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New Captivate...

I have a problem, I just recently bought one, but the problem is that the screen is black. Every time I swipe to unlock it, I get a black screen. I'm able to see my contacts, receive calls, but can't see my home screen.

Try changing the wallpaper maybe?
assonance 5.2

apbamaman said:
I have a problem, I just recently bought one, but the problem is that the screen is black. Every time I swipe to unlock it, I get a black screen. I'm able to see my contacts, receive calls, but can't see my home screen.
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Did you set a new homescreen lol?
Obvious question is have you done anything to your phone? Can you give any details about what has gone on prior to it going black, has it always been a black background?

flashman2002 said:
Did you set a new homescreen lol?
Obvious question is have you done anything to your phone? Can you give any details about what has gone on prior to it going black, has it always been a black background?
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Never done anything to it, except charge it up. Bought it from ebay and when I hold down the home screen button, I get the task manager pop-up, but that's it. But the screen is completely black, except the top half with the time, wifi connection, battery life, etc.

apbamaman said:
Never done anything to it, except charge it up. Bought it from ebay and when I hold down the home screen button, I get the task manager pop-up, but that's it. But the screen is completely black, except the top half with the time, wifi connection, battery life, etc.
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Hmmm, that sucks. Since it is purchased off ebay you might be out of luck. Has it been that way since you purchased the phone or did it just happen out of the black one day? Sorry for the dry humor.

flashman2002 said:
Hmmm, that sucks. Since it is purchased off ebay you might be out of luck. Has it been that way since you purchased the phone or did it just happen out of the black one day? Sorry for the dry humor.
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Just got it today.

Flash stock using odin, then master clear. What every is going on, you want to get back to a fresh software. Do you know what odin is?
If not I will help you a&d much as I can
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mcord11758 said:
Flash stock using odin, then master clear. What every is going on, you want to get back to a fresh software. Do you know what odin is?
If not I will help you a&d much as I can
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Is there an option for odin with Mac?
I got into download mode and I see "ClockworkMod Recovery"

apbamaman said:
Is there an option for odin with Mac?
I got into download mode and I see "ClockworkMod Recovery"
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There is no odin for mac, but there its heimdall. It its more complicated them odin and takes more to understand what you are doing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
Software can be found at samfirmware.com
But before you go crazy with that, you said you can get into recovery. Have you tried a factory reset?
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mcord11758 said:
There is no odin for mac, but there its heimdall. It its more complicated them odin and takes more to understand what you are doing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
Software can be found at samfirmware.com
But before you go crazy with that, you said you can get into recovery. Have you tried a factory reset?
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Haven't tried that yet

apbamaman said:
Haven't tried that yet
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I assumed you get into recovery using three button combo. What happens, do you boot directly into clockwork recovery green letters, our standard recovery blue letters? If clockwork what are your options?
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mcord11758 said:
I assumed you get into recovery using three button combo. What happens, do you boot directly into clockwork recovery green letters, our standard recovery blue letters? If clockwork what are your options?
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It says, "ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.1.2" and it's green letters.
The way I got to that was when I got forced it into recovery mode, I clicked on the option to reinstall packages.
Sorry about that:
There is 'reboot system now', 'apply sdcard:update.zip', wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, install zip from sdcard, backup and restore, mounts and storage, and then advanced

Do you have a external sd you can hook up to your computer?
Who ever sold you the phone obviously was playing around with the phone.
if you have an sd there may be a way to recovery but it is a long shot.
What happens if you hook your phone into your mac
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In clockwork select install zip from sd, it should list the files on the sd . What does it say?
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mcord11758 said:
Do you have a external sd you can hook up to your computer?
Who ever sold you the phone obviously was playing around with the phone.
if you have an sd there may be a way to recovery but it is a long shot.
What happens if you hook your phone into your mac
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In clockwork select install zip from sd, it should list the files on the sd . What does it say?
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it says, 'apply sdcard:update.zip', 'choose zip from sdcard', toggle signature verification, and toggle script asserts

