SO using odin on my Samsung Galaxy s2x T989D it failed, and my phone could not do anything but bring me to the download mode screen and told me i had to put it in recovery mode and use kies. but i couldint go into recovery mode. afer using google i found a possible solution. I used odin to try and stock again. and that worked..kinda...now when i try and turn on my phone its a Tmobile loading screen, it used to be koodo, my phone wont go past this screen and still cant go into recovery mode. when i go into download mode it still says odin mode.
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SO using odin on my Samsung Galaxy s2x T989D it failed, and my phone could not do anything but bring me to the download mode screen and told me i had to put it in recovery mode and use kies. but i couldint go into recovery mode. afer using google i found a possible solution. I used odin to try and stock again. and that worked..kinda...now when i try and turn on my phone its a Tmobile loading screen, it used to be koodo, my phone wont go past this screen and still cant go into recovery mode. when i go into download mode it still says odin mode.
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Sounds like a bad flash but if you have download mode, you should be in luck. Using Odin flash the Koodo 4.1.2 stock rom (https://www.dropbox.com/s/jcyk25je4u6j4vt/T989DTLUMC4_T989DOYBMC4_KDO.zip) & you should be in the clear. This would restore the stock recovery & be just as it was the day you got it (Well, day it was upgraded to Jelly bean)
Let me know if I misunderstood something, but this hopefully will help you out.
Hi guys I just bought a SGH-I747 AT&T and the issue with it is it goes into Download mode just fine, works with Odin 3.7 loads a stock rom and then it sais reset but the phone doesn't reset just goes to black screen and then Odin sais Pass. I press the power button and Samsung appers and vibrates and goes back to black. When I try Recovery mode it show the blue writing on the left upper and the Samsung and then it goes to black screen. I put two different stock roms and same story. Kies won't recognize it and I installed recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.3-d2att.tar to try to get into recovery mode and of course no luck. Don't know the history on this, so if anyone could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
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Hi guys I just bought a SGH-I747 AT&T and the issue with it is it goes into Download mode just fine, works with Odin 3.7 loads a stock rom and then it sais reset but the phone doesn't reset just goes to black screen and then Odin sais Pass. I press the power button and Samsung appers and vibrates and goes back to black. When I try Recovery mode it show the blue writing on the left upper and the Samsung and then it goes to black screen. I put two different stock roms and same story. Kies won't recognize it and I installed recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.3-d2att.tar to try to get into recovery mode and of course no luck. Don't know the history on this, so if anyone could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
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I found out that the phone had 4.1.1 on it and the guy tried to flash 4.2.2 and upon doing the odin mode flashing odin gave Firmware upgrade encountered an issue Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again So these are just some helpful facts for anyone who has gone through it. Thanks in advance for any help
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I found out that the phone had 4.11 on it and the guy tried to flash 4.22 and upon doing the odin mode flashing odin gave Firmware upgrade encountered an issue Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again So these are just some helpful facts for anyone who has gone through it. Thanks in advance for any help
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What firmware were you trying to flash via Odin and are you sure the seller didn't previously flash (or try to flash) the 4.3 on it? If it wasn't higher than 4.3, then you may try recovery via Kies as follows ....
Install and launch Samsung Kies on your PC (not Kies 3). Open the Tools menu and select Firmware Upgrade and Initialization
Do not connect your phone to your PC yet. Remove the battery cover and record device info written in the battery compartment
In Kies, enter your phone model (SGH-I747)
Enter the phone serial number and click OK to all the security questions. Follow all the instructions on Kies
Connect the phone when prompted and follow the rest of the instructions
Wait for firmware upgrade to complete
Good luck!
If this doesn't work, then you may try flashing the 4.1.1 stock image via Odin. Look for the correct stock image via the following thread ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
The one you want for Samsung Galaxy S3 AT&T (4.1.1) is I747UCDLK3
PLEASE don't try any of the above if you were already on the 4.3 bootloader as things will only get worse.
Larry2999 said:
What firmware were you trying to flash via Odin and are you sure the seller didn't previously flash (or try to flash) the 4.3 on it? If it wasn't higher than 4.3, then you may try recovery via Kies as follows ....
Install and launch Samsung Kies on your PC (not Kies 3). Open the Tools menu and select Firmware Upgrade and Initialization
Do not connect your phone to your PC yet. Remove the battery cover and record device info written in the battery compartment
In Kies, enter your phone model (SGH-I747)
Enter the phone serial number and click OK to all the security questions. Follow all the instructions on Kies
Connect the phone when prompted and follow the rest of the instructions
Wait for firmware upgrade to complete
Good luck!
