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[Q] I am stuck in infinite boot, please help.

I was running on cognition and I decided to apply a speed kernal. I did, but I was not aware that it wasn't compatible with froyo. Now my phone shows the AT&T thing, says some weird techno voice thing, then restarts the process. I have tried holding volume up and volume down and power in order to get to recovery menu and it doesn't work. I have tried syncing with my computer, but it wasn't set on debugging beforehand so odin does not recognize it. I have tried everything I can think of yet to no avail.(spelling?) I really like my captivate and I could not bear to part from it. Any help would be appreciated.

caleb220 said:
I was running on cognition and I decided to apply a speed kernal. I did, but I was not aware that it wasn't compatible with froyo. Now my phone shows the AT&T thing, says some weird techno voice thing, then restarts the process. I have tried holding volume up and volume down and power in order to get to recovery menu and it doesn't work. I have tried syncing with my computer, but it wasn't set on debugging beforehand so odin does not recognize it. I have tried everything I can think of yet to no avail.(spelling?) I really like my captivate and I could not bear to part from it. Any help would be appreciated.
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Have you tried using ADB to get into download mode. The only way to fix this will be to reflash stock and start over. You could also use Odin one click to flash back to stock as I dont thing debugging needs to be on for the download mode to work

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
Do not panic, did you pull the battery when the voices were going, that was voodoo installing and is normal.
You can recover and will

zelendel said:
Have you tried using ADB to get into download mode. The only way to fix this will be to reflash stock and start over. You could also use Odin one click to flash back to stock as I dont thing debugging needs to be on for the download mode to work
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I can get into download mode, I just cant get into recovery mode.

mcord11758 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
Do not panic, did you pull the battery when the voices were going, that was voodoo installing and is normal.
You can recover and will
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I did pull the battery during that time. I tried using Odin, but it doesn't recognize my phone. I think it is something I am doing wrong however.

The voices were normal.
List what you are doing to try to use odin. Need to know what your doing to identify a mistake.
Have you tried getting into recovery again

mcord11758 said:
The voices were normal.
List what you are doing to try to use odin. Need to know what your doing to identify a mistake.
Have you tried getting into recovery again
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I have tried getting into recovery again, but it goes through the cycle no matter what.
First: I downloaded the USB drivers from the Samsung Website and installed them.
Second: I downloaded Odin once click
Third: I take the battery out of my phone along with the sim card and micro SD card. Then I replace the battery
Fourth: Open Odin and plug in the USB sync cord
Fifth: I hold down the volume up and volume down buttons on the phone an insert the USB sync cord.
Sixth: A droid is pictured sweeping inside of a yellow triangle.
Seventh: I wait
Then after that, Odin doesn't recognize the phone.

Are you using the original cord that came with phone? Are you using a desktop or laptop? have you tried different usb ports? Have you tried the drivers on the odin thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989

mcord11758 said:
Are you using the original cord that came with phone? Are you using a desktop or laptop? have you tried different usb ports? Have you tried the drivers on the odin thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
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I got it off ebay and it did not come with a cord. I bought one off ebay that claimed to be OEM. I am using a laptop. I will try different USB ports but I dont think that is the problem. My computer recognizes the phone, just not Odin. I will try the drivers on the thread.

Ports can make a difference, so can the cord

mcord11758 said:
Ports can make a difference, so can the cord
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I tried using the drivers from that sight, but they always say it failed. Currently using different port.

mcord11758 said:
Ports can make a difference, so can the cord
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Drivers from that sight failed to install. I am now using a different port.