Choose zip from sd
What does it say then
I am thinking a rom may be in there that you can try to flash. It could mess up your phone but lets be honest, it isn't actually working at the moment
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mcord11758 said:
Choose zip from sd
What does it say then
I am thinking a rom may be in there that you can try to flash. It could mess up your phone but lets be honest, it isn't actually working at the moment
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Alright, I see:
Android/
DCIM/
LOST.DIR/
TunnyBrowser/
Voodoo/
clockworkmod/
data/
download/
external_sd/
gameloft/
layar/
media/
sd/
tapatalkxda_download/
tmp/
Battery_Mod.zip/
Cognitionv2.2BETA9.1.3.zip/
Doc_Kalpic_ROM_Modified_v1(2).zip/
JPM_Froyo_Lockscreen.zip/
Themed Rom.zip/
killer23d_Doc_Kalpik_JP6_v6.zip/
update.zip/

Cognitionv2.2BETA9.1.3.zip/
Doc_Kalpic_ROM_Modified_v1(2).zip/
killer23d_Doc_Kalpik_JP6_v6.zip/
These are all roms. So obviously the last owner was busy. Listen if you try to install one if these 2 things can happen, 1 your phone boots up and you are saved, 2 you get stock in a boot loop and you will have to find a windows pc to use odin.
What do you want to do? If you want to try to install a eoin I would go with cognition. Scroll down to the zip, select, confirm, cross your fingers. Before you do anything give newer one minute, I want to confirm something
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I would try cognition, if you are going to try.
Let me know what you are thinking
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mcord11758 said:
I would try cognition, if you wetter going to try
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Okay, right now I'm at my brother's place and he has windows, so I'm going to dl that Odin link you put up and see what's up, until then I'm going to try to load cognition.

apbamaman said:
Okay, right now I'm at my brother's place and he has windows, so I'm going to dl that Odin link you put up and see what's up, until then I'm going to try to load cognition.
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The link I posted was heimdall for mac. This is odin
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
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[Q] While flashing stock via odin screen gets blue/purple

Hey there,
Got my moms Galaxy over here. Thing wasn't updated and slow as hell so I thought I'd update it. Went through the Kies process but that didn't really work, phone just couldn't make connection despite what ever driver I used (win or mac, got both here).
So first things went haywire when I read somewhere to flash recovery I needed to do something via Heimdall. Did that with the command window and afterwards the phone got stuck in a bootloop (only the I9000+samsung repeating over and over again).
Then I tried flashing GB from samfirmware, which failed. All done through odin, the screen went purple at dbdata.rfs. So I went with stock froyo, from the androidworld.nl forums and same thing happens but now it's a blue screen at factoryfs.rfs.
What am I doing wrong?

Try flashing again via Odin and this time don't touch your pc while it is flashing. That yellow purple screen has happened to me while I was doing other things while flashing was going on in the background.
And check if your phone is i9000 or i9000+ and flash the their respective firmware .
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gcuchiha said:
Try flashing again via Odin and this time don't touch your pc while it is flashing. That yellow purple screen has happened to me while I was doing other things while flashing was going on in the background.
And check if your phone is i9000 or i9000+ and flash the their respective firmware .
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Same thing, didn't do anything and screen went gray. This is so random for me, as flashing is SO easy with my own Desire but this thing is on a whole different level.

Try changing your Odin version to 1.82 and try again.
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Or 1.3 idk try both.
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gcuchiha said:
Try changing your Odin version to 1.82 and try again.
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gcuchiha said:
Or 1.3 idk try both.
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Actually did both already! The 1.3 was from the 2.2 pack from the Dutch forum. Got 1.82 from the samfirmware website. No luck yet
1.82 shows a bootloader function, do I need to have one of those files with it?

No don't flash bootloader
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gcuchiha said:
No don't flash bootloader
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I was about to try this actually! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1196179
Since the screwup started with Heimdall, might fix it with that?

Watch a YouTube video and see if you're doing everything properly.
What I do is
1. Go to download mode
2. Open Odin, select pit, PDA, phone, CSC files. And remember to check the re partition option
3. Connect your phone
4. Click start.
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Maybe. I never used heimdall. Maybe you could try that.
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gcuchiha said:
Watch a YouTube video and see if you're doing everything properly.
What I do is
1. Go to download mode
2. Open Odin, select pit, PDA, phone, CSC files. And remember to check the re partition option
3. Connect your phone
4. Click start.
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Doing all that yeah, exactly in that order.

