I have a captivate model SGH-i896
I want to flash custom rom, it seem I screw that up some how.
Now I cannot get back into Download mode
What I did is I trip on the cable when I was trying to flash I897UCJH2 when using Odin.
Only thing I have on Odin was I897UCJH2 and 512.pit
I have try all type of combination on the the phone, button first, battery first, cable first.
What should I do now, short of returning the phone to Rogers and get another one?
Did I hard brick it because I897UCJH2 contain a bootloader?
Please help.
Some extra info: My phone can still be detected via usb, and during Odin the device still show.
Pull the battery, use the button combo you usually use and when that screen comes on and odin detects it try and flash from that screen.
can you explain the steps a little more?
this is what I did.
-open odin
-hold down vol up+down + power
-plug in usb
-put in battery
in that sequence, and that did not work
you may not see the dl mode screen. that is just an image in the firmware, if the flash was disconnected before that image was loaded to the phone the only image there for it to call on when dl mode is started is the phone...!....pc screen. so if odin recognizes it when in that screen try and flash from there.
if that still doesnt work i say make/buy a jig. they are never not a good idea to have.
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I was trying to switch to Cognition V.2.3.8 using clockwork recovery like was shown on that thread. I did everything correctly and everything worked exactly like was explained. I got to where it was loading the zip in clockwork mod and it froze. Now my phone only gets the ATT screen when turned on and it takes a lot of tinkering to get it to just the recovery screen, but the phone is cleared, nothing will boot, all info was wiped I'm assuming that's including the previously flashed version of cognition. I tried Odin but couldn't really get it going. Not sure what to do. I used Odin for my last ROM, and clock work recovery didn't go quite as well obviously. Please someone give me some good news, and help me unbrick my phone.
Have you tried doing any of the three button combos to get into download mode and restore to stock possibly?..if none of the buttons work, you might have to make/use a jig to get it into download mode. Anyway, just try getting into download and try to restore to stock for now.
Your phone needs to be in "Download" mode to use Odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364
Scroll down to step 1 and try those "Key Combinations" until one of them gets you into download mode. Once you are in, flash back to stock with Odin. Hopefully that works and solves your problem.
If no key combos work, then you need a jig. My phone is one of the few that don't work with the key combos, while my last 2 did fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=889128
Like the others stated you need to be in DOWNLOAD MODE to get Odin to work.
Also there is a specific method to get Odin to recognize your device and then flash it back to stock:
Turn on ODIN first.
Do NOT have your phone plugged in when Odin is started.
Make sure your phone is powered off.
Hold down the Volume +/- Buttons on your phone then plug in your USB cord. It should go directly into DOWNLOAD MODE and Odin should state that your phone is connected.
Click the Go button and watch Odin do it's magic.
If that didnt work....
Try the "Battery Trick"
Unplug the phone from USB - Power it off.
Pull the battery, SIM, and SDCard (if applicable) from your phone.
Turn on Odin
Plug in the phone to USB Cord (with everything still out of it)
Hold down the VOLUME +/- Buttons
Then while doing all this - pop the battery back in the back of your phone.
Rinse and repeat a few times if it doesn't go directly into DOWNLOAD MODE to make sure you are doing this correctly.
And if THAT doesn't work.
Do the jig (Build a jig - there are a ton of posts here in the Q&A and Q&A sticky on how to do this.)
I am running Firefly 2.05. I was attempting to reset with odin. I started my phone in download mode and I forgot to enable usb debuging. Odin of course wouldn't recognize the phone. I couldn't get it to power off so I pulled the battery. Now when it starts I have a black screen with a computer and phone icon with an exclaimaton point in the middle. I can't get the phone to boot up. As far as I know the OS wasn't changed; it's just permanently stuck with this logo on the screen. I tried downloading this sdk and adb won't recognize the device either. Is there anything I can do? Thanks...
Heres what you do.
1) Pull the battery so you KNOW the phone is off.
2) Put the battery back in
3) Hold down BOTH volume keys at the same time. Do not let go and do not touch the power button
4) Plug in the usb cable while holding down the volume keys, the device should turn on and go into download mode
5) Start odin and go about your business
Followed the directions exactly and get the same phone with a computer and an exclamation point.
Try the above, then try the steps in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fMk0PhA_qc
If those don't work, my download JIG will. It's only $10 with free shipping. You can buy one HERE...
Thanks for all the help guys. I think I am going to need a JIG. Did I need USB debugging for the Odin clear or is just being in download mode all it needs? When I did my initial install of Firefly the Odin one click and master clear worked fine, but I can't remember if I had debugging mode on.
