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[Q] Accidentally re-partitioned a samsung epic

I was using odin to flash something onto my epic, but me being a dumbass didnt uncheck repartition, which i heard is a death button, are there any fixes for
my late samsung epic? which will not turn on, or get into a download mode :/
i bought this august 30th last year, no extended warranty can i still call sammy?

Good luck man! Have you tried pulling the battery for a few minutes, up to a few hours? Then try putting it into download mode again...
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Unfortunately that didnt work :/

Just so u know before u get flamed this belongs in Q&A
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Im really sorry for that, i was just in a hurry to get this fixed, currently calling samsung.

This question is definately in the wong place. But I figured I save you some trouble.
You better thank MYSTERYEMOTIONZ for this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042746

Moved to Q&A.

wizzlewizzle said:
This question is definately in the wong place. But I figured I save you some trouble.
You better thank MYSTERYEMOTIONZ for this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042746
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Just picture me as a little bald boy holding a spoon...
There is no button.
Keeping the battery out for a while might work.
I've also heard that you can "jump start" your phone by taking the battery out and plugging in power while the battery is out, getting it to boot that way, then putting the battery in while it's on. That may only apply to a fully discharged battery, but if your phone is truly dead it's worth a try.

With the battery out, plug the phone into a computer and try to get into download mode. If you can you should be able to start Odin and even pop the battery back in.

maybe i'm missing something here,
but i thought you were supposed to check the re-partition box when ODIN back to stock.
Or at least, that's what i do everytime i odin back to stock and my phone is fine.

Dang it. There really is no button!

Repartition isn't something you want or need to use regularly, but it shouldn't cause problems like you describe unless you used a pit from another phone or something... sounds more like it was interupted during flashing of boot.bin or param.lfs or something...
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I HAVE A BUTTON
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It didn't work plugging into computer with no battery in phone and trying to get to download mode?

marcusant said:
I HAVE A BUTTON
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POIDH tenchars

Help with phone please

OK guys I was on FB17. I wanted to flash the deodexed version so I flashed the temp touch recovery. I went to wipe data and it froze. I held power down and the phone wouldn't go past the black samsung galaxy SII screen. So I went into download mode to Odin el29. It hangs on data.img everytime. I tried like 8 times( I Odin all the time and never had one fail before) so then I try the el29 that doesn't wipe data. It flashes fine but the phone boots into stock recovery and just gives errors saying data directory does not exist. How can I fix this? Sounds like my data partition is messed up and thats why Odin hangs on data.img
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Sorry to hear...but you might be screwed...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504808

Yeah, that's what happened to me. I had to take it in to a Sprint repair center, and even they couldn't fix it. I had to have mine swapped for a new one. Seems like the Touch CWM is borking data partitions.

blackroseMD1 said:
Yeah, that's what happened to me. I had to take it in to a Sprint repair center, and even they couldn't fix it. I had to have mine swapped for a new one. Seems like the Touch CWM is borking data partitions.
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This sucks. I even tried to use repartition with a pit file and it still hangs on data.img. I've never had this happen before. Like I said I've Odin with this phone like ten times and never had one fail.
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beserker15 said:
Sorry to hear...but you might be screwed...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504808
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Oh thanks I haven't seen that thread.
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I had the touch recovery that was included with the Hitman kernel and had no issues at all
blackroseMD1 said:
Yeah, that's what happened to me. I had to take it in to a Sprint repair center, and even they couldn't fix it. I had to have mine swapped for a new one. Seems like the Touch CWM is borking data partitions.
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Waow, you guys are like f**king iguanas, I don't even have time to reply to a post with no replies.... I had good time on the Photon forums, but DAMMNNNNNN! It's a good thing.....

dreDrennon1 said:
I had the touch recovery that was included with the Hitman kernel and had no issues at all
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Doesn't seem to happen to everyone, but everyone that I've talked to today that has bricked their phone has used CWM Touch right before doing so.

