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restoring Continuum to stock DL17

DOWNGRADE BEFORE I COULD UPGRADE
I had to jump through a lot of hoops to help a friend upgrade their Samsung Continuum (on Verizon) to the new Froyo 2.2.2 (EC09). I had previously rooted the phone, which was still on DL17, and that was now crashing the official upgrade. So I thought I'd document what finally worked, for anyone else who's struggling with the same. Not guaranteeing my procedure will work, of course.
Mostly, I've summarized and rewritten the other instructions I found buried in and amongst the other discussion threads. After successfully restoring 'stock' the official Froyo upgrade finally worked.
PRE-REQUISITES
- locate the thread, [DEV] Continuum DataBase [EC09][DL17][EC03][EC07]
- download the following files:
Samsung i400 USB driver
"DL17 Factory stock rom+radio+kernel (odex) all in one odin flash"
(the resulting unzipped file is 'Continuum-Stock-DL17.tar.md5')
ODIN flash-tool
- download the updated "EC07" PIT file (the "DL17" PIT didn't work for me!)
Samsung_I500_VZW_PIT.PIT
PROCEDURE
Install the Samsung i400 USB drivers
Remove battery from phone (not sure if this is necessary but some threads advised it, and after several failed attempts I was desperately trying everything. In any case, it didn't interfere with a successful imaging!)
Connect the phone on USB
Hold VOL-DOWN plus PWR buttons until the built-in 'Flashing' screen appears (should be immediate)
Confirm that the computer detected the phone over USB
If not, re-run the Samsung USB Driver install and select 'Repair')
run ODIN
Confirm that there is a yellow 'COM' status showing in the top-left.
If not, ODIN isn't connected to the phone!
Click on 'PIT' button and select the 'Samsung_I500_VZW_PIT.PIT'
UNCHECK the checkbox option for 'Re-partition'
Click on 'PDA' button and select the 'Continuum-Stock-DL17.tar.md5' file
Click START
You should see a steady stream of status updates in the bottom-left window as well as a progress bar in the top-left (labeled "factoryfs")
The update should take about 10 minutes, then the phone will reboot. The reboot takes about 2 minutes and there is nothing shown on the phone!
NOTES
I originally tried using the (DL17) 'SCH-i4000-VZW-Continuum.pit' but it didn't work.
I also tried it both with and without the re-partition option; neither worked
At one point the phone stopped being recognized on USB. I simply re-ran the Samsung USB Driver install and selected 'Repair'. Then the phone was recognized again.

Cannot boot t999

My t999 is running on root box custom ROM. I can tell this ROM is quite stable but after 3 weeks of using, I turned off the phone and now it won't boot up. I didn't flash or anything. It still vibrates if I try to turn on with the power button. Any idea what happen?

Is it plugged into a charger port? Unplug after letting it charge for 10 minutes, hold power until vibrate let go. If not that then might be the recently popular dying S III issue.

Update. it doesnt let me boot into safe or download mode.

mt3g said:
Is it plugged into a charger port? Unplug after letting it charge for 10 minutes, hold power until vibrate let go. If not that then might be the recently popular dying S III issue.
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I was able to get in download mode. Is there any way I can reset factory in download mode? I can't get into recovery though

vietthanh1206 said:
I was able to get in download mode. Is there any way I can reset factory in download mode? I can't get into recovery though
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Just use odin from there, read up and do the process. Make sure you have it on the charger while it's sitting. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687

re: sure fix
vietthanh1206 said:
I was able to get in download mode. Is there any way I can reset factory in download mode? I can't get into recovery though
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This guide will get your phone back up and running properly
Follow the instructions below.
Easy and sure way fix your problem - Here is s step by step guide:
Download this pre-rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 T999 Jellybean v4.1.2 rom: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=22946563261203914
After downloading make a folder on your computer's desktop and unzip the
file using Winzip or 7zip so the .TAR file is in the new folder you just made.
Download and extract Odin into the same folder you made containing the TAR file
Here is the link for Odin: http://d-h.st/Q14
Download ODIN which is required for flashing the stock rooted firmware (a windows app)
Download the Odin Flash firmware for T999 Tmobile then copy it to the same folder as Odin
Run Odin by double clicking the Odin.exe within the same folder as the TAR file you extracted
Turn off your phone and boot into DOWNLOAD MODE (Volume Down + Home + Power Hold until phone powers up, then release and press Volume Up to enter Download Mode)
Once in Download Mode, connect the USB/Charger cable to the phone and plug into the USB port on your computer.
You should now see a COM** port listed toward the top-left of Odin (under ID:COM)
Click on the PDA button in the middle-right area of Odin.
Browse to and select the Firmware you downloaded (TAR file)
Make sure Auto-Reboot and F. Reset Time are the only options checked and that PDA is the only other thing checked.
TRIPLE CHECK your settings and that you have selected the correct firmware for your model phone and are using the correct options.
If you are using a laptop, make absolutely sure you are plugged in, or if on battery, that it is charged enough and will not go into sleep mode during flash.
Click Start to begin the flash. This will take a while, so be patient!
Once complete, in the top-left box in Odin, it will say PASS and the phone should have automatically rebooted.
You may unplug the phone and close Odin if you wish.
Wait at least 5-10 minutes for the system to boot the first time and then build its cache!
(It may seem to hang during boot, this is normal and you must be patient!!!)
Good Luck!

