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[Q] download mode but no odin detect

hey guys.. my friend bricked his phone so im here trying to help him. i used a jig and was able to get the phone into download mode, but when i plug it into my pc, it doesnt get detected by odin. the drivers are installed on the computer, because when i try plugging mine in, it detects it. i am not sure what exactly hes done to brick it but any feedback would help. without using the jig, the device does not turn on at all, so i dont even get the phone!pc or whatever the error message is, or that the battery is being charged when plugged in. thanks

If you haven't already tried it, try plugging the USB cable into a different port (preferably one that's directly on the motherboard). If necessary, also reboot the computer, start Odin first, and then connect your friend's phone.
Also, if your friend's phone was on CyanogenMod, you may need to have the Nexus drivers installed for it to register properly.

after it didnt detect his phone, i plugged mine two seconds later into the same port, without unplugging the usb cord from it, and it detected mine.. so i cant see that fixing the problem, but thanks for the advice

andrewjrr said:
after it didnt detect his phone, i plugged mine two seconds later into the same port, without unplugging the usb cord from it, and it detected mine.. so i cant see that fixing the problem, but thanks for the advice
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I see what you mean. The only reason I suggest a different USB port is that sometimes the computer you're working with can be stupidly finicky (I know this from personal experience), and you can plug in the same phone 8 times in a row - the first 7 times, nothing, and on the 8th time, it connects. It's also possible that his phone will be willing to connect to a port that's on the right side of the computer instead of the left side (or whatever other trivial thing the motherboard decides it wants). As he isn't able to do anything on his phone right now, swapping USB ports isn't going to hurt anything, and may possibly give him the connection.
I mention the drivers thing because if your phone is on an i897/i9000 rom and his was a cm7 rom (or vice versa), the computer would detect whichever one it had drivers installed for, but not necessarily the other.
Good luck either way, though.

Have you tried heimdall?
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Try reinstalling the drivers. It has worked for me every time odin doesn't want to detect my phone, especially in download mode.

Try cleaning the USB plug on the phone... I cleaned mine last night, with a monitor wipe (clorox wipe type style but w/o all the acidic chemicals) and my phone is finally being detected in Heimdall on my mac. (canned air was not enough)

ktiedt said:
Try cleaning the USB plug on the phone... I cleaned mine last night, with a monitor wipe (clorox wipe type style but w/o all the acidic chemicals) and my phone is finally being detected in Heimdall on my mac. (canned air was not enough)
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This is one of the most pointed solution, is possible that your phone's usb port has been damaged on some pin with the jig

thanks guys.. i will get to trying your ideas right now.. let you know how it comes..

holeindalip said:
Have you tried heimdall?
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i did try it before.. but i think im going to try it again. last time if i remember, it said it worked, but it didnt fix it.
and as for other suggestions.. when i plug the phone in, i hear the sound that the phone is detected, that quick "duh duh" notification, so the usb connection must be fine.. hopefully heimdall might help

[Q] Wet phone

Hi there,
I have a samsung galaxy s i9000phone wich is dropped in the pond and taken out immediately. (Last christmas)
The phone had dried for several weeks wit backplate of and the battery out.
I got this phone yesterday and wanted to repair it.
So I pulled it apart and heated it to about 45 degrees centigrate (113 fahrenheit).
I cleaned some corrosion of it with an cubestick and a mild cleaning solvent and let it dry for some hours.
Then I reassembled the phone and loaded the battery wit the wall charger.
So yesterday late in the evening I tried to turn it on, it didn't work. So I tried the 2 volume buttons and the On button to get it in to download mode. Nothing happend. So I let it rest for the rest of the night.
Then this morning it tried the other combo Volumedown+home+On buttons. It went in to download mode! so I was very optimistic.
After a while trying to find the right drivers (win7 x64) (Kies installed wouldn't read the phone) (even tried these http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961956). I found a couple and tried even more it didn't work. Sometimes it would see the device as an unknown usb device but couldnt install the driveres for it.
So I tried connecting it to Odin, that didn't work. So i tried Heimdall. This didn't recognise it neither. Heimdall didn't see the driver neither. It only showed Bluetooth and Digital camera. It showed both with the phone connected to the laptop and unconnected.
The phone gets in to download mode or In an black screen with some sort of circular symbol which doesnt rotat or do nothing. I can't boot the phone into a normal mode.
I've googled my ass off and found numerous pages with kies not connecting and driver woes and bricking the phone. But nothing helped me.
Screen works fine btw. Battery gets charged. But doesnt show this on the screen.
Is all hope lost?

