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[Q] Soft Brick

I've searched all over the posts and google and have yet to find a solution. I am a MAC user and trying to restore fascinate. I am stuck at Samsung screen. I can get into Clockwork Mod Voodoo.
When i did my last backup I never enabled USB Debugging. I can not ./adb into device, nor can I use ODIN on friends PC. (No Device) Same result with Heimdal "Failed to detect Device" I would just like to get back to stock. Is there a step by step guide to recover similar to ODIN get you back to stock but for a MAC. Or since i never enabled Debug mode I should just use my warranty?

When you tried Odin, did you have the battery out and put the phone in download mode?

Kevin Gossett said:
When you tried Odin, did you have the battery out and put the phone in download mode?
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Yes, I did see the Yellow triangle Droid character w/ shovel

So, battery out and in download mode, Odin doesn't recognize? Hm

Kevin Gossett said:
So, battery out and in download mode, Odin doesn't recognize? Hm
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I feel because I never enabled debug mode originally.

Does it recognize the phone at all? Maybe the drivers need to be updated
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Morning, I'm attempting to resolve the same issue. I have the "Yellow Shovel" Andy but I can't get Odin to recognize the device.
The device was fine and Odin was working last night, however I do believe I did something ridiculous last night. I tried flashing my phone with a Nexus S rom and succeeded. HOWEVER, the only buttons that are recognized are the "Home" and "Menu" soft keys.
I can boot into the 2.3 Nexus S rom but I can't get the hardware to recognize anymore.
UPDATE: I managed to get the USB to recognize. I'm not completely sure how, it just started recognizing it after fidgeting with the cable. I'm not flashing it back to stock using ODIN and the following post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867648
UPDATE: The link above worked. I recommend using the stock USB cable that comes with the phone. Now that it's back.. I'm curious to know what I would have to change for 2.3 to work.. hm..

Kevin Gossett said:
Does it recognize the phone at all? Maybe the drivers need to be updated
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Come to think of it I did update the drivers on my friends PC but there was an error installing drivers. He had a Windows XP 32bit device (Did install the 32bit drivers X86) Im going to try my other buddies PC he has Vista should that make a difference?

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rolo12010 said:
Come to think of it I did update the drivers on my friends PC but there was an error installing drivers. He had a Windows XP 32bit device (Did install the 32bit drivers X86) Im going to try my other buddies PC he has Vista should that make a difference?
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UPDATE: My buddy brought over his PC and got it restored! looking good now. We just updated the samsung drivers. restarted the machine. And it worked. Will update w/ the file he used. Thanks for the help and feedback.

Help, my phone is now a mess! - no odin, bad clockwork

My phone is running DL30 based Blackhole 4.01 with the DL09 modem. When I try to plug my phone into a computer, the phone detects the computer, but the computer does not detect the phone.
- The phone starts charging
- The phone says "USB Debugging Connected"
- The computer does nothing
- adb devices lists no devices
- same thing in download mode, the computer doesn't see the phone
I have tried on OS X and booted into Windows XP.
I have no idea how to handle this. The one thing I tried was installing the Stock/rooted DL30 rom instead of Blackhole, but that didn't seem to fix and I went back.
To make matters worse, assuming that everything in ROM Manager is basically safe, I accidentally installed orange clockwork today and I cannot figure out how to get back to a working clockwork. The All ClockworkMod Recoveries option in ROM Manager does nothing - they all say download error.
Wow. If anybody can help with any of this, that would be great. Thanks everyone.

Did you install the proper samsung drivers onto the computer.
Edit: Also did you try to Odin, the title indicates no odin, but your explanation doesnt say so. (Open Odin, remove battery, hold down volume and insert usb cable)

what do you mean "onto my phone?" My Windows system has samsung drivers and OS X were both previously able to connect, use odin, etc. I don't know when it stopped working.
Yeah, odin doesn't work because the computer never detects that the phone is attached.

BatsShadow said:
what do you mean "onto my phone?" My Windows system has samsung drivers and OS X were both previously able to connect, use odin, etc. I don't know when it stopped working.
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Sorry, meant computer.
What do you mean odin stopped working, your explanation doesnt say anything about odin as my edit in above post.

