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My Vibrant suddenly will not mount. I have it set to MASS STORAGE as it always has been, and now it won't bring up the USB notification on the phone and I get a USB Device not recognized error in Windows XP and Windows 7.
The phone is NOT rooted. I flashed JI2 with ODIN. I know it worked after that because I copied back my music movies and games back to the Vibrant from pc's running XP and 7.
Any ideas?
I had that happen to me, too, after I had soft-bricked my phone and then tried to use Odin to recover. I ended up getting the phone back through Clockwork Recovery, but by then it had stopped being recognized in Windows. Try re-installing the drivers (available here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929). That fixed the problem for me.
Tried those, don't work for me. Not sure what the heck is going on. Finally get the phone working nicely with the JI2 update and now this...sheesh.
Any other suggestions?? I confirmed that it's not a driver issue, I tried my coworkers vibrant on my PC and his and it mounts fine. When I connect mine, same old error. I even did a factory reset, same results.
I have the exact same problem.. my vibrant soft bricked, so I reflashed stock rom with ODIN and it seemed to be fine.. then after a while it just stopped being recognized on my computer. Tried both on mine and my husband's. It's not the drivers, I've installed and reinstalled. There doesn't seem to be any fix for this??
sorry to bump an old thread but was there ever a solution for this?
Same happend to me today . I nandroid back to a point it was working and did not help . I read somewhere that formatting the drives help some but im not sure I want to lose all my **** .
AgentFour20 said:
Same happend to me today . I nandroid back to a point it was working and did not help . I read somewhere that formatting the drives help some but im not sure I want to lose all my **** .
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I don't know if it's the drivers. I think it has something to do with Odin. I softbricked my vibrant twice and had to use Eugene's Froyo that won't brick then back to 2.1 and finally a custom rom. I think somewhere in there something happened...
I havent used odin lately . It was working fine then it just stoped working . I got the drives to show up but it window say "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it" .
Couple of things you can try:
1) Try setting the USB mode to Samsung Kies. Somehow, mass storage never worked for me, but Kies mode works just fine.
2) Try installing ES File Explorer from the market. With that you can get into a home network while on WiFi, thus allowing you to transfer data between your computer and phone using your WiFi network, thereby eliminating the need for cables.
So far I've done a few things and i still get "USB device not recognized" .
Here's what I've done .
1) reinstalled drivers
2) formatted internal and external
3) restored to a previous nandroid
guruchimi said:
Couple of things you can try:
1) Try setting the USB mode to Samsung Kies. Somehow, mass storage never worked for me, but Kies mode works just fine.
2) Try installing ES File Explorer from the market. With that you can get into a home network while on WiFi, thus allowing you to transfer data between your computer and phone using your WiFi network, thereby eliminating the need for cables.
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It is recognized when switched to kies but the drive int/ex still dont show up . I was going to odin to stock but odin does see it . Im probly going to download a the stk nandroid and exchange it .
sorry, I have to bump this up in hopes of the night crowd having an idea. Seriously wtf...
help please
heeeeeeelp
Is it recognized in any other computer ?
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Mine is not recognized by any computer, by odin or kies at all. This happened after I flashed a rom using odin fixing a soft brick. I don't know if it is a hardware problem or not, I have flashed to different roms using rom manager and usb is still not being recognized.
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I downloaded kies of samsung website connected my phone up by usb very easy but recently there has been a update on kies and now i have a problem connecting my phone upto kies or when it does connect its hard to keep the connection between the phone and computer.. I have reinstalled the drivers and everything like it says in troubleshoot but dont know what my next step is.. If anyone can help that wud be great
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SteveO588 said:
I downloaded kies of samsung website connected my phone up by usb very easy but recently there has been a update on kies and now i have a problem connecting my phone upto kies or when it does connect its hard to keep the connection between the phone and computer.. I have reinstalled the drivers and everything like it says in troubleshoot but dont know what my next step is.. If anyone can help that wud be great
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Does your phone connect normally via USB to the computer ? completely uninstall and re-install via a fresh download of KIES. Clear your Temp, %Temp% and prefetch folders. Check if the cable is faulty or not. One of these is bound to help you.
