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Possibility of bricking & how to avoid it..

Is anyone manage to brick the phone already?
How likely/ or stupidity you need to actually bricking the phone?
What is a NO NO and how to avoid it?
That's the question.. thanks!

Main thing is read as much as you can before you do any changes, it helps to check what few sites say.
When I rooted my phone I could not get it to run the update part, tried time and time again, one site said "rename the file to update.zip and paste it" then I read on another site to just call it update as it is already a zip file.....and then it worked, small bit of detail like that stopped it working to start with so if I was you I check a few sites and get all the info you need, but also as many would say if you are that unsure dont take the risk and wait for samsung updates with Kies.

voodoochild2008 said:
if you are that unsure dont take the risk and wait for samsung updates with Kies.
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Kies actually failed to update my phone, I have the Korean Galaxy S SHW-M100S, and it showed an update was available. So, I thought I was bricked for about 30 mins, kept trying to get it to work itself out of the problem in recovery mode, after about 4 tries (1 reboot of Windows, plus changing USB ports and 2nd try with this static new config) eventually it did, thank God.

Do not remove usb while in the middle of flashing with odin
Wanna know HOT TO BRICK YOUR PHONE? Right when ODIN start flashing, pull the battery on your phone and see what happens.
I can't even boot up!
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amerikian said:
Wanna know HOT TO BRICK YOUR PHONE? Right when ODIN start flashing, pull the battery on your phone and see what happens.
I can't even boot up!
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I was gonna say something along the lines of a smart ass, but I can't. That sucks.
why would you do a battery pull?

madjsp said:
I was gonna say something along the lines of a smart ass, but I can't. That sucks.
why would you do a battery pull?
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I've been flashing all night and wanted to do it "right" this time....realized my SIM and SD card were still in there mid-flash so wanted to pull them and start clean..........................
Yeah....don't do that.
Guess I'll be that "guy" paying a visit to the local AT&T shop tomorrow....
Luckily I'm w/in my 14 days since getting it....

delete. ......

amerikian said:
Wanna know HOT TO BRICK YOUR PHONE? Right when ODIN start flashing, pull the battery on your phone and see what happens.
I can't even boot up!
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I've removed the cable half way and rebooted, and it was fine..
You simply remove the USB cable, battery again, put the battery in, and you'll be able to get to downloader mode.
The phone seems to have a component that ODIN doesn't touch that is read-only that handles download mode. Most hardware devices tend to have safeguards. I haven't confirmed this, but I've noticed the same applies to NAS devices (which tend to have a special redboot which uses tftp).
I have still yet to have seen any evidence of anyone permanently bricking their phone, but I've seen a few cases of "oops, got it working again".
Remember, Samsung are eager to reduce their support costs, and failsafe's are cheap and easy to add.

yes, the odin doesn't touch the 'bootloader' , or the small piece of code that enable the download mode, so there's no way you can brick the phone.
I have tried to repartition the phone while flashing firmware that has nothing except the csc data (i.e. no kernel, no factory rfs, etc) and the flash procedure went succesfully but in actual fact, my phone contains a new set of partitions that contain nothing except the small csc data.
and i still able to reflash, although I must make sure that the phone is totally shutdown (i.e. take out battery, let it stay for awhile before putting back)

andrewluecke said:
I've removed the cable half way and rebooted, and it was fine..
You simply remove the USB cable, battery again, put the battery in, and you'll be able to get to downloader mode.
The phone seems to have a component that ODIN doesn't touch that is read-only that handles download mode. Most hardware devices tend to have safeguards. I haven't confirmed this, but I've noticed the same applies to NAS devices (which tend to have a special redboot which uses tftp).
I have still yet to have seen any evidence of anyone permanently bricking their phone, but I've seen a few cases of "oops, got it working again".
Remember, Samsung are eager to reduce their support costs, and failsafe's are cheap and easy to add.
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I thought in the Big FAQ, it said... do not disconnect the usb-cable but to remove the battery if want to interrupt it...
7.The phone will be flashed and once it’s finished, it will boot up. (Do NOT disconnect the usb-cable, remove the battery or otherwise interrupt this process!)

amerikian said:
Wanna know HOT TO BRICK YOUR PHONE? Right when ODIN start flashing, pull the battery on your phone and see what happens.
I can't even boot up!
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Similar happened to me,although I didnt pull the battery, the phone just disconnected halfway through the flash.
Had half hour of panic,where I thought it was bricked.
Had to do a few battery pulls,restart PC a couple of times and mess around with different USB ports,but finally got it working.
Have flashed a 3 times since without a problem.