dude... put it in a plastic bag with some rice. that should evaporate the water leave it for 3 days

This will help solve my problem? You think it's not dry yet?
Thought it would be dry by now, it has been lying around since christmas.
Is the rice in the bag-trick the only way to solve this? Will it solve it?
It's not booting into the galaxy s screen neither.
Do i take whole wheat or normal white rice?
Greets,
VeldMuijz

This is pretty funny actually.
I just found this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1203802&page=2
And near the bottom of the second page someone suggested to clean the usb port of the phone with an toothbrush. I am in the office so i picked a staple and gently cleaned the usb port.
So ok fine. Plug it back in to the pc in dl mode, OMG! Odin sees it because win7 began installing the drivers (couldn't before). The drivers installed are Samsung USB Composite device and Samsung Mobile Modem #2.
Now when i put it in download mode kies sees it. Nice. But doesnt seem to connect
But what next, do i just flash the thing with original firmware and try to boot?
Do I dry it some more?
I added a photo of the circular figure showing on my phone. When this appears my laptop doesnt recognize it (probably because its powered off) and when i go into download mode it does get recognized.

IMO if you can get Odin to recognize it, flash it via odin. Kies isn't particularly reliable

Ok good.
Any body elses opinion? (nothing personal nwsk)
And since I don't know how full my battery is (i don't see the loading battery pic on my display) is it safe to keep it in the charger overnight and then go flash it in the morning?
Which would recommend Odin or Heimdall?
Thanks a bunch.

VeldMuijz said:
Ok good.
Any body elses opinion? (nothing personal nwsk)
And since I don't know how full my battery is (i don't see the loading battery pic on my display) is it safe to keep it in the charger overnight and then go flash it in the morning?
Which would recommend Odin or Heimdall?
Thanks a bunch.
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Great your a lucky dude i would flash it via odin. and hope it works

VeldMuijz said:
Which would recommend Odin or Heimdall?
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If you flashed using Heimdall already it's up to you, but if you didn't I'd recommend Odin, because it's simpler. Also, there were times when Heimdall didn't detect my SGS, but Odin did.

I used odin with the i9000xxjvr rom for the i9000.
Didnt work the first time, i tried again then it worked.
With partition ticked, but phone didn't boot.
Again but with partition unticked, didn't boot.
Odin says it has finished succesfully and i see the downloading happen on my screen with the download icon.
Then it goes in to the screen of which i posted a picture above.
Is there something else i could try?

I would try a New battery, looks like it's not taking a charge. Only a few pounds on ebay.

Though that symbol i posted a picture off can stay on for a looooooooooooooooong time.

gt-i9000 is cheap already
buy a new or used one

dude thats the symbol you get just before it shows the battery,try flashing darkyrom 10.2 resurrection,or re its the same
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/index.php?threads/v10-2-final-what-are-you-waiting-for.4253/

Will try thanks.
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I would try a New battery, looks like it's not taking a charge. Only a few pounds on ebay.
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But when i hook the phone up to the wall charger it gets enough voltage to startup or am i seeing this wrong?

It broke? I have been hearing stories about Galaxy S surviving after being dropped and flushed in the toilet

Hello all. I would suggest to try first with sone "basic" rom. Another question just popped up to my mind is whether getting into restore is possible and from there to see if mounting volumes is possible before booting....

Recovery mode i mean... sorry

Recovery mode was the Volume up+home+power on button? This trick didn't work, with power cable in or out. The other combo Volume up+Volume down+power on didnt work neither.
Download mode seems to work every time though.
There is a very good possibility that the mainboard is fried though..

[Q] USB Dev Not Recognized,Phone ! PC screen,and Can't get into download. Help please

I'm so aggravated right now. Been trying a ton of methods, I have a jig that only puts me back at the Phone ! PC screen, can't get into download mode, the PC doesn't recognize my friggin device, I have Odin 3 (which I can't use because I can't get the PC or my Laptop to recognize the phone, and I've tried the button combos a bunch of times. I'm a pretty pc literate/tech savvy guy and I'm trying to help my friend fix his phone.
This all happened because he was doing the 2.3.5 update and it got stuck at 84%. He said it sat there for about 2 hours without progressing, so he pulled either pulled the battery, or USB or something out (I wasn't there, and I forget his explanation) and not I'm at this Phone ! PC Screen, and I'm ready to throw the phone lol. Please help me if you can, I'm really getting frustrated...
Thank you so much.

