Hi to anyone reading this
1 month ago i decided to try a custom rom on my galaxy S3
to cut a long story short it wiped my emei and i have had to send the phone back to samsung for repair
I have just recieved the phone back so thought the 1st to do would be follow a guide on backing up the emei
Ok most guides want the phone to be rooted
so i used odin to flash the phone with a cf auto root
and now the phone just boots into download mode!!
things i have tried is wipe dalvik cache and factory reset
holding down power, leaving battery out nonthing works just straight back to the download page
i have flashed a custom recovery but as soon as it reboots after the samsung logo im straight back to the download screen
i cant believe im straight back to having no phone again
i dont want to flash a rom as i have no emie backup
this is bringing a grown man close to tears
is there a product name in download mode?
if yes thats good.
since you are in download mode why not use kies to initialise your device.kies is the official way to fix things. download the software go to firmware upgrade and iniitialisation , enter your model no GT-I9300 and the serial number from under your battery. connect the phone to your pc while in download mode then if your phone is able to complete that process see if it boots , if not factory reset it. if it boots and imei is corrupt ,not there or generic, . then flash a stock rom that has an mg2 or mg4 baseband using odin
good luck
Check which auto root file you used
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Hi Everyone,
Need help with my I9100 which doesn't boot. I got this phone yesterday and was using it fine. Today i installed Kies and it prompted to upgrade firmware. I researched and found that it had improvements in battery life and decided to go for it. It downloaded the firmware and everything went fine until it prompted saying firmware upgrade failed and asked me to do firmware emergency recovery.
I googled to see more info regarding this error and couldnt get much information. Decided to go ahead with recovery as instructed. Again i got error " Firmware emergency recovery stopped due to GT-I9199 error". If the problem persistes please contact samsung service center.
Please suggest if this is recoverable error and any links to proceed and have a working phone.
Currently when i power on, i get a logo of phone connected to PC with yellow bang in middle. Any pointers much appreciated....
Thanks.
Don't worry, I think you can fix this yourself using ODIN. I mean, flash a custom rom through Download mode. (Turn the phone off, hold Volume Down + Home + Power for 4 seconds)
In this mode you can flash any kind of rom without doing your phone any harm. Just go to the Rom Development forum and choose your rom. I suggest Lightning Rom, because it uses ODIN, and has a very well-explained tutorial.
You can also flash a stock rom, you can get it from the Stock Rom thread, and flash that through ODIN.
Or get it fixed by Samsung and wait two weeks. (where they use exactly the same program, ODIN, to reflash the stock rom)
Look here
And here
And finally here
If all that doesn't work, take it back to samsung.
Also, KIES is a PoS, use Odin in future
Yep, KIES may look all official and reliable, but it actually seems to brick some SGS2's.
Thanks for the info's. Will try them and update soon.
No luck. I tried multiple times to update ROM using ODIN in download mode. Everytime it says NAND write operation failed and comes out. I am searching to see if any other option left before i take it back to samsung
Don't forget to try it with a different computer. Sometimes it's not the phone, it's the PC or the USB port.
Also, you can try flashing with Heimdall instead of Odin.
First of all;
Yellow triangle means you are running custom kernel/rom.
Press home+volume down and then power, to get into download mode , on your phone. If that works, take battery out, to stop it.
Go to:
Samfirmware.com
Download firmware from there. It is a rar file, I think. Open rar file to see what is in. 5 files? The biggest file has all of the other files in it.
Install via Odin. Select pda in Odin and select the biggest file from the rar.
Put your phone into download mode, connect usb and run Odin.
Adrian.
SGS2 I9100
Lite'nin rom 3.2
Make sure that all kies processes are closed or odin will fail.
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Keis? Hmm.
Adrian.
SGS2 I9100
Lite'nin rom 3.2
it gets worse...
my brother let the battery fall out of his S 2 while flashing with odin, now it wont power on in any mode, the PC wont recognise it at all, when i plug in the charger the phone gets hot, but does nothing.... whats the recovery method? or is it dead well and truly...
mightygoose said:
my brother let the battery fall out of his S 2 while flashing with odin, now it wont power on in any mode, the PC wont recognise it at all, when i plug in the charger the phone gets hot, but does nothing.... whats the recovery method? or is it dead well and truly...
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You can buy a usb jig, specially designed to put you phone into download mode. Search for it on ebay. Take the battery out, plug in usb jig, replace battery and it should boot into download mode. If it does not, then the phone is dead.
