I've bought my Galaxy S GT-I9000 in Hongkong a few months ago. Since it didn't support German I decided to flash it with Odin. Now, the display remains black and the phone is not recognized by the computer anymore.
When trying to unbrick it with "one click unbrick" I was facing the problem, that the program did not run on my computer (Windows 7). I always received the message that I had to install it as the administrator. When trying to do so I received the same message over and over again.
Is there anyone who could help me with my problem. I'm a bit desperate as there is no service center here who wants to deal with my issue. They always tell me they don't feel responsible, because the mobile is not produced for the European market.
Thank you in advance!
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I'm very sorry for creating a thread like this one, I do not want to be annoying.
This last week, Rogers change my Acer Liquid E for a Samsung Galaxy S Captivate for very bad customer experience.
Since my Acer Liquid E was on Froyo, my Captivate is on Eclair and i'd like to update it.
Samsung Galaxy S Captivate : SGH-i896 (Rogers Canada)
Everything I've found didn't work at all.
I'm Using Kies 1.5.3.10113_29
USB Driver are installed (Samsung)
Proper USB Cable and I follow the instruction step by step on both rogers and samsung website.
Here's go the problem:
(Sorry for my bad english, I'm used to speak french)
When I start Kies, my phone is trying to be detected by Kies but it endless. It said : Connecting the device, please wait. This last step never end (2 hours waiting in front of the computer).
I've been factory reset my phone, reinstalling usb driver and kies and I don't know what to do. I'd like to know if there's someone that could help me ? I've been searching for two days for a miracle, this forum seems to be most competent way to get a result.
I'll be very happy if there's someone that could help me.
Thank you!
Marc
P.S: In my computer Windows, my computer show my mobile name by SGH-i896 and i can acces to by phone like it was mass storage mode.
awake4ever said:
I'm very sorry for creating a thread like this one, I do not want to be annoying.
This last week, Rogers change my Acer Liquid E for a Samsung Galaxy S Captivate for very bad customer experience.
Since my Acer Liquid E was on Froyo, my Captivate is on Eclair and i'd like to update it.
Samsung Galaxy S Captivate : SGH-i896 (Rogers Canada)
Everything I've found didn't work at all.
I'm Using Kies 1.5.3.10113_29
USB Driver are installed (Samsung)
Proper USB Cable and I follow the instruction step by step on both rogers and samsung website.
Here's go the problem:
(Sorry for my bad english, I'm used to speak french)
When I start Kies, my phone is trying to be detected by Kies but it endless. It said : Connecting the device, please wait. This last step never end (2 hours waiting in front of the computer).
I've been factory reset my phone, reinstalling usb driver and kies and I don't know what to do. I'd like to know if there's someone that could help me ? I've been searching for two days for a miracle, this forum seems to be most competent way to get a result.
I'll be very happy if there's someone that could help me.
Thank you!
Marc
P.S: In my computer Windows, my computer show my mobile name by SGH-i896 and i can acces to by phone like it was mass storage mode.
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Have you checked your USB settings? Go into settings -> applications -> development -> make sure USB debugging is turned off. Then go back to applications -> USB settings -> select Kies (Firmware update). I haven't used Kies at all but in theory this should fix your problem.
Yes I did, is there an other way to update me phone ?
My kies would always do this too. I was able to fix by going into control panel, then device manager and deleting the device named something like "samsung android composite device" (phone has to be connected to see this). Then unplug the phone and reconnect and it would install the drivers again.
I had to do this fairly often, but it always worked. hopefully it might work for you.
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This my works, but i'de like to know what driver were you using when he asked you to install it the second time ? I'm using the driver for SGH-I897, i didn't find anything for the SGH-I896
i had a lot of problems with kies doing the update to froyo 2.2 too...
first check if your usb settings are going to Kies mode and not mass storage mode. you can check my going to settings > applications > USB settings > Kies (firmware update)
if you are a rogers customer then try to bring it to a Rogers Plus store and ask them to update it for you, might have to try a few stores before you find a someone that can help.
if you want to do the update yourself then you can try this.
i first had to install an older version of kies, the latest one from samsung website would not detect my phone at all. the version i used is Kies_1.5.3.10092_2_1.exe, you can download it here http://dls.scione-music.de/KIES/
another problem i had was that during the update kies was not able to put my phone in download mode so i would get an error and the firmware update would close. what i had to do was manually put it in download mode before i get the error. so before the error pops up you have to power off your phone and disconnect the usb then while the phone is off hold both volume buttons and plug in the usb. This will put you into download mode and then kies will finish the update.
