Hello All, I've been trying to find a solution for about 9 hours straight now. I've been on multiple forums and multiple threads. Some help would be AMAZING.. I am really agitated and want to throw my phone on the floor and stomp on it.
Here's my story:
I tried to root my phone watching a youtube video and something went wrong. So I reverted back to the factory reset.
Then after factory resetting, I tried to upgrade from 4.11 to 4.12 to follow the CASUAL root (( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272066 )), but it would not allow me to do so. So I tried doing it manually using .tar.md5 files and Odin3. I was able to connect to Odin3 but it would not allow me to update, it gave me the green android man lying dead with a red triangle over his body.
This is where the problem gets worse:
I am trying to follow this thread (( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2043636 )) to get it to reinstall the baseline.
Odin does not read my phone anymore. I've tried installing, unstalling, reinstalling the USB Driver, while restarting computer after each uninstall, I did this about 7 times with 3 different samsung USB drivers. one from their main website version, 1.514, found another updated one 1.523, and even an older one 1.385. None of them work for me. I've used a registry cleaner after each uninstall and nothing. I've used 3 different wires 2which are from samsung one from note2 and another from s3.
Not only can I not connect my device in Odin Download Mode ( I was able to before when I first tried to root), I can't even connect my phone while its on ( I was able to transfer music/pictures before).
PLEASE HELP ME! I am desperate
I've researched many forums and some people had the same problem but I can't seem to fix mine
Some threads that I went through.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044840
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961956
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1229593
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Ok, to start off, im new here. i have read a TON of threads about rooting and flashing roms to my vibrant. i have watched a dozen youtube videos on many different ways to do this but nothing seems to work for me. i am trying to get the team whiskey bionix v rom. i previously rooted my phone when i was on 2.1 but ended up unrooting because i didn't really know what to do yet. after upgrading to android 2.2 i tried to root again so i could get this new rom. i eventually got rooted after some difficulty. i used superoneclick root to do this. however i was stopped when i could not boot into clockwork recovery mode. i searched for hours on how to make it boot into this recovery mode but nothing worked. so i tried using odin but ran into a massive problem with it not recognizing my phone in download mode(YES I HAVE ALL THE DRIVERS). so i tried to unroot my phone and re-root it. however it wouldn't let my unroot it through superoneclick. it would not recognize my device. i got very frustrated and uninstalled the superuser app on my phone which actually got rid of my root access but now i cant re-root my phone.
I am very frustrated having spent a good 8 hours on this by now and getting stuck at every turn. should i go back to factory default? or is there something i should do to try and salvage this? also if i do restore to factory default will i end up on 2.1 or 2.2?
And yes i have read the entire noob guide and vibrant bible thread.
(BTW i have tried making this work on a windows 7 machine, windows xp, and a mac)
When you connect to pc in download mode, do you already have odin up on the pc?
Does it show a com #?
i have Odin. when i connect normally with my vibrant it picks up a com port. however it doesn't during download mode. i have tried with it up. with it down and then opining it up. plugging in my phone and reconnecting it over and over again and pretty much every combination i could think of because i read that it is a really finicky program.
btw i have done a complete factory reset and cleared all my sd card data(i backed it up on my computer beforehand) it is on froyo and still refuses to be rooted and Odin still wont find it while in download mode. I have followed every step of every walk through to a tee and yet i still have had no luck. maybe ill switch back to my windows 7 computer and try that again.
Posted this on the general discussion section but have had no replies, hopefully someone here can help?
Hi everyone, first, this is my first post, new to the forums, at least as a registered user. I have a problem with my phone. I know most of you are wondering why I have not just read the other posts on the forums, but I have. I have attempted every solution to the problem posted previously.
Background: Phone: Samsung charge.
