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Is it dead?

Hi all,
I tried updating my galaxy s2 with ICS with Odin, but it failed. Now i get nothing but this message: "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
The problem is that neither Kies or Odin will recognize the phone. It will not go into download mode using the traditional method of holding volume down + power. My PC also does not detect the phone.
Is it dead?! I've tried reading, but no one seems to have absolutely no access to their phone. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

As always, uninstall kies then install it again.If you did flash stock ics and you have sd card, put siyah kernel ( as I think it is signed) and almost any rom there, put sd card to phone and try to boot into recovery ( power+home+ vol up) then install siyah, reboot and hold same keys and install the rom you downloaded
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Mak: Thanks for the suggestions.
I uninstalled and then installed Kies. Neither Kies nor my PC detects the phone. I tried another computer and do not get detection there either.
I cannot get into recovery (volume up + power + home) or into download (vol down + pwr).
I do not have an SD card, unfortunately.
What else can I try?!

Then you need jig to get your phone working again.
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baktash said:
Hi all,
I tried updating my galaxy s2 with ICS with Odin, but it failed. Now i get nothing but this message: "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
The problem is that neither Kies or Odin will recognize the phone. It will not go into download mode using the traditional method of holding volume down + power. My PC also does not detect the phone.
Is it dead?! I've tried reading, but no one seems to have absolutely no access to their phone. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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do you used intratech firmwares or from other sources?

so i realized that I tried to flash the wrong fw. my phone is the epic 4g touch for sprint. i tried to put ics on there.
how likely is it that the jig will work? i will order it if it is meant to address the problem i'm having. even with the jig putting my phone into download mode, how can i load anything if my computer will not recognize the phone?
i might have just bricked the phone. how likely is it that the sprint store will try to fix it for me?

Wrong forum. Ask here.
If they notice what you did to it, you'll be paying for it to be fixed. Maybe. You might also be lucky. Jig won't work, nand is borked. Return to service center or JTAG repair.

I think you're right. I'll try to get lucky at the sprint store tomorrow. If no luck, then on to a JTAG'er (any recommendations?).
The link you posted is for epic 4g, not epic 4g touch. I know, confusing. Probably why I'm having this issue to begin with.
Thanks again for the help!

Odia does jtag's and he seems to be pretty good at it
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Yep Makrilli is right, Odia is a good choice. Or these guys. Haven't used them, but people on XDA have.

I got this message before, too. It happened when I plugged in to the bad cord I had. Odin recognized it until it was in the middle of flashing. Are you sure it won't go back to Odin? Mine did. I'm using it now. I don't think a jtag is what you need, unless you want to give them a really easy one? Good luck!

I had a similar issue, but kernel(rogue touch kernel) had a bad flash. It would play the boot animation and shut off. I couldn't get into CWM or download mode(they both did boot animation and shut off). I let it sit for two hours(at work and could only try on break). On my second break I repeatedly try download mode and after about 20 tries it opened up download mode. Good luck
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Thanks for the suggestions on Jtag'ers.
Kill and Atticus: I tried repeatedly to put it into download or recovery mode. It just won't do it. And even if it did, my PC doesn't detect the phone at all. So it would be useless to have the phone in download or recovery modes anyways. The phone won't even charge while connect to the PC.
I haven't made my way out to Sprint yet, but will be doing so in a few hours. I'm betting they're going to send me home with my tail between my legs. I'll then check with Amazon to see if there's some kind of manufacturer's warranty I can take advantage of. Then, Jtag as a last resort.
If anyone has any suggestions, please share. Thanks!

OK. I talked with a Samsung technician (my phone is still in warranty) who said that the phone is acting up. He sent me a UPS label to ship it to Samsung for free repair or replacement. They said it'll take about a week. Hopefully they don't say it's my fault and refuse to repair it. Hope I get lucky.

