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why odin doesn't recognize my vibrick

Alright heres the catch. i installed nero v4. with voodoo enable (wich i forgot to disable), i flashed a stock 2.2 kernel on my phone and jk6 modem. Now my phone is soft bricked. Now i can get to the stock 2.2 recovery but when i select "reinstall packages" phone just reboots and does not go to cmw. It also says cant mount to "E". Also whenever i connect the phone to odin in download mode, odin does not recognize it but does if the phone is not in download mode and is just stuck at the samsung screen. Can anyone help me?

Is Nero still on ur SD card? Reflash through CWR maybe.
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Sorry just reread ur post. Try using a different usb port.
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have you figured it out?? what verstion of odin are you using??

kooksta said:
have you figured it out?? what verstion of odin are you using??
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no i havnt figured it out. im using v1.7 odin 3 and i am getting nothin. i really need my phone.

Update the samsung drivers?
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I had to reset my laptop one time when my drivers were failing it might help not sure though

i finally got odin to recognize my phone. what i did is got a windows 7 pc. installed the samsung drivers and put the phone in download mode and odin recognized it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! finally, my beloved phone is working. by the way im still flashing nero v5 in this, bricking doesn't scare me,lololol.

[HELP] S2 ROOT v1.2 Gone Wrong

Hi Everybody,
I've tried rooting my Galaxy s2 using s2 root v1.2.
Followed everything very carefully, ran odin, installed insecure kernel. But when I launched s2 root it came up with an error message 'this is only for galaxy s2 phones'. Then i noticed in my computer instead of the phone icon theres only 2 drives there?. So Ive ran odin again and reinstalled the official kernel and the same things happening and now kies wont recognise my phone?
Someone please help....

Ok figured it out, switched usb debugging off, now the phone icon is back and kies works. But can anyone help as to why s2 root wont detect my phone??

Why would you use s2 root ? All you need to do to get root is flash cfkernel.

I want to put back the original kernel once i am rooted, looking at that chainfire thread, I don't know if it will work. BTW I have BVKG3.

I think you are confused because you don't need root to flash kernel/rom ect. Just use ODIN to flash.

OK rooted now using chainfires method. Going to try putting official kernel back on via odin, hope it stays rooted

It will, you will lose other nice things like clockworkmod recovery and nandroid backups but root will stick.
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Kies Update

I screwed up my phone about a week ago by not flashing Loki-Doki.zip after a rom. I decided to Odin back to stock UAMDB, and now I am not rooted and I have stock recovery. I realized soon after doing this that I didn't get any OTA updates, so i connected my phone to my computer to see if I could update with Kies. It seems I can update to UCUAMDL with kies, but I was wondering if I would be safe to do this with my phone being previously rooted etc. Thank you for any help given.

Yes you can I did it!
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Need advice, I flashed the ROM for another device!

I was updating my mdl s4 to a new build and flashed a rom for t0ltetmo, a T-Mobile note, by accident. I believe it updated the bootloader but not totally sure.
This is the error I get from TWRP when trying to flash a backup:
twrp E: unable ti mount ' /system'
If I go back to stock using kies can I then root with casual? Or will kies change my bootloader to something undesirable (mk1, nb1, etc.)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried flashing the correct firmware in Odin? You may have bricked your device, but it's a good sign you can still get into twrp.
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No haven't tried Odin. I only have a Mac, need to borrow a friends PC. Don't think it's bricked. I believe it has the note 2 bootloader, and that's why TWRP isn't flashing the backup

numbere said:
No haven't tried Odin. I only have a Mac, need to borrow a friends PC. Don't think it's bricked. I believe it has the note 2 bootloader, and that's why TWRP isn't flashing the backup
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If odin doesnt work, check out mobiletechvideos.com they fixed my bricked S4.

numbere said:
No haven't tried Odin. I only have a Mac, need to borrow a friends PC. Don't think it's bricked. I believe it has the note 2 bootloader, and that's why TWRP isn't flashing the backup
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You could try a Windows vm on the Mac
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Will try running odin on windows vm. Do you know if I go back to stock using kies if the bootloader will update to something other than the original MDL?

numbere said:
Will try running odin on windows vm. Do you know if I go back to stock using kies if the bootloader will update to something other than the original MDL?
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If you use kies it'll force the latest firmware. You want to use Odin.
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jd1639 said:
If you use kies it'll force the latest firmware. You want to use Odin.
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Thanks for all the support! That was a scary situation.
Got Odin to run on parallels. Before using Odin I gave twrp one last try. Factory reset and then flashed a rom I tried previously, but this time without the gapps. Success! Got very lucky on this mistake.
Word to the wise double check your rom before flashing.