Subv3rsion said:
Thanks for all the help guys. I think I am going to need a JIG. Did I need USB debugging for the Odin clear or is just being in download mode all it needs? When I did my initial install of Firefly the Odin one click and master clear worked fine, but I can't remember if I had debugging mode on.
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Download mode doesnt even know/care if debugging is on or not. so, no.
Are you sure you are holding both volume buttons down all the way?
Also, make sure your external sd (if you have one) and SIM card are taken out.
Make sure that the phone isn't plugged in when you pull out the battery (the phone can stay on without the battery if you are plugged into the computer)
Not really sure how this could have happened by just pulling the battery while in download mode if nothing was being done to the phone at the time. Yesterday, while I was trying to get odin to recognize my phone through a VM I must have pulled the battery while in DL mode at least 10 times and had no problem)
Edit:
Proper odin steps:
1. Install drivers for your os given in the original odin3 post (or the computer won't recognize your device while it's in DL mode and therefore will never get to odin)
2. Open odin3 (needs to be open before you plug in the phone)
3. Turn off phone, unplug from charger/computer and pull out battery, SIM, SD cards.
4. Replace battery (phone should still be completely off)
5. Hold both volume buttons and plug in the usb cable to your phone (should already be plugged into your computer)
- Need to keep holding the two volume buttons down tight until the download mode screen comes up (should be pretty much instantly) -
Those are the steps I follow to the letter whenever I use odin (about once a week)
build a jig yourself, or buy one. it will get your into the download mode.
I managed to get it into download mode. Odin shows a com port but the start and master clear options do nothing. I click the button and they grey out, but nothing happens as far as download progress. Any ideas what to try next?
Did you try multiple ports
I finally got it working. It required a JIG to get it into download mode and then starting Odin as windows administrator allowed it to finally do the flash and master clear. Thanks for everyones help; I really appreciate it!
Hi there I got a Samsung captivate SGH-I897 and I got a custom rom installer from Rom Kitchen. I wanted to go back to stock rom but once i get into download mode the phone not loading the rom ODIN stays in DO NOT TURN OFF THE TARGET!please help get out of that and use my phone again!the Base Rom i Used on custom rom is XWJS5 v9.6 with Firebird Kernel
Thank you for your time
close odin 1 click, unplug phone leave it in d/l mode, open odin plug phone back into usb, you should see a com port then like 7 or 3 or something. then hit start. Sometimes I have to repeat process 3 or 4 times before odin works right. if it isnt doing anything unplug it, remove battery put battery back in hold volume buttons down when u plug it back into usb and should go back to d/l mode. make sure odin is opened first.
I ve tried all these the problem is that I am at Phone - ! - PC and its hard to get to Download Mode but after many tries I all of a sudden I get in that mode then nothing more I can do!
Does Odin recognize the phone when you connect the USB cable when your phone is in download mode? Also which OS is your PC running? I was having an issue with Odin not pushing the stock rom and I had to start it as administrator in Win 7 to get it to work.
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Yes DOES recognize the phone but not pushing the ROM on it!I am on Windows 7 and i always run ODIN as Admin!
Any ideas?
I've heard Odin can be flaky and may take several attempts before it will work. I would keep trying. Also possibly change which USB port you are using on your computer and see if that helps. I was in this exact same scenario last week. I would turn on the phone and get the computer/phone/exclamation point of death screen. I couldn't get the phone to boot or into download mode without using a JIG. Finally on about the third try Odin worked for me. I started Odin as admin and almost as soon as I plugged in the phone to USB I hit flash and it worked. Best of luck...
Odin is not flaky. It works if you follow instructions. It's the user's fault, not the software.
Anyway, this is probably the ten millionth time I've posted this in the last hour, but here's how to get into download mode if nothing else works. If this doesn't work, you hard bricked your phone and would need a JTAG flash.
Loggik said:
Unplug the phone from the computer and remove the battery, SIM, and external SD if there is one.
1. Open Odin one click.
2. Plug the phone in (without the battery in the phone). Do not press any buttons, especially the power button.
3. Press and hold the volume rocker (holding down both volume up and down).
4. Insert the battery while holding the volume rocker.
5. The phone should boot into download mode. You can then let go of the volume rocker.
Now wait 30 seconds (if you press "Start" too soon, it will not work). Then press "Start" and your flash should finish.
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my phone is in download mode but odin hung once i unplugge and plugged back in ever since phone isnt see by odin or pc?
Yes, as I stated in my post above; you must reboot your phone every single time you go into Download mode. What I mean by that is that if you go into Download mode and plug your phone in, then unplug it, you cannot plug your phone back in unless you reboot your phone.
