Hello
I have a Galaxy S2 factory unlocked and I wanted to know the country of origin, because I want to update to JellyBean but it constantly says that there are no updates when my country has already updated. So I was said to download the kies of the corresponding country of origin of the phone.
So what can I do to check the origin or update it without rooting? (Ive checked in sammobile using firmware, csc, etc and nothing was found)
Thanks in advanced
Check where was it made.
You won't know what was the first firmware it had because android overwrites firmware with firmware.
You could track the IMEI, but that's a hassle.
Upgrade with odin / mobile odin and that's that.
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And how should I update with odin? can i do it without rooting?
Of course.
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Sorry to bother you with lots of questions, do you have a little tutorial or some step by step on how to update with odin without rooting? (i dont want to mess the things up)
And from what country should I download the jb rom?
Thanks in advanced
You can flash whatever ROM you want.
For guides, check the general forum or FAQ (all sticked threads).
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elloco4ever said:
Sorry to bother you with lots of questions, do you have a little tutorial or some step by step on how to update with odin without rooting? (i dont want to mess the things up)
And from what country should I download the jb rom?
Thanks in advanced
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It's easy there are lots of posts out there,
1.Go to download mode on phone
2.Connect to PC after running Odin via usb
3. Select your firmware usually something.tar.md5 in pda
4.Make sure Odin has detected your phone
5.Start Flashing.
Better read about the don't do's before doing anything.
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Worked flawlesly! thanks a lot for the help!
Do you know if I can flash some other custom roms like super nexus or cyannogenmod without rooting or changing the recovery like ClockworkMod?
No, that you can't.
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Hi
JB is working great, the phone works much better, but im having a terrible battery life. Speacially when the phone is in stand by mode and I cant find what is causing it (when its in stand by I lose like 5% to 8% per hour). The battery manager that comes with android isnt saying much, and Ive trying disabling google now and all the google maps location services in background. Before installing Jb I made a wipe data and cache just in case.
What could be the problem?
Media scanner maybe?
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I dont really know what is it. But now that you mention it maybe it could be, because when I open the gallery the phone gets really hot for a while, even when I already closed it.
How can I solve that? (without rooting)
Set your external DCIM as default for storage (camera settings).
Move all files from your internal DCIM to the external DCIM.
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I think they are all in the external memory, because I flashed the new rom and wiped all the data but all the photos remained there, since I always use the external as storage for images and music.
Check your internal DCIM to be sure there aren't pics or videos there.
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Ive checked and its in the sd card DCIM, I dont know what else I can do, Ive charged the phone while it was shut down, and when it was 100% ive turned on (still connected to power supply) and after 2 minutes of use the phone went 99% of battery (being connected to the power supply) :S
What else can I do?
Well, we are assuming it's media scanner, maybe it's not.
Post the battery details.
BetterBatteryStats will pin point what's draining the batt.
BTW, create a new folder in your internal SD, call it DCIM.
Reboot.
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Ok, Ill get a screenshot of the battery stats and ill post it here. I cant create a folder in the internal memory (it says permission denied in airdroid).
Here is the battery stats, Ive barely used it because Ive finished charging before going to sleep. (airdroid was opened just 1 min ago to download the files I dont have it always open)
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It's wifi.
Turn it on when needed and your battery will last 2-3 times.
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But with ICS I left the wifi turned on without any problem. Also in the battery history its using 2% of the battery. I think that theres something with the OS thats draining the battery. Maybe I should turn on the battery saver with the cpu limit. I dont know what else to do
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Hey there.
First post. I used Odin 3.1 to flash Froyo 2.2 on my Vibrant that was running Eclair 2.1, and Odin showed a successful completion. The phone then turned off and instead of re-booting, has become totally, utterly unresponsive.
I have tried a number of ways to get it to work, or at least get in to Download or Recovery mode, including the "remove everything, then re-insert battery while holding down volume up/down keys" and any number of key combinations. I've trowled the forum and haven't found a single solution for a completely unresponsive Vibrant. even the USB jig seems to be for those phones that at least show the Vibrant Logo or the "S" at start-up, while mine doesn't do anything.
