I rooted my phone earlier today. Was looking into flashing a new rom.
Went with a dj05 rom, downloaded it, and the radio. All flashed fine. Went to reboot after and do the kernal and now it wont boot into recovery. (has a screen that comes up with a cell phone and computer with a triangle in between.
It will boot into download mode, but odin isn't recognizing my phone as being plugged in.
It was the superclean dj05 rom i flashed. any help would be greatly appreciated...
Are you sure that you have the correct phone drivers installed? Odin has never been the most well-written and bug free of programs, but it has been invaluable all things considered. Have you been able to use Odin in the past?
If you are absolutely sure it doesn't work, I suggest downloading and figuring out to use Heimdall, as it will use completely new USB drivers and do pretty much the same thing as Odin.
I also helped someone who had Odin not recognize the phone and nothing I suggested would help him. Eventually someone came up with the idea of buying a USB controller PCI card, and miraculously that worked. It shouldn't have to be that way, but sometimes computers like to fart in your face like that
Also, make sure you have the battery out when plugging in and going into download mode. Odin doesn't like batteries.
I've seen many people on this forum have luck with trying different USB ports on their PCs when this happens. For some reason ODIN is finicky with some USB ports, even when those same ports work fine for mounting the SD card and other things.
Kevin Gossett said:
Also, make sure you have the battery out when plugging in and going into download mode. Odin doesn't like batteries.
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Have you had a bad experience? I am the type of person that doesn't use any specific arrangement for download and recovery mode... but I kept lousy notes. I can only confirm it never has hurt me to try with the battery in and remove it if there is a problem.
I mean no offense and admit it is good practice; I'm just curious how this detail sorts into rumor/prejudice/fact in the spirit of raised eyebrows.
Swyped w/ XDA App. When in doubt, mumble.
soba49 said:
Have you had a bad experience? I am the type of person that doesn't use any specific arrangement for download and recovery mode... but I kept lousy notes. I can only confirm it never has hurt me to try with the battery in and remove it if there is a problem.
I mean no offense and admit it is good practice; I'm just curious how this detail sorts into rumor/prejudice/fact in the spirit of raised eyebrows.
Swyped w/ XDA App. When in doubt, mumble.
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I haven't heard it cause any kind of damage if that's what you mean but Odin just plain wont see my phone if the battery is in it sometimes. If I unplug the USB and remove the battery I can plug it back in and it works. Odin is just crazy like that.
I can't even get my phone to go into download mode when there's no battery in. Plugged in via USB and everything- no response. I got to the screen once, and used Odin to put CWM from the EB01 walkthrough thread on there, but Rom Manager won't recognize that, OR that I have the SD card in mount mode. Help please? Lol.
UPDATE: Fixed it. Figured out what I was doin' wrong to get into Manual Download and just redid everything, and it worked out.
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Also, make sure you have the battery out when plugging in and going into download mode. Odin doesn't like batteries.
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The battery thing and odin is completely untrue. At least for me. Because whenever I need to flash something with odin my battery is in every time. So the whole odin not liking batteries seems like a myth to me.
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times_infinity said:
The battery thing and odin is completely untrue. At least for me. Because whenever I need to flash something with odin my battery is in every time. So the whole odin not liking batteries seems like a myth to me.
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Agree.... I have option to reboot into Download mode via the power button and I dont take my battery out, still works fine.
Take the battery out, hold down the volume down button, then plug the usb cable in (other end of the usb cable should be plugged into the computer.) This is the correct way to get to "download mode" and use Odin. Also, what someone said about drivers is also something to consider. But after flashing a rom, I figured you'd have done all this at least once!
Do you have the correct version of clockwordmod? What about the modem version? This should be sorted out before flashing...
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If You try to partition with Rom manager it partitions the internal sd and you will brick your phone. Your screen will be black with only the capacative buttons glowing. This brick is possibly the more annoying ones where you have to flash your phone twice. If you have this problem don't panic like i did.
*REMOVING EXTERNAL SD CARD MIGHT IMPROVE ODIN CHANCES OF WORKING*(Thanks Hoey2011 for mentioning this)
Step 1: Download all files from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
PUt them in a safe spot you will need them for later.
