I originally thought that I bricked it good since I have not really gotten into this since my epic 4g touch. I rooted after the last OTA update and couldn't get my wifi tether working. I attempted to flash a new rom and can only get into the boot loader or recovery, otherwise it's stuck in a bootloop. I am able to get my .zip file transferred and have looked at NUMEROUS other threads all over and still am getting a "no MD5 file found". Again I am pretty much back to noob status with all of this and just can't figure it out. I am using adb sideload to transfer since it's what's on Billard412's 2.4.2.0 and can't get the phone to connect to a computer any other way. Used Dirty, Omni and a couple of others that I found, Dirty came straight from their site. If anyone has a good .zip that would be GREAT too.
Any help is appreciated.
TIA.
Josh
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Thanks for the move... like I said, this is a little different from the last time I was getting into this stuff
Up and running...needed to cd and dumped twrp for philz touch
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Hi everyone, just got the epic last night coming from evo 3d....bought the phone used and it seems like it was already rooted as I have superuser on it....I spent the last 2 hours trying to figure this out with no results.....problem is I cant seem to flash anything because when I go into the ODIN menu it says downloading and never gets out of that screen. I have the Kies installed and usb drivers installed but for some reason my phone is not connecting to it....i see MTP driver is not installed and when I do try to install it says that the INF file is invalid. Also there is a yellow triangle when booting phone not sure if that helps to explain the issue....Im on 32 bit XP ....not sure what else I can inform you with to help me....Thanks in advance
When in downloading mode that is what It.is supposed to do. U need to plug it in and run Odin from the computer. Go into the development section and find one of The stock from images from sfhub. The last official release is ek02. Follow the directions in there.
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Umm Ok I think I over thought this process....just figured out that to go into recovery its VOL Up and home.....now getting some kind of a registration error when trying to flash im attempting to figure that out....jeez sucks being a noob....again lol
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When in downloading mode that is what It.is supposed to do. U need to plug it in and run Odin from the computer. Go into the development section and find one of The stock from images from sfhub. The last official release is ek02. Follow the directions in there.
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Thanks that is exactly what i have just lined up to do
Finally!!!! got it where it needs to be )))))))) Love this beast!!!!! Thanks for helping
Okay, last week, my old droid died in it's sleep. I'm currently unemployed and a friend was kind enough to give me his old Incredible. He has it rooted with CyanogenMod, and I have been trying to activate it on PagePlus. I have not been able to OTA activate it as is, and I've read it's because of the non-stock mod flashed on. I've been scouring these and similar forums for the past week, going through solution after solution to no avail. It's become a time-sensitive issue.
What I have done so far:
Downloaded the s-on and pb31img.zip: The s-on thing flashed properly, but when I try to flash the PB31IMG.zip, it just says installation aborted. I've tried downloading the zip file from multiple sources, in case it was an issue with the file. I've tried flashing Jellybean just to see if there was an issue with flashing any other roms at all and it worked fine.
Downloaded, installed, and updated HTC Sync and the correct RUU to go with my baseband. I can not for the life of me get either of these programs to recognize my phone while it's plugged in, despite the phone and computer separately recognizing each other and being able to interact normally otherwise. I believe this to be a driver issue, and I can not find the appropriate driver. All inquires to the correct one have guided me towards getting the SDK package, downloading the driver from there and installing it. I did this. When I attempt to search for drivers in the designated folder, it tells me that it can't be installed correctly. I have tried this from two computers with Windows 7 to the same effect.
I would appreciate any help on this asap, as I am waiting on several employment-related calls and have reached my wit's end on finding a solution on my own.
Did you tried to flash stock rom?
May be this helps
doug piston post, just found it in a quick search on the web
http://www.incredibleforum.com/foru...s/5723-how-get-back-complete-stock-s-off.html
Hope it helps mate.
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Did you tried to flash stock rom?
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Yes, I did. It did not work. That, from my understanding, is what I was attempting to do with the PB31IMG.zip.
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Did you tried to flash stock rom?
May be this helps
doug piston post, just found it in a quick search on the web
Hope it helps mate.
