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[Q] [HEL] Upgrade Firmware error

Hi all!
I have a rather major problem.
Today Kies told me that I have a new upgrade for the firmware of my Samsung Galay S i9000. It ran stuck rom with only a few apps installed. I said i want to upgrade so it started to check everything, done a backup of my contacts, started to download the firmware on my PC. So far everything is good.
After that the phone rebooted into an android working logo and said "Downloading..." it stayed like this for a while and after that Kies gave an error. Now the phone is stuck on this screen. Disconecting the device from the usb cable and pluging it back in does't do anything. Kies tries to connect to it but after a couple of minues gives an error that the device is not responding and I should try to rebot the device.
Any idea what to do? This is the work phone so I have to fix this.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: Fixed the problem with odin. I know I should get a warning for not searching first...but I panicked.

Easy stuff to fix, start by posting in the right section.
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Do not update 3.2 via Kies, still have problem

what the hell is Samsung doing? I did not update last time with broken firmware and I tried this time with kies.
Now the problem came again.. It only appears Downloading... Do not turn off target and in Kies , it says fail to convert into safe mode...
Now Tablet stayed at the screen with "Downloading ... Do not turn off target!!!" No any response!
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BTW, I never rooted.
Update. Thank you for everyone in this post for response.
After google from internet, I found a solution.
1) first, after you had "Downloading ... Do not turn off target!!!" screen, Please do not panic ( I did when it happened and really said f*^@ word to Samsung..forgive me...).
2) Press power button + volume down, and hold until it turns off.
3) say "god bless me" or "Mom, please save me." and press whatever combination of buttons you can.
4) It suddenly reboot after that and please use OTA to update. not kies.
5) as far as I can tell, works fine now. However, connect to Kies with wifi does not work.

Were you on a custom rom prior or rooted? If so, did you reset your tab to factory before doing the OTA?
Get back in recovery and flash your back up. If it fails you will have to ODIN your rom in

No problems here using kies, I was only rooted though and I still have root

Do I have to be connected to a PC to get this update? Isn't wifi enough?

You can use wi-fi for OTA update. OP's issue is that even though the tablet went into Download mode, Kies still didn't think it is in download mode. The firmware update hasn't even started to push down to tablet yet.

Based on the earlier problems, you're better off using Kies. If it fails, like it did for OP, it's smart enough to know that and when you disconnect and reconnect the Tab it should automatically go in to emergency recovery mode. What happened to OP happens occasionally with Kies updates. A lot has to do with the PC it's running on and what else is running on that PC. Kies is far from perfect and I'm guessing OP's issue isn't with the new ROM it's with Kies.

I didn't get the update OTA, but just updated with Kies. Had to re-flash CWM and root, but everything works just fine.

Changing to another USB port solved the problem for me. The drivers for the download stage to the tablet could not been loaded for the port I was connected first.
BR
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flyingstore said:
what the hell is Samsung doing? I did not update last time with broken firmware and I tried this time with kies.
Now the problem came again.. It only appears Downloading... Do not turn off target and in Kies , it says fail to convert into same mode...
Now Tablet stayed at the screen with "Downloading ... Do not turn off target!!!" No any response!
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exactly the same problem. no solution for me yet...

I repeat this: if you think Samsung's firmware and firmware updates are buggy, Kies is even worse.

foxbat121 said:
I repeat this: if you think Samsung's firmware and firmware updates are buggy, Kies is even worse.
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Quite true. Kies is terrible. My Galaxy 10.1 wifi won't connect to it at all -- it just sits there attempting to connect. No indication of what's wrong, no log files, nothing. I wasted over an hour last night trying to figure out what was wrong -- removed all "ghost" USB devices, installed Intel INF driver updates, de-installed all active USB hubs & devices, etc.
I even updated Kies to 2.1 ... nothing. Very frustrating.

still no luck with upgrading with kies. it connects to tab, downloads the update to the pc,
the tab goes into download mode in order to install the update, and then connection between kies and tab is lost....
i have the latest kies, i have the drivers, i tried another usb port, i have done a factory reset, but still nothing.

somebody help me please!!