Hmmm. Then I guess heimdall is your only hope ,since it started the problem.
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Hmm, in Heimdall it gets all the way up to MODEM @ 59%. Then it fails and crashes..
weird
[edit] buuuuuuuut I got android recovery back! okay now we have progress!
and now by adding the packaged zImage from CM have CM.. progress again!

Are you using the original USB cable?. Same thing happened to me with a cheap ebay cable...

cabessius said:
Are you using the original USB cable?. Same thing happened to me with a cheap ebay cable...
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Hm, no. It's a replacement cable (cheap) which I used for my Desire, no problem with that at all. Though it might be it indeed! Will be two days before I can get the original cable.
In the meanwhile I got CWM-based Recovery v.5.0.2.6 working.. while installing cyanogenmod it goes "checking blm status", then "install from sd complete".. a bit strange and it doesn't boot into the rom but into the recovery.

Lipinsky said:
Hm, no. It's a replacement cable (cheap) which I used for my Desire, no problem with that at all. Though it might be it indeed! Will be two days before I can get the original cable.
In the meanwhile I got CWM-based Recovery v.5.0.2.6 working.. while installing cyanogenmod it goes "checking blm status", then "install from sd complete".. a bit strange and it doesn't boot into the rom but into the recovery.
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Switching back to the original cable fixed the problem for me. Hope it does for you as well, try that and tell us what happened!.

Can I still use Odin then, now with CWM recovery?

You can use Mobile Odin by Chainfire (look for it in the market), it works exactly as an Odin built-in your SGS with no need for PC.

cabessius said:
You can use Mobile Odin by Chainfire (look for it in the market), it works exactly as an Odin built-in your SGS with no need for PC.
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Uhm, well I can't get really into any market as no rom will boot at this moment..

Guys, thanks for the cable advice! Could get my hands on a SE cable and flashed 2.3.5 stock through Odin. Happy that I didn't wreck my moms phone :')

[Q] Not booting

I accidentally flashed a file instead of .tar one, name was recovery or boot using Odin ,PDA, and then my P7300 wont open, just the boot screen appears (Samsung GalaxyTab 8.9) than nothing happen.
but "power button+ volume (-) " mode works, says "can't access to /System/csc/TUR/system"
Cant see sd card
And kies cant see anymore gtab also
what can i do, thanks

Does odin see the comm port? If it does i'd try to flash the stock rom thru odin. Sammobil would have the stock rom for your device.
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jd1639 said:
Does odin see the comm port? If it does i'd try to flash the stock rom thru odin. Sammobil would have the stock rom for your device.
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Thank you a lot. it worked:good:

Great. That's what here for. Share the experience.
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[Q] phone stuck on carrier logo load screen

ok so i tried to flash CM9 coming from gingerbread, i followed all the instructions and it all went well until it rebooted then it got stuck on the carrier logo ( att) and will not go any further. and way to recover? or is this a hard brick? oh and if it matters the kernal i was using was Corn

Try using the button combo to reboot into recovery and then reinstall ur Rom.
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Try using the button combo to reboot into recovery and then reinstall ur Rom.
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i did try that and it seems like its trying so i dont believe its one of the models that dont have that button combo also some things i forgot to mention is i was using clockwork recovery, and do have the original rom backed up on my external sd and also have back ups of verything titanium will back up if that helps narrow down a solution

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i did try that and it seems like its trying so i dont believe its one of the models that dont have that button combo also some things i forgot to mention is i was using clockwork recovery, and do have the original rom backed up on my external sd and also have back ups of verything titanium will back up if that helps narrow down a solution
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Nope, not a brick. You probably have a working button combination, but the recovery simply isn't there. You need to boot into download mode and flash a kernel.
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korockinout13 said:
Nope, not a brick. You probably have a working button combination, but the recovery simply isn't there. You need to boot into download mode and flash a kernel.
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well got it into download mode... only problem is computer wont recognize it

See if this thread helps.... Captivate PC Connection Issues, Download Mode and Recovery Mode Help
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korockinout13 said:
Nope, not a brick. You probably have a working button combination, but the recovery simply isn't there. You need to boot into download mode and flash a kernel.
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thanks that fixed it. my phone is now awesome.

