So here's my problem, my vibrant stopped charging the other day. I need to flash back to stock 2.1 in order to get a replacement. Since my usb port isn't working I need a cwm version of stock 2.1, I searched and to no avail. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I think you can find a nandroid backup in the development forum....restore that in. recovery...then while you are still in recovery...flash the stock kernel as well because nandroid doesn't restore the kernel...after done just do a factory reset and your good to go. You can find the files by doing a simple search for jfd nandroid in the development forum...
You could flash stock ka6 2.2 froyo...but you can't trust tmobile workers to know that official 2.2 is released via kies. They might day that the phone was hacked and the warranty is now void
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Is it the USB port, or is it the cable? My Samsung provided cable was bad. I thought it was the phone. When I switched to a higher quality Blackberry cable, everything charged great again.
kmfisher said:
Is it the USB port, or is it the cable? My Samsung provided cable was bad. I thought it was the phone. When I switched to a higher quality Blackberry cable, everything charged great again.
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I got the cable problem too. Luckily I had bought two backup cables, unfortunately shorter, but that made the difference.
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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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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
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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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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.
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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.
I unfortunately need to send my Xoom in for service (the USB port is acting up, I can't see files on any drive when I connect to my PC, and I can only transfer stuff to it sometimes) and I am currently running the EOS ICS rom. Do you guys think that Motorola will have an issue that I am not running a stock rom? Should I revert everything back to stock before I send it in?
I had to send my Xoom back for servicing and did not revert back to stock (I couldn't, the sd card slot was broken). I did not have any problems, other than they said they fixed it the first time, did not and I had to resend it. Both times the device was rooted, with nothing said to me and the xoom finally fixed.
I'm pretty sure that umlocking the bootloader voids the warranty.
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Ductapemaster said:
I unfortunately need to send my Xoom in for service (the USB port is acting up, I can't see files on any drive when I connect to my PC, and I can only transfer stuff to it sometimes) and I am currently running the EOS ICS rom. Do you guys think that Motorola will have an issue that I am not running a stock rom? Should I revert everything back to stock before I send it in?
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Yes - you ABSOLUTELY should revert to stock (which is easy as wiping it), just in case they send you a different unit and then send your refurbed unit to someone without wiping your data from it.
I sent mine in for the 4G upgrade with an EOS ICS nightly flashed on it. When my Xoom was returned to me and I powered it on it boot looped and I had to factory reset it to get it working again.
Screwed myself trying to update from to cm10 to cm11. Wiped everything and then flashing the rom failed. Lets pretend I dont have a backup, because I havent been able to find one. I'm using an older version of TWRP recovery and have a feeling I should be using CWM to flash this, so I'd really like to ADB this thing.
got moar problems though...the USB port is busted! I use the dock to charge it, but you cannot them pogo pins to abd.
If anyone can come up with a workaround that would be awesome. Otherwise, it's most likely off to Staples for the 2013 version.
Feel free to bash me if you cannot help me. Thanks in advance.