I have tried reinstalling keis and done everything i can think of but nothing seems to help. Before the update of kies my phone used to be able to connect via usb like normal ever since the update its all gone to pot
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First of all, I must say that KIES is one of the worst pieces of software I have ever seen. It is buggy and you must hope it will work eventually.
I got one successful with my old phone (galaxy 551) after updating via ODIN first to the correct firmware for my country.
But with my current Galaxy S2 I had to go to the repair center who used ODIN to get the right version on my phone.
I now have made KIES work on my windows 7 machine. I had to install the UK version (not the country version) and used the connection problem wizard to reinstall the drivers. Now it says I have the current version of my firmware.
To go back to your problem. It would help if you post which OS you are on and which version of the firmware you have currently installed ?
Also have you USB error detection off in the settings of your Galaxy S2 ?
Ok, please, anyone, help me!
I've rooted my phone, using a zerg method ive seen on galaxys2root.com, at first everything worked brilliantly, customs roms and all, but the phone usb drivers are gone.
no pc or mac ive tried can detect my phone, i cant move any files (unless i do it over wi-fi), i cant select usb debug mode, it say cable is connected even when there is no cable connected, ive tried many methods to connect the phone but none work.
so now i cant use odin to flash anything since my phone is always being detected as an unknown device.
im desperate, i dont know what to do.
so please anyone help me out there ... i guess all i can offer for help is a 10$ steam game to whoever finds a solutiin
im not quite sure whats wrong with your usb but you can try mobile odin to flash.
The are 2 things that I Would try, try this first:
Download the CWM version of "Siyah kernel" (v3 is best)
Here is a link
http://www.gokhanmoral.com/gm/2012/05/10/siyahkernel-v3-2-1/
Flash it in to CWM recovery (if you need instructions on how to flash in to CWM let me know) (to enter cwm recovery do the following:
Turn phone off
Press the home+ volume up+ power button, and do not release your fingers off the buttons till you see the sgs2 boot logo)
If your phone still doesn't work properly after the above, do the following:
Find a CWM flasherble rom (any will do as you are only flashing it so as to be able to use Odin for what ever rom it is you want to install, although you can also find a nice rom that is cwm flasherble, pure ics v7. 3 is very nice!) and download it from your phone
Make titanium backup of all your apps
Go in to CWM recovery and select "install zip from sd card"
Click "yes"
And hopefully when that has finished it should have fixed the issue you are having, and then you can install the rom you were on originally or a rom that you like.
Hope this helped
Cheers
corey
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Probable not following instruction like
Question in wrong forum
Clean Slate for those that balls up the firmware .Or need to return to service or decide if its hardware/firmware problem .
Backup data first if phone is working .
Boot CWM recovery
Mounts and Storage
Format cache data system sd card .
Remove battery
Boot to download mode
Open Odin
Install correct stock firmware .
jje
Well, thanks for the reply guys but still not working, its driving me nuts, no pc can pick up my phone, its only being seen as unknown device, ODIN cant see my phone when its in download mode.
i installed that room, ICS resurrection remix, the problem managed to find its away to that also.
EDIT: Sorry about posting in the wrong forum.
Stuff to try when Odin doesn't work:-
*Must run Odin as administrator in Windoze.
*Ensure Kies & it's processes aren't running in Windoze task manager. Kill them if they are.
*Try different USB ports; you must be using a 'powered' or mainboard port.
*Try different USB cables (particularly the cable that came with the phone if you're not using it now)
*Try different versions of Odin (search on here/Google).
*Uninstall Kies, reboot, redownload & reinstall it, reboot, try the flash again.
