Okay so i have a Samsung galaxy s3 GT-19300 Anyhow the phone was working fine perfect condition! Not a single problem But i fell asleep during a reformat for a friend and the phone got stuck on the boot-logo, I was originally able to put CW recovery but once in nothing i did would work, reformats would fail, cache wipes would fail The phone it's self had all the files on it still but non of which could be accessed by any format attempts It was also saying something about not being able to access an SD-card which i ended up trying with or without no luck, Anyhow after trying to tincker with it with odin to try and get some sort of life out of the phone something to write over the corrupted files. Nothing now the phone can boot into download mode, Without any screen-errors at all so i know my screen is perfectly fine. But if i try and boot it normally or with odin something really messed up happens i.imgur.com/lPaRreV.jpg Regardless to that happening the phone now when trying to do anything with odin will say No pit file But if you try and put a pit or do anything with any option on odin the program will say connecting to phone and not continue past that, and also when you try with Kies it will take a long time trying to connection the the phone then will say the phone timed out restart the phone to fix Nothing i do seems to fix this damn phone is it dead? Like i said earlier i can enter download-mode perfectly fine, no screen issues but still same results with odin and kies nothing works, can't put recovery mods on can't do anything
If odin can see it in download mode just flash a stock rom.
If its a btu here is the stuff you need: https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B4vTiHTBB629ZW5vQndpbjFnblk/edit
If it wont flash the stock rom then its buggered.
I wish I stole my HTC M9.
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edit: sorry forgot to put [Q] in title... a little stressed
Hi. Normally I wouldn't post a new thread for a common flashing problem but I'm really stuck here. I've been flashing for 5+ years and have never been this deep in crap before.
First of all after trying almost every rom I was on PARANOIDANDROID and I decided to go back to stock Bell UGDL3 firmware from samfirmware. Got everything ready Downloaded ODIN, started her up put the .tar.md5 file into the PDA section. Did not tick or untick any box. Plugged in the phone and started flashing.. then the phone hung on the factoryfs part of the flash and windows crashed (I was using win8 pre release bootcamped on a mac). So I thought that's weird. Tried it again and same thing. So I went to the GF's Win7 laptop, redownloaded everything and tried again. It too got stuck on the factoryfs part and then said failed. So then I had a phone that failed halfway through a flash.. no biggie happened before. I could still get into download mode. Went home and I had ODIN plus an old LPQ firmware on that so I tried flashing that. It just said failed to write, right away. Now after unplugging and plugging in the download mode so many times every computer I plug my phone into just says my device is not recognized. So now I'm thinking (but hoping that I haven't) messed up download mode? I also can't get into recovery as it just comes up with the screen "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again". Well Kies won't recognize my phone either... I'm a little worried that I've done some real harm...
i believe i had an similar problem with my i9000,
can you get into recovery mode?
No I cant
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I have an i9205 that I am trying to fix for somebody. The phone was acting weird so he rebooted it and did a battery pull. After doing so the phone would just sit on the samsung boot screen. I could boot into download mode, but if you went into recovery mode it just said installing update. It would get to 100% restart and then just sit on the samsung logo. Everytime you booted into recovery it would do this. I downloaded kies and tried to reflash the phone. during the flash an error popped up and said to retry in emergency mode. That also failed and phone said "sw rev check fail fused 1 binary 0" on the screen. I am thinking now the only option is probably to flash with odin, but was wondering if anyone else had any ideas. thank you
After flashing a lot of samsung phone, I think the best way to reflash is Odin. Try to download the firmware you want and flash it with Odin. And then, reboot. This always save my phones.
For your recovery, have you tried to update your phone with OTA ? The download may be incomplete and make a soft brick.
Sorry for bad english I'm french.
Thanks for the reply. ya thats what I am going to try. There are a ton firmwares based on country and I am trying to figure out which one I need. It is not my phone so I am not sure if he tried to do an ota, but I think thats probably what happened. Tried to do an ota, phone ran poorly, hard rebooted, and finally resulted in a softbrick. I think that may be why the recovery boot keeps saying installing update as well. Also your English was not bad at all.
Great, let me know if that solution solve your problem.
If it don't, it should not but it's possible, try with pit file (never had to use it so it's really in case it don't work correctly).
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to fix a friend's sgs3. He says his device ran out of battery while upgrading (over the air I think), and since then the device only shows black and white stripes on the screen when "on" (doesn't even show the boot samsung effect, let alone getting into the OS) . I have the device, and have tried to get it into download mode using the regular procedure, and failed everytime except once, when i really got in, but then ODIN said that I needed a PIT file, and by the time I found one the device was already stuck and I couldn't get it into download mode again ever since.
When in zebra mode, ODIN does communicate with the device, but fails everytime I try to do something (flashing a PDA file with PIT, without it, or even when I try the NAND erase, about which I read stuff on the web and it seemed like my case required it).
I'm doing all this just because my friend wants to avoid getting the phone to the phone lab (costy).
BTW he has no warranty.
The device is a Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 32GB.
My gratitudes for any response.
Edit: The problem with odin is that he always says "There's no pit parition", which is driving me crazy, because I tried every PIT I could find on the web and it just didn't work - odin keeps on being stuck on "Setup connection". (I can now get into download mode easily)
Im using 3.10, the latest odin I could find.
Try reading the dead boot restore thread in general forum, it sounds like your emmc is fried.
I can't find it, can I have a link?
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?
I switched to samsung from apple and i stupidly tried to flash some firmware without really knowing what i was getting into. I ended up getting my phone stuck on the ATT logo and only being able to get there and download mode, cant even turn it off.
I've googled, tried everything i can find, and used all sorts of combinations to no avail. I've gotten to the point that when the phone boots up, it shows the android man and says "no command". WHen i try and go into recovery mode from there it tells me that i dont have a recovery mode.
From what i've read the best step is to flash stock rom but i cant seem to get anything to work, and although i've been messing with this for a grand total of(probably over) 24 hours, im still as lost as i was in the beginning.
I've got Prince Comsey, Odin3 V3.12.3, Odin3 V3.12.7
With firmwares that APs are
AP_G955USQS3CRE2_CL13001792_QB18008668_REV01_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT_meta.tar.md5
AP_G955USQS5CRI4_CL13889051_QB19733321_REV01_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT_meta.tar
AP_G955U1UEU5CRJ2_CL13889051_QB20199591_REV01_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT_meta.tar
AP_G955USQU1AQC9_CL10895874_QB12856072_REV00_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT_meta.tar
I've done the trick of, when starting the flash, rebooting the phone back into download and starting again. Which actually let odin flash some software(which is how i am now at the android "update" screen) but that was all it did.
Some software give me "Fail (Auth)"
Some say "complete write fail"
But none have worked.
EDIT: to add; I've eddited the configuration settings for all odins to be able to use the "UMS" option for the "USERDATA" file, which seemed to help odin but nonetheless still didnt fully help me.
Someone please help me get my phone working again. WHat else can i do?
Please also, if you have a solution or question, explain what you mean or need in detail because as i said i am very new to android