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Not sure if this is the right section or not, but I felt I would get the best response from this forum.
OK.. so I was running euegene's Vibrant6 ROM, but I was having trouble getting any of the lagfixes to work correctly. So I decided to follow the steps outlined in this post: ((apparently I cannot post links))To flash the stock rom and so on. I had never used odin before, but a quick google search found me some directions and it seemed simple enough. So I try to flash with odin and I kept getting stuck at "File analysis.." After disconnecting my phone and trying to restart it, the phone would just go to the screen with the phone + warning sign + a computer. I was able to get back in to download mode from there. Still could not progress past the file analysis. I tried all of the tips outlined in this thread(apparently I cannot post links)) and after reading that last post, I was able to uninstall my previously existing drivers from my moto cliq.
Finally, odin progressed passed the file analysis and was flashing the filesystem.rfs file. I had a nice blue progress bar on the downloading screen, I thought everything was going to be fine. Then my phone went to a blank Blue Screen. The progress bar in odin seemed stalled at about 25%. As this was my first time using odin, I had no idea if this was normal. I let it sit this way for a good 10 - 15 min. No change. At this point I started getting concerned and thinking this can't be normal. I gave it a few more minutes and still no change. Odin was still just sitting there, right about 25% on filesystem.rfs and blank blue screen on the phone. So then I unplugged the phone, pulled the battery and put it back in, expecting that phone - error sign - computer screen again and hoping to reboot the pc and try again. No such luck.
Now my phone will do nothing. Plugged in to the pc with odin running no response whatsoever from the phone. Plugged in to the wall, no response. It's like I'm trying to turn it on without the battery in. I fear the worst and I'm 99.9% sure you guys will just confirm this as I can't get in to ANYTHING. What I would really like to know though is where I went wrong. Is it really normal for an Odin flash to take that long and to sit at that point?
EDIT: Quick follow-up question, and this is probably going to sound completely stupid, but I don't really care: is the "internal sd" an actual micro sd card that can be accessed at all, so that I can at least get my pictures/videos and such off of if I have to get a new vibrant?
this should be posted in the q/a section
I'm no expert, and I'm not sure what went wrong, but you can try to unplug phone from the USB charger, unplug the battery, put battery back in, hold volume up + volume down and plug back into usb charger (connected to computer) to see if you get a responce from the phone.
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merrifield69 said:
this should be posted in the q/a section
I'm no expert, and I'm not sure what went wrong, but you can try to unplug phone from the USB charger, unplug the battery, put battery back in, hold volume up + volume down and plug back into usb charger (connected to computer) to see if you get a responce from the phone.
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Thank you for the quick response. Sorry about the wrong section, wasn't really sure this would fit best. Tried what you said and IT WORKED first try. I'm now in download mode. NOW, I would like to retry the flash with odin, but I also need to know if I'm doing something wrong, or if this was a fluke? Should odin sit at that point (25% flashing filesystem.rfs) for that long with a blue screen on the phone? I was under the impression it should be a pretty fluid and somewhat quick process.
skoozi said:
Thank you for the quick response. Sorry about the wrong section, wasn't really sure this would fit best. Tried what you said and IT WORKED first try. I'm now in download mode. NOW, I would like to retry the flash with odin, but I also need to know if I'm doing something wrong, or if this was a fluke? Should odin sit at that point (25% flashing filesystem.rfs) for that long with a blue screen on the phone? I was under the impression it should be a pretty fluid and somewhat quick process.
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when i flashed using odin i didnt seen any blue screen only the download screen wha are ou trying to flash are you sure its for the vibrant?
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when i flashed using odin i didnt seen any blue screen only the download screen wha are ou trying to flash are you sure its for the vibrant?
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Yes, I downloaded a rar for stock vibrant, it contains :
s1_odin_20100512.pit which i put in the PIT field, and T959UVJFD.tar, which i put in the PDA field
EDIT: this is from the "odin1.0_T959UVJFD_512.pit_rootupdate.rar" which is linked in a few posts in this forum.
yeah those are correct. try having re-partition checked because that worked for me. also, make sure you dont have any files on the csc field. are you using the correct drivers on your system??
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yeah those are correct. try having re-partition checked because that worked for me. also, make sure you dont have any files on the csc field. are you using the correct drivers on your system??
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Every time I try it with the re-partition option clicked it seems to hang at this status:
<ID:0/005> Added!!
<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..
<ID:0/005> File analysis..
<ID:0/005> Set PIT file..
<ID:0/005> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!
I am retrying this now, I have a small fraction of the blue progress bar on the "Downloading..." screen on my phone. Neither the device nor odin seem to be doing anything. How long should this normally take?
