Good Morning,
I'm having the hardest time rooting my galaxy tab 10.1 I just bought. It came with android 4.0.4. I followed this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBd9gMFCCrA
and this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI4ZredrFNc
I couldn't find a video on here dealing with rooting android 4.0.4 maybe I didn't look in the right place.
The first thing that is different in all the videos I've been watching is when you turn the tablet off. and press power button+volume down buttton the screen that show on everybodys video I have watched so far has 2 icons that show up one on the left the look a box one on the right that looks like an android symbol. Yet on my device all I get is the screen that says download mode. Just wanted to point that out might be the reason why this isn't working for me.
Ok so when I get in to download mode another thing that is going on is on the screen it says custom binary download 3 I assume that is on there because I have tried 3 times. anyways I load up the recovery tar file in odin. I have my device in download mode and connect to my computer I hit the start button it goes all the way through and says pass and the device reboots. I shut the device down.
The next step I'm trying to get in to the clock work recovery by holding down the power button + volume down and it is suppose to take me in to the recovery every single time I do it it takes me to the stock android system recovery <3e>. In yellow letters on the screen it says # MANUAL MODE #
---Applying Multi-CSC...
Applied the CSC-code : XAR
Succesfully applied multi-CSC
I have no clue what the above means but I cannot get this system in a clockwork recovery mode to save my life.
If anybody can help me are like me to the correct video that I'm suppose to be following I would really appericate. Thank You In Advance.
Just flash a CWM recovery using Odin, then once it's on there use the rooting zip and that's all there is to it.
I'll find the link to the files and update this post with the details.
But first, you need to tell us if it's the Wi-Fi only or 3G.
Better yet, give us the full model number to make sure you're in the right forum.
Swyped, from my finger to your face, on my Samsung Galaxy Note II
kronik420 said:
Good Morning,
I'm having the hardest time rooting my galaxy tab 10.1 I just bought. It came with android 4.0.4. I followed this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBd9gMFCCrA
and this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI4ZredrFNc
I couldn't find a video on here dealing with rooting android 4.0.4 maybe I didn't look in the right place.
The first thing that is different in all the videos I've been watching is when you turn the tablet off. and press power button+volume down buttton the screen that show on everybodys video I have watched so far has 2 icons that show up one on the left the look a box one on the right that looks like an android symbol. Yet on my device all I get is the screen that says download mode. Just wanted to point that out might be the reason why this isn't working for me.
Ok so when I get in to download mode another thing that is going on is on the screen it says custom binary download 3 I assume that is on there because I have tried 3 times. anyways I load up the recovery tar file in odin. I have my device in download mode and connect to my computer I hit the start button it goes all the way through and says pass and the device reboots. I shut the device down.
The next step I'm trying to get in to the clock work recovery by holding down the power button + volume down and it is suppose to take me in to the recovery every single time I do it it takes me to the stock android system recovery <3e>. In yellow letters on the screen it says # MANUAL MODE #
---Applying Multi-CSC...
Applied the CSC-code : XAR
Succesfully applied multi-CSC
I have no clue what the above means but I cannot get this system in a clockwork recovery mode to save my life.
If anybody can help me are like me to the correct video that I'm suppose to be following I would really appericate. Thank You In Advance.
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I am having the same issue! I am running ICS 4.0.4 and cannot root for the life of me! I unrooted to get the upgrade and now I cannot root again. I've tried everything short of throwing it in a wall and using my extended warranty for a new one!! I am so fed up that i barely use the paper weight anymore!! I truly have no use for it unless it's rooted! I want google now, which is not on ICS, atleast not MY upgrade! Please, someone, ANYONE help!
BTW, I have the WI-FI version and I've already tried odin, mobile odin, rom manager, and even the update.zip and CWM recovery, NO LUCK! HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPP!!!!
**********When trying to flash CWM Recovery through ROM Manager, I get "An error occiured while attempting to run priviledged commands!"
**********SuperUser and BusyBox are not working!
**********No matter how many times I flash update.zip, I get nothing, nada, zip!! Please help!!!
******BUSYBOX ERROR MESSAGE******
There was a problem opening a shell with root access. This is either being caused by superuser/supersu or by a device that is inproperly rooted.
Try removing superuser/supersu permissions, uninstalling this application, reinstalling this application, and then regranting superuser/supersu permissions for this application.
Right, which tabs do you guys have, specific model numbers, GT-P7500 or GT-P 7510 etc...
Swyped, from my finger to your face, on my Samsung Galaxy Note II
RavenY2K3 said:
Right, which tabs do you guys have, specific model numbers, GT-P7500 or GT-P 7510 etc...
