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Hello first off I would like to say thank you all at xda I have been using your help since first rooting my t mo wing all the way up to my epic 4g touch I have now
OK but to cut to the chase I have NEVER had any problems rooting hacking or messing with any of my phones until now about 4 months ago I decided to root my new Samsung galaxy s2 using Odin little did I know I grabbed the firmware for the gt i9100 big mistake it installed successfully the phone boots ALL THE WAY to the home screen and everything works fine except for the USB external SD card and wifi even the camera works but most importantly I noticed the Bluetooth is still 100% functional my phone just thinks its a i9100 so my biggest question is basically what files "if any" should I transfer to my phone through Bluetooth to make it work again? The recovery menu seems to be for the gt i9100 too but it still has the option to flash from my internal SD and I already tested the Bluetooth transfer with a song that also plays without a problem thanks for any help in advance
Are you able to get to download mode again?
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I did this once. Flashed the CWM for the i9100 on my E4GT by accident. Got the i9100 splash screen along with yellow triangle but it booted up fine.
You may want to one click odin back to rooted stock and then reinstall CWM. If you're not sure, this is an easy tutorial I did for someone else:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24158551&postcount=9980
I would mobile Odin to el26+cwm and boot into recovery and flash a proper ROM since you have no USB.
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tdunham said:
I did this once. Flashed the CWM for the i9100 on my E4GT by accident. Got the i9100 splash screen along with yellow triangle but it booted up fine.
You may want to one click odin back to rooted stock and then reinstall CWM. If you're not sure, this is an easy tutorial I did for someone else:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24158551&postcount=9980
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This is exactly what I would do, in fact it is what I did. I did the same thing you did when I first got the phone. This method fixed me right up! I would not recommend using mobile Odin especially since you have the wrong firmware on the phone. This is assuming in download mode the phone is recognized by the computer. I got lucky and mine did even though when booted into the ROM the computer would not recognize it.
Hello,
I have the Galaxy S II T989 (Tmobile) and the screen got broken and is completely black. But The phone is working and i can start it and feel the vibe at start and after it starts, i cant tap the bottom 4 buttons and they light up.
My phone was protected by pattern password. So when i connect the phone to USB and launch Kies , it asks me to unlock it...
But i can't since my screen is broken and doesn't light up.
Is there a way to download the internal contents of the flash memory (not the SD card) to the PC somehow?
I have tons of pictures and video clips that are very important to me.
Please help.
Paul.
Is USB debugging enabled? If so, you may be able to pull the files that way. You may also be able to do it through recovery (hold both volume buttons down at powerup while not USB connected). If you can get adb access, you can use it to pull the pictures that way.
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Boot into recovery. Connect USB to PC Mount drives. Success!!
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LoopDoGG79 said:
Boot into recovery. Connect USB to PC Mount drives. Success!!
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When you say to boot into recovery, do you refer to VOL_UP + VOL_DOWN + PWR buttons at boot ? When you get to the menu that you can select between Device reboot, Firmware update using external memory, etc...
Or are you referring to something else?
Thanks much!
laker4ever said:
When you say to boot into recovery, do you refer to VOL_UP + VOL_DOWN + PWR buttons at boot ? When you get to the menu that you can select between Device reboot, Firmware update using external memory, etc...
Or are you referring to something else?
Thanks much!
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Dont know how broken your screen is or what recovery you have, but yes, that's what I mean. There is an option somewhere in recovery to mount drives.
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What recovery you have? Being that your LCD is shattered I could guide you step by step on how many clicks on the volume rocker to access on latest cmw. Since it doesnt work the same on twrp I can you guesstimate the location on touch and maybe your screen could recognize it enough to enable you to mount from recovery..
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Best bet is either through ADB access either with USB Developer Mode turned on or using ADB in recovery to pull the files. Neither one of those options requires using the phone more than turning it on. How was the phone set up before the LCD broke? Did you root it? Did you put a new recovery on it? Or was it completely stock. If it was completely stock, go fix the LCD and then access it, there's no way around it... well... actually, you could get into Download Mode, flash a recovery, then access it that way.
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Best bet is either through ADB access either with USB Developer Mode turned on or using ADB in recovery to pull the files. Neither one of those options requires using the phone more than turning it on. How was the phone set up before the LCD broke? Did you root it? Did you put a new recovery on it? Or was it completely stock. If it was completely stock, go fix the LCD and then access it, there's no way around it... well... actually, you could get into Download Mode, flash a recovery, then access it that way.