As far as I know the drivers are correct.. I installed the x64 drivers from the link provided in the informative links sticky in this forum. adb was working fine.. device manager lists the phone as "SAMSUNG USB Composite Device" and Driver details window lists three .sys files w/ version 5.16 built by WinDDK
EDIT: not sure if this helps.. here is screen shot of odin & driver details h**p://i37.tinypic.com/2cn8501.jpg (will not allow me to link or post img)
ok instead of flashing the s1_odin_20100512.pit in the PIT field, try flashing the other PIT which should be s1_odin_20100513.pit
THAT IS WITH THE 13, NOT THE 12.
you can find the 13.pit in one of the rar files. look deep into the rar files. im pretty sure you will find it
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ok instead of flashing the s1_odin_20100512.pit in the PIT field, try flashing the other PIT which should be s1_odin_20100513.pit
THAT IS WITH THE 13, NOT THE 12.
you can find the 13.pit in one of the rar files. look deep into the rar files. im pretty sure you will find it
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Unable to find any such file. After some google'ing, I was able to find an s1_odin20100513.pit from the samsungfirmwareworld i9000 forum. tried that with re-partition still checked. Same result. Tried again with re-partition unchecked, it gets to modem.bin, tries to work and then my phone goes to a blank RED screen.
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Unable to find any such file. After some google'ing, I was able to find an s1_odin20100513.pit from the samsungfirmwareworld i9000 forum. tried that with re-partition still checked. Same result. Tried again with re-partition unchecked, it gets to modem.bin, tries to work and then my phone goes to a blank RED screen.
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a blank red screen? all i can say is possibly try using another windows computer.
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a blank red screen? all i can say is possibly try using another windows computer.
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I had a similiar issue but mine was worse, I unplugged on accident during a kernal transfer. Get into download mode and keep the phone plugged in while you load ODIN. Then reset the phone back into download by removing the battery with it still plugged in. This should allow you to put the stock firmware back on. Use the 512/tar you already have. It is usually almost always an ODIN problem and not a truly bricked phone. I've ****ed my phone up a LOT and always able to revert after messing with ODIN.
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B
vibrantFTW said:
I had a similiar issue but mine was worse, I unplugged on accident during a kernal transfer. Get into download mode and keep the phone plugged in while you load ODIN. Then reset the phone back into download by removing the battery with it still plugged in. This should allow you to put the stock firmware back on. Use the 512/tar you already have. It is usually almost always an ODIN problem and not a truly bricked phone. I've ****ed my phone up a LOT and always able to revert after messing with ODIN.
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B
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I'm trying to do this, but if I open ODIN with the phone already in download mode, ODIN does not see it. Pulling the battery and putting back in (downloading screen still up during this) does not change that. Maybe I misunderstood?
yes, i did.. likely at 4 am i guess.. so far its gotten past the modem.bin which it hasnt done in a couple hours of messing with this.. now its on filesystem.rfs again and stalling again, only now its only at about 10 - 15% as opposed to the 25% i was getting a couple hours ago before it stalled. This is with re-partition unchecked, btw. With it checked, odin still just sits at do not remove target.
I had this problem.. what I basically did was:
- Open Odin... add all the PIT and PDA files up (Re-partition UNCHECKED)
- Plug the phone in USB
- When the green battery was on the screen: hold volume buttons (basically.. get into download mode)
- Once in download Odin doesn't detect anything? Unplug USB and replug it back in
- Odin should detect your phone and one of the boxes should be labeled: COM[#]
Any # should be fine as long as you have the proper drivers
Then hit the start button. During this whole process, you should see the Android digging with a blue bar right below it. The screen shouldn't go black, blue, or anything crazy. Just android digging and a blue progress bar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475&highlight=Stock Was the thread I used. Download hashtab (google it) and verify that the MD5 checksums are correct, once installed right click the file -> properties -> hashtab and then copy paste the MD5 on that thread an verify that it is correct.
For me the Odin process took less than a minute, the trick for me was to preload everything in Odin before plugging in the phone otherwise it would get stuck.
Personally, I don't think your phone is bricked anyway. Just some technical difficulties with getting Odin to work. The first time around when I was trying out Odin, it was messing up for me. Hope this helps.
Vibrant Drivers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929 -- If these aren't the set of drivers you're using, then uninstall yours and install this. This one works with no problems.
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a blank red screen? all i can say is possibly try using another windows computer.
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Was able to try this this morning.. it worked first try. With all the problems I was having, I was dumbfounded with how smooth it went. Don't know what was going on. Thank you all for your help with this
Hey guys, I figured I'll post here since I think I bricked my phone.... I was trying to install Eugene's Vibrant6 and I got stuck on the Vibrant Logo with Samsung at the bottom. I tried to reset with both volume buttons and power button and got to grey battery and nothing else... what can I do? Anyone can help me?
Thanks.
I fear my problem is worse as i was having the same issue with it loading filesystem.rfs and was stalling so i attempted to restart the process and now all that will display on my phone is an image of a cell phone a computer and a yield sign between. Plz help
Sounds like you need to upgrade Odin3 1.0 to Odin3 1.7
Ok i DL'ed Odin3 1.7 and still the same. The vibrant screen doesn't even come up, just an image of a cell phone and a comuter with a yield sign in between.