Swyped, from my finger to your face, on my Samsung Galaxy Note II
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I clearly said WI-FI model, 7510 any help you can give is appreciated
7510 root issues for 4.0.4
I am having the same issue and would greatly appreciate the help. I have the 7510 wifi model aswell. Both busy box and su are throwing errors
Help
ammellema said:
I am having the same issue and would greatly appreciate the help. I have the 7510 wifi model aswell. Both busy box and su are throwing errors
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Yeah me too! I thought It was just me. I have the GT-P7510 WIFI Only. Sure would love a fix for this beast.
Make sure you've got a CURRENT root package for your tablet. I had an old one that I downloaded almost a year ago and tried to install that after the upgrade. It looked like it installed correctly, but didn't actually get root permissions set on the su binary.
I installed SuperSU instead and it worked just fine.
Try
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyTab10.1/rooting/GalaxyTabHacks.com_SuperUser.zip
as that claims to be current.
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So I want to to root my Vibrant but I can't...Every way I tried it needed to reboot my vibrant to recovery didn't work...
I tried GS Tweaker, ONeSuperClick, rom manager, terminal emulator.....
I got my update.zip file into my SD card but Im stuck with the rebooting thing
I tried all the ways of rebooting: the manual rebooting, Android SDK application... everything thing, I spent the whole day finding ways, watching videos and reading from vibrant wiki..
So what I reached to yesterday is:
while I was talking to one of the pro of android in one of the chat room somewhere, he said maybe because my phone needs "hardware updating" that the buttons can't reboot something like that (since I'm not in the states and I cant get OTA updates from T-mobile)... so I need to download ODIN and find Samsung drivers...
can anyone help me in this please?
try http://www.akaskriller.com/free/flashing.php
there are some files that you may need to ODIN. good luck, hope it works out.
qatarneh said:
So I want to to root my Vibrant but I can't...Every way I tried it needed to reboot my vibrant to recovery didn't work...
I tried GS Tweaker, ONeSuperClick, rom manager, terminal emulator.....
I got my update.zip file into my SD card but Im stuck with the rebooting thing
I tried all the ways of rebooting: the manual rebooting, Android SDK application... everything thing, I spent the whole day finding ways, watching videos and reading from vibrant wiki..
So what I reached to yesterday is:
while I was talking to one of the pro of android in one of the chat room somewhere, he said maybe because my phone needs "hardware updating" that the buttons can't reboot something like that (since I'm not in the states and I cant get OTA updates from T-mobile)... so I need to download ODIN and find Samsung drivers...
can anyone help me in this please?
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ok....thats weird
first try pulling out your battery.....then put it back in...then hold both volume buttons while you turn it back on w/ the power button....when the black samsung screen pops up let them go...the phone should go into the stock 2e recovery...
if you still want the drivers then here you go ....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
Odin and a nice guide on how to use it can be found here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
or
here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
http://androidforums.com/vibrant-tips-tricks/223806-guide-fixing-bricks-odin-errors.html
should have all the info you need.
Thanks man! you're advice just worked with me
Thanks a million guys
Alright, so for the last few hours I have apparently been mucking up my phone in the completely wrong manner.
I have a Samsung Galaxy SII running the most recent Gingerbread (2.5.6?) I don't remember. Because I'm rather dull apparently, I can't check either.
When my phone reboots (NO IT'S NOT A REBOOT LOOP.) I am offered some options I can navigate with the up and down buttons on the left. In the past, when I hit the power button on the right it would pick one. Now, because I used the COMPLETELY WRONG FIRMWARE or whatever with Odin when I flashed it, I can no longer use that button to select anything.
I can hover over the option I want and stare at it, but I can't select it. It's saddening.
Here's what I did to create myself a bunch of first world problems, in mostly the right order.
1. Was born stupid
2. Got XWKDD_insecure.tar
3. STUCK THAT ON MY PHONE VIA ODIN
4. noticed screen had become very bright and back button didn't work. Ohgod.
5. Attempted to fix everything by installing a custom ROM (CyanogenMod)
6. As this mod installed, it deleted some things. I don't remember what exactly.
7. Something failed during installation.
8. I am stuck looking at the start screen and have NO OK BUTTON WHATSOEVER and feeling very silly because I can no longer hit on women as well and it is valentines day.
9. I noticed that wouldn't matter because if you can't root a phone, you aren't getting in anyway.
Any help would be appreciated. I mean I already found my helmet so that bit of advice wouldn't help me, but aiding me in getting my phone unbricked and possibly running CyanogenMod would be EXCELLENT.
Summary/TLDR:
I messed up my phone by installing the wrong firmware. I now have a remapped OK button that doesn't exist on my phone and cannot select options in recovery.