*Check the rom/kernel you download for corruption. Programs like 7Zip, IZarc, WinRar, etc will allow you to 'test' the rom file you download. If there are any errors/any of the files fail the test, bad download. Try again/try downloading with a different internet connection if it keeps happening.
*Run Windoze Update.
Try all of these steps if necessary.
And if all this fails, try a different PC. And if the different PC doesn't work first try, go thru all the above steps on the different PC if necessary.
And if you still don't have any joy, probably user error somewhere along the line or a hardware issue.
I'm sure its a user error, cause the phone realizes that usb is connected when i connect. but no other device can recognize the phone (i tried 2 windows pc's and one os x machine).
I'm not an expert but is it possible that the phone information got deleted?
maxneo said:
I'm sure its a user error, cause the phone realizes that usb is connected when i connect. but no other device can recognize the phone (i tried 2 windows pc's and one os x machine).
I'm not an expert but is it possible that the phone information got deleted?
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Yes if Kies is not installed no USB drivers .
Also clean USB port on the phone .
Getting a lot of i used that xxx site and rooted or flashed now broke help asked from here without knowing what the original site asked you to do or firmware used .It becomes hard to guess what's wrong .
jje
Did you o a factory reset, and full wipe before you installed the rom?
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Ok, Kies is installed with drivers, everything was working fine, then i used a Zerg method i found on galaxys2root.com to root the phone, after that it all went to hell.
Well, for the heck of it, i install MIUI, and usb mount is still not working, this is driving me nuts!
Did you make sure you did a full wipe of the phone before you installed the rom?.
And have you tried flashing siyah v3.2?
Flash the kernel and tell me how you get on.
Cheers corey
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i made a full swipe, well ill flash siyah with miui now, just a sec mate, and really, thanks for replying everyone.
fishingfon, i installed Siyah, rebooted the phone, the pc picked it up and opened the autoplay, then it declared it as unkown device and back to square one.
everytime i reboot the phone, the pc sees it for a few secs now then unknown device... i THINK that we're on to something o.o
Have you tried using another usb cable? As if it is broken that would explain the problems you are having. Abd have you tried it of a different pc?
And if you have an external sd card in the phone, try removing it And then rebooting.
Cheers corey
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And make sure you "uncheck" the "usb debugging" in developer options,I dont know why but I have often not been able to connect my phone to the pc if the above is kept checked.
Cheers corey
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Same thing, could be an appilcation conflict on the phone ? when i reboot the window show and then goes, maybe the phone is a loading an app which screws up with the USB?
Have you tried the above?.
Have you tried enabling usb mass storage?.
I dint think it would be an app, as they are apps that people use all the time.
Did you make sure you used the currect root method for your model?
Did you make sure your phone was either a I9100 or and I9100T model before before tou rooted. If it was the wring model rhat might explain your problems, what model is your phone?
If none of the above works the only thing I can think of is that the phones hardware is broken.
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If you remove the backplate off the phone, and remove the battery, rhe should be a label with the model on it
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You could try downloading Mobile Odin Pro from Google Play. Then go to Samfirmware.com and download your original firmware that came with the phone,( NOT A CUSTOM ROM). Put the firmware on the root directory of your sd card. Run Mobile Odin and install the firmware.
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Hi, this is my first post here.
I have an unbranded international Galaxy S3 GT-I9300, Android 4.0.4
Kernel Version: 3.0.15-928452-user
[email protected] # 1
AP: I9300XXBLG8
CP: I9300XXLG8
CSC: I9300DBTBLG6
Long story, so I better put my questions first:
How can I flash a non-rooted device without using the USB port? SD-Card somehow?? Download mode is working at least...
and/or
How can I remove a Super SU system app from a apparently non-rooted device? (...which can not be rooted by using the USB port)
What happened:
I had rooted my device via this instuctions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238
-> [03.07.2012] CF-Root 6.4 - SuperSU+CWM5.5+CWMManager.
