Alright, so I recently obtained a Samsung galaxy s3, ( Model# SCH-I535). The previous owner got mixed in with the wrong people who put a screen mirror application in the phone ans was able to hide it from the installed apps inside the device along with a few other spy apps. I got a hold of it and rooted it using kingoroot and proceeded to delete the bloatware and things I did not need, along with those spyware apps that was previously installed on the device. Then my guy was looking at What I did to the phone after stripping down the phone to the basics and he was checking out kingoroot and found the system apps and started deleting everything that he did not recognise, mind you he is not tech savvy, so therefore he didnt know 70% of what was on the phone. Then after he hit the home button and realized that he removed the home launcher, or moreless that he had a black screen with errors stating the home screen has stopped, he took the battery out and handed me the phone telling me that it cant be fixed so now can have it. I knew that I could flash a new rom on it ans recover it somehow, so I spliced a usb charger cord and wired the usb end of the charger to the terminals next to the battery compartment and ran 2 small wires to the battery terminal itself and was able to get power back to my phone as long as I remained plugged in to a usb power source. So now comes my problem and reasoning for this thread..
I do not have a working computer or Wi-Fi at my home other than my hotspot from my phone that I primarily use. And that s3 is stuck in a bootloop, or now more of a steady screen, stuck on the verizon wireless screen. But I do have several flash drives and external hard drives with the universal charger hookup that most androids currently use along with a usb connected that allows me to use my flash drives with my phone.
Is there a way that I can recover my s3 from this?
My goal is to get this phone back on working order and keep it rooted to strictly run Kali and keep a 500gb external hdd hooked up to it permanently to hold all of the toola that Kali provides.
Any help or suggestions with this would greatly be appreciated.
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Alright, so I recently obtained a Samsung galaxy s3, ( Model# SCH-I535). The previous owner got mixed in with the wrong people who put a screen mirror application in the phone ans was able to hide it from the installed apps inside the device along with a few other spy apps. I got a hold of it and rooted it using kingoroot and proceeded to delete the bloatware and things I did not need, along with those spyware apps that was previously installed on the device. Then my guy was looking at What I did to the phone after stripping down the phone to the basics and he was checking out kingoroot and found the system apps and started deleting everything that he did not recognise, mind you he is not tech savvy, so therefore he didnt know 70% of what was on the phone. Then after he hit the home button and realized that he removed the home launcher, or moreless that he had a black screen with errors stating the home screen has stopped, he took the battery out and handed me the phone telling me that it cant be fixed so now can have it. I knew that I could flash a new rom on it ans recover it somehow, so I spliced a usb charger cord and wired the usb end of the charger to the terminals next to the battery compartment and ran 2 small wires to the battery terminal itself and was able to get power back to my phone as long as I remained plugged in to a usb power source. So now comes my problem and reasoning for this thread..
I do not have a working computer or Wi-Fi at my home other than my hotspot from my phone that I primarily use. And that s3 is stuck in a bootloop, or now more of a steady screen, stuck on the verizon wireless screen. But I do have several flash drives and external hard drives with the universal charger hookup that most androids currently use along with a usb connected that allows me to use my flash drives with my phone.
Is there a way that I can recover my s3 from this?
My goal is to get this phone back on working order and keep it rooted to strictly run Kali and keep a 500gb external hdd hooked up to it permanently to hold all of the toola that Kali provides.
Any help or suggestions with this would greatly be appreciated.
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Here is what I would suggest. You could do one of 2 things. When powering on your device, hold the power+home+volume up button to go to recovery. Wipe your data and reboot the phone. It will do a factory reset and you can root it again. Or if you hold the power+home+volume down button, you can go to odin mode. You can flash the original firmware back to the device. Keep in mind you gotta have the odin tool downloaded on your computer, the drivers, and the tar.md5 AP file.
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Here is what I would suggest. You could do one of 2 things. When powering on your device, hold the power+home+volume up button to go to recovery. Wipe your data and reboot the phone. It will do a factory reset and you can root it again. Or if you hold the power+home+volume down button, you can go to odin mode. You can flash the original firmware back to the device. Keep in mind you gotta have the odin tool downloaded on your computer, the drivers, and the tar.md5 AP file.
