ok so i fully flashed my epic 4g to cricket about 2weeks ago, i got calls, txt, and internet(which i learned how to do from here. thank you very much) butttttttttt................. a few days ago a very very little bit of water got on the phone. i got it all off but my touchscreen was half responsive(jus the bottom half) then by the morning the whole touchscreen was unresponsive. the lil menu, home, and back buttons work perfectly but the actual screen wont do a thing so ive been havin to navigate my phone with the keyboard. oh and also wen i cut the phone off and turned it back on the SAMSUNG screen is on there for atleast 2hrs b4 the phone goes to normal operating function.
ok so wat i need to know is if there is a way to fix this screen and booting problem, maybe a hard reset or do i need to root my phone. or do i actually need to take it in somewhere(which i really dont wanna do)
and if i do have to do a hard reset on my epic I kno that all my data and apps will be cleared out but will the flash to cricket that i did still be active or will i have to redo it.
THANK YOU for any and all help with this. once this problem is fixed ill most likely be back on these boards learnin how to root and put froyo or sumthyn on my epic
I am not 100% this will help your screen issue but you can use odin to flash stock ec05, giving the phone a complete reset. It might even be as simple as letting the phone dry completely, depending on how wet you got it. Power it off and place it in a jar of rice for a day. You said small amount of water? There are people on here who completely submerged their phone and got it working again. Maybe you were one of the unlucky ones. From how you describe it, doesn't sound like the water is your issue.
The info on how to use Odin is on the development threads. It is very easy, But here is a quick guide from memory....
You download odin to your pc(that is if you are using windows). Make sure the samsung drivers are installed properly. Download stock ec05 tar to your pc and extract files into a folder.(there is even a stock ec05 tar on the forums here that is pre-rooted).
Open odin. Put your phone into download mode by turning off, plugging it into usb, and holding down the #1 key on keyboard at the same time you are holding down the power button. You will see a yellow triangle. If you have samsung drivers installed properly you will see a box at the top left, (under id com) of the odin program fill in with (com 4) or 5 or 6. Doesn't seem to matter what number. Click on pda and select the ec05 tar to put into that field. I always leave the boxes checked that are checked when I open the program which I think are auto reboot, and f.reset time. Do not check repartition. Click start and let it do its thing(about 4 minutes). Then unplug and reboot. If you have problems use a different usb cord other than the manufacturer one. Odin will not work for me with the battery in the phone for some reason, I always have to pull it while I run it in download mode. After this you will definately have to redo your cricket settings.
Here is a link to the rooted ec05 thread. If you use this you will be rooted, which is a good thing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1021305
Odin link: http://www.multiupload.com/SM1G3YCV0U
This process may not even help your screen issue , but its worth a try.
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Uncheck f-reset only leave auto reboot on
smark72 said:
I am not 100% this will help your screen issue but you can use odin to flash stock ec05, giving the phone a complete reset. It might even be as simple as letting the phone dry completely, depending on how wet you got it. Power it off and place it in a jar of rice for a day. You said small amount of water? There are people on here who completely submerged their phone and got it working again. Maybe you were one of the unlucky ones. From how you describe it, doesn't sound like the water is your issue.
The info on how to use Odin is on the development threads. It is very easy, But here is a quick guide from memory....
You download odin to your pc(that is if you are using windows). Make sure the samsung drivers are installed properly. Download stock ec05 tar to your pc and extract files into a folder.(there is even a stock ec05 tar on the forums here that is pre-rooted).
Open odin. Put your phone into download mode by turning off, plugging it into usb, and holding down the #1 key on keyboard at the same time you are holding down the power button. You will see a yellow triangle. If you have samsung drivers installed properly you will see a box at the top left, (under id com) of the odin program fill in with (com 4) or 5 or 6. Doesn't seem to matter what number. Click on pda and select the ec05 tar to put into that field. I always leave the boxes checked that are checked when I open the program which I think are auto reboot, and f.reset time. Do not check repartition. Click start and let it do its thing(about 4 minutes). Then unplug and reboot. If you have problems use a different usb cord other than the manufacturer one. Odin will not work for me with the battery in the phone for some reason, I always have to pull it while I run it in download mode. After this you will definately have to redo your cricket settings.
