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I spent all day yesterday trying to fix my Epic with no progress and feeling a little sol.
Yesterday I decided I needed a new ROM/kernel because I was averaging only 4hrs of battery life with Supernova and wanted to try Nebula ROM with EXT4. I backed up everything on my laptop and did a Nandroid backup as well. I also have Titanium backup backed up on my pc. I always always back up. I started fresh by flashing to stock and starting over. I rooted with 1 click, flashed DK28, and where I believe I screwed up is I didn´t upgrade to Clockwork 3 (looking back I don´t know wtf I was thinking by proceeding the following way), instead I went to advanced, reboot recovery and ended up rebooting my system into 2.5.1.2. I rebooted my phone and all was good, powered off, 3 fingered and I still had 2.5.1.2 so like a dumbass I figured I was good to go ahead and flash Nebula. LOL so what happened? the Rom installed, I finished like I always do and when I went to boot up my phone I flashed into v2.5.1.0 and thats where my phone stays. If I try to do anything it gives me E: Can´t open/cache/recovery/log
I tried to restore of course and I get this message. I have tried to Odin back to stock but my phone will not connect to a pc.
Heres my situation. I live in a house with 6 computers that I have attempted to connect to with no luck, 5 of these have adb and the Android SDK, several drivers (including the Epics) installed and the C drives have literally no more space. The other pc has Windows 2000 so I wondered if it won´t install the drivers or pick up my phone because its so old??? My main laptop is running Ubuntu and Im not understanding how or even if I can Odin my phone on it, besides I think this laptop won´t connect to my Epic because of the USB port and I dont have a clue how to detect or fix that. My mom has a brand new PC with Windows 7 thats never had anything connected via USB yet that I thought was worth giving a shot at. I only have the stock USB cable though and I was wondering if I bought a new cable if it would be more likely that my phone would connect.
I am not very educated on Android or computers so I prob shouldn´t have done as much flashing as I have to begin with. If I understood file systems better I would prob figure it out.
Thanks for any help or advice. If I over looked the answer in front of my face I am sorry it is because I am retarded and don´t understand computer lingo.
Are you connecting the proper way to odin?
Step 1: open odin with phone Disconnected from PC (if you dont open it first it may not recognize your phone, so i hear)
Step 2: hold 1 on keypad and power on phone --> download mode
step 3: connect phone to PC
step 4: Flash rom
if odin still isnt recognized I would suggest taking out your microsd card and put it in another phone or a microsd card reader and put a basic dk28 rom/dl18 (maybe the acs one that includes modem) rom on there then put the sdcard back in your phone and flash that in clockworkmod and see if it'll boot (wide data/cache/dalvik before doing this)
Also search the forum i'm pretty sure theres an RFS formatter somewhere that'll format your /system/data/cache back to RFS, you probably need to do that before flashing back the other rom...
So, if I understand the OP correctly, you accidentally flashed an ext4 only rom on rfs with 2.5.1.0?
This thread had a flashable reRFS conversion, just in case you need it.
This thread has a cwm flashable di18 and modem.
Those should get you up and going again with cwm 2.5.1.0. If they don't, Odin is really the answer and I don't know what to tell you.
So I tried both of your ideas and I am so pist off. I am now stuck in download mode and cant get 7 freaken computers (one literally brand new with Windows 7, one with Vista, one with XP, 3 with Linux, 1 with 2000 out of being desperate with 5 different usb cords to connect. Clearly my phone is the problem because the sd reader can read my sd just fine and my mom, sister and gramps connect o the same computers just fine. Ive accepted that I am ****ed at this point. I have never got this phone to stay connected to a pc and I think I hate it.
It is starting to sound like it is time to head to a sprint store.
Erica8123 said:
I am now stuck in download mode and cant get 7 freaken computers (one literally brand new with Windows 7, one with Vista, one with XP, 3 with Linux, 1 with 2000 out of being desperate with 5 different usb cords to connect.
