Early yesterday I launched Kies and hit the update firmware option from the tools menu to see if the alleged ICS update was available for my phone. It appeared it was with, a message promoting that it would clear all personal data from the phone, which I then selected cancel so I could do a backup of pictures/videos on the phones internal SD.
Without doing any sort of backup yet I shutdown the phone, only for it to freeze on the shutting down screen. After 20 mins I pulled the battery and let the phone cool down since it had gotten warm trying to shut itself down. After replacing the battery and turning on it was stuck in a bootloop with only the SGS2 logo, never reaching the ATT logo.
At that point I came to XDA, which I frequently browse but have yet to root, and began reading and searching everything I could find.
Hours later I decided to attempt to flash the stock firmware from sammobile.com using Odin. The flash took a long time and I assume never completed. I left it overnight since I didnt want to unplug it mid-flash. Checking back in the morning the phone is black, Odin says failed/disconnected, and I find the battery completely drained. I charged it for a while then tried turning it back on and got the yellow triangle "firmware upgrade encountered an issue..." screen.
Now i'm attempting once more to flash the firmware but again it has been 30 mins on Sbl.bin. I've had a hard time finding stock firmware in different varieties with working links, so to not increase the flash counter in the event I ultimately have to send it in for repair.
Any suggestions on where to go from here? I've followed every direction I can find for flashing stock firmware and nothing has been successful.
Glad to help if I can. Please tell me exactly what package you flashed from sammobile, with a link if possible.
You should change the title of the thread.... I killed my phone. LOL!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659
I attempted to flash I777UCKH7, 2011 August, USA (AT&T)
w.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=SGH-I777&r=-1#modelsa
BROKKANIC:
I've tried the steps in that thread, the One-click Oden does not have the phone showing up in any boxes, yet it still shows up in the non-One click Oden.
nett3 said:
I attempted to flash I777UCKH7, 2011 August, USA (AT&T)
w.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=SGH-I777&r=-1#modelsa
BROKKANIC:
I've tried the steps in that thread, the One-click Oden does not have the phone showing up in any boxes, yet it still shows up in the non-One click Oden.
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Try this.....
2c.) How to root by flashing Entropy512's Return/Unbrick to Stock, Kernel + Rooted System Package with Modem using Odin3 One-Click Downloader (Windows)
Download the "Odin3 One-Click Downloader Stock I-777 UCKH7 with Root no BL" package from Hotfile. Extract the contents of the zip file to a directory on your hard disk drive. This is a One-Click version of Entropy512's Return/Unbrick to Stock, Kernel + Rooted System Package plus stock modem from the development forum. (Contains stock zImage, factoryfs.img with root, and modem.bin.)
Start the Odin3 One-Click Downloader program by double clicking on "I777UCKH7 OCD With Root.exe".
Now Enter Download Mode:
With the phone powered off, plug in the usb cable while holding the vol up + vol down buttons (but not the power button).
When the warning screen appears, press Volume up to continue into download mode.
In Odin, the small edit box in the upper left corner will turn yellow, and say something like [0:COM8]. The number could be different.
Click Start. Watch the progress bar advance in green while the message box in the lower area describes the steps. When the flash is finished, the top left larger edit box will turn green and say PASS! and your phone will automatically reboot.
Unplug the usb cable from you phone after it boots up. Success. You're Rooted.
SOURCE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311081
creepyncrawly would know better. It's his thread.
Download the file from below post to go back to stock I777UCKH7. Follow the instruction written in the post. I just had the same a while ago using the mobile odin to go back to stock. Got stuck on Samsung Galaxy SII screen. Pulled the battery and then followed the instructions from this post. I selected the one that says no BL 'I777UCKH7 OCD No BL'.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18859438&postcount=199
Once you are done with the stock restore. To upgrade to ICS LE5 follow the instructions from below post. Make sure you read and follow the instructions as mentioned in the post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27707563&postcount=83
nett3 said:
I attempted to flash I777UCKH7, 2011 August, USA (AT&T)
w.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=SGH-I777&r=-1#modelsa
BROKKANIC:
I've tried the steps in that thread, the One-click Oden does not have the phone showing up in any boxes, yet it still shows up in the non-One click Oden.
