Hello people,
Me and my friend kinda did something not really smart, I think it will be helpful to tell you the whole story.
We were planning on flashing a SGS2 which was already rooted to 4.0.3, however we did not have the CWM which had the install from sdcard option so we put the CWM 4 through ODIN, all good till now, however we forgotted that we did a format through the phone menu which as you probably already know wiped out our rom which was on the sdcard. At that time we had forgotten this small detail so we courageously pressed WIPE OUT EVERYTHING...
Our current situation - we have access to CWM and ODIN, however we do not know how to put a rom inside the sdcard, we tried through:
flashing a firmware rom through odin - flash completed, phone freezes on samsung logo - bootloop? (tried 2 firmwares actually)
adb push - problem - in recovery it does not find the phone, it finds the phone when in bootloop however we do not have access (read only) so the push fails
Any ideas how to fix this stupidity of ours would be greatly appreciated...
Regards!
hum.....how about more of that flashing via Odin?
Are you trying stock roms?
This could be useful.
Simple!
Either.....
1. Remove SD Card and plug it into a reader or adapter then copy the rom zip you want to flash.
2. Plug phone into PC via USB then boot into CWM and mount USB via Mounts and Storage and copy zip across.
Or if you want to flash a stock rom simply flash it via download mode with odin.
Thanks for the help everyone!
We managed to do it through push... seems like the USB cable also had some issues and thats the reason we couldnt do it before.
We did also try through the card reader but the phone did not want to recognize the existence of the card in CWM nor it wanted to mount the USB - I have no idea why...
I am glad it's over after a 5 hour struggle
Regards!
hristo_gg said:
Thanks for the help everyone!
We managed to do it through push... seems like the USB cable also had some issues and thats the reason we couldnt do it before.
We did also try through the card reader but the phone did not want to recognize the existence of the card in CWM nor it wanted to mount the USB - I have no idea why...
I am glad it's over after a 5 hour struggle
Regards!
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Nice guys, lesson learned & let the flashing continue.
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Hello all.
I have uninstalled and re-installed Samsung drivers (new drivers from 7/5/11 on Samsung site). My son wiped the SD cad by mistake also making this more difficult. I have nothing on my SD card. No roms, etc...
The eror I get in Windows XP is "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognbize it."
I tried to manually install drivers and no luck. Am I done?? Phone bricked 4ever??
miamifootball67 said:
Hello all.
I have uninstalled and re-installed Samsung drivers (new drivers from 7/5/11 on Samsung site). My son wiped the SD cad by mistake also making this more difficult. I have nothing on my SD card. No roms, etc...
The eror I get in Windows XP is "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognbize it."
I tried to manually install drivers and no luck. Am I done?? Phone bricked 4ever??
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Are you sure you are putting your phone in download mode (Three fingers, volume up/down and power button) if so I would recommend a different USB port or, if you have access, a different computer. You can install ROMS on your SD card with a different phone, if you have one (plug into computer and then install to the root of an SD card.)
Why exactly do you need ODIN?
Thanks for the reply.
I need ODIN because I am stuck on bootloop and need to go back to stock or to the GB ComRom 0.2.
Right now I have nothing on my SD card to flash and my computer in all USB ports does not recognize the phone.
I am trying to put roms/etc on an SD Adapter and then flash from the phone?
I hope this works..
cking122 said:
Are you sure you are putting your phone in download mode (Three fingers, volume up/down and power button) if so I would recommend a different USB port or, if you have access, a different computer. You can install ROMS on your SD card with a different phone, if you have one (plug into computer and then install to the root of an SD card.)
Why exactly do you need ODIN?
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Well, to start THAT'S NOT HOW YOU GET INTO DOWNLOAD MODE!
That's the "3 finger salute" which is good for going into recovery.
To Get into Download Mode, turn your phone off (completely off, unplug battery if it makes you feel better). Disconnect the USB cable. Press-and-hold the down-volume button while you are plugging in the USB cable.
Did the Yellow Caution sign come up? Good. You are now in DOWNLOAD mode.
also, if you are this new to things NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER PRESS THE PHONE BUTTON. (only use the PDA button while flashing roms on our fascinate).
