so I have my t-mobile galaxy sII and was very happy with the phone had it rotted and everything was great when one day the USB Port stopped being recognized by my computer and every time I would plug it in the phone would think it was being charged and no USB icon would come up. thinking that this was a software issue, and after different process, I resulted in testing to unroot my phone in order to try and resolve the problem. it didn't and now I can't re-root because of the USB problem but it was stock so I figured send to samsung for repair. problem is even though the phone is unrooted now there is still the "bullet kernel" loading splash screen when the phone starts up and not the stock one. so I cant send it into samsung and since I don't have clockwork recovery mod and cant re-root because of usb problems. I'm stuck. but I know androids stock recovery menu allows one to "apply update from sd card" so is there a way I can apply an update that will restore the original splash screen and restore everything back to stock so I can send it to samsung finally? I'd really appreciate any help and if anyone has file that can help that would be awesome thanks in advanced!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1374868 this should help, can you Odin the stock recovery? Link is at the bottom
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Unless someone has stock recovery in a zip form then the only other way to get stock recovery back is with flashing with Odin and a working usb.
Edit: put the zedomax rom on a sd card and flash that, it has stock kernel and recovery. It is deodexed but noone at a store would be able to tell its deodexed.
I am not rooted, I can get into the stock "android recovery menu" using the 3 butto combo. not walking about clockwork. and thats it everything else is stock, the rom the kernel. the only thing is the splash sreen at the start up is still from an old rom and I can't send it in like that. I cant use odin because my comp wont recognize my usb. anyhing I can do in the android stock recovery menu? can I do anything with apply update from sd? thank you
have you tried a factory reset from recovery menu or settings, storage, reset USB storage. ?
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tried all of it, resets everything right with the phone but the bullet kernel flash screen still is there on a reboot. at this point I am hoping i can get the usb to work long enough that my pc recognizes my phone for a quick odin flash...
how did you fix it?
I too have a stock unrooted gt-i9300, which won't enter download mode, and which ODIN won't recognize due to driver issues.
Is there any way to use recovery mode (which seems to work just fine) to fix the download mode problem? (I would be thrilled if I could figure out how to get it back to factory conditions. I've even tried factory reset, and still I can't get download mode to come up). All I get is the android with the red triangle.
arbely, were you able to restore your system?
so, for some weird, out-of-the-blue reason, i can't flash anything successfully through odin. i tried flashing sfhub's el29 one-click ROM (no data) and it flashed, however, when it's done flashing and it tries to boot, it just bootloops. i used to be able to just go into recovery, wipe data, reboot, and all would be fine, however i can't boot into recovery. when i hold down volume up + power, it shows the galaxy boot ani for a few seconds like it normally does when going into recovery mode, but then it'll disappear, the screen will go black, and then it will try to reboot normally again. it never goes into recovery mode.
i tried flashing EL26 stock CMW kernel, and odin goes through the motions as if it flashes, however, when i try to boot into recovery, it does what it did before: display the galaxy boot animation for a few seconds, disappear, then reboots normally.
now, i'm trying to flash sfhub's fb17 full restore and it's hung at data.img (like only 2% remaining). it's been stuck for about 10 minutes now.
WHAT DO? should i try using Kies to reinstall stock firmware?
Your phone might be bricked with a failure of the data partition on your emmc
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504808
dammit that really blows! i need to order a jig now to clear my count. dammit i knew i should've used the triangle app last night when i had the chance. blahhhhhhhhh
okay so i was able to remove the yellow triangle, but am not able to reset the odin count. is there a way to reset the count via recovery or odin? obviousy i can't use the yellow triangle app cuz i can't even get android loaded. seems like whatever the yellow triangle app is doing should be able to duplicated in recovery too. what say?
cnstarz said:
okay so i was able to remove the yellow triangle, but am not able to reset the odin count. is there a way to reset the count via recovery or odin? obviousy i can't use the yellow triangle app cuz i can't even get android loaded. seems like whatever the yellow triangle app is doing should be able to duplicated in recovery too. what say?