I was being impatient and did not want to wait for the gingerbread update form Verizon. I flashed the leaked gingerbread 2.3.4 onto my phone using odin. Everything went great. I was able to use my phone with no problems except shortened battery life, but nothing major. About a month ago the battery life was impossible to maintain and there were some software bugs, like clicks during calls, startup taking forever, around 2 minutes on average!, and random restarts that never happened before. I decided to look up some fixes and found that verizon and samsung had released GB 2.3.6 for the charge. I got excited and decided I wanted to get that, but I could not via OTA. I read some forum posts and they mentioned attempting a factory reset on the phone then trying OTA update. I went ahead with factory reset and everything went fine. My startup time is around 25 seconds now and no random clicks or gliches, but still not on 2.3.6, which was the whole point. I then decided to just flash the stock 2.3.6 rom to the phone.
Problem: When I plug my phone in to multiple computers it will charge but not connect to the computer. This means on my Mac it does not show as an external drive, which it has in the past. On my windows 7 machine it says that drivers were installed but could not be used (I can get the exact quote if needed.) I attempted to go into device manager and solve problem that way but it shows my phone as "unknown device". I have tried to enter download mode when hooked up to windows computers and no connection is found.
Possible solutions attempted and their outcomes:
1. As stated, I attempted the method shown in a thread on droid forums for installing the samsung drivers. I have attempted multiple times to install the drivers on my windows machine and the device remains "unknown".
2. I have attempted multiple cables on multiple computers, both mac and windows 7. No change.
3. I have installed adb and attempted to locate devices using adb devices command on mac. No devices found.
4. I have attempted all methods with both usb debugging checked and unchecked.
5. I have tried every possible usb port I have.
Ideas/questions I have had that I have no idea are possible or how to fix!
Would a factory reset take away the ability to connect to a computer from my phone. So, is there a piece of software in the build I have that controls the connection between the computer and the phone, an identifier of sorts, which is now missing, now that I have reset the leaked ROM.
Is there a way to flash a new ROM without connecting to a computer, via the sd card, and what is that? I have read some things in other posts but am too much of a n00b to understand most of them when using sdcards.
ANY help will be greatly appreciated. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! I have been at this for at least 6 hours, sifting through forums, searching google, attempting fixes that others have stated worked for them, only to fail every time. Thank you all.
have you try on a different pc?
maybe on your PC there is some problem with the drivers.
Moreover to connect via
adb u must enable Debug mode on your device in the application menu.
To flash kernel or other directly from your sd you can use the clockwordmode, but to install it you must before
install it and i fear you must use your cable connection
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I have tried multiple PCs and a mac, even windows on bootcamp. I have installed drivers on every one, even uninstalled and reinstalled on one. One PC, my laptop was a fresh windows install (it was a linux box but I needed windows to use Odin). I was in debug mode and not in debug mode when attempting adb. Thanks for the suggestions though. As I said, I have tried numerous things and am completely stuck! so frustrating!
"I attempted to go into device manager and solve problem that way but it shows my phone as "unknown device"
Exactly there... you can try to force device to install a different driver.
Double click the unknown device then driver then update driver then find software in your computer then choose manually from a list of device drivers in your computer then show all devices you should see "android adb interface" or something related to google or android.
Try it... i hope this can help you.
Hello all, I have a GS3 international GT-I9300
I'll try to go through the story as fast as I can and give as much detail so you guys can understand how I got here.
Bought the phone unlocked, I was stock, I rooted and then I decided to install a new ROM. I went with Resurrection Remix, it was working great. I did this on a desktop back home. They released a new update to RR so I did a OTA update with "Update Me" apparently the thing flashed but it didn't, the phone still worked but NFC wasn't working as well as having lost root access and some other stuff wasn't working correctly, but I lived with it.
I moved to Florida (home is in NY) and I have a laptop with me, for some reason my laptop used to be able to transfer files to my S3, but it wasn't doing it any more after a while. So it would just charge it. I was in a hotel room last week trying to tether via USB but the PC wasnt having it, it could not locate the phone. This week I moved to a different hotel with internet and decided I would flash stock on my S3 to get rid of all these bugs and get root again, I tried flashing stock through recovery and it wasn't going, so I tried flashing RR again (this time downloaded from the site RR site) and it worked. Still no USB connection but I had root back. I looked around my PC and apparently the Samsung drives are not installing or something on my PC. I installed Kies, but nothing, I tried a stand alone driver install and nothing, so I just gave up and bought Mobile Odin pro from Gplay to try to flash again.
