I am trying to use odin and my computer will not recognize my phone when it is in download mode. It just tells me the device is not recognized. I have my drivers installed properly and my phone connects just fine when it is booted normally. I can connect with adb or mount the SD card with no problem.
This all started after I switched to Ext4 (Bonzai 2.0 and CWM3) and the usb totally stopped working. It wasn't really a problem until now so I wasn't stressing over it.
Last night I used the undo-backup that CWM3 made when it switched me to Ext4 and that got my USB working on the normal boot. Nevertheless, the download mode USB connection remains completely broken. I have used odin a bunch of times in the past, so I think this must be related to the switch to ext4 and/or CWM3.
When I was using Bonzai 1.4 with rfs odin was also working just fine. If anyone can try to help me out here I'd greatly appreciate it. If you need more info or whatever just let me know.
No one has any ideas of what I can do? I'd like to avoid having to go get a replacement if possible.
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Ever since I rooted I can not get my Epic to connect to a computer period. I'm about to give up and just deal with what I got, hopefully someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Before anyone decides to be a smart ass I have used the search function literally for days and have tried tons of things recommended with no result. I am the first to admit I'm an idiot when it comes to anything involving computers but I'm pretty determained to learn.
This has to be the phone because I have tried to connect to 2 desktops (1 running Windows 00 and 1 running the most updated Ubuntu), and 3 laptops (Windows xp, Windows Vista and Ubuntu). When I rooted I used the Vista computer and connected fine (can't anymore). I didn't have the space on the C drive to install the Android SDK so I switched to Ubuntu (first time user btw lol). Somehow when I was backing my SD card I lost any access to it or the notification bar. I never got my SD back til I rebooted but I haven't been able to connect to any PC since. When I charge (even in the car) it always tries to stay in mass storage mode. I basically charge in my car with my phone off hoping it will just charge and not mount my sd card to my car or wall lol. Yes I wiped 3 times, partitioned sd, tried several different cables (but my husband used mine and no problems on his Motorola) I'm sure I've done something wrong when I rooted or mounted to Ubuntu.
I also can't use adb. I followed the directions to the t (a few times lol) but when I run any commands it says "no such file or directory" I didn't have adb on the windows pc when I di noobnl's one click so I never ran the (adb shell ect) commands. I now can't do jack. I am now running noobnl's DI18 ROM with modem.bin flashed thru Clockworkmod.
I have tried all the basics you will find wit 2 days of web search.
My goal is DK28 (dream on Erica lol)...Thanks for any help and for anyone sparing me a lashing ;-)
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When you plug in on your windows pcs...in Device manager..do you see anything appear? also do you have USB debugging on the phone?
USB debugging on?
Have you tried reinstalling the drivers for the Epic?
Rebooted phone and PC? (Sometimes it helps)
Used Odin?
Something might have been screwed up during one of your downloads, bad file maybe. Try reinstalling your drivers first, use Odin (phone must be in download mode), and see if it recognizes te device. If it does then Odin the stock .tar file and go from there. It'll give you a fresh start.
That's all I can think of right now.
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I bet your USB debugging is on since most root's requier it. Even tho it says connect to pc if usb debugging is on it wont connect to my windows 7 box
I would suggest, if you're really having this many issues, just boot into download mode (1 on the keyboard + power button) and odin back to di18.
Just for kicks have you tried Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset? I assume that wiping does the same thing if not more but it's worth it to see if it somehow resets a setting that might be the issue.
What's left - software issue or Hardware issue.
Software:
hmmm...yeah gotta try connecting through Odin which uses downloader mode instead of USB modes...
Can Odin see your phone? Run Odin as admin with antivirus off, and proper samsung drivers installed. Then boot phone holding down 1 key into downloader mode. Connect to computer through USB port on back of computer (i.e. directly to motherboard) - does Odin identify something attached to USB port?
Yes - flash the dk28!
No - with Odin still on, unplug the USB cable, pause, and reconnect it. Still No? Try a different USB port on computer. Also try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers - be sure to reboot the PC. If still No, then try on another computer, and as you did before, try different cables. Still No?? --> hardware problem with phone.
Hardware problem with phone: Look at the usb port in the phone - is there any junk in there that might interefere with the connection?
Yes - clean it out
No: phone perhaps internally damaged:
Solution for hardware damage:
You and husband clean up and go to sprint store.
At store - tech will know phone is rooted, so:
--Tech more likely to like you? You handle it, maybe even blame husband. Husband can silently attend and look sheepish, playing the part of 'me man, me dominate environment, me break fancy tech of wife, me sorry." Try to get free replacement phone while simultaneously promising never to let your husband root the phone again, or even touch it.
