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asking for help. a dead i9000.

Hi guys, I bought a sim free samsung galaxy i9000 in London last week.
Several days later, I tried to root it. Then, I got a dead i9000, stopping on the galaxy logo when try to swtich it on.
I downloaded Odin3, and tried to use different i9000 firmwares to revive my i9000. It did not work.
Everytime I try, I just got nothing. The log on Odin shows like following:
<ID:0/004> Added!!
<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..
<ID:0/004> File analysis..
Then nothing happens, no progress bar or other things, even one hour later.
I have tried on 3 different laptops with Win7 32bit or Win XP SP3 32bit.
I can use Android System Recovery on i9000 now, and Odin can find the phone on COM4.
Can anyone here help me to slove this problem? I do not want my i9000 to be just a brick.

did you put the phone in "download mode" while using odin?

yes. I press Home, Volume and Power buttons all at the same time, and then I got the interface of Android system recovery. I think this is the Download Mode you meant.
While in this mode, Odin can detect the Phone is on COM4.

download mode is volume button down, then hold home button, then power it on, hold all three and you will get a picture of android and the words download on your screen, I think what you did was volume button up/home/power, this is another mode.

voodoochild2008 said:
download mode is volume button down, then hold home button, then power it on, hold all three and you will get a picture of android and the words download on your screen, I think what you did was volume button up/home/power, this is another mode.
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You right!
I thought volume button down and up are the same.
Thank you! My i9000 is back.

glad to help

Stuck In ClockworkMod Recovery

My phone was already rooted but I wanted to install clockworkmod so I ran ran Noob's 1 click root and I booted into clockworkmod recovery. Now, when ever I click the home button to make a selection, it just goes to black and nothing happens untill I click the back button. I have taken the battery out and it still reboots into recovery. I have a few important numbers that I have not added as contacts yet that I would like to get to so a restore is not my first option. Does anyone have any tips?

Would flashing a modem possibly, get it out of being stuck rebooting into Recovery mode? I can boot into download mode. Would a modem flash cause any data loss?

lehaman310 said:
when ever I click the home button to make a selection, it just goes to black and nothing happens untill I click the back button.
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When using clockwork, you need to use the camera button to make selections.

Select reboot phone with the home key, the other keys will cause a blank screen until you press another one but you never really left recovery.
Just re-read your post, my bad. If you are in clockwork press the camera button when reboot is highlighted...
sent from an Epic4g through the cosmos

Now is sitting in a screen with a phone and a computer icon. Do I have to do a full restore now?

lehaman310 said:
Now is sitting in a screen with a phone and a computer icon. Do I have to do a full restore now?
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Were you messing with Odin too? Because that sounds like what happens when you have an unsuccessful flash with Odin.
Pull the battery to reboot your phone and then if it goes back to that again, you're most likely course of action will be to reflash your phone with Odin, which will return it to factory defaults unless you have some sort of backup through clockwork, or TiB, etc.

Koadic said:
Were you messing with Odin too? Because that sounds like what happens when you have an unsuccessful flash with Odin.
Pull the battery to reboot your phone and then if it goes back to that again, you're most likely course of action will be to reflash your phone with Odin, which will return it to factory defaults unless you have some sort of backup through clockwork, or TiB, etc.
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Yeah I was medding with odin since the camera button wasn't working either. I am now back to stock

Im stuck in clockworkMod recovery and cannot get into the download mode so I can restore my phone with Odin.
battery is pulled, and put back in.
the 1 button is pushed and the power button is pushed.
No download mode, but the CWM recovery page.
help?

btgoodlin said:
Im stuck in clockworkMod recovery and cannot get into the download mode so I can restore my phone with Odin.
battery is pulled, and put back in.
the 1 button is pushed and the power button is pushed.
No download mode, but the CWM recovery page.
help?
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I know this may sound trivial, but this (among other things!!) happened to me yesterday.
Pull the battery again and re-try holding down the 1 key first - making sure it is competely pressed down and it is the ONLY key pressed by your finger (I have big fingers - and then press the power key.
This worked for me. And as a side note, if you are getting stuck at the Clockwork recovery screen no matter what you do - you will most likely have to Odin back to a Full Stock .tar (about 290MB +/-) file and start again.
Hope this helps!
Edit: Make sure your phone is NOT connected to your charger or computer when you put the battery back in. I found out yesterday that having the phone connected either way would automatically cause the phone to power back up and into the same screen I was stuck at.

your using the wrong button
You have to use enter on your keyboard to select a function
menu home and back only work on the original android recovery mode

I thought I had messed something up too. The same thing happened to me but you have to use the power button to go back, or you can use the keyboard to navigate.