Here is a link to the rooted ec05 thread. If you use this you will be rooted, which is a good thing
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1021305
Odin link: http://www.multiupload.com/SM1G3YCV0U
This process may not even help your screen issue , but its worth a try.
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I always leave it on and everything works fine. What is it supposed to do?
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if you have the ins and the screen dont right its self then odin back to stock
EC05 and turn it in otherwise i dont use cricket but you should be able to wipe and reflash if iam wrong correct me?
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PLEASEEE!!! help me out i tried upgrading from kies mini to froyo. I did this with success earlier in the past on my old vibrant but had it replaced to a referbished one and i tried upgrading it now.. but my vibrant was stuck at downloading the uprade on kies mini at 1% for half an hour... and the vibrant had the android shoveling yellow sign saying do not turn off target... for half an hour as well.. I knew something was wrong there because it didnt take even close to that long last time..
NOW I tried unplugging the usb wire restarting the phone in emergency mode still nothing... now all i have is a cellphone...yeild sign... computer icon showing..
PLEASE HELP!!!
Dont worry you totally didnt brick your phone. Its pretty common, can you get your phone into download mode? If you can then just odin to stock.
1.Take your battery, sim card and SD card out
2. Plug in USB Cable
3. Hold volume up/down and plug in battery (There are a few ways of doing download mode and I believe its phone specific, or if you have bootloaders installed its different as well, google around a bit...
4. Start odin and presto, your phone works again!
hey thanx... I just did that.. I never used odin but i installed odin with all the files... I believe my vibrant is hardware locked because i was trying to get into download mode for 2 hours with different techniques.. such as just volume keys and power button... taking out the battery holding volume keys then putting it back in.. but nothing put me into a downlaod mode... somehow odin still found my phone while i was still stuck under that picture...
I loaded the .pit file without the jfd image.... becuase i didnt know what window i was suppose to load the jfd image from... like pda.. or etc???
anyway so i just loaded the .pit file and clicked start it reset the phone and the phone went into restart mode and it turned on fine i checked it works fully... lol.
It makes no sense... was i suppose to load the jfd file somewhere?????
i still want to upgrade my vibrant to 2.2... but now whenever i turn on the keis mini it promps me to emergency recovery upgrade... so i tried doing that and went into download mode since now i can.. and plugged in my phone but the progress bar on my computer for upgrading never moved from 0%... its odd... am i doing something wrong?
so again i disconnected and "bricked" my vibrant again lol... went into odin followed the same steps just loading the .pit file and it reset the vibrant back to normal again lol...
Im so confused yet happy that i have my phone working but i still want my froyo... i love the fact that i can use yahoo video messaging on it with froyo and have flash and other benefits..
any advice?
Thanx again
try this...........
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
put pit in pit and tar in pda on odin
Connect it to the PC and see if ODIN recognizes it.
If it does, you are safe, flash stock.
EDIT: nvm, didn't notice the third post was yours.
Anyways, if ODIN can STILL recognize it, get the first from the link on the post above, FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS and enjoy your again-useful phone.
I had that same issue once.
Try a JIG. And do a search, I see like 50 posts a week like this.
First.
Thank you all for taking your time to help. I have one last question... since I used Odin but it just reset my phone and I didn't flash the old firware on it..... ever since that now I tried to update my phone with kies mini and it says phone unregistered... in that place before it used to say new firmware available and showed old forward numbers/letters.
So if I use odin all the way will this resolve "unregistered device" problem?
Thanx again
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First.
Thank you all for taking your time to help. I have one last question... since I used Odin but it just reset my phone and I didn't flash the old firware on it..... ever since that now I tried to update my phone with kies mini and it says phone unregistered... in that place before it used to say new firmware available and showed old forward numbers/letters.