[Q] Firmware Update Failed, Battery low!! Can't Download

I first rooted my phone and then I attempted to download Ice Cream Sandwich on my Sprint Samsung Galaxy s2 4g Touch. During the download to my phone (using odin) my computer said that the update failed. My phone is saying "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." When I try to connect my phone to my computer, it will not detect it at all. And when I tried to put my phone in download mode, the upper left hand corner says Low Battery!! Can't Download in red letters (even when it is plugged into my computer). My LED light is also flashing blue. I just wanna restore my phone to factory settings or whatever I can do to make it work again. Thanks in advance for any help, it is really appreciated.

You should have read more....
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STLBleedBlue said:
I first rooted my phone and then I attempted to download Ice Cream Sandwich on my Sprint Samsung Galaxy s2 4g Touch. During the download to my phone (using odin) my computer said that the update failed. My phone is saying "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." When I try to connect my phone to my computer, it will not detect it at all. And when I tried to put my phone in download mode, the upper left hand corner says Low Battery!! Can't Download in red letters (even when it is plugged into my computer). My LED light is also flashing blue. I just wanna restore my phone to factory settings or whatever I can do to make it work again. Thanks in advance for any help, it is really appreciated.
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I got that message before and just knew I was screwed but I did some reading before panicking and these are the steps I took to recover from it.
Before you start pop out your sd card (hopefully you have an adapter or another device you can use to load stuff onto the card.
Put your phone on the wall charger for at least an hour to get some juice into the battery.
While the battery is charging go find a ROM you can flash via recovery as well as the el26 cwm kernel.
Then pop out your sd card and load the EL26 cwm kernel and ROM onto the sd card. (I would suggest maybe something from Calkulin or sfhub for ease)
Hold volume up + power to get into recovery mode, which you can still hopefully do.
Flash the el26cwm kernel and then the ROM.
Reboot
With any luck when you reboot your phone should come up.
Good luck.

It won't let me into recovery mode unfortunately.

STLBleedBlue said:
It won't let me into recovery mode unfortunately.
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Well that sucks. I'm unsure what else you can try.
I assume you've pulled the battery then tried to go into recovery and/or Odin?
Have you tried other cables, usb ports or computers? Re-downloaded the drivers?

Sounds like u tried to Odin the international ICS. U will need to look into jtag service or having the device replaced via TEP, insurance or a warranty replacement. Like fryingpan said you should have done more research before trying to install custom firmware.
We are legion, for we are many.

you might be able to fix it with jtag
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It would help to know what file you were trying to flash. Where did you find it?

STLBleedBlue said:
It won't let me into recovery mode unfortunately.
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DID you CHARGED IT for at least AN HOUR as Eso recommend you? if not then plug it in to a wall and wait then try download mode again because is telling you NO BATTERY NO JUICE available. 20 minutes is not enough to get some juice to perform an ODIN Flash.

[Q] Possible brick?

Hey there. I've just recently screwed up my phone. (E4GT) Earlier today I was out and about and haven't been home to charge my phone. My battery died. I got home, plugged it up and got a blue flashing light, that flashed every 4 seconds. I figured it could be a battery problem. I left it there to attempt to charge for about an hour and was eventually able to turn it on.
I was planning on taking it to best buy tomorrow to get another battery. So, I powered off my device, loaded download mode and plugged my phone into the USB port of my laptop. My laptop wouldn't recognize my device. I began trying every USB port on my laptop and got nothing. I also tried my desktop and got nothing. I even re-installed drivers and no avail.
I figured I'd go into recovery and do a full wipe and reflash my ROM. (CM9) Incase you are wondering, I am using chris41g Safe CWM6. I have successfully flashed 3 ROMs using his kernel/recovery. I after I reflashed, I got bootlooped. I pulled battery after about 15 min. and tried powering on again. This time I got stuck at splash screen and it didn't go any further. I pulled battery again after about 15 min. and tried going into recovery, and I couldn't get into recovery. I can into download mode but my laptop and my desktop can't recognize my device. So now I'm stuck at splash screen. I've tried everything I possibly could have tried. I tried ODIN, Recovery, ADB, and I can't get anywhere.
Think I bricked?

