Samsung Galaxy S 2 AT&T
Jellybean
Rooted about 3-4 months ago
The phone was fully charged and on the arm of the chair in my peripheral vision. I saw the Samsung logo come on and since then nothing has changed. I can't go into any mode (vol+, vol-, pwr). Cable connection to the computer shows no response that anything is connected to the computer. I took it to AT&T and they said there were issues with the last update that caused irreparable issues. (Of course they want to sell me the latest and greatest) I got a new S 5 but I would like to pass the S 2 to my daughter. I didn't lose any apps, pics or data. I just want it back to stock + rooted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Just to be sure, are you holding vol +, vol -, pwr until you see the samsung logo the SECOND time?
It isn't always necessary to wait the second cycle, but it ensures that the key command is correctly registered by the phone.
dbur0727 said:
Samsung Galaxy S 2 AT&T
Jellybean
Rooted about 3-4 months ago
The phone was fully charged and on the arm of the chair in my peripheral vision. I saw the Samsung logo come on and since then nothing has changed. I can't go into any mode (vol+, vol-, pwr). Cable connection to the computer shows no response that anything is connected to the computer. I took it to AT&T and they said there were issues with the last update that caused irreparable issues. (Of course they want to sell me the latest and greatest) I got a new S 5 but I would like to pass the S 2 to my daughter. I didn't lose any apps, pics or data. I just want it back to stock + rooted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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cyril279 said:
Just to be sure, are you holding vol +, vol -, pwr until you see the samsung logo the SECOND time?
It isn't always necessary to wait the second cycle, but it ensures that the key command is correctly registered by the phone.
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I tried again making sure to release all buttons when I saw the logo the second time. I also tried again releasing the pwr button only. Nothing is working.
You need to see if the phone will go into download mode. There are several ways to put the phone into download mode. You should try all of them that you can before you give up.
Download mode:
1. With the phone off and connected to the computer via USB cable, and battery installed, hold all three buttons, vol- vol+ pwr.
2. With the phone off and battery installed, hold vol- and vol+ (but not pwr) while plugging in the USB cable.
3. With the phone off and battery installed, hold vol- (but not vol+ or pwr) while plugging in the USB cable.
4. Attempt each of the above three options with the battery removed from the phone. The computer will supply the power to the phone.
5. Use Android Debug Bridge (adb) which will only work if USB debugging has been already turned on in Developer Options, since you can't boot into the system to turn it on. With the battery installed and the phone connected to the pc via USB cable, use the command "adb reboot download".
6. Use a USB jig. With the battery installed insert the USB jig into the USB connector of the phone. Some have reported that this method works when no other method would work.
creepyncrawly said:
You need to see if the phone will go into download mode. There are several ways to put the phone into download mode. You should try all of them that you can before you give up.
Download mode:
1. With the phone off and connected to the computer via USB cable, and battery installed, hold all three buttons, vol- vol+ pwr.
2. With the phone off and battery installed, hold vol- and vol+ (but not pwr) while plugging in the USB cable.
3. With the phone off and battery installed, hold vol- (but not vol+ or pwr) while plugging in the USB cable.
4. Attempt each of the above three options with the battery removed from the phone. The computer will supply the power to the phone.
5. Use Android Debug Bridge (adb) which will only work if USB debugging has been already turned on in Developer Options, since you can't boot into the system to turn it on. With the battery installed and the phone connected to the pc via USB cable, use the command "adb reboot download".
6. Use a USB jig. With the battery installed insert the USB jig into the USB connector of the phone. Some have reported that this method works when no other method would work.
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Okay. I was successful using option 1. However, I installed the SIM card (for my daughter's phone) and it has been stuck on "Downloading..." for around 6 hours or so. Should I have downloaded a stock OS or something? Is it waiting for me? Is it pulling the factory default OS OTA?
dbur0727 said:
Okay. I was successful using option 1. However, I installed the SIM card (for my daughter's phone) and it has been stuck on "Downloading..." for around 6 hours or so. Should I have downloaded a stock OS or something? Is it waiting for me? Is it pulling the factory default OS OTA?