If I could select options, I still might not know what to do.
I watched your noob video, that was excellent. Some other sites I use could use one of those.
ON THE START SCREEN it says
--Copying media files--
Successfully copied media files.
# MANUAL MODE #
Updating application...
Successfully updated application
Applying Multi-CSC
Can't access to 'system/csc/att/system/'
Successfully applied multi-CSC
Er, woops, coulda put that in the first post via edit.
And nevermind. I just used this guide here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659 to flash it back to bone stock. This particular fix is for the Galaxy S2 and I do not know if it would work for other phones.
Thanks anyway.
Alright, so here's my problem:
I just upgraded to the Galaxy S III yesterday, and today decided to try to 'root' the device. So I found the Toolkit here on XDA (from here), and went through the initial steps without any issues (driver installation, device recognition, etc..).
I then went to the 'rooting option' menu, where I selected the first--and most basic --option, which was to only install Super User, and the push the permissions.
I was following the automated guide, opened Odin, selected the correct file, 'boot-insecure-i9300xxale8-gsm.tar', and made sure only 'auto-restart' and F.reset time' were checked, and clicked 'start'. The flash appeared to have gone well, but when it tried to restart, the phone never rebooted. I attempted to reboot into download mode (Vol. Down + Home + Power), but the device was unresponsive. I then browsed around the forums a bit looking for other methods, including taking the battery out for several minutes, then putting it back in whilst holding down the 'download mode' button combination, and other various variations of that method; yet again, none prevailed.
The device gives no indicator lights when plugged in, no light up when the power button is held down, and is overall seemingly unresponsive. However, when I hold down the 'home' button alone - after about 30 seconds - a green vertical battery appears on the screen, with a little white loading indicator on it, but vanishes after about 5 seconds or so, and the device becomes unresponsive once more.
The device is not being recognized by my computer whatsoever, no beeps or anything when plugged in.
Any ideas as to what I can do?
EDIT: I have been able to get into 'Download mode' somehow, but after trying to reflash the stock rom, it went back to the 'Unresponsive' mode. I have it in Download mode again currently, so what do I do from here?
I assume it is still under warranty, since it is less than a few days old. Return it to the store claiming hardware malfunctioning.
Forget about the toolkit. In my opinion, it's quite useless (as you know by now), and it tends to automate tasks that are simple by nature.
Even although I appreciate the effort the developers of the toolkit put into it, I would never do it, since I want to have control of the entire process: I want to know exactly what is being done and why, and that is something the Toolkit won't give me.
If you want to root your phone and keep it stock, do this:
- Install the drivers for the device.
- Install SiyahKernel for S3 version 1.3 using ODIN.
- Install superSU (from market) and let it update it's binary su
- Install MobileOdin (free version)
- download the latest Samsung ROM (such as DBT [Germany] or ITV [Italy]) using CheckFus downloader
- copy the downloaded and unzipped ROM to your phone's external SD card (just the .md5 file)
- using MobileODIN, flash the ROM and select the "EverRoot" feature
- after reboot the ROM will be updated, stock, but with root
- Install TriangleAway to get rid of any annoying triangles and to reset the binary counter
Done. supposing the ROM is already downloaded, the entire process takes exactly 4 minutes.
Simonetti2011 said:
I assume it is still under warranty, since it is less than a few days old. Return it to the store claiming hardware malfunctioning.
Forget about the toolkit. In my opinion, it's quite useless (as you know by now), and it tends to automate tasks that are simple by nature.
Even although I appreciate the effort the developers of the toolkit put into it, I would never do it, since I want to have control of the entire process: I want to know exactly what is being done and why, and that is something the Toolkit won't give me.
If you want to root your phone and keep it stock, do this:
- Install the drivers for the device.
- Install SiyahKernel for S3 version 1.3 using ODIN.
- Install superSU (from market) and let it update it's binary su
- Install MobileOdin (free version)
- download the latest Samsung ROM (such as DBT [Germany] or ITV [Italy]) using CheckFus downloader
- copy the downloaded and unzipped ROM to your phone's external SD card (just the .md5 file)
- using MobileODIN, flash the ROM and select the "EverRoot" feature
- after reboot the ROM will be updated, stock, but with root
- Install TriangleAway to get rid of any annoying triangles and to reset the binary counter
Done. supposing the ROM is already downloaded, the entire process takes exactly 4 minutes.
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Thank you so much for responding!
I have the phone in download mode right now though, as I've been able to get that far. Is there anything I can do from here to fix the issue? I really don't want to take it back up, and face the chance of confrontation if they decided to call me out on the issue.
