed
good thing to do before flashing any rom is to research on how to get back to stock in case anything goes wrong. usually if you can get into download and/or recovery it should be easy to fix most problems.