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Have you tried to just pull the battery out? Then, put it back in the phone and boot into CWM? Or pull the battery, then boot into recovery? I personally hate going to the Sprint store and I try every possible option before going.
If you can get another USB cable it will probably work. I use an evo cable. Also for future reference there are no custom kernels on dk28.
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Hey, I just wanted to update.
I had tried several usb cables to connect btw including a new one I just bought. No luck. I had tried literally everything to fix my Epic and I was super pist during my last post lol. I finally had to cave and take the block walk (literally) down to Sprint and thank God I insured my phone. He was hella cool about it, just laughed and said he doesn't want to bother with it and replaced it. I am still trying to decide what I wanna do as rooting goes (besides getting rid of pretty much every app they put on there).
Thanks again everyone
So I want to root my phone, but I cannot get ANY computer to recognize the phone when it is in either download mode, or debug mode.
I'm running Sprints stock EB13 right now.
I've downloaded the samsung drivers and installed them.
I've tried 3 computers -- A XP 32bit, a vista 64bit, and a 7 64bit system. I've also tried 3 different cables. Nothing works.
The phone is recognized fine in mass storage mode.
Tried restarting the phone many times, removing the battery, etc.. same with the computer side of things.
I'm out of ideas to try and can't find a good post with a fix.
Thanks for any input!
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So I want to root my phone, but I cannot get ANY computer to recognize the phone when it is in either download mode, or debug mode.
I'm running Sprints stock EB13 right now.
I've downloaded the samsung drivers and installed them.
I've tried 3 computers -- A XP 32bit, a vista 64bit, and a 7 64bit system. I've also tried 3 different cables. Nothing works.
The phone is recognized fine in mass storage mode.
Tried restarting the phone many times, removing the battery, etc.. same with the computer side of things.
I'm out of ideas to try and can't find a good post with a fix.
Thanks for any input!
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what are you running on your PC that you want to connect to the phone with?
Odin (in download mode?)
ADB in debugging mode?
What exactly are you trying to run ??
jdelano said:
what are you running on your PC that you want to connect to the phone with?
Odin (in download mode?)
ADB in debugging mode?
What exactly are you trying to run ??
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I wanted to use Odin to go back to DI18 at first. After that didn't work I tried ADB in debug mode, and that no longer works!
I know ADB in debug mode used to work when I was on DI18 because I used it before when I first got my phone. Now I've upgraded to EB13 from the file samsung provided on their website. I've also tried a hard re-set of the phone and that didn't help either.
I had a similar issue. I was able to resolve it by creating a fresh user in windows and then running it from there.
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iil said:
I had a similar issue. I was able to resolve it by creating a fresh user in windows and then running it from there.
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umm..yeah three complete different computers?...I don't think thats the case.
syntax_erorr said:
So I want to root my phone, but I cannot get ANY computer to recognize the phone when it is in either download mode, or debug mode.
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I had this exact problem with my Epic also. I tried rooting my fone too, for like 2 months straight, with no luck... Tried every technique, software, and trick in the book and nothing worked...
2 days ago though, I finally rooted it using this solution:
Forget about trying to "root" it.
Instead, flash the "Stock EB13 Deodexed EXT4 + CW 3.0.0.6" to your fone (search the forum, you'll find it and the thread that explains how to do it).
It's pre-rooted too!
It worked fabulous for me. I am now rooted and well on my way to fully customizing my fone.
Odin is finicky though... I had to switch the usb cord around to several different ports before it recognized my fone. Also, it kept locking up at a certain point in the flashing process, but after moving the image from "Phone" to "PDA" (you'll know what these are once you open up Odin), it worked brilliantly.
Try it, it works!
P.S. Just in case this helps anyone; I should note that originally I upgraded from Eclair to the official unrooted straight from Samsung (before they pulled it) stock Froyo. I loved it, but wanted it rooted.
