Few issues (Totally NooB - Vibrant General

Hey guys i have an issue trying to make the phone recognize the PC. ThePC recognizes with no problem everytime I put the data cable in the phone and PC but the device doesnt give me options to connect to PC.
Is that a normal bug withing BIOX-v 1.3.1? Is there anything I can try?
I want to flash a new Kernel but with out access to the sd card is many things I cant do.
Any ideas?
The phone tells me is connected but is actually NOT at my PC.

Did you mount your sd card when you plug in the usb cable? Just use the pull down menu when you connect and select mount. If this doesn't work, there was a flashable fix from team whiskey in the development forum. I'm on my phone, so can't search and post link as the search on the xda app sucks royally.
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dougstoner said:
Did you mount your sd card when you plug in the usb cable? Just use the pull down menu when you connect and select mount. If this doesn't work, there was a flashable fix from team whiskey in the development forum. I'm on my phone, so can't search and post link as the search on the xda app sucks royally.
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I read an article about an app like the one u talking about. II have read so much that I cant even recalled where it was. If you can point me to it later I will appreciate mate.
Thanks

Also have notice that I cant install or un-install apps as it takes for ever loading the process but no success
Any ideas what is wrong

My first suggestion is to reflash your ROM. Occasionally something doesn't quite sit right the first time.

CrazyCharlie said:
My first suggestion is to reflash your ROM. Occasionally something doesn't quite sit right the first time.
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ohh wow, so by doing this I have to install back again and load the kernel again ? or is just reflash roms and thats it. Sorry Im learning as we speak but reading as much as I can. I have already brick my vibrant more then 8 times 2 on purpose to learn more about my phone. lol

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[HELP] AT&T Logo on Facinate booting

Hello guys,
I have problem with my friends facinate.
I don't know what he did but when I tried to boot this phone, I see those logo.
I can't get into recovery mode or odin mode.
Please help me guys~!
brozroy said:
Hello guys,
I have problem with my friends facinate.
I don't know what he did but when I tried to boot this phone, I see those logo.
I can't get into recovery mode or odin mode.
Please help me guys~!
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looks like he tried booting captivate firmware on his fascinate
nitsuj17 said:
looks like he tried booting captivate firmware on his fascinate
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How can I get into odin3
Make sure you have the fascinate drivers.
Pull the battery.
Connect phone via USB to your computer.
Hold volume down button then press power.
That should boot it into download (Odin) mode
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K40 said:
Make sure you have the fascinate drivers.
Pull the battery.
Connect phone via USB to your computer.
Hold volume down button then press power.
That should boot it into download (Odin) mode
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It works on my phone. But not on this phone. Is there any other way?
Thanks
Only other way, that I am aware of, is to boot holding the volume down button with the battery in then connect to USB after the downloader launches.
Did your friend possibly install CWM? If so try holding both volume buttons down and going through Clock Work Mod.
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Also if you can boot using the second method but don't have CWM installed you can possibly add another ROM named update.zip to the root of the sdcard and use the standard recovery launcher.
This information may be innacurate I come more from Palm Pre tweaking, but I believe that's what I read.
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I have never seen a Galaxy S phone not be able to get to download mode.. but I think I've only seen one other person dumb enough to flash a Capitvate rom / kernel onto a Fascinate..
That being said, if removing the battery (don't put it back in), plugging in USB and holding volume-down doesn't bring up download mode, you're screwed. The phone obviously needs to be made inoperable before returning. An easy way to do that would be to disconnect the cable to the screen. Alternatively, and much more dangerously, you could microwave if for a few seconds at a time until it dies.
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Alternatively, and much more dangerously, you could microwave if for a few seconds at a time until it dies.
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Are you serious?
Inoperable would be a last ditch effort in my opinion. Mistakes happen. These are the kind of mistakes that not only the OP and his friend learn from but also the community as a whole. If we can get him through this we also learn how to help others that make similar mistakes.
Modding / hacking whatever you wish to call it comes down to learning. We learn what works and what doesn't and we try to help others not make those mistakes. I prefer to try everything before nuking a phone that can be recovered.
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K40 said:
Inoperable would be a last ditch effort in my opinion. Mistakes happen. These are the kind of mistakes that not only the OP and his friend learn from but also the community as a whole. If we can get him through this we also learn how to help others that make similar mistakes.
Modding / hacking whatever you wish to call it comes down to learning. We learn what works and what doesn't and we try to help others not make those mistakes. I prefer to try everything before nuking a phone that can be recovered.
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Thanks. I hope there is other way to flash it.
Keep trying holding both volume buttons down while powering up. If you can get into the default recovery or the download interface this can be corrected.
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namebrandon said:
I have never seen a Galaxy S phone not be able to get to download mode.. but I think I've only seen one other person dumb enough to flash a Capitvate rom / kernel onto a Fascinate..
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Yeah. I know. He is very young kids. I think he didn't even read title of thread.
Sorry am at work, any progress on getting the downloader to launch?
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I would gather he is at the vzw store signing into the kiosk right now and waiting for his name to be called.
good day.
Was just trying to take the small amount of information I have acquired and help the person out.
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K40 said:
Sorry am at work, any progress on getting the downloader to launch?
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Still stuck in att boot logo
brozroy said:
Still stuck in att boot logo
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To be honest, you cant fix it.
You can get it to boot once again if you can ever get it back into DL mode, but the phone wont work again. Not until we get a leak for a complete odin package, and that isnt gonna happen anytime soon.
I posted on my odin thread and pretty much any other thread i have done that you should not flash any other galaxy s device's firmware to the fascinate, they are not interchangeable like that. I hope he has insurance on his phone.
fallingup said:
To be honest, you cant fix it.
You can get it to boot once again if you can ever get it back into DL mode, but the phone wont work again. Not until we get a leak for a complete odin package, and that isnt gonna happen anytime soon.
I posted on my odin thread and pretty much any other thread i have done that you should not flash any other galaxy s device's firmware to the fascinate, they are not interchangeable like that. I hope he has insurance on his phone.
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Thank you guys. I'll just tell him. Good night
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Computer recognition help!

