i have the epic 4g touch. i went to a ics build, from there i tried to flash back to a rom and ACS recovery will not let me flash back to any other roms i have. i am basically stuck with no way of using my phone.. everytime i've tried flashing a rom it says E:signature verification failed. is there anyway to fix this or flash back to a clock work recovery so i can flash the rom. any help will be appreciated.
thanks.
iamericsloan said:
i have the epic 4g touch. i went to a ics build, from there i tried to flash back to a rom and ACS recovery will not let me flash back to any other roms i have. i am basically stuck with no way of using my phone.. everytime i've tried flashing a rom it says E:signature verification failed. is there anyway to fix this or flash back to a clock work recovery so i can flash the rom. any help will be appreciated.
thanks.
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If you can get into download mode Odin a rouge stock kernal or from
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I would odin the phone back to stock. Go to the development section and find the thread for Odin EL29 and follow the instructions in the OP. Should gets you back to a working phone. Then you can flash whichever ROM you're wanting to run.
thanks guys i will try that, i've tried running odin before but it keeps saying "downloading do not turn off target" and nothing happens. i will try to see if it will let me do anything from odin.
iamericsloan said:
thanks guys i will try that, i've tried running odin before but it keeps saying "downloading do not turn off target" and nothing happens. i will try to see if it will let me do anything from odin.
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you really need to be completely familiar with odin and recovery before flashing any test builds.
I wasn't sure acs had a recovery for ics. on to Odin. you are only going into download mode you need a computer with drivers installed and Odin installed. there are some stickies in the dev section that will help. also qbking has some videos on YouTube. btw sfhub has auto root stuff to help you get to where you wanna be.
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you really need to be completely familiar with odin and recovery before flashing any test builds.
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Absolutely. Please for the sake of your phone. Take some time and read and become very familiar with Odin before you do anything else. Once you have some that then Odin your phone back to stock and start fresh. There is a wealth of info out there just have to use it.
will do im looking at a odin tutorial now on how to flash back to stock.
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ok so, i just rooted my phone and that went fine. did it with the stock rom, but after I did that I installed clockwork mod. well, i tried to do a back up of the current rom and when it rebooted it crashed. now it comes up to the android system recovery screen but it won't let me select anything...... can anyone help?!?!?
i am freaking out here... did i brick my phone?!?!?! anyone????
I don't know why you're having a problem or what caused it but you certainly didn't brick your phone. You can always flash a new ROM in clockwork or use odin to flash the stock .tar.
edit: missed the part about not being able to select anything in recovery. All is not lost, just flash the stock EG31 .tar with odin and you'll be fine. You're gonna have to reroot and set everything back up again (I've done it twice today) but at least you will still have a phone. Try just flashing the kernel first, maybe you can get it to boot without losing anything.
everytime i reboot the phone it just comes back to this android system recovery screen. it's blule, at the bottom is says manual mode. and something sucsessfull but, it won't let me selelect any of the options and it keeps booting to this screen... where can i download odin? i keep seeing stuff about that, i guess i need to flash to a rom or something....
edit: cool, yeah.. can you show me where to download what your talking about??
thank you!!
get odin here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1274337
stock tar here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
Read the guides if you aren't familiar with using odin. Good luck.
Thanks A lot man!
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Thanks A lot man!
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Yeah, that sounds like stock recovery. Follow above steps and you should be good
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Got it fixed. Thanks guys!
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Phone is stuck on the Samsung Galaxy 2 screen, anything I can do?
I'm in this thread with the same issue... Let me guess AOKP or Cyanogen flash? Sounds like brick city.
woah, wait. you're most likely not bricked. You should really share some kind of information about what you were doing when it got stuck.
i've had this happen a couple of times and usually it's been as simple as pulling the battery, booting into recovery and flashing a different ROM.
No actually I was just trying to flash back to el26 kernal.
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No actually I was just trying to flash back to el26 kernal.
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LOL and? If your on an ICS rom the phone is not going to boot lol. You flash EL26 CWM Kernel for CWM, not to boot your phone.
yep. easy fix here. pull the battery, boot into recovery and flash whatever ROM you're looking for. if you're on el26, you should be safe.
So am I screwed? Or is it fixable?
http://forums.techgage.com/showthread.php?t=10681
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Oh jeeze whyd you link that cruddy thread i made over at techgage. It wasnt all the well written to begin with and is slightly out of date.
Pretty sure this guy flashed the el26 kernel and doesnt know that the phone is not going to boot on it only recovery.
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So am I screwed? Or is it fixable?
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yes it's fixable. Just pull the battery, reboot to recovery (hold Power+Vol Up) and then flash whatever ROM you're trying to flash.
