[Q] Galaxy S2 i9100 won't root - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I am trying to flash my S2 using Odin, and no matter what I try I always get the same result.
It doesn't work.
The phone will go in to the mod where I press the volume down button, home and power, but if I try to press up, home and power notkinh happens.
It all started a few days a go when it started getting stuck in a loop, just showing samsung mobile logo and it won't go further than that.
When I start Odin, it recognises the device, starts normally, and then it says Complete(Write) operation failed.
I've attached a screenshot, please help if you can.
If I try adding the pit file then the situation in the second picture happens, it goes on and on and on..
thank you in advance

Siyah for s3!!!!!!!! Not s2 .
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andrewwright said:
Siyah for s3!!!!!!!! Not s2 .
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ok, thank you, i also have speedmod, do i use the pit file as well? or without it?
the problem is i can't go into recovery mode to install new firmware so first i guess i have to flash it with odin
i have tried using every frickin guide there is if you know of one that has all the steps and all the files for download in one place, and explained like to an idiot I would be very grateful

You tried to flash an s3 kernal. There's an s2 kernel, check everything before flashing. You are lucky the phone didn't bricked.
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hansonchen said:
You tried to flash an s3 kernal. There's an s2 kernel, check everything before flashing. You are lucky the phone didn't bricked.
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when i try with speedmod kernell and a .pit file it writes: NAND write start and goes on for 20 minutes now, how long is this supposed to last?
preview in the attachement

Not that long. You may well have borked it.

MistahBungle said:
Not that long. You may well have borked it.
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borked?
it would get stuck in a loop showing just the samsung logo before, so i have not moved far from that, since it was unusable before as well
can you help? any tips?

spajo said:
borked?
it would get stuck in a loop showing just the samsung logo before, so i have not moved far from that, since it was unusable before as well
can you help? any tips?
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Check if you have kies running in the background. Kill any instant of kies. Or some software such as bluestacks.
Then try again. It takes only less than 1 minute or so for kernal flashing
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One more thing, are you sure yours is i9100 or i9100G?
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Search for @Hopper8s guide "troubleshooting a failed Odin flash".
It's stickey'd in the S2 general section.......
It has ALL the info (and resources/links/downloads) clearly laid out, that you could ever possibly need to restore your S2 to life........
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spajo said:
borked?
it would get stuck in a loop showing just the samsung logo before, so i have not moved far from that, since it was unusable before as well
can you help? any tips?
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Flash 4.1.2 stock with Odin. See if it boots up. If not factory reset in recovery and see if it boots. For root flash philz kernel either in stock recovery or with Odin. Like its been pointed out by mb...you will be lucky if you haven't damaged it beyond "flashing something to fix it" repair.
Also why are you using a pit file??!??!?
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[Q] S3 stuck at ClockworkMod Recovery Screen

Hi,
I have just rooted the S3 using odin. All installed ok. Installed ClockworkMod recovery and selected the backup ROM option. Phone rebooted in to recovery and the backup failed.
Used the volume keys and selected reboot now and hit the power button and the menu dissapeared leaving the Clockworkmod logo in the middle of the screen, nothing happened. Click the power button again and the menu comes back. Click the front button and nothing happened.
Tried turning off the phone and it goes back in to the recovery menu. Pull out the battery and put back in and goes back to recovery.
I can't select any option in recovery menu and can't reboot the phone normally. Any ideas?
To confirm v 5.8.4.1 is installed.
Sorted!
Noticed my error. I was using the Recovery mod app from the play store and not the CWM app installed by odin.
Repeated the odin procedure and booted back up fine.
HELP
Im having the same exact issue. Please help. What exactly do I need to do?
gentleman559 said:
Im having the same exact issue. Please help. What exactly do I need to do?
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Repeat the flashing procedure. You are using the new flashing procedure right?? Not the old one.....new one is waaaaay quicker and relinquishes the need for CMD
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gentleman559 said:
Im having the same exact issue. Please help. What exactly do I need to do?
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Follow the exact procedure from when you first rooted the S3 that fixes it then don't use the recovery rom app from the play store. You should see an app called 'CWM' only use that.
Flash kernel by ODIN
Hi, This happen to me today. The way i solve this problem is flash a CF-ROOT Kernel by odin.
See how to in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671969
Best regards
Marcelo
I am also stuck in this exact position
corkie1 said:
I am also stuck in this exact position
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Repeat the process....download the kernel, unzip to reveal the .tar, flash with odin as PDA. You are following the new procedure right??
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Ya flashed with odin - its a balls though i spent nearly the day configuring the setup. I guess ill have to redo it all - ah well better than bricking the phone!!
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Brilliant - all my stuff is still there after the reflash!!! A minor heart attack averted and no spending the day reconfiguring!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238
^^^ this is the quickest way to root + CWM
The other thread linked currently has a very outdated root tutorial
Chainfire said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238
^^^ this is the quickest way to root + CWM
The other thread linked currently has a very outdated root tutorial
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Follow the master! Lol
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I9100 recovery problem

