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I edited my post in the odin thread in dev because I felt like I was hijacking...
So odin see's my phone when the phone is on (yellow com port) . Even during boot up. But it doesn't see it in download mode. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers more than 5 times. I also just went out and bought a new data cable (NOT made my samsung)... Again, odin see's my phone while it's booting, and while it's on normal, but it just doesn't see it when in downloading mode.
Anyone have any tips? Is it possible to do this without being in downloading mode? I've tried every one of the "trouble shooting" tips for odin not seeing the device. Tried all of the usb ports, tried doing it without the battery, it's plugged into a usb port that is directly connected to the mobo.
I'm doing all of this on an older win xp comp. I had to use the win xp machine to root the phone, and it worked fine.
Even with Heimdall I get "failed to detect compatible device"
Have you tried it with the battery out and connected to computer to go into download mode?
kennyglass123 said:
Have you tried it with the battery out and connected to computer to go into download mode?
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Sorry, I know there's a bit to read in the OP. Just wanted to get all of the info I could in there... But yes, I tried that. Several times actually :-/
Zexter said:
Sorry I know there's a bit to read in the OP, but yes, I tried that. Several times :-/
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I guess I should have interpretted that from "tried all the troubleshooting tips"
Reading through the OP (again...really) sounds like there is something wrong with your download mode. How about using the Samsung EB13 tool thingy and let it OTA? It is supposed to be more hardy than Odin.
No I haven't tried that. I didn't even know there was a tool. I just came from the heroc to the epic yesterday
What is this tool thingy you speak of ?
[edit] im running syndicate and would like to get back to square one.
Zexter said:
No I haven't tried that. I didn't even know there was a tool. I just came from the heroc to the epic yesterday
What is this tool thingy you speak of ?
[edit] im running syndicate and would like to get back to square one.
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Here is the link for the updater tool. I think it gets you to EB13 wiping your phone:
http://db.tt/LttNmT9
The other option is to flash the ReRFS EC05 ROM and stock recovery in Development. Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1027904
kennyglass123 said:
Here is the link for the updater tool. I think it gets you to EB13 wiping your phone:
http://db.tt/LttNmT9
The other option is to flash the ReRFS EC05 ROM and stock recovery in Development. Here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1027904
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Thank you very much man, I loved this phone yesterday, and really don't wanna hate it (not yet anyway)
kennyglass123 said:
Here is the link for the updater tool. I think it gets you to EB13 wiping your phone: http://db.tt/LttNmT9
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Is there anything special I need to know about this? Or is it a simple plug in and run?
Zexter said:
Is there anything special I need to know about this? Or is it a simple plug in and run?
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This is an Odin like interface that needs the computer and also asks for download mode but it detects the phone in most cases when Odin can't. Give it a try and if it still can't find your phone download mode is broken. Then go to plan B.
Downloading now! Will post the results. Thanks again for the hospitality.
[edit] That program didn't work either. It just stays at the "plug into computer" step
Gonna try plan B now
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Downloading now! Will post the results. Thanks again for the hospitality.
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Hope it works for you. I downloaded it, never used it, kept it as a backup in case Odin failed one day, just installed it now so I can answer your question..lol.
Hey guys i have a bit of a problem. I tried rooting my phone with the one touch root and when i went to turn off my phone and restart it, it would get stuck on the Samsung screen. This worried me for a bit until i read more and found out how to get into download mode.
so now my phone goes to download mode, however Odin does not recognize my phone. when i plug my cable into my phone i hear the "ding-dung" sound, but nothing shows up. Ive read about trying other cable, but none of the other cables i tried worked.
And the current driver i have on my computer is the one from the Samsung website, and i also have.
what could my problem be?
bcusitsjeff said:
Hey guys i have a bit of a problem. I tried rooting my phone with the one touch root and when i went to turn off my phone and restart it, it would get stuck on the Samsung screen. This worried me for a bit until i read more and found out how to get into download mode.
so now my phone goes to download mode, however Odin does not recognize my phone. when i plug my cable into my phone i hear the "ding-dung" sound, but nothing shows up. Ive read about trying other cable, but none of the other cables i tried worked.
And the current driver i have on my computer is the one from the Samsung website, and i also have.
what could my problem be?