I used heimdall 1.3.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 via 'sudo heimdall flash --recovery recovery.img --cache cache.img'
All worked fine.
When the latest OTA firmware showed up a couple of days age (45,76MB) I tried it and it failed at 29%.
I remebered I had deleted some bloatware and thought maybe bringing it back would make the OTA work. Because I coudn't find Samsung Video Hub at some point I thought it would be the easiest to just factory reset, then run OTA and reroot.
I made lots of backups with Titanium Backup ROOT and I rolled back the BusyBox changes. I also reverted some later installed App to a non-system App again but am not sure which one, it was not Super SU, maybe the terminal app.
I then made a factory reset from within Android, on reboot CWM appeared and I choose the single one 'yes, delete all data'
After rebooting I tried to apply the OTA, still stuck at 29%
I realized that there ist still Super SU left as a system app and thought that might be the reason. However I decided to first give Kies a try with the update.
Installing Kies and connecting the phone (via my gf's Xperia Ray cable) went fine and it showed me the update. Because of memory shortage I had to move some things around, time passes, my gf sit down on her office chair and somehow remaind hanging on the usb cable,
my phone fell down. At first there doesn;t seem to be any problem, but after trying to reconnect to Kies, it didn;t work. I found the USB cable not working anymore, which means that no mobile is charged if connected via that cable now.
However I could not establish a connection from my phone to a computer again since then (original usb cable, another usb cable).
Not to Ubuntu (not recognized in heimdall), neither to any of 2 different windows 7 computers.
I know there is a lot of connection problems out there for S3, I cleaned the connector, and tried lots of stuff like not giving google account credentials after wipe, try different usb-ports, restart computer. Windows always says "Unknow device" now. Ubuntu, also heimdall 1.3.2 just says nothing.
Thats why I guess that somehow there is a hardware problem with the USB connector on the phone now. Charging and MHL is working. It also recognizes USB OTG cable, but not the things that I attach to it, it worked flawless before. USB Debugging on/off -> no difference. Also the option to switch MTP/PTP under Preferences->Storge->USB is gone (was there before my first reset)
As a side note, also WLAN is not working as before anymore, I always have to use a static IP to get connected to my FritzBox.
Because the ruins of SuperSU are still in the system I can not update. However the phone is not rooted as all apps I have tried claim. Reinstalling Super SU did not bring root back. It is there, it thinks the device is rooted but it is not. But I also can not get rid of Super SU.
So now, I can't use normal OTA update, can't reroot or use my backups, bc Titanium requires root.
I am stuck. Is there any way out? Or at least a direction?
Thank you for taking the time.
Silvio
einSelbst said:
Hi, this is my first post here.
I have an unbranded international Galaxy S3 GT-I9300, Android 4.0.4
Kernel Version: 3.0.15-928452-user
[email protected] # 1
AP: I9300XXBLG8
CP: I9300XXLG8
CSC: I9300DBTBLG6
Long story, so I better put my questions first:
How can I flash a non-rooted device without using the USB port? SD-Card somehow?? Download mode is working at least...
and/or
How can I remove a Super SU system app from a apparently non-rooted device? (...which can not be rooted by using the USB port)
What happened:
I had rooted my device via this instuctions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238
-> [03.07.2012] CF-Root 6.4 - SuperSU+CWM5.5+CWMManager.
I used heimdall 1.3.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 via 'sudo heimdall flash --recovery recovery.img --cache cache.img'
All worked fine.
When the latest OTA firmware showed up a couple of days age (45,76MB) I tried it and it failed at 29%.
I remebered I had deleted some bloatware and thought maybe bringing it back would make the OTA work. Because I coudn't find Samsung Video Hub at some point I thought it would be the easiest to just factory reset, then run OTA and reroot.
I made lots of backups with Titanium Backup ROOT and I rolled back the BusyBox changes. I also reverted some later installed App to a non-system App again but am not sure which one, it was not Super SU, maybe the terminal app.