Does your cord have samsung on it anywhere?
What happens when you plug the phone in? Does your computer say not recognized device?

caleb220 said:
Drivers from that sight failed to install. I am now using a different port.
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sorry about the double post. New port didn't help it.

mcord11758 said:
Does your cord have samsung on it anywhere?
What happens when you plug the phone in? Does your computer say not recognized device?
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10 charsssss

mcord11758 said:
Does your cord have samsung on it anywhere?
What happens when you plug the phone in? Does your computer say not recognized device?
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It says that it needs to install driver software.

mcord11758 said:
Does your cord have samsung on it anywhere?
What happens when you plug the phone in? Does your computer say not recognized device?
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Cord has a blackberry logo on it?!? OEM my....Just now noticed that.

caleb220 said:
It says that it needs to install driver software.
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Try clicking on it. Should ask you to locate drivers. You said you have samsung drivers. I think c drive/program files/samsung/usb driver.
Grab the computer by the hand and walk it there

caleb220 said:
Cord has a blackberry logo on it?!? OEM my....Just now noticed that.
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Could be your problem but may not be

mcord11758 said:
Try clicking on it. Should ask you to locate drivers. You said you have samsung drivers. I think c drive/program files/samsung/usb driver.
Grab the computer by the hand and walk it there
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I have tried that several times but it doesnt work. It says that the directory doesn't exist.

My SGS is stuck at bootscreen, HELP Please.

Here is the thing:
I was on JPY (rooted) and i flashed (voodoo lagfix) my phone sgs Kernel flasher (it worked before more than once). It restarted and then...nothing. It's stuck on that screen. I can't get in recovery mode nor download mode.
The phone is not even detected by the pc.
I already tried that trick which suggest to remove battery and reboot, but nothing.
Guys, Help, Please.

How about download mode? Can you access that?

Nope. I can't access download mode either.

Help? Please?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
jje

JJEgan said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
jje
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OK i've take a look and i'm quite sure it won't work either. Why? because i noticed that even the battery icon doesn't show up when i put it in charge i just get that ajax loading icon (which freeze) and then nothing.
isn't that rather an internal sd trouble? That's my guess please let me know what you think.

Well, at the current stage you have two choice. Try the homemade jig or bring it back to Samsung for a refurbished unit. Pick one.

snapper.fishes said:
Well, at the current stage you have two choice. Try the homemade jig or bring it back to Samsung for a refurbished unit. Pick one.
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i think i only have one choice : bring it back to samsung since the file system is totally corrupted.

somboo said:
i think i only have one choice : bring it back to samsung since the file system is totally corrupted.
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Have you tryied going in recovery via adb?

figifigi said:
Have you tryied going in recovery via adb?
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How so? Please tell me what you get
Edited: I just tried and the device is not detected
i got this:
List of devices attached:
(nothing here)
Commands i tried:
adb shell reboot recovery
and
adb reboot recovery

somboo said:
How so? Please tell me et you get
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Do you have android sdk installed on your computer?

figifigi said:
Do you have android sdk installed on your computer?
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http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Yes i have. And i'm a little familiar with adb commands .
But sadly the phone just freeze with the bootloader.
But hey give me what ya get

somboo said:
Yes i have. And i'm a little familiar with adb commands .
But sadly the phone just freeze with the bootloader.
But hey give me what ya get
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I had i similor issue, and i tryed to connect via adb..
try to see if your phone is connected with fx: c:\androidsdk\tools\adb devices
if so then type c:\androidsdk\tools\adb reboot recovery
this all depends on where your androidsdk files are located on your computer.

figifigi said:
I had i similor issue, and i tryed to connect via adb..
try to see if your phone is connected with fx: c:\androidsdk\tools\adb devices
if so then type c:\androidsdk\tools\adb reboot recovery
this all depends on where your androidsdk files are located on your computer.
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I tried this. My phone is not detected. When you had this issue could you see the battery icon? Or when you plug in your phone in pc could you hear that small sound? cause in my case i don't.

