Hello guys this is my first post so forgive me if I don't have the terms down to key.
I've recently flashed to the Codename Android ICS rom and while it's a beautiful rom my battery life after 4 cycles or so hasn't improved past 8 hours a day. I was previously getting decent life on Blazer so I want to revert back to GB. After doing my research on the million topics of reverting from ICS to GB, I thought I would give it a shot. Right now I still have the Codename Android rom, FC22 Kernel, and the EL26 modem. I followed sfhub's well written guide using the EL29 one-click modem program. I had my phone in download mode and recognized by my computer, but when I clicked the start button ODIN almost instantly showed a red fail box and as far as I know the cable is fine and the computer never lost power. Fearing the worst I quickly unplugged my phone and restarted it and luckily still booted into the rom fine and everything seemed normal. However my phone is no longer recognized by my computer, in download mode or not. The phone charges and my computer makes the device recognition beep, but one second later it makes the device unplugged beep and this keeps continuing and the phone is never fully recognized. I still want to revert to GB so I installed mobile odin to cut out the pc part. Before I do anything I want to make sure I have the right files downloaded (EL29 or 26 files), and that mobile odin will work fine on ICS to get me back to GB without breaking my phone. With all the brick stories lately, I want to make sure I have everything down.
Any help will be appreciated.
I would try a different USB port on the computer. I used to have problems with my Samsung moment where out would stop seeing the phone but changing the port let it redetect. Reinstalling the drivers or trying a different PC to see if it detects the phone could point you to which end is the problem.
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I tried different USB cables and computers, but still having the problems. My girlfriend also has the E4GT, albeit all stock, and I plugged it into my computer and everything recognized correctly. I have the mobile Odin application installed on my phone and I just want to make sure I flash the correct files from the ICS Codename Android rom to get me safely back to GB. Seeing one red fail box from Odin has me on the cautious side.
Ok re download the el29 stock root one click first. Get rid of the one you have. Now download Calkulins format all and download auto root eg39-el29. Make sure you have system debugging checked. (settings /applications or settings/developer options) That is why your computer is most likely not recognizing. If it is checked then check your drivers. Go in to recovery. Run calls format all av few. Times. Pop o out the battery when its finished and go to Odin download mode. Flash one click rooted el29. Reboot. Check USB debugging again and connect usb but don't go into usb mode. Start auto root el29 cwm rogue to get recovery. Reboot. After successful reboot flash blazer offer whatever el29 rom you.like. Hope i helped.
Thanks for the reply Tinmetal. I checked my phone and I have Android Debugging and USB Debugging Notify checked. I also tried reloading the drivers on different computers, switching cables, and rebooting the devices. I'm pretty sure the connectivity problem came from the failed Odin flash, which I still don't know what went wrong.
I looked more into when I connect the phone to the computer and I recognizes the device, but before the drivers are applied the device gets disconnected. This lead me to a USB cable or port problem, but I tried every combination and still had the problem.
Do you still feel that Calkulin's wipe all is necessary being on a ICS rom, I read that flashing the cache's while on ICS can cause problems. I extracted the .tar files for the stock root el29, do you expect any problems if I use mobile Odin?
kal727 said:
Thanks for the reply Tinmetal. I checked my phone and I have Android Debugging and USB Debugging Notify checked. I also tried reloading the drivers on different computers, switching cables, and rebooting the devices. I'm pretty sure the connectivity problem came from the failed Odin flash, which I still don't know what went wrong.
I looked more into when I connect the phone to the computer and I recognizes the device, but before the drivers are applied the device gets disconnected. This lead me to a USB cable or port problem, but I tried every combination and still had the problem.
Do you still feel that Calkulin's wipe all is necessary being on a ICS rom, I read that flashing the cache's while on ICS can cause problems. I extracted the .tar files for the stock root el29, do you expect any problems if I use mobile Odin?
