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Locked Bootloader

Hey i believe i have somehow locked my boot loader. I can flash the rom in the recovery mode but it does not show up after booting the device. Its stuck on juggernaut 5.0 which i was recently using. I factory reset my phone dozens of time but no luck. Tried every damn thing in the odin even took a developers help but no luck. Even he was shocked. The system seems to be frozen on juggernaut. Is there a way around this. I believe i cant even brick my phone since even odin doesn't flash anything

You already posted this.
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Really serious this time. So you cant get into download mode and have your phone recognized by odin to flash stock rom???. If you can get into download mode abd odin sees the phone, you should be able to put the stock rom in pda hit run and it should work. Have you tried using heimdall instead of odi ?
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monkeypaws said:
Really serious this time. So you cant get into download mode and have your phone recognized by odin to flash stock rom???. If you can get into download mode abd odin sees the phone, you should be able to put the stock rom in pda hit run and it should work. Have you tried using heimdall instead of odi ?
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I can get into the download mode and can flash it through odin as well but once the flash is successful and when it autoboots after the stock is flashed it goes back into juggernaut rom rather than going into stock rom. I dont seem to get hold of anything. I deleted all my files manually like pictures and notes and stuff but once i rebooted the phone they were all back again. One of the developers even helped me step by step but that didnt even work he was rather shocked. He told me that your boot loader might be locked and he said i am not even sure you will be able to brick the phone!!!

sell it buy a new phone lol
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phenom43 said:
I can get into the download mode and can flash it through odin as well but once the flash is successful and when it autoboots after the stock is flashed it goes back into juggernaut rom rather than going into stock rom. I dont seem to get hold of anything. I deleted all my files manually like pictures and notes and stuff but once i rebooted the phone they were all back again. One of the developers even helped me step by step but that didnt even work he was rather shocked. He told me that your boot loader might be locked and he said i am not even sure you will be able to brick the phone!!!
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What are you flashing? Stock ROM?

[Q] Stuck on boot screen after wiping system (accidentally)

Just to say, I have rooted a lot of devices and this is the first time this has ever happen to me!
While in recovery, I hit the wipe system button and now the device says that there is no OS on the device and is stuck on the boot screen. Is there any way to correct this? I am so lost without my GN2!

chinadol4 said:
Just to say, I have rooted a lot of devices and this is the first time this has ever happen to me!
While in recovery, I hit the wipe system button and now the device says that there is no OS on the device and is stuck on the boot screen. Is there any way to correct this? I am so lost without my GN2!
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Yes its easy download a return to stock ROM for Odin or flash a ROM using twrp ....or restore a back up
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Epix4G said:
Yes its easy download a return to stock ROM for Odin or flash a ROM using twrp ....or restore a back up
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I have the jellybomb and tried to flash it but it stated that it failed...Unfortunately for me, I did not back up. So out of pocket of me! Any recommendations on a Rom I can use. I really appreciate the help.:good:

You might want to try this http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showt...-TAR-SPH-L900-LJC-(LJC-Modem-Kernel-ROM-Stock)

Thank you! I will try as soon as I get to my computer. Will keep you posted if that is ok!?

Best bet is odin to stock.
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chinadol4 said:
Thank you! I will try as soon as I get to my computer. Will keep you posted if that is ok!?
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Yeah let us know how it goes even if you take a different route to restore

shahkam said:
Best bet is odin to stock.
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Would you happen to have a link for me. It seems that somehow my memory card I had in the device is currupt or damaged.

My computer is not recognizing my device. It will not recognize on boot screen or in recovery.

Thank you all for the guidance! I am unrooted back to stock but i will not be here long. lol would like to find a nice rom. Jellybomb is cool but to much blue and i can not swap between calls on call-waiting and my pandora wont work. Guess that is something to talk bout in that forum. THANX AGAIN!!!!!

