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[FIX] Enable download mode by force adb push update.zip without permission

MY Phone Condition:
My phone was previously install with voodoo rom and use clockwork recovery to restore to my stock rom that i backup and it crash half way.
My phone was hardware lock this mean no matter how i press the volume and power button , i will never get into download mode. non of the method posted work !
My phone cannot use "adb reboot download" because there is no OS and it was stuck in the recovery loop.
It does not have clockwork recovery because i formatted my internal sdcard
If i do have clockwork recovery and i use restore image or install new from zip , i still stuck in the recovery mode after reboot several times.
My phone does not mount to internal sdcard because i don't even know what i did on this part.
I believe i screw up my partition of the phone.
DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
You need the Samsung USB driver and you can get it from Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
First Part
1. Download update.zip from the link below. This was post by another member.
The post is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
2. Place the update.zip in tools folder so you can push it into your phone by using adb command
3. Plug usb into the phone and your phone should be on the Android system recovery <2e>
4. Use your volume button to select reinstall package, don't press power button yet.
5. constant "adb push update.zip /sdcard" from computer , you will get permission denied.
6. While you are constantly pushing the adb command from computer. press the power button on the phone so it install update.zip from sdcard.
7. This is the part where it force adb push into sdcard without permission
8. once the update.zip install completed. unplug the usb cable from the phone and take the battery out.
9. put the battery back to the phone then press on both volume button.
10. While holding both volume button , plug in your usb cable and it will boot to download screen.
If you need use Odin to flash your phone to original stock rom. Go to the Second Part

Second Part:
If you get black screen with only 4 light on the bottom after flashing from Odin.
Follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728698
There should be T959-PDA.tar,T959-CSC.tar and T959-Phone.tar within the package.
Check "Re-Partition" , "Auto Reboot" and "F.Reset Time" check box. Use the PIT 0512 version. Use "PDA", "PHONE" and "CSC" from the link above.
After flashing with Odin, you will loose the download mode. repeat the first part and you are good to go.
Here is the link on rooting the phone
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Full_Update_Guide_-_Samsung_Galaxy_S_(Vibrant)

If your phone is hardware locked, how are you able to get into recovery? Hardware locked phone means no recovery and download mode.
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mr2t32 said:
If your phone is hardware locked, how are you able to get into recovery? Hardware locked phone means no recovery and download mode.
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my hardware lock mean cannot use the button method to get into download mode and using adb reboot download does not help too.

Im pretty sure hardware lock does not mean no recovery. Just no button download mode
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you saved my life man. thank you so much. this was the only thing that worked, after days of frustration

No, it means both.
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muncknr said:
you saved my life man. thank you so much. this was the only thing that worked, after days of frustration
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i was about to give up. i was trying to push update.zip and do adb reboot download left and right and no luck untill i found this method. It took me a week to figure it out

wildklymr said:
No, it means both.
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my recovery was working because i was stuck in the a loop. ya , this update.zip pretty much do both download mode and recovery mode.

What the point of this? Does the other thread not cover this??

Master™ said:
What the point of this? Does the other thread not cover this??
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Are you asking or you are insulting ?

jaex said:
Are you asking or you are insulting ?
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probably asking. Considering there is another thread on the same topic that has been on the front page for over a week now, with several pages of replies.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
EDIT: So you were bricked and hardware locked and got yourself out of it? If thats the case then yets its different than that thread and why didn't you just come out and say it?

nermie said:
probably asking. Considering there is another thread on the same topic that has been on the front page for over a week now, with several pages of replies.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
EDIT: So you were bricked and hardware locked and got yourself out of it? If thats the case then yets its different than that thread and why didn't you just come out and say it?
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You figure it out after all. I already stated the condition of my phone ! My phone was pretty bricked at that point. There is way for me to push any files into the phone because i don't have permission and my phone will not go to download mode by using the volume button. It just stuck at recovery mode.
There are guide out there teach you to use "adb push download". This method only work if you are in your phone and you turn on debug mode. My phone crash at the clockwork recovery bootloader. Then i formated my internal sdcard that hold the clockwork. next i push a stock update.zip that does not have su and busybox so i lost the capability to push anything into the phone.
no download mode , no permission, no sdcard --> You tell me how can i use the method that post few week ago ?

