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Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum and I'm looking for a little help today.
I rooted my new Sprint Galaxy S III using Odin3-v3.04, and CWM_SuperUser_v3.0.7. Afterwards I rebooted and all was good.
I then downloaded I9300_Omega_v6.0_XXALF6 ROM and loaded on my phone and rebooted into recovery to install the ROM. I went through the install process, selected remove bloatware and installed. When finished I checked the reboot phone and clicked finish. The phone turned off and didn't ever turn back on.
I have pulled the battery and tried to power on using recovery, download mode and just power but nothing works.
Anyone have any idea what I can do?
Thank you for your time and help.
alexanderd said:
Hi everyone. I'm new to the forum and I'm looking for a little help today.
I rooted my new Sprint Galaxy S III using Odin3-v3.04, and CWM_SuperUser_v3.0.7. Afterwards I rebooted and all was good.
I then downloaded I9300_Omega_v6.0_XXALF6 ROM and loaded on my phone and rebooted into recovery to install the ROM. I went through the install process, selected remove bloatware and installed. When finished I checked the reboot phone and clicked finish. The phone turned off and didn't ever turn back on.
I have pulled the battery and tried to power on using recovery, download mode and just power but nothing works.
Anyone have any idea what I can do?
Thank you for your time and help.
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development area has a thread for that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727171
ONLY use ROMs that you'll find here in these threads not the I9300; that s a different phone from ours.
Thanks I'll check there.
Honestly I was waiting for this to happen gid luck restoring it phone
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But seriously I hope you learned your lesson and will read and hope you get your phone fixed or replaced
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Epix4G said:
But seriously I hope you learned your lesson and will read and hope you get your phone fixed or replaced
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Hopefully this fail helps us all back from a potential brick. We live, flash and learn.
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New phone on the way!
I was able to get a replacement sent from Sprint. Had to go to a corporate store and have a tech look at the phone and they agreed it was toast...
Luckily they didn't know it was due to my failed attempt to load an unsupported ROM.
Lesson learned... new phone should be in by the end of the week.
I'll be waiting for a supported ROM this time.
alexanderd said:
I was able to get a replacement sent from Sprint. Had to go to a corporate store and have a tech look at the phone and they agreed it was toast...
Luckily they didn't know it was due to my failed attempt to load an unsupported ROM.
Lesson learned... new phone should be in by the end of the week.
I'll be waiting for a supported ROM this time.
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No wonder our insurance deductibles keep going up...
bizdady said:
No wonder our insurance deductibles keep going up...
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+1
Still sucks for op
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matrixzone5 said:
Honestly I was waiting for this to happen gid luck restoring it phone
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Oh man tell me about it, I almost stupidly went on to the CM9 nightlies and downloaded the I9300 version before I thought to myself, "well wait a minute, that's not my model number!"
Duh, shoulda had a V8.
I didnt install a GSM rom but still managed to brick somehow. Didnt touch any system files or do anything to where i should be bricked either. Any idea when a full stock Odin package will be made? My phone has been bricked for almost 2 days now
Edit: i started a tread here a few days ago -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1731416 if anyone cares to look or has any advice for me
Thanks
pizzlewizzle said:
I didnt install a GSM rom but still managed to brick somehow. Didnt touch any system files or do anything to where i should be bricked either. Any idea when a full stock Odin package will be made? My phone has been bricked for almost 2 days now
Edit: i started a tread here a few days ago -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1731416 if anyone cares to look or has any advice for me
Thanks
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What have you tried so far? Have you tried reflashing cwm recovery in Odin?
I did the same thing that the OP said, flashed that omega rom and now my phone wont turn on either.
I was going to try the jig method
taygutta said:
I did the same thing that the OP said, flashed that omega rom and now my phone wont turn on either.
I was going to try the jig method
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Have you tried mskip's fix??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727171
bizdady said:
Have you tried mskip's fix??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727171
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I want to do this but I somehow need to get the phone on. The buttons dont work.
Any luck?
My phone got stuck booting, so I tried to install the omega rom. The install worked well, and I clicked "reboot." Now the phone won't turn on. I can't get to ODIN or recovery anymore.
Did you guys find any fixes?
brickeds3 said:
My phone got stuck booting, so I tried to install the omega rom. The install worked well, and I clicked "reboot." Now the phone won't turn on. I can't get to ODIN or recovery anymore.
Did you guys find any fixes?