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The first time you use Odin it has to get more drivers from the net. Check in to see if it is still looking for those. That can take like 30 minutes sometimes. Then if it is anything like my laptop Odin only works in that usb port.
Check this and also try another cable and other ports until you see Windows searching for drivers.
Had that exact same problem Saturday night.
It was recommended to me to go watch the qbking videos, which I did.
He has a walk through on using Odin and it took me through the process step by step and once I figured out how to use it was very pleased with how easy it was.
Other things I noticed were:
a) don't use stock Samsung Cable (I believe this is emphasized in the video)
b) get Odin ready to use with the .pit file and the .md5 file and THEN plug the phone in. I don't know why this affected me, but it did.
c) try every USB port available. Some of mine didn't work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009997
This is the link to the qbking thread. Good Luck! That's incredibly unnerving until you see that boot screen again!
Had that exact same problem Saturday night.
It was recommended to me to go watch the qbking videos, which I did.
He has a walk through on using Odin and it took me through the process step by step and once I figured out how to use it was very pleased with how easy it was.
Other things I noticed were:
a) don't use stock Samsung Cable (I believe this is emphasized in the video)
b) get Odin ready to use with the .pit file and the .md5 file and THEN plug the phone in. I don't know why this affected me, but it did.
c) try every USB port available. Some of mine didn't work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009997
This is the link to the qbking thread. Good Luck! That's incredibly unnerving until you see that boot screen again!
You can also try downloading the Samsung USB drivers from their support site. Install those drivers, then plug the phone in and see if you have better results.
This is probably covered in those videos, but thought it was worth mentioning...
Sometimes rebooting the pc helps
Just realized I posted twice. I wasn't really trying to pad post stats...
As far as downloading the drivers, I believe the videos DO cover this. Just make sure you get the right drivers. I actually downloaded both because the 64 bit drivers didn't work with my 64 bit Windows 7, don't know why. The 32 bit on the other hand worked without problems.
Thanks for all the help guys. I finally got it working, and i flashed Syndicate on it, and have the Emotionless beast theme on it.
so far im loving my rooted phone, and now i know pretty much everything i need to know about rooting my phone. lol
I just purchased this phone (i9100) last night after a long travel to track it down. today I simply wanted to update the firmware on it and I was using Odin3 v1.85 to do it but It failed and stayed like that for an hr with the phone in the download mode. I finally disconnected the phone and started it back up and it said " firmware upgrade encountered" with the phone on icon on the left a yellow triangles in the middle and a computer on the right side. Almost looks as though the symbols and words are cutting off the screen.
I can boot into the Download mode but the computer does not recognize the phone anymore nor does Odin or Kies. So I cant even attempt to re-flash the damn thing... I'm so upset right now and feel like taking a hammer to this damn phone...
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've don't everything when it comes to drivers uninstalling Kies, using other computers without Kies installed, different ports and cables. I've done it all as far as i can see.... also I cant return the damn thing as i didn't buy it from a store. so im **** out of luck if i cant get this working.... PLS HELP!
Are you sure you are downloading the right version of the drivers? I ask because it sounds like you bought the international galaxy s II and not the Epic 4G Touch but you asking the question in the E4GT forums.
The phone is Sprint branded and so is the box.
jettienne12 said:
The phone is Sprint branded and so is the box.
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Okay, so for future reference... you have the D710, NOT the i9100. (The i9100 is the international SGS2, different enough from the Epic Touch that you can't flash i9100 firmware.)
That said, if you can get into download mode then all is not lost!!
Restart your computer. Also, when you use odin, be sure to go into your Windows task manager and close any Kies tasks/processes that may be running in background. You only need Kies for the drivers it provided when you installed it onto your pc.
Suggest you put your phone into download mode, and follow the instructions in the 1st post in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
I tried the instructions in the link. however, the problem seems to that the phone is not being detected by the computer or the drivers dont seem to be working. I tried this on my other computer and while the phone is in download mode it is still not being detected by the computer or odin.... what can be causing this as before the firmware update that failed it was being detected perfectly fine.
