Hello all. I have been racking my brain for days and reading a billion posts and guides to no avail. I have flashed many a phone and have never had an issue until now. I have an SGH-I717 from AT&T unlocked and being used on T-Mobile. I was attempting to either go to a stripped Rom or Stock Rom to get rid of AT&T software. Well I noticed a couple of 4.3 Roms I had not tried before, I was currently on 4.0.4 stock rooted. So I started up CWM touch and started firing away, first Rom started acting strange with the screen coming on out of standby, so I decided to try the next one. Seemed awesome at first. Then I rebooted the phone after a couple of app installs. Boom, would not turn on. Blank screen, not responding to power button. Would go to CWM and Download mode. Hmm. Started fiddling, couldn't get Kies firmware recovery to get past 0%, tried Odin 1.83, 1.85 3.07 3.09, it kept crashing at getting pit for mapping. Windows 7 X64 pro, Was able to load a backup with cwm after copying through adb to internal sd. Didn't want that, attempted to flash again. Same thing. Got to adb with CWM up. Manually wrote 3e recovery to phone, bad idea. Now i can't do anything. Can't access the external sd to try and update.zip, can't get to adb no matter what, either drivers fail to install, hardware id missing, or some other nonsense. I tried an ubuntu 12 machine, windows xp (physical and virtual) several cables, and several windows 7 machines. All with similar results, linux won't recognize the phone through adb but will with lsusb and udev. I can get windows to recognize in factory mode, not odin mode, and odin will read the com port, but crashes on every machine at the pit phase. I tried heimdall and it complains that I don't have a matchine pit and I tried one that i found online and it is unable to write the pit file and just reboots the phone. I have been unable to manually flash anything from any point. Is there anything any of you can think of that I can try? I have heard of JTag and don't know much about it but read somewhere someone using and Arduino to do that, I have an arduino but its sound difficult due to size of the interface plug. Please help, phoneless and scared!!!
Since a Windows pc recognizes a lil bit, I would try using kies software and perform an emergency recovery.
Thanks for the reply
I entered the model SGH-I717 and then the S/N, tried this about 10 times with different cables and different Windows versions. Sticks at 0% after unpacking binary files. Stays there for a long time before failing and saying that it couldn't recognize the phone.
440bro said:
Since a Windows pc recognizes a lil bit, I would try using kies software and perform an emergency recovery.
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Try ATT-I717
I will try that this evening thanks.
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Try ATT-I717
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I have an arduino, is there any way without building a jtag interface or using a riff box to send some data to the phone through some of the pins directly and force it to accept adb commands or to push a file or some such? One thing to note on the 3e recovery I can see the filesystem and of course i did a factory reset so there is nothing there of use to me, however why won't the microsd card mount in stock recovery is that normal? Dummy me I had TWRP on it, then flashed CWM, and then manually used dd to write the stock back to it thereby making it difficult to do anything because 3e sucks. When I get home I'm going to try the OneClickUnbrick jar and see what that does. I have never tried it. There has to be a way to send data or arbitrary commands to the phone through the usb to force it to do what I want, isn't there a be my ***** adapter or something I can hook up to this paperweight?
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Hello all. I have been racking my brain for days and reading a billion posts and guides to no avail. I have flashed many a phone and have never had an issue until now. I have an SGH-I717 from AT&T unlocked and being used on T-Mobile. I was attempting to either go to a stripped Rom or Stock Rom to get rid of AT&T software. Well I noticed a couple of 4.3 Roms I had not tried before, I was currently on 4.0.4 stock rooted. So I started up CWM touch and started firing away, first Rom started acting strange with the screen coming on out of standby, so I decided to try the next one. Seemed awesome at first. Then I rebooted the phone after a couple of app installs. Boom, would not turn on. Blank screen, not responding to power button. Would go to CWM and Download mode. Hmm. Started fiddling, couldn't get Kies firmware recovery to get past 0%, tried Odin 1.83, 1.85 3.07 3.09, it kept crashing at getting pit for mapping. Windows 7 X64 pro, Was able to load a backup with cwm after copying through adb to internal sd. Didn't want that, attempted to flash again. Same thing. Got to adb with CWM up. Manually wrote 3e recovery to phone, bad idea. Now i can't do anything. Can't access the external sd to try and update.zip, can't get to adb no matter what, either drivers fail to install, hardware id missing, or some other nonsense. I tried an ubuntu 12 machine, windows xp (physical and virtual) several cables, and several windows 7 machines. All with similar results, linux won't recognize the phone through adb but will with lsusb and udev. I can get windows to recognize in factory mode, not odin mode, and odin will read the com port, but crashes on every machine at the pit phase. I tried heimdall and it complains that I don't have a matchine pit and I tried one that i found online and it is unable to write the pit file and just reboots the phone. I have been unable to manually flash anything from any point. Is there anything any of you can think of that I can try? I have heard of JTag and don't know much about it but read somewhere someone using and Arduino to do that, I have an arduino but its sound difficult due to size of the interface plug. Please help, phoneless and scared!!!