No battery icon, but i heared the small sound..but i tryed severel times before the it rebootet in to recovery.
What about the 3 button solution, and then connect via odin..does it reconize your phone?

figifigi said:
No battery icon, but i heared the small sound..but i tryed severel times before the it rebootet in to recovery.
What about the 3 button solution, and then connect via odin..does it reconize your phone?
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I tried that 3 buttons combinaison so many times i can't count. I think the bootloader doesn't even load properly. That fact that i don't have that sound is a frightening.

somboo said:
I tried that 3 buttons combinaison so many times i can't count. I think the bootloader doesn't even load properly. That fact that i don't have that sound is a frightening.
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Could you go to the 3 button combination before this happened?

figifigi said:
Could you go to the 3 button combination before this happened?
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Yes. I could. Adb worked then too.

somboo said:
Yes. I could. Adb worked then too.
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Hmm, i dont know any other methods to connect to the computer at the moment

[Q] UPDATED: ODIN wont recognize my phone with USB debugging on, but will without it

Alright, so I was having some problems with my cognition rom and decided go back to stock so I could flash the new cognition. I put my phone into download mode, and it took a few times for ODIN to see my phone. After I got ODIN to see my phone I tried to master clear, it did not work. I had to pull the battery out and try again. I rebooted my phone again, and many program errors came up. I shut off my phone, tried to get into download mode and it wouldn't let me using the volume down + up then insert USB with ODIN open.
Now to get into download mode I must hold buttons with battery out, put USB in, and put battery in and I get download mode instantly, but I cant get ODIN to recognize my phone at all anymore. I tried many different methods(odin open before DL mode, odin closed before download mode, etc). I looked through a few threads and couldnt find anything that would work. Also my window 7 64 now says it doesn't recognize the USB device when I plug it in. Whats going on with my phone?? Im getting very annoyed! Is there any way to go back to stock besides ODIN??? Any help is appreciated!!
***UPDATE***
Seems like I may have a 3 button combo lock, and no USB support of any kind(besides charging).

UPDATE: I used rom manager to flash over my old rom. My phone works again, but it wont go into download mode at all now. Only when I use the cognition menu to send it to download mode will it work. I still cant get ODIN to see my phone. I want to go back to stock still, but without ODIN working, can I?

ziphoward said:
UPDATE: I used rom manager to flash over my old rom. My phone works again, but it wont go into download mode at all now. Only when I use the cognition menu to send it to download mode will it work. I still cant get ODIN to see my phone. I want to go back to stock still, but without ODIN working, can I?
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under your captivate battery, there is a number like 1008, 1010, what is yours?

I've had the same trouble with download mode + odin on my Windows 7 64 bit pc too.
I have to have odin running, phone off with battery out, and usb cable in. I leave the battery out for about a 10 second count. Then put the battery in and hit all the buttons at the exact same time (power + volume up and down). The key here is that I only had to hit all three buttons momentarily to get it to go into download mode. I didn't have to hold them down for any length of time.
I easily spent 1 hour trying to get odin to work the last time I had to reflash to stock. Only because I forgot how hard it was three last time with my 64 bit machine.
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mengbo said:
under your captivate battery, there is a number like 1008, 1010, what is yours?
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1006
So should I just keep trying to get into ODIN by just fiddling around with it? Ive tried an XP machine and it wouldnt work either. Does booting into download mode from the cognition power menu any different than entering download mode the manual way? Every time I put the battery in with the USB it takes me to the battery charger screen. At first with that issue, putting in the battery last while holding down volume up and down, would put the phone into download mode(as opposed to the normal ways of getting into download mode). Now that wont even work at all.

first you can try the 3 button fix, just search the forum for that.
you may need to build a jig or buy one online just in case, it will get you into the download mode easily.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...47234&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_511wt_1139

im having horrible trouble with adb cmd. I installed the samsung drivers, put my phone in usb debugging, did some tutorials on how to install sdk correctly, went to the correct file paths in cmd promt, and still cant access the adb shell. Any pointers on this?
Also, could I wipe all data off internal storage and use the "reinstall package" option in recovery mode to use rom manager update.zip to restore my rom from my sd card? Im not sure if thats possible. Im getting errors with my rom, and it feels slower since I just reinstalled over the top of my faulty rom.
Seems the only usb function I have right now is to charge it. Hmmm USB brick?

