Hi guys, I need some help..
I have had my SGS for over a year now and decided today i wanted to root it and do all the stuff that comes with that... anyways so i rooted it and then tried installing cyanogenmod but i got a bootloop which i thought fair enough ill just put the phone back into download mode and download my firmeware of i9000xxjvt again. this was no problem, however... this unrooted my phone i think becasue i didnt see superuser or cwm in my apps again. so then i tried rooting my phone again but i think i picked the wrong file in the PDA part of odin and my phone screen turned off and ODIN said fail or somethign similar. Then i tried turning my phone on and it now has this icon;
well i cant post links but if you go on tinyurl and add "/6o3dt8y" after it you'll see
im so scared iv ruined it, i dont have insurance but it is covered under my parents house contents cover.. i dont wanna have to go through that though. any suggestions? i havent tried removing the battery to turn it off btw it's still on that screen because im scared of doing further damage.. dont know how long the battery will last tho.
Ineedhelprealbad said:
Hi guys, I need some help..
I have had my SGS for over a year now and decided today i wanted to root it and do all the stuff that comes with that... anyways so i rooted it and then tried installing cyanogenmod but i got a bootloop which i thought fair enough ill just put the phone back into download mode and download my firmeware of i9000xxjvt again. this was no problem, however... this unrooted my phone i think becasue i didnt see superuser or cwm in my apps again. so then i tried rooting my phone again but i think i picked the wrong file in the PDA part of odin and my phone screen turned off and ODIN said fail or somethign similar. Then i tried turning my phone on and it now has this icon;
well i cant post links but if you go on tinyurl and add "/6o3dt8y" after it you'll see
im so scared iv ruined it, i dont have insurance but it is covered under my parents house contents cover.. i dont wanna have to go through that though. any suggestions? i havent tried removing the battery to turn it off btw it's still on that screen because im scared of doing further damage.. dont know how long the battery will last tho.
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Hey, first of all, don't panic, there's nothing wrong that can't be fixed. You should still be able to put your phone into download mode. After that, just flash it with the correct files via Odin, that's all. I recommend downloading jvu firmware instead of jvt. After that you should be able to flash a custom kernel, my recommendation is Semaphore (look for it in the development section). Then flash cyanogenmod via recovery menu. If it starts flashing, then you get into a bootloop, just pull your battery at some point and pull your external sd card. (I had this issue too.) Then put your battery back (but not the sd card) and you will be able to install it correctly. Cheers
Sent from my sgs Please hit thanks if I helped!
You have the i9000? Because I see a restore procedure for i9001 on the server your 'bsod' image is hosted: http://www.broodplank.net/flashsamsungi9001.php
The only think different is the firmware you need and the Odin version. Don't use the multidownloader, but for instance Odin3 v1.85.
I'd recommend cf-root kernel, it's "rooting for beginners" and still enough to be able to flash Cyanogenmod. Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788108
Just pull out the battery. I too had a lot of soft bricks this week and you wouldn't believe how many times I had to pull out the battery, lol.
Just try to flash some stock gingerbread rom's and see which one makes your phone work again.
If you can't get into download mode anymore. Pull out the battery, connect your phone to your pc via usb, push volume up and down simultaniously and lastly put in the battery. It should boot up into download mode.
Thanks so much guys I was really scared I ruined the phone. Pulling out the battery worked and putting it into download mode was easy after that. I flashed jvt again because I couldn't find jvu and then flashed cyanogenmod successfully, I removed my external SD this time tyo avoid the boot loop. i will try again later with semaphore kernal first but again thanks a lot people.