muncknr said:
you saved my life man. thank you so much. this was the only thing that worked, after days of frustration
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Thank You

Thank ! You save my phone !

unfortunately, i was one of those careless people to brick my phone via Voodoo.
Firstly, i tried to "FLASH" the disable_voodoo zip file via Clockwork, i put it in root, and never created any folders. i knew i had to disable voodoo before flashing but my steps were wrong.
sadly enough, my phone was also HW locked, so i got it exchanged. now im not using voodoo YET and i my new vibrant can handle OC and has the recovery/download mode via buttons.

atlaswingpasaway said:
unfortunately, i was one of those careless people to brick my phone via Voodoo.
Firstly, i tried to "FLASH" the disable_voodoo zip file via Clockwork, i put it in root, and never created any folders. i knew i had to disable voodoo before flashing but my steps were wrong.
sadly enough, my phone was also HW locked, so i got it exchanged. now im not using voodoo YET and i my new vibrant can handle OC and has the recovery/download mode via buttons.
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i use shell to create the file that disable voodoo. after disable voodoo , i was able to do restore and install new rom unfortunately after restore or install new rom , it still reboot into recovery.

I also forgot to disable voodoo, and this was before there were fix instructions posted. So i basically effed up my phone to the point of being stuck in the samsung recovery loop, no hardware download mode, no clockwork recovery, no update.zp, no adb download.
I really thought I had completely bricked my phone, I tried this just out of desperation and what do you know, push update.zip over and over and click and it goes through, which allowed me to get into download mode.

muncknr said:
I also forgot to disable voodoo, and this was before there were fix instructions posted. So i basically effed up my phone to the point of being stuck in the samsung recovery loop, no hardware download mode, no clockwork recovery, no update.zp, no adb download.
I really thought I had completely bricked my phone, I tried this just out of desperation and what do you know, push update.zip over and over and click and it goes through, which allowed me to get into download mode.
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nice , you just have to re-root and install the new rom again , if it brick again , just use this method and you are good again.many of us forgot to disable the voodoo before we restore or install new rom and this crashes the phone.

Need some help really bad
Ok so I have a similar situation as you did (OP), only mine is a bit worse... In my irrational "in the moment" fear of the situation, I used adb reboot recovery to get into recovery mode (HW locked phone) and I did the option that deletes all the **** on the phone and restores the phone to its original format (I think it reinstalled the OS or something, because it looks brand new). So now, whenever I boot up, it does the annoying black screen with the 4 glowing buttons thing for a while, and then eventually the OS actually shows up on the screen. Then it does "scanning media" thing over and over again, but thats not the main problem. I figured, hey this isnt so bad atleast I found your thread and would be able to use your method to help restore my phone... the problem is that somehow my "settings" button is totally gone from the app menu, and I cant get it into debug mode, so I cant use either adb or your method or ANYTHING!! My phone is practically bricked as I cant do anything because its constantly laggy and turns back to the black screen thing, and then when it is showing the homescreen I cant do **** because even swiping to another screen takes like 5 minutes to do cause its so laggy. So basically I ****ed up, and I really need some help.. Im kinda a noob at this whole thing and im really outa options as far as I can tell.. does anyone know what I can do to repair my phone? Thanks!

I broke recovery mode ?

