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[Q] NEW Device Update Error!!!

Anyone have any idea how to fix my issue?
My device is not rooted nor running any other ROM. At this point I can care less if the solution involves rooting my phone and loading a rom. HELP PLEASE.
Device was updating to the latest software....
Stuck on ODIN MODE. Error message "Firmware Upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again"
T-Mobile tier 2 and Samsung Tier 3 could not figuire out how to fix it.
-Can't get to the recovery bootloader menu screen.
-When ever I pull the battery and plug it in it goes straight to this screen, nothing else even if I do the hardware keys to -get to the bootloader screen.
-If I connect my device to my computer and load Kies it does not reconize my device, if I go to the Emergency Recovery Screen under options nothing is in the list and no one seems to know the code to put n the code option.
What do I do? Samsung said to send it in to get flashed.
Is there any way for me to flash it on this screen at all? At this point I don't mind rooting it and loading a rom, any help would be great. Thank you!

Ibhad that same issue when i was updating. I made a video . Just follow this because kies did not work for me but odin did. Post on here questions if you have them. Ill help you. Odin will help you reupdate. Its not bricked just stuck in download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393938
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Thanks dude.......so......how do I get the phone to "download mode"? Mine is in ODIN MODE....Can I do exactly what you did on the video or do I need to reload the stock?

My ODIN screen says "0:[COM3]" instead of "0:[COM6]"......what do I do?

Sorey. Okay so does itbalso say added at the bottom like in tge video. Sorry i was in a low reception area
synergeticink said:
My ODIN screen says "0:[COM3]" instead of "0:[COM6]"......what do I do?
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Ifif says com and its yellow and added and you followed the rest of the instructions you should ve fine.
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Awesome, it does say com3 and added at the bottom, I will give it a try.

Glad to hear that. And im assuming you got all the other stuff you need. Like the update? Itll take about 8 mins. Once it reboots itll say pass and should not have errors. If you get any errors let me know what step it got stuck in and what the error was.
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Awesome, it does say com3 and added at the bottom, I will give it a try.
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So were you just updating over the air and it got stuck? I dont know why it asks to connect to kies when kies doesnt even recognize the phone. Kinda sad.
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Your awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its working again!!!!! So happy!!!!

im happy i made that video. So you are updated glad that worked out for you.
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Your awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its working again!!!!! So happy!!!!
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Thank you sooooo much!!!!
Someday in the future I will want to root and load a rom on to my phone, is ODIN used for that process too? I have done it with my old HD2, but I am sure its different now.

Odin can be used to root or to install other things. Once you are rooted though you can flash via cwn rwcovery instead
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Sweet, I am fimilier with cwn rw-covery. Thanks again!

I do have one question though. When you unlock the screen why does it show the bar with "swipe screen to unlock" on it? I never had that before? Do you know how to remove it?

People are reporting that after a couple uses and reboots it went away. Mine was there then it went away
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I do have one question though. When you unlock the screen why does it show the bar with "swipe screen to unlock" on it? I never had that before? Do you know how to remove it?
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Sweet, I will try and reboot it again a couple times. Thank you!

I have this exact same problem but i couldnt find your video from the other thread, Can you post it please? I have not had a phone for 2 weeks. Please help me

Help me please
I have the same issue on my note 10.1. It shows the "0:[COM6]" but the video you posted has been deleted
chib1panda said:
Ibhad that same issue when i was updating. I made a video . Just follow this because kies did not work for me but odin did. Post on here questions if you have them. Ill help you. Odin will help you reupdate. Its not bricked just stuck in download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393938
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I Think My Phone Is Bricked!!!

My Phone all of a sudden restarted and now has a black screen and keeps vibrating. my battery isnt dead and it will boot into the ROM I have flashed for a brief second then reboot itself back into the black screen. It won't even boot into recovery nor will it boot into download mode. PLEASE HELP!!!

Fly2Deaf said:
My Phone all of a sudden restarted and now has a black screen and keeps vibrating. my battery isnt dead and it will boot into the ROM I have flashed for a brief second then reboot itself back into the black screen. It won't even boot into recovery nor will it boot into download mode. PLEASE HELP!!!
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So what exactly happened?
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Sounds strange. What exactly did you flash before hand? From/kernel/mods anything.
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Odin you noob. Why do you even waste time with posting such useless garbage? If you can't get back to stock from Odin then post.