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Yup, tried both. Don't have a working computer. And even wiped the case partition several times and update from cashw and reset countless times. But I was messing with it before work and got it to come on. But my keyboard is out. So while I have time today at work I'm gonna download a launcher and a keyboard ask and put my sd in it so I can actually get somewhere with it
Ok, so now I have the problem where I plug it in and it just vibrates and is a pain to get into recovery mode. But I can wipe my cashe now and factory reset and get in, still no keyboard or home launcher. But I do have the apks for them. But I only have about 5 minutes until it restarts itself. Its a tricky one. But I do beloeve that the s3 will be worth it with its vast variety of developer options and an seemingly unlimited variety of custom roms
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Hi!
First off, I've done about 6 hours of searching and other troubleshooting. I couldn't find really any thread on the the problem my Vibrant has. I apologize if there is a thread, and I couldn't find it.
Extra info: I had a Vibrant last summer and I rooted it and installed quite a few custom roms. I wouldn't consider myself a noob, but I'm definitely not close to an expert.
I have a Samsung Vibrant. It was running Android 2.2 and 3e recovery. I wanted to install an ICS rom, so I rooted it. I then install Clockworkmod recovery. I flashed CM7(Android 2.3), and that's when it started having problems.
It syncs perfectly, I can transfer files between SD cards and everything. The problem is, it doesn't charge. The battery icon has the lightning bolt on it, but it doesn't charge.
The other issue is that it won't go into download mode. I believe I've tried all the available button combinations. I also installed ADB(and the appropriate drivers) and did the "reboot download" command. It rebooted, but didn't go into recovery mode. I also tried that command on the phone, in the terminal app. Same result.
I've tried 5 different USB cables.
The problem seems to have started after I rooted it and flashed CM7.
I have two batteries, but over the course of troubleshooting, both have died.
Oddly enough, I plugged it into my mom's Atrix 4G charger and it started charging? That's charger number 6!
This might get you download:
Pull battery. Some people think you need to pull sim and sdcard. I didn't need to.
Plug phone to host.
Fire up Odin on host.
Insert battery. If no luck, pull battery and reinsert while trying the three permutations of volume keys.
Once in Odin, reflash bootloader.
If still problems, Odin to stock.
try holding the home button + up/down, different combinations of that works to get into download after cm7 and up.
For what it's worth just holding volume up (no power button) while the phone was powered down and then plugging in a USB cable hooked to my PC always worked for me to get into download mode.
But whenever I've gone up to any of the Ginger or ICS ROMs I flash the Gingerbread bootloader in Odin first and then the ROM.
If you've got time, keep troubleshooting (espically if one cable worked... weird), but I say save yourself a headache and get all your goodies off, Odin back to stock, format the internal and external SDs, and then try again loading the GB bootloader first.
Thanks for the suggestions guys
Using the new cable, I was able to flash back to stock with Odin. Even back on stock 2.2, it still won't charge off any other cable. Oh well. I really don't mind using an Attix USB cable.
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It sounds as though you're dealing with a hardware issue and the malfunction simply happened at the same time as your recent upgrade. Possibly one of the USB pin connections is flaky.
Hello, I have searched through the forum and it appears that my Note 2 has SDS.
But I just hoping someone would be kind enough to help verify my assumation. My
phone will not boot pass the samsung screen and it will not boot into recovery.
But the phone will boot into download mode and this is the info that appears
on the screen:
Odin Mode
Product Name:
Custom Binary Download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
But with the phone in download mode and connected to my computer, the coumputer
and Odin is no longer recognizing that my phone is plugged in.
My phone was running CM10.1 with TWRP recovery.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated
Well there are a few things that could be going on. The first, you may need to manually go into your device manager on your computer and remove all Samsung drivers I know it sounds crazy but it works, getting rid of that "unknown device id" you get when you connect your phone to the computer. Now there are some hidden drivers that you have to enter a command only once to be able to see, I'll try to get a link posted to a guide on how to do it.
With your phone in download mode plug it back to your computer now make sure that your computer is disconnected from the Internet because windows will ignore the driver you want and just grabs one. But you will have to download the usb driver you need to your computer first so after the deletion of all other Samsung drivers it will be the only one windows can install. I will see if I can get you all the links for the computer command and for the driver.exe. /This is the guide to remove your old drivers.
http://www.petri.co.il/removing-old-drivers-from-vista-and-windows7.htm Here is the driver link, and I hope this helps you out. http://teamuscellular.com/Forum/topic/3619-if-you-are-having-the-hardware-id-missing-error/#
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Thank you so much for the reply. I did as you instructed and removed all
of the previous installs/verisons of the Samsung drivers, downloaded the
new verison of drivers, unplugged my pc's network cable to disable the
internet and installed the new drivers. But as I was doing this, I realized
that I didnt explain my problem well enough. My apologies. The problem
is that when I connect my phone to my pc, the pc acts as if nothing has
been plugged into the usb port. By the way I did complete your instructions
in hopes that it would still correct my problem but unfortunately no luck. I
even tried using my notebook pc that I havent ever used with the phone
and installed the Samsung drivers but both the desktop and notebook
act as if nothing is being plugged into the usb port. Hope this makes
sense.