I pretty much have the exact same problem as posted here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18176145#post18176145
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I pretty much have the exact same problem as posted here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18176145#post18176145
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I was never able to get any computer to recognize the phone in that state. I was able to take it to the Sprint store and they ended up giving me a new one for a small service charge. Since you didn't get it at a store I would contact Samsung and give them the story that cooza suggests in the thread you linked. Good luck and post back if you ever get it working, I am still curious as to what was wrong.
The only thing that might be hampering your effort is Kies might be still active. I overlooked this instruction (as was mentioned in a previous post). Before starting Odin or connecting your phone go into Windows task manager (ctrl/alt/del) and click on processes. Scroll down and you'll probably see a Kies process running. End that process, then try it again.
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Sorry but Kies has been completely uninstalled from this computer and the other computer.
are you plugging the phone before or after entering download mode?
I did both before and after to see if that would make a difference, but no go.
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Sorry but Kies has been completely uninstalled from this computer and the other computer.
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I thought you needed the drivers from Kies?
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I installed the drivers without it, I downloaded the drivers for my model phone from another member who suggested it.
Try deleting the drivers that u have and reinstalling kies. Use different usb ports.
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
i would reinstall kies..... or if you have a linux box maybe try heimdall > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265 to flash
Guys, I tried Ubuntu but with no luck. The computer simply will not detect the phone. At this point I believe only Samsung can fix or replace this. I will contact them tomorrow and see. Maybe they will do it for free or maybe they will charge a small fee (small I hope if any) but thank you all for the help.
Hello everyone, before I say anything I want to apologize in advance if this is the wrong area of the forums for me to be posting this, but I'm kind of in a rush so I thought I'd ask some pro's 'cus I can't figure out what i'm doing wrong. Anyway..
I just got my Samsung Epic replaced because it was screwing up, and I came home today and tried rooting it. I actually just got finished spending almost two hours trying to find out where I was going wrong, but came up with nothing. I downloaded the samsung drivers 32 bit for this hp mini lap top and installed them. I got the one click root exploit, extracted etc... So I run the exploit and when it says waiting for my phone to reconnect, it waits 60 seconds and says root could not be obtained after 60 seconds, make sure your phone is connected and try again if adb shell isn't root, reboot phone and run the script again or something like that. No matter what I do it ends up saying that my phone isn't connected but on my phone it clearly says that the usb is connected.
I don't know if this is common or not, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
swiftstrike763 said:
Hello everyone, before I say anything I want to apologize in advance if this is the wrong area of the forums for me to be posting this, but I'm kind of in a rush so I thought I'd ask some pro's 'cus I can't figure out what i'm doing wrong. Anyway..
I just got my Samsung Epic replaced because it was screwing up, and I came home today and tried rooting it. I actually just got finished spending almost two hours trying to find out where I was going wrong, but came up with nothing. I downloaded the samsung drivers 32 bit for this hp mini lap top and installed them. I got the one click root exploit, extracted etc... So I run the exploit and when it says waiting for my phone to reconnect, it waits 60 seconds and says root could not be obtained after 60 seconds, make sure your phone is connected and try again if adb shell isn't root, reboot phone and run the script again or something like that. No matter what I do it ends up saying that my phone isn't connected but on my phone it clearly says that the usb is connected.
I don't know if this is common or not, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm assuming your phone is on 2.3.5 gingerbread so oneclickroot doesn't work. You'll need to odin in a custom kernel and then odin in a custom recovery ie. Clockwork Mod or Acs Recovery. Once that's done just flash a custom Rom or just flash a superuser.zip. if you don't know how to do this search qbking on youtube best tutorials around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Do you have USB Debugging checked?
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Do you have USB Debugging checked?
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That wouldn't help he's on ei22 software and exploits don't work. Anways OP did you get it done?
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bigg is right. your most likely running 2.3.5.
here is step on video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwFRzzIqouE&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL80A083B9C1DFB5D5
this will take you through the rest of the process
I was running CM10 but I got a message whenever I got into the Camera App that said "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped working", after a research in here I found that I wouldn't get that msg again if I installed this "gapps-jb-picasa-20121011-signed" thing.
I did, but when I got into my Camera App, I didn't have the other options like "Image Effects" and all that stuff.
So, what I did was to Restore my phone from my BackUp folder that I've created before installing CM10, but for my surprise I got a msg saying "VolumeError" or something like that and other things that I can't really remember... and as a good Mexican that I am, I ignored it and hit the Reboot System Now..