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What happened is that you flashed a rom that was meant for the international version of the S3 and your on the US version. The only fix I have found is to send it to mobiletechvideos.com. I did and they say they can fix it and maybe save my data I have on it ( I just sent it in)
My fingers are crossed for the data recovery but as far as the phone I am going to send it for a exchange anyway.
Welp, I'm sad to say I just did the same thing too. Should have read. I'm a stinkin noob at this. I installed the I9300 version on a US version phone. Has there been any more development on this? Is the hardware fried, or is there a fix through that mobiletechvideos.com that was mentioned? What was the outcome of that, Taygutta, if you don't mind me re-bringing back up a potentially painful topic?? This thread made me a little sick, since it's my brother's new phone (someone else that knew what they were doing rooted it for him but he didn't like the rom, so I thought I would help him find a few other options to try flashing.)
Anyway, any confirmation that I'm buying my brother a new phone (so I can emotionally prepare for the purchase) or are there some other options?
There's one more thing you can try. There's a little device called a USB Jig. It was made for SGS-2 to clear the yellow triangle and reset flash counts in ODIN mode. It also puts your phone in ODIN mode by simply plugging it into the USB port of a powered down phone. Once in ODIN mode, you can reflash a stock ROM, recovery, etc. You can buy these for around $20 or less on the web.
If this does not work, I'm afraid nothing will.
Good luck.
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There's one more thing you can try. There's a little device called a USB Jig. It was made for SGS-2 to clear the yellow triangle and reset flash counts in ODIN mode. It also puts your phone in ODIN mode by simply plugging it into the USB port of a powered down phone. Once in ODIN mode, you can reflash a stock ROM, recovery, etc. You can buy these for around $20 or less on the web.
If this does not work, I'm afraid nothing will.
Good luck.
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Somewhere in the thread an answer exists. You are not the first to do this.
I think the jig is the best way.
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So I bought the phone unlocked (Tmobile branded). Came with stock unrooted ics.
I rooted it, and installed Jedi mind trick 7.
I traded it, then the guy and I mutually wanted to trade back.
The guy has the phone all jacked up, so I Odin'ed back to stock unrooted 2.3.6 using the guide on here.
When I do the "*#simlock#" my Android.phone.com (I believe it was), force closes and my 4g symbol disappears for a minute. Also I don't know if this is related but I can't seem to download anything now on wifi (trying to download the official ics for Odin)
What could be causing the issues and how can I fix this? Thanks in advance guys.
Nickdroid86 said:
So I bought the phone unlocked (Tmobile branded). Came with stock unrooted ics.
I rooted it, and installed Jedi mind trick 7.
I traded it, then the guy and I mutually wanted to trade back.
The guy has the phone all jacked up, so I Odin'ed back to stock unrooted 2.3.6 using the guide on here.
When I do the "*#simlock#" my Android.phone.com (I believe it was), force closes and my 4g symbol disappears for a minute. Also I don't know if this is related but I can't seem to download anything now on wifi (trying to download the official ics for Odin)
What could be causing the issues and how can I fix this? Thanks in advance guys.
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If I were you, I would bypass the whole sim lock process and root it and install recovery and flash a ROM of your choice. If the problem corrects urself, the .tar you odined with could be corrupt. Happened to me but media.android.com force closed every five mins. So I rooted and flashed and it was gone. If it was jacked up but still on Jedi, he prob tried to factory reset or something. Usually that soft bricks, at times hard bricks it. Just try that.
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I managed to reroot and went and did Jedi mind trick, everything is back to normal including the *#simlock# thing. I want to get mind trick 8, but it's a small file and for some reason keeps aborting.
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I had that same problem downloading v8. It keeps downloading the HTML file. You have a few options of getting the file.
1. Download with PC and transfer the rom to your SD card.
2. Install dolphin browser and use that instead of the stock browser to download the rom.
I went with option 2 because I didn't have a PC near by. Worked great. Good luck.
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The whole process is pretty simple on what I have done. I will explain my situation here and my question that has got be baffled.
So it all started about two weeks ago, where I was flashing LiquidSmooth on my phone. I had a Touch-type CWM. It isn't mega old but it's pretty old for CWM, I haven't updated in a while (as i've seen there are updates to recent ones).
Anywho, I did a complete wipe, used the darkside wipe, alongside with the darkside cache wipe.