Hello guys!
My problem is that I wanted to root my freind's I9100, but something went totally wrong...
Now my problem is that the bootloader doesn't seem to work... I hold the power button, the screen lights up, nothing happens for 1-2 minutes, it crashes and it all begins again.
The only thing that is working (I think) is the Download mode...
I tried to flash VillainROM v1.1 (I read that it would solve the problem somewhere), but it didn't work...
Also with that ROM I can get to the recovery, but unfortunately it can't find the storage (Of course I have a backup on there...)
I'm really worried right now, because it's not mine...
Please help me! :crying:
If you can get into Download mode, then flash a stock rom and see if that fixes your problem.
Stock rom 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 without the emmc brick bug
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krayndr said:
If you can get into Download mode, then flash a stock rom and see if that fixes your problem.
Stock rom 4.0.3 or 4.0.4 without the emmc brick bug
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Didn't work for me... Any other ideas?
EDIT: I waited some minutes and now it says "KERNEL PANIC UPLOAD MODE" any ideas?
EDIT2: I've done a lot of research now and it seems like I have an emmc-brick which can only be fixed by re-partitioning... does anyone know where I can get the PIT file and if that would fix it? THANKS
what method did u use to root??
I didn't root it, i installed CWM recovery, wiped system, and then when i tried to wipe data it crashed...
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Did you? Before install de cmw you should make the root! Super brick!
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marf28101995 said:
Did you? Before install de cmw you should make the root! Super brick!
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I don't think that this makes a difference, root basically is just some modified system files, isn't it?
and with a new rom the old system partition gets wiped completely
I dont think its super bricked if u can power on the device. try to get into download mode and flash a stock rom. If you have warranty you better take your phone to samsung repair centre
pasanjay said:
I dont think its super bricked if u can power on the device. try to get into download mode and flash a stock rom
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That's what I tried about 15 times...
Only the rom, with bootloader, with all 4 parts, with pit, only pit, only kernel, pit & all 4 parts, nothing seems to work...
when I try all 4 parts it's stuck at DATAFS (or something like that)
& when I flashed VillianROM v1.1 it gets me into recovery, but it always says that it can't find E:\*
Please help me & thanks for you who tries / tried to help me...
karriere said:
That's what I tried about 15 times...
Only the rom, with bootloader, with all 4 parts, with pit, only pit, only kernel, pit & all 4 parts, nothing seems to work...
when I try all 4 parts it's stuck at DATAFS (or something like that)
& when I flashed VillianROM v1.1 it gets me into recovery, but it always says that it can't find E:\*
Please help me & thanks for you who tries / tried to help me...
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Give the phone to a repair centre if you dont know what you are doing
you didnt partition the phone via odin did you, i remember i bricked it at datafs, my antivirus and kies was scanning its process so i reflashed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
pasanjay said:
Give the phone to a repair centre if you dont know what you are doing
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Actually i know what I'm doing...
It looks like it's hardbricked because of a so called "brick bug" on the newest android version for the S2/Note
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karriere said:
Actually i know what I'm doing...
It looks like it's hardbricked because of a so called "brick bug" on the newest android version for the S2/Note
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No it cant be. If you can power on your device its not super bricked..If it was super bricked your phone would be just a piece of plastic that gets heat up near the camera area. you should have just flashed a safe kernel like siyah using odin. Its perfectly safe. you must have ticked the repartition on Odin
Your data partition is corrupted. And only flashing a .pit file would save your phone. If it doesnt, i think samsung is the only way...
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Bricked pllzzzzzzzz help

