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What is the IRC that everyone talks about chatting on? I looked at #samsung-fasinate but noone was in that.
I am looking for some help as I messed up my phone, thought I fixed it but now am running into some problems along the way.
I do not know how to boot into CWM, I have read hold up on volume while booting, but this doesn't work for me.
This is my problem and the solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804457
But I am stuck on step 3.
What is the easiest way for someone to walk me through this? I read just to use the automatic voodoo uninstaller, but I can not do that if I can not boot into CWM.
Thanks guys
Hold up and down volume buttons while powering on. This should boot you into recovery. Depending on which version of recovery you have, i.e if you boot into stock recovery, you may have to apply update.zip. Once in recovery, install zip from sd card and find the voodoo uninstaller and flash it. This should solve your problems
Oh yeah, and this, of course, assumes you flashed CWM in the first place. If not, that should be your next step.
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bendbowden said:
Hold up and down volume buttons while powering on. This should boot you into recovery. Depending on which version on recovery you have, i.e if you boot into stock recovery, you may have to apply update.zip. Once in recovery, install zip from sd card and find the voodoo uninstaller and flash it. This should solve your problems
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Holding up and down simultaneous while powering on did not do anything for me. The Phone just booted normally...
Is it possible I do not have CWM installed? I did it in ODIN two times, as suggested.
Make sure you release when you see Samsung. If that doesn't work, then you probably need to try to flash cwm again. If none of this works, try to odin to stock and start over. Btw: make sure you follow the guide to flash CWM step for step.
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Make sure you release when you see Samsung. If that doesn't work, then you probably need to try to flash cwm again. If none of this works, try to odin to stock and start over. Btw: make sure you follow the guide to flash CWM step for step.
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Ok, I am in, did not know that. I am in the stock recovery. What update.zip should I have on my SD card?
Thanks for your help its huge!
EDIT: I am in, never mind! THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP.
try joining #samsung_fascinate not samsung-fasinate
Its the second option. Hit the home button to apply it.
Edit: your welcome
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Its def #samsung-fascinate
Make sure you are on freenode
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It is #samsung-fascinate. You just spelled it wrong, going by your original post.
I just updated my wife's phone to DL09 by pushing it via Odin. I then successfully completed the one click root, and was in the process of pushing clockwork mod to the phone via Odin when the screen on the phone went blank. Now the only thing I get i a black screen with a phone, a computer, and an orange triangle with an exclamation point and dotted lines between them. Any ideas?
Can you still get into download mode
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This is all I get...
Have you tried the manual method to get to download mode?
Pull the battery, connect usb while pushing the volume down button.
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That seemed to work. Pushing the DL09 again via Odin now. Thanks for the tip, Steeler!
That is the Odin Failed screen. The only remedy is to flash over whatever you messed up in Odin.
There are a few ways to get into download mode. First, you will want to try removing the battery, and holding down the volume down button while plugging the USB into a computer.
If you can't get that to happen, look into wiring up the usb cable with a resistor to make a little rig to force download mode.
If you cannot manage download mode (or potentially recovery mode), you are out of options.
EDIT: looks like steeper beat me to it.
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Up and running! Again, thanks for the timely responses and handy tip!
I have soft bricked my fascinate. I can get into clock recovery red. I use a mac, my USB is not in debug mode, I tried using Odin on a PC but could not find phone. Cant ADB into phone on mac receive "Error:device not found" I have looked everywhere all day and yesterday but looks like im screwed. Can i not just get a update.zip Voodoo kernel? I did a wipe before I hit restore. I do see the restore files but on Clockwork but get error also. Any help please?
Maybe someone can confirm whether it is possible to adb from download or recovery mode.
However, you are not hosed so long as you can get into recovery mode. You can likely copy what you need into your sd card. Fortunately, I have never had to do that because I can always find the files I need to restore in the clockworkmod/ folder of my sdcard. I suggest looking around in there for the kernel patch you need - just be mindful of your lag fix
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soba49 said:
Maybe someone can confirm whether it is possible to adb from download or recovery mode.
However, you are not hosed so long as you can get into recovery mode. You can likely copy what you need into your sd card. Fortunately, I have never had to do that because I can always find the files I need to restore in the clockworkmod/ folder of my sdcard. I suggest looking around in there for the kernel patch you need - just be mindful of your lag fix
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Thanks, I do see kernel patches but they are not zip files. On the MAC I compress to a .zip file but with no luck. I dont think the MACS sign them correctly.
