Hi, Need pointing into right direction. I use my note in the uk and tried flashing different roms, modems etc to get LTE to work. It stopped connecting to my laptop at some point but I continued to flash cutom roms using recovery. I then tried the Odin app (by Chainfire) to flash stock Tmo F1 rom. I had been on NE6 prior to me trying custom roms.
Problem is that the flash failed (when rebooting itself) and is now in a bootloop and I can't get into recovery either. Download mode comes up but it does not connect to the Laptop. I have tried Odin, Kies, reinstalled drivers but no luck. If I connect directly to the laptop the phone does not come up but if I go through a USB hub it recognises something been plugged in but fails to install driver.
Now i know i've messed up but was hoping if there is anyway I could use the sdcard to help boot the phone maybe into recovery or somehow get laptop to recognise the phone???
Any help would be appreciated as I did enjoy the phone and have spent not days but weeks on this problem and the Mrs aint to happy either...thx...
Your current problem is drivers. Get that fixed, I can't help much as I don't run Windows often. Perhaps a boot disc with Linux/Heimdall might help... Lose Kies, it can't help you right now and it might have messed up your drivers, uninstall it and reboot. You need Odin. And not the app, the real one on a PC.
If you have an N900T, the Tmobile NF1 is the one you want. Try the Effortless guide in the general forum for detailed directions and good files to work from. If you can boot to download mode but Odin can't see it, the drivers are messed up on your computer. It's not the phone that has an issue. Try a different computer if you can. The Samsung drivers can be a bit picky. You might need to go to Device Manager and uninstall the drivers while the phone is connected, disconnect and reboot, then try to install the proper ones again.
And if you're in an LTE area, you should connect without any changes. Trying to force it is a bad idea as you probably don't have a network to connect to.
Thanks. Did cross my mind about the driver issue but my S3 connects to the laptop fine. Or do you suggest I give the Linux a try?
Also would the lte bands works here in the uk considering it been a us tmobile?
Tried linux/heimdall but still doesn't connect to my laptop. Don't know what it could be. Any ideas please guys.
UPDATE.....resolved by replacing USB charge port as a pin was damaged/broken.
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I know. There's number of similar threats. I have read them all. Or at least feels like it.
I managed to soft brick my sgs2. I was playing with this new lol boot (dual boot app) from market. I think I pushed something wrong in this app. After that my intention was to make a CWM backup before I start to play seriously with lol boot. At the second I pressed backup from the menu, my phone shut down. Now I'm in a sitsuation whre I can't enter recovery mode. There's just this Samsung Galaxy logo. At the time I had CheckRom v4 installed.
My intention was to flash stock rom via odin. I can enter to download mode just fine BUT odin or kies isn't able to connect to phone. Kies is recognizing the usb connection, but fails to connect it properly. Here's a list what I've tried so far:
- Restart PC (100x)
- Restart Odin (101x)
- Restart Kies
- Reinstall USB Drivers (with Kies and without)
- Trying different computer which has never seen Kies or any Samsung USB drivers
- Reinstalling Windows (W7 x64)
- 3 different USB cables (2 stock Samsung)
- Different USB ports
- Also Nexus S USB drivers as mentioned on another thead in XDA
- Starting odin after USB connection, and before
- Googling with any keywords I have come up
Is there anything else I can do for now?
you mean when you try to connect to odin there is no yellow square ?
maybe try to remove battery for + 90 sec and try to enter in odin ?
ps in this situation you must forget kies since its barely work when everything is fine with the phone ...
Thanks for your reply. Odin doesn't 'do' anything when i connect my device. I'm using version 4.43. When I connect s2, windows install two drivers, Samsung Mobile USB CDC Composite Device and Samsung Mobile USB Modem. I also tried taking battery off. Actually the battery wasn't attached for 6 hours, still no success.
I didn't see this in your list, but have you tried entering download mode and connecting?
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can you enter recovery? which recovery you have? Clockwork? 2e, 3e?