chluk2425 said:
I thought in the Big FAQ, it said... do not disconnect the usb-cable but to remove the battery if want to interrupt it...
7.The phone will be flashed and once it’s finished, it will boot up. (Do NOT disconnect the usb-cable, remove the battery or otherwise interrupt this process!)
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That means you shouldn't do any of those things! So don't disconnect usb, don't remove the battery and don't interrupt the process.

zenkinz said:
yes, the odin doesn't touch the 'bootloader' , or the small piece of code that enable the download mode, so there's no way you can brick the phone.
I have tried to repartition the phone while flashing firmware that has nothing except the csc data (i.e. no kernel, no factory rfs, etc) and the flash procedure went succesfully but in actual fact, my phone contains a new set of partitions that contain nothing except the small csc data.
and i still able to reflash, although I must make sure that the phone is totally shutdown (i.e. take out battery, let it stay for awhile before putting back)
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Are you sure that flashing (through ODIN) in any case never touch that "Download Mode" piece of code ? Even you select all the options in ODIN ?
Can anyone confirm this ? Actually I want to play with Kernel and RFS (have some ideas to try) but afraid of full bricking. So if this download mode is always present then I can play with it without any problem.
Waiting for response.

amerikian said:
I've been flashing all night and wanted to do it "right" this time....realized my SIM and SD card were still in there mid-flash so wanted to pull them and start clean..........................
Yeah....don't do that.
Guess I'll be that "guy" paying a visit to the local AT&T shop tomorrow....
Luckily I'm w/in my 14 days since getting it....
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Believe me! you can still access the download menu

The bootloader is almost always writeprotected and cannot be overwritten. You would probably have to connect a cable to some internal port like Jtag to be able to reflash the bootloader section. Atleast that is the case in 99% of all bootloaders. Im very certain that you cannot cripple the bootloader.
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jackiechan8 said:
That means you shouldn't do any of those things! So don't disconnect usb, don't remove the battery and don't interrupt the process.
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gosh man, thanks correcting me but if that's the case, what should i do if it doesn't reboot by itself?

take out the battery, wait for 30 to 60 secs, put the battery in and start phone with vol down + menu + power

Don't disconnect the usb or do anything else while flashing!!!
I removed the usb cable when it started flashing (i thinked it was stuck, happens sometimes), and since it does not boot anymore. I press the power button, volUp + home + power, volDown + home + power... nothing happens.... it's dead, doesn't turn on at all...

after all i have read i think it's almost impossible to brick the sgs since you always get back into download-mode. the only case i read where i believe that it's a goner is flashing with the wrong (in this case the at&t) odin version. those guy's just got a white sreen with at&t logo at boot. they didn't get into download mode any more because the button mapping on the captivate is different ... so thats really bad luck, dont't try that at home

jodue said:
after all i have read i think it's almost impossible to brick the sgs since you always get back into download-mode. the only case i read where i believe that it's a goner is flashing with the wrong (in this case the at&t) odin version. those guy's just got a white sreen with at&t logo at boot. they didn't get into download mode any more because the button mapping on the captivate is different ... so thats really bad luck, dont't try that at home
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well, mine doesn't boot at all, and i flashed (technically not, because i removed the usb cable at the very start) with the RIGHT odin version
Maybe if it fails when flashig sbl (secondary boot loader ) you can't go into download/recovery mode...

Did I FU my ohone?

I have an epic touch. I rooted my phone and installed ClockworkMod Recovery, and StarBurst ROM. I could not tell if it worked because the screen and icons look exactly the same as factory. I then tried to add my company's email which asked me to restart the phone in order to encrypt some information. After it turned off, I have not been able to turn it back on. I see the start up screen (i.e., the word "Android" flashing) with no sound (which I believe is part of StarBurst). Then the screen goes blank and it stays off. Did I screw up my phone? What can I do to fix it? I tried a factory reset but that did not work. I would appreciate any help. I did try to search but could not find anything directly applicable. Thanks.

Well, I am able to boot it up. However, when I try to reinstall clockwork, I get an error stating that odin cannot open the serial(COM) port. So I cannot reinstall clockwork, or a stock kernel. I am unsure what I should do next. Any idea why odin does not recognize my phone?

jchi18 said:
Well, I am able to boot it up. However, when I try to reinstall clockwork, I get an error stating that odin cannot open the serial(COM) port. So I cannot reinstall clockwork, or a stock kernel. I am unsure what I should do next. Any idea why odin does not recognize my phone?
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You do have the drivers loaded right? Try a different cable.
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I got CWM recovery loaded but now it won't start up now. It keeps on showing the start up screen over and over again. I feel like I am making things worse. Please please help.

crawrj said:
You do have the drivers loaded right? Try a different cable.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium
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It wasn't working and then it worked out of nowhere. Now I am trying to install a stock kernel but it doesn't work again.
I have the drivers downloaded when I installed kies. I tried another cable and it still doesn't work.