The only encouraging thing has been posts by people who claim to have lefft their unresponsive Vibrants plugged in for several hours only to have them miraculously revive, but that seems like a long shot to me.
Have I managed to do the impossible and brick an unbrickable phone? I'd really appreciate help as I just got the phone last week and don't want to declare it a dead loss so soon.
Cheers!
Utterly, haha
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thinking.. above was a joke...
What ODIN files did you flash? Link to them?
What version of ODIN, the latest?
When you say nothing... you mean you can't see anything on the phone, regardless of the action?
rofl OMG is that chick half naked hahaha seriously is she in her undies milking a cow WTF! LMFAO!
- so the phone won't turn on huh?...... no power at all?....... how about plug in the cord, do you see the batt charge?
haha utterly.. when you say put in the battery while holding the volume keys, did you put in the battery or plug in the USB??
I had to replace mine. Been good ever since.
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Here's the long story. My phone was getting the 'device unrecognized' error in Kies and Kies Mini, so I used Odin 3.0 to flash it, using the "T959UVKA6_REV05_home_low_CL860813.tar.md5" file.
After flashing, my phone wouldgo into recovery mode and the following error.
"E:Cant mount /dev/block/st110
(invalid argument)
E:copy_dbdata_media:cant mount DBDATA:
copy default media content failed."
Next I followed the steps detailed in this post . When I flashed my phone according to the 'Gauranteed Solution', my phone turned off at the end of the flash and has stayed off ever since.
And when I say nothing, I mean nothing. No battery symbol, no sound, no Samsung Vibrant logo, nothing. Just a blank screen.
I tried plugging in the phone and then putting in the battery with the volume keys pressed and I also tried it without plugging in the USB. Either way, nothing happens.
As you can probably guess, I'm a n00b of the first order and I fear I might have killed my phone.
If you do manage to revive your phone back.. You better flash roms via cmw. Not that odin isn't great but cmw never caused any problems(to me).
Make a jig to force download mode then reflash stock os and install rom manager to flash roms. P.m for more Info.
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Thats funny, the last post in the link you referenced is someone having the same problem as you........ why would you try to do that? and the .tar is some I9000 file being that the (fix) was in the I9000 forum. Neither of these probably have anything to do with your problem now i just thought it was funny. I mean why wouldn't you just use the T959UVJFD.tar in ODIN?
It seems that the "E:cant mount" error is a fairly common issue and from what i am seeing alot of the people having this issue after using samsung kies are getting replacements fairly easily although it is a last resort for many. I would not think its an issue with your drivers or anything like that, probably just ODIN being weird. Don't give up on ODIN i would assume that it will recognize the phone eventually as most "DEAD" vibrants do after time. I'll keep looking into it for you. Hope you find a fix soon. Good luck!
You can also restart the computer and f8 and turn off driver signing and see if that helps. Once again I don't mind helping on a more personal basis. P.m me.
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have you ever actually tried a usb jig ?
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When iam using my phone in like listening to music or just writting on whatsapp or playing games or using gps it suddenly restarts and when its starting it restart again , Sometimes i have to take out the battery and then try again.
Iam on Wolfs gingerbreand 2.3.3 v7 sneak peak room (PreRoted)
Baseband .71
Unlocked bootloader
Doomkernel v6 f/s
Already did a clean install from 2.1 stock room
Its happens randomly (But specially when phone is running larger apps like sygic gps, power amp, recording on stock and app camera, playing or downloading from market).
Anyone knows how to fix this problem?
Thanks
Overclocked CPU?