Start odin on your pc, remove batt, insert USB, hold down volume buttons and pop in the batt. This always gets me into download.
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May god bless you and your children, and your childrens children, and their children!!!!!!!!!
I was using Odin to install [KERNEL] stock+Voodoo stable 5.x for Vibrant and something went wrong, I'm not sure what but now I am stuck with the phone ! pc screen.
Odin will not recognize that there is a phone there if I just start a download Odin tells me <OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)
In another thread (whose fix didn't help me out) I read
masterotaku said:
Because..... "Phone ! PC" is not a hard brick. I've "Phone ! PC" bricked my Vibrant dozens of times.
Glad you've recovered though. It can be a scary screen if you're not used to seeing it!
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Are there other recovery techniques?
Did you get where it says Download Mode? If not, take the battery out, put it back but don't turn on the phone. Then open Odin load the pit files and pda. The next step with the phone off, hold the volume up and down the same time and plug the usb cable while holding up and down buttons and voila....you will have COM # showing up in your Odin and ready to flash again
Check here :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810130&highlight=odin
dany865, following your instructions Odin did recognize that there was a phone attached. 0:[COM5] and I'm flashing the PIT and PDA from the thread you linked me to now. It's a slow moving process!
So slow that I swear it was frozen so I took and chance and closed ODIN, after all what was the worst that could happen I was already staring at a brick, and rebooted the phone. PRESTO, it was back to JI6.
I went straight to MiniKies and put 2.2 on that phone, then spent a bunch of time reinstalling applications and configuring ADWlauncher.
So far all I know for sure that was lost was my finely tuned setup, root access, and a month of SMS messages that were not backed up.
Thank you!
I you are gonna root I would highly recommend to get "Titanium backup pro". It makes the setting up process 10x's faster and has a tin of other great features.
I need some major help.
My Verizon Note 3 was rooted but nothing else special. Recently, it started locking up when I turn it on in the morning, had to remove the battery and restart. Sometimes the power button would stop responding. And finally, after a phone call, it restarted itself and gave me a message "Could not do normal boot." Please see pictures.
It would not go into the recovery mode, but would always go to the Fastboot mode (Download mode). I tried Odin but no success. I talked to Samsung and the rep said that's what happens when you root (standard BS), but still allowed me to send it in. I got it back a week later, not fixed, but with paperwork saying Warranty Void due to Root.
I've been searching everywhere to see if I can find some information on how to recover from this, to no avail. I've installed the correct USB drivers many times, but neither ADB Devices nor Fastboot Devices commands will find anything attached. Odin continues to fail, sometimes with a message saying "Erasing Userdata partition" or something like that. It wouldn't show when I was taking pictures to post here.
Any suggestions or ideas? Again, no access to Recovery. Odin failes with or without the PIT file.
Thank you in advance.
FreaKaDroidXYZ said:
I need some major help.
My Verizon Note 3 was rooted but nothing else special. Recently, it started locking up when I turn it on in the morning, had to remove the battery and restart. Sometimes the power button would stop responding. And finally, after a phone call, it restarted itself and gave me a message "Could not do normal boot." Please see pictures.
It would not go into the recovery mode, but would always go to the Fastboot mode (Download mode). I tried Odin but no success. I talked to Samsung and the rep said that's what happens when you root (standard BS), but still allowed me to send it in. I got it back a week later, not fixed, but with paperwork saying Warranty Void due to Root.
I've been searching everywhere to see if I can find some information on how to recover from this, to no avail. I've installed the correct USB drivers many times, but neither ADB Devices nor Fastboot Devices commands will find anything attached. Odin continues to fail, sometimes with a message saying "Erasing Userdata partition" or something like that. It wouldn't show when I was taking pictures to post here.
Any suggestions or ideas? Again, no access to Recovery. Odin failes with or without the PIT file.
Thank you in advance.
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Sounds like the flash memory may have failed in some manner. Two words: Warranty replacement. Getting a replacement through Verizon is usually fairly simple once they realize they can't try and fix it by pressing factory reset in the settings. Did you try Verizon first or go straight to Samsung?
Edit: Nevermind, I just realized it says you are "Custom." My reading skills suck tonight. Maybe you can convince someone at Verizon that you tried some stuff on the internet to fix it and then it said custom. I don't know if a JTAG would help or not in this case. Maybe someone can chime in on that...
FreaKaDroidXYZ said:
I need some major help.
My Verizon Note 3 was rooted but nothing else special. Recently, it started locking up when I turn it on in the morning, had to remove the battery and restart. Sometimes the power button would stop responding. And finally, after a phone call, it restarted itself and gave me a message "Could not do normal boot." Please see pictures.
It would not go into the recovery mode, but would always go to the Fastboot mode (Download mode). I tried Odin but no success. I talked to Samsung and the rep said that's what happens when you root (standard BS), but still allowed me to send it in. I got it back a week later, not fixed, but with paperwork saying Warranty Void due to Root.
