Okay so I was testing out the Molecule ROM along with SetiroN's i9000 Kernel. I installed the backlight notification app on the kernel's page and went to reboot. After the reboot I can no longer use the power button while in recovery mode and when I try to reflash back to stock with Odin I get a FAIL message while its checking the file system. Is it bricked or does someone know a way to fix this?
Are you able to get back into download mode successfully?
This happened to me with i9000 kernels. You should be able to flash back to stock no problem.
remove battery & sim and disconnect phone,
open odin,
put battery in and hold Vol down,
plug in USB,
Flash
Should work for you.
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Retore con2.3b6 with Rom Manager, flashed data back, reboot, now stopped at Samsung Recovery Utils mode, Installing Muti-CSC ..., been like this for an hour, be able to use volumn key move up and down, tried clear cache and re-install package, after reboot, goes back to the same screen. Tried to use odin but can't set to download mode anymore, eveytime reboot back to Samsung Recovery Utils.
Thanks for your help.
Possibly try this.
1. Pop the battery out
2. Start Odin on your PC.
3. After 30 seconds, insert battery. Do NOT power on.
4. Hold the volume up and volume down at same time.
5. Still holding the volume buttons, plug into USB. Release once it's in download mode.
Following these steps should force Odin to boot up the phone in download mode. At no point during this should you push the power button at all.
jeromekobriger said:
Possibly try this.
1. Pop the battery out
2. Start Odin on your PC.
3. After 30 seconds, insert battery. Do NOT power on.
4. Hold the volume up and volume down at same time.
5. Still holding the volume buttons, plug into USB. Release once it's in download mode.
Following these steps should force Odin to boot up the phone in download mode. At no point during this should you push the power button at all.
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You saved me, flashing to stock now, thanks.
BTW, do you have idea what's cause the problem?
Sorry, wish I knew. I've never had much luck with restores in dg's roms. I'm running Axura RC1 now, and had one successful restore on it.
Hi guys,
Great to hear you sorted out download mode mate.
I have the same problem, and can get into download mode, but Odin stock JF6 just freezes at DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET. It doesn't proceed any further and I have left it as long as 10 minutes.
I have reflashed to stock many times previously and it only takes a second to start flashing.
I'm so worried that my phone is permanently soft bricked... :-(
Any ideas?
Its the lagfix Causing problems.
Captivate: Assonance v3.1
AreikUSA said:
Its the lagfix Causing problems.
Captivate: Assonance v3.1
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Sure, but for now the reason why it wouldn't boot in the first place is irrelevant because my problem applies to any soft bricked phone.
Please see here for fix: (post)
Here's how it happened:
I was trying to swap Kernels by following instructions on cognition thread. I flashed the stock kernel and tried to apply the update.zip, and it gave me errors. I tried to reboot and the ATT screen came up and wouldnt boot. I was able to get it into download mode using adb, so I flashed the JI6 kernel. Now it won't go into download or recovery mode (just ATT screen).
Here's what I have tried:
- volume up/down + power buttons. released power button and recovery mode wouldn't come up.
- with power off, pressed volume up/down. Did not enter download mode.
- power + volume up. got a screen saying power reset or unknown upload mode?
- tried just hitting power and letting it sit for a long time to see if it would boot, but it just stays at ATT screen.
- adb reboot download (with device plugged into usb) - said device not found.
Is there something else I can try to get it into recovery or download mode? I figure I can flash the stock PDA if I can get that far. Is there something that a phone repair shop can do (special software, etc.) to help?
Any help would be appreciated.
Jason.
Have you read the READ ME BEFORE FLASHING sticky on the dev forum?
But.. try this:
Turn off your phone.
Take out the SIM, any external SDCard, and Battery
Plug in your USB Cable
Turn on Odin 1 Click - OTA JH7 Back to Stock
Hold down the +/- VOLUME Buttons on the phone.
Pop the battery back in - should go directly into DOWNLOAD mode using this method. If it goes to the gray "Battery Charging" picture.. unplug, take out the battery, and try it again.
