From the beginning:
Flashed CM 7. When it came out.
Was cool and all decided to go back to Jugs.
Put it on my internal and flashed (Wiped Factory, cache, delvik and formatted system)
Installation completed fine
Fixed Permissions and reboot
left it alone and didnt look at it for like ten minutes. I came back to it and it was off. So i thought atleast. It wouldnt turn on so i removed battery and replaced it turned on. Saw white Samsung. Cool sat it down and let it do its thing again
Came back to it. Off again. So i removed battery, replaced it and rebooted into recovery. Recovery came up fine. So i reflashed the rom. without all the wiping this time. Just flashed and rebooted.
Well same thing happened. I was able to connect in mounts to usb storage and copied over the unroot stock rom and flashed from external sd.
Same exact thing with this rom. Samsung logo would come up then nothing
So i got into download mode and hooked up to odin and flashed the only .tar i could find. Which i think is the only one on this forum. Tried 4 times and every time it fails at the end (at cache)... Removed phone after the 4th fail and pulled battery.
Tried to reboot into recovery and it brought me up to "ODIN MODE" saying "Firmware Upgrade encountered an issue. Please Select Revoery mode in Kies & try again" So i connected it to the computer and try to see it in Kies. It did not recognize it.
Odin on the other had still does recognize it. I can still attempt to flash the stock .tar but it always fails at the end "cache".
My phone will not boot. if i pull battery and turn on i get to this same "ODIN MODE". I cannot get into download mode anymore. I can only get into ODIN MODE.
Can someone please offer some advice on how to fix this. I have been looking for a good 2 hours and tried flashing this stock .tar for the last 3 hours hoping it will pass.
Thanks to anyone that can help.
Wait, unless I understood incorrectly, you didn't try a factory reset / flashing a different rom? You didn't have a nandroid back-up? (Sorry if I misread its very late here =p)
i did factory reset before trying to reinstall jugs.
Some how i got it to turn on. Odin the stock .tar. which failed at the end again like always. and then i odin stock recovery .tar that i had on my computer. this worked. so if anyone is ever having a similar problems
1. odin to stock. (it might fail at the cache section.)
2. odin stock recovery .tar
This should make it boot.
ok..
so im stuck.. tried to reflash the stock DL17, using the downloads provided, including PIT (repartition checked).. via ODIN 1.3 to clear back to stock..
after flashing, the phone booted to DL17 - sort of.. no data was gone, all the wife's programs were there, and i got into a FC hell during setup. ACORE, GAPPS, pretty much every program.
then re-odined the DL17 by itself, no repartition, no pit..
now i cant get anything to flash...ODIN tells me it flashes fine, normal on there.. the phone does not hit the samsung logo.. goes straight to the android system recovery and i have NO hotkeys to select anything..
it says at the bottom..
"e:can't mount /dev/block/st111" (twice)
then under that it says
"update.zip gone"
ive tried every combo from the dev tools thread, and all flash fine via ODIN but go straight back to the android recovery, and i cant select anything..
anyone have any creative ideas?
First, "bricked" is used for when your phone does nothing.
Second, this isn't a development post. And read through stickies in general forum. This problem has been solved. Mostly from Irc.
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geez im just going to leave this one alone lol
completly correct..my fault..i wasnt paying attention to where i was posting because of my frustration level..
and for the record i tried the heimdall magic fix in general section and it didnt work. phone starts to boot then shuts off. have to pull battery to get power. 3 finger recovery does not work either..just flashes the screen with samsung and dies again.
ciscogee said:
First, "bricked" is used for when your phone does nothing.
Second, this isn't a development post. And read through stickies in general forum. This problem has been solved. Mostly from Irc.
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Not sure txwolf and tb101 are resident fixers on that. Try to make Irc apmt. Good luck.
Moderator. Can you move post to general?
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The fact that no data was gone the first time interests me.... Was it definitely a full system/data/cache/everything else tar?
I would download the EC07 full package, repartition, then try my magic fix....
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trailblazer101 said:
The fact that no data was gone the first time interests me.... Was it definitely a full system/data/cache/everything else tar?
I would download the EC07 full package, repartition, then try my magic fix....