Same phone same problem with a twist
Please help as i have the same problem. In addition, connectin to odin my phone isnt recongnized. Yes drivers are up to date. Im rather green i havent been able to flash a rom yet. Tried flashing diffrent versions of macksrom, but i was successful in flashing perseus kernal.

you could trying start odin then plug up phone while off . and boot in to download mode that way. I find that works sometimes.

rjdhill said:
you could trying start odin then plug up phone while off . and boot in to download mode that way. I find that works sometimes.
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I belive in the mutilple times of trying to connect odin that was done. Im afraid the phone might not be reconized by the pc.
Will try connecting with your method to be sure first thing in the morning

Fastest way. . If you have access to another phone with memory card or put your card in that phone download rom put card in your phone and flash it from recovery
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jrags72 said:
Fastest way. . If you have access to another phone with memory card or put your card in that phone download rom put card in your phone and flash it from recovery
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I tried mutiple usb ports odin still not reconizing. There is a rom on extsd. It is Macksrom allstar v5 the latest i belive.
As it fails to install it reads
Finished running boot script.
E:unable to open zip file.
Error flashing zip'/ extsd/
Updating partion details...
In trying to flash previous to this i have never been successful. I have always gottenthis error

Just tried connecting via another computer to odin. Same results, some please guide me.

S3 stuck in Odin Mode with Firmware upgrade encountered an issue screen, any solution

Is this hard brick or soft?
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean. If it's bricked then it almost definitely is a soft brick. A hard brick is when the phone does not turn on at all and I believe when plugged into the charger there are no led lights or anything. In order to get rid of the soft brick you could try to use Odin to flash a JB tar. There's a guide to do that somewhere in here. I posted one myself on a different thread not too long ago so you could search by my name to find it.

porshce2 said:
I'm not exactly sure what you mean. If it's bricked then it almost definitely is a soft brick. A hard brick is when the phone does not turn on at all and I believe when plugged into the charger there are no led lights or anything. In order to get rid of the soft brick you could try to use Odin to flash a JB tar. There's a guide to do that somewhere in here. I posted one myself on a different thread not too long ago so you could search by my name to find it.
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my phone can turn on and off but it is stuck on odin mode and its a yellow marked sign that said firmware upgrade encountered an issue, I cant boot into download mode or recovery.

LexLuger82 said:
my phone can turn on and off but it is stuck on odin mode and its a yellow marked sign that said firmware upgrade encountered an issue, I cant boot into download mode or recovery.
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If you're stuck in Odin Mode, you should be able to flash a stock rom via Odin on your computer. Flash the stock LJ7 jellybean and don't mess with the count reset versions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017470

Vanakatherock said:
If you're stuck in Odin Mode, you should be able to flash a stock rom via Odin on your computer. Flash the stock LJ7 jellybean and don't mess with the count reset versions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017470
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thanks

its failing when i flash with odin

Get you get into recovery?

ImEVO said:
Get you get into recovery?
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nope just takes me to odin mode, and firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.

Unroot and start over my best bet
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Even if you pull battery and press the 3 button combo you still can't get into recovery?

ImEVO said:
Unroot and start over my best bet
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Even if you pull battery and press the 3 button combo you still can't get into recovery?
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nope, just stuck on odin mode.

LexLuger82 said:
its failing when i flash with odin
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This specifically... Have you tried another USB port? Have you tried another cable?
If you can't get anything else to work, this might be an actual brick.
What were you updating?
What were you running? Recovery, ROM, Modem?

Alias8818 said:
This specifically... Have you tried another USB port? Have you tried another cable?
If you can't get anything else to work, this might be an actual brick.
What were you updating?
What were you running? Recovery, ROM, Modem?
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Odin Mode to flash a stock rom
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Alias8818 said:
This specifically... Have you tried another USB port? Have you tried another cable?
If you can't get anything else to work, this might be an actual brick.
What were you updating?
What were you running? Recovery, ROM, Modem?
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Got stuck flashing it
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first confirm if the odin tar you are flashing has correct MD5 , i mean it got corrupt while downloading ( it happens a lot )
use a different , preferably new stock cable
use different usb port ( the com port should show up in odin window too )
if everything is fine flash the tar once more.

lord dredd said:
first confirm if the odin tar you are flashing has correct MD5 , i mean it got corrupt while downloading ( it happens a lot )
use a different , preferably new stock cable
use different usb port ( the com port should show up in odin window too )
if everything is fine flash the tar once more.
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+1
And if possible, try a different computer (my desktop recognizes my phone fine, but my laptop only recognizes it in Linux)
Sent from my PG06100

