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Stuck after bad rom flash, odin wont recognize

So heres the synopsis on what my issue is:
first of all-
phone: Samsung Captivate build 1010
current OS: (botched install of Darky 8)
problem: no recovery menu capability, stuck in reboot loop (will not go past ATT Logo), can go into download mode but odin does not see the phone
I botched a Darky 8 install. I attempted to install the rom to my captivate via rom manager but to no avail. I then decided to give the install a try via clockwork and had luck. the rom was not to my liking so I went to mount the internal sd and proceeded to delete all files internally to make a fresh odin install possible (as I always do). It was at the time of restarting my phone that I realized the rom I install was accidently the I9000 rom on my captivate, thus forth being a possible source of my issue. Currently I have a phone that is stuck in a reboot loop any time I plug it into a power source, or attempt to power it on. While in said loop the phone will not go past the ATT logo, and as it cycles, at the I9000 screen a robot voice pops up saying restore system. Ive attempted to reflash back to stock with the stock captivate odin3 OCD, but I am having no luck with the phone being recognized by odin (run as admin). I am currently running Mac OSX 10.6 with windows vista on Virtual Box 4.0, and have had luck previously with flashing the phone back to stock after I decided to try new versions of cognition. Currently my phone can only go into download mode and not recovery due to the boot loop. please help asap, this my only means of communication with my family on the other side of the states

Try multiple USB ports/different computers if possible. I had a similar issue after flashing an i9000 rom. I could get into recovery but the power button wouldn't work for selections and in download mode my computer wouldn't recognize it. I just kept at it and eventually it worked.

CB650 Wolf said:
Try multiple USB ports/different computers if possible. I had a similar issue after flashing an i9000 rom. I could get into recovery but the power button wouldn't work for selections and in download mode my computer wouldn't recognize it. I just kept at it and eventually it worked.
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going to try, redoing my virtual box in hopes that it was something stupid, and also trying the other usb port on my macbook.

Have you tried using a different cable? I had the same issue with a bad flash and Odin would not pick up my phone. If it did, it would nit complete the flash back to stock. I switched cables and it worked fine.
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butchatbg said:
Have you tried using a different cable? I had the same issue with a bad flash and Odin would not pick up my phone. If it did, it would nit complete the flash back to stock. I switched cables and it worked fine.
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cable is fine considering I am still able to bring up the gadget serial on my virtual box with the phone.

s0n1cm0nk3y said:
cable is fine considering I am still able to bring up the gadget serial on my virtual box with the phone.
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Try using ADB..

Edit...misread

rickysa2000 said:
Try using ADB..
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sadly I wished that work, I tried using adb reboot recovery, and in the attempt, the phone was not able to be detected. Should this be done in hopes to catch it at the right time in the boot loop or in download mode. Ive tried both.

So can you still get into Download mode? If so I would suggest finding another computer to use. For some reason, last week, my PC that I have been using to flash for months decided not to recognize my phone in download mode.
So I switched to my laptop, loaded the ROM. I tried reinstalling drivers and all kinds of stuff but nothing worked. I backed up my PC and re-imaged it and it's working again.

Another person on here had to go and manually remove all references to the USB Driver and re-install it.
I would say just try re-installing (with the phone in DL Mode) the USB drivers with the phone plugged in and see what happens then. Hopefully the OS will detect the phone and you should be golden.
And that mechanical voice is voodoo... need to be careful what folders your deleting even if you are going to flash ODIN.

avgjoegeek said:
Another person on here had to go and manually remove all references to the USB Driver and re-install it.
I would say just try re-installing (with the phone in DL Mode) the USB drivers with the phone plugged in and see what happens then. Hopefully the OS will detect the phone and you should be golden.
And that mechanical voice is voodoo... need to be careful what folders your deleting even if you are going to flash ODIN.
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Odd I was told your perfectly fine to do so, and then from there do an odin flash. Ive done it before, but oddly enough I think what screwed me was because I did it during while in the rom, vs while in 2.1. I just wanted to try to get a clean slate. doing the master clear code from samsung never really deletes the left overs from say clockwork and such on my internal sd.