I've been searching everywhere to see if I can find some information on how to recover from this, to no avail. I've installed the correct USB drivers many times, but neither ADB Devices nor Fastboot Devices commands will find anything attached. Odin continues to fail, sometimes with a message saying "Erasing Userdata partition" or something like that. It wouldn't show when I was taking pictures to post here.
Any suggestions or ideas? Again, no access to Recovery. Odin failes with or without the PIT file.
Thank you in advance.
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Have you tried factory reset from Android Recovery (vol up, home, pow)?
I haven't run into anyone yet who couldn't undo soft brick from Odin... My only suggestion would be to start from scratch and follow the link in my sig...
I know you said you d/l sammie usb drivers a few times, try uninstalling ANYTHING on your pc from control panel>uninstall programs that says Samsung... THEN download and install newest drivers...
If following the guide in my sig doesn't bring you back, you'll be the first! Best of luck!
I'll try those things. I cannot go into recovery unfortunately. It just says "Recovery Booting" to get my hopes up, and then says "Could not do normal boot." Next line "ddi : mmc_read failed". Then goes into the ODIN Mode.
I'll report back after I try your suggestions... Thank you.
az_biker said:
Have you tried factory reset from Android Recovery (vol up, home, pow)?
I haven't run into anyone yet who couldn't undo soft brick from Odin... My only suggestion would be to start from scratch and follow the link in my sig...
I know you said you d/l sammie usb drivers a few times, try uninstalling ANYTHING on your pc from control panel>uninstall programs that says Samsung... THEN download and install newest drivers...
If following the guide in my sig doesn't bring you back, you'll be the first! Best of luck!
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Unfortunately it did not work. Same message on the phone "MMC: mmc_read fail", and in ODIN:
<ID:0/004> Added!!
<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..
<ID:0/004> File analysis..
<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/004> Initialzation..
<ID:0/004> Set PIT file..
<ID:0/004> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!
<ID:0/004> FAIL!
<ID:0/004>
<ID:0/004> Re-Partition operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
I also tried it with and without the PIT file and both the same result. Do you think this may be an actual hardware flash memory failure? Is there a way to format around the bad portion of the flash memory? I wish I could try some adb or fastboot commands but it does not show in either.
Any other thoughts or suggestions would be very much welcomed and appreciated. There's gotta be a way...
FreaKaDroidXYZ said:
I'll try those things. I cannot go into recovery unfortunately. It just says "Recovery Booting" to get my hopes up, and then says "Could not do normal boot." Next line "ddi : mmc_read failed". Then goes into the ODIN Mode.
I'll report back after I try your suggestions... Thank you.
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FreaKaDroidXYZ said:
I'll try those things. I cannot go into recovery unfortunately. It just says "Recovery Booting" to get my hopes up, and then says "Could not do normal boot." Next line "ddi : mmc_read failed". Then goes into the ODIN Mode.
I'll report back after I try your suggestions... Thank you.
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Pull battery in between attempts, and try diff usb ports on pc too
Notorious 3
No success...
az_biker said:
Pull battery in between attempts, and try diff usb ports on pc too
Notorious 3
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If you can't even get to odin without mmc read, maybe it is your memory. Sorry I couldn't help, can't beat hardware failures. .Best of luck
Notorious 3
not sure it would help but will it safe boot
power plus hit the menu button
Thank you for your inputs. I wish Samsung would've done a bit more than to just reject it with a Fail Description as "Device Rooted." I've been a loyal Samsung fan til now.
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If you can't even get to odin without mmc read, maybe it is your memory. Sorry I couldn't help, can't beat hardware failures. .Best of luck
Notorious 3
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Unfortunately it goes straight into the Download mode no matter what I try...
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not sure it would help but will it safe boot
power plus hit the menu button
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try the pit file by itself??
lol @ Samsung. That's NOT what usually happens when you're rooted. There's quite a large percentage of us that are rooted with zero issues...shame on them for not replacing it.
Anyway, are you sure you were *only* rooted? You didn't try to flash a ROM or mess with partitions?
And it's vol down + home + power for recovery. Did you pull the battery first before going into recovery?
PS - don't bother with fastboot, this device does not have fastboot enabled, only Odin. You're not gonna get a response that way regardless.
Yes. Tried that. There's only 1 Verizon PIT file I found anywhere. Would a different PIT file work?
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I know, I've been rooting for years, many Samsung S3, S4, Note 2 and 3's. But I wasn't gonna argue with the low-tech rep when she was gonna let me send it in. I was hoping for a motherboard replacement but that did not happen.
Yes, I "only" rooted. I was just about to do some more because of other issues (like the power button and the locking up first thing in the morning) when this happened. I never expected anything I couldn't undo via recovery or ODIN or something I can find on XDA...
