This morning i found my phone stuck on the Samsung logo.
Entering the TWRP recovery I noticed it was not mounting anything, not even the external sd card, which seemed strange to me.
I tried to flash the last twrp via ODIN and it completed.
But it even don't boot the Samsung logo which was doing before.
In dowload mode the counter is set pratically to 0.
Trying to flash again ODIn gives the error saying that the pit partition is missing.
Only thing I could resort to is download mode.
Please help
Flash an official clockwork recoverymod recovery and see if that boots. Twrp is dodgy at best.
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[Q] GT-P7501: Stuck in "Downloading... Do not turn off target !!" [resolved]
Hi all,
I just bought a GT-P7501.
I was going to root it as described in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239185
I ended up with a flickering CWM recover version 4. Flashed with Odin a version 5 from overcome. Same flickering...
And then something must have gone terribly wrong...
I now cannot flash anything via Odin anymore. The tab starts and sits then with a very small percentage display in "Downloading...". Odin stays at
<ID:0/010> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/010> recovery.img
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When I boot normally I get "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." Kies does not allow me recovery mode though.
(I can (at least occasionally) boot into the stock by fiddling with the flickering CWM recovery.) Not anymore, I cannot get into recovery.. :-(
Any hint, how to resolve this?!?! I am desparate.
DrData
PS: Resolved with http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18512051/andrewrecov.tar.md5
PPS: flickering resp. rolling recovery fixed with http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1555984
Using a TAB GT-P7500
Got the same problem, after trying to update to ics with KIES. It stopped in the beginning, and cant do anything else anymore.
Tried draining the tab, didnt work. Tried almost everything and it doesnt work so it seems. I will try to flash it with the recov tar. If you could tell me how you did it. Just flsh it in ODIN?
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Tried flashing the recov.tar in ODIN, doesnt work it seems. Maybe it is time to throw my tab out of the window, its getting annoying
Okay, ive managed to flash the recovery tar, yet when i want to flash a stock rom it still freezes after a few seconds (attached screenpic). I can get into the overcome cwm recovery, and wipe everything, yet after that i can still not flash a rom, it will be stuck at hidden.img.
Anyone any idea on what to do next?
Two choices: copy a ROM to your storage, flash a custom recovery and boot into recovery and install the .zip from your SD card
Or, Odin to stock.
Beezer80 said:
Two choices: copy a ROM to your storage, flash a custom recovery and boot into recovery and install the .zip from your SD card
Or, Odin to stock.
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Can't reach internal storage, it will only see the tablet as an apx. Odin to stock keeps on freezing. Drained my tablet now completly, will try it again once i recharged.
Odin to stock doesnt work, not with a pit file, not without, it will still freezes at hidden.img and then do nothing again.
Well, send it to samsung for repairs, they will fix it under guarentee.
Hi, so I've been flashing for a while now on my phone and my friend wanted to root his phone so i agreed to help him out. After flashing multiple files in order to get cwm recovery and just get everything working, the phone started to act up.
Here are the problems:
Phone can boot into stock recovery but i cant flash anything from it
i wiped data/factory reset many times.
i tried to install the cwm kernal by applying update from sd card (I followed the install custom recovery instructions from here: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_i777) but when into recovery to flash, 2 red signs come up saying "E: Failed to verify whole-file signature" and "E: signature verificatoin failed" after this is just aborts the process
i tried download mode, but none of my computers recocgnize the phone (2 computers) i have tried all usb ports, reinstalling usb drivers, different usb ports many times but all have failed
if i try to boot, the phone just stays stuck on the Samsung galaxy s2 logo (no triangle? even though its rooted)
my only option is to hang out in recovery, i have a bunch of files saved to an external sd card but i cannot access that from stock recovery
any help would be appreciated, Thanks
You can not install any unsigned files with stock 3e recovery, as you have discovered. That is normal behavior.
I don't know why performing a wipe data/factory reset from 3e recovery does not clear the phone to boot normally. It should. But since it won't...