If this doesn't work, then you may try flashing the 4.1.1 stock image via Odin. Look for the correct stock image via the following thread ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
The one you want for Samsung Galaxy S3 AT&T (4.1.1) is I747UCDLK3PLEASE don't try any of the above if you were already on the 4.3 bootloader as things will only get worse.
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I have already tried the I747UCDLK3 not from the link you gave me though. I did notice that the one you mentioned is a rooted stock do you think I should still do it? The rom flashes fine no errors in Odin but when it sais RESET the phone turns off the download mode and vibrates once then goes black then later Odin sais Pass but I cannot start it it just bootloops and vibrates and it stays that way As far as the Kies procedure you gave me don't I have to be in recovery mode for it to see the phone? I cannot get to that mode just download mode. Let me know thanks for your help
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I have already tried the I747UCDLK3 not from the link you gave me though. I did notice that the one you mentioned is a rooted stock do you think I should still do it? The rom flashes fine no errors in Odin but when it sais RESET the phone turns off the download mode and vibrates once then goes black then later Odin sais Pass but I cannot start it it just bootloops and vibrates and it stays that way As far as the Kies procedure you gave me don't I have to be in recovery mode for it to see the phone? I cannot get to that mode just download mode. Let me know thanks for your help
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If you were successful in flashing via Odin, I would have suggested you try doing a hard wipe/reset in recovery. However, you said you can't get to recovery mode so this may not work. What happens when you try booting into recovery mode?
For Kies, you wouldn't have to be in recovery mode for the firmware restore to happen. Normally, you would have to connect your (powered-on) phone to your PC for it to be recognized by Kies. However, as you can't power on, we are forcing Kies to prepare the specific required firmware for your device by manually entering in the device information. Thus, when the phone is connected, you have firmware ready to make it work.
It may also be that the firmware you downloaded and flashed via Odin may not be the correct or full version. There are so many sources of "stock" firmware these days that one can never be too sure. You may go to Sammobile.com to download the stock firmware and compare the size of the extracted file to the one you used. The odin flashable tar.md5 file should be about 1.1Gb in size.
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If you were successful in flashing via Odin, I would have suggested you try doing a hard wipe/reset in recovery. However, you said you can't get to recovery mode so this may not work. What happens when you try booting into recovery mode?
For Kies, you wouldn't have to be in recovery mode for the firmware restore to happen. Normally, you would have to connect your (powered-on) phone to your PC for it to be recognized by Kies. However, as you can't power on, we are forcing Kies to prepare the specific required firmware for your device by manually entering in the device information. Thus, when the phone is connected, you have firmware ready to make it work.
It may also be that the firmware you downloaded and flashed via Odin may not be the correct or full version. There are so many sources of "stock" firmware these days that one can never be too sure. You may go to Sammobile.com to download the stock firmware and compare the size of the extracted file to the one you used. The odin flashable tar.md5 file should be about 1.1Gb in size.
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When I go in recovery it shows blue writing in left upper corner and Samsung logo and then black screen. I think I did use the Sammobile firmware at 1.1. My clock in download mode shows 6. I don't think that would affect it though. Could it be that Odin doesn't really write the firmware that's why flashing doesn't change anything? I don't think the jig would do anything maybe sending it for a jtag reflash is the trick.
I am lost for now. If you guys can think of anything new let me know and thanks again.
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When I go in recovery it shows blue writing in left upper corner and Samsung logo and then black screen. I think I did use the Sammobile firmware at 1.1. My clock in download mode shows 6. I don't think that would affect it though. Could it be that Odin doesn't really write the firmware that's why flashing doesn't change anything? I don't think the jig would do anything maybe sending it for a jtag reflash is the trick.
I am lost for now. If you guys can think of anything new let me know and thanks again.
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You didn't mention if you tried the Kies option. I had a similar problem once when upgrade to 4.1.1 via Kies failed during the process and that was how I was able to recover. However, since you bought this from the secondary market, there is no way of telling for certain what the previous owner did wrong which would have been useful for recovery options.
One of the nice things about Odin is that you usually know the results immediately. If it says Pass, therefore, that's likely what it means. So Odin did flash something. But what did it flash? The counter you saw in download mode shows how many custom system installations there have been and 6 does show there has been some previous heavy tinkering with the phone. As you are still able to get into download modes, I would suggest you try flashing custom recovery (TWRP or CWM) via Odin. If this works and you are able to get into recovery mode, you may then try doing a hard wipe/reset via recovery. You may also try flashing the other (rooted) 4.1.1 file via Odin. At this stage, you really have nothing to lose in trying all options. I guess if you can get into recovery mode, the problem is almost solved as this leaves plenty of options.
