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Help upgrading my firmware on Captivate!

So ive spent the last 6 hours or so trying to get kies v 1.5 and kies mini to recognize my phone to upgrade my firmware. Im still running ECLAIR2.1 !!
Ive tried everything including using TW launcher and playing around with the different usb settings. Kies mini wont recognize it and kies v 1.5 did recognize it but when i started the upgrade process it said no response from server, please check if your internet connection is activated!!
This is extremely frustrating. Any help would be much appreciated. My phone is a rooted rogers i896 version.

Try rebooting phone/ computer or reinstalling kies, maybe it don't like you right now

Try kies mini. Also, uninstall any Samsung drivers first, then reinstall the specific drivers that kies mini requires. You might also need to turn usb debugging on. This lays it all out nicely:
http://pages.samsung.com/ca/froyo/English
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Alright so i uninstalled everything then reinstalled kies mini and tried usb debugging on/off. Still no luck i dunno what else i can do this is ridiculous
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Try a different USB port!
Sent from a boy who lives in the City of the Damned, whose parents are Rage and Love.

Haha no dice. Tried on win 7 32 bit and win xp pro doesnt work on either
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If its win7 or xp pro
Try right click Kies ,run as administrator.. it worked for me, it was slow to respond at first

Have you ever flahed an I9000 ROM on it? If you have, that would have changed your product ID code in the nv_data.bin file, therefore making it not recognizable in Kies.
If you haven't done this, I don't know what the problem is. Sorry. But I suppose there's a thread somewhere here that can fix it.

You need to only have kies mini. You can't have kies and kies mini for it to work.
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Sounds like you need to flash back to stock first. Here's a link to a guy's thread that should help out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=979133
After this, I think you will be ok.
If all you wanted to do was get 2.2 firmware, he also has a version of that, so kies wouldn't be needed.

Thanks ill try that once im off work
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[Q] help|soft brick + odin wont recognize usb

i bourght my new galaxy s1 1 week ago beacuse i wanted to go to the android side beacuse problems with apple of curse my favorite devices is android... so my problem is that my odin cant see my galaxy s1 i used every computer i can i sent my galaxy s1 to a technical master he said he cant solved this problem i installed and uninstalled odin,kies,and drivers alot of times , what can i do please help me i am stuck with a phonr 3 points than triangle,3 points and an computer i can enter download mode as i read on the internet this can be a soft brick but another technical master said that my galaxy needs a jtag and its cost lot of money please help i am confused its taked me alot of time to work hard to get this galaxy

does your computer recognize your phone as a storage in MY Computer ????

Have you got modem driver enabled? It is necessary do make Odin work.
And, what system on computer you are using? Running as admin?

przemcio510 said:
Have you got modem driver enabled? It is necessary do make Odin work.
And, what system on computer you are using? Running as admin?
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i have a similar issue, is the modem driver you mentioned same as USB drivers that i find with Android SDK?
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did you get this problem resolved?
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[Q] i896 USB Device Not Recognized

Hi XDA! I would really appreciate some troubleshooting help with my phone.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S i896 Captivate. A while ago I had to restore it to factory settings when I screwed up a rom install. It's therefore no longer rooted, and is on the very ancient 2.1 firmware.
I have been trying to update it to something more usable, but of course Samsung Kies is abhorrent, so I've had no luck there, and I've run into a bigger problem. The phone charges, but no matter which of my usb ports I use (I've tried different computers and cables), the device will not be recognized.
I've tried with debugging on and off, and for reference I'm running Windows 7 on both computers I've tried.
How can I fix this USB port issue, and get it to a newer firmware?
Thanks for any help you can give, I appreciate it.

Try Heimdall. It installs it's own usb driver (libusb) only to the port that you are connected to at the time of the install.
There is a master collection of one clicks that is a stickied thead in the Dev forum with several Stock firmwares to choose from...specifically check out the first four posts. And TRusselo has an updated flashing guide that is a stickied thread in the q &a forum if you want to flash a dev rom.
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Rooting without USB possible?

