Hi all,
I think I did somethings wrong on my I9100 and now I cannot recover it.Can someone help on this?
Recently I found my phone got some hardware problem(connections by micro-usb is poor, whatever battery charging on PC connection). As I rooted and installed some custom rom into my phone and I would like to take it back to Samsung, hence I want to recover my phone as fresh install status, I reboot my phone into recovery mode, and format everythings and I am planning to refresh a stock rom through ODIN.
But unlucky, after I Format /system /data and everythings and restart, my phone cannot connect to ODIN anymore. I can restart my phone to download mode, but I cannot make it connect to ODIN.
Then, I try to attach a SD card with some custom rom inside and restart my phone into recovery mode. Yes, I can go into recovery mode but I cannot mount either the internal/external storage. Hence I cannot flash the rom from receovery mode as well.
Of course, I formated everything and my phone cannot start anymore.
I try ADB tools, but it cannot recognize my phone as well.
The only partition I can mount in recovery mode is /EMMC and /System, but they are empty. I am unable to copy images to these folders.
And failed to conencted through micro-usb as well. Totally no response when I boot my phone into download mode and connect to my PC. And cannot read the external SD card through recovery mode.
Can someone help on this? Who can save my phones? Thank!
Have you Tryed a jig to get it into download mode?
Gt i9100
Alliance v7.2
Dorimanx8.1
Xxls8
He can get into download mode. The phone & PC won't recognise each other.
OP - 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.
*Run Windoze Update.
And if all this fails, try a different PC. If it won't work first time on the other PC, go thru the above steps with that PC.
Still doesn't work ? User error or borked phone - return to service centre.
If he sends that to service they won't fix it as it is rooted with custom rom Read some threads and you will get it sorted.
Gt i9100
Alliance v7.2
Dorimanx8.1
Xxls8
No Luck, even use a jig, the phone can go to download mode same as pressing vol+ home power, but it still cannot be recognize by the PC.
Is that possible to mount an external SD card on recovery mode?
Not stock recovery, no. Recent versions of CWRecovery you should be able to.
Yes should be able to mount sd card. Flash rom through that
Gt i9100
Alliance v7.2
Dorimanx8.11.1
Xxls8
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Hei, Im new to the Samsung Android Phones but I have had HTC Android Phones since the G1 and until the HTC Desire HD and Xperia Arc.
But now Im stuck, I cant get niether Kies nor Odin to recognize my device, let me tell you how.
1. When I try to connect to Kies the *Android MTP driver* fail to install.
2. So Kies will go on an endless Connection journy and my devices tells me its connected.
I have reinstalled the drivers many time. tried with both USB-Debugging mode on and off and still no result.
Ok, but thats not the worst part because i could careless about Kies since my interrest is in rooting the device.
Now if my device is powered on and the USB-debugging mode is on Odin finds it (mark it as yellow)
but when I put the device is in Download mode Odin doesnt find it and I cant flash :'(
Im confussed, i've been going at it for days now with no results. help me please...
When you're in Odin, have you disabled Kies? Both the .exe and the system tray?
What's your current firmware?
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I mean I close Kies when using Odin and vice versa. you think Kies is the reason for Odin not finding the device in download mode?
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Juevani said:
Ok, but thats not the worst part because i could careless about Kies since my interrest is in rooting the device.
Now if my device is powered on and the USB-debugging mode is on Odin finds it (mark it as yellow)
but when I put the device is in Download mode Odin doesnt find it and I cant flash :'(
Turn Kies off = not running in taskbar .
USB debugging off reboot phone .
Open Odin select firmware connect phone via Samsung cable to a mainboard USB port .
jje
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Well frankly that MTP device error is a PITA, it happened for me with my S8500, did everything possible, couldn't solve it until I installed Win 7 x64. So may be a fresh OS installation could/should solve the problem.
If you can't do that Odin is the only option as you already know.
And make sure that you are pressing Vol Up+Home+Power button to enter Download mode and press the Vol Up key to continue.
Regards.
It seems that Im ably to enter Android System Recovery by pressing VolUp+Home+Power and Odin seems to find the devices find, but thats not Download Mode I guese, do I brick the phone if I flash from here via Odin?
