Hello almighty XDA peoples.
I watched the video, I have lurked here for months. I read everything I could on my phone, but I feel like my dilemma is slightly different. If not I would be glad to rectify it.
I purchased an unlocked gt-i9100 in the UK. I now use a Tmobile sim in the US.
After a lot of reading, I rooted my phone using ODIN and CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_LQ5-v5.6-CWM5 kernel.
I installed titanium backup, and used it. I put in ROM manager.
I decided I wanted to put a custom ROM on, but I read that a full wipe was necessary so I went into clockworkmod recovery. I followed all the instructions.
Now I can't boot into OS. I can get into both clockwordmod and download mode, but my computer wont recognize my phone so I can't put a zip file onto my sd card. (probably should have done that first huh)
All I want is a normal working phone. I will leave rooting to the professionals.
It was previously running 4.0.4 xxlq6.
Cynikalrealist said:
Hello almighty XDA peoples.
I watched the video, I have lurked here for months. I read everything I could on my phone, but I feel like my dilemma is slightly different. If not I would be glad to rectify it.
I purchased an unlocked gt-i9100 in the UK. I now use a Tmobile sim in the US.
After a lot of reading, I rooted my phone using ODIN and CF-Root-SGS2_XX_OXA_LQ5-v5.6-CWM5 kernel.
I installed titanium backup, and used it. I put in ROM manager.
I decided I wanted to put a custom ROM on, but I read that a full wipe was necessary so I went into clockworkmod recovery. I followed all the instructions.
Now I can't boot into OS. I can get into both clockwordmod and download mode, but my computer wont recognize my phone so I can't put a zip file onto my sd card. (probably should have done that first huh)
All I want is a normal working phone. I will leave rooting to the professionals.
It was previously running 4.0.4 xxlq6.
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Ouch.
Rather dont wipe with the Samsung 4.0.4 kernel they had the brickbug...
You can try reinstall the drivers on the PC for the phone and also make sure KIES is not running then try download mode again else
try take the sd card out of the phone and put it in the pc and copy the ROM on to the SD card that way then flash with CWM.
A SD card reader is cheaper then fixing the phone if you don't already have one....
I can still access download mode and CWM though. Is that a sign of life? I went a bought a micro sd card and have put the rom onto it, which hopefully I can access through CWM. WIll update soon.
Cynikalrealist said:
I can still access download mode and CWM though. Is that a sign of life? I went a bought a micro sd card and have put the rom onto it, which hopefully I can access through CWM. WIll update soon.
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Having read the thread about 4.0.4 being susceptible to bricking, I'm now wondering what to do.
I bought a microSD card and put the Resurrection remix zip on it. I can access that though CWM and it's allowing me to update. WOuld it be better to try to downgrade to gingerbread or an early ICS, or have I passed the point where my phone should be bricking? Thanks so much in advance.
Cynikalrealist said:
I can still access download mode and CWM though. Is that a sign of life? I went a bought a micro sd card and have put the rom onto it, which hopefully I can access through CWM. WIll update soon.
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Well firstly why did you use Rom Manager? Its not properley compatible with I9100 and can lead to issues like you have if you mess about and try to flash kernel through it.
If you can still access download mode simply flash stock via ODIN and then flash custom kernel like Siyah (version depends on rom version) to gain root, cwm etc.
Alternatively first flash Siyah (.tar version) via ODIN then flash your custom rom.
Cynikalrealist said:
Having read the thread about 4.0.4 being susceptible to bricking, I'm now wondering what to do.
I bought a microSD card and put the Resurrection remix zip on it. I can access that though CWM and it's allowing me to update. WOuld it be better to try to downgrade to gingerbread or an early ICS, or have I passed the point where my phone should be bricking? Thanks so much in advance.
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if you can access download/recovery your device is not bricked. Just do as I said above and flash kernel or rom via ODIN.
I guess sometimes reading doesn't equals learning.
Wait a sec, I already knew that. Reading whole threads intead of OP-only equals learning.
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I was running The Unofficial rom and liked it. AT&T pushed out the new ICS rom and I wanted to try it. I installed it the way AT&T recommended and got that working. I decided I didn't like that and wanted to go back to The Unofficial. Only problem was, the phone was no longer rooted. I tried to go back and root it, but it didn't work. Now it's stuck on the "Samsung" screen and won't do anything. When using CWM, it won't let me load anything from the SD card. Says SD card is not installed. HELP!!!