So if I use odin all the way will this resolve "unregistered device" problem?
Thanx again
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It should.
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I have a similar issue, was soft bricked, Odin to stock then, while using Mini Kies to upgrade back to Froyo the phone turned off and never came back on. I cannot get any response from the phone as far as light's or sounds. Checked a few batteries and still no use. I'm curious if anybody else has had a similar experience?
so if it should solve the unregisted problem... where I put in the pda file... is it possible to put in the last froyo there so odin could flash froyo on my phone so basically i wont have to go through kies process?
odin back to 2.1 then root and then flash a 2.2 rom way better then a stock 2.2 rom
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Try a JIG. And do a search, I see like 50 posts a week like this.
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I might be late to the party but I've built a jig and I can't believe how quickly this thing saved my ass...
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I might be late to the party but I've built a jig and I can't believe how quickly this thing saved my ass...
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Yeah man. Jigs are the balls. Saved my ass this morning with a bad bootloader flash. I got lucky though.....
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Make sure you have the right odin files, once you have gotten back to normal just do a factory reset on your phone if that is possible. Then root, flash, and do whatever you want to do. Without your proper files for odin you'll get bricked or get something different.
How screwed am I? Odin doesn't recognize phone, vibrant aio toolkit can't adb phone into recovery or download mode. Flashing different rom screwed up during kernal phase and I stupidly rebooted phone. I CAN use a jig I bought to get into download mode but computer Odin doesn't 'see' it.
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How screwed am I? Odin doesn't recognize phone, vibrant aio toolkit can't adb phone into recovery or download mode. Flashing different rom screwed up during kernal phase and I stupidly rebooted phone. I CAN use a jig I bought to get into download mode but computer Odin doesn't 'see' it.
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Do you have the drivers installed on your PC?
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Do you have the drivers installed on your PC?
Yes, not sure what changed but I plugged the phone in again and Odin recognized it, the file I loaded is PDA_T959UVKB5.tar.md5, the process has hung up at SetupConnection...
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id keep trying it odin is finicky! maybe try different usb ports
ok guys i know i aksed for a lot of help.. but i have a newly discovered problem.. when i connect my vibrant thru the original usb port to transfer files back and forth it never lets me transfer even the smallest picture image... on both internal 16gb or sd... the phone computer just constantly shows transferring animation.... i tried many times.. i even scanned the phones hard drive and sd card for errors... nothing... could it be i messed something up with kies? or thats why kies in general never went with the upgrade past 1%?
its a refurbished phone.. when i got it.. i uploaded my old pics without a problem with the same usb cable..... its weird.... i dont know what to do? what is it likely the phone itself or i messed it up with kies upgrade????
please help.. its frustrating me
So I just recovered from a softbrick using the Heimdall method. I'm stoked because I'm no longer bricked but I cannot flash anything via Odin now, even after I have re-installed my Samsung USB drivers. It always gets to SetupCS connection or something like that and just stays there. Is there something I'm missing?
What driver is on your system? Is it the fascinate or the nexus s? If you're coming back to some level of stock from a GB rom you might still have the GB (nexus s) drivers. You might have to reload the froyo fascinate drivers for odin to work.
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So I just recovered from a softbrick using the Heimdall method. I'm stoked because I'm no longer bricked but I cannot flash anything via Odin now, even after I have re-installed my Samsung USB drivers. It always gets to SetupCS connection or something like that and just stays there. Is there something I'm missing?
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as long as you get the yellow "com" with a number underneath the box in odin, drivers are not the issue.......try re-downloading the odin package and then flashing it again
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as long as you get the yellow "com" with a number underneath the box in odin, drivers are not the issue.......try re-downloading the odin package and then flashing it again
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That was my thought as well but its doing it with 3 different Odin packages. This is where I get lost but am I supposed to put the atlas.v2.2 pit in with everything now? I'm at a loss I guess. Phone is functional on ED03 currently but I'm stuck at stock it seems...
