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[Q] FUBAR: Need help ASAP.

Sorry guys, I've BEEN searching and tried those methods but nothing has worked.
So I've had nothing else to do but ask.
I've completely FUBAR'ed my phone. I tried to update to DJ05 using ODIN and something went wrong and it messed everything up.
Only screen I can successfully get into is the Downloading screen or I get the bricked screen via the phone -- triangle -- computer.
As of now I just want my phone up and working, stock if I have to. Forget about root if I need to.
I try to use ODIN to restore the stock files, I put the stock PIT and also the stock system .mbr file that's in the Restoring using ODIN thread, and it doesn't work. Just fails and says failed to write.
What do I do? I just want my phone to be useable! Someone please help me.
Step through step guide? Am I using ODIN wrong?

You're using the forums wrong by mucking up the Dev section with a help me thread. ;/

Well if you flashed the DJ05 modem under "Phone" in odin, you now have an expensive paperweight.
If that's not the case, try the "Full DI01 ODIN Package" posted on this forum by adrynalyne. It's a 1 stop for restoring you back to complete stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867648
Good luck, and try irc if you're still broken...
Sent from my StupidFast Blackhole Fascinate using XDA App

Actually I did do it under Phone. HUGE mistake I know.... Anything else I can do from here?
And it was the DJ05 Modem. *SIGH*
If you can help me I will greatly appreciate it.
Also, to any other dev's you're the greatest and I'm sorry that I posted under your section.

If you did it under phone you're done. Done and done.

Good luck ma I hope you can get this figured out... But I do believe your phone is now a nice plastic brick. PDA PDA PDA...head to IRC and maybe if the force is with you someone there can help

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No no no you never flash anything to phone ever
Sent from my sch-i500 using dj05 w/ stupidfast kernel

Well I did, and am working fine. I would like to reference the instructions from IRC https://sites.google.com/a/imnuts.net/update-to-dj05/ but the link appears to be down.

CrushD said:
Well I did, and am working fine. I would like to reference the instructions from IRC https://sites.google.com/a/imnuts.net/update-to-dj05/ but the link appears to be down.
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Sir I can promise you that the instructions on IRC do NOT say to use phone. Please do not use phone for anything. I assure you PDA is the correct choice.

kimbrian88 said:
Actually I did do it under Phone. HUGE mistake I know.... Anything else I can do from here?
And it was the DJ05 Modem. *SIGH*
If you can help me I will greatly appreciate it.
Also, to any other dev's you're the greatest and I'm sorry that I posted under your section.
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Did you flash both the modem and rom using phone? Or just the modem?

orion421 said:
Sir I can promise you that the instructions on IRC do NOT say to use phone. Please do not use phone for anything. I assure you PDA is the correct choice.
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Well I'll assume you're right, it is always safer to just use PDA. I know I didn't for me and my friend, I'll just consider myself oddly lucky then. But no, not suggesting to anyone to use "Phone", if my own case is an exception, then so be it.
I apologize if it seemed I was spreading false info, just conflicting personal experience, Stick to PDA .

CrushD, no worries I'm just trying to drive home the point. PDA PDA PDA....for ayone else that reads this...
Op try changing the usb port you are using on your computer...I know it sounds silly but that may be the problem

I also flashed a few things on phone via odin, and after almost bricking my phone decided to read thru forums b4 doin it again. Pda is safest I just got lucky.... 5 times

The instructions moved as I grouped all Android content under it's own section for easier navigation and such as more things become available. http://goo.gl/oMc7H And if you read them, it says in red, bold, underlined text to NOT use the phone button unless you want a paperweight.

[Q] odin to froyo 2.2!??????

This may sound like a very dumb question but i am just now getting into the different things i can do with my phone. One of which is i have rooted it and installed clock work manager. I have seen A LOT of people talking about odin and using it to install froyo 2.2 on their phone. I was just wondering how you actually go about getting odin on your phone, or is it something installed on your computer to transfer files to your phone? my main objective of all of this is just to have froyo 2.2 finally installed on my phoneso if anyone could please give me the run down on this and the info i need to install 2.2 on my phone, or a web page that shows you how to install it once i have odin, it would be greatly appreciated!!!

Odin is a program used to flash .tar files (modem, kernel, system) onto your phone while in download mode.
A little poking around here (I would link you but I'm at work) and you will find the Samsung Drivers, The Odin program itself, and recently someone posted Odin files for 2.2
If you have the .zip of 2.2 (or Superclean 2.4) all you will have to do is flash the eb01 modem in Odin, then install the .zip file through CWM.
Follow ALL instructions in the threads you find to the T or it will be a pain in the ass to get your phone back.