Put it in download mode, open odin 1.85 on computer, flash the cwm .tar file on it. Go back into recovery and try to see if it can read your sd card. If all else fails, get into download mode on your phone and do the emergency recovery on Kies.
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Phone doesn't need to be rooted to flash a ROM. All you needed to do was flash cwm and then flash your ROM of choice. What root method did you use?
froidroid said:
Phone doesn't need to be rooted to flash a ROM. All you needed to do was flash cwm and then flash your ROM of choice. What root method did you use?
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I've tried so many different things in the last couple of days that I honestly don't know what all I have tried or not.
As for the emergency recovery, how do I do that? I saw something in KIES about that, but it was asking for some code that I don't have. And do you have a link to the CWM.tar?
Also, I had several ROM's installed on my SD card in the phone, but it won't show any of them when I boot the phone using the "both volume and power button" method. It also won't let me load any of my backups that I had on the SD card. It's almost like the SD card isn't being recognized now or something, although I can connect the phone to my PC laptop and get to all those files through file explorer on the PC. And yes, I'm new and don't have a great grasp on what I am doing. Thanks for the help though!
What I have working right now
Okay, here is the only thing I could find on here that I could actually get loaded to make the phone functional again:
SGH-I717UCLD2-1FB30D08F1D2B2AAAECF49D262E8E707 (from briefmobile.com)
I have it working on the phone, but I have yet to be able to install anything else. When I boot the phone into recovery (volume up+ volume down+ power), it won't give me an option to install from SD card. However I can go to "install update from external storage" and it shows the files on my SD card. If I try to select a .zip file to install a ROM, it says --install SD card ...
I don't know what is going on here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. As for the KIES thing, when I try to update through there, it says I can't update my phone- I'm guessing because I have the wrong baseband version?
You don't have cwm...that is stock recovery.
here is a link to cwm touch, just click anywhere here and grab the Odin version
Once you flash that with Odin, then you should be able to fluah any zip you have.
I finally got it working.
Hey. I appreciate your guys' help but I never could get one of those methods working. Just in case anyone else had the same problem as me, here is where I found the solution that worked for my specific case. It worked the first time and is explained simply enough that even a beginner can figure it out.
http://andr0idtech.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-root-install-cwm-on-at-bell.html
Thanks again for the help guys!
Hello everyone.
My phone has been having some trouble lately and I'm trying to restore everything to as is for servicing. I found a thread with the stock Rogers Odin files, but the phone won't connect via USB(One of the problems) and the links are dead. Is there a CWM or another method to putting the stock firmware onto my phone? Odin does not work and neither does my SD card.
Thank you.
crushdancexz said:
Hello everyone.
My phone has been having some trouble lately and I'm trying to restore everything to as is for servicing. I found a thread with the stock Rogers Odin files, but the phone won't connect via USB(One of the problems) and the links are dead. Is there a CWM or another method to putting the stock firmware onto my phone? Odin does not work and neither does my SD card.
Thank you.
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USB won't connect - problem with the cable? Or problem with drivers?
And can you clarify what you mean when you say your SD card does not work either?
Will try to help.
eugenekim618 said:
USB won't connect - problem with the cable? Or problem with drivers?
And can you clarify what you mean when you say your SD card does not work either?
Will try to help.
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Hi. thanks.
The SD card is the reason why I'm sending the phone back. Two days ago it suddenly just said "SD card blank or unsupported". I tried putting it in my PC and still can't even format it. 16GB SD card. All my photo`s and files gone :S The USB cable thing I finally got working by buying a new cable, I think the other one may have been faulty. So yeah, ODIN now shows the phone connected, but I don`t have the right firmware to revert it too so that Rogers doesn`t deny me service.
Get the firmware for an Odin gingerbread install here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657262
You also can connect to kies and install the ics ROM.
You can install any custom ROM to get your phone straightened out and then install a Rogers ROM. And any custom ROM will work with Rogers.
Also if your cable was faulty, and your card was faulty, do you really need to send your phone back?
Agoattamer said:
Get the firmware for an Odin gingerbread install here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657262
You also can connect to kies and install the ics ROM.
You can install any custom ROM to get your phone straightened out and then install a Rogers ROM. And any custom ROM will work with Rogers.
Also if your cable was faulty, and your card was faulty, do you really need to send your phone back?
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Hey, thanks. I want to send it back because I`d rather just get a replacement than deal with this one. The SD card dying out of nowhere has really dazed me because that has never happened to me before and I just took the phone for granted as is. Besides that way I can get a new card too, otherwise I have no storage. Too many faulty things came in the box, I`m weary of the phone.