What happened next almost made me cry...
I was expecting to get in my stock rom without any problems and yadda yadda but... OH SURPRISE!
I got stuck on the boot screen, where it says "Samsung" and the website of it and I didn't freak out... I waited like 5-6 mins and took the battery out. When I turned again, I tried to get in Recovery Mode but the screen just kept turning off and on and saying the exact same thing, the "Samsung" logo and it's website.
I hope you can help me and please answer me. I don't know if I'm 1000000% screwed but I will only wait for the worst. Sorry for my bad english and don't hate me for being mexican
I don't know if I can get into my phone from my PC but whenever I plug my phone in, it just loads it as if it was in Charging Mode
PLEASE HELP ME!
I BEG YOU!
Flash again CM10 with wipe data, cache, dalvik
If still stuck
Odin to stock ROM, you can search on google to odin the epic
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Like @dropple said, it seems you stuck "SAMSUNG" and in this case you can't get into recovery so you can't flash CM10 as of now. Go find some tutorials and Odin back to stock via download mode. Then install CWM recovery if you want and do whatever you like. Should get you outta trouble.
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AndyYan said:
Like @dropple said, it seems you stuck "SAMSUNG" and in this case you can't get into recovery so you can't flash CM10 as of now. Go find some tutorials and Odin back to stock via download mode. Then install CWM recovery if you want and do whatever you like. Should get you outta trouble.
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Thanks to Everyone!
I solved this like 2 hrs after all this happened.
I got it by Odin. I couldn't go into Recovery Mode, but I got in Download Mode and do it by Odin.
Sorry, I'm a n00b to all this.
Greetings from México and thanks for all your support.
Here's a weird one for you,
Same thing as OP stated. Device is stuck on logo. Can't get into CWM. Was on People's Rom. Device was lagging really bad. Then the system requested superuser permissions. Yes the system requested. Being as I did not request it, I declined. Shut the device down to see if that would help with the extremely bad lag (i mean BAD lag. Like..........................ok it does something then.......................................................................ok it does something else. 10-20 seconds lag)
Connect device to computer to Odin back to Stock or whatever ROM would have worked, computer recognizes device..... wait for it.......
But in download mode Odin does not see it. Com Port will not illuminate. Tried 3 different cables. Tried 6 different USB ports on computer. Still nothing.
Any ideas, because I'm all out?!?
To the OP:
I would follow the instructions in this video from the part where qbking77 talks about putting the phone in download mode, as you presumably did when you first rooted your phone. Download all the files linked/referenced on the site, especially the Samsung mobile drivers, Odinv3 1.87, CWMRecovery, and the deOxed versions of the stock ROM. In sum:
1) get into recovery mode by holding onto the volume down, camera buttons, and then without letting either of those go, press and hold the power button.
if you get into recovery mode, skip to step 4
2) while your phone is completely off, hold onto the "1" button on the slide out keyboard first, then without letting the 1 button go, press and hold the power button until you're in download mode.
3) flash the version of Clockworkmod
4) once in recovery mode, wipe your phone, clear the cache, and dalvik cache, and then flash the deOxed version of the stock ROM
niteNarmor said:
Here's a weird one for you,
Same thing as OP stated. Device is stuck on logo. Can't get into CWM. Was on People's Rom. Device was lagging really bad. Then the system requested superuser permissions. Yes the system requested. Being as I did not request it, I declined. Shut the device down to see if that would help with the extremely bad lag (i mean BAD lag. Like..........................ok it does something then.......................................................................ok it does something else. 10-20 seconds lag)
Connect device to computer to Odin back to Stock or whatever ROM would have worked, computer recognizes device..... wait for it.......
But in download mode Odin does not see it. Com Port will not illuminate. Tried 3 different cables. Tried 6 different USB ports on computer. Still nothing.
Any ideas, because I'm all out?!?
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Do you have the mobile drivers installed on the computer you're trying to connect your phone to?
Yes. The drivers have been installed previously. The computer will see the device as "Samsung SPH-D700 Card USB Device". But Odin3 1.85 will not see it.
EDIT: When I put device into download mode and connect to computer, the computer only sees it as "Gadget Serial".