[Q] Please Help is my Galaxy s3 bricked?

So I have liquid smooth 4.2.2 installed with along of Clockworkmod recovery. However this morning i recieved a notification saying that i had a gapps update. so i I went ahead and downloaded the zip file. When attempted to install, it asked if i have a recovery system or something like that. Me very ignorantly selected no and my phone guided me to download a different recovery. so i went ahead and installed it and after it booted i rkept on recieving a message that said unfortanely gapps has stopped. Then I thought that if i did a factory reset it would reset my whole phone and hopefully clear this error. I went ahead and pressed home, power and volume up and bam thats when i realized i overwrote my clockworkmod recovery with another recovery. It had to options to factory reset so i went ahead and tried it anyways. when the phone booted i still recieved the error message but this time it also had the message "setup wizard has stopped." im stuck with the screen you get when you intiially set up your phone and i can't do anything about it. I try pressing home, volume up, and the power button but it doesnt bring me to the recovery screen. Instead it just loads back to the initial setup screen after a while. When i try plugging it in the computer it doesnt not read. I cant do anything. Please help me! I just got the phone about a couple months ago and am to poor to buy another one.

Did you try going to download mode by holding volume down + home + power buttons?
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app

Your phone isn't bricked use Odin guide that is stickied in dev section
T-Mobile SGS III

calbertc12 said:
So I have liquid smooth 4.2.2 installed with along of Clockworkmod recovery. However this morning i recieved a notification saying that i had a gapps update. so i I went ahead and downloaded the zip file. When attempted to install, it asked if i have a recovery system or something like that. Me very ignorantly selected no and my phone guided me to download a different recovery. so i went ahead and installed it and after it booted i rkept on recieving a message that said unfortanely gapps has stopped. Then I thought that if i did a factory reset it would reset my whole phone and hopefully clear this error. I went ahead and pressed home, power and volume up and bam thats when i realized i overwrote my clockworkmod recovery with another recovery. It had to options to factory reset so i went ahead and tried it anyways. when the phone booted i still recieved the error message but this time it also had the message "setup wizard has stopped." im stuck with the screen you get when you intiially set up your phone and i can't do anything about it. I try pressing home, volume up, and the power button but it doesnt bring me to the recovery screen. Instead it just loads back to the initial setup screen after a while. When i try plugging it in the computer it doesnt not read. I cant do anything. Please help me! I just got the phone about a couple months ago and am to poor to buy another one.
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This guide will get your phone back up and running properly. Doing anything else will just prolong your problem.
Easy and sure way fix your problem - Here is s step by step guide:
Download the newest pre-rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 T999 Jellybean v4.1.2 rom: T999_UVDMD5
After downloading make a folder on your computer's desktop and unzip the file using Winzip or 7zip so the .TAR file
is in the new folder you just made. Download and extract Odin into the same folder you made containing the TAR file
Here is the link for Odin: Odin_Flash
• Download ODIN which is required for flashing the stock rooted firmware (a windows app)
• Download the Odin Flash firmware for T999 Tmobile then copy it to the same folder as Odin
• Run Odin by double clicking the Odin.exe within the same folder as the TAR file you extracted
• Turn off your phone and boot into DOWNLOAD MODE (Volume Down + Home + Power Hold until phone powers up,
then release and press Volume Up to enter Download Mode)
• Once in Download Mode, connect the USB/Charger cable to the phone and plug into the USB port on your computer.
• You should now see a COM** port listed toward the top-left of Odin (under ID:COM)
• Click on the PDA button in the middle-right area of Odin.
• Browse to and select the rom you just downloaded (TAR file).
• Make sure Auto-Reboot and F. Reset Time are the only options checked and that PDA is the only other thing checked.
• TRIPLE CHECK your settings and that you have selected the correct firmware for your model phone and are using the correct options.
• If you are using a laptop, make absolutely sure you are plugged in, or if on battery, that it is charged enough and will not go into sleep mode during flash.
• Click Start to begin the flash. This will take a while, so be patient!
• Once complete, in the top-left box in Odin, it will say PASS and the phone should have automatically rebooted.
• You may unplug the phone and close Odin if you wish.
• Wait at least 5-10 minutes for the system to boot the first time and then build its cache!
• (It may seem to hang during boot, this is normal and you must be patient!!!)
Good Luck!

