My device was correctly rooted and I went to install CWM. But out the idea that I knew what I was doing, I forgot to check if I was patching the correct CWM, which I didn't which has caused it not to boot past the initial galaxy SII GTI9100 screen; with the exclamation mark. After an hour or so of searching, I think I found the correct CWM which I could flash in Odin [the .tar version, since CWM's website only offers the .zip], but even that has not worked for me. I still can only boot into download mode and I cannot access recovery mode.
Can any of you guys help me in any way? I've checked other threads and I haven't found anything too similar apart from a Galaxy Tab that couldn't get into recovery mode. I'm using the XXLPQ insecure kernel and stock ROM if you need to know that.
Try to flash http://dorimanx.shine.sk/ ver.7+ tar
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Why people keep flashing CWM via odin?
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stopro said:
Try to flash XXXXXXXXXXXX ver.7+ tar
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Can you be a little more specific please? All I can see it .zip files and I'm not sure which file you mean to try. I'm using ICS by the way.
-> Update
Solved the problem. Flashed on a stock ROM and I'll do things again by scratch. Can an admin close this thread down?
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Can you be a little more specific please? All I can see it .zip files and I'm not sure which file you mean to try. I'm using ICS by the way.
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Solved the problem. Flashed on a stock ROM and I'll do things again by scratch. Can an admin close this thread down?
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Good for u.. Next time, try flashing Siyah kernel to get CWM and root too.
Please report ur post to admins to have them close it.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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I updated my Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 to Jelly Bean via Kies. It worked fine for 10 days and yesterday night when I was switching Wi-Fi off, it hanged. So I pulled off the battery and after that it got stuck on boot screen. I am able to get in to download mode but not to recovery mode. I flashed the phone with Official JB rom available at sam mobiles using Odin but the problem still persists. Can someone help me in reviving my phone
Had u done factory reset after flashing the update?
Since u have download mode only, ur only option would be to flash a stock firmware via odin.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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immortalneo said:
Had u done factory reset after flashing the update?
Since u have download mode only, ur only option would be to flash a stock firmware via odin.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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When I updated for first time using Kies, i didn't. After flashing via Odin, I can't factory reset as it's not going to recovery mode. I used stock firmware available at Sam mobiles only to flash. Please guide me what to do next?
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When I updated for first time using Kies, i didn't. After flashing via Odin, I can't factory reset as it's not going to recovery mode. I used stock firmware available at Sam mobiles only to flash. Please guide me what to do next?
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Sorry, read ur first post really fast. Didn't notice that u already flashed stock JB!
If u can't get recovery mode, flash a stock ICS 4.0.3 firmware. Then, get into recovery and factory reset. That should help u boot.
Once you do that, you can either flash JB using odin again, or u can root the ICS and use Mobile Odin app to flash JB.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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Or just flash any rooted jb kernel and wipe/reset in recovery then flash stock jb again
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Sorry, read ur first post really fast. Didn't notice that u already flashed stock JB!
If u can't get recovery mode, flash a stock ICS 4.0.3 firmware. Then, get into recovery and factory reset. That should help u boot.
Once you do that, you can either flash JB using odin again, or u can root the ICS and use Mobile Odin app to flash JB.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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Thanks I will try that. However I searched the forum and according to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
I might have NAND rw corruption. This guide doesn't have instructions for Jelly Bean. Can you guide me how to recover a possible JB SGS2 with NAND rw corruption?
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Or just flash any rooted jb kernel and wipe/reset in recovery then flash stock jb again
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Can you please point me to correct rooted JB kernel and instructions for the same?
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Or just flash any rooted jb kernel and wipe/reset in recovery then flash stock jb again
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Or that..
(Now why didn't I think of that!)
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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konquerror;40315112according to this thread:
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I might have NAND rw corruption.
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Its too early to say that mate. If all other attempts fail, we will try that guide.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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Can you please point me to correct rooted JB kernel and instructions for the same?
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Download Siyah v6 beta 5 (tar file) from www.gokhanmoral.com and flash it via Odin (select it as PDA).
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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Or that..
(Now why didn't I think of that!)
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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Its too early to say that mate. If all other attempts fail, we will try that guide.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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Download Siyah v6 beta 5 (tar file) from gokhanmoral and flash it via Odin (select it as PDA).
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II
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Thanks a lot. Will try and let you know the result
After flashing with Siyah Kernel, I was able to go in to recovery mode. I did a factory reset and wiped the cache after which my phone started working fine. Thanks a lot people for your help.
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After flashing with Siyah Kernel, I was able to go in to recovery mode. I did a factory reset and wiped the cache after which my phone started working fine. Thanks a lot people for your help.
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Ur welcome! Thanks should go to @stopro though!
