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Does epic have a built in recovery mode?

Not this aggan .. if you read the stickies you should get an answer.....
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dannyniceboy said:
Does epic have a built in recovery mode?
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yes you have to power off and press up up down down left right left right b a select start
.... or something like that

Is this how to load froyo on to your epic because I cant find any threads explaining how to put it on my phone.

it says i need odin? does that load odin?

Have u read the wiki? Are u rooted? click here for wiki do some research before must install clockwork after rootng....don't forget samsung drivers for your computer.
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Read the wiki
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thanks man! i really love this phone. I am trying to build a rom, I have htis image but I dont really know where to go from here

Did you downloaded the android sdk
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Wait u don't even know how to load a rom and u wanna build one? U know linux or something?
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do i need that for a rom? how od you download linux on windows

This is gonna b awesome
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I call bs.
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Linux is a operating system like windows u cant download linux on windows u cant just come here knowing nothing and build a rom. Read th wiki for installation instructions!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SPH-D700
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Wow.
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"I call bs"
wtf dude just because i dont know how to program linux doesnt mean i cant make a rom I am willing to learn

dannyniceboy said:
do i need that for a rom? how od you download linux on windows
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Look into a program called vmware workstation and you can actually use that to install linux within windows

Try virtualbox is free and is about good as vmware
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decalex said:
I call bs.
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on the entire thread - yous trollin

ragnarokx said:
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on the entire thread - yous trollin
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For sure dude! Lol
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Phone wont boot up

I tried running the syndicate rom. Worked fine until I tried rebooting it. Now it will notboot and just show the Samsung letters. What should do? I went to best buy and sprint stores and they couldn't fix it. I tried taking out the battery too. What should I do?!

can you get into download mode or clockwork recovery?
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I can get it into download mode, fortunately. I don't know where to go from there.
Clockwork recovery won't boot up, however.

Search how to fix a bricked epicand download odin and somewhere on the pages of that post is the link fr the di18 but if you can't use it use the dg07 or whatever then make shure you have the drivers on your computor and follow the directions on the odin post and your phone should be fine as long as yur doing everything right
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I'm assuming this method won't work on a mac.
I am familiar with this, but there would be no way for me to access it.
Hmm, any other suggestions?

Umm I thought that there was a post that supported mac but I don't remember what itscalled its not odin ill try to find the post tho give me a few minutes.
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deano0714 said:
Umm I thought that there was a post that supported mac but I don't remember what itscalled its not odin ill try to find the post tho give me a few minutes.
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Alright, thank you so much!
I'll look as well.
Update: Okay, I found something called heimdall which should work. Downloading now!

It is called hemdall or something I think you jus have to download the odin flash on tat post and extract it an put all the files in the right places they say the names on them id try it out I mean it can't make it any worse than it is... here is te link for hemdall http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/ and the link for the how to fix a bricked epic is herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773032 you shuld find the di18 version somwhere on that post and the pit is on the first post.
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Ahh I didn't se you already found it hopefully it works for you I bricked my epic once and I was so scared that it wouldn't work again but odin saved my life and hopefully heimdall will help you out to... if you have anymore quesions just ask me were all guna have to do this at one point.
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deano0714 said:
Ahh I didn't se you already found it hopefully it works for you I bricked my epic once and I was so scared that it wouldn't work again but odin saved my life and hopefully heimdall will help you out to... if you have anymore quesions just ask me were all guna have to do this at one point.
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Thank you so much. I'm a little confused on where to put the PDA
Also, I'm worried my computer wont recognize my phone.
If this doesn't work, do you think I should try replacing it?