Step 2: Download files from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740558
Step 3: HAVE ODIN OPENED FIRST!!(This helped it detect my phone for some reason)Get phone into download mode. The easiest way to do this is pull out battery from phone. Then plug phone into usb connected to computer it will have the battery sign. Hold volume keys and power button when the screen goes black let go of power button. You will be in download mode if Odin doesn't detect it unplug usb and replug it.
Step 4: Once Odin has recognized your phone set the pit file and .tar file FROM EUGENE'S 2.2 THREAD. NOT THE FIRST LINK THE SECOND LINK. Then click start. And follow all the directions on his thread.
Step 5: Once you have flashed that rom you put your phone in download mode again and set up the pit and .tar file for Stock 2.1. After you finish flashing it your phone should be saved!
Thanks to Eugene373, justanothercrowd and anomalous3(for being patient and helping me out when I had this problem) And to anyone else that helped me solve this problem.
Thanx for being the guinea pig. Glad you got it back working.
Yea It was a ***** tho. Spent at least 4 hrs fixing it. But glad its working
Wow that sucks well thanks for the write up.
I was in the same boat as you and as I was downloading 2.2 to try I found your thread. Works like a charm! Thanks for the info on this. I guess I shouldn't read threads backwards from now on, huh?
ok so I've been following this method, and got eugene's 2.2 loaded up correctly, and rebooted back into download mode. The 2.2 files loaded just fine through odin, but now that I'm flashing 2.1, it seems hung on the cache.rfs.
I am gonna go smoke a blunt or two and come back and see how it's progressed, but this hang is the same issue I had before, on my windows 7 64bit machine. I figured it was a compatibility problem so I'm using my old busted vista machine. I've gotten further on the vista laptop than the W7 one, but I'm still hung.
How long should the 2nd loadup take??
I am almost at my wits end with this stupid mistake I made and hope is such a far stretch
ok, so i continued my use of the search tool here at xda and found my answer
I had my MicroSD card in my phone, hadn't even thought to remove it. I have moved past the cache.rfs file and am now waiting to see the results....
IT WORKED OMG OMG OMG
Xda forums almost ruined my phone, then brought it back from the dead
god i love equlibrium
Good info thanks for posting it, but one thing I would like to point out and I am not alone in feeling this way people are throwing the.word brick around and far to casually. You did not brick your phone by partitioning it the proof is that you fixed your phone. Bricking a phone is wheb youbrender the phone usless as a brick when it is totally broken and unfixable. I dont mean to nitpick i just hate seeing everyone that makes a mistake in anything crying wolf and claiming to have bricked. But my rant aside thanks for the very usefull info you mightvwanna pass it on to koush so he can fix it.
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I did exactly this and I was so frustrated that I sent my phone back to tmobile and just purchased a new one. I don't know about yall but if there are two storage points (internal and external) there should be an option for both in default recovery because when I tried to partition the external sd card *in which i was able to execute on my nexus one* it was very easy but because I use clockwork recovery and did a rom backup, i guess the backup zip wasn't safe because I received the same results as you. There should be 2 options to choose from that says *internal storage, External SD Card* why make things difficult? lol
The manufacturers need to be a little more intuitive.
*this is my opinion*
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Good info thanks for posting it, but one thing I would like to point out and I am not alone in feeling this way people are throwing the.word brick around and far to casually. You did not brick your phone by partitioning it the proof is that you fixed your phone. Bricking a phone is wheb youbrender the phone usless as a brick when it is totally broken and unfixable. I dont mean to nitpick i just hate seeing everyone that makes a mistake in anything crying wolf and claiming to have bricked. But my rant aside thanks for the very usefull info you mightvwanna pass it on to koush so he can fix it.
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Thanks for the clarification. I actually had no idea a brick was unfixable. I thought a brick was when your phone messed up and you'd reflash to get it working. Lol sorry again
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Ah crap, that's right, /sdcard is mapped to the *internal* sd card on the phone, and that's what is partitioned. I'll disable partitioning on the phone (external SD card is not accessible in recovery).
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Ah crap, that's right, /sdcard is mapped to the *internal* sd card on the phone, and that's what is partitioned. I'll disable partitioning on the phone (external SD card is not accessible in recovery).
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I haven't tried partitioning, but the card's /dev/block/mmcblk1p* entries are there and I can mount them. That's how the dc2ext hack works. It mounts /sd-ext and /data to do the copies and it does it in recovery.