Loggik said:
Yes, as I stated in my post above; you must reboot your phone every single time you go into Download mode. What I mean by that is that if you go into Download mode and plug your phone in, then unplug it, you cannot plug your phone back in unless you reboot your phone.
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if youre reffering to me my cappy was bricked all it will do now is go into download mode if i do the 3 resistor trick to force it to but then its not seen by pc now
leo5111 said:
if youre reffering to me my cappy was bricked all it will do now is go into download mode if i do the 3 resistor trick to force it to but then its not seen by pc now
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Didn't realize that you weren't the OP. Regardless, I was referring to you.
Anyway, this is a more serious case than I thought. Have you used the AIO Captivate Tool? If so, did you install the LibUSB drivers? Those will disable Odin from working (I'm probably going to PM Bay_wolf sometime soon about that...).
Do get everything working again:
Plug the phone in while it's in Download mode. Open the start menu, right click on "Computer", and click "Manage". In the left sidebar, select "Device Manager".
There will be a dropdown labeled "LibUSB Devices" or something with the word libusb in it. Find that dropdown, right click the Samsung USB Device or whatever it's called and select "Update Driver Software...". Then select "Search automatically for updated driver software."
An alternative is to just use the "Flash to Stock" option in the AIO tool. This and the above is assuming that you had used the AIO Tool and installed the LibUSB drivers previously. If you have not, then you may have to try and re-install the Samsung drivers. If that doesn't work, ask to borrow a friend's computer for now to flash back to stock, because this happened to me before and I didn't know how to fix it, but I was about to re-install Windows anyway so I never figured it out.
im on xp and pc sees my cappy but odin execution 1.00 is stuck on examing files is there another version i should be trying? if it helps this is what i was trying to get off my phone when the crap hit the fan http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=940330 and i tried to put paragon 6 on and it kept erring because i needed to do a odin job first on it
I finally managed to turn my phone on last nigh by doing the following:
1.Open Odin
2.Get in download mode (it took me many tries but finally I made it)
3.Disconnect phone
4.Reconnect phone
5.Choose the PIT file
6.Uncheck Auto Reboot
7.Hit Start
After that I took out the battery put it back again and power up.the phone will boot but not show the main screen it will only vibrate!then i used the AIO pack to put it back in recovery mode and i reinstalled the Custom Firmware I was using. Now is on and working again!I really dont know now if I can flash back to stock!
niderium said:
I finally managed to turn my phone on last nigh by doing the following:
1.Open Odin
2.Get in download mode (it took me many tries but finally I made it)
3.Disconnect phone
4.Reconnect phone
5.Choose the PIT file
6.Uncheck Auto Reboot
7.Hit Start
After that I took out the battery put it back again and power up.the phone will boot but not show the main screen it will only vibrate!then i used the AIO pack to put it back in recovery mode and i reinstalled the Custom Firmware I was using. Now is on and working again!I really dont know now if I can flash back to stock!
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did you use thee pitfile came with odin in the all in one or did you select another pitfile if you used a differnt pitfile then comes with odin 1.00 that might be my issue
No no I dont use this on I use one I had on my PC.
I think the problem is a write protection as I can see when i connect the phone it displays a CDROM drive when I click on it, opens ok but I cant write anything on the phone.and every time I try to use ODIN to flash to stock it stays in DO NOT TURN OFF THE TARGET and nothing happens!
Any ideas on how to get back to stock firmware?
Im pretty sure my phone is soft bricked, but it wont recognize in adb shell to reboot into recovery
(eg, "error: device not found") . At first windows kept saying device not recognized, so i reinstalled drivers and now it says Samsung Mobile Modem is good to go, but adb devices/shell still wont work. What do?
Have you tried odin
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Was just about to update, tried odin and it recognizes but it hangs at file analysis. Edit: On both odin oneclick and the manual pit and tar
do get unbricked you have to get it into download mode and then plug it into odin3 1 click to go back to stock 2.1
Here is the methods to get into download mode:
Method 1: Key Combination 1 (recommended)
1. Remove your battery, external SD card and SIM card
2. Reinsert battery and battery cover.
3. Hold down both volume buttons and while holding them down plug the phone in.
Method 2: Key Combination 2 (if method 1 doesn't work)
1. Remove your battery, external SD card and SIM card
2. Reinsert battery and battery cover.
3. Hold down both volume buttons and the power button.
Method 3: ADB (for advanced users.)
