Hi trying to enable software updates option via USB and am unable to see that option. I have enables USB debug as well as developer mode. But I don't see the option I need when I connect the USB to the phone. Can someone please help.
you to use a program like odin, flashify or smart switch depending on what you want to do.
these programs connect your phone throught the usb cable and port both on your phone and computer.
But won't using Odin require me to root my phone?
denniskillz said:
But won't using Odin require me to root my phone?
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No root is not needed. With odin you will just need to download the correct firmware for your device according to which model it is and if it locked to a certain carrier or not. You can download the firmwares from sammobile.com.
no program will root your phone unless you flash the rooting software.
I suggest you read and understand what is required be fore you attempt to alter your device.
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Just rooted using this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723479
When I hook up the USB cable, it no longer shows up on the phone and gives me the option to mount memory card.
How do I go about fixing that?
(and also, should I need to, how do I unroot?)
EDIT - Now works after reapplying USB settings, weird.
Re Root the phone with one click. If you cannot mount to the computer etc. then odin back to stock and then reroot, You are not the first person to use this rooting and have this happen. Not sure why may be just a batch of phones this method doesn't work with.......
I had the same problem and solved it by allowing USB Debugging mode. When you use ROM Manager and CWR, it actually tells you to leave the phone in the USB Debug mode, maybe the connections issue is the reason?
Hello!
I have royally F***** up my phone so if there are any geniuses out there, I will be so happy to hear your thoughts on my issue.
Here's my problem and I am open to any solution:
-My phone isn't rooted so CMW, TWRP, and any other custom recoveries are not an option.
-USB doesn't work
-Factory reset doesn't help (I've tried both ways)
-Any installs via extSD get the signature fail notification
-USB debugging is checked
-Allow apps from unknown source is checked
-App verification is unchecked
-Any kind of app that is meant to root my phone doesn't work
Thank you in advance!
Can you put it into download mode? If you can then you should be able to odin a custom recovery or odin the stock rom back to your phone and start from scratch. Have you downloaded the Samsung USB drivers? Only use the cable that came with your phone, others may not work or charge only. Also, try a different usb port.
Signature fails because you are on the stock recovery and the file you are trying to install hasn't been signed by Samsung.
cruise350 said:
Can you put it into download mode? If you can then you should be able to odin a custom recovery or odin the stock rom back to your phone and start from scratch. Have you downloaded the Samsung USB drivers? Only use the cable that came with your phone, others may not work or charge only. Also, try a different usb port.
Signature fails because you are on the stock recovery and the file you are trying to install hasn't been signed by Samsung.
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I can put it into download mode but my phone still isn't recognized. I've tried many different cables, computers, usb ports, etc. I've downloaded the drivers from people posting them on here or on samsungs website directly but either way, i'm using windows 8 and windows 8 does it automatically. this wasn't a problem from the beginning, this just recently started happening and it has nothing to do with my computer or any computer for that matter.
Have you installed the drivers 'as administrator'?
Have you used Odin before?
How did you do what ever it is you think you did?
Have you tried Odin'ing a complete stock .tar? Here's one. Just download zip and extact the .tar.md5 file.
When you launch Odin are you right clicking and running as admin?
Did you put your phone into download mode before connecting it to a RUNNING Odin session. Meaning start Odin on PC as admin. Then put phone into download mode and then plugging it into computer.
Seems you can get into your phone right?
You may also try copying the extracted .tar to your SD card (via PC adapter or whatever) putting the SD card back in your phone and then trying to flash it via Stock Recovery.
Always nice when someone asks for help and then never reports back.
I have a S4 I got in a trade, and It has this error when it boots up. I plug a usb cable in, and it does not recognize it in windows in either the yellow triangle or downloading mode. I have enclosed two pictures to show the errors. Is there any hope for my phone or am I out of luck ? I do appreciate your alls help and directing me to the correct place to fix this.
Thanks!
VaRMiT
VaRMiT said:
I have a S4 I got in a trade, and It has this error when it boots up. I plug a usb cable in, and it does not recognize it in windows in either the yellow triangle or downloading mode. I have enclosed two pictures to show the errors. Is there any hope for my phone or am I out of luck ? I do appreciate your alls help and directing me to the correct place to fix this.
Thanks!
VaRMiT
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Looks like whoever had it tried to flash a ROM or something and failed. You'll have to flash the stock firmware in ODIN. I recommend downloading MDL and MK2, because if by chance MDL works then you can get a full custom recovery and not be restricted as to what you can flash. This phone has a locked bootloader so flashing is not as straightforward as other phones.
