Samsung i780 official 6.1 update failed - Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking

I need some help!
After days of tearing my hair out and swearing a lot, I have managed to get my i780 to connect to the PC (the data cable was at fault and kept causing 'unrecognised USB device' errors).
I have followed the official Samsung update, i.e. installed the modem drivers and then run the update. The update has worked fine on the PDA part of the phone, but has failed on the phone part and the phone just alternates between flight mode and invalid SIM.
I have tried to re-flash the phone with the same result, it failed on the phone part again. I have uninstalled and re-installed the modem drivers and WMDC (I'm using Vista) but the update will still not complete the phone part.
Is there any way to flash the phone part again so that it works?
Please help! I love the new threaded texts and the new opera browser and most of all the fact that wifi now works properly! For some reason the phone worked for an hour or so and now has stopped working.
Thanks,
A

Try to upgarde on from another PC. And dont forget to install Modem drivers before flashing.
I advice to upgarde onder XP or Win7.
Or try this if you already dont.
xp upgade http://uk.samsungmobile.com/pmgmvst.do?visitgbn=10970112&coflag=0
vista upgrade http://uk.samsungmobile.com/pmgmvst.do?visitgbn=10970111&coflag=0
modem xp http://uk.samsungmobile.com/pmgmvst.do?visitgbn=10970110&coflag=0
modem vista http://uk.samsungmobile.com/pmgmvst.do?visitgbn=10970109&coflag=0

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Vista Help

Have done several upgrades with vista in the past. Had to format the hard drive and re-install vista. Old drivers that I dowloaded (wceusbsh.inf) will not work. Get a message problem with driver. Have tried re-downloading the driver and same problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Now have gotten the drivers to load o.k. but still no luck in a connect to the device
After spending a couple of hours screwing with everything I could think to try, I have got the Hermes to update again.
# 1 After following Mr Vanx's directions for the Vista upgrade prosses
http://www.mrvanx.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=27
# 2 DO NOT place the unit into bootloder mode, start the Windows Mobile device center (WMDC), plug the usb connection into the unit and wait for the WMDC to show connected, NOW you can run any of the RUU update files.
As Always Mr. Vanx is the man!
Bootloader Mode - Will it Erase Data
I have been having similar problems since I got a new computer that runs VISTA. I have tried everything, and the Device Manager, Portable devices has never given an indication my Mogul 6800 is present. I read the guide that captainrick747 referrs. I am concerned that going into Bootloader mode my system will lose all data and get reset to the original configuration. Should I be worried?