Just trying to feel out your situation...
Guys. I think there is some Android God that came to help me. After ~36 hours of googling, crying and throwing the phone to the wall, I've managed to solve my problem! As I was googling cheap shotgun for me, I had a vision. Why not, let's try older odin. The solution was v1.83. And right when I plugged in my phone with this odin, it got recognized! At the same second! Nuff said, I'm satisfied. And do you know what is the best part? I flashed with original stock rom and every app, every launcher and so on was STILL WORKING and running!
Thanks to everyone. I'll be more careful next time!
EDIT: How the heck the custom binary counter went to zero? I was thinking its only possible with usb jig?
not older odin! but the one u need for sgs2 (and 1) only use odin 3 v. 1.83 or v. 1.3.
The one you said IS NOT FOR YOUR PHONE. Sorry I missed that text.
So if I understood you correctly, u are saying that I flashed my phone with wrong version of odin (1.83) ? Sorry, I'cant understand english too good, so can you say your point more literally and s_l_o_w_l_y? Thanks
I only use odin3 v1.3 or odin 3 v.1.83.
As far as I know, you cannot use anything else, since it is not made for your device!
I might be wrong, if so, somebody correct me.
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So if you're correct on this, the reason why I couldn't get my phone recognized was the wrong version of odin?
pazzio said:
Guys. I think there is some Android God that came to help me. After ~36 hours of googling, crying and throwing the phone to the wall, I've managed to solve my problem! As I was googling cheap shotgun for me, I had a vision. Why not, let's try older odin. The solution was v1.83. And right when I plugged in my phone with this odin, it got recognized! At the same second! Nuff said, I'm satisfied. And do you know what is the best part? I flashed with original stock rom and every app, every launcher and so on was STILL WORKING and running!
Thanks to everyone. I'll be more careful next time!
EDIT: How the heck the custom binary counter went to zero? I was thinking its only possible with usb jig?
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gratz!
to reset your binary, there is only one way to do it. u are right, usb jig.
however, beware, i read somewhere saying that GB ver 2.3.4 onward has a new version of bootloader which prevent usb jig from resetting the counter, which mean samsung is trying to lock the bootloader now. however, flashing the old bootloader still helps (claim by others).
Dear All,
I have encountered a problem with my note 2 that unfortunately closes a lot of doors for me to fix. I thought about asking you guys and hopefully this has not been asked before. Ok so my problem is that I had rooted phone ages ago and i had SuperSU installed with the root. Later on some official update came out and I let it update. After that I might have lost my root there and then not sure though. When I try to do something in root it won't let me, also it fails when trying to change super user app. What is killing me mostly is that any computer I connect using different cables, won't recognise my phone, as if it was not even connected although it charges normally. At first it was sometimes charging and not, sometimes freezing if connected to the USB. It might be hardware related but I want to try to fix this issue first to be sure. I can't even use Odin since it's not being detected so unrooting and going back to the seller is out of question.
Can anyone help me please? I am thinking of trying custom firmware through sdcard installation but i cant even install CWM and when using official recovery the package is not accepted. (signature issues). There may be some easy workaround I do not know of hence me asking you experienced guys.
Big thanks for reading this and hopefully helping me.
joshua
So you mean odin is not detecting phone in download mode ?
Try connecting the phone and see if adb works but I don't really think it would work. Try another cable. Could be that usb port is damaged.
Try another recovery.
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UtkarshGupta said:
So you mean odin is not detecting phone in download mode ?
Try connecting the phone and see if adb works but I don't really think it would work. Try another cable. Could be that usb port is damaged.
Try another recovery.
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No, Odin is not detecting the phone although it starts charging like normal. I will check adb later tonight when I am on my home pc. I have tried in total 4 different cables same result. I have used 3 different operating systems on different computers, still not detected. Usb port might be damaged but I don't think they will be happy seeing its rooted.(they being the store i bought it from, that is why I have not gone to them yet.