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Looks like whoever had it tried to flash a ROM or something and failed. You'll have to flash the stock firmware in ODIN. I recommend downloading MDL and MK2, because if by chance MDL works then you can get a full custom recovery and not be restricted as to what you can flash. This phone has a locked bootloader so flashing is not as straightforward as other phones.
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What links can you provide that gets me the stock ROM, MDL, and MK2.
And thank you so much for the help.
Definitely try the AMDL image first like DeadlySin9 stated. If it is still on that version, you found a diamond in the rough. You'll want to keep it from updating afterwards if it is on AMDL.
AMDL is available from sammobile.com
MK2 is available from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279
I believe you will have to register on that site to download them.
Red_81 said:
Definitely try the AMDL image first like DeadlySin9 stated. If it is still on that version, you found a diamond in the rough. You'll want to keep it from updating afterwards if it is on AMDL.
AMDL is available from sammobile.com
MK2 is available from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2621279
I believe you will have to register on that site to download them.
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My biggest problem is this, It will not reconize the usb when I plug it in the computer. I am a computer tech, I know about usb drivers for samsung. etc...Ive done the volume down, power etc where its in download mode, it doesnt reconize the usb. Is there a way to put this on a micro sd card and install it from there? Or do I have to do it from usb?
I would try downloading the Android SDK. It may give you the drivers you need.
Otherwise, try different cables (OEM is best) and different USB ports. Make sure you download the drivers off of the Samsung website. If there is a bad driver on your machine, ensure you are checking the box to delete the driver file when uninstalling.
Otherwise, there is another program called Heimdall that ignores the windows drivers, but I'm not well versed in that one.
VaRMiT said:
My biggest problem is this, It will not reconize the usb when I plug it in the computer. I am a computer tech, I know about usb drivers for samsung. etc...Ive done the volume down, power etc where its in download mode, it doesnt reconize the usb. Is there a way to put this on a micro sd card and install it from there? Or do I have to do it from usb?
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Have youtried installing Samsung Kies into your computer to get the driver?
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Have youtried installing Samsung Kies into your computer to get the driver?
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What the biggest problem is, I can go to Device Manager and when I plug it in, It doesnt do anything at all. No indication that a USB device in the USB section. But I havent tried kies, I figured, if a unreconized usb device wasnt in the device manager, theres no sense in going any further. EX: I plug my mouse in, it shows up in device manager somewhere. The S4 doesnt at all.
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What the biggest problem is, I can go to Device Manager and when I plug it in, It doesnt do anything at all. No indication that a USB device in the USB section. But I havent tried kies, I figured, if a unreconized usb device wasnt in the device manager, theres no sense in going any further. EX: I plug my mouse in, it shows up in device manager somewhere. The S4 doesnt at all.
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If changing cable and different USB ports hasn't helped, then the USB port on the phone is probably defective and that's an entirely different issue.
EDIT: Also try a different computer if possible.
I know this thread is an old thread but I still wanted to share. I was recently working/ playing with a couple of Samsung Galaxy s4's ( sgh-i337 & sgh-m919). I managed to get the "secure fail: kernal, unauthorized software has been detected by the system" message. These days you hook the device to smartswitch and do an emergency recovery. What I did was hooked the phones up to z3x Samsung Tool Pro in download mode. After selecting the proper device, I clicked the option to read the pit file. After reading the pit file, the device restarted normally with no message. The first time I thought may have been a weird bug but I have replicated it 3 times and the same result each time. This happened after installing or having issues with custom recovery.
Hmm it looks like whoever was trying to install a ROM or custom recovery, forgot to use the Loki exploit.
You can download the MDL firmware from my Google drive here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZXv9FAcDbfkbFZzh078SSMZ85jbMVPSx/view?usp=drivesdk
PC&Odin not able to detect phone via USB after flashing custom ROM: tried dif pc too
Hi all,
I've recently flashed this awesome ROM: [GearCM][i9500][4.4.4] Optimized CyanogenMod 11 for Samsung Galaxy S4 [20140912] in my device. ROM works great, very stable, fast performance, however since install, I am not able to detect my phone via USB. Not even ODIN sees the device connected.
Was doing my research before posting, so I will let you know what I've tried which was recommended in other posts and google:
1. Re-installed Samsung USB Drivers: No Go
2. Used different USB Cables (using stock one that came w/ phone right now): No Go
3. Tried different USB Ports: No Go
4. Tried a different PC: No Go
5. Yes, I am testing with my screen unlocked
Anything else I can try? Maybe a setting in my Phone?