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I appreciate the quick search, but I have done those things to the letter multiple times and described doing them as such, as well as the issues I encountered.
IanStraka said:
Okay, last week, my old droid died in it's sleep. I'm currently unemployed and a friend was kind enough to give me his old Incredible. He has it rooted with CyanogenMod, and I have been trying to activate it on PagePlus. I have not been able to OTA activate it as is, and I've read it's because of the non-stock mod flashed on. I've been scouring these and similar forums for the past week, going through solution after solution to no avail. It's become a time-sensitive issue.
What I have done so far:
Downloaded the s-on and pb31img.zip: The s-on thing flashed properly, but when I try to flash the PB31IMG.zip, it just says installation aborted. I've tried downloading the zip file from multiple sources, in case it was an issue with the file. I've tried flashing Jellybean just to see if there was an issue with flashing any other roms at all and it worked fine.
Downloaded, installed, and updated HTC Sync and the correct RUU to go with my baseband. I can not for the life of me get either of these programs to recognize my phone while it's plugged in, despite the phone and computer separately recognizing each other and being able to interact normally otherwise. I believe this to be a driver issue, and I can not find the appropriate driver. All inquires to the correct one have guided me towards getting the SDK package, downloading the driver from there and installing it. I did this. When I attempt to search for drivers in the designated folder, it tells me that it can't be installed correctly. I have tried this from two computers with Windows 7 to the same effect.
I would appreciate any help on this asap, as I am waiting on several employment-related calls and have reached my wit's end on finding a solution on my own.
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Reflash soff and then just flash touch of blue and you can activate on page+ from there and if you want cm back just flash cm7 and the gapps because a factory wipe in recovery won't make you reactivate
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I would get s-off back, as it will not affect activating. Then either do this ruu http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip, thru hboot, or as stated earlier reroot and flash the stock 4.08.605.15 rom or Touch of blue. If the ruu dosent work, try reformating your sdcard fat32 and then try again.
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Okay, last week, my old droid died in it's sleep. I'm currently unemployed and a friend was kind enough to give me his old Incredible. He has it rooted with CyanogenMod, and I have been trying to activate it on PagePlus. I have not been able to OTA activate it as is, and I've read it's because of the non-stock mod flashed on. I've been scouring these and similar forums for the past week, going through solution after solution to no avail. It's become a time-sensitive issue.
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Page Plus doesn't care a hoot if you've got a stock ROM, CyanogenMod, are rooted, or any of that stuff. And they certainly can't tell if you are s-off or s-on. I have had zero issued doing OTA programming on my Dinc regardless of the many ROMs I've had on it. I've always just dialed *22890 to activate and *22891 to update the PRL. Granted, I haven't changed my phone number or deactivated in quite a while...
But yeah, like others said, get s-off back if you at all can. If you flash Touch of Blue or another stock-based ROM, you will have more access to manually programming it that you can get with CyanogenMod.
After days and days of reading and making some progress, I am still unsure if I should proceed.. Almost all the info available here kinda assumes that I still use Sprint(not complaining, just explaining why I am unsure)
Ok so about a week ago I was using an app to change fonts on my LGOG(Myfonts I believe) and on my 3rd try, it rebooted as usual and left me with my boot animation looping. After searching and reading and searching and reading, I was able to get LGNPST working and was able to flash a teenybin with TWRP on it and able to get into recovery mode and could see all my files!!!! (well I was excited...)
I couldnt get adb to push and pull files but I was able to adb sideload "LGLS970SPR-ZVB-Stock.bin.zip" although it ended up failing saying "no MD5 file found"
Since i was able to flash the teenybin with LGNPST, could I just flash the ZVB-Stock.bin using LGNPST as well??
Also, would doing so delete my data(SDcard) and would I have to pay someone to reflash my phone to Cricket? Cuz I am dead broke till friday.
Any help or links in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Sorry if I'm leaving out any important details or if overlooked any important guides tho I read so much I could have lost track lol I just got out of work a couple hours ago(I work nights) and now its finally my weekend and thought I should just ask for more info rather than just trying things blindly lol Thanks again in advance and sorry for the run on sentences.... and and and and lol I should sleep...