I`ll try it out when I get home. Thanks again.
Edit: In the link you posted, which file should I download? And as for Odin. Each ROM is it's own installer right? There's no Odin program to install on my PC?
You don't install Odin on your PC. But you do run it on your pc. You will need Odin3 v1.85. You will need all files from that link and you place them respectively in the blanks on Odin.
The only ROMs that have their own installer are the Odin 1 clicks. And they are only for leaks and not official versions.
Might be easier for you to install Samsung Kies on your PC and install the ICS ROM.
IMO, the odin process is pretty easy.
Just plug each file into the proper slot, they are listed in order in the post.
Only extra step - the actual ROM file (largest file) you need to unzip.
It's a one step process, and COMPLETELY reverts you back to stock. Stock recovery, no root etc.
Only extra step now, is that if you are returning it, you need to reset the flash counter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569206.
Check bigjoe2675's post for any other info/tools you may need. It's all laid out nice and neat there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740367
Okay so I was updating my i717 from UCLF5 team perfection to UCLF6 Collective AoCP ROM and think I bricked my phone. T_T
I forgot that I had encrypted both the phone and external SD Card. When I went into CWM Touch 5.8.3.4 I hung on the formatting /cache I then forced reboot back into CWM and went through a manually formatted stuff and wiped the caches. I then went to install the zip ROM and it said read-only bad.. I didn't know what to do so I tried to factory wipe again and no luck. So I then thought well Odin could work, but I couldn't download the hotfile without hotfile host bugging out with too many downloads.. So I final find a default stock official ROM that is a tar that Odin v1.85 can use, but it is taking forever and I don't know if it will complete, it is currently stuck at "SetupConnection.."
I can get the phone into CWM Touch 5.8.3.4 and can get into download mode, but cannot do ****. The external SD card does still have my titan backup of all system apps all user data and all user apps on it. I know the password for the encrypted SD card. However I cannot do anything because it keeps say read-only....
I also for some reason probably me not being patient enough 3 flash counters on the phone. Now if I take the phone back to ATT to exchange or somehow get it un-bricked will I be able to return the flash counter to 0 before turning the phone in...or will I have to cross my fingers and hope that they don't see it lol?
Does anybody know the best way to go about fixing this phone? I don't really know how to use Odin well and since CWM seems to be hanging on reformatting /cache it won't ever finish getting the phone to factory by itself. I have also tried to fix the permissions but doesn't work. Also tried to mount into USB while plugged in and it didn't want to do that either.
I did notice that a couple times it did boot into the UCLF5 ROM that was previously on the phone but it was back to stock ICS theme with no apps but settings and couldn't use the USB mass storage it just kept cycling itself and not connecting.
Okay so I did infact get it on the third try to flash 2.3.6 android factory default back onto the phone and in the process lost CWM recovery and when I went back into the market place to reinstall ROM manager after I put the ROM I want onto the internal it won't connect to Google Play even after getting onto wifi...weird and even said there wasn't an update after trying to update through att to ICS stock...
Your not still rooted right? An official update won't install if you are
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium
adramalech707 said:
Okay so I did infact get it on the third try to flash 2.3.6 android factory default back onto the phone and in the process lost CWM recovery and when I went back into the market place to reinstall ROM manager after I put the ROM I want onto the internal it won't connect to Google Play even after getting onto wifi...weird and even said there wasn't an update after trying to update through att to ICS stock...
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>ok so you got up with GB correct?
>Why not just put CWM back on the touch CWM is very simple to use odin one file in the pda slot and click then put the ROM you wanted to install in your OP. Links are in my signature
>then you can put the AOCP, that you said originally
BTW if you are trying to put the Off ICS use kies while putting your phone in download mode, not sure what you are doing with/thru ATT
There are several thread around for this method.
So I really jacked my phone up today. It all started when I updated to the newest CM10.1 nightly (which I do routinely). After the update my phone basically would not mount the internal hdd, as quite a few people have since found out with the cm-10.1-20130121-NIGHTLY-i9100.zip. Long story short, I read from a couple users that using the sisyah kernel did not cause these issues. Well, like an idiot I went ahead and tried flashing it with odin (rather than just go back to a restore point I had), only to have it fail and cause my phone to show a phone + ! + Computer symbol. I've since managed to get in to download mode and flash CWM 5.5.04. Unfortunately, that's about all I've gotten to work. I'm assuming I have nothing on my phone anymore, in CWM I can't access my internal hdd or ext hdd to load CM10.1 back on. I can see the Samsung logo if I just try and boot the phone but it just stays there. Other than that I can reach the recovery and download screens. I'm at a total lost and would appreciate any help I can get, Thank you
flash your back up with recovery or a stock rom with odin to restore your phone.