I have an Epic myself and the security of this new HTC phone threw me for a loop. Anyway , I was trying to put CM7 on his phone , starting from stock. I managed to get CWM 3.0.0.5 on it and then flashed the CM7 from here. Now it is stuck on the white Tmobile screen , Ive let it sit therefor an hour and nothing. But the real problem is that I cant find a way to restore to stock and start over. With the Epic we use a windows program called ODIN in case something like this happens. Ive tried using ADB but the phone is showing offline so I cant push any commands to it. Is there an app like ODIN that will let me factory reset this phone and try this again? Thanks
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Sounds like you rooted and flashed CM7 onto it without having s-off. If I'm not mistaking there is another thread similar to this one somewhere. Also you need cclockwork 3.0.0.6 to flash back and fourth from stock and other roms.
you need pd15img.zip on your SD
pd15img.zip reboot into hboot with that file and the part7-0000000000.bin file on your sd and it will load and ask you to push volume up to confirm then wait, it will restore the phone i know i did it, took me 3 damn days to figure out you need that part7.bin file on your sd with that pd15img.zip file...or its a no go, trust me this WILL def work...its a life saver, i did the same thing you did...had clockwork and no s=off...now i successfully restored it and sent it back to tmobile because before i solved it i panic and called for a replacement, told em it wont turn on, they sent the new one, and about 20 mins ago i flashed cm7 after folling this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996 to turn s=off...works great good luck
Where do i get the part7 file and the other one? Thank you
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Where do i get the part7 file and the other one? Thank you
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It was creates with you permanent rooted it.. should be on your SD card. In the rooting instructions it tells you to keep that file around.
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Just make sure that u dnt keep tryin to flash the rom cause u gonna end up gettin the cant mount cache & data errors,which once that happens nothin can b done with the mt4g.. So if u used the gfree method to root the phone u should have the part7-xxxxxxxx.bin file,stick that to the root of the sd card & put the pd15 file to the root of the sd card,powerdwn or battery pull,reboot into recovery & let the phne do its thing..
I don't think he has that part7-xx......bin file for his mt4g phone since he did not run gfree patch. You can't do stock nandroid restore also because that requires CWM 2.5.1.4 but you can always give it a shot.
Good luck with your boss, hope you don't get fired.
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It was creates with you permanent rooted it.. should be on your SD card. In the rooting instructions it tells you to keep that file around.
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I didn't use the gfree method for getting perm root.
So i never got that part7 file that you speak of....
I have found them online to download but even using someone elses i still doesnt load the .zip from hboot :{
I downloaded the glacier file , like 350 MB or something , renamed it to PD15IMG.ZIP (had to leave the .zip out because windows). Then I found the part7.bin file from another thread. Put both on sd card. Vol down and power, it found the pd15img file and started restoring the image. 15 minutes later the phone boots up just like brand new! Thank you to everybody who helped with this! Sometimes I dont know what i'd do without this place!
P.s.- he still wants gingerbread any suggestions as to best rom?
Thanks again everyone
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I think you made a fine choice with CM7. Just make sure you are rooted and have flashed the latest clockworkmod through ROM manager (3.0.2.4 I believe) and it should flash without issue.
I wanna ask a question. Earlier, I used 4ext Recovery Control (the app,not actual recovery) , but i was changing the recovery theme. Anyway I chose 'reboot into recovery' to check out how the theme looked, and my phone went black and vibrated 3 times, and the orange light blinked continuously. I took out the battery and put it back in and pressed power, and same thing..black, vibrate x3, blinking light. So i took out battery again, waited bout 5 minutes, put it back and pressed vol dwn + power and it booted into hboot menu, where i entered recovery and selected reboot and it powered up normally, thank goodness! But my question is, is that a sign of something bad that i should be aware of in the future? I do have the bad chip, and i thought it was a goner! Has anybody else experienced this? Im kinda scared to be messin around now.. just wondering if y'all have seen this before.
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Your phone will do that if the volume up is held during boot. Maybe the button took a dump.
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Your phone will do that if the volume up is held during boot. Maybe the button took a dump.
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Thanks...I was holding it and maybe i did press it by mistake. Its been fine since so no worries ...