I read somewhere that it was easier to root it if you reverted back to Eclair first. So I did (search forum for uninstalling Froyo).
And from Eclair, I flashed to the above mentioned rooted and deodexed version of Froyo (EB13).
Hope it helps!
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I wanted to use Odin to go back to DI18 at first. After that didn't work I tried ADB in debug mode, and that no longer works!
I know ADB in debug mode used to work when I was on DI18 because I used it before when I first got my phone. Now I've upgraded to EB13 from the file samsung provided on their website. I've also tried a hard re-set of the phone and that didn't help either.
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Might try looking at the usb on the phone to check for something preventing a good connection; I've read where people have found bent connectors and were able to fix it.
Good luck; that has to be extremely frustrating.
I tried everything like you, multiple cables, multiple computers, EVERYTHING!!!
I finally broke down and took it to sprint and they couldnt even get it to connect or fix the problem so i got a new epic. You might just want to take it back and get another one. Im on my 3rd epic now so that should tell you something about these ****TY phones...
I notices a few users have mentioned that they're dealing with trying to restore or unbrick their Continuum after flashing incompatible kernels and other problems.
I made this backup immediately after I got root, before I did anything else, to make absolutely sure I wouldn't be SOL if anything went awry. I've made absolutely certain this works, by unzipping and flashing on my own Continuum prior to uploading. It contains the system, recovery, and kernel partitions.
This file is also helpful if you need to get back to stock for warranty purposes, in which case you can manually un-root by using your favorite file explorer (I happen to prefer ES File Explorer), grant root permissions, mount system as rw, then manually delete SuperUser from /system/apps, su from /system/bin, and busybox from /systen/xbin. I hope this helps some of you who have been stuck.
You don't need to be rooted to flash this. Simply unzip, flash the .tar.md5, and you're golden. If you end up in restore mode after flashing, you probably need to do a hard reset, but this is unlikely as I tested it by flashing this a few times after installing various programs from the Market and never had to do a hard reset.
Don't forget to put your phone in Download mode by removing the battery, then holding the vol down button while inserting the usb cable. Good luck!
http://www.mediafire.com/?a897dbakz4j7k4f
Thanks for this. I had been messing around with the phone. I was able to get it back to stock.
Kay I try to flash this and it's telling me it's an invalid image type
Never mind, I got it. Thanks
Not a problem, glad I could help!
My phone was soft-bricked. This worked like a charm. Thank you so much!
I ran this and everything passed then when i boot up the phone with animations and sound after the animated verizonwireless logo is up for a while; everything goes black.
any suggestions? never mind I had to do a wipe then it worked
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I ran this and everything passed then when i boot up the phone with animations and sound after the animated verizonwireless logo is up for a while; everything goes black.
any suggestions? never mind I had to do a wipe then it worked
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Yup, gotta wipe! At first it's so easy to forget this step. When you get to customizing your installation, you'll get to used to having to wipe it'll become second nature!
I'm so glad to hear this is coming in handy for you all! Now that you got this done, get yourself froyo, courtesy of imnuts: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197415
Ok after having installed EC03 Froyo via imnuts's thread. Everything was going fine except for some bugs here and there. Fast forward a couple weeks later and I try to fix those bugs by installing a stock odin rom via torque's thread (seems so foolish now that I look back on it). Which brings me to today and my bricked Continuum.
Well to explain further I tried to install the odin Rom only to receive a FAIL in the end (Selected the md5 file through the PDA option and proceeded to flash). Disconnected afterwards only to find out I can't even get the Samsung logo to show up or the phone to charge, but the phone will still go into download mode.
And this leads me to this thread with the same outcome. I've tried flashing this eclair? image only to end up with the fail message again. After the recovery.bin stage it just says "Complete(write) operation failed." Any help with this matter would be appreciated.
Edit: After some searching, gonna try it with imnuts' DL17 image. Will post results.
Edit2: No luck with that either. Guess I'll just wait until the Bionic gets released, but for now I'll have to dig up my dumbphone.