This is perfect I need someone to test to confirm this will work on this error.
Grab cf-autoroot
Flash it in Odin and let it do its auto reboot, after it will probably hang at the sgs3 splash.
Pull battery
Reboot to stock recovery
Wipe data factory reset
Wipe cache
Try reboot
If reboot passes boot animation let it sit for about 10-15minutes before pulling battery(it may boot into rom at this point)
If it hangs at the sgs3 splash screen on reboot, pull battery boot to DL mode and flash an Odin one-click full restore.
Reboot
Hopefully profit like I did.
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In which stage of Odin does it get stuck?
I had an epic 4g which died that way, it just got stuck on flashing modem every time, tried everything, but it was just dead.
But I hope it's not your case
Good luck
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LexLuger82 said:
nope just takes me to odin mode, and firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
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same things goes wrong with me it doesn't go in download mode........help hoe to get into download mode

Hello alltogether,
The last 30 minutes I was near a heart attack, I really thought my S3 would be 90% dead.
NO recovery - The "encounter an issue...." warning - Only ODIN
But everytime I tried to flash anything (stock ROM or Recovery or whatever) it just stopped after a few seconds and ODIN freezed I had to pull the USB cable to do something new. I even let it without battery for a few minutes - nothing changed.
I was really dissapointed and I searched the Internet - after all I found the hint to try antother USB port and another cable.
I used a thin old cable and the front usb, not the back usb port.
So now ODIN, the original cable and the back USB port - I really didn't think it would make a difference! I tried to flash CF-Root with CWM and...
TATAAAAA! IT WORKED.
Man I am happy.
There's nothing more worse than not coming into recovery mode and odin not working!
BTW: Why it came how it came: I had (and still have) Omega 4.2.1 and Philz Touch Recovery, but I had problems with the root access to the system. I wanted to flash CF-CWM Root - That's all, this brought me in big trouble.
I never had these problems with the CF Root, I don't know why, but I do not really trust this Philz Touch Recovery, maybe I am hyper sensible now - I do not know.
I am happy, my phone is happy - everything is fine.
CU
lienot

[Q] Bricked! What to do next?

I just bricked my Samsung Galaxy S2x (SGH-T989D). :crying:
I was trying to install the latest CWM recovery and Cyanogen ROMs. It all seemed to go smoothly, but then when I rebooted the phone it stuck on the Cyanogen animation - I left it for more that 15 minutes with no change. At that point I pulled the battery and restarted in recovery mode.
For some reason, the phone would freeze or reboot when I tried to clear the cache directory. The log showed errors that it couldn't access that cache directory either.
To make a long story short, I tried to use ODIN to reinstall the recovery and it crashed half way through. There was a Windows error that ODIN has stopped working and my only option was to close the app.I left the phone for a few minutes but nothing was happening, so I pulled the battery.
Needless to say, now I don't get any activity on the screen. ODIN doesn't see the phone. When I plug the USB cable I get a QHSUSB_DLOAD device under "Other devices".
I do have the Qualicomm QHUSB drivers and a copy of QPST (v 2.7.323 from 2008), but I doubt that will help me much.
What do I do next? Is there any way to fix this? It's a Koodo phone, but I doubt that they'll take it as a warranty repair/swap as it's been unlocked so I can use it on Rogers.
Thanks for ANY help at all! (Even name calling!)

Well if you got $50 bucks check out mobiletechvides
Is.com they will JTAG it for you for around 50 bucks which is ur only option at this point or send it in for a warranty swap out
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I should have mentioned that I have three of these phones, so there are two I can use to get stock images from, if I can figure out how.
I have connectivity to the phone using QPST... (screen capture attached).
Does anyone know if it's possible to use QPST to capture an image from a good phone?
I've tried to connect to COM8 with PuTTY, but it is unable to open a connection.

