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Hello Everyone,
Captivate owner/user here, but had a question regarding a buddy's Epic. I have looked all over the forums, but have not found anyone else who has encountered this problem, so I apologize if this is a repeat thread. I believe my friend was running BakedSnack v1.6 with the DK28 modem. He went ahead and tried flashing ViperRom Trinity, and got stuck at the Samsung screen. I'm not familiar with flashing on this device, so I dont know the correct methods. I did however try to Odin his phone, and have failed to get my pc/odin to recognize his phone. I've tried every driver file I could find and nothing works. He has access to CWM so I hope it's not fully bricked. I figured his pc would recognize it, having has the drivers previously installed, but nothing. Any feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks.
Try a different cable and a different USB port on the computer. These phones can be picky with the cables.
You are not bricked if you can get to CWM.
Neckberg said:
Try a different cable and a different USB port on the computer. These phones can be picky with the cables.
You are not bricked if you can get to CWM.
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Originally, we kept trying on my Captivate's cable to no luck. My pc would not even beep or see it. Then we tried another micro usb cable, and this time my pc saw it, but couldnt identify it, due to drivers im assuming. That was as close as I got unfortunately...
Torridred04 said:
Originally, we kept trying on my Captivate's cable to no luck. My pc would not even beep or see it. Then we tried another micro usb cable, and this time my pc saw it, but couldnt identify it, due to drivers im assuming. That was as close as I got unfortunately...
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get the driver from here: http://www.multiupload.com/O9ZLS8GZP8. This was posted in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=963652
amosher13 said:
get the driver from here: http://www.multiupload.com/O9ZLS8GZP8. This was posted in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=963652
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Tried that driver already, still no luck. At first i was thinking my pc wasn't installing the driver correctly until he installed it on his computer and had no luck as well. I installed it multiple times and uninstalled it, still never recognized the phone.
might want to install the android sdk, i actually remember having issues as well on my win7 pc until i did that. then look for adb in C:\Program Files\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools or that relative to where you install it.
Torridred04 said:
I did however try to Odin his phone, and have failed to get my pc/odin to recognize his phone. Any feedback is greatly appreciated, thanks.
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In order to Odin the phone you MUST be in Download Mode. Turn the phone off the press the 1 key while pressing the Power key.
Appreciate the replies everyone. I did have the phone in download mode when trying to Odin but it failed to show the COM message indicating its been recognized. Download & CWM work & boot up, but the computers don't recognize the device and every driver I've tried installing has had no effect.
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If no com on the screen your drivers not installed correctly, try unplugging and plugin the cable back in. Try different pc with WinXP if u can cuz Win7 is a real pain unless u doing the drivers right after windows installation. Hope this helps.
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The same thing happens with my Epic and new roms...
To solve it, I pull the battery, replace the battery and boot with the Samsung "three finger salute"...
Just hold power+camera+volume down and it will boot direct to recovery. Just reboot from recovery and it should work OK.
I'm running SRF 1.1.0 with genocide kernel and whenever I connect my phone to my PC, the PC doesnt detect it but if I try with my sister's epic it works so I need to find a way to get complete stock through CWM (I have 3.0.2.5) without using a computer so I can take it to a sprint store can someone please help me either fix the USB or help me get to complete stock without a computer. Thank you
Go to the development section and look for the rerfs rom. Download that it. It will flash a stick ec05 rom rfs with cwm 2.5.1.0. Then in the same thread is the stock recovery. Download that and then boot into the cwm 2.5.1.0 and flash the stick recovery. Now u are on stock ec05 with stock recovery. Hope I helped. That is your best bet since you can't use odin or heimdall
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musclehead84 said:
Go to the development section and look for the rerfs rom. Download that it. It will flash a stick ec05 rom rfs with cwm 2.5.1.0. Then in the same thread is the stock recovery. Download that and then boot into the cwm 2.5.1.0 and flash the stick recovery. Now u are on stock ec05 with stock recovery. Hope I helped. That is your best bet since you can't use odin or heimdall
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Thank you so much. Will try one more thing to try to fix my usb and if it doesn't work I will use that.
do you get a charge at all when you connect it? Have you reinstalled the drivers? Sometime a dif usb cord will work also.
phonehunter59 said:
Thank you so much. Will try one more thing to try to fix my usb and if it doesn't work I will use that.
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No problem man if u need anymore help with anything you can pm me. Good luck
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Did you plug your phone into the same port that your sister's connected with? I found I had to reload the drivers for every USB port on my laptop to make Odin work for each, otherwise it only works for the first one I used.
kennyglass123 said:
Did you plug your phone into the same port that your sister's connected with? I found I had to reload the drivers for every USB port on my laptop to make Odin work for each, otherwise it only works for the first one I used.