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That was my thought as well but its doing it with 3 different Odin packages. This is where I get lost but am I supposed to put the atlas.v2.2 pit in with everything now? I'm at a loss I guess. Phone is functional on ED03 currently but I'm stuck at stock it seems...
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the atlas 2.2 pit file goes in the "PIT" section at the same time as the tar.md5 file goes in the "PDA" section and re-partition checked......when those two files are placed in their respective slots and re-partition is checked, THEN you hit start on odin. If that doesn't work, place this file on the root of your SD card and rename it "update" but without the quotation marks lol: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=556632&d=1301538910 Once you do that, boot in the stock blue recovery using the 3 finger method and select "apply SDcard/update.zip" and let me know what happens
Many thanks to you sir. I'm at work currently but ill try this out as soon as I get home.
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By the way... what file is that? I'm just curious
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the atlas 2.2 pit file goes in the "PIT" section at the same time as the tar.md5 file goes in the "PDA" section and re-partition checked......when those two files are placed in their respective slots and re-partition is checked, THEN you hit start on odin. If that doesn't work, place this file on the root of your SD card and rename it "update" but without the quotation marks lol: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=556632&d=1301538910 Once you do that, boot in the stock blue recovery using the 3 finger method and select "apply SDcard/update.zip" and let me know what happens
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Alright so I just tried adding the PIT, repartition checked, and added my ODIN package, but still had the same problem. About to install the CWM All file you gave me and try that out.
*edit* Well something just happened. My SD card just got corrupted and I cant even format it now. What the hell is going on?!
*edit 2* OK so the SD card issue fixed itself. Just had to hit format a billion times. I'm now running an OTA update to my phone from Verizon as I had to go all the way back to DI09.
*edit 3* I'm now sitting on ED04 fully stock but away from my computer. I will try again once I get home later on tonight. Just out of curiousity... has anyone else other than kidserious and the other guy had this problem or have experience in dealing with it?
So checking in again. I am still freezing at "SetupConnection..." in Odin. No luck at all with flashing the CWM ALL file as "update". I'm completely out of options at this point. Help?
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So checking in again. I am still freezing at "SetupConnection..." in Odin. No luck at all with flashing the CWM ALL file as "update". I'm completely out of options at this point. Help?
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RESOLVED
Alright so I finally figured out my own way around this. It was actually fairly simple and I'm a bit ashamed I didn't think to try this earlier.
Hopefully this will be of assistance for any future issues. Thanks Kidserious for your help.
*edit* So I just found some instructions for uninstalling the Heimdall driver from your phone. I'm booting up after a fresh flash of DI01 and hopefully this will work. I'm guessing that even though I'm installing the samsung usb drivers back to my computer, they arn't reaching my phone, and this may be the issue I've been facing. *pauses for a bit to test theory* Yep. That was all it was. Sorry for taking up so much room on here... just FYI to everyone though. If you soft brick and recover via Heimdall you HAVE TO UNINSTALL THE HEIMDALL DRIVER OR NOTHING WILL WORK.
FML. So it didnt work as I had planed. After I flashed my edify rom I samsung bootlooped. And Odin still isnt working for me.
I'm giving up for tonight. Functioning on DI01 stock ): at least it works...
Alright so I'm fairly certain I've narrowed it down to one fix but I seem not to be able to fix it. I need to install the samsunflg husband drover back to my phone and uninstall the heimdall driver. I've tried it twice and or hasn't worked either time
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---actually resolved----
Sorry for spamming this thread everyone, even though I've really been the only person posting in it anyways.
I have found my fix. So I was never able to fully uninstall the Heimdall drivers so Odin wouldn't recognize my phone and would hang at "Initalization."
So I took a weird strategy and actually purposely soft bricked my phone. Scary to do but the outcome was well worth it. Here is what I did.
