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having trouble rooting!

i been rooting phones since i knew how which has been like 3 years! and this epic has been by far the biggest poin in my ass.. i have tried everything in my power ot get it rooted i have read every thread about the one click root and all that but heres my problem ... my phone recognizes my phone when i do not have usb debug on soon as i click it on it puts a up a screen that says need to fine files like me put them manually or windows scans for it .. i have tried everything even going to the drivers and manually updating them and no go !! i have uninstyalling and install tried putting phone back to factory reset ! and still no go .. just keep getting device not found on the run run bat ... please help! i have thread after thread and ive tried it all dont know what to do ..

are you trying to do the one click in recovery?

No I'm doing exactly what is says on page one.. I downloaded the drivers . Then. I put on debug mode then plug in and do the run and it says device not found... am I suppose to do in recovery.. or what.. tried it at my work to and no go
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try downloading and installing the android sdk, this fixed this issue for me, just make sure to install the components for android 2.1 etc... PC recognized right away after this:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Thanks I will try this !!!
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I k ow my computer had probably with certain USB ports don't know if that's your prob but that personally took me a while to figure out and I was pissed like no other
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Once you have sdk installed, if you're having trouble connecting your phone to your computer, get "adb wireless" from the market and you can connect that way leaving no need for the usb cable. All you need is your phones wi-fi turned on and a know how of adb.
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BThomas22x said:
Once you have sdk installed, if you're having trouble connecting your phone to your computer, get "adb wireless" from the market and you can connect that way leaving no need for the usb cable. All you need is your phones wi-fi turned on and a know how of adb.
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You have to have a router too. A way that both the computer and phone can connect.

Yeah... Thanks
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Bricked my epic. Need help restoring it

Hi guys,
I know it's supposed to be virtually impossible to brick the epic but I don't know how to fix mine using the threads in this forum.
I originally rooted my phone, installed Clockworkmod and had the genocide Kernel installed.
This morning I tried to flash the Bonsai rom. Everything seemed fine and I got the message that the flash was successful. Upon reboot the phone just stays stuck at the Samsung screen.
I've tried to use Odin to reset my phone but Odin doesn't detect my phone and anything I try to do within the recovery screen gives me the message that says
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
Can anyone help me get my working again? And what do you think went wrong in my attempt to flash Bonsai? Could it have been that I already had Genocide kernel on there?

If Odin isn't detecting your phone, try rebooting PC and use a different USB port and cable, if possible.
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Are you in download mode when you are using Odin? If not... open keyboard while phone is off and hold down 1 and the power button. If that's not the problem try another cable.
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I am in download mode. I will try to reboot my laptop and change the USB port. Hopefully that works. If not it won't be until tomorrow when I have access to different cables. Will let you know how it goes.

Have you successfully used Odin with this particular laptop and cable?
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As long as you can get to Download mode, you Epic shouldn't be bricked
Instead of using Odin, try the SWUPdate version of the EB13 update with the phone in download mode

xxmastermindxx said:
Have you successfully used Odin with this particular laptop and cable?
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When I used odin to flash to Froyo I was using my desktop. This was my first time using the laptop. Looks like it was a bad idea!
I rebooted the laptop and changed USB ports and still no cigar. When I plug the phone in Windows goes into it's plug n play routine trying to install drivers for the devices which unsuccessfully install. I've previously installed the Samsung drivers on the laptop in order to mount the SD card so I'm not sure why doesn't recognize the phone. Any idea on why this happens? Is it normal when the phone bricks?
It won't be until late tonight Pacific time or tomorrow that I will be home and able to try things out on my desktop where I previously used Odin successfully.

U should use your desktop for this since its worked for u in the past
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I think a PC reads the phone differently depending on what mode its in, someone correct me if I'm wrong. Mine has come up as a disk drive, an adb interface, a modem, and just plain phone. Not sure of the exact reason.
But yes, use the PC that's worked for you before. I'm sure your Epic just needs a little love
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Thanks guys, I'll try it on my PC as soon as I can and hopefully it'll all work out.

I had a similar situation where my netbook would not recognize my phone, but everything works normally on my desktop.

I had the same problem. I think to fix it I had to run the one click root for ext4 and then flash the rom. Hope this helps.

I had a similar problem but was able (eventually) to get cwm to boot and restored from nandroid
Swyped from my Epic on Bonsai

Thanks for the suggestions guys! It was as simple and unintuitive as using my desktop and the cable that came with the phone to get Odin to detect the phone. I'm now flashing back to stock before rooting and putting on a custom ROM

Glad to hear it went well
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[Q] Not rooted bootloop?

