I think I have finally done it....
I can get my phone to download mode but neither ODIN or Heimdall see the phone.
Its weird that I can boot in to recovery and at that point ODIN will see the device, it appears as COM, but it will not see it in download mode.
any ideas?
If i get can in Download mode, it can be fixed.
Get the Drivers.
If your using a 2.3.3 rom get Nexus S drivers.
Install them, then try it.
if not, try on a different computer, more preferably a windows XP (idk why it just always works for me on my old XP)
I had the same issue. U need windows 7. Vista nor xp never worked for me on any oc but 7 did
to be certain, download/install the drivers
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046315
helikido said:
I had the same issue. U need windows 7. Vista nor xp never worked for me on any oc but 7 did
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exact opposite with mine.
Windows 7 never worked (until now-a-days since i bought a brand new computer)
XP worked always, and still does.
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I'm trying to revert back to stock on my Epic. I previously flashed using Clockwork and wanted to try Odin this time around but when I put the phone into Download mode my computer doesn't recognize the device. I've tried multiple cables and USB ports including one on the board itself. I am using Windows 7x64 and have the 64 bit samsung drivers installed properly. If I do a battery pull and boot the phone normally the computer recognizes the phone no problem.
Any ideas?
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I'm trying to revert back to stock on my Epic. I previously flashed using Clockwork and wanted to try Odin this time around but when I put the phone into Download mode my computer doesn't recognize the device. I've tried multiple cables and USB ports including one on the board itself. I am using Windows 7x64 and have the 64 bit samsung drivers installed properly. If I do a battery pull and boot the phone normally the computer recognizes the phone no problem.
Any ideas?
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I was having a similar issue with my MBpro, nothing would recognize my phone. Tried it on another comp and bingo. I think stuff is just finicky with USB ports. Lame-o.
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I'm trying to revert back to stock on my Epic. I previously flashed using Clockwork and wanted to try Odin this time around but when I put the phone into Download mode my computer doesn't recognize the device. I've tried multiple cables and USB ports including one on the board itself. I am using Windows 7x64 and have the 64 bit samsung drivers installed properly. If I do a battery pull and boot the phone normally the computer recognizes the phone no problem.
Any ideas?
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when did u plugg ur phone in dowload mode?
try this ... load odin ... turn ur phone off!!! plugg it to the computure so when u see its charging for 30 sec. Then put the cellphone into download mode... and that should work
maldito.boss said:
when did u plugg ur phone in dowload mode?
try this ... load odin ... turn ur phone off!!! plugg it to the computure let it charge for 30 sec and the put it into load mode... that should work
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Yea...this post made my brain hurt...and of course didn't change anything...but..thanks?
Here's another piece of info that may help nail down the problem...
Odin is able to see the phone if I boot into Clockwork recovery mode but because clockwork is up the phone can't receive a flash but Odin does see the phone with no problem. It just still won't see the phone when booted into download mode.
ghsthntr said:
I'm trying to revert back to stock on my Epic. I previously flashed using Clockwork and wanted to try Odin this time around but when I put the phone into Download mode my computer doesn't recognize the device. I've tried multiple cables and USB ports including one on the board itself. I am using Windows 7x64 and have the 64 bit samsung drivers installed properly. If I do a battery pull and boot the phone normally the computer recognizes the phone no problem.
Any ideas?
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I use windows7 64 too. I encountered tons of problems when trying to flash my epic. first my computer doesn't recognize my phone in download mode. after i wipe out all the drivers and reinstall them. finally i get my computer recognize it under download mode, but Odin froze every time during the flash.
Finally, i tried on another desktop computer with windows XP. Everything went perfectly. So maybe you should try that too.
I cannot connect to my Epic in download mode on mac os x either.
I was trying to install a lag fix, and now all my phone will do when powering on is show switch between the normal Samsung screen, and another reading "Samgung GT I9000".
I can still boot into Clockwork Recovery. But OS X will not recognize my phone.
Either that, or Heimdall isn't recognizing it and won't let me flash.
Help! Any ideas?
Pirate-M.Lifnen said:
I cannot connect to my Epic in download mode on mac os x either.
I was trying to install a lag fix, and now all my phone will do when powering on is show switch between the normal Samsung screen, and another reading "Samgung GT I9000".
I can still boot into Clockwork Recovery. But OS X will not recognize my phone.
Either that, or Heimdall isn't recognizing it and won't let me flash.
Help! Any ideas?
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Really!?! No one has any idea? Please guys, I'm just sitting here with a broken phone, there must be a way for me to fix this.
Pirate-M.Lifnen said:
Really!?! No one has any idea? Please guys, I'm just sitting here with a broken phone, there must be a way for me to fix this.
