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HELP!!! Anyone?

My epic seems to not mount the sdcard. I flashed back to the samsung recovery because clockwork always had an installation aborted problem on every rom I tried, and my backup was erased I can't use odin since I am running linux. Someone help please?

So your phone dosnt turn on?
This happened to me, and I think it because ur trying to use the eb13 stock roms that are pre rooted
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castro08 said:
So your phone dosnt turn on?
This happened to me, and I think it because ur trying to use the eb13 stock roms that are pre rooted
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It gets to the samsung screen, that's it.

Yeah that happened to me before, but I used odin to get it back,
But your phone isn't bricked
Hmhm look at the development forums and download the completely stocked eb13 with no pre root, and erase the eb13 you hve on ur sd card so yu don't get confused, and I think that should work
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Don't I need Clockwork Recovery to do that though? I flashed back to the stock recovery.

Emerl said:
Don't I need Clockwork Recovery to do that though? I flashed back to the stock recovery.
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Can you get into download mode on your phone. With the phone turned off hold down the volume down button, camera button and power button at the same time. Then use Odin on your pc to odin back to stock or eb13 and start over again.

I thought download mode was holding 1 and the power button? Lol, but I am running linux and odin doesn't work. my epic is flashed to metro, and if I could use odin, wouldn't it erase my flash?

If you can get into download mode then check out this thread in the development section. It will take you to EB13, Root and CWM all in one step. Check it out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853209

Emerl said:
I thought download mode was holding 1 and the power button? Lol, but I am running linux and odin doesn't work. my epic is flashed to metro, and if I could use odin, wouldn't it erase my flash?
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Oh hell, I had a serious brain blockage there. Sorry. Then dont pay any attention to my last post either. Search the Development section they had a very good post on there a few weeks ago about someone using Linux. Ill see if I can find it and send you the link. Sorry about the mixup.

dazednconfused1144 said:
Oh hell, I had a serious brain blockage there. Sorry. Then dont pay any attention to my last post either. Search the Development section they had a very good post on there a few weeks ago about someone using Linux. Ill see if I can find it and send you the link. Sorry about the mixup.
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Its fine, I appreciate ur help. I couldn't wait to get this phone, now it's all messed up lol. If u find that link, please let me know, thank u.

[Q] Tried to restore to stock.... went terribly wrong somewhere

so i odined the stock kernel onto my et4g and everything went fine until it rebooted my launcher is nonexistent the home menu and search buttons dont work when the phone first started up it said set up wizard force closed so anyone know what i should do at this point im currently dl the cwm recovery back up.

just tried to boot into odin mode and it said E:Update logfile dose not exist

From what I understand, unless you've wiped out your radios you should be okay. I had a similar thing happen to me, and corrected it in this manner.
You'll need a CWM recovery tar (I use Chris41g's LoStKernel)
An SD card
A flashable ROM (I use AbsolutZeroGI's EG30-Stock-OdexV2.zip)
Put the ROM on the SD card, with the phone unplugged pull the battery, replace and boot into Odin mode (volume down and power, then volume up at first screen).
Open Odin, select PDA then the tar file, make sure auto reboot is checked and run it.
Once the phone reboots pull the battery and go into recovery (volume up and power) wipe everything then flash the ROM. When it reboots you should be ok.
Conversely, you could look for crawrj's stock Odin Rom with recovery, busy box, and SU, (which you would also run from PDA), but the steps above are what I used.

i cant boot into odin mode :/

Oh, sorry about that, do you know anyone with a USB jig, I don't know for sure, but that may help determine if it is a hardware problem?

No i dont im gonna order one. Well i have it kind of working. I figured out how to get my emails and got the amazon app store and installed a launcher
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So i can't access dl mode any ideas?
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Take out sd card.... Take out battery.... Let it sit for a while... put battery back in and try.. If that doesn't work, take battery out and plug into PC and try and get into Odin mode
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Buy/make a jig
mdeathike said:
So i can't access dl mode any ideas?
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I flashed root kernel in Odin under "Phone" option effectively erasing the radio...Like an idiot! Does anyone know where to find the stock Radio/Modem flashable through Odin?

help! flashed a rom that wasnt made for the tmobile gs2

so i made a noob mistake an flashed a rom that wasnt made for the tmobile gs2. the install of the custom rom was sucessfull. now the phone wont turn back on or get into any mode. when i plug it into the computer odin recognize it. can someone tell me what i can do other then using the jig. thanks in advance!

lookinforcar said:
so i made a noob mistake an flashed a rom that wasnt made for the tmobile gs2. the install of the custom rom was sucessfull. now the phone wont turn back on or get into any mode. when i plug it into the computer odin recognize it. can someone tell me what i can do other then using the jig. thanks in advance!
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Did you say that Odin recognize your phone or doesn't recognize it? If Odin recognize your phone then your definitely in luck.
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yes odin does recognize it. it says ID com19 and its highlighted yellow

lookinforcar said:
yes odin does recognize it. it says ID com19 and its highlighted yellow
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Now you have to get the original unrooted factory rom .tar file and restore your phone back to factory. Your phone is just soft bricked so you are very lucky. Use google or the xda search feature and look up something along the lines of "SGH-T989 .tar file" or "T-Mobile Galaxy S II tar". The exact file you need is floating around here somewhere.
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r u talking about the sgh-t989-stock-recovery.tar? i have tried that but get stuck on setupconnection