problem was the virtual machine, plugged it into a friends computer and all was done within a couple of mins. leave it to emulation falling short :/

Touble Reverting to Stock 2.1

I currently have a botched version of Froyo 2.2. And I have been having troubles with everything i've tried. I followed this video to a T http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDtxnH4lFuk and ODIN keeps giving me problems. It will not detect and add my phone thats it. Can someone please help me, and if you need additional info on my phone just let me know. Please help me i'd like to revert to eclair and update the offical 2.2 atNt update to my phone. Thats all I want to do. Also Im running Cognition 3.04 and kernal 2.6.32.9. I tried to use the Kies update but it says my phone can not be updated. Please help me! And my phone is rooted.

Have you tried multiple USB ports
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If other USB ports do not work, and if your Captivate build number is 1009 or lower (you can find this number underneath where your battery is, on the actual phone itself), then try this method:
Also, make sure you know how to go to Download Mode, and that you have the drivers installed properly.
This is the manual (or "full") Odin, it's taken from a post by icezar1 in the Development Forum:
Do not use this if you want to send your phone back to ATT or Samsung for warranty!
Do not use this if you know you flashed a -LOW- ODIN package (when opening the PDA***.tar or CODE***.tar you will find inside boot.bin or sbl.bin)
Use this if you want to go back to stock before flashing a custom ROM.
Use this without worries if you changed your boot screen image or if you flashed the secondary boot loader which allows you to enter download/recovery with key combos.
Download the package from here
Download the phone drivers from DG's thread if you dont have them already. [Note: You should already have this xpiamchris, it will be the same one I asked you to download and install]
How to:
Remove sdcard and SIM card from the phone
Extract JF6_secure.zip somewhere.
Boot your phone in Download Mode
Run Odin3 v1.3.exe
Plug in your phone via USB
Click on the button PDA
Choose JF6_secure.tar.md5
Click start
Wait and do not unplug cable until it is finished

Yes I have, could it be because i, on an old computer running windows xp with usb version 1?

I did everything you said, and still nothing, Odin didnt even read my phone when I plugged it in. My phone was set with debugging on, and in download mode. I extracted the JF6_secure.zip to my phone and the Odin folder im using to do this, because I was not sure were you wanted it. And still nothing.

Try a different USB port. Reinstall the drivers as well.

ferls1985 said:
Yes I have, could it be because i, on an old computer running windows xp with usb version 1?
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usb 1.. maybe.. drivers might have a hardware requirement for 1.1 or 2.0 and up.
ferls1985 said:
I did everything you said, and still nothing, Odin didnt even read my phone when I plugged it in. My phone was set with debugging on, and in download mode. I extracted the JF6_secure.zip to my phone and the Odin folder im using to do this, because I was not sure were you wanted it. And still nothing.
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you extract to the computer anywhere, use odin to find the file anywhere on your pc. you dont need it on the phone.

Okay I got odin to read my phone (COM3) phone was in download mode, debug mode, and the program ran for awhile, looked like it was going to work and that it failed. What could I possible be missing? I have the current Captivate drivers, the SDK files, and the adb files. This had been going on for two days now and all i want is to go back to original eclair firmware. I appreciate you guys helping me by the way. We will get this eventually If I want to just say screw this and install serendipity, how would I do that? Currently I have cognition 3.0.4 or another...would I still have to reflash my phone so cognition is off?

It'll be the "best" idea to.
But most good ROMs (I'm sure Serendipity would), do a wipe of themselves before the install anyway.
If going back to stock is giving you this much grief, might as well try to get on to Serendipity (personally for me anyway).