And you had USB De-bugging turned on before you were doing all this (I'm guessing yes) Hopefully the above works.
BTW whenever it goes south like this .. better to just go back to stock and try again rather then potentially making it worse
thank you! That got me into download mode. I was able to flash back to stock. I was scared for a while.
Jason.
NP.. next time though read the Q&A sticky - should point you in the right direction a lil' quicker
And if you plan on to keep flashing new ROMs? Def go there first it should point you to different posts to keep you from having this issue in the future.
I had been using my Captivate for a while, and used Kies mini to upgrade to Froyo, and everything had been working fine until randomly the phone wouldn't boot.
It would take forever to go from the AT&T home screen, and would lag through the galaxy s intro, and then stop.
I tried to use Recovery mode, and it didn't work, so I tried to use Odin3 to flash back to stock.
Now it won't go past the Logo screen, and recovery mode doesn't work, but download mode still does. I have tried Odin one click, and Odin three click v 1.0, 1.3, and 1.7. I've used the .tar and the .pit from Breakin' Ranh's [Guide] How to Recover a Captivate to Stock 2.1 Eclair JH7
It keeps getting stuck in a boot loop after odin, no matter what I do.
Any suggestions?
Using SGH-i897
1007
first boot takes along time to build new files and delvik.. are you sure you waited long enough?
keep trying to get into recovery. try holding the buttons a little after the screen comes on.
factory wipe/ clear phone/
It keeps going to the AT&T logo screen for like 10 seconds, and then goes to the spinning wheel/battery charging screen, and then reboots.
Can't get into recovery mode through it, still.
a different .tar package.... dunno about that one..
or flash to 2.2 tar package
I have to use rom manager to get to recovery on my captivate
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I was able to use a dragon rom to get it to boot, but now my phone wont give me any access to my internal sd card, and won't mount my external, so I can't download rom manager because I "have no room" Where do I go from here?
I've already tried formatting both cards, and it seems like nothing happens whenever I click on format.
you dont need rom manager....ever
Then what does he need?
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stuck in the same position
I can get into download mode (only with a JIG tho) but when I go back to stock with Odin (or try to) it's just stuck in the AT & T logo screen, it doesn't go beyond that, how do I get into recovery mode, press both Volume buttons and Power button, when the AT&T screen comes release the Power button right?
Need some help please!
you might need to flash the 3 button fix but keep trying, if you get into recovery clear data and cache. but first boot always takes a long time as it has to build delvak cache and more... try flashing again, with the 3 button fix att rom.
3 button fix? to get into download mode you mean? I CAN get into download mode (with the jig) but not into recovery mode :-s
I have no idea how to flash it without being in the Stock rom, any help?
download is 2 buttons
recovery is 3 button.
some phones loose the 3 button combo to get into recovery.
in that case you need to flash the stock rom with 3 button fix.
it is for Att only so i dont know much more.
After Odin, I was in a boot loop yesterday. I plan on writing it up in a new thread to see if someone can help me understand what happened (cause I have Odined and modded two different cappys without issue) but here is how I was able to recover.
After Odin was complete and said successful, it reboots the phone.
Upon reboot I was in the ATT boot loop. After Odin, I lost both three button recovery and 2 button download (both of these worked before Odin). I don’t have a JIG so no way of getting to download mode.
I read to try the following sequence after reading it other posts.
1. Pull battery, sim, SD card and unplug the USB. Let it sit for a minute.
2. Plug in the USB cable.
3. Holding all three buttons, plug in the battery.
4. The battery charge (grey) should be seen on the phone. After the phone screen goes black twice let go of the power button.
This worked for me once, after several attempts.
Now that the phone booted back up, I did a master clear with Odin.
Upon reboot right back in to the ATT boot loop screen.
Was not having any luck with the steps above after several attempts.
Here is how I eventually recovered.
1. I opened Odin on the PC.
2. Pulled the battery and USB for a minute or two then replaced it and plugged in the USB cable.
3. After few cycles of black battery icon and spinning wheel, the batter icon turned green (like normal when you turn your phone off and plug it in). Sometimes this only took two cycles and sometimes many cycles (or a few minutes).