I just bricked my s2 the phone just shows a (phone triangle pc) the phone is not booting in recovery or download mode and odin is not even detecting my phone plzzzz is there any way........
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What was the cause? What were you trying to do? Bit more info please.
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I was flashing stock ics i selected the file but forgot to select pit file(i was in a hurry )
The odin stuck in the middle and that's the cause......
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Edit: odin is now detecting my device but when i try to flash a rom it fails :banghead:
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So you selected "repartition"?
He forgot to flash the pit file I guess, and that saved his device.
@ OP: Chill out and share with us what are you doing, what you wanna do and how are you planning to do it.
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sohail77 said:
I just bricked my s2 the phone just shows a (phone triangle pc) the phone is not booting in recovery or download mode and odin is not even detecting my phone plzzzz is there any way........
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Why the hell have you choosen a ROM with a .pit file ?
gastonw said:
He forgot to flash the pit file I guess, and that saved his device.
@ OP: Chill out and share with us what are you doing, what you wanna do and how are you planning to do it.
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Now odin is detecting my phone and when i try to flash a rom it says "FAIL"..... Do guys have any ideas on what should i do :banghead::banghead::banghead:
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Yeah, a bunch.
A little searching won't harm, just check the first 5 pages of Q&A.
We still don't know what you've done so far, so I guess you're in panic mode because you're not sharing this info with us.
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Does anyone ever had this symbol on their s2......... Because i see many people on YouTube with this symbol.......
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That's forced download, it's like download mode, but in this case, your phone is begging you to flash something.
As I said before, you need to tell us what phone you've got in order , for us, to tell you what you oughtta flash.
PS: for the love of god, what's up with the flowers!
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gastonw said:
PS: for the love of god, what's up with the flowers!
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Mothers' day
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gastonw said:
That's forced download, it's like download mode, but in this case, your phone is begging you to flash something.
As I said before, you need to tell us what phone you've got in order , for us, to tell you what you oughtta flash.
PS: for the love of god, what's up with the flowers!
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Lol
It's My sisters bed sheet
Update : as said in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21659039 i flashed kernel through odin and now my s2(i9100g) is stuck at the galaxy s2 logo and now i can't reboot in recovery or download and now odin doesn't detect my device now i think i don't have any chance to flash a rom :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: i think i got into a bigger trouble
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First off, say hi to your sister for me.
Second of all, get an I9100 ROM.
Third, when on that exclamation mark screen, flash that ROM.
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gastonw said:
First off, say hi to your sister for me.
Second of all, get an I9100 ROM.
Third, when on that exclamation mark screen, flash that ROM.
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How can i flash the rom without my phone booting in recovery or download mode and my odin doesn't recognise my device
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sohail77 said:
Does anyone ever had this symbol on their s2......... Because i see many people on YouTube with this symbol.......
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Aren't you getting that screen?
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gastonw said:
Aren't you getting that screen?
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In stuck at this screen forever
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That exclamation mark error is telling something bad has happen with earlier flash, ie unfinished flash, corrupt files etc. Back in the old days people usually use usb jig to force phone into nornal download mode again. That happen to me once and what i did is remove battery, hold the three button combination for download mode and while still holding those buttons, force reinsert the battery. Phone should boot into download mode and should be detected by pc and can be flashed via odin. Good luck with it
an0nym0us_ said:
That exclamation mark error is telling something bad has happen with earlier flash, ie unfinished flash, corrupt files etc. Back in the old days people usually use usb jig to force phone into nornal download mode again. That happen to me once and what i did is remove battery, hold the three button combination for download mode and while still holding those buttons, force reinsert the battery. Phone should boot into download mode and should be detected by pc and can be flashed via odin. Good luck with it
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Thanks
It booted in the download mode now downloading rom.........
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One more question I'm downloading from sammobile so can someone tell me best way to flash through odin.... Do i need a pit or what
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I think I bricked my S4..