1.) Puropsely soft bricked phone
2.) Put it in to download mode
3.) Went to device manager
4.) Contrary from Heimdall Uninstall instructions phone will now show up under the general usb devices areas. Find this area, expand, and right click on Samsung Composite USB Device.
5.) Go through the options of manually picking the usb driver you want to use.
6.) Install chosen standard samsung USB driver. You may get many options in the list but pick the Digitally Certified one.
7.) I didnt unplug the phone after I flashed the new driver so open up Odin and flash your DI01 Stock Recovery with Atlas v2.2 PIT and Repartition checked.
8.) Once finished phone will be on DI09 fully bloated stock and should work with Odin for any further flashes.
*edit* It appears as if you need to flash the samsung driver to phone evrytime you want to flash something via Odin.
ok, maybe not 100's of times but my bootloader showed 52 last time i flashed. Not sure what happened, but something went wrong. My phone only shows a picture of a phone, with a yellow triangle, and a picture of a computer. Under that it says firmware failed, and under that it says try recovery mode. Download mode, and recovery mode shows the the same screen described as above, and odin does not see phone. I left the battery out over night, and this morning, the same screen, and odin still don't see the phone. I know all the key combos to get into recovery or download mode, and neither works.
You have a bricked phone now. Use JIG USB to save it!
I had similar problem and resolved mine by removing the battery, reinserting it and holding down volume down and home keys while powering on (download mode). Then I connected phone to pc via usb and used odin to flash kernel. Hope that works for you.
Or you could try this
One-Click UnBrick
it seems this is the job for a USB jig (I think)
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Have you tried recovery firmware option via KIES?
Bah, just take out battery and put it back in and go to download mode and flash the firmware with Odin.
Thanks God i've got my Jig..
is it related with the limitation write of the NAND flash? quite worry about it..any idea?
You only need a jig if you can't get into download mode. Though from what I've read on here might be good to have to reset the flash counter.
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You only need a jig if you can't get into download mode. Though from what I've read on here might be good to have to reset the flash counter.
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and pretty sure the OP said he can't get into download mode...hence the need for a jig...
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Does the number of times flashed has anything to do with the failure? Is there a limit after which the hardware gets weaker?
Believe me. Most rom chefs or developers in here flash at least 500+ times (if they tested their product) and I don't think they have issue. (I flash my X1 at least a 1000+ times when I was a rom chef and it's still working great now)
Flash memory does have a life span on number or Read/write. But I doubt anyone here can reach that limit with 3+ yrs (by that time, you will probably get another phone).
Agreed its unlikely that 50 odd our even a few hundred rom flashes should damage your nand memory. Unless it was faulty in the first place
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This problem..
..Was notorious on the Captivate. We lovingly referred to it "Phone ! Computer" screen.
The good news.. If you see this screen the level 1 boot loader is fine and you are only soft bricked.
If you ever plug in the phone to a power source with it turned off and you see nothing then you're screwed.
Same scenario as when you plug in a JiG and nothing happens.
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My phone only shows a picture of a phone, with a yellow triangle, and a picture of a computer.
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Hold and do not release the key combo for DLM, your phone will reboot about 3 times it should then enter DLM.
I did try this before your reply and no go, I tried again today, got the same screen, however Odin and kies, both saw the phone, went back to stock then back to cognition 1.31. My captivate, inspire, and infuse ive flashed over and over and over and never bricked a phone until my S2. It's back up and going strong now. Now im afraid to flash it again. This is best phone ever and im keeping it until the S3 comes out, so im trying to not render my S2 useless yet lol
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You've developed flashphobia?
Intratech said:
You've developed flashphobia?
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For days, odin and kies didn't see phone no matter what I did. I'm not a developer, but I'm nowhere close to a rookie either. What ever happen was a hoax, because clockwork and download mode works as it should again. Next update for cognition i'll flash, i doubt anything will happen.