I handed my phone to my mother to show her a picture and when she went to hand it to my aunt, my aunt dropped it. I didnt think nothing of it when I locked the screen but when I went to unlock it, my phone restarted and went to a straight black screen and started to vibrate over and over again. I tried to pull the battery and then re-insert it and boot into recovery but when recovery showed up and I went to restore to a previous ROM the phone rebooted itself and started vibrating again. Now I'm at the computer trying to place it into Download Mode. The screen pops up that says to either push Vol + for Download or Vol- for restart. When I press Vol+, the phone restarts and goes straight to a black screen again.
And I'm not a noob, I know what I'm doing my phone just started acting up
And I'm Running the AOKP ROM with Eugene's ICS Kernel with the Tmo_SGH-T989_LC8_Radio

What previous from were you trying to restore?? When you restore a nand back up you have to make sure that the rom you're restoring is the rom that's already installed. In other words if you wanted to restore a back up you would have needed to flash the correct rom before hand. Though I'm confused because if you did try and restore a previous rom say a cm9 back up and you have aokp currently installed it shouldn't work. Cwm will tell you there's a mismatch and it aborts the installation. My guess is this drop did some damage. Your phone isn't making it past post per say of your using pc terms. Can you try and boot back into cwm? You said download mode doesn't work. But does cwm?

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Odin you noob. Why do you even waste time with posting such useless garbage? If you can't get back to stock from Odin then post.
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He mentioned he can't boot into download mode. You didn't even bother to read the whole post before jumping the gun and insulting the guy. You are what's wrong with these forums. Idiot.
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I couldn't even get into cwm at all. But now i was able to get into Download Mode to flash back to Stock ICS using Oden and now Oden won't flash The ICS ROM back to my phone for some reason. Oden does recognize my phone but it won't flash anything

I would buy a USB jig they're cheap on eBay it'll force into download mode so u can restore in odin
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I don't know what I did but thankfully I got it to boot into CWM and I'm restoring my ROM

maybe hardware problems if you dropped it, wasn't bricked, we usually say bricking a phone from bad flash, don't we? lol, i am not sure. try taking off sim card, micro sd card and battery then carefully put them back on next time if you have problems from drops etc........

Got to admit the whole "Brick" wording gets thrown around way too much for my liking and lets be honest if you are not a noob then you know all the steps to take in my opinion to try and restore your phone. If those steps dont work and you have researched the web then let Insurance kick in if you have it.
Not trying to flame or be an ass but just saying any non noob should know the steps to try and bring our phone back from the dead... I dont think starting a "Brick" thread should be on that list... Coming from the epic touch where the ICS kernel was bricking everyone its just makes me cringe when I see that word.... My bad man if you don't care for my opinion
IJS

Have the exact same problem, can't get it into recovery or download mode.
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RushAOZ said:
He mentioned he can't boot into download mode. You didn't even bother to read the whole post before jumping the gun and insulting the guy. You are what's wrong with these forums. Idiot.
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He got as far as ROM so I knew for a fact that he could get to download and/or recovery. Just like he in fact did.
Idiot. Learn more about the phone you hold.
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Play nice. It's fun to read about people's phone situations.
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Here is my 2 cents
Yes people jump the gun and post bricked phone threads but that's probably because they are panicking.. And yes I agree that people should use the search function and read whenever possible.. And yes people should be reminded to do so..
But if you have the time to criticize someone then why don't you try to help them too..
If you have nothing helpful to add then don't post anything
I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth

I had this same problem,when I tried to go in to recovery and do a restore it would reboot its self even while flashing a Rom.what I did was...go in to recovery and quickly clear cache before it reboot then go back and clear dalvik then go back and try to flash the same Rom you had installed. It did work for mange when I was trying to restore.
Hope this helps
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RushAOZ said:
Sounds strange. What exactly did you flash before hand? From/kernel/mods anything.
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Honestly, your the type of person everyone hates on xda.
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so you tried..
1. remove battery.
2. plug in phone to usb on computer with battery STILL OUT
3. while plugged in hold down volume up and down.
4. Still plugged in and still holding the volume up and down, insert your battery.
5. boom choose continue and find download mode.
If this doesn't get you to DL mode then either something broke hardware wise when you dropped it, OR your not being honest with what you did to cause the problem..

Help My S3 is stuck on the Galaxy 3 screen...