Thanks!
Odin should always see your phone in download mode. No rom will change that.
If Odin doesn't detect your phone in download mode then it's either a:
- Driver problem
- Cable/port problem
- Faulty usb port
By the way, the device charges normally when connected to my computer USB.
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Odin should always see your phone in download mode. No rom will change that.
If Odin doesn't detect your phone in download mode then it's either a:
- Driver problem
- Cable/port problem
- Faulty usb port
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Good call. Odin is not detecting the phone in download mode-- so I guess we can eliminate problem in the device configuration.
I'm going to try again in another PC and different cables. Maybe my Cable went bad, sucks because it's pretty new? Going to copy Odin to a pen drive so I can try in friends computer. On other PCs I only tried connecting in Windows-- no download mode & odin.
Ok, so I was able to get working back.
I enabled developer options by going in about and clicking the build 7 times. Proceeded to go to Debugging options and selected Android Debugging marked. Reinstalled Drivers again, then it showed PC connected as Media Device on notifications. I clicked there and changed to Camera PTP and then back to MTP.
Now I'm able to see the Device again!
No idea why I was not able to see it in Odin while on download mode, however, I can see it now even when not download mode.
Thread can be closed, thanks!
Hello to everyone.New to this forum.
So here is my issue.
I have S6 Edge+ and yesterday it got stuck o samsung logo. I was able to factory reset it , wipe all data , cache etc. After that the phone booted and tried to set it again as new. But now its asking me to verify my google account that i used before and i do not remember it.
I tried flashing different firmware , realterm and a lot other solutions but nothing worked.
Is it just useless now ? any other solutions ?
AmixS6 said:
Hello to everyone.New to this forum.
So here is my issue.
I have S6 Edge+ and yesterday it got stuck o samsung logo. I was able to factory reset it , wipe all data , cache etc. After that the phone booted and tried to set it again as new. But now its asking me to verify my google account that i used before and i do not remember it.
I tried flashing different firmware , realterm and a lot other solutions but nothing worked.
Is it just useless now ? any other solutions ?
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You have to use combination firmware, I will PM you.
El Solido said:
You have to use combination firmware, I will PM you.
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Can you pm me too Im having trouble finding these
sdizzle31 said:
Can you pm me too Im having trouble finding these
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He just sends a link which gives you the files . But those files are not the latest so it will not work on your phone (in case you have same firmware as me) .
If your phone is Binary 4 and lower then it will work.
Help
I can’t find a combination file for the Samsung 6edge plus, it’s Sm-g928Vvru3cqg1
I cannot bypass google account verification neither able to root it
My phone is unrooted and have no TWRP installed on it
I connected my USB stick via an OTG connector but my phone did not see it
Booting menu has no option to boot into the USB stick connected via OTG and the phone does not have a slot to insert an SD card to root and flash TWRP
I cannot use ADB via my computer because I cannot access the settings on my phone to enable USB debugging even though I downloaded latest Samsung USB device driver on different computers but Odin does not show up my phone
My computers show my phone connected as Unknown USB device (device descriptor request failed) under Universal Serial Bus Controller in Device Manager
I can only connect to WI-FI and keep clicking next until I reach the screen where I have to insert google account to setup the phone but I do not have the google account used before in order to complete the setup
Is there a way to have my phone bypass google account verification or root it and install TWRP on it then flash custom ROM
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I cannot bypass google account verification neither able to root it
My phone is unrooted and have no TWRP installed on it
I connected my USB stick via an OTG connector but my phone did not see it
Booting menu has no option to boot into the USB stick connected via OTG and the phone does not have a slot to insert an SD card to root and flash TWRP
I cannot use ADB via my computer because I cannot access the settings on my phone to enable USB debugging even though I downloaded latest Samsung USB device driver on different computers but Odin does not show up my phone
My computers show my phone connected as Unknown USB device (device descriptor request failed) under Universal Serial Bus Controller in Device Manager
I can only connect to WI-FI and keep clicking next until I reach the screen where I have to insert google account to setup the phone but I do not have the google account used before in order to complete the setup
Is there a way to have my phone bypass google account verification or root it and install TWRP on it then flash custom ROM
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What model number is ur s6edge+? I might have the combo files u need for odin.
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What model number is ur s6edge+? I might have the combo files u need for odin.
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The model number is SM-G928C
Here is the Samsung link for its information
https://www.samsung.com/ae/support/model/SM-G928CZDEKSA/