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adb.exe works when the phone is in download mode. If you can get into 3e recovery you can factory reset. That usually clears up some issues.
I would try the reset, then go to a virgin pc running win 7 - the drivers are already in that os.
Connect with phone in download mode, run odin3 1.85 as administrator, flash a stock rom.
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Hello everyone,
I have been trying to find a way to get out of the Vibrant screen for my phone.
This happen by me having the Obsidian 4.2 installed with Black Froyo, and I was trying to restore to get the Sims 3 and Thinkfree office because it was not available when I flashed my phone.
I have a backup using ROM Manager on my laptop. I am using a Mac, and I have Parallels installed with XP. Problem is I have ODIN installed and been trying to have ODIN recognized the Vibrant in order to start the process, but it has not recognize the device. I thought I had all drivers installed, and I would appreciate any help.
The device is recognized when I have it in the Recovery mode, but not in download mode.
Odin is super finicky but this process usually works. Plug your phone into your usb port while it's still off. Bring up odin but don't put the files you want in it yet. Now boot your phone into download mode. After the com port comes up in odin load the files into thier proper fields and install. Hope that helps.
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if you can get to clockwork recovery, you can mount your phone to your computer (the option that says USB, like the 2nd or 3rd option). You could then move a rom with kernel to your phone and flash it.
I think your problem is you were trying to go from 2.2 to 2.1 (nandroids do not restore the kernel, hence it will hang at the Vibrant screen). Perhaps you have voodoo or another lag fix and didnt disable it?
Also, my noob version in my signature show the proper steps for ODIN, and has a video.
Thank you the process work. I had Windows running on Parallels and it messed everything up. Had to reboot only with Windows though. i just resetted everything until I become more familiar with the process.
I've been lurking these forums for awhile now, and have been able to figure things out by researching. But I'm having a little trouble with this. Earlier today I was flashing Nero V3, and had a bad flash(after it finished formatting data). Instead of reflashing another rom while in CWR, I rebooted the phone. This brought me to where I am now, stuck at the Vibrant screen. I can get into DL mode, and get Odin up and running. But Odin wont recognize my phone, and I dont know what to do to get it to work.
I've tried 2 versions of Odin with the same results, and at this point I'm stumped. What can I do to get Odin to recognize my phone?
Any help is greatly appreciated
-Nick
Do you have the PC drivers for your phone installed?
If not try installing the drivers from here:
32 Bit Windows Download | 64 Bit Windows Download
Also, if you have Kies running by chance, it might help to close Kies and not run it while also trying to run Odin.
After making sure your drivers are installed correctly try multiple USB ports. Sometimes the ports are troublesome.
Can your Vibrant be recognized by your computer outside of Odin? If so what version of Odin are you working with?
guess that was the problem. I had them downloaded, just not installed. Thank you.
Hi I installed the drivers and pc still doesnt recognized my phone in download mode. Is there a way to get back to stock without using Odin?
Dude try this method of getting intro download mode.
1.remove the battery from your phone
2.plug the phone in USB to your computer
3.reinstall the battery in your phone while holding the phones power & volume buttons.
That should skip the vibrant screen and power strait to download mode..hope this helps
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Hi,
So I just purchased a Samsung Galaxy S II, and I've been trying a few different ROM's found on this site. The last thing I did was actually revert back to a stock Samsung Kernel and firmware. This worked fine, but it unrooted my device, which I knew would happen, but now I'm not able to root it again because when I put the device into download mode, ODIN, or better yet, my computer won't detect the device.
I have all the drivers installed, and I also deleted them all, and Kies, and started from scratch again after searching XDA for similar issues.
I don't believe this to be a driver issue, since I was able to root my device, and swap roms before I went back to the official kernel and firmware. I'm with Bell in Canada, so the versions I went back to were not the official Bell versions, since Samsung has not made them available.
