can anyone explain what all of the tick boxes in odin do? i searched, quite a bit, but cant find any answers for a few, like'flash lock', 'led control', 'nand erase all', and 't flash'. also, can i tick repartition without loading a pit? and why dont any of the dump options become available when my phone is plugged in? thanks for any help!
Some interesting info here...
http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...ctionality-behind-the-odin-buttons-checkboxes
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This is my first attempt at custom roms. When i connect my phone i am able to sync it with the computer successfully but when i run the Hard spl it says that the device cannot be found. Am i missing a step or setting here? thanks for any help
Dieseltorkin said:
This is my first attempt at custom roms. When i connect my phone i am able to sync it with the computer successfully but when i run the Hard spl it says that the device cannot be found. Am i missing a step or setting here? thanks for any help
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With your phone disconnected from the PC, try this:
-Open your start menu, select "settings", then go to the "connections" tab
-Select the "USB to PC" icon
-The first check box you see there will say "Enable Faster data synchronization".... you need to UNcheck that box. Hit "ok" and close out
-Try reconnecting the phone to the pc and see if it recognizes it now.
I know it sounds a little counter-intuitive to take that step, but it seems to clear this problem up for a lot of people
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With your phone disconnected from the PC, try this:
-Open your start menu, select "settings", then go to the "connections" tab
-Select the "USB to PC" icon
-The first check box you see there will say "Enable Faster data synchronization".... you need to UNcheck that box. Hit "ok" and close out
-Try reconnecting the phone to the pc and see if it recognizes it now.
I know it sounds a little counter-intuitive to take that step, but it seems to clear this problem up for a lot of people
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ok, i did that. Now i get a message that says syncro could not be completed because one or more items were in use. please close all programs and try again. I have rebooted my computer and my phone and still get this message.
I am running windows 7 64bit, AVG antivirus, and have the firewall turned off. thanks again
also when i try to run the manual hard spl, i get an error 246
Ok, i have tried soft and hard resetting my phone and tried everything again and still no change. hard SPL says cannot communicate with phone
Ok so after messing with it all day i finally was able to run the hard spl using my desktop that runs XP pro. I have downloaded 3 of the energy roms. each time i try to install one i get an trojan antivirus warning which i ignore. then it throws up a window that says i dont have the authority to access device. I also tried installing the Phoenix 2 and it will run through the setup process then tell me it is not compatible with my phone. What exactly am i doing wrong here?! Anyone know whats goin on ? Thanks for any and all help! im about to launch this thing!!! lol
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Ok so after messing with it all day i finally was able to run the hard spl using my desktop that runs XP pro. I have downloaded 3 of the energy roms. each time i try to install one i get an trojan antivirus warning which i ignore. then it throws up a window that says i dont have the authority to access device. I also tried installing the Phoenix 2 and it will run through the setup process then tell me it is not compatible with my phone. What exactly am i doing wrong here?! Anyone know whats goin on ? Thanks for any and all help! im about to launch this thing!!! lol
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have you tried installing from an SD card, that may alleviate problems.
Install the enablerapinew.cab that cmonx puts out for exactly this situation.
Install on your sd card, run the cab, then try and hardSPL again. It worked for me when I was having similar situations.
I get a force close every time I try to put the camera in sport mode. I did search for threads dealing with this problem and found some. The problem is that I don't understand most of the terminology. Would someone be nice enough to give me step by step instructions on how to fix this. It is really aggravating.
Its basically a good example of poor coding by Samsung.
along the lines of adding a new line of code in the middle of the old causing everything to shift up or down..
The fix(s)
You need to be rooted.
flash one of the roms that have the fix included(read the details for your selected rom)
or..
use the original fix (don't need to be rooted for this one)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970452
you would download the file, and flash it with odin. for the original.
pretty simple really.
All the roms have instructions on first page as does the "fix"
Since you are having problems with terminology ill walk the odin method
make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
download the camera fix . its a .tar file
download odin
extract odin
put your phone into download mode.
you do this by (from an off state) holding 1 on your physical keyboard and the power button at the same time.
open odin (click the "odin 3+v1.6.exe icon in the folder you extracted to)
connect your usb (you should see one of the com squares light up" mine is always on com 4")
click on "pda button" browse and set the camera fix .tar there
unclick where it says F.reset time
click start
let it run
your done
I am not the best at explanations. But i would like to see you get this fixed
I attached a zip of odin and the camera fix .tar for simplicity
Did it understand what tmspyder was telling you? If you did give him a thanks
Sent From My Evo Killer!
tmspyder said:
Its basically a good example of poor coding by Samsung.
along the lines of adding a new line of code in the middle of the old causing everything to shift up or down..