1. Download the android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html (NOT THE .EXE VERSION)
2. Drag it into the ROOT (top-most directory) of your hard drive.
3. Open the Command Prompt and navigate to the tools folder in the android SDK.
4. type adb shell then press enter
5. type adb reboot download then press enter
Method 4: Download Mode JIG
search for captivate JIG
no key combos work, and i tried adb, i dont have a usb jig (would be nice) but do i need one if odin recognizes it already?
1. Adb only work from inside the OS with usb debugging on. So that's out of the question
2.If the phone isn't in download mode it won't initiate download protocol and odin will hang.
My phone is recognized by odin in all modes except completely off, but will only work if in download mode.
If no combinations work a jig will do it.
Sorry forgot to say that adb wouldn't work
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buy this, it will solve your problem in seconds:
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buy this, it will solve your problem in seconds:
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probably going to go with that, i tried a teardrop no soldering jig, it just made me frustrated and put my phone into worse condition than the phone-!-comp state lol
dsilvan55 said:
Sorry forgot to say that adb wouldn't work
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Why even mention adb then, let alone give instructions and a link?
OP
Take the battery out, hold both volume buttons, plug in usb cable, keep holding volume buttons and insert the battery.
Try that to get to download mode.
once in download mode, put the back cover on so the battery doesn't fall out during the odin flash.
studacris said:
Why even mention adb then, let alone give instructions and a link?
OP
Take the battery out, hold both volume buttons, plug in usb cable, keep holding volume buttons and insert the battery.
Try that to get to download mode.
once in download mode, put the back cover on so the battery doesn't fall out during the odin flash.
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not working, im gonna have to get a jig, thanks though
I tried the jig will do you right though. I promise.
Dont flash a PIT. You don't need to flash PIT, PBL or SBL. They can only make things worse. Phone--/!\--PC means an incomplete flash was performed... It's been marked as not complete in the Params.lfs. Just complete a flash and you should be rollin'. Try flashing a modem.
AdamOutler said:
Dont flash a PIT. You don't need to flash PIT, PBL SBL. They can only make things worse. Phone--/!\--PC means an incomplete flash was performed... It's been marked as not complete in the Params.lfs. Just complete a flash and you should be rollin'. Try flashing a modem.
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Wow, learned something ... Thought it would take atleast a kernel if not a whole stock .tar or odin 1 one click.
Didn't know that just any flash would to it... Interesting.
It depends... As long as the kernel wasn't damaged, it will actually try to boot.... Dunno how WELL it will boot, but it won't give you the triangle at least.
Ah ... I see
yeah, I posted a youtube video about UART on a Captivate... In the video, about midway through, I pulled the USB cable while flashing a modem. It soft-bricked the phone. It's not that the phone was damaged, but marked as unbootable because it was in the process of flashing. Where things go wrong is if there's a bad USB cable used. In that case, corrupted data may be on the phone.
AdamOutler said:
Dont flash a PIT. You don't need to flash PIT, PBL or SBL. They can only make things worse. Phone--/!\--PC means an incomplete flash was performed... It's been marked as not complete in the Params.lfs. Just complete a flash and you should be rollin'. Try flashing a modem.
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Wow this actually helped a lot, i tried flashing again and it worked, without it being in dlm, Thanks! I still bought the jig though and im sure it will come in handy.
Runnin Andromeda 3 now, thanks!
Sorry for the wall of text, but this is all the information that might help.
So I bricked my captivate.
When starting the phone has a boot screen, then the screen turns black.
My phone is one of the unfortunate ones that have 3 button combo disabled, and it will not go into download mode with a button combo either.
I've plugged the phone into the computer, and all the drivers work except the "Samsung Mobile MTP Device", which I'm under the assumption has little to nothing to do with ADB.
I've opened adb, and the phone is detected, but when I try to reboot to recovery or download mode it will hang, like the command is not being sent over.
If I unplug the phone, it just gives me an error message about protocol fault.
Thoughts?
At this point I'm thinking I might have to make a jig.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
You are correct, a jig is in your future. Insert jig, download mode opens automagically, reflash something else.
I would consider flashing something with GB bootloaders because that will get you your button combo back. Then just flash bootloader-free packages from then on out (they're compatible with everything) and you won't have to worry about button combos (or a hard brick) again.
Good luck!
my wifes new captivate also needed the jig to do anything on it, but after completely updating the phone she didnt like it, so she's back to square 2.1
Did you try checking if Odin is detecting your phone?
Well I can't get it into download mode, so no, Odin is not detecting the phone.
Yes!
I got a jig, and was able to get it into download mode.
Flashed it with Odin without a hitch.