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Sorry I didn't include more information in my previous post. Putting the phone into download mode just lets us know that the phone can be recovered, but it doesn't do anything by itself. The process of recovery is to use the Odin program to install a fresh stock firmware onto the phone. Since you appearantly are unfamiliar with the process, I will explain in detail.
First, download the stock 4.1.2 Jellybean Full distribution, I777UCMD8 from the Download Repository. (link in my signature) It's the next to last item near the bottom. The downloaded file is in seven-zip (.7z) format and you need to extract the contents using an archiving program. The resulting file, which will have a ...tar.md5 extension, is the file you will use in step 7 below. Also download Odin3 v1.85. There is a link near the top of the page in the Repository.
How to use stand-alone Odin3 to flash firmware:
Follow and recheck each of the following steps. Do them in order listed, as some steps are dependent on previous steps. Instructions are for Odin3 v1.85. It should work with any version of Odin, but some details, like color of items, may be different.
1.) Open Odin on the Windows Desktop.
2.) Have the USB cable plugged into USB port on the computer, but *Not* plugged in to the phone.
3.) Shut the phone off.
4.) While holding down the vol+ & vol- keys, plug micro-usb plug into phone.
5.) In Odin, you should get the yellow box under where it says ID:COM with the text 0:[COMx], and in the Message area, <ID:0/00x> Added!! where x is some number, usually 1-8.
6.) In Odin, make sure Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time are checked and all other items are not checked.
7.) Click on the PDA button. Browse to the tar file you want to install and select it so its path appears in the text edit box next to the button.
8.) Make sure the check box next to the PDA button is checked.
9.) Click the Start button.
10.) You should see the green progress bar advancing.
11.) When complete, you will get a PASS (or FAIL if unsuccessful).
Since you are unable to get into recovery mode now, you may have to enter recovery after the firmware flash is successful if it won't boot on the first try. Use the instructions earlier in the thread to enter recovery, and perform a wipe data/factory reset.
Once you have the phone up and running, Framaroot with the Aragorn exploit is the easiest way to root.
If you need further help or instructions, feel free to ask.
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I have a hardware locked vibrant, but with I've been getting by with adb to get into recovery to root and install CWM and ROMS.
Recently my phone got interrupted while doing an Odin restore and now i've bricked my phone. I get the "Phone ! PC" screen everytime I power up.
I can't use adb orCWM to boot into download mode, and my phone has never responded to any combination of buttons on start-up to get it there. What else could I do?
I heard this is considered a defect, if it is hopeless to fix should I try to return it to t-mobile even though it's bricked? or just report it lost?
EDIT: FIXED!
Thanks Beniuec for pointing me to the JIG
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
I went to radio shack, picked up some resistors, and it worked like a charm!
I have a very similar problem. My phone got stuck on the Vibrant boot screen after trying to flash a rom. I can't get my phone into download mode so that I can use ODIN. All it does it stay stuck on the Vibrant Boot screen. Can't start the phone, can't get into recovery. If anybody can help us, that would be great. I do hear that most phones should be able to get into recovery mode if not then we should return it. My problem is that I bought my phone on eBay. I can't return it to T-Mobile.
If you can get into the vibrant boot screen you may be able to use ADB to reboot into download mode.
connect to your PC and go to the command prompt where you have adb installed
Code:
abd devices
Code:
adb reboot download
It doesn't recognize my device. Under list of devices, it is blank.
You might have to make this or post if anyone in your area has made one since nothing else works for you good luck
homemade test jig
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
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Oooh =/ That happened to me.
But I got it fixed
IDK if this will work w/ hardware locked (nor do i even know what hardware locked is):
What I did was power off the phone, charged it, you should see a battery appear. When that happens, then press power, vol up, vol down, hold those button.
AS SOON AS THE SCREEN TURNS BLACK, release power, and it should get you into DL mode, then you may unplug, then odin, then restore it
GL
Here is a couple of methods to get into download mode. Once you get to download mode, follow the directions later in my post...
First Method
1) Pull the battery, sim card, and sd card.
2) Reinsert battery but do not press any buttons.
3) Plug into usb that is connected to your computer. If something shows up on the screen (charging logo) then you should be golden.