i recently rooted my gti9505 but then i tried to put the stock firmware back on my phone. but halfway through the process in odin it came up that it failed with the message sayin Complete(write) failed so i unplugged it and now when i turn it on it jus send me straight to a screen that says firmware upgrade problem boot into recovery using kies (i obviously cant use kies as i have rooted my handset already.. is there any1 out there that can help me get me phone back to stock
i will b eternally gratful as my phone is jus and expensive paprwieght atm

darrellj1988 said:
i recently rooted my gti9505 but then i tried to put the stock firmware back on my phone. but halfway through the process in odin it came up that it failed with the message sayin Complete(write) failed so i unplugged it and now when i turn it on it jus send me straight to a screen that says firmware upgrade problem boot into recovery using kies (i obviously cant use kies as i have rooted my handset already.. is there any1 out there that can help me get me phone back to stock
i will b eternally gratful as my phone is jus and expensive paprwieght atm
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- Repeat procedure.
- Make sure that all actions of Kies are disabled from task manager.
- Change usb port.
- Try another usb cable (make sure it is the original.
- Try another Odin version.
- Uninstall and re-install driver.
- Try other computer.

thanks for the advice but i have just tried all the 1's you have told me (except the change computer as i dont have access to another computer) and i still says failed.. it still says firmware upgrade encountered do u think there is anything else i can do?

darrellj1988 said:
thanks for the advice but i have just tried all the 1's you have told me (except the change computer as i dont have access to another computer) and i still says failed.. it still says firmware upgrade encountered do u think there is anything else i can do?
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you may have a bad stock firmware download. Try downloading the files again.
pull out your battery for a couple of minutes. then retry with odin
if you can access another pc, it is good to try.
out of options.

[Q] Did I just brick my s4?

Hi, I have a rooted galaxy s4 LTE with android 4.3, and was going to update to 4.4.2 via odin 3.09, but during the middle of the installation, I heard a usb disconnection sound, and a red light saying fail appeared on odin. I waited a while, but nothing, and when I restarted my phone, I got that message "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies and try again" with some odin console messages on top.
I don't know why I can't recover with kies, nothing shows up on the list, and I tried to flash again with odin, using the same rom, but it failed.
what should I do?
I downloaded the official rom from sammobile.
thanks in advance

fael097 said:
Hi, I have a rooted galaxy s4 LTE with android 4.3, and was going to update to 4.4.2 via odin 3.09, but during the middle of the installation, I heard a usb disconnection sound, and a red light saying fail appeared on odin. I waited a while, but nothing, and when I restarted my phone, I got that message "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies and try again" with some odin console messages on top.
I don't know why I can't recover with kies, nothing shows up on the list, and I tried to flash again with odin, using the same rom, but it failed.
what should I do?
I downloaded the official rom from sammobile.
thanks in advance
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i had the same problem before! it was the usb ports in my pc ! i changed pc, i used my laptopt and everything were ok! just test another usb port or another pc using odin and original rom and everything should be ok! Dont panic ur phone is ok
remember always to run odin as administrator

hey! yeah, apparently it was those front usb ports, both of them weren't working properly, when I connected to another usb behind the computer it worked fine installing the same rom through odin.
phew!
thanks

[Q] Samsung galaxy core 2 sm-g3555h updated failed via otp! cannot enter recovery!

my phone Samsung galaxy core 2 sm-g355h started updating! when getting in 95% of updating have stopped with the message error! so from now and then my phone restarts and try again to reinstall the update with the same result!! can't insert in recovery mode because it's starts again the upadating!! so my phone is dead and cannot do anything! even with odin i have tried to install a stock rom and cannot do it! it say's tha cannot open com port! althought odin see's the phone!! i have been dissapointed!! the only sollution that remain's to me is to pay a visit in samsung's dealer!! Do you have any idea?
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I had the same problem with this device... I had to flash stock rom with odin.
Just install kies and open it. Then reinstall usb driver through kies and then try flashing stock rom with odin, it will surely work. So good luck with that.

updating via ota isnt much good follow kies or stores

did you fix it? if yes how? I have the same problem

The best thing about samsung is Samsung Kies. There is a emergency firmware recover or something of that kind, I dont remember the name. Just install it and connect your device to it. It will try to recover your phone

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