I have a Mac, but I've been using Windows 7 and Odin under VMWare. I can connect my device to either OSX, or Windows 7 when the device is not in download mode, and everything works fine, and Odin detects the device (Not that that does any good of course)
When I connect the device under download mode, the Mac detects the device and asks me if I want to connect it to my Mac, or to Windows (As it should) but no matter which one I select, neither OS acknowledges the device after that point, where as when I'm not in Download mode, both OS's detect the device fine.
After all my troubleshooting with my computer based off of what I found online here, The only conclusion I have left is that there is something missing on the device that allows it to be found under download mode, but that aspect of all this is beyond my current skill level.
Anyone have any ideas?
Are you pressing the Volume Up button to continue in Download mode? Besides, Virtual machine isn't recommended I think.
Yes, Once the Custom ROM warning comes up, I press the Volume up button to continue.
That wasn't even necessary on the Stock Bell ROM. The warning didn't come up at all.
VM has been working fine up until now, so I don't think that's the problem, but I have been thinking of trying this on my old laptop that runs on windows if nothing else pans out.
Scott56 said:
Yes, Once the Custom ROM warning comes up, I press the Volume up button to continue.
That wasn't even necessary on the Stock Bell ROM. The warning didn't come up at all.
VM has been working fine up until now, so I don't think that's the problem, but I have been thinking of trying this on my old laptop that runs on windows if nothing else pans out.
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Have you found anyway to Make Odin recognize to phone in download mode?? Im still struggling with that. my phone is on stock kernel and not rooted yet, ODIN finds it fine when the phone is on and USB Debugging is on, but once I put the phone on download mode it wont recognize it, I dont know why..
Could it be because of the ''SAMSUNG Mobile MTP Device'' driver failed to install correctly??
all other drivers are installed correctly.. I have tried to get the driver mentioned above to install correctly but it fails every time, with USB debugging on and off, i have wiped the phone and installed Kies and the drivers several times, Im clueless right.. anyone have any idea please help??
I myself am also suffering from this problem. However, USB seems to function fine while the phone is booted up or in recovery (For ADB). I'm wondering if necessary files may have become corrupted or deleted in reference to USB drivers (phone side mind you) that are used in download mode.
edit: It's also recognized in recovery mode.
Even if it can't be fixed I'd still like to understand why.
-Simply D
was looking for help on this and saw this thread, same problem too..
Connects to Odin and Kies fine when switched on "normally", can use USB mass storage mode Etc.
comes up with a USB device has malfunctioned message on PC when I connect USB cable when switched on and in download mode
EDIT:- just to add, if I try upgrading firmware via Kies it gets to the point where it switches the phone to download mode to upgrade it and has the same issue even with an official upgrade
Figuring download mode is outside the normal boot procedure, I hoped on an off chance that pulling my battery and sim for a few minutes would reset it. It did indeed. Download mode is now functional again, just to be certain I tested it right before pulling the battery to make sure it was still broken. And multiple flashes and reboots afterwards seem to confirm that it has returned to normal.
Anyone else who solves it with this method, please report back.
-Simply D
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Figuring download mode is outside the normal boot procedure, I hoped on an off chance that pulling my battery and sim for a few minutes would reset it. It did indeed. Download mode is now functional again, just to be certain I tested it right before pulling the battery to make sure it was still broken. And multiple flashes and reboots afterwards seem to confirm that it has returned to normal.
Anyone else who solves it with this method, please report back.
-Simply D
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Tried this and it didn't work for me :/ going to give it another try later, thanks for the suggestion either way
I am completely new to this so bear with me. I am trying to root my samsung fascinate. What are the steps i need to take to do so?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
Refer to section 5
http://bit.ly/uLiskn
Use guide by Droidstyle......nuff said
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I have been able to do this on my wife's phone pretty easy and all I do it find a copy if CWM recovery (often called CWM all), a copy of update.zip, and the latest version if Odin. Use your factory USB cord and plug your phone into your PC. Let it install all the drivers. Once I stalled open your phone and mount the SD card so you can see it as a hard drive. Place the update.zip file on the SD card, but not in any folder. From there unhook your phone and power it down. Remove the battery and start Odin. Plug your USB part of the phone cord into the PC (don't connect it to the phone yet). Hold down the volume down button and power button while connecting the phone cord to the phone. You will see a yellow triangle and Droid on the screen. From there click the PDA button and find the CWM file you downloaded. Click start and let it do its thing. The phone will power down and you can then replace the battery and start your phone. I usually let my phone power up and then power it down again. After it is off you will then need to hold the volume up, volume down, and power button to boot into recovery. Once in Recovery you can choose the option to install update.zip. Let it do its thing and then reboot the phone. You should be good to go.