You will need to get the phone recognized by a computer, and then flash with Odin, or you could try flashing with Heimdall command line. I would suggest that you flash the full stock plus root I777UCKH7 (2.3.4), and then when it boots normally into the system, install Mobile Odin Lite or Mobile Odin Pro, and use that to flash a custom kernel. You can find the stock firmware in the Download Repository, and the basic directions in my guide, both of which are linked in my signature.
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You can not install any unsigned files with stock 3e recovery, as you have discovered. That is normal behavior.
I don't know why performing a wipe data/factory reset from 3e recovery does not clear the phone to boot normally. It should. But since it won't...
You will need to get the phone recognized by a computer, and then flash with Odin, or you could try flashing with Heimdall command line. I would suggest that you flash the full stock plus root I777UCKH7 (2.3.4), and then when it boots normally into the system, install Mobile Odin Lite or Mobile Odin Pro, and use that to flash a custom kernel. You can find the stock firmware in the Download Repository, and the basic directions in my guide, both of which are linked in my signature.
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The hardest part about this is getting my computers to recognize the phone
i guess i shouldve mentioned this earlier, i attempted to flash in Odin but it was stuck on zImage so i unplugged it
before i flashed in odin, i used to be able to boot into the phone like touchwiz and whatnot, now it just gets stuck on the samsung galaxy s ii boot logo
This is now [Solved}! thanks for the help creepyncrawly! i figured it out after doing some more reasearch online. apparently, youre not supposed to use the charger wire that came with the device since samsung doesnt want to waste their time on creating a good enough cable for this kind of stuff. so i grabbed some random cable that i found in my house, hooked it up and BAM! both of my computers were able to detect my phone just finished flashing bone stock on the phone thanks
I noticed in your post that you tried everything but another cable. But I'm glad you got it working. I had the same problem before too. Cables are finicky little things.
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Hi folks, mid last week I woke up to a non responsive Galaxy S2. It's been happily running stock Vodafone ICS for over a year, and somehow spontaneously went soft brick on me. Gets stuck at logo screen or goes into boot loop.
Download mode is accessible. I can flash through Odin (1.85 and 3.09) and it reports success. I have successfully put CWM (various versions) on it can can boot into them fine.
Recovery mode is also accessible and appears to be working fine. I can access external SD card no problem.
Attempting to flash through zip from external SD aborts with Mode 7, reporting bad zip or unable to read source file. I have tried removing asserts from install script (educated myself to the risks and made sure the ROM was correct!!) and multiple versions of CM (10.1.3 stable, 10.2 nightly) and multiple versions of CWM recovery (6.0.2.9 is what I've been using mostly, as recommended by CM guide)
Tried running GS2ROMNukeV2.12.zip which reported successful wipe, then attempted zip install from SD with same result (aborted mode 7). Repeated wipe and attempted stock (I9100TDVLSK_I9100THUTLSD_I9100TDVLS3_HOME.tar) from flash through Odin. Reported success, phone booted into recover and applied KOR CSC successfully, then reboot and still stuck at logo screen/boot loop.
I have attempted the fix in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1449771 as best I could wish the resources I could find, but it's hard to follow to the letter with the links broken!!!
I have not tried repartition with PIT as I'm not sure where to get an appropriate PIT file. Advice on this appreciated!
I want to make this clear because people seem to not want to believe it: I did not soft brick my phone flashing it. My best theory at this point is some kind of memory corruption or hardware failure that's causing a boot loop. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. This week I will probably take it in to a repair shop and hope for the best, but tomorrow is a public holiday and I've got nothing to lose by trying any more suggestions.
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If memory serves me right this is due to an old version of Recovery, i had the same thing, updated recovery and it flashed zip fine. just as you know. :fingers-crossed:
Hey guys i was on a stock rom from a company that has loads of useless so attempted to install a rom this is not my first time and did that on my previous galaxy s2 a lot of times nothing new to me (this one is my mom's) the installation went completely fine but
the device wont boot stuck on the galaxy sII gt-i9100 screen
tried flashing all sorts of firmware through odin to no avail
tried flashing kernels still no avail
tried wipe data factory reset through recovery mode (tried CWM Philz TWRP) and it gets stuck at formatting /data
i am completely frustrated i have encountered boot loops and some sorts of problems but never seen this one
is there anything to do in this situation?