What I mean is that I used odin to install DL09. After that, I don't recall every attaching to my computer, but when I tried recently to install EB01, it no longer works. Sometime after flashing DL09, my phone is no longer detected by computer.

Im saying does odin detect the phone, not the computer.
You can odin the updated CWM (non orange) from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942021

no, odin does not see the phone.

Have you put your phone in debugging mode
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Read the first posy pleaseeee...
okubricko said:
Have you put your phone in debugging mode
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Are you sure Odin doesn't work?
Check USB settings on your phone. My rom gives me media player mode and mass storage mode. Don't have my cable with me to test if media player mode stays hidden from the pc.

wynalazca said:
Are you sure Odin doesn't work?
Check USB settings on your phone. My rom gives me media player mode and mass storage mode. Don't have my cable with me to test if media player mode stays hidden from the pc.
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Odin uses download mode with phone off.. What would this matter?
Sent from my Rocking dj05, themed superdark w/o swype mod, voodoo 5, with custom boot and shutdown.. With premium xda app.

I was IRL with OP trying to solve this a few days ago. It's not that improper/no drivers are installed, the computer literally does not detect that there is a device connected to that USB port. lsusb on Linux turns up just the controllers and root hubs, and devmgmt.msc on XP does not show anything attached at all, even after a manual hardware scan. adb shows absolutely nothing. My Captivate does show up on all the same scans, regardless of the USB mode (Kies/mass storage/media player/what have you.)
He has tried this on multiple computers, so individual ports/USB controllers/drivers/OS bugaboos have been effectively ruled out.
My thought is that between your last flash, OP, and now, your physical microUSB port on the phone is damaged. If you no can haz insurance, I'd say you're SOL.

FYI: The phone does not say "debugging connected" when plugged into the wall. I think the my USB connector is damaged or something. I may consider seeing if I can get it repaired, or I may just wait until I can get a different phone that's better supported by manufacturer (and therefore by the mod community)

Samsung vibrant usb problem...genius help need :(

Hello Guys...GretoVerno here fellow Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant Owner...
I have this phone and everytime i connect it to usb i Get the Message
"USB Device Not Recognized" error message...I have installed all the drivers i could possible find on the internet and the error still pops up...i ahve tried using the phone in USB Debugging mode to no avail what so ever...
Someone Please help if there's a genius out there...I really love this phone

Uninstall the Samsung drivers off your computer. Then reinstall make sure that have the correct version windows 32 bit or 64 bit for the correct operating format. Make sure you give admin rights to it. you can find these drivers in the Noob bible by S15274N in the Gen section. I am assuming there is not a problem with your phone. If you have a friend, check it on their computer, that's an easy way to rule out phone issues. That should resolve what ever problem you have.
There ia another way to check, that is have a friend with odin (or you) and see if Odin recognizes, if it does, then you got it solved or at the very least Odin back to stock and reinstall a new rom, this will solve all these issues as well.
Hope you get it, good luck

Had an issue with my brother in laws comp not recognizing his vibrant. Took an hour or two to get his phone recognized. I think we ended up using the drivers from pdanet instead of the official danny drivers. First try getting your phone to work on another comp. Will help narrow down the issue by 50%
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Windows cannot recognize my vibrant!
Hopefully someone can help me out as I am having the
same problem with my computer not recognizing my phone.
The thing is that I am already running Froyo stock 2.2
and at the time I was able to update it to 2.2 my
computer recognized my phone without a problem. I have
been reading the forums for a while now and the only
time anyone had this problem was when they first bought
the phone when it was released but here is my problem.
After updating Kies mini and installing the official
Samsung drivers from the Samsung website I plug in the
phone and i get the error that windows does not
recognize the device. I have tried this on Windows Xp
and Windows 7 on 2 different laptops and got the same
error everytime. So what I did was while on Windows Xp I
uninstalled the unknown driver and I kept plugging and
unplugging the phone and uninstalling the unknown driver
until I got my computer to finally recognize my phone.
Once my computer recognized my phone I Then started
downloading the recent update, when the download was
done as soon as my phone went into download mode my
computer kicked out my phone and gave me the error that
windows does not recognize the device and at that time
Kies mini gave me the emergency recovery notice which I
didnt have to use because the phone booted fine without
fail.
You should also know that prior to the recent
update from tmobile for minor bug fixes I tried to root
my vibrant using the superoneclick root program. Upon
doing this after fighting with my vibrant and my laptop
to communicate with each other my computer recognized
the phone and I attempted to root. Then I got the
looping message and at that time windows did not
recognize my device which then messed up my modem and I
had to do a system restore. So after weeks of fustration
trying to root and now not able to downlaod the recent
update I am now asking for your help as XDA has been
there for us all. I have tried samsung drivers, kies mini
drivers and pdanet drivers and get the same windows
doesn't recognize my device everytime. Does anyone have
any ideas as what I can do to get my computer to
recognize my phone as I can not do anything until my
computer and my vibrant get along. Your help is greatly
appreciated XDA thanks for all that you do!