Ugh, sorry to hear it.
You might want to check the following:
1) Ensure Kies isn't running in the background.... it doesn't play well with Odin. Use your computer Task Manager to close any Kies processes that are running.
2) If 1 doesn't work, try restarting your computer. (It can't hurt)
One other thing I thought of: The phone is in download mode when connecting to the computer, correct? You get into download mode by shutting down phone, then pressing Volume Down & Power at the same time. At the prompt, press Up to continue.
(You've probably tried all of the above, but just trying to cover all the bases)

geekaren said:
Ugh, sorry to hear it.
You might want to check the following:
1) Ensure Kies isn't running in the background.... it doesn't play well with Odin. Use your computer Task Manager to close any Kies processes that are running.
2) If 1 doesn't work, try restarting your computer. (It can't hurt)
One other thing I thought of: The phone is in download mode when connecting to the computer, correct? You get into download mode by shutting down phone, then pressing Volume Down & Power at the same time. At the prompt, press Up to continue.
(You've probably tried all of the above, but just trying to cover all the bases)
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Turning off Kies did the trick. I was able to get odin to connect to my phone. I downloaded the stock kernel onto my phone. But I still have the same issue. It constantly cycles through the start up screen and doesn't progress past that point. Ugh...

I remember seeing something about how to handle bootloops after using odin on the international SGS2 forum. No guarantee it will work, but let me go find that post... be right back.
Updated: The post-Odin bootloop fix posts on int'l SGS2 forums all reference reflashing with stock firmware. We don't have that available yet for E4GT :-(
The only thing I can think of would be to go into stock recovery and do a factory reset
1) hold down power & volume Up
2) use volume up/down to select "wipe data/factory reset"
3) follow prompts
I haven't tried the above to recover from an E4GT bootloop -- for all I know it could make matters worse.
Sorry I can't provide more help :-(

geekaren said:
I remember seeing something about how to handle bootloops after using odin on the international SGS2 forum. No guarantee it will work, but let me go find that post... be right back.
Updated: The post-Odin bootloop fix posts on int'l SGS2 forums all reference reflashing with stock firmware. We don't have that available yet for E4GT :-(
The only thing I can think of would be to go into stock recovery and do a factory reset
1) hold down power & volume Up
2) use volume up/down to select "wipe data/factory reset"
3) follow prompts
I haven't tried the above to recover from an E4GT bootloop -- for all I know it could make matters worse.
Sorry I can't provide more help :-(
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That actually helped. I am able to boot up. Now I don't know whether I should leave it as it is or try to go through the steps all over again.
btw, thank you so much for your help. Very much appreciated.

You're welcome, so glad that worked!!

help - I did something bad

I know I didn't brick my phone because I can still get into bootloader. I've tried to connect to Odin (several times following instructions to remove battery, restart pc, etc) and Odin won't recognize phone in bootloader. I was trying to update to gingerbread 2.3.5 using Odin and it got stuck. it said 'writing, wait 2 minutes' and I waited 8 mins and it never did anything. was I just inpatient? Now when I try to restart my phone it tells me manual files were installed and to hit the OK button. I have no OK button and I've tried all the screen buttons and the 3 hardware buttons to select 'reboot' as instructed per the phone and none work. So I pull the battery and start the vicious cycle all over again. I've been searching and searching (for the past 2hrs) trying to solve this on my own and I'm stuck. I need this phone as it's my work phone and I just got it Friday! (owned by me, not my company thankfully!) please help. thank you.

lol looks like u got urself a sweet paperweight haha. 1st of all make sure u have all the drivers installed, secondly it might be ur usb cable too

klyang88 said:
lol looks like u got urself a sweet paperweight haha. 1st of all make sure u have all the drivers installed, secondly it might be ur usb cable too
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I could previously connect to Odin so I wouldn't think it was the drivers or the cable. I hope I didn't really brick it! I can't afford a new one! booo

nursemm05 said:
I could previously connect to Odin so I wouldn't think it was the drivers or the cable. I hope I didn't really brick it! I can't afford a new one! booo
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have u tried a different usb plug in hole?