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Ok after having installed EC03 Froyo via imnuts's thread. Everything was going fine except for some bugs here and there. Fast forward a couple weeks later and I try to fix those bugs by installing a stock odin rom via torque's thread (seems so foolish now that I look back on it). Which brings me to today and my bricked Continuum.
Well to explain further I tried to install the odin Rom only to receive a FAIL in the end (Selected the md5 file through the PDA option and proceeded to flash). Disconnected afterwards only to find out I can't even get the Samsung logo to show up or the phone to charge, but the phone will still go into download mode.
And this leads me to this thread with the same outcome. I've tried flashing this eclair? image only to end up with the fail message again. After the recovery.bin stage it just says "Complete(write) operation failed." Any help with this matter would be appreciated.
Edit: After some searching, gonna try it with imnuts' DL17 image. Will post results.
Edit2: No luck with that either. Guess I'll just wait until the Bionic gets released, but for now I'll have to dig up my dumbphone.
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Read the OP from pastorbennett here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1203597 and try the unbrick process. You can do a search for pastorbennett and trailblazer. Both have posted "recovery processes", or at least links to others that have posted recovery processes. They've saved my butt a couple of times... Except on my first phone that wouldn't go into DL or Recovery Mode. It would just flash the Samsung logo, over, and over, and over again... That happened before pastorbennett posted the unbrick info. Oh well, Verizon replaced it under the hardware warranty. Thankfully.
Looks like I didn't search hard enough.
Thanks for the link Moon. I will be trying this ASAP.
Hit a little bit of a snag trying to get it to work. It told me to install drivers for my device, however my Phone does not show up in the dropbox and the only related thing I can find is "Gadget Serial".
I've tried uninstalling the drivers, but Win7 is being a fool and automatically installing drivers for me.
Does anyone know why i get a 'FAILED' after trying to flash this with Odin? My phone is soft-bricked btw.
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Looks like I didn't search hard enough.
Thanks for the link Moon. I will be trying this ASAP.
Hit a little bit of a snag trying to get it to work. It told me to install drivers for my device, however my Phone does not show up in the dropbox and the only related thing I can find is "Gadget Serial".
I've tried uninstalling the drivers, but Win7 is being a fool and automatically installing drivers for me.
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Okay, if you can, grab a different computer (either Windows XP or Windows 7) and install the samsung drivers from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1203597. The hint here with ANY Windows computer is to install the device drivers FIRST! (I've been a system administrator for about 20 years.) Then plug in the hardware. It usually makes the installations go MUCH smoother.
If you have to use your computer, try installing the Samsung drivers first, then plug the phone in.
zzir said:
Does anyone know why i get a 'FAILED' after trying to flash this with Odin? My phone is soft-bricked btw.
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The key to odin seems to be this:
1. Start odin.
2. Click the PDA button and select the odin TAR or MD5 file. (You can only do one. Not both.)
3. Make sure the phone is not plugged into the computer.
4. Make doubly sure the phone is not plugged into the computer.
5. Put your phone into download mode. (With the phone off, hold the Volume Down button and turn the phone on.)
6. Then plug the phone into the computer.
7. Start the odin flash and you should be good to go. Also, before unplugging the phone, make sure it says either success or failed. If it doesn't say anything, or says loading (or something like that), WALK AWAY! Go get yourself a cup of coffee, a soda, a nice cup of tea... Something. I recommend waiting at least 10 minutes. If the progress bar has not moved, in that time, okay, then pull the cable and the battery and start again.
I tried to do this, but when it boots into recovery mode, it says update.zip is gone. Any ideas why this might be happening? Also if it's like this, will Verizon take it back within the 14 day return policy without charging me anything?
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I tried to do this, but when it boots into recovery mode, it says update.zip is gone. Any ideas why this might be happening? Also if it's like this, will Verizon take it back within the 14 day return policy without charging me anything?