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ok so I've been following this method, and got eugene's 2.2 loaded up correctly, and rebooted back into download mode. The 2.2 files loaded just fine through odin, but now that I'm flashing 2.1, it seems hung on the cache.rfs.
I am gonna go smoke a blunt or two and come back and see how it's progressed, but this hang is the same issue I had before, on my windows 7 64bit machine. I figured it was a compatibility problem so I'm using my old busted vista machine. I've gotten further on the vista laptop than the W7 one, but I'm still hung.
How long should the 2nd loadup take??
I am almost at my wits end with this stupid mistake I made and hope is such a far stretch
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I have had serious issues with Odin hanging on my WIn 7 32bit system. However, I think I was actually doing it wrong. I was booting my phone to download mode then plugging it in to my computer. However, I have had continued success (tried a bunch last night) by doing this:
Open Odin, take out the battery, plug in USB cord to phone and computer, hold vol up+down, put in battery. Whenever I booted into Download Mode this way, Odin worked perfect every time. Turns out after cursing my computer it was user error, whoops .
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I have had serious issues with Odin hanging on my WIn 7 32bit system. However, I think I was actually doing it wrong. I was booting my phone to download mode then plugging it in to my computer. However, I have had continued success (tried a bunch last night) by doing this:
Open Odin, take out the battery, plug in USB cord to phone and computer, hold vol up+down, put in battery. Whenever I booted into Download Mode this way, Odin worked perfect every time. Turns out after cursing my computer it was user error, whoops .
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turns out, the system wasn't the finicky piece of equipment, it was the phone and the odin software. I inadvertently left the sd card in the phone, the external one, and that was causing my hangs. Two more tries after pulling the sd card, I had success and was back to my phone again
hoey2011 said:
turns out, the system wasn't the finicky piece of equipment, it was the phone and the odin software. I inadvertently left the sd card in the phone, the external one, and that was causing my hangs. Two more tries after pulling the sd card, I had success and was back to my phone again
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I forgot to mention to do that. I did that with mine as well. Taking out the sd card increases success. Thanks for mentioning it.
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farrisizdaman said:
Thanks for the clarification. I actually had no idea a brick was unfixable. I thought a brick was when your phone messed up and you'd reflash to get it working. Lol sorry again
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YEa I guessed as much thats why I was trying not to "flame" and to be informative you are a victim of exactly what I am talking about. Because so many people throw around the word brick anytime anything goes wrong not only is it losing its meaning but people are also getting confused.
This does work, it took me about 7 hours last night to fix it.
I will say if it does not work then keep trying.
My flash kept freezing on the froyo rom and would not finish, so I actually had to try and flash the full captivate stock rom (search the captivate forum) it froze but afterwords it let me go throught the whole flash process with Eugenes 2.2 rom, then flashed right back to 2.1 no prob.
I will also say that if you are on a x64 system then go find a x86 (32 bit) system. I dont know why but it just works better.
So if it doesnt work then do this:
1. Make sure you are on a 32 bit system.
2. Flash a Full Rom from the Captivate forum. (It has a more to it I believe, changes the system maybe?)
3. If it freezes that is ok. Flash the 2.2 rom. (might need to do it a couple times)
4. After successful flash then go to stock.
This needs a sticky!!!!!!!!!
I just did this. Wish I would have seen this thread first!
I'm having a really hard time getting to download mode. Read all the threads I could find on it.
Any ideas? Download mode isn't removed when partitioning with rom manager is it?
I'm trying not to freak out...
tsnow247 said:
I'm having a really hard time getting to download mode. Read all the threads I could find on it.
Any ideas? Download mode isn't removed when partitioning with rom manager is it?
I'm trying not to freak out...
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After fighting with it I found out this worked best for me:
Battery out
Plug in USB cord to the phone and PC
Hold Vol up and down
Put the battery in
Phone should boot right into download mode.