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for some reason i went to reboot my phone and it wontboot just hangs.. can boot to recovery and do a factory reset.. but still wont boot.
cannot boot to download mode with vol up keypad and power.. just continually reboots to the samsung white message and starts over.. any suggestions or should i just send it back?
got it working whey.. it wouldnt boot up to recovery.. got it to goto recovery during a boot loop by plugging in usb.. i think.. the only think i can think is that earlier today i replace the mms.apk and mms.odex with an earlier version from jf3.. didnt like that at all. but i didnt reboot till later.. this was to try and work around the messaging bug in jg1.. .since i had to reinstall i am happy to report as previously reported that the the csc from jff messaging works fine the the modem and core files from jg1.. (that is what i reflashed it too..)
[Q] Help! Think I bricked my phone!!
Flashed to WJG1
Started Odin,it started to do its thing.halfway through I got the USB disconnect sound.Odin stopped , I now have a green screen
And u cant boot it to either restore or download mode?
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Remove battery! put it in again!
Start in download mode! (volume down+home+power)
and reflash!
Keeps on happening.Have tried WJG1 and WJG5.With WJG5 I thought it was going to work.Got 3/4 of the way then it disconnected.
saldawop said:
Keeps on happening.Have tried WJG1 and WJG5.With WJG5 I thought it was going to work.Got 3/4 of the way then it disconnected.
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Did you use the other 512.pit file? and did you check re-partition?
Make some screenshots!
Yes to both
Did you install the latest version of Kies? (just for the driver?)
And did you close kies before you started flashing?
I think its worked.
YESSSSS
Im on WJG5 ....shall I just leave it on that. I thought I would roll back to JG1 with r2, as I was having problems with it forever scanning the SD Card, and with MTP mode keep on flashing ...initializing.
Which it is doing right now
I have the latest version of Kies installed...and I never open it.
Edit: SHOULD I be able to roll back to an earlier firmware?
saldawop said:
I think its worked.
YESSSSS
Im on WJG5 ....shall I just leave it on that. I thought I would roll back to JG1 with r2, as I was having problems with it forever scanning the SD Card, and with MTP mode keep on flashing ...initializing.
Which it is doing right now
I have the latest version of Kies installed...and I never open it.
Edit: SHOULD I be able to roll back to an earlier firmware?
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As far as i know you can flash whatever firmware you would like! the best option right now is to use JG5!
Correct me if i'm wrong!
Are you on WJG5?
Do you have any problems?
The MTP constantly initializing (Not sure thats a real problem as I turn it off and use mass storage, but it should work so I want it to)
The constant Media Scanning.
Doesnt feel particularly quick.
And with WJG1+r2 I could run scripts for lag and market and it was pretty quick.
Can I run the scripts with WJG5?? r2 made it nice and easy.
saldawop said:
Are you on WJG5?
Do you have any problems?
The MTP constantly initializing (Not sure thats a real problem as I turn it off and use mass storage, but it should work so I want it to)
The constant Media Scanning.
Doesnt feel particularly quick.
And with WJG1+r2 I could run scripts for lag and market and it was pretty quick.
Can I run the scripts with WJG5?? r2 made it nice and easy.
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Yes i am on WJG5! you can root it and you can use the lagfix!
I am currently using it without the lagfix and it works great! no blackscreens whatsoever!
Question! did you remove the simcard and sd card when you where flashing with odin?
It shouldn't be scanning for media all the time! don't know whats wrong!
Yes I did.
Following a tutorial which says to uninstall Market from Applications.When I go to Applications(clicking Fliter>All) and bringing up Market there is no option to delete
Here mate, have a look at some suggestions.
And some other quick - you should have run kies before the flashing, so it would install all the drivers, it might be your problem.
Maybe a moderator can pin this, ot some other inbricking topic/guide?
Link to tutorial - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725858
Yeah but I have flashed it about half a dozen times previous with no problems.
Well, I dont know what happened, but after setting up my phone pretty much as it was before I thought "I didnt do a factory reset after flashing the rom", so I did so.Rebooted,went to Market and all apps are showing
What does a factory format do??
I thought it would wipe everything off the phone?
