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[q] bricked and odin doesnt see the phone he

hello to all i have the sprint branded epic 4g and it is bricked i have done extensive reading and i have everything in place to return the phone to stock but the problem is when i start odin it doesnt reconize the phone and nothing happens i have tried starting odin and then powering the phone ibto download mode then hooking it to my computer and still nothing can anyone please help

PHIL2577 said:
hello to all i have the sprint branded epic 4g and it is bricked i have done extensive reading and i have everything in place to return the phone to stock but the problem is when i start odin it doesnt reconize the phone and nothing happens i have tried starting odin and then powering the phone ibto download mode then hooking it to my computer and still nothing can anyone please help
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Go into your add/remove programs and uninstall the Samsung drivers
Redownload the drivers and reinstall them
Reboot PC
Start ODIN and THEN plug phone in
If all else fails trying swapping the USB cable

[Q] Odin doesn't see my phone

I lost recovery on my phone and when I try and boot my phone, it says "system software not authorized by att."
I'm trying to ODIN my phone back to stock but I can't see my phone when I open ODIN and put my phone in download mode. does anyone know of any fixes for this?

Try different USB port or different cable.

You might have to try a different computer. I can't for the life of me get my pc to recognize my device. But I have no problem on my laptop
Sent from my Nexus 5

Thanks guys. I found out that I had to restart my computer after installing the drivers and then it detected it with no problems!

Bricked Samsung s4 HELPHELP

Ok so. I bricked my gt-i9505, and i have tried everything to try and fix it. The problems are as follows:
Phone wont turn on
Wont boot to recovery mode
Odin, Kies and pc wont recognize phone
The things i did that got me to a bricked phone are i flashed paranoid android onto the phone and tried to flash gapps full modular, it wasnt working, clockworkmod gave me a status 6 error and so i decided to use mobile odin to flash it as soon as it began the phone crashed and it wont turn on anymore. i am able to go into download mode
I need some help if anyone can help. I dont know what to do.

Sir,
Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum.
Stand by
Until then read/ask in this thread: How to Unbrick Samsung Galaxy S4?
Good luck

mujtabay said:
Ok so. I bricked my gt-i9505, and i have tried everything to try and fix it. The problems are as follows:
Phone wont turn on
Wont boot to recovery mode
Odin, Kies and pc wont recognize phone
The things i did that got me to a bricked phone are i flashed paranoid android onto the phone and tried to flash gapps full modular, it wasnt working, clockworkmod gave me a status 6 error and so i decided to use mobile odin to flash it as soon as it began the phone crashed and it wont turn on anymore. i am able to go into download mode
I need some help if anyone can help. I dont know what to do.
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If the phone won't turn on at all you might be boned.
Odin and all that obviously require you to be able to boot to download mode.
Are you positive the battery is good? Could you find another battery to try?
Does the charging light come on when its plugged in? Are there any signs of life at all?

Skipjacks said:
If the phone won't turn on at all you might be boned.
Odin and all that obviously require you to be able to boot to download mode.
Are you positive the battery is good? Could you find another battery to try?
Does the charging light come on when its plugged in? Are there any signs of life at all?
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I think it does turn on because the phone does continue to heat up but its just a black screen also i can put it into download mode and it stays there without being plugged into charge. I'm not sure about the battery ill have to check that out. ill get back to you.

It sounds like you dont have recovery or a rom installed at all.
To fix that you need odin. If the PC wont recognize the phone that is a problem. Did you try a different USB cord to connect to the PC? They are not all created equal.

Skipjacks said:
It sounds like you dont have recovery or a rom installed at all.
To fix that you need odin. If the PC wont recognize the phone that is a problem. Did you try a different USB cord to connect to the PC? They are not all created equal.
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yes i have used both the original one that came with the phone and the s5 one that my brother has, i have had no luck.
my phone shows up as "msm8960" or mtp usb device also it it device driver software was not successfully installed.
[UPDATE] i have found something similar to odin called JOdin3 that connects to my phone, through this i will try to flash a stock firmware, downloaded from sammobile, and see what happens.

Odin doesn't work without the drivers, and since you had an issue with the drivers that would explain why Odin doesn't work yet JOdin3 does.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Odin doesn't work without the drivers, and since you had an issue with the drivers that would explain why Odin doesn't work yet JOdin3 does.
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I installed the samsung drivers several times and it still wouldn't connect to the pc, i also installed kies and it still wouldn't work, but it was working before i bricked my phone. i have fixed my phone through JOdin3.But thank you everyone for your help.

