Hello! I'm new in flashing and i think i need little help, because i'm afraid i can brick my phone. I wanted to install CM on my GT-9100. I run stock JB 4.1.2 on it.
I started with flashing Clockworkmod from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/orig-development/kernel-clockworkmod-recovery-6-0-2-9-t1118693 . I had some troubles when installing samsung USB drivers - installer interrupts in the middle - but when i pluged my phone into PC Win8 installed some drivers automatically so i thought i can give it a shot and flashed CWM. I got pass status in Odin, reboot my phone and now when i try to run it everytime i get past starting screen with yellow triangle, the screen goes black and i can only hear starting sounds. I can enter both download mode and Clockworkmod recovery, so i figured out i'll try to backup and go on with instalation, but when i plug my phone into my computer it doesn't see my phone so i can't copy any files. I also tried to plug it on Ubuntu and on the other PC with Win7 and Kies installed but it doesn't work there either.
Do you think the drivers might be an issue? What do you thin I should do? Should i go on with CM instalation, wipe cache or what? Thanks in advance.
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I installed the latest nightly build (cm_galaxys2_full-88.zip) on my phone yesterday night and restored the all the apps through Titanium Backup. Everything was working fine until this morning I tried to create a backup using CWM recovery in Rom Manager. The phone shut down and has since been stuck on the initial boot screen (one with the Samasung galaxy S2 logo). It does not boot into recovery mode using the button combinations. I can only get it into download mode but Odin does not recognize it as I thing i forgot to enable USB debugging.
I have tried removing the battery and rebooting and also tried to access it through odin a number of times. But nothing seems to work.
What am I missing here ?
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mjondj said:
I cannot boot into recovery, but I can boot into download. However, odin is no longer recognizing my GS2 when I plug it into my PC.
The bootloop began when I was attempting to flash the cyanogen7 with the google apps.
I read every post in this thread, and have seen a number of people who cant boot into recovery, but can boot to download. I haven't seen anyone else mention that their phone is no longer recognized by odin on their pc.
Please help.
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Perhaps odin doesn't see my phone because I didn't have USB debugging enabled? if that's the case, what can I do?
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solved:
heimdall overwrites a driver and stops odin from seeing your phone. i attempted to remove it, unsuccesfully. but loaded odin onto a different computer (that had never seen heimdall).
i booted into download, connected to 2nd pc w/ odin, and ran CF-Root-SGS2_XW_NEE_KI8-v4.3-CWM4.tar (search forum) in PDA. this made my phone bootable again.
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also check that you dont have kies running on your pc
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This might help?
also check that you dont have kies running on your pc
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Thanks. Although that did not do what I expected it to (due to some license issues), but it got me into recovery mode from where I could restore a Nandroid backup. Am back on RevolutionROM for now. Looks like CyanogenMod will have to wait for me.
I experienced the very same thing for the first time today. Had checkrom revolution and ran rom manager to backup and am now unable to boot into recovery/download. Will try to hook it to odin then
I was on Miui rom, but I wanted to go and try Simpley Honey, so I went to CWM and wiped everything like it said, and I accidently formated the boot too. Is this why I'm stuck at the screen? i tried everything` Odin,Heimdall,Aio toolbox and all drivers for vibrant,but pc dont recognize my phone and there are only show <unknown device>
PLEASEEEEEE HELP TO FIX MY VIBRANT
Couple of things to try.
First, if you want to Odin, then I usggest going into your device manager on your PC and uninstalling your drivers. Then reinstall them manually of with the Toolbox.
Second, (Rule #1-Always make a back up)- Hopefully you made a nandroid back up of your MIUI that you were on. If so, you should be able to restore that and then wipe properly.
Third, if you can get into Recovery and you don't have a back up, then try to flash a ROM (2.3.x or higher since you were on MIUI) and see if that gets you back up and running.
Pretty sure that if you wiped Boot.img your phone is still recoverable. It isn't like you wiped out the bootloader or anything. Those are not touchable from CWR, so don't fret that part.
i uninstalled all drivers then installed again but odin dont recognize my phone(unknown device) in download mode,and i can not acces to CWM(((
do uninstall those drivers again and just download and install samsung kies mini it will automatically recognize and install drivers for you.. hope this will help you...JFD by odin will be the best way after that...
NB:for future reference---
always remember two things before flashing any rom...
** do nandroid backup
** get back to stock by odin then proceed any rom you want...
Haha, I did this before (about 2 weeks ago). I just placed it in download mode, then flashed back to stock using ODIN.