Again, thank you every much for you help and any other suggestions
will be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried a different version of odin? I actually use the gs3 version for my note2 and it works perfect. Can you get into recovery at all? And are you familiar with running adb commands from your computer? Also try a different usb cable and then try different usb ports on your computer. Its very odd that odin won't see it while in download mode¿
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The only two verisons of Odin that I have use are Odin3 v3.07 SGSIII and Odin3 v1.85.
With the phone plugged into the usb port, anything I try in both versions of Odin returns:
"<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)"
When I try to boot into recovery, by "Vol up, Home, Power" the phone goes to the
Samsung Galaxy Note II screen. if I continue to hold "Vol up, Home, Power" the
phone will go to the Same Samsung screen for about 2 seconds, then goes blank
for a second, then back to the same Samsug Galaxy Note II screen and will
continue this cycle as long as I hold the buttons.
Yes, I have very basic knowledge of adb commands but only in regards to pulling
and pushing some files to my other android devices.
One other bit of infomation I just noticed about the phone is that, with the phone
being powered off and then plugging the phone to charge, the battery icon appears
but its gray, no power % or anything. I do have a second Note2 and if I swap
batteries, both batteries are around 80% charged. Not sure if this litttle bit of info
is helpful.
Again thank you so much and I truly appreciate your help.
I finally gave up and used an available upgrade to get a new phone which works on all fronts. Now if I could just solve this bricked phone, maybe I could sell it...or blow it up.
Oh_wow said:
I finally gave up and used an available upgrade to get a new phone which works on all fronts. Now if I could just solve this bricked phone, maybe I could sell it...or blow it up.
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Well is it a note 2 or what kind? Thats bricked? If you want to get rid of it pm me and we'll talk.
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Droidjava said:
The only two verisons of Odin that I have use are Odin3 v3.07 SGSIII and Odin3 v1.85.
With the phone plugged into the usb port, anything I try in both versions of Odin returns:
"<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)"
When I try to boot into recovery, by "Vol up, Home, Power" the phone goes to the
Samsung Galaxy Note II screen. if I continue to hold "Vol up, Home, Power" the
phone will go to the Same Samsung screen for about 2 seconds, then goes blank
for a second, then back to the same Samsug Galaxy Note II screen and will
continue this cycle as long as I hold the buttons.
Yes, I have very basic knowledge of adb commands but only in regards to pulling
and pushing some files to my other android devices.
One other bit of infomation I just noticed about the phone is that, with the phone
being powered off and then plugging the phone to charge, the battery icon appears
but its gray, no power % or anything. I do have a second Note2 and if I swap
batteries, both batteries are around 80% charged. Not sure if this litttle bit of info
is helpful.
Again thank you so much and I truly appreciate your help.
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I'm having this same exact issue as you. Can't find a fix at all. Will probably have to head into Verizon and grab a new phone. :crying:
When you are booting this particular phone into recovery you know the right way BUT just as you see the first Logo take your finger off the power button while still holding volume up and home and see if that will work.
Also on a side note if you have a micro sd adapter then you might be able to get a recovery image on it from your computer and put it back into the phone and try to push it in with fastboot, you say you were running cm10. what, (if none of the above works), were you doing at the time of this problem? Flashing, turning on, or what?
You may want to check this out too if you haven't done so already.
http://galaxynote2root.com/
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mad96 said:
When you are booting this particular phone into recovery you know the right way BUT just as you see the first Logo take your finger off the power button while still holding volume up and home and see if that will work.
Also on a side note if you have a micro sd adapter then you might be able to get a recovery image on it from your computer and put it back into the phone and try to push it in with fastboot, you say you were running cm10. what, (if none of the above works), were you doing at the time of this problem? Flashing, turning on, or what?
You may want to check this out too if you haven't done so already.
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I actually got it fixed, problem I was having was even though Samsung Drivers were installed on my desktop, Odin still would not recognize(phone would make the connection noise on my PC and show "Serial Android"). So first thing this morning as I came into work, installed drivers and phone was detected by Odin. Flashed .PIT/PDA files and got it working again. :good:
Cool man good deal!