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Nop using doomkernel fail/safe and fs room too
my girlfriend is having the same issue. we have determined it may be a faulty battery issue. but not sure.. i found somewhere through a google search that the cause of this is a bad battery. so sense we both have the same phone and im not experiencing any of the issues you and her are having i switched the two batteries. her phone now works perfectly fine and so does mine, but when i switch the batteries again to original phones her phone starts restarting randomly again. it really doesnt matter what app she is using. at first it was specific apps then eventually its become completely random. she wont even be using the phone and it will restart.
basically what im trying to say is.. try a different battery. or try a different rom. the rom could be your main issue as well. or reflash your current rom from a fresh new download. also try a different kernel
EDIT: btw i have tried the past few months to get doomkernel to work right. i have install several different versions of doomkernel and they have all ended up semibricking my phone. its only with this kernel. sometimes it will last a week. sometimes only a few days before i start experiencing problems. at first i thought it was a rom issue. tried several different roms with corresponding doomkernel and all ended with the exact same issue. never have i had issues with other kernels. try flashing a different kernel made for your rom.
thanks tsdeaton for your reply . will try to get a new battery and post what happens
btw thought i should update you on this and for those who have had a similar problem. it seems the battery was the issue. her sister got the same phone and just a few months later her phone was doing the same things. their dad got them both a brand new batteries and now both are running like new. its been nearly a month now on the new batteries and neither of them have experienced any random reboots or consistent app crash loops.
Maybe You have full RAM? It happens when Your memory gets full.
jakuburban said:
Maybe You have full RAM? It happens when Your memory gets full.
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good idea. it might be the case for some. that is a common problem as well. but in my girlfriends case it was just the battery. flashing different roms, kernels, and using app killer apps did not solve the problem. ram managers showed plenty of ram and i even monitored the cpu and ram and even took a logcat. there were no issues with the OS or hardware. the phone would do a simple ghost reboot. there were no random spikes in cpu or ram usage right before reboot and logcat showed everything to be running normal. it was like the phone flipped a switch.
hi people
i have this issue
I try battery calibrate tips
you find in forum
and now my phone run fine
but my battery is tired
I see that,
when my phone reboot then hold power button,at reboot give me 3red led 3 time
And after boot,
it indicated my battery at 80% and reboot again
In this case the phone have wrong battery stat
Follow tuto battery calibration
Or when you have this
Go data/system/ and delete batterystat.bin
Poweroff the phone and charge 100 in off mode
Unplug charger and reboot
kaosdroid said:
hi people
i have this issue
I try battery calibrate tips
you find in forum
and now my phone run fine
but my battery is tired
I see that,
when my phone reboot then hold power button,at reboot give me 3red led 3 time
And after boot,
it indicated my battery at 80% and reboot again
In this case the phone have wrong battery stat
Follow tuto battery calibration
Or when you have this
Go data/system/ and delete batterystat.bin
Poweroff the phone and charge 100 in off mode
Unplug charger and reboot
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try to install kernel again nd wipe all ur data nd dalwik cache with battery stat
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x10forevers said:
try to install kernel again nd wipe all ur data nd dalwik cache with battery stat
X10 2.3.4 ***Feralab*** v5.0 Immortal 2012
2.6.29-modefxp-DooMKernel-v06
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How I forget to do that ?
Seriously man,
it's not simple like you said !
I try reflashing many firmware(1.6 2.1 2.3) with wipe all but off course doesn't solve anything.
The phone give red blinking 10 times at boot or when it sleep,i plug charger then it give red led before yellow.
So,
what the led(red) try to indicate me ?hmm
THE BATTERY IS DIE ! ! ! ! !
that's it.
Ps,
nothing guy's at
(sony ericsson,SFR,or phone dealer find the issue)
they SAID your phone have hardware problem,or your phone is die,try reflashing FW,blablabla.
Mhuaaaa !!!!! Ok
Conclusion,
if you have trouble
with your phone on stock rom,
I know it's hard but
try to understand correctly
(message debug,led alert,ect...)
before listening stupid by other
And do something wrong.
Hi
I will try and list everything i can i suspect i will not be able to fix this but thought someone might have some insight as to how it happened.
Whats Wrong:
No signs of life, no boot screen, no recovery mode and no download mode. I have held down the reverent buttons for over a min and i get no response from the phone. Have checked its not just a flat battery, its been charging for 2 hours and same response whether plugged into charger or not.