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I'm able to use the HDMI converter and "SEE" the screen of the phone on my TV. However, i cannot unlock it (it had the pattern lock) because the touch screen is not responding to my touch. I guess the touch sensor is broken.
It is a stock phone. never rooted it.
I was trying to get to recovery mode by pressing POWER and VOL UP and DN, but i wasn't able to see anything on my TV. Could it be that the HDMI converter into TV only works when the phone is booted normal and doesn't work in recovery mode.
How can i get it to download mode and flash the recovery?
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What recovery you have? Being that your LCD is shattered I could guide you step by step on how many clicks on the volume rocker to access on latest cmw. Since it doesnt work the same on twrp I can you guesstimate the location on touch and maybe your screen could recognize it enough to enable you to mount from recovery..
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The touch sensor is not working as i was able to see the screen on my TV( with the MHA - hdmi adapter) but touching the screen on the phone did nothing...
laker4ever said:
I'm able to use the HDMI converter and "SEE" the screen of the phone on my TV. However, i cannot unlock it (it had the pattern lock) because the touch screen is not responding to my touch. I guess the touch sensor is broken.
It is a stock phone. never rooted it.
I was trying to get to recovery mode by pressing POWER and VOL UP and DN, but i wasn't able to see anything on my TV. Could it be that the HDMI converter into TV only works when the phone is booted normal and doesn't work in recovery mode.
How can i get it to download mode and flash the recovery?
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Yeah, I don't think the drivers to show on the TV screen would be loaded while in Download Mode.
There's still hope, you can still install a recovery without actually needing the touchscreen. Once in recovery, you'll be able to access your system files through adb and pull whatever you need onto your computer.
You'll have to do it all blind though because you won't be able to see if the phone has successfully rebooted into recovery. I can walk you through it step-by-step if you feel it's that important to you to recovery whatever data is on the phone.
Buy a new Phone.
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Yeah, I don't think the drivers to show on the TV screen would be loaded while in Download Mode.
There's still hope, you can still install a recovery without actually needing the touchscreen. Once in recovery, you'll be able to access your system files through adb and pull whatever you need onto your computer.
You'll have to do it all blind though because you won't be able to see if the phone has successfully rebooted into recovery. I can walk you through it step-by-step if you feel it's that important to you to recovery whatever data is on the phone.
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Update:
I got a replacement phone and using some youtube clips and info, i swapped the boards between the two phones. So I was able to start the phone (old board, new screen), and simply transferred all data to the computer.
Now, i will put it back together and be all done.
I also enabled USB debug mode...for next time....
Thank you so much for the help.
h.nocturna said:
Yeah, I don't think the drivers to show on the TV screen would be loaded while in Download Mode.
There's still hope, you can still install a recovery without actually needing the touchscreen. Once in recovery, you'll be able to access your system files through adb and pull whatever you need onto your computer.
You'll have to do it all blind though because you won't be able to see if the phone has successfully rebooted into recovery. I can walk you through it step-by-step if you feel it's that important to you to recovery whatever data is on the phone.
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Hello Senior Member ,
I too have a similiar dilemma. My Note 2 has a cracked screen and its all black . I am not sure the digitizer is in working condition . Although I have alot of files I wish to recover. Its been nearly a year Ive held on to it just to recover data. My phone is stock , NO ROOT and unfortunately USB Debugging has been turned off. Mind you, its a korean version, model SHVE250K . I do not want to chance rooting if I can not see the screen . I am afraid of making a mistake. ANY advice and ideas would be greatly appreciated. I would feel more confident working on it, with someone more experienced guiding me along the way.
Three letters with one word= MHL cable. I do it all the time with one of my t989's.
Now im soo broke, I cant even pay attention!
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laker4ever said:
I'm able to use the HDMI converter and "SEE" the screen of the phone on my TV. However, i cannot unlock it (it had the pattern lock) because the touch screen is not responding to my touch. I guess the touch sensor is broken.
It is a stock phone. never rooted it.
I was trying to get to recovery mode by pressing POWER and VOL UP and DN, but i wasn't able to see anything on my TV. Could it be that the HDMI converter into TV only works when the phone is booted normal and doesn't work in recovery mode.
How can i get it to download mode and flash the recovery?