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Good info of the location the count is stored : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
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yeah, i saw that earlier, but i can't make anything of it.
i tried "/sys/block/mmcblk0boot0/force_ro" via adb while in recovery, but got access denied. is it because su isn't included in rogue 1.1.2 recovery? if so, how do i install su?
At least you should have the original bootloader so a jig will work.
To help others, do you think you can remember when the problem happened.
Usually it happens when doing operations in an ics-based custom recovery, operations like wipe/factory reset, restoring backups, flashing ROMs, etc.
i guess the usb jig is my only option if i wanna take it to the store. i'm a cheapskate and dont feel like waiting to get a jig shipped to me and then waiting longer for sprint to replace the phone, so i really wanted to find any manual way of repartitioning or just resetting the count myself.
anywho, this all started when...
i was in the process of wiping my phone to install aokp build 31. i flashed calk's wipe all script, then used the factory reset option in cwm recovery (http://www.mediafire.com/?hkydca9ob98z89m, first post of aokp dev thread). everything was kosher. i started odin'ing el26 (cuz i like to play it the safe way, and this way has always worked for me). odin seemed successful cuz it said "passed!"; and i had done this numerous times with every build of AOKP and CNA so nothing seemed out of the ordinary. when it rebooted, it got stuck at boot loop, which is typical in my experience -- i just go into stock recovery and wipe data and all would be good again. however, this time when i went into stock recovery to wipe data, it just froze and didn't do anything. and that's how i met your mother.
also, apparently the only recovery image i can flash via odin is steady hawkin's rogue recovery 1.1.2.
Okay wtf im able to flash cm7 all of a sudden. Brb, blowing load into sock, will report back later.
nvm, it freezes about 5 seconds after loading the home screen.
cnstarz said:
i guess the usb jig is my only option if i wanna take it to the store. i'm a cheapskate and dont feel like waiting to get a jig shipped to me and then waiting longer for sprint to replace the phone, so i really wanted to find any manual way of repartitioning or just resetting the count myself.
anywho, this all started when...
i was in the process of wiping my phone to install aokp build 31. i flashed calk's wipe all script, then used the factory reset option in cwm recovery (http://www.mediafire.com/?hkydca9ob98z89m, first post of aokp dev thread). everything was kosher. i started odin'ing el26 (cuz i like to play it the safe way, and this way has always worked for me). odin seemed successful cuz it said "passed!"; and i had done this numerous times with every build of AOKP and CNA so nothing seemed out of the ordinary. when it rebooted, it got stuck at boot loop, which is typical in my experience -- i just go into stock recovery and wipe data and all would be good again. however, this time when i went into stock recovery to wipe data, it just froze and didn't do anything. and that's how i met your mother.
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I've never used calks format all with anything ics related because I heard you don't want to format the data. also when you factory reset was that on el26?
I got yelled at for starting a new thread because this is the exact same problem that happened to me. I was in Calks ics rom, I had downloaded the new alpha build for CM9, and installed rom manager and clockwork and went into recovery and went to wipe everything and BOOM, froze, and then when I tried to restart it it got stuck on the galaxy s ii logo and kept cycling like yours did. I cant get into recovery, but can get into download mode.
So OP|, are we screwed? Did you find a way to fix er up? Cuz I haven't
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I got yelled at for starting a new thread because this is the exact same problem that happened to me. I was in Calks ics rom, I had downloaded the new alpha build for CM9, and installed rom manager and clockwork and went into recovery and went to wipe everything and BOOM, froze, and then when I tried to restart it it got stuck on the galaxy s ii logo and kept cycling like yours did. I cant get into recovery, but can get into download mode.