Remember: When using Odin NEVER USE THE PHONE BUTTON. We use the PDA button for the Fascinate.
PDA = Good
Phone = brick (that's bad)

KitsuneKnight said:
Remember: When using Odin NEVER USE THE PHONE BUTTON. We use the PDA button for the Fascinate.
PDA = Good
Phone = brick (that's bad)
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THIS!!!!
About the only way to actually BRICK the fascinate

Irish Cream said:
Odin is a program used to flash .tar files (modem, kernel, system) onto your phone while in download mode.
A little poking around here (I would link you but I'm at work) and you will find the Samsung Drivers, The Odin program itself, and recently someone posted Odin files for 2.2
If you have the .zip of 2.2 (or Superclean 2.4) all you will have to do is flash the eb01 modem in Odin, then install the .zip file through CWM.
Follow ALL instructions in the threads you find to the T or it will be a pain in the ass to get your phone back.
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Hi I have a question for you. you said that after flashing to 2.2 eb01 modem then install the .zip file through CWM. I did flash to eb01 2.4 sc and I dont understand what do you do to install the .zip file through CWM? And what that .zip file get you to have?

ksbc616 said:
Hi I have a question for you. you said that after flashing to 2.2 eb01 modem then install the .zip file through CWM. I did flash to eb01 2.4 sc and I dont understand what do you do to install the .zip file through CWM? And what that .zip file get you to have?
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If u get the eb01 sc Odin package...it comes with rom obviously so u don't flash anything in cwm. However... future roms you want will b flashed in cwm. All u do is boot into recovery,instal zip from sd cars, choose the zip from sd card....select it...and hit ok
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Irish Cream said:
Odin is a program used to flash .tar files (modem, kernel, system) onto your phone while in download mode.
A little poking around here (I would link you but I'm at work) and you will find the Samsung Drivers, The Odin program itself, and recently someone posted Odin files for 2.2
If you have the .zip of 2.2 (or Superclean 2.4) all you will have to do is flash the eb01 modem in Odin, then install the .zip file through CWM.
Follow ALL instructions in the threads you find to the T or it will be a pain in the ass to get your phone back.
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i have downloaded a dl09.tar.md5 file.... i thought that maybe this was what i was looking for to get odin or just to even have froyo installed... but neither my computer or my phone recognize the format that it is in.... am i just way off here?

boorad22 said:
i have downloaded a dl09.tar.md5 file.... i thought that maybe this was what i was looking for to get odin or just to even have froyo installed... but neither my computer or my phone recognize the format that it is in.... am i just way off here?
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You are indeed way off... you are playing with fire with this stuff with the things you are trying without doing your homework. People here could give you links to everything you need, but all you have to do is search a little. Dont take it the wrong way, but when you brick your phone youll wish you didnt rush
Sent from my rooted froyo Fascinate

ziggy484 said:
You are indeed way off... you are playing with fire with this stuff with the things you are trying without doing your homework. People here could give you links to everything you need, but all you have to do is search a little. Dont take it the wrong way, but when you brick your phone youll wish you didnt rush
Sent from my rooted froyo Fascinate
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No i completely understand what you are saying that is why i am doing my best to take anyones advice who might know more about this than i do (which is probably everyone). is there anything out there than can just give me a step by step as to what to do in the safest manner to accomplish putting 2.2 on my phone? because so far the closest i have came is receiving a E:failed to verify whole-life signature along with a E:signature verification failed message trying to install the update through clock work manager thanks for your help and advice

boorad22 said:
No i completely understand what you are saying that is why i am doing my best to take anyones advice who might know more about this than i do (which is probably everyone). is there anything out there than can just give me a step by step as to what to do in the safest manner to accomplish putting 2.2 on my phone? because so far the closest i have came is receiving a E:failed to verify whole-life signature along with a E:signature verification failed message trying to install the update through clock work manager thanks for your help and advice
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Ok, easy way to get froyo... go in the fascinate develpment section of xda or droid forums and look for ODIN eb01 package. It will load you up froyo, new clockwork, and root your phone all in one shot. The directions are super easy, just follow them exactly. I did mine this way, you dont have to mess with clockwork at all, ten minutes total. Let us know how you make out.
Sent from my rooted froyo Fascinate

ziggy484 said:
Ok, easy way to get froyo... go in the fascinate develpment section of xda or droid forums and look for ODIN eb01 package. It will load you up froyo, new clockwork, and root your phone all in one shot. The directions are super easy, just follow them exactly. I did mine this way, you dont have to mess with clockwork at all, ten minutes total. Let us know how you make out.
Sent from my rooted froyo Fascinate
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GOT IT!!! thanks so much for the advice...best web site i found for all of the downloads and clearest directions is http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sa...ork-updated-2-11-a.html ....WORKED GREAT!