Please add [SOLVED] to the title of ur post.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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s2 stuck on startup screen
I got my galaxy s2 in january prepaid thru walmart straighttalk. Yesterday it got stuck on startup screen. The reset option will not work...is there anything else I can do? Thanx
Aphrodite
Wot rom u r on
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Just quickly, if you got it on January, are you still under warranty? If you are, save yourself some trouble and take it back under warranty, assuming you've never messed with (rooted etc) your phone? There's things to try but warranty is there for a reason.
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Had the same problem, seemed like a NAND corruption to me on my phone since the progress bar on the main boot logo screen was slow and was stuck half the way, which otherwise used to slide pretty quickly, indicating that the phone is having trouble reading from its NAND flash.
Before the corruption I was running RootboX 4.1 with Dorimanx Kernel 9.38.
Was all prepared to do the ODIN flashing with latest firmware for my country, kernel and possibly a PIT flash with repartition , if in case else would have failed.
However to my skeptic mind a pretty safe suggestion read here somewhere on a thread, appealed for a while, and I was amazed to see the power of hunches.
Someone reported to have restored back his set, by SIMPLY taking the battery out and leaving it naked overnight. I did the same thing last night, and guess what, sipping the morning tea, I inserted the battery again and VOILA, its ALIVE....its ALIVE.....like any other FRANKENSTEIN defying all boundaries of logic.
So someone else in the same fix, should try it at first before jumping in the ODIN waters.
Lets see for how long does it lives, which TOUCHWOOD should be for a long time, till i save enough to a buy the S4 or Note3.
Cheers.
S2 stuck at boot screen. need some help
Hello everybody,
I'm new here and came here because of a problem with my Samsung S2.
Never rooted, original updates with KIES, android 4.1.2
Two days ago i woke up and the s2 was off and didn't restart. At first it was in a splash screen loop and i could get in recovery mode tried the factory reset but it got stuck in there to... After waiting for about an hour i pulled out the battery to restart it but then it didn't get any further than the boot screen. Couldn't get into recovery mode but could get into download mode. Searched the android forums for hours and came across this post. followed several possible solutions but now i'm stuck again, nothing did the trick... Hope you guys are willing and able to help me solve this thing.
What have i done so far:
Downloaded the original firmware for my device: I9100XWLSW_I9100XXMS3_I9100ITVLS2_HOME.tar
Downloaded ODIN v3.07
Updated KIES and after restarting pc stopped all the kies processes.
Started Odin without cable connected to the S2, selected the firmware, got the S2 into download mode, connected S2 to the Pc.
Odin recognizes the comport pressed start and can see that Odin gets stuck at NAND write start!!. first it says boot in white and after about 5min got the red fail.
Tried it different times with the same result.
Went on reading this tread and cam across the possible solution to firs flash kernel (in my case i've used Siyah-s2-v6.0b5.tar), go to recovery mode, factory reset and wipe and then flash original firmware again.
Same problem ODIN gets stuck at NAND write start!!
Detail: on the S2 during all this i''ve never seen a progress bar or any other movement, However although every attempt failed, when i go in to download mode now it says
Custom binary download: yes (2 counts) -my attempts to flash kernel with Siyah-s2-v6.0b5.tar
Current binary:custom
And at the boot screen i get the yellow triangle...
I'm stuck! :silly:
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Made some screenshots:
So because this is my first post they are attached to this post.
You've been pretty thorough so far. Search for Hopper 8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread, try all the stuff in the thread, particularly flashing the 3 part firmware. That's the only way you're fixing it yourself. Could be NAND corruption, but most of these cases are fixed by perseverance (for example, the first 7 times you try flashing stock firmware it doesn't work, but the 8th flash does for whatever reason), sometimes it's something really small/obvious tripping you up that can be a bit hard to figure out if you've trying to fix it for hours/days. Hopper's thread should enable you to try everything you possibly can to fix it.
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You've been pretty thorough so far. Search for Hopper 8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread, try all the stuff in the thread, particularly flashing the 3 part firmware. That's the only way you're fixing it yourself. Could be NAND corruption, but most of these cases are fixed by perseverance (for example, the first 7 times you try flashing stock firmware it doesn't work, but the 8th flash does for whatever reason), sometimes it's something really small/obvious tripping you up that can be a bit hard to figure out if you've trying to fix it for hours/days. Hopper's thread should enable you to try everything you possibly can to fix it.
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Thanks MistahBungle... I'll go and try that... I'll reply here if it worked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345831. If it doesn't, it's a motherboard replacement job. I very much recommend you flash as many stock firmwares you can download (10, 20, whatever), because the alternative is expensive/means getting a new phone.
I rooted my samsung s2 i9100 with Siyah-s2-v6.0b4.tar using odin and everything went fine. I made some tweaks to the phone and now I want to unroot my mobile. I went through many websites all of them advice people to reinstall the firmware again. I dont want to uninstall my firmware. I am having stock ROM I9100XWLSN_I9100OXXLS8_NEE installed in my mobile phone. I wish to unroot my s2 and also want to remove clockworkmode from it.