do you guys have Samsung kies installd??
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I do and its been updated for the new update for thee recent bug fixes.

can you try a different USB chord?
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You know that's the only thing that I haven't tried should I pick one up from T-Mobile or were should I get one?

I am getting the same error and i tried a buddy's cord and it still did the same thing. Not really sure what happened. My phone was working fine just a few days ago. I am wondering if it has anything to do with the large amount of Windows Updates that just happened.

Try uninstalling your drivers and install these. I had the same problem and then I used this and it has worked on every computer. Heck even worked when I hooked up my SGS2
http://www.multiupload.com/FUL878MTJH

I had the same issue. It is a phone problem and I had to get a warranty replacement. No combo of cables or drivers would fix mine.

Well after uninstalling and reinstalling, trying new drivers, restarting countless number of times, troubleshooting through the device manager, I had the genius idea to restart my phone in a last ditch effort before i gave up and it worked.
Now i feel somewhat like a dodo. Rule #1 - Restart

GretoVerno said:
Hello Guys...GretoVerno here fellow Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant Owner...
I have this phone and everytime i connect it to usb i Get the Message
"USB Device Not Recognized" error message...I have installed all the drivers i could possible find on the internet and the error still pops up...i ahve tried using the phone in USB Debugging mode to no avail what so ever...
Someone Please help if there's a genius out there...I really love this phone
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Have you rebooted since you installed the drivers?

Well I tried those drivers from that link you provided and no dice. Im going to pick up a new usb cord from Tmobile tomorrow and see if that might be the problem. I can always use a 2nd cord for charging I guess.

djrysk said:
Well I tried those drivers from that link you provided and no dice. Im going to pick up a new usb cord from Tmobile tomorrow and see if that might be the problem. I can always use a 2nd cord for charging I guess.
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That would be the logical next step.. just to verify, you have restarted the phone and computer since installing the drivers right? If you have then its most likely the cord. Its weird these cords seem to have been giving me problems more than any previously owned ones ie regular usb or even my amp cord which I step on and rip out the amp more than i'd like to admit
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Makes sure that when you uninstall your drivers to restart your PC then reinstall and give a shot. Of course, also make sure you are using the right 64x or 86x driver.

madguitarist63 said:
Try uninstalling your drivers and install these. I had the same problem and then I used this and it has worked on every computer. Heck even worked when I hooked up my SGS2
http://www.multiupload.com/FUL878MTJH
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omg thank you! I was having the same problem! /me bows to madguitarist63 :victory:

How can I flash modem or CWM w/o sd or odin

So I can't connect my phone to any Windows PC as it says: USB device not recognized.
I tried Samsung drivers for Galaxy S phones and for the Epic 4G from three different locations and Samsung Kies and I still can't the connection to my SD card to work.
Also Odin will not recognize the phone at all either on any PC.
That is fine I can still download things on my phone with Wireless Transfer Pro application, but how can I flash the modem or install CWM without any direct connection to the phone?
Right now I'm running CWM 2.5. I want to put 3.0.25 on it and then flash the ee03 baseband and then reinstall a ee03 ROM since the one I'm currently using is being flaky.

smryan said:
So I can't connect my phone to any Windows PC as it says: USB device not recognized.
I tried Samsung drivers for Galaxy S phones and for the Epic 4G from three different locations and Samsung Kies and I still can't the connection to my SD card to work.
Also Odin will not recognize the phone at all either on any PC.
That is fine I can still download things on my phone with Wireless Transfer Pro application, but how can I flash the modem or install CWM without any direct connection to the phone?
Right now I'm running CWM 2.5. I want to put 3.0.25 on it and then flash the ee03 baseband and then reinstall a ee03 ROM since the one I'm currently using is being flaky.
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With phone unplugged, go into device manager and delete everything samsung, sprint, epic, google, android, adb or galaxy s. With phone still unplugged, install the galaxy s drivers, reboot, plug on phone.
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Firswt thing I will always ask is did you turn off anti-virus and firewall. After that I will answer any question I can field.

