[Q] Odin sticks at Factory FS - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am trying to Odin back to stock ECO5 using the links/downloads provided. Everything appears fine until it gets to factoryfs.rfs At that point it stops and will not go past.
I have tried 3 times. Any ideas?
On one attempt the entire screen turned pink, not sure if that helps describe the problem.

I have had this problem before it was corrected by re downloading the tar and pit file.
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And use a non-stock cable.

Thanks I will try that, already tried downloading the EB13 tar, and that didn't work. Guess I will try it with a different pit.

Not too sure said:
Thanks I will try that, already tried downloading the EB13 tar, and that didn't work. Guess I will try it with a different pit.
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victory8g- is the one you want. Use it with Odin 1.61.
http://k0nane.info/rom/odin-pit.zip

Tried that. Same result. I'm going to get a different cable tomorrow and see how that works. It stops in the same place every time, and the factory fs

I think at this point I would just like to take it somewhere and have it fixed. Any suggestions? Should I just take it to Sprint and confess my sins, or try a shop somewhere?

its the cable or the usb port..

Not too sure said:
I am trying to Odin back to stock ECO5 using the links/downloads provided. Everything appears fine until it gets to factoryfs.rfs At that point it stops and will not go past.
I have tried 3 times. Any ideas?
On one attempt the entire screen turned pink, not sure if that helps describe the problem.
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You are putting the tar file in the pda slot instead of phone right? I made that mistake with flashing dk28 and it did the same thing. Lmk.
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Not too sure said:
I think at this point I would just like to take it somewhere and have it fixed. Any suggestions? Should I just take it to Sprint and confess my sins, or try a shop somewhere?
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Get a cable first. $1.50 max on Amazon.
And NEVER tell Sprint a darned thing. About anything. Never even hand a rep your phone without fully stocking it.

You might want to try the di18 tar. My phone was having the same problem with odining to eb13. After your on di18 you could just let the phone update itself.
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Fixed
Ok, I feel like a total idiot now. New cable worked perfectly. Actually not a new one, it was the one from the POS Samsung Intrepid that my job provides me.
Sorry to waste everyone's time. I assumed (never assume) that when people were talking about problems with the cable, that I would get some sort of error, not just a freeze in the download.
Thanks to all who replied and attempted to help.
I love this forum!! I have used other forums in the past....they do not compare! Usually filled with a bunch of people more wanting to be smart-A$$es than helping.

Yeah, the xda forums are a step above. I can confirm cable issues and usb port issues cropping up for me from time to time...it is very strange.
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help please! epic 4g not working right..

Hi, everyone please dont flame me if this answer is somewhere else but i tried searching and using keywords to find an answer but no dice! feel free to move this to the where ever it needs to be!
ok ive been having tons of fun with my epic and this site has been a god send ever since i found it! great community guys! but now to the prob...
i never had a problem with rooting my epic and adding roms, themes, dk28, etc. but last night i decided to flash a hulu zip but i was careless and realized it wasnt "edify" and flashed it, yea i know epic fail :/...ever since then my epic hasnt been the same. i tried going back to dk27 and from playing with it for 10mins it seemed stable and fine. so i decided to odin to dk28 and it seemed alright but maybe its because im used to the faster roms ive been using for the past months. now the real problem is when im running on dk28 and try to flash midnight rom or bonsai (the only 2 i tested so far) it never works..after i run cwm3 and flash midnight i try to reboot and i get stuck at the samsung screen. so i pull the battery out and try again...now when it boots up, it does the reg sprint start up but the word "android" is flashing in the middle of the screen at the same time!? and doesnt perforom right if i touch any of the dock buttons it just restarts. so as of right now im just running a stock epic and it works fine but i really wanna root my epic again and have fun!
Well....
That flashing android sign may have just been some sort of file corruption...possibly in the odin flash, possibly from pulling the battery.
You said you went back to dk27 first...did you mean dG 27? Just for clarification.
I would try odining to di18 and THEN going to dk28 and then to a ROM (if you haven't already tried that going from di18)
And retrying until successful isn't such a bad idea...did you purchase a better USB cable, or are you using the stock one? the stock one has been known to cause problems when flashing
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hey, thnx for the reply. yea i mean dg27 sorry. hmm yea ive been having a lot of problems with this cable, my cpu recognizes it about 50% of the time i always have to keep trying diff ports...ill try to find another cable around the house. will any mini usb cable do? oh yea and u said the "flashing android" could be from odin, so could it be the pit or the tar file?
btw is di18 still floating around on the forums? ill try to look..thanks again bro
Flash it again when your getting that android symbol in the middle of sprints boot screen. Right over it. Works for me and I get that problem every once in a while
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thnx coke32 ill keep trying to flash it..keeping my fingers crossed
I would use Odin and the DI18 release then use the update.zip for DK28. Then use the Clockworkmod 3.0 root. Then use one of those Roms you like so much. I use midNIGHT and love it. There are some great walk throughs in the Development Section.
If you run into problems just start over. Only takes about 20 minutes. The cable is a biggie though. Any USB mini works...as long as it "works". I never use the stock cable unless I'm charging only.
vpka007 said:
Any USB mini works...as long as it "works".
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Micro. Mini won't fit our phones.
Ah true.
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[Q] Interrupted connection while flashing modem - Access to download mode, but stalls