I tried flashing the Sinyah Kernel via Odin just now, using the PDA mode, but once again, just flashes the Samsung logo for a brief second, and disappears, leaving me with a black screen.
Samsung don't seem to really care if you have rooted or not, so far about 4 people in 2 days on this and other for mums have returned phones because they have possibly bricked them, all got them exchanged with out a problem.
To unroot and return your galaxy S3 to stock for warranty watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Tga_yKywc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Zenno said:
Thank you so much for responding!
I have the phone in download mode right now though, as I've been able to get that far. Is there anything I can do from here to fix the issue? I really don't want to take it back up, and face the chance of confrontation if they decided to call me out on the issue.
I tried flashing the Sinyah Kernel via Odin just now, using the PDA mode, but once again, just flashes the Samsung logo for a brief second, and disappears, leaving me with a black screen.
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Flash a stock rom for your phone and location or if it was a branded phone flash that .
Even if it does not boot you stand a better chance under warranty .
Say you where doing a Kies update and it just failed to reboot .
jje
JJEgan said:
Flash a stock rom for your phone and location or if it was a branded phone flash that .
Even if it does not boot you stand a better chance under warranty .
Say you where doing a Kies update and it just failed to reboot .
jje
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I tried to reboot the stock firmware 'boot-stock-i9300xxale8-gsm.tar', but when Odin failed to reboot the phone, and I manually put it back into download mode, it still said my binary was 'Custom'.
Should I be trying to flash that under 'Bootloader' in Odin or something? Because I've been doing 'PDA' and it hasn't been working.
Download an original, stock ROM from samsung-updates.com or use checkFus downloader.
That is what you'll flash.
This is the one I use: http://samsung-updates.com/get/1932/Samsung_Firmware_GT-I9300_DBT_I9300XXALF6_Android_4_0_4.html
After some further browsing, I was able to fix it thanks to this post here, posted by 'mskip'.
Whew! That was stressing. Thanks guys for helping out though!
How to get out of hard brick to download mode
Zenno said:
After some further browsing, I was able to fix it thanks to this post here, posted by 'mskip'.
Whew! That was stressing. Thanks guys for helping out though!
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After hardware brick, how did you get it back to download mode agian?
i cnat do anything , no turn on no charging, nothing, how you do it?
i think if i can get it back to dowload mode, i can flash out the stock rom again.
any advise will help
Pull the Batteery
jiafu790617 said:
After hardware brick, how did you get it back to download mode agian?
i cnat do anything , no turn on no charging, nothing, how you do it?
i think if i can get it back to dowload mode, i can flash out the stock rom again.
any advise will help
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Remove the battery for about 2 minutes, replace it and immediately try to go into download mode. This worked for me
same problem
Hard bricked it too, flashed a wrong rom made for international model, i have the att model are you sure taking out the battery works?
Zenno said:
EDIT: I have been able to get into 'Download mode' somehow, but after trying to reflash the stock rom, it went back to the 'Unresponsive' mode. I have it in Download mode again currently, so what do I do from here?
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I have the same problem! Do you know how you got into download mode?
Surge411 said:
I have the same problem! Do you know how you got into download mode?
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Just keep trying,I must have removed the battery and pressed the buttons over six times to get into download mode. Hope you get there.
Hi,
BeforeI begin I would like to state the I have searched the forum for solutions but the ones i findthe person can get into DL mode the only one that is just like my issue doesnt show how ODIN worked for him. but anywho...
I have a Glaxy SGH-I717 and it is stuck at the "FIRMWARE UPGRADE ENCOUNTERED AN ISSUE. PLEASE SELECT RECOVERY MODE IN KIES & TRY AGAIN."
How this started was I newly installed Kies and tried to back it up, but by mistake started to upgrade it. not wanting to mess up the phone I let it run without the phone being in download mode. after a bit the upgrade failed and my phone was stuck at the error message screen above. to reboot the phone i have to remove the battery. pressing the button on turns it off but back on at the error screen. my computer makes the sound like it recognizes the phone but doenst show it in my computer. Kies just says connecting for awhile then stops.
Things I cant do with the phone
- get into download mode - when trying it goes the the press up or down button (ethier one goes to error screen)
- get into recovery mode - the samsung logo flashes for a second then goes to the error screen
things i have tried
- Using oding to flash ROM(tried two different files both from da_g for flashes)
each time odin states it failes at the write stage
- Kies emergency recovery (it freezes at 0% somtimes it says the phone is disconnected)
- Used one click fix program (made me click more then once)
I'am curently looking into trying the adb solution usind android sdk. just making the post here to see if anyone knew a easier solution to this.