After doing one on my newly flashed SGS, I had a look at the SD card and all the folders of games/programs were still there.
i was afraid too when i flashed with the latest firmware last week
odin did nothing, so after 10 mins i remove the usb cable and put it again
then restart computer and put the usb cable ... but the computer didn't see the phone
i turn off the phone, it turn on automaticaly with a nice logo with a phone and a computer... like the phone wana tell me : "You dumb idiot, you bricked me"
I was near to be killed (its my wifes mobile, not mine) but then i tried to return into download mode and it worked and lucky the computer saw the phone
ps: i did this night, when my wife was asleep, so she didn't noticed, but if she noticed or if it was bricked ... well i guess she would kicked my ass and i would be 500box poorer
Was trying to flash to 2.3.3 from my Phoenix ROM. It froze at setup connection for about 30mins so I battery pulled and read about the disabled 3 button users should go back to stock 2.1 before flashing to GB, so I attempted to use OneClick Odin. It was stuck at sbl.bin(bootload file if im not mistaken). I waited and battery pulled again. When I press power nothing happens, however I can still get into DL mode. Should I keep trying to use oneclick, or is the phone shot?
Holy poop! You can get into download mode! That's, well not lucky I guess, cause its all F'ed up atm, but you are not bricked.
Make sure the chord is good, and its plugged into the back of the pc, if it already is switch ports, reboot and try again.
Use this package http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=995143 it doesn't have any bootloaders so bricking is very very difficult.
Good luck.
Downloading it now, if it works, you're a genius. If it doesn't work...well, lets be serious, you're a member of Phoenix: you're still a genius
Will update in a bit.
jabarri1 said:
Downloading it now, if it works, you're a genius. If it doesn't work...well, lets be serious, you're a member of Phoenix: you're still a genius
Will update in a bit.
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Awww ... Warm and fuzzies! Thanks man, but I'm really nothing special learned everything by reading xda.
Ok back on topic. You got really lucky you're right sbl.bin is a bootloader your risk of brick was pretty high ... But you got into download mode after ... Any sign of life is not a brick. I'm 99% certain this will work. Only reason it won't is, your connection is faulty somewhere in the chain. But with that package it can't get any worse than it is.
Thank you very much! Got it to actually boot into recovery. I assume I can now insert my SD and apply the stock update.zip? Since it wont actually boot to the phone menu screen?
I'm not sure what's in the update.zip you still have the gb bootloaders if it has just one froyo bootloader and not both, you will brick the phone. Look in the update folder of that zip, if you see only boot.bin or only sbl.bin don't flash it. If you see both or neither its ok. Although I would just use that odin package I linked you to.
I did use the Odin package you linked. Thats how it was able to boot into recovery and also clockwork recovery, but it just wont full boot. I cant view anything thats on the internal memory card, so I cant see the update.zip files. Ive heard you can access the memory card from recovery by mounting it through CWM and accessing it through ADB however I have yet to be able to get my computer to recognize my phone during recovery mode.
Edit: After playing around a bit with uninstalling/reinstalling drivers, got odin to work and its back to stock! thanks again stud
Now to try to 2.3 it again lol
Hi,
I have done a lot of reading and searching, and I think I understand most of the basic pieces of what I am trying to do and how to do it. Let me explain.
Ultimately, I want to be able to install custom roms to my captivate.
Firmware: 2.2
Kernel: 2.6.32.9
Build: FROYO.UCKB1
I installed rom manager, but I see that with my hardware, I cannot install cwm recovery. It seems I need to downgrade my kernel using odin. Problem is, although I found the thread listing all of the kernels for download in zip format, I have no clue which one to use.
I found the instructions on how to reboot into cwm recovery, but without the new kernel, I cannot do it, at least that's what I gather.
Can you guys help me here? I know I am on the right track, but don't know what to do to go any farther. Also, I cannot get into recovery mode buy clicking the buttons. It seems I must now use adb. All I want to do at this point is reboot into cwm mode. Can that be so difficult.