Pulling the cable on a Odin flash is the quickest way to ruin your phone. Should have left it plugged in and looked around real quick for an answer.

klyang88 said:
have u tried a different usb plug in hole?
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I have and another computer. still no luck. Won't recognize it.
tenaciousj said:
Pulling the cable on a Odin flash is the quickest way to ruin your phone. Should have left it plugged in and looked around real quick for an answer.
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doesn't help to tell me what I should've done. Is this fixable or not?

nursemm05 said:
I have and another computer. still no luck. Won't recognize it.
doesn't help to tell me what I should've done. Is this fixable or not?
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if u can still get into odin mode, then yes it should still be fixable

The only thing I can think of as I have never seen this B4. try holding power down,it takes awhile but it should reboot. I will try to get ahold of more info for you. No promises though. But rule of thumb Be patient.
One last thing where did you get the update from? ie 2.3.5. It helps to know what you were trying to flash.

Indrid Cole said:
The only thing I can think of as I have never seen this B4. try holding power down,it takes awhile but it should reboot. I will try to get ahold of more info for you. No promises though. But rule of thumb Be patient.
One last thing where did you get the update from? ie 2.3.5. It helps to know what you were trying to flash.
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just tried that and it gives me the same screen I was getting when I just pressed the power button to turn on. then it says to press OK to reboot and none of the buttons work to reboot.

nursemm05 said:
I know I didn't brick my phone because I can still get into bootloader. I've tried to connect to Odin (several times following instructions to remove battery, restart pc, etc) and Odin won't recognize phone in bootloader. I was trying to update to gingerbread 2.3.5 using Odin and it got stuck. it said 'writing, wait 2 minutes' and I waited 8 mins and it never did anything. was I just inpatient? Now when I try to restart my phone it tells me manual files were installed and to hit the OK button. I have no OK button and I've tried all the screen buttons and the 3 hardware buttons to select 'reboot' as instructed per the phone and none work. So I pull the battery and start the vicious cycle all over again. I've been searching and searching (for the past 2hrs) trying to solve this on my own and I'm stuck. I need this phone as it's my work phone and I just got it Friday! (owned by me, not my company thankfully!) please help. thank you.
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Of the responses so far, I'd start with a new microUSB cable. Whether the current cable worked 30 seconds ago or not, that could certainly be a potential issue, might as well rule it out.
After that, a few things to consider:
1) Can you get into recovery? [Hold Vol. Up] + [Power] for as long as it takes to get to the recovery screen (anywhere from 15 seconds to two minutes of solid holding.) If you can get to recovery, you are going to be in business. If after 120 seconds it hasn't gone into recovery, move on.
2) In your post, you refer to "bootloader", technically correct, but want to make sure you are referring to Odin download mode. The whole "instructions to remove battery, restart pc, etc" throws me off, you shouldn't have to do any of that. Just to make sure, what you want to do is:
Start up Odin 1.85 on your PC
Power down phone
Wait for capacitative button lights to turn off
Simultaneously Press and Hold [Power] + [Vol. Dn] until confirmation screen appears
Press [Vol. Up] to enter Download mode
Connect USB cable to the phone and then to the PC
ODIN should show COM port in first slot
3) If you can successfully get into ODM and the COM port in the first slot lights up, you are golden. Follow the rest of the steps here and you are all set to move forward or hang out from that point.
4) "I was trying to update to gingerbread 2.3.5 using Odin and it got stuck. it said 'writing, wait 2 minutes' and I waited 8 mins" I'm thinking maybe you flashed with Bootloader, Phone or CSC selected rather than PDA in the Odin menu. If that is the case you should still be able to get into ODM as shown above.

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1) Can you get into recovery? [Hold Vol. Up] + [Power] for as long as it takes to get to the recovery screen (anywhere from 15 seconds to two minutes of solid holding.) If you can get to recovery, you are going to be in business. If after 120 seconds it hasn't gone into recovery, move on.
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yes, that is where it tells me media files have been installed and to press OK to reboot the phone (and other options to wipe data, cache, etc). It is not CWM recovery.
2) In your post, you refer to "bootloader", technically correct, but want to make sure you are referring to Odin download mode. The whole "instructions to remove battery, restart pc, etc" throws me off, you shouldn't have to do any of that. Just to make sure, what you want to do is:
Start up Odin 1.85 on your PC
Power down phone
Wait for capacitative button lights to turn off
Simultaneously Press and Hold [Power] + [Vol. Dn] until confirmation screen appears
Press [Vol. Up] to enter Download mode
Connect USB cable to the phone and then to the PC
ODIN should show COM port in first slot
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Yes, Odin mode by doing what you said. I was referring to what to do if Odin won't connect. Remove battery, restart PC and try to reconnect to Odin
3) If you can successfully get into ODM and the COM port in the first slot lights up, you are golden. Follow the rest of the steps here and you are all set to move forward or hang out from that point.
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therein lies the problem, I can't get the first slot to show yellow to show it's connected.
4) "I was trying to update to gingerbread 2.3.5 using Odin and it got stuck. it said 'writing, wait 2 minutes' and I waited 8 mins" I'm thinking maybe you flashed with Bootloader, Phone or CSC selected rather than PDA in the Odin menu. If that is the case you should still be able to get into ODM as shown above.
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yes. I followed these instructions -
Check only Re partition, Auto reboot & F. Reset time in option
Put the files like this in Odin:
PIT = u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit,
PDA = CODE_I9100XXKI3_CL577579_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md5,
PHONE= MODEM_I9100XXKI3_REV_02_CL1062028.tar.md5,
CSC = GT-I9100-CSC-MULTI-OXAKI3.tar.md5
Hit the start button and process will begin