Will it connect now through Odin or Kies?

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Will it connect now through Odin or Kies?
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No it still wont connect to either but the computer does recognize the phone.

MTP is built into Windows, so the fact the PC detects the phone is a good sign. The entire problem you're having seems to hinge on your PC rejecting the Samsung drivers, which are absolutely required for Odin to function. Those drivers should have no problems installing, and I have successfully installed them on both Windows 7 (x64) and Windows 8.1 machines so I know the installer does work.
There could be many reasons as to the source of your problem, such as a corrupt file or registry entry from when the phone soft-bricked. You want to take a closer look and do some detective work here. Uninstall the drivers if you haven't already done so. Clean out the PC with CCleaner. Even attempt a reinstall of the drivers in the PC's safe mode. Regardless of what you choose to do, if you ever wish to use Odin, you'll need to get this resolved.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
MTP is built into Windows, so the fact the PC detects the phone is a good sign. The entire problem you're having seems to hinge on your PC rejecting the Samsung drivers, which are absolutely required for Odin to function. Those drivers should have no problems installing, and I have successfully installed them on both Windows 7 (x64) and Windows 8.1 machines so I know the installer does work.
There could be many reasons as to the source of your problem, such as a corrupt file or registry entry from when the phone soft-bricked. You want to take a closer look and do some detective work here. Uninstall the drivers if you haven't already done so. Clean out the PC with CCleaner. Even attempt a reinstall of the drivers in the PC's safe mode. Regardless of what you choose to do, if you ever wish to use Odin, you'll need to get this resolved.
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yeah ill definitely try to fix the problem because odin is such a great tool. i have uninstalled and installed the samsung drivers but i'll go search the net and what not to try and find a fix. odin was working before when i flashed the stock rom and changed something to mtp and adb (i think i put in an ussd code or something (*#0808#) and through that i was able to use odin) but because the wifi wasn't working on the stock rom, i flashed a custom rom to fix the wifi problem but was once again greeted with the odin problem.

can access recovery and download but can't be recognized by pc

Hello,
i was trying to update my phone (G2 D800) to the last snapshot from cyanogenmod, I wiped it, then i connect my otg to install the .zip but it didn't recognize it, weird, then I try to connect it directly to my pc to transfer the files, my pc says "Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)"
i can access all my files in the phone, nothing from outside, not even adb.
Then i tried with Download Mode, same thing.
tried the unbricking guide where i had to short two capacitors, same again.
Now I'm downloading Ubuntu and then try the other one.
I wanted to ask if anyone knows something about this or is just that my phone died?
Thanks In advance

r2v2tanachian said:
Hello,
i was trying to update my phone (G2 D800) to the last snapshot from cyanogenmod, I wiped it, then i connect my otg to install the .zip but it didn't recognize it, weird, then I try to connect it directly to my pc to transfer the files, my pc says "Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)"
i can access all my files in the phone, nothing from outside, not even adb.
Then i tried with Download Mode, same thing.
tried the unbricking guide where i had to short two capacitors, same again.
Now I'm downloading Ubuntu and then try the other one.
I wanted to ask if anyone knows something about this or is just that my phone died?
Thanks In advance
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If you can access download then use this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=65643825&postcount=4

looks like its the charging port or board where it is attached, last night I managed to connect to to the pc but didn't make it to actually copy the files

r2v2tanachian said:
looks like its the charging port or board where it is attached, last night I managed to connect to to the pc but didn't make it to actually copy the files
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you got a faulty micro usb charging port on phone.. maybe

Device boot looped and computer not recognizing the phone

Hello,Today I stupidly tried to root with kingoroot and bricked my phone, now I downloaded a new rom to fix it but now I see that my computer (or any computer) can't recognize the phone but I can still charge it
When I connect it to my phone it says device is malfunctioning. I am out of options and very frustrated
Please someone help me

Malone555 said:
Hello,Today I stupidly tried to root with kingoroot and bricked my phone, now I downloaded a new rom to fix it but now I see that my computer (or any computer) can't recognize the phone but I can still charge it
When I connect it to my phone it says device is malfunctioning. I am out of options and very frustrated
Please someone help me
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Try to connect to odin. Put in download mode and connect to odin. Does odin recognise it?

callumbr1 said:
Try to connect to odin. Put in download mode and connect to odin. Does odin recognise it?
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Nope, the computer dosn't detect it atall, I don't know if its a hardware issue or physical issue, im completely out of options and very frustrated