A jig wouldn't help as that only gets you to download mode which, for now, you don't have a problem with. JTag should always be a last resort option only. Let me know how far it goes and good luck!
When flashing in Odin, did you check auto reboot? If you did, try flashing again but uncheck auto-reboot. When you see Reset in the status windows, disconnect the USB cable, pull out the battery, wait a few seconds until the phone completely shuts down, put back in the battery, get into recovery, wipe cache, do a factory reset, and reboot.
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When flashing in Odin, did you check auto reboot? If you did, try flashing again but uncheck auto-reboot. When you see Reset in the status windows, disconnect the USB cable, pull out the battery, wait a few seconds until the phone completely shuts down, put back in the battery, get into recovery, wipe cache, do a factory reset, and reboot.
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This damn phone is starting to annoy me. I can still get into download mode but my phone gets usb device not recognized now. I have access to another I747 phone so my question is if I have access to the pit file from that phone can anything be done with the Debrick utility and a SD card with only download mode access? Thanks in advance.
Go into download and let us know what is shown on the screen.
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Go into download and let us know what is shown on the screen.
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Odin Mode
Product Name: SGH-I747
Custom Binary Downloads: Yes (6 Counts)
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
Qualcomm Secure Boot: Enable
Green Android Icon Downloading...
Do not turn off target!!!
OK I plugged the USB in and out a few times and it allows to write every few tries. Back to my question can I do something in download mode if I have another i747 that I can copy stuff from? I also tried the suggestion to uncheck auto-reset pull the usb cable then the battery and try to go to recovery but it doesn't.Any suggestions are welcomed.
Try flashing a stock 4.1.1 rom from sammobile using Odin. Do not check auto reboot. When you see reset in the status window, disconnect the usb cable, pull the battery, replace the battery, boot into recovery, and wipe. I have done this numerous times on my i747m after flashing custom ROMs.
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Try flashing a stock 4.1.1 rom from sammobile using Odin. Do not check auto reboot. When you see reset in the status window, disconnect the usb cable, pull the battery, replace the battery, boot into recovery, and wipe. I have done this numerous times on my i747m after flashing custom ROMs.
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I will try it again I think I already did but when I put the battery back and click the Vol+ Home Power I get the blue writing and then black screen. Should I wait like 10 min on the black screen or it should be quick. Thanks
Keep holding the buttons until the blue writing disappears and the green android appears with the green progress bar.
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Keep holding the buttons until the blue writing disappears and the green android appears with the green progress bar.
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Is there an unbrick.img for 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 I noticed that there are files for 4.3 that allow you to go in recovery and erase stuff reinstall. Let me know cause I sure couldn't find it.
If u can get it into download mode u are never ever hard bricked my friend...take it from a guy who had to dust off his old galaxy sll last weekend & still can't get into d/l mode on my s3 after a week & even with a jig lol
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda app-developers app
gica69 said:
Is there an unbrick.img for 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 I noticed that there are files for 4.3 that allow you to go in recovery and erase stuff reinstall. Let me know cause I sure couldn't find it.
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The unbricking image only helps you get into download mode from where you can work your way up the rest of the food chain. As you can already get into download mode without difficulties, I doubt if that's what you really need. You are also able to flash ROMs successfully in download mode via Odin so you've gone far up on the food chain already. Perhaps you are not doing the recovery thing correctly enough. Like Audit said, you need to continue holding down the Volume Up and Menu buttons whilst releasing the Power button after you see the first flash until the recovery menu appears and then do a hard wipe/reset.
Perhaps you could also try flashing TWRP via Odin if CWM isn't working.
Larry2999 said:
The unbricking image only helps you get into download mode from where you can work your way up the rest of the food chain. As you can already get into download mode without difficulties, I doubt if that's what you really need. You are also able to flash ROMs successfully in download mode via Odin so you've gone far up on the food chain already. Perhaps you are not doing the recovery thing correctly enough. Like Audit said, you need to continue holding down the Volume Up and Menu buttons whilst releasing the Power button after you see the first flash until the recovery menu appears and then do a hard wipe/reset.
Perhaps you could also try flashing TWRP via Odin if CWM isn't working.
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I already tried holding the Home and Volume up buttons for 4-5 minutes at which point my fingers got a bit tired. The reason I wanted the unbrick.img is that I am now having issues with the computer recognizing the device in usb. I plugged and unplugged so many times that it no longer works that way so I wanted to do it via sd card. The unbrick.img gets you in recovery mode and download mode as it allows you to boot from the card not from the internal HD. But the only ones I have seen are for the 4.3 issues. And I tried It but did not put my device in recovery.
