Hello, so im a relative noob in the forums per say, by my post count, bt ive been stalking the xda forums since my HTC Touch Pro 2..Usually, with enough searching i can fix my problems on my own, bt I can't afford to break this fone..
Here is the story. (sry if im giving TMI) (THE ACTUAL QUESTION IS AT THE END. RELATIVE INFORMATION IS AS FOLLOWS)
I was content with my stock EL29 rom,bt I wanted to try the new ICS update. So, I manually updated to FF18 using this link:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...bbe3997e3067.SPH-D710_update_EL29_to_FF18.zip
I used QBKing's video's steps to update. Big shout out to him, btw.. So after i wanted to root to eventually flash a custom rom. So i rooted using sfhub's one click for FF18 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Now, i few days of reading later, i decided to install the recovery to start installing custom roms. However, my fone got a bit wet a few days ago from a thunderstorm video recording adventure and I couldnt install the recovery.
I plugged in my fone and it wasnt recognized by any of my three computers at home. I uninstalled and re installed the samsung drivers numerous times. Keep in mind that I had previously used sfhub's one click sucessfully, so it is unlikely to be a computer problem.
So a few days later my fone starts telling me that im charging it (or its overvoltage) when its nt even plugged in. Now, it wont even turn off. it restarts as soon as it turns off.
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So basically, I have come to the conclusion that I have a hardware usb port phone problem. Now, since its rooted,just with a stock FF18 rom, will Sprint give me problems if its an obvious hardware problems?
Is there a way to unroot without plugging it into my computer? Im thinking mobile ODIN,bt i heard it cant flash modems? would that be a problem if im from a rooted FF18 going to EL29? Or shud I just go back to stock unrooted FF18?Or shud I just take it to Sprint and hope they dont check the phone software wise?
I wud appreciate multiple opinions or even confirmations of other ppls ideas. Bt thanks for reading all this.. Hope I didnt put u guys to sleep
Thanks for all the help in advance guys...u guys rock..
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wsteeven said:
Hello, so im a relative noob in the forums per say, by my post count, bt ive been stalking the xda forums since my HTC Touch Pro 2..Usually, with enough searching i can fix my problems on my own, bt I can't afford to break this fone..
Here is the story. (sry if im giving TMI) (THE ACTUAL QUESTION IS AT THE END. RELATIVE INFORMATION IS AS FOLLOWS)
I was content with my stock EL29 rom,bt I wanted to try the new ICS update. So, I manually updated to FF18 using this link:
http://android.clients.google.com/p...bbe3997e3067.SPH-D710_update_EL29_to_FF18.zip
I used QBKing's video's steps to update. Big shout out to him, btw.. So after i wanted to root to eventually flash a custom rom. So i rooted using sfhub's one click for FF18 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1721229
Now, i few days of reading later, i decided to install the recovery to start installing custom roms. However, my fone got a bit wet a few days ago from a thunderstorm video recording adventure and I couldnt install the recovery.
I plugged in my fone and it wasnt recognized by any of my three computers at home. I uninstalled and re installed the samsung drivers numerous times. Keep in mind that I had previously used sfhub's one click sucessfully, so it is unlikely to be a computer problem.
So a few days later my fone starts telling me that im charging it (or its overvoltage) when its nt even plugged in. Now, it wont even turn off. it restarts as soon as it turns off.
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So basically, I have come to the conclusion that I have a hardware usb port phone problem. Now, since its rooted,just with a stock FF18 rom, will Sprint give me problems if its an obvious hardware problems?
Is there a way to unroot without plugging it into my computer? Im thinking mobile ODIN,bt i heard it cant flash modems? would that be a problem if im from a rooted FF18 going to EL29? Or shud I just go back to stock unrooted FF18?Or shud I just take it to Sprint and hope they dont check the phone software wise?
I wud appreciate multiple opinions or even confirmations of other ppls ideas. Bt thanks for reading all this.. Hope I didnt put u guys to sleep
Thanks for all the help in advance guys...u guys rock..