I have a similar issue since 4.1.2 however my phone is recognized by computer and odin in download mode, are you sure you tried it on download mode?
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I have a similar issue since 4.1.2 however my phone is recognized by computer and odin in download mode, are you sure you tried it on download mode?
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Yes I have tried download mode, that's why this problem is killing me :/ The root access is completely unusable and not working too.
Hey,
I have looked everywhere found many tricks and tips, guides, programs, drivers, yet i'm still have problems. I think that it could be problems with my phone. I recently bricked my phone (installed a rom from a different note 2 version and was stuck in a boot loop). Went to go plug in the phone to restore back to stock and the phone wasn't detected. It was a new laptop so i figured it was a driver issue. Installed the drivers still nothing. Long story short I have installed multiple drivers, Note 2 toolkit (mskip big thanks), Samsung Kies, and Odin (all at separate times) all in an attempt to get this phone connected. I have tried 2 different USB cords, different plug-ins, different computers yet still nothing. Now I have gotten my phone back to stock but went to install a new rom and now it wont load past the boot screen. But that was after my trying for a whole day of plugging in and unplugging before 1 time it was connected. I can not understand the issue besides it being my phone. I don't have anything else to try besides plugging it in and out over and over for the 1 time it decides to work and connect. I am getting very frustrated with this because I currently have no phone. Is their a way to tell if the connector is messed up in any way? I'm really needing help because nothing i'm doing is working.
Steepgnomeking said:
Hey,
I have looked everywhere found many tricks and tips, guides, programs, drivers, yet i'm still have problems. I think that it could be problems with my phone. I recently bricked my phone (installed a rom from a different note 2 version and was stuck in a boot loop). Went to go plug in the phone to restore back to stock and the phone wasn't detected. It was a new laptop so i figured it was a driver issue. Installed the drivers still nothing. Long story short I have installed multiple drivers, Note 2 toolkit (mskip big thanks), Samsung Kies, and Odin (all at separate times) all in an attempt to get this phone connected. I have tried 2 different USB cords, different plug-ins, different computers yet still nothing. Now I have gotten my phone back to stock but went to install a new rom and now it wont load past the boot screen. But that was after my trying for a whole day of plugging in and unplugging before 1 time it was connected. I can not understand the issue besides it being my phone. I don't have anything else to try besides plugging it in and out over and over for the 1 time it decides to work and connect. I am getting very frustrated with this because I currently have no phone. Is their a way to tell if the connector is messed up in any way? I'm really needing help because nothing i'm doing is working.
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Have the same issue. I am trying fr a work computer, internet restricted, no kies. Now can only recognize note 2 as a camera. When I switch thw usb settings in android, I get the not supported box. Same thing happens at the home computer. I left bb for this??
This is a simple hardware fail and needs to be taken in for warranty repair. The fact that it's bricked, we'll you're just gonna have to cross your fingers and hope they don't charge you for a new one.
Or you can try a jig to get it into download mode and try to push a rom through.
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Thats what i'm going to do take it in and see if they can fix it but i want to get it back to stock firmware before but not being able to plug it in to update it is kinda ruining that plan.
Well I turned in 3 notes with custom roms that were rooted and I never got charged, but I always run a stockist rom.
What rom did you flash?
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Are u able to boot in recovery?
PM me if u need help
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Can you boot into recovery? If so then you can push a file to your SD card using adb. If your having problems with Samsung drivers or what ever good way to test is connecting your phone to a Linux box and setting up udev and adb. Then you can do a adb device command and see if it sees it.
If you have the time to install Linux on a extra hard drive or duel boot you can connect using adb.
Nice thing about Linux is that you can connect directly to the USB device using udev and the device id and with ADB you can push a file onto your phones SD card. Here's a good how to
http://esausilva.com/2010/05/13/setting-up-adbusb-drivers-for-android-devices-in-linux-ubuntu/
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Here is my problem where I can't get my Sprint S3 connected to PC, I am half rooted, and have no custom recovery, I can't flash anything on my phone except OTAs, please help, any help is much much appreciated.