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Did you flash the CWM Recovery in Odin? (cwm_recovery_test4_adryn.tar) Can be found here if not http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1230072
is it possible to flash this with heimdall or only odin?
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is it possible to flash this with heimdall or only odin?
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I don't know, however, pastorbennett posted this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16600453&postcount=29. It might help? I use Linux at home to build most of this stuff, then use my wife's Windoze machine to flash. It just seemed easier.
Yes, you can use heimdall, you just need to extract this .tar and put the extracted files in the corresponding location in heimdall xD
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yeah i saw that but in heimdall 1.3 the UI is different. i don't know where to put any of the stuff. i have the .tar but i dont know where to put the other stuff. here's a screenshot
windows wont recongnize my fascinate. yes it is a verizon. cant use odin as windows doesnt like my phone. and yes i did mess it up. Ive odin it a few times before with success. I have installed the samsung driver also. My question is, is it totally bricked or is there anything i can do?
Thanks.
Well what did you do prior to "bricking" it? What did you flash, etc.
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Try a different USB port, different cable, and finally a Different computer.
Okay so what your saying is it will flash into: download mode If not and you see a black screen you could possibly try this so you will have to get an extra Mini USB to do so and a few other things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn5GoRjhn0&feature=youtu.be
If you are able to go into download mode ect there is no need for the above to be done. Or you might want to try looking at this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1153310
I am not responsible for what you do with this information though read through carefully to see if you want to take these steps on your device. From what I read and see some have had problems switching back to Odin when this program took over.
What Sendan has said here would probably help us more as I just jumped right into it for you. There may or may not be a need to do these steps listed here if we have more info on what is happening with your device.
Give me a detailed description of what you did, what you used, and what happens to it now.
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cleanerdude said:
windows wont recongnize my fascinate. yes it is a verizon. cant use odin as windows doesnt like my phone. and yes i did mess it up. Ive odin it a few times before with success. I have installed the samsung driver also. My question is, is it totally bricked or is there anything i can do?
Thanks.
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Not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem (PC wouldn't recognize phone in usb mode or download mode, Odin wouldn't connect, multiple cables had same result, remove/reinstall of Samsung drivers didn't help).
I ended up installing the Samsung drivers on a laptop that had never had them installed. Connection success! Was able to use Odin from that machine to flash back to stock Froyo/ED05.
After that, usb and download mode worked on the original PC. Same drivers that wouldn't work previously. Can't explain it, YMMV. It got me out of a jam.
Good luck.
maybe i freaked out. i put battery in just now and was able to boot into red recovery. yesterday i used it as an excuse to go buy a galaxy 2 on att. im trying an older backup. tried one a couple nights ago and it kept getting stuck. i have had the hardest time. started on a mac with heimdall and couldnt get it to work. went to a windows machine. couldnt get odin to work right with it. not sure now what i did to brick it. my win laptop i usually use is at my girlfriends. was just hoping to make this phone last til nexus prime.
Ok messing with it more. everytime i try something in recovery it will end up on the black screen with the phone to computer and the yellow sign between. heimdall (back on the mac) wont recognize it. not sure if i can do something in recovery
So Odin won't recognize your phone in download mode? You using the stock USB cord? Try different ports? Best thing would be to flash Stock ED05 and restart from there.
OK got it figured. Usb cord must be the problem. Now have cyanogenmod 7.1. But can't get gapps to install. Have tried rom manager and downloading it
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And fixed gapps. Had to use power menu to recovery. So all fixed.
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Hello!
I think I somehow deleted a crucial file...
Okay, so my phone won't connect to my computer anymore. I am using Windows 8 so aside from Windows 8 automatically downloading the drivers on its own, I took additional steps and downloaded the drivers directly from samsungs site. I've tried using different ports, different usb cables and different computers. All that happens is a lightning bolt telling me my phone is charging.