Ok did you download the odin file the like 200mb one, if you did it should be a .tar file or a .md5 if its .md5 then remove that extension and it sould just be .tar after that extract all the files in there ona folder on your desktop or something and put all the files in there in the heimall applicaion, al the files should be named the same thing in the app as in your folder and then put the pit which was a separate download on the how to fix a bricked epic in the first post in the pit section and plug in your phone but make shure you put the phone in download mode before it gets plugged in and hit start and your computor should reconize your phone if you have the proper drivers installed. As for replacing it I would go for it if you have insureance just say itslost or stolen or se if the sprint store will replace it for a cheaper price but if worst comes to worst you will have to pay aother hundred dollars fr a new phone.
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deano0714 said:
Ok did you download the odin file the like 200mb one, if you did it should be a .tar file or a .md5 if its .md5 then remove that extension and it sould just be .tar after that extract all the files in there ona folder on your desktop or something and put all the files in there in the heimall applicaion, al the files should be named the same thing in the app as in your folder and then put the pit which was a separate download on the how to fix a bricked epic in the first post in the pit section and plug in your phone but make shure you put the phone in download mode before it gets plugged in and hit start and your computor should reconize your phone if you have the proper drivers installed. As for replacing it I would go for it if you have insureance just say itslost or stolen or se if the sprint store will replace it for a cheaper price but if worst comes to worst you will have to pay aother hundred dollars fr a new phone.
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Tried it all. I was right.
It doesn't recognize the phone. The phone's red led light won't even flash up anymore.

Do you have the drivers installed?
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deano0714 said:
Do you have the drivers installed?
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Macs don't need drivers. It's worked for me before.

Oh well did you put it in download mode before it was plugged in
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deano0714 said:
Oh well did you put it in download mode before it was plugged in
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Yes; it won't even charge with my regular USB cable anymore.

And you can't even get to the samsung screen either?
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deano0714 said:
And you can't even get to the samsung screen either?
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All I get when I power it up is simple "Samsung" text. It will not boot up into the start-up animation

Do you have any friends with windows computors or acces through a library or something or work or school odin seems to work better.
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deano0714 said:
Do you have any friends with windows computors or acces through a library or something or work or school odin seems to work better.
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I have tried using my friend's windows computer for a different purpose in Odin. Although, I couldn't get Samsung Drivers to work on his mac. (I realized that he had vista though, and I downloaded a w7 version, so I don't know if it would've worked anyway) Besides, he's out of town for the next two weeks.
Honestly, I'll try go into the Sprint store tomorrow and see if they can replace my device, no matter the expense.
That way at least, I won't have to go through the troubles later of having to flash back to DK17 through Odin after running the DK28 leak on my phone already.
Thanks for your help though; I really appreciate it.

Epic root on mac help!

Hey everyone want to say thanks in advance but I tryed to do the one click root on my mac but nothing works on the downlad. I'm running dk28 and I was wondering if there's a step by step video that shows how to root the dk28 epic? Thanks again for your help
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Since you are on dk28b it seems that you can get odin to work on yur mac. I would suggest just flashing the stock dk28 ext that is pre rooted through odin, its in the dev section
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Sh0wNuF said:
Since you are on dk28b it seems that you can get odin to work on yur mac. I would suggest just flashing the stock dk28 ext that is pre rooted through odin, its in the dev section
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Ohh ok but u think odin wll work on a mac I thought that was a windows program?
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Estewa_619 said:
Hey everyone want to say thanks in advance but I tryed to do the one click root on my mac but nothing works on the downlad. I'm running dk28 and I was wondering if there's a step by step video that shows how to root the dk28 epic? Thanks again for your help
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There are no videos that I know of and your question is very vague. First of all, have you put your phone in USB debugging mode? If so, then try other USB ports and if that doesn't work try a different computer. That is the only help I can give you. If you are using the oneclickrootandrecovery made by Drockstar it is rock solid and very very easy to use.
Sh0wNuF said:
Since you are on dk28b it seems that you can get odin to work on yur mac. I would suggest just flashing the stock dk28 ext that is pre rooted through odin, its in the dev section
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Wow, just wow. Please don't respond to any more questions. Heimdall is the program for Macs but most people I've talked to cannot get it to work. If you have a newer Mac and want to continue flashing I would recommend getting a copy of Windows and using it to use Odin.