Background :
I had this phone working completely fine, I bought aftermarket USB cable and attached it to the PC, everything went smooth it got connected fine in MTP mode, on second day when I tried to connect it, it gave me error that USB Device Not Recognized.
Problem :
The phone is not getting connected to PC in any way, whether it is MTP, DM+Modem, PTP, ADB, etc... not even in download mode to flash it via Odin. No matter on which mode I am it always give me error that USB Device Not Recognized.
It sense when I change modes while it is connected to PC, like when I am on MTP and I click DM+Modem or I click USB Debugging, it displays that USB Device Not Recognized message again, so I it is sensing mode changes.
What I did so far :
Changed cable and used brand new Samsung Original cable, changed USB ports, changed 4-5 computers, installed and re-installed drivers numerous times, my friend who does the phone repairs changed Micro USB Slot on the phone 4 times with Original ones, he even took one from working phone and put in on this phone, no luck so far.
My inputs :
I've searched really a lot about this problem, but didn't find any single solution.
Some guys on forums reported that they solved problem by flashing a stock or custom rom as there might be a problem with Kernel.
I can't flash anything on my device since I am on stock recovery and half rooted, I had LJ7 rooted stock on my device, and I took MD4 OTA, now, my phone is half rooted, when I install any application which requires root, I get message that 'Superuser permission denied'.
I can't even uninstall Superuser, because it is system app, I tried to re-root phone via Motochopper method but it doesn't work.
I flashed this phone to different carrier, so, I am afraid I will loose my flash if I take latest 4.3 OTA.
PLEASE HELP IF YOU HAVE ANY SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM, I WANT MY PHONE TO GET CONNECTED TO PC ANYHOW.
I AM READY TO DO ANYTHING YOU SUGGEST TO RECOVER MY PHONE.
keval32 said:
Here is my problem where I can't get my Sprint S3 connected to PC, I am half rooted, and have no custom recovery, I can't flash anything on my phone except OTAs, please help, any help is much much appreciated.
Background :
I had this phone working completely fine, I bought aftermarket USB cable and attached it to the PC, everything went smooth it got connected fine in MTP mode, on second day when I tried to connect it, it gave me error that USB Device Not Recognized.
Problem :
The phone is not getting connected to PC in any way, whether it is MTP, DM+Modem, PTP, ADB, etc... not even in download mode to flash it via Odin. No matter on which mode I am it always give me error that USB Device Not Recognized.
It sense when I change modes while it is connected to PC, like when I am on MTP and I click DM+Modem or I click USB Debugging, it displays that USB Not Recognized message again, so I guess it is sensing mode changes.
What I did so far :
Changed cable and used brand new Samsung Original cable, changed USB ports, changed 4-5 computers, installed and re-installed drivers numerous times, my friend who does the phone repairs changed Micro USB Slot on the phone 4 times with Original ones, he even took one from working phone and put in on this phone, no luck so far.
My inputs :
I've searched really a lot about this problem, but didn't find any single solution.
Some guys on forums reported that they solved problem by flashing a stock or custom rom and as there might be a problem with Kernel.
I can't flash anything on my device since I am on stock recovery and half rooted, I had LJ7 rooted stock on my device, and I took MD4 OTA, now, my phone is half rooted, when I install any application which requires root, I get message that 'Superuser permission denied'.
I can't even uninstall Superuser, because it is system app, I tried to re-root phone via Motochopper method but it doesn't work.
I flashed this phone to different carrier, so, I am afraid I will loose it if I take latest 4.3 OTA.
PLEASE HELP IF YOU HAVE ANY SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM, I WANT MY PHONE TO GET CONNECTED TO PC ANYHOW.
I AM READY TO DO ANYTHING YOU SUGGEST TO RECOVER MY PHONE.