--Tech more likely to like husband? He goes alone, cops to the true story of how you rooted it and then was backing stuff up when it suddenly stopped working [truth from men? so sincere!]. Try to get free replacement phone while simultaneously promising not to let you in the house should you even attempt to root again.
P.S. forgot to add you might turn off the PCs firewall while testing, as well.
quik99 said:
I bet your USB debugging is on since most root's requier it. Even tho it says connect to pc if usb debugging is on it wont connect to my windows 7 box
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same here. I tried out the free tethering app the other day and with usb debugging on i coudl never get it to install the proper drivers. Without it on and the 64bit drivers installed Odin worked just fine.
I have seen many Galaxy S devices not connect to a computer because of a faulty USB cable. Had my girlfriends sister switch out 3 Vibrants only to accidentally try and connect it to a laptop with a different USB cable and I've seen two others not connect with the stock Samsung USB cable.
How I fixed the tethering issue
I've had the same problem with my galaxy s - connecting to the PC (Win7 32bit) just doesn't do anything. As a test, I had a friend with the same phone/rom (froyo, rooted) connect - and he was able to! It installed the drivers and it just worked. He disconnected, I connected, and now it's fine.
So, see if you can find someone with the same phone and see if they can connect. Makes no sense to me, but it worked.
I've had my Epic fail to mount before. Interestingly any time I had an issue it was with a Mac - it always mounts on a PC. I'll stop now before I open up a can of worms.
Best advice I have is get a Dropbox account. You can use that guy to move files from a computer to the SD card without having to mount to the computer. Perhaps you can get a factory ROM (with root of course) on your phone that way?
You can get a app from the market called SWIFTP (free) & connect to your sdcard via ftp server. This can be a temporary fix till you get your connection error resolved.
I have 1 USB port on my laptop that the Epic shows up as "unknown device" on. Works on every other port, and everything else works just fine on the same port. The factory USB cable is finicky!
Just rooted using this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723479
When I hook up the USB cable, it no longer shows up on the phone and gives me the option to mount memory card.
How do I go about fixing that?
(and also, should I need to, how do I unroot?)
EDIT - Now works after reapplying USB settings, weird.
Re Root the phone with one click. If you cannot mount to the computer etc. then odin back to stock and then reroot, You are not the first person to use this rooting and have this happen. Not sure why may be just a batch of phones this method doesn't work with.......
I had the same problem and solved it by allowing USB Debugging mode. When you use ROM Manager and CWR, it actually tells you to leave the phone in the USB Debug mode, maybe the connections issue is the reason?
Just ran into a problem which took me some time to solve. Thought I would share it to save other people some frustration.
After an adb reboot the i5800 got stuck in "modem" mode. i.e. android booted fine but gave a modem and a serial port over usb rather than adb. Reboots did not solve the problem.
The solution is to enter recovery screen:
reboot recovery
OR
press proper buttons to get into recovery mode
And then perform a reboot from there
Is this the same as *#7284# and selecting "PDA" on UART and USB, or just on USB? Or is this a completely separate thing?
miki.antena said:
Is this the same as *#7284# and selecting "PDA" on UART and USB, or just on USB? Or is this a completely separate thing?
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Thanks so much for this!!!! After helping hack a friends build.prop to enable Apparatus compatibility in the Market, I found USB wasn't working properly anymore. Resetting changes in the phone didn't help (I had to do this via the phone terminal) although I at least managed to buy Apparatus before the sale ended.
After initially getting confused due to a lack of drivers and the occasional 'nH' showing up devices without drivers which made me think something was borked, I worked out from the VID & PID it was just the lack of drivers making (well I'm not sure why it did the 'nH' sometimes it got serial something instead), once I installed the drivers all was fine.
Except still mass storage wasn't showing and the Samsung connect manager didn't show up on my phone when I connected USB, nor did ADB work at all. In fact, it didn't even show up in the phone menu as debugging mode if I didn't start phone with it connected (or something like that). Funnily enough when I did get it the debugging to show up I did get the USB mass storage to show up in the phone, but it didn't help (it just unmounted the card which I think is all it ever does).
Anyway after a bit more fooling around I eventuall came across http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1215103 and the stuff about modem and mkasick's post which sounded a lot like it could be my problem. The code for that Samsung phone didn't work so I searched for the 5800 and came across this giving me the right code. Sure enough UART (but not USB) was set to modem instead of PDA. I was unsure whether that was wrong but changed it anyway and yep that fixed it!