You may want to post a Fix solution for the problem you were having in case others don't know what to do and panic and send their device in on a insurance claim. Kudos
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Well is it a note 2 or what kind? Thats bricked? If you want to get rid of it pm me and we'll talk.
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It's another VZW Note 2 and I'm still going to try for a solution. When that gets old, I'll definitely pm..
The problem with the phone occurred sometime between plugging it in to charge Sunday
night and Monday morning. The phone appeared to be fine that night but when I woke up
and looked at the phone, it was at the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 screen. The phone is
plugged into a surge protector/battery backup. The one my pc is plugged into. So I don't
believe it was a power surge but who know.
I believe I'm coming to the conclusion that either the phone's usb/power port or the phone
itself is defective. No matter what I try, none of the computer will even act as if anything is
plugged into the pc's usb port. All adb commands pretty much return a <waiting for device>.
I tried to boot into recovery the different way you suggested but unfortunately no luck. The
phone just gets to the Samsung screen and stops. I think the biggest issue is that the
computers act as if nothing is plugged into the usb ports. This prevents Odin or adb commands
from working. Which eliminates all options that I have tried. I have tried different usb cables
and other phones with the different usb cable and they all seem to work correctly.
At this point, I think tomorrow, I'm going to have to look into getting some kind of replacement
phone if I can't get something to at least see that the phone is actually plugged into the usb port.
I want thank you Mad96 for giving me all the help, suggestions and options. If you do have
anymore that you think might work, I would greatly appreciate them but for the life of me, I
can't figure out why all of the computers act like the phone isn't plugged into the usb ports.
I'll see if I can get some other info from friends of mine, new ideas if so I will gladly let you know.
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Droidjava said:
The problem with the phone occurred sometime between plugging it in to charge Sunday
night and Monday morning. The phone appeared to be fine that night but when I woke up
and looked at the phone, it was at the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 screen. The phone is
plugged into a surge protector/battery backup. The one my pc is plugged into. So I don't
believe it was a power surge but who know.
I believe I'm coming to the conclusion that either the phone's usb/power port or the phone
itself is defective. No matter what I try, none of the computer will even act as if anything is
plugged into the pc's usb port. All adb commands pretty much return a <waiting for device>.
I tried to boot into recovery the different way you suggested but unfortunately no luck. The
phone just gets to the Samsung screen and stops. I think the biggest issue is that the
computers act as if nothing is plugged into the usb ports. This prevents Odin or adb commands
from working. Which eliminates all options that I have tried. I have tried different usb cables
and other phones with the different usb cable and they all seem to work correctly.
At this point, I think tomorrow, I'm going to have to look into getting some kind of replacement
phone if I can't get something to at least see that the phone is actually plugged into the usb port.
I want thank you Mad96 for giving me all the help, suggestions and options. If you do have
anymore that you think might work, I would greatly appreciate them but for the life of me, I
can't figure out why all of the computers act like the phone isn't plugged into the usb ports.
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Sorry if youve already answered this, have you tried a second PC to see if it can detect it? Sounds similar to my issue.
1.Tried unlocking bootloader using Casual.
1a. Casual fails on recovery and doesnt reboot.
2. Battery pull, samsung bootloop every second or so.
2a. Plug device into second computer, will install driver automatically (takes a few min)
2b. Access device with odin off external HDD
2c. Flash PIT/PDA Restore files and reboot.
Should solve the issue of logo reboot. Basically factory Reset is what your doing. You'll be on stock unrooted device.
Yes, unfortunately I have tried multiple pc's with windows, linux and
even a Mac. I have a Droid Razr Maxx that I wasn't using so I'll just
use it until I decide if I'm going to use the insurance or if I'll just
wait and buy one of the new phones I've been considering.
Again, I want to thank you for all of your help but I'm going to put
the Note2 up for now.
The problem exists with Windows XP, as the latest updates from Samsung have changed the drivers and are not supported on XP anymore in order to do it.
Interesting I have a VZW Note 2 that won't even allow me to put it into Download Mode so that I can Odin to it.
Any clues?
HI! I have the same issue with my wife's N7105 (stock fw) - it happened after leaving it charging overnight with only 5% battery left. Only difference is that I can no longer get into the stock recovery. The screen only shows white lines when I try to fire it up normally or try to enter stock recovery. However screen is fine when I go into download mode.
When I tried to flash the fw, it says no PIT partition found. Everytime I try to flash the PIT via odin, it always fails. I tried 4 different versions of odin, tried it on winxp and win7, and basically tried the steps listed in this thread.