I then made a factory reset from within Android, on reboot CWM appeared and I choose the single one 'yes, delete all data'
After rebooting I tried to apply the OTA, still stuck at 29%
I realized that there ist still Super SU left as a system app and thought that might be the reason. However I decided to first give Kies a try with the update.
Installing Kies and connecting the phone (via my gf's Xperia Ray cable) went fine and it showed me the update. Because of memory shortage I had to move some things around, time passes, my gf sit down on her office chair and somehow remaind hanging on the usb cable,
my phone fell down. At first there doesn;t seem to be any problem, but after trying to reconnect to Kies, it didn;t work. I found the USB cable not working anymore, which means that no mobile is charged if connected via that cable now.
However I could not establish a connection from my phone to a computer again since then (original usb cable, another usb cable).
Not to Ubuntu (not recognized in heimdall), neither to any of 2 different windows 7 computers.
I know there is a lot of connection problems out there for S3, I cleaned the connector, and tried lots of stuff like not giving google account credentials after wipe, try different usb-ports, restart computer. Windows always says "Unknow device" now. Ubuntu, also heimdall 1.3.2 just says nothing.
Thats why I guess that somehow there is a hardware problem with the USB connector on the phone now. Charging and MHL is working. It also recognizes USB OTG cable, but not the things that I attach to it, it worked flawless before. USB Debugging on/off -> no difference. Also the option to switch MTP/PTP under Preferences->Storge->USB is gone (was there before my first reset)
As a side note, also WLAN is not working as before anymore, I always have to use a static IP to get connected to my FritzBox.
Because the ruins of SuperSU are still in the system I can not update. However the phone is not rooted as all apps I have tried claim. Reinstalling Super SU did not bring root back. It is there, it thinks the device is rooted but it is not. But I also can not get rid of Super SU.
So now, I can't use normal OTA update, can't reroot or use my backups, bc Titanium requires root.
I am stuck. Is there any way out? Or at least a direction?
Thank you for taking the time.
Silvio
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Hi. First of all you can have ota updates with kies even if you are rooted as long as you haveone of the official roms installed. Su does not disturb your ota updates through kies.You wont be able to have ota if you are rooted without kies.
R u sure you tried other usb cables and your connection failed? Try another one......You are saying you can charge....These cables have got a lot of thiny cables inside. Even if one is damaged you will have a problem.Try a new Samsung cable.
In the worst case if there is a hardware issue after the fall try kies wireless app so you connect to the pc without cable.
How do you connect to your FritzBox?
looks bad
Hi art,
thank you for your input!
art_arev said:
Hi. First of all you can have ota updates with kies even if you are rooted as long as you haveone of the official roms installed. Su does not disturb your ota updates through kies.You wont be able to have ota if you are rooted without kies. R u sure you tried other usb cables and your connection failed?
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I tried with two different cables (Samsung, Lenovo) on 2 different computers. What makes me quite certain that there is an issue with the usb connector is, that USB OTG is not working anymore. No matter what I connect, the only thing it recognizes is the usb otg cable itself, but no stick/mouse/hub.
The cable which is broken now is the SE Xperia Ray cable from my gf's phone.
art_arev said:
In the worst case if there is a hardware issue after the fall try kies wireless app so you connect to the pc without cable. How do you connect to your FritzBox?
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I tried it, it seems that the Kies Air App as well as Kies over WLAN (via Androids Preferences to connect to the Kies Desktop Application) does not support any firmware updating. I connect to the fritzbox via WLAN, it worked flawless before and I haven't changed anything.
It seems I have the following options:
1. find a way to reroot or flash the phone without using the usb connector (I read somewhere that it should be possible, but no further instructions were given)
2. find a way to remove the left overs from rooting (Super SU) -> that would at least open the possibility to apply OTAs
3. send it to samsung and hope they will repair it (problem is there are still traces of rooting on the phone)
4. try to repair the broken usb-connector myself
5. continue to try to somehow establish a connection via usb
Concerning option #1: I have unsuccesfully looked into the following options: unrevoked, UniversallAndroot, Z4root
All threads I read say it's not possible (e.g. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1870267&highlight=root+without+usb)
If I can't make any use of the leftovers of Super SU I think option 1+2 are dead ends.