I don't think you are bricked, at least not hard bricked "phone turns on but only blue light flashes once" is a hard brick. It sounds like things got weird when the phone discharged. Possible a kernal bug? Have tried any of the one clicks to ff18 or el29 or something? Because if your phone can get into download mode , you're technically not bricked.
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SkippyDogg said:
I don't think you are bricked, at least not hard bricked "phone turns on but only blue light flashes once" is a hard brick. It sounds like things got weird when the phone discharged. Possible a kernal bug? Have tried any of the one clicks to ff18 or el29 or something? Because if your phone can get into download mode , you're technically not bricked.
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Phone won't recognize Laptop or Desktop at all. Even after I reinstalled drivers. Even tried my roommates laptop. Got nothing.

I had the SAME problem on CM9 I was running it for weeks flawlessly then all of the sudden my comp stopped recognizing it. I thought my usb port went bad but I ended up just flashing a different rom, Super nova rom actually and it was back to working flawlessly. If you cant connect the phone to pc to transfer a file to the sd card try using another device like a digital camera or something to transfer the rom. Then flash. That fixed me right up.Damn I didnt realize you said you can no longer get into recovery. Have you tried maually getting into recovery? Power + volume up when phone is off? Try every way you can.

What RB said. You should put everything you need on external SD. If you do not have an SD card reader (so you can read/write to it on a PC), you should get one!

tdunham said:
What RB said. You should put everything you need on external SD. If you do not have an SD card reader (so you can read/write to it on a PC), you should get one!
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I fixed my problem. I went out and bought another cord for USB port. Guessing all 5 my cords are faulty! Phone is working again now. I restored back to EL29. Just did the OTA to ICS again too. Now I just need to get a new battery.
RB, I've been running CM9 Alpha 6 for about 6-7 days and my phone JUST started to act up. I had the same thing as you but the only thing was I couldn't get into the recovery. Only download mode. Atleast I fixed her.
Mod can close this.

SAMSUNG epic 4g stuck on boot screen after trying to restore Stock Rom

I was running CM10 but I got a message whenever I got into the Camera App that said "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped working", after a research in here I found that I wouldn't get that msg again if I installed this "gapps-jb-picasa-20121011-signed" thing.
I did, but when I got into my Camera App, I didn't have the other options like "Image Effects" and all that stuff.
So, what I did was to Restore my phone from my BackUp folder that I've created before installing CM10, but for my surprise I got a msg saying "VolumeError" or something like that and other things that I can't really remember... and as a good Mexican that I am, I ignored it and hit the Reboot System Now..
What happened next almost made me cry...
I was expecting to get in my stock rom without any problems and yadda yadda but... OH SURPRISE!
I got stuck on the boot screen, where it says "Samsung" and the website of it and I didn't freak out... I waited like 5-6 mins and took the battery out. When I turned again, I tried to get in Recovery Mode but the screen just kept turning off and on and saying the exact same thing, the "Samsung" logo and it's website.
I hope you can help me and please answer me. I don't know if I'm 1000000% screwed but I will only wait for the worst. Sorry for my bad english and don't hate me for being mexican
I don't know if I can get into my phone from my PC but whenever I plug my phone in, it just loads it as if it was in Charging Mode
PLEASE HELP ME!
I BEG YOU!

Flash again CM10 with wipe data, cache, dalvik
If still stuck
Odin to stock ROM, you can search on google to odin the epic
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Like @dropple said, it seems you stuck "SAMSUNG" and in this case you can't get into recovery so you can't flash CM10 as of now. Go find some tutorials and Odin back to stock via download mode. Then install CWM recovery if you want and do whatever you like. Should get you outta trouble.
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AndyYan said:
Like @dropple said, it seems you stuck "SAMSUNG" and in this case you can't get into recovery so you can't flash CM10 as of now. Go find some tutorials and Odin back to stock via download mode. Then install CWM recovery if you want and do whatever you like. Should get you outta trouble.
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Thanks to Everyone!
I solved this like 2 hrs after all this happened.
I got it by Odin. I couldn't go into Recovery Mode, but I got in Download Mode and do it by Odin.
Sorry, I'm a n00b to all this.
Greetings from México and thanks for all your support.