So OP|, are we screwed? Did you find a way to fix er up? Cuz I haven't
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check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504808
i've basically moved my discussion to that thread. there's a user who was able to recreate the datafs partition using some of the sdcard storage space with success, obviously at the cost of storage space. check it yo.
level27xrock said:
I got yelled at for starting a new thread because this is the exact same problem that happened to me. I was in Calks ics rom, I had downloaded the new alpha build for CM9, and installed rom manager and clockwork and went into recovery and went to wipe everything and BOOM, froze, and then when I tried to restart it it got stuck on the galaxy s ii logo and kept cycling like yours did. I cant get into recovery, but can get into download mode.
So OP|, are we screwed? Did you find a way to fix er up? Cuz I haven't
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Level27xrock,
To answer your question first, you're probably "hard" bricked. It's been posted many times that you'll be able to get into Download mode, ODIN *most* of the stock image and it will hang at data.img because a previous action that you did - suspected to be the CWM wipe operation but not definitively confirmed - caused a I/O problem within the embedded memory or eMMC. Please feel free to try this out on your own and verify the results for yourself - it seems that may be the only way of convincing you.
You can find out more in the thread linked above.
I hope you will read the threads more before you try again. Please start with the one that says "How Not To Brick Your E4GT" for example. You also missed the one that said ROM Manager is a no-no for the E4GT - believe it's in the Q&A forum.
If I read the earlier posts right, I believe something similar happened to my friend. He was on AOKP then tried to Odin FD05 and it wouldnt get past splash screen. He then went back to EG30 and ran that through Odin and it did work but if some ROMs effect Odin completely flashing and restoring a stock setup then we are going to have a new surge of problems
Edit..he did NOT wipe in ICS recovery either
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Hi guys,
I used techfanatic9's DIY for going to Jellybean on my VZW galaxy nexus and it worked but I had no mobile network.
After a few attempts they referred me to their going back to stock which used ODIN.
Anyway, reflashing back to stock failed in Odin and after I took the battery out and out it back in (with the cable connected) i could no longer get to download mode or recovery (I was using clockwork mod recovery).
Now everytime I turn the phone on it has a phone a yellow exclamation point and a monitor and I can't get to recovery or download mode.
Can anyone help me at least get to recovery mode again? Odin still recognizes my phone (drivers good) but it always fails to flash back to stock. I just got this phone not too long ago and I'm kind of devastated =(
corning84 said:
Hi guys,
I used techfanatic9's DIY for going to Jellybean on my VZW galaxy nexus and it worked but I had no mobile network.
After a few attempts they referred me to their going back to stock which used ODIN.
Anyway, reflashing back to stock failed in Odin and after I took the battery out and out it back in (with the cable connected) i could no longer get to download mode or recovery (I was using clockwork mod recovery).
Now everytime I turn the phone on it has a phone a yellow exclamation point and a monitor and I can't get to recovery or download mode.
Can anyone help me at least get to recovery mode again? Odin still recognizes my phone (drivers good) but it always fails to flash back to stock. I just got this phone not too long ago and I'm kind of devastated =(
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Follow up.. Did a lot of self educating over 3 days.
I lost recovery. I made a jig using some resistors from radio shack and cutting up an unused usb cable.
Got download mode back and used Odin (which is a very bad tool from my research but also can be good) + a 4.0.2 image and a phone file and restored my soft brick back to stock.
Just got this phone for my wife and decided to root it for her. I have the note ii and had no problem with mine using the same method. I used the Samsung galaxy 3 toolkit v2.3.0. Chose option 2 for sprint and then option 2 rooting options. Then # 3 all in one. I already had the drivers on the pc and the phone was set for usb debugging. THe software flashed the phone but when it came back up I get the "samsung" boot screen then the sound of it booting up. The only problem it is a black screen with a blue led light. Thats it, tried to reboot into recovery and download mode but there is nothing there. just reboots to black screen. Now I do have one of those jtag usb ends I have order just in case I needed it and I can boot it into download mode and I can use odin but I have no idea what I need to do to "fix" it. Tried to use the recovery option in the toolbox but that didnt work. Also tried team epic's root tar file but that didnt work either and I am out of ideas. The only thing I know is my wife is going to kill me if I can't get this fixed.