My phone used to be rooted. When I noticed the problem, I unrooted the phone and tried restoring the phone. (I tried booting in recovery and doing it that way as well as restoring it through settings).
I've downloaded just about every app that has the word 'mount' in it to see if it will help and nothing happens.
Every time I restore my phone, the first thing that pops up is a notification saying that samsung link has stopped working. I'm on android 4.2.2
Whenever I've restored my phone in the past, I've always been successful but that was also because I was able to flash a factory ROM through odin on my computer.
When I put the phone in developer mode, it shows in the corner:
CURRENT BINARY: CUSTOM
CURRENT STATUS: CUSTOM
Root checker says I am not rooted so I'm guessing that the BINARY and STATUS is coming up as custom because I am not fully unrooted (however, I had the problem of not being able to connect via usb when I was rooted).
If you have any ideas, I will definitely try them!
Oh, one more thing. Before my phone stopped connecting to my computer, I purchased additional batteries for my phone. I say this because It had been a fairly long time before I realized that my phone wouldn't connect to my computer because I no longer used my computer to charge my phone. And I say that because when I was rooted, I used titanium backup as well as CMW and neither was able to restore my phone back to a time that the usb worked again.
Okay, I think that's it. It's a lot of details but I didn't want to waste anyone's time coming up with ideas if I had already tried one.
Thank you!
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Hello!
I think I somehow deleted a crucial file...
Okay, so my phone won't connect to my computer anymore. I am using Windows 8 so aside from Windows 8 automatically downloading the drivers on its own, I took additional steps and downloaded the drivers directly from samsungs site. I've tried using different ports, different usb cables and different computers. All that happens is a lightning bolt telling me my phone is charging.
My phone used to be rooted. When I noticed the problem, I unrooted the phone and tried restoring the phone. (I tried booting in recovery and doing it that way as well as restoring it through settings).
I've downloaded just about every app that has the word 'mount' in it to see if it will help and nothing happens.
Every time I restore my phone, the first thing that pops up is a notification saying that samsung link has stopped working. I'm on android 4.2.2
Whenever I've restored my phone in the past, I've always been successful but that was also because I was able to flash a factory ROM through odin on my computer.
When I put the phone in developer mode, it shows in the corner:
CURRENT BINARY: CUSTOM
CURRENT STATUS: CUSTOM
Root checker says I am not rooted so I'm guessing that the BINARY and STATUS is coming up as custom because I am not fully unrooted (however, I had the problem of not being able to connect via usb when I was rooted).
If you have any ideas, I will definitely try them!
Oh, one more thing. Before my phone stopped connecting to my computer, I purchased additional batteries for my phone. I say this because It had been a fairly long time before I realized that my phone wouldn't connect to my computer because I no longer used my computer to charge my phone. And I say that because when I was rooted, I used titanium backup as well as CMW and neither was able to restore my phone back to a time that the usb worked again.
Okay, I think that's it. It's a lot of details but I didn't want to waste anyone's time coming up with ideas if I had already tried one.
Thank you!
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Not sure if this will work, but there's a mobile odin you can try to use.
And you can get stock ROM there.
Salil999 said:
Not sure if this will work, but there's a mobile odin you can try to use.
And you can get stock ROM there.
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Ii'm not rooted anymore so mobile odin doesn't work
swagganation said:
Ii'm not rooted anymore so mobile odin doesn't work
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Try and download a ROM that is pre-rooted. Maybe that will work!
Salil999 said:
Try and download a ROM that is pre-rooted. Maybe that will work!
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Do you know how I would install a rom that's prerooted without my phone being rooted or being able to connect to a computer via usb?
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Do you know how I would install a rom that's prerooted without my phone being rooted or being able to connect to a computer via usb?
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You're should have a custom recovery installed... At least that way you wouldn't need your computer. Otherwise you'd have to do it through Odin, but like you said in the OP, you can't connect to USB. Is your device rooted?
swagganation said:
Hello!