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Check out this thread...bricked my phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525495
First of all yes you should ruin Calkins format all. Its not the same as using the recovery wipe. Next i would try to run sfhub's E4GTAUTO EL29EL29 auto root. You don't have to be in DOWNLOAD MODE OR USB MODE. IF YOU'RE HEARING THE CONNECTION SOUND THEN YOUR PC IS RECOGNIZING THE DEVICE. IF e4gtauto doesn't connect to your device i would uninstall kies and all Samsung drivers from the device manager on your computer and reinstall with just the sprint drivers. Put in a search for the sprint drivers here on xda and it should come up. If you can't find the sprint drivers hit me back and I'll post them for ya
Alright I have an update hopefully this will help someone who may be experiencing the same problems. My phone was working perfectly fine the day before. I woke up this morning and my phone was completely uncharged even on the charger overnight and would not turn on or charge (PC or wall outlet). I tried different cables and usb ports/wall outlets and I didn't do any flashing at all for a while and I was still on Codename ICS with USB not working. The blue light kept flashing and when I tried to go into download mode I got the "Low Battery, No Download" in red letters.
I took out my gf's battery from her US Cellular gs2 which is basically the same except no WiMax. Put it in my phone and it worked booted up, albeit with really weird touch issues (my battery didn't work/charge in her phone if anyone was wondering). Thinking I had no other choice at this point I used Mobile Odin to flash my phone back to GB in el29 with sfhub's .tar file. Surprisingly everything seemed to work. I am currently back on gb el29 without root (all stock) and I put my battery back in and it wouldn't turn on. I put the charger on and it took about 10mins of charging without the phone on and then I turned it on with it working. I unplugged the charger and it is holding a charge pretty well. However, I am still experiencing the same USB problems. When I plug the phone into the PC it recognizes it and I get the mtch-usb?? (sorry I'm not at home to be exact) on my notification bar, but I cannot get into USB debugging. My PC keeps beeping device recognized then beeping device unplugged and I don't see any activity on device manager. Any explanations, questions, or help would be appreciated?
It sounds to me, unrelated to ODIN, you coincidentally had USB port problems when you were doing this flashing.
Have you tried blowing compressed air into the USB port to dislodge any particles that might have gotten stuck?
I just blew some some compressed air into the phone and it didn't change much. When I plugged it in this time the installing drivers bubble came up and installed "Gadget Serial", which turned into Samsung CDA... My phone's USB connections were working perfectly before I tried my initial ODIN back to the el-29. When I tried that ODIN ran for a good 2 seconds before having the red fail box. I think I set everything to directions, but something happened that caused the failure (slight cable disconnection, bad USB port...) but I have no exact idea what caused that initial red fail box i"m only speculating. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. After that failure thought my phone couldn't maintain a USB connection. sfhub are you aware of a bad ODIN flash compromising the USB connection, even if ODIN ran for only around 2 seconds, I don't know if it even had enough time to unpack the .tar files.
Mobile Odin el26+cwm. Hold power+volume up and reboot into recovery. Run Calks format all, flash ROM and reboot.
EL26+CWM kernel:
http://db.tt/0QJkleJR
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kal727 said:
sfhub are you aware of a bad ODIN flash compromising the USB connection, even if ODIN ran for only around 2 seconds, I don't know if it even had enough time to unpack the .tar files.
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The ODIN OneClicks are purposely arranged to flash recovery.bin first before anything else for just the situation you described. Recovery.bin is basically the *unused* recovery partition so losing it would have no detrimental affects on the phone. The leaked tar releases from Samsung/Sprint are arranged differently and flash the bootloader as the first item. If something went wrong there, I suppose USB could be compromised.
I just don't see how a compromised recovery that is unused could affect your USB and that is the basis of my suggestions.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I never used the modified ICS recovery, because of the problems people were having. I guess either the USB cable wasn't plugged in all the way or some kind of hiccup caused the failed ODIN attempt.
I have more information on my current USB connection. It says USB Connected, MTP-Connected on the notification bar. I've made sure USB debugging is on, but that is as far as my connection gets for either my phone or PC. Other than that notification on my phone I get no activity from my phone, or from Odin, the Samsung drivers, or Windows recognizing the phone.