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Did you uninstall drivers from Windows device manager before reinstalling drivers? I found that this sometimes helps.
joeyhdownsouth said:
Did you uninstall drivers from Windows device manager before reinstalling drivers? I found that this sometimes helps.
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Yes my friend, I did that.
keval32 said:
Yes my friend, I did that.
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Is Kies installed on computer? Which version of Windows?
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Is Kies installed on computer? Which version of Windows?
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No, Kies was not installed on my computer when this problem occurred, but I checked installing Kies but no luck so far, and I am on Windows Ultimate x64.
I've had this old note II pretty much since it came out have had plenty of ROMS on it and normally have had no problems. I recently had SlimKat on there and I was having battery life issues so I reinstalled it to no avail, so then I tried moving to Blisspop and that fixed the battery life issue some but I was having issues with crashing and the proximity sensor not registering during calls. I found a thread with this issue that directed me to Shift Kernal as a solution to the proximity sensor and crashing issues. I reflashed Blisspop, flashed the Shift kernel, then Gapps and now I have a brick. Upon turning on the phone it gets stuck on the Samsung boot screen. It won't open CWM recovery anymore to access my nandroid backups. I can get it into download mode but I cannot get my computer to recognize the phone as a USB device anymore. I have tried different drivers, cords, usb ports, and even different computers so I assume thats not the issue. Any suggestions would be helpful or even just telling me its a definite hard brick so I'll quit tinkering with it.
If you can get DL MODE it's not a brick...
Reflash of a stock rom via Odin should help...
Device could have partition damage...but I'd avoid the PIT flash until after the stock rom attempt..
I don't know what bootloader you have...but if you have version 4.2 or lower then flash a complete stock rom..
If you have 4.3 official or higher...then use an ODIN version from Zen Arcades threads as they don't contain the loader image...g
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If you can get DL MODE it's not a brick...
Reflash of a stock rom via Odin should help...
Device could have partition damage...but I'd avoid the PIT flash until after the stock rom attempt..
I don't know what bootloader you have...but if you have version 4.2 or lower then flash a complete stock rom..
If you have 4.3 official or higher...then use an ODIN version from Zen Arcades threads as they don't contain the loader image...g
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I can get it into download mode but when I connect it to a computer its not recognized as a device and therefore doesn't show in ODIN to flash those ROMs. Is there anyway to force recognition of a USB device. I've tried pretty much every combination of cord, usb port, driver and computer to get it to connect to ODIN but haven't had any luck.
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I can get it into download mode but when I connect it to a computer its not recognized as a device and therefore doesn't show in ODIN to flash those ROMs. Is there anyway to force recognition of a USB device. I've tried pretty much every combination of cord, usb port, driver and computer to get it to connect to ODIN but haven't had any luck.
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Ouch...
Well....beyond switching versions of Odin...(you've likely done this already)...the only action you could take would be a direct ADB push to the device...
It's been 2 years since I've attempted that...and can't remember the thread locations for the tutorials.
There is also the possibility that the EMMC is damaged.
My second device had this failure and I never recovered it...
I'm sorry that I can't provide links...but I know the threads exist.
So start a search and I'll do the same...g
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I keep coming back too a PC environment problem...(perhaps)
Run Odin as admin only...and quadruple check those USB drivers...making sure to completely uninstall the old version before loading new drivers.
Also..try using Odin 1.85....not 3.09...as it is a bit more reliable.
Also use only a factory cable connected to the PC mother board only...no front ports...
Plug in the device in download mode then reboot the PC and then open Odin...
Brainstorming here and hoping it'll trigger that dang "added" symbol for ya....g
Thanks I'll try those and see what happens!
I prefer Odin 3.07 on a Win7 machine.
I see the thing...
You damaged your bootloader, try re-flashing it through Fastboot on ADB, if tour pc does not recognize the device then try to install the latest USB drivers for your model.
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