Hi...
Ok.. I was on rogers 2.2 stock, I was trying to follow instructions to install paragon, anyway, it didnt work, my phone was still working great tho.. so i tried flashing stock jh6 with the one click from the wiki here... That worked and I now have a rogers phone with att stuff loading up. anyway, I am trying to complete the instructions for paragon but I can no longer get to recovery mode.
the att logo keeps rebooting if i keep holding down vol up and down, what do I do now ?
Edit : I cant seem to even get to download mode Recovery mode always worked before, download mode was always tricky, but it refuses now

do you have adb installed?? if so run adb reboot recovery in command prompt.
OR
Take out battery, take out sim and SD card. press and hold VOL UP/DOWN. put in battery, press power. release power upon seeing AT&T sign. pray.
Works for me about 99 times outta 100 at this point!
but i prefer adb since its much more fool proof!

distortionist said:
so i tried flashing stock jh6 with the one click from the wiki here...
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<captainhindsight>You should not have flashed JH6.</captainhindsight>
As per the above post, boot the phone, enable debugging and use 'adb reboot recovery'. After you get that sorted, flash the 3 button fix and never flash to stock unless stock firmware is your final destination or your phone is so hosed you have to use download mode to fix it. If you do use odin in the future then use the right one for your phone build so you don't lose your button combos.

opcow said:
<captainhindsight>You should not have flashed JH6.</captainhindsight>
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Nor should you have allowed yourself to be photographed in a compromising position wit Courtney Love...Sorry, couldn't resist.

but I only followed instructions Everyone that asks was getting told to go try and blah blah, well that was what I was doing.
You know now I am really stuck. I did use adb and restored stock and didnt want to mess with my phone anymore, but the at&t logo kept popping up, im with rogers. I found a fix and was following those instructions when odin screwed up, it started flashing then said it failed, it happened to me once before but my combo key was working then.
I dont understand why it stopped, It seemed to be intermittent, a bunch of issues, after flashing that at&t rom.
I wish I could fix it, I am stressing out over it, ill get the stuff for that jig tomorrow and hope that works. This phone is brand new! I am not a modder or hacker, I got stiffed by rogers and samsung with the voice dial over bluetooth issue, they wouldnt take the phone back.
I would love to have the att logo gone, rogers froyo 2.2, and broken bluetooth.. Its better than a paper weight. Please help me ! You know what.. I can live what that logo.. I just want to get my phone operational.
Goodnight, and thanks for your help.

i'm guessing you didn't flash the 3 button fix that opcow suggested before doing anything else?
if you can get into download mode, flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=812434

No I didn't, in its forum it says if you had no problems initially with the 3 buttons, this is not for you. Thats what it said! I was told I shouldnt have done that and should have flashed the 3 button fix after the fact.
I just bought resistors, ill be home later to try and force download mode.
Thanks for your help, I am not as upset as I was yesterday, I was tired.

[Q] Possible Hard Brick

Was trying to flash to 2.3.3 from my Phoenix ROM. It froze at setup connection for about 30mins so I battery pulled and read about the disabled 3 button users should go back to stock 2.1 before flashing to GB, so I attempted to use OneClick Odin. It was stuck at sbl.bin(bootload file if im not mistaken). I waited and battery pulled again. When I press power nothing happens, however I can still get into DL mode. Should I keep trying to use oneclick, or is the phone shot?

Holy poop! You can get into download mode! That's, well not lucky I guess, cause its all F'ed up atm, but you are not bricked.
Make sure the chord is good, and its plugged into the back of the pc, if it already is switch ports, reboot and try again.
Use this package http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995143 it doesn't have any bootloaders so bricking is very very difficult.
Good luck.

Downloading it now, if it works, you're a genius. If it doesn't work...well, lets be serious, you're a member of Phoenix: you're still a genius
Will update in a bit.

jabarri1 said:
Downloading it now, if it works, you're a genius. If it doesn't work...well, lets be serious, you're a member of Phoenix: you're still a genius
Will update in a bit.
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Awww ... Warm and fuzzies! Thanks man, but I'm really nothing special learned everything by reading xda.
Ok back on topic. You got really lucky you're right sbl.bin is a bootloader your risk of brick was pretty high ... But you got into download mode after ... Any sign of life is not a brick. I'm 99% certain this will work. Only reason it won't is, your connection is faulty somewhere in the chain. But with that package it can't get any worse than it is.

Thank you very much! Got it to actually boot into recovery. I assume I can now insert my SD and apply the stock update.zip? Since it wont actually boot to the phone menu screen?