4) Hold the vol up, vol down, and power until the screen comes on, immediately release the power button but not the other two. You should be in dl mode.
Second Method
1) Another method that seems to work for some people is to pull the battery, sim, sd card.
2) Reinsert battery and hold both volume buttons but do not press power button.
3) Then plug in usb. The phone should boot into download.
Third Method
1) You will need the samsung ADB drivers installed for your phone and ADB.
Samsung Drivers for 32 bit Windows: http://files.androidspin.com/downlo...=SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_x86.exe
Samsung Drivers for 64 bit Windows: http://files.androidspin.com/downlo...ung/vibrant/&file=usb_drivers_GalaxyS_x64.zip
2) Remove sim card and sd-card. Remove the battery.
3) Hold buttons vol up, vol down, and power.
4) While holding down those 3 buttons put the battery back in and keep holding all 3 buttons until the vibrant disappears and reappears. Once it reappears, release all 3 buttons.
5) Now connect your phone to your pc via USB cable.
6) Open a cmd prompt and navigate to the folder with ADB and type "ADB REBOOT DOWNLOAD" caps are not necessary.
7) Your phone will reboot into the download mode.
Once in download mode
Download the files in the linked thread and follow the directions there or the ones below.
Odin and Files Needed Available Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
1) Open Odin and verify that one of the Com ports shows a device connected. If it doesn't try using a different usb port.
2) Load the .pit and pda files. It should be pretty obvious how to do that once you are in Odin.
3) Make sure that the option to partition is unchecked. The other two options should be checked.
4) Hit start and wait.
5) Your phone will restart when Odin is done and you will be good to go.
Also, you might have to build the usb jig. It is guaranteed to get you into download mode. Here is a link to that thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
Since you're hardware-locked, your only choice is the usb jig or returning the phone (If you got it from T-Mobile, they may replace on grounds of faulty hardware, like they did for my first Vibrant). Seems like the jig is the easiest option, so long as you or someone you know can solder the thing, and it is pretty much guaranteed to work.
Beniuec said:
You might have to make this or post if anyone in your area has made one since nothing else works for you good luck
homemade test jig
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
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Awesome. This is exactly what I was looking for, I could easily make this jig as I have plenty of experience soldering. I'll try this out and report back the results!
Good luck let me know how it works send me a pm incase I lose the thread
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Hey everyone.
So the other day I got excited about the CM7. I was following the steps to install it. i made a mistake. after i flashed the kernel. i rebooted my phone now all i get is a screen with picture of phone with a yellow triangle attached to a pc.
The thing i've tried to do was
1.take out the battery
2. take out the sim(which was already taken out to be in my gs4g)
3.took sd card out.
4.plug usb into phone and computer
5.put battery in while hitting the vol +/- minus rocker and nothing happens.i have odin open when I( try this.
my computer just wont pick it up.
when I plug in my gs4g it picks it up right away.
I've spent all weekend working on this.
also i think they only way before hand for me to get into download/recovery was for me to use adb. could that be why I'm not getting any progress?
Thanks in advance. Also sorry if this question has been asked so many times..
Is your problem getting into download mode? Or is it that you get into download mode but Odin won't recognize the device?
If its the former, getting into download mode is a bit tricky in CM7, I've done it plenty of times though. This worked for me.
1. Unplug the usb cord.
2. Pull out the battery.
3. Plug usb cord in.
4. Hold down vol+ & vol- and power button
5. You will see the loading circle or whatever it's called, when the screen goes black let go of power button.
You should be in download mode now. Sometimes you won't get the loading screen and the phone'll just boot up, if so pull the batt and try again.
Cito11 said:
Is your problem getting into download mode? Or is it that you get into download mode but Odin won't recognize the device?
If its the former, getting into download mode is a bit tricky in CM7, I've done it plenty of times though. This worked for me.
1. Unplug the usb cord.
2. Pull out the battery.
3. Plug usb cord in.
4. Hold down vol+ & vol- and power button
5. You will see the loading circle or whatever it's called, when the screen goes black let go of power button.
You should be in download mode now. Sometimes you won't get the loading screen and the phone'll just boot up, if so pull the batt and try again.