boorad22 said:
GOT IT!!! thanks so much for the advice...best web site i found for all of the downloads and clearest directions is http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sa...vd
midnight 1.1 theme
btw, this was 8pen-ed.
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UCKH3 Heimdall-One-Click [beta]

This is UCKH3 packaged in Heimdall One-Click Format. Run it at your own risk. I am placing it here because I need a place to store the link on mediafire
http://files.teamkomin.com/Captivate/SGH-i897-UCKH3-One-Click.jar
As of today, this is the latest, greatest semi-official, leaked firmware for the Captivate--3SEP11
If anyone wants to try it out, go ahead, please leave feedback.
No time to do a full release thread about this right now... Working on the UnBrickable Mod platform and this file is required to finish the job.

Could you do a UCKH3 instead?

whyareyou said:
Could you do a UCKH3 instead?
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DIdn't realize there was a newer one. Yes. I'll get right on that.

Hi thanks for this, im just about to try it now. Hows KH3 going?

Summary: It kinda worked. I get garbled video with the camera and on bootup after the Samsung Galaxy animation.
Process:
I started on a semi-recent CM7.1 Nightly (90-ish).
I flashed to stock using AIO Captivate Toolkit. That got me to JF6. Note all download modes are initiated using USB jig.
As soon as I verified a good boot into stock, I fired up Heimdall One-Click, put the phone into Download mode and clicked the magic button...
It flashes, reboots, but then gets stuck at the white AT&T boot screen. No progress for many, many minutes. I get desperate and tried to shut it off. In the process, the phone reboots and begins what appears to be a normal boot process. This boot completes, but I'm left with the aforementioned artifacts - the camera doesn't work and I get garbled graphics on boot. Also, the phone feels laggy as heck.
I'm guessing I may have prematurely interrupted the initial boot process. To be honest, I wasn't tracking time, so I don't know if it was only 5 minutes or 15. I just know it didn't seem right and much, much slower than flashing to stock JF6 was.
I'm going to try a more conventional Odin flash to see if I get better results.

Moxie3000 said:
I'm going to try a more conventional Odin flash to see if I get better results.
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This did not include the params.lfs. I did not realize it at the time I released it. I will include a better version soon. I just needed something quick to support this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242466

Sorry, I can't release UCKH3, it's missing files. I'll see about other versions...

AdamOutler said:
Sorry, I can't release UCKH3, it's missing files. I'll see about other versions...
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You can pull the missing files from KF1. That's what I did when I flashed KH3 when I managed to messup my phone playing around with Heimdall 1.3.0...
Guessing the missing files weren't updated so they weren't included with the exception of the primary bootloader.

Updated to UCHK3 with missing files from UCKF1. This is the latest, greatest Samsung firmware as of today.

Whats wrong
This might be a noob question but what am I doing wrong? I make it executable but it does nothing. I am running Ubuntu 10.10

vdubguy said:
This might be a noob question but what am I doing wrong? I make it executable but it does nothing. I am running Ubuntu 10.10
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Odin is for windows. Heimdall is the linux equivalent. So the file in the op probably won't help you on ubuntu.

vdubguy said:
This might be a noob question but what am I doing wrong? I make it executable but it does nothing. I am running Ubuntu 10.10
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Right click and open with java... or run from command line java -jar mydownloadedfile.jar

Is anyone else having problems with running the KH3 version on Windows? When I try and run it I get -- "Invalid or Corrupt jarfile" and it closes.
I tried downloading 3 times to rule out corrupt download, and the previous KF1 version ran fine so I don't think it's my Java implementation.

pinoymutt said:
Is anyone else having problems with running the KH3 version on Windows? When I try and run it I get -- "Invalid or Corrupt jarfile" and it closes.
I tried downloading 3 times to rule out corrupt download, and the previous KF1 version ran fine so I don't think it's my Java implementation.
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Verified... There must have been a problem with the secure file transfer (i was not watching it). It is an invalid java file when downloaded from the server.
Code:
[email protected]:~/Downloads$ chmod +x SGH-i897-UCKH3-One-Click.jar
[email protected]:~/Downloads$ ./SGH-i897-UCKH3-One-Click.jar
java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:131)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:92)
at sun.tools.jar.Main.list(Main.java:997)
at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:242)
at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1167)
invalid file (bad magic number): Exec format error
I'm uploading a new one now, ETA 25 minutes.

The one from this morning was about 150 some odd megs, and the re-up over 200. This one seems to load up fine!

Does this include bootloaders?
Thanks!

There is a option to flash bootloaders. If you want them you will have to flash twice.as far as i know
jgaviota said:
Does this include bootloaders?
Thanks!
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Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

AdamOutler said:
Right click and open with java... or run from command line java -jar mydownloadedfile.jar
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OK. Comes up now. My first Heimdall flash coming soon!