I'm not sure what's in the update.zip you still have the gb bootloaders if it has just one froyo bootloader and not both, you will brick the phone. Look in the update folder of that zip, if you see only boot.bin or only sbl.bin don't flash it. If you see both or neither its ok. Although I would just use that odin package I linked you to.

I did use the Odin package you linked. Thats how it was able to boot into recovery and also clockwork recovery, but it just wont full boot. I cant view anything thats on the internal memory card, so I cant see the update.zip files. Ive heard you can access the memory card from recovery by mounting it through CWM and accessing it through ADB however I have yet to be able to get my computer to recognize my phone during recovery mode.
Edit: After playing around a bit with uninstalling/reinstalling drivers, got odin to work and its back to stock! thanks again stud
Now to try to 2.3 it again lol

[Q] [i9000] cyanobricked

Hi there,
I noticed I can't get in download mode anymore. Whatever I try it won't show the yellow triangular download sign. It just boots into cyanogen.
I have tried the 3 button trick but recovery nor download works. That's when I had the idea to apply the 3-button fix. adb reboot recovery brings me in the cwm recovery mode. adb reboot download just reboots the phone. I even tried the 300k ohm jig which always seemed to work as a failsafe. That also just boots the phone into cm.
I have checked with my brother who also runs CM nightly 101 and for him the download mode works fine so it is my phone, not CM.
The phone works fine now, is rooted too so I wondered if there's any way to fix this by rewriting the bootloaders. I want to have this fixed as a failsafe is flashing ever fails or if one of the nightlies gets corrupted.
Is there anyone who can confirm the download mode is in the primary bootloader (boot.bin from a stock rom) and is it safe to just flash_image that to the boot partition or will that be a guarantee to brick. The idea is that I still have root console access so I have to fix it from there.
Any help is appreciated.
Christiaan
Galaxy S
CyanogenMod 7 Nightly #101

Their is a chance that whenever u tried to go into download mode your phone was connected into charging and phone doesn't go into download mode when charging , please reply and tell Me that did I helped!
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BHuvan goyal said:
Their is a chance that whenever u tried to go into download mode your phone was connected into charging and phone doesn't go into download mode when charging , please reply and tell Me that did I helped!
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Thanks for the quick reply.
Tried the tricks with and without pc-usb/charger and it made no difference. The 300k ohm jig trick can't be done with power or computer connected since you have to use the usb connection on the phone for it. It usually was my ever working failsafe.
I also tried the quickboot app without any luck. It seems it is responding to the download command but the code isn't there anymore.

Hey try going into download mode by touch controls although I haven't ever used cyanogen but i assume as every custom rom has this feature cyanogen must also have this! The download mode option in quick network options when u press the power button for 2 seconds ! Although it isn't safe but you cab try this and then if it goes into download mode then their must a way to go into download mode manually!
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BHuvan goyal said:
Hey try going into download mode by touch controls although I haven't ever used cyanogen but i assume as every custom rom has this feature cyanogen must also have this! The download mode option in quick network options when u press the power button for 2 seconds ! Although it isn't safe but you cab try this and then if it goes into download mode then their must a way to go into download mode manually!
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Holding the power button for two seconds indeed brings up the profile/reboot/shutdown options. Selecting reboot only gives two additional options, reboot and recovery which do as they say. I can boot cwm recovery but from there I can't go into download mode either.

Try downloading terminal emulator and then reboot download or ADB reboot download

Nitro_123 said:
Try downloading terminal emulator and then reboot download or ADB reboot download
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Tried it from the terminal with reboot download. Also tried adb reboot download long before that. It just reboots and starts. I have the feeling the piece of bootblock that's holding the download mode isn't there anymore.