Ok so this is on my wife's phone that I have not touched, I have a vibrant that is rooted and I flash different things all the time, and recovered from several bootloops, so I'm not totally new to this. As soon as you turn the phone on it goes to the my touch 4g screen, vibrates, and then reboots. I can get into hboot screen but if I try to go to recovery or do a factory reset it just bootloops again. I did some searching but saw nothing about an unrooted phone bootlooping. Any help is greatly apreciated.

Try this... pull the battery. Let it sit for 20 minutes. Then try booting it. Sounds like a dell tech support answer... but it has actually worked for more than a few people.
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Ok so I found PD15img.zip and tried loading it and installed fine but same problem, so I'm not trying to install factory recovery through adb and fastboot and I've got all the files but fastboot will not recognize the device (yes drivers are installed). Any suggestions before I call HTC/tmobile in the morning?

bfranklin1986 said:
Ok so I found PD15img.zip and tried loading it and installed fine but same problem, so I'm not trying to install factory recovery through adb and fastboot and I've got all the files but fastboot will not recognize the device (yes drivers are installed). Any suggestions before I call HTC/tmobile in the morning?
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Well, you could try the suggestion from the poster above..and if you did leave feedback.
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If the pd15img.zip isn't working sounds like an internal storage issue. If that's the case there is nothing u can do. Call T-Mobile not HTC.
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Thanks for everyone's help. Left the battery out all night and same thing this morning. Called t-mobile and they're shipping a new one for free, which surprised me since we bought the phone off eBay. Thanks again.
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Cant Access COM Port on CleanGB HELP!!!

I flashed with CleanGB, and it is a phenominal ROM. But i cant access the COM port on my phone. I tried ##8778# and switched back and forth on PDA/USB/MODEM settings, but nothing... does anyone have any ideas? Please and thank you.
Sry. This is on a Sprint EPIC 4G

Same issue.....
Also my screen stays black when I open keyboard so my keyboard is useless.
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Have you heard any way to do this? I really dont want to flash back to the sprint ROM, but i will if i need to, i need to change some numbers......

Have you tried reinstalling the drivers on your computer? Different cable? Different USB ports?
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I have tried everything on my computer... My wife epic works fine..
I believe toad said something about it being possibly related to canceling a reboot from the power button. It's in the clean gb rom at the end....
I've just been living with it so far... Plugging it in after power down and removing the battery gets it to boot again...
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Then a quick Odin to EC05 stock should get it going again, then root and flash. Don't restore any system data.
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Can't odin... can't get pc to see phone in boot loader or usb mode....
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troyolson92 said:
Can't odin... can't get pc to see phone in boot loader or usb mode....
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Not even in download mode huh? You can try restoring an old nandroid to see if that fixes it.
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I think you guys have broken phones.
EDIT: Or in the case of your PC not seeing ODIN, something is probably going on with the PC.

ive had the same exact problem you will have to take your sd card and try to install a stock rom from phones cwm recovery or which ever recovery you are running

I have the exact same problem on the exact same rom.
But only on my home PC.
I tried it at work and Odin recognized the com port. Not sure what is changed on my home PC. I dont have to Odin often, and this is the first time I've noticed this.
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[Q] wont power off and calibration all messed up

so guys this is what happened. i have rooted lg g2 d802 (international) with twrp as custom recovery. i tried to update my g2 to 4.4.2 using the twrp. i downloaded the ROM file and flashed it through twrp as instructed . however, i couldnt finish the instalation as this message keeps popping up: no md5 file found. i tried to flash the superuser after that and booted to system. once it opened, the touch calibration's all messed up. it was so bad i couldnt even access the menu. i cant power off my device as well. if i long press the power button, it just restarts. i cannot access recovery mode!
need help guys! hope to hear from you. kinda noob here.

Have a similar problem. Until the solution, i am using a mouse connected to the phone.

frtctf said:
Have a similar problem. Until the solution, i am using a mouse connected to the phone.
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Omg me too, how the heck did you get a mouse to work, what kind of mouse and where did you get it is there anything special you have to do in order to use it?
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Pdoubleo315 said:
Omg me too, how the heck did you get a mouse to work, what kind of mouse and where did you get it is there anything special you have to do in order to use it?
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mine working now. i flashed a new firware. calibrations ok but i have no 3g and lte.