[SOLVED] "'Firmware upgrade encountered an issue." Softbrick issue

Hello XDA!
So, idiot that I am, I decided today would be a great time to root my Galaxy S III (SGH-T999N version). It was running Jellybean 4.3, so it had fewer root options than other, older Jellybean versions, but I still found a root file on here. I put it into USB debugging mode, downloaded the driver, Odin, and the root file. I also backed the phone up on Kies, and have that on my PC., I did everything right, and... it failed. I tried again without doing anything to the phone (read: kept it in download mode), but it failed again with a different root file. So, I turned it off, sad that I wasn't able to root it, and I came upon the dreaded 'Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again' screen.
After hours of searching, I saw two different solutions: downloading the 4.3 OS from online, and using Odin to flash that to the phone, or using Kies to reformat the phone. I've been trying Kies, but Kies 3 isn't recognizing the phone, and won't allow me to restore or to reformat the phone. I'm still waiting on the download of Jellybean 4.3 to finish so that I can try that (Odin HAS been recognizing the phone). While I wait, I wanted to know if other users have had similar problems that they've solved, or where I've gone wrong, and what I can fix.
As for additional details:
- I CAN put the phone into Download mode. I CANNOT do a factory reset through Vol. Up+Home+Power
- The status screen with 'Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again' also has this information at the top:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-T999N
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (1 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE
Warranty Bit: 0
BOOTLOADER AP SWAREV: 1
- The phone is carried by Metro-PCS
Thanks in advance!

Okay, turns out the downloaded Jellybean 4.3 OS did the trick. For future people who run into this issue:
1. Have Odin 3.07 or higher downloaded (Odds are that you have this due to your phone's current state).
2. Download a copy of the OS you want from here: samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SCH-I535 Go to the dropdown menu on the left-hand side, and select your phone. Don't know/remeber your phone's identifier? Open up the back, remove the battery, and there should be a white sticker with your phone's model at the top. WARNING! Unless you plan to pay, these downloads will take a while. Do this when you can have your computer on for 4+ hours.
3. Once the download is complete, unzip the file, and place it in a location that you can easily find with Odin.
4. Open Odin, and make sure that Auto Reboot and F. Reset time are the only options checked. If there are other options selected, uncheck them and proceed.
5. Click the "PDA" button, and select your copy of the Android OS from where it was stored. Assuming everything has gone correctly, a message should appear in the Odin status box along the lines of "Check MD5... Do not unplug the cable...". Wait for the message "Leave CS..." to appear before proceeding.
6. Once "Leave CS..." has appeared, put your phone into Download mode (Turn it off, then restart by holding down the Vol. Down, Home, and Power keys until you get a screen that has informed you that you are in download mode.). Then, plug your usb cable into your PC/Laptop, and then into the USB outlet on the phone.
7. Once Odin has noted that your phone is attached, you can press "Start", and assuming all steps have been followed correctly, the new OS should download, and your phone will reboot, fully functional. If you are lucky like me, it will even have kept all of your settings!

Question Endless boot loop

Hey Everybody,
I found this board by googling and hope someone of you can help me. I already scrolled through the pages but could not find someone with the same problem.
So here what I have (I will add infos due to guessing it could a cause of the problems):
I installed the latest update which was available on the Phone once.
Last week i looked at my phone whch had 11% battery but forgot to charge it, so it went to zero for a few days when I found it ter searching and charged it.
After around 20% recharge I decided to put it on.
Now - it turns on, tries to boot. The boot screen appears with that classic Samsung Galaxy Secured by Knox
But - it does not show it like Samsung Galaxy A32 Secured by Knox. It seems like the model is not displayed anymore.
The boot screen is displayed for a few seconds, then the Phone turns off. Then the start vibration comes, the short Samsung logo is shown and then the boot with "Samsung Galaxy Secured by Knox" is shown again. This happens in an endless loop.
I also tried different things from the secure mode like deleting the cache, some other websites tell to use a computer and a software called odin to fix a broken firmware (which I am not able to, due to lack of knowledge).
The problem here is that I have data on the phone (i.e google 2fa's) which I really need. Otherwise I would have tried a hard reset already.
If it helps, I uploaded 2 photos, what I can only see.
Somebody has an idea?

odin instructions https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...4QFnoECCMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0SvRFtiRxr0xDgcEa80iFh

