hello guys its been awhile since i been here and messed around and im getting back into this again and i want to tackle a phone that just wont give in so here it is. it bricked during a over night update some kind of way.it was giving to me because i fixed one before for my cusin so he figured it would work. i tried odin everything possable but no luck and i gave up on it about 2years ago..OK i can get it in odin mode but thats it.no recovery at all.i tired doing a recovery but nothing can get to the phone. all i get from odin is failed and at times no pit found with that said i have used 5comps 10 different wires and never on a hub. Kies does not connect to it at all and odin cant seem to transfer to it. i have read around and seen all types of ideas but none has worked also the phone is not rooted and i did try but no luck.is there anyway i can boot to recovery from the sd card or root from the sd card? btw odin mode does show ---- custom binarydownload: yes (2) counts ---current binary:custom.......staus: offical. any ideas or comments will be appreciated very much Thanks
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i was root with cwm 2.5 and tried to use odin with eb13 and victory pit file kept getting invalid file then eventually was communicating and odin returned a fail.
now epic will not poewr up, cant get into cwm recovery or even download
any suggestions
Mike Primo said:
i was root with cwm 2.5 and tried to use odin with eb13 and victory pit file kept getting invalid file then eventually was communicating and odin returned a fail.
now epic will not poewr up, cant get into cwm recovery or even download
any suggestions
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If u cant get into anything and the phone wont power on then, sounds like u got yourselg a nice paperweight, sorry, you may have to get a new phone.
And if that's the case, congratulations! You're the first person I've ever seen brick the Epic. See definition below.
BRICK: RENDER 100% USELESS AND MUST EXCHANGE. THERE ARE NO RECOVERY OPTIONS. YOUR DEVICE LITERALLY BECOMES NOTHING MORE THAN A PRETTY BRICK.
have you tried pulling out the battery, putting it back in and going back into download mode?
I was able to get it going again. i removed the battery and held down the 1 and power button and inserted the battery and the download came back up. hooked to usb and was able to get odin to run and i am know at eb13.
Hey everyone I was wondering if you would be willing to help me out with a situation i'm in and I could really use some advice...
My wife has the epic 4g and loves it but a while ago I updated her phone from di18 to dk28 and after wards realized that she's not able to accept OTA's. Well last night she wanted her phone to be able to get the update so I researched how to use Odin and attempted using it but every time I ran it, it would hang up during flashing. Well now I can only access 2 screens, download mode and the phone.....error sign....computer and Idk how to fix it if I even can. It wasn't rooted or anything so I can take it to sprint without a problem but I just wanted to see if I could fix it myself without having to hassle with them. So if anyone can help me I would much appreciate it
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are you putting the tar in the pda slot? (the tar does need to go in the pda slot) have you tried a different tar? a different cord? a different computer?
Sounds like a bad cable. You can try it a few more times until it goes through. Also try it with the sd card out and the battery out. The computer will be the power source. Have Odin up and ready, with all out as mentioned plug the phone into the computer and quickly get it into download mode and Odin should work. It won't reboot at the end without a battery in. So after completion, pop the battery in and it should boot to stock EC05. At first try with only reboot box at top checked. In this thread the OP suggests using the PIT file and checking all 3 boxes:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
I've done my fair share of searching and I couldn't come up with much so I strongly believe I have a unique problem. I hope someone can point me in the right direction
Im have a rooted GS3 747 running Paranoid Android. A couple days ago the phone wouldn't charge. I tried different cables and batteries and after some testing with other GS3's I realized that my phone's charging port was broken. As a result I couldn't even connect my phone to the computer to unroot it with odin. I want to unroot so I can send in the phone for repair under warranty. So I downloaded mobile odin pro and proceeded to unroot my phone. I copied the original rogers rom to the external sd, followed the instructions and started the process. Everything looked like it was going fine until I got stuck on the samsung screen. Did some more research and learned that I had to do a factory data restart by booting into recovery mode. Did that. By now I'm feeling pretty good about all this. I followed the instructions all the way and I'm thinking that I'm gonna get a stock phone shortly. Wrong! The phone was still stuck on the samsung screen.
Now since I cant connect my phone to the PC cuz the charging port is broken I dont know what to do. I would have just flashed Clockwork Mod like I did when I first rooted and started all over but I cant.
If no one has a solution then Im just thinking of sending it in as is. Maybe they wont be able to see that the phone is rooted since they wont be able to connect it their PC without swapping out the motherboard to fix the problem.
I should add that I went to a repair store to try and fix it and they told me that the only way would be swap out your mobo.
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I've done my fair share of searching and I couldn't come up with much so I strongly believe I have a unique problem. I hope someone can point me in the right direction
Im have a rooted GS3 747 running Paranoid Android. A couple days ago the phone wouldn't charge. I tried different cables and batteries and after some testing with other GS3's I realized that my phone's charging port was broken. As a result I couldn't even connect my phone to the computer to unroot it with odin. I want to unroot so I can send in the phone for repair under warranty. So I downloaded mobile odin pro and proceeded to unroot my phone. I copied the original rogers rom to the external sd, followed the instructions and started the process. Everything looked like it was going fine until I got stuck on the samsung screen. Did some more research and learned that I had to do a factory data restart by booting into recovery mode. Did that. By now I'm feeling pretty good about all this. I followed the instructions all the way and I'm thinking that I'm gonna get a stock phone shortly. Wrong! The phone was still stuck on the samsung screen.
Now since I cant connect my phone to the PC cuz the charging port is broken I dont know what to do. I would have just flashed Clockwork Mod like I did when I first rooted and started all over but I cant.
If no one has a solution then Im just thinking of sending it in as is. Maybe they wont be able to see that the phone is rooted since they wont be able to connect it their PC without swapping out the motherboard to fix the problem.