Samsung SGH-i780

Hello
I am new to this site and was hoping someone could give me a some assistance. I recently used Mirage 1.8 to update my i780 to WM6.1. the eboot and the PDA installed just fine but I can not for the life of me get the phone and phone boot loader update to install. I am using the i780 Phone Upgrade ROM DXHH1 file, found it on this site. After I click detect and then power up the phone I hear the connection sound on the computer that the device is recognized and then the Mirage software starts its thin. Then I hear the disconnect sound and then Mirage goes through the Kw.kim retry steps. And the phone shuts down.
I have tried the modem drivers but I seem to be having a problem with them. I downloaded and installed this file "Samsung_CDMA_modem_4.34". When I connect the Phone it shows that it found the i780 USB device but then it begins to install Samsung Mit's USB Device and then it fails to install the device properly...so it does not complete the installation properly. How do I go about installing the driver properly? I do not see it on the list of devices in system manager, where can I manually update the driver and were do I find the file once the software is installed. Or do I need to try something else?
So I just tried a WM6 Eng rom and it all installs fine but just like the WM6.1 I can not get the phone to turn on in the wireless manager. What do I need to do to get the phone to turn on?
Thank you.
DXHH1 is meant for Asian version of i780, what's yours? for which country?
And can you please tell us if you are using XP SP2 or 3 and not Vista because flashing in Vista with Mirage Updater will NEVER work even if you have the right driver.
Try this. Uninstall the Samsung drivers frist and then reinstall it after reboot.
Then instead of using a separate DXHH1 Phone only image, download a full Russian PUHE1 IMG file (you can search for this easily in this forum) and flash everything (eBoot+Phone+PDA). If you can flash the Russian IMG successfully, you will be able to boot up your i780 in Russian langauage and only after that you can try DXHH1 IMG (I mean the full IMG rom and not individual files)
Good luck
EFN said:
DXHH1 is meant for Asian version of i780, what's yours? for which country?
And can you please tell us if you are using XP SP2 or 3 and not Vista because flashing in Vista with Mirage Updater will NEVER work even if you have the right driver.
Try this. Uninstall the Samsung drivers frist and then reinstall it after reboot.
Then instead of using a separate DXHH1 Phone only image, download a full Russian PUHE1 IMG file (you can search for this easily in this forum) and flash everything (eBoot+Phone+PDA). If you can flash the Russian IMG successfully, you will be able to boot up your i780 in Russian langauage and only after that you can try DXHH1 IMG (I mean the full IMG rom and not individual files)
Good luck
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You can flash using VMWARE (trial available) and install WinXP inside the virtual machine.. that's how I flashed your V4
disable USB connection in activesync...
People, here is a link to the Samsung modem driver:
http://fus.samsungmobile.com/i600/Samsung_CDMA_modem_4.34.zip
Thanks for the replys.
My i780 is from France and it had the French ROM but not any longer because I forgot to back it up.
I have XP SP3 on my computer.
I have uninstalled the drivers as well as activesync. Restarted computer. Then installed the drivers suggested by Mochan above. Then installed activesync.
Connected the i780...all of the drivers were installed properly (Samsung MITs device found and installed and i780)
Opened activesync on computer and unchecked "allow usb connections".
Reconnected the device and powered it up and the computer found new device and installed "Samsung Mits".
I downloaded both the Russian and the Italian full Rom updates.
Opened Mirage v1.8 and selected first the russian Rom for edoot+pda+Phone selected detect.
Plugged in phone to usb and all of the steps worked up till the phone image. It says on the phone "phone image downloading" and on the computer it shows "switching usb to phone" and "Downloading phone".
Then for some reason the phone shuts down automatically and stays powered off.
Then Mirage brings up the message "Attempting to open com 0..." KW.KIM Create Retry (25) etc...Finally Download failed.
I have tried this with the Russian, Italian and English ROMs available. I have tried it with the following settings on the phone on and off:
- Emercency mode
- Regular restart of phone
- Reset phone by holding Red Green and Power button together.
- Removed the battery completely and restarted.
- Restarted with Sim installed and with sim removed.
- Settings/Connections/USB connection mode switched from Activesync to Mass storage and then switched back to Activesync.
- Settings/System/USB to PC "Enable advanced network functionality" selected and then deselected.
What am I missing?
Why does the phone shut down during the Phone.bin file download and not complete the downlad and install? Is there some setting that I am missing or a com port that I need to establish so they will communicate properly.
Everything seems to work on the phone even without the phone.bin file installed. The problem is that when I try to connect to wireless manager and enable the phone nothing happens and it does not register the sim card. Also In the Settings/Connection/USB connection mode I only have listed Activesync and Mass Storage. There is no listing for modem (I noticed in one of the other posts that they had the option to select modem). Is there something I need to do to enable this option.
Sorry for the long rant but wanted to make sure everyone had all of the info.
Thanks
my brother had a similar problem with his i780 - the phone refused to be recognised when flashing the phone.bin, the pda and eboot flashed perfectly no problem. We realised it was a problem specifically with the device as my i780 flashed all three parts fine.
In the end he got the device replaced which flashed fine!! Maybe there are a few dodgy phones out there! My advice would be to try and find a French rom and flash your device with that. Hopefully the rom will be compatible with the phone part of your phone!