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I tried reloading the drivers and everything and I'm. Using a blackberry cable and I tried different computers but for some reason they still don't work so I'm going to take it to a sprint store because I think its a hardware problem not a software problem and thanks for all the support guys I really appreciate it. One more thing is when I plug in any cable into the wall charger it thinks its a computer and gives me the options for c,harging and mass storage and tethering which its not supposed to do unless its plugged in to a computer
phonehunter59 said:
I tried reloading the drivers and everything and I'm. Using a blackberry cable and I tried different computers but for some reason they still don't work so I'm going to take it to a sprint store because I think its a hardware problem not a software problem and thanks for all the support guys I really appreciate it. One more thing is when I plug in any cable into the wall charger it thinks its a computer and gives me the options for c,harging and mass storage and tethering which its not supposed to do unless its plugged in to a computer
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I have one charger from an older phone that does that to my phone.
Go too a verizon store buy a usb cable for the droid x. Its an excelent cable . Thick and short. Mounts my phone every time no issues. I've tried like 10 cables. By far the best
I ended up downloading swiftp to connect to computer, was making me mad I couldn't solve it. Its nice and fast.
I'm Just going to do the rerfs rom and take it to a sprint store because I think it's a hardware issue because odin or the computer dont recognize my epic but they recognize my sister's
try turning off usb debugging then connecting usb for mass storage mode that way
i struggled with this on srf forever (and other roms including ee03)
eigerzoom said:
try turning off usb debugging then connecting usb for mass storage mode that way
i struggled with this on srf forever (and other roms including ee03)
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tried that and no luck before I took it to the sprint store they tried to ODIN back to stock but even their computer wouldn't recognize it so they just gave me a new one.
Can anybody help me out really quick? I was trying to go to the latest MIUI from CM7 and of course whatever happened happened, now I have to ODIN back However, I'm trying to use ODIN3 v1.30 GT-P1000, victory_8G_100528.pit, Deodexed-Rooted-CWM-Busybox-EH06.tar, but the computer won't discover my phone while it's in download mode.
YES, I HAVE DRIVERS INSTALLED!
Hope you got about 5 cable, cuz that's what I go through everytime. Also I go to 2 computers and about 10 usb ports, then something will work.
What do you mean 5 cable? Man this used to be a breeze, I used to use my moms Windows and it was so simple, but her laptop decided to totally die out on me, so now I can't do anything.
Use the Odin3 v.1.85 .zip file in this thread, it will work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1274337
Original Android <3ers! said:
What do you mean 5 cable? Man this used to be a breeze, I used to use my moms Windows and it was so simple, but her laptop decided to totally die out on me, so now I can't do anything.
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I have to try about 3-5 cables each time.
shane6374 said:
I have to try about 3-5 cables each time.
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Alright, is there any alternative I can use instead of ODIN? Because I've used 2 wires, and 3 USB Ports, reinstalled drivers, and nothings working.
You could try hemindal, or how ever you spell that. The odin alternative. It's in the development section somewhere.
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shane6374 said:
You could try hemindal, or how ever you spell that. The odin alternative. It's in the development section somewhere.
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Gah! I don't know how to use that. Anything else guys?
make sure you're not using a pit with that file you're flashing, too, i don't think u need it with that specific file. try your old cables this way first before u try another cable, and try the usb ports on the back of your computer. and one more thing, i'm pretty sure heimdall is just for apple.
bender beerman said:
make sure you're not using a pit with that file you're flashing, too, i don't think u need it with that specific file. try your old cables this way first before u try another cable, and try the usb ports on the back of your computer. and one more thing, i'm pretty sure heimdall is just for apple.
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My problem is that the laptop won't detect the phone from download mode.
Original Android <3ers! said:
My problem is that the laptop won't detect the phone from download mode.
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maybe try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers on your laptop, and try a new cord, the one that came with the epic was notoriously crappy.
edit: redownload them from sammy, just to be sure...
If you can get into a recovery you can try installin srf 1.2 and do a proper shutdown. This has usually fixed this issue for me
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Have u tried booting into recovery?
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Odin will only recognize your phone on 1 port, usually the first port you used that installed the drivers. Try every port. If you want to try Heimdall go into Development at the top in the stickies in the thread about How to fix a semi-bricked Epic. Post 2 is all about how to use Heimdall.
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Ummm I think I know what your going through if I remember one of the cm7 builds my pc wouldn't recognize my phone either. I have a thick black berry cable and it always works and detects except for. That situation you need to pull sd card plug into sd adapter to plug into pc put a flashable of some rom since your on rfs I would say try the newest cm7 even if it doesn't boot maybe it will bring back your usb to pc connectivity. Since your on rfs don't flash srf1.2 cuz your phone won't boot you would have to do srf1.1
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Try dialing ##8778# and putting the phone on pda or modem under the USB section.. I don't remember what one worked for me, I think it was modem. But mess with those settings. Hope it helps.