The problem has been solved by switching my windows vista to windows 7! ! I finnaly managed to convince my girlfriend to switch his ****ty pc operating system to 7. Thank you for everything all xda user.
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I am on rogers froyo 2.2. There are some other ways than kies. You can flash the stock rom here (cwm or odin): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905042
or flash any one of these custom roms based on it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=912657
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914284
If you are new and don't know how to flash, then read a lot before trying (try stickies in the android dev section and general section).
Edit: didn't see above post. Looks like you got it solved.
awake4ever said:
I finnaly managed to convince my girlfriend to switch his ****ty pc operating system to 7.
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Freudian slip?
This morning I made an update via LG Pc Suite. The update was a large one but could not "see" what it was. My phone is rooted. After the update was finished I have lost root rights, lost the nvidia app, all pre installed games, I have rooted the phone again, tried to install rom manager and restore a back up made a week ago but also not working. The phone kept giving a failure notice when trying to run Titanium back up. I eventually did manage to manually install the last back up from recovery, but now phone is stauck on LG boot screen. Any help please. I think the only difference after the update this morning was the V10d instead of the V10c. thank you for your help.
Maliacrete said:
This morning I made an update via LG Pc Suite. The update was a large one but could not "see" what it was. My phone is rooted. After the update was finished I have lost root rights, lost the nvidia app, all pre installed games, I have rooted the phone again, tried to install rom manager and restore a back up made a week ago but also not working. The phone kept giving a failure notice when trying to run Titanium back up. I eventually did manage to manually install the last back up from recovery, but now phone is stauck on LG boot screen. Any help please. I think the only difference after the update this morning was the V10d instead of the V10c. thank you for your help.
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Anyonw any help please??? I have tried installing a new rom but when it opens the zip file it returns BAD.. Very frustrated... dont have phone.. PLEASE.....
i have found the solution. You can close this thread.
Well, mind sharing with us?
In case someone runs into this problem as you have?
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Well, mind sharing with us?
In case someone runs into this problem as you have?
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I wouldnt have left you like that.
Well the solution was found here: http://www.usp-forum.de/lg-p990-opt...-lg-p990-optimus-speed-flashen-anleitung.html
Its in german but basically it says no more than things which are common sence to all devs but for a guy like me its like rocket sience. Its the smartflash procedure with a german rom.
The bad thing is that I have lost at least 6 hours of my life only to found this tiny little program that does wonders. Anyway I am really pissed off with LG because the rolled out an update (be careful out there with LG PC suite) which basically messed up my phone.
Cheers.
Well, 2 my experiments with official LG update ended up with "bricked" phone where only SmartFlash helped. I strongly discourage anyone from using it
This morning i tried searching for a new phone software update via LG PC suite and I got the notification that there is an update for the phone. Undortunately I cannot "see" what the hell this update is for. As I mentioned on the first post above, this is a rather large update. Does anyone know what this could be? Could it be a LGE Version (V10d)?
Maliacrete said:
This morning i tried searching for a new phone software update via LG PC suite and I got the notification that there is an update for the phone. Undortunately I cannot "see" what the hell this update is for. As I mentioned on the first post above, this is a rather large update. Does anyone know what this could be? Could it be a LGE Version (V10d)?
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I have called LG customer service to ask them what this update is.. "If your phone is working properly you should not do the update" he said to me.... Sorry? Why do you release an update then?? "This is made automatically, the phone always finds updates"... so why didnt it find last week? "Well this may be a problem with your PC" What???? are you crazy? So you are telling me that when the 2.3 rolls out I shall not do the update becaue my phone works fine? "Yes Sir". I want to know what this update is... "This is the call centre sir, we do not know"...
Well If there is one reason to change the phone it would only be because of the customer service and their unreliability...
Customer service is everywhere the same,at least they picked up your phone
And yes, they dont have these informations usually, and getting them when responsible project does not issue any changelist is problematic. Its more like project management
issue , which should not be big suprise considering all the troubles...
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mikee2185 said:
Customer service is everywhere the same,at least they picked up your phone
And yes, they dont have these informations usually, and getting them when responsible project does not issue any changelist is problematic. Its more like project management
issue , which should not be big suprise considering all the troubles...
Sent from my LG-P990 using Tapatalk
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I give up. I have called US (live chat). No help there. LG Swiss gave me their service centre office (another company).... nothing..
Well it must be a ghost update chasing me around.... hmmm root and ROM is the solution.
This morning I got an update message from the LG Updater that there is an update to download. This time it shows that the the New Version is V10D.. I am running on V10C.
Can anyone tell me please:
a) Should i update or not? The phone is rooted running stock rom
b) Does the "D" version imrpove something?
thank you
First off, thanks for the link..really appreaciate it. It work..my limping super soft brick 2x now can breathe again. Those german forum was not bad..a step by step instruction was given for newbie like me.