Just downloaded the French rom from an xda thread. It would not load up under the eboot+PDA+Phone option but it did load under the PDA option in Mirage. Still can not turn on the phone under wireless options on the i780.
The phone/radio worked fine with the original rom. Once I did the first rom update to switch from french to english only using the pda update I lost the phone/radio functionality. So I dont think it is a hardware issue rather a software issue. For some reason it is not making the connection. I just dont know what it is. Could it be something with mirage? Why would the phone shutdown during the software install?
so looks to me that the problem is with the phones modem set up. I do not have it listed as an option for usb connectivity. Is there a reg edit or some other steps I should take in order to get the phone to set up the usb modem?
Thank you.
I still have had no success with my problem, has anyone come across any info about an official i780 update? Or does anyone know what I can do to get around my proble to install the phone rom? Thank you.
I have the same problem with apetrovic. I have used with phone off, which is a big pain. Just like a PDA with no phone. This is all happened after flash Russian image. The original rom was German. my i780 simply turns off after downloading and ends up with no port created.
Any clue, please.
I have downloaded your suggested driver, run the setup, restarted the computer and connected the i780 in Emergency mode with activesync disabled and the Computer keeps installing Samsung MITs Drivers and not the CDMA Drivers you supplied. I used the Add Hardware wizaer, interrupted the install process when the i780 is first connected and even tried the update driver option and I can not install the CDMA driver I always get the error that "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware." How do I get the CDMA drivers you provided installed and not the MITs?
Thank you
apetrovic said:
I have downloaded your suggested driver, run the setup, restarted the computer and connected the i780 in Emergency mode with activesync disabled and the Computer keeps installing Samsung MITs Drivers and not the CDMA Drivers you supplied. I used the Add Hardware wizaer, interrupted the install process when the i780 is first connected and even tried the update driver option and I can not install the CDMA driver I always get the error that "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware." How do I get the CDMA drivers you provided installed and not the MITs?
Thank you
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Yes, I have also tried to intervene the installation of the MITs driver to install the CDMA driver, and Windows XP sp3 says "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware." So, I could not install the CDMA driver.
I do not know how to get rid of the MITs driver completely, so that Windows XP does not even recommend this driver when I install the CDMA driver. Windows always complain the MITs driver is not signed.
I wonder if those who have successfully installed the CDMA driver also see the MITs driver in the device manager when i780 is connected to PC under the emergency mode. This looks important for the moment for you and I in resolving the issue.
Anyone who can tell us what driver is on when i780 is connected to PC under the emergency mode? Thanks in advance.
I think the problem for us is that we have lost the modem option on the i780 under settings-usb connection mode. Since we do not have the option the computer will not download the drivers. The drivers that are downloaded are prob ok because they are intended for USB sync but when you go to the device manager there is no i780 modem installed under modems...so my theory is that the computer is not installing the modem driver because it is not finding a modem on the phone. So we need to somehow get the modem option installed and available on the phone and then the computer will install the drivers and then we can properly install the wm 6.1 phone update. please let me know if you find anything out.
apetrovic said:
I think the problem for us is that we have lost the modem option on the i780 under settings-usb connection mode. Since we do not have the option the computer will not download the drivers. The drivers that are downloaded are prob ok because they are intended for USB sync but when you go to the device manager there is no i780 modem installed under modems...so my theory is that the computer is not installing the modem driver because it is not finding a modem on the phone. So we need to somehow get the modem option installed and available on the phone and then the computer will install the drivers and then we can properly install the wm 6.1 phone update. please let me know if you find anything out.
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That's an interesting theory noticing the messages in the mirage loader.
"Switching USB to PHONE..." and then
"PHONE-Switching USB to PHONE...
PHONE-Automatic driver detection failed..
PHONE-Attempting to open COM 0...
PHONE-Port Create failed...: COM 0"
These clearly look related to the modem meaning we should be able to see the device under modem in the device manager of Windows XP.
In fact, my i780 got the phone rom flashed just for once successfully when I flashed the russian image (eboot, pda, and phone, altogether). I don't know what mysterious thing happened here, and then I have never succeeded back again in flashing the phone rom since then. My phone used to work no problem before this. I just wanted to have windows mobile 6.1, and now I know I should have clicked "PDA" in the mirage loader instead of "EBOOT+PDA+PHONE".
Well this is becoming more and more difficult!! I contacted US Samsung support to reflash my i780 and they can not do it becuse the phone is not sold in the US and then I contacted Samsung France and they cant flash it because they can not ship it back to the US. I need to have an address in France for them to ship it to. So now stuck with a phone that only has PDA functions.
If there is someone out there who can help me I would appreciate it. The problem is that I used the Roms available on this site to upgrade to WM6.1 and I lost my phone/radio function. Now my phone is stuck in flight mode. I was able to install the eboot and the pda bu the phone portion will not install. I followed the directions and installed just the PDA portion initially and it killed my modem/phone/radio function. Before the phone worked and modem was listed as an option under settings usb connection mode...now it is not.