Cosmic Blue said:
flash your back up with recovery or a stock rom with odin to restore your phone.
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Unfortunately, I can't access anything from my phone. Neither my internal SD or ext. HD are recognized by both the phone and computer. I have the CM10.1 that I want back on there but it's a zip not tar.
What are you talking about.He told you to flash a stock rom using Odin.The objective is to get the phone working-then you can root and restore backups.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
theunderling said:
What are you talking about.He told you to flash a stock rom using Odin.The objective is to get the phone working-then you can root and restore backups.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
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Just in case you can't read, he first stated "flash your back up with recovery". I was simply telling him that was not possible. I'm in the process of going back to stock, but the download takes forever. For your information, I've never owned a single apple product or even an android phone that hadn't been modded.
...........or a stock rom with Odin which has nothing to do with crap about "cant see my sd card".
And its you that needs to read, not me.
And I take it you love my new signature.
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
Hello,
I just purchased my new Galaxy S2 4G from Virgin Mobile. First thing I did was install USB drivers, root it, flash a new PDA and Bootloader from Odin.
Now when I try to boot my phone I get stuck on
"SAMSUNG SII
Yellow Triangle"
I can boot into download and Clock Work Mod recovery and I think I can utilize a external micro SD to recover from. However I can't flash anything else from Odin as drivers seem to be messed up. I have uninstalled, reinstalled Samsung and Sprint drivers, tried different USB slots and everything.
Although it may be a driver problem as the drivers now fail to update when installing them, as it says "Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller - No Driver Found"
Anyway for me to force reinstall those drivers or something?
Could I get a stock recovery zip or whatever and put that on a micro SD then try?
Help please and thank you!!
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Also, I have no recovery images saved to my SD card or anything like that.
EDIT2:
Kies is installed but none of it is running when I start Odin.
what method did you use to get root?
what is phone information?
we need this information inorder to help you.
If you can access CWM Recovery and you have an external SD card, i recommend moving a compatible Kernel/ROM from the computer to the external SD card. Then go to install Zip from sd card in CWM...and you should be good to go. Oh and remember to wipe data/cache and dalvik cache if necessary.
Consider fixing this bootloop before you try and fix the drivers. No phone, no recognition either way
Cheers.
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WardenBerret said:
what method did you use to get root?
what is phone information?
we need this information inorder to help you.
If you can access CWM Recovery and you have an external SD card, i recommend moving a compatible Kernel/ROM from the computer to the external SD card. Then go to install Zip from sd card in CWM...and you should be good to go. Oh and remember to wipe data/cache and dalvik cache if necessary.
Consider fixing this bootloop before you try and fix the drivers. No phone, no recognition either way
Cheers.
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To root I used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Phone information? It is a Samsung Galaxy S2 from Virgin Mobile. What other info can I provide?
I have an external SD card but I don't think my phone can read files off of it as I get the
E: Can't mount /sdcard/
error
My biggest question though is what is a compatible Kernel/ROM? I don't want to accidentally flash another incompatible one.
Also if I did manage to fix the drivers I could use odin to flash the first root that I used because it worked. That would get me out of the boot loop right?
Thanks mate!
I did not know that even SGS2 4G doesn't belong here, but gastonw is probably right. You should write this in Epic 4G touch forum.
well you could tell me if it's a Gt-i9100 or SGH-i777 etc. You can tell me version... 4.x.x (ICS) | 2.x.x (GB) | 4.1.x (JB)
since there are a large variety of ROMs and Kernels this info could short them down and probably tell us and hopefully yourself if what you flashed is compatible.
WardenBerret said:
I did not know that even SGS2 4G doesn't belong here, but gastonw is probably right. You should write this in Epic 4G touch forum.
well you could tell me if it's a Gt-i9100 or SGH-i777 etc. You can tell me version... 4.x.x (ICS) | 2.x.x (GB) | 4.1.x (JB)
since there are a large variety of ROMs and Kernels this info could short them down and probably tell us and hopefully yourself if what you flashed is compatible.
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Alright, I could make anothe thread in the Epid4G forum.
Also, the model is a SPH-D710, version was 4.04. Also that root I linked was the first one I used that worked.
These problems began when I flashed the CWM (I think) as a bootloader from ODIn and then another PDA.
Also, heres the link to the new thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37760862#post37760862
please help