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Now, I haven't had this problem, but on my old moment, what I did was flash it back to an old version of Stock (say EL29 [on this phone use MobileODIN]), then try to apply the OTA update, or even download the OTA update files and place them on your SD card and try that way. Then you phone would look stock when you take it in, just make sure have a battery as full as possible.
thanks for the suggestion. I ended up bringing it to Sprint and as soon as I left my car, the power button stopped working for some reason.
They ended up focusing on that and ordered me a replacement phone. I guess since it was still on the stock rom, they didnt realize it was rooted.
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either way im screwed, i have been searching for hours and i knew the risks involved but i proceeded anyway. not blaming anyone just asking for some help please. im 700 miles from home sitting in a truckstop gameroom leeching of mcds wifi cause they are closed all i have is my laptop and phone. i have looked at several posts and have tried different things with hiemdall and odin including downloading files multiple times, different cables, different usb ports, and nothing is working. im really freaking out here. please help...
Don't panic.
What did you do to brick it?
In Odin, flash full stock ec05 with only auto reboot checked
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If all goes bad, bring it in to sprint and say it said there was an update and now it isn't working.
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lol ok thanks that was good thinking to blame them for it phone was rooted using superoneclick and i couldnt get cwm to work to flash any roms, so i thought i would go back to stock and start from scratch. so i downloaded everything like the many tutorials said followed everything step by step and now it wont do anything except download mode. so do you think if all else fails blaming sprint for the brick will work?
Ok you can get into download mode that's great so go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813 it has instruction and links to the tar u need to download and odin very easy don't wory very easy
ive downloaded the stock tar from about 3 maybe 4 different threads and was using odin. is there a smaller tar available? i have been trying to fix my phone for hours upon hours and the stock tar takes awhile to download on this connection. thank you guys for all the responses so late guys, please keep them coming.
Thats the only tar you need . It is a large file your going to have to wait and let it download. At this point it is your only option. Wait and let it download . its the ec05 tar and the only way your going to be able to fix your phone now. Pull out your phones batt so it does not die and wait for the tar to download , and then follow those directions to odin it and you will be back up and runing
ok thank you. i know i have to be patient, its just hard when im working against the clock. ill update in a bit if it works
Sooo, you installed the ei22 update with your current clockwork? I'm confused now. If u have a pc, just odin ec05 once in download mode and re-receive the ei22 ota download. Boom, you'll have a working phone.
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You should also triple thank the people here for trying to guide you. Your freaking out because you thought you were smart enough to mess with your phone. I think you learned a lesson tonight.
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He said in the original post that he knows all that.... no need to be a d***! How about just helping people out instead of acting like their parent! Trust me words like that don't help anybody. Hope YOU learned a lesson this morning! Goodluck getting your phone back up and running!
This Epic is Legendary!
Step-by-step for a fresh setup of EI22.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19444784&postcount=93
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU
Thats Qbking77's video on how to bring your phone back to stock its also a brick fix, when i first put a rom on my phone something went wrong and i was bricked, that helped. Then id suggest using OneClickRoot and CWM. He also has a video on that. its this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymN1H2e9YMk hope everything turns out for you. These videos helped me a lot.
b16flybye, you know what i am extremely grateful for those that are trying to help my fix my phone, however you dont seem like your helping much. ill admit im a noob when it comes to this stuff, how ever im not when it comes to dealing with electronics repair and computers. and i wouldnt be freaking out so much if i didnt NEED my phone for work and IF i wasnt so FAR from home with no real access to the internet. i get that you are smart and experienced in dealing with this sort of thing but id be willing to bet that you too were once a noob that prob messed up a phone or 2. so if you would like to help try breaking your first post down, if not then just keep you high and mighty comments to yourself.