I have tried to install a French ROM (because it was purchased in france)and that did nothing.
So if there is anyone out there that can help guide me in installing a functioning rom WM6 or 6.1 I would greatly appreciate it.
apetrovic said:
Well this is becoming more and more difficult!! I contacted US Samsung support to reflash my i780 and they can not do it becuse the phone is not sold in the US and then I contacted Samsung France and they cant flash it because they can not ship it back to the US. I need to have an address in France for them to ship it to. So now stuck with a phone that only has PDA functions.
If there is someone out there who can help me I would appreciate it. The problem is that I used the Roms available on this site to upgrade to WM6.1 and I lost my phone/radio function. Now my phone is stuck in flight mode. I was able to install the eboot and the pda bu the phone portion will not install. I followed the directions and installed just the PDA portion initially and it killed my modem/phone/radio function. Before the phone worked and modem was listed as an option under settings usb connection mode...now it is not.
I have tried to install a French ROM (because it was purchased in france)and that did nothing.
So if there is anyone out there that can help guide me in installing a functioning rom WM6 or 6.1 I would greatly appreciate it.
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I didn't know that you are in the states causing the problems. Too bad. I have two questions for you to clarify the problem.
Before the phone worked and modem was listed as an option under settings usb connection mode
Does this mean you could see the third option called "phone" in USB connection mode in i780? Currently there are only two modes, which is ActiveSync and Mass storage.
I was able to install the eboot and the pda bu the phone portion will not install. I followed the directions and installed just the PDA portion initially and it killed my modem/phone/radio function
Does this mean that upgrading only PDA may brick our i780 not necessarily with eboot and phone? Because I keep thinking that, it may be eboot I updated from this site not turning on the modem in i780.
Sorry about your and my problem. Thank you for your feedback.
Does this mean you could see the third option called "phone" in USB connection mode in i780?
Yes there was a 3rd option but it was "Modem".
Does this mean that upgrading only PDA may brick our i780 not necessarily with eboot and phone?
When I first used the upgrade I used the i780 PDA portion only, as suggested.
apetrovic said:
Does this mean you could see the third option called "phone" in USB connection mode in i780?
Yes there was a 3rd option but it was "Modem".
Does this mean that upgrading only PDA may brick our i780 not necessarily with eboot and phone?
When I first used the upgrade I used the i780 PDA portion only, as suggested.
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Sorry but I think that there is a bit of confusion.
During the normal use of the phone, you never see a modem in the device manager.
You can see the phone as lan card (used by activesyc), as a different lan card (when internet connection sharing is enabled), or as storage device (if you enable the related function in the control panel).
No modem.
During the flash process of the pda section the phone is still seen as a lan card.
ONLY when the phone sectin is flashed the phone switch to phone/modem mode.
Going to the problem you must launch the phone flash process and ceck what happen in the meantime in the device manager.
Is a question mark present ?
There is a unknown usb device ?
And if is the case what is the pid and the vid of the device ?
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Sorry but I think that there is a bit of confusion.
During the normal use of the phone, you never see a modem in the device manager.
You can see the phone as lan card (used by activesyc), as a different lan card (when internet connection sharing is enabled), or as storage device (if you enable the related function in the control panel).
No modem.
During the flash process of the pda section the phone is still seen as a lan card.
ONLY when the phone sectin is flashed the phone switch to phone/modem mode.
Going to the problem you must launch the phone flash process and ceck what happen in the meantime in the device manager.
Is a question mark present ?
There is a unknown usb device ?
And if is the case what is the pid and the vid of the device ?
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I stumbled upon a website that had an image that showed a modem in both the device manager and the usb connection mode areas...I have looked for it to post the image but I dont know where to find it again...starting to get lost from all of the info I have come across trying to fix my phone...getting confusing now.
Anyway, here is what happens in device manager when I do the following:
-Activesync disabled - i780 in emergency mode - Samsung MIT's USB Device listed under Windows CE USB Devices
-Activesync disabled - i780 normal - 1st before WM6.1 is running it shows Samsung MIT's USB Device listed under Windows CE USB Devices. Then that goes away and windows mobile based device shows up under network adapters.
- Activesync enabled - i780 emergency - Found new hardware installs without error...look in device manager and there is a yellow exclamation point next to Samsung MIT's USB Device under Windows CE USB Devices.
- Activesync Enabled - i780 normal - 1st before WM6.1 is running it shows Samsung MIT's USB Device listed under Windows CE USB Devices. Then that goes away and windows mobile based device shows up under network adapters.
Now during all of the above steps there is never an unknown USB device listed. Also I tried using mirage with these same above settings and each time I get the notification that usb device not recognized and then the phone suts down and I get the KVM com port messages, and it fails to install the phone rom.
I would like to provide you with the pid and vid but I don't know what pid and vid stand for. please let me know and I will get it for you.
Thanks for the help.