I think this was my fault, so please correct me anyone if I am wrong here. I accidentally hit "reboot phone" instead of "reboot bootloader"
I got a permabrick from this whole ordeal. It was a permabrick because It said QHSUSB_DLOAD in the device manager, looking this up further confirmed my reasoning. I didn't want to jtag because that invovles removing the phone to pieces and soldering on wires etc. etc.
So I resorted to send it out to Samsung.
All is well when it came back. I made sure this time the whole phone was setup properly.
So I use Odin install for CWM and SU was installed via CWM. I install an older version of CWM (non-touch, i believe 1st revision as i've posted in one of the threads).
I kept stock ROM, everything was working okay and suddenly, KERPLUNK, it went back into permanent brick after I deleted cache partition, dalvik cache, and battery cache wipe. I didn't do fix permissions or anything, just hit reboot afterwards.
This is a super head scratcher here..... Anyone know where I went wrong?
Any insight here is greatly appreciated! :good:
P.S. I am now sending in my phone TWICE to Samsung for repairs.
If you are on the most up to date CWM, do not use the scripts. They are no longer needed, and will cause problems( hard brick though, never heard of) The second time, im stumped. I suggest go to TWRP and ditch the scripts. Latest TWRP does not need it
LoopDoGG79 said:
If you are on the most up to date CWM, do not use the scripts. They are no longer needed, and will cause problems( hard brick though, never heard of) The second time, im stumped. I suggest go to TWRP and ditch the scripts. Latest TWRP does not need it
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I finally jumped in the water and flashed twrp! Yay!
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All the steps you say you did don't point to a brick. But one thing caught my eye! You said you were flashing liquidsmooth? What File did you flash? Did it have Hercules in the name? Because if it didn't then it's not for our phone.. I only ask because a lot of other people made that mistake
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All the steps you say you did don't point to a brick. But one thing caught my eye! You said you were flashing liquidsmooth? What File did you flash? Did it have Hercules in the name? Because if it didn't then it's not for our phone.. I only ask because a lot of other people made that mistake
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great call on that I had to educate a few users that the d2tmo is not for our phone but indeed the S3. Good catch on your part and it sounds like user error as well
LoopDoGG79 said:
If you are on the most up to date CWM, do not use the scripts. They are no longer needed, and will cause problems( hard brick though, never heard of) The second time, im stumped. I suggest go to TWRP and ditch the scripts. Latest TWRP does not need it
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Could you please educate me with a link referring to what TWRP is? Sorry, i'm still fairly new to the scene and all i've ever been educated upon is CWM.
suaverc118 said:
I finally jumped in the water and flashed twrp! Yay!
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Nice! What is TWRP and how is it like?
rymanh said:
All the steps you say you did don't point to a brick. But one thing caught my eye! You said you were flashing liquidsmooth? What File did you flash? Did it have Hercules in the name? Because if it didn't then it's not for our phone.. I only ask because a lot of other people made that mistake
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I've flashed the hercules ROM. I know this for sure because Liquidsmooth was working, it was extremely glitchy (playing games gave me pixelated actions sometimes, and using something like gameCIH/Game Guardian was unworkable). So i decided to ditch it and was getting ready to flash Jedi Mind Trick.
After the whole hard bricking ordeal, I decided to stick to stock rom, and even on that, I just flashed CWM and SU ONLY. Rebooted, and deleted the cache's (like i've posted to you) with absolutely no success. It baffled me that I bricked the phone AGAIN too!
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great call on that I had to educate a few users that the d2tmo is not for our phone but indeed the S3. Good catch on your part and it sounds like user error as well
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Yes..... there is something wrong, i feel it is a user error also, but i'm very unsure where to even start
Once again, all of your insight is well appreciated! I just do not want to hardbrick my phone AGAIN and have to send it to Samsung. I am not allowed to even think of a replacement because this was a b-day present a year or two ago from my fiance.
You say that it is bricked again. Do you mean by that, that you cannot get into recovery?
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XxGoKoUxX said:
Could you please educate me with a link referring to what TWRP is? Sorry, i'm still fairly new to the scene and all i've ever been educated upon is CWM.
Nice! What is TWRP and how is it like?
I've flashed the hercules ROM. I know this for sure because Liquidsmooth was working, it was extremely glitchy (playing games gave me pixelated actions sometimes, and using something like gameCIH/Game Guardian was unworkable). So i decided to ditch it and was getting ready to flash Jedi Mind Trick.
