I really don't understand Odin sometimes, it doesn't make any sense at all. At first my stock cable didn't work very well, and everyone said to go get a Blackberry one from Verizon because theirs is a top quality cable (I guess Blackberry did SOMETHING right after all) and that worked for a while.... Every time I get it to work I simply leave the cable on the port it was on so I can go back to it later, thinking that if it worked once, it should work again, right? Nope... Every single time it's a huge hassle and this particular time I have tried every single port on my computer w 2 different USB cables and I still don't get a COM link....
Help please!
Try a different computer or try to reinstall Odin/drivers
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Exactly. Uninstall drivers and let Windows find and reinstall them.
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I have already done that. When first double-clicking "Samsung_Mobile_USB_Driver_V1.3.800.0.msi" it asks if you would like to uninstall or repair the current drivers. I clicked uninstall, waited for it to finish, then re-installed again and it still didn't work.
You needed to use a file to force driver installation? Do they not install on their own? -- shot in the dark, but try diff. drivers (or the ones that should be installing on their own, specifically)?
Start up Odin, Take out your battery, plug in your phone to your computer without battery in there, put phone in download mode, then put back your battery.
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Ok.... So now I'm really frustrated... Odin has always worked no problem for me. I've had a little trouble sometimes, sure, but now it is just outright refusing to work. I've tried 2 different cables: my stock cable and a blackberry usb cable that fits really tight in the port that seems to work much better, normally.
I can't get a COM connection for the life of me. I tried what omair2005 suggested about taking the battery out, etc and that didn't work. Windows keeps telling me that the "device has malfunctioned" but it has always said that so I really don't think anything of that considering it's worked before.
Anyone have any out of the box thinking on this one? I'm definitely not a noob to flashing nor Odin, this must be some sort of weird glitch, or perhaps something simple that I'm overlooking....
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I have already done that. When first double-clicking "Samsung_Mobile_USB_Driver_V1.3.800.0.msi" it asks if you would like to uninstall or repair the current drivers. I clicked uninstall, waited for it to finish, then re-installed again and it still didn't work.
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Did you reboot after the uninstall and reboot the phone? Then with both freshly booted let Windows find the drivers. It makes a difference.
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odin not opening
ive installed odin from the xda thread,and ive extracted it,but when click open a message comes up odin3.ini with some boxes and it does not open..
If you're having trouble with drivers in windows try ubuntu and heimdall its the only thing that worked for me to get cwm installed after Odin bricked my phone. Command line interface seems into intimidating but it's way easier than Odin.
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adb pull no longer works on my pc, I used to pull things allll the time and now I can only push.
When I attempt to do a pull it only pulls the name with no contents; it says it can't open file as archive.
Anyone else having these problems, and know a solution?
What are ur pc specs? I have the same problem. Push all day long but as soon as i pull same thing happens as you and device goes offline. What about USB storage mode? Curious cause also when i try that my explorer frrezes. But it will work on a friends computer just not mine. I tried reinstalling samsung drivers but still same thing. All i can say is Dropbox is my best friend. About the only way i can get anything to my phone besides Email. Funny thing is bothadb pull and usb mode use to work fine.
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What are ur pc specs? I have the same problem. Push all day long but as soon as i pull same thing happens as you and device goes offline. What about USB storage mode? Curious cause also when i try that my explorer frrezes. But it will work on a friends computer just not mine. I tried reinstalling samsung drivers but still same thing. All i can say is Dropbox is my best friend. About the only way i can get anything to my phone besides Email. Funny thing is bothadb pull and usb mode use to work fine.
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All of what you said is exactly what I'm experiencing to the literal.
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Windows xp here. Prolly like SP 1 lol. I was thinking of updating to SP 3. Just to see if my xp needs a kick in the butt.
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Hey, guess what. ****ing samsung cable's is just a POS and my USB ports finally decided they didn't like it either. I grabbed another cable and my PC is fine. Adb pull works like a champ. USB mode doesn't freeze XP either. ****in' aye.
FIXED: The only thing I could not do was try a computer with a different operating system. Finally got to a friends Windows 7 32 bit and it worked on the first go. Thanks for the replies.