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Use guide by Droidstyle......nuff said
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zander78 said:
http://bit.ly/uLiskn
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LMAO... you crack me up man.
millwood said:
I have been able to do this on my wife's phone pretty easy and all I do it find a copy if CWM recovery (often called CWM all), a copy of update.zip, and the latest version if Odin. Use your factory USB cord and plug your phone into your PC. Let it install all the drivers. Once I stalled open your phone and mount the SD card so you can see it as a hard drive. Place the update.zip file on the SD card, but not in any folder. From there unhook your phone and power it down. Remove the battery and start Odin. Plug your USB part of the phone cord into the PC (don't connect it to the phone yet). Hold down the volume down button and power button while connecting the phone cord to the phone. You will see a yellow triangle and Droid on the screen. From there click the PDA button and find the CWM file you downloaded. Click start and let it do its thing. The phone will power down and you can then replace the battery and start your phone. I usually let my phone power up and then power it down again. After it is off you will then need to hold the volume up, volume down, and power button to boot into recovery. Once in Recovery you can choose the option to install update.zip. Let it do its thing and then reboot the phone. You should be good to go.
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Hi Guys-
I'm having a problem with my Samsung Fascinate as well. Its currently running Gingerbread 2.3.5 build EH03. I had my phone flashed to MetroPCS a couple of days ago with Talk/Text only. Now I'm trying to root my phone using Odin. I want to install CyanogenMod, because I ran it on my old HTC Hero and was satisfied with it.
The problem is that my phone will not mount as a USB Storage. I'm using a Mac, however I have Parallels running Windows XP SP3. I have installed the Samsung drivers from the Samsung website and the drivers do show up in the device manager, but it still doesn't mount as a USB storage device in Windows. On the phone I receive the notification that its USB Connected - select to copy files to/from your computer. But, again nothing happens when I select it.
Whenever I plug my phone in the USB port Odin recognizes it, but when I put the phone into download mode it doesn't show up in Odin. I've also tried to see if it shows up using ADB from the Android SDK. Its not listed as a device when I run the command adb devices.
Is there anyway to root the phone if its not showing up in Odin when its download mode?
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Hi Guys-
I'm having a problem with my Samsung Fascinate as well. Its currently running Gingerbread 2.3.5 build EH03. I had my phone flashed to MetroPCS a couple of days ago with Talk/Text only. Now I'm trying to root my phone using Odin. I want to install CyanogenMod, because I ran it on my old HTC Hero and was satisfied with it.
The problem is that my phone will not mount as a USB Storage. I'm using a Mac, however I have Parallels running Windows XP SP3. I have installed the Samsung drivers from the Samsung website and the drivers do show up in the device manager, but it still doesn't mount as a USB storage device in Windows. On the phone I receive the notification that its USB Connected - select to copy files to/from your computer. But, again nothing happens when I select it.
Whenever I plug my phone in the USB port Odin recognizes it, but when I put the phone into download mode it doesn't show up in Odin. I've also tried to see if it shows up using ADB from the Android SDK. Its not listed as a device when I run the command adb devices.
Is there anyway to root the phone if its not showing up in Odin when its download mode?
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no...you need odin to flash cwm recovery so you can three finger into that recovery to flash the superuser.zip
Try another Pc!
stevebanks said:
Hi Guys-
I'm having a problem with my Samsung Fascinate as well. Its currently running Gingerbread 2.3.5 build EH03. I had my phone flashed to MetroPCS a couple of days ago with Talk/Text only. Now I'm trying to root my phone using Odin. I want to install CyanogenMod, because I ran it on my old HTC Hero and was satisfied with it.
The problem is that my phone will not mount as a USB Storage. I'm using a Mac, however I have Parallels running Windows XP SP3. I have installed the Samsung drivers from the Samsung website and the drivers do show up in the device manager, but it still doesn't mount as a USB storage device in Windows. On the phone I receive the notification that its USB Connected - select to copy files to/from your computer. But, again nothing happens when I select it.