I've tried VolUp+Home+Power, VolDown+Home+Power, VolUpDown+Home+Power, just about all combinations, always with a battery pull. It always goes to the Download mode... I cannot get into Recovery. Tried all 4 of my USB ports with a few different USB cables. Tried my Windows 7 laptop and my iMac.
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lol @ Samsung. That's NOT what usually happens when you're rooted. There's quite a large percentage of us that are rooted with zero issues...shame on them for not replacing it.
Anyway, are you sure you were *only* rooted? You didn't try to flash a ROM or mess with partitions?
And it's vol down + home + power for recovery. Did you pull the battery first before going into recovery?
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FreaKaDroidXYZ said:
I know, I've been rooting for years, many Samsung S3, S4, Note 2 and 3's. But I wasn't gonna argue with the low-tech rep when she was gonna let me send it in. I was hoping for a motherboard replacement but that did not happen.
Yes, I "only" rooted. I was just about to do some more because of other issues (like the power button and the locking up first thing in the morning) when this happened. I never expected anything I couldn't undo via recovery or ODIN or something I can find on XDA...
I've tried VolUp+Home+Power, VolDown+Home+Power, VolUpDown+Home+Power, just about all combinations, always with a battery pull. It always goes to the Download mode... I cannot get into Recovery. Tried all 4 of my USB ports with a few different USB cables. Tried my Windows 7 laptop and my iMac.
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Looks like you've done everything I would do. Maybe list it on Craigslist or swappa as 'dev project' or 'for parts' and get something out of it? Sorry to see you stuck like this.
Notorious 3
I had the same issue, try the steps below:
If your able to go into recovery factory wipe everything (if not go to the next step)
Flash the pit file by itself,
After flash is successful reboot and go straight into recovery, wipe everything
go into download and flash the stock firmware
If this doesn't work also re-download the firmware and pit using a windows PC, I've had issues with Macs download the correct file... Hope this helps, I had the same issues as you, in the end I had to re-download the software and follow the steps above, took me two days to fix the problem but it ended up positive.
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I had the same issue, try the steps below:
If your able to go into recovery factory wipe everything (if not go to the next step)
Flash the pit file by itself,
After flash is successful reboot and go straight into recovery, wipe everything
go into download and flash the stock firmware
If this doesn't work also re-download the firmware and pit using a windows PC, I've had issues with Macs download the correct file... Hope this helps, I had the same issues as you, in the end I had to re-download the software and follow the steps above, took me two days to fix the problem but it ended up positive.
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Also delete and reinstall your drivers, from time to time they get screwed up on PC. If you want feel free to send me your phone and I will test for you, I've been around the android world for a long time and have f up my phones/tablets many times but never had a hard brick.
Have you tried restoring using Samsung Kies? If you are in stuck in Download mode, this may work. Give it a shot.
Kies 3 is telling me that the device is not supported. It looked so hopeful for a little bit. Trying to find a workaround but haven't found one yet.
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Have you tried restoring using Samsung Kies? If you are in stuck in Download mode, this may work. Give it a shot.
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My internal memory was getting full and so I was trying to clean up some junk. Well, I must have deleted too much!!! After trying to reboot, I received error message "Could not do normal boot"and it goes into odin. I tried to use odin to flash it back to stock, but no luck. It appears like I need a bootloader in order to solve this issue. Any suggestions? Thank you so very much.
If you need a bootloader,
give a look in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2732110
(second or third o fourth post)
many110 said:
My internal memory was getting full and so I was trying to clean up some junk. Well, I must have deleted too much!!! After trying to reboot, I received error message "Could not do normal boot"and it goes into odin. I tried to use odin to flash it back to stock, but no luck. It appears like I need a bootloader in order to solve this issue. Any suggestions? Thank you so very much.
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Your phone is not bricked if you are getting system error messages or able to boot to download (Odin) mode. Bricked means that a phone responds the same as a brick does. So unless you have a red clay brick that also boots to download mode..
To fix your phone, go to download mode and flash the full stock firmware image for your model /carrier. You should do this in conjunction with the correct PIT file for your phone. Many people skip the PIT file and still prevail. But it's an unnecessary risk to skip it and you would do so at your own peril.
You say that flashing stock didn't work, but you provided no details whatsoever. You don't need a new bootloader, you need to use Odin correctly. To help spot where you are going astray, you need to describe step by step how you are using Odin, the name of the stock firmware file you are flashing, your phone model and verbatim, what you see on the Odin screen. A screen shot or photograph of the download mode screen on the phone would help too.
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fffft said:
Your phone is not bricked if you are getting system error messages or able to boot to download (Odin) mode. Bricked means that a phone responds the same as a brick does. So unless you have a red clay brick that also boots to download mode..
To fix your phone, go to download mode and flash the full stock firmware image for your model /carrier. You should do this in conjunction with the correct PIT file for your phone. Many people skip the PIT file and still prevail. But it's an unnecessary risk to skip it and you would do so at your own peril.