Hello Everyone,
I know there have been a few other threads very similar to this but I have tried everything and can't seem to get over the hump. I am an amateur at this but I was having trouble with my battery and reception so I wanted to try a different modem. During the Odin flash, the connection was interrupted. Now when I try to power it up it shows the computer to phone looking picture. I can access download mode but can't seem to get it through the process.
Please help. I have been trying all day to get ANYTHING back on there!
Try a differnt usb and redownload the tar
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Don't worry its not bricked, almost impossible. I've gotten the screen that you're talking about. Take off the battery and put it back on. The try going into download mode. Some times it takes more than once. Then try flashing with odin whatever modem you needed. 2 cents.
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Thanks for the replies. I've tried over and over again. I have literally been going at it all day and I need to have it for tomorrow. I'm really not sure why it won't budge.
Is there any other methods of flashing ROMs through download mode??/
Did you try reinstalling the drivers? A different port? Different cable? Different computer? Another download of the rom?
I have tried all of that. Unless I find something else to try my next step will be trying a different computer with a different operating system than Win 7 and try a different cord because I have been using two Samsung cable from different phones.
Take out the battery and leave it out. Plug in USB and go into dl mode.
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I have tried all of that. Unless I find something else to try my next step will be trying a different computer with a different operating system than Win 7 and try a different cord because I have been using two Samsung cable from different phones.
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That's probably the issue. Never, never use the stock samsung cord for flashing. It's worthless for anything but charging.
Glad to see you got it fixed Ala! Sorry I was stuck at work all day and no help. I TOLD you to wait til I got home. I imagine you'll be gung ho to do it all on your own now that you've managed your way through that nightmare!
I just bought my tmo s2 from craigslist and everything works fine except my computer will not pick up my phone in no other mode than just charge. I have installed all the samsung drivers (im not new to samsung i have owned many samsung phones) and also kies but when i connect my phone my computer just tells me "Unrecognized Device". I need help i dont want to be stuck on a stock phone. I dont know if flashing another rom will fix the problem with my phone. I beleive that the problem has to do with maybe a bad flash from the previous owner. Please Help!! I NEED EXPERT HELP!
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Does your phone detect that it's connected to a computer? (A USB symbol should show up in your notification bar when it is)
When you plug in the phone do 2 disk drives show up in "My Computer" on your comp?
yeah if you arent getting the usb symbol like the person above me described it could possibly be a hardware problem
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I just bought my tmo s2 from craigslist and everything works fine except my computer will not pick up my phone in no other mode than just charge. I have installed all the samsung drivers (im not new to samsung i have owned many samsung phones) and also kies but when i connect my phone my computer just tells me "Unrecognized Device". I need help i dont want to be stuck on a stock phone. I dont know if flashing another rom will fix the problem with my phone. I beleive that the problem has to do with maybe a bad flash from the previous owner. Please Help!! I NEED EXPERT HELP!
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Someone else had this problem and I read for you to use a toothbrush and brush your charger port it worked for the other few people
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No, my phone will charge but it will not detect that its connected to a computer. There's supposed to be an icon on the status bar but its not there
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Use a tooth brush and scrub the USB port. Had the exact problem when I bought mine from CL
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This is a known issue with this device. I bought mine from T-Mobile and the USB went out about two months after without any rough handling or damage to the phone.
If you've double checked the drivers you have installed there are a few other options you can try.
First, try switching cables. Whether you're using the one that came with your phone, or another, just try switching them out.
Switch computers. Sometimes a different computer will cause the device to attempt to install the drivers, thereby "waking up" the USB option.
Try dialing *#7284# A menu will (should) open. Under USB there will be two choices: modem and PDA. If modem is chosen click PDA, if PDA is ticked, then tick modem and then tick PDA again. You can either hit home or back out of the menu.
You can try the toothbrush, or a can of compressed air (like what you clean your keyboard with).
Others have had success with these things, unfortunately I did not. I eventually had mine replaced under warranty. I understand you may not have that option if these fixes don't work for you. I wonder if Samsung might be able to offer you a different, or discounted, solution?
Good luck.
Also, forgot to add you can try switching back and forth between USB debugging.
