OK so normally I'd just use odin to get completely back to stock for warranty issues. However my usb port is toast except when turned off even then it doesn't charge properly. Van someone point me to a stock recovery zip and nonrooted stock firmware zips that are recovery flashable. If those even exist. Thanks in advance.
I don't believe I've ever seen either of those. Particularly a flashable stock recovery....How bad is the USB port? Your best bet might be to solder a new one on....
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So.... your USB is borked? Not a problem. From what I understand, your intention is to return the device back to the "boxed" status (software, firmware, etc.).
Here is what I would try:
Assuming you are on a rooted ROM, using team win recovery or something of that sort.
Download this:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001617187
Flash it in recovery, and simply reboot. The stock ROM will re-flash the stock recovery during the boot phase.
If it doesn't, for whatever reason, come back here for another solution.
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My phone's USB port stopped working recently so I needed to unroot in order to file a warrenty claim. I flashed a rooted stock rom and performed an update to get back to completely stock (this deleted my custom recovery as well). Last night it asked me to update from 3.26 to 3.29 something and I did it. I think that it installed correctly and rebooted normally, but I'm not totally sure (it was pretty late). Now this morning I saw it was off and when I turn it on it goes straight to fastboot. There doesn't seem to be an option from here to boot into the full phone. Now I'm unrooted, no custom recovery, and can't use the USB port. (The way I was charging it, btw was through a hacked USB cord pressed right between the contacts on the battery and phone). What can I do?
Would there be anyway to flash a file called PC36DIA.img or whatever the file it looks for when you load the HBOOT that would fix this problem? Does anyone know how to make/get one that would fix it?
blakerboy777 said:
My phone's USB port stopped working recently so I needed to unroot in order to file a warrenty claim. I flashed a rooted stock rom and performed an update to get back to completely stock (this deleted my custom recovery as well). Last night it asked me to update from 3.26 to 3.29 something and I did it. I think that it installed correctly and rebooted normally, but I'm not totally sure (it was pretty late). Now this morning I saw it was off and when I turn it on it goes straight to fastboot. There doesn't seem to be an option from here to boot into the full phone. Now I'm unrooted, no custom recovery, and can't use the USB port. (The way I was charging it, btw was through a hacked USB cord pressed right between the contacts on the battery and phone). What can I do?
Would there be anyway to flash a file called PC36DIA.img or whatever the file it looks for when you load the HBOOT that would fix this problem? Does anyone know how to make/get one that would fix it?
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I think this is what you're looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791019
And here's the thread for getting the stock 3.29 back after your phone can boot into a rom (so you can get your warranty)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=800582
I put the file on my memory card, and a blue bar goes up on the side. I'm pretty sure that I'm supposed to OK something at some point and then more bars in different colors go up in the same place, but none of that happened. After it goes up, it says something like loading file, then just goes back to the boot loader. I think the update did this more than anything else.
My question is this: I still don't have a custom recovery (this thing was supposed to flash clockworkmod recovery), can I assume that this didn't change anything on my device? I'd feel a lot more comfortable saying that an update bricked it than knowing that I might have just tainted it by rooting the phone after it got bricked.
so I have my t-mobile galaxy sII and was very happy with the phone had it rotted and everything was great when one day the USB Port stopped being recognized by my computer and every time I would plug it in the phone would think it was being charged and no USB icon would come up. thinking that this was a software issue, and after different process, I resulted in testing to unroot my phone in order to try and resolve the problem. it didn't and now I can't re-root because of the USB problem but it was stock so I figured send to samsung for repair. problem is even though the phone is unrooted now there is still the "bullet kernel" loading splash screen when the phone starts up and not the stock one. so I cant send it into samsung and since I don't have clockwork recovery mod and cant re-root because of usb problems. I'm stuck. but I know androids stock recovery menu allows one to "apply update from sd card" so is there a way I can apply an update that will restore the original splash screen and restore everything back to stock so I can send it to samsung finally? I'd really appreciate any help and if anyone has file that can help that would be awesome thanks in advanced!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1374868 this should help, can you Odin the stock recovery? Link is at the bottom
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Unless someone has stock recovery in a zip form then the only other way to get stock recovery back is with flashing with Odin and a working usb.
Edit: put the zedomax rom on a sd card and flash that, it has stock kernel and recovery. It is deodexed but noone at a store would be able to tell its deodexed.