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ok so the wifi connection i was on last night sucked. it would get halfway through and then just stop and say the download was interupted. so yet again im sitting in another mcdonalds trying again tonight to download it. to clarify what i did maybe for other people. i was trying to flash the gb update from qbkings thread. CWM was not installed on my phone so i was having problems getting it to work. i tried some different things to unroot my phone so i could start over but none of it worked so i thought i would just flash using odin back to stock rom. i figured out that the stock one i was downloading said it completed but only about 20MB downloaded so when i flashed it was the incomplete rom and that then bricked the phone. once again thank you to everyone who took the time to answer last night to help me out. i may have some more q's but for now im just trying to download that one file.
ok another update... so i finally have the file downloaded and now i cant get my phone to go into download mode...i have 3 different cables and have tried each of them, 2 usb ports and have hooked each cable and 2 batteries nothing is working...any suggestions?
Take your battery out for about 45 minutes then put it back plug in charger. If still nothing try geting into download mode with out the battery in. If still no dice either your battery is dead and u need to find a way to charge it then try again or your now hard brickd and u need to order or make a usb jig to fix it oh u saidbu have 2 batterys so now most likely you are hard brickd. Here read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954458 your going to need to get one of those now. Order that it will get you into download mode thdn u still neex to odin that tar. And 20 megabytes is wayyy to small that tar file is 291 mb
k thanks i have the full tar. go figure my phone would be hard bricked. i didnt do anything to it since last night but try to get that file to download. once again i dont have access to any resistors i checked the pos and neg pins on the phone with the battery out and they have juice to them with the charger plugged in. is there another way? i have the plug just no resistors.
im quoting this from another thread( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813&page=21 ) but does anyone know if this will work? anyone tried it?
dyehya
18th November 2011, 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ThunderOKC
I was told by people that its wrong and the picture used is wrong. I don't remember the error messages, but the first box became red with the word fail. I clicked reset trying to do it again, so the message disappeared. Ph wont turn back on, cant get it to do anything. Dead black. Now I have to figure out how I can obtain a loan to get a new phone. My business is going to tank without a phone so fast.
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As for the poster one above, how much do you charge with that donate button if you know how to revive my phone? I don't see how it can ever be fixed, because it wouldn't do anything...not even open download mode, no showing battery charging pix, nothing.
Leave the battery out, remove the microSD card, hold down the power button and leave unplugged for a bit, then plug in to computer while holding down 1 and power. This will hopefully get you back in download mode.
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You can also hit me up on irc. http://webchat.irondust.net/?channels=#epic,#cyc
My name in irc is Cyc you can PM me.
That has fixed many a phone. Some people...like that Thunder hoser are too lazy to read through the thread to realize his red box was the result of a bad cable. Some people can't be helped no matter what. Use that thread. Dyehya and I answer all questions in that thread.
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try leaving your battery out and plugging it into the computer and put it into download mode without the battery in... i have had success with doing this and i know other people have also
Ok i rooted the phone when it was on 2.1 & it worked just fine, after the root it said system update, so i said ok to froyo, now i can't for the life of me seem to be able to root this phone the Samsung one click root dosen't work, & my PC won't recognize the phone so i can't use Odin, It's really pissing me off, if anybody can help me i'd sure be greatfull.
jaaydogg said:
Ok i rooted the phone when it was on 2.1 & it worked just fine, after the root it said system update, so i said ok to froyo, now i can't for the life of me seem to be able to root this phone the Samsung one click root dosen't work, & my PC won't recognize the phone so i can't use Odin, It's really pissing me off, if anybody can help me i'd sure be greatfull.
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Make sure you have the latest drivers from Samsung installed on your PC. Reboot the phone, reboot the PC, start as fresh as you can. Best way to go about it is to Odin EC05, One Click root with CM3 (purple version) and go from there.
Check the stickied thread with the old stickies in it, you'll find everything you need in there. And last but not least, for the love of everything holy, don't use the stock cord. Get something decent, blackberry cables seem to work the best for me. Make sure the port you're plugged into on your PC is on the back (so it's direct into the board) not one of the front ones.
Well first off, having the thread title as "???" does not help anyone with searching for answers.