Mobile Odin for some reason (I blame it on myself) wasn't finding/flashing stock so again I decided to try and flash RR and see what would happen. It flashed RR and turned on fine. Then I just decided to look for an NFC fix on XDA. Once I found my NFC fix (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32029713&postcount=8367) I decided to just copy the files to the system folder, NFC still not working, rebooted and NFC still no working, so I figured I would try to flash the fix through mobile odin seeing as how I can't get my PC to pick up on the USB. I tried flashing but MO just kept bouncing it back and re-booting into RR. Tried again and no flash. So I decided to again try and flash stock. I tried going into Recovery, the phone shut off like it always does, came back on but stayed in the Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 logo and would not move. I shut it off again, tried turning it on again and still stuck on the galaxy logo. Now, if I leave the phone off and plug in the USB, it won't show the battery charging image, it will actually turn straight onto the galaxy logo again and stay there. I can get the phone into download mode, but like I said my pc won't recognize the drivers.
Now, here are my questions:
What happened?
Can this be fixed?
Am I an idiot?
If I can get the drivers installed on another PC as well as Odin (1.85), will the new PC "see" the S3 or are the drivers on the phone deleted as well? (if that sort of thing can happen, idk.)
I'm going to see if I can borrow a buddy's PC and download the drivers as well as odin to try and bring my S3 back to life, I just want to know, what happens if I can't get the other PC to pick it up ether because the drivers on the phone are deleted (if that's a thing) or what I can expect if it is connected.
What are the steps or guides to follow here? I just got it into Download mode and it says on the top of the screen:
ODIN MODE
Product name: GT-I9300
Custom Binary Download: Yes (2 counts)
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Custom
sorry , i am sometime getting headache reading long english text so i just briefly look over.
your PC doesn't recognize your S3 ? is that correct ? hmmm , is it possible that your PC (Microsoft Windows I assume?) system is damaged due to something like virus or some reasons ? i have encountered that kinda problem before and be OK after i reinstalled the system.
If it's a soft brick, then it can defiantly be fixed. You might, however, lose your data along the process.
Be glad it's not hard bricked
It happened to me many times, USB error "unknown device" connected. Only fix for it was reinstalling Windows so better if you can use different PC or laptop. Install Kies and other USB drivers. Restart computer, download and run Odin v 3.0x. Flash your phone.
If this doesn't work then maybe your phone have a problem with USB port?
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djembey said:
It happened to me many times, USB error "unknown device" connected. Only fix for it was reinstalling Windows so better if you can use different PC or laptop. Install Kies and other USB drivers. Restart computer, download and run Odin v 3.0x. Flash your phone.
If this doesn't work then maybe your phone have a problem with USB port?
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Don't forget to delete kies as you only need the drivers
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Thanks for the replies guys. I'll try to fix tit today, I didn't get a chance to do it last night. If anything I'll update you guys with what's going on.
Like I was saying, I'll try using a different PC to fix it. Now, if I can't get Odin to recognize the phone, what would be the next step?
Hello All, I've been trying to find a solution for about 9 hours straight now. I've been on multiple forums and multiple threads. Some help would be AMAZING.. I am really agitated and want to throw my phone on the floor and stomp on it.
Here's my story:
I tried to root my phone watching a youtube video and something went wrong. So I reverted back to the factory reset.
Then after factory resetting, I tried to upgrade from 4.11 to 4.12 to follow the CASUAL root (( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272066 )), but it would not allow me to do so. So I tried doing it manually using .tar.md5 files and Odin3. I was able to connect to Odin3 but it would not allow me to update, it gave me the green android man lying dead with a red triangle over his body.
This is where the problem gets worse:
I am trying to follow this thread (( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2043636 )) to get it to reinstall the baseline.