You say that flashing stock didn't work, but you provided no details whatsoever. You don't need a new bootloader, you need to use Odin correctly. To help spot where you are going astray, you need to describe step by step how you are using Odin, the name of the stock firmware file you are flashing, your phone model and verbatim, what you see on the Odin screen. A screen shot or photograph of the download mode screen on the phone would help too.
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I tried using the "u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit" along with "CF-Auto-Root-kltemetropcs-kltemetropcs-smg900t1.tar.md5", on "Odin3-v3.07" and I get, what looks like the download mode, except it states in the upper right hand corner (in red letters) "Could not do normal boot". The only way out is to do a battery pull. It will allow me to go into "Download mode", as the second picture indicates, and Odin states stays on "Reset". The message it states is as follows: D:0/006> NAND Write Start!!, <ID:0/006> cache.img.ext4, <ID:0/006> RQT_CLOSE !!, <ID:0/006> RES OK !!, <ID:0/006> Removed!!, <ID:0/006> Remain Port .... 0, <OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0), <ID:0/006> Removed!!. Then I once again get the "Could not do normal boot" error message.
Any Suggestions? I greatly appreciate your help. Thank you.
Can you boot into recovery?
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many110 said:
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You aren't following the suggestions made earlier. You are taking shortcuts that you think won't matter and introducing all kinds of variables. And failing. If you really want to get your phone working, you should follow the advice rather than taking liberties and winging it.
Flash a stock firmware image, not a modified image intended for rooting. First you need a stable system - you can root afterwards. Make sure it is a 100% stock tar for your carrier and use Odin 3.09 instead of the older version you have. Flash the firmware .tar file and PIT file at the same time, with the PIT, F. reset and auto reboot checked in Odin. If the Odin flash fails, try a different USB cable and port. A different computer if you need too.
Also you gave no details about the PIT file, other than the file name. We cannot tell if that is the correct file for your phone. The PIT file needs to match your phone model, ROM size and carrier. There is a XDA thread that should have the correct file. Probably the one that I uploaded here.
As well, if you get an Odin flash failed message, do not close or reset Odin. Instead pull the battery on your phone, replace it and then boot to download mode (press and hold volume down, then home, then the power button). Then try flashing again. The flash will inevitably succeed the second time, even though it failed at first.
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You aren't following the suggestions made earlier. You are taking shortcuts that you think won't matter and introducing all kinds of variables. And failing. If you really want to get your phone working, you should follow the advice rather than taking liberties and winging it.
Flash a stock firmware image, not a modified image intended for rooting. First you need a stable system - you can root afterwards. Make sure it is a 100% stock tar for your carrier and use Odin 3.09 instead of the older version you have. Flash the firmware .tar file and PIT file at the same time, with the PIT, F. reset and auto reboot checked in Odin. If the Odin flash fails, try a different USB cable and port. A different computer if you need too.
Also you gave no details about the PIT file, other than the file name. We cannot tell if that is the correct file for your phone. The PIT file needs to match your phone model, ROM size and carrier. There is a XDA thread that should have the correct file. Probably the one that I uploaded here.
As well, if you get an Odin flash failed message, do not close or reset Odin. Instead pull the battery on your phone, replace it and then boot to download mode (press and hold volume down, then home, then the power button). Then try flashing again. The flash will inevitably succeed the second time, even though it failed at first.
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What am I doing wrong????
I followed your advise and still no luck. You claim that my phone is not "bricked" but yet I did everything that you recommended and I'm still in the same place. I downloaded your "PIT.tar" file and had to change the name, because "Odin3 v3.09" would not recognize it. I put the pit file and AP file (AND YES, it is a full STOCK image) at the same time, tried it with "re-partition checked" and it failed! I tried it with out and it went through, but I am not able to get any further. Still getting "could not do normal boot"
"You state that I am taking short cut". Could you let me know what I am missing or at least direct me to a tutorial that does not show any short cuts? I get as far as seeing the "red android" figure, with and eye patch and it states that it will restart in 10 seconds. After reboot, I get the same message "Could not do normal boot". :crying:
By the way, would it matter that the pit file that you directed me to is for tmobile and this is a Metro pcs phone? Thank you.
I tried to give you good advice in my first post. Do you recall what I said?
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To help spot where you are going astray, you need to describe step by step how you are using Odin, the name of the stock firmware file you are flashing, your phone model and verbatim, what you see on the Odin screen. A screen shot or photograph of the download mode screen on the phone would help too.
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And you still aren't doing so. You are not describing what you are doing step by step. You are not giving us file names so that we know which version of stock firmware you tried to install. Or whether it was really stock. You didn't paste the Odin log - what you saw onscreen. You pepper us with a summary and a few details and expect us to divine what has happened. It doesn't work that way. No one can help you constructively if you refuse to provide abundant information about your situation.
The best you can hope for is drive by guesses or perhaps someone patient that might try to cajole information out of you. We'd all like to help you, but you're making it difficult. It would be in your best interests to provide exhaustive detail because those details are the key thing that will enable people to help you. If you change your mind and provide the detail, someone in the forum will try to help you.