P.S. i do have access to download mode and recovery mode even though recovery mode doesnt do anything tried flashing says cant mount emmc
tried wiping and gets stuck
thanks everyone for answers
conect phone to PC odin and flash an rom from there. Put phone in download mode, conect it to odin and flash the rom.
Example original or neatrom rom
Just woke up to see my phone on the Samsung Galaxy i9300 logo.
(I had just flashed LineageOS the previous day)
I was able to get into recovery CWM but nothing could mount, so I tried TWRP. Same thing. Couldn't sideload too (because you couldn't sideload to anywhere duh).
Tried flashing stock rom and repartitioning. Failed. And now the phone says Firmware upgrade failed etc instead of the logo.
Can't get into recovery anymore.
Can get into odin mode, but Odin doesn't recognize the phone.
SDS?
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ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9300
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (3 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
You can still flash a stock ROM when you see the "upgrade failed" screen.
Did you try using different USB cables and ports to flash the stock ROM? Tried using Odin 3.07 with and without a pit file?
If you can get to download mode try another cable and install the pc drivers while the phone is connected in download mode or install kies for your operating system, stop the processes and try again.
Make sure your stock firmware is the correct one for your device/region/variant and that the md5 hash matches.
The problem you are having is caused by a borked recovery. It is very possible that the partition is corrupt, inevitably causing the death of your phone.
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Odin 3.07 / 3.09 and Heimdall don't recognize the phone.
The usb cable seems fine considering I used to flash the day before and if I remove the battery the phone is still on while connected to the usb cable.
I already ordered a new phone but if I can get this one fixed that'd be great. The new phone may come with a usb cable so I will try that.
I guess I was stupid enough to flash TWRP and SuperSU on top of LineageOS.
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Before getting to this point I was able to flash stock rom while the Firmware upgrade has failed... logo showed. However I can't flash stock rom because the phone can't mount anything, not even /system. So it fails as soon as it tries to write something.
New usb cable - couldn't flash but was detected by odin.
Deleted hidden.img from the stock rom and now it flashes!
Let's hope it works.
Update: it did not.
After flashing it booted to recovery, said something about missing sd card and a countdown to 20s. After that was over it went to the recovery menu and I got a bunch of the same errors: couldn't mount /system /cache (no such file or folder found).
I put back my sdcard but I couldn't get to recovery, also, instead of the samsung galaxy logo I got a white screen. I could still get to download mode, and get recognized by odin and heimdall, but can't flash anymore ANYTHING.
Either There's no PIT file or stuck at Get pit for mapping if I do include one.
I've tried 3 different versions of odin.
I've tried heimdall under windows and linux with root without success (Either couldn't set up interface or there's no pit file).
I'm gonna try 1.85 odin tommorow. I lost all hope at this point. ****ed up my partitions.
RIP I9300.
Idk if that may work but you may have a go to just try flashing stock rom with a box. Gsm service points shouldn't take much for it
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Update: it did not.
After flashing it booted to recovery, said something about missing sd card and a countdown to 20s. After that was over it went to the recovery menu and I got a bunch of the same errors: couldn't mount /system /cache (no such file or folder found).
I put back my sdcard but I couldn't get to recovery, also, instead of the samsung galaxy logo I got a white screen. I could still get to download mode, and get recognized by odin and heimdall, but can't flash anymore ANYTHING.
Either There's no PIT file or stuck at Get pit for mapping if I do include one.
I've tried 3 different versions of odin.
I've tried heimdall under windows and linux with root without success (Either couldn't set up interface or there's no pit file).
I'm gonna try 1.85 odin tommorow. I lost all hope at this point. ****ed up my partitions.
RIP I9300.
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Your emmc Nand Flash chip died. I had same problem with my n7100 last month. Had to change motherboard.
I took it to a service center. The told me the screen was dead because of the white screen. It was white cus corrupted BL or something, but definitely not the screen, considering you can go into download mode and you can clearly see it's functioning.
I laughed all the way through the front door.
Correct the screen is not the issue. The nand will be borked.
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