*edit* You might want to try out something less likely to eat your phone and SD card. Since you are new to all of this, the CommRom0.2 is not for new people. I mean you no offense, but the leak that that is based on is known to destry SD cards, and it could do other stuff that we don't know about yet. ...Meanwhile, I've been using jt's CM7 for a week now and love it, but if I were you, I would go install the old(er) Froyo-based Community Rom Kangbang2.0
It has great installation instructions and isn't likely to destroy your phone.
Here's a link for you. Get your feet wet here, learn how to do backups and restorations...that's what I did and it helped a lot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1108991
Thanks for the responses.
This seems to be the perfect storm to brick the phone.
Nothing on SD card. NO Computer (tried 3) recognizes the phone in ODIN or HEIMDALL even after new driver installs. I am doing this to either go to stock of froo builds
I did buy an SD adapter and loaded it with froyo roms but the ine thing I do have CWR 3.0 won't flash because froyo roms are edify and are not compatible.
I tried loading a new CWR and it won't let me either?
Yes, I am in download mode at all times on the phone ( the yellow triangle with the droid w/shovel)
I really think I am beyond repair...
miamifootball67 said:
Thanks for the responses.
This seems to be the perfect storm to brick the phone.
Nothing on SD card. NO Computer (tried 3) recognizes the phone in ODIN or HEIMDALL even after new driver installs. I am doing this to either go to stock of froo builds
I did buy an SD adapter and loaded it with froyo roms but the ine thing I do have CWR 3.0 won't flash because froyo roms are edify and are not compatible.
I tried loading a new CWR and it won't let me either?
Yes, I am in download mode at all times on the phone ( the yellow triangle with the droid w/shovel)
I really think I am beyond repair...
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you're not beyond repair especially if you can get into download mode and you can get cwr to load.
that being said try installing nexus s drivers...some people have had to do this, for their pc to recognize there device, if that doesn't help there are cwr files that are in zip form..if you grab one of those you should be able to flash the zip version of cwr with your current recovery to get you a recovery that supports edify scripting.
Also have you tried hooking up to odin even though the pc didn't see your phone...I'm on cm7 and my phone didn't recognize my phone but when I went into download mode and hooked up to odin it flashed everything I wanted just fine!?!...worth a shot if you haven't tried it yet
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What about your USB cable? LG cables don't work. Make sure the USB cable is the stock or one that definitely works. I have been unable to get ODIN to recognize the phone before, but it was always because I grabbed the wrong cable.
Sounds like a bad usb cable. You can get the official Samsung cable from amazon for about $2-3 with prime shipping.
Give that a shot.
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Hi all i recently installed the kg3 firmware and ever since doing so i cannot get any pc to recognise the device. i have tried in all ports and 3 pc's.
I have bought a new cable but same issue.
I tried doing a factory reset. and a reset through the manual mode.
I have reinstalled kies and uninstalled and put just the drivers on but same issue.
I think it's firmware as it happened as soon as i did the update ?
is there any way i can manually do a firmware update onto a ofial release stock if i can get it into the phones memory, I don't have a micro sd at this time?
Please help or any suggestions otherwise i may send back as faulty unit for warranty just incase the usb bit internally some how broke.
thanks in advance
Also for got to mention i tried it in usb dev mode and not
Also i tried now usb dev mode on to see of the development tools will pick it up and they also do not.
Anyway to recover the firmware on the phone with out access to usb ?
You can try flashing firmware with Odin. Read Chainfire thread in Original Development section.
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Do you have CWMrecovery?
If so boot into it, plug your phone in, select mounts, select mount usb storage.
If that works its firmware, if not its hardware.
If you have CWM recovery take your sd card out and copy a rom zip to it, boot into your rom, copy that rom into internal storage, reboot into CWM recovery, wipe data/cache and flash the rom from the apply zip from sd card menu item.
hi, I don't have cwmrecovery installed and it can be only installed via odin right?
In regards to ODIN i cannot get it to detect the handset to flash anything.
Friends,
I am in a fix here.
I had installed ""Simplistic ICS >>A SuperLite ROM (RC5 Is here finally!)"" yesterday, and since it was hannging too much, i thought of installing another rom, but this is what i did wrong:
- I formatted system, data and sd card
since I thought I will mount usb storage and move/copy the new rom file in cwm
but now when i do that i get error: unable to open ums lunfile
when i do into download mode to flash via odin, odin doesnt recognise my device
and when i connect my usb in recovery mode, windows fails to regozne my device and gives error of usb malfunction
i have installed usb drivers(1.4) , kies etc.. and tried using adb, but adb gives an error too of not recognising the device
with no rom file in my sd card, im stuck. please help!