I tried everything but pc dont recognize my vibrant(((
dont freak out man, like everybody has said you did not brick your phone. when you click format boot, you only wipe the boot media (the startup image/video). you're boot-loaders are still in tact. this is all about getting your pc to recognize your phone. try to connect on another computer and try different variations of connecting to the computers, try a different usb port. Once I thought I bricked my vibrant as in I couldn't get into download mode or anything. I stupidly unplugged it while it was installing factory.rfs on odin, I thought it was stuck. Nothing would come up with any button combo pressed. then nine hours later and a change of usb ports, I got it into download mode an odined to stock.
but ive already tried it in many computers and usb ports,but still no success(((
Hello everyone, it's with a great thrill that I found a couple of days back the existance of the beautiful wackyrom available on your forum.
After considering it I took willingly the risk of installing it... and following all indications of flashing cwm via odin and wiping all for of data in the proper oder, I got myself stuck in a pretty unpleasant situation : CMW recovery loop. I tried to start from scratch again and again and I even tried to go back on the stock firmware (which wasn't the original french one installed on my phone but a foreign one). I know I may have made a newbie mistake, but seeing the strength of your helping community Im hoping to revive what now looks more to me like a brick phone than ever. In advance, I thank all attention and anwsers to my case.
dorian_nadaud said:
Hello everyone, it's with a great thrill that I found a couple of days back the existance of the beautiful wackyrom available on your forum.
After considering it I took willingly the risk of installing it... and following all indications of flashing cwm via odin and wiping all for of data in the proper oder, I got myself stuck in a pretty unpleasant situation : CMW recovery loop. I tried to start from scratch again and again and I even tried to go back on the stock firmware (which wasn't the original french one installed on my phone but a foreign one). I know I may have made a newbie mistake, but seeing the strength of your helping community Im hoping to revive what now looks more to me like a brick phone than ever. In advance, I thank all attention and anwsers to my case.
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Flash this Stock recovery via odin : http://d-h.st/hcA
Instruction:
1) Put phone in download mode by powering off ,home button and volume down while plugging the phone into the computer(if don't and don't understand search google their are many guides and videos for it)
2) You should now see the first square in Odin turn yellow and say "Ready"
3) Click on the pda tab in Odin and select the Stock_Recovery_GT-I8552.tar you downloaded
4) Click start and wait for your phone to reboot
5) Done!
Well, I should have added that to the list of things that I have tried before. The only divergence to your methode is the fact that the keys to force start the downloading mode does not work so I only can acces it thrue a restart in downloading mode within CWM...
I have wiped all pilots/kies traces off my computer, checked rooting of the phone using kingo android root, reinstall my drivers from scratch and yet Odin still dont recognise it.. Does anyone have a clue?
my GT-i8552 stuck in cwm boot looping
dorian_nadaud said:
I have wiped all pilots/kies traces off my computer, checked rooting of the phone using kingo android root, reinstall my drivers from scratch and yet Odin still dont recognise it.. Does anyone have a clue?
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I also have the same problem. I have read all threads from google about this matter, that say flash rom, clear whatever2, blaz bla
BUT, still for 3 days I cant fix it. when it stuck in boot looping or turn off, odin didnt recognise my phone
Dear friends,
Install Samsung kies and it will install all the proper drivers for your phone.
Then use another port of your pc or laptop to connect with odin.
If changing your pc ports doesn't work then try to install kies on another pc perhaps.
After the phone gets connected to pc follow @lols21.10 instructions.
Worth a try.
Sent from my GT-I8552 using Tapatalk
Also: if Odin don't recognize your phone, try to change your usb cable
Changing PCs worked for me a while back.
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devesh9 said:
Dear friends,
Install Samsung kies and it will install all the proper drivers for your phone.
Then use another port of your pc or laptop to connect with odin.
If changing your pc ports doesn't work then try to install kies on another pc perhaps.
After the phone gets connected to pc follow @lols21.10 instructions.
Worth a try.
Sent from my GT-I8552 using Tapatalk
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hi, i have install kies and odin. but with problem of cwm boot, pc/ odin/kies cant recognize my i8552 since it need to be turn on in normal mode. i have tried with another cable and port, as well as from pc to laptop, but still not recognize. pls help me
Does Odin recognize your phone when in download mode?
freitaz said:
Does Odin recognize your phone when in download mode?