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For days, odin and kies didn't see phone no matter what I did. I'm not a developer, but I'm nowhere close to a rookie either. What ever happen was a hoax, because clockwork and download mode works as it should again. Next update for cognition i'll flash, i doubt anything will happen.
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**** happens. Flashes go right 99.9% of the time when you do everything right. You just hit that 0.1% where something went wrong during the flash.
I recently bircked my vibrant with a bad kernel flash, and it wouldn't get past the Vibrant Samsung screen. I fixed it, so I decided to post how I did it here, to hopefully help someone. I am not sure if this works on newer Vibrants. If you have one of the first batch then you should be fine.
Step 1
You need to get ODIN and the stock Samsung/T-Mo 2.2 rom. I am not allowed to post outside links, and the file is too big for an attachment, so you will have to search for it, try googling "Download Samsung Vibrant Stock Rom"
Download all the files and extract them somewhere where you can find them.
Step 2
Once you have those downloaded, start up ODIN, for pda, select the pda (.tar) file you downloaded. For the pit file (make sure you extract it, it should be .pit not .rar or .zip) select the pit file you downloaded.
Step 3
Now, pull the battery, and re-insert it. Make sure your phone is turned off, and hold down VOL+ and VOL-, then plug in the USB cable to your computer, then phone. (DO NOT press the power button on the phone) Wait a second, and the download screen should now show up. Simply press start on ODIN and wait for your phone to get the the unlock screen. All done!
If this worked, please reply and tell me!
I think they figured this out day one
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I think they figured this out day one
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How did you figure this out?
Wow! Now that was simply amazing!
Im glad to see someone learned how to odin back to stock....
I thought I was missing someone....but then I saw this post and was re-assured.....all riders are accounted for :-D
Thanks, eagle eye.
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Awesome, thanks!
ODIN vibrant ROM's
How does one ODIN any other ROM?
My vibrant is bricked with ICS passion v10.6.
What do I need to do to ODIN it to the same ROM?
I'd love to avoid rebuilding from stock....
Amazing! I don't see why this hasn't been posted already........Oh wait
markmanjd said:
How does one ODIN any other ROM?
My vibrant is bricked with ICS passion v10.6.
What do I need to do to ODIN it to the same ROM?
I'd love to avoid rebuilding from stock....
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I am not sure of any ROMs that still require odin, as CWM is a lot easier to use. I would reccomend going back to stock, rooting the phone, then installing CyanogenMod. If you're fast enough, you can get it done and have a working phone in about an hour.
Well the only mode I can get on the bricked phone is download mode with the jig.
After that ODIN works. I've never been able to get ADB to play well on this computer.
There is an ODIN version of stock 2.2 I may try if I don't find something newer. Thanks! I did find a guide on how to make an ODIN ROM but it is a bit late for me to do it...
www freeyourandroid com / guide / building_roms_for_odin
Nice post!
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Trigger 3.2. Overstock v.2.4.1
Thanks, it worked.
Thanks, my brick is now a Vibrant again. After seeing nothing but a boot loop for a week Eclair looks wonderful!!!
Heimdall One-Click was my only hope and remedy for several times, it's capable of installing the right drivers (which not always were SGH-t959!!!) in Download mode, even when Od in wouldn't sede my phone.
Hi guys, i have a GS5 AT&T SM-G900A. My phone is rooted with towelroot. Last night it got stuck on the android bootup screen and from there nothing else. I try to flash it back with Odin but it keeps failing. Anybody has any idea how can i get this phone to work again?
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Of course you'd prefer a fast answer. We all do when something happens. But it's presumptuous to label a post urgent as if your personal predicament is somehow more important than everyone else's. I know that urgent labels discourage me from helping as much as I otherwise would. Certainly I won't subscribe to your thread unless you remove the urgent label.
You also failed to provide us much information. In particular critical details like an Odin log, verbatim Odin errors, Odin version, your firmware version, et cetera.
First, boot to recovery mode and wipe your system cache. Then see if your phone will reboot normally. If not, then you need to repair it with Odin. And no one will be able to more than guess at what you did wrong unless you provide more details.