Have done done searching, but still can't get my phone to connect to my computer. I've tried everything that I've found posted. Doesn't mean I found then all.
I get "usb device not recognized" when I plug on my phone. I'm trying to flash the modem to get my text messaging to work. Windows 7 64bit
DL30 black hole 4.1
Any help would be appreciated.
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As most people would say, wrong place. This is a question that belongs in the general section.
Did you install the samsung driver onto your computer?
Kaze105 said:
As most people would say, wrong place. This is a question that belongs in the general section.
Did you install the samsung driver onto your computer?
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Sorry about that.
Yes divers have been installed a long time. I used to be able to connect. Then about a month ago it decided to stop. I even tried it on a XP system, same thing.
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Have you tried using a different USB cable?
mob87 said:
Have you tried using a different USB cable?
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Yes. Tried my wifes. Tried one from my BB. Tried de-bugging mode. Tried rebooting while connected. Lol
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Did you try a different USB port?
Also I would suggest updating to EB01 since DL30 isn't supported by devs and is a less stable Froyo build. Uninstall the Samsung drivers, reboot, reinstall and try it again.
Mine quit working today....i disabled usb debug then did a battery pull. Rebooted..enabled usb all is well...
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I've had this issue and have tracked it down to my BT dongle. Every time I use it on my win 7 64bit box I have to uninstall the Samsung drivers, then reinstall without the phone or the BT dongle plugged in.
Thanks for all the input. It finally started working. I installed another rom and kernel. But now I can't get odin to recognize the phone in download mode. Weird stuff....
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ragarm said:
Thanks for all the input. It finally started working. I installed another rom and kernel. But now I can't get odin to recognize the phone in download mode. Weird stuff....
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I just ran into this myslef, and I believe the Fascinate has a bit of a multiple personality disorder. When I went through the Windows registry, I found entries listing the phone as a phone, as removable storage, as a SD card reader and as a CD drive. Nothing worked - no matter what I did, Windows wouldn't recognize it as anything.
To solve it, I had to uninstall the Samsung drivers and then search through the registry, removing anything that said Samsung. A bunch of keys gave me permission errors, but after finally removing them all, I connected the phone and it was immediately recognized as an Android Device. I reloaded the Samsung drivers and everything is back to normal.
A major PITA, but I'm just glad there was a solution.
If you want to try to do the same, uninstall the Samsung drivers, open regedit and search for Samsung. Delete any key that says Samsung (assuming you don't have any other Samsung peripherals). Hopefully you won't run into the permissions problems, but if you do, let me know and I'll walk you through how to get past them.
ChrisDDD, thank you. I will try that asap. That is some great information. I will report back my findings after I'm finished.
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Well finally got around do working on this. And YES it worked. At least on my XP machine. Got some permission problems on my win 7 machine.
Chris, thanks for that bit of info. Only thing I had to do different than most was to reboot my phone in download from the menu that is installed with my kernel. I couldn't get it to work by pulling the batt and hooking up to pc. Funny stuff trying to get this stuff to work.