I say this assuming that you either used Odin or Mobile Odin already to flash the EL26 kernel. It's hard to tell because you haven't provided hardly any details.
droidgalaxy said:
So am I screwed? Or is it fixable?
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You tell us, have you tried booting into recovery, the next step you do after installing the kernel so you can flash something. Already told you the phone is not going to boot if your on an ICS rom this is 1000% normal. Battery pull as stated should get you going.
hey rain, if i flash the proper kernel are you saying we may not be bricked?
Or get into download mode and use Odin to flash a one click. Simple as that.
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I don't know if Droidgalaxy has this problem but the odin one clicks freeze for me in the data img process right before the modem install. So i don't know if that will work. Hopefully his situation is better than mine but i think we both have the same thing going on. So if i 1.85 odin to EL26 i may be ok?
right now im just trying to get it to download mode, keeps giving me the custom os warning screen.
the one that says go to kies?
droidgalaxy said:
right now im just trying to get it to download mode, keeps giving me the custom os warning screen.
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...You mean the custom os warning screen that EVERYONE with an Epic 4G Touch gets?
Maybe read the screen? It has instructions. But why not try recovery first since this is the entire reason you were flashing the EL26 Kernel in the first place for right? I am starting to think there are a few things you have never done before and are jumping into somethign head first without knowing whats going on.
No Instructions just says: If you want to install a custom os press up (which brings me to odin mode) otherwise press down to cancel, Odin mode would work but my pc isn't recognizing the device anymore so I can't get to sd card.
RainMotorsports said:
...You mean the custom os warning screen that EVERYONE with an Epic 4G Touch gets?
Maybe read the screen? It has instructions. But why not try recovery first since this is the entire reason you were flashing the EL26 Kernel in the first place for right? I am starting to think there are a few things you have never done before and are jumping into somethign head first without knowing whats going on.
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yep.
I think this is a good opportunity to say how helpful the "How To" stickies and videos are. I've only had this phone for 2 weeks and I already feel like a pro with most things that involve flashing custom ROM's. if you just take the time to go through the videos or even play them when while you flash for the first time, then you should be set!
Ok got odin working , trying to reflash, Ill let ya'll know if that worked.
Ok so I went to go flash a new ROM called Liquid Smooth, doesnt work at all. Which is fine, figured I would just go back to Codename or FreeGS3 since i made a nandroid of both. Attempt to boot into recovery n the phone will not, so that sucks. So I then try to go through Odin and put the stock ROM tar file on my phone n just re-root the phone again from scratch. Put the stock ROM on the phone, Odin says it passed, it reboots and is stuck on the Samsung loading screen. Tried multiple times through Odin and the samething continues to happen. My phone is now a paperweight and useless. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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tarheelsmj12001 said:
Ok so I went to go flash a new ROM called Liquid Smooth, doesnt work at all. Which is fine, figured I would just go back to Codename or FreeGS3 since i made a nandroid of both. Attempt to boot into recovery n the phone will not, so that sucks. So I then try to go through Odin and put the stock ROM tar file on my phone n just re-root the phone again from scratch. Put the stock ROM on the phone, Odin says it passed, it reboots and is stuck on the Samsung loading screen. Tried multiple times through Odin and the samething continues to happen. My phone is now a paperweight and useless. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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How long did you wait for the phone to boot at Samsung screen ? if not long just wait some more !!
I almost dont want to assist based on the title of your thread. your phone is not a paperweight. You need to wipe data so the rom will boot. Flash the custom recovery below in odin and boot into it after the odin flash. As soon as that screen goes dark immediatly press volume up+home+pwr. youll get in
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I almost dont want to assist based on the title of your thread. your phone is not a paperweight. You need to wipe data so the rom will boot. Flash the custom recovery below in odin and boot into it after the odin flash. As soon as that screen goes dark immediatly press volume up+home+pwr. youll get in
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Yea do this but before flashing the recovery in ODIN un-check the Auto Reboot option so you can pull the battery after the recovery passes. If the last thing you flashed was the stock Odin file you now should have stock recovery
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billard412 said:
I almost dont want to assist based on the title of your thread. your phone is not a paperweight. You need to wipe data so the rom will boot. Flash the custom recovery below in odin and boot into it after the odin flash. As soon as that screen goes dark immediatly press volume up+home+pwr. youll get in
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I have done this already n it didnt work.
pvinodnayak said:
How long did you wait for the phone to boot at Samsung screen ? if not long just wait some more !!
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I let it sit there for 35 minutes waiting for it to boot, still no go.
My custom binary count is at 10, idk if that has anything to do with it not being able to boot into recovery.
tarheelsmj12001 said:
I let it sit there for 35 minutes waiting for it to boot, still no go.