I think I should try option 3 and if they deny, try option 4 or live with an unupdateable (?) unrooted phone (nah )
If there is SuperSU in system/app folder than it should work. Try to use build in options in SuperSU to reinstall. Also download and install busybox.
If root will be present and give you all needed partitions than you will be able to use Mobile Odin to flash stock firmware. But you also must remove binary counter information. This is imposible without root and/or working USB port.
There is a small chance that after flashing stock firmware USB port will be fully operational once again. I suppose it could be a software/driver issue, not hardware malfunction.
You can try to flash first with Everoot option enabled and after that check your USB connection. Of course you must transfer stock firmware to your phone. Do this via AirDroid or write it on external sd card on computer and put it into your phone. (copy this firmware to your internal sd card, it's better to flash from internal memory).
To resurrect your phone you need root or working USB.
i9.0.1.3k galaxy imperator
Thank you for keeping the hope alive SirKunon!
SirKunon said:
If there is SuperSU in system/app folder than it should work.
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The App in system/app is called Superuser.apk (if that makes a difference), from inside the App I can see it is SuperSU v0.93.
There is an update available in the playstore which I can apply.
If I start any app which requires root (BusyBox, Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, Root Checker) I get the Superuser prompt to decide if I want to grant root access. Even if I choose "Yes" it never works.
Using the options inside SuperSU to reinstall fails (it does not close) as long as I don't have the update of SuperSU installed. If that is in place. It will close and left me with the former SuperSU version. Same for the option to "switch to another Superuser App" and "complete unroot".
If I try to remove the check from the box saying "activate Superuser" it tells me "Uninstallation failed"
SuperSU is there, Root access not. The only thing I can think of is do a factory reset once more (already did a couple) and try again.
It seems like there is a solution just behind the next door but I can't get through...
It's very strange, indeed.
Try hard reset service code:
*2767*3855# - hard reset
I don't have any other ideas. Service center will refuse fixing it if there are root traces. But you can try to find someone with jtag box to flash stock firmware or replace USB circuit on your own if you are sure that's faulty.
i9.0.1.3k galaxy imperator
Thanks for your help.
SirKunon said:
Try hard reset service code:
*2767*3855# - hard reset
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Tried it, but situation remains unchanged, SuperSU is there, root access not, uninstall/reinstall it has no effect
OTA still hanging at 29%
no usb connection
no wireless connection unless I use a static ip
At least the phone is working as is...
Will probably send it to service center b/c I have nothing to loose. Maybe try to use my gf's insurance on beforehand.
If all fails, open the device or live with it, not sure.
einSelbst said:
Thanks for your help.
OTA still hanging at 29%
YES as it does .
Turn off signature verification via recovery may help.
Triangle Away
Mobile ODIN Pro and flash stock rom from external sd card
Then factory reset .
jje
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hi jje,
JJEgan said:
Turn off signature verification via recovery may help.
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but I don't have correctly working root access and only stock recovery.
Do you think it is still possible?
einSelbst said:
hi jje,
but I don't have correctly working root access and only stock recovery.
Do you think it is still possible?
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No as we still have no way of flashing stock from phone without recovery .
it was just thinking aloud anyway .
What is required is a method to root from within the phone which we don't have .
jje
Hello all, I have a GS3 international GT-I9300
I'll try to go through the story as fast as I can and give as much detail so you guys can understand how I got here.
Bought the phone unlocked, I was stock, I rooted and then I decided to install a new ROM. I went with Resurrection Remix, it was working great. I did this on a desktop back home. They released a new update to RR so I did a OTA update with "Update Me" apparently the thing flashed but it didn't, the phone still worked but NFC wasn't working as well as having lost root access and some other stuff wasn't working correctly, but I lived with it.