Fixed
Problem is fixed, switched USB ports and found a different ROM to flash in ODIN. I now see why people love ODIN better then Kies
heelllp
Rremann1 said:
Problem is fixed, switched USB ports and found a different ROM to flash in ODIN. I now see why people love ODIN better then Kies
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what ROM did you use? where can I find it? I have the same problem you had, except I was only trying to hard reset the sgh-i717 but the only option I could seem to get to was "A custom OS can cause critical problems in phone and installed applications. If you want to download a custom OS, press the volume up key......" etc This is my friends phone I was just trying to hard reset it because she forgot her pattern lock, so I downloaded a ROM and odin and when I attempted to flash it, it got to that error screen you had. It lets me get back to the previous screen but always goes back to firmware upgrade issue screen no matter if i choose up or down. :crying: I have flashed a couple phones before by following tutorials on the web. I though it was only giving me that option because the phone might have already been rooted, it never let me go to the wipe data menu. The instructions all said to hold volume up + home + power, it never did anything for me. I was only able to get to the custom OS screen by holding volume down and power button. you were able to get back to the ready to flash screen? Tried taking out the battery and turning off with power button always goes back to Firmware upgrade encountered. Please help if you can, if I am breaking some forum rules sorry! just need help! Am running windows xp, since the phone was loccked have no idea what it was running, just that its an att samsung galaxy note sgh-i717. it saysin odin mode, custom binary download: no, current binary : samsung official.
thank you!
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tech_girl85 said:
what ROM did you use? where can I find it? I have the same problem you had, except I was only trying to hard reset the sgh-i717 but the only option I could seem to get to was "A custom OS can cause critical problems in phone and installed applications. If you want to download a custom OS, press the volume up key......" etc This is my friends phone I was just trying to hard reset it because she forgot her pattern lock, so I downloaded a ROM and odin and when I attempted to flash it, it got to that error screen you had. It lets me get back to the previous screen but always goes back to firmware upgrade issue screen no matter if i choose up or down. :crying: I have flashed a couple phones before by following tutorials on the web. I though it was only giving me that option because the phone might have already been rooted, it never let me go to the wipe data menu. The instructions all said to hold volume up + home + power, it never did anything for me. I was only able to get to the custom OS screen by holding volume down and power button. you were able to get back to the ready to flash screen? Tried taking out the battery and turning off with power button always goes back to Firmware upgrade encountered. Please help if you can, if I am breaking some forum rules sorry! just need help! Am running windows xp, since the phone was loccked have no idea what it was running, just that its an att samsung galaxy note sgh-i717. it saysin odin mode, custom binary download: no, current binary : samsung official.
thank you!
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I have read several forums searching for answers, no one ever stated that odin will still work while on the screen that said "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue..." pretty positive it flashed the lock screen background and the user settings that were on the lock screen are no longer there it had said something to the effect of " ____ password protected!" ill leave the blank up to your imagination. The user settings are gone but not the pattern lock! all I want to do is hard reset to eliminate the lock pattern lock???
Thanks
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tech_girl85 said:
what ROM did you use? where can I find it? I have the same problem you had, except I was only trying to hard reset the sgh-i717 but the only option I could seem to get to was "A custom OS can cause critical problems in phone and installed applications. If you want to download a custom OS, press the volume up key......" etc This is my friends phone I was just trying to hard reset it because she forgot her pattern lock, so I downloaded a ROM and odin and when I attempted to flash it, it got to that error screen you had. It lets me get back to the previous screen but always goes back to firmware upgrade issue screen no matter if i choose up or down. :crying: I have flashed a couple phones before by following tutorials on the web. I though it was only giving me that option because the phone might have already been rooted, it never let me go to the wipe data menu. The instructions all said to hold volume up + home + power, it never did anything for me. I was only able to get to the custom OS screen by holding volume down and power button. you were able to get back to the ready to flash screen? Tried taking out the battery and turning off with power button always goes back to Firmware upgrade encountered. Please help if you can, if I am breaking some forum rules sorry! just need help! Am running windows xp, since the phone was loccked have no idea what it was running, just that its an att samsung galaxy note sgh-i717. it saysin odin mode, custom binary download: no, current binary : samsung official.
thank you!
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I have read several forums searching for answers, no one ever stated that odin will still work while on the screen that said "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue..." pretty positive it flashed the lock screen background and the user settings that were on the lock screen are no longer there it had said something to the effect of " ____ password protected!" ill leave the blank up to your imagination. The user settings are gone but not the pattern lock! all I want to do is hard reset to eliminate the lock pattern lock???