I'm on stock froyo, kb1, flashed to it using this: heimdall at&t stock firmware package. Can i flash UCKH3 that Adam linked in the OP over this? Is it enough to click on bottom left button (details), then write true in the Flash column to the IBL+PBL, SBL, PARAM rows to flash bootloaders too? Thanks for the answers!

bazarimajom said:
I'm on stock froyo, kb1, flashed to it using this: heimdall at&t stock firmware package. Can i flash UCKH3 that Adam linked in the OP over this? Is it enough to click on bottom left button (details), then write true in the Flash column to the IBL+PBL, SBL, PARAM rows to flash bootloaders too? Thanks for the answers!
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yes. You should not have any problems.

[Q] Need help with rooting S4 Sprint with a MAC

I only have a MAC no PC and I can't seem to find anything except step by steps either on mac with ATT or on PC with Sprint. Anyone able to help me out ?

Heimdall is what you need. Start here

leaderbuilder said:
Heimdall is what you need. Start here
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Heimdall is what he needs but what are the steps after that? Im a mac user and i had to find someone with a pc cuz of no info on what partition, where or how to flash C.F. on heimdall.

Goat1378 said:
Heimdall is what he needs but what are the steps after that? Im a mac user and i had to find someone with a pc cuz of no info on what partition, where or how to flash C.F. on heimdall.
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Yea Im still lost. I downloaded Heimdall but now what

Arnezie said:
Yea Im still lost. I downloaded Heimdall but now what
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Yeah dude I'm with you i have heimdall and i never figured out how to root with it i had to use a friends pc / odin to root. Have you researched Motochopper i think its called? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Sl...yX7yodrOhlI1Tf2tHG_oVH&feature=c4-overview-vl Here is the link. I watched this guy for a while when i was getting into rooting and roms. He explains things pretty good. Hope this helps...Sorry i couldn't help more with Heimdall. Heimdall works great after you get rooted i just don't know how to root with it. Lame i know!!!! lol

[Q] unauthorized software

I stupidly tried to flash a custom recovery without unlocking the boot loader (2nd time rooting a phone) and of course now I get the message that there is software not authorized by Verizon, yada yada yada.....I can't use the phone. As I already said, I'm not very smart w/ this I guess. I rooted my phone with the new towelroot method and it worked flawlessly....but then I tried to go further and figured I'd just do everything necessary to run custom roms. Anyways, I've got the yellow triangle and I really really don't want to go to Verizon and try to talk my way into a replacement (I just got a replacement phone about 2 weeks ago) Is there any way to fix this? Before you reply, know I don't have a windows computer so I don't think I can use Odin, and my phone isn't showing up in Kies when I connect it after making sure my phone is in download mode. I'm at a loss.

Your only option is Odin, I would say find a friend with a windows computer... Then once you are back on track, read on this forum about safestrap before you flash anything else... Good luck!
Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk

mattchenzo said:
Your only option is Odin, I would say find a friend with a windows computer... Then once you are back on track, read on this forum about safestrap before you flash anything else... Good luck!
Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk
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Thanks. I know what I'm doing today now

Can anyone point me in the right direction to download the right pit file for use in Odin (Jodin3 to be specific). It's supposed to find the proper pit file automatically, but it can't for some reason. Oh, and I did do some digging....for some reason the only pit file I found (which was uploaded in Oct. of 2013) doesn't work. I can't find anything else other than that...if there is anything else.

I am trying to fix his phone for him but I am unable to find any full 4.4.2 Odin tars, are there even any available yet? The only ones I can find seem to be on websites I have never heard of haha.

Help Please
I also Rooted via Towel Method and flashed clockwork touch recovery not thinking, and i am also in the same boat. Can anyone point me in the direction of a stock TAR file to flash with ODIN, So i can get my note working again.. Any help would be great.. Thanks in advance

Shutton82 said:
I also Rooted via Towel Method and flashed clockwork touch recovery not thinking, and i am also in the same boat. Can anyone point me in the direction of a stock TAR file to flash with ODIN, So i can get my note working again.. Any help would be great.. Thanks in advance
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Just found the link for it in this topic!
EDIT: Forgot to put in the link LOL http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783842

Worked like a CHARM!!!
draco259 said:
Just found the link for it in this topic!
EDIT: Forgot to put in the link LOL http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2783842
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Thank you, I just finished Flashing File with ODIN, Worked like a CHARM!!!! Many Many Thanks!!!!!:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Shutton82 said:
Thank you, I just finished Flashing File with ODIN, Worked like a CHARM!!!! Many Many Thanks!!!!!:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
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Glad I could be of some help