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I've done that many times. I've tried for several hours during the weekend. Also CM7 is not installed yet. was in the middle of installing then this happend.
just open odin and plug your phone in to your pc and see if you get a COM port...if you do then flash it from there..
jmcghee1973 said:
just open odin and plug your phone in to your pc and see if you get a COM port...if you do then flash it from there..
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not getting that at all no com ports show up.. I'm going to try this on a different computer.
When I get the black screen with that icon in the middle and I plug it in, Odin recognizes it right away. Furthermore, I've only gotten it before when I go into download mode(yellow sign + android sweeping) and Odin doesn't recognize my phone and I pull the battery then turn it back on.
Get odin up usb cord connected to the computer but not the phone
Remove the sim card the sd card and the battery and do the vol up and down boot. Then while holding the vol buttons down at the same time plug in the usb.
That should get you back to recovery.
READ the STICKY for NOOBS......... S15274N did a wonderful job of explaining all the methods on how to get into recovery from a soft brick
good luck
oka1 said:
Get odin up usb cord connected to the computer but not the phone
Remove the sim card the sd card and the battery and do the vol up and down boot. Then while holding the vol buttons down at the same time plug in the usb.
That should get you back to recovery.
READ the STICKY for NOOBS......... S15274N did a wonderful job of explaining all the methods on how to get into recovery from a soft brick
good luck
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I've been trying all of those methods. Before this happened the only way for me to get into download was using adb reboot download command in adb.
The computer does not recognize in odin. I've tired this on two computers now.
I have all the drivers installed. i uninstalled ed reinstalled etc. used two different usb cables etc.
not sure what else to try. other than a baseball bat....
so i looked around and i bought a jig on ebay from skisky1. hopefully it will be here soon . to try this out .
I have order a factory cable, but still i am not able to boot my razr xt910
i am getting this message:
AP fastboot Flash Mode (S) (Flash Failure)
0A.6C
To return to normal mode - first press power key to power down
Device is LOCKED, Status code: 0
Battery OK
OK to Program
Transfer mode:
USB Connected
Please help me, i am trying to resolve this problem since two weeks
This happened to me 2 days ago while testing without my daily caffeine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25354339&postcount=210
IDK if you have access to, or are comfortable with doing what I did. That's your only option until you get that cable.
I have the factory cable
i have the factory cable but still i am not able to install any rom on it
yaloraibi said:
i have the factory cable but still i am not able to install any rom on it
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What's wrong?
Sent from my XT910 using Tapatalk 2
where did you get the "factory" cable?
yaloraibi said:
I have order a factory cable, but still i am not able to boot my razr xt910
i am getting this message:
AP fastboot Flash Mode (S) (Flash Failure)
0A.6C
To return to normal mode - first press power key to power down
Device is LOCKED, Status code: 0
Battery OK
OK to Program
Transfer mode:
USB Connected
Please help me, i am trying to resolve this problem since two weeks
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It's difficult to help when there is a lack of information for anyone to help you.
If you can't update with RSD lite, try RSD alternative:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1453660
If you have the factory cable, always use that when flashing.
pedrotorresfilho said:
What's wrong?
Sent from my XT910 using Tapatalk 2
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I am usin RSD to upload the rom but still i am getting error, this is the rome (SPYDERIRD_U.01.26.0_SPD-IRD-21_SIGN_MEA_RETAIL.xml)
Rouxe41 said:
where did you get the "factory" cable?
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I got thr cable from ebay
I used the same ROM for my RAZR bought in Kuwait a week ago and everything was just fine. But I had 100% charged battery. Where are you from?
borisgraovac said:
I used the same ROM for my RAZR bought in Kuwait a week ago and everything was just fine. But I had 100% charged battery. Where are you from?
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I am from Bahrain, if you can help me out to resolve my problem
why dont you go back to stock first?
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Rouxe41 said:
why dont you go back to stock first?
Sent from my ICS Droid RAZR using xda premium
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How i can go back to STOCK?
yaloraibi said:
I am from Bahrain, if you can help me out to resolve my problem
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This is how I did it. You need RSD Lite 5.6 and ROM you already have and, of course, pretty much battery charged (50% at list, otherwise could be a mess). Also, you need ADB installed on your computer in order to get the phone recognised.