Good luck.
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I tried to give you good advice in my first post. Do you recall what I said?
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And you still aren't doing so. You are not describing what you are doing step by step. You are not giving us file names so that we know which version of stock firmware you tried to install. Or whether it was really stock. You didn't paste the Odin log - what you saw onscreen. You pepper us with a summary and a few details and expect us to divine what has happened. It doesn't work that way. No one can help you constructively if you refuse to provide abundant information about your situation.
The best you can hope for is drive by guesses or perhaps someone patient that might try to cajole information out of you. We'd all like to help you, but you're making it difficult. It would be in your best interests to provide exhaustive detail because those details are the key thing that will enable people to help you. If you change your mind and provide the detail, someone in the forum will try to help you.
Good luck.
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Well, I am not too sure how much more can be described from all of my last post, but here goes:
I power up the phone and I get a quick flash, before what looks like the download screen, appears and up at the top left hand corner the message reads "Could not do normal boot" and the under the green android figure are the words "Downloading... Do not turn off target!!"
I then continue to do a battery pull and I proceed to go into download mode (Holding vol. down button, home button and power button at the same time. I get Warning message and at bottom it states "Use volume up: continue, volume down: Cancel(restart phone). I push the volume up button. I am now in down load mode. If you look at the sceen at this point, this is how my SM-G900T1 is booting up, EXCEPT for those little red words at the top. In normal download screen, it states "ODIN"MODE". When I boot up my SM-G900T1, those little red words at the top say "Could not do normal boot" instead of ODIN.
Once I am in download mode, I proceed to use the files that you recommended (the .pit file and the AP file). I load up the files into Odin and I click, start. It begins to work and it then says, "RESET" while it is blue. My phone restarts and I see the red android figure with an eye patch and at the bottom it says, restart in 10 seconds.
the phone proceeds to restart and it goes back to that error message, which looks like the download mode, with the words up at the top , in red letters state "Could not do normal boot. ODIN MODE"
in white letters:
Product Name: SM-G900T1
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Cusatom
Knox Warranty void: 0x1 (4)
Qualcomm Secureboot: enable (CSB)
RP SWREV: S1, T1, R1, A1, P!
UDC START
my phone goes no further than this and have kept it connected to odin. Now I look up at ODIN and it shows PASS!! in a green box with a time of 02:10. But my phone will not boot up. I restart and I get the message once again"Could not do normal boot"[/LIST
Hopefully someone could help. Thank you.
Well the important thing is that you can get to download mode (aka Odin mode) one way or the other.
Odin is well known for being fussy with cables, USB ports and other details, so don't panic if you get a failed Odin write or two. I also explained how to get around that in most cases.. leave Odin open on your PC screen and pull the phone battery again, go back to Odin mode on the phone and then press start on the Odin screen to try flashing a second time.
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Well, I am not too sure how much more can be described from all of my last post
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You are getting better with details (thanks) and I'm sure that this is frustrating to you. But you are nowhere near telling us step by step what you are doing. for a start, you didn't name the stock firmware image file that you were using, something that I specifically requested. So without meaning to offend you.. you aren't paying attention to details.
By "step by step", I meant a description of each step you took. For example listing each button you press in Odin.. telling us exactly what you type into each box and so forth. You may not see the point of that, but remember that we are not standing over your shoulder. And one wrong action can ruin your write. So that kind of step by step detail is extraordinarily valuable in troubleshooting.
Anyway, there are many ways to go about anything. Since you can get to download mode and your Knox bit is 0x1, I'd suggest installing or reinstalling TWRP, so that you can reliably boot to a stable recovery mode. From there you can look at almost anything, fix things, install custom ROMS, etc.
If you want to continue with Odin instead, then make sure that you are using a real stock .tar or .tar.md5 image, use a different USB cable and try again. If you are persistent, it will work.
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fffft said:
You aren't following the suggestions made earlier. You are taking shortcuts that you think won't matter and introducing all kinds of variables. And failing. If you really want to get your phone working, you should follow the advice rather than taking liberties and winging it.
Flash a stock firmware image, not a modified image intended for rooting. First you need a stable system - you can root afterwards. Make sure it is a 100% stock tar for your carrier and use Odin 3.09 instead of the older version you have. Flash the firmware .tar file and PIT file at the same time, with the PIT, F. reset and auto reboot checked in Odin. If the Odin flash fails, try a different USB cable and port. A different computer if you need too.
Also you gave no details about the PIT file, other than the file name. We cannot tell if that is the correct file for your phone. The PIT file needs to match your phone model, ROM size and carrier. There is a XDA thread that should have the correct file. Probably the one that I uploaded here.
As well, if you get an Odin flash failed message, do not close or reset Odin. Instead pull the battery on your phone, replace it and then boot to download mode (press and hold volume down, then home, then the power button). Then try flashing again. The flash will inevitably succeed the second time, even though it failed at first.