After the whole hard bricking ordeal, I decided to stick to stock rom, and even on that, I just flashed CWM and SU ONLY. Rebooted, and deleted the cache's (like i've posted to you) with absolutely no success. It baffled me that I bricked the phone AGAIN too!
Yes..... there is something wrong, i feel it is a user error also, but i'm very unsure where to even start
Once again, all of your insight is well appreciated! I just do not want to hardbrick my phone AGAIN and have to send it to Samsung. I am not allowed to even think of a replacement because this was a b-day present a year or two ago from my fiance.
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Flash this in recovery, reboot recovery, and you will have TWRP!!
TWRP 2.3.1.1
DM_Sledge said:
You say that it is bricked again. Do you mean by that, that you cannot get into recovery?
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Yes, it is perma-bricked, meaning the only method of fixing the brick is jtagg'ing
Upon plugging it into device manager, I get the prompt "QHSUSB_DLOAD" and phone doesn't even boot on no matter what combinations I make.
LoopDoGG79 said:
Flash this in recovery, reboot recovery, and you will have TWRP!!
TWRP 2.3.1.1
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Thank you LoopDo, I will do this after I get my phone home again.
I have this phone, and none of the steps you listed would brick the device. Even with no ROM on the phone, you should still be able to get into recovery.
Is there something you aren't telling us?
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Nope, wouldn't be a reason why I would lie because then the problem will never be resolved.... I'm kind of nervous on reflashing ONE more time after the phone comes home again....
The phone has been fixed once AGAIN, and it is in the process of being shipped back to me.
Phone will be home Wednesday and I will give it ONE more try
Wish me luck!
P.S. my PC has been glitchy lately, so that MAY or MAY NOT contribute to the permabrick, then again the brick doesn't happen until I flash stuff via CWM.
P.S.S. I've since re-installed Win 7 again, it hasn't been glitchy since
XxGoKoUxX said:
Nope, wouldn't be a reason why I would lie because then the problem will never be resolved.... I'm kind of nervous on reflashing ONE more time after the phone comes home again....
The phone has been fixed once AGAIN, and it is in the process of being shipped back to me.
Phone will be home Wednesday and I will give it ONE more try
Wish me luck!
P.S. my PC has been glitchy lately, so that MAY or MAY NOT contribute to the permabrick, then again the brick doesn't happen until I flash stuff via CWM.
P.S.S. I've since re-installed Win 7 again, it hasn't been glitchy since
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You most likely flashed the Wrong Liquidsmooth ROM (incompatible Kernel), and it hard bricked the phone. It happened to me the same way, and I had to send it in for JTAG.
I have bricked my phone installing the Liquidsmooth ROM too. I downloaded the wrong ROM, though. The thread should have a big ****in warning to double check the ROM you are about to download, otherwise your phone is a toast. There were more people who bricked their phones by installing the Liquidsmooth.
Well, I got it back from the warranty and the phone looks good. Installed that Liquidsmooth again and played for a day. Tried other JB ROMs. Most of them are OK in terms of battery life and smoothness, but there is something wrong with the signal. People always say my voice isn't clear. I got tired of all this BS and testing new ROMs and went to back to ICS and won't look back, not anytime.
Don't use darkside scripts, btw. You don't need that anymore.
I'd like to say thank you for everyone's patience. All of your insight is more than helpful!
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You most likely flashed the Wrong Liquidsmooth ROM (incompatible Kernel), and it hard bricked the phone. It happened to me the same way, and I had to send it in for JTAG.
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I might have, but the one i downloaded (which is still on the phone's memory card) is a hercules ROM. Either way on my second try there was a hard brick also, in return of which I had to resend it in. The second try was just simply: Odin---->CWM---->Root---->SU---->wipe cache partition+fix permissions+wipe dalvik cache via CWM (not the super scripts).
cipsaz said:
I have bricked my phone installing the Liquidsmooth ROM too. I downloaded the wrong ROM, though. The thread should have a big ****in warning to double check the ROM you are about to download, otherwise your phone is a toast. There were more people who bricked their phones by installing the Liquidsmooth.
Well, I got it back from the warranty and the phone looks good. Installed that Liquidsmooth again and played for a day. Tried other JB ROMs. Most of them are OK in terms of battery life and smoothness, but there is something wrong with the signal. People always say my voice isn't clear. I got tired of all this BS and testing new ROMs and went to back to ICS and won't look back, not anytime.