Power down your device. Press and hold the Vol+ and Vol- keys, then press and hold the power button until a white screen appears and you can now release all three buttons.
Use the Vol- key (and ONLY the Vol- key) to scroll through the list. Scroll until “AP Fastboot” is highlighted and press the Vol+ key to select it.
Connect the USB cable to both your PC and phone. NOTE: At this time, you may see drivers trying to install but they may not all be successful (that’s okay). But your computer does need to recognize your Razr as a ADB interface device (if it does not, you probably do not have ADB configured properly and you will not be able to flash your phone.
Open RSD Lite and use the program (button to the right of the “Filename:” box) to open the .zip file containing your fastboot files.
When prompted, select the “Uncompress Only” button on your PC.
After it has uncompressed the files, ensure that RSD Lite shows “connected” on one of the ports and make sure that your phone shows “USB Connected”. If you are still not connected you may need to unplug the device and plug it back in (I had to do this one of the times I did this procedure).
Press the “Start” button at the top of the RSD Lite application and let it do it’s thing. Don’t touch the phone, don’t unplug the phone…just walk away or sit quietly and watch. This process should take approximately 15-20 minutes in total so BE PATIENT and just wait!
Once the steps have completed, your phone will reboot…JUST KEEP WAITING. You will see the stock recovery screen and it will need a few minutes to flash the factory ROM.
When you see the phone’s lock screen you disconnect the USB cable and close RSD Lite.
borisgraovac said:
This is how I did it. You need RSD Lite 5.6 and ROM you already have and, of course, pretty much battery charged (50% at list, otherwise could be a mess). Also, you need ADB installed on your computer in order to get the phone recognised.
Power down your device. Press and hold the Vol+ and Vol- keys, then press and hold the power button until a white screen appears and you can now release all three buttons.
Use the Vol- key (and ONLY the Vol- key) to scroll through the list. Scroll until “AP Fastboot” is highlighted and press the Vol+ key to select it.
Connect the USB cable to both your PC and phone. NOTE: At this time, you may see drivers trying to install but they may not all be successful (that’s okay). But your computer does need to recognize your Razr as a ADB interface device (if it does not, you probably do not have ADB configured properly and you will not be able to flash your phone.
Open RSD Lite and use the program (button to the right of the “Filename:” box) to open the .zip file containing your fastboot files.
When prompted, select the “Uncompress Only” button on your PC.
After it has uncompressed the files, ensure that RSD Lite shows “connected” on one of the ports and make sure that your phone shows “USB Connected”. If you are still not connected you may need to unplug the device and plug it back in (I had to do this one of the times I did this procedure).
Press the “Start” button at the top of the RSD Lite application and let it do it’s thing. Don’t touch the phone, don’t unplug the phone…just walk away or sit quietly and watch. This process should take approximately 15-20 minutes in total so BE PATIENT and just wait!
Once the steps have completed, your phone will reboot…JUST KEEP WAITING. You will see the stock recovery screen and it will need a few minutes to flash the factory ROM.
When you see the phone’s lock screen you disconnect the USB cable and close RSD Lite.
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The issue is i already try to install the rom with less battery "less than 50 %", then my phone stooped charging and did not work, that why i have ordered the factory cable
yaloraibi said:
The issue is i already try to install the rom with less battery "less than 50 %", then my phone stooped charging and did not work, that why i have ordered the factory cable
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Here in this forum is thread "Low Battery charge in Ap Fastboot Fix". Might be helpful. Also, I remember the another thread here explaining how to make "factory cable" by yourself. Maybe the cable you've got is mulfunction.
RSD Lite 5.7 failed
borisgraovac said:
This is how I did it. You need RSD Lite 5.6 and ROM you already have and, of course, pretty much battery charged (50% at list, otherwise could be a mess). Also, you need ADB installed on your computer in order to get the phone recognised.
Power down your device. Press and hold the Vol+ and Vol- keys, then press and hold the power button until a white screen appears and you can now release all three buttons.
Use the Vol- key (and ONLY the Vol- key) to scroll through the list. Scroll until “AP Fastboot” is highlighted and press the Vol+ key to select it.