Well, this is my first post. Thanks to all who reply.
Viper
3e recovery. Look in the stickies to fix that. OR flash another kernel (like Cog 4.x.x kernel) and flash a rom.
+1 to the above. Personally when flashing a custom ROM I just always start with JF6, the flash the green CWM update.zip file followed by the ROM, or if it's got an initial-kernel like many ROM's call for now days.
Quick stupid question...
Does the sim card need to be out to do this, or any of the other things I have been trying?
PghPittViper said:
Quick stupid question...
Does the sim card need to be out to do this, or any of the other things I have been trying?
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It does not matter. The whole (remove SDCARD and SIM steps) in my opinion have always been false info. The only reason I'd remove anything would be the SDCARD if using a recovery that's untested to ensure it's not formatted or something like that.
error?
No matter what I try flashing with odin, I get this message:
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
This indicates that the process failed. What gives?
Re-install your drivers. Then ensure the ODIN is open BEFORE connecting your phone in download mode. You can get the latest drivers in a package I made with ODIN here:
www.mediafire.com/?eyr42m5ilf03566
Edit: Also only use a genuine OEM cable when flashing. There are two many issues with non-oem cables and the usb data transfer they provide.
Need big time help now!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Possible Brick!!!
Now i have been playing with flashing roms. Now I have a real problem.
I flashed darky 10.2 i believe and now I am in a boot loop. It cycles between the white att screen and a colored pixelated screen.
I have been reading and researching for hours now. Present time 3:15 am. Research tells me that the cappy is pretty much un-brickable.
I KNOW I have to get into either download mode or recovery mode. I cannot do either.
I have researched this subject exhaustively, but my brain is fried now, and I work at 6:00 and need my phone.
What to do????
I emplore anybody up at this time to help.
TIA
PghPittViper said:
Now i have been playing with flashing roms. Now I have a real problem.
I flashed darky 10.2 i believe and now I am in a boot loop. It cycles between the white att screen and a colored pixelated screen.
I have been reading and researching for hours now. Present time 3:15 am. Research tells me that the cappy is pretty much un-brickable.
I KNOW I have to get into either download mode or recovery mode. I cannot do either.
I have researched this subject exhaustively, but my brain is fried now, and I work at 6:00 and need my phone.
What to do????
I emplore anybody up at this time to help.
TIA
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What ROM were you coming from? Did you try all the 3 button combos? or battery pull/Vol+/- then plug in usb? Next best thing is a Homemade/bought Jig.
PghPittViper said:
What to do????
I emplore anybody up at this time to help.
TIA
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Did you flash gingerbread bootloaders before flashing the ROM?
I am not amused by your phones performance
Did not flash gingerbread...
I apologize, my intent was not to amuse.
How now can I flash gingerbread if the phone wont stay powered on?
I ran home during my work break to check my replies.
Because I didn't flash gingerbread, I presume I was hasty in flashing darky becuause it seemed so great, is it possible to resurrect this phone?
I am feeling pretty discouraged.
Thanks and please continue to help.
As long as the phone shows any type of life its not Hardbricked and can be recovered with key combos or a Jig. Your fine. Get in to download mode and flash a clean stock and start over.
Entering recovery mode in my situation.
I am currently trying to hold the 2 button volume control and the power key.
The phone comes on to the att white screen, then goes black, then comes back on, etc...
I am very worried.
When I plug into the usb, it will connect to pc, then disconnect, then keep repeating this. I read that kies has an emergency recovery feature. But,, I can't connect to kies. Odin recognizes a port, but kies just says to connect your phone.
Any advice?
PghPittViper said:
I apologize, my intent was not to amuse.
How now can I flash gingerbread if the phone wont stay powered on?
I ran home during my work break to check my replies.
Because I didn't flash gingerbread, I presume I was hasty in flashing darky becuause it seemed so great, is it possible to resurrect this phone?