Please help!
ps...since this phone is one day old if i cant fix it I would like to take it back to sprint for another one but I need some way to reset the counter using the download method only or I am hosed.
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quantum3 said:
Just got this phone for my wife and decided to root it for her. I have the note ii and had no problem with mine using the same method. I used the Samsung galaxy 3 toolkit v2.3.0. Chose option 2 for sprint and then option 2 rooting options. Then # 3 all in one. I already had the drivers on the pc and the phone was set for usb debugging. THe software flashed the phone but when it came back up I get the "samsung" boot screen then the sound of it booting up. The only problem it is a black screen with a blue led light. Thats it, tried to reboot into recovery and download mode but there is nothing there. just reboots to black screen. Now I do have one of those jtag usb ends I have order just in case I needed it and I can boot it into download mode and I can use odin but I have no idea what I need to do to "fix" it. Tried to use the recovery option in the toolbox but that didnt work. Also tried team epic's root tar file but that didnt work either and I am out of ideas. The only thing I know is my wife is going to kill me if I can't get this fixed.
Please help!
ps...since this phone is one day old if i cant fix it I would like to take it back to sprint for another one but I need some way to reset the counter using the download method only or I am hosed.
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I dont have my Galaxy S3 yet, but it sounds like all you would need is to flash a stock rom through odin. Look in the android development sub-forum and find a stock odinable rom.
I'm with the above poster. Try an odin repair.
And let this be a lesson to you. Don't mess with the wifey's toys, Murphy's law will bite you every time and she'll remember "forever" and dredge it up when you least expect it.
I hate Murphy's law...but you are so right.
I went to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774722
and downloaded SPR Image (JB 4.1.1) and it installed bootloader, system etc (the works) and when I rebooted it worked. I still don't have CWM and I dont even know if i have root BUT it works and I am now out of the doghouse! Thanks for all the help and if you think of anything else I need to know please tell me and thanks again...
PS.. installed goomanager and was able to get TWRP so the phone is rooted. next is the rom toolbox so I can back everything up!
I have a serious problem. I have a Samsung Galaxy s II Tmobile for about a year now I have had it rooted since day one with not one problem with it. I mostly have had installed custom roms is all. I Just recently updated to CM10.1 nightlys with no trouble. I thought I would update the custom recovery since its been a while I went from 5.0.2.7 and updated to 6.0.2.8 and this is where everything went wrong. my phone went into a bootloop at first wouldn't load at all I went into recovery restored to a cm 10 which was working before which now is doing a boot loop. and i restored back to 2.3.5 rooted and that worked. but with some serious problems. I can't download anything like from the web or play store at all I keep getting this error code 492. I was thinking ok well I'll just put a fresh copy of cm10.1 back on the phone flashing it through recovery and nothing it froze. I played around with this new recovery and found out that I can't install anything through recovery can't fix permissions won't format won't wipe cache or factory reset and it won't even reboot the phone the only thing i got it to do was restore to 2.3.5. well I thought ok well I'll just start over again by unrooting the phone and start at square one again. no problem as the phone isn't bricked but when I hooked it to the computer now its not recognizing it. it comes up as unknown device which worked yesterday and never had a problem before i tried uninstalling drivers off my computer reinstalling them to no success. however I thought If I somehow get rom manager back on the phone i can reinstall 5.0.2.7 back on which i did come up with the idea to use kies air for that which did work. but I couldn't get back to 5.0.2.7 by doing that does anybody have any suggestions that can help me out my phone is working i can do everything that it is suppose to do make call connect to the mobile web, wifi but i want back on my custom rom can anybody help thanks