Connect the USB cable to both your PC and phone. NOTE: At this time, you may see drivers trying to install but they may not all be successful (that’s okay). But your computer does need to recognize your Razr as a ADB interface device (if it does not, you probably do not have ADB configured properly and you will not be able to flash your phone.
Open RSD Lite and use the program (button to the right of the “Filename:” box) to open the .zip file containing your fastboot files.
When prompted, select the “Uncompress Only” button on your PC.
After it has uncompressed the files, ensure that RSD Lite shows “connected” on one of the ports and make sure that your phone shows “USB Connected”. If you are still not connected you may need to unplug the device and plug it back in (I had to do this one of the times I did this procedure).
Press the “Start” button at the top of the RSD Lite application and let it do it’s thing. Don’t touch the phone, don’t unplug the phone…just walk away or sit quietly and watch. This process should take approximately 15-20 minutes in total so BE PATIENT and just wait!
Once the steps have completed, your phone will reboot…JUST KEEP WAITING. You will see the stock recovery screen and it will need a few minutes to flash the factory ROM.
When you see the phone’s lock screen you disconnect the USB cable and close RSD Lite.
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I have tried RSD Lite and Flash me to flash many different stock oms without any success i am getting same error as the message of this thread like bot failure please someone me... i have no factory cable don't know exactly what is that and i am sure its not readily available where i live.
I was trying to root and update this tablet, and I think I killed it. The current state is that I can only boot into ODIN3 Download Mode. If I hold down the power and up volume I get the two choices. If I try to boot into recovery mode the table just reboots. I can go into the download mode. One interesting change is that now I have to press the volume down to proceed verses vol up. The text loads to Waiting USB Cable (upper left corner). When I run Odin on my laptop I cannot see the table. I was able to see the tablet earlier before this "hang up" so I am confident that it is not the cable or drivers. I have uninstalled and re installed drivers. If I connect another tablet (same model) it is recognized. So basically all I can do is get to the screen where it says Downloading and can not see it from my laptop. I have even tried another laptop and loaded the drivers and Odin and still could not see it. I have tried Odin vr 1.85 and 3.07 neither work. At this point If I could get anything loaded I would be happy and there is nothing on it that needs to be saved. This is the Verizon 4g model.
thillis said:
I was trying to root and update this tablet, and I think I killed it. The current state is that I can only boot into ODIN3 Download Mode. If I hold down the power and up volume I get the two choices. If I try to boot into recovery mode the table just reboots. I can go into the download mode. One interesting change is that now I have to press the volume down to proceed verses vol up. The text loads to Waiting USB Cable (upper left corner). When I run Odin on my laptop I cannot see the table. I was able to see the tablet earlier before this "hang up" so I am confident that it is not the cable or drivers. I have uninstalled and re installed drivers. If I connect another tablet (same model) it is recognized. So basically all I can do is get to the screen where it says Downloading and can not see it from my laptop. I have even tried another laptop and loaded the drivers and Odin and still could not see it. I have tried Odin vr 1.85 and 3.07 neither work. At this point If I could get anything loaded I would be happy and there is nothing on it that needs to be saved. This is the Verizon 4g model.
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Try using another tablet with the same model in download mode and another USB Cable and connect it, then use the USB Cable you used to connect the other tab.
It ran out of battery power last night. Will it take a charge if there is no firmware, or software on the tablet? I have it on the charger now and the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again" message just popped up. I will let it charge for a while and try the USB cable swap idea.
Charge it even if it says "Emergency Firmware Required". Then turn it on and connect it to kies, go to emergency firmware recovery, it should show your device up there, if not flash a stock rom using odin.
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I decided to do a factory reset on my rooted SGH i777. When I did the factory reset, the phone was plugged into my computer. Now when I turn on the phone I see the Samsung Galaxy logo and then the screen goes black (no backlight) and the phone is completely unresponsive. Is there any hope to save my phone?
US variants have their own specific fora, your thread belongs here. I've asked mods to move it for you, sit tight until they do. Generally speaking (and this is the only advice I'm prepared to give you as I don't have your specific device, but the advice holds true for all Samsung phones), if you don't have download or recovery modes, you're probably boned.