I am feeling pretty discouraged.
Thanks and please continue to help.
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You don't need gingerbread BL for Darky 10.2. I've flashed Darky 10.2 before, his directions were pretty clear. I moved onto Fasty since his updates stopped. I suggest reading the stickies for making jigs or buying them as well. You can do it! & Good luck.
^what he said. You can try and taking out ur batter open odin, connect your phone hold Vol up and down insert battery. If that doesn't work you need a jig. Not hard to make, takes a little time though (if you peel a cheap cable for the plug that is)
HELP!!!
Im stuck on boot logo and I cannot flash anything on PC Odin. And I cannot access Recovery Mode (Neither CWM or system recovery). I can only go into Download Mode.
I was on CheckRom NoteHD and I used the kitchen app to download franco kernel and one of the mods (Use camera flash below 15% to be precise) and as soon as I installed, it didn't let me boot back into Checkrom!!! And Now im stuck on boot logo no matter how hard I try. I did try flashing the wipe ROM (Pre-rooted Open Europe 2.3.6 LC1), I also tried flashing the CF-Root file but still no luck. PC Odin says failed in between the process!!
Please Help me guys.. I don't know what really went wrong as I have installed stuff from the KitchenPro App before.
What can I do now?
Thanks
roni2915 said:
HELP!!!
Im stuck on boot logo and I cannot flash anything on PC Odin. And I cannot access Recovery Mode (Neither CWM or system recovery). I can only go into Download Mode.
I was on CheckRom NoteHD and I used the kitchen app to download franco kernel and one of the mods (Use camera flash below 15% to be precise) and as soon as I installed, it didn't let me boot back into Checkrom!!! And Now im stuck on boot logo no matter how hard I try. I did try flashing the wipe ROM (Pre-rooted Open Europe 2.3.6 LC1), I also tried flashing the CF-Root file but still no luck. PC Odin says failed in between the process!!
Please Help me guys.. I don't know what really went wrong as I have installed stuff from the KitchenPro App before.
What can I do now?
Thanks
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First this:Turn off the device and pull the battery, wait for 30 seconds and try to get in recovery mode, if that works reflash CheckRom. If that doesn`t work pull the battery again and get in downloadmode and connect to the pc and see if Odin recognizes the phone. If it does flash any stock rom.
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First this:Turn off the device and pull the battery, wait for 30 seconds and try to get in recovery mode, if that works reflash CheckRom. If that doesn`t work pull the battery again and get in downloadmode and connect to the pc and see if Odin recognizes the phone. If it does flash any stock rom.
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I tried the exact same thing you mentioned and no, it doesn't go into recovery mode. and yes, it does go into download mode but it fails to flash. I tried 2-3 different firmware versions of 2.3.6, 4.0.3 and I'm pretty sure the downloaded files aren't corrupt!! I don't know what to do...
The only thing working is getting to download mode but then thats no point since I can't flash any ROM.
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I tried the exact same thing you mentioned and no, it doesn't go into recovery mode. and yes, it does go into download mode but it fails to flash. I tried 2-3 different firmware versions of 2.3.6, 4.0.3 and I'm pretty sure the downloaded files aren't corrupt!! I don't know what to do...
The only thing working is getting to download mode but then thats no point since I can't flash any ROM.
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There are threads about reviving recovery i think on xda, haven`t needed them so far but look around and you will find them. If you can`t restore recovery or downloadmode then it`s off to the shop i guess
Does Odin recognize your phone, what exactly goes wrong when flashing with Odin?
roni2915 said:
I tried the exact same thing you mentioned and no, it doesn't go into recovery mode. and yes, it does go into download mode but it fails to flash. I tried 2-3 different firmware versions of 2.3.6, 4.0.3 and I'm pretty sure the downloaded files aren't corrupt!! I don't know what to do...