You think this is already a hopeless case?
jolex_sp said:
HI! I have the same issue with my wife's N7105 (stock fw) - it happened after leaving it charging overnight with only 5% battery left. Only difference is that I can no longer get into the stock recovery. The screen only shows white lines when I try to fire it up normally or try to enter stock recovery. However screen is fine when I go into download mode.
When I tried to flash the fw, it says no PIT partition found. Everytime I try to flash the PIT via odin, it always fails. I tried 4 different versions of odin, tried it on winxp and win7, and basically tried the steps listed in this thread.
You think this is already a hopeless case?
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Flash the PIT with a rom, like Root66 or the Alternative Restore rom in droidstyles thread, and see if that helps.
You have tried different USB cords correct?
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shangrila500 said:
Flash the PIT with a rom, like Root66 or the Alternative Restore rom in droidstyles thread, and see if that helps.
You have tried different USB cords correct?
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Yeah, I already tried different usb cords.. Regarding droidstykle's thread, I noticed that it's for the VZW SCH-I605 variant.. will it work for the international N7105 variant? or did I miss another thread for the N7105?
Alright guys. I hardly post on here because I know many questions have been answered. I searched and was unlucky.
I had my phone rooted last year, but went completely back to stock because I was tired of the battery drain. Recently, maybe a month or 2 ago? I updated to 4.0.4. That's when my power button stopped working. All of a sudden, about a week after, it started working again. So I was happy. A week ago, it stopped again. Using my phone everyday, it got really frustrating. I was dumb and didn't search for a fix, which I later found a temporary fix.
So I decided to root again. Well, when I plug my phone into my laptop, it tells me "USB device not recognized" so I looked for a way to root using mobile. Found a few videos on YouTube with links with an .apk and did it that way. I had CWM backed up in Titanium Backup, so I restored it and opened it. I wanted to flash a ROM on my phone, but I didn't think before I went into CWM. Stupid, I know lol.
Now I'm stuck in CWM, without a working power button. I tried taking the battery out, and putting it back in. It still boots into CWM. I tried taking the battery out, plugging in my phone, and putting the battery back in, and still CWM. I've also tried taking the battery out and leaving it out for a while then putting it back in. And also, taking the battery out and leaving it out for a while, plugging in my phone, then putting the battery back in. Still in CWM. I've also tried hitting the Home button (does nothing). Nothing happens when I hit the Search or Back buttons either. I hit the Menu button, and it hides the menu, then I hit it again and the menu comes back.
Luckily, I'm due for an upgrade next month so recently I've been using my super old "Krzr" flip phone. I miss having a Smartphone though!
Any help would be appreciated!! Please don't flame me lol
118 views, any suggestions??
Why don't you try repairing the power key. I strongly believe It may be a hardware problem
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If you have USB debugging enabled you could connect through ADB and force a standard restart.
If that's not an option and you can't get out of recovery (Had a very similar issue with my wife's phone when her power button went) you can use an odin 1 click downloader to revert it to stock and it will then restart normally. I then used the odin 1 click downloader to install a rooted stock rom. After that I took a touch enabled kernel (like Siyah) and installed that through Android Terminal emulator. Now you can boot into CWM and be able to use the touch screen to navigate. It's a pain and it requires a full wife and reversion to stock but it does work. Then you flash a rom that allows for holding the volume down to wake the screen or a kernel like AJK that allows for swiping across the screen to wake the phone.
I'm sure your power button failed so as the previous poster suggested you can look into getting it repaired. I don't have the link on me but there was a place listed here on the forums before that were like $40 to do the hardware replacement.
duttysrez said:
Why don't you try repairing the power key. I strongly believe It may be a hardware problem
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KeiranSolaris said:
If you have USB debugging enabled you could connect through ADB and force a standard restart.
If that's not an option and you can't get out of recovery (Had a very similar issue with my wife's phone when her power button went) you can use an odin 1 click downloader to revert it to stock and it will then restart normally. I then used the odin 1 click downloader to install a rooted stock rom. After that I took a touch enabled kernel (like Siyah) and installed that through Android Terminal emulator. Now you can boot into CWM and be able to use the touch screen to navigate. It's a pain and it requires a full wife and reversion to stock but it does work. Then you flash a rom that allows for holding the volume down to wake the screen or a kernel like AJK that allows for swiping across the screen to wake the phone.
I'm sure your power button failed so as the previous poster suggested you can look into getting it repaired. I don't have the link on me but there was a place listed here on the forums before that were like $40 to do the hardware replacement.