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any idea where i can get the PIT files for a metro s5?? i found the TAR file and used that in ODIN and it wont get past the metro splash screen. sits there for hours and gets REALLY hot. I tried doing a factory reset in recovery but it fails and reboots. Im hoping maybe a PIT file/repartition would do it i cant find a damn pit file anywhere. model number is G900T1. I used the stock firmware from the site below.
http://samsung-updates.com/details/26200/Galaxy_S5_SM-G900T1/SM-G900T1/TMB/G900T1UVU1ANCI.html
For future reference or anyone else reading this post. If you are running a stock ROM on a SM-G900T, even with root "memory low" alerts can be ignored becouse internal storage has a memory partition to act as emulated memory. In addition, android automatically unloads the oldest unused items from memory. I get these messages all the time, "internal memory usage exceeds maximum limit" or some such. They appear in the status bar without toasts, so their not too annoying. Yes you can clear a lot of stuff out with root,... But first understand your device AND what you intend to remove. If you don't understand it yet then leave it until you research it. Also, I recommend that you research your device before you buy it. I did, thats why my SM-G900T1 is a recent purchase, instead of going for the S6. Now if I could just find out how to root it without a computer when the kernel is dated Nov 10 2014.....
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
Please delete. Wrong thread.
Felt slight stupid as I saw my s5 going round the washing machine, thought I'd have a play after it's dried out.... I like learning but don't really know phones.
It was encrypted but was stock firmware.
Currently:
- It powers on
- I can get to the download in boot ok (vol. down)
- It resets when trying to get into recovery mode
- Kies see's something trying to connect but times out. Heimdall detects it but throws errors upon trying to flash , I'm yet to try Odin, just getting stock firmware as I write this.
(Heimdall error - libusbx: error [winusbx_submit_bulk_transfer] ReadPipe/WritePipe failed: [22] Th
e device does not recognize the command.)
I've got some more playing around to do but it feels like, at least, the storage is screwed but that's a complete guess.
1) I was hoping someone would know if it's worth playing further?
2) Whether anyone could take a guess of whether replacing the mother/logic board would be a *possible* fix
3) Could anyone point me to any resources explaining the how the phone works- I'm initially trying to understand what components sit on the logic board and the boot sequence. e.g. could the CPU/ storage be fried but it still boot this far?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
OK, I'm a little further along with this now.
I'm using various versions of odin (3.0.7,9,12.3). Various computers (all windows 10 now but did try heimdal on a 2 nix machines) and a whole lot of leads. Just getting Odin to recognise the phone was fun.
Tried using the AP part to install the BTU UK version of firmware from sammobile
Tried getting the hidden .img.tar from it and flashing that
Tried flashing a twrp recovery
But all come up with
Code:
GetPIT for Mapping
There is no PIT Partition
So I got a couple of Pit files for and tried them with the Re-partition ticked
Code:
Set PIT file...
DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!
Complete (Write) Operation failed
OSM All threads completed (succed 0/ failed 1)
So a few questions:
1) How do I uploda photos here? Or do they have to be inserted links. May be my low post count? Or I'm blind
2) Is it normal that odin stops recognising the phone the moment there's an error like the one's I'm having. Odin's ID:COM part goes blank and I have to remove/ insert the USB again.
I just want to check that's not some other reason.
3) Is there anyway to test whether the NAND's working/ can be accessed without pressing that scary NAND erase all button?
Many thanks
Why not just get it fixed from service center?
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OK, I'm a little further along with this now.
I'm using various versions of odin (3.0.7,9,12.3). Various computers (all windows 10 now but did try heimdal on a 2 nix machines) and a whole lot of leads. Just getting Odin to recognise the phone was fun.
Tried using the AP part to install the BTU UK version of firmware from sammobile
Tried getting the hidden .img.tar from it and flashing that
Tried flashing a twrp recovery
But all come up with
Code:
GetPIT for Mapping
There is no PIT Partition
So I got a couple of Pit files for and tried them with the Re-partition ticked
Code:
Set PIT file...
DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!
Complete (Write) Operation failed
OSM All threads completed (succed 0/ failed 1)
So a few questions:
1) How do I uploda photos here? Or do they have to be inserted links. May be my low post count? Or I'm blind
2) Is it normal that odin stops recognising the phone the moment there's an error like the one's I'm having. Odin's ID:COM part goes blank and I have to remove/ insert the USB again.
I just want to check that's not some other reason.
3) Is there anyway to test whether the NAND's working/ can be accessed without pressing that scary NAND erase all button?
Many thanks
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Yeah that sounds like water damage alright. I'm sorry to tell you it sounds like your NAND is semi-corrupted in that part of the BL seems to have survived but basically everything else is kaput.
If the PIT partition is missing that is a flag right there to a likely NAND corruption.
Sorry to be the one to have to tell you this but at this point you're best bet is to take it as a total loss and try to sell any undamaged parts (ex. Digitizer, LCD) to raise the cash for a new phone.