Breathe.
Go read this post and try some of the tricks in there. Technically you're in download mode. I have flashed from that screen many times. I would guess that you might want to try reinstalling the drivers. If that doesn't work, go grab one of the Heimdall one-clicks. Heimdall uses different drivers that may help get you back to stock.
Here is the post that contains the one clicks.
Good luck and remember to breathe.

First thing: Thank you for responding, and trying to help.
Secondly: I can confirm that I did reinstall the Samsung Drivers twice, but still no recognition of the USB Device... I have a stock cable, and the cable for my HTC, so I've tried both. No luck... Heimdall gives me an error basically saying that it doesn't see the device. I'll check that thread out though, and see if there is something new that maybe I haven't done/seen... (Breathing...)

I know this will sound strange, but have you tried gently wiggling the plug? It may be that the USB port on the phone is starting to go bad. That would explain the sudden loss of connectivity.
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Have you tried using a different USB port?
Another thing that has worked for me is uninstalling the USB drivers then running kies and allowing it to reinstall them for you. Not sure why it worked for me but it did once.
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Hey, appreciate the suggestion.
I have tried diff ports, but I'll attempt to let Kies to do it again in a few mins. Thanks

Haven't tried that, currently fixing my laptop that some stupid walk through had me do, which screwed up my laptops drivers... ugh. So at the moment, I'm performing a restore. 6 hours and counting of working on this thing... good thing he's my best friend, or I'd tell him to burn it.
(this is in response to "have you tried wiggling the plug)

I was in a similar position so out of frustration I held power, volume +/- buttons until it booted a couple times. For some reason my laptop recognized the phone after that. It may not do anything for you but it can't hurt at this point.
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1 click unbrick. if I was not on my phone, I would have linked you.

"Bricked" Captivate???

I have a Samsung Captivate i897 for AT&T
Firmware version: 2.2 Froyo
Ok, so I had tried to foolishly upgrade my phone through Kies to 2.3 Gingerbread, knowing that I was
upgrading to the SIII in a few weeks anyway. Kies came back with a response that the upgrade
could not be finished, so I proceeded to follow the instructions and do an emergency recovery
of the phone, but after a while, that also failed.
After the recovery failure, I ended up with the "phone ! computer" screen (fromw what I've found, a
disconnect of the phone and computer). It took me several tries, but I found a forum somewhere
that showed me Odin (something I had never really played with for fear of bricking my firmware).
I followed the steps outlined in an xda forum by opening Odin and trying to flash the phone
back to stock.
But alas, my phone's screen turned red...which from some forums seems to be a problem with the
Odin installation. I had looked around a bit more on how to fix this issue, and eventually
arrived again at the Downloading... screen. This was promising at the very least,
but trying to connect to my computer started to fail. I would continually get "USB device
not recognizable" by Windows. I've tried multiple USB ports, reinstalling the phone drivers,
but could not get Kies or Odin to recognize it.
Now...the worst part. Someone somehwere suggested to restart the Download mode, which I did,
and now...the phone won't even return to the Downloading... or phone/computer screen. It's just blank.
Some have suggested that the USB cable or USB ports (more likely the computer) may be at fault
here as well. So I have ordered a cheap USB cable off of Amazon to maybe solve this issue.
The phone does not boot up to any screen, nor does it seem to charge (either in wall or
computer).
So my question is..., does anyone believe I have achieved an unsurmountable task in "bricking"
my Captivate, or is there hope yet that I can revive it from the dead. I plan on selling it online
for around $85 so that I can lower the price for the SIII, but a bricked phone won't get
too much.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to anyone who can enlighten me a bit here.