What I was doing:
The Phone was the stock Rom that I had rooted (I use the orange signal boost app at home, and didn't want to lose it.) I decided to change the menu icons for my apps to a matching set and was using APK editor to do that. Knowing that messing with the signal boost app could mess it up I created a backup of the Rom using CWM before starting and then tried changing the icon and re-installing signal boost. It failed and the app would not run when I tried to re-install the original. So I booted into recovery mode and told CWM to recover from the backup i had created. I left the phone and when i came back it was blank and has been ever since.
Phone details
Orange Uk branded i9100p
running android 4.0.4 stock (rooted)
As I said I doubt this is an easy fix but if anyone can give me a hand i would be eternally grateful. Failing that is someone can shed some light on what went wrong so i can avoid it in the future that would be great to.
Thanks
Tom0468 said:
Hi
I will try and list everything i can i suspect i will not be able to fix this but thought someone might have some insight as to how it happened.
Whats Wrong:
No signs of life, no boot screen, no recovery mode and no download mode. I have held down the reverent buttons for over a min and i get no response from the phone. Have checked its not just a flat battery, its been charging for 2 hours and same response whether plugged into charger or not.
What I was doing:
The Phone was the stock Rom that I had rooted (I use the orange signal boost app at home, and didn't want to lose it.) I decided to change the menu icons for my apps to a matching set and was using APK editor to do that. Knowing that messing with the signal boost app could mess it up I created a backup of the Rom using CWM before starting and then tried changing the icon and re-installing signal boost. It failed and the app would not run when I tried to re-install the original. So I booted into recovery mode and told CWM to recover from the backup i had created. I left the phone and when i came back it was blank and has been ever since.
Phone details
Orange Uk branded i9100p
running android 4.0.4 stock (rooted)
As I said I doubt this is an easy fix but if anyone can give me a hand i would be eternally grateful. Failing that is someone can shed some light on what went wrong so i can avoid it in the future that would be great to.
Thanks
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is your phone in warranty ?
also does it show any display wen u plug it on charging
also wen u put it for chargin leave it from 30 to 60 mins and check if the area near the camera is getting hot , if its gettin hot then u have hard bricked ur phone
if ur phone is in warranty u can head to service center for replacement jus don tell them what u ver actually tryin to do
or if its not in warranty then u can try getting ur phone to ur nearest jtaq center
Brickbug??
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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try a USB jig.. does it work??
Listen to neo there.
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Every time I try to download an image now I get an error stating download unsuccessful. Stock browser, which always downloaded images fine. Went to send a friend a pic as a joke and tried other sites and same thing. Not sure what to even check to see what is causing this. Running Shostock3 3.0.2
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Anyone? Can't even find this searching, only some other similar threads but with different issues I'm not having.
surf1 said:
Anyone? Can't even find this searching, only some other similar threads but with different issues I'm not having.
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One option is download and install Rom Manager (by clockworkmod) from the market, and enable browser downloads.
Commodore 64 said:
One option is download and install Rom Manager (by clockworkmod) from the market, and enable browser downloads.
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Be very careful with rom manager on this phone though. Be sure to read the sticky post at the top of this forum.
Commodore 64 said:
One option is download and install Rom Manager (by clockworkmod) from the market, and enable browser downloads.
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yeh like theother post don't like rom manager. Either way kinda pointless, why do that when the phone/browser used to work fine. Gallery won't even open as it says there's no enough space, that makes no sense as I only have like 20 pics in there, and I've had way way way way more then that before and vids at different points.
dog ate my usb transfer cable, so checking the internal with airdroid and es file.
Ok have about 2GB free on the SD (internal not ext), here's where it's odd, was at Lowes and was trying to check the merv rating of a filter and went to download it and had the same issue as before "download unsuccessful". Used ES File and it downloaded fine. But whats causing the browser to not download, it always did before. I'd rather have that work again and just go into the gallery and open the download folder, vs Scrolling to page -> ES File -> SD -> Download folder each time. And rather not have to use an app when never had to before.
Any ideas? I like to save pics sometimes and send as jokes, or upload, and it was easy to go right into the gallery and send from there. Any ideas what this issue is as I can't find anybody else with it?
surf1 said:
yeh like theother post don't like rom manager. Either way kinda pointless, why do that when the phone/browser used to work fine. Gallery won't even open as it says there's no enough space, that makes no sense as I only have like 20 pics in there, and I've had way way way way more then that before and vids at different points.
dog ate my usb transfer cable, so checking the internal with airdroid and es file.