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if i remember correctly, on irc, he said he flashed a rom that wasn't meant for the continuum, rather another galexy device..
well you surely are not bricked. but the cache partition is in deed messed up. (stl11 refers to the cache partition) unfortunatly, it seams as though you have done just about everything.
Try loading up heimdall and load only the pit, the kernel(imnuts hacked kernel is what i recomend using), and the modem/radio(ec07).
This should fix any partition issues. It will format the partitions in place where they should be but it will not write to the partitions. What i recommend next is different from most other things.
Hopefully if all is well, when you install the kernel it should fix the issues with the boot loader. boot into CWM if possible. Now try and flash a version of ec07.
If you are only receiving the stl11 issue all other partitions should be good. once the kernel and everything else is in place and you flash the system it should be good and boot up... hopefully
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completly correct..my fault..i wasnt paying attention to where i was posting because of my frustration level..
and for the record i tried the heimdall magic fix in general section and it didnt work. phone starts to boot then shuts off. have to pull battery to get power. 3 finger recovery does not work either..just flashes the screen with samsung and dies again.
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Starts to boot? Where does it get to? Do you get into recovery, at all? Also, do you get samsung logo? Before you said it was booting straight into recovery. Has that changed after magic fix? I'd recommend doing a full ec07 stock with repartition in heimdall.
Thank you all..
I havent been to the IRC yet. Been trying everything else.
Here is the full story of the phone...
1. When the first ROM came out for this, I flashed it. Something (no idea what) borked it during the flash, and the phone wouldn't turn on. I could only get to CWM. I would try and wipe data, nothing would happen. I got a walk through from someone here on other stuff to try, which included mounting all the drives, and wiping them. I have never been able to mount (manually) any drive since - but it got me running again.
I was getting errors in CWM constantly.
2. No matter what i flash, or what (or how many times) i wipe data, datadata, system, ect.. whenever i flash anything the data from the old ROM remains on the phone and i end up in force close hell on the new ROM..
3. i probably the most stable ROM was EC03.. it worked but after a while would start random rebooting 4-5 times a day. ..so then wife wanted to try MIUINA.. we had her on V4 for a while. Then with upgrade to V5, things went bad again. I couldn't wipe data, ODIN the stock EC07 worked once, but the old data remained (all her settings/programs were force closing and old wallpaper remained.) then after that, I tried to ODIN MIUINA v5 again, ODIN said it worked, phone bootlooped into "stock" recovery, but gave the errors i posted above. no keypresses avail. t
tried heimdall fix all solution, now it boots to the SAMSUNG screen and hangs then shuts off, and wont turn on until a battery pull.
i cant 3 finger to recovery (wont let me, just hangs at samsung screen and then dies after about 2 minutes)
right now, i can get ODIN to work about half the time with the phone "taking" the flash, will get to the verizon logo and while building the dalvik, it dies, shuts off and then wont boot past samsung logo.
im going to try and see if i can get ODIN to let me flash CWM and get to cyan recovery and try a nandroid restore if it will let me.
can i use the DL17 stock MD5 file in heimdall? this is my first time using heimdall.. dont i need other files?
mrjake1970 said:
Thank you all..
I havent been to the IRC yet. Been trying everything else.
Here is the full story of the phone...
1. When the first ROM came out for this, I flashed it. Something (no idea what) borked it during the flash, and the phone wouldn't turn on. I could only get to CWM. I would try and wipe data, nothing would happen. I got a walk through from someone here on other stuff to try, which included mounting all the drives, and wiping them. I have never been able to mount (manually) any drive since - but it got me running again.
I was getting errors in CWM constantly.
2. No matter what i flash, or what (or how many times) i wipe data, datadata, system, ect.. whenever i flash anything the data from the old ROM remains on the phone and i end up in force close hell on the new ROM..