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Thanks for the info. Late last night I pressed the power button while "reboot" was highlighted in CWM and it finally worked. But it only worked that once, at least it got me out of CWM. My phone reboots a LOT. At one point, it rebooted at least 3 times in a row; getting to the AT&T screen and rebooting then.
I've decided to just deal with it lol I'm probably going to see if AT&T can kindly let me upgrade this week instead of waiting until June 1st.
Again, I appreciate the info!!
Do a clean flash
Ok since you are saying your phone's power button started being flaky after a ROM flash, I'm thinking most likely it is not a hardware issue.
Bad flashes, loading different bootloaders, or kernel flashes and then panics happen for various reasons.
You need a clean flash, reset to factory (erase data/cache multiple times) and reboot.
Back up first (like right now), then gather your operation tools.
1-Download I777 usb drivers from Samsung itself, uninstall the current ones, and install the new drivers (Do this plz)
2-Download the stock ROM from [INDEX]AT&T I777 GSll {Root/ROM's/Tools} thread by t3chn0s1s in AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Android Development (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1301682)
3-from that thread get: A) Odin B) UCLE5 ROM
4-Run Odin and try connecting your phone to see if it stays in the Download mode successfully (phone off, Odin loaded on your PC, plug in your phone to your PC while holding down both volume keys, release the keys once your COM connection port lights up) sometime holding down the volume down only button works instead of both depending on what you flashed before.
5-load up the stock .tar UCLE5 file in the PDA section, leave all the Odin default check marks on and add the flash bootloaders check mark too(DO NOT check the repartition option)
6- once a clean flash finally happened (doesn't matter if the phones boots up all the way or not yet) pull the battery, and get to recovery and reset / factory reset and let the newly flashed ROM boot up
7-let it settle for 10-15 minutes and then reboot it.
Good luck,
I727-CM10.1
Hello all, thanks for helping me out.
I did a very foolish thing. I rooted my phone and deleted a few bloatware apps that were apparently very important to the phone's functionality. I did not install any recovery software like CWM, fastboot, or anything. It was a stock phone that I simply rooted to remove a few apps. When I went to restart my phone, I found out that I bricked it. Now my phone will only enter Download Mode if I hold the up+down volume buttons and plug it in, or it will get stuck on the LG logo screen and a Security Error screen. A factory reset with the volume down + power will work, but does nothing to fix it.
My immediate issue is that when I plug my phone into the computer, the phone will recognize it has been plugged into a power source (it will either go into Download Mode if I was hitting the volume up+volume down buttons, or start trying to boot up but cycle through the LG logo screen and Security Error screen) but the computer will not acknowledge that anything has been plugged in. There is nothing new listed in the Device Manager. I have read other threads and searched around on the internet. The usual solutions are not working for me:
I have tried several other cables and computers to no avail. I have also tested my current computer/cable, and it worked for data transfer with another phone (Nexus 4)
I have tried cleaning out the contacts on the phone. They were not significantly dirty.
I have tried installing the drivers from LG and even the UniversalNakedDriver
I believe that if I could get my computer to see my phone, I could flash the stock rom back and restore it to working order via LGNPST. I know it is simply a software issue, because prior to my rooting the phone it was recognized by the computer.
Does anyone have any other solutions I haven't tried? Or is this something I need to go JTAG on?
Hello everyone and thank you for taking the time to read this. Hopefully somebody out there can point me in some sort of direction. Ill make this really brief....
_ Samsung J3 Achieve - SM-J337p
_In factory binary mode
_Will not boot into download mode
_Adb debugging cant be reached
_Will only go into recovery mode
************Any methods out there that i can establish some sort of communication with the device so i can get it on its way back to life???*******************
Hi , maybe you can try with USB jig which put your device into Download mode , you can buy on eBay or some other sites , or you can try to download latest stock firmware for your device and extract boot.img , system.img and to flash just select from recovery adb , write inside minimal ADB & Fastboot command tool sideload boot.img and press enter also try system.img . You have on the internet how to extract those files from Samsung stock firmware . Good luck : )
Hey thanks! I'm going to try right now when I get gone. I bought an SD card because I read that helps if you do it right.
Bump, i have same problem, i can not put phone in downlaoad mode, please give link for USB JIG
Solution
I own the same fone. And I nuked it the EXACT same way. You will need it's factory firmware. Pull out your battery, hold down the volume down button and while holding it down plug your fone into the computer. Phase 3 profit.
mptech7102 said:
I own the same fone. And I nuked it the EXACT same way. You will need it's factory firmware. Pull out your battery, hold down the volume down button and while holding it down plug your fone into the computer. Phase 3 profit.