There is an option in recovery to boot into download mode, Have you tried that ?
It sounds to me like that part of the bootloader is corrupt / missing.
Does the phone still work normally ? can you still continue to use it daily without the download mode option ?

azzledazzle said:
There is an option in recovery to boot into download mode, Have you tried that ?
It sounds to me like that part of the bootloader is corrupt / missing.
Does the phone still work normally ? can you still continue to use it daily without the download mode option ?
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The phone works fine otherwise. I just want to fix this before it stops working fine and I need the download mode.
Recovery boots into CWM-based Recovery v4.0.1.5 which I got with CM7 with no option to return to the stock recovery or download mode as far as I can see. Also zipped updates from sd-card install fine from CWM recovery mode. If I just knew where to find a cwm ready zipped bootloader that will fix this.

cvdveer said:
The phone works fine otherwise. I just want to fix this before it stops working fine and I need the download mode.
Recovery boots into CWM-based Recovery v4.0.1.5 which I got with CM7 with no option to return to the stock recovery or download mode as far as I can see. Also zipped updates from sd-card install fine from CWM recovery mode. If I just knew where to find a cwm ready zipped bootloader that will fix this.
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Thats a good idea, I think that should be made, Would save a lot of hassle...
In my recovery under 'advanced features' the option is there to reboot into android or reboot into download..
In order to go from CM7 - Stock, do you need re-partition with all 3 files ? or can you flash it through recovery ?
If so, flash it to stock and sell it to someone who has no idea about Custom ROMs / Hacking. (like me 12 months ago )
EDIT: is this issue not kernel related by any chance ?

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Thats a good idea, I think that should be made, Would save a lot of hassle...
In my recovery under 'advanced features' the option is there to reboot into android or reboot into download..
In order to go from CM7 - Stock, do you need re-partition with all 3 files ? or can you flash it through recovery ?
If so, flash it to stock and sell it to someone who has no idea about Custom ROMs / Hacking. (like me 12 months ago )
EDIT: is this issue not kernel related by any chance ?
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Well I have no clue to make any package and I don't dare to flash_image some random boot.bin.
My recovery -> advanced only has reboot recovery which brings it back into recovery.
I'm afraid bringing it back to stock also needs odin/heimdall, that brings me back to the initial problem.
Selling it gives me the money for half a new phone. As long as its working fine I'd like to stick with it. My worst case scenario so far is that I'm stuck with CM7 nightly #101 for the coming 1.5 year which is annoying but far better than the slow stock samsung hands out.
The issue can't be directly kernel or CM7 related. My brother has CM7 #101 running and download mode works fine with him. (And no I can't secretly swap phones ) He doesn't know how to work with odin so I arranged everything for him. Exactly the same steps as I did my own phone. Perhaps a glitch in flashing or something.

cvdveer said:
Well I have no clue to make any package and I don't dare to flash_image some random boot.bin.
My recovery -> advanced only has reboot recovery which brings it back into recovery.
I'm afraid bringing it back to stock also needs odin/heimdall, that brings me back to the initial problem.
Selling it gives me the money for half a new phone. As long as its working fine I'd like to stick with it. My worst case scenario so far is that I'm stuck with CM7 nightly #101 for the coming 1.5 year which is annoying but far better than the slow stock samsung hands out.
The issue can't be directly kernel or CM7 related. My brother has CM7 #101 running and download mode works fine with him. (And no I can't secretly swap phones ) He doesn't know how to work with odin so I arranged everything for him. Exactly the same steps as I did my own phone. Perhaps a glitch in flashing or something.
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Hmmm... tricky one to fix..
I have no more ideas i think flashing bootloaders through recovery would work like you said, But unless its a tried and tested method i wouldnt recommend it at all.
Have you posted this issue in the CM thread ? perhaps you could PM one of the Devs for assistance, or whether the whole 'flashing bootloader in recovery' idea would work at all.
You have nothing to lose by asking them.
Hope you get a solution... But until them im out of ideas.
Keep us updated if you get a fix.
Good luck man !!
EDIT: one more idea, Sounds risky but.... What if you made a nandroid backup on your brothers phone and restore it on yours ?? Thats if nandroid does back up bootloaders im not sure