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You downloaded I777UCKH7_I777ATTKH7_ATT and extracted I777UCKH7-rev02-home-low-cl503881.tar.md5?
Flashed the .tar.md5 in the pda slot?
What version of Odin are you using?
Edit: You're getting lots of advice here. Let me know if you need me to help troubleshoot your issues.
BROKKANIC/krips2003: Thanks for helping so far, but no luck. Those both link to the same Odin One click. This and another one click I tried do not show the phone connected to any COM#. But, in the non-one click Oden the phone shows up. I have pulled the battery and changed USB ports and it still will not show up in the one click.
In the mean time I'll see if there's a solution for that, but I'd like to hear any other suggestions.
Edit: I get the feeling Odin is not starting the write process, since neither the progress bar or words show up in the box above COM# until AFTER I unplug the phone, at which time it flashing quickly then displays Failed.
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BROKKANIC/krips2003: Thanks for helping so far, but no luck. Those both link to the same Odin One click. This and another one click I tried do not show the phone connected to any COM#. But, in the non-one click Oden the phone shows up. I have pulled the battery and changed USB ports and it still will not show up in the one click.
In the mean time I'll see if there's a solution for that, but I'd like to hear any other suggestions.
Edit: I get the feeling Odin is not starting the write process, since neither the progress bar or words show up in the box above COM# until AFTER I unplug the phone, at which time it flashing quickly then displays Failed.
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Try using another micro usb wire if you have one. If not then get one from radioshack or bestbuy. I had the almost similar issue on my captivate with the original USB cable. Then I got a Rocketfish one from bestbuy and it worked like a charm.
I'm sure you might have already done this. Make sure you first run the ODIN and then put your phone in download mode.
krips your a genius!
The one click is now working thanks to the suggestion to pay attention to order of operations. I must have never plugged the phone in AFTER starting the one click. This was easily overlooked when I've been switching the phone between 2 PCs and 3 micro usb cables.
I now have a progress bar and have had made more progress than in the last 24 hours. Even after searching I did not find this solution, even though it's stated in the directions and it seems trivial, maybe it should be emphasized the one click needs to phone plugged in after it's running.
Thanks again. I'll update this post when it's back to being a phone again.
PS. BROKKANIC: you were right, if I didn't kill my phone then I sure was the impeding factor in its recovery.
Good news/bad news. Still stuck in bootloop, but now have SGS2 logo instead of yellow triangle. Trying to enter recovery mode crashes the phone soon after it appears.
Is this a bootloader problem, kernel problem, or something else?
LOL!. Glad you got it working.
nett3 said:
Good news/bad news. Still stuck in bootloop, but now have SGS2 logo instead of yellow triangle. Trying to enter recovery mode crashes the phone soon after it appears.
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Flash back to stock first.
BROKKANIC said:
LOL!. Glad you got it working.
Flash back to stock first.
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I believe that what I have been doing. I ran I777UCKH7 OCD With Root.exe, which resulted in bootloop, then ran I777UCKH7-CL503881-No-BL.exe, which also resulted in bootloop. Both completed successfully, but resulted in the same bootloop.
Odin appears unable to flash anything without it being a one click. I'm trying to flash Siyah-v2.6.14-att.tar. But Odin hangs at zImage with no progress bar.
What operating system you using: if windows 7 are you running as administrator ?
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What operating system you using: if windows 7 are you running as administrator ?
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I've resorted to my WinXP laptop which has been more successful than my Win7 desktop. On the Win7 attempts everything is run as admin, but has many time bluescreened and hard reset the whole PC when attempting to flash anything with Odin. Maybe a separate issue, maybe not. But the XP machine is atleast successfully flashing the Odin one clicks.
Update: Odin standalone (non-one click) appears to be unable to flash anything, it will only hang when trying to write. One click Oden packages seem to work. Is there a one click with full stock sbl, param, kernel, etc?
I think your problem is you flash to stock with packet include bootloader, so that is the reason why your phone is brick.