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Keep the battery out while doing all of that? I followed what you said but it didn't even turn on without the battery being in the phone ...
I'm an idiot
I'm sorry bro, I told you wrong. The thing is I think the instructions I just reread are opposite of what you gotta do but either way you'll have it working within two tries. If you got a buddy this will be easier because it's hard on the hands. You need to be holding down power, home and volume when you plug the USB in. Thing is I think I remembered the fac binary making it volume up instead of down but I couldn't swear to it. That fac binary is some weird stuff ain't it? If you need the proper working firmware I've got it.
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I'm sorry bro, I told you wrong. The thing is I think the instructions I just reread are opposite of what you gotta do but either way you'll have it working within two tries. If you got a buddy this will be easier because it's hard on the hands. You need to be holding down power, home and volume when you plug the USB in. Thing is I think I remembered the fac binary making it volume up instead of down but I couldn't swear to it. That fac binary is some weird stuff ain't it? If you need the proper working firmware I've got it.
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So you are saying, take out the battery and then hold down volume, power and home and then plug the usb in? I just tried, this did not work.
Or did you mean to keep the battery in the phone and then do the same combination? Didn't work either.
Any solutions?
I'm sorry such a horribly late response. This worked on both of my achieves. I tested it just now. Still works. But leave the battery out. It's a shame xda doesn't do video. It is the same button combo as normal download mode. Just executed right before you plug in the fone.
I have a similar issue - none of the prescribed key sequences have worked. I just ordered a jig on ebay but may also try to build a recovery.zip and flash it from SD. If anyone succeeded with that and has the zip file already built, I'd be willing to donate $20 to save me the headache, lol.
This is crazy
That's crazy. I know I can't have the only J3 Achieves that does this. I've got two and tested them both. You are pulling the battery out first right? It won't do it with the battery still in. Does this work for anyone else? Is it allowable to post my Telegram username on here so I can show video of this in action?
OK, so the download jig worked. I'm able to get in download mode. Now, where can I download a reliable version of the Stock ROM? I should mention that I have to reload the ROM because what got me into this problem before is I loaded the "Combination" ROM which is actually just the factory binary test ROM. Won't make that mistake again.
What version of ODIN do I need? I think mine is pretty current. Re-piartition or not? HOME_CSC or the other CSC? I have a ROM downloaded but I haven't gotten it to load so far...
I'm on Sprint and in Ohio if any of that makes a difference...
mptech7102 said:
That's crazy. I know I can't have the only J3 Achieves that does this. I've got two and tested them both. You are pulling the battery out first right? It won't do it with the battery still in. Does this work for anyone else? Is it allowable to post my Telegram username on here so I can show video of this in action?
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This actually works on almost any Samsung that has a removable battery. Almost all the newer ones I've handled actually have 2 bootloaders. You can trigger emergency download mode, aka the other bootloader by interrupting the normal download mode 2x in a row, usually. Flash fails sometimes do it too. You aren't the only buddy. That's saved me more than once.
I'm not sure I follow what you're saying? I've tried flashing multiple times, sometimes with re-partition on and others with it off. One of the tries it said success after just a few seconds and rebooted the phone (into the factory binary again). Is the problem with the ROM I downloaded or how I'm trying to apply it? I believe it's the ARJ2 version that I downloaded. Maybe there is another version I should try flashing first?
OK, I got the stock ROM reloaded - finally. Now, however, I'm back to the problem that started all of these problems in the first place. When I flash TWRP, the phone won't boot. It shows the initial screen and then goes into a mode where it is either black or dark gray (momentary flashes like it's trying to do something). I've verified my version of TWRP (released in October). Any ideas how to flash this one correctly?
If this is the one from TwrpBuilder you didn't do anything wrong. It's no good. It was based on my recovery image so I know they got a good image but it doesn't work.
Trying to put Lineage OS on the Samsung Galaxy J3 Achieve (SM-J337P) ...any tips?
Boot mode j series
BrianN_Cols_OH said:
I'm not sure I follow what you're saying? I've tried flashing multiple times, sometimes with re-partition on and others with it off. One of the tries it said success after just a few seconds and rebooted the phone (into the factory binary again). Is the problem with the ROM I downloaded or how I'm trying to apply it? I believe it's the ARJ2 version that I downloaded. Maybe there is another version I should try flashing first?