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Hmmm... tricky one to fix..
I have no more ideas i think flashing bootloaders through recovery would work like you said, But unless its a tried and tested method i wouldnt recommend it at all.
Have you posted this issue in the CM thread ? perhaps you could PM one of the Devs for assistance, or whether the whole 'flashing bootloader in recovery' idea would work at all.
You have nothing to lose by asking them.
Hope you get a solution... But until them im out of ideas.
Keep us updated if you get a fix.
Good luck man !!
EDIT: one more idea, Sounds risky but.... What if you made a nandroid backup on your brothers phone and restore it on yours ?? Thats if nandroid does back up bootloaders im not sure
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Thanks for thinking with me. I'll give the nandroid solution a go if there are no other replies within a reasonable time.
I'll post the same question in the CM forum but contacting the CM devs could be hard. They don't give any official support to nightlies and I can't say I'm convinced it has anything to do with CM at all. Though they do have the knowledge to answer the question or build a package to repair it. But you're right there's nothing to lose in asking.
Ofcourse I searched the forum before posting and found out I seem to be the only one ever with this problem. The solution could be as rare so I'll keep you posted if I make any progress beside here. That's what the whole idea behind this forum is for right?

True man !!
And if you get a solution or a dev to make a flashable bootloader. It could help other people in future
Good luck. Keep us posted

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1236273

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1236273
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Interesting but that project still needs a bricked i9000 to tear apart. I don't have a captivate. Well if it ever becomes really bricked I'll consider donating mine.
And I'm okay with handling computers (yes I consider the phone a small computer about 400 times faster than my first pc) but when actual soldering is involved I give up.

fixable?
i have a samsung here the S GT I 9000 and i tryed to use odin on it and now this pops up every time i try to up load an os
--installing package...
finding package...
opening package...
verifying update package...
installing update...
successfully install update...
--copy media files...
successfully copied media files..
formatting /data...
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on / dev/block/mmcblk0p2
formatting /dbdata...
formatting /cache..
deleting meta data
data wipe fail.
-- appling multi-csc...
installing multi-csc..
cant access to '/system/csc/bmc/system/' . sucessfully applied multi-CSC
Help!

Hi! If it still doesn't work, try downloading ROM Manager from the market and install the latest CWM. It sounds like your bootloader got modified/locked.

Erahgon said:
Hi! If it still doesn't work, try downloading ROM Manager from the market and install the latest CWM. It sounds like your bootloader got modified/locked.
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Errr talking to me or adonai? Sounds like two seperate problems for two seperate topics.

cvdveer said:
Interesting but that project still needs a bricked i9000 to tear apart. I don't have a captivate. Well if it ever becomes really bricked I'll consider donating mine.
And I'm okay with handling computers (yes I consider the phone a small computer about 400 times faster than my first pc) but when actual soldering is involved I give up.
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I REALLY liked your answer
BTW , same here

[Q] Tried flashing to stock, now I have a password prompt blocking me

So, I was trying to update from a 4.1 rom to a 4.2 one. After a bit of fumbling and a few status 7's, I managed to get stuck with a broken operating system and a status 0 on every rom I tried to install. So I decided to flash to stock with Heimdall using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238093. Now, when I tried rebooting my phone, I'm faced with a password prompt. As soon as it gets past the AT&T World phone splash screen. Regardless of what key combo I press.
So, any suggestions? I'm open to anything short of hitting it real hard with a hammer.

saumanahaii said:
So, I was trying to update from a 4.1 rom to a 4.2 one. After a bit of fumbling and a few status 7's, I managed to get stuck with a broken operating system and a status 0 on every rom I tried to install. So I decided to flash to stock with Heimdall using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238093. Now, when I tried rebooting my phone, I'm faced with a password prompt. As soon as it gets past the AT&T World phone splash screen. Regardless of what key combo I press.
So, any suggestions? I'm open to anything short of hitting it real hard with a hammer.
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Flash the one provided in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18370912&postcount=3

BWolf56 said:
Flash the one provided in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18370912&postcount=3
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That's the rub. I can't seem to get past the password prompt to put it in download mode. Otherwise that would have been the first thing I did.