just tried another cable, no joy.

nursemm05 said:
yes, that is where it tells me media files have been installed and to press OK to reboot the phone (and other options to wipe data, cache, etc). It is not CWM recovery.
Yes, Odin mode by doing what you said. I was referring to what to do if Odin won't connect. Remove battery, restart PC and try to reconnect to Odin
therein lies the problem, I can't get the first slot to show yellow to show it's connected.
yes. I followed these instructions -
Check only Re partition, Auto reboot & F. Reset time in option
Put the files like this in Odin:
PIT = u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit,
PDA = CODE_I9100XXKI3_CL577579_REV02_user_low_ship.tar.md5,
PHONE= MODEM_I9100XXKI3_REV_02_CL1062028.tar.md5,
CSC = GT-I9100-CSC-MULTI-OXAKI3.tar.md5
Hit the start button and process will begin
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"GT-I9100-CSC-MULTI-OXAKI3.tar.md5"? Aren't you on the E4GT? So flashing all of these files for an international SGSII would be the first issue. What forum did you get these from?
This might be a big issue afterall. Get back to me on where you got the files and I'll see if I can come up with something in the meantime.
EDIT: One thing that will work for sure, but you'd have to wait for it to come in is a $2 jig. Once you get it, you'll back in business in less than 2 seconds. Mine took 5 days via standard shipping. You could do expedited shipping if you need it faster. In lieu of that, I will keep thinking about what you can do tonight.
EDIT 2: I know you said that you have driver's installed an all, but if you downloaded them where you got those files, they might not be what you need for this phone. You might try going to the E4GT Auto Root thread and get everything you need to start fresh from there.
Then/or try this again:
Disconnect phone, and remove battery (wait 30 -60 seconds or so).
Re-insert the battery and power the phone as I noted before by simultaneously pressing and holding [Power] + [Vol. Dn] until confirmation screen appears
Press [Vol. Up] to enter Download mode
Make sure NPS and KIES are NOT running IMPORTANT
Start up Odin v1.85
Keep trying to connect the phone to get a COM port lit. If it's not working, try changing USB ports. Try every port on your PC.
Keep trying, I've seen odin fail to recognize phones over and over and then
suddenly recognize it out of nowhere.

Just_s said:
"GT-I9100-CSC-MULTI-OXAKI3.tar.md5"? Aren't you on the E4GT? So flashing all of these files for an international SGSII would be the first issue. What forum did you get these from?
This might be a big issue afterall. Get back to me on where you got the files and I'll see if I can come up with something in the meantime.
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oh crap! I just saw the GT-I9100 and thought I was good. I don't remember when I got them originally but just found it again here

Just_s said:
EDIT: One thing that will work for sure, but you'd have to wait for it to come in is a $2 jig. Once you get it, you'll back in business in less than 2 seconds. Mine took 5 days via standard shipping. You could do expedited shipping if you need it faster. In lieu of that, I will keep thinking about what you can do tonight.
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this will work even though I can get into odin download mode? I can wait a few days instead of buying a new phone if it will really work!

nursemm05 said:
this will work even though I can get into odin download mode? I can wait a few days instead of buying a new phone if it will really work!
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Yes, the jig should definitely work and it is a good idea to have one around anyway, just in case you ever need to go back to stock to return the phone or something.
But I am certain you can fix it at home in the meantime. I just need to remember or find how.

Just_s said:
Yes, the jig should definitely work and it is a good idea to have one around anyway, just in case you ever need to go back to stock to return the phone or something.
But I am certain you can fix it at home in the meantime. I just need to remember or find how.
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I am going to order one just in case but in the meantime, going to try one more time to get Odin to cooperate then I'm done for the night. Sadly work calls tomorrow and I can't do any of this on my work computer either thank you SOOO much for all your help!

nursemm05 said:
oh crap! I just saw the GT-I9100 and thought I was good. I don't remember when I got them originally but just found it again here
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Yeah, definitely not the right files for our phone, but don't worry, yet, I think you can recover from this. The fear is that the radio is borked as those are GSM phones and we are a CDMA phone. I haven't really read much about this issue, but I know it has happened to others. If you have time, you might search around for something like "oops, flashed SGSII GSM files on my E4GT CDMA phone" or something like that and see if anyone else figured out the fix.