numbere said:
Thanks for all the support! That was a scary situation.
Got Odin to run on parallels. Before using Odin I gave twrp one last try. Factory reset and then flashed a rom I tried previously, but this time without the gapps. Success! Got very lucky on this mistake.
Word to the wise double check your rom before flashing.
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Glad you got it working. It may have been a bad download of gapps.
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No I definitely flashed a rom for the note 2.
Makes me think it's a sign that the software in our community is becoming more stable. Meaning that one can flash the incorrect ROM and potentially not destroy their device.
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numbere said:
No I definitely flashed a rom for the note 2.
Makes me think it's a sign that the software in our community is becoming more stable. Meaning that one can flash the incorrect ROM and potentially not destroy their device.
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No, you got lucky. The partitions are different for different devices and that's what will get you. I.e.flash a boot img where system is supposed to be and you'll be hard bricked
Sent from my Nexus 5

Wow, what a coincidence.
I had a similar issue over the last couple of days.
Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701379
I used Odin in VMWare Fusion and it would not work at all, except to flash bootloaders and kernels. I finally got it to work through using heimdall using this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2374441

Stuck on boot, need some help

ok, so I am not a noob on rooting and such, but this one has me stumped. Have the i337 on mdl baseband. Wanted to return it to stock. I tried to Odin (v3.09) the factory tar from the samsung site, i got a failure, then it went to recovery mode saying to connect kies. I have tried kies 2.6 and 3.0, neither recognize the device. I have tried redownloading samsung firmware thinking it was corrupted and mk2 firmwares in odin, neither worked, they go immediately to fail when i try to execute Odin. I can get into download mode or the kies recovery mode, not sure what to do since it will not take odin. Any ideas?

aawshads said:
ok, so I am not a noob on rooting and such, but this one has me stumped. Have the i337 on mdl baseband. Wanted to return it to stock. I tried to Odin (v3.09) the factory tar from the samsung site, i got a failure, then it went to recovery mode saying to connect kies. I have tried kies 2.6 and 3.0, neither recognize the device. I have tried redownloading samsung firmware thinking it was corrupted and mk2 firmwares in odin, neither worked, they go immediately to fail when i try to execute Odin. I can get into download mode or the kies recovery mode, not sure what to do since it will not take odin. Any ideas?
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1. Kies and Recovery mode aren't same thing. Kies never will recognize your device being in Stock Recovery Mode. Don't mix things.
2. Find the error now is difficult coz maybe you update your bootloader with the MK2 firmware (that's android 4.3 no android 4.2.2).
3. Get me the errors or one screenshot that appears in ODIN when you try to flash the MK2 firmware pls.

I'll see what I can do, it happens so fast I don't think anything updates, and it shows me no errors, just fail
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aawshads said:
I'll see what I can do, it happens so fast I don't think anything updates, and it shows me no errors, just fail
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Maybe Kies was in your task bar when you tried to flash through ODIN?

Not the first but maybe the last ones, what does that do?
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aawshads said:
Not the first but maybe the last ones, what does that do?
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Close completely Kies before run ODIN and try again to flash the old bootloader. Tell me how works

Joku1981 said:
Close completely Kies before run ODIN and try again to flash the old bootloader. Tell me how works
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ok, ran it, failed again, hereare the screenshots with the complete message portion.

aawshads said:
ok, ran it, failed again, hereare the screenshots with the complete message portion.
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1. Try other version of ODIN. I recommend you the latest one -> HERE
2. And pls.... MK2 isn't firmware for your device, it's for i337M. Don't mix things. Flash MDL again if you had that baseband and show me what errors you will have in ODIN. Good luck

Still failed. Let me know what you see. thanks

Bump, anyone see what I is wrong?
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aawshads said:
Bump, anyone see what I is wrong?
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Are you sure you're on the mdl bootloader?
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Pit file
I see youre trying to flash the mk2 file but you dont have the pit file for the repartition head over here and download the mk2 pit file and then rerun it I also see that you have auto reboot checked, uncheck the auto reboot and then once iit finishes flashing and say reset unpluget you're device and pull the battery then put it back in and go into stock recovery by holding volume up power and home all at the same time and wipe data factory reset and cache partition http://d-h.st/5gz

Thanks, but that did not work either. I have never had a problem I couldn't odin out of, but I have tried everything I can think of and still nothing will work. I just want to sell the phone so I even tried the nb1 which should install no matter what bootloader I am on, and still nothing.