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I'll go ahead and try these solutions and see if it works
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After trying out all these solutions nothing worked. The anything thats left is to send back to samsung but i dont want to be without a phone for a week.
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After trying out all these solutions nothing worked. The anything thats left is to send back to samsung but i dont want to be without a phone for a week.
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I know it is not a fix, but if you learn to use ADB and use wireless ADB on your phone and an app like Android commander, you can copy files to your phone ...
Or there are Wi-Fi file apps that actually run a web server on your phone that let's you copy files ...
Might get you by until you can part with it to get it fixed ...
Or there is the 'ol get an adapter for the sd card, and copy files that way ..
Just some suggestions ...
But Yeah should have that fixed ......
Also , have you tried forcing the drivers to install on the "Unrecognized Device"? Sometimes windows gets stubborn and once unrecognized it never will be until you force the drivers ....
so, this morning i was trying to transfer files from my computer to my phone, and the connection randomly dropped. i received a notification
that my "samsung device hardware ids" are unrecognizable or something to that effect, and then nothing would transfer to my phone in any capacity..
i continually get an error saying "cannot transfer files, the device is not responding or has been unplugged"
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i toggled the mount as camera PTP option and back to MTP, which sometimes fixes it, same problem.
i thought it may have been the ROM i was on, (i had just flashed it) so i restored a backup (2 different ones actually), same problem.
thought it was my computer (windows 7) freaking out, so i rebooted. same problem, (although after the reboot, the invalid samsung hardware ids notification stopped appearing)
updated and rolled back drivers, same problem.
resorted to kies, thinking it would update or something, no dice.
it's weird because, my computer can see all my files, and so can kies. but i can't transfer anything in or out..
i honestly have no idea how i triggered this, i was simply transferring files like i always do. (and i am using the cable the phone came with)
i don't really want to odin back to stock just yet. considering i have no means of backing up what's on my phone to my computer, and there are things on there i haven't had a chance to back up...
any advice, or ideas i haven't tried, anything at all will help.
(i also did a search for my problem and didn't find any pertinent info to this specific problem, unless i overlooked something.. in which case, i'm sorry for the duplicate question )
My first recommendation would be to reinstall the drivers from Samsung's website. Then try another computer. All else fails, ODIN back to stock and try that. If that doesnt work, take laptop into T-Mobile and show them that its not working. Might be a hardware fault
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My first recommendation would be to reinstall the drivers from Samsung's website. Then try another computer. All else fails, ODIN back to stock and try that. If that doesnt work, take laptop into T-Mobile and show them that its not working. Might be a hardware fault
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hopefully it's not a hardware problem.. but i d/led the drivers from the samsung website, rebooted both my compy and my phone, same problem.. so i guess next step is to odin back... bummer.. and i would take my computer to them to show it not working.. except my computer is a rather large desktop rig... heh.. but thank you for your reply and advice. i'll update when i odin back, i suppose..
well... i guess i figured out the problem... upon odin-ing back to stock and trying transferring stuff again, it worked...
although, i must mention that i also found that one of the files i was trying to transfer had gotten corrupted somehow.. and was causing most of the errors, (a hurt-pride way to say, the corrupted file WAS the problem)... so.. basically caused a lot of problems myself, and came to the conclusion that it was operator error. thanks for the advise i got though. sorry for the inconvenience and the time spent reading and replying
Glad you got it figured out, but just for the future try sgs3 Easy UMS. Search it here on xda. Its an app that mounts external sdcard as UMS.
Also you could try a wireless transfer program like SwiFTP. I never transfer files via usb cable anymore.
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Glad you got it figured out, but just for the future try sgs3 Easy UMS. Search it here on xda. Its an app that mounts external sdcard as UMS.
Also you could try a wireless transfer program like SwiFTP. I never transfer files via usb cable anymore.
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Oh, thanks for the info, I'll look into that app and a wireless alternative see how it fares for me.
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Just noticed a couple things...SwiFTP is now on play store but is just called FTP Server now and is a paid app.
Here is the webpage for it and you can download a trial version there, this was all changed and app updated a few dats ago.
http://ppareit.github.com/swiftp/
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Oh alright, thanks again for giving me that info, its very helpful. Haven't been around a computer to try recently, but will do so when I am.