If u have zero signs of life, even when plugged into the wall charger, then u r hard bricked...
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What did you do before losing download mode/phone-!-computer? Did you flash boot loaders?
Sent from my SGH-I897 JellyBro

If you are interested in trying to save your phone instead of scrapping it for the S3 you might look into either making a jig or ordering one. There is a thread somewhere on here that shows you step by step how to make one and it will force the phone into download mode if it's not completely bricked.
I have made one myself and it worked flawlessly and provided you have an extra micro usb sync cable that you are willing to destroy in the process it will cost you less than $5 to make.

been there..and i fixed mine
can you still do the up+down volume and plug usb to download mode?
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Dont know if this method works but its still an option for you to try, might as well.
Install Odin3 One-Click Downloader [I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0.exe] mediafire /?0w2y31maz8mdom4 (I cant seem to post link because Im a new member)
Its basically a hard format.
-Unplug your Phone from USB
-Launch the application
-Take out your battery for about 30 seconds and place it back
-Press and hold Volume Up & Down buttons
-As you're holding the 2 buttons, plugin the USB
-If the application recognizes your phone, just click [START] button and it will wipe everything on your phone (And I MEAN EVERYTHING, so its a sacrifice of losing whatever you had on to fix your phone), and have your phone in factory mode.
I fixed my phone when it was bricked this way. I reinstalled all the mods and updaters.
Hope it works for you!

Please Help Note 4

Hello everyone,
My wifes not 4 recently went to crap and will not connect to the pc in order to ODIN back to stock.. ive tried everything that I know including Samsung drivers reinstalled.. Uninstaller drivers in device manager and reply the phone in. It will not connect. . The computer makes a noise when you plug it in as it normall would, but comes up with an error on screen saying "device has malfunctioned , could not connect please Disconnect and reconnect the device if the problem persists there might be a problem with the device. "
Any advice would sincerely be appreciated, please help..
Sincerely VeRiFiEdSuB

verifiedsub said:
Hello everyone,
My wifes not 4 recently went to crap and will not connect to the pc in order to ODIN back to stock.. ive tried everything that I know including Samsung drivers reinstalled.. Uninstaller drivers in device manager and reply the phone in. It will not connect. . The computer makes a noise when you plug it in as it normall would, but comes up with an error on screen saying "device has malfunctioned , could not connect please Disconnect and reconnect the device if the problem persists there might be a problem with the device. "
Any advice would sincerely be appreciated, please help..
Sincerely VeRiFiEdSuB
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MTP mode vs camera mode?
Does kies recognize it?
Also as strange as it sounds, you may toggle developer options and usb debugging on and off. I did this on a family members ASUS tablet that displayed the same issue and then the PC recognized it. I was just trying everything I could think of.
Edit: I just realized you said Odin and not just connecting as a normally powered on device. Do you have it in download mode when connecting to the PC with Odin running?

nine5raptor said:
MTP mode vs camera mode?
Does kies recognize it?
Also as strange as it sounds, you may toggle developer options and usb debugging on and off. I did this on a family members ASUS tablet that displayed the same issue and then the PC recognized it. I was just trying everything I could think of.
Edit: I just realized you said Odin and not just connecting as a normally powered on device. Do you have it in download mode when connecting to the PC with Odin running?
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unfortunately i cannot get the phone to bootup as to get into the hidden menu and turn on the MTP that way and yes if i am trying to connect to the phone to use odin i am in download mode when i try to connect.. the phone does not want to connect to the computer no matter what i do ive finally managed to get it to download mode and now am going to try and flash a different custom rom in the hopes it will boot up.. if it will do that i ill try and get mobile odin.. but even that hasnt been working. when i install a new rom and click on reboot the phone just shuts off. the phone wont turn back on after that unless i leave the battery out for several minutes then put the battery back in and press the power button. upon doing that the phone instantly boots to recovery.

This happened to me.
I even replaced the USB Port (Then dropped the phone while it didn't have the frame on and cracked the LCD)
The phone's USB port still didn't work and I had to replace the phone.
it is a very, very odd bug with this phone that multiple people have been experiencing but no one knows the cause of it.
It may just be faulty phone. Several people recently have had this bug.
my phone was made in Korea, Region: USA-Revision Q8R2.
N910T (UD)
So. Sadly, the only way as of right now to fix this is to get a new phone.
I tried a lot of things with my phone before I broke it to attempt to fix the USB port.
And the issue also lead to slow charging (220mA) and when I plugged it into the wall it would say USB Charger not AC Connected

Are you using the oem cord that came with the phone. I've experienced issues using non oem cords.

Yes sir I've tried multiple OEM and non OEM cords still won't recognize the phone
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Did you try ask the different USB outlets? Did you try a different computer? For me USB 2 works, but not 3. Also I've had trouble with those on the front of the case. I always use the ones on the back. Just throwing a few things out there. It's possible you have a bad USB port on the device.
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