Any help out there???
3g stopped working on my phone when I woke up. I really need to get a fresh rom installed.

If I recall correctly, the path to where adb is had changed. Check all folders inside the sdk folder. to make my life easier, I put the sdk folder right into the root directory (c and renamed it sdk. Don't know if that well help or not...
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I changed the folder to androidsdk from whatever it was.
bueller bueller bueller...anyone?

Well, if your phone is a rev 1006 you "should" have a problem like losing your button combo. I guess that could have happened but I doubt it, I've got a 1007 and never lost it.
So, as for ADB here's what I do. Take the android SDK folder you downloaded and look inside it. There is a folder called tools. I take the tools folder and copy it to the root of my C: drive. Make sure you have all the drivers loaded, speaking of which I would uninstall and reinstall the drivers. Sounds like they flaked out for some reason. Next open up a cmd window, Start > Run > CMD.
Then type,
cd /
cd tools
adb devices <<this shows if your phone is recognized. if it is...
adb reboot download
*or
adb reboot recovery
*or
adb shell
For what it's worth, I have been flashing my phone since I got it in July and the only time I Master Clear is when I have had a problem like a soft brick or something that I was suspicious about the data on my internal SD. Which, so far has been maybe 3 times. I don't think necessary to Master Clear every time you flash to stock.
Also, you shouldn't really have to the pop out the batter to do the download mode trick. I turn my phone off, hold both Vol up and down, then plug in USB and I'm in download mode.

bobbylx said:
Well, if your phone is a rev 1006 you "should" have a problem like losing your button combo. I guess that could have happened but I doubt it, I've got a 1007 and never lost it.
So, as for ADB here's what I do. Take the android SDK folder you downloaded and look inside it. There is a folder called tools. I take the tools folder and copy it to the root of my C: drive. Make sure you have all the drivers loaded, speaking of which I would uninstall and reinstall the drivers. Sounds like they flaked out for some reason. Next open up a cmd window, Start > Run > CMD.
Then type,
cd /
cd tools
adb devices <<this shows if your phone is recognized. if it is...
adb reboot download
*or
adb reboot recovery
*or
adb shell
For what it's worth, I have been flashing my phone since I got it in July and the only time I Master Clear is when I have had a problem like a soft brick or something that I was suspicious about the data on my internal SD. Which, so far has been maybe 3 times. I don't think necessary to Master Clear every time you flash to stock.
Also, you shouldn't really have to the pop out the batter to do the download mode trick. I turn my phone off, hold both Vol up and down, then plug in USB and I'm in download mode.
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Im having USB driver problems, windows 7 will not recognize my phone. I think this is why adb wont recognize my phone correct? I can only get into download mode now but using the power menu thats custom from Cognition. Is my phone screwed?? Can I flash a ROM without ODIN?

ziphoward said:
Im having USB driver problems, windows 7 will not recognize my phone. I think this is why adb wont recognize my phone correct? I can only get into download mode now but using the power menu thats custom from Cognition. Is my phone screwed?? Can I flash a ROM without ODIN?
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Like I said, have you tried uninstalling the drivers from windows and reinstalling them? I am running Win 7 x64 and have had that happen. After i flash a rom or flash to stock sometimes windows doesn't recognize my phone at all. The first time I just used my laptop to flash but the second time I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled. It's also important that you plug into the USB ports directly on the motherboard on the back of your PC. There are known problems when trying the front usb ports or through a hub.