Also, I found you should have Odin open FIRST before you do this. If I didn't I would have constant issues with Odin hanging.
greetings...i've read far too many threads on not being able to boot into "recovery" and "download" and haven't found anything to fix me...
i can successfully get into "recovery" but when i try to reinstall the packages it starts to run a recovery with Clockworkmod etc...it stops and reboots into recovery...this will go on and on...
now when i try to boot into "download" i can't, i've tried many methods none work.
any help?
rooted/clockwork recovery/nandroid back up prior to trying the vibrant7
same problem here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7904808#post7904808
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same problem here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7904808#post7904808
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sweet...well, not sweet...PM me if you find a fix: i'll do the same, i have a replacement on the way via t-mobile.
for the record, i've successfully gotten in to download mode and used Odin to get back to factory...twice, once for fun and once for resurrection...i don't know what went wrong, except while nandroiding maybe i backed up a bogus recovery rom before i flashed. i can't get past Vibrant, and i don't even see the battery recharge display either when i usb, i'm letting the battery run down to try and get to the green battery icon to try a "download" mode??? i've read of a move while you see the charging screen but i haven't been able to get there... oh well, live and learn. i am also searching for a way to boot from the removable sd card that has a system or recovery rom on it..nothing yet.
also, i've read people discussing newer models being blocked from download...well like i said i've done this with this phone before but i got a new SIM last week and this is the first attempt with the new SIM???? maybe a coincidence...
take battery out, plug in usb to pc, hold vol up n down, replace battery, boom download mode.
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sweet...well, not sweet...PM me if you find a fix: i'll do the same, i have a replacement on the way via t-mobile.
for the record, i've successfully gotten in to download mode and used Odin to get back to factory...twice, once for fun and once for resurrection...i don't know what went wrong, except while nandroiding maybe i backed up a bogus recovery rom before i flashed. i can't get past Vibrant, and i don't even see the battery recharge display either when i usb, i'm letting the battery run down to try and get to the green battery icon to try a "download" mode??? i've read of a move while you see the charging screen but i haven't been able to get there... oh well, live and learn. i am also searching for a way to boot from the removable sd card that has a system or recovery rom on it..nothing yet.
also, i've read people discussing newer models being blocked from download...well like i said i've done this with this phone before but i got a new SIM last week and this is the first attempt with the new SIM???? maybe a coincidence...
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Alright i will doo... and you restored from odin after the problem started...?
I flashed the stock kernel and everything is good... Its in the OP of Eugenes rom.
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take battery out, plug in usb to pc, hold vol up n down, replace battery, boom download mode.
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thanks for the reply...i've done that a bazillion times...won't go, i even went to the tmobile store in my hood and no go on their end...
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Alright i will doo... and you restored from odin after the problem started...?
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not after, i had restored from odin about two weeks ago...
Did you read my post about The stock kernal in eugenes original post?
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Did you read my post about The stock kernal in eugenes original post?
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yes(but i'm over saturated right now, i might have missed something) ...i'm dead in the water, i can't get to the point of anything seeing my device...my computer won't see it except as unknown usb device, no partitions show up, adb doesn't recognize it in any way...maybe i'm a [email protected], but i don't see anyway to flash it without at least getting in to download mode, or somehow pushing a .zip at the sd for a recovery??? technically figuring out that stuff is beyond my remaining brain cells...this seems like a dicey way for the phone to rely on when restoring to factory.... it would be nice to have the device look at All available partitions, internal/removable, for a recovery system or have an altogether different sd in the phone for a -R dedicated recovery volume....don't know, i'm a noob at this android stuff sooo....
Soo I had a problem with my phone's charging where I would pull the plug to stop charging the phone, and the batteey would still indicate that it was charging. Also, randomly, my phone would think its connected to the computer and the "USB" notification would pop up and leave every 2 seconds over and over "again (that stopped eventually). Also, when i try to connect my SD card to my computer, it wont connect (even if the phones "USB" notification popped up). I used to use many different chargers to charge my phone and then stopped because I thought that was the problem. Now, my phone still acta a little weird when I charge it, USB is gone, abd I can't recover into CWM recovery. I have the full version of ROM manager, tried going into recovery that way, but when in normal recovery, it just keeps resetting onto that stock recoveey system. This problem started when I had DL30, now I'm using EB01. I wiped data and chache and its still giving me problems...oh and I forgot to mention, if my phone shuts off, I have to connect it to a charger to turn it back on...even if it has good battery. What can I do???
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My friend is having this prob.. The 3 button recovery method still works for him.. I still have not fixed his phone.. But all I have tried so far is a franken kernel flash because he has an extended battery.. I will try more next week
Rocking dj05 and jt's voodoo 5
Are you using a different charger than the stock Samsung one? It sounds like your USB port is screwed over.
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Are you using a different charger than the stock Samsung one? It sounds like your USB port is screwed over.