I'm trying to understand your situation: So you say you were on Eclair and rooted, and then was able to upgrade to Froyo while rooted? That's not possible. The update would have failed after seeing a file system mismatch.
For Eclair and Froyo, the 1-click root method works. However, for Gingerbread you have to Odin a custom kernel and recovery, then install the Superuser app. Once you have CWM installed you can flash any EL30 rom you wish. The modem is upgraded manually. Look in the dev section for the sticky thread that has the thread link in it.
Video 1: http://youtu.be/kwFRzzIqouE
Video 2: http://youtu.be/jWOLEXqAeCc
To follow up on your Odin woes: use a different USB port that is directly on the motherboard; and a different cable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009997
Go to that thread, and it will tell u everything u need to know
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2.1? Froyo? You know the Epic has official Gingerbread right? And stable ICS?
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Well i know that but the site wouldn't let me name it anything, I mean like 15 different titles that i wasan't allowed to use. Anyway I was able to fix the phone up, i was having a driver issue & that's what was stopping Odin from detecting the phone in downloader mode.
Previously I had installed on my phone (I believe, but could be mistaken) a Twilight Kernel and Hurricane v1.6 Rom. Well, I had nothing but problems with the rom, and put up with them for some time, just because I didn't have time to go through and find a rom I liked and flash it. I decided to do just that yesterday.
Apparently my mind broke and I did something wrong (probably numerous things). I had first attempted to put the shiney new CWM9 with Shadow Kernel on, rather, I made the mistake of trying to just put the Shadow Kernel on after having done a full (triple) wipe on my phone. I got the boot loop for the kernel since there was no rom (duh) loaded. Okay, no problem, I'll toss a rom on the SD and boot into CW3 and flash it? Yeah, not so much. I got a short "Samsung" logo boot loop and could not get into CW3 after that.
So, I Odin'd it back to EL30, thinking I'll just start from fresh, right?
Wrong.
Next in the series of mistakes I made, I forgot that I had already downloaded and installed the Samsung drivers (don't ask, my brain was apparently on leave yesterday) and attempted to re-install them. They did not like this and would not progress and I had to End Process the install from Task Manager. I then uninstalled the drivers completely fearing that I may have corrupted them by trying to re-install and then EP'ing them.
I then re-installed them, or so I thought. Plug phone in and start again with One Click Root. Fail. The script couldn't find my device.
Hours of searching and trying different things later, script still couldn't find my device, though I now have both the phone recognizing there is a USB connection, and the computer has stopped yelling at me that there are no drivers (I believe it finally gave up and installed the Windows drivers for it). But still can't get it rooted or do anything but stock stuff.
So..
1:Samsung drivers won't install, running Windows 7-64 Ultimate; error at end of install just states: "The MMS InstallWizard was not successfully installed SAMSUNG USB Driver for Mobile Phones v1.3.450.0."
2hone previously recognized USB Debug mode, but no longer. Will only Recognize standard USB connection, and with the connection made to PC, the script will not recognize the device.
3:adb for all intensive purposes does not appear to be loading..per the message from the script "Root was not obtained after 60 seconds. Make sure the phone is connected and that adb is working. If adb shell isn't root, reboot the phone and try the script again." I've rebooted numerous times, but I'm pretty certain that since it's not going into Debug, it's just not being recognized.
I have even tried Gingerbreak with no luck, just continuously sits on the rooting screen, but never proceeds (upwards 45 minutes I let it go).
Please please please please help me fix all the mistakes I did and get this thing working again and get the damned drivers installed proper.
(Baseband-S: D700.0.55.EL30, Kernel version 2.6.35.7, Build number: Gingerbread.EL30)
Note* I am happy with any root/kernel/rom at this point, I don't care, I just want the damned thing rooted again.
And of course after I finally cave and post for help, I find the thread where it clearly states OneClick Root no longer works for Gingerbread...so we'll add that into the mistakes I made...
Question still stands, how do I get this rooted again?
Qbking77 youtube him...