At least I need to switch back to my stock kernel, I dont want to keep the custom ROM, because the battery is draining very fast after rooting the phone. Even I tried extracting the stock kernel from the stock ROM and flash it using both ODIN 1.85 and v3.07. I kept my mobile phone in download mode, I compressed the zimage into a tar file, the I clicked on start. The kernel was recognized by the ODIN but it got stuck, It's just showing starting to flash, but too lazy to begin flashing.
Kindly advice me how to unroot the mobile without flashing the stock f/w and also how to remove CWM and flash back my stock kernel.
Thanks in advance
I don't get why you wont reflash.
As far as I know siyah v6 doesn't work to good on jb, should've gone with philz.
From where I sit....it's better for you to reflash, you can do it via mobile odin pro (so you'll get your stock kernel rooted).
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Doesn't Siyah v6 come with SuperSU app? Maybe he can use SuperSU to do unroot?
I agree though with gastonw that flashing a stock firmware is the best way to unroot.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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immortalneo said:
Doesn't Siyah v6 come with SuperSU app? Maybe he can use SuperSU to do unroot?
I agree though with gastonw that flashing a stock firmware is the best way to unroot.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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He can unroot the device via the su app but he'll still be on a custom kernel.
He's got all the tools & options. Lets see how he does.
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A hopefully simple question;
Can I use mobile Odin to flash clockwork recovery? I have GT-I9100_JB_ClockworkMod-Recovery_6.0.2.9.tar (downloaded from wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_i9100 which when loaded into mobile Odin seems to go into the kernel "slot".
I'm trying to do this as it appears that that clockwork recovery is the only way I can flash things like paranoid android etc. My phone is currently running stock, rooted JB (I9100XWLSS (4.1.2)).
Thanks in advance.
IMHO, avoid temporary CWM, flash the Odin version of a rooted kernel (I.E Siyah) that has CWM baked into it, then you can flash whatever you want from there.
We seem to be seeing an increase in the number of people who are having problems with/after flashing temporary CWM lately.
Save yourself the grief.
Edit -Hang on, you're running rooted stock, I presume you're using CFRoot given you didn't mention a custom kernel ? That being the case, you already have CWM & should be able to flash whatever you want already.
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IMHO, avoid temporary CWM, flash the Odin version of a rooted kernel (I.E Siyah) that has CWM baked into it, then you can flash whatever you want from there.
We seem to be seeing an increase in the number of people who are having problems with/after flashing temporary CWM lately.
Save yourself the grief.
Edit -Hang on, you're running rooted stock, I presume you're using CFRoot given you didn't mention a custom kernel ? That being the case, you already have CWM & should be able to flash whatever you want already.
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Thanks,
Can i flash Siyah with mobile Odin? for example the one found at the bottom of this page gokhanmoral.com/?cat=5. I'm very reluctant to ever use the PC version of Odin again after bricking my phone with it earlier this year.
Edit, just saw your edit. To root I used the first method here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746794 using Root_SuperSU.0.96.Only-signed.zip on my old ROM (ICS XEU I think) Then after installing mobile Odin I used EverRoot to maintain my root access / flash the ROM I'm currently using. It seems that the mobile Odin flash removed any CWM that may have been present.
No probs. Yep, should work fine if that's your preference.
Ahhh OK. That explains why you have no CWM then
Do share with us if the Siyah flash via Mobile Odin went without any issues.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II
immortalneo said:
Do share with us if the Siyah flash via Mobile Odin went without any issues.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II
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Neo, confirmed.
Siyah can be flashed via Mobile Odin (.tar version).
Hello,
I've purchased and tried to run the Triangle Away app on my I9100. The original phone is from Orange (spain). I rooted it and installed a "normal" samsung rom with ICS 4.0.3. I run the Triangle away app but nothing happens, the flash counter does not reset and the yellow triangle still appears. Can someone bring me some help with this? I've thought of purchasing a jig but I've read it does not work on ICS, so I don'y know what to do.
Many thanks.
TriangleAway app has a thread right? You would get better answers if you ask this question there.
Also check if you have root access. And try again a couple of times.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine."
Sent from my SGS II
Thank you Immortalneo, I didn't know about the thread, I will post there.
immortalneo said:
TriangleAway app has a thread right? You would get better answers if you ask this question there.
Also check if you have root access. And try again a couple of times.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine."
Sent from my SGS II
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Thank you Immortalneo, I didn't know about the thread, I will post there.
First you have to flash any ROM and then flash philz cwm recovery. Your phone rooted. Now open traingleaway and allow access to supersu. And go to setting you will found a option to reset in boot mode click on that and it will go into boot mode and click yes to confirm reset. That's it. It worked for me.
You will found philz download link from here in 3rd post - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1877270
Find ur mobile build there like xwsw etc and download that file in .tar file and flash that using Odin. Enjoy.
Philz is to root ur phone. Maybe ur root was not successful or wrong root file used.
He doesn't need to flash any rom at all.And he doesn't have to use philz kernel I.e siyah.