There's a flashable zip for the new cwm but as far for the modem u can't flash it with cwm at the moment.
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The Root said:
Firswt thing I will always ask is did you turn off anti-virus and firewall. After that I will answer any question I can field.
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Yeah my windows firewall is off and antivirus (windows security essentials) process is gone.
I just need to know where to get the correct drivers so Odin will work. I do the 1+power key to get to the yellow logo screen but it won't detect the phone.
I already uninstalled anything samsung usb related in my add/remove programs.

smryan said:
Yeah my windows firewall is off and antivirus (windows security essentials) process is gone.
I just need to know where to get the correct drivers so Odin will work. I do the 1+power key to get to the yellow logo screen but it won't detect the phone.
I already uninstalled anything samsung usb related in my add/remove programs.
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Try device manager. Install drivers before plugging in phone. Look at my new thread.
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smryan said:
Yeah my windows firewall is off and antivirus (windows security essentials) process is gone.
I just need to know where to get the correct drivers so Odin will work. I do the 1+power key to get to the yellow logo screen but it won't detect the phone.
I already uninstalled anything samsung usb related in my add/remove programs.
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Where are the drivers you got from? and if so, have you uninstalled them yet?

The Root said:
Where are the drivers you got from? and if so, have you uninstalled them yet?
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I got one here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SPH-D700ZKASPR
And the other here (64-bit: I have Windows 7 64-bit)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929

smryan said:
I got one here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SPH-D700ZKASPR
And the other here (64-bit: I have Windows 7 64-bit)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
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Look at my drivers post. It gives the correct ones.
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marcusant said:
Look at my drivers post. It gives the correct ones.
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Ok i'll try those. And yeah, I uninstalled everything from device manager and add/remove programs that relates to the phone.

So I installed those drivers, restarted my computer, turned off my phone and then pressed 1 + power to get to "Downloading... Do not turn off Target!!!!" screen, loaded up Odin, and plugged my micro USB cable in to phone and computer and it still gives the the error "USB device not recognized"
The cable used still charges my phone, do you think its a bad cable?

Esteway.619 said:
There's a flashable zip for the new cwm but as far for the modem u can't flash it with cwm at the moment.
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Can you give me the link to this please?

Try another cable or another usb port if in front try one in back or vise verse.

smryan said:
Can you give me the link to this please?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1115999
Here u go buddy
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try it without the battery in... or wise up and ditch odin, learn heimdall

tazfanatic said:
Try another cable or another usb port if in front try one in back or vise verse.
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This one ^
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smryan said:
So I installed those drivers, restarted my computer, turned off my phone and then pressed 1 + power to get to "Downloading... Do not turn off Target!!!!" screen, loaded up Odin, and plugged my micro USB cable in to phone and computer and it still gives the the error "USB device not recognized"
The cable used still charges my phone, do you think its a bad cable?
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1. if you're using the factory Samsung cable, toss it and get a good cable.
2. If you still can't get any of the drivers to install or work properly (I couldn't either, I'm running Win7 Ultimate 64 bit).. find and install PDAnet. Select Samsung, follow all instructions carefully during install. You can un-install it when you're done but this was the method that involved the least drinking to accomplish for me.
If this helps (or any members suggestion for that matter) remember to hit the thanks button.

Thanks guys. It turned out the original Samsung cable was bad. It could still charge but for whatever reason it could not connect to the phone's SD card over USB.

