this guy had the same problem i am having now. except he was upgrading from 2.3 to ICS. I was on MJ7 and one of my genius stellar friends told me i could odin back to MI1. well i actually did it, so im obviously just as much of a genius as he is. Nonetheless his description of his problem is identical to mine. that said, the solution offered up for him was obviously applicable to the builds he was working with. With knox being present in the MJ7, i believe i may just be screwed. Im stuck on the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again." screen even after I reboot. it just reboots on its own to that screen after i turn it off. any advise? Id like to get it to a reasonable sellable state if possible so i can put any money i get out of it towards the nexus 5. Ive also tried all the Kies suggested troubleshooting multiple times as he did.
"Now the phone shows an error "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again."
When i connect the phone via the cabe, to the computer, using Kies, it gives me error saying "Device not responding. To resolve the issue, reboot the device."
This is how I tried to resolve the issue, but with no success..
I have rebooted a number of times without success
I clicked on 'Troubleshoot connection error' and reinstalled the driver multiple times, but without any success"
Wrong forum.
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Moved this to Q and A since you seem to be asking for help or answers...
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Okay, honestly, I didn't try doing anything out of the ordinary, I swear. I was trying to update my phone from Gingerbread to ICS.Using Samsung Kies, everything was going great, until halfway through the update Kies told me something along the line of "Phone cannot be recognized". Then it told me a bunch of steps which involved powering the phone off and reconnecting. I did just that.
Now my phone is stuck on a screen that reads Odin Mode and says: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again. I can't get into download mode either. Everytime I try, my screen just goes black and my phone vibrates every 6 seconds or so.
I've tried recconecting to Kies, but it says "Device not responding. To resolve issue, reboot the device". I can't really reboot because it just goes back to the "Firmware encountered an issue" screen.
Yes, I've re installed Kies already. I do have "Odin" downloaded on my phone, but I don't know how to use it.
God, this is why I didn't dabble in custom roms or whatever. But I still get screwed over. >_>
Whoever helps me out, I thank you so much. Please, anyone. =/
(I have a Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket from AT&T)
MrPleh said:
Okay, honestly, I didn't try doing anything out of the ordinary, I swear. I was trying to update my phone from Gingerbread to ICS.Using Samsung Kies, everything was going great, until halfway through the update Kies told me something along the line of "Phone cannot be recognized". Then it told me a bunch of steps which involved powering the phone off and reconnecting. I did just that.
Now my phone is stuck on a screen that reads Odin Mode and says: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again. I can't get into download mode either. Everytime I try, my screen just goes black and my phone vibrates every 6 seconds or so.
I've tried recconecting to Kies, but it says "Device not responding. To resolve issue, reboot the device". I can't really reboot because it just goes back to the "Firmware encountered an issue" screen.
Yes, I've re installed Kies already. I do have "Odin" downloaded on my phone, but I don't know how to use it.
God, this is why I didn't dabble in custom roms or whatever. But I still get screwed over. >_>
Whoever helps me out, I thank you so much. Please, anyone. =/
(I have a Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket from AT&T)
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This is not the ****rocket forum. and all at&t releases suck. they bring problems to our device too. just flash a custom ROM.
From your section. this should get moved.
MrPleh said:
Okay, honestly, I didn't try doing anything out of the ordinary, I swear. I was trying to update my phone from Gingerbread to ICS.Using Samsung Kies, everything was going great, until halfway through the update Kies told me something along the line of "Phone cannot be recognized". Then it told me a bunch of steps which involved powering the phone off and reconnecting. I did just that.
Now my phone is stuck on a screen that reads Odin Mode and says: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again. I can't get into download mode either. Everytime I try, my screen just goes black and my phone vibrates every 6 seconds or so.
I've tried recconecting to Kies, but it says "Device not responding. To resolve issue, reboot the device". I can't really reboot because it just goes back to the "Firmware encountered an issue" screen.
Yes, I've re installed Kies already. I do have "Odin" downloaded on my phone, but I don't know how to use it.
God, this is why I didn't dabble in custom roms or whatever. But I still get screwed over. >_>
Whoever helps me out, I thank you so much. Please, anyone. =/
(I have a Samsung Galaxy SII Skyrocket from AT&T)
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Omg another slowrocket? Dude...just...no...if u don't even know your model number to ur phone don't bother doing anything else to it and read
Sent from my SGH-i777 using XDA
Sorry, but if you cannot be bothered to find the right board to post in, i won't be bothered to move it for you..