I still have no idea what went wrong. I had thought may be the phone didn't like me rebooting via ADB but I've now done that several times. In fact most of the stuff except install a superuser update has been more or less repeated. I guess it was just some strange rare occurence that it somehow got changed. I did have to reconnect the USB while working the first time, not sure why but ADB lost connection then I found couldn't connect. Perhaps that's somehow related. Now that I know what to do, it's trivial but very annoying when I didn't. I still don't get why Samsung decided to make the connect manager (my phone doesn't have that) only to have some hidden option where it can be set to modem or USB.
Partially because of this, I never got to get Tilestorm HD become compatible in time for the sale although my friend wasn't so interested in that. (Eventually I worked out using the THC Tattoo modded market which reports a fake resolution enables it. Well, I also modified the build.prop but I don't know if that was necessary. I wasn't able to do it solely by the build.prop. But it was way too late by then to buy Tilestorm HD cheap.)
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I still have no idea what went wrong. I had thought may be the phone didn't like me rebooting via ADB but I've now done that several times.
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This may sound like crazy idea, but is your USB port/connector clean?
(The USB port allows for dozens of different phone functions when using very specific resistance between data pins.)
i bought a LG D802 32gb last night as i was using a 16 gb before i wanted to flash cloudy g3.. so i tried to install custome recovery twrp...
now i am in fast boot mode..
it says :
[880]fastboot mode started
[910]udc_start()
when i attach usb cable
[1100]-reset-
[1110]-portchange-
[1120]-reset-
[1130]-portchange-
[1140]-fastboot: processing commands
i tried holding volume + and and attaching the usb cable but no luck ... so now i have NO RECOVERY, NO DOWNLOAD MODE, AND MY WINDOWS PICKING UP MY PHONE AS "USB MODEM PHONE ADB PORT"
please help
is it possibile to unroot the epic eb13 without having to use the cable/ odin / or anything computer related?
my phone is not working with odin or anything if i plug the usb in, but i am able to move stuff to and from my SD card by just putting the SD card in the computer.
took to sprint to try and get it repaired BUT cause they saw i was rooted they said they cant help me because i am rooted.
by the way i have tried VARIOUS methods of trying to get the usb to work by using 4 different usb cables. uninstall and install the drivers. different usb slots in the computer.
all keep showing
"USB device not recognized"
I had this problem when I was getting ready to upgrade from rooted DK18 to EB13. I wanted to backup my stuff first but the usb wouldn't recognize mass storage. I think I may have broke something when I started removing apk's and disabled touchwiz in favor of launcher pro. The phone worked fine but mass storage was not available. When I installed the Epic drivers on my laptop and connected my phone, the mass storage still wasn't recognized but Odin did see a connection.
If Odin still sees your connection on a different pc (disregard the windows error), then flash whatever firmware you need and all should be well.
Let me know if this helps.
PS....Don't forget to disconnect and reconnect your phone at least twice after installing drivers on a new pc. It takes at least 2 reconnects to install the drivers correctly...at least thats always been my experience.
im getting nothing in odin =/
Yes, but have you tried connecting to a different pc. I had the exact same issue on my desktop pc and then I tried on my laptop. For some unknown reason Odin worked fine (but still no mass storage).
At first I thought there was something wrong with my desktop's usb ports but after I flashed back to stock, suddenly mass storage was available on both my laptop and the original pc. Don't ask me why, it just worked.
Doesn't doing a hard reset make you lose ur root?
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I have a dilemma. This morning my usb was working fine but I needed to get back to stock and unrooted. I flashed the system.img from the NDR90X factory image and wiped my data (not userdata however because I didn't want to lose everything) the phone booted up just fine and operates fine, other then it doesn't mount on my pc anymore. fastboot and adb do not work for me either. I tried mounting on both windows and linux, I tried using another computer, and I have tried mounting through the recovery. none of these have worked. I cant try going back to complete stock because fastboot is not recognizing the device either. the phone still charges fine with no problems. But I still am getting the feeling that maybe the usb port has malfunction. I was hoping that maybe someone could help me with this problem and reaching a solution. I don't know if I can contact google about this problem because my device cannot be returned to completely stock.
I forgot to mention that after flashing the stock system.img I also flashed TWRP, and since then I am back on a custom rom to see if maybe that would fix my problem. However it still persists.
I have uploaded a picture showing what error message I am getting on windows.
Reinstall the USB drivers
hd-renegade said:
Reinstall the USB drivers
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Turns out it was the USB that doesn't work. When I got home I tried another USB that I have and it works fine.
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