I'm using this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691659 for stock UCKH7. This is non-root version and work very well for me. It include sbl, kernel and param, ...
gefox4vn said:
I think your problem is you flash to stock with packet include bootloader, so that is the reason why your phone is brick.
I'm using this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691659 for stock UCKH7. This is non-root version and work very well for me. It include sbl, kernel and param, ...
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I haven't flashed a package with a bootloader yet. The only ones that work for me are Odin one click packages, and the two I've tried do not have bootloaders. I've been looking for one WITH a bootloader but no such luck yet, since maybe that would solve the problem.
The guide/link you've suggested will not work for me at this time. I do not have the ability to boot into any andriod OS. The only capability my phone has is executing Odin one click packages for some reason, even Oden standalone firmware flashes do not work.
I had a similar issue...I eventually got mine stuck at the ATT droplets....
Finally I flashed back to 2.3.4 stock....did the ota...then upgraded to ICS.
Its all on my work laptop so I wont be able to post any specific files or their names until monday...
Good luck!
Once your phone gets to the boot screen try to get into stock 3e (both volume buttons + power till 2nd SGSII splash screen) recovery and do a factory reset. Should boot after that. Good luck.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777 using xda premium
Why not try a custom ics rom? What else do you have to lose? Staying stock is overrated anyways. You may also have an antivirus stopping Odin but I doubt it. Just turn off your antivirus and try.
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium
Alright, I have a verizon galaxy s4 that I got recently, and I rooted my device and got safestrap. I tried to clear my data to make enough space for a custom rom slot and I coudent make the space to make a custom rom slot. By the way I was trying to make a rom slot for hyperdrive..
On reboot it was on the samsung screen for atleast 20/30 minutes before I took out the battery and put it back in, and now I have it on next to me. It is still on the samsung screen. Any ideas? I have a sch I545. Thanks in advance. I do have insurance and I think I might have to get my phone replaced due to this, which would suck but if that is what this comes down to I have to.
Incaendium said:
Alright, I have a verizon galaxy s4 that I got recently, and I rooted my device and got safestrap. I tried to clear my data to make enough space for a custom rom slot and I coudent make the space to make a custom rom slot. By the way I was trying to make a rom slot for hyperdrive..
On reboot it was on the samsung screen for atleast 20/30 minutes before I took out the battery and put it back in, and now I have it on next to me. It is still on the samsung screen. Any ideas? I have a sch I545. Thanks in advance. I do have insurance and I think I might have to get my phone replaced due to this, which would suck but if that is what this comes down to I have to.
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There should be no need to get your phone replaced; users doing that is a large part of the reason why bootloaders are locked.
Follow directions here to enter ODIN/Download mode: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290771
Download ODIN and the either the Full-Wipe or No-Wipe image here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2578209
(If the no-wipe doesn't work, you'll need the full-wipe, so it may be easier to simply start with that one.)
Follow the directions in the thread to flash the .tar.md5 and your phone should be fully restored to normal working condition.
You are like literally my new favorite person. I love you.
I cannot flash anything because my phone will not be recognized by my computer when I plug it in via USB. I know this because I tried to unroot and see if that worked but it could not recognize my phone.
Incaendium said:
I cannot flash anything because my phone will not be recognized by my computer when I plug it in via USB. I know this because I tried to unroot and see if that worked but it could not recognize my phone.
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Are you able to get the S4 booted into Download mode?
(Assuming yes)
Do you have the Samsung USB Driver installed? http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.c...ng_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.14.0.exe
Have you tried using the USB cable it came with, or a different cable/port?
Hey guys,
I flashed Cyanide L on Friday morning with a clean install etc.. and my phone seems to have bricked itself while on the charger from Friday night into Saturday morning. I used it most of the day Friday and it seemed fine other than 1 random reboot. My phone will not boot past the Galaxy Note II screen when the phone first turns on, I can boot into recovery (Philz) but I don't see anything on the screen when I do (I get haptic feedback when I touch anywhere on the screen but I can't do anything.)