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I already tried holding the Home and Volume up buttons for 4-5 minutes at which point my fingers got a bit tired. The reason I wanted the unbrick.img is that I am now having issues with the computer recognizing the device in usb. I plugged and unplugged so many times that it no longer works that way so I wanted to do it via sd card. The unbrick.img gets you in recovery mode and download mode as it allows you to boot from the card not from the internal HD. But the only ones I have seen are for the 4.3 issues. And I tried It but did not put my device in recovery.
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I couldn't find one either although you may be able to create yours using the command line posted in the thread below ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068
You may also try using a jig to get back into download mode. Have you, however, considered exercising any buyer protection options you have on the phone since, it would appear, the guy sold you a lemon?
I bricked my Galaxy Ace GT-5830 and I need help un-bricking it with a stock ROM or one of these shiny Cyanogen ROMs. I've got all the tools I need from what I understand and hopefully someone can help guide this noob through the process and perhaps help me upgrade to a new OS. The phone will boot to and hang on the Samsung logo and to recovery mode but there seems to be some issue putting it into download mode so I'm stuck at the point of connecting it to Oden for download mode.
What I have:
Bricked phone
Oden 3.07 and 3.09
SD Card
Stock Firmware S5830XWKPY_S5830CPWKP1_CPW
My issues:
Firstly the stock ROM for a UK Carphone Warehouse phone I need that I found on SamMobile and another hosting site isn't in a tar.md5 format but I'm trying another stock ROM which is in the proper format for another UK provider to see if it will work, I'm not aware of how this would effect the phone if at all.
Secondly booting the phone to download mode doesn't seem to work as no connection is made with Oden. The phone boots to an empty charging battery which will disappear after a minute or so before the phone switches itself off again. Oden does recognise the phone when it boots and hangs on the Samsung boot logo and also when it boots into recovery mode. Multiple installs/versions of the USB drivers and Oden running in admin have been unsuccessfully attempted with various Samsung USB cables. Should I try to start Oden when a connection is made it hangs on setupconnection but I guess that is because it needs to be in download mode?
When attempting to wipe data/factory reset and cache partition it returns with the errors rfs format failed on /dev/stl13 and /dev/stl14.
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I bricked my Galaxy Ace GT-5830 and I need help un-bricking it with a stock ROM or one of these shiny Cyanogen ROMs. I've got all the tools I need from what I understand and hopefully someone can help guide this noob through the process and perhaps help me upgrade to a new OS. The phone will boot to and hang on the Samsung logo and to recovery mode but there seems to be some issue putting it into download mode so I'm stuck at the point of connecting it to Oden for download mode.
What I have:
Bricked phone
Oden 3.07 and 3.09
SD Card
Stock Firmware S5830XWKPY_S5830CPWKP1_CPW
My issues:
Firstly the stock ROM for a UK Carphone Warehouse phone I need that I found on SamMobile and another hosting site isn't in a tar.md5 format but I'm trying another stock ROM which is in the proper format for another UK provider to see if it will work, I'm not aware of how this would effect the phone if at all.
Secondly booting the phone to download mode doesn't seem to work as no connection is made with Oden. The phone boots to an empty charging battery which will disappear after a minute or so before the phone switches itself off again. Oden does recognise the phone when it boots and hangs on the Samsung boot logo and also when it boots into recovery mode. Multiple installs/versions of the USB drivers and Oden running in admin have been unsuccessfully attempted with various Samsung USB cables. Should I try to start Oden when a connection is made it hangs on setupconnection but I guess that is because it needs to be in download mode?
When attempting to wipe data/factory reset and cache partition it returns with the errors rfs format failed on /dev/stl13 and /dev/stl14.
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You forgot to tell us how you got it bricked in the first place. Was your device rooted and do you have stock recovery or CWM? Try taking out the battery and then put it back. Press and hold Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and see if you enter the Download Mode. Once you are in the Download Mode, there should be a yellow text saying "Downloading". Do post the result.
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You forgot to tell us how you got it bricked in the first place. Was your device rooted and do you have stock recovery or CWM? Try taking out the battery and then put it back. Press and hold Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and see if you enter the Download Mode. Once you are in the Download Mode, there should be a yellow text saying "Downloading". Do post the result.
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I rooted the device and tried installing a custom ROM through recovery mode from what I remember and it's using a stock recovery. I've tried removing the battery and replacing while holding Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and it goes straight to the yellow text saying "Downloading" at which point the usb connection becomes unrecognised by my PC. Tried several different ports with various cables using the USB drivers from Samsung Kies and standalone drivers and I have yet to get it to recognise the device. What about "Emergency Download Mode," the device is recognised then but of course Oden hangs on the "setupconnection."