blackroseMD1 said:
Doesn't seem to happen to everyone, but everyone that I've talked to today that has bricked their phone has used CWM Touch right before doing so.
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U never got your phone recovered did u?
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Stock phone ota failed(white triangle, orange exclamation)

Bought an Epic today from an individual and esn was good, but went to activate and they did a hard reset and this put it back to stock. I received an ota and when battery had enough charge I hit update. About halfway through after it rebooted to update, it stopped and went to a white triangle with orange exclamation. I searched but on the mmobile app on xda it is less than accurate. So sorry if his has been answered.
Btw, guy said it hadn't been rooted before...so I don't know.
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maybe he lied?!... anyways.. try to boot into download mode by holding the UP botton on the side and the power button at the same time.. keep holding....keep holding.... ut should take you into dowbload mode.... once its there.. let go... puth the UP button one more time... ( just a click this time without the power button ) and it should say "downloading ".... if you can get this far..( wich you should)... then your in the clear.... next download a stock .TAR file and ODIN..( to your pc ) .....
load Odin.....once its up and running, connect your data cable and your oding program should show thays its connected.. now under PDA open the .tar file....click the box next to PDA. and then slick START........
URL="http://www.buildarom.com/E4GT/ICS/D710_CODE_SPH-D710.FB21_CL159837_REV02_user_w_Sbl_EG31.tar
Sit back...
and wait.....
FIXED!!!
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I'm taking it into Sprint tomorrow because I already have a ticket written up on it. If not then your advice is my best bet. Thank you! What is the most recent stock file, btw?
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HareyCarey said:
I'm taking it into Sprint tomorrow because I already have a ticket written up on it. If not then your advice is my best bet. Thank you! What is the most recent stock file, btw?
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EL29 is the latest (OTA) build, read about installing here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
I also recommend flashing the modem with it (not required) but you may see an improvement in signal strength, speed, battery life, etc... after flashed

HareyCarey said:
Bought an Epic today from an individual and esn was good, but went to activate and they did a hard reset and this put it back to stock. I received an ota and when battery had enough charge I hit update. About halfway through after it rebooted to update, it stopped and went to a white triangle with orange exclamation. I searched but on the mmobile app on xda it is less than accurate. So sorry if his has been answered.
Btw, guy said it hadn't been rooted before...so I don't know.
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If you want to see why the OTA was failing (ie what files were modified or removed), you can use Option E in the Auto Root sticky and choose the appropriate OTA compliance check, EG30 or EK02.

sfhub said:
If you want to see why the OTA was failing (ie what files were modified or removed), you can use Option E in the Auto Root sticky and choose the appropriate OTA compliance check, EG30 or EK02.
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Unfortunately, at the moment, I do not have access to a computer that I can use to download Odin to and use...story of my life..so I am trying to find someone in my area that does and that has this phone that would be willing to help for now if Sprint won't replace it today(second time I will have had to go to that blasted repair center(read:total joke))
...yo dawg we heard you like parenthesis..
Couldn't resist..

HareyCarey said:
Unfortunately, at the moment, I do not have access to a computer that I can use to download Odin to and use...story of my life..so I am trying to find someone in my area that does and that has this phone that would be willing to help for now if Sprint won't replace it today(second time I will have had to go to that blasted repair center(read:total joke))
...yo dawg we heard you like parenthesis..
Couldn't resist..
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You don't need ODIN to run the OTA compliance check. You don't even need a computer. You just need to download the scripts to your phone and run them.

They used Odin at the store to push the EL29 update...buuut...now I want to root lol. Have to wait until I get my computer back.
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Ah, ok, understand now.

Is the general consensus that Calkulin's is the most stable to try run at the moment
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HareyCarey said:
Is the general consensus that Calkulin's is the most stable to try run at the moment
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It is one of them but the top 3 IMO are Strongsteves Odexed blue, Phantom Hackers Blazer rom and Calkulins. They are all great but those 3 i mentioned I found to be just flawless and run the best on my device.

[Q] 4G Broken!.... What gives???