I think I somehow deleted a crucial file...
Okay, so my phone won't connect to my computer anymore. I am using Windows 8 so aside from Windows 8 automatically downloading the drivers on its own, I took additional steps and downloaded the drivers directly from samsungs site. I've tried using different ports, different usb cables and different computers. All that happens is a lightning bolt telling me my phone is charging.
My phone used to be rooted. When I noticed the problem, I unrooted the phone and tried restoring the phone. (I tried booting in recovery and doing it that way as well as restoring it through settings).
I've downloaded just about every app that has the word 'mount' in it to see if it will help and nothing happens.
Every time I restore my phone, the first thing that pops up is a notification saying that samsung link has stopped working. I'm on android 4.2.2
Whenever I've restored my phone in the past, I've always been successful but that was also because I was able to flash a factory ROM through odin on my computer.
When I put the phone in developer mode, it shows in the corner:
CURRENT BINARY: CUSTOM
CURRENT STATUS: CUSTOM
Root checker says I am not rooted so I'm guessing that the BINARY and STATUS is coming up as custom because I am not fully unrooted (however, I had the problem of not being able to connect via usb when I was rooted).
If you have any ideas, I will definitely try them!
Oh, one more thing. Before my phone stopped connecting to my computer, I purchased additional batteries for my phone. I say this because It had been a fairly long time before I realized that my phone wouldn't connect to my computer because I no longer used my computer to charge my phone. And I say that because when I was rooted, I used titanium backup as well as CMW and neither was able to restore my phone back to a time that the usb worked again.
Okay, I think that's it. It's a lot of details but I didn't want to waste anyone's time coming up with ideas if I had already tried one.
Thank you!
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IF you can get to download mode Then jump over to this thread. Download the zipped file (from first or second post), extract the file - just to the .tar.md5 file.
While waiting for the download charger your phone to at least 50%
Also download Odin 3.x. get that here. unzip one of the Odins - I've been using 3.07
To launch Odin make sure you right-click and choose run as administrator!
Once Odin is launched go to the PDA box and select the .tar.md5 file you downloaded.
Make sure you have NOT selected re-partition. you can leave auto reboot and f.reset time checked though.
Now get into download mode - Power button + Home key + Volume down. Hold until you are asked to confirm going into download mode by selecting up volume.
Plug your phone into your computer and a com port should show in Odin3.
If it does then select start and wait till it finishes completely - it will say pass; your phone will actually reboot too.
Go through setup and there you go. new phone.
Then to root just use CF-Autoroot
My computer stopped recognizing my S4 recently, too. Odin wouldn't see it, couldn't connect it as a drive, etc. It had not been very long between when it worked and when it didn't, and I had installed a bunch of new Java stuff for (JDK7, Netbeans, Eclipse, etc). Tried the wife's S3 and same deal. So I uninstalled my Samsung drivers and Kies and booted my Win7 laptop. Reinstalled drivers, no joy. Reinstalled Kies and let it do all it's updates and that fixed the issue. Rooted, MDL, stock rom.
jejb said:
My computer stopped recognizing my S4 recently, too. Odin wouldn't see it, couldn't connect it as a drive, etc. It had not been very long between when it worked and when it didn't, and I had installed a bunch of new Java stuff for (JDK7, Netbeans, Eclipse, etc). Tried the wife's S3 and same deal. So I uninstalled my Samsung drivers and Kies and booted my Win7 laptop. Reinstalled drivers, no joy. Reinstalled Kies and let it do all it's updates and that fixed the issue. Rooted, MDL, stock rom.
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When uninstalling old drivers make sure you go to Device manager and go to View >Sho Hidden devices and remove them too! Remove everything - all left over devices, all software and even directories for said software; Revo uninstaller works well.
Also try a brand new USB cable. Though that may not be it, I've seen that alone solve all kinds of problems! Really just a brand new cable.
If you haven't tried this already, try and make sure USB debugging is enabled?