4. Once the battery icon was green, I hit the power button.
5. As soon as you see the ATT screen, pull the USB cable and the phone booted (if I left the USB plugged in, the phone went back to the black battery screen after the ATT screen).
6. I copied the correct Update.zip and Rom to my SD card.
From here I tried to boot into recovery via ADB.
The phone rebooted but back into the ATT boot loop.
Following the second set of steps above (2-3 times), I was finally able to get into Clockwork recovery.
From here I flashed Phoenix Unleashed.
After the flash rebooted and the phone seems to be running fine now (with the exception that I lost my 3 and 2 button combos, but that will be for a different thread).
From the Power Menu, I can get into download mode or Recovery no prob.
Not sure if this is something that will work for others but wanted to throw it out there just in case.
It never booted for me, so this is what I did
For anoyone that might find this thread, Odin 1 Click didn't work for me, so I flashed back into stock using Odin (not the 1 click version, another one), here are some links that proved to be very helpful (I ended up Flashing to Serependity 6.4):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1031749
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn5GoRjhn0
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919816
http://android-roms.info/roms/80-Serendipity
http://serendipityrom.weebly.com/download.html
FIXED:
Used this version of Odin to get me into recovery mode:
http://www.multiupload.com/PM9TNZWL84
Once I got that, I realized my internal SD card wasn't mounting properly, and used http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10056254&postcount=36
this thread to finish flashing back to stock.
i had flashed cm10 onto my captivate and it worked fine for a while but then a couple of days later i woke up to my phone saying cant mount internal sd card error, but i got around that i flashed my captivate back to stock 2.2 and then i tried to flash some compatible kernels i but then my phone booted with a white screen and then kept turning on and off even when i plugged in the charger it did the same thing i cant even get into download mode or recovery mode because the phone wont stay on, oh and the phone starts to get hot whenever i plug in the charger is there anyway i can fix this?
Try to force download mode. Remove battery, connect your phone to your computer via usb cable and then press volume up and down keys together and then insert the bettery with those keys pressed. That should put the phone in download screen. If that is successful, flash stock rom uckk4 from the one click master collection thread. Flash corn kernel after that via odin.
If you see a white screen then it could be a display(LCD) problem. If your LCD screen is faulty then obviously the steps described above won't help you. If things have gone wrong due to incompatible kernel then you might be able to restore your phone to normalcy.
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Try to force download mode. Remove battery, connect your phone to your computer via usb cable and then press volume up and down keys together and then insert the bettery with those keys pressed. That should put the phone in download screen. If that is successful, flash stock rom uckk4 from the one click master collection thread. Flash corn kernel after that via odin.
If you see a white screen then it could be a display(LCD) problem. If your LCD screen is faulty then obviously the steps described above won't help you. If things have gone wrong due to incompatible kernel then you might be able to restore your phone to normalcy.
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ok thanks i'll give it a try and get back to you
I experienced power button problem, after flashing latest build (4.4.2 on note n7000) my phone rebooted and and once it got back in system I couldnt turn off screen from power button or shut down phone, so i tried to remove battery and start again. But it is the same. So i didnt know what to do, i installed reboot recovery app to try to flash earlier build and from philz kernel (touch based) flashed raw4 kernel and now in recovery my power button stilll dont work, I can not flash anything I cant reboot in sistem . What to do?
p.s. I tried removing a battery and as soon as i inserted it the phone boots in recovery automaticly (like the power buttton is pressed all the time ?), and still power button wont work
I can go into download mode with Volume up and home button (and again like power button is all the time presed but i am not pressing it) and i could go to download mode and i have odin 1.85 on my computer and i could flash raw5 kernel or asylum kernel just to boot in system and use OS, but RAW5 iz ZIP extension like ASYlum,( i guess i need tar file extensions for odin?) so i dont know what to do via odin? What do you think? And thank you so much.. for you time reading this.