Frustrated, out of ideas and posts to read...

Every time I was reboot the phone goes to this menu, Odin doesn't recognize it, windows doesn't see any device attached, and no options(or combo of) have worked.
Any ideas appreciated!
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i almost bricked my phone several times but i never seen that...
dcboi said:
Every time I was reboot the phone goes to this menu, Odin doesn't recognize it, windows doesn't see any device attached, and no options(or combo of) have worked.
Any ideas appreciated!
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If you have a tmobile vibrant, you need to flash the original JDF firmware ... if you gonna flash the KB5 firmware after make sure "re-partition "is not checked off in odin ...You are getting that error cause you are missing some data files that are only in the original firmware...
ive gotten that screen when i flashed without disabling vodoo. i always use the "froyo that does not brick" flash through odin.
as they say!
power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
U can buy or make a jig I made one easy and cheap gets in download mode everytime
Oh man, everytime I odin, that screens comes by, flash froyo that doesn't brick by eugene with re-partion check, then flash a stock odin rom with unticked repartition. And there you go, a clean phone. I had to odin last night.
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Chwek13 said:
U can buy or make a jig I made one easy and cheap gets in download mode everytime
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Jig doesn't put the phone into download mode, neither does key combo+ usb+ battery insert. I think I'm screwed, unless there's a way to access a zip file from the external sdcard.
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dcboi said:
Jig doesn't put the phone into download mode, neither does key combo+ usb+ battery insert. I think I'm screwed, unless there's a way to access a zip file from the external sdcard.
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Hey, I'm helping another XDA member with the same exact problem and it took me a long time, but made good progress. He's running froyo now, but can't install apps. So I'll definitely be able to help you with this.
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Hey, I'm helping another XDA member with the same exact problem and it took me a long time, but made good progress. He's running froyo now, but can't install apps. So I'll definitely be able to help you with this.
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That would be great! I've run out of Google searches, blogs to read, and patience. I'm afraid of trying anything cause it feels like one more mistake could make me an expensive paper weight
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dcboi said:
That would be great! I've run out of Google searches, blogs to read, and patience. I'm afraid of trying anything cause it feels like one more mistake could make me an expensive paper weight
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I totally understand. Unplug the battery, take out the sim card, and sd card....leave it alone. PM me so we can set up a time to work on it and I prefer skype because of screen share, it makes it easier for me to show someone what to do.

i9100T Flashing

OK I think i need help.
I've read these forums alot and i decided to try and load Lightning ROM.
i follow all the usual instructions eg.
get to download mode
start odin
plug in phone
see the yellow box light up
find the rom file (PDA)
click start
for lightning ROM my process stops at
factoryfs.img
for CF-Root it stops at
zImage
basicailly nothing downloads to the phone. i can unplug it, reboot it and it loads my stock stuff no problems
yes i have kies installed and all the drivers seem to work.
so i have no idea why i cant push anything to the phone
any ideas?
could it have something to do with the different model number or is it something with my computer?
http://i.imgur.com/Vtot9.png
it freezes like this
select usb debugging in settings
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Tried with USB debugging on and off
No difference
Do i have to be rooted first? Like use superoneclick before i can flash other roms
Am i missing a step or something?
I think this phone may need a different kernel, hence the zImage issues
Well damn how do we go about that. Who should I speak to about this?
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inquisitorsz said:
Well damn how do we go about that. Who should I speak to about this?
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I heard of a man that goes by the name of Chuck Norris
You should talk to him
Thanks that was very helpfull.....
Has anyone managed to flash anything to a i9100T?
ive read that someone flashed a vodafone AU rom on a normal i9100 but havent seen anything for the other way round.
Wondering if im the only one or not?
Well i didnt have any of these issues with my GF's Laptop so itmust be something with my computer.
I put it down to Win 7 64bit.
Least im now happy on lightning ROM 1.5