I'm sure other people will suggest a few 'longshot' things you can try which might have a very very rough chance of working when your thread gets moved to the right place though.
I'd say there is a fairly good chance...
Can you boot into download mode? If so, then it's very likely. Just flash the stock firmware with Odin. You can download the necessary firmware file from the Download Repository. If you need any additional help, just ask.
creepyncrawly said:
I'd say there is a fairly good chance...
Can you boot into download mode? If so, then it's very likely. Just flash the stock firmware with Odin. You can download the necessary firmware file from the Download Repository. If you need any additional help, just ask.
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I can't boot into recovery or download mode.
dave455 said:
I can't boot into recovery or download mode.
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Are you using the right button combo? Power+both volume keys.
dave455 said:
I can't boot into recovery or download mode.
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Generally, a hard bricked phone is one that exhibits no signs of life. If there are any signs of life, buttons light up, boot screen appears, screen flickers, etc, then it is not hard bricked, and is probably recoverable. But first, you need to get it into download mode.
If the phone is hard bricked, you can get it back with jtag repair from a reputable shop such as Mobile Tech Videos.
There are several ways to put the phone into download mode. You should try all of them that you can before you give up.
Recovery mode:
With the phone off (and not connected to the computer), and battery installed, hold all three buttons, vol- vol+ pwr continuously until the initial boot screen appears the second time.
Download mode:
1. With the phone off and connected to the computer via USB cable, and battery installed, hold all three buttons, vol- vol+ pwr.
2. With the phone off and battery installed, hold vol- and vol+ (but not pwr) while plugging in the USB cable.
3. With the phone off and battery installed, hold vol- (but not vol+ or pwr) while plugging in the USB cable.
4. Attempt each of the above three options with the battery removed from the phone. The computer will supply the power to the phone.
5. Use Android Debug Bridge (adb) which will only work if USB debugging has been already turned on in Developer Options, since you can't boot into the system to turn it on. With the battery installed and the phone connected to the pc via USB cable, use the command "adb reboot download".
6. Use a USB jig. With the battery installed insert the USB jig into the USB connector of the phone. Some have reported that this method works when no other method would work.
Thanks for that fantastic explanation!
This worked for me:
2. With the phone off and battery installed, hold vol- and vol+ (but not pwr) while plugging in the USB cable.
Now, how do I fix my phone with download mode?
Do I need to put a factory firmware image back onto the phone? It currently has rooted firmware that was working perfectly fine until I did a factory reset.
I would suggest that you flash the latest stock firmware, I777UCMD8 (Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean) which you can download from the Download Repository. After flashing that you can root using the Framaroot application using the Aragorn exploit.
If you want custom firmware, once rooted you can install either Mobile Odin lite or Mobile Odin Pro and flash a custom kernel which has ClockworkMod Recovery. Following that, you can flash any firmware of your choice.
To get you started, and in case you need them, here are the directions for using Odin to flash the stock firmware (copy and paste):
How to use stand-alone Odin3 to flash firmware:
Follow and recheck each of the following steps. Do them in order listed, as some steps are dependent on previous steps. Instructions are for Odin3 v1.85 (recommended). It should work with any version of Odin, but some details, like color of items, may be different.
1.) Open Odin on the Windows Desktop.
2.) Have the USB cable plugged into USB port on the computer, but *Not* plugged in to the phone.
3.) Shut the phone off.
4.) While holding down the vol+ & vol- keys, plug micro-usb plug into phone.
5.) In Odin, you should get the yellow box under where it says ID:COM with the text 0:[COMx], and in the Message area, <ID:0/00x> Added!! where x is some number, usually 1-8.
6.) In Odin, make sure Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time are checked and all other items are not checked.
7.) Click on the PDA button. Browse to the tar file you want to install and select it so its path appears in the text edit box next to the button.
8.) Make sure the check box next to the PDA button is checked.
9.) Click the Start button.
10.) You should see the green progress bar advancing.
11.) Once the flash is complete, the phone will reboot into system.
Thanks!
With your help, I was able to recover my phone. Thank you! I will be using stock firmware. Last time I had my phone rooted, it was so slow it was unusable.