LasseK1 said:
Hey Everybody,
I found this board by googling and hope someone of you can help me. I already scrolled through the pages but could not find someone with the same problem.
So here what I have (I will add infos due to guessing it could a cause of the problems):
I installed the latest update which was available on the Phone once.
Last week i looked at my phone whch had 11% battery but forgot to charge it, so it went to zero for a few days when I found it ter searching and charged it.
After around 20% recharge I decided to put it on.
Now - it turns on, tries to boot. The boot screen appears with that classic Samsung Galaxy Secured by Knox
But - it does not show it like Samsung Galaxy A32 Secured by Knox. It seems like the model is not displayed anymore.
The boot screen is displayed for a few seconds, then the Phone turns off. Then the start vibration comes, the short Samsung logo is shown and then the boot with "Samsung Galaxy Secured by Knox" is shown again. This happens in an endless loop.
I also tried different things from the secure mode like deleting the cache, some other websites tell to use a computer and a software called odin to fix a broken firmware (which I am not able to, due to lack of knowledge).
The problem here is that I have data on the phone (i.e google 2fa's) which I really need. Otherwise I would have tried a hard reset already.
If it helps, I uploaded 2 photos, what I can only see.
Somebody has an idea?
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this phone never showed its model on the splash screen. Maybe you were mistaken. But anywho try reflashing firmware.
Download samsung usb driver from https://developer.samsung.com/android-usb-driver
and install it.
Download the correct firmware for your region from https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-A325F/
If you have a different model and not SM-A325F search for it.
Now after downloading unzip the firmware.
Put your phone in download mode. By turning it off. Make sure its unplugged. Then hold the volume up and volume up (not power) together while plugging the usb c cable connected to your pc into the phone. It should show a blue screen. Now just press the volume up key to continue as it says (or other key i forgot)
Now just put respective firmware files in their respective slots.
You might see there are two csc files. Home_csc and normal csc.
The difference between the two is that Home_csc file does not wipe the /data partition. Which includes your internal storage. apps etc. While csc file wipes everything.
(userdata partition is to be left empty)
it will reboot on its own and boot into the system.
(NOTE: if you use one ui 5.1 firmware and upgraded to it recently then only use that one. Since it is not downgradable. Although if your on one ui 5. Be careful. 5.1 is not downgradable and some users are reporting broken touch screens)
good luck!

thank you or your replies. I will try it out

Try to format cache, if doesn't work format data, and if that doesn't work, flash the rom for your device, you can download it here http://samfw.com you have to choose your model, the carrier and the binary number correctly, that data is in the download mode, to access it you have to plug an usb cable to your pc, first, press both volume buttons, after that plug the usb cable to the phone, then an screen will turn on, offering 3 choices, press volume button, now open odin(after installing samsung usb driver and verifying presence in odin) choose the files BL, AP, CP, CSC(not HOME CSC, that is for applying system updates), flash it with odin and ready! Extra: You can root your device patching that rom before flashing it with odin.

iWisp360 said:
Try to format cache, if doesn't work format data, and if that doesn't work, flash the rom for your device, you can download it here http://samfw.com you have to choose your model, the carrier and the binary number correctly, that data is in the download mode, to access it you have to plug an usb cable to your pc, first, press both volume buttons, after that plug the usb cable to the phone, then an screen will turn on, offering 3 choices, press volume button, now open odin(after installing samsung usb driver and verifying presence in odin) choose the files BL, AP, CP, CSC(not HOME CSC, that is for applying system updates), flash it with odin and ready! Extra: You can root your device patching that rom before flashing it with odin.
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but
Captain_cookie_200​said i should use the Home one, because otherwise everything gets deleted. That is the problem. I need the data

Ok I tried now to load the actual Home.CSC but now it is even worse
cant get into the Odin menu and the Display is lighting up for a split second all 3-4 seconds. might be dead now?

LasseK1 said:
but
Captain_cookie_200​said i should use the Home one, because otherwise everything gets deleted. That is the problem. I need the data
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yeah Home csc keeps your data partition intact.

LasseK1 said:
Ok I tried now to load the actual Home.CSC but now it is even worse
cant get into the Odin menu and the Display is lighting up for a split second all 3-4 seconds. might be dead now?
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thats weird .. Could you elborate a bit more on whats happening?

Captain_cookie_200 said:
thats weird .. Could you elborate a bit more on whats happening?
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when i push the power on button the display lights bright for a split second and turns off after like a milli second. turns off for 3 seconds and repeats in a loop.

LasseK1 said:
when i push the power on button the display lights bright for a split second and turns off after like a milli second. turns off for 3 seconds and repeats in a loop.
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i am still confused. if there is a chance could you show it on video?