My custom binary count is at 10, idk if that has anything to do with it not being able to boot into recovery.
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haha
Have you tried redownloading the tar file? Could of been a bad download. I always use QBKing77 videos to figure out stuff. He puts all the links in the descriptions.
How to unroot/unbrick Sprint galaxy s3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_playe
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Speedin07si said:
Have you tried redownloading the tar file? Could of been a bad download. I always use QBKing77 videos to figure out stuff. He puts all the links in the descriptions.
How to unroot/unbrick Sprint galaxy s3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_playe
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Yea Ive been using his videos all night n all day. Nothing.
Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.
piedra92 said:
Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.
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Clockwork Mod Touch recovery bricks this phone. Sounds like a hard brick...
piedra92 said:
Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.
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If you can go into whatever that recovery is try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865102
I don't see any other option.
Whats up with so many new bricks?? Why don't you all read and ask before doing stupid things? There are NO apps that install ANYTHING like that to our phone.
BluesRulez said:
If you can go into whatever that recovery is try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865102
I don't see any other option.
Whats up with so many new bricks?? Why don't you all read and ask before doing stupid things? There are NO apps that install ANYTHING like that to our phone.
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OP, can you post more details as to how you got that recovery?
This is good information for others to avoid having problems, honestly.
(And if CWM site is saying that it works someone should kindly inform them that it does not.)
Mac of York said:
Clockwork Mod Touch recovery bricks this phone. Sounds like a hard brick...
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The funny thing is I can use the phone. It works fine except that since the TAR file of FK09 did not install the modem I have no 3g but do have 4G and WIFI. If I am able to root the phone I should be able to use Mobile Odin again to install the modem file. We shall see.
piedra92 said:
The funny thing is I can use the phone. It works fine except that since the TAR file of FK09 did not install the modem I have no 3g but do have 4G and WIFI. If I am able to root the phone I should be able to use Mobile Odin again to install the modem file. We shall see.
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Only 2 ways to flash a modem are CWM and PC Odin.
If you're already on FK09 try flashing the Rooted nodata version and see if that gets you back where you need to be.
You'll lose CWM but that may not be for too long.
You can always flash one of Agat's CWM repacks for ICS, backup/restore and then flash back the stock FK09 kernel via Odin for now.
picture of recovery screen
I have attached a picture of what the recovery screen looks like on my E4GT. It doesn't matter if I try to update from external sdcard or through ADB Sideload command, everything fails signature verification. Thanks for all of the help so far.
piedra92 said:
I have attached a picture of what the recovery screen looks like on my E4GT. It doesn't matter if I try to update from external sdcard or through ADB Sideload command, everything fails signature verification. Thanks for all of the help so far.
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That is stock recovery. I am not sure if flashing the ota update zip would work or not.
What os version were you on before this happened?
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BluesRulez said:
That is stock recovery. I am not sure if flashing the ota update zip would work or not.
What os version were you on before this happened?
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ICS 4.0.4 (FI27?) the stock rooted OTA. I had root so I ended up using Mobile ODIN to flash the KJ09 tar file but it didn't bring the modem so I have no 3g.
I saw something about version 2e not having the signature check. I need to find a properly signed modem.bin or how to downgrade my phone to 2e.
Sorry this seems to be really obvious question, but Did you try flashing a kernel/recovery through mobile Odin?
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Unfortunately since I no longer have root I can't use it. Does anyone know if the standard recovery can be downgraded to 2e?
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piedra92 said:
Unfortunately since I no longer have root I can't use it. Does anyone know if the standard recovery can be downgraded to 2e?
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Flashing a one click restore pkg will correct the recovery... which honestly looks like the FJ10 JB engineering build.
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garwynn said:
Flashing a one click restore pkg will correct the recovery... which honestly looks like the FJ10 JB engineering build.
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ODIN will not see the phone when it is in the standard recovery screen. I can ADB to it but 3e has signature verification and none of the files I have downloaded have proper signatures so they all fail.
piedra92 said:
ODIN will not see the phone when it is in the standard recovery screen. I can ADB to it but 3e has signature verification and none of the files I have downloaded have proper signatures so they all fail.
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You have to be in Odin mode not recovery
bigdaddy619 said:
You have to be in Odin mode not recovery
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I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.
piedra92 said:
I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.
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Thanks for the update.
1) Any luck with a USB jig?
2) Any luck trying 'reboot download' from ADB and seeing if that will get you to ODIN?
If memory serves.. and you're really stuck on recovery as the only option you're going to need to find a way to dump an update.zip onto the phone to get anything to flash. And here's the tricky part - I think it needs to be in a certain location. There are custom .ZIPs that have signatures on them - crawj might even be able to help with that.