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Thanks...I was holding it and maybe i did press it by mistake. Its been fine since so no worries ...
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Nothing like an easy fix!
Yea i had just reversed the Htcdev unlocked bootloader, a few days ago. I was happy I had my phone True rooted, s-off, eng. Hboot..and that happened! I damn near had a panic attack!
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I also had the three fast vibrations and blinking orange led. I downgraded from Gingerbread to stock Froyo, rooted using Visionary and gfree. I then changed the engineering bootloader to 0.85.2007. I got into hboot, and verified I was S-off with that bootloader. I installed Clockwork mod recovery, and was able to create a recovery image. But, when I tried to make a backup of the rom, I got a black screen, When I tried to flash a rom I just got the orange symbol. I tried to reboot, and that’s when I first got the vibrations and orange light. I was able to restart with a battery pull, So I thought there was something wrong with my clockwork mod recovery. I reinstalled it again with the same results. I followed advice I saw in another post and pushed volume down and power and waited for the bootloader. I still had the original stock rom on there. It recognized it after a few tries, and updated. When it said reboot by pushing the power button, I got the vibrations and orange light again. It erased everything I had put on there. I wanted to see if I still had S-off, so I went to the bootloader, and I still have S-off, but the bootloader changed back to to 0.86.0000. When I tried to reboot via the power button this time, I was still getting the vibrations and orange light, and could not get it to restart. I let it charge for a while, and then pulled the sdcard in and out, along with the battery pull, and got it to restart.
I’m still new at this, so I’m not sure what I should do next. Should I try another sdcard with the stock rom? Should I try to reinstall Visionary first?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I really don’t want to stay on Froyo .
I think u should be ok to flash another rom. I was told it can be a result of holding volume up + power. Do you know if you might have did that by accident? Also, have you had any problems with your volume buttons sticking or anything? Since i had the problem, i have flashed several times, so maybe for me it was an isolated incident. I dont want u to blame me for anything, but my opinion is you should be ok to flash a rom, just be careful not to press the vol button while rebooting.
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Thanks for the response. Should I try to run gfree again? Will it hurt anything? Even though the bootloader said S-off, when I run terminal emulator, and type in su, it says permission denied. Also I can't find gfree in the data/local folder I pushed with adb yesterday. Could this be the reason my 0.85.2007 bootloader didn't stick? I'm wondering if I should try another sdcard.
Thanks,
Erin
EMcTx said:
Thanks for the response. Should I try to run gfree again? Will it hurt anything? Even though the bootloader said S-off, when I run terminal emulator, and type in su, it says permission denied. Also I can't find gfree in the data/local folder I pushed with adb yesterday. Could this be the reason my 0.85.2007 bootloader didn't stick? I'm wondering if I should try another sdcard.
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Erin
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Now when you ask me if it will hurt anything, I am still quite new myself, and I dont want to tell you anything that would cause you to brick your phone. Do you know what emmc chip you have? Its been stated that some chips are more likely to mess up than others. If I could tell you anything, it would be to read what others have done, read the guides til you understand more..because there is no way to be sure that you won't brick your device. I have 2 mt4g so i took more chances than i should have. but go to the Ultimate Rooting, s-off guide in the wiki section, if you are choosing to continue. Im sorry i cant be of more help but i am only slightly ahead of you on this journey of learning ...
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Before I did anything to the phone, I verified the emmc chip, it is the "good one".
This is actually my second phone. I bricked my first one in November, and it had the "bad" chip. I didn't know about that problem until I had rooted it already. I was waiting for the ICS roms to get going before I did anything. That's why I've waited so long. I ran gfree verify through adb but got su: permission denied. It seems that the gfree didn't take, although I do have the backups gfree created.
I may try to see if I can undo them in a couple of days. I need a break from the stress it creates .
Thanks again for your input.
I know what ya mean about the stress it causes...I wanted to stop, then i would lay there and think..I can do this! Then i would stop..then start again! But what really helped me more than anything, was just reading posts by other users, about similar issues. It helped me get a better grasp of what I was doing. But whatever u decide, good luck.. I think you will get it, provided you remain patient. If ya have anymore questions just ask here and if I can help I will...