I am not rooted, I can get into the stock "android recovery menu" using the 3 butto combo. not walking about clockwork. and thats it everything else is stock, the rom the kernel. the only thing is the splash sreen at the start up is still from an old rom and I can't send it in like that. I cant use odin because my comp wont recognize my usb. anyhing I can do in the android stock recovery menu? can I do anything with apply update from sd? thank you
have you tried a factory reset from recovery menu or settings, storage, reset USB storage. ?
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tried all of it, resets everything right with the phone but the bullet kernel flash screen still is there on a reboot. at this point I am hoping i can get the usb to work long enough that my pc recognizes my phone for a quick odin flash...
how did you fix it?
I too have a stock unrooted gt-i9300, which won't enter download mode, and which ODIN won't recognize due to driver issues.
Is there any way to use recovery mode (which seems to work just fine) to fix the download mode problem? (I would be thrilled if I could figure out how to get it back to factory conditions. I've even tried factory reset, and still I can't get download mode to come up). All I get is the android with the red triangle.
arbely, were you able to restore your system?
So basically I was on stock 4.3 TW rom and tried flashing HyperDrive ROM. Everyhting went through but I did get any Data to work for the life of me.
Tried flashing back to a 4.4 GE rom, and got "com.phone.android" crash error right after boot up. Couldn't do anything with the phone at all.
Tried flashing another .zip I had, same thing with the phone.
Tried flashing stock rom throgh Odin, same thing.
Now after a couple other flash tried etc, my whole SDCARD is wiped, and can't use fastboot.
I can get into recovery but thats about it. Tried sideloading a rom with the same com.phone. issue.
About to drown this ****ing thing and use my warranty, at a complete loss now.
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jzero88 said:
So basically I was on stock 4.3 TW rom and tried flashing HyperDrive ROM. Everyhting went through but I did get any Data to work for the life of me.
Tried flashing back to a 4.4 GE rom, and got "com.phone.android" crash error right after boot up. Couldn't do anything with the phone at all.
Tried flashing another .zip I had, same thing with the phone.
Tried flashing stock rom throgh Odin, same thing.
Now after a couple other flash tried etc, my whole SDCARD is wiped, and can't use fastboot.
I can get into recovery but thats about it. Tried sideloading a rom with the same com.phone. issue.
About to drown this ****ing thing and use my warranty, at a complete loss now.
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Since you have only posted the issues you are having with your phone but not your
phone's specific model I cannot help you more than the following.
What I can tell you is if you really want to fix the issues you are having you need to forget
about going into recovery mode and instead make sure you can go into "Download Mode".
Once you can get your phone into download mode you will need to find and download the official
stock Odin flash firmware specific to your phones model and flash your phone using Odin.
Good luck!
You've posted in Tmo S4, Nexus 4, i9505 threads at the minimum. Please make sure you're in the right forums. But in any case, you've overwritten many files by doing dirty flashes. Your best bet is to go into download mode (Vol Down + Home + Power), connect phone to computer, open up Odin, select PDA/AP, and then choose the stock file for your phone model and version.
.. slightly off-topic, but.. Isn't a "soft-brick", by definition, fixable? Otherwise it'd be a 'hard-brick'?
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.. slightly off-topic, but.. Isn't a "soft-brick", by definition, fixable? Otherwise it'd be a 'hard-brick'?
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Soft-brick is exactly what it is, it is a software issue in which case you can usually Odin back to stock and get it working again. A hard-brick is when you can no longer flash any new software onto the phone and the only way to repair it is using a JTAG device which majority of the people don't have. It essentially becomes a paperweight. But all hope is not lost. There is a service that you can send your phone in and for about $25 or so, they will have it fixed and back to you within a week. The company has good reviews so it's worth it if you've bricked your $600 device.
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Soft-brick is exactly what it is, it is a software issue in which case you can usually Odin back to stock and get it working again. A hard-brick is when you can no longer flash any new software onto the phone and the only way to repair it is using a JTAG device which majority of the people don't have. It essentially becomes a paperweight. But all hope is not lost. There is a service that you can send your phone in and for about $25 or so, they will have it fixed and back to you within a week. The company has good reviews so it's worth it if you've bricked your $600 device.
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Okay, that's what I was thinking. Thanks!