Well you're just soft bricked because you didn't wipe system before flashing the new ROM
Easy fix
Odin back to stock ROM (there's a thread in the roll up stickies in dev section)
Odin flash a recovery
Go to goo.im and search under devs gir ericwill and find his openrecovery folder and download twrp 2.4 or just Google search "twrp Hercules 2.5 goo"
Flash it in cwm
Reboot back into recovery
Click wipe
Click advance wipe
Check first 4 options (dalvik, data, system, cache)
Swipe to wipe at the bottom
Now flash your ROM followed by gapps and reboot.
Sent from my Infamous Hercules.

iburnhearts said:
Well you're just soft bricked because you didn't wipe system before flashing the new ROM
Easy fix
Odin back to stock ROM (there's a thread in the roll up stickies in dev section)
Odin flash a recovery
Go to goo.im and search under devs gir ericwill and find his openrecovery folder and download twrp 2.4 or just Google search "twrp Hercules 2.5 goo"
Flash it in cwm
Reboot back into recovery
Click wipe
Click advance wipe
Check first 4 options (dalvik, data, system, cache)
Swipe to wipe at the bottom
Now flash your ROM followed by gapps and reboot.
Sent from my Infamous Hercules.
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Unfortunately, ODIN doesn't see the phone at all.
The phone shows up in the Windows Device Mangler as a Qualicomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008. (or QHSUSB_DLOAD before I loaded the Qualicomm drivers)
I will take a look at for the posts that you mention though.
Thanks!

Cal_ab said:
Unfortunately, ODIN doesn't see the phone at all.
The phone shows up in the Windows Device Mangler as a Qualicomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008. (or QHSUSB_DLOAD before I loaded the Qualicomm drivers)
I will take a look at for the posts that you mention though.
Thanks!
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I know Odin doesn't see your phone...but the thread I'm talking about has a link to the drivers that will let odin see your phone
Here's the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
Sent from my Infamous Hercules.

Download Mode
I was reading this and i noticed u never said u anything about put ur phone in download mode have u tryed,
You can do that by pressing the Volume Down and Volume Up keys. Keep the buttons pressed and connect your phone to the computer via USB cable. Wait until Download Mode boots.
Just a thought im sure u already tried but it sounds like u had a little bit of life out of since it booted and froze, i recently bricked mine and could get it to do anything theres a guy on pm me ill send u his name jtag for 25$ and have done and back to u less than 7 days!!!:good:

Try opening kies on your computer and selecting emergency firmware recovery. It worked for me when something similar happened to me.
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u gotta verify whether its a soft or hard brick.
u need to put phone in dl mode and try with odin ..flash cwm again ...if u have a backup already..restore it.
make sure to disable kies & any antivirus.
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If possible try another pc.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

*sigh*
I cannot get ODIN to flash the stock rom... It stops at "SetupConnection.."
One thing to note, when I try to put the phone into download mode, the screen stays black. Device Mangler says "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM5)". ODIN does see the phone.

Readdownload the zip and let it flash
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esema1o said:
Readdownload the zip and let it flash
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I'm not sure what you mean.
It sat at Setup Connection for an hour.
I've tried on a couple PC's, and using different cables and USB ports.
Is there anything else I can do to verify that the connection is going to work? Use a terminal on the COM port? ADB?
Thanks for the help guys!

Did you try kies? Open kies on your computer and select "emergency firmware recovery“. It will ask you to enter your serial number (take off the back cover of the phone to see the serial number).
That should get you back to stock. Worked for me when I was having the same problem.
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gc84245 said:
Did you try kies? Open kies on your computer and select "emergency firmware recovery“. It will ask you to enter your serial number (take off the back cover of the phone to see the serial number).
That should get you back to stock. Worked for me when I was having the same problem.
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Unfortunately it says, "the SGH-T989D does not support initialising". Good info though as I didn't try it before.
:crying:

...going for a warranty repair.
At this point I'm going to try for a warranty repair. I haven't had the phone too long and I'm hoping that they don't dig too far when they receive it from me.
Thanks guys!

I'm betting they toss them in a bin if they don't boot! Pretty sure they won't launch an investigation on every phone that gets sent in.
Its the ones that send them in rooted with a custom rom still on them and their volume button quit that get denied warrenty. Lol
Sent from my cell phone telephone....

Use Odin to flash twrp

Justizs26 said:
Use Odin to flash twrp
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And that will help how???? Lol
Sent from my cell phone telephone....

Cal_ab said:
At this point I'm going to try for a warranty repair. I haven't had the phone too long and I'm hoping that they don't dig too far when they receive it from me.
Thanks guys!
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I sent like 3 phone brick and 2 root and they never check them out
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USB only works to charge/triangle away doesn't work/ can't revert to stock.