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Whenever I have a problem it is always the cable, the port or the computer itself. I just try varying combinations until I get it to pick it up, if it is just the initial recognition I don't see how it can be anything else
I've had my system USB drivers corrupt before. Try getting drive sweeper and look up how to do a reinstall of those drivers (not the samsung drivers).
I tried odin3 v1.85 -worked for me, where earlier Odin v1.3 would not recognize the phone (Epic) while in download mode.
Can you get to CWM with 3-finger boot? May be easier to go that route...
Other thing I've run into when Odin doesn't want to work is you need reboots after each stage like this:
Uninstall drivers
Reboot
Install drivers
Reboot
Open Odin and then connect phone in download mode.
If I skip the reboots, many times it won't recognize phone.
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!
So i was trying to find some new roms for my SGH-i747M and what i did was backed up my original rom running on a avatar nightly build i tried to upgrade my clockworkmod touch to the latest version using the terminal method (cause i was getting status 7 errors from all the other roms). I finally got the install the work then when i reboot the rom doesn't work i tried going back into CMW recovery and it just crashes and for some reason the computer can't recognize the phone so i can't unbrick it.... what do i do now totally scrub
Have you tried odin
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So i was trying to find some new roms for my SGH-i747M and what i did was backed up my original rom running on a avatar nightly build i tried to upgrade my clockworkmod touch to the latest version using the terminal method (cause i was getting status 7 errors from all the other roms). I finally got the install the work then when i reboot the rom doesn't work i tried going back into CMW recovery and it just crashes and for some reason the computer can't recognize the phone so i can't unbrick it.... what do i do now totally scrub
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Hey try downloading the stock firmware and used Odin flash it on
What stock ROM was on your phone before you update CWM? It's important to let us know so we can help guide you in the right direction.
Can you get into download mode at all? Have you tried the debrick method described in this forum?
tried everything(mostly)
audit13 said:
What stock ROM was on your phone before you update CWM? It's important to let us know so we can help guide you in the right direction.
Can you get into download mode at all? Have you tried the debrick method described in this forum?
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I've tried odin and stock rom but the thing is i don't think my usb debugging is on so odin and my computer can't access the components inside the phone, i've tried unistalling drivers and trying to reconnect it but no luck... my stock rom on my phone was a avatar 4.0 nightly build or something (4.3 version) and my old CMW was 6.0.3( or something before i tried to get the 6.0.4) now i can't even get it to work when i tried to flash the slimkat rom
i can't get into CMW recovery.... when i try it restarts, when it restarts all i get is a black screen i think i'm screwed here
Try different drivers, cables and usb ports. Usb debugging only matters when you are booted into android. Shouldn't have any effect on download mode.
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I've tried odin and stock rom but the thing is i don't think my usb debugging is on so odin and my computer can't access the components inside the phone, i've tried unistalling drivers and trying to reconnect it but no luck... my stock rom on my phone was a avatar 4.0 nightly build or something (4.3 version) and my old CMW was 6.0.3( or something before i tried to get the 6.0.4) now i can't even get it to work when i tried to flash the slimkat rom
i can't get into CMW recovery.... when i try it restarts, when it restarts all i get is a black screen i think i'm screwed here
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Can you get into download? From what I recall with my phone USB debugging was not needed to flash ROMs via Odin or CWM.
i've tried
DocHoliday77 said:
Try different drivers, cables and usb ports. Usb debugging only matters when you are booted into android. Shouldn't have any effect on download mode.
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i've tried different port different cables different computers i've tried reinstalling the drivers and using different installations nothing seems to be making the phone readable, and yes i can get into download mode but odin or the computer can't detect which port it is on
How are you reinstalling drivers? You have to uninstall through device manager. And make sure your cables are data cables. Many out there are not capable of data transfers. Unless the port on the device has gone bad or been damaged, I'm not sure what else you can try. But if it cannot connect on any port on any computer, I think it may be a hardware issue like I just mentioned.
Did you try different driver versions? You can get several from the link in my sig.
What about trying different operating systems (i.e. WinXP, Win7, OSX, etc.)?
Could be worth a shot. Odin is Windows only though. I think heimdall works for the rest.
try what i can
DocHoliday77 said:
Could be worth a shot. Odin is Windows only though. I think heimdall works for the rest.
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audit13 said:
What about trying different operating systems (i.e. WinXP, Win7, OSX, etc.)?
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i've tried switching between the two operating system(windows 7(labtop), windows 8.1(desktop)) don't seem to be working neither have worked i tried installing the driver again on windows but the phone still can't read if anything imma try this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068 but idk what the results will yield w/e take what i can get btw idk where the samsung driver would be in device manager at least the general heading if it doesn't show up at all...
wow wtf
never mind guys it was the usb cable it's weird its the stock cable that came with the s3 and it didn't work it was only after i used my bros s4 mini cable that it started to read it wtf...
Cables go bad far more easily and frequently than most people believe. Glad you figured it out!