I moved to Florida (home is in NY) and I have a laptop with me, for some reason my laptop used to be able to transfer files to my S3, but it wasn't doing it any more after a while. So it would just charge it. I was in a hotel room last week trying to tether via USB but the PC wasnt having it, it could not locate the phone. This week I moved to a different hotel with internet and decided I would flash stock on my S3 to get rid of all these bugs and get root again, I tried flashing stock through recovery and it wasn't going, so I tried flashing RR again (this time downloaded from the site RR site) and it worked. Still no USB connection but I had root back. I looked around my PC and apparently the Samsung drives are not installing or something on my PC. I installed Kies, but nothing, I tried a stand alone driver install and nothing, so I just gave up and bought Mobile Odin pro from Gplay to try to flash again.
Mobile Odin for some reason (I blame it on myself) wasn't finding/flashing stock so again I decided to try and flash RR and see what would happen. It flashed RR and turned on fine. Then I just decided to look for an NFC fix on XDA. Once I found my NFC fix (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32029713&postcount=8367) I decided to just copy the files to the system folder, NFC still not working, rebooted and NFC still no working, so I figured I would try to flash the fix through mobile odin seeing as how I can't get my PC to pick up on the USB. I tried flashing but MO just kept bouncing it back and re-booting into RR. Tried again and no flash. So I decided to again try and flash stock. I tried going into Recovery, the phone shut off like it always does, came back on but stayed in the Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 logo and would not move. I shut it off again, tried turning it on again and still stuck on the galaxy logo. Now, if I leave the phone off and plug in the USB, it won't show the battery charging image, it will actually turn straight onto the galaxy logo again and stay there. I can get the phone into download mode, but like I said my pc won't recognize the drivers.
Now, here are my questions:
What happened?
Can this be fixed?
Am I an idiot?
If I can get the drivers installed on another PC as well as Odin (1.85), will the new PC "see" the S3 or are the drivers on the phone deleted as well? (if that sort of thing can happen, idk.)
I'm going to see if I can borrow a buddy's PC and download the drivers as well as odin to try and bring my S3 back to life, I just want to know, what happens if I can't get the other PC to pick it up ether because the drivers on the phone are deleted (if that's a thing) or what I can expect if it is connected.
What are the steps or guides to follow here? I just got it into Download mode and it says on the top of the screen:
ODIN MODE
Product name: GT-I9300
Custom Binary Download: Yes (2 counts)
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Custom
sorry , i am sometime getting headache reading long english text so i just briefly look over.
your PC doesn't recognize your S3 ? is that correct ? hmmm , is it possible that your PC (Microsoft Windows I assume?) system is damaged due to something like virus or some reasons ? i have encountered that kinda problem before and be OK after i reinstalled the system.
If it's a soft brick, then it can defiantly be fixed. You might, however, lose your data along the process.
Be glad it's not hard bricked
It happened to me many times, USB error "unknown device" connected. Only fix for it was reinstalling Windows so better if you can use different PC or laptop. Install Kies and other USB drivers. Restart computer, download and run Odin v 3.0x. Flash your phone.
If this doesn't work then maybe your phone have a problem with USB port?
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djembey said:
It happened to me many times, USB error "unknown device" connected. Only fix for it was reinstalling Windows so better if you can use different PC or laptop. Install Kies and other USB drivers. Restart computer, download and run Odin v 3.0x. Flash your phone.
If this doesn't work then maybe your phone have a problem with USB port?
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Don't forget to delete kies as you only need the drivers
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Thanks for the replies guys. I'll try to fix tit today, I didn't get a chance to do it last night. If anything I'll update you guys with what's going on.
Like I was saying, I'll try using a different PC to fix it. Now, if I can't get Odin to recognize the phone, what would be the next step?