Thanks
Looks like you have wiped the phone its empty nothing on it .
I formatted system, data and sd card
Flash stock rom via ODIN .
No download = Service Centre no warranty as custom rom or try JTAG machine .
Old bootloaders then a USB jig may boot to download mode .
jje
Try different usb cable. Had the exact same problem.
Sent from my good old Galaxy S II. Hit thx if u think i helped and may the force be with u.
try the usb jig in the phone's download mode (Volume Down+Power button+Home button)
You can buy USb jig from ebay india.
Otherwise use ODIN. Make sure you have right ODIN.(download from samfirmware site).
Close kies from task bar and its process after updating it.
Then try connecting your mobile.
androidindian said:
Friends,
I am in a fix here.
I had installed ""Simplistic ICS >>A SuperLite ROM (RC5 Is here finally!)"" yesterday, and since it was hannging too much, i thought of installing another rom, but this is what i did wrong:
- I formatted system, data and sd card
since I thought I will mount usb storage and move/copy the new rom file in cwm
but now when i do that i get error: unable to open ums lunfile
when i do into download mode to flash via odin, odin doesnt recognise my device
and when i connect my usb in recovery mode, windows fails to regozne my device and gives error of usb malfunction
i have installed usb drivers(1.4) , kies etc.. and tried using adb, but adb gives an error too of not recognising the device
with no rom file in my sd card, im stuck. please help!
Thanks
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Hey listen take the phone to the service centre and tell them that while using the phone suddenly it went blank and started behaving the way you described it!
They will fix it under warranty since indian samsumg service centre dont check the binary counter..!
They did that for me
KJS
Hi,
I would like some help, if anybody has some minutes to reply It would be great
I updated my phone with KitKat and when I finished it didn't want to boot in. It took me back to CWM. Well I format the SD and the phone too. So now if I turn it on it stops at the Google logo at the begining. I have an adb sideload menu in CWM. MY question is that how can I put any zip files on my phone e.g. android 4.3 becouse my notebook doesn't see anymore my phone. Is there any way to push up a zip file on it?
Thank you
Mester84 said:
Hi,
I would like some help, if anybody has some minutes to reply It would be great
I updated my phone with KitKat and when I finished it didn't want to boot in. It took me back to CWM. Well I format the SD and the phone too. So now if I turn it on it stops at the Google logo at the begining. I have an adb sideload menu in CWM. MY question is that how can I put any zip files on my phone e.g. android 4.3 becouse my notebook doesn't see anymore my phone. Is there any way to push up a zip file on it?
Thank you
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First I would recommend plugging in your Galaxy Nexus to your computer and when it shows up in Device Manager, install the attached Google USB Drivers. After you install the drivers your phone should hopefully be recognized, and you can then push another ROM .zip file to your device. Let me know if you still have questions.
Ugh, totally my fault for not thinking this through.
Had downloaded the Paranoid Android ROM, a newer version from what I had, as I had installed it incorrectly.
So I thought, no worries, I'll just reinstall the ROM.
Booted into recovery mode, did a full wipe and then tried to install the new rom, only I couldn't find it anywhere...
Thinking I'll restart the phone and figure it out from there, but of course it doesn't go past the loading screen.
I can boot into download mode, but on my PC if I boot Odin, it doesn't recognize the phone and I get no yellow colour.
Pretty sure my internal SD card still has one or two custom roms on it, but without booting into recovery mode, I can't do much.
Odin doesn't recognize my phone. I installed the drivers from the samsung website, but it is not reading the phone in download mode.
Now I am unsure if there's another driver I need to install, i.e. a USB driver, seeing as this is a brand new pc, but other than that, I'm stuck.
Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
Download galaxy s3 toolkit from original android development section,install it and agree when asked to install drivers , reboot Pc and cross fingers for your Pc to detect your phone in download mode then just flash stock ROM
Sent from the grey stuff inside my skull
If you have a custom recovery (CWM or TWRP), you can use an OTG cable to connect a USB stick to your phone (which will be discovered by CWM, haven't tried TWRP) and install a new ROM with gapps from it...
Of course if you want to install stock, you have to stick with Odin.
Hope it helps