I did not think there was a update to 2.3.5 for the epic 4g touch. I thought only the European versions received that update. The only update I know of for our phones was 2.3.6.
Plz link or direct where you downloaded this update you flashed. If it is the European update you will need to install the drivers for that model for Odin to recognize your phone. Then reflash the proper update.
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I did not think there was a update to 2.3.5 for the epic 4g touch. I thought only the European versions received that update. The only update I know of for our phones was 2.3.6.
Plz link or direct where you downloaded this update you flashed. If it is the European update you will need to install the drivers for that model for Odin to recognize your phone. Then reflash the proper update.
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Wow bythe time I typed this all is revealed. The 2.3.5 was the giveaway.
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Indrid Cole said:
I did not think there was a update to 2.3.5 for the epic 4g touch. I thought only the European versions received that update. The only update I know of for our phones was 2.3.6.
Plz link or direct where you downloaded this update you flashed. If it is the European update you will need to install the drivers for that model for Odin to recognize your phone. Then reflash the proper update.
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Wow bythe time I typed this all is revealed. The 2.3.5 was the giveaway.
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It should not kill your radio. I fixed a buddys phone that kinda did the same thing. Main thing is get the drivers for the euro sgs 2. Then Odin should see your device. Then use just s's guide from there.
One last thing the jig is not be needed. You can already get into download mode. Your phone is ready for flashing. What you need are drivers for the the computer to recognize your phone.

Indrid Cole said:
...the European update you will need to install the drivers for that model for Odin to recognize your phone. Then reflash the proper update.
It should not kill your radio. I fixed a buddys phone that kinda did the same thing. Main thing is get the drivers for the euro sgs 2. Then Odin should see your device. Then use just s's guide from there.
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Yep, this is exactly right.
@nursemm05 you need to find and install the drivers for the phone who's files you flashed. Make sure you know where you save the driver files and where they are installed. In fact, make a backup of your system so that you can restore your PC after you get your ET4G back to good.
Once you can get back into Odin, flash the tar file (singular) that I linked to and you will be back at stock. Then you can hit the other links and you will be very happy with your new setup.
Then do a system restore on your PC to before the i9000 driver's were installed and you should be back to good there as well.
Good luck!

[Q] SGS2 Odin Question

During an attempt to flash a rom using odin to my rooted sgs2, odin crashed and closed before it was finished. I tried restarting odin, wouldnt see phone.
Removed battery from phone, reconnected to odin and tried using the one click odin to reflash back to stock. Also tried using odin with other roms to flash back.
Heres my problem.
When i power on the phone, it says the Galazy S2 i9100 for a few seconds, then just turns off.
I can open odin, or odin one click, plug in phone, shows me yellow w/com and added. I click start, it gets to Setupconnection and then just sits there.
I have tried
- Different roms and both one click and normal odin.
- Different usb cables
- Different usb ports
- Multiple computers
Is there any way to get past this? God i hope someone can either point me somewhere or help me out.

Reinstall Samsung Kies to your laptop or pc so the proper drivers are re-installed. Once complete with that install, plug your phone into the pc and put the phone into USB mode, hopefully the pc will recognize your phone and install the NEW DEVICE drivers after a few moments. Depending on your pc, sometimes it takes many seconds for your pc to recognize and bring up the drop down menu for the newly recognized drive. BE PATIENT. If the pc does recognize your phone, start Odin again. If Odin also see's your phone, which it now should, you should see a COM:# connection in the ID:COM box of Odin. Doesn't matter what COM # is, as long as something is there. You can now use Odin because it see's your phone. Once you start Odin flashing, make sure not to disconnect anything until you see the upper left GREEN PASS box in Odin. Once its GREEN with PASS in that box, you're finished. You can d/c your phone from the pc and the phone is probably rebooting anyway.
OFC, if your phone will not stay power'd up, all of the above is for nought. Wish I could be more helpful.
Keep in mind that I do not intend to insult intelligence but everyone has limits in experience and I always try to explain in the simplest way I can. No disrespect intended.
Good Luck!
R

Thanks for the reply,
How am i supposed to put the phone in usb mode when i cant boot it?