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well hello guys my friend bricked my other friends well he tried to install a custom rom using odin and it lead the phone to be bricked there was a message saying firmware upgrade issue please connnect to kies and i dont remeber the rest but i followe a tutorial about how to fix it which was with odin flashin a cwm when i flashed the phone was turning one but only when it connects to charge and stuck on galaxy logo
well then after searching it turned out i need to flash it with omap well i did it but now i get "logo.jpg' draw failed
when i try to enter the download mode i get 'ani_upload_unknown_4_reset.jpg' draw error well i flashed the original sbl.bin params.lfs mho which i extracted from the stock firmware the same problem my theory its that it cant draw the images from the sbl.bin for some error and i cant use a jig to enter force dowload mode still i have to wait or my jig to arrive
so any ideas .. is it possible to edit the images on the sbl.bin or try to pass it so it wont load the images? any tips help please
did you flash the good firmware? the Galaxy s2 plus firmware and not the galaxy s2 firmware cause the phones are a bit different
and much people are doing that
I can't even flash any rom
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The phone won't get in download mode but when I try t get and get the ani_upload_ jpg error it gets stuck at setup connection in Odin
Is theres any way to flash. A firmware with Omap ? Or kernel or anything that would make the phone gets on download mode
(BP)blackclouds said:
I can't even flash any rom
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The phone won't get in download mode but when I try t get and get the ani_upload_ jpg error it gets stuck at setup connection in Odin
Is theres any way to flash. A firmware with Omap ? Or kernel or anything that would make the phone gets on download mode
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i don't know that much from galaxy s2plus and omapflashing but also look here i think that you've already readed it but i wil watch tomorrow to it and find it out if it can or not.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1701471 watch by download or uboot i need to sleep now hope you also can make some progress in the night
and can you also explain advanced what you al did so we know a bit how it go wrong or where so we know where to look for
tried
wulsic said:
i don't know that much from galaxy s2plus and omapflashing but also look here i think that you've already readed it but i wil watch tomorrow to it and find it out if it can or not.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1701471 watch by download or uboot i need to sleep now hope you also can make some progress in the night
and can you also explain advanced what you al did so we know a bit how it go wrong or where so we know where to look for
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well i stayed up all night and somehow i manager to use omapflash and flashed some files ok so and the phone is on download mode really somehow i didnt know what i did then on odin i forgot to the tick the reparition so it said error after that i tried again and its now stuck on setupconnection so i tturned the phone off then tried to turn it back on or get into download mode nothing on screen
but when trying to enter the download mode still its detetcetd on odin but nothing on screen and it stuck on setupconnection idk why but ill try
when i was about to go to sleep and turned my lights off i noticed that screen was on but the light wasnt that strong i guess the screen isnt broeken or something cause if so clikcing the voloume up would get me in download mode
(BP)blackclouds said:
well i stayed up all night and somehow i manager to use omapflash and flashed some files ok so and the phone is on download mode really somehow i didnt know what i did then on odin i forgot to the tick the reparition so it said error after that i tried again and its now stuck on setupconnection so i tturned the phone off then tried to turn it back on or get into download mode nothing on screen
but when trying to enter the download mode still its detetcetd on odin but nothing on screen and it stuck on setupconnection idk why but ill try
when i was about to go to sleep and turned my lights off i noticed that screen was on but the light wasnt that strong i guess the screen isnt broeken or something cause if so clikcing the voloume up would get me in download mode
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i don't really know much things but i think the .pit file was going to be flashed but you need to repartition to do it so if you
and last option is to check this btw i know you have a problem with download mode but what says if you enter recovery mode with
volume button up+Homebutton and 3 seconds power button?
check also this link out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261153
also try reinstalling the usb drivers
since your phone still can boot up i think the phone is soft bricked
wulsic said:
i don't really know much things but i think the .pit file was going to be flashed but you need to repartition to do it so if you
and last option is to check this btw i know you have a problem with download mode but what says if you enter recovery mode with
volume button up+Homebutton and 3 seconds power button?
check also this link out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261153
also try reinstalling the usb drivers
since your phone still can boot up i think the phone is soft bricked
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yeah i manager to get it to odin and flashed the stock recovery and reparition it
but not it stuck on the samsung animation logo
after that i installed the CM rom with CWM still the same stuck on cyanogenmod screen
on recovery mode it says failed to mount:efs argument error i think the error is cause of efs thing not sure what it is
(BP)blackclouds said:
yeah i manager to get it to odin and flashed the stock recovery and reparition it
but not it stuck on the samsung animation logo
after that i installed the CM rom with CWM still the same stuck on cyanogenmod screen
on recovery mode it says failed to mount:efs argument error i think the error is cause of efs thing not sure what it is
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so you have now managed to get to odin and flashed the recovery.
if so if you install the rom and like that don't forget to wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik cache
efs has to do with baseband imei and like that and blackclouds if you manage to get into odin then i would say to flash the original stock firmware if the device is charged 100% and then later to flash philz kernel to root and then to install custom rom and remove yellow triangle with chainfire's app.