FIXED: The only thing I could not do was try a computer with a different operating system. Finally got to a friends Windows 7 32 bit and it worked on the first go. Thanks for the replies.
Hello Everyone,
I know there have been a few other threads very similar to this but I have tried everything and can't seem to get over the hump. I am an amateur at this but I was having trouble with my battery and reception so I wanted to try a different modem. During the Odin flash, the connection was interrupted. Now when I try to power it up it shows the computer to phone looking picture. I can access download mode but can't seem to get it through the process.
Please help. I have been trying all day to get ANYTHING back on there!
Try a differnt usb and redownload the tar
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Don't worry its not bricked, almost impossible. I've gotten the screen that you're talking about. Take off the battery and put it back on. The try going into download mode. Some times it takes more than once. Then try flashing with odin whatever modem you needed. 2 cents.
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Thanks for the replies. I've tried over and over again. I have literally been going at it all day and I need to have it for tomorrow. I'm really not sure why it won't budge.
Is there any other methods of flashing ROMs through download mode??/
Did you try reinstalling the drivers? A different port? Different cable? Different computer? Another download of the rom?
I have tried all of that. Unless I find something else to try my next step will be trying a different computer with a different operating system than Win 7 and try a different cord because I have been using two Samsung cable from different phones.
Take out the battery and leave it out. Plug in USB and go into dl mode.
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ala986 said:
I have tried all of that. Unless I find something else to try my next step will be trying a different computer with a different operating system than Win 7 and try a different cord because I have been using two Samsung cable from different phones.
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That's probably the issue. Never, never use the stock samsung cord for flashing. It's worthless for anything but charging.
Glad to see you got it fixed Ala! Sorry I was stuck at work all day and no help. I TOLD you to wait til I got home. I imagine you'll be gung ho to do it all on your own now that you've managed your way through that nightmare!

[SOLVED] Camera/Camcorder issues after EL29 OTA update / Factory Reset

Hello ol' buddy ol' pals,
I've got an issue with my phone, that apparently nobody else on the interwebs has run into. I have a 6 week old E4GT, and have loved it. I've taken plenty of great videos of my son, but last week I performed the OTA update (on my unrooted phone) and later did a factory reset. Somewhere between there, my Camera app got messed up. I added a short video of what's happening below.
What you see in the video is what I see as soon as I enter the camera app. Anywhere outside of that, the screen is as sharp & beautiful as ever. I thought maybe something was wrong with the sensor, but when I snap a pic, it looks perfect. When I capture video, well, you see what happens.
I've tried different camera apps, and they're all basically the same deal. Any ideas? I'm wondering if it may be a software issue. I don't what to take it to Sprint yet, because I don't want to flip my 6-week old phone for a refurb. Thanks!!
https://plus.google.com/u/0/118349915927256750068/posts/DLEwvWpV8ng
UPDATE:
Wanted to provide an update for anyone who may have run into a similar issue.
I took the phone to Sprint, and they performed a hard-reset, then said they re-applied the EL29 update to my phone, and neither of these fixed the issue. They offered to replace my phone with a refurb for ~$40 (I don't have TEP). I didn't want a refurb, so I decided to call Samsung and work with them instead. It was a fairly painless process. In about 15 minutes, they sent me a 2nd day air shipping label to send my phone back to them. They said it would take 2 days to ship the phone to Samsung, 2 days to work on it, and 2 days to ship it back.
I didn't mind losing my phone for a week, because I got to go back to my Evo, which re-kindled my love of constant rom flashing!!
From what the rep said, and from my own experience, Samsung won't just take your phone and send you a refurb. They work directly on your phone to repair it, which was the best choice for me. Good luck!
My guess is you're gonna have to take it in. You could try clearing data in settings - applications - all - camera but I'm not sure that would help.
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I would try and flash back to the last firmware you were on (EK02) and then checking the camera see if its back to normal. Maybe your update glitched on you..
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Something like that happened to me with my HTC Evo 4G, ended up being that the camera connection came lose, took it to Sprint Repair center and they re-seated the camera. Take it in to a repair center, and I hope you have insurance.
RayTrue04 said:
I would try and flash back to the last firmware you were on (EK02) and then checking the camera see if its back to normal. Maybe your update glitched on you..
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Thanks for your help, guys. I can try to flash back to EK02, but before I do that, I'd like to clear something up. The ODIN counter will only go up if I'm flashing using the ODIN tool, right?
As I understand it, the process is to use sfhub's root tool for EL29, then run the AutoRoot tool to flash ED02. Is this correct?
PS: I tried to clear the camera data, but that didn't do it. Good idea though, I forgot about that.
Well, I rooted my phone & downgraded to EK02, and that didn't fix the issue. I tried to flash Calkulin's rom, and that didn't do anything either. It's looking like it's the sensor...
Gotta turn-in a 6 week old phone for refurb. #Bull***t!
thaprinze said:
Well, I rooted my phone & downgraded to EK02, and that didn't fix the issue. I tried to flash Calkulin's rom, and that didn't do anything either. It's looking like it's the sensor...
Gotta turn-in a 6 week old phone for refurb. #Bull***t!
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If you have insurance and the camera sensor came loose they can fix it without replacing the phone...take it in..trust me.
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thaprinze said:
Thanks for your help, guys. I can try to flash back to EK02, but before I do that, I'd like to clear something up. The ODIN counter will only go up if I'm flashing using the ODIN tool, right?
As I understand it, the process is to use sfhub's root tool for EL29, then run the AutoRoot tool to flash ED02. Is this correct?
PS: I tried to clear the camera data, but that didn't do it. Good idea though, I forgot about that.
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Only if you flash a custom rom with odin, the triangle will appear. But that's where sfhub's oneclick packages come in, using those the triangle won't appear. And the autoroot method no longer works on el29, you can use it to install cwm but not root. That's why sfhub created the oneclick el29 rooted package. Then if you want the cwm you run the autoroot option c. PS you don't need to root el29 to go back to a previous version if that's what you mean..
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error 67 invalide username?