Thanks
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Hi I am sorry if this is hard to read i' am a little bit ____ ill leave the blanks up to your imagination. below is the link to where u can use the rom i used. and yes you can run odin on the error screen.
go to this site download pdr.tar there's a link for odin as well. GL
Hope this helps ^^
Sorry to rez such an old post but i broke screen on my current phone and needing another phone asap I ventured into the big bin labeled Misc Phone Parts and all i could find (screen came on)was my old Note. Popped in in Sim using an adapter.
And thought i was good until I saw Phone icon dots Yellow triangle dots PC monitor. Firmware Upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
After about 6 hours I do not have it working. I am not new to samsung flashing having flashed my first phone 4 years ago and since then installed 30 plus custom ROMS on all my Galaxy phones through out the years. Sure I can just find used much better phone but then this will not be resolved and will keep me up at night. (if your like this you know what I am talking about).
So back on XDA where I am thankful and appreciate all the members who have contributed helpful information that has saved this world from filling with an ocean of frustration. Myself being one of those who has been saved many times by reading and following directions of what others have done. I like to think that a persons efforts to help someone last well beyond their own lifetime. Thank you sir or miss (yes you) for the work done selflessly with out recognition and reward that continues to help make the lives of others who they may never meet or know better and more happy.
Is my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Bricked ?
I got the phone from Ebay on July 6,2015 everything was great
But on the morning of Sep 21st looking at my gallery pictures, I found they deleted themselves?
not knowing what that meant I went looking for recovery software "Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android"
it was not working so I had to root(?) my phone, so I went to the google play store and found a root app that seem
to have high reviews, tried it and did not work out right the phone restated saying "Samsung's firmware upgrade encountered an issue" so the next day did some research first before trying anything. I downloaded Odin3 and entered download mode & flashed the Samsung it restarted had it on for 3-4 hours
then turned it off & turned it on later to find it would not go pass the Samsung logo so I went to hold the off button shutting the phone off that happen 2 times and on the 3rd try turning it on It did not come on at all. Went to see if google had anything on this some say it is bricked and need to use a jig so I got one from a USA seller on ebay and returned it because it did not work at all. Not the phone still won't come on & I can't enter download mode, how do I fix this, is it a boot loader problem? is it hard bricked? do I need to take it to someone if so who & how much would that cost? you think.
Other Info of the phone
70% of battery is on the phone
It's factory Unlocked
Root Software I tried to use was (Kingo SuperUser)[Root]
I found they deleted themselves?
not knowing what that meant I went looking for recovery software "Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android"
it was not working so I had to root(?) my phone, so I went to the google play store and found a root app that seem
to have high reviews, tried it and did not work out right "UNQUOTE"...........What was the reasoning behind the rooting your phone for lost pictures??? if had wanted to get into the stock 3E recovery of your phone, all you had to do was, rocker up on Volume,pwr on, and menu key......dr phone may have flashed the wrong Bootloader, which makes you extremely lucky it even turned on to Odin it.....the problem your facing with it not turning on at all could be either [1] you have the wrong primary boot loader on it, which means its hard bricked, but im thinking you have a bad battery, because you were able to restart it after you flashed what exactly with Odin??......what did you flash with Odin??...an entire ROM, a bootloader file, or a kernel file by wrong chance, whatever it was we need to know... your not giving out enough info here, to determine if it was the correct SW for the phone you have, also what did you tick or not tick with Odin??.... extremely weak or going bad battery's cause abnormal voltages and abnormal symptoms as well...you might have a battery that finally went completely bad!!....there's usually only 3 things that cause a phone to not power on!...1] flashing wrong firmware, corrupting the primary bootloader...2]bad internal/failed hardware...3] a bad battery either its causing abnormal voltages or producing nothing from being totally dead!!...you state you cant power on anything, nothing visually illuminates, plus your saying it wont go into DL mode....volume rocker down, menu button and the pwr button all together will get you into DL mode, if you can power on a DL mode to the phone it is NOT HARDBRICKED!!...that means a softbrick situation= SW corruption....we need further more detailed info here!!...BTW YOU POSTED THIS QUESTION IN THE WRONG FORUM, THIS IS DISCUSSION FORUM , OTHER FORUM IS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING, WHICH IS WHAT YOUR TRYING TO DO HERE!!!