That does create a problem, I would do some research on a USB Jig for your phone. Search at eBay for: Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch USB Jig
I'm not sure if this will help a phone that will not power up but it does have its uses for Root'd phone especially using Odin to flash and to remover that nasty YELLOW Triangle that comes from ROOT ROMS that are unsign'd.
Wish I could help you further.
R

Scribes said:
Thanks for the reply,
How am i supposed to put the phone in usb mode when i cant boot it?
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Try to put in download mode if not try a jig ... If that fails it's sprint or jtag
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

It does power on, basically shows the sgs boot logo (black backgroud w/ white text) then goes dark, but its actually still on cause it gets hot.
I can get it into download mode and i can get it into the android recovery.
Theres gotta be a way to recover with an update.zip from the android recovery via the sd card........

There you go, you have two of us saying about the same thing. Just make sure you get the correct JIG if you go that route. It's like $2.00 and arrives from China in like 2 weeks.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...e+for+Samsung+Galaxy+S2/i9100/i9000/T959/i897
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humm, an idling phone shouldn't get hot. That tells me you've got something going on. I think you just progress'd passed my pay grade my friend.

Heres another thing, as i mentioned in my first post.
The boot logo says i-9100....
and this is a sprint phone, isnt it a d710?
So im gussing in my late night haze i screwed myself by loading an i9100 rom/bootloader/whatever the hell that is.

Samsung calls it: I9100
Sprint calls it: SPH710
We call it: Epic 4G Touch

I see, so thats not the problem?
Im just gonna keep posting here while i mess with this incase i trigger someones mind for a fix.
(picture was here apparently i cannot post an external link yet. Was just a picture of device manager and odin sitting at SetupConnection)
The only way to get odin to see my phone, is if i open odin, put phone in download mode, plug phone in, then uninstall the com port via device manager, reinstall it. When i rescan for hardware changes, odin goes yellow as seen in the picture, i click start, then it sits at SetupConnection all day, so im guessing its losing the connection after it finds it.
My only solution here is via usb card i think, but i cant find a signed package. Cant someone just pull theirs from a stock phone? Why wouldnt that work?

Well, if you can get Odin to work, unroot to full stock with this:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ISD9AOP0

Right, getting odin to work is the real problem though i think.
Stuck at SetupConnection forever
This is super frustrating... going without a phone is impossible, work emails, texts, calls, ahhhh

..and there is no way to completely reload the entire phone using an update.zip off the sd card, one that is signed?
I know i used to do that on my droid, and all though i know this is a totally different game, i still have android recovery, one would think it would be possible if the package was signed. unsigned ones just fail, but at least i can attempt to run them from there.
If someone can find a way to do that, and it works for my phone, i will paypal $50

Let me see what I can find for ya....
I have searched two different Forums for a flashable unroot to stock with NO luck. Everything I found requires Odin. Sorry Buddy.

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the i-9100 a whole different phone??? Looking at the specs and release date I would believe so. Sounds like he did an ics update for a phone that wasn't the Sph-d710 or something..
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-3621.php
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not sure, all I know it by is: SPH 710
~ via My Epic 4G Touch & XDA'a app ~

Have you tried just flashing a kernel only in Odin
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda premium

You tried flashing ICS on your phone, didn't you? B/C I'm pretty sure that's why you are seeing I9100 while booting up. If that is the case, do a search here as there are multiple people who have done this, and none of them have been able to fix it.
Sorry, your only solution is exchange at Sprint if you can, or JTAG.

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beezar said:
You tried flashing ICS on your phone, didn't you? B/C I'm pretty sure that's why you are seeing I9100 while booting up. If that is the case, do a search here as there are multiple people who have done this, and none of them have been able to fix it.
Sorry, your only solution is exchange at Sprint if you can, or JTAG.
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does not mean he flashed ICS when you odin a kernel that is not signed ie with CWM you will get yellow triangle and it will say i9100 too ..... so does not mean he flashed ics ... if odin sees the phone on a com port he probably didnt .... try flashing a working kernel from our phone