For anyone new I've tried all the common fixes: switching cables, PC's, usb ports, and every variation of restarting PC/Phone and re-installing drivers, wiping data to factory settings(while on gingerbread), and blowing out the USB port.
Can you open an "adb shell" session to your phone when it is booted into android?
When you are going to ODIN DL mode, do you start ODIN first, then boot to download mode, or do you boot do download first, then start ODIN?
Are you using software to reboot to download mode or Power+VolDown.
Is it actually getting to download mode or not getting there?
I got confused when you said something about not being able to get into usb debugging. Can you change toggle that setting in the configuration? On GB ROMs if you enable USB debugging, it also disables MTP and switches you USB Mass Storage mode.
If you want you can try a ##786# reset from the dialer. It will reset NVRAM and your Android User Data. You'll need your MSL which you can get typing "getprop ril.MSL" in a termina or adb shell.
Mobile Odin might be your only choice if your pc doesn't see your phone. I have flashed from AOKP ROM numerous times using mobile odin and flashing the el26+cwm GB kernel. Just hold power+vol^ to boot into recovery as soon as phone starts to reboot. Just wipe everything and flash new ROM.
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killaphatboy: I just successfully used Mobile Odin today to go back to gb, but my USB problems continued.
sfhub: Another thing I never mentioned was that before I went to ICS about a week ago Google Voice kept auto-starting and enabling Car Mode, that quickly went away when I flashed another rom so I didn't initially think it caused a problem.
Also sorry for the confusion. I could always cleanly get into download mode without any errors using Vol Down+Power. However no matter which sequence of starting Odin/plugging in USB cable/and going into download mode, the result is the same which the PC recognizes the phone, but gives the disconnected beep a second later. Can you link me a adb shell thread, I think I know how to set it up but 'adb devices' can't find any devices. Once in a while an installing drivers bubble pops up in in Windows for a split second before the device is disconnected. I caught the processes and found out that there are two drivers that install even though I have no recognition through Odin and no functionality through windows. The first is 'SAMSUNG Mobile USB CDC Composite Device' and the other is 'SAMSUNG Mobile USB Modem #2'. Both install and says Ready to use but I have no further recognition through Windows or Odin.
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sfhub: Another thing I never mentioned was that before I went to ICS about a week ago Google Voice kept auto-starting and enabling Car Mode, that quickly went away when I flashed another rom so I didn't initially think it caused a problem.
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Enabling of car mode is a common symptom that has been reported when the USB port on the phone is starting to malfunction. Other people have reported the same thing when their USB port was on the way out. Sometimes cleaning out the port helped, sometimes not.
Alright I am running cm9 and have been for weeks with no issues. I got the new galaxy s3 and installed the drivers on my pc to root it and all that. I want to change roms on my E4GT though so I go to plug it in and it charges but will not connect so I figured I had to reinstall the usb drivers for my e4gt so I did and still nothing. I am in no way a newb i have flashed tons of roms and I know I did not do anything wrong. I believe I am just missing a driver. Can someone point me in the right direction? I have the latest version of kies installed and the drivers straight from samsungs website.
Made a little progress but not much. I realized I didnt have usb debugging enabled so I enabled that but now when I plug it in it just says usb debugging enabled instead of asking if I want to mount as storage device I have tried rebooting phone and pc several times. I am running out of ideas.
Did you get the drivers by installing Samsung Kies?
I ran into a similar issue once. I removed all Samsung software with all devices disconnected, did a reboot, re-installed a new copy of Kies, and when I plugged in the device, I opened the notification and told it to skip searching Windows Update.
Also, make sure you are plugging it into a powered USB port, so one on the back of your computer. Sometimes laptops don;t provide enough power either. My girlfriend's OG Epic refused to flash on my MacBook Pro, but worked fine on a desktop.
Latest version of Samsung Kies: http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/SW/201105/20110512115717796/Kies_2.3.2.12054_20_1.exe
Thank you very much i will give it a try and report back.