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Yes. The drivers have been installed previously. The computer will see the device as "Samsung SPH-D700 Card USB Device". But Odin3 1.85 will not see it.
EDIT: When I put device into download mode and connect to computer, the computer only sees it as "Gadget Serial".
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Uninstall and reinstall drivers.
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Have already done that. But just for laughs, I did do it again with no change.
can you get your D700 into download mode as described above?
Yes I can get into download mode but without Odin recognizing the device (not computer. The computer recognizes the device) there is not much I can do.
niteNarmor said:
Yes I can get into download mode but without Odin recognizing the device (not computer. The computer recognizes the device) there is not much I can do.
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Try to install another version of Odin or getting Odin from a different server.
My phone is fully recovered and now I'm only SuperUser 'cause I don't want any CM by now.
Greetings from Mexico!
I'm using the same version of Odin I used to root the device. Would a different version really help and if so, what version to use?
I actually have a different version of Odin I used for another device and tried that one as well, with no luck.
EDIT: I have now downloaded and tried 4 different Odin programs with no avail. Again, that makes 6 Odin programs, 6 different USB ports, 3 different cables with the same exact results. The computer recognizes device but Odin will not.
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I'm using the same version of Odin I used to root the device. Would a different version really help and if so, what version to use?
I actually have a different version of Odin I used for another device and tried that one as well, with no luck.
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Had a simular issue when I had two odins on the same computer, for a lark and as I had nothing better to do, tried installing drivers and one version of odin to a vertual machine running vista and checked to see if my computer's vertual machine would reconize and it did, I took it as a sine that at one point I had done something to my computer's main os sometime between rooting my epic 4g and frying it (recovering from a backup from a different parition layout I think, bad times with bootloops and seeing way to much of the samsung logo.) So as I'm not brave enough to run odin on vm I instead removed all of odin from my main os and all of the samsung drivers, then reinstalled rebooted and repluged my epic in, got reconition and reflashed with plesure.
The other issue might be that your computer is reconizing the device and try/failing/hanging and not allowing odin in. Had an issue when my computer was failing to pop up a 'what do I do with this' window and hanging round in the system. A reboot with the internet unpluged strangely solved that for some reason, might be the reboot might be the combo, but I find better connection reconition with my computer when I've fewer things connected.
Don't mind the spelling to much I clean up with my other device.
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One question I noticed that hasn't been asked is when you plug the phone into the computer while the phone is on, is usb debugging checked? If not, check it, and reinstall drivers again.
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jeffreyjicha said:
One question I noticed that hasn't been asked is when you plug the phone into the computer while the phone is on, is usb debugging checked? If not, check it, and reinstall drivers again.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk 2
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Phone does not boot past the "Samsung - www.samsung.com" logo. Plus, as with all of my devices, USB debugging is always checked.
Thanks for the suggestion though. Always helps to double check things.
I believe I am going to take it to Sprint tomorrow.
If I can't get into it, they should not be able to get into to it either. If they can't get into it, HELLO WARRANTY....
Perhaps before doing the whole getting found out thing with the return center, perhaps they do know what they're doing, try rolling this link past your eyes?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773032
I know I've been in your boot problem situation and recovered, it just took persistence and eyenumbing amounts of reading.
Note On the multiple Odin, USB, and driver installation: if you've access to another computer it could be worth wile to run once though on a previously virgin computer, meaning your phone and computers' USB's have never touched. Just do the installation, rebooting, and plugging in exasperatingly meticulous order.
Sent from either my SPH-D700 or myTouch3Gs using XDA app
"it never hurts to help"
Yep tried the "virgin computer" computer as well. The computer sees the device but Odin does not. Com light will not illuminate.
Sounds grim.
So to rap up all the cables, plugs, computer, and software with odin is out of the debug process.
So I did some digging into the past and if your computer is reconizing and odin is not then ADB (android debug bridge) and the sdk are the other option
http://forums.androidcentral.com/epic-4g-rooting-roms-hacks/33427-how-access-your-adb-shell.html
Ran across this and it might just be what you need. Its not quick but it has worked for me in the past.
The other thing that may work is ejecting the sd card and battery before doing anything. Though its likely something you've already tried.
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"it never hurts to help"