Or I could do it for you remotely via teamviewer... either way
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And of course after I finally cave and post for help, I find the thread where it clearly states OneClick Root no longer works for Gingerbread...so we'll add that into the mistakes I made...
Question still stands, how do I get this rooted again?
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If you are up and running EL30 just Google How to Root Samsung Epic on EL30 and a qbking77 youtube video will pop up and all the links are there as well for the files you need. If you are not up and running then you need to go into the Roll Up sticky thread in Development and click on How to Restore a semi-bricked Samsung Epic....all links are there for that including 64bit drivers.
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Found it all, getting it working now. Thanks all. We'll chalk this up to ...noobi-ness....(ignoring that I've been rooted and doing this for a year now... >.> )
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Found it all, getting it working now. Thanks all. We'll chalk this up to ...noobi-ness....(ignoring that I've been rooted and doing this for a year now... >.> )
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Sounds more like serious root rust to me. Gotta keep up...lol. Samsung tries to make it harder to root...that works for 5 minutes around here...LOL.
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IT'S DONE!!! Again thank you both so much1
Got my phone right after the last update and I went to root it with superoneclick and it hasn't had sound now for about 3 months. Wondering if anyone knows what I can do. I've tried just about everything I could think of but for some reason my phone just doesn't seem like it interacts with the pc right.
halp.
Thanks in advance.
you said a failed root, so if it's still stock you might be able to bring it in.
depending on who your with they will take your phone, send it in, upgrade the firmware (or re-flash it if it is the newest) and send it back to you for free.
i had mine rooted and with a custom firmware on it, and bell still took it and flashed V11a for me.
if you plug headphones in do they work?
hope you get everything sorted out
Thanks, I'll see what I can do, although as I have service with AT&T I can only expect a long harrowing process with nil results. :/
Yes, when I plug in headphones/auxiliary cords it's fine.
lol yea...it only took 7 days to get my phone back...
it's interesting that your headphones work, and it wouldn't be physical damage, because you said it happened after trying to root it.
i would re-try to root it, or downgrade/upgrade your firmware to see if that works before sending it in (if you do that)
sorry i can't be of much help, good luck though
Ok guys I searched this forum for unrooting note 2 using toolkit but need some specific answers cause im not cpu literate. I want to unroot to install the new update. I went into toolkit and idk what options to pick after I got to a screen where it gave me 7 options. I searched n someone said options 5 n 6 were to unroot but I see option 7 is the only one that has anything about unrooting. I actually picked option 5 the first time I tried it n it pulled up odin n told me to choose twrp recovery and I didnt see that option in my files. It had already sent my phone into download mode . I didnt know what to do and I freaked out n unplugged my phone (stupid I know) but after unplugging it stayed into dlm. I took my battery out and luckily it didnt do any damage by that dumb move. So can someone please help me or walk me thru this. I know im probly leaving info out yall need but im still shaken up from what happened. My note 2 is my baby haha. Thanks guys.
Ps im stock rooted no custom roms or anything. Im on 4.1.2
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Ok guys I searched this forum for unrooting note 2 using toolkit but need some specific answers cause im not cpu literate. I want to unroot to install the new update. I went into toolkit and idk what options to pick after I got to a screen where it gave me 7 options. I searched n someone said options 5 n 6 were to unroot but I see option 7 is the only one that has anything about unrooting. I actually picked option 5 the first time I tried it n it pulled up odin n told me to choose twrp recovery and I didnt see that option in my files. It had already sent my phone into download mode . I didnt know what to do and I freaked out n unplugged my phone (stupid I know) but after unplugging it stayed into dlm. I took my battery out and luckily it didnt do any damage by that dumb move. So can someone please help me or walk me thru this. I know im probly leaving info out yall need but im still shaken up from what happened. My note 2 is my baby haha. Thanks guys.
Ps im stock rooted no custom roms or anything. Im on 4.1.2
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Just use billard 412 back to stock unrooted Rom. Flash in recovery then use lorjays method to apply 4.3 update. All steps are explained in both threads.