3. i probably the most stable ROM was EC03.. it worked but after a while would start random rebooting 4-5 times a day. ..so then wife wanted to try MIUINA.. we had her on V4 for a while. Then with upgrade to V5, things went bad again. I couldn't wipe data, ODIN the stock EC07 worked once, but the old data remained (all her settings/programs were force closing and old wallpaper remained.) then after that, I tried to ODIN MIUINA v5 again, ODIN said it worked, phone bootlooped into "stock" recovery, but gave the errors i posted above. no keypresses avail. t
tried heimdall fix all solution, now it boots to the SAMSUNG screen and hangs then shuts off, and wont turn on until a battery pull.
i cant 3 finger to recovery (wont let me, just hangs at samsung screen and then dies after about 2 minutes)
right now, i can get ODIN to work about half the time with the phone "taking" the flash, will get to the verizon logo and while building the dalvik, it dies, shuts off and then wont boot past samsung logo.
im going to try and see if i can get ODIN to let me flash CWM and get to cyan recovery and try a nandroid restore if it will let me.
can i use the DL17 stock MD5 file in heimdall? this is my first time using heimdall.. dont i need other files?
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You will need the dl17 pit file. And to use heimdall, you need to break the tar down to its component files. I use 7zip for that, but winrar works too. I'll be in irc in 30 minutes, if you want to run through it.
thank you Txwolf1980 for the offer of an IRC chat, seriously..i just got this late this afternoon..i had to leave friday evening, and didnt get back until late.
i finally got the thing to boot..but it was out of total desperation, i started (logically, yet with reckless abandon, since I had nothing to lose at this point) flashing crap..
here is what i did to get this puppy running again..
ODIN, heimdall and CWM were doing nothing for me..no boot, no recovery, no 3 finger..nothing... still couldnt even boot into original system recovery..
since i have a fascinate, i had a few beers and decided to flash cwm4 (for the MTD ROMS) just to see what would happen...tried a 3 finger and it flickered the screen as if it *wanted* to go to recovery but didnt go into recovery, just kicked me back to the samsung screen..however i took the flicker as a good sign, maybe that jogged something somewhere..
i immediately reflashed the CWM adryn that is used for the continuum.. and 3 fingered after ODIN rebooted..
PROFIT! i now had the softkeys back to select the update zip for cyan recovery..
got into cyan recovery and went to mounts and storage, and mounted everything, wiped them (except for sd card) then unmounted them all and wiped them all again..
it took the commands.. i wiped the snot out of everything i could find to wipe.. i went back to install zip from SD card and flashed stock EC03 that i put on there months ago.. and hit reboot..
PROFIT! it booted.. it was all FUBAR, had screen flickering funny, and key presses were delayed by 3-4 seconds.. the phone was functional, calls, text, market all worked.. however, when the phone was powered off, it returned to stock (like a data wipe) upon restart. which was really weird..
f-it, i was booted.. and it was functional.. now to fix this for good...
i then did some research here, and found i was using the wrong PIT and EC07 ODIN files when flashing in ODIN.. found the right ones...and pulled battery, went to download mode, and flashed EC07 leak (production) with the I500 PIT, repartition checked..and ODIN immediately applied the PIT and flashed EC07...
the wifes phone is now running like a champ.. its not rooted, and is binged and bloated, but its looking like its completely fixed.. time will tell, but its been running for the last 6 hours now perfectly. I even rebooted 2x to make sure the changes/data/downloads stuck this time, and they did.
the wife threatened to snip off my giblets if i attempted to root it or mess with it anymore i tried to remind her that she is the one who liked the "cool other rom-thingies" but that didnt fly.. so i handed her the phone and said have fun....
sincere and heartfelt thanks to all who pitched in to the conversation to help... i hope that this post will help others who think their continuum is completely fubar..
im done messing with her phone. ill head back to flopping between ICS and MIUI on my fascinate where i know more abotu what im doing.. i haven't turned my fassy into a door stop in almost a year of HEAVY flashing..
Ok, so I flashed a MIUI port for the AT&T Note 2, and it was disgusting...it crashed everything, and needless to say I ended up stuck at the boot logo for a long time. FINALLY managed to get it to flash via Odin...so I flashed Stock Rom...and now it's stuck on Samsung logo...Ok..so I go flash CWM...do a wipe and everything, and install CM10.1 via that...stuck at CM logo. I've left each ROM plugged in, stuck on boot screen for over 20-30 minutes each. I'm at a loss of what to do. Could I need to flash a kernel? or am I missing something obvious? The good news, I guess, is with a few steps, I can get into DL mode and use Odin, and I can flash CWM and get into that..but I can't inject anything into my phone so CWM can use it, I only have what's there now, which is CM10.1. I'm so mad...I've never had too many issues with ROMs but this one jacked things up badly...guess that's what I get for using a port even though it noted that everything was working now. Anyway...does anyone have any advice?