kenvan19 said:
There are no videos that I know of and your question is very vague. First of all, have you put your phone in USB debugging mode? If so, then try other USB ports and if that doesn't work try a different computer. That is the only help I can give you. If you are using the oneclickrootandrecovery made by Drockstar it is rock solid and very very easy to use.
Wow, just wow. Please don't respond to any more questions. Heimdall is the program for Macs but most people I've talked to cannot get it to work. If you have a newer Mac and want to continue flashing I would recommend getting a copy of Windows and using it to use Odin.
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Yeah I was thinking of doing that thanks for all your inputs ill try to see if I can find a windows 7 install dvd to use with my mac
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Dj05 issues

I updated to dj05 and my text messages doesn't work. I need the radio file and I cant find it. the dj05 modem.tar file I have I cant get odin to flash it. I also have 1212testnovodoo file and cant seem to get it to work. Someone please help
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How are you trying to flash the modem? You can't flash the modem in clockwork like the ROM/Kernel, you need to flash it with Odin.

I tried both ways. The downloads I got are not files they look like paper and I cannot even open them on my pc.
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Can anyone help.
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Do you know what odin is? You don't need to open the files. Just flash a DI01 rom back and you will be fine.
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considering its very likely there will be some update coming out for the Fascinate on Monday... why not just wait for that?

Does the modem file have a file extension on it? I seem to remember having an issue where I downloaded one of the DJ05 files, and it it didn't have a file extension on it and wouldn't work. I believe I fixed it by just adding the appropriate extension onto the file. Might not have been the modem file, though.

beeblebrux said:
Does the modem file have a file extension on it? I seem to remember having an issue where I downloaded one of the DJ05 files, and it it didn't have a file extension on it and wouldn't work. I believe I fixed it by just adding the appropriate extension onto the file. Might not have been the modem file, though.
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The modem file is a .tar file. To flash via Odin, you need to ensure you are using Odin 3 and not Odin 4 (it will not work with Odin 4) and load it as a PDA file to flash.

I have odin v4.16 i**** this the right one? If not can you give me a link for the correct one
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superchunkwii said:
considering its very likely there will be some update coming out for the Fascinate on Monday... why not just wait for that?
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Ive been waiting for and update for months. I gave up hope on that concept. Samsung hung us out to dry.
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piperat said:
I have odin v4.16 i**** this the right one? If not can you give me a link for the correct one
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No, that is why you are having issues (I tried it initially using 4.16 and it failed, switched to v3 and it worked no problem).
There is a link to it in one of the odin threads in this forum, I can't find it atm but will post it when I get home.

Thank you cant wait
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I actually had an issue updating also, ended up being I was doing it from a 64bit system, tried it on a 32bit system I had, and it worked fine. I have heard people saying that they did it from a 64bit, but I didn't have any success.

[Q] Bricked my Epic and my mac isn't recognizing my phone!

I had MIUI installed on my phone, I tried going to a different ROM and I ended up bricking my phone. It was starting to load the new rom then it powered off and then restarted and has not gone past the samsung screen. My phone is able to go into download mode and so I tried reloading software using heimdall and my Mac is not recognizing my phone. I've tried almost every trick I can think of to get it to recognize, no good. Am I SOL? Or does someone know something I don't to get it to work?

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I had MIUI installed on my phone, I tried going to a different ROM and I ended up bricking my phone. It was starting to load the new rom then it powered off and then restarted and has not gone past the samsung screen. My phone is able to go into download mode and so I tried reloading software using heimdall and my Mac is not recognizing my phone. I've tried almost every trick I can think of to get it to recognize, no good. Am I SOL? Or does someone know something I don't to get it to work?
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Well your not SOL because it gets into download mode, which also means you're not bricked just sponged... I know nothing about heimdall but it seems as though aot of people have problems getting heimdall to recognize their epics... I strongly suggest finding a friend who has windows and use odin... sorry I can't be of more help... but as long as you can get into download mode there is hope...
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I don't know if it will help but post 2 in the following thread has info about Heimdall and some links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813