saumanahaii said:
That's the rub. I can't seem to get past the password prompt to put it in download mode. Otherwise that would have been the first thing I did.
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The prompt comes up before download mode? This shouldn't happen. Download mode for me take priority over everything, including the AT&T Splash. If I go into download mode, it goes from being off straight into Download mode. Can you take a picture with another device?

x0ne215 said:
The prompt comes up before download mode? This shouldn't happen. Download mode for me take priority over everything, including the AT&T Splash. If I go into download mode, it goes from being off straight into Download mode. Can you take a picture with another device?
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Either that or when I try entering download mode, I'm not really sure. None of the button combinations seem to change anything, then the device loads an icon where an android robot is taken out of a box, then I get the prompt.

saumanahaii said:
Either that or when I try entering download mode, I'm not really sure. None of the button combinations seem to change anything, then the device loads an icon where an android robot is taken out of a box, then I get the prompt.
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I think that's the stock recovery? Download mode should look something like this:
http://cdn.androidadvices.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/download-mode.png
Anyone else care to chime in?
You've tried Vol Up + Plug in USB?

saumanahaii said:
Either that or when I try entering download mode, I'm not really sure. None of the button combinations seem to change anything, then the device loads an icon where an android robot is taken out of a box, then I get the prompt.
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I get the feeling that the methods you are using to attempt to get into download mode simply aren't working. Depending on your device, what boot loaders you're running, and how annoying your device feels like being that day the methods vary. The most foolproof way is to buy or make a jig which will put you into download mode every time. But the most recent way I've done is do a battery pull. Providing you don't have power button issues that causes the phone to turn on on its own replace the battery. Then plug your USB cable into your computer and while holding down both volume buttons insert the USB cable into your phone. That should boot you immediately into download mode.
For other button combinations to try look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953930
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m1batt1 said:
I get the feeling that the methods you are using to attempt to get into download mode simply aren't working. Depending on your device, what boot loaders you're running, and how annoying your device feels like being that day the methods vary. The most foolproof way is to buy or make a jig which will put you into download mode every time. But the most recent way I've done is do a battery pull. Providing you don't have power button issues that causes the phone to turn on on its own replace the battery. Then plug your USB cable into your computer and while holding down both volume buttons insert the USB cable into your phone. That should boot you immediately into download mode.
For other button combinations to try look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953930
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Thanks! That worked. I've never heard of that one. Now to see if I can get my phone back to a workable state, and then on to Jellybean again.

saumanahaii said:
Thanks! That worked. I've never heard of that one. Now to see if I can get my phone back to a workable state, and then on to Jellybean again.
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Simple flashing of JB rom (and bootloaders if needed) should do the trick. Never seen that passcode prompt ever, so odd. But glad you got it into download mode

x0ne215 said:
Simple flashing of JB rom (and bootloaders if needed) should do the trick. Never seen that passcode prompt ever, so odd. But glad you got it into download mode
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Yeah. That prompt confused the hell out of me. Thanks for the help! I'm still having a bit of trouble, though. I can't seem to find any files still hosted with CWM on it, and the JB roms won't flash straight through the stock recovery console. I tried a kernel too, but verification keeps failing on them. I'm assuming its the stock recovery that's causing trouble, but I can't find any files still hosted to fix that with.

saumanahaii said:
Yeah. That prompt confused the hell out of me. Thanks for the help! I'm still having a bit of trouble, though. I can't seem to find any files still hosted with CWM on it, and the JB roms won't flash straight through the stock recovery console. I tried a kernel too, but verification keeps failing on them. I'm assuming its the stock recovery that's causing trouble, but I can't find any files still hosted to fix that with.
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U gotta use Odin or Heimdall to flash a kernel that has cwm recovery baked in.
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4-2ndtwin said:
U gotta use Odin or Heimdall to flash a kernel that has cwm recovery baked in.
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I know, that's what I'm looking for. Specifically, a Heimdall one since I have a Mac. But most of the links are broken. I have an old Windows machine I may have to break out if I can't find one soon.

You need to flash a kernel with CWM. Try Corn Kernel (look at tut in my sig then go to step 6a., flash that

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X1's links good.
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