If we can't get you to Odin then let's figure out how you can use the recovery to do that... recover. But let's hope we can find you a way to get into Odin one way or another.
piedra92 said:
I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.
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I think qbking77 has a video on how to update with a link that only work with stock recovery
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garwynn said:
Thanks for the update.
1) Any luck with a USB jig?
2) Any luck trying 'reboot download' from ADB and seeing if that will get you to ODIN?
If memory serves.. and you're really stuck on recovery as the only option you're going to need to find a way to dump an update.zip onto the phone to get anything to flash. And here's the tricky part - I think it needs to be in a certain location. There are custom .ZIPs that have signatures on them - crawj might even be able to help with that.
If we can't get you to Odin then let's figure out how you can use the recovery to do that... recover. But let's hope we can find you a way to get into Odin one way or another.
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1. I don't know what the USB jig is, where can i find info on that?
2. I have tried that from ADB and it simply reboots the phone into the OS. Seems there is no ODIN to be found on the phone.
Where would I find signed Zip files to try to restore to FI27? Thanks.
piedra92 said:
1. I don't know what the USB jig is, where can i find info on that?
2. I have tried that from ADB and it simply reboots the phone into the OS. Seems there is no ODIN to be found on the phone.
Where would I find signed Zip files to try to restore to FI27? Thanks.
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Wait... You can get into the system?
Then why not download the Mobile Odin Lite (free here on XDA), flash Agat's 0.6.0 repack and then crawj's FI27 rooted .ZIP through Agat's recovery?
That should not only fix the Odin problem but everything else!
garwynn said:
Wait... You can get into the system?
Then why not download the Mobile Odin Lite (free here on XDA), flash Agat's 0.6.0 repack and then crawj's FI27 rooted .ZIP through Agat's recovery?
That should not only fix the Odin problem but everything else!
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Tried that, Mobile Odin won't work because I don't have root.
This is from another thread:
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I flashed this thing like 4x in odin and it says it gone through. But when I reboot my phone and go to the settings to check it still says I have the mk2 baseband. I give up.
I am on the KOT49H.S001.VirginROM x3.1.1 and it says my device is a GT-I9505G if that is the culprit.
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Skipjacks said:
Uncheck auto reboot in Odin.
Flash the tar twice in a row without rebooting.
Now I bet its there when you reboot
Sent from your phone. You should be more careful where you leave that thing.
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sj808 said:
well. I tried to flash the 4.4.2 modem bin twice. First time went through. Second time I got a fail. (I had to reboot in between, odin wouldn't do anything if I didn't).
Now I can't start my phone. I get the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. PLease Select Recovery mode in Kies and try again".
So I'm assuming I have to flash the M919AVUAMDL from the odin thread?? I never went to knox (still on 4.2)
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Just tried to "fix the softbrick" but I keep getting fail in Odin. I have no idea what to do anymore. SMH.
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^^^^^^ Anyone can help me out with this???
PS: Kies doesn't even recognize my device, Kies 3.0 and 2.6
EDIT:
I tried flashing SGH-M919-UVUAMDB.tar and M919UVUAMDL.tar and I'm getting a "FAIL" on both. I'm downloading the official 4.4.2 firmware from the Samsung website (which is taking forever) and going to try flash that in Odin. I will be getting a Knox counter (which I didn't have before) but at this point, I just need a working phone.
Update:
Waited 2 hours to download the firmware from the Samsung site and it failed at the last minute. I give up. SMH
sj808 said:
This is from another thread:
^^^^^^ Anyone can help me out with this???
PS: Kies doesn't even recognize my device, Kies 3.0 and 2.6
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Have you tried to get into Recovery mode and clear the cache AND Dalvic too?
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Have you tried to get into Recovery mode and clear the cache AND Dalvic too?
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I can't get into recovery. Only download mode.
I'd try Odining back to stock mk2 or nb4.
Sammobile.com is slow but bearable with a laptop: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
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Phones are not bricked if they still show power in some way. That is either called soft-bricked or sponged.
Also Questions and help issues belong in the Q&A and Help sections
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Thanks
FNSM
It would help if you posted what error you got in Odin.. Also try different USB ports, PC, reinstalling drivers.. This is not a hard brick
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sj808 said:
I can't get into recovery. Only download mode.
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If you get download mode, try getting a recovery installed, like a phillz touch or cwm. look for one that will compliment your os that you have installed and then try getting into recovery.
You might even do as someone else pointed out, return to complete stock, and take it from there.....
I got my phone back up.
I had to flash the 4.4.2 firmware in Odin. No other firmware wouldn't work. Every ttime I downloaded from SamsungMobile website the download failed the last minute.
So now I got a Knox boot loader but oh well, I just needed my phone back up.