The only thing working is getting to download mode but then thats no point since I can't flash any ROM.
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i have the same situation like you before ...try this ..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886 i works for me..hope it works for you too...
"Battery Too Low, Can't Download"
Now there's another problem.
Not only I Can't flash anything, I can't even get to Download Mode because the battery is low.
When I press the Vol Down + Power + Home key, I get "Low Battery, Can't Download" in red font.
I left my phone on charge through the AC port and I had no idea it wouldn't charge. The only thing was that my phone was exteremly hot but still with zero battery. I even tried plugging the phone through the USB cable but still no luck.
I removed battery for few minutes upto 30 mins and put it back in and plugged in the charger but all I see is the empty battery symbol keeps flashing every 5 seconds.
Is there any way I can charge my battery and get back to download mode so I could try flashing the stock kernel to get past the boot screen? I even tried plugging in the USB jig that I used with my SGSII previously, but it was of no use as well.
Please Help!!!
your only option is to use a universal charger external, or borrow another note to put your battery in.
once your battery is full you can carry on the previous steps
good luck
ac-milan said:
your only option is to use a universal charger external, or borrow another note to put your battery in.
once your battery is full you can carry on the previous steps
good luck
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i will probably take it to best buy because i dunt know anyone that owns a note.. only I'm the cool one
hopefully i can charge my battery at best buy and then go on with the process!!
Hey,
I managed to buy an external charger and I was able to go to Download Mode again.
After that I tried to flash stock kernel (stockKernelXXLA4.tar) And Odin said "Pass".
After that I was stuck on the Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Logo again.
I'm not sure what to do now!!
Please help.
Is there anything else that I could flash?
Even though I flashed a stock kernel, I still see a yellow exclamation mark..
PLEASE HELP, I NEED MY NOTE TO COME BACK TO LIFE!
Sorted this mess out!!!
I flashed "N7000JPLPD_N7000OJPLP7_N7000XXLPT_HOME.tar" And the phone now works!!!
Stock kernels didn't do the work for me, but the official ICS release did.
Thanks to all that contributed in the thread.
is the new release can do ?
i'm using the LPT / LQ2, and the flashing process very long like stuck in firmware upgrade process. The bar just like never move for half our alrd.
how long you take for yours ?
antique_sonic said:
is the new release can do ?
i'm using the LPT / LQ2, and the flashing process very long like stuck in firmware upgrade process. The bar just like never move for half our alrd.
how long you take for yours ?
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it only took me 5-8 minutes...
Hi there! Now, firstly, ive always used Windows Phones but, would like to join Android and discover what it is really like to use... It really does look like fun to use
Anyway, last night i got my mums old Samsung Galaxy S1(G-I9000) and tried to root it and put CyanogenMod on it so i could get arid of the broken TouchWiz(I don't know what the new versions of it are like, but this one was broken and horrible to use) and get updated to Android 4+. Now, the root was successful and i am very happy with myself for doing that.... But here is where it all fell apart....
So, i jumped on their guide on their cyanogenmod wiki and it turns out that doing that first step(The "Installing a custom recovery on Galaxy S") was not needed because i already had ClockWork on my phone and that doing it would apparently break my phone.... I did not realise that till afterwards.
When i tried to reboot into recovery mode to install CM it got stuck on the boot screen. I think to myself maybe its stuffed and ill just reboot it again and see if it work... Nope. Now i try to reboot normally and leave it alone.... Nope. Turns out, all i can do is get into download mode. Now, from what ive found online, using Odin to reflash my phone with the stock ROM is how to fix my phone, problem is, Odin is not finding the phone and Hard Resetting the phone by holding down Lower Volume button and power is not working.... How can i fix this?
I think you can still recover it. However, the reason Odin might not recognize it it's probably because you haven't installed the Samsung USB drivers
If you install them and try to go into Download mode again you might be able to flash the stock ROM back onto your Samsung phone