Ok nevermind, I tried using the flashable ZVB rom and it worked. All data still there and still have Cricket service. So I'm happy. Time for sleep.............
Hi friends. Long time lurker here.
I've had many Samsung phones and many other android devices, but this is my first brick.
I had flashed the rooted SM-T217s rom, and the wifi wasn't working, so I tried to reflash it, at which point everything went wonky. I searched the forums and found some threads on bricked 217s's, but nothing specific to my situation.
The tablet went to the emergency firmware update screen, and I haven't been able to get Kies to even recognize it. I try to Odin back to the latest stock (B8) but it fails at 'Get PIT for mapping.' My google-fu tells me this is not a good thing.
Am I hosed here? What else can I try?
Thanks XDA, you're my only hope.
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Hi friends. Long time lurker here.
I've had many Samsung phones and many other android devices, but this is my first brick.
I had flashed the rooted SM-T217s rom, and the wifi wasn't working, so I tried to reflash it, at which point everything went wonky. I searched the forums and found some threads on bricked 217s's, but nothing specific to my situation.
The tablet went to the emergency firmware update screen, and I haven't been able to get Kies to even recognize it. I try to Odin back to the latest stock (B8) but it fails at 'Get PIT for mapping.' My google-fu tells me this is not a good thing.
Am I hosed here? What else can I try?
Thanks XDA, you're my only hope.
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Good news, I guess. I was able to flash TWRP recovery and the stock rooted rom from another computer, but now Wifi is borked and there's no network connection. HALP.
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Good news, I guess. I was able to flash TWRP recovery and the stock rooted rom from another computer, but now Wifi is borked and there's no network connection. HALP.
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Okay well I fixed it.
Turns out, the problem was that I was using Odin on a VM on my Mac. I had tried to use a PC, but I think the USB controller was too old, so that failed too. I had to use Heimdall to flash each of the partitions from the B8 zip manually. It worked, and I'm back in business, though not rooted. I suppose I'll wait until there's a better way to root before I try it again.
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joshuaerda said:
Okay well I fixed it.
Turns out, the problem was that I was using Odin on a VM on my Mac. I had tried to use a PC, but I think the USB controller was too old, so that failed too. I had to use Heimdall to flash each of the partitions from the B8 zip manually. It worked, and I'm back in business, though not rooted. I suppose I'll wait until there's a better way to root before I try it again.
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You should have made a backup. I used twrp recovery flashed a rom same thing wifi wouldnt work so I restored back. If you get it working again make a backup imo. Goodluck.
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You should have made a backup. I used twrp recovery flashed a rom same thing wifi wouldnt work so I restored back. If you get it working again make a backup imo. Goodluck.
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same here, I have the rom, but hesitated on the firmware, waiting to see if someone gets the wifi working, not to many developers here for this tablet.
sm t217s
Ok guys. Heres my deal with this TAB. Ive rooted... Unrooted. wipe wipe wipe wippty wipe . WiFi not working. Fixed it with NB8. So here now I sit with:
----NB8 Wifi works---
----TWRP-----
Yup, pathetic i know. I cant even get the supersu to flash. TWRP wont move it over to flash off external sd card. Im not hip to abd plus i heard you leave yourself wide opento visitors when using that.
Ive eye hustled a thread on here that some friends are getting back together to rock it on a custom rom so my fingers are crossed. This tab is so neglected i mayjust go get the 210r. But i really dont want to. So my question is....
Can someone please give me links to files that work with the NB8 stock firmware. Some of the links are outdated after sprint uploaded the new bootloader. We are a small community on this tab so lets stick together on this. I dont think cynogen isgoing to do anything for it. As they concentrate on thier new phone which looks pretty sweet by the way. K im done. Going to wait for help and play with this htc one s
thats been collecting dust.
Rooted
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Hello. Ive been 3 days with no phone now and am at my wits' end. I converted to developer, and in trying to clean install a ROM, messed something up...badly.