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ahhhhhhyep. Sure that is part of it, but the constant flux and what not I'm sure has messed with the phone. Try an odin back to Di01 or dl09 and see if it fixes things.
I had the same exact problem, odin'd back to stock, didnt fix it at all. Had to return the phone. Guy at best buy said he had seen a few others with the same problem. Must be common for the USB port to take a ****?
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I had the same exact problem, odin'd back to stock, didnt fix it at all. Had to return the phone. Guy at best buy said he had seen a few others with the same problem. Must be common for the USB port to take a ****?
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It's when incorrect chargers are used. Whether it be voltage or pin arrangement, it's not as uncommon as you think.
No its not uncommon at all...there are many different grades of chargers
Rom manager throws up a red flag for me to begin with. If your CWM is jacked up you should replace it with an odin flash. I've seen a lot of people having trouble with CWM from rom manager lately.
I agree with the probability of the USB port being messed up, but i'd make sure your software is square first.
As far as the usb issues, have you tried using a different usb cable? If you have, and you are still having issues, then I'm guessing your usb port has a short in it and will need to be repaired.
About your CWM problems, if you flash with something like SuperClean v2.4, you will have your kernel, CWM, and rom all replaced at the same time. This way, if you can get into CWM once, then you won't have issues getting back into recovery again, because CWM will be permanently installed.
Don't use the ROM manager's recovery unless you manually the swap the recovery-update.zip file on your SD card:
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Take the fixed CWM update.zip from the above post. Drop a copy on your sd card. Copy it into the clockworkmod folder and rename the copy recovery-update.zip. Will work on both ends then.
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Hello all,
I think my Epic is beyond being bricked but I'm looking for insight here in case I'm (hopefully) wrong.
I've been running Gingerbread EF02 but after seeing Cardio Trainer frequently crap out on the GPS signal, unlike it did with Froyo DK28, I thought I'd go back to Froyo. But then I decided I'd take that at least one step in a better direction and go with the SRF 1.2 release. Using Odin to go back to DK18 and then applying the EC05 OTA update, my next step was again using Odin to install CWM 3.1.0.1. Up to that point, all had largely gone well. However, afer the reboot into DK18 looking good and the Odin write of CWM also appearing OK, the subsequent reset of my phone found it never rebooting. Worse yet, it seems completely dead....no LED charging indication, no powering up battery, cord only, or both....nothing. I'll leave it on the charger overnight to see if that somehow gives it a kick in the pants, but I'm wondering if anyone has an idea of what could have suddenly gone wrong, and whether there may yet be some recovery technique to try. If not, it appears I'll be headed to Sprint for a new phone.
Thanks in advance,
Ambress
Did u try the reset button by the battery. I think mystery posted a sticky about it months ago. Good luck.
Samsung Epic Midnight and Clean Kernel
Try useing another usb cable with the battery out in download mode to see if odin sees it.
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Which version of Odin did you use?
Also, did you put the cwm file in PDA or Phone?
Thanks for all the suggestions folks, but all seem to be for nought.
There is no "magic button" on my phone. I finally found the related thread where someone else had posted images of their phone and confirmed the "button" location. Unfortunately that same spot provides no button for my phone. Under a 16x jeweler's loupe and good lighting, I can clearly tell that the recessed area is only plastic which gets scratcheed up as I wiggle a paper clip around on it.
As for Odin, I'm using Odin3 v1.81 and loaded CWM via the PDA option I'm pretty certain.
I've tried two cables inclusive of one short one that seems to work the best for me and had all night as I began my efforts, as well as two different power adapters. The phone is not being sensed at all by any PC into which I connect it via USB, and that just seems very, very grim to me.
I may look more tonight after work, for other threads that may offer some hope, but I'm guessing I'm SOL.
Thanks,
Ambress
Perhaps back in business...too stubborn to leave for work, and after leaving the battery out of my phone for another period of 30+ minutes, I reinstalled it while holding the keyboard 1 + Power for obtaining the download mode. Typically I just invoke download after the battery is reinstalled, and had never taken this approach, but, yippee!!...it worked! So, I've just flashed DK18 and will revisit the rest of my tasks tonight.
Thanks again for the tips & such.
Flash EB13, then EC05 modem....
Why are you doing OTA update?
Just use odin to flash ec05 tar, then one click root w clockwork.
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Agreed, you're taking an unnecessary step there.