There is no stock rom tar file for our phone yet. We only have a kernel and stock recovery tar.
You can't get into recovery?
This phone is a BEAST!

what is the proper way to get into recovery. my phone wont do jack right now.

lookinforcar said:
r u talking about the sgh-t989-stock-recovery.tar? i have tried that but get stuck on setupconnection
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Honestly I haven't done this yet with the GS2, but I've done it a million times with a Vibrant I once owned. I'm gonna look it up right now and see what I find. This should be a pretty easy process. The best part is that at least your phone isn't completely bricked.
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mine is doing the same thing but odin isnt reconizing my phone but the computer is....someone help me

lookinforcar said:
what is the proper way to get into recovery. my phone wont do jack right now.
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First do a battery pull, then put the battery back into the phone, hold both the up and down volume rocker and press the power button till the phone vibrates (letting you know its been turned on), soon as the phone vibrate then release the power button but do not let go of the volume rocker until you see the recovery image! Once you see the recovery image you are easily back in business. Let me know if you can at least get into recovery.
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ok. did that many times and no vibrate

lookinforcar said:
ok. did that many times and no vibrate
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How long are you holding the buttons for, sometimes it takes a while.
This phone is a BEAST!

almost a minute

just recieved the phone today and screwed it up FML

lookinforcar said:
just recieved the phone today and screwed it up FML
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dude same thing happened to me, i just got this phone today, tried to root it, put a different rom on it, screwed up the phone....................................im computer will reconize it but the oden wont

cwa542 said:
dude same thing happened to me, i just got this phone today, tried to root it, put a different rom on it, screwed up the phone....................................im computer will reconize it but the oden wont
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when you turn on odin does the id com highleted yellow?

btw guys i backed up my stock rom with nandroid.md5

What ROM did you guys install? Few questions. Did you guys install Samsung drivers. If not install through kies or from the development section here and reboot computer. Then put in download mode and wait for comp. to recognize phone again. try entering recovery and flash a basic stock ROM from dev section. See if that works.
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dude same thing happened to me, i just got this phone today, tried to root it, put a different rom on it, screwed up the phone....................................im computer will reconize it but the oden wont
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Then get back into recovery and restore it.
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btw guys i backed up my stock rom with nandroid.md5
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chib1panda said:
Then get back into recovery and restore it.
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phone wont get into recovery mode or download mode...

Am I bricked?

I was recovering my backed up stock rom( came from cm9) and I received an error saying "format rfs device failed on system" or something to that effect while trying to restore it. Once that happened, the back was off, and the battery came out so I tried to boot back into recovery....I get the SAMSUNG logo, soft key lights come on, phone goes black, then back to the samsung logo.
I cannot boot into recovery, do a normal boot, all I can do is download mode. Where should I go from here?

You went from bml to mtd... you CANNOT RESTORE BML NANDROIDS ON MTD. Please read bout things before flashing things.
On a helpful note.. you will need to unbrick your device by odining back to stock. Give me a second and ill link you the how to. If you feel incompetent then I offer unbricking services if you would like via teamviewer7.
Also you don't post questions in general... there is a q&a forum for questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQ6Rn0FBSk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Will this do?
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...bile_Driver_V1.3.800_For_SPH-d700_Epic_4G.zip
http://devphone.org/files/epic4g/Odin3_v1.61epic.pit.zip
http://devphone.org/files/epic4g/SPH-D700-EC05-8gb-REL.tar
download all of those files
# Install Samsung drivers (if you haven't already)
# Extract and open up Odin
# Place the pit file in the PIT slot and the .tar file in the PDA slot
# MAKE SURE ONLY "AUTO REBOOT" IS CHECKED
# Boot phone into download mode (Turn the phone off and hold '1' key and power button)
# Connect USB cable
# Click start now sit back and wait for it to finish
after you do that you should be on stock EC05 and then you can do the one click root again

qccoles said:
Will this do?
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...bile_Driver_V1.3.800_For_SPH-d700_Epic_4G.zip
http://devphone.org/files/epic4g/Odin3_v1.61epic.pit.zip
http://devphone.org/files/epic4g/SPH-D700-EC05-8gb-REL.tar
download all of those files
# Install Samsung drivers (if you haven't already)
# Extract and open up Odin
# Place the pit file in the PIT slot and the .tar file in the PDA slot
# MAKE SURE ONLY "AUTO REBOOT" IS CHECKED
# Boot phone into download mode (Turn the phone off and hold '1' key and power button)
# Connect USB cable
# Click start now sit back and wait for it to finish
after you do that you should be on stock EC05 and then you can do the one click root again
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That'll do it, but I would recommend a newer tar as EC05 is an old Froyo ROM
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thomasskull666 said:
That'll do it, but I would recommend a newer tar as EC05 is an old Froyo ROM
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Think you could help me find a newer one?