The fix(s)
You need to be rooted.
flash one of the roms that have the fix included(read the details for your selected rom)
or..
use the original fix (don't need to be rooted for this one)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970452
you would download the file, and flash it with odin. for the original.
pretty simple really.
All the roms have instructions on first page as does the "fix"
Since you are having problems with terminology ill walk the odin method
make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
download the camera fix . its a .tar file
download odin
extract odin
put your phone into download mode.
you do this by (from an off state) holding 1 on your physical keyboard and the power button at the same time.
open odin (click the "odin 3+v1.6.exe icon in the folder you extracted to)
connect your usb (you should see one of the com squares light up" mine is always on com 4")
click on "pda button" browse and set the camera fix .tar there
unclick where it says F.reset time
click start
let it run
your done
I am not the best at explanations. But i would like to see you get this fixed
I attached a zip of odin and the camera fix .tar for simplicity
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musclehead84 said:
Did it understand what tmspyder was telling you? If you did give him a thanks
Sent From My Evo Killer!
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Thanks for the info Tmspyder. I just got off a 12 hour shift and am exhausted. I think I got the gist of it but am going to get some sleep first, read it again, and then reread what you posted. I just want to be sure of what I'm doing so I don't turn my phone into a "brick".
you wont brick. one of the great things about the epic and odin.. it is a 1/1,000,000 shot at real damage
Ok, I followed the directions, but the phone did not reboot automatically. It still says downloading... What should I do?
NVM, pulled the battery, put it back into download mode, repeated the process and it worked fine. No clue why it didn't work the first time.
[THIS QUESTION/ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED]
I spent the best part of yesterday upgrading my phone software, initially completely successfully. I rooted, unlocked boot, installed Dooms kernel all without any problems. Then came the Rom upload...
I wish I had stopped while I was ahead, I felt confident that If I took proper care and attention all would be well. However, I completed the installation only to be greeted by that infuriating exclamation mark (perhaps "completed" isn't the right word.)
My device is a UK R800i, which did have the latest firmware on. It now has nothing on, so using Flashtool doesn't seem to be an option as I can enter the device to enable USB Debugging, and searches for a way to enable this externally have been in vein.
I've tried updating the ROM using the following, with very slight variations sometimes - largely exactly how listed.
Format
-> Enter Command Prompt, launched ClockWorkMod (CWM)
-> Formatted all, including the SD card although the SD wasn't required.
-> Rebooted [sometime just continued with Kernel install without reboot]
Kernel
-> Reboot, and go back to CMD prompt.
-> Add Doomlords, Kernel. (various version, most recent usually but one ROM stated an older version was required so I tried that)
-> Wait to complete, then reboot device.
Rom
-> CMD prompt. CWM.
-> "Install ZIP from SDCard"
-> Wait for completion, then reboot or shutdown through CWM menu.
Then once complete, with the two or three ROMs' I've tried, I'm stuck in a power on power off loop. With the exclamation and phone logo being breathly shown. Before I threw the handset out of the window at the closest person I dislike, I looked around to see if it's truly bricked - most seem to suggest it isn't and the term bricked is over used. Apparently the fact that I can enter CWM means I should continue to try.
The singularity in my head, I think it's called a brain cell says "no you don't want that working" and does its best to screw me over. I'm sure it's just a little moronic mistake somewhere along the way. Anybody game for making me feel more of an idiot than I already do?
Thanks in advance if you do take time to help. Oh and I apologise too, I realise the answer must be out there, just after nearly a day of searching I've decided to just bite the bullet and ask for help from somebody with one iota of intelligence remaining.
Now I'm off to chain smoke and pray...
You can use flastool, usb debugging is not needed. Infact i usually format all the partitions on my device before using flashtool.
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OH okay thanks, I'll give that a try again but during my previous attempts at using it I received a message stating it must be enabled. Do you know what version you are using please?