And sorry im such a noob but one question, how do I install serindipity? Do I put in on my phone, boot to recovery, seclect the serendipity file and install? Thats it i dont have to delete cognition or anything??? I also have clockwork if that helps any. Which drivers are you referring too as well? I know there is drivers for the phone and google usb.

Yep, that's exactly how you do it. You might want to back up your stuff using Titanium Backup though.

Thank so much. I will do that and post on here how it goes you are a tremendous help Venom.

No problemo, anyone here would've done the same...
And good luck!

One more noob question do I have to rename the serendipity.zip to update.zip?

No, keep it as the normal filename. In CWM Recovery, there should be an option where it says "install .zip from sdcard" (or something like that). Then select "choose zip from sdcard". From there, you can choose the .zip to install (it will list all .zip in your sdcard).

Thanks for all your help going to try it now, can you give me some Thanks i know i didnt do anything for you but i just want a few lol...i gave you a thanks on all your posts

I have a question just found a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDb6m7sQ7A&feature=related and it says to dial this number (*2767*3855#) with out the ()'s to restore my phone to factory, i havnt tried it but does seem like a good idea or not?

You can do that if you want, but be reminded that EVERYTHING will be wiped out. Including your root access, etc.

Will i be able to re-root it again though??

Yeah sure, no reason you shouldn't be able to. But I'm not sure what base ROM your version of Cognition is running... Might get a bit weird/confusing.

[Q] please someone anyone HELP my samsung captivate is soft bricked

ok to start with I am soft bricked cause i got the phone-!-computer on my screen. here is how it got bricked to start with... was updating to android 2.3 gingerbread with kies mini and the first time when finished updating my wifi would not work so i flashed the rom with odin and it was a bad version cause instantly it went to recovery mode. so I went and downloaded odin one click and flashed it back to stock android eclair and went to update to 2.2 froyo with kies mini our power blinked and now im softbricked.
ok here is what ive tried so far... 3 button combo both volumes and power tried all that. ok next i tried one click unbrick it just say failed everytime... tried AIO captivate toolbox and no avail.. went radio shack got 3 resistors 100k made a jig touched pins 4 and 5 and didnt work either.. so my questions are as follows
1. what next????
2. could i have possibly shorted out my usb port on my phone since i accidently slipped and touched a pin i should not have and AIO captivate toolbox says usb debugging isnt on.
3. is there any way to test the micro usb port on the phone to see if its working right?
any and all help would be very much appreciated.
thanks...

You're actually in an ok place. That phone--/!\--computer screen will function like download mode most times. Just try your Odin file again and you should be fine.

odin isnt recognizing it. is there a way i can make it recognize it?

I just went through this and got my phone working so no need to panic. Odin wouldnt see my phone but heimdall does. Search for the kb2 heimdall one click package and see if that helps. Since you flashed back to 2.2 youll need to use kb2. If you are on GB i897 bootloaders youll need the kk4 heimdall one click package

garydv2002 said:
odin isnt recognizing it. is there a way i can make it recognize it?
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Try different ports, if nothing else. Look in the "Captivate Connection Issues" post in my signature for more items.
Also, you will probably want to stop using the AIO Toolbox. That particular piece of software is a little risky, as it flashes a known dangerous bootloader setup.

I found myself in the same boat. 3-button combo won't work, you have to remove battery and usb cable. Replace battery. Plug usb cable into the motherboard directly(rear), hold volume + and volume - then plug the usb cable into your phone. hold volume buttons until your phone boots into download mode. (assuming you have proper drivers installed)

didnt work
tried both heimdels kk2 and kk4 they both say looking for device. and also tried plugging my usb cord into every usb port on my computer still nothing.