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Thank you sir, sorry about the urgent label. i am trying to take off the urgent label but i am not able to edit that part here.
I am using Odin V3.07, i am trying to post an screen shot of it. My firmware is kitkat 4.4.2. I already did the recovery mode and wiped the system cache but nothing.
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An Odin log or even screen shot would be invaluable. And you still haven't told us the exact file name that you are trying to write to your phone with Odin?
At a guess, it's just Odin being temperamental. But I am only guessing since we don't have much information about your configuration yet. Odin is infamous for being sensitive to USB timing just like IOS is.
Use the newer Odin 3.09. Write a pre June 6th build of stock firmware to your phone. Temporarily disable any firewall, antivirus, antimalware, et cetera software on your PC. Do not use a USB hub. Try a different USB cable and USB port. The latter is important. Odin often fails because of a noisy USB cable. Use, borrow or buy a different one that appears to be well constructed.
Also crucial. Ensure that you entered download mode by pulling your battery and then pressing and holding in sequence volume down + power.. If your Odin write fails, do not close the Odin window. Pull your phone battery again, replace it enter download mode again and then press the start (write) button on the Odin screen again. It's important that Odin screen remains open through out.
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Thank you so much, all of those are great tips. I will try again tonight cause right now i am at the work computer. I will also have more info about the file i am trying to write in Odin. Thank you again for your great help and patience.
So i can't catch a break, now my laptop hard drive is making a ticking noise and i can't use it till i fix it.
Finally fix my laptop, Odin still failing like before. I changed computers and many usb ports and cables and nothing still stuck on boot.
Dra444 said:
Finally fix my laptop, Odin still failing like before. I changed computers and many usb ports and cables and nothing still stuck on boot.
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First pull the battery, wait 30 seconds and boot in recovery mode and data factory reset. If that fails disable Kies in windows task manager. Power down, pull the battery and wait 30 seconds and then reboot in downloadmode and try again.
Thank you so much everyone, after many sleepless nights I finally figured it out. Somehow the firmware from sammobile wasn't working in Odin. I download one from here and it pass right away. Got my phone back
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What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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cm0818 said:
What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455
This is the one I used, good luck man. It pass right away in Odin. Only thing I don't have no more is the setting to shut off the camera shutter sound but that's no big deal.
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cm0818 said:
What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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This is the one I used, good luck man. It pass right away in Odin. Only thing I don't have no more is the setting to shut off the camera shutter sound but that's no big deal.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455
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cm0818 said:
What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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This is the one I used, good luck man. It pass right away in Odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455
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cm0818 said:
What file, link did you use. Trying to fix fiancees phone having problems after last update and wanted to back to original furmware. Odin making me mad.
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I feel your pain, this is the one I use. The one that kept failing was the one from sammobile. Feels great having my phone back. Now I need a custom recovery mode just in case.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714455
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Glad you got your phone working again. Please link me to the firmware file that wasn't working for you to, so that I can try to figure out what was wrong with it. Perhaps find a way to identify bad files in the future. Or at least build a list of known good /bad firmware builds.
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Thanks man, well I would need to upload the big file here. I almost gave up and then xpa came to the rescue.
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You don't need to upload any big files here. Just a link or the exact file name of the troublesome build.
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Oh Ok, here is a link to the firmware from Sammobile. Anyway i could get back the setting to shut off the camera shutter sound off? My Stock firmware had it before. http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=28224
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fffft said:
For the camera shutter sound, check these two files.
After editing, check that the file permissions are 0644
Edit or add this parameter.
/system/csc/feature.xml
<CscFeature_Camera_ShutterSoundMenu>true</
CscFeature_Camera_ShutterSoundMenu>
Edit or add this parameter
/data/local.prop
ro.camera.sound.forced=0
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Thanks man, i am still learning here. Can you take me step by step for this, don't want to mess my phone again.