Help rooting my device(I have tried everyting)

Hi this is my first thread but I have been reading this site for some time. Here is my problem.
I have an stock EC05 rom epic 4G recently adquired and I have tried to root it for some time but every method I tried proves to be unsuccesful(I have tried nopc method and oneclickroot) both
Of them finished unsuccesful my biggest problem with the oneclick method is that my computer(and any) can't detect my device as an pendrive, just as an modem so I'm enable to acces anything from my phone when is connected by usb(have tried usb debbuging mode on and off but nothing) I have the drivers installed I'm my pc but they don't seem to connect whit my phone(have reinstalled them but not working, the same as before) so I don't have a clue of what's wrong or missing if someone could help whit anything I would thank it a lot.
If you need to know something else I'm. Cheking contantly the thread to refresh it the quicker I can.
Did you try using bonsai master unlocker?
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Have u tried all the USB ports? Also if u are using the stock Samsung USB cable. Try a different one.
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Yup I have tried every usb port and a BB cable but nothing. Its the same whit the stock cable and no I never have read about the bonsai method I will try it.
Did you download the samsung drivers to your PC?
Sorry, I see you did that.
Keep trying different cables, it took me 3 to find the right one.
Did you let th drivers install the fist time you plugged it in?
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Well in fact I think is not the cable because my computer is able to detect it but not as an usb mass storage when I plug it to my pc 3 drivers are loaded the cdma modem samsung usb modem and the theter one but no one is the android usb driver that I have seen in some videos and whit another android phones ohh and I have been trying to find the bonsai methhod but it seems that the thread have been deleted.
i had a very similar problem when rooting mine. do you have access to another os to try it on? when i was doing mine i had to do it on mac os . i was using the oneclick method but it took awhile as the newer models of the epic seem to hate windows 7......dunno why tho...lemme know how it goes and if its still not working i can send the exact programs i used.
well i have tried bonsai masterkey but no the same as the others I'm getting frustrated by this situation
You could also try rebooting your phone, computer, or both.
a great place for beginners to start at is theunlockr.com, if your not firmilliar with your phone and how the root process works they are great about holding your hand through the process and have some pretty good starting points for what roms to use so on and so forth...
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epic 4g - SyndicateROM Frozen 1.2 from the ACS team
VisionKernel v1.0 from ACS
I,m going to ask a friend his mac to try the bonsai method
wish me luck
cosmoskymaster said:
I,m going to ask a friend his mac to try the bonsai method
wish me luck
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Some of your wording is a little confusing, are you saying that you can't even get usb mass storage to work? (Meaning,are you able to transfer anything to your phone?)
If that's the case, then that honestly sounds like a faulty usb port on your phone and you might have to get it serviced.
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Wait! From what you said earlier... do you have debug mode on?
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Have u tried to see if Odin will recocnize the phone in download mode? If u can get it to show up you can Odin ef02. Then Odin clockwork, then flash superuser. Then u will be rooted.
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i have used odin and it seem to reconized my phone but i havent found a guide to root using odin, I once tried to ask for one but they told me to use oneclick root but It was no use
and for the asking if i used debug mode yeah i tried in every form to connect it to the computer but the same. if some one could conduct me to a way to use odin i would be very greathful
Stuff you need and Odin instructions are in first post of link below. I would also read through thread if you run into any problems. If Odin shows "com 4,5 or 6" really any number it means it should be recognizing phone. That will show in left upper box on Odin program when u put phone in download mode and connect to PC.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1128546
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Or you can read through this thread and try it this way.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1128124
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cosmoskymaster said:
i have used odin and it seem to reconized my phone but i havent found a guide to root using odin, I once tried to ask for one but they told me to use oneclick root but It was no use
and for the asking if i used debug mode yeah i tried in every form to connect it to the computer but the same. if some one could conduct me to a way to use odin i would be very greathful
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Sir, if you can't transfer files to your phone, you need to go to a sprint store. It'll be free if you pay for TEP.
These are the exact same symptoms of my friend's phone. Can't mount SD to a computer, same drivers that end up installing, no one click or unlocker will work; but odin recognizes (and works). I'm having him come in to my store next week.
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well it would be the best thing to do but I´m not able to do that because I´m not in the USA so it´s quite umprobable that I can do that i will try to use odin and see what happens thanks for your attention I appreciated

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