I hope this post is in the correct place but if not Mods please move to the correct one.
Can someone help me and point me in the right direction on getting my phone back to working condition. I originally did the "QBKING77" "I think that's the Name" Clockwork mod root and everything worked fine. Then I went to put the phone back to original condition and now it will not boot.I just get the Samsung Galaxy III boot screen. I used Odin and loaded the factory file the all of the sudden Odin said failed. The phone hasn't been the same since. I can get to the boot screen still "Vol-up+RT side and middle button. And also "Vol-down +RT side +Middle Button" to do Odin. My computer or any computer recognized the phone and loads the drivers for it but I can't get the dam thing to work. I hope to god I don't have a paperweight. Any and All help would be GREATLY Appreciated!!!!!

wgfa said:
I hope this post is in the correct place but if not Mods please move to the correct one.
Can someone help me and point me in the right direction on getting my phone back to working condition. I originally did the "QRB77" "I think that's the Name" root and everything worked fine. Then I went to put the phone back to original condition and now it will not boot.I just get the Samsung Galaxy III boot screen. I used Odin and loaded the factory file the all of the sudden Odin said failed. The phone hasn't been the same since. I can get to the boot screen still "Vol-up+RT side and middle button. And also "Vol-down +RT side +Middle Button" to do Odin. My computer or any computer recognized the phone and loads the drivers for it but I can't get the dam thing to work. I hope to god I don't have a paperweight. Any and All help would be GREATLY Appreciated!!!!!
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Same thing happen to me so I just went and got a new phone and will not root or anything this phone is to good stock tamper with
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budde2 said:
Same thing happen to me so I just went and got a new phone and will not root or anything this phone is to good stock tamper with
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Dammm. So what did u end up doing with the old phone???

Gave it to sprint they didn't ask any questions I told them it said I had a update so I updated and never turned back on so I got a new one right there
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[Q]hard brick?

help.i flashed a galaxy s 2 skyrocket rom by mistake.after the flash i reboot system now from recovery and my phone just died.will not boot not even a battery symbol while charging.also laptop will not recognise and no download mode. is this a hard brick?only 3 weeks old can someone help me please.sorry my phone is the canadian koodo version believe its i989d

I had almost the same exact problem, except mine was from trying to flash a zImage that I built. My symptoms were exactly like yours. The phone is hard bricked and can only be revived through jtag. Also a usb jig had no effect on my bricked phone.

what is jtag

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what is jtag
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Didn't mean to thank you wanted to quote. Can you get into recovery at all. The sr forum roms can be without an issue be installed into our devices even koodoo. Might need a rotation fix but they are all compatible. Pls post what recovery, what rom and the steps taken to flash the aforementioned rom. I will try my best to help you out and get you back to flashing again...
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datrapstar said:
Didn't mean to thank you wanted to quote. Can you get into recovery at all. The sr forum roms can be without an issue be installed into our devices even koodoo. Might need a rotation fix but they are all compatible. Pls post what recovery, what rom and the steps taken to flash the aforementioned rom. I will try my best to help you out and get you back to flashing again...
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no recovery at all.phone is completely dead.i cant remember what rom it was sorry brain fart.i flash new roms all the time and followed to a tee.after i flashed i i hit reboot system frolm recovery mode and my phone and screen went blank and thats when it died.like i mean absolutely nothing.600 dollar paper weight

2 options.. mobiletechvideos.com or warranty exchange... or last resort you can try and jig it yourself...
On the other hand is there anyway to test the battery? Could be a dead cell and that could cause you not to be able to turn on. ... try this, go into your nearest tmo store and see if you can test with one of their batteries. They should do that without any charge.
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Cannot Access Download Mode

Hey there guys- pretty sure this isn't already posted, but apologies if it is.
Anyway, I bought a used NoteII recently, and there seems to be some weird stuff going on. I recently tried accessing download mode, but each time I do I get kicked into the stock recovery. (There's a little android on it's back with a red triangle with an exclamation mark on it if that helps)
I've also tried using Kies to restore, but after using Firmware Upgrade and Initialization, it says that my device doesn't support that.
Any help is appreciated!

BG64 said:
Hey there guys- pretty sure this isn't already posted, but apologies if it is.
Anyway, I bought a used NoteII recently, and there seems to be some weird stuff going on. I recently tried accessing download mode, but each time I do I get kicked into the stock recovery. (There's a little android on it's back with a red triangle with an exclamation mark on it if that helps)
I've also tried using Kies to restore, but after using Firmware Upgrade and Initialization, it says that my device doesn't support that.
Any help is appreciated!
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Pull the battery and wait maybe 5min before reinserting it then hold volume down + power + home keys at the same time til it takes you into download mode
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LuigiBull23 said:
Pull the battery and wait maybe 5min before reinserting it then hold volume down + power + home keys at the same time til it takes you into download mode
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Nope. Nothing. Still get the Stock Recovery menu.

All I want to do it revert back to stock.
From the stock recovery menu, I can apply an update.zip; could I just flash a stock zip?

If you have an external sd card, yes.
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You might also try the tool found in this thread. It will get you back to stock and can help you move ahead with rooting etc when you decide to again.