Owh btw, i say..no need to change to 10D as it is for german vodafone branded firmware while 10C for open firmware, that what it said in the link you gave us above.
Newbie on the block.
Hello everyone, my father in-law just gave me the samsung galaxy tab for verizon a couple days ago, so I decided to make sure the firmware was up to date and all that. When I was updating through kies it became unresponsive and went to a screen with a mobile phone, warning ! sign, and a pc. The tablet now responds to nothing, no download mode, no hard reset, nothing. A friend told me I could possibly put the firmware on an sd card and hop it boots from that but I can't find the firmware for the tablet. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
The "mobile phone, warning ! sign, and a pc" is considered a download mode.
Use Odin to flash a stock firmware if Odin detects it in download mode.
I checked the samfirmware site for the original firmware but I can't find it. My model is the SCH-I800, they don't even have it listed there. Did they change the model number or something? Anyone have a link to the original firmware that actually works. Every link I've tried on the forums is dead. Thanks again.
Hi just got my new p970 from ebay delivered brand new from hong kong and was working fine for me vodafone but was on froyo so i wanted to update to ICS. i tried the official updater but all this did was made my fone unbootable! so i found this website, downloaded the smart flash tool and the KDZ file for uk. however now ICS is installed properly, but it doesnt recognise SIM card, no signal no contacts nothing! ive tried downloading a few older ones even version 2.3.4 which it was on before but again im not getting signal!
Any help am i using the wrong KDZ to get a p970 working for vodafone uk? or is there something else i can try to unlock it?
Any help much appreciated! been waiting for weeks to have a smartphone again and its allllll gone wrong :'(
also my phone seems to have no IEMI number being recognised...
You probably check "delete entire cp" in smart flash tool. I cant give you a link, but you should search for how to restore imei. I think your sim isnt recognized becsuse there is know imei
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here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2137840
scroll down to the restore imei part
thanks i have been trying this method, but when ever i try and switch to CP the phone is gone from the COM port and fails to install the driver, and keeps making the noise as if its being pluged in and out.... ive read alot of people have had this problem. my computer is windows 7, im going to try at work on the XP computer tomorrow hopefully i can resolve this!
Ok so now tried on 3 computers, one iwth windows 7 one windows 8 and one XP. On all of them when i connect the phone to and switch to CP USB mode the phone constanly disconnects and re connects but the driver never installs. I have downloaded the driver from lg website and its detected fine in AP USB mode but i just cant get it recognised in CP USB so have no way of changing the IEMI!!!!!! this is soo fruistrating i dont know what else to try now any ideas?
Hello im a newbie on the lumia front, i used the Windows insider app to update to win 10 but after the install the fone was left in boot loop so i used the thread install 1024? In lumia to fix the mess. However acter the flash i got the "successful flash" message but when the fone rebooted i was left with no imei number & cant leave flight mode. I hope somebody out there knows of a way to fix this problem. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help. Dave.
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Hello im a newbie on the lumia front, i used the Windows insider app to update to win 10 but after the install the fone was left in boot loop so i used the thread install 1024? In lumia to fix the mess. However acter the flash i got the "successful flash" message but when the fone rebooted i was left with no imei number & cant leave flight mode. I hope somebody out there knows of a way to fix this problem. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help. Dave.
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First try Hard Reset, if that wont help, the go back to stock 8.1 update 2 (with Windows Device Recovery Tool), then with slow ring update it to 10586.11. For now use only what Microsoft offers, dont experiment for now, because you'll have a problem again. There is a lot of bugs on no official builds.
Hello Opus Dei, ive followed your instructions to the letter but still cant leave flight mode. Do you have anymore ideas on how i can releave my problem? I dont know if this info will help you any - I'm using a Microsoft Lumia640 LTE, i was on stock rom then i installed the insiders app & updated my phone but i used the "fast" method. The first update was fine then a couple of days later i had another update note so i did that but when the update was finished & the fone went to reboot itself it just kept boot-looping, i left it doing this overnite but still no joy so i used the "install 105##" but when the fone rebooted it was stuck in flight mode & i cant get round it & i'd bought the fone for my sons birthday which is this week so im willing to try any of your instructions to solve the problem. Im hoping you or anybody else has a solution to get me out of this situation. Thanks to all the helpers - Dave.
Ive noticed that in the "extras & info" section it says "Mobile Operator 000-GB" which ive found to mean open network but my fone was bought locked to Vodafone & when i turn it on its branded with Vodafone. Could this be anything to do with my problem?