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I have the same problem. Can you give me a little history of your phone? I didn't have any problems till after I bricked my phone. before the brick the ROM worked. Not the only Samsung based ROM that will work with my phone is the new cooked rom by mr. cook.
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ronron6665 said:
I have the same problem. Can you give me a little history of your phone? I didn't have any problems till after I bricked my phone. before the brick the ROM worked. Not the only Samsung based ROM that will work with my phone is the new cooked rom by mr. cook.
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Not sure what you mean/looking for, but the post right above yours has more info.
Just an i777 that I've always ran Shostock2 and 3 roms on. But stumped as to why browsers won't download anymore, but ES File will. Browsers used to download right into my photo gallery.
I got the gallery to open today, though it did give me glitch twice saying not enough memory and wouldn't open (when I have 2GB free). Seems to open fine now though.
Well mine was working fine with Shostock 3 till I bricked my phone. After I fixed my phone no Samsung Roms will work on my phone. The gallery said memory full deleat photo's or videos. And I can't download anything, or delete any files with file manager. I was wondering why. Did it have to do with me bricking my phone.
Fix: When I have the problem I can reboot into recovery and fix permissions and after I reboot everything works great
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Hello, I have a little question, recently a friend told me if I can fix his i9100, cause "it remains at logo"
My surprise was that the phone doesnt even charge, when I plug it to the power, a battery that aparently is loading apears, for 2 segs, and then the screen turn off, and then the battery icon agains, and remains in a infinite loop but wont charge
Someone have this problem and knows how to repair it? I wish the problem isnt hardware :/
This is the exact icon i say:
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Hello, I have a little question, recently a friend told me if I can fix his i9100, cause "it remains at logo"
My surprise was that the phone doesnt even charge, when I plug it to the power, a battery that aparently is loading apears, for 2 segs, and then the screen turn off, and then the battery icon agains, and remains in a infinite loop but wont charge
Someone have this problem and knows how to repair it? I wish the problem isnt hardware :/
This is the exact icon i say:
Thanks in advance Guys!
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could need a new battery or new usb flex cable (charger port)
even more, perhaps..there is a "bootloop" problem that explained this behaviour...please looks for the post, in Development thread, to fix this issue
ko2005pu said:
even more, perhaps..there is a "bootloop" problem that explained this behaviour...please looks for the post, in Development thread, to fix this issue
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Thank you very much for your answer, it makes me happy that possibly the problem has a fix, but, please, can you link me the fix, i searched before (maybe i didn't search properly) but I didn't found it, please help me, thanks in advance!
You will have to reflash a stock rom using ODIN. Don't worry because there are many guides over the internet. Guide: http://mobilenetworkcomparison.org.uk/tutorials/how-to-restore-the-stock-samsung-galaxy-s2-rom/
Make sure you download the rom for the correct version of phone!
Once you've flashed stock rom, make sure to factory reset and wipe cache partition. (note: don't do this if you are going to flash ics because this might hard brick your device)
gsstudios said:
You will have to reflash a stock rom using ODIN. Don't worry because there are many guides over the internet. Guide: http://mobilenetworkcomparison.org.uk/tutorials/how-to-restore-the-stock-samsung-galaxy-s2-rom/
Make sure you download the rom for the correct version of phone!
Once you've flashed stock rom, make sure to factory reset and wipe cache partition. (note: don't do this if you are going to flash ics because this might hard brick your device)
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Hello Thanks! I didn't see when you reply!!
The problem is that, I can't even get into download mode, when i press power button, the screen doesn't turn on, the screen turn on until I plug the charger, but only appears the battery icon i put in the first post :/
ManaSV93 said:
Hello Thanks! I didn't see when you reply!!
The problem is that, I can't even get into download mode, when i press power button, the screen doesn't turn on, the screen turn on until I plug the charger, but only appears the battery icon i put in the first post :/
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Maybe it is a battery problem... Try a new battery.
Tried with a new battery, and same problem :/