Here's a weird one for you,
Same thing as OP stated. Device is stuck on logo. Can't get into CWM. Was on People's Rom. Device was lagging really bad. Then the system requested superuser permissions. Yes the system requested. Being as I did not request it, I declined. Shut the device down to see if that would help with the extremely bad lag (i mean BAD lag. Like..........................ok it does something then.......................................................................ok it does something else. 10-20 seconds lag)
Connect device to computer to Odin back to Stock or whatever ROM would have worked, computer recognizes device..... wait for it.......
But in download mode Odin does not see it. Com Port will not illuminate. Tried 3 different cables. Tried 6 different USB ports on computer. Still nothing.
Any ideas, because I'm all out?!?

To the OP:
I would follow the instructions in this video from the part where qbking77 talks about putting the phone in download mode, as you presumably did when you first rooted your phone. Download all the files linked/referenced on the site, especially the Samsung mobile drivers, Odinv3 1.87, CWMRecovery, and the deOxed versions of the stock ROM. In sum:
1) get into recovery mode by holding onto the volume down, camera buttons, and then without letting either of those go, press and hold the power button.
if you get into recovery mode, skip to step 4
2) while your phone is completely off, hold onto the "1" button on the slide out keyboard first, then without letting the 1 button go, press and hold the power button until you're in download mode.
3) flash the version of Clockworkmod
4) once in recovery mode, wipe your phone, clear the cache, and dalvik cache, and then flash the deOxed version of the stock ROM
niteNarmor said:
Here's a weird one for you,
Same thing as OP stated. Device is stuck on logo. Can't get into CWM. Was on People's Rom. Device was lagging really bad. Then the system requested superuser permissions. Yes the system requested. Being as I did not request it, I declined. Shut the device down to see if that would help with the extremely bad lag (i mean BAD lag. Like..........................ok it does something then.......................................................................ok it does something else. 10-20 seconds lag)
Connect device to computer to Odin back to Stock or whatever ROM would have worked, computer recognizes device..... wait for it.......
But in download mode Odin does not see it. Com Port will not illuminate. Tried 3 different cables. Tried 6 different USB ports on computer. Still nothing.
Any ideas, because I'm all out?!?
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Do you have the mobile drivers installed on the computer you're trying to connect your phone to?

Yes. The drivers have been installed previously. The computer will see the device as "Samsung SPH-D700 Card USB Device". But Odin3 1.85 will not see it.
EDIT: When I put device into download mode and connect to computer, the computer only sees it as "Gadget Serial".

niteNarmor said:
Yes. The drivers have been installed previously. The computer will see the device as "Samsung SPH-D700 Card USB Device". But Odin3 1.85 will not see it.
EDIT: When I put device into download mode and connect to computer, the computer only sees it as "Gadget Serial".
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Uninstall and reinstall drivers.
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Have already done that. But just for laughs, I did do it again with no change.

can you get your D700 into download mode as described above?

Yes I can get into download mode but without Odin recognizing the device (not computer. The computer recognizes the device) there is not much I can do.

niteNarmor said:
Yes I can get into download mode but without Odin recognizing the device (not computer. The computer recognizes the device) there is not much I can do.
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Try to install another version of Odin or getting Odin from a different server.
My phone is fully recovered and now I'm only SuperUser 'cause I don't want any CM by now.
Greetings from Mexico!