Sounds like the 1st key is not being pressed cleanly. However, I had a similar issue when trying to flash CM6 ROM and it's required ext4 and kernal. I just Odin'ed back to stock dk28 froyo and restored a nandroid backup.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

I'm able to get into download mode finally. Weird.
I'm just getting an Odin error now
<ID:0/007> Added!!
<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..
<ID:0/007> Can't open the specified file. (Line: 1224)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
I'll keep trying on different USB ports, but I'm not sure what file that error is coming from.

If you are using the new dk28 stock rom change the extension from md5 to .Tar tidings can't using it for some reason

Please post questions in General section.

btgoodlin said:
I'm able to get into download mode finally. Weird.
I'm just getting an Odin error now
<ID:0/007> Added!!
<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..
<ID:0/007> Can't open the specified file. (Line: 1224)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
I'll keep trying on different USB ports, but I'm not sure what file that error is coming from.
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"Can't open the specified file" sounds like your image file is bad. Try downloading it again. I've had all kinds of issues downloading from some of these file hosting sites.

The being stuck in recovery issue happens to me about every other time I'm in there. Turn out system was still mounted. Went into one of the menus, unmounted, reboot. fixes it every time for me.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App

kcarpenter said:
the being stuck in recovery issue happens to me about every other time i'm in there. Turn out system was still mounted. Went into one of the menus, unmounted, reboot. Fixes it every time for me.
Sent from my sph-d700 using xda app
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yoou my friend are a god!!

Experienced people please! Telus T959D stuck!

hey everyone i have registered for the website to try and get my phone working again! By reading around the forums i believe that my phone is not BRICKED.
PHONE:
Samsung
Telus
T959D
TRIED:
Tried to root it using ODIN v1.3
RESULT:
I am not allowed to post links yet to the screen shot so here's how it FAILED.
<ID:0/008> Added!!
<ID:0/008> Removed!!
<ID:0/008> Added!!
<ID:0/008> Odin v.3 engine (ID:8)..
<ID:0/008> File analysis..
<ID:0/008> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/008> Initialzation..
<ID:0/008> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/008> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/008> cache.rfs
<ID:0/008> dbdata.rfs
<ID:0/008> zImage
<ID:0/008> recovery.bin
<ID:0/008>
<ID:0/008> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
It did not work and when i try to BOOT it normally, it is stuck on a PHONE....!....COMPUTER screen
Also TRIED:
Super One Click 2.1.1 shortfuse
RESULT:
Stays at "waiting on device"
THEN tried to install drivers and now it FREEEZES on "waiting on device"
Wow this is complicated. can anybody PLEASE tell me what i need to do to FIX this and ROOT it??
ALSO i cannot reach USB DEBUGGING because i cannot get past the PHONE.....!.....COMPUTER screen.

please guys i really need help. I've tried everything!

Sooo....you used the PDA button when you odined the file, right? If you used the phone button you probably seriously damaged your phone.
And if you want to try Odining again, just pop the battery out, and then hold the volume down button while plugging your phone into your computer. That should get you in a working download mode...

yess i used PDA. Not only that, but now i cannot get into download mode anymore,\. Whenever i plug it into the usb it just has a grey battery on the screen with the circle progress bar frozen.

So to clarify, you pulled the battery, then with one end of your USB cable plugged into the computer, held down your volume down button, then plugged in the other end of your USB cable to your phone (you should still be holding the volume down button) and after a few seconds you're still not getting into download mode?
Do you happen to have a custom recovery flashed to your phone? You can enter recovery by holding both volume buttons, then hold your power button until you see the boot logo, you can then release the power button. (continue holding both volume buttons until you enter a menu screen with a few options)

Please post your question in the q&a section and more experienced users will help you!

sendan said:
So to clarify, you pulled the battery, then with one end of your USB cable plugged into the computer, held down your volume down button, then plugged in the other end of your USB cable to your phone (you should still be holding the volume down button) and after a few seconds you're still not getting into download mode?
Do you happen to have a custom recovery flashed to your phone? You can enter recovery by holding both volume buttons, then hold your power button until you see the boot logo, you can then release the power button. (continue holding both volume buttons until you enter a menu screen with a few options)
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nope no recovery. and whenever i do both volumes and the power button the PHONE ! COMPUTER logo just keeps flashing

pspjunior said:
nope no recovery. and whenever i do both volumes and the power button the PHONE ! COMPUTER logo just keeps flashing
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The only other idea I have left is to hold volume up + power button for 6 seconds and see if you can boot into download mode again with the method I mentioned before.
And based off a distant memory of being stuck at the "PHONE ! COMPUTER" screen that was still considered download mode and it connected to Odin just fine.
Otherwise since debugging is disabled adb won't work (to my knowledge) I'm out of ideas, I'd post this in the Q&A section like that guy suggested to see if they can help further.