I did attempt to flash ICS. I could find where i got it, but it was supposedly for the Epic 4G touch, aka sprint sgs2 variant.
I am a network and systems admin, i should have known better. I jumped the gun and got ahead of myself. I have rooted and put roms on the og droid, and the droid x, samsung is a different beast all together.
However, i went in to sprint the day after i did this, they looked at it, no insurance, no replacement warranty, they didnt ask me anything, and THEY determined it was a factory defect , they had me sign a sheet that said "After researching found phone to be a factory defect and the solution from SPRINT is to replace the phone. $37.41, and 22 hours later i had a brand new SGS2 in my hand.
They hadnt sent my phone in yet. I honestly am not sure if they are going to be able to tell if i did anything to it or not, i may have just hosed the bootloader enough that odin wont connect, so they probably will have to use something like jtag in house to reflash it, or replace the chip or whatever they do. Even so, if they do see that i was messing with it, and say it voided my warranty, i have a signed receipt showing my payment and agreeing to pay for the replacement at $37.41, and that THEY determined the flaw. My brother in law is a lawyer, so i asked him, because i was curious if they would look at my phone at the service center or hub or whatever, and determine it was my fault. He assured me they could try, but it would all fall back to the employee who had me sign the agreement, so even if they dont like what i did, they are beyond doing anything about it.
I doubt they will even notice it, im sure they will try to boot it, then just flash it or however they do it.
Either way, im not worried anymore.
So...someone wanna point my idiot ass to an actual good rom, with a good method, that works for my phone? lol. I cant stand touchwiz, huge icons and cant replace them ....wtf is that all about.

DL mode + Odin, But still bricked. Need a hand.

Heres the deal, Ive had my original Epic4g for 2 years, I still love it but its worn out. I bought a new(used) one on ebay for cheap, ad said it freezes on boot and the owner couldn't fix it. sounded like a simple brick.
I received the phone, trying to turn it on loads the black SAMSUNG screen, the keys and soft touch buttons eventually light and then it freezes as such.
It will boot to download mode (1 + power) and will connect to ODIN, but Ive restored with various PIT/PDA combinations(follewed this guide first-> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813) All say "Succeed 1/ failed 0" but they never get a different result (will still freeze at SAMSUNG with captive keys lit).
Also, Ive tried flashing a CWM-5 .tar and cannot get it into recovery. (yields same result, frozen w/ captive keys lit).
I HAVE tried odin 1.???, odin 3.04, different USB cables and a different computer. I dont believe communication is my issue.

jtegg007 said:
Heres the deal, Ive had my original Epic4g for 2 years, I still love it but its worn out. I bought a new(used) one on ebay for cheap, ad said it freezes on boot and the owner couldn't fix it. sounded like a simple brick.
I received the phone, trying to turn it on loads the black SAMSUNG screen, the keys and soft touch buttons eventually light and then it freezes as such.
It will boot to download mode (1 + power) and will connect to ODIN, but Ive restored with various PIT/PDA combinations(follewed this guide first-> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813) All say "Succeed 1/ failed 0" but they never get a different result (will still freeze at SAMSUNG with captive keys lit).
Also, Ive tried flashing a CWM-5 .tar and cannot get it into recovery. (yields same result, frozen w/ captive keys lit).
I HAVE tried odin 1.???, odin 3.04, different USB cables and a different computer. I dont believe communication is my issue.
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Try a heavy duty blackberry cable as a last resort also remove battery and SD card if there is one. Odin again try to turn on if it still fails I would say truly hardware issue.

=( I am def using a heavy duty blackberry cable and ive had much success with it. I will try pulling the battery and SD card, thank you for that advice.
As for the hardware, Thats my big worry here, I'm hoping that's not the case... Messing with the phone, it feels like it has a missing/corrupt partition. does formatting with Odin in the PDA slot replace the boot section? (still learning what does what here ) If not, how can I reformat the boot partition?
Also, just for the sake of not giving up anytime soon, is there anyway to flash a custom rom/kernal(CM9 maybe?) through odin?

jtegg007 said:
=( I am def using a heavy duty blackberry cable and ive had much success with it. I will try pulling the battery and SD card, thank you for that advice.
As for the hardware, Thats my big worry here, I'm hoping that's not the case... Messing with the phone, it feels like it has a missing/corrupt partition. does formatting with Odin in the PDA slot replace the boot section? (still learning what does what here ) If not, how can I reformat the boot partition?
Also, just for the sake of not giving up anytime soon, is there anyway to flash a custom rom/kernal(CM9 maybe?) through odin?
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Make sure to include the PIT file included with odin. This will repartition the device and restore all as stock. We do not currently have any odinable current ROMs. I have an old EC05 froyo Odinalble prerooted rom in my archive but that is it.

It might be physical damage and not software corruption.. pretending it isn't though, verify that you're flashing the rom under PDA and not phone, frustration and desperation can make us do the most silliest mistakes.
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Shinydude100 said:
It might be physical damage and not software corruption.. pretending it isn't though, verify that you're flashing the rom under PDA and not phone, frustration and desperation can make us do the most silliest mistakes.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using xda premium
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Yea, ive gone at it left and right, so im pretty damn sure its hardware... Anyone have an epic with a cracked screen and good internals they wanna sell me?