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If the HML cable works but doesn't respond to touch, then both the lcd AND digitizer are broken. Replacement screens have gotten sooo much cheaper than a year ago, they're like $65 now. I fix em all the time.
Now im soo broke, I cant even pay attention!
Hi everyone I am new here I am also a new to the Android world. After having an iPhone 5 & feeling a little underwhelmed with it I decided to switch to the S3 & today I decided to root the device everything went fine until i installed the cyanogenmod 10 rom onto my phone & it got stuck at the spinning CyanogenMod logo so when I went to do a factory restore & start the device now it wont power back on I tried holding down the home+volume+power button but nothing so I could really use some help. My S3 is with Telus by the way.
Thanks in Advance.
Can you get download mode? (vol down + home + power) if so use Odin to reflash stock with root. Follow instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
If not use a USB jig to get download mode.
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Where does one get a USB jig from. I had something similar happen to my phone but thankfully I was able to convince At&t it just died of natural causes
You could make one. Instructions are on here just search. Or buy off eBay or Google. Just search USB jig
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Hi Folks,
I'm helping my sister's boyfriend to recover what's possible from his AT&T Galaxy S III that fell into a pool when they were on vacation.
When I first got the phone, it would not boot or charge the battery - the red notification light would flicker in a noticeable pattern when power was attached and the battery removed.
After I took it apart following these nice instructions, then soaked+scrubbed its circuit boards, contacts, etc. in rubbing alcohol and ensured everything was dry again, I put it all back together and it booted up but will not respond to touch input on the display. The side and bottom buttons still work fine.
When cleaning the phone, I did notice what appears to be damage on pins for the "display data cable" (according the dis-assembly pages), which might be the LCD and Digitizer connection. Is this also related to touchscreen input?
BTW, I tried a couple ways to get into the phone:
It appears that he never enabled USB Debugging, so I can't get ADB or other programs to access phone storage over USB
I have also tried a USB OTG cable and mouse, but his phone is not showing the mouse pointer or responding to its input - it does show recognition that something was connected, because the display will turn on if already off and I simply connect the OTG cable
So, I'm wondering if anyone has advice on how to get the data off this phone and/or enable the touchscreen input.
SOLVED:
Rooted the phone using CF-Autoroot method for AT&T Galaxy S III phones via Odin. Not sure if this was necessary.
Installed stock drivers from "SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_v1.5.18.0.exe" package
Placed the phone into Stock Recovery
Used ADB in Windows to copy media files from the phone onto my PC: adb pull /data/media/DCIM C:/backup
Installed PhilZ Recovery via Odin and copied the phone's /data contents to an external SD card, which then enabled access to txt messages, application settings, etc. on my PC with a card reader
Thanks,
- ooofest
Use this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43332821
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mkfryan said:
Use this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43332821
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Thanks, it's a good idea but requires root - this is a stock, unrooted phone I'm dealing with.
Currently looking at the idea of finding a phone frame for sale with just LCD and digitizer, and possibly just replacing the circuit boards with those in this phone. That is, I'm assuming its built-in storage is somewhere on the motherboard.
- ooofest
Why not put the phone in download mode Odin cwm recovery reboot into recovery and adb pull what you need?
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mkfryan said:
Why not put the phone in download mode Odin cwm recovery reboot into recovery and adb pull what you need?
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Because I was unfamiliar with that method?
Honestly, I was searching everywhere and came up with that exact same process - the phone is now rooted with CWM (via Odin, as you suggested) and for some reason ADB isn't able to see it when I connect in Recovery mode. Hm.
More work to do.
- ooofest
Do you have another android device to test to see if adb is working on the computer? Otherwise maybe the recovery doesn't have adb enabled
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Do you have another android device to test to see if adb is working on the computer? Otherwise maybe the recovery doesn't have adb enabled
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To that point, I had adb working with its stock recovery and can communicate with my primary Galaxy S III, so it seems that this CWM is not supporting adb.
I installed CWM 5.5.0.4 from CF-SGS3-CWM-v5.5-v1.2.tar via ODIN, essentially. Perhaps another version would work better with adb?
- ooofest
Upgraded to latest CWM for this phone via Odin by creating a .tar from the latest .img file for AT&T Galaxy S IIIs, but it still doesn't allow adb access :/ .
Need to find a custom recovery that offers adb access, because I hope to pull the data via adb as mentioned above.
Any hints?