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I rooted the device and tried installing a custom ROM through recovery mode from what I remember and it's using a stock recovery. I've tried removing the battery and replacing while holding Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and it goes straight to the yellow text saying "Downloading" at which point the usb connection becomes unrecognised by my PC. Tried several different ports with various cables using the USB drivers from Samsung Kies and standalone drivers and I have yet to get it to recognise the device. What about "Emergency Download Mode," the device is recognised then but of course Oden hangs on the "setupconnection."
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It's just a soft-brick so nothing to very about The reason it was bricked was because you tried to install the custom rom from stock recovery mode. Always make sure to install custom rom from custom recovery mode like CWM. The reason your odin can't identify your device is because the odin is probably outdated and/ or maybe due to drivers. You can never use Emergency Download Mode to flash back stock rom from odin. When you use Emergency Download Mode, your connection will be recognized but you will end up getting set up connection error while flashing. Now to unbrick your device, just use the following thread,
[Share] All Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 Stock Firmwares (2.3.X) Ever Released
First download the required firmware for your region from the first post. Once you have done that, go to the link in the second post. Download all the files (usb drivers, odin and ops) except firmwares (which you have already downloaded from the first post) in the "Preparation" section. Now install the USB drivers and follow the "Single Firmware File Installation". Once you have finished flashing, go to stock recovery mod and do a wipe data/ factory reset & wipe cache (otherwise bootloop might occur). Then restart. Now you have successfully flashed the stock rom. Here is the link for rooting and installing CWM 5 on Samsung Galaxy Ace which you can install from stock recovery mode (always root first and then install CWM),
How To Root and Unroot Samsung Galaxy Ace?
CWM 5.0.2.6 fix for Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830
Once you have installed CWM, you can flash any custom rom. CM 11 (KitKat) roms usually need CWM 6 but there is one CM 11 rom name KitKat for All that works well with CWM 5. Do post the result. Hope I Helped
My GT5830 Galaxy Ace is stuck in bootloop. I was flashing some file using recovery mode. Now the PC can not recognise the phone when it is in downloading mode although the PC recognise it in Emergency Download mode. I have tried all the USB drivers suggested in this forum.
Please help me.
Tried to root my tab 12 using CF root in odin. Then my screen started showing grey lines like the old school tube tv with no signal then odin says "cache* stuck for ever. So I had to reboot using Power and Home button. Now I'm getting an error message "Firmware upgrade Ecnountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again. Kies is saying this device isn't supported. Only way now is to odin back stock firmware. cause it seems like it's in download mode. odin still sees the device connected
dannieboiz said:
Tried to root my tab 12 using CF root in odin. Then my screen started showing grey lines like the old school tube tv with no signal then odin says "cache* stuck for ever. So I had to reboot using Power and Home button. Now I'm getting an error message "Firmware upgrade Ecnountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again. Kies is saying this device isn't supported. Only way now is to odin back stock firmware. cause it seems like it's in download mode. odin still sees the device connected
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Google live.samsung-updates select latest firmware and find your device model in the list or google sammoible click the firmware link and search for you device model.
Download your firmware from there extract the MD5 then use Odin to flash, after the flash do a Factory Reset.
Can't give you the direct links as XDA rules prohibit that, the downloads will be very slow without a paid account.
dannieboiz said:
Tried to root my tab 12 using CF root in odin. Then my screen started showing grey lines like the old school tube tv with no signal then odin says "cache* stuck for ever. So I had to reboot using Power and Home button. Now I'm getting an error message "Firmware upgrade Ecnountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again. Kies is saying this device isn't supported. Only way now is to odin back stock firmware. cause it seems like it's in download mode. odin still sees the device connected
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http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-T900/
The first listing for Cellular South.
Jim
Fortunately, Kies has the ability to download and flash the firmware . Up and running and rooted now. Thanks
Hi All
My Note 2 (7100 International) failed. All i can get is the "Firmware upgrade encountered an error" screen.
Cannot enter download or recovery.
Kies doesn't recognise the phone.
Does connect to Odin but cannot flash ROM or PIT. Odin stops at "Get PIT for mapping"
Please ideas?
Thanks
Just connect your phone to Odin.
Even on this screen Odin should be able to detect it.
Flash an official stock ROM first, then if everything is okay, install your favourite ROM again.
It should takes a bit longer than usual, just be patient.
Otherwise do an emergency recovery with kies.
Never mind, sorry
You tried pulling the battery and the button combination can't get into download mode? Do you have a USB jig?
yes, I think it could help
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Thanks I did try this and nothing happened.
if you can't do anything, then maybe it's SDS