(This assumes your "sent from" line is correct. If your device actually is an i777, let me know)....
i know what most of you are thinking, i have already read through forum after forum for 4, going on 5, hours now. several people have similar situations to mine, but not similar enough to actually help me.
i rooted my s2 earlier today and it went perfectly. then i tried to use odin to flash jellybean to my phone, it was the stock rom. but since that little box wasn't yellow, it failed. my drivers were not properly installed. i forgot to install kies and get my drivers before i did this process. i thought i had already properly installed the drivers i needed, and i am still unsure of what the heck im supposed to have in order to make odin work. well i got this lovely little screen saying "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again."
so i installed kies. immediately it said that no device was connected. so i unplugged and replugged my phone, said "connecting" but it never connected. not even twenty minutes later. so i rebooted my computer. nothing worked. i tried to boot my phone up to turn off "usb debugging" in case i had turned it on a few days ago without realizing it. the phone wont boot. its stuck on the screen that tells me "firmware upgrade encountered a problem".
however, i can get it to go back into downloading mode, but that doesnt really help me much since odin still cant flash my firmware correctly. it keeps bringing me back to that dreaded screen, im to the point of wanting to rip all my hair out. what else can i do?
someone must know how to deal with this situation. please please please help me! i dont want a $150 paperweight ):
thank you!
jennalking1992 said:
i know what most of you are thinking, i have already read through forum after forum for 4, going on 5, hours now. several people have similar situations to mine, but not similar enough to actually help me.
i rooted my s2 earlier today and it went perfectly. then i tried to use odin to flash jellybean to my phone, it was the stock rom. but since that little box wasn't yellow, it failed. my drivers were not properly installed. i forgot to install kies and get my drivers before i did this process. i thought i had already properly installed the drivers i needed, and i am still unsure of what the heck im supposed to have in order to make odin work. well i got this lovely little screen saying "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again."
so i installed kies. immediately it said that no device was connected. so i unplugged and replugged my phone, said "connecting" but it never connected. not even twenty minutes later. so i rebooted my computer. nothing worked. i tried to boot my phone up to turn off "usb debugging" in case i had turned it on a few days ago without realizing it. the phone wont boot. its stuck on the screen that tells me "firmware upgrade encountered a problem".
however, i can get it to go back into downloading mode, but that doesnt really help me much since odin still cant flash my firmware correctly. it keeps bringing me back to that dreaded screen, im to the point of wanting to rip all my hair out. what else can i do?
someone must know how to deal with this situation. please please please help me! i dont want a $150 paperweight ):
thank you!
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Disconnect the cable. Remove the battery and let it out for 10 minutes. Put it back in, go into download mode. Connect with odin and flash again. Hope this will work for you.
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Christiaan91 said:
Disconnect the cable. Remove the battery and let it out for 10 minutes. Put it back in, go into download mode. Connect with odin and flash again. Hope this will work for you.
Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9100
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Also, remember to exit Kies using Task manager (and maybe disable Antivirus in ur PC) before connecting to Odin.
Sent from my SGS II
this guy had the same problem i am having now. except he was upgrading from 2.3 to ICS. I was on MJ7 and one of my genius stellar friends told me i could odin back to MI1. well i actually did it, so im obviously just as much of a genius as he is. Nonetheless his description of his problem is identical to mine. that said, the solution offered up for him was obviously applicable to the builds he was working with. With knox being present in the MJ7, i believe i may just be screwed. Im stuck on the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again." screen even after I reboot. it just reboots on its own to that screen after i turn it off. any advise? Id like to get it to a reasonable sellable state if possible so i can put any money i get out of it towards the nexus 5. Ive also tried all the Kies suggested troubleshooting multiple times as he did.
"Now the phone shows an error "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again."
When i connect the phone via the cabe, to the computer, using Kies, it gives me error saying "Device not responding. To resolve the issue, reboot the device."
This is how I tried to resolve the issue, but with no success..
I have rebooted a number of times without success
I clicked on 'Troubleshoot connection error' and reinstalled the driver multiple times, but without any success"
Re flash the MJ7 via odin if there's one avaliable, might fix your problem. If not someone smarter than me will have to help.