Did your drivers unseat? for some odd reason i had to reinstall the drivers to get mine out of soft brick.

drivers
would that be the drivers for the program or the phone? and also on the kk2 and kk4 they download as jar files just like oneclick unbrick did so do i need to unzip them and move the jar file to where the exe folder is then right click and run as administrator or can i just run the jar file i downloaded?
also the the zadig driver program that comes with heindel programs will not see my phone at all when plugged in any usb port but my wife has a captivate also and when i plugged hers in zadig can see it as samsung usb composite device....

garydv2002 said:
odin isnt recognizing it. is there a way i can make it recognize it?
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Pull battery, pull cable. With phone off, replace battery. Then press volume up only, and power. When screen loads, plug your USB in. If you get the system files screen, press the menu key. Then try Oden. This is what I had to do to get it to work.
Gingerbread through mini kies sucks. Your better off getting Gingerbread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300843

didnt work either
tried the just the volume up and power and plugged in usb still stuck in brick mode...

didnt work
the volume up and power then plug usb didnt work still in brick mode. should i try the usb jig with the phone off or on? when i touch pins 4 and 5 with the jig and the phone off the screen will come on but still computer- ! - phone no download mode

got it
finally got into download mode with the jig and alot of wiggling cussing fussing griping and finally praying lol.... thanks to all of you for your help not many strangers will help people anymore so thanks guys for your time i really appreciate it greatly

HELP
I have the Phone...!... computer screen ive done ever battery pull method oden cant "see" it but my computer says that a unidentifiable USB is plugged in. any advice?

cappy flasher said:
I have the Phone...!... computer screen ive done ever battery pull method oden cant "see" it but my computer says that a unidentifiable USB is plugged in. any advice?
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Unistall your phone's drivers, restart pc and reinstall them.

Drivers
So i dont know what the drivers are I had a friend set this all up for me. also i think if odin id updated that might work. It was current at the time but when a few months pass its time to update!
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Unistall your phone's drivers, restart pc and reinstall them.
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so i just updated odin and i still got nothing. so what are the drivers? ill try that.

if you dont even know what drivers are in windows, and have other people set things up for you, you should not be flashing your phone in the first place.
any time you buy a device and hook it up to windows you install??? drivers.
Google: "drivers"... a piece of software that tells an operating system how to use a device.
but it is doubtful reinstalling your drivers will help
what version of odin are you using? what are you trying to flash now? what were you flashing when it messed up?
im sorry but this may end up being an expensive lesson not to do things you dont understand. you may have to send your phone away to be jtagged or unbricked.

I still have the phone...!...computer screen so i should be able to flash it back to stock. and even though i didn't add the drivers I know what im doing so don't assume Im a noob at this. and for your information I own 6 Samsung captivates and I work for Mobile Tech Videos so I flash these phone a lot I flash at least twice a day. so Jtaging it will be rather inexpensive but I would like to figure this out so I don't have to spend my time shipping this phone out. I notice that a lot of people have the same trouble as I am having so if I figure out how to solve the worst soft brick (witch I now have) it will be great for A post that covers everything with this screen. I got my phone this way by the USB port falling out during flashing so I'm lucky to even have this screen. I was at gingerbread 2.3.5 stock flashing to ice cream sandwich. I tryed using the USB jig but it failed so all I need to know is what the driver names are so i can try what was recommended. I also think ADB might help solve the problem some how some way. I just got the most recent Odin I was using 1.3 now im using 1.85

Not to be mean or start something, but if you work for mobile tech videos and you don't know what drivers are or you say you flash phones multiple times a day, then you should have a GREAT idea of what to do to fix this problem. Did you flash an ICS ROM and it bootlooped on the first flash, well that is supposed to happen. And Since you were on 2.3.5 then there is no DL mode combo problem. I don't know what to tell you. use your resources and Google it, or better yet let me Google that for you...