Heimdall for mac seems to be pretty much borked I couldn't get my macbook to recognize the phone either.. either use bootcamp to boot into windows on your mac and odin, or DL everything you'll need, odin, tarball, samsung drivers etc to a flash drive and drive over to a friends with a windows machine, it will go really quick if u have everything u need
You can't get into clockword recovery, right?
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dont worry u can fix this.as the other guy said your gonna have to put all the files in a flash drive and then take it to a windows computer. form there first install samsung drivers. Once done open odin and connect ur phone. put it in download mode. also i believe your going to have to repartition. but dont worry, odin will do this for you. I can give u links to the stock files if youd like and i will guide you through it. if u want help then just reply to this post
what you did is: MIUI is a MTD ROM therefore your phone was MTD and not BML and you probably tried flashing a BML ROM this caused confusion and just bricked it

joe_d08_17 said:
dont worry u can fix this.as the other guy said your gonna have to put all the files in a flash drive and then take it to a windows computer. form there first install samsung drivers. Once done open odin and connect ur phone. put it in download mode. also i believe your going to have to repartition. but dont worry, odin will do this for you. I can give u links to the stock files if youd like and i will guide you through it. if u want help then just reply to this post
what you did is: MIUI is a MTD ROM therefore your phone was MTD and not BML and you probably tried flashing a BML ROM this caused confusion and just bricked it
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Its not bricked if he can get to download mode... a brick is when it doesn't turn on at all... but yes find a windows computer and use odin...
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Just so u know heimdall doesn't work with the epic because something to do with the epics boot loader. Is the only galaxy s phone that I know of that heimdall will not work on Mac.
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Esteway.619 said:
Just so u know heimdall doesn't work with the epic because something to do with the epics boot loader. Is the only galaxy s phone that I know of that heimdall will not work on Mac.
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Wrong!!! I know plenty of people that have used heimdall successfully to flash their epics...
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Oh my bad. Thanks for the info. At least I won't sound like such a noob from now on

step 1. take said mac out back and smash it with a baseball bat.
step 2. buy a pc.
step 3. flash phone.
step 4. ???
step 5. profit!!!

flastnoles11 said:
Wrong!!! I know plenty of people that have used heimdall successfully to flash their epics...
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On a Mac? Cuz it will work on windows but not a Mac.
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Esteway.619 said:
On a Mac? Cuz it will work on windows but not a Mac.
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Yes. At a minimum I have seen command line options for Heimdall for those that couldn't get the gui working.
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Esteway.619 said:
On a Mac? Cuz it will work on windows but not a Mac.
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Yes on a mac... it works... its just a pain in the ass...
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flastnoles11 said:
Yes on a mac... it works... its just a pain in the ass...
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Strange cuz when I had my epic I could never get it to work but I did notice now that heimdall got updated maybe that fixed the issue lol. I've been away from the epic for a long time now.
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This thread may help those having trouble getting Heimdall to work on a MAC:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412931

flastnoles11 said:
Wrong!!! I know plenty of people that have used heimdall successfully to flash their epics...
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Not on a mac. Secondary boot loader is incompatible. Was fixed on other variants not on the epic. Even mentioned on the heimdall site at one time.
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stilesja said:
Not on a mac. Secondary boot loader is incompatible. Was fixed on other variants not on the epic. Even mentioned on the heimdall site at one time.
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Whatever you say man.... I've seen it work on the epic...
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flastnoles11 said:
Its not bricked if he can get to download mode... a brick is when it doesn't turn on at all... but yes find a windows computer and use odin...
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And also try a new user cable. Sometimes the cable can't make the best connection, and it fails during Odin. That's what happened to mine.
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Or you can buy or use a PC, download the drivers, download Odin and resurrect your epic....easier that way.
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flastnoles11 said:
Whatever you say man.... I've seen it work on the epic...
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Not what I say, man. Chris41 and others explain it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1109850
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