WMDC not working on Win7

OK. I have a strange problem. I built a new PC and loaded Win7 x64 on it. Everything was working fine. I was even using my TP2 to tether. This worked for about an hour. After a few reboots and software installs, I could no longer connect to my TP2 either through tethering or through WMDC.
I struggled for hours to figure out the problem, but nothing worked. Finally I reinstalled Win7 hoping that would fix it. Nope. It did not. No matter what I try, Win7 fails to install the driver for the device. I have downloaded new copies of WMDC from MS and that hasnt helped.
Any thoughts? It is working fine on my Vista machine.
It may not be of great help, but mine works fine with w7 x64 (with USB). I am using the HTC official 6.5 rom.
It was a little more tricky to use the internet sharing with BT, a driver could not be found for a component but everything was working though. I had to force windows to use a driver for that unknown device to rid of this cosmetic issue.
RE-download the WMDC from microsoft. There is a driver update that will install. The WMDC that comes with Win7 didn't work for me either, but after I reinstalled it worked great.
Also, your ROM may be runnin a USBtoPC service for the Popup Window to appear. You might want to soft reset your phone and try again.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/...c/thread/738d164d-f3eb-4edf-ae97-4f4c220253f3 same story , but for some people it work ...not work for me at all
I cannot connect two my tilt ( 1 and 2 ) to windows 7

Flashing in windows7

i've been looking around already for a solution but i cant seem to find anything.
i normally flash my rom on a win-xp PC and everything goes well that way
now i want to flash a new rom on my win7 installation but when the phone goes into bootloader to start the update process , windows 7 " refinds" the drivers and it takes to much time for the RUU to restart the update process.
does anyone know a solution for this problem? i cant flash in win 7 now
[edit] the connection itself is working fine, i can sync with mobile center etc. the only problem occurs when the phone reboots to start the update process and then my PC finds the driver again etc..
I am somehow able to flash from windows 7, only some old ROMs like artemis touch, and win 6.5 ROM of Dhee.
hm i found the solution, ive checked an extra tab in mobile center which said: data connection possible when connected to pc..
seems that did the trick
See that: link

[Q] kies update 10/07/2012

Saw there was an update for kies install it and now its not working correctly. It wont tell me my current firmware version like it always has, none of the options are saved. its like it forgets my phone every time i unplug it. anyone else having issues with vs. 2.5.0.12094_27.
Also when i hit firmware upgrade and initialization it says my phone does not support initializing.
vopezy said:
Saw there was an update for kies install it and now its not working correctly. It wont tell me my current firmware version like it always has, none of the options are saved. its like it forgets my phone every time i unplug it. anyone else having issues with vs. 2.5.0.12094_27
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It's fine on my end. Received a replacement phone from T-Mo and updated Kies, then used Kies to update to LH2
I began having problems with Kies after the most recent update. It took me awhile to solve the problem.
Everytime I would connect my phone to the PC via USB, the PC would see it just fine. Kies would also say it was connecting to my "SGH-T999", but after a few seconds of trying to connect, I would get an error of, "Unable to connect to SGH-T999. Failed to retrieve device information." I would then be unable to sync my phone.
Reboots of phone and PC would not fix the problem.
Uninstalled and reinstalled Kies several times, trying all sorts of combinations of uninstalling drivers and deleting temp files. When I did this, I could connect and sync for one time, and one time only, and then would get the same error message.
Finally, I uninstalled Kies, selecting options to uninstall USB drivers and temp files. I then also deleted the Samsung folders in My Documents, as well as in both Program Files and Program Files (x86) (I have Win 7 Ultimate x64 installed).
I reinstalled Kies and allowed it to install USB drivers as well. The phone then connected to Kies and synced fine.
I've noticed after uninstalling and reinstalling that Windows Update says there is an important update for my Samsung MTP device for a May 2012 update. I have decided not to install this due to concerns over driver conflicts, as my current set up is working just fine.
I'm glad I was able to solve this short of a factory wipe.
I had that problem and unistalled usb drivers and and reinstalled older version usb drivers
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app
I got that Windows update as well though that was the reason it was not working maybe ill try to uninstall that
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