I'm currently running task650's current ROM and ktoonz newest kernel . I'm unable to connect my phone to my PC via USB. I've tried 3 different USB cables including the original one that came with the phone. I'm trying to revert to stock to swap out phone, but I can't flash through Odin(cant restore stock recovery) and triangle away won't let me reset flash counter. I'm at a loss for ideas, I've been looking through the forums for days and I can't find anything . I've tried flashing different ROMs/kernels with no luck.
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is USB debugging mode on? did you make a nandroid when you first rooted? that would contain the original firmware you were using before flashing anything. are you connecting to your PC after putting the phone in download mode or recovery mode? just covering all the bases, buddy.

Yes I've done all the above, however during a flash of cm10 i soft bricked somehow...and lost all data on my internal.. So I no longer have my original nandroid I'm not new to flashing at all and never imagined that would happen I've learned to expect the unexpected now.
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Uninstall Kies
Uninstall \ Reinstall Samsung drivers, reboot
Use Odin 3.07
Use an OEM Cable
Flash rooted stock
Triangle Away
Flash Unrooted Stock

-Psychosomatic- said:
Uninstall Kies
Uninstall \ Reinstall Samsung drivers, reboot
Use Odin 3.07
Use an OEM Cable
Flash rooted stock
Triangle Away
Flash Unrooted Stock
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Only problem with that is my phone will go into download and is detected by Odin, but fails flash every time.
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mtnichols04 said:
Only problem with that is my phone will go into download and is detected by Odin, but fails flash every time.
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where are you getting the stock firmware tar from? have you tried a different source location?

xBeerdroiDx said:
where are you getting the stock firmware tar from? have you tried a different source location?
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I've tried root66_Att_I747uckl3.tar.md5
Only ROM I've tried. I'll try another. I've tried the Samsung toolkit and it doesn't work properly cause I'm not getting proper connection. I have a theory that my USB doesn't work properly because my file directories are messed up on phone and are in a folder emulated/0/...
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here's the thread for the stock firmware tars. if you're still able to get into download mode AND your device is recognized in odin, flash the appropriate carrier firmware.

xBeerdroiDx said:
here's the thread for the stock firmware tars. if you're still able to get into download mode AND your device is recognized in odin, flash the appropriate carrier firmware.
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thats where I downloaded from before, Everytime I get into Odin it gets stuck on Getting PIT for mapping..........sits there, then fails. phone is in download mode, USB cord that came with phone. ive tried reinstalling USB drivers a million times.

have you looked into Mobile Odin? and i would consider downloading the firmware again in the event the one you have is bad.

xBeerdroiDx said:
have you looked into Mobile Odin? and i would consider downloading the firmware again in the event the one you have is bad.
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Tried mobile Odin, it soft bricked my phone, had to plug in to a full charge before I could even get it back into recovery. The first 24 hours it wouldn't even go back into download or recovery... I thought I was going to have to get a new phone. Weirdest thing ever. Downloaded and tried a new stock firmware. I feel like I'm running out of options.. Lol and every time I triangle away I reboot and my triangle is back..lol
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Was really hoping you'd find a solution to this. Sometime ago my phone's USB stopped working as well. It can still charge but the computer does not recognize it. My Googlefu has led me to believe this has happened to a hand full of people with Samsung phones.
Was hoping to flash stock Rom on my phone but I can't connect via Odin.

USB Cord matters...
AverageCanadian said:
Was really hoping you'd find a solution to this. Sometime ago my phone's USB stopped working as well. It can still charge but the computer does not recognize it. My Googlefu has led me to believe this has happened to a hand full of people with Samsung phones.
Was hoping to flash stock Rom on my phone but I can't connect via Odin.
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Are you using the stock USB cord. it is 11 pin and most others are 5. Makes a difference.

thegodsquirrel said:
Are you using the stock USB cord. it is 11 pin and most others are 5. Makes a difference.
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Yes, Ive tried every USB plug under the sun. My phone sometimes gets detected by my computer, and I can browse files but if I try to copy something from it, it freezes half way through, then becomes undetechable. Ive tried to flash through odin but it never works....just get stuck then fails.