bobbylx said:
Like I said, have you tried uninstalling the drivers from windows and reinstalling them? I am running Win 7 x64 and have had that happen. After i flash a rom or flash to stock sometimes windows doesn't recognize my phone at all. The first time I just used my laptop to flash but the second time I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled. It's also important that you plug into the USB ports directly on the motherboard on the back of your PC. There are known problems when trying the front usb ports or through a hub.
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Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling many many times. I am using a laptop and ive tried all the USB ports but still no luck. I hate having my phone like this, it will drive me insane until its fixed.. or officially considered usb bricked.

ziphoward said:
Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling many many times. I am using a laptop and ive tried all the USB ports but still no luck. I hate having my phone like this, it will drive me insane until its fixed.. or officially considered usb bricked.
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Just curious, is it a Dell laptop? My Dell never recognizes my phone unless I power the laptop on with the phone/USB plugged in. If the laptop is on, and I plug phone in it never works, so I leave it plugged in and reboot and it works. It drives me crazy, but whatever it's my work PC.

bobbylx said:
Just curious, is it a Dell laptop? My Dell never recognizes my phone unless I power the laptop on with the phone/USB plugged in. If the laptop is on, and I plug phone in it never works, so I leave it plugged in and reboot and it works. It drives me crazy, but whatever it's my work PC.
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It is a dell actually, but I just tried your method and it didnt work for me. Thanks for the input though!

Alright, I downloaded kies mini today and it actually installed some drivers correctly. I was able to pull up my internal drive on the computer, but it wouldn't read it. I was able to get ODIN to see my phone(first time in weeks), but it only shows up when my phone is NOT in debugging mode. So im assuming Master Clear will work now. I was using AIO captivate tool box, and my phone rebooted at the click of the button into download mode, but once again it wont see my phone in ODIN while in download mode. Im getting closer!
Why wont ODIN recognize my phone with USB debugging on? Any more suggestions on how to make this happen?

soft brick & usb unknow device.

Ok so i was on 2.2 Firefly and tried to flash stock GB. Did a reset and wiped the dalvik. Put the phone in DL and Windows (Vista 32b) is not detecting the phone, it spits a usb unknown device. Had to pull and plug the usb a few times until it finally get a good detection in Odin.
Now the real fun begins.. Started the flash and got stuck at "Do not turn of target" for more then 5 minutes. No activity, no bars going up.. nothing. I unplug the usb and replug..No more detection. Remove the batt and try DL again...Bingo black screen of death ! and can't go in DL anymore.
I got a usb jib and it works.. hooray or so i thought. Plug in the device and now windows is still not detecting the phone and install a "unknown device" under usb section. I uninstalled all the drivers i had and reinstalled... same issue.
Downloaded heimdall and that's were the revelation came... My device is f*** up real bad. My USB\VID and PID are now both 0000 (VID_0000&PID_0000) and not "VID_04E8&PID_681C". Windows driver can't recognize the device because of it. Tried putting a entry with 0000 in the driver .inf but it still can't detect the phone. I only have a "Samsung USB Composite device" with a error code 10 (cannot start device) under device manager.
SO..Is there a magic solution to bring this thing alive with Odin or heimdall or is jtag recovery the only solution left ?
EDIT: FINALLY !!!!!!!!!!!! After 3 days of driver install and port switching i found a way to get Odin to detect my soft brick phone in DL. I used my usb hub (yes you read that correctly) to plug in my phone and Odin detected a com8 connection. I flashed via the usb hub and i'm now back on track !!!

Stuck with this same problem...
I can get it into Download Mode ONLY with a jig...
other than that anything i do (turning it on, plugging it in) makes a weird screen appear that has the following:
[cell phone] .. [caution symbol] .. [computer]
both windows and ODIN will not detect phone both on this screen and in download mode
got ODIN to detect phone twice after multiple attempts and it says that it starts the flash but that is as far as it gets... second time i left it all night connected with ODIN running in a feeble attempt to get to flash back to stock
trying different USB ports, i do not currently own a USB hub like the author of this thread used to finally get it working...
quite frustrated...