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Mattheyu said:
Did you get the drivers by installing Samsung Kies?
I ran into a similar issue once. I removed all Samsung software with all devices disconnected, did a reboot, re-installed a new copy of Kies, and when I plugged in the device, I opened the notification and told it to skip searching Windows Update.
Also, make sure you are plugging it into a powered USB port, so one on the back of your computer. Sometimes laptops don;t provide enough power either. My girlfriend's OG Epic refused to flash on my MacBook Pro, but worked fine on a desktop.
Latest version of Samsung Kies: http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/SW/201105/20110512115717796/Kies_2.3.2.12054_20_1.exe
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Actually no i did not get the drivers by installing kies because I already had it i got the sprint sph d710 usb drivers. Should I uninstall those and just install kies?
Well this is a rediculus problem that I am having now.. I cant install kies because it is saying I am not connected to the internet and I clearly am as I am posting this on the same pc that I am trying to install on.. I have tried rebooting the pc that does nothing.
Alright I got kies to install but still the same thing when I plug the phone in it says usb debugging enabled i really have no idea what is going on.
have you tried different ports on your computer, also have you maybe tried a different computer. If not it could be phone issue I fried my usb board on mine. best bet to try that is to flash another rom if possible and see if it you can connect to computer
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have you tried different ports on your computer, also have you maybe tried a different computer. If not it could be phone issue I fried my usb board on mine. best bet to try that is to flash another rom if possible and see if it you can connect to computer
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I have tried different ports but not a different comp. Ya I am gonna flash a new rom and see if that helps. How could I have fried the usb board though? I havent touched the phone in days since I got the gs3.
Yup Just flashed the new Super Nova rom and now everything is working again, thank you very much for all the help and if anyone hasnt checked out that rom yet they need to its awesome!
Greetings,
I have a rooted epic running the latest Clean GB
The other night the phone went crazy, it would reboot over and over and the screen would lock out. I went into CWM and restored it back to when I first installed Clean GB about 2 months ago. It had an error the first two times then it went on the third time. Then the phone crashed while rebooting and now will only go to the Samsung black screen. I cannot boot to cwm only to the Download screen (#1 and power). I tried connecting it to my computer to try and odin it back and I can not get it to connect. After reading the forms I re-installed the drivers uninstalled rebooted installed over and over. about 10 times. I found on the forums that the stock cable could be bad so found 3 other cables at home and tried them, still nothing then went to radio shack and bought the 22$ cable and still nothing. I have tried 3 different computers (2 windows 7 and 1 windows xp) every usb port on all the computers it says the device has malfunctioned. Odin does not recognize the device either does Heimdall. I am lost can you guys help me out? or do I need to see if sprint can fix it or use it for target practice? Thanks for your help
It may be a bad motherboard.
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draginspect3 said:
Greetings,
I have a rooted epic running the latest Clean GB
The other night the phone went crazy, it would reboot over and over and the screen would lock out. I went into CWM and restored it back to when I first installed Clean GB about 2 months ago. It had an error the first two times then it went on the third time. Then the phone crashed while rebooting and now will only go to the Samsung black screen. I cannot boot to cwm only to the Download screen (#1 and power). I tried connecting it to my computer to try and odin it back and I can not get it to connect. After reading the forms I re-installed the drivers uninstalled rebooted installed over and over. about 10 times. I found on the forums that the stock cable could be bad so found 3 other cables at home and tried them, still nothing then went to radio shack and bought the 22$ cable and still nothing. I have tried 3 different computers (2 windows 7 and 1 windows xp) every usb port on all the computers it says the device has malfunctioned. Odin does not recognize the device either does Heimdall. I am lost can you guys help me out? or do I need to see if sprint can fix it or use it for target practice? Thanks for your help
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What kind of usb cables? just because it was $22 doesn't means its a good data cable. I find thick blackberry cables are the best, i leave one plugged into my pc.
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Also make sure your micro usb port on the phone isn't dirty. I find a can of air duster works well.