qccoles said:
Think you could help me find a newer one?
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Sure, forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599752
It's a leak but it'll work just fine. If you're gonna be flashing over to an MTD ROM it won't matter anyway.
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thomasskull666 said:
Sure, forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599752
It's a leak but it'll work just fine. If you're gonna be flashing over to an MTD ROM it won't matter anyway.
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After doing this, what kind of root method will I have to use?

qccoles said:
After doing this, what kind of root method will I have to use?
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Hmm I'm not really sure but I'm almost positive all of the current ROMs contain a kernel with root. You could flash CWM through Odin and then flash a ROM or a BML kernel if you plan on staying stock and you'll be rooted. I'll get you a link to a CWM tar here in a sec.
EDIT: flash this in Odin after you get back to stock:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357655
You'll find the link further down in the post for the .tar file. If you want to go to CM9/AOKP/other MTD TW ROM, most of them will automatically flash the MTD compatible CWM. This one that I linked is for BML ROMs only.
Hope this helps!
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thomasskull666 said:
That'll do it, but I would recommend a newer tar as EC05 is an old Froyo ROM
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He's on MTD. He needs auto reboot and repartition checked.
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Zeinzu said:
He's on MTD. He needs auto reboot and repartition checked.
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Ah good catch, yes definitely!
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once you odin back to stock and root, just flash a zip version a bml deodexed rom. there is stock fc09 deodexed that is bml. make sure you have repartition checked and don't forget to include the pit file in odin before you start the process. also make sure you do not use the stock cable that came with the phone. use a blackberry data cable if you have one available. others wise something similar.

I believe re partition auto checks when you put the pit file in. But either way make sure its checked. I forgot it once and it wasn't pretty
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Thank you all, I got it up and running.

I have a fully bricked EPIC 4G.
Have try every possibility that do not include opening my phone.
I even try to use the USB unbrick JIG solution and nothing
My batter is at 4.045V and I am not able to get anything, my screen is completely BLACK
Is there something I might try or some way to get this cell-phone into DOWNLOAD MODE so I can save it?
If not, I will have to take it to SPRINT and see if they can do something or replace it

ajmacria said:
I have a fully bricked EPIC 4G.
Have try every possibility that do not include opening my phone.
I even try to use the USB unbrick JIG solution and nothing
My batter is at 4.045V and I am not able to get anything, my screen is completely BLACK
Is there something I might try or some way to get this cell-phone into DOWNLOAD MODE so I can save it?
If not, I will have to take it to SPRINT and see if they can do something or replace it
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Battery cpr? Holding the 1 and the power button and popping in and out the battery..? Otherwise no.. take it to sprint.
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ajmacria said:
Thanks for the suggestion but I have already try that.
Actually I have been reading every possible solution during the past 2 and today I build my own USB JIG that has a 300kohm resistor between pin 4-5 and still not able to get into download mode.
Have left the battery out of the cell-phone for a complete day.
Have try keep push button 1 and power and sliding the battery in, wait for a couple of seconds, slide it out and repeat the process for a while.
Done the same using the USB
Running out of ideas
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Bring it into sprint and say your phone rebooted during an update and now won't work. Play dumb
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marcusant said:
Bring it into sprint and say your phone rebooted during an update and now won't work. Play dumb
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Thanks for the suggestion.
Will have to do this and see how long it takes them to fix it or give me a replacement

[Q] Odin Froze...

Just want to get straight to the point;
Brother did a bad flash, Phone doesnt come on at all. But odin still recognizes the phone. Tried flashing stock from xda. gets stuck on setup.
Again, if pc doesnt recognize my brothers phone you would think its dead, but odin does recognize the phone. Also tried using usb jig, nothing, tried recovery, download modes nothing... Any help is much appreciated.

Try different USB ports..or maybe check the download of the file your trying to flash or redownload
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yea tried all my usb ports, and three different downloads and stock rom off xda. I dunno im just kinda blank at what else i can do.....
thakrew317 said:
Try different USB ports..or maybe check the download of the file your trying to flash or redownload
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My first step would be to re-download a stock rom and try to flash it multiple times (which i'm sure you already have done). I know when I had a bad flash back to stock and got a completely black screen, it took me quite a few flash attempts to get it to flash correctly.

ok will do.
MoNsTeRmAyHeM said:
My first step would be to re-download a stock rom and try to flash it multiple times (which i'm sure you already have done). I know when I had a bad flash back to stock and got a completely black screen, it took me quite a few flash attempts to get it to flash correctly.
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Might also try a different usb cable if you have one, I know one of my cables went bad and had issues connecting to my pc.

Yeah I had to use a Samsung OEM cable to get mine to reconize
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Any progress on your re-flashing?
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Yea I had to step aside and repair some iPhones. Just doesn't make sence... Yea I'm pretty close to calling for jtag.
It recognize then freezes on setup connection... On every com...
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Any progress on your re-flashing?
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I had a similar issue and I managed to recover it by flashing just the stock UVLH1 kernel.
There was also a PIT file packed with Odin which I removed before flashing the Kernel.

I know this is a basic question but did you run Odin as administrator?
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Yes^
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I'm sure they were running Odin as administrator, but I had to ask to cancel that out.
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