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I found they deleted themselves?
not knowing what that meant I went looking for recovery software "Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android"
it was not working so I had to root(?) my phone, so I went to the google play store and found a root app that seem
to have high reviews, tried it and did not work out right "UNQUOTE"...........What was the reasoning behind the rooting your phone for lost pictures??? if had wanted to get into the stock 3E recovery of your phone, all you had to do was, rocker up on Volume,pwr on, and menu key......dr phone may have flashed the wrong Bootloader, which makes you extremely lucky it even turned on to Odin it.....the problem your facing with it not turning on at all could be either [1] you have the wrong primary boot loader on it, which means its hard bricked, but im thinking you have a bad battery, because you were able to restart it after you flashed what exactly with Odin??......what did you flash with Odin??...an entire ROM, a bootloader file, or a kernel file by wrong chance, whatever it was we need to know... your not giving out enough info here, to determine if it was the correct SW for the phone you have, also what did you tick or not tick with Odin??.... extremely weak or going bad battery's cause abnormal voltages and abnormal symptoms as well...you might have a battery that finally went completely bad!!....there's usually only 3 things that cause a phone to not power on!...1] flashing wrong firmware, corrupting the primary bootloader...2]bad internal/failed hardware...3] a bad battery either its causing abnormal voltages or producing nothing from being totally dead!!...you state you cant power on anything, nothing visually illuminates, plus your saying it wont go into DL mode....volume rocker down, menu button and the pwr button all together will get you into DL mode, if you can power on a DL mode to the phone it is NOT HARDBRICKED!!...that means a softbrick situation= SW corruption....we need further more detailed info here!!...BTW YOU POSTED THIS QUESTION IN THE WRONG FORUM, THIS IS DISCUSSION FORUM , OTHER FORUM IS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING, WHICH IS WHAT YOUR TRYING TO DO HERE!!!
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Should I post this in the Troubleshooting Forum?
The pictures I took on the phone disappeared all 300+ pictures disappeared .I am the only one using the Samsung
and it was on my table all that day. So I went to google to find a photo recovery software & found a software called
Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android (you can find videos on youtube) & using the software it can do 2 things, auto root the phone to find the photos and bring it back to normal or you Have to have your phone rooted. The auto root setting was not working on the Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android software so I went to the google play store on my Samsung and found a root app that a lot seem to like as it was 4.4 stars, went to install that the app stated I should have "Kingo SuperUser" on my computer so had that put on the went to root the phone & it did not work.
I got a screen on the Samsung saying "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." Youtube had a video on this same problem so I went to Sammobile's site and download the firmware what was
"2014-06-11 USA(Verizon) Version 4.4.2 PDA (I605VRUFND7) Kies. After I downloaded that I downloaded Odin3_v3.10.6 opened it had auto "Reboot & F.Reset Time" selected and added the firmware MD5 file add in the "AP" secion then Entered Download mode on the Samsung & hooked it up to my computer
then I hit start about 30min later it Passed with a green light and everything seem back to normal 3 hours later I went to turn the Samsung off and latter that night when I went to turn it on it got stuck at the Samsung logo that happen 2 times and on the third time it did not come on & so can't "enter download mode" and the "usb Jig" did not
work. What happen & what do I need to next. Do I take the phone to someone to fix this.
Short version of the story
.Pictures I took 300+ disappeared so when looking for recovery software
.Found a software called "Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android" (the software had "2" Options for recovering. 1 the software would
Auto Root and bring the Samsung back to normal after recovering the pictures or I would have to had the phone already rooted.
. When to the google play store with the Samsung, found a root app download that & "It stated I should download "Kingo SuperUser" to my computer so I did that.
.It failed & got a screen on the Samsung Saying "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again".
.Went to Sammobile's site and download Firmware 2014-06-11 USA(Verizon) Version 4.4.2 PDA (I605VRUFND7) Kies
.Download Odin3_v3.10.6 had auto "Reboot & F.Reset Time" selected and added the firmware MD5 file add in the "AP" secion
Entered download mode & the Samsung passed
.Everything was back I had it on for 3-4 hours then shutdown the phone later that night went to turn on and it got stuck
at the Samsung logo 2 times and on the 3rd time it would not turn on nor enter "Download Mode"
.Got a "usb Jig" & that did not work and now I am here wondering what do next & what happen to my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 do I need to take to someone to fix it ?