Odin does not read my phone anymore. I've tried installing, unstalling, reinstalling the USB Driver, while restarting computer after each uninstall, I did this about 7 times with 3 different samsung USB drivers. one from their main website version, 1.514, found another updated one 1.523, and even an older one 1.385. None of them work for me. I've used a registry cleaner after each uninstall and nothing. I've used 3 different wires 2which are from samsung one from note2 and another from s3.
Not only can I not connect my device in Odin Download Mode ( I was able to before when I first tried to root), I can't even connect my phone while its on ( I was able to transfer music/pictures before).
PLEASE HELP ME! I am desperate
I've researched many forums and some people had the same problem but I can't seem to fix mine
Some threads that I went through.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044840
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961956
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1229593
When you ran casual root, you updated your driver needed during odin. This is why your phone is no longer recognized in odin. You will need to find the serial device listed under usb and manually update the driver back to a samsung driver needed for odin. I just had to do this yesterday to get my s3 restored after using casual on my note2.
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aerichards1977 said:
When you ran casual root, you updated your driver needed during odin. This is why your phone is no longer recognized in odin. You will need to find the serial device listed under usb and manually update the driver back to a samsung driver needed for odin. I just had to do this yesterday to get my s3 restored after using casual on my note2.
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do you mind explaining in more detail? it looks like im having a similar problem..
I'm Fairly New To The Android Concept, And I See Its A Little Bit More To Trying To Jailbreak It Vs. The iPhone, I'm Getting Stuck Using The Casual "NoYouVerizon" Concept Of The "One-Click" Method, But As Going On, I Don't Understand The Log's, I've Tried Searching For It Constantly, And I've Been At This For A Week Straight Now, I Need STEP by STEP Instructions On What To Do, Because I'm Reading Alot Of Different Things, And It's Not Really Helping Me At All, I Have A Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 2, With Version 4.1.2 On It, and I Have *Correct Me If I'm Wrong* VRAMC3? If Thats The Right Thing. Please Somebody Help Me. Send Me A Message For My Contact Information. I Wanna Get This Done Pleasee!!!
theres the step by step guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2024207
One click root not working XDA. Someone needs to go back in and put the fix in for ERROR: No partition with identifier "60" exists in the specified PIT
Ive tried everything so far, even uninstalling the phone driver driver to allow samsung driver to reinstall, even manually installed the dev driver. I even tried to use odin3 to install via xda instructions. Odin can detect device if I just plug the phone in but if I put the phone in down load mode and connect, nothing. I checked device mgr and it shows the device in usb connections. WTF, XDA is verizon winning??????
Update:
Well I did discover after all this that I am rooted but I think that s all. When I plugged my phone into the computer Casuals usb showed in the Device Mgr screen instead of Samsung. To confirm I downloaded root checker from the play store and I am rooted via super user. Theres an issue though with putting the phone in download mode and odin detecting.
Update 2
Well it finally just worked and I was able to get odin to detect the phone while in download mode. I am now on root66 !! Help for others: Be persistent, I think it took time for my pc to accept and activate the changes IE: the casual driver replacing the samsung. It literally just happened after about 5 or 6 failed attempts of running the one click root. And it happened after a couple of samsung driver deletions. When the phone was plugged in, I went to device manager on the pc , usb devices and deleted the samsung drivers. I wound up doing this about 3 times. I restarted my computer after this to. Then I plugged the phone in again and there was casual usb controller appearing in device manager, replacing samsung. That was when I discovered I was rooted even though I had gotten the error message that started this post. Later, I went ahead and was able to install root66 by following the xda directions. wow......it was an all day affair but hopefully this will take some of the grey area out for others with this problem.
Thank you XDA for working to [email protected]^! this phone that verizon and google so graciously shoved up our #$% with a warm smile. The wi fi button for the notification bar is not available, I believe this is due to verizon when they put their stink on the phone. I would like to get that back if possible. Also the google search popping up when you plug the headset jack in is still there, but you can go into settings/task mgr/ all aps and scroll down to google search and disable it. The annoying pop up voice search hasnt showed up since I did this.