Im currently running cm9b0 with the phantom vm fix no custom kernel, everything was running awesome but for some reason I can't lock on to 4G anymore. Just says "disconnected" tried flashing b0 and gaaps with a cache/dalvik wipe but still the same? anyone have an idea on what to try next? would like to avoid a full wipe since everything is just the way I like it. Once in a while I shut data off to save battery but thats all on and 3G works fine, Even toggled airplane mode on and off a couple time with no change. Any help is much appreciated

I'm running CM9b1 and haven't been able to get a 4G lock yet. I have good 4g at the house, but it just scans and never finds the network.
Edit: Played with the 4g toggles for about 15 minutes and then finally got a notification in the status bar followed by a 4G tower connect. It stayed connected for just under 2 minutes, disconnected itself, and I haven't been able to get it to connect since.

Could it possibly be my modem?
I've restored old nandroids and still the same, could it be my hardware out maybe my carrier? I'm at a loss
sent from one bad ass epic

svfreddy said:
Could it possibly be my modem?
I've restored old nandroids and still the same, could it be my hardware out maybe my carrier? I'm at a loss
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Your best bet is to odin stock EL30 tar firmware and see if it works there. If it does then move forward from there checking it each step. This happened to me once before.
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kennyglass123 said:
Your best bet is to odin stock EL30 tar firmware and see if it works there. If it does then move forward from there checking it each step. This happened to me once before.
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I odin'd back to ec05 and 4g worked again, rooted and flashed cm9b0 then restored data and phone is back to normal.... Thanks!!!

svfreddy said:
I odin'd back to ec05 and 4g worked again, rooted and flashed cm9b0 then restored data and phone is back to normal.... Thanks!!!
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You are welcome. Been there myself.

Having trouble with SMS issues please help!!!

I'm sure this question has been answered b4 and I'm sorry. So just hear me out. I've had problems over the past week with getting my phone to receive SMS and calls. I can make calls but I'm not able to receive them. I was on the phone with the sprint the other night and they were doing all these things to try and fix it. They had me do dial pad codes and my phone did not respond to those. They had me send some SMS messages to myself the text went through but didn't go back to my phone. And when I reflashed the modem and rom on Sunday afternoon I lost 3g I used to get almost 5-6 bars in my house on 3g and now I barely get 1 bar. I am on Stock Gb27 rooted stock kernel but I was on agats Gb27. I need help I would like to avoid getting a new phone. Thank you in advanced
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Jared King said:
I'm sure this question has been answered b4 and I'm sorry. So just hear me out. I've had problems over the past week with getting my phone to receive SMS and calls. I can make calls but I'm not able to receive them. I was on the phone with the sprint the other night and they were doing all these things to try and fix it. They had me do dial pad codes and my phone did not respond to those. They had me send some SMS messages to myself the text went through but didn't go back to my phone. And when I reflashed the modem and rom on Sunday afternoon I lost 3g I used to get almost 5-6 bars in my house on 3g and now I barely get 1 bar. I am on Stock Gb27 rooted stock kernel but I was on agats Gb27. I need help I would like to avoid getting a new phone. Thank you in advanced
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When you went back to stock did you update you're pro and profile...and what modem did you flash..

Gil81 said:
When you went back to stock did you update you're pro and profile...and what modem did you flash..
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Well I was already on Stock Rooted GB27 and was having problems so I tried to Odin GB27 to fix it and factory reset through stock recovery and then update the prl and profile but that didn't fix it. And I've tried reflashing GB27 modem but that doesn't work either.
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Jared King said:
Well I was already on Stock Rooted GB27 and was having problems so I tried to Odin GB27 to fix it and factory reset through stock recovery and then update the prl and profile but that didn't fix it. And I've tried reflashing GB27 modem but that doesn't work either.
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The signal issue is a funny thing to work out...I would try going back to stock ICS and ICS modem...before that you should make sure no tower work is going on in you're area.. ..if you go to ICS update prl/profile .... Check signal...then proceed to gb27.....rom and modem or another job modem...just my thoughts...let me know how it goes..