Sent from my SCH-I545 using xda app-developers app
mdpatterson said:
this guy had the same problem i am having now. except he was upgrading from 2.3 to ICS. I was on MJ7 and one of my genius stellar friends told me i could odin back to MI1. well i actually did it, so im obviously just as much of a genius as he is. Nonetheless his description of his problem is identical to mine. that said, the solution offered up for him was obviously applicable to the builds he was working with. With knox being present in the MJ7, i believe i may just be screwed. Im stuck on the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again." screen even after I reboot. it just reboots on its own to that screen after i turn it off. any advise? Id like to get it to a reasonable sellable state if possible so i can put any money i get out of it towards the nexus 5. Ive also tried all the Kies suggested troubleshooting multiple times as he did.
"Now the phone shows an error "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again."
When i connect the phone via the cabe, to the computer, using Kies, it gives me error saying "Device not responding. To resolve the issue, reboot the device."
This is how I tried to resolve the issue, but with no success..
I have rebooted a number of times without success
I clicked on 'Troubleshoot connection error' and reinstalled the driver multiple times, but without any success"
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Looks to me you have Soft Bricked your phone..
JavaManRules-GS4 said:
Looks to me you have Soft Bricked your phone..
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Try plugging in with verizon upgrade assistant rather than kies...
softbrick
so how do you fix a soft brick issue if you dont have the repair assistant and kies wont connect?
Androscorpion said:
so how do you fix a soft brick issue if you dont have the repair assistant and kies wont connect?
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I am fairly certain that my phone can't be recovered, but I want to be sure so I'm asking for a bit of help here.
Phone is a Samsung S2X SGH-T989D, on Koodo (a child of Telus). It was running Android 4.1.2. Unfortunately I can't get into the phone for more details.
I tried to flash a custom recovery using Odin v1.85. It was a CWM recovery md5 file, but I don't have the version number (it wasn't listed in the guide I was using - http://www.theandroidsoul.com/easil...gh-t989-installs-busybox-superuser-app-52203/)
The process seemed to complete normally, but when I restarted the phone I ended up with a "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
Loading Kies (Odin not running) it detect when the phone is connected and tries to read the details from the phone, but after several minutes it complains of a connection error and tells me to reboot the device. This is all I can get Kies to do.
Odin detects the phone normally. I try to restore the stock Telus/Koodo firmware (T989DTLUMC4_T989OYBMC4_T989DTLUMC4_HOME.tar.md5) using Odin v3 or Odin v1.85 and Odin goes through all the steps successfully. After all is done I restart the phone and get the same error message.
"adb.exe devices" at a Windows 7 command prompt does not list any devices.
So this is where I am... I have a physically mint condition Samsung S2X SGH-T989D phone that I cannot get to boot past this error screen.
Is there anything else I can try?
FIXED!
Yay!
I solved my problem... Using Odin3 v1.85 I tried to flash the phone one more time. The only difference is that I left the Auto Reboot checkbox selected. The process went through like every other time except at the end the phone restarted. IT CAME UP LIKE NOTHING WAS WRONG!
So, I didn't lose any data and my phone is working fine now.
Makes me VERY happy. There are TOO MANY PHONES to choose from these days. My head was spinning trying to decide on a replacement phone.
Hope this helps someone in the future!
So I have a S4 i9545 for Verizon. It was on 4.2.2 rooted and I upgraded using Fireflash with I545_OC1_Stock_DeOdexed_ROMwNK4_BL.zip. Everything seemed fine so I was using Titanium back up to remove the bloatware and then my battery died. When I charged it and booted up it got to the Verizon screen and hung there. I reset and tried several more times. I tried to use odin and flash a stock ROM SCH-I545_VZW_1_20140330160240_yni63xq6zh and I also tried one more. Odin gave a an error and failed. I then tried going into the boot loder and flash the I545_OC1_Stock_DeOdexed_ROMwNK4_BL.zip. Not sure if this was foolish or not. When I booted up I got to a black screen and there was a voice talking, maybe some sort of training, but I couldn't do anything.
If anyone can point me in the right direction on how to unbrick my S4 I would appreciate it. I know I screwed up.
Right now when I turn on the phone it says firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again. I tried connected to my computer and opening kies but it doesn't find it.
Try disconnecting your phone, completely closing Kies, then re-launching it with your phone still disconnected. Then click Tools > Firmware Upgrade and Initialization then follow the prompts