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not either. because my phone need to be turned on in normal mode when connect to my pc, then i need to choose the usb option whether to transfer files/camera/charging.
and only then Odin say "ready"
Do this: put your device in download mode and then you reflash firmware with Odin.
You can do this by turning your phone on pressing the buttons HOME, POWER and VOL DOWN. When your phone vibrates, release POWER and keep pressing ther other two. A screen with a warning will appear, and you press VOL UP to confirm. After that, you open Odin, plug your phone on computer and select the stock firmware by clicking on button "PDA" at Odin. And then it is just start and wait.
Same Problem
my samsung grand quattro get stuck at cwm too.. it keep booting to recovery mode when phone start up, I cant connect to Odin because I cant access to debugging setting.. HELP PLEASE :crying:
Please can you assist me.
I've read through so many threads explaining that it is easy to fix if I use ODIN. However I cannot seem to get ODIN to recognize my Galaxy S3.
I was doing a factory reset on my device, which has Cyanogenmod installed. Upon rebooting, the phone is now stuck with the Teamwin logo and it continues to loop.
In cannot seem to charge the phone because it's stuck in this mode and when I install ODIN and along with the SAMSUNG USB Drivers. I have no luck with my computer recognizing the device. I am able to get into the Download mode by holding Power, Volume Down and Home buttons - I click Volume up to continue. I then check my ODIN screen and it never appears to say ADDED or anything of that sort.
I'm scared that my phone is going to soon run out of charge and then I will not be able to even attempt to fix this. Please help me.
I've tried the above steps in both Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 and cannot get either of them to recognize my device.
N.B. I have also tried different USB ports as well as different USB cables.
Once again, I plead for any assistance.
Can u go to the custom recovery ??
If so
Do a clean wipe
Do a factory reset (do not do a clean to install new rom,just erase your data)
Wipe your cache
Wipe dalvik cache and see if u can boot it up
Goodluck
Use the latest odin version and see
And why didint you take a nandroid backup before installing custom roms
If u took it
Just restore it
U will surely boot it up
Hi there,
Thanks for your reply.
I managed to solve the issue by using a computer which already had my device USB drivers installed.
The other 2 computers I tried didn't seem to want to recognize the device due to the bootloop - but when linking up to a computer which linked to my phone prior to the ordeal, ODIN then recognized the device and I was able to load stock rom back on.
FYI, I wasn't able to access recovery.
Thank you for your quick response.
Hello, i have encountered a problem with my rooted SGS4 i9505 (I'm new to xda and don't really know if this question is supposed to be placed in here so forgive me for that)
I have been using this phone with a nightly build of cm13 6.0.1 and there were absolutely no problems and it was great but today i wanted to update to another nightly build so i downloaded it and in the developer's option i checked that the phone would also get a custom recovery that, comes with the rom i think, installed and it rebooted to update the rom. Then the screen just went black , i waited a minute but it still didn't boot so pressed down the power button in hope to boot up in android again but instead it started booting into recovery but after the blue text in the left-top corner appeared the screen went black again. If i plug the phone in to charge it starts vibrating with intervals of about 3-5 seconds and never boots, no logo or even text is displayed, the screen is just black.
So i can't boot into android nor the recovery, only in download mode, and odin also doesn't recognise the phone
If someone could help that would be very much appreciated, thank you.
(I'm not a native english speaker, so please forgive me if there are any mistakes)
If you can get into Download Mode, then it's a matter of making sure the correct drivers load for Odin to see it. Check your Device Manager on your PC. Even if the PC has connected with it before and loaded the correct drivers, sometimes you have to manually point it in the right direction again. Messing up the recovery should not affect the Download Mode. Once you get the computer to recognize it again, then I would use Odin to reload TWRP recovery and you should be able to boot into recovery and do what you need to do. If recovery is still messed up, then you might need to reinstall the original firmware and start over.
es0tericcha0s said:
If you can get into Download Mode, then it's a matter of making sure the correct drivers load for Odin to see it. Check your Device Manager on your PC. Even if the PC has connected with it before and loaded the correct drivers, sometimes you have to manually point it in the right direction again. Messing up the recovery should not affect the Download Mode. Once you get the computer to recognize it again, then I would use Odin to reload TWRP recovery and you should be able to boot into recovery and do what you need to do. If recovery is still messed up, then you might need to reinstall the original firmware and start over.
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Didn't think someone would reply this fast heh. But anyways, I totally forgot about drivers! I thought i had them still installed but i recently did a fresh install of Windows 7, thank you very much, everything works now.
Awesome! Glad all is well.