So i just bought a galaxy s4 yesterday. I rooted it with towelroot and i tried to install a custom recovery, but i completely forgot to unlock the bootloader. It said it had unverified software or something like that on it when i tried to turn it on and i tried restoring using odin and it didnt work. i got it to the point where its sometimes in a boot loop when i use odin and sometimes it says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again." Ive tried using kies so many times and all it does is say "connecting..." Ive tried using different cables, usb ports, and different versions of odin and nothing is working. I heard that installing a stock rooted rom works, but i can only find a zip for it, which odin cant flash. ive installed and reinstalled the drivers so many times and ive tried kies on my mac too and it wont detect my phone. please help i just bought this phone.
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Hello
I've had this problem for a couple of days now and while Google is turning up plenty of threads and solutions nothing seems to be working.
Yesterday I tried to encrypt my SGSII and but it failed and would no longer boot. So I flashed a no ROM via recovery (there was a notice about corrupted memory) and restarted. Since then I've only been able to access the phones download mode. Most posts with this kind of problem suggest that Odin is required. Windows will not recognize my phone in while in download mode, therefore I can't use Odin. Windows will, however, recognize it as a Samsung SGSII in the device manager if I let the phone boot up and hang at the SGSII logo screen.
The things I've tried so far
Installing Kies
ONLY installing samsung usb drivers
Cleaning the usb port
Rebooting phone and pc several times
Tried different cables
Tried a different PC
Additional info: Last ROM I was running was one of the cyanogen 10 nighties.
Sorry everyone, I know this seems to be a pretty common problem but I'm just out of ideas to try.
So, do I need to buy a new phone? Any ideas would be really appreciated.
Cheers
Hello All, I've been trying to find a solution for about 9 hours straight now. I've been on multiple forums and multiple threads. Some help would be AMAZING.. I am really agitated and want to throw my phone on the floor and stomp on it.
Here's my story:
I tried to root my phone watching a youtube video and something went wrong. So I reverted back to the factory reset.
Then after factory resetting, I tried to upgrade from 4.11 to 4.12 to follow the CASUAL root (( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2272066 )), but it would not allow me to do so. So I tried doing it manually using .tar.md5 files and Odin3. I was able to connect to Odin3 but it would not allow me to update, it gave me the green android man lying dead with a red triangle over his body.
This is where the problem gets worse:
I am trying to follow this thread (( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2043636 )) to get it to reinstall the baseline.
Odin does not read my phone anymore. I've tried installing, unstalling, reinstalling the USB Driver, while restarting computer after each uninstall, I did this about 7 times with 3 different samsung USB drivers. one from their main website version, 1.514, found another updated one 1.523, and even an older one 1.385. None of them work for me. I've used a registry cleaner after each uninstall and nothing. I've used 3 different wires 2which are from samsung one from note2 and another from s3.
Not only can I not connect my device in Odin Download Mode ( I was able to before when I first tried to root), I can't even connect my phone while its on ( I was able to transfer music/pictures before).
PLEASE HELP ME! I am desperate
I've researched many forums and some people had the same problem but I can't seem to fix mine
Some threads that I went through.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044840
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961956
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1229593
When you ran casual root, you updated your driver needed during odin. This is why your phone is no longer recognized in odin. You will need to find the serial device listed under usb and manually update the driver back to a samsung driver needed for odin. I just had to do this yesterday to get my s3 restored after using casual on my note2.
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aerichards1977 said:
When you ran casual root, you updated your driver needed during odin. This is why your phone is no longer recognized in odin. You will need to find the serial device listed under usb and manually update the driver back to a samsung driver needed for odin. I just had to do this yesterday to get my s3 restored after using casual on my note2.
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do you mind explaining in more detail? it looks like im having a similar problem..
Hi Everyone,
Earlier today, I tried using Samsung Kies to update my Smasung Infuse 4G SGH-i997 to 2.6.3 GB, but it fialed and I was unable to reboot. I tried to use the emergency recovery and I was not able to recover. So i turned to Odin, and that didnt work either. So i found the Heimdall one Click flash and I tried using it. At first, it did not work on my computer, so I thought it must have been a conflict with Kies... so I used another Computer operating on Windows 7 64 Bit. WHen i tried to use Heimdall on that, I got
Protocol not Initialized
Unable to Initizalize Protocol.
And then the Flash operation just stopped there.
Could anyone have a solution to this? My phone is stuck in recovery mode right now and the only screen I can ever get is "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please use Kies recovery mode.
Anyone help would be appreciated, much thanks
Hello,
I got a problem with my device Galaxy tab 2 10.1 GT-P5113 . it downloads the new firmware, reboots but fails to install the firmware and a massage pops up suggesting to update using Kies.
I used Kies several times, it detects the device, connects to it, downloads the firmware and then device gets disconnected while Kies try to install the update but obviously it does not do it because the device is disconnected. .
Tried several things, uninstalling Kies completely, re installing,, reset device to factory and tried again but nothing worked.
Can someone help me please???
Hi guys,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300 rooted and wiped.
Today i had a problem and i wanted to wiped and reinstall the ROM and in that moment my phone was permanently in Downloading Mode. Now Odin can´t recognized my device. If I achieve that i will have no more problems because I had have same similars problems in past but before I had not problems never with Odin.
I have Odin 3.07 and i had try to install the drivers with Kies, without Kies, with severals internet files... I tried with differents USB cables, diferents USB ports, and diferents PCs.
I don´t know what more can I do...
Please, Help!!!
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Hi guys,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300 rooted and wiped.
Today i had a problem and i wanted to wiped and reinstall the ROM and in that moment my phone was permanently in Downloading Mode. Now Odin can´t recognized my device. If I achieve that i will have no more problems because I had have same similars problems in past but before I had not problems never with Odin.
I have Odin 3.07 and i had try to install the drivers with Kies, without Kies, with severals internet files... I tried with differents USB cables, diferents USB ports, and diferents PCs.
I don´t know what more can I do...
Please, Help!!!
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And you cannot exit from download mode? Even go to the recovery?