I'm using the same version of Odin I used to root the device. Would a different version really help and if so, what version to use?
I actually have a different version of Odin I used for another device and tried that one as well, with no luck.
EDIT: I have now downloaded and tried 4 different Odin programs with no avail. Again, that makes 6 Odin programs, 6 different USB ports, 3 different cables with the same exact results. The computer recognizes device but Odin will not.

niteNarmor said:
I'm using the same version of Odin I used to root the device. Would a different version really help and if so, what version to use?
I actually have a different version of Odin I used for another device and tried that one as well, with no luck.
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Had a simular issue when I had two odins on the same computer, for a lark and as I had nothing better to do, tried installing drivers and one version of odin to a vertual machine running vista and checked to see if my computer's vertual machine would reconize and it did, I took it as a sine that at one point I had done something to my computer's main os sometime between rooting my epic 4g and frying it (recovering from a backup from a different parition layout I think, bad times with bootloops and seeing way to much of the samsung logo.) So as I'm not brave enough to run odin on vm I instead removed all of odin from my main os and all of the samsung drivers, then reinstalled rebooted and repluged my epic in, got reconition and reflashed with plesure.
The other issue might be that your computer is reconizing the device and try/failing/hanging and not allowing odin in. Had an issue when my computer was failing to pop up a 'what do I do with this' window and hanging round in the system. A reboot with the internet unpluged strangely solved that for some reason, might be the reboot might be the combo, but I find better connection reconition with my computer when I've fewer things connected.
Don't mind the spelling to much I clean up with my other device.
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One question I noticed that hasn't been asked is when you plug the phone into the computer while the phone is on, is usb debugging checked? If not, check it, and reinstall drivers again.
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jeffreyjicha said:
One question I noticed that hasn't been asked is when you plug the phone into the computer while the phone is on, is usb debugging checked? If not, check it, and reinstall drivers again.
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Phone does not boot past the "Samsung - www.samsung.com" logo. Plus, as with all of my devices, USB debugging is always checked.
Thanks for the suggestion though. Always helps to double check things.
I believe I am going to take it to Sprint tomorrow.
If I can't get into it, they should not be able to get into to it either. If they can't get into it, HELLO WARRANTY....

Perhaps before doing the whole getting found out thing with the return center, perhaps they do know what they're doing, try rolling this link past your eyes?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773032
I know I've been in your boot problem situation and recovered, it just took persistence and eyenumbing amounts of reading.
Note On the multiple Odin, USB, and driver installation: if you've access to another computer it could be worth wile to run once though on a previously virgin computer, meaning your phone and computers' USB's have never touched. Just do the installation, rebooting, and plugging in exasperatingly meticulous order.
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"it never hurts to help"

Yep tried the "virgin computer" computer as well. The computer sees the device but Odin does not. Com light will not illuminate.

Sounds grim.
So to rap up all the cables, plugs, computer, and software with odin is out of the debug process.
So I did some digging into the past and if your computer is reconizing and odin is not then ADB (android debug bridge) and the sdk are the other option
http://forums.androidcentral.com/epic-4g-rooting-roms-hacks/33427-how-access-your-adb-shell.html
Ran across this and it might just be what you need. Its not quick but it has worked for me in the past.
The other thing that may work is ejecting the sd card and battery before doing anything. Though its likely something you've already tried.
Sent from either my SPH-D700 or myTouch3Gs using XDA app
"it never hurts to help"

Phone keeps going into Download mode

Oye.... So my brother's girlfriend's T989 (Same model as myself) did the kies update to 4.1.2. All was well for a little while, but now every time she plugs her phone in (I believe just into the computer, but need to verify) it goes into download mode. The phone additionally does random reboots and crashes.. All is stock, no root. I had her use the stock recovery to wipe the cache and factory reset, and still not working.
I RDP'd to her PC and tried to ODIN to stock, but since it automagically goes into download mode when you plug it in, I'm not sure how it's communicating with ODIN and if it's even taking the flash.
Any thoughts, or anyone seen this before? The worst thing is she lives 6 hours away, so everything I do is a walkthrough or RDP.
Let me know if anyone has any suggestions..
Thanks!

I find that I get that download mode issue if I'm not using the charger and cable that came with the phone.
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Dugan1017 said:
I find that I get that download mode issue if I'm not using the charger and cable that came with the phone.
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I've read that before... I'm going to verify