Don't use darkside scripts, btw. You don't need that anymore.
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Thanks again for your insight I think i'm done with flashing for a little bit for now.... I kind of want as factory of a JB Rom as possible. :good:
If anyone has any idea where I can get that, please let me know as my Stock ICS is a bit laggy at times, with the facial recognition system, it lags even worse!
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All the steps you say you did don't point to a brick. But one thing caught my eye! You said you were flashing liquidsmooth? What File did you flash? Did it have Hercules in the name? Because if it didn't then it's not for our phone.. I only ask because a lot of other people made that mistake
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that just happened to me today with liquid smooth. i had to unroot, flash stock, and start over. im pretty sure i got it from goo.im under hercules. unfortunate mislabeling? oh yeah, and if your phone shows anything other than nothing, youre not hard bricked. thats why its called Hercules, i think. ive been soft bricked so many times from dumb **** like. ****ing with the governors and all that **** cm gives you the option to do when there aint even a 1080p camera that works fully = / lol <3 Cm I Love Yew!! But yeah, odin will set you free!!!
Dodged a bullet yesterday. FreeGee unlock, chose TWRP and then went to flash stock v9 odex. Wiped Cache/Dalvick and then flashed. Upon reboot I saw LG screen then black and nothing. Tried to LGPNST from download mode with LG driver and could not detect phone. After messing around in TWRP for about 2 hours where I performed about every function available (just before throwing the phone into the fireplace), I queued the z9 odex twice let TWRP flash it twice and everything worked. Here's the thing, my wife's phone is incessantly prompting to update, so I need to flash her phone. Should I use clockwork? Anyway to avoid a similar issue and near total bricking of her phone?
Same thing using Clockwork on wife's phone. Now I'm trying everything to get it back. Still have recovery, but unable to complete system reboot. Black screen. Used to flash evo all the time, never an issue. Now I'm 0 for 2 with a miraculous boot and update on my phone. This one doesn't look like I'm going to get as lucky. CWM is a bigger pain too. Frustrated. Not looking forward to lgpnst (still not sure how it all works) and then trying this mess again.
I had a similar problem to yours last night to. Except I didn't really do anything to it. It was just sitting there charging and I took it off the charger and it was doing some kind of boot loop, But every so often it would just stop on a black screen. I lgnpst about six times back but after running root and freegee I would try to get into bootloader and it would do it again. Eventually I tried doing freegee with clockwork instead and it did it again, Than I forced the phone off and pluged it in to my computer to get ready to lgnpst again so I could at least use the phone. All of a sudden I look at the screen and there was a battery charging animation. And then unpluged it and for kicks turned it on and it booted up no problem. Then I tried booting into bootloader and all works now. It was really strange, I did put twrp back though. I like it better then clockwork. I think I sore you asking questions in irc while I was in there asking question to ha.
-Frank
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Same thing using Clockwork on wife's phone. Now I'm trying everything to get it back. Still have recovery, but unable to complete system reboot. Black screen. Used to flash evo all the time, never an issue. Now I'm 0 for 2 with a miraculous boot and update on my phone. This one doesn't look like I'm going to get as lucky. CWM is a bigger pain too. Frustrated. Not looking forward to lgpnst (still not sure how it all works) and then trying this mess again.
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I had the same thing happen and couldn't figure it out so I took it back to sprint told them I did the update and it messed up so they gave me a new phone for 35 bucks and from now on im staying STOCK.........................
DId you try to lgnpst back yet? That may help you.
-Frank
Frank...yup that's how mine worked. Just not sure how to do this. I don't think my failed lgpnst attempts did anything, b/c mine took the update eventually. I'll keep trying. This phone is so temperamental. Does Shellnut have some input on this problem? I can't figure out why some phones take and others don't when doing the same thing.
Talk to Shelnut2 over pm or find him in irc. I just found out there is a special version of freegee that may fix the problem. I seem to have fixed mine but I sent him a pm asking some questions about the problem. I think you are going to need to lgnpst back. Then root and run the special version of freegee. You have to get it from him because it does some things different that may brick the phone permanently. Thats why you have to ask for it. From what I understand it fixes that kind of problem.
-Frank
I will. I'm going to see if this thing will self correct. Otherwise I will check with him on that. The LGPNST is something I'm not looking fwd to doing.