2zao said:
Stuck with this same problem...
I can get it into Download Mode ONLY with a jig...
other than that anything i do (turning it on, plugging it in) makes a weird screen appear that has the following:
[cell phone] .. [caution symbol] .. [computer]
both windows and ODIN will not detect phone both on this screen and in download mode
got ODIN to detect phone twice after multiple attempts and it says that it starts the flash but that is as far as it gets... second time i left it all night connected with ODIN running in a feeble attempt to get to flash back to stock
trying different USB ports, i do not currently own a USB hub like the author of this thread used to finally get it working...
quite frustrated...
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Have you tried flaking with odin one click or the drivers from designgears thread in dev section? Also try uninstall drivers and go to advanced and install those drivers manually. Let met know if helps if not we can try something else.
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Try a diff USB cable too.
Mine did the USB not recognized thing due to a faulty cable.

This happened to me a while back. There was only one way I was able to get to download mode. See if it works for you -
1. pull battery, count to 10
2. reinsert battery, DO NOT TOUCH ANY BUTTONS exept to follow the next step
3. When I would hold down the vol Up and vol Down together for several seconds, the screen would blink. When the screen blinked I inserted the USB cable. Bam - download mode.
Hope it helps.
edit: well, this is coming from the "phone ! computer" screen. sorry

Able to get unto download mode... I will try the different cable idea in the morning... well... it is morning so in like 6 hours lol... thanks I'll let you know...
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Hey leezrd (or anyone)... what advantages to using the premium xda app have you found... just curious =] thnx
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2zao said:
Hey leezrd (or anyone)... what advantages to using the premium xda app have you found... just curious =] thnx
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well it is more like site but only got to support xda
SIGNATURE : Life is like a box of captivates, you never know if your gps will work

Well I think my cable was bad... computer recognized phone now... so definately making progress...
so did ODIN now but when flashing all it ever does is hang on first line... =\
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2zao said:
Well I think my cable was bad... computer recognized phone now... so definately making progress...
so did ODIN now but when flashing all it ever does is hang on first line... =\
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When connecting to Odin. Odin should be open and running prior to putting your phone into download mode and attaching to usb.

It was at the time...
...but I just got it working =] can't believe I went a month and a half without my Captivate and finally bought another just because of a bad cable =\
Any clue as to hat might have made the cable bad? It still charges phone and looks fine =\
Thanks 41LY45 for the cable suggestion and everyone else too for everything... now to root this new phone... (wont be easy this time Rogers and I guess its NAND locked or something)
Thanks again!
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How I solved USB soft brick.
I had something similar, and have been searching for hours to find the following sollution:
Source: http://android.modaco.com/topic/309961-usb-brickrickrolledb0rked-fixed/
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Also, SD card functionality has to work. For this, do 'fastboot oem enableqxdm 0' in fastboot mode.
Steps involved:
1. Find out your CID. Go into fastboot mode, and do 'fastboot oem boot'.
The log will say something like the following:
Code:
#INFOTAG:Ramdisk OK
#INFOTAG:smi ok, size = 0
#INFOTAG:hwid 0x0
#INFOTAG:skuid 0x21F04
#INFOTAG:hero panel = 0x0
#INFOTAG:engineerid = 0x0
#INFOMCP dual-die
#INFOMCP dual-die
#INFOTAG:mono-die = 0x0
#INFODevice CID is not super CID
#INFOCID is HTC__E11
In this specific case, the CID is HTC__E11.
2. Get the following mtd0.img from here or from here: mirror provided by SgtDavePwnage.
Edit this image to the CID you found above with a hex editor.
3. Get flash_image from here or from here: mirror provided by SgtDavePwnage.
Move this to /data/ , and flash the modified image using:
"/data/flash_image misc /data/mtd0.img"
You can move both mtd0.img and flash_image by putting it on your sdcard, and issueing the following command in a terminal emulator:
'cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image'
'cat /sdcard/mtd0.img > /data/mtd0.img'
You might have to do 'chmod u+x /data/flash_image' before you run the commands (or chmod 755 /data/flash_image)
4. Repeat step 3 a couple of times if it doesn't seem to work well.
5. All done! Reboot, you should have normal usb connectivity. Post your 'fastboot oem boot' log and intermediate steps if it fails.
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After that I followed the r4-legend-root Step 1 and skipped step two by placing Clockworkmod as update.zip on the SD.
Recovery Vol up + power. And I was back in the game. { I lost that other game while typing this }
It took me a while to learn all this. In 24 Hours 5 hours of actual work and frustration. But I'm There.
I hope this helps you as it did me.
I'm working on HTC Legend for a friend.
edit And I seem to have gotten the forum wrong.
I followed a suggestion for Similar threads... Nice feature
Hope it still helps