0.5.0.0 Beta Downloading now, not sure if the version I used was outdated.
AndroHero said:
You can use flastool, usb debugging is not needed. Infact i usually format all the partitions on my device before using flashtool.
Sent from my R800i using Tapatalk
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Thank you so much!! It worked this time around, I'm sure I would have got there eventually but you have just saved me a whole shipload of messing about. Thank you for reading the essay and responding.
My hero!
*blood pressure decreases*
KoqHed said:
Thank you so much!! It worked this time around, I'm sure I would have got there eventually but you have just saved me a whole shipload of messing about. Thank you for reading the essay and responding.
My hero!
*blood pressure decreases*
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I'm glad you got it sorted for the record the message that says."turn on unknown sources and usb debugging" is a generic one, flastool ends with the same message no matter if the flash finished sucessfully or not
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Hello, i am joaquim and this is my first post so sorry if this is not in the right place or something and I also am a beginner in this subjects..
I have a few questions..My device is a Sony XperiaJ ST26i and the firmware is 11.2.A.0.31.
My inicial intention was to switch the internal memory with the ext_card..I have a friend with the exactily same device who recently did this and was soo easy for him, just root, no CWM rename the vold.fstab with the root explorer and it was done..Well this didn't work out for me and problems started to show here..
I searched a lot and this forum was a big help but somehow I allways ended up stuck.
First I rooted the device..ok! then I wanted to install the CM10 ROM, well I couldn't :S as some topic here refered I installed on my PC the flashtool and no signs of my device in the program..still i went further and in the step that I unplug my device from the PC when I plug him back holding the "+" button the flashtool says that "usb debuging is off" and "MTP is off" and they are both turned on..but then again I don't even know if i am starting the device in the recovery mode in the right way :S
Can anybody help? Am I doing the things right? if not is there a simple way or something?
another question, should I reset my device to the inicial values to do this kind of things? and i am assuming that the ext_sdcard does not make difference if is on or off...
Ho and to root i used the Adb...
I would apreciate have this problem solved..I am stuck in this for days and have searched and searched and what works for the others allways leads me to a dead end -.- It can be a small detail that i am not seeing ...
best regards,
JM
I have hit dead end after dead end, after many hours, just want to get copy of text messages off this phone somehow, and then erase all data. I have spent many hours on this, my level of experience with all this is beginner/intermediate, as I'm sure you will be able to tell by the ramble below. Skip to the last paragraph **** with the asterisks to get to the important part of my inquiry. if you don't want to read about what I have tried already.
Before you suggest the obvious, replace lcd, let me say that the motherboard lcd connector is damaged beyond repair. water damage, but the phone boots normally and seems to run fine. phone calls ring and other sounds indicate the phone is able to function but no display or touch function obviously. the usb port works. Also there is no samsung account on the phone so that option to bypass screen lock does not help. Kies, smart switch, etc don't help due to the "screen lock"
ie... There is a basic swipe to unlock "lock" on the phone, so otg cable options also hit a dead end. There are workarounds to bypass other lockscreens, but no way to do the swipe over otg that I can find. And even if/once I am able to swipe to unlock over otg, there are other obstacles to get around that may not be possible (click ok, navigate to enable usb debugging). If I am wrong here and there is an obvious solution I am missing, let me know (explain in detail if you can) and I will get the hub & cable back out and try again!
Dr.phone android recovery (data recovery/damaged device option) looks like the most promising, and here I have also run into trouble. Dr phone will put the phone into download mode but then always seems to fail "flash recovery package failed" at some percentage. dr.phone downloads the recovery package (I am selecting the correct model n910v) successfully, but the percentage before flash recovery package fails changes. It hasn't made it past 85%. the dr.phone log files don't reveal anything to my untrained eye.
Before running dr.phone, adb "permission denied"...after using dr phone, however, while the phone is still powered on and in download mode, once I close dr phone, I am able to start to get somewhere with adb! adb devices shows the phone as an emulated device, and (some) adb commands start to work! I think if I just am able to find the exact location of the stock messaging log, I will be very close.
If anyone can suggest some commands to try in adb to grab just the sms log I would be very grateful!
I can run "adb backup", and have tried a few other adb commands, but none of the standard backup commands actually contain a sms log.