I tried for about 5 hours to use Odin in download mode and return to either 4.1.1 stock or 4.1.2 (I know using Odin to restore 4.3 will lock my bootloader which I am not interested in doing). However, Odin keeps failing when trying to write the recovery image to the phone. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions for what I could do next?
ozo012 said:
Hey guys,
I flashed Cyanide L on Friday morning with a clean install etc.. and my phone seems to have bricked itself while on the charger from Friday night into Saturday morning. I used it most of the day Friday and it seemed fine other than 1 random reboot. My phone will not boot past the Galaxy Note II screen when the phone first turns on, I can boot into recovery (Philz) but I don't see anything on the screen when I do (I get haptic feedback when I touch anywhere on the screen but I can't do anything.)
I tried for about 5 hours to use Odin in download mode and return to either 4.1.1 stock or 4.1.2 (I know using Odin to restore 4.3 will lock my bootloader which I am not interested in doing). However, Odin keeps failing when trying to write the recovery image to the phone. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions for what I could do next?
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Here's an older post with links that might be helpful ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57944591 ).
Make sure you're using the pit file when flashing the appropriate firmware in Odin.
Some common issues with Odin also are to make sure you're using a USB 2.0 port on your computer and use the phone's original USB cable or a good quality one if you don't have the original any longer. Also run Odin with Administrative privileges, make sure that Kies is not running in the background because it interferes with ODIN, and disable antivirus programs when running Odin.
Yeah something went wrong in Odin when I flashed the stock recovery the last time and I corrupted my EMMC as Product Name: (Blank) is showing up now.
RIP Note II it was nice knowing you.
ozo012 said:
Yeah something went wrong in Odin when I flashed the stock recovery the last time and I corrupted my EMMC as Product Name: (Blank) is showing up now.
RIP Note II it was nice knowing you.
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Man... that sucks! I wonder if it was actually Odin, or if the EMMC chip just died. Either way, it doesn't really matter now. RIP Note 2.
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
Hello everyone.
Last week my phone got an OTA update from Sprint and went to android 4.4.2 . I have a stock Samsung Galaxy Note 2 never rooted or rommed it before. After the update the phone acted weird right away. It would freeze up or restart or icons disappeared. About an hour after it shut down then went into this loop of it starts goes to the Samsung Note 2 Model splash and that was it. I would have to pull the battery to turn it off. I tried restarts about 2 dozen times yanking battery holding start button then reinserting battery same thing every time. I also tried 4 different batteries to make sure it wasn't a battery issue.I made sure to pull my sd card to make sure that wasn't an issue. Finally I figured oh well Ill just do a full factory wipe and install. It took a bit but I was able to get into the recover panel.. Its weird when I went in there it went through a whole bunch of red talking about E:failed to mount/cache no such file ...or something to that. I went ahead choose wipe data/factory reset.....This said that failed.....I tried to wipe the cache which seemed to work then tried reset again...same thing failed.. I tried powering off and do this a few times but nothing. I then went on to see if maybe odin would work.. I have odin 3.10, have my samsung drives loaded,kies is not on my machine. I found the sprint tar fil for my note 2 believe its 4.3 . I put my phone in odin dl mode...I opened odin as admin....I selected AP (in new vesion its this old versions was pda)..I went ot my unzipped tar file loaded that in...phone is shown on com4..odin says md5 completed successful so I hit start.....It sits for awhile log says something to likes of communicating..Then after about 15 minutes I get the failed sign.......Can anyone help me fix this and tell me what happened. The phone was fine until that damn ota.....Below are a few images showing the different times I mentioned....I do notice when I put my phone in odin dl mode I have 2 lines I dodnt see if I look at others images of their phone in odin dl mode... One is something about Knox Warranty Void:0 and under that AP:SVREV:A3 .........OK I dont see how to put images in here .I click the add image and it wants a link so I cant getr them from my computer...If anyone knows how Ill add them
Flash 4.3 oder 4.4 Fule via odin. But you need the 3-part firmware and the PIT. Then it works perfectly.
battlekaier said:
Flash 4.3 oder 4.4 Fule via odin. But you need the 3-part firmware and the PIT. Then it works perfectly.
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Can you explain more Im not real sure how to do what your saying? Where do I get the files your talking of? Thanks for responding....ps just for updates I can not longer get into recovery mode only odin DL mode
Bump..anyone?