See further for Efs by this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546 hope i could help you a bit without owning a Plus.
wulsic said:
so you have now managed to get to odin and flashed the recovery.
if so if you install the rom and like that don't forget to wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik cache
efs has to do with baseband imei and like that and blackclouds if you manage to get into odin then i would say to flash the original stock firmware if the device is charged 100% and then later to flash philz kernel to root and then to install custom rom and remove yellow triangle with chainfire's app.
See further for Efs by this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546 hope i could help you a bit without owning a Plus.
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flashed the stock still the same problem custom rom still the same it's just idk how to mount the efs or fix the partition or get the efs.img to flash it via odin idk im lost my friend xD
after searching and trying to fix the efs nothing turned out to help on google or here so i came up with my own solution it was failing to mount the esf soo i just used the adb to make a new folder called esf the phone fianlly booted up thanks god well staying up all night helped lol
sometimes googling and searching dont help just using m own brain better
well the imei maybe null but i think it will work here xD
well you need the imei to go to playstore but good that you got it finally booting up goodluck with your or your friends phone hope that i could help also a bit.
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Hello xda, first post n00b here,
I recently got my hands on a SIII (lot better then my old htc one V), and I wanted to install cyanogenmod on it. So I installed the i9300 recovery rom on it and for a short while it seemed to work, but when I tryed to sideload cyanogenmod something went wrong. Everytime I rebooted I got thrown into the downloading, do not power off target!!-screen.
I quickly found my mistake, I did not have an i9300 I had an i9305. With some help from the lovely people at #cyanogenmod (shout out to you PsychoI3ob) I figured out I had to flash the stock rom. I could not figure out how to do this with heimdall, so I downloaded Odin. With Odin, everything went right untill it was somewhere around 99%. The write failed. Now the only thing I see when I but the batteries in my phone is: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
So now I would like to know: Did my phone just become a paperweight or is there still anything I can do?
Thanks a lot for reading trough!
If you can get back into download mode by shutting down your phone, and then boot while holding the volume down, home button and power button simultaneously you could try reflashing stock ROM through Odin.
If the phone turns on as soon as you put the battery in then you will have to take the battery back out, and then whilst pressing Vol Down and Home button put the battery in (I've had the same issue on a Galaxy Ace II with the phone booting as soon as the battery was put in, but managed to get back into download mode and reflash by doing as I described)
If you manage to successfully reflash, boot into recovery (turn off, then hold Vol Up, Home and Power) and do a factory reset from there just for good measure.
Good luck :good:
"Firmware upgrade encountered an issue..." It is also download mode. You can use Odin to flash while this screen has been displayed or launch Kies and restore your original firmware by firmware initialization option from tools menu.
Write model name GT-I9305 and your phone serial number (under battery). Kies will check what version of firmware was originally pre-installed on that device. Will download and flash it automatically. After that you can upgrade to newest stock. Write custom recovery via Odin, flash custom rom from CWM.
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S3 stuck in ODIN
OK I've tried everything and read as many threads as I could find. Here's the scenario
- stuck in ODIN mode
- try to get into Recovery mode but it just flashes and goes away and then back into ODIN mode
- KIES sees the phone and I can kick off a firmware upgrade and initialization but I want to try and keep all the data
- I've tried 4 different version of ODIN and stock ROMs from ATT, all FAIL immediately and now the device boots into ODIN mode with Flash Read Failure error
Any ideas?
I didnt understand werry vell but try this if you can enter recover connect your samsung to pc and pull out your files am not shure if you can do this with CWM recovery but you can with twrp then delete everthing (factory reset will keep your files) download offical firmware from sammobile or simmilar and flash it with odin
What was the last thing you did before you got stuck
Edit
I dont know will this make any diffrence but flas other firmware not att
Hi, i just had this thought to flash my s5830i with os rom.
However, the action fail and I'm facing the situation that i can't get into recovery nor reboot. Each time i connect to the charger, the model name appear and the screen stay there. Is there any possible solution i could fix this ?
I think i might accidentally wipe off all data including EFS and IMEI.
flash stock rom via odin