cappy flasher said:
I still have the phone...!...computer screen so i should be able to flash it back to stock. and even though i didn't add the drivers I know what im doing so don't assume Im a noob at this. and for your information I own 6 Samsung captivates and I work for Mobile Tech Videos so I flash these phone a lot I flash at least twice a day. so Jtaging it will be rather inexpensive but I would like to figure this out so I don't have to spend my time shipping this phone out. I notice that a lot of people have the same trouble as I am having so if I figure out how to solve the worst soft brick (witch I now have) it will be great for A post that covers everything with this screen. I got my phone this way by the USB port falling out during flashing so I'm lucky to even have this screen. I was at gingerbread 2.3.5 stock flashing to ice cream sandwich. I tryed using the USB jig but it failed so all I need to know is what the driver names are so i can try what was recommended. I also think ADB might help solve the problem some how some way. I just got the most recent Odin I was using 1.3 now im using 1.85
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Heimdall flash!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA

Boot loop Issue - Fuzzy colours

I have an issue, I was updating my Captivate to 2.2 with Odin3 One Click and that worked fine, then for some reason I cannot explain I tried to use Odin to upgrade to 2.3 (the blow fish one) flashed the image then got the restart with the blowfish and then used Odin to complete the process as per the instructions and got soft brick, I fixed this with the one click unbrick, then it went into a boot loop.
The loop is AT&T screen then fuzzy colours and a restart (like a graphics card has gone haywire).
I can get into the download mode by removing the battery, plugging the USB cable in holding the volume buttons then installing the battery the download mode appears but Odin is not picking up the phone.
When it is in the loop I can get Odin to identify the phone but when I try to go into download mode it won’t identify it. I have tried with adb and it does the same thing.
Any suggestions? I have looked at the forums for a long while so my apologies if this has already been covered.

Have you installed the necessary drivers on your computer?
Sent from my glitched ICS Captivate using XDA App

You may want to also take a look at the "Captivate Connection Issues" thread - it has some steps to help get you connected in download mode.
Once you have it connected, you can probably safely flash a Gingerbread stock rom to get back to a clean place to start flashing from.

Hi,
Yes forgot to mention that I have installed the correct USB drivers, Odin picks up the phone during the loop so that tells me that the Cable is fine and the drivers are working. I will try to re-install them just to be safe.
Thanks I will look through the connection issues threads and see if that helps, I am at work at the moment so will be later in the day.

The garbled bootscreen happens when you try to run gingerbread with froyo bootloaders. You must have chosen a bootloader free package. Instead, for your first time flashing to GB (and first time only), use a package with bootloaders
Sent from my CM9 ICS i897 Captivate

Haplo Nash said:
... upgrade to 2.3 (the blow fish one) ...
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What is this blow fish one that you speak of? Korockinout13 is correct that you are getting the garbled screen because of an incorrect bootloader. You may be having issues because the ROM you flashed might be an i9000 based ROM and you will need different drivers.
DISCLAIMER: It's still earlier early and I haven't had all my coffee yet. Please correct my logic if it is wrong.

Red_81 said:
What is this blow fish one that you speak of? Korockinout13 is correct that you are getting the garbled screen because of an incorrect bootloader. You may be having issues because the ROM you flashed might be an i9000 based ROM and you will need different drivers.
DISCLAIMER: It's still earlier early and I haven't had all my coffee yet. Please correct my logic if it is wrong.
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I believe the blowfish one he's referring to is the Fugu Root method.

About One-Click UnBrick
This Software:
Will work on all Samsung devices which use Odin3
Is a single, portable executable
Is the first one-click anything for our devices on Linux
Works on Mac
Works on Windows
Is open source
Is programmed in Java
Deploys and installs Heimdall for your OS
Is super easy to use.... Only one button!
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The bolded line is why ODIN no longer detects your phone. The Heimdall driver has been installed. You can either go grab a Heimdall one click from here or remove the Heimdall driver (trying another USB port may work) and then try using ODIN again.

Yes it was the Fugu Root's one and I didnt update to a Gingerbread bootloader before I flased it onto my phone.
Thank you for all your help, I will never mess around with my phone at 2am again.
I managed to get Odin to pick up the phone and was able to re-load FROYO and will start again.