LGPNST is not detecting phone in dl mode but does detect when in recovery. This SUCKS. Frustrated and out of ideas.
When you installed lgnpst did you install the file that says auto-lgnpst? Also did you run install.bat as administrator?
-Frank
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When you installed lgnpst did you install the file that says auto-lgnpst? Also did you run install.bat as administrator?
-Frank
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Not sure if I ran as administrator. Assumed that I did. As a casual hack, I'm in over my head.
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Ok. Ran as admin. Won't even detect device. Anyone in DFW area proficient in this stuff who I could pay to lgpnst this thing?
Bricked OG
MikeDroid said:
Ok. Ran as admin. Won't even detect device. Anyone in DFW area proficient in this stuff who I could pay to lgpnst this thing?
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I've been working on mine for a day and a half. I can't figure out the thing with renaming the ".tot" file to ".bin" because I don't even see a .tot file. After I unzipped the big ZV7 there was only one file without an extension so I can't figure out if thats the one I'm supposed to rename. Can you point me in the right direction?:crying:
[ I figured it out, I had to go into Preferences on my file explorer and set it to show all file types...DUHHH ]
In Windows, go to control panel, file settings, show file extensions. Something like that.
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Finally got bit working. No more issues. Non of this stuff is very intuitive when your in panic mode. All is good now though.
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MikeDroid said:
Dodged a bullet yesterday. FreeGee unlock, chose TWRP and then went to flash stock v9 odex. Wiped Cache/Dalvick and then flashed. Upon reboot I saw LG screen then black and nothing. Tried to LGPNST from download mode with LG driver and could not detect phone. After messing around in TWRP for about 2 hours where I performed about every function available (just before throwing the phone into the fireplace), I queued the z9 odex twice let TWRP flash it twice and everything worked. Here's the thing, my wife's phone is incessantly prompting to update, so I need to flash her phone. Should I use clockwork? Anyway to avoid a similar issue and near total bricking of her phone?
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Always backup your phone before tinkering with system files, and experimenting with launchers, kernals etc.
Titanium backup in WORTH the investment to upgrade to PRO.
Rom manager is a good one to boot directly into recovery without fiddling in the fastboot menu. And for backing up settings and roms.
Always KNOW what your doing. lol. sometimes even the big guys forget this. RESEARCH!
So here's my problem, I got the note 2 a few days ago, and as with all my other android phones the first thing I did was root it and start flashing roms. Well the first thing i tried to flash was the note2core kernel, which completely disabled any sort of connection i had to the sprint network.
After doing a restore in TWP, i'm still having the same problems. its now at the point where i have network connection (texts/calls) but have no internet (4g/3g). When i try hands free activation, the 4g symbol pops up and it looks like its connecting, but when i try to use data in anything else, it just says no connection and the 4g symbol is no longer there.
So after all this, i decided screw it i'm just gonna go back to stock, i'd rather have a stock working phone than a half functioning one. Using the note 2 toolkit, i downloaded and extracted the stock rom, but it keeps getting stuck on sboot.bin and failing, leaving me now with a phone that doesn't do anything but tell me to connect to kies and do an emergency restore, which i've tried to even less success. all other roms just get stuck in bootloop, and the only thing i can do now is flash recovery that came with the toolkit through odin which will let the phone boot up fine but i'm back to square one, no internet. Someone please help me, i've researched this through the forums for hours and hours now, it seems some ppl have the same problem but no answer. if i can just get back to factory form i'd be happy. Thanks to anyone that can help me with this miserable problem.
**update** things have gotten worse, my twp backup no longer exists and i'm stuck in an endless bootloop
Damn budy just days ago? and already messed this great device up. Dont worry I'm sure is just a hiccup but nothing I can help with. Kernel you mention tho ive never heard
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Did you try this?
trying it now, i'll post the results. thanks for the quick responses though
klbjr said:
Did you try this?
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Worked like a charm!!!!!! thank you so very much
The sboot.bin will fail its a safety thing samsung put in to stop from going back to older boot loaders ... There is a workaround for it...please read more before flashing kernels that are not for this phone .... that was the first and worst thing you did ... note2core is not a sprint kernel ...
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sbin fail
I im having the same issue except im just try to update date to 4.1.2 on my sprint note 2. my only noob question is should i flash this with odin? i have the sph 900 stock restores tool but as i said it fails when it gets to sbin.