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As for Odin, I'm using Odin3 v1.81 and loaded CWM via the PDA option I'm pretty certain.
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Hopefully you make sure re-partition isn't checked when you use odin 1.81. Unfortunately I went to install cwm as well, and forgot about the auto checking re-partition.. Luckily I didn't brick but it seems I can no longer install anything via flashing, just through odin.
So I was mucking about installing ICS on my fascinate and I've managed to thoroughly brick the device. It will not power on in any form from my perspective. No Download mode, no recovery nothing.
The steps that I took to get myself here
Installed Teamhacksung ICS Build 2 (Everything was wokring fine except calenders so I had to do a reinstall)
Did a Full wipe of all mount point via CWR and fresh reinstall including Google Apps v.5.
Booted fine went through initial setup.
Downloaded Glitch kernel 14 preview 2 for the i9000 ( Yes I know in retrospect it is the obvious wrong kernel )
Flashed Wrong kernel via CWR
Booted phone ( It started up just fine. But I had no Wifi and no 3G not panel buttons only physical worked. This is when I looked at the kernel filename again and discovered my mistake.)
Booted to CWR via power button menu
CWR was modified along with th glitch kernel install. ( It is unable to mount sdcard of any local resource.
I figure okay my bad lets odin
I put the phone in download mode
I flash the atlas_2.2.pit and the CWM4 tar designed to work with CM7 with the following options.
----Odin 1.83
Re-partition
F Reset Time
Atlas_2,2.pit in PIT section
CWM4_for_cm7.tar in PDA Section
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Flash is successful I power down phone by pulling battery and unpluging from usb
I put the battery back in to boot into recovery and the phone will not power on.
It will not enter download mode via volume-down method or via 301k jig
This phone is dead as far as I'm concerned.
Any help / ideas are appreciated.
I would try a new cable. If that doesnt work i think your only option is the Unbrickable mod.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1288093&highlight=unbrickable+mod
Not that it will help but I believe your mistake was in using the pit file without flashing a rom. You repartitioned your device and then did not install an os essentialy.
Edit: you should also pull the battery while flashing with Odin.
On a possibly helpful note, have you tried connecting to Odin since then. I know on the Charge people have reported entering download mode but having no visual conformation of it (ie: blank screen but Odin recognizes the phone). Might be worth a shot.
We all make mistakes, I hard bricked my wifes Charge because I keep all my Odin files together, clicked through to quickly and ended up flashing stock i500 files to it instead of i510 files.../facepalm
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Ya I've tried connecting to Odin even though not visual representation for Download Mode is there. The Fascinates do that as well from time to time. The thing that gets me is that even if the partition structure is totally hosed the phone "should" be able to get into download mode. I disassembled it last night and will be attempting the Unbrickable mod once a new tip comes for my soldering iron.
I have no clue why you used Odin and repartition v2.2 pit without flashing a stock ROM. where you got the idea to flash a cwm file instead of a .tar ROM file is beyond me.
Now that i have given you some scolding. unless one of fascinates geniuses comes to your rescue. You're only option is to use unbrickable mod on you're phone. And you best follow directions on that mod a lot better than you have on this past endeavor. It does involve soldering your processor pins, so i wish you luck.
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Have you tried making/buying a jig to trick the phone into Download Mode.
I found these 2 threads:
Jig 1
&
Jig 2
I found these on the captivate forums when I needed it and it works pretty well, but buying one is much easier.
If you arent familiar with what I'm talking about, putting 301k of resistance on the 4 & 5 pins on our phones will put the phone in Download mode, which is what a jig will do for you.
They are also sold on Ebay, and on MobileTech Videos.
Hope this helps!
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Edit: you should also pull the battery while flashing with Odin.
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Flashing with the battery in is no different than flashing with it out really. The reason all Fascinate tutorials say to flash with the battery out is to prevent recovery from getting over-written should the phone reset and boot normally after flashing.
Also, I would say try a download mode jig. Since you flashed the i9000 kernel, it could be doing something odd that a Fascinate wouldn't normally do. If it was a MTD i9000 kernel, hopefully it didn't re-partition and wipe out or corrupt the bootloader/secondary bootloader.
imnuts said:
Flashing with the battery in is no different than flashing with it out really. The reason all Fascinate tutorials say to flash with the battery out is to prevent recovery from getting over-written
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I am aware of that, just saying it doesn't hurt to follow directions.
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