Do Apex ROM Heimdall one-click flash with bootloaders enabled. Most painless process.

ODIN stuck at zImage, phone soft bricked, nothing works!

Hi everyone,
this is my first post and believe me i took every measure before deciding to post, i searched, googled and searched some more but nothing helps.
Here is my problem, i'm on a At&T Galaxy S i897 i recently downloaded the ODIN software with a i897 500mhz .tar file to root my phone, i successfully got the phone to connect on a PC and loaded the .tar on the PDA area and clicked root.
ODIN ran the process until the zImage part and now my phone is stuck after removing it from the usb cable after 20 mins had passed.
My phone now shows an icon of a telephone and a computer monitor with an exclamation point in between them, it won't go out of that screen.
I am able to get my phone into download mode and have tried to run a stock 2.2 rom but nothing works, it stays at zImage.
Now i've read a couple of things that seem to be hit or miss but i don't know what to try, only thing i've read is using another usb cable which i will buy tomorrow to see if that works but knowing my luck it won't.
I don't have Kies installed but do have the samsung drivers installed so Kies is not the issue, no firewall or antivirus on the PC.
Can anyone please help me out, i just want my phone to work and hopefully root it.
Thanks to all.

The kernel u flashed was just to get Root and that is all (I'm just guessing). Since u can get into download mode just flash back the kernel that u had running before and u should still have Root. Or use an Odin/Heimdall One Click to get to a Stock Firmware (See the Stickied Thread in the Development Forum).
Give more info about what u flashed and what android platform/version u are/were on, etc. The more info, the easier it is to give the more accurate help to ya. Thx.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using xda premium

Hi,
well i have stock android 2.2, i used speedmod-kernel-i897-k13c-500hz .tar.
I've tried using others but none work, Odin always gets stuck at some point and i have to unplug.
I never got to root it gave me the soft brick when i unplugged.
Heimdall One click won't work, i'm on a mac and it won't work there, phone not recognized, on my pc i have xp and it won't let me run the one click even if i run as admin.
So i'm stuck, really stuck.
Should i go get a new cable?

Check out the "Connection Issues..." Stickied Thread by jmtheiss in the General Forum and also the "Guide..." by TRusselo that is Stickied in the Q&A Forum.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using xda premium

If you plug your phone in while Odin is running and you get the yellow connection symbol you can re flash any kernel. like 4-2ndtwin said, search the STIKIED threads and find the stock 2.2 kernel and loads it into odin and re flash it.
when you get that little phone exclamation point and PC icon and no booting, but you can still get odin to turn yellow when you plug your phone in you can almost always re flash.
good luck, hope it works out.
I've been in the same situation before.

The problem is that ODIN freezes always at some point of the flash, it recognizes the phone but always freezes, i have done everything right and follow all the guides, there's something just not right about this, it shouldn't freeze all the time

Try Heimdall (not one click).
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using xda premium

Well i'm on a windows 7 PC now and still can't get it to unbrick, i tried using odin again and stuck on zImage.
One click gives me a exe file called one click loader when i runt it it asks to install heimdall i say yes and it throws this error: Problem while executing heimdall.exe in shell.sendShellCommand
I just want to flash i guess and get my phone back, it goes into download mode with no problem and it just shows the phone and pc icons but it wont start so i know its soft bricked. Can anyone help me fix it please, i've done just about every method i can find and nothing works.

You are doing something wrong with Heimdall. Go to Apex ROM website, get Heimdall, get Apex tar, get latest Java 6 JRE, run Heimdall as "java -jar Heimdall.jar".
When pompted point to Apex.tar - flash with booloaders.

Edit:
Found this page on the site:
http://apexromcaptivate.weebly.com/installation-instructions1.html
Is that it?
Also how do i run Heimdall as java -jar Heimdall.jar?

It asks me to: flash to stock JF6 but how do i do that?

Problem fixed, it was the cable.