Whenever I plug my phone in the USB port Odin recognizes it, but when I put the phone into download mode it doesn't show up in Odin. I've also tried to see if it shows up using ADB from the Android SDK. Its not listed as a device when I run the command adb devices.
Is there anyway to root the phone if its not showing up in Odin when its download mode?
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I think you can root the phone without having to flash CWM recovery, but it does require ADB so I don't know if that would be any help. FWIW, I have a mac too, and haven't had any luck using heimdall (it doesn't recognize the device), although I haven't tried any sort of VM or anything like crossover to use odin on it. I've just accepted using a windows machine when odin is required
Does your ADB work with other devices? For whatever reason, I couldn't get it working with the fascinate, then I tried it a few days ago and it worked all of a sudden. Another workaround is to use the wirelessADB app from the market. If you search for "galaxy s mac" you'll see that you're unfortunately definitely not alone in having connectivity issues with OSX.
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I think you can root the phone without having to flash CWM recovery, but it does require ADB so I don't know if that would be any help. FWIW, I have a mac too, and haven't had any luck using heimdall (it doesn't recognize the device), although I haven't tried any sort of VM or anything like crossover to use odin on it. I've just accepted using a windows machine when odin is required
Does your ADB work with other devices? For whatever reason, I couldn't get it working with the fascinate, then I tried it a few days ago and it worked all of a sudden. Another workaround is to use the wirelessADB app from the market. If you search for "galaxy s mac" you'll see that you're unfortunately definitely not alone in having connectivity issues with OSX.
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very true...ADB is another option to root, but I never recomend it because most folks will have trouble using it....dont mean the in a condescending way, just sayin.
For sure, just thought I would throw it out there. Looks fairly simple actually from the guide nitsuj17 posted in the OP of the EH03 odin/heimdall package, well maybe straightforward would be a better word, just since it's laid out step-by-step.
I actually had problems using cwm... it failed to flash the su.zip properly. So I used the latest version of GeeWiz recovery on stock EH03. Worked fine. Roots every time. #hopethathelps
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There is a thread with a stock root with voodoo lag fix and ROM manager. Step by step instructions as well.
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Hi, guys new to rooting and custom roms but ive hit a snag.
I have acheived root by using section 5 here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070)
but i cannot install any roms all i get when i select the zip file is a screen that shows the unpacking then it goes to a triangle with an exclamation point. then reboots into normal android loosing everything i had installed. i made a backup using rom manager but it has dissapeared so now i have nothing to lose. can anyoone help.
all i want to be able to do is put ics with very few apps and overclock my cpu
Any help would be great
Samsung fascinate running android2.3.5 with superuser
thx
1. You don't need to be root first before flashing roms.
2. It sounds like you're possibly booting into the stock recovery.
If you want to flash ICS, just follow the steps in that section 3 of the guide you've already been using.
I tried but it failed on step 9/10
So you're saying that it fails after you press start in odin (flashing the stock EH03 package)? What error are you getting and when exactly is it happening?
If you're not on any rom and just on stock EH03, I'd think you should be able to just odin the CWM recovery and install ICS from there.
not sure what the exact message was but yes after i hit start it initalized did nothing for about 3 minutes of the five and got a fail message
And you're sure you're using the correct files and selecting the right things in odin? Make sure the stock EH03 rom is in the PDA section, the atlas 2.2 file for PIT, and repartition is checked. Could possibly be a bad download too, I'd maybe try redownloading the files and trying again. Also, are you using Odin 1.3 that was linked in the guide?
Alternatively, you could just try flashing the CWM4 fixed for CM7 in odin, then three-finger into recovery and flash ICS from there.
Oh and just making sure you're getting into download mode the right way, I personally pull the battery, that way it doesn't reboot after you flash whatever it is you're flashing. If none of that works, I'd try a different USB port/cable. Is odin recognizing the device properly?
Long story short, I accidentally flashed an unrooted ROM and ran the one click unlocker thing. The phone still works fine and connects to the PC (and is recognized), but Odin won't recognize it. I've got my TWRP backup files but no way to spply them. I need to either make odin recognize it again or find an alternate way to do it.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled all drivers. I have tried multiple computers, one if which won't recognize the device in download mode, the other recognizes it as a "Samsung Android Device". Again, when not in download mode, both computers recognize it fine, and I can manage files.
Figured it out
For some reason, removing my SD card worked. I'll leave this up in case anyone encounters a similar problem.