- ooofest
At that point of the stock recovery working on your other device possibly try to Odin back to stock and try adb again just tossing out a suggestion
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Installed the AT&T stock recovery back via Odin and ADB was not enabled on the phone - although it worked for my purely stock phone - until I installed the absolute latest Samsung USB drivers. Re-rooted just for the heck of it using the CF-Autoroot method and Odin.
Seeing what's available to pull now . . .
EDIT: Whoo Hoo! adb pull /data/media/DCIM C:/backup is copying all the pictures and videos from the phone!
Thanks for all helpful advice - I've been all over the boards, searching for ways into storage and this finally worked. Seems I didn't need a custom recovery, after all.
- ooofest
Hi guys. I'm in trouble. I have a rooted nexus 7 2013 which was working just fine for a couple of months. Then abruptly it seems to have bricked itself.
After checking my mail, I closed my magnetic case as usual. Then when I opened the case as usual a few hours later I discovered it had powered itself off. Strange! But I just pressed the power button and it started booting up. However it got to the X screen and just stayed there. I rebooted several times always with the same result.
So I tried powering up with the down volume and power button pressed and it took me to a screen with "restart bootloader" which I did, and then 'start". But no difference : it stays at the X screen and no further.
I then went to the recovery screen and got the open android robot with a RED triangle and explanation mark. Going power up or down did not bring up any other options
Looks like I'm really bricked!
Trouble is that I'm away from home and will not be back for 3 weeks. I therefore don't have a computer to connect to and try to do something. Only the nexus 7 to work with.
The nexus is rooted and I have TWRP recovery backups on it but no way to access them.
Is there anything I can do to recover from this brick? I really need help and I'm an android newbie.
U are not bricked.. Hold down the power botton for a while. It should turn off.. Then turn it on... Bricked is when u have no power at all.. Nada dead..
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You are not hard-bricked and your tablet can definitely be recovered. The problem is, you will be away from a computer for 3 weeks. You kind of a catch-22. If you could boot up into your ROM, you could download ROM Manager and flash a new recovery/ROM to be able to boot up into your ROM. Without a computer, you might be bricked for the next 3 weeks, sorry OP. If only you could borrow someone's computer for a bit just to flash what you need to flash...
Maybe you could use USB OTG to transfer the files you need from like a phone or something? Although, since you can only get to stock recovery and your bootloader, I'm not sure if it would be picked up by the host device... I've never used USB OTG so I don't know exactly what will work with it. I somehow doubt that will help though. Once you get a computer, it's easy to restore your tablet though, so there's a silver lining.
OK, thanks for all the help.
I was able to reset the nexus 7 so I have a working tablet during my travels. When I get home I will restore from backups.
Surprisingly, the restore did not remove root (but of course wiped all my data). But..... It also wiped Twrp so I cannot make a Nandroid backup. Can I reinstall TWRP without access to a pc? How?
Thanks.
Can you access the ply store? Use GooManager
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From my limited knowledge, as long as you get ANYTHING showing up on your screen, your device is fixable.
Just relax, and start from the beginning. There is plenty of info on this site for getting your device back to stock settings.
Don't let it freak you out. Think of it as an opportunity to LEARN MORE about your totally awesome device!!!
And have some fun with it. Trial and error is what makes this world go 'round.
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Can you access the ply store? Use GooManager
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I have full Internet access with the tablet. Yes I can access the play store and goo manager. Will goo manager reinstall TWRP?
I know that when I finally get home in another 10 days I can use my pc and backups to restore everything via usb. I'm using this as a learning opportunity to see if I can install what is necessary to create a Nandroid backup without access to a pc.
Jeff
Anderson2 said:
I have full Internet access with the tablet. Yes I can access the play store and goo manager. Will goo manager reinstall TWRP?
I know that when I finally get home in another 10 days I can use my pc and backups to restore everything via usb. I'm using this as a learning opportunity to see if I can install what is necessary to create a Nandroid backup without access to a pc.
Jeff
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Yes. Install then open. Click on the three dots and install OpenRecoveryScript.
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Yes. Install then open. Click on the three dots and install OpenRecoveryScript.
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Thanks. Actually, as part of my learning, I searched the Internet and read about "Recovery Tools - flasher" which I installed. Using it I flashed the correct Twrp recovery image, made a Nandroid backup, and now feel much more secure! (Besides proud of myself.....)
Thanks for the hand holding and support.