***Anyway, I think the best option might be to flash a custom recovery after getting the phone in download mode & adb working successfully (showing as an emulated device) with dr.phone as described above... However I have no way to tell what firmware version the phone is running (don't want to brick it or loose data), and I am really looking for specific directions on which clockworkmod or twrp recovery file to try for n910v, that will allow me to get a sms backup, and/or a recovery that will have usb debugging enabled.
Thanks for the input! sorry for the rambling post, I hope it's possible to make sense of it.. ANY help greatly appreciated!
beefriendly said:
I have hit dead end after dead end, after many hours, just want to get copy of text messages off this phone somehow, and then erase all data. I have spent many hours on this, my level of experience with all this is beginner/intermediate, as I'm sure you will be able to tell by the ramble below. Skip to the last paragraph **** with the asterisks to get to the important part of my inquiry. if you don't want to read about what I have tried already.
Before you suggest the obvious, replace lcd, let me say that the motherboard lcd connector is damaged beyond repair. water damage, but the phone boots normally and seems to run fine. phone calls ring and other sounds indicate the phone is able to function but no display or touch function obviously. the usb port works. Also there is no samsung account on the phone so that option to bypass screen lock does not help. Kies, smart switch, etc don't help due to the "screen lock"
ie... There is a basic swipe to unlock "lock" on the phone, so otg cable options also hit a dead end. There are workarounds to bypass other lockscreens, but no way to do the swipe over otg that I can find. And even if/once I am able to swipe to unlock over otg, there are other obstacles to get around that may not be possible (click ok, navigate to enable usb debugging). If I am wrong here and there is an obvious solution I am missing, let me know (explain in detail if you can) and I will get the hub & cable back out and try again!
Dr.phone android recovery (data recovery/damaged device option) looks like the most promising, and here I have also run into trouble. Dr phone will put the phone into download mode but then always seems to fail "flash recovery package failed" at some percentage. dr.phone downloads the recovery package (I am selecting the correct model n910v) successfully, but the percentage before flash recovery package fails changes. It hasn't made it past 85%. the dr.phone log files don't reveal anything to my untrained eye.
Before running dr.phone, adb "permission denied"...after using dr phone, however, while the phone is still powered on and in download mode, once I close dr phone, I am able to start to get somewhere with adb! adb devices shows the phone as an emulated device, and (some) adb commands start to work! I think if I just am able to find the exact location of the stock messaging log, I will be very close.
If anyone can suggest some commands to try in adb to grab just the sms log I would be very grateful!
I can run "adb backup", and have tried a few other adb commands, but none of the standard backup commands actually contain a sms log.
***Anyway, I think the best option might be to flash a custom recovery after getting the phone in download mode & adb working successfully (showing as an emulated device) with dr.phone as described above... However I have no way to tell what firmware version the phone is running (don't want to brick it or loose data), and I am really looking for specific directions on which clockworkmod or twrp recovery file to try for n910v, that will allow me to get a sms backup, and/or a recovery that will have usb debugging enabled.
Thanks for the input! sorry for the rambling post, I hope it's possible to make sense of it.. ANY help greatly appreciated!
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This tool might work for you. Ive never used it myself but it looks promising. It supposed to be able to control your phone on your pc.
For the custom recovery, it should tell you what model you have when you boot into download mode but the TWRP for the note 4 has been unified so it should work either way. This link is for the most recent version. Get the .tar file if you're looking to use ODIN to install it.
Thanks for the reply! The tool you inked to requires USB debugging switched on. I was looking at it previously but didn't consider it because of this. I have USB debugging off, and the process I described with the dr phone windows application /download mode, doesn't turn usb debugging on.
Is there a way that I can flash a recovery for the note 4 that has USB debugging enabled from the start? If anyone knows please describe the process or post the link.
I think I need step by step instructions or screen shots for what to do with the Note 4 twrp recovery. I am trying to acquire a second phone so I can view the screen and know what buttons to press, but so far it is not looking like I have enough information to do sms backup from the twrp menus..on the device when I can't see the screen.
I see reference to being able to use adb commands to control the twrp recovery / backup process, but so far I haven't found anything that will help for my particular situation. If anyone knows what adb commands to use to pull the note 4 sms files , or a backup that includes them, PLEASE let me know.
thanks again