Juevani said:
It seems that Im ably to enter Android System Recovery by pressing VolUp+Home+Power and Odin seems to find the devices find, but thats not Download Mode I guese, do I brick the phone if I flash from here via Odin?
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You can't flash from Odin in recovery, and I'm not sure I've heard of anyone who can get recovery but not download. Something is FUBAR'd...
I'll let ithehappy and jj take over, they've more experience than me. But since you're in recovery, a factory reset seems logical.
Anybody have any idea? please help..
Did you try factory reset? And have installed the newest version of Kies, as opposed to re-installing old drivers?
Uninstall kies and the drivers
Download these driver
Install them
Put phone into download mode
Flash a rom or kernel using Odin
If this doesnt work
1) change USB ports
2) reboot computer
3) try another computer if you have one close by
Or if you have Clockworkmod recovery installed
4) boot into CWM recovery
5) connect phone to computer via USB
6) select mounts and storage
7) select mount USB storage
8) your phones internal SD card will now mount with the computer, copy a CWM flashable zip of what you want to flash to the phones sd card
9) go back to main menu
10) select install zip from sd card
11) select chose zip from sd card
12) flash!
Hey guys I have recently tried flashing the biohazard ics kernel thru clockwork but now that I've done that the phone won't boot but mow when i try to restore my previous rom it says there's an md5 mismatch and when i try to install a rom from the internal card I get a can't mount emmc message. Also since i installed the standard ice rom odin only read my phone when it was turned on. Have I bricked my phone???
If you can still get into download mode, you have not bricked your phone. Just flash an original firmware, root it and try again with the restoration.
I have the firmware but if odin won't detect my phone do i need to reinstall the drivers or get a new cable.
kn1v3z said:
I have the firmware but if odin won't detect my phone do i need to reinstall the drivers or get a new cable.
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what do you mean if?? pls explain your situation more clearer
try reinstalling drivers. and before opening odin, kill all kies related tasks in task manager. then open odin. then connect phone while in download mode
whenever i was running the previous rom, odin would only detect my phone when it was booted normally but not when i would go into download mode and since i can't pull roms off my sd card because i get a can't mount /emms/ i've never gotten that error message before.
Don't connect your phone to odin, since you have no proper kernel installed Odin won't detect any drivers.
Go to recovery mode and reflash stock kernel stored on your phone(assuming you have stored a kernel).
If you haven't then use Heimdall Suite to flash recovery mode again, use link below for reference:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II:_Full_Update_Guide
i reinstalled the samsung drivers and heimdall doesn't detect my phone either :/
What is the "biohazard ics kernel" ?
Try a different cable, different usb port and different computer.
it's an ice cream sandwich kernel created by biohazard and ever since i cant't boot up and clockwork can't detect my removable sd which is where all my backup files and other roms are. I've already tried about 3 different cables and all ports the only other thing is to find a desktop and see if that works...I have a feeling i might have to buy another phone since my phone so far can't be detected in download mode anymore.
So what exactly happens when you put your phone into download mode (power off phone, then hold volume down and home button while booting it) then plug it into the computer?
Does the computer detect it, does it try to install drivers?
the computer detects it but odin won't detect it unless you've installed kies on your computer
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the computer detects it but odin won't detect it unless you've installed kies on your computer
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Uninstall kies, download the samsung phone drivers from my 4shared (the 4icon in my sig), install them, put phone into download mode, plug into computer.
still no luck...
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
Hey guys, was running C10 and wanted to test a few others to compare battery life. I checked the dev forum and wanted to check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1436854.
Downloaded, rebooted, cleaned and flashed with the dorimanx kernel and most default options. On reboot, things came up nice, but I had 0 bars, and when it said turning on wifi, it found nothing nor can I get past that since there is no keyboard (reading about that now!)
But, rebooting into recovery, thought I would restore a nand, when I select restore I get Can't mount /sdcard!
If I goto mounts, mount /sdcard I get
Error mounting /sdcard!
I have the original CM10 local but when I try to flash that, it crashes with a bunch of getprop errors, so now pretty much stuck.
Any help is appreciated.
Scrub that. Sounds like recovery is broken. Best thing would be back to stock via Odin then re-root (flash Odin version of Siyah or similar) then maybe trying restoring your backup again.
