Hi All,
I've come across many articles about people who can't get their tablet out of Odin mode...but I can't seem to get my S3 to stay in Odin mode...once I'm in, after about 10 seconds, it reboots!
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Hi there,
I created thread under both general and android Q&A to have this post seen by as many experts as possible.
To brief the story:
Tried to upgrade my Rogers Captivate non-root Froyo to Gingerbread trough Kies the first attempt failed as after 30 min there was no progress on the installation bar, I disconnected the phone and restarted it, it booted up well and again I tried to upgrade. This time the bar filled up to 10% and then the screen on my phone went all Pink!! and the progress got stuck, then the phone was in semi-bricked state. I tried to flash back to 2.2 stock ROM on Odin 3 v1.82 the progress failed half way with a all purple screen (the green bar on Odin was almost at the beginning of the procedure). I thought to get it into DL mode once more to see if I could succeed but no DL mode anymore, all I get is random dots all over the screen!! and even when it gets connected on COM, ODIN cannot reach it anymore and it fails at Setup Connection. My belief is that my phone is bricked totally, but wanted to see if anybody on XDA has any thoughts for this.
Thanks for the help and time in advance.
Chrs.
Hey all
I'm having an issue with my friends GT-i9100T. He was having some problems with adware and read online how to enter recovery mode to do a factory reset. Since doing so, the phone will only boot to the Samsung splash screen and gets no further. Recovery is now unavailable (gets to the screen with the android with the blue spinning cage in his chest, but phone just reboots and locks up on Samsung splash again after about 5 minutes).
Download mode is available.
Kies doesn't recognize the device, though it does attempt to connect. just doesn't get past "connecting". I've tried this on 2 computers, three different cables, and two different batteries (I read these things can sometimes cause connection issues).
So I don't really know what to do from here. I considered flashing a stock ROM or CWM via odin as I can access download mode, but have absolutely no idea what version to use, as I can't access any of the phones info, and not really confident enough to jump to that in case I do more harm than good. I've used odin before to root my s4, but am far from experienced enough to start experimenting randomly.
Any tips, tricks, or advice would be greatly appreciated!!
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?
I'm really desperate here. I spent 5 hours scouring the Internet for a solution, nothing worked. There's a lot of forums with the same question, I know, but nothing works. I have downloaded ten different Odin versions form various website, replugged my USB countless times, reinitated my tab to Odin mode five times. It keeps jamming at SetUp Connecting. Please help.
Device model is GT-N8020, won't show screens besides the samsung boot screen, battery charger screen (not charging), ODIN screen, emergency recovery screen.
Hello XDA community,
I have a G965F that is permanently stuck on the first boot screen (Samsung Galaxy S9+ secured by Knox powered by Android) and it will not progress past this point. I have left it on for hours, and it just stays on that screen. Recovery mode does not work; if I try the button combination for it, it just stays on the same screen as mentioned before. However, I am able to get it into download mode. From here, I have tried flashing every firmware I possibly could, of course with the correct region and version, but nothing works, and the situation stays the same as mentioned before. Odin usually finishes up with no problems and reboots the phone, in which case the bootloop happens once again. On the rare occasion that Odin does fail, it will not boot even to the first splash screen but rather to the blue screen with the triangle, telling me to connect it to SmartSwitch and go from there. I have attempted this also, but SmartSwitch only gives some errors, and it fails.
The phone was on the stock firmware for a few years and even updated through Odin when OTA didn't work. It is a UK-unlocked Exynos device. About 2 years ago, I decided to switch to lineageOS using Neuroticals ROM, and that worked flawlessly, OTA updates and everything, 0 problems. I even went back to stock at some point and reinstalled Lineage shortly after because of how much it improved the device. About 9 months since I last did any type of flashing, the phone randomly froze while I was using it (I think the bottom half of the screen went black) and was totally unresponsive until I forced shut it down. This is where the aforementioned problem began.
I thought letting the battery run out would help, but it hasn't. One thing I have noticed is that it either charges very slowly or doesn't at all; it will only stay on for a maximum of a minute after it is unplugged. I left it for a few months, hoping to discharge it completely, but the problem persists.
Apologies for the lengthy post; I've used this site for about a decade for mods on various devices and it has solved all of my problems, but this is the first one that has really stumped me. For the past few months I've spent tens of hours searching various forums and webpages but can find very little about my specific problem. Thank you for any help in advance.
I will include pictures of the codes that download mode shows, and hopefully someone has some answers.
PS. For some reason current binary says "Custom (0x8)" after successfully flashing the stock firmware many times with Odin, but when Odin does fail it will show "Samsung Official". This I cant make heads or tails of.