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My phone still vibrates 3 times and flashes the orange light everytime I reboot. The only way to get it restarted is to do a battery pull and wait 5 minutes. I tried to flash the stock rom again through hboot. This time I used a different freshly reformatted sd card. I just don't know what to try next. Does anyone have any other ideas?
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Erin
I finally got it to boot normally! I unrooted my phone to get s-on again. It may have had something to with gfree. I'm going to try to root it again.
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I finally got it to boot normally! I unrooted my phone to get s-on again. It may have had something to with gfree. I'm going to try to root it again.
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Very good, I have been following ur progress, so post back your results ..
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It's definitely the gfree. I tried it two other times, with the same results. I was able to use the gfree method on my other phone, it just had the bad chip, so it died a few days later. I'm going to have to try another way to root the phone.
okay, I used the VISIONary method to root, and I now have S-off. No more vibrations and blinking lights.
hi there i have my my touch 4g running jellybean 4.1.1 and some reason today when i went to go in the boot menu and change my splash screen it like restarted itself. Every time i try to click recovery in the boot menu it shows the pd15 files and then shows you need to update it. So basically i guess it went back to its original skin ,but still has everything. I see the s is off. Is there a way to be able to go back or do i have do the whole entire rooting process over again? I really appreciate all your help.
You need to remove the PDxx.img file from your SDcard otherwise evertime you go to the bootloader it will boot the stock ROM.
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You need to remove the PDxx.img file from your SDcard otherwise evertime you go to the bootloader it will boot the stock ROM.
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Thanks for responding. Umm I'm kinda of confused are you talking about the PD15img.zip? Also, would it be hidden in a folder or just out in the beginning?
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Thanks for responding. Umm I'm kinda of confused are you talking about the PD15img.zip? Also, would it be hidden in a folder or just out in the beginning?
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Pd15img.zip should be located in the root of your SD card.
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Thanks for responding. Umm I'm kinda of confused are you talking about the PD15img.zip? Also, would it be hidden in a folder or just out in the beginning?
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If you flashed a ROM of some sort using the PD15IMG.ZIP method (such as a stock Froyo or GB ROM), it exists in the root of your SD card (so, under /sdcard). You should see it by hooking up the phone and browsing to the top level of the card, or you could take the SD card out and examine it directly. If you don't rename if after an install, every time you try to boot the bootloader will look for it and try to reinstall it.
Whether you need to reroot again kind of depends on what the PD15IMG was. If you went back down to a stock ROM, then you would probably have to at least go through the rooting steps again (but not the S-off part).
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Pd15img.zip should be located in the root of your SD card.
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Ok i found it and deleted it was the same thing. It would go back to stock ,but it actually showed a phone with a x on it . Thanks for your help
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If you flashed a ROM of some sort using the PD15IMG.ZIP method (such as a stock Froyo or GB ROM), it exists in the root of your SD card (so, under /sdcard). You should see it by hooking up the phone and browsing to the top level of the card, or you could take the SD card out and examine it directly. If you don't rename if after an install, every time you try to boot the bootloader will look for it and try to reinstall it.
Whether you need to reroot again kind of depends on what the PD15IMG was. If you went back down to a stock ROM, then you would probably have to at least go through the rooting steps again (but not the S-off part).
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Yea i'm guessing ill have to root it again to get jelly bean back on. Thanks for the help
Alright so all day today i have been trying to get my phone working again and i can not get it to work. It still won't let me go into clockwork mod menu when you click recovery. when i click recovery it shows a phone with a red ! on it. I've tried factory reset ,full reset of phone and sd card and still not working. Anyone have any ideas why it won't work?
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Alright so all day today i have been trying to get my phone working again and i can not get it to work. It still won't let me go into clockwork mod menu when you click recovery. when i click recovery it shows a phone with a red ! on it. I've tried factory reset ,full reset of phone and sd card and still not working. Anyone have any ideas why it won't work?
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I've only had that happen a couple of times when a ROM did not load successfully. Usually it's recoverable, but it sounds like in this case you *might* (I would ask somebody with more experience) need to reflash the CWM recovery via adb in order to get it working once again.
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I've only had that happen a couple of times when a ROM did not load successfully. Usually it's recoverable, but it sounds like in this case you *might* (I would ask somebody with more experience) need to reflash the CWM recovery via adb in order to get it working once again.
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Yeah. The PD15IMG.zip put the stock recovery back on. Just flash the custom recovery of your choice.