Help please... Can't boot or get pc to see phone

Problem:
my darn phone won't boot unless I use same battery. I can't get my laptop to recognize phone even in boot loader mode. The only way I can boot phone is to battery pull or plug it in. I'm stuck. Can't odin without pc seeing it, wives phone works great same pc same cable same batteries. Can't shut it off as plugging it in reboots it.... Can't do usb storage....
Tried:
1) I installed several roms after clearing everything, factory reset, and nothing works. I even reinstalled clockwork. Please help.... 2) my wived phone works with my pc and other batteries.
3) wives phone on same rom
4) I have same issue from stock rom or my current rom clean gb even without any personal apps or changes
Please help.
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Try putting it into download without a battery. Have Odin ready, plug in usb cable without battery in then put it into download mode. Odin in EC05 stock tar, then root and flash after that.
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Dang..... Nope..... Pc doesnt reconize.....i had fingers crossed.. Hummm.. ItS like phone is stuck in some sort of boot mode....
Awhile back i deleted the boot animation and shutdown animation files... I wonder if that did something. Since then clean gb rom has installed new animations files which work..
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Not to sound dumb, but are you using the same cord as your wife to try and make transfers? I have a computer in my living room, with 2 different USB Cords that my wife and I use for charging in the evenings. One of them connects to the computer properly, the other is unreliable for data and wont ever recognize a phone attached to it. Figured I'd ask so you can rule that out.
Also if the USB port is plugged into a hub, or front of the PC, try moving it to a USB port in the back of your PC that is directly attached to the motherboard. Also make sure there is nothing inside your phone USB slot. I have had some crap get in there (hence the slider on top I NEVER close when I unplug it, ) and it wouldn't connect to PC either.
These are both obvious solutions but we might as well try and start there. Let me know. I'd say uninstall/reinstall the drivers on the computer also, but if one phone works, and the other doesn't so it's not the drivers.

I had a similiar problem where my GF's phone connected fine with USB debugging on but my phone wouldn't. Tried goin back to stock...everything. Finally just put USB debugging on, plugged my phone in, went to Device Manager and where it said Samsung Android, I hit update drivers from Windows Update. Took like 20 minutes but everything worked fine after that.

I am using same chord and port as I did with my wives phone. Good question. I cleaned the contacts in the usb port still nothing. I had usb debugging on... Just tried it with it off nothing.... I really think I may have garbage data or something messing it up. When I installed ask these roms over the last year I only cleared data like once every 10-20 rom loads our when the rom did it itself. I've never had any issues til now.
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Did you reinstall all 5 drivers and then try to Odin back to stock with battery out?

I have reinstalled all the drivers and used my wifes phone to compete installs as it wouldn't recognize mine. once we figure this out I will certainly odin to stock and start clean!
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Dumb question.... is your wives phone the same phone as yours? ..... try going to the samsung website. Navigate to your phone and you can grab the drivers from there....
That's how I got mine.
Sent from my Cyanogen Epic.

troyolson92 said:
I have reinstalled all the drivers and used my wifes phone to compete installs as it wouldn't recognize mine. once we figure this out I will certainly odin to stock and start clean!
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If it comes up as unknown device then you'll need to go into the device manager and unistall the software for it. Then advance install the drivers for the unknown device it should then recognise the phone and install the Samsung usb composite device, gadget serial control, and the Samsung mobile Modem. Hope this helps
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Try these drivers may make a difference its for win 32 bit

Thank you and every one for your help! I will try to install the driver file you attached. I do appreciate your help.
wife has same phone exact same setup as mine. What keeps driving me crazy its her works fine, mine is unknown device. I will try to install drivers again as suggested.... I'll report back in the morning,.thank you!
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Yeah seems like wth its the same phone ^^. But make sure you open the zip and get the drivers out. Let me know if that works I've seen this problem with certain computers it has something to do with itunes sometimes I'm sure you have itunes and if you don't then its windows sometimes needs to be reinstalled.
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Samsung Galaxy S2 Stuck in ODIN Mode
I too have a similar issue.
My Sprint Samsung Galaxy S2 fails to connect to my computer (also tried another computer and different usb cable), after a failed attempt to upgrade to ICS 4.0. The phone will not load up now to 'normal' operating mode.
It will only come up to the message:
"Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
I can no longer get into Recovery or Download modes. At least none that work. (See below)
I also built and tried the USB jig solution, which does power on the phone, but it then comes up and says:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME" GT-19100
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: YES (2 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL
Downloading...
Do not turn off target!!
Any ideas?

Perhaps you can ask in the correct Epic Touch thread instead of the Epic with the keyboard thread. More likely someone there will be able to help you.
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