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I had the same problem, I couldn't connect it to 3 of my pc's. 2 xp's and one windows 7. Turned out the port on the phone it self was broken, had to take it sprint and get it replaced.
Pirate-M.Lifnen said:
Really!?! No one has any idea? Please guys, I'm just sitting here with a broken phone, there must be a way for me to fix this.
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If OS X isn't recognising your phone it's likely your phone has the buggy secondary bootloader. Samsung corrected the bootloader for at least the GT-I9000 JPA firmware but I'm unsure if they have done so for other devices or firmware releases.
Unfortunately the only solution then is to use Windows or Linux. If you don't have access to a system running either of these OS then I recommend downloading a 64-bit release (assuming your PC has a 64-bit CPU) of Ubuntu, then you can download the Heimdall binaries from my website and use it to recover your phone.
i had an extremely similar issue as to what you are having. I have 3 win 7 machines and 1 xp, none worked. I went to a friends house he has 2 win 7s and an xp also didnt work. I did a general search and found all kinds of crap. One dude something about using his chicks blackberry usb cord and suddenly it worked on any and all of the machines it had previously not worked. so at the time im reading this on my chicks laptop which has a damn blackberry cord attached to it chargin her evo(go figure) ... anyway u didnt need the whole story but i have nothing to do right now.
Point is everyone says try different cords, i say try the damn blackberry cord if you happen to have one or a friend that has one.
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If OS X isn't recognising your phone it's likely your phone has the buggy secondary bootloader. Samsung corrected the bootloader for at least the GT-I9000 JPA firmware but I'm unsure if they have done so for other devices or firmware releases.
Unfortunately the only solution then is to use Windows or Linux. If you don't have access to a system running either of these OS then I recommend downloading a 64-bit release (assuming your PC has a 64-bit CPU) of Ubuntu, then you can download the Heimdall binaries from my website and use it to recover your phone.
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Is it the hardware on the Macbook pro itself? or just the OS? in other words, If I were to partition my macbook with ubuntu would that work with heimdall? would it be able to recognize my phone while it's in download mode as opposed to OSX, which couldn't...?
ldartez said:
Is it the hardware on the Macbook pro itself? or just the OS? in other words, If I were to partition my macbook with ubuntu would that work with heimdall? would it be able to recognize my phone while it's in download mode as opposed to OSX, which couldn't...?
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In this particular instance Apple haven't done anything wrong at all, both their hardware and software is fine. The issue is that Samsung are distributing secondary bootloaders that aren't complaint with the USB specifications.
Whilst that is annoying, the good news for you is that you can simply install Linux (Ubuntu etc.) or Windows on your Macbook and you'll be able to flash just fine.
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
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
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
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
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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?
Soft Brick fixed
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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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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.
Guys i need all the drivers for my vibrant for windows xp on my computer to recgnize it cuz it just gives me a unrecognized hardware thing and its anoying.. my win7 computers charger doesnt work so im stuck wit this xp crap :/
u may find the drivers for vibrant for xp here:http://www.userdrivers.com/PDA-Mobi...59-Phone-USB-Driver-1-0-for-Windows-XP-Vista/
anujpuri said:
u may find the drivers for vibrant for xp here:http://www.userdrivers.com/PDA-Mobi...59-Phone-USB-Driver-1-0-for-Windows-XP-Vista/
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with those it should work right?
It still doesnt recognize it in download mode
You did open Odin right?
yeah ofcourse!!
I might be mistaken, but if you install the latest Kies Mini it also includes all the latest drivers you need.
SamsungVibrant said:
I might be mistaken, but if you install the latest Kies Mini it also includes all the latest drivers you need.
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yes.
Get Kies Mini.
It installs ALL your drivers, and we're you on a 2.3 ROM before bricking? in that cause you may need NEXUS S drivers.
if you were on cm7 you may need the nexus s drivers. i get the drivers for cm7 from the android sdk manager->available packages->third pary add-ons->Google Inc.->Google USB Driver package.
Heres what happens, if i let my phone boot normally, it recognizes it normally as a sgh t959 device as samsung, but if my phone is in download mode it wont recognise it besides a unknown device????? i flashed simply honey 3.6 comming from 2.2.1 biwinning lol, so it bricked..
Definitely driver related. Re-install them, reboot the PC and try multiple USB ports and multiple PC's if possible. USB port could be a potential issue but wouldn't make sense being you can be recognized fine when the phone is booted.
I already tried that, and it still doesnt work??? God i hate that when it happens...