Edit: I flashed CWM, and tried to clear cache/dalvik then factory reset...the first two worked...as soon as I hit factory reset, that's where the screen goes black and it resets...it's like it just refuses to do it. I'm seriously at a loss here. Is it toast?
Edit again: sorry but I'm trying more to give more info. I went into CWM and went to advanced and started formatting one by one...it's when you hit format /data that it immediately dies and restarts. So..something weird is going on there. Can I use a PIT file for this phone, if it exists, to reformat and just get it going? I'm desperate...
Us this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052779 on a PC.
Follow directions and Odin back to stock.
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I have Cyanogenmod 10.1 (stable) installed; the other day it crashed while I was on Instagram, rebooted itself, and wouldn't go past the spinning circle screen. Tried rebooting it, now it won't go past the screen before that, with the blue Cyanogenmod man and the Samsung logo.
I have TWRP 2.5.0.0 installed with it, which I don't know how is possible being that the file systems are incompatible, so unless I used Odin to install CM10.1, I don't know how I did it without installing Clockworkmod Recovery over TWRP.
I've been trying to fix it for a couple days now (I'm kicking myself for not getting around to posting here sooner). When I go into TWRP it asks me for a password (which I've never set, I assume it's asking me because that's all it knows to do when the file system is incompatible), which I click cancel at every time, and when I try to do just about anything (including installing new ROMs or recoveries from within TWRP) it gets errors when trying to mount any partitions on the device, so I can't change anything on the phone at all.
I've tried re-installing TWRP AND Clockworkmod Recovery with Odin, and they succeed, but when the phone tries to reboot, the screen just turns off and nothing happens, and I have to take the battery out to do anything else.
So right now I'm totally screwed unless I can fix this thing. I'd like to not have to drop 200 on a Nexus 4 after only a year or having this phone I bought brand new, especially with the Nexus 5 already coming out later this year...can somebody help me???
EDIT: I should clarify that I can access recovery and download mode
If you can get into download mode you can flash a stock image to your phone and restart from scratch. Download the proper stock image from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625 and flash it in odin.
FoxTrotz said:
If you can get into download mode you can flash a stock image to your phone and restart from scratch. Download the proper stock image from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625 and flash it in odin.
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I should've clarified that I've tried this with a bunch of roms, and it just shows SBA2 in the status box forever. I left it for a full hour before and it never changed.
According to this page http://www.alliance-rom.com/community/wiki/bricked-android/ reformating your external sd card may help. It also links to something I personally have never heard of but apparently this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15330252 can help unbrick any samsung phone that's flashable with odin.
So here's the back story. I'm usually good with roms/recovery/flashing. Even did some custom rom work on my old Galaxy S 4G, so not a noob. I have a Wind T999V.
Had Touch-CWM installed, ran a few 4.4 ROM's for a while, tried LP, Liquid smooth. Liked it ok, but wanted to try OctoROM LP. It needs TWRP. Had a few problems with TWRP before on my phone, the Wind variant seems somewhat different in small ways, but figured I'd give it a try again to flash OctoROM since it needs TWRP. Thought maybe the TWRP has improved since I tried last, so installed TWRP, tried to flash Octo, but TWRP wouldn't see my internal SD card at all. The same problem I had before. I didn't feel like digging out a SD card from my camera to put Octo on, so rebooted the phone, installed CWM back, rebooted again, got a bootloop somewhere along the way.
Figured I'd go with Odin back to stock and start over. Grabbed odin (hard now, lots of spam/scam copies) and my stock firmware for the Wind version from Doc's thread. Flash the tar, which took forever (used a sort of crappy cable) and it auto rebooted after like 20 mins of flashing, just stuck at the sammy logo for like 20 mins. Too long, still looped I think.
Grabbed a different cable and a newer version of a good odin I know from my network I had laying around, 3.09, and tried again. At the pulsing samsung logo again, going to wait, but if I did softbrick it, do I need to repartition and a pit file to get the FS back to something different than any of the KK or LP rom's I ran?
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Read some threads and took doc's advice and booted into stock recovery and wiped data and cache, and it finally booted. Phew.