Hello guys,
I have now tried for the last 8 hours to connect my phone via USB to my computer without any success.
I have read many threads concerning this problem but by now I just assume that my USB port is partly broken as I have tried all the solutions and none worked for me.
I can still charge the phone but windows isn't even showing that a device has been connected. Twice of probably thirty times windows showed me that an unknown device has been connected for a couple of seconds and then the phone isn't connected anymore.
I would like to root my phone and would like to know if there is a possible way to do it. Some say it's possible (depending on the Firmware already installed), some say it isn't.
My i9000 phone has:
Firmware 2.2
Kernel 2.6.32.9
[email protected]#1
Build Number Froyo.XWJPA
I hope you guys can help me, I am getting desperate...

Try this : http://www.unlockroot.com/
Here is the drivers : http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/MOBILES/Samsung/Samsung-Galaxy-S-USB-Driver-for-Windows-x64.shtml

Hey guy,
did you install Kies on your Computer? Your PC need the latest USB Samsung drivers. Note that you couldn't install Samsung drivers for newer devices like the Galaxy 9000 on Windows 2000 or older. You also have to look for the right drivers for your system. Maybe you did install x86 driver on 64 bit system or x64 drivers on 32 bit system.
Driver solution:
Go to settings, system and look for the hardware manager or simply check the "windows brenchmark settings" (included in vista and win7).
Try to follow that instruction: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1542633
Note:
If you have a working USB connection, you should search for flashing instructions because flashing is always on your own risk! It isn't hard to learn but you have to know which risks are there. Don't be scared by faults they can be undone (mostly).
Flashing:
First you should upgrade your phone to an early Gingerbread (3.2) build. Just search for "Gingerbread Stock Rom" or use "Darky's Resurrection" package. You'll find them here on XDA or in the world wide web
If you get trouble you'll get support here but first you should read about flashing and rooting.
best regards

As I told you I think that my USB port is damaged and hence I can't establish a usb connection to my phone.
I tried several drivers, Kies, different settings, simply everything which was already discussed.
My Galaxy will not even show up as an "unknown device" in my Windows 7 32bit (of course I used 32bit drivers).
Unlockroot requires me to connect the Galaxy via USB to the computer, so I can't use that.
Any other suggestions?

If your using a acer computer and you have never reinstalled window than it more than likely wont work. But you can google apps like z4root and universaland root i think thats what its called. Those apps i have rooted a few froyo devices with but z4 i have never seen work with the i9000 but try and see
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taz0697 said:
If your using a acer computer and you have never reinstalled window than it more than likely wont work. But you can google apps like z4root and universaland root i think thats what its called. Those apps i have rooted a few froyo devices with but z4 i have never seen work with the i9000 but try and see
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Thanks z4root worked perfectly.

ODIN can't read the phone

Hello guys,
I am trying to get DarkysROM on my Galaxy S. However, I am not able to root (CF-root) my phone with neither ODIN or SuperOneClick. I have tried different tutorials and on top of that with different cable, pc, factory reset and even another phone! Obivously is ODIN not reading my phone in the download mode, but instead when it is turn on properly.
Please guys help me out, I am very desperate, as the ROM sounds promising.
I am running it on 2.3.3 GGB.
CHeers.

mattibrr said:
Hello guys,
I am trying to get DarkysROM on my Galaxy S. However, I am not able to root (CF-root) my phone with neither ODIN or SuperOneClick. I have tried different tutorials and on top of that with different cable, pc, factory reset and even another phone! Obivously is ODIN not reading my phone in the download mode, but instead when it is turn on properly.
Please guys help me out, I am very desperate, as the ROM sounds promising.
I am running it on 2.3.3 GGB.
CHeers.
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Do you have samsung kies installed on your pc? If not you may need samsung drivers

medovici said:
Do you have samsung kies installed on your pc? If not you may need samsung drivers
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I have installed all the requirements which are needed, as well as the USB drivers.
In fact, it is not working. Are there alternatives to root?

Same problem here, KIES not recognizing galaxy s phone, tried several computers.
mattibrr said:
I have installed all the requirements which are needed, as well as the USB drivers.
In fact, it is not working. Are there alternatives to root?
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to root it try this app http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2130276