My win7 also just simply worked but xp is just killing me
Guys, today my cell ring that has an update. Of course i turn it on update. After few minutes, may be 10 , the phone becomes crazy. Start in boot loop and nothing helped. I tried to flash it, but without any successed. Will be apreciate to any help
try to flash it using SMD
I tried exactly with that. The pc doesnt recognized the ativ at all. Actually in device manager i can see the phone, but thats all.
Stefan Caromov said:
I tried exactly with that. The pc doesnt recognized the ativ at all. Actually in device manager i can see the phone, but thats all.
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is it in download mode?
Yes WOLF. I turn it on download mode
Stefan Caromov said:
Yes WOLF. I turn it on download mode
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You need install the driver.
Which one driver ? The one for samsung i already installed. And from the same pc i already flash a several times the same phone, but since yesterday, when i kill my phone i dont have any success
Stefan Caromov said:
Which one driver ? The one for samsung i already installed. And from the same pc i already flash a several times the same phone, but since yesterday, when i kill my phone i dont have any success
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Are you sure it's correctly installed? please show a screenshot of what it looks like after it has finished installing, if there's a green checkmark in the wizard the drivers should've been installed succesfully
If you mean the driver samsung for the pc , i am pretty sure its installed correctly. Before yesterday, i was flashed a several times my samsung. The interesting thing is, that the driver was installed properly only on this laptop with windows 7 x86
At home i have 2 machines with windows 8.1.1 x64 and the driver doesnt install.
The Driver is from this archive - http://www67.zippyshare.com/v/65155760/file.html
Here is the prtscr
Stefan Caromov said:
If you mean the driver samsung for the pc , i am pretty sure its installed correctly. Before yesterday, i was flashed a several times my samsung. The interesting thing is, that the driver was installed properly only on this laptop with windows 7 x86
At home i have 2 machines with windows 8.1.1 x64 and the driver doesnt install.
The Driver is from this archive - http://www67.zippyshare.com/v/65155760/file.html
Here is the prtscr
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that's odd, I've had issues with x64 too, but after a few tries it worked for me.
what does the phone in download mode say? try posting a pic of it
matgras said:
that's odd, I've had issues with x64 too, but after a few tries it worked for me.
what does the phone in download mode say? try posting a pic of it
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Nothing it is in download mode , but i dont remember if the hardware buttons have to work or not, because they dont work
Will show you a little later, when i come home from work.
P.S. I fix it yeaaaaaah. Just my version of smd - 3.33 was not compatible. I found and download 3.47 and everything is great already
So I updated all my devices to Windows 10 (PC, Laptop, Surface) and now I can't connect my note 4 to any of them while in windows, the connection was working good on win 8.1 but on win 10 just nope. I tried using different cables (including the original) and ports and always get the error "This USB Device has malfunctioned" (or nothing at all) and I have been on many different ROMs including android 5.0.1/5.0.2 TW, AOSP 5.1 and TW 5.1 so as I can't manage to fix it on my own would like to ask if anyone else is experiencing this and if anyone managed to fix it?
Also I do know that the USB connection is actually working as I have tested it on a Win 8.0 PC and it does work in Ubuntu on both my PC and Laptop. And I did install kies and even did a full wipe and re-install on my laptop (because I managed to break all the partitions somehow).
And an other question: is there any way to flash something to the device in Linux as for some reason even Odin doesn't see the device in download mode?
hmm sounds wired as i am on windows 10 too and i dont have any problems what so ever. I do not have kies and will never use that ****. I have the drivers installed. try uninstalling the kies bloatware and then get the drivers only and try.
If that dont work then i would say try and find a pc with win 8.1 and flash stock rom and try and see if that will work on win 10. Maybe try and use logcat and see what is going wrong when connecting. Also try installing ADB on pc and see if you can pull logs that way...
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hmm sounds wired as i am on windows 10 too and i dont have any problems what so ever. I do not have kies and will never use that ****. I have the drivers installed. try uninstalling the kies bloatware and then get the drivers only and try.
If that dont work then i would say try and find a pc with win 8.1 and flash stock rom and try and see if that will work on win 10. Maybe try and use logcat and see what is going wrong when connecting. Also try installing ADB on pc and see if you can pull logs that way...
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Thank you but I installed kies only after I saw I couldn't connect and nope, adb does not connect also but I did pull logs in terminal emulator when both connecting to ubuntu and win 10 and they look exactly the same (except ofc some messages from apps) so probably the phone does the exact same thing but the Windiws OS just fails to connect for some reason.
The thing is I don't have a win8.1/older I could use to flash cause everyone in my familty did the exact same thing, I also need to flash the 5.1.1 bootloader and am stuck cause of the exact same reason.
Any other ideas?
Ask a friend to use there pc someone must have win 8.1 or win7 or a risky thing is use Linux and use odin via wine. If you can't figure it out go to your nearest phone repair shop.