K thanks man! I will do that but it won't be till later tonight. I probably won't be able to Post results till tomorrow afternoon.
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Zo i did what you said. I'm currently on fl24 and am still having problems. Wtf is going on. Sorry this is pissing me off now. I did prl and all that in ics and it hasn't done anything
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I'm getting a new E4GT
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Gil81 said:
The signal issue is a funny thing to work out...I would try going back to stock ICS and ICS modem...before that you should make sure no tower work is going on in you're area.. ..if you go to ICS update prl/profile .... Check signal...then proceed to gb27.....rom and modem or another job modem...just my thoughts...let me know how it goes..
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So I did what you said. It only fixed it for a day. Only ##722136# works in Gb27 dialer. Before it didn't. Would I be able to install ICS dialer apk and not mess up the JB dialer. I might have to get a new phone if it keeps this up and if I do which phone should I get.
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Jared King said:
So I did what you said. It only fixed it for a day. Only ##722136# works in Gb27 dialer. Before it didn't. Would I be able to install ICS dialer apk and not mess up the JB dialer. I might have to get a new phone if it keeps this up and if I do which phone should I get.
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i dont think the ics dialer idea would work...you can keep trying different modems and see what happens or tell sprint that they suck and demand an airave..they will probaly charge you for it..
As for which phone to get...there is no way for me to answer that man...But i'll tell you this. When i get my next phone it will be the water/dust resistent S4..But i dont see a new phone helping the signal..
You could change you're prl to a roaming one..there are guides here and there online..But this only works for sprint not boost..If you're on sprint..a custom prl would be my move..

Gil81 said:
i dont think the ics dialer idea would work...you can keep trying different modems and see what happens or tell sprint that they suck and demand an airave..they will probaly charge you for it..
As for which phone to get...there is no way for me to answer that man...But i'll tell you this. When i get my next phone it will be the water/dust resistent S4..But i dont see a new phone helping the signal..
You could change you're prl to a roaming one..there are guides here and there online..But this only works for sprint not boost..If you're on sprint..a custom prl would be my move..
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Signal isn't the problem. I have 2 sprint towers in my area closest one is 1/4-1/2 mile down the road from my house.
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Oh yeah and I am on sprint
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Jared King said:
Oh yeah and I am on sprint
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well..then before you go flashing a custom prl and having sprint freak if you use to much roaming data..lol
I would odin a one-click back to stock rooted ics...you might have something left over from rom flashes messing with you're signal. Make sure you back everything up on you're pc...because you need to use the wipe data one-click..i think its called ''no data''. I'll look to make sure.
edit..nope. Its full restore...not nodata..im a dummy..

Gil81 said:
well..then before you go flashing a custom prl and having sprint freak if you use to much roaming data..lol
I would odin a one-click back to stock rooted ics...you might have something left over from rom flashes messing with you're signal. Make sure you back everything up on you're pc...because you need to use the wipe data one-click..i think its called ''no data''. I'll look to make sure.
edit..nope. Its full restore...not nodata..im a dummy..
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Ya know I'm not trying to annoy you dude. But screw it I'll just use a different app for SMS for now. I'm just gonna save up for a new phone. And get a job at the sprint store right by my highschool lol. Employees get new phones for free.
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Jared King said:
Ya know I'm not trying to annoy you dude. But screw it I'll just use a different app for SMS for now. I'm just gonna save up for a new phone. And get a job at the sprint store right by my highschool lol. Employees get new phones for free.
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lol..im not annoyed...hope you get it worked out...
Sorry..i seen you have signal now..ive been jumping around and helping others in about 3 different forums. If you're problem is just sms or mms. I would wipe the cache for the sms app in app manager. Then boot to recovery and wipe cache and dalvik cache.Reboot. If it is still wonky..try checking you're apn settings..if they are wrong.change them and reboot.

Should I just look online to see if they're wrong.
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