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I know it sounds crazy but to put many of the Samsung J series (like The Samsung Galaxy J3 Achieve SM-J337P smartphone) in boot mode you: 1. Turn on your PC 2. Plug your USB cable into your PC 3. Do NOT plug your USB cable into your phone 4. Remove the battery from your phone 5. Hold your unpowered phone in your hand 6. Hold down the volume button with one finger while holding the power button down with another finger 7. At a half second later, while holder those other buttons, hold down the home button while shoving the phone end of the USB cable into the phone slot for USB. You will need many fast fingers to pull this off. If you get the phone end of the USB cable balanced right at the edge of the phone end of the USB slot, without connecting, you can rest it on the edge and then shove it the rest of the way in as you push down the home button at the same time.
Customizing Update For Samsung Galaxy J3 2018 Achieve SM-J337P
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I know it sounds crazy but to put many of the Samsung J series (like The Samsung Galaxy J3 Achieve SM-J337P smartphone) in boot mode you: 1. Turn on your PC 2. Plug your USB cable into your PC 3. Do NOT plug your USB cable into your phone 4. Remove the battery from your phone 5. Hold your unpowered phone in your hand 6. Hold down the volume button with one finger while holding the power button down with another finger 7. At a half second later, while holder those other buttons, hold down the home button while shoving the phone end of the USB cable into the phone slot for USB. You will need many fast fingers to pull this off. If you get the phone end of the USB cable balanced right at the edge of the phone end of the USB slot, without connecting, you can rest it on the edge and then shove it the rest of the way in as you push down the home button at the same time.
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Customizing Update For Samsung Galaxy J3 2018 Achieve SM-J337P
- Most users have reported that they have sourced the factory ROM and it installs, and reinstalls easily in ODIN 3.13.1 in Windows and Heimdall on Linux
- Nobody has reported finding a good TWRP .tar file, yet, that installs via ODIN 3.13.1 in Windows. HAS ANYBODY FOUND ONE? HAS ANYONE GOTTEN A GOOD WORKING TWRP ON THIS PHONE?
- Nobody has reported finding a good unlock .tar file that installs via ODIN 3.13.1 in Windows. HAS ANYBODY FOUND ONE? HAS ANYONE GOTTEN A GOOD WORKING UNLOCK ON THIS PHONE?
- Nobody has reported an install file to put LINEAGE OS on this phone via ANY flashing method, yet. HAS ANYBODY FOUND ONE? HAS ANYONE GOTTEN A GOOD WORKING LINEAGE OS ON THIS PHONE?
- To boot this phone into ODIN(AKA DOWNLOAD) MODE with the warning triangle screen, you usually have to remove battery, plug usb into pc, push the 3 buttons while shoving usb into phone at last second (This will take every finger you have)
If anybody has any break-throughs with this phone. Please post them here for all to try. It seems to be a decent phone and worth the effort.
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Danbrown45 said:
Customizing Update For Samsung Galaxy J3 2018 Achieve SM-J337P
- Most users have reported that they have sourced the factory ROM and it installs, and reinstalls easily in ODIN 3.13.1 in Windows and Heimdall on Linux
- Nobody has reported finding a good TWRP .tar file, yet, that installs via ODIN 3.13.1 in Windows. HAS ANYBODY FOUND ONE? HAS ANYONE GOTTEN A GOOD WORKING TWRP ON THIS PHONE?
- Nobody has reported finding a good unlock .tar file that installs via ODIN 3.13.1 in Windows. HAS ANYBODY FOUND ONE? HAS ANYONE GOTTEN A GOOD WORKING UNLOCK ON THIS PHONE?
- Nobody has reported an install file to put LINEAGE OS on this phone via ANY flashing method, yet. HAS ANYBODY FOUND ONE? HAS ANYONE GOTTEN A GOOD WORKING LINEAGE OS ON THIS PHONE?
- To boot this phone into ODIN(AKA DOWNLOAD) MODE with the warning triangle screen, you usually have to remove battery, plug usb into pc, push the 3 buttons while shoving usb into phone at last second (This will take every finger you have)
If anybody has any break-throughs with this phone. Please post them here for all to try. It seems to be a decent phone and worth the effort.
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Update: There is now a video on YouTube called: "Unlock Samsung J337P Bit 2" that shows a guy unlocking a
Samsung Galaxy J3 2018 Achieve SM-J337P using software called "GSM Tool 1.0.0.0061 by GCPro_Team 08/01/2019" and then there is also blog discussion of someone unlocking the phone with some different software called: "Samsung Tool PRO 34.1 from GCPro_Team". Don't know about the second tip but the first video shows him doing it in Windows.