MistahBungle said:
Scrub that. Sounds like recovery is broken. Best thing would be back to stock via Odin then re-root (flash Odin version of Siyah or similar) then maybe trying restoring your backup again.
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When I plugged mine in and tried, the one tried failed, so figured I would look and get another, and on reboot the phone and have the following error;
Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again. I didn't have it installed, but I am guessing something broke when ODIN tried to update. The problem I have now is when I reboot and go into download mode, I plugin the USB and ODIN never lights now!
I have the normal download screen;
Porduct name: GT-i9100
Custom Binary Download: YES (1 counts)
Current Binary: Samsung official
So that does look right, but now even more frustrated! My wife has a samsung and uses KIES, I did plug it in there and no USB confirmation beep, as well as its not listed in the emergency firmware recovery.
Thanks and still looking!
OK. So when you hook the phone up to the PC via USB & get Odin going, you don't get the yellow ID:COM box ?
In that case, try as many of the following as you need to:-
*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 another copy from Samsung's website & reinstall it, reboot, try the flash again.
*Run Windoze Update.
*And if all this fails, try a different PC. If it won't work first try on another PC, go thru the above steps on that PC.
hey, I kind'a messed up.
I have a i9100 (i9100T, but it makes no difference, just like the normal i9100), has android 4.04 xwlpy with the appropriate CF kernel.
thing is, I downloaded the XWLSD update, and updated it through mobile odin (without ANY wipes, not dalvik and not cache).
after that, I'm in boot loop with no recovery mode, but I can still get in download mode.
I would flash a new ROM, but odin (or the PC in general) won't recognize my phone.
I think it didn't recognize my phone before the flash, but not sure.
tried redownloading and reinstalling the drivers (& restarts) several times, no change.
what can I do?
THANK YOU SO MUCH in advanced.
Install Kies.
Try connecting to ODIN again.
Flash Siyah v6 beta4
If above doesnt get system booting then reboot into recovery and do full backup then wipe data/factory reset or better still use kernel/rom wipe scripts.
Once system has booted install/run appextractor and restore apps/appdata from nandroid backup.
TheATHEiST said:
Install Kies.
Try connecting to ODIN again.
Flash Siyah v6 beta4
If above doesnt get system booting then reboot into recovery and do full backup then wipe data/factory reset or better still use kernel/rom wipe scripts.
Once system has booted install/run appextractor and restore apps/appdata from nandroid backup.
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kies installed, ODIN doesn't connect
can't boot into recovery..
it's either download mode or boot-loop, but the download mode doesn't connect with my PC...
RYuval said:
kies installed, ODIN doesn't connect
can't boot into recovery..
it's either download mode or boot-loop, but the download mode doesn't connect with my PC...
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Try:
-All odin version you can get your hands on.
-Make sure Kies applications are all killed.
-All usb ports.
-Other usb cables
-Another PC/Laptop.
Sent from the little guy
RYuval said:
kies installed, ODIN doesn't connect
can't boot into recovery..
it's either download mode or boot-loop, but the download mode doesn't connect with my PC...
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This is why people shouldnt piss about flashing with mobile odin unless they have a working pc odin set up.
Same goes for people with dodgy usb ports....
"noob ok...lazy noob not ok"
theunderling said:
This is why people shouldnt piss about flashing with mobile odin unless they have a working pc odin set up.
Same goes for people with dodgy usb ports....
"noob ok...lazy noob not ok"
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tried different USB ports, odin vers, and PCs...
and yeah, I deserve the "noob", i suppose..
thank you three!
Then I suggest you keep trying. You're not fixing it yourself unless you somehow get your phone & PC to recognise each other.
*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 (Try V1.3, V1.85 & V3 last; search on here/Google)
*Uninstall Kies, reboot, redownload & reinstall it, reboot, try the flash again. Also run Windoze Update.
*Run Windoze Update.
Then you try another PC. And if it won't work on the 2nd PC, you go through the above steps on that. If it still doesn't work it's either user error (could be something really simple you're not doing/not doing right; would be impossible for anyone here to say as we're not there with you) or borked phone. JTAG or service centre.
They're the things you need to keep trying, there is no other way you can fix this.
Got it. Gonna keep trying a lil more and then take the thing to a service center..
Thank u all.