I can flash TWRP or CWM both through Odin, but no roms work at all. All of them get stuck at system.img.ext4 for about 10 minutes and then it fails. I cant flash anything through recovery, either, because neither recovery program can read my SD card for some reason. Ive read up on similar issues, but all of the fixes involve formatting the SD card through a functioning ROM, which isnt a possibility for me. I am desperate at this point...very desperate. Also, Ive tried the XDA IRC rooms but i'm not sure if i even join them correctly, as for days i cant get even a single letter response from any of the listed participants. Ive gotta be doing something wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. At this point i dont care if i lock my bootloader forever i just NEED a working phone.
Smartswitch doesnt work because it wont recognize my device, and when prompted for a S/N, nothing works...ive tried everything from the IMEI to the SIM s/n from the original package sleeve.
SOLVED:. talked to Samsung reps and confirmed that the note4 in fact has no serial number and that function if the recovery tool doesn't work for them. Did a day or researching on ADB stuff, which was new to me, and got cm13 successfully working via side load. After that, cm formatted the memory card to he readable, and all seems right in my note4 world for now.
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SOLVED:. talked to Samsung reps and confirmed that the note4 in fact has no serial number and that function if the recovery tool doesn't work for them. Did a day or researching on ADB stuff, which was new to me, and got cm13 successfully working via side load. After that, cm formatted the memory card to he readable, and all seems right in my note4 world for now.
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So what exactly did you do been trying to get a rom to work on mine that I did the dev convert on. I was on the latest ota update. Got it rooted and flashed a different kernel got it to boot on stock firmware but can't get any other rom to install and boot.
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So what exactly did you do been trying to get a rom to work on mine that I did the dev convert on. I was on the latest ota update. Got it rooted and flashed a different kernel got it to boot on stock firmware but can't get any other rom to install and boot.
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Yeah Odin and sd card options all fell flat on their faces for me...I never did figure out the system.img.ext4 hangup I got from odin.
In the end, I used Odin (3.9 iirc) to flash twrp. Flashing two or cwm both never gave me any trouble. From there, I downloaded the cm13 latest build from the thread here and followed this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317986). Sideload failed for me as well, but I was able to push the rom to my phone.
I downloaded a adb/fastboot program (https://androidmtk.com/download-minimal-adb-and-fastboot-tool) and in the x86 program files folder for it, made a new folder called FML lol and moved the ROM zip folder into it. Then did
abd push ___________.zip /sdcard/_________.zip. (note that I don't remember exact adb commands...it had been hours of frustration. Definitely consult the experts (not me) here before trying what I did. In the end it worked great. Good luck.
It was my first experience with adB stuff and tons of trialife and and error but I sure learned tons after all the research and frustration.
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Yeah Odin and sd card options all fell flat on their faces for me...I never did figure out the system.img.ext4 hangup I got from odin.
In the end, I used Odin (3.9 iirc) to flash twrp. Flashing two or cwm both never gave me any trouble. From there, I downloaded the cm13 latest build from the thread here and followed this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317986). Sideload failed for me as well, but I was able to push the rom to my phone.
I downloaded a adb/fastboot program (https://androidmtk.com/download-minimal-adb-and-fastboot-tool) and in the x86 program files folder for it, made a new folder called FML lol and moved the ROM zip folder into it. Then did
abd push ___________.zip /sdcard/_________.zip. (note that I don't remember exact adb commands...it had been hours of frustration. Definitely consult the experts (not me) here before trying what I did. In the end it worked great. Good luck.
It was my first experience with adB stuff and tons of trialife and and error but I sure learned tons after all the research and frustration.
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OK so once you were able to get the rom pushed to your phone it installed fine? I just can't get them to install and boot right. What version were you on and did you do safe updates? Guess I'll have to start a new thread on it
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I was/am at PA1. I did the smartswitch emergency recovery to stock PA1 and then redid the developer conversion, before having a hangup and wiping everything with twrp...like everything (BAD idea). That is what caused all my odin and sd card woes to begin with.