Samsung Galaxy Not 2 Unlocked
SCH-I605V version (Verizon)
my battery was %70 full
You may have a possible hardware problem then= a bad motherboard and possible replacement!!!....Can you power it on in anyway shape or form??...meaning can you toggle it into recovery??...can you toggle it into DL mode??....does it pwr on to the bootloader screen and continuously loop???.....if you can do any of those things then its not hardbricked, which means you need to reconstuct the SW and then see if the Hardware holds stable....If it doesn't....then it could be a severe HW problem!!!....For the future be advised that, you completely took the wrong road to achieving blindly what you intended to do!!...meaning ....you should've completely took control of the situation and been totally proactive in your rooting and unlocking the bootloader...you wrongly turned to 3rd party APP's when you should've read first...educated yourself completely on what you were to embark on, and then set everything up with 3 different choices of rooting/unlocking..again depending on what ROM version your operating on, before engaging!!.....NEVER TRUST 3rd party APP's to do something only you should have step by step control of = lazy!!!.....I personally wouldve 1st tried to get to the stock 3e recovery, and attempt a nandroid backup of the phone as it was...then afterwards try to get the phone detected on my computer, so as to access the file containing the photos, transferred them to the computer safely... then flash the phone to a stock ROM with root already baked in or not = equals totaly factory stock.. doesnt really matter!!!.... and then set up the phone again, and see what it WILL!!! or WONT!!! do!!...point is, easter-egging a problem carelessly, will cause you to either install the wrong stuff or go completely outta proper sequence and either hose the SW, or worst case scenario....corrupt the primary Bootloader and hardbrick it!!....if you can power it into DL mode!!!.... Then, 1st BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING!!.... go get Odin 3.07....then get the Samsung drivers for your computer to detect the phone...then DL the Pit file "sch-1605-16gb.pit"....then the proper stock ROM..4.1.1...4.1.2 in .TAR files only, BTW there is a stock 4.1.2 with rooted already in it!!....and then flash your phone using Odin with the pit file and then tick the PDA .tar file of whatever ROM. you choose.....I suggest 4.1.2 as a base to start with and reconstruct it, re-root it if necessary, that's if you choose the one W/O rooted baked into the ROM and unlock it with advice above using ghetto root, do not use adams outlers unlocker, there seems to be problems with it, triggering KNOX, and YOU DO NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!!....relying on 3rd party app's will FK you up....use your head...not your heart!!...and yes you really should post NEXT time in the trouble-shooting forum, but for now leave it here!!...for your benefit!!
dseldown said:
You may have a possible hardware problem then= a bad motherboard and possible replacement!!!....Can you power it on in anyway shape or form??...meaning can you toggle it into recovery??...can you toggle it into DL mode??....does it pwr on to the bootloader screen and continuously loop???.....if you can do any of those things then its not hardbricked, which means you need to reconstuct the SW and then see if the Hardware holds stable....If it doesn't....then it could be a severe HW problem!!!....For the future be advised that, you completely took the wrong road to achieving blindly what you intended to do!!...meaning ....you should've completely took control of the situation and been totally proactive in your rooting and unlocking the bootloader...you wrongly turned to 3rd party APP's when you should've read first...educated yourself completely on what you were to embark on, and then set everything up with 3 different choices of rooting/unlocking..again depending on what ROM version your operating on, before engaging!!.....NEVER TRUST 3rd party APP's to do something only you should have step by step control of = lazy!!!.....I personally wouldve 1st tried to get to the stock 3e recovery, and attempt a nandroid backup of the phone as it was...then afterwards try to get the phone detected on my computer, so as to access the file containing the photos, transferred them to the computer safely... then flash the phone to a stock ROM with root already baked in or not = equals totaly factory stock.. doesnt really matter!!!.... and then set up the phone again, and see what it WILL!!! or WONT!!! do!!...point is, easter-egging a problem carelessly, will cause you to either install the wrong stuff or go completely outta proper sequence and either hose the SW, or worst case scenario....corrupt the primary Bootloader and hardbrick it!!....if you can power it into DL mode!!!.... Then, 1st BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING!!.... go get Odin 3.07....then get the Samsung drivers for your computer to detect the phone...then DL the Pit file "sch-1605-16gb.pit"....then the proper stock ROM..4.1.1...4.1.2 in .TAR files only, BTW there is a stock 4.1.2 with rooted already in it!!....and then flash your phone using Odin with the pit file and then tick the PDA .tar file of whatever ROM. you choose.....I suggest 4.1.2 as a base to start with and reconstruct it, re-root it if necessary, that's if you choose the one W/O rooted baked into the ROM and unlock it with advice above using ghetto root, do not use adams outlers unlocker, there seems to be problems with it, triggering KNOX, and YOU DO NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!!....relying on 3rd party app's will FK you up....use your head...not your heart!!...and yes you really should post NEXT time in the trouble-shooting forum, but for now leave it here!!...for your benefit!!
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I guess it's the hardware? as It won't come on nor enter Download mode.
Now what, Do I take it somewhere? to fix it what ever it is ?
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bigmike35 said:
Are you saying I can take it to them to fix it ?
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SamsungNoteFan said:
bigmike35 said:
Are you saying I can take it to them to fix it ?
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You cant take it but you can mail it. They unbricked my phone awhile back when something happened. It was good service. I rec'
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