I realy need to go back to stock rom because the battery on my 8 months old tab 3 appears to be damaged. Over the last 3 weeks while on the tablet you get a black screen and it would not turn on until it's plugged in. Yesterday it wouldn't turn on until I plugged on the wall socket then I noticed it had a red X on the battery icon. I've contacted Samsung and they will arrange collection next week but I need to return to stock. Problem is tablet will turn off immediately it's unplugged from power source so i'm unsure it will be able to odin back to stock. Saying that I managed to factory reset and then restore a twrp backup yesterday while it's plugged in. Any suggestions whether i should risk going back to stock.
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I realy need to go back to stock rom because the battery on my 8 months old tab 3 appears to be damaged. Over the last 3 weeks while on the tablet you get a black screen and it would not turn on until it's plugged in. Yesterday it wouldn't turn on until I plugged on the wall socket then I noticed it had a red X on the battery icon. I've contacted Samsung and they will arrange collection next week but I need to return to stock. Problem is tablet will turn off immediately it's unplugged from power source so i'm unsure it will be able to odin back to stock. Saying that I managed to factory reset and then restore a twrp backup yesterday while it's plugged in. Any suggestions whether i should risk going back to stock.
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firstly, this belongs in general, not development. Please post in the correct section
that being said,
What you can do is download the stock firmware in flashable zip for it. You have TWRP correct? On a computer, download one of @moonbutt74's flashable recovery zips, and swap out the recovery image inside for stock one. So flash stock rom via twrp, then flash stock recovery. When you reboot, should be back stock fully.
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firstly, this belongs in general, not development. Please post in the correct section
that being said,
What you can do is download the stock firmware in flashable zip for it. You have TWRP correct? On a computer, download one of @moonbutt74's flashable recovery zips, and swap out the recovery image inside for stock one. So flash stock rom via twrp, then flash stock recovery. When you reboot, should be back stock fully.
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Thanks Restless, will be mindful of the appropriate section next time. Anyway I've odined back to stock using original p5210 firmware. What a slow bloated tablet on stock, cannot wait for Samsung to take it off my hands
So this happened about a month ago. The battery drained and when I left it charging I noticed that it was vibrating and showing the grey battery icon and this loops. I have the CMR Recovery v6.0.4.7 and can only access it when connected to the wall charger. I have left it a while on CMR while connected to the wall to see if it need charging but it just does the same thing when trying to boot. I have wiped cache, dalvik cache and selected the "Fix root" option before rebooting and nothing. I have not tried to flash a ROM in fear of bricking it. I made it as far as the "Upgrading Apps" window before fully booting but it turned off. I searched a bit and some people blame a faulty USB Port and/or power switch. I have no problem in buying and replacing the USB port and the power switch, though I don't have soldering tools for the power switch. But since I don't know what the issue is exactly I haven't rushed to buy the USB port replacement. So, the question is: is it a software or hardware problem and can it be fixed? I hope this is a software issue so it can be easier to solve.
I suggest putting the phone into download mode and see if Odin recognises the phone. If it does, I would flash the latest stock rom.
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I suggest putting the phone into download mode and see if Odin recognises the phone. If it does, I would flash the latest stock rom.
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Odin does recognize the phone on Download Mode. So, what you are saying is to flash the latest non-rooted ROM (OFW), correct? Like the tar files found in sites like SamMobile? That won't remove my root nor custom recovery, right? Kinda of a newb question even though I kinda know the answer, but I just want to make sure.
Flashing a stock ROM will always remove root and twrp.
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Flashing a stock ROM will always remove root and twrp.
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Hi. So, I flashed the latest stock ROM that is available on SamMobile and it fails in Odin. Now when I plug the phone without going to Download Mode its says something about recovery mode in Kies and and a firmware upgrade issue. What is happening? Thank for your responses, btw.
What I downloaded was a zip titled "SGH-M919-TMB-M919UVUAMDL-1366964131" and inside is and tar.md5 file called "M919UVUAMDL_M919TMBAMDL_M919UVUAMDL_HOME.tar". There on the same folder as Odin.
What error message was displayed in the Odin log?
Post the entire Odin log if possible. This will help to determine the issue.
You confirmed that the phone is an sgh-m919 in download mode?
Even though you turn on the phone and see the message"...firmware upgrade encountered an error...", Odin can still be usedto flash a stock ROM as if the phone was in download mode.
The MDL firmware is too old. Try flashing the latest ROM.