Cant get into stock recovery sucessfully

I have a stock Android 2.3.6 galacy exhibit 4g and when I boot up into recovery, an update is automatically found, installed and then reboots the phone doing the same thing every time recovery is booted into. My problem is, I cannot find this update package in my internal sd storage to save my life nor do I even know what the update package would be called. Can anyone please help?
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korruptedimage said:
I have a stock Android 2.3.6 galacy exhibit 4g and when I boot up into recovery, an update is automatically found, installed and then reboots the phone doing the same thing every time recovery is booted into. My problem is, I cannot find this update package in my internal sd storage to save my life nor do I even know what the update package would be called. Can anyone please help?
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I'm not certain but it might be called update.zip, because if I remember that's the only name that will flash in the stock recovery. As for finding it, just try searching for update.zip. it should be on the root of the sdcard(no folder) because that's the only way I thought it could install. Any ways I'm probably wrong but at least you can try.
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I'm not certain but it might be called update.zip, because if I remember that's the only name that will flash in the stock recovery. As for finding it, just try searching for update.zip. it should be on the root of the sdcard(no folder) because that's the only way I thought it could install. Any ways I'm probably wrong but at least you can try.
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i tried that too. it was unsuccessful. im almost out of ideas. does anyone have a clue about multi csc code that can automatically apply upon booting into stock recovery and then make it automatically reboot the phone?

This is exactly my problem. I just took a picture of it. this it what it says as soon as i boot into recovery. No options. Nothing. Just reboots
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korruptedimage said:
This is exactly my problem. I just took a picture of it. this it what it says as soon as i boot into recovery. No options. Nothing. Just reboots
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sorry i thought it posted my picture with the link. only place i have to upload it is on facebook but heres the link. if anyone can help, please do.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...1306577752552.492490.664252551&type=3&theater

korruptedimage said:
i tried that too. it was unsuccessful. im almost out of ideas. does anyone have a clue about multi csc code that can automatically apply upon booting into stock recovery and then make it automatically reboot the phone?
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I'm not sure really what CSC code is but I think your talking about stock Odin flash able package. That should get you back to stock and flash the stock recovery and wipe everything. However i think it will bootloop after it flashes so you will have to boot into recovery and wipe data. If so check out the wiki. There is all the info you need. I have another idea though. I haven't done this myself but you should be able to push a clockworkmod recovery.img to the phone from a terminal if you have adb also in the wiki. I can't view your pic because I don't have a Facebook but maybe someone else can. Good luck
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That is the stock update pushed by Samsung from what it sounds like. Also sounds like a data packet might have dropped during the downloading of it causing a bad install. For simplicity get cwm Installed and boot thru that and flash from cwm. Wiki has all the info needs.
Wiki please read completely on rooting and install of cwm. Suggest 6.0.1.2 version. Personal preferences on that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Exhibit_II_4G
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Problem solved. I just randimly pushed the 3 buttons on the phone before the rebooting part came up in the script and finally got the menu, took may tries to get to that point but as soon as I got to that point, I was quick to install clockworkmod successfully. Now problem is gone. Hope this thread maybe helps someone else
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Problem solved. I just randimly pushed the 3 buttons on the phone before the rebooting part came up in the script and finally got the menu, took may tries to get to that point but as soon as I got to that point, I was quick to install clockworkmod successfully. Now problem is gone. Hope this thread maybe helps someone else
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I have a similar problem. Which 3 buttons are we talking about? Power+Home+VolUp?

Easiest way, take out battery, push volume up and power, insert battery while holding, when Samsung appears release only power, when the android guy with package appears press menu
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Make sure you push the "Menu" capacitive button (left in the row of four buttons below the screen) when you see the green Android guy and the box. That will get you into the stock recovery menu.
I had to reboot into recovery a couple of times because I missed that part. What a pain!