Are you downloading the correct drivers straight from samsungs website?
If you can get into download mode its either usb port is bad, cable is bad, or computer doesn't play well with your phone.
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Thanks
Thanks for the ideas, I just cleaned my usb ports on my computer and on the phone and nothing. The cable is the thickest one I can find. I have read on other forums that they have had great success with that cable. Who knows, I may try and find black berry cable or take it to someone that knows more than I do. If anyone has any other ideas it would be greatly appreciated.
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I forgot to mention that yes I downloaded them from Samsung and also from a thread on xda.
I am currently running the latest version of LiquidSmooth on top of CWM, when the problem first started I was running a recent CM10 nightly. The phone doesn't want to connect over USB. More specifically I get the "One of the USB devices connected to this computer has malfunctioned..." message. My wife's stock T-mobile GS3 can connect over the same USB cable and port.
I was able to get the phone to connect for a little bit and it used to connect just fine on this system. The last time I got it to work, it stopped working in the middle of a file transfer and hasn't worked sense then.
I tried cleaning the port of my phone without any improvement. This was just cleaning little bits of lint out with a needle. I also tried several different USB cables as well as connecting to my laptop instead of my desktop. I tried with and without USB debug and in both MTP and the camera mode. I tried installing Samsung's USB drivers and I tried uninstalling them. I also tried installing Kies which did not recognize the phone. All of this was tried with frequent reboots.
I think it is time to try and RMA the phone but I am not sure how I can put it back to stock if the USB isn't working.
Anyone have any ideas on what to try next. I am very much at a loss for what to do.
Edit: Would Mobile Odin let me do this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1691659
I think you should be able to use that to get it back to stock.
Try Flashing the ROOT66 rom, you can then test if the USB works, don't forget to wipe the casch and Dalvic when you flash...
let us know if the rom flash restores the USB connectivity, if you do it.
Good Luck & Aloha!
Can anyone help me please.....?
I recently updated my Note 4 to lollipop and since then my PC cannot recognise the phone.
I have tried a variety of USB cables.
I have also tried installing the drivers and kies several times.
I have also tried different PC's to resolve this issue.... still nothing.
The phone charges ok ... so no issues on the charging side.
chico1983 said:
Can anyone help me please.....?
I recently updated my Note 4 to lollipop and since then my PC cannot recognise the phone.
I have tried a variety of USB cables.
I have also tried installing the drivers and kies several times.
I have also tried different PC's to resolve this issue.... still nothing.
The phone charges ok ... so no issues on the charging side.
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Make sure usb debugging is on.
Have you tried putting the phone in download mode, starting odin then plugging the phone in and seeing if odin will recognize it? If that works then download the OB7 lollipop stock tar from the general section and flash it with odin.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
jhill110 said:
Make sure usb debugging is on.
Have you tried putting the phone in download mode, starting odin then plugging the phone in and seeing if odin will recognize it? If that works then download the OB7 lollipop stock tar from the general section and flash it with odin.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
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Last time i odined the nk2 stock, i forgot to turrn on usb debugging. funny part was inhad no issues with cf auto root...i found it much later when i was going thru settings
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I've been through three Note 4's now - ever since Lollipop I cant mount USB in the OS or in recovery. It's absolutely insane. other Sammy phones are fine - I bring them back into the store and they can't mount anything either - so they give me a new phone.
This one came with Lollipop out of the box, so we activate it and plug it into their laptop. It sees the phone and you can see the device in Explorer. I drive home and some apps update on the way.
Get home - NONE OF MY PCs SEE THE ****ING PHONE!!!!
I'l going to have to kill something now - this makes ZERO sense. I know what I'm doing, I know all about drivers, USB debugging, blah blah. Still these Note 4s just plain won't mount USB. They charge fine but PCs don't see them.
I need to root the damn thing so I can get all my apps back on there but of course ODIN can't see a phone that won't mount.
Any advice? Been dealing with this for two weeks now... I can't find anybody else with a similar issue.