I should add that I went to a repair store to try and fix it and they told me that the only way would be swap out your mobo.
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You will want to be sure that your flash counter says 0. This can be found by entering download mode (vol down, home, power) and you will see "custom binary count". that is how they will tell that you have rooted. Have you entered recovery and done a factory reset to get past the boot screen? If you can full wipe/ factory reset and get back into Android, I recommend you use "triangle away" app to clear your flash counter.
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You will want to be sure that your flash counter says 0. This can be found by entering download mode (vol down, home, power) and you will see "custom binary count". that is how they will tell that you have rooted. Have you entered recovery and done a factory reset to get past the boot screen? If you can full wipe/ factory reset and get back into Android, I recommend you use "triangle away" app to clear your flash counter.
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I entered download mode and dont see flash counter anywhere. I got the warning screen were you have the option to restart or download.
Ya I entered recovery and did a factory reset but nothing. Really cant do anything with charging port broken.
I sent it in anyways for repairs. Hopefully they just replace it
I'm having the same problem with my Gs3 with CM10 4.2.2 running. Thought this would help.
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ON 11/19/13 i was having problems with my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 the wifi wouldnt work, couldnt get service on it and a list of other things. I was stock rooted with TWRP recovery before and flashed the stock MD4 with flashcount reset to take it back to Sprint so they can try to fix this which they did. After it was fixed I recieved it back and right after rooted it using the Samsung S3 Tool Kit. It was a success, but now my wifi, and bluetooth wouldnt work. So i was convinced to just not do anything and keep it stock and just wait till my next upgrade which is very soon. I did a factory reset and it booted me into the stock recovery and then i proceeded with the process. So as i was doing a factory reset it kept bring a TON of red error messages. NOTHING would mount, NOTHING would wipe, NOTHING happend. But in the end it said it said that it was a success. I was very confused to what was happening ive never seen anything like this. So i was very worried hoping it would boot back up like nothing happend, and thats exactly what happend. Nothing. All it did was boot up and stayed on the Samsung logo screen. The only thing i can do was boot into download mode and recovery. I then put my phone into DL MODE and downloaded the stock sprint rom from AdamLange and flashed it using Odin. That failed obviously. So I re-installed the CORRECT drivers, tried different USB cables and USB ports, and flashed again. That still didnt work. I then used the Samsung toolkit to unroot/unbrick my phone, that didnt work either. I read every forum related to this problem and beleive me i did, i stayed up all day and night trying to figure something out, trying to get information and re-did the process at least 2 times. I am on my last resort id never thought it ended up to me asking a question on here, i dont want to sound like an idiot but i am out of options...
Sorry i made this too long but id thought id put every single thing that i did to my phone that maybe i did wrong. Id appreciate it if anyone had any tips on what to do here, any feedback and any suggestions that can help me is appreciated, thank you.
See if THIS method works for you. Then you can start the process over.
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See if THIS method works for you. Then you can start the process over.
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Yes i tried this. That's what I use whenever I take it to Sprint for fixes. And also if i were to try it again it wouldn't mount my sd card or the internal memory, maybe flash it through Odin even if its a .zip file? My flash count is at 3, will sprint still be able to replace the devise or at least fix it? Thank you for the suggestion though.
Hi friends!!
After my S4 decided to run away without insurance I had to revert back to my s2. It still had Hellybean on it so I upgraded it to PA 4.45 just to check it out on my phone. Then I went into the instructions on how to unlock the phone. I went to revert it back to stock ICS that it came with to do so and when I rebooted it gets stuck at the samsung logo that pulses. I can't get into recovery but I still can get into download mode but nothing works when flashed. I tried using ODIN for every stock ROM available and still nothing. I never bricked a phone before and this doesn't seem like one to me since the bricks I fixed before have never been able to go into DL mode without being jigged, Can somebody help me. I need this running asap for medical reasons. I'm a sitting duck without this phone if something should happen to me. I live alone and have no land line if I need to call 911.
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Hi friends!!
After my S4 decided to run away without insurance I had to revert back to my s2. It still had Hellybean on it so I upgraded it to PA 4.45 just to check it out on my phone. Then I went into the instructions on how to unlock the phone. I went to revert it back to stock ICS that it came with to do so and when I rebooted it gets stuck at the samsung logo that pulses. I can't get into recovery but I still can get into download mode but nothing works when flashed. I tried using ODIN for every stock ROM available and still nothing. I never bricked a phone before and this doesn't seem like one to me since the bricks I fixed before have never been able to go into DL mode without being jigged, Can somebody help me. I need this running asap for medical reasons. I'm a sitting duck without this phone if something should happen to me. I live alone and have no land line if I need to call 911.
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Are you trying to boot into recovery while you are plugged into a computer?
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Are you trying to boot into recovery while you are plugged into a computer?
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Of course not. But I think the problem may be that I didn't know that Kies was still installed in this computer.
And removing Kies didn't work either. I was talking to a guy that does jtag repair near me he said try that first. Gave me a pit file and it didn't help.
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Of course not. But I think the problem may be that I didn't know that Kies was still installed in this computer.
And removing Kies didn't work either. I was talking to a guy that does jtag repair near me he said try that first. Gave me a pit file and it didn't help.
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Here is something something that has worked for me twice. Use JOdin3 ( https://builds.casual-dev.com/jodin3/) Plug your phone in before going to the websute and put the TWRP tar file in PDA. Click start. It will say it needs to obtain a pit file. Click OK. Ignore the part about using in the download mode combo. It should bootloop your phone and you then might be able to unplug your phone and boot into recovery. I use this as a last resort but it has worked twice for me.
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