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I took my phone into the sprint store this evening because the usb port was starting to act up. The tech resoldered the connections and the phone started charging the way it was supposed to again. I had flashed FC09 modem, MTD stock deodexed and Marcusants nyan kernel that shows FC09 as the baseband. I did this of course so the tech could run his diagnostics and it wouldn't look out of the ordinary. The tech I worked with already knows I root and even remembered me from my last USB port replacement but that's another interesting story in of itself.
Anyway, when I got home I set about setting it back to my previous set-up. At this point my battery meter showed 70% before I restated into CWM. I started the restore proccess from CWM and put the phone in my pocket without even thinking since I had some work to do. I pulled the phone out about an hour later when I remembered it only to find a black screen. The phone had died somewhere in that hour or so. I thought it was no big deal and I would just charge it and all would be good. I connected it to the charger and got no lights of any sort and no reaction. I tried 4 different chargers all of which work perfectly with other phones in the house to no avail.
I then tried to hook it up to my computer and got no response when attempting to reach download mode with the only 2 data cables I have; one is a radioshak and the other is the stock sammy cable. I took the battery and SD out and let it sit for about an hour. I hooked the phone back up to the cable with no battery and attempted download mode with no response. I'm at a loss as for what to do now.
I can't get to download mode and I can't take it back to the sprint store because the guy I'm sure will just blame me for rooting my phone and messing with it.
Now what??????? Could I have actually bicked it with a CWM restore that maybe died in the middle? Or could he have ****ed up my USB port for data and now im screwed on Odin.
Edit: I forgot to add the tech did what he said was a full diagnostic on it before I left and he said it passed with flying colors.
There are a large amount of threads on restore a brick in the QA forum. Try using search terms like: "hard brick" to locate them. There are good posts in them that may be of assistance. I can't recall much of the info from memory, hence my search suggestion.
Next time you go to do anything in recovery, don't have anything planned for that 3-15mins. That phone should have been burning up your pocket with the restore and screen on the entire time. I'm not sure how you didn't notice it, lol.
Maybe the battery is dead and the port stopped working again, try a charged battery
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Sounds like the USB port went out again.
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Sounds like the USB port went out again.
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As far as I'm concerned this HAD to have been the problem. As you can see in OP I did most of the things listed in the brick threads along with the stickies.
I talked to someone on IRC about the possibility of making a download jig but my soldering person (my old man) wasn't available in time.
Sooooo. I took it back to the sprint store and simply did another TEP claim and had absolutely no troubles. In fact the guy apologized to me and said he's still getting better at his soldering skills. Not the first time I have had a USB port charge but give no data access after being soldered by them.
The batterry is fine and is sitting in the refurb epic I just got back today.
Now I have a new problem. I'm trying to root the new epic and am having trouble getting it recognized in Win 7 Pro X64. I d/l the latest drivers from thier website and have tried multiple different ways of install/uninstall including specifically giving it Admin priveleges. I have also tried unistalling drivers and installing keis using same method with same nogo.
After fiddling with SamSucks software I uninstalled all of it and d/l Heimdall.
I followed the directions in the readme.txt to install drivers and all it could find was unknown USB device which it couldn't install drivers for.
All install and uninstalls were done with restarts and ccleaner in between to make sure of complete deletion.
Could I have gotten another bad data port phone that only charges?
The only way that works every time for me is to turn on USB debugging, uminstall all drivers from the computer and then allow Windows update to search for drivers....can take like 30 minutes sometimes to get all that are needed but it always works for me.
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Now It seems like I'm not getting any data connection at all between the phone and computer. I'm on my third USB cord and I can't even get the phone to ask about mounting the SD card to transfer data to the computer. This just seems odd from a straight from Sprint refurb.
Edit: To make things even weirder I just hooked up my wife's Samsung feature phone and it gets recognized almost instantly.
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The only way that works every time for me is to turn on USB debugging, uminstall all drivers from the computer and then allow Windows update to search for drivers....can take like 30 minutes sometimes to get all that are needed but it always works for me.
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Now It seems like I'm not getting any data connection at all between the phone and computer. I'm on my third USB cord and I can't even get the phone to ask about mounting the SD card to transfer data to the computer. This just seems odd from a straight from Sprint refurb.