I've been running Hyperdrive rom on CWM, and decided I wanted to try Illusion. So I rebooted into recovery, deleted cache and data, then installed the Illusion rom. At the end a yellow triangle popped up telling me that the software was insecure or something, and told me to go to a Verizon store.
I read that this was due to the kernel not being loki'd, so like an idiot I went back to Odin and flashed a kernel.
Soon after my screen went black, but I could hear the sounds of me raising/lowering the volume and turning the screen on and off.
I took the battery out and put it back in, and now all I see is an empty battery imposed on a black background with a frozen loading-circle int he middle.
Have I bricked my phone?
Edit:
When I unplug the phone from my computer and turn it on I see the Samsung boot-up along with the word Custom and unlocked icon above it. From there all I get is a black screen.
I can hold the lock+home+lower volume keys and I get the "Press volume up key if you want to download a custom OS" and "Volume down to cancel (restart phone)" screen, then the little green android shows up. Is there anything I can do from here?
You likely have "soft bricked" it, as long as you can still access it with odin or push files to it with adb you are not hard bricked... if you can, get the current verizon firmware from Sammobile.com and flash that with odin. This or fastboot are your best options. Take your time. Dont make things worse by trying things without reading completely. As long as you can flash and see it from adb or odin you can get it fixed up. Good luck
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SmartAs$Phone said:
You likely have "soft bricked" it, as long as you can still access it with odin or push files to it with adb you are not hard bricked... if you can, get the current verizon firmware from Sammobile.com and flash that with odin. This or fastboot are your best options. Take your time. Dont make things worse by trying things without reading completely. As long as you can flash and see it from adb or odin you can get it fixed up. Good luck
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Thanks for the response!
1. "USA" isn't listed in both "Galaxy S 4" or "Galaxy S 4 LTE" on Sammobile
2. So I reboot into download mode, connect phone to pc, run odin, and flash PDA?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
Read that and use the file in the thread.
Ryno77 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
Read that and use the file in the thread.
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Thank you, I'm currently downloading the file. Will give it a shot.
dabs delicious said:
Thank you, I'm currently downloading the file. Will give it a shot.
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No problem. I don't know how familiar you are with Odin but reading the original post closely and following any guides posted would be a good idea. Once you've used Odin once it's very easy....scary the first time.
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No problem. I don't know how familiar you are with Odin but reading the original post closely and following any guides posted would be a good idea. Once you've used Odin once it's very easy....scary the first time.
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I followed the guide and successfully flashed the file, but now my screen is stuck on the "Verizon" logo page..
dabs delicious said:
I followed the guide and successfully flashed the file, but now my screen is stuck on the "Verizon" logo page..
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Try booting into recovery and wiping data. You may have to pull the battery to get it into recovery.
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Ryno77 said:
Try booting into recovery and wiping data. You may have to pull the battery to get it into recovery.
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By this do you mean I should go into Odin and tick Nand Erase All? Sorry, I'm a complete noob at this and none of the threads I looked up really provided solid answers..
No, just boot into stock Android recovery and wipe data. Not Odin.
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dabs delicious said:
By this do you mean I should go into Odin and tick Nand Erase All? Sorry, I'm a complete noob at this and none of the threads I looked up really provided solid answers..
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Sorry, I don't know if your subscribed to this or not but hopefully the quote notification gets to you...try stock recovery not Odin at this point.
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No, just boot into stock Android recovery and wipe data. Not Odin.
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Sorry, I don't know if your subscribed to this or not but hopefully the quote notification gets to you...try stock recovery not Odin at this point.
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Yes, I'm watching this thread eagerly haha, I would like to fix my phone
So I held power+volume up+home and entered stock recovery. I chose the option "wipe data/factory reset" and afterwards rebooted the system, but to no avail. I'm going to try again right now, wiping the cache partition as well.
Edit: Ah! After I wiped the cache my system auto-rebooted and it successfully booted up. Factory settings!
dabs delicious said:
Yes, I'm watching this thread eagerly haha, I would like to fix my phone
So I held power+volume up+home and entered stock recovery. I chose the option "wipe data/factory reset" and afterwards rebooted the system, but to no avail. I'm going to try again right now, wiping the cache partition as well.
Edit: Ah! After I wiped the cache my system auto-rebooted and it successfully booted up. Factory settings!
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There you go! You have to be careful with Odin because if you do something incorrectly you can totally brick your phone.
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There you go! You have to be careful with Odin because if you do something incorrectly you can totally brick your phone.
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Thanks so much!
help
i tried installing omega 4.3 using twrp it failed, then i couldn't restore my back up. i can get into download mode and try to flash stock rom with odin but it fail's every time and a msg with su rev check fail fused 2 binary 1 appears on the hand set. it also won't even try and boot it just says fw encountered an issue any help would be much appreciated thanks kyle

[Q] P7500 cannot enter recovery and stuck while flash rom with Odin

My rom before is Ganbarou GT-7500 rom. And i want to downgrade it to 4.0.4 rom from sammobile.com . but an error occur while flashing the rom .
odin stuck , i restart my tablet and flash again but, again stuck! . i tried to go recovery to wipe data factory but, i cannot enter the recovery system.!! someone.. help me to fix this!!!
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odin stuck while flashing rom
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i go to recovery but only this appear about 5-10 seconds and then shutdown
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the progress stuck until the this tab shutdown [low battery]
Wtf...what makes you think its stuck? The first pic merely shows Odin doing its work. Second pic shows the tab installing some stock apps. Third pic shows your tab installing the firmware. Just let it do its work for at least 10 mins and then complaint.
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eushaun99 said:
Wtf...what makes you think its stuck? The first pic merely shows Odin doing its work. Second pic shows the tab installing some stock apps. Third pic shows your tab installing the firmware. Just let it do its work for at least 10 mins and then complaint.
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wait at least 10mins?? i wait about 30minute until the tab shutdown..but the odin still stuck at the middle..
dzebron said:
wait at least 10mins?? i wait about 30minute until the tab shutdown..but the odin still stuck at the middle..
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Are you sure you have the correct firmware for your specific device? Another possibility is that the firmware you have might be damaged. Download another and try again.
Cheers.
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John Kester said:
Are you sure you have the correct firmware for your specific device? Another possibility is that the firmware you have might be damaged. Download another and try again.
Cheers.
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i use P7500XME firmware , malaysia firmware. I tried to flash rom 3.1 , 3.2 and 4.0.4 . but have the same result. Failed.
fixed.. already sent to samsung center.

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