I keep geting this message about error 67 and my 3g will not work can someone please help thanks
http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/83055
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dante32278 said:
http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/83055
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Overkill information, right there.
Just update your profile, it should program automatically.
Sunsparc said:
Overkill information, right there.
Just update your profile, it should program automatically.
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This one!
I have literally tried updating profile more then ten times....
I've also...
Did a Hard Reset as described in the link above, Did a hands free activation (which like the person's complaint in the link above, it showed I had it during but then it resets and it is gone again), I've tried the ##786# reset, I've flashed stock non root, then I went back to root after trying it all over again!
Very frustrated at this point, I cannot figure out how it happened either because it is my Fiance's phone and she claims that she didn't do anything different it just happened.
I was on the Dirty Unicorn ROM before hand, I know that I did have some tweaks active, and I am worried that is why the configuration is sticking and not able to just clean wipe it out...
But if anyone else has come across this and has been able to fix it using a different method other then all the ones tried and stated in this message and the ones in the sprint forum link above... Both my Fiance and I would be greatly in your debt! This is the first time in the past two years and 3 phones that I've been teaching myself this stuff that I've encountered a problem I wasnt able to go through forumns and google and fix it, and that is what is more frustrating then anything.
Assuming this isn't a phone flashed to another carrier you could try flashing a stock rom, and then stop by a sprint store. They should be able to get it back on line there.

Odin not working

I really don't understand Odin sometimes, it doesn't make any sense at all. At first my stock cable didn't work very well, and everyone said to go get a Blackberry one from Verizon because theirs is a top quality cable (I guess Blackberry did SOMETHING right after all) and that worked for a while.... Every time I get it to work I simply leave the cable on the port it was on so I can go back to it later, thinking that if it worked once, it should work again, right? Nope... Every single time it's a huge hassle and this particular time I have tried every single port on my computer w 2 different USB cables and I still don't get a COM link....
Help please!
Try a different computer or try to reinstall Odin/drivers
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Exactly. Uninstall drivers and let Windows find and reinstall them.
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I have already done that. When first double-clicking "Samsung_Mobile_USB_Driver_V1.3.800.0.msi" it asks if you would like to uninstall or repair the current drivers. I clicked uninstall, waited for it to finish, then re-installed again and it still didn't work.
You needed to use a file to force driver installation? Do they not install on their own? -- shot in the dark, but try diff. drivers (or the ones that should be installing on their own, specifically)?
Start up Odin, Take out your battery, plug in your phone to your computer without battery in there, put phone in download mode, then put back your battery.
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Ok.... So now I'm really frustrated... Odin has always worked no problem for me. I've had a little trouble sometimes, sure, but now it is just outright refusing to work. I've tried 2 different cables: my stock cable and a blackberry usb cable that fits really tight in the port that seems to work much better, normally.
I can't get a COM connection for the life of me. I tried what omair2005 suggested about taking the battery out, etc and that didn't work. Windows keeps telling me that the "device has malfunctioned" but it has always said that so I really don't think anything of that considering it's worked before.
Anyone have any out of the box thinking on this one? I'm definitely not a noob to flashing nor Odin, this must be some sort of weird glitch, or perhaps something simple that I'm overlooking....
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I have already done that. When first double-clicking "Samsung_Mobile_USB_Driver_V1.3.800.0.msi" it asks if you would like to uninstall or repair the current drivers. I clicked uninstall, waited for it to finish, then re-installed again and it still didn't work.
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Did you reboot after the uninstall and reboot the phone? Then with both freshly booted let Windows find the drivers. It makes a difference.
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odin not opening
ive installed odin from the xda thread,and ive extracted it,but when click open a message comes up odin3.ini with some boxes and it does not open..
If you're having trouble with drivers in windows try ubuntu and heimdall its the only thing that worked for me to get cwm installed after Odin bricked my phone. Command line interface seems into intimidating but it's way easier than Odin.
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