sendan said:
The only other idea I have left is to hold volume up + power button for 6 seconds and see if you can boot into download mode again with the method I mentioned before.
And based off a distant memory of being stuck at the "PHONE ! COMPUTER" screen that was still considered download mode and it connected to Odin just fine.
Otherwise since debugging is disabled adb won't work (to my knowledge) I'm out of ideas, I'd post this in the Q&A section like that guy suggested to see if they can help further.
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thanks for the help, but odin doesnt seem to be recognizing the phone on the PHONE ! COMPUTER logo. If you can point me to any links to drivers that i can download and install, i'll try those out too. My last bet would be to buy 3 resistors and try to get it to download mode that way, but thats the LAST thing i'd do.
Also, when i plug it into a usb and do the normal button combo i've been doing before, it just goes to a GREY BATTERY screen and it just freezes there now.

close thread please. i have a another problem which i have put into another thread

Tab 4 SM-230NU Won't boot, Download mode missing robot

I have a Tab 4 that won't boot. Recovery mode doesn't work but download does... kind of. Holding down the power, home, and volume down button gets me a horizontal white line that, if I push volume up, takes me to a static page with odin mode followed by three more lines of writing in the top left. There is no robot as it apparently should be. Kies3 doesn't recognize the device as being one compatible with Kies3. Odin hangs on <ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
Please help.

Having problems with odin and my gs8+ can someone help?

I've been a member for a long time on this forum and never had a problem rooting any of my phones with the instructions and files from here but I can't seem to be able to get my gs8 to pass odin.
I have the sm-g955u snapdragon model and followed every step correctly but when I hit start on the modded odin it just stays on initializing for a minute or so and and get a message saying attempts completed (0/1) and will keep getting the message every time I click start afterwards. Anyone know what could be happening? I've enabled usb debugging as well and tried other odins and different files but nothing seems to work. I'm desperate here and really need some help so any help would be appreciated thanks ?

Can you try copying the entire Odin log here? It might be helpful.

MikeTheTechSavvy said:
Can you try copying the entire Odin log here? It might be helpful.
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This is all that was in the log
<ID:0/004> Added!!
<ID:0/004> Odin engine v(ID:3.1203)..
<ID:0/004> File analysys..
<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/004> Initialzation..
<ID:0/004>
<ID:0/004>
<ID:0/004>
<ID:0/004> FAIL! (deviceInfo)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
And this is the guide and files I used
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...root-g955u-g955u1-snapdragon-sampwnd-t3658911

Use modded Odin, remove the .md5 off the end of all the files

joe3681 said:
Use modded Odin, remove the .md5 off the end of all the files
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yes just checked and all the files are in .tar and also ran it in comsey odin
and here is firmware im running G955UOYN1AQGA

i have the same issue with my s8. i try to install twrp and a custom rom but when my phone restarts star into a bootloop and don't pass the samsung page... only can put in download mode

hpagliettini said:
i have the same issue with my s8. i try to install twrp and a custom rom but when my phone restarts star into a bootloop and don't pass the samsung page... only can put in download mode
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Root at your own risk. This is a different issue...

Found this:

I'd say just rebooting into download mode itself while connected before hitting start would work too...

Damn didn't work ?, I've been wanting to root this since I got my hands on it but no luck

I think I may have the solution. I've done some research and this might work:
1) Download a stock firmware for your S8 sm-g955u model
2) Boot into download mode by pressing (power + volume down + Bixby button), stop at the first screen when it asks for continuing and reboot by pressing volume down.
3) Quickly boot again into download mode by pressing power + volume down + Bixby. Press continue. It should work good with Odin now.
4) Install firmware with Odin

MikeTheTechSavvy said:
I think I may have the solution. I've done some research and this might work:
1) Download a stock firmware for your S8 sm-g955u model
2) Boot into download mode by pressing (power + volume down + Bixby button), stop at the first screen when it asks for continuing and reboot by pressing volume down.
3) Quickly boot again into download mode by pressing power + volume down + Bixby. Press continue. It should work good with Odin now.
4) Install firmware with Odin
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So download a different stock firmware first and load that into regular odin and do steps above before trying rooted fw with modded odin? I will try this once I get home
Also just noticed I posted this in the gs8 forum and not the gs8+ sorry lol

UPDATE: Still no luck!
If anyone here is in northern Cali in the bay area and knows how to do it and has the right files, im willing to pay to get it done for me ?