im in the same position. soft brick into download mode and computer sees it but odin dosnt do any thing when i click the botten

Download mode for captivate.

I recently flashed cm7 onto my phone. Now I want to go back to 2.1 again but I can't get my phone into download mode anymore. No matter whatever method I try they never work. Is there anything I can flash onto my phone to give me a download mode option like serendipity?

namesjason said:
I recently flashed cm7 onto my phone. Now I want to go back to 2.1 again but I can't get my phone into download mode anymore. No matter whatever method I try they never work. Is there anything I can flash onto my phone to give me a download mode option like serendipity?
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I think your best bet would to be to learn adb. It is very useful with many aspects of your phone. You can indeed get into download mode through adb most of the time (if not everytime) if your phone boots up.
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html

Can you just tell me how to use adb just for download mode? Is there a guide?

same thing happened to me, i cant go to download anymorr!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well you will need to Download and install SDK for android. Once install open the programs folder and shift+right click Tools folder and open cmd from there. There you have access to ADB commands, one your interested is "adb reboot download".
A good simple guide for adb commands is this. Thanks the creator of that thread if it helps.
edit: for windows 7 and vista the tool folder should be in C:/program files(x86)/android/android-sdk-windows/

You could try the Captivate AIO (All In One).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.ph-9++9p?t=944418
I've used it a couple of times. Just make sure USB debugging is checked, and give it a second to recognize your phone.

Only problem is.... CM7 is based off of Nexus S. There isn't an ADB way to get into DL mode on it. It's hardware only.

Twicebak3d said:
Only problem is.... CM7 is based off of Nexus S. There isn't an ADB way to get into DL mode on it. It's hardware only.
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My knowledge with Cm7 is limited but isn't based off Nexus S? Can't you just install Nexus S drivers and adb should recognize it? Just curious.

prbassplayer said:
My knowledge with Cm7 is limited but isn't based off Nexus S? Can't you just install Nexus S drivers and adb should recognize it? Just curious.
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It will recognize it, but you can't software boot into download mode with it. Pretty much every other command works. But yes, with CM7, you install Nexus S drivers for debug.

Well that sucks then guess his only shot is a jig then?

prbassplayer said:
Well that sucks then guess his only shot is a jig then?
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If OP can't 3 button (Hold vol up/down + power while inserting USB) or vol up/down + insert USB into DL, then yes.

Well this sucks anyone know where I can buy a cheap jig?

namesjason said:
Well this sucks anyone know where I can buy a cheap jig?
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You can get them in ebay or MobileTechVideos

namesjason said:
Well this sucks anyone know where I can buy a cheap jig?
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Does your three button not work? Have you tried the volume+/volume- plus plug in USB cable plugged into PC? I have NEVER had that fail for me. But mine is a 1007 build with no three button issues ever.
I also have a. USB jig that I made and one from mobile tech videos from the link posted above. The best $8 buy to AOWAYS have on hand ANYTIME you flash ANY rom.
Sent from My KickAss Captivated CM7 OC'd 1.5Ghz/Undervolted