Edit: To make things even weirder I just hooked up my wife's Samsung feature phone and it gets recognized almost instantly.
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Did you try Kenny's method?
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The only way that works every time for me is to turn on USB debugging, uminstall all drivers from the computer and then allow Windows update to search for drivers....can take like 30 minutes sometimes to get all that are needed but it always works for me.
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By doing this I'm assuming you mean go into the device manager, selecting update driver, then Search automatically for updated driver software. Is this what you mean? I had tried this without USB debugging before your suggestion and got no dice. I just tried it with USB debugging and still no dice. Though it didn't take very long to fail so I could be doing something wrong.
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By doing this I'm assuming you mean go into the device manager, selecting update driver, then Search automatically for updated driver software. Is this what you mean? I had tried this without USB debugging before your suggestion and got no dice. I just tried it with USB debugging and still no dice. Though it didn't take very long to fail so I could be doing something wrong.
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No. Choose uninstall driver. Then if it fails try a different port. If it is a desktop computer then only use the ports in the rear.
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This is exactly what I have been doing. I have tried all 6 ports on the back with nothing plugged in and all 3 ports on my netbook. The odd part to me is no matter what port on what computer I plug into, the phone does not seem to recognize it is plugged into a usb port.
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This is exactly what I have been doing. I have tried all 6 ports on the back with nothing plugged in and all 3 ports on my netbook. The odd part to me is no matter what port on what computer I plug into, the phone does not seem to recognize it is plugged into a usb port.
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If you tried a total of 9 different ports then it sounds like a hardware issue on the Epic again.
I took the phone back to the sprint store thus evening and the tech had all the same problems I did. He tried several cords and ports to no avail. He ordered me another epic.
Its hard to believe they let these things out of the factory in such poor shape.
Here's to hoping I get a good one this time. *fingers crossed. I'm already so tired of stock rom, I miss my CM7.
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Eins7ein said:
I took the phone back to the sprint store thus evening and the tech had all the same problems I did. He tried several cords and ports to no avail. He ordered me another epic.
Its hard to believe they let these things out of the factory in such poor shape.
Here's to hoping I get a good one this time. *fingers crossed. I'm already so tired of stock rom, I miss my CM7.
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Guess ya never know lol. Good luck on the next one.
OMG I think I'm going to go nuts. I brought my fourth epic home last night and proceeded to odin CWM. Everything went perfect, or so I thought, as it said it passed. Now the damn thing is completely unresponsive and none of the tricks to get it into d/l mode work. How is this even possible. They did a battery of tests on it before I left the store and it passed. I didn't think Odin had the capability to mess up the phone this much. Any ideas on wth is going on are welcome at this point.
How old is your computer? Maybe its not sending all the data and maybe just a portion of it
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How old is your computer? Maybe its not sending all the data and maybe just a portion of it
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I'd have to agree with phonehunter59 on this one. It sounds like something is going wrong on the computer's end of things or maybe Odin.
It could also be the version of odin you are on, maybe it's too old
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Will I'm not sure what exactly went wrong but I did get into download mode finally. I used the old voodoo "magic button" coupled with pressing the power button. I was then able to enter download mode and flash. I think the problem this time was bad settings in Odin. I only unchecked restart and not everything else. As soon as I unchecked everything I was able to successfully flash CWM.
As for my computer, it's a QX6850 sitting on a 680i. About 6 or 7 years old or so, but it still gets the job done pretty good. OS is 64 bit windows 7. I used the version of Odin found in Kenny's rooting sticky in general.
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Will I'm not sure what exactly went wrong but I did get into download mode finally. I used the old voodoo "magic button" coupled with pressing the power button. I was then able to enter download mode and flash. I think the problem this time was bad settings in Odin. I only unchecked restart and not everything else. As soon as I unchecked everything I was able to successfully flash CWM.
As for my computer, it's a QX6850 sitting on a 680i. About 6 or 7 years old or so, but it still gets the job done pretty good. OS is 64 bit windows 7. I used the version of Odin found in Kenny's rooting sticky in general.
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Glad to hear you got things working