Hello, I believe I screwed up something with the mounting/unmounting before I flashed a ROM, and my phone is not working as a result. Originally, it would sit at the Samsung Sidekick 4g Tmobile screen forever, and I could use the button combination to get it into download mode... now that doesn't work, and it only goes to the black screen with the phone and the computer.
I have downloaded driver after driver after driver trying to get this to work, I have downloaded ODIN, and I understand how to use it, but there is no way ODIN is going to see my phone because Windows will not properly install it. I only have a PPC mac and Win 7 computers, one win 7 computer says device is malfunctioning and the other win 7 computer loads it as a "Gadget Serial" but says that it did not install properly. I have tried all the samsung drivers, all the samsung programs to no avail. I've tried more than one USB cable too...
Is there any hope in getting this phone back to life? Do I need to use a windows XP installation? I have VMware so I could try XP or linux but frankly I'm afraid to do anything more for fear of further complicating this situation.
Final Edit: SOLVED. I uninstalled everything save for the samsung drivers, installed the android SDK and plugged it in a different usb port...although im not sure if windows got it right away, ODIN detected it and I was able to restore.
I'm trying to downgrade my friend's baseband to the v21e baseband so he can properly use non-2.3.4 roms. I'm having a problem where XP mode does not recognize me plugging in the phone when trying to initiate download mode. XP Mode will see it fine if the phone it booted up normally, but XP mode sees nothing, so I can't properly install the APX drivers. My actual computer sees it in non-XP mode no problem, though.
I've installed the USB drivers in XP Mode properly, but to no avail. I've been trying to get this going for the past 3 hours now, but nothing. I've got all my files ready to flash the baseband, but my VM is not picking up the phone in download mode. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
i had the same problem
anyone??
tzbigworm said:
I'm trying to downgrade my friend's baseband to the v21e baseband so he can properly use non-2.3.4 roms. I'm having a problem where XP mode does not recognize me plugging in the phone when trying to initiate download mode. XP Mode will see it fine if the phone it booted up normally, but XP mode sees nothing, so I can't properly install the APX drivers. My actual computer sees it in non-XP mode no problem, though.
I've installed the USB drivers in XP Mode properly, but to no avail. I've been trying to get this going for the past 3 hours now, but nothing. I've got all my files ready to flash the baseband, but my VM is not picking up the phone in download mode. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Did you select the phone's usb driver in the XP Mode menu?
i know this is old, but i have gotten this to work a number of times now
you have to select the phone from the USB menu at the top of the window in XP Mode. it drops the phone a couple of times when its pushing the base band to the phone
you may also have to attach the phone using the same menu before you start. i will take a screenshot tonight and post it
also i found it helps to copy the files you need to the XP Mode machine, dont use them through the virtual bridge to your physical drives. just "copy" them to the desktop in XP Mode, works much better that way
My samsung infuse wont be detected in windows 7 but its detected as unknown device. I have reboot my computer, restored my phone, deleted drivers on the computer, different cable, port, and computer. Any help?
tmac42 said:
My samsung infuse wont be detected in windows 7 but its detected as unknown device. I have reboot my computer, restored my phone, deleted drivers on the computer, different cable, port, and computer. Any help?
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Uninstall current drivers install KIes,or this samsung driver pack.https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17168446/SGH-i997_Infuse4G_USB_Drivers_5_2_0_2.zip then reboot when you plug your phone in DO NOT let your computer search windows update for driver
I have the same problem.
I have removed the drivers and devices.
Installed Keis Mini and then tried to install the above drivers listed by elbscorp.
rebooted after each step.
phone is still not recognized by kies mini or odin.
how do i unistall drivers
tmac42 said:
how do i unistall drivers
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try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33980291&postcount=11
The problem i have found Microsoft generic drivers are being used instead of the samsung drivers it seems to me.
qnc said:
The problem i have found that the infuse is only showing up as a generic device. not showing up as a samsung modem or phone and Microsoft generic drivers are being used instead of the samsung drivers it seems to me.
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That is why you need to uninstall all drivers for phone,reboot, install drivers,reboot,plug phone in DO NOT let computer search windows update.Once you stop it from downloading from Microsoft it will load drivers you installed.
I just tried it again. deleted drivers and rebooted.
Installed Kies mini and rebooted.
I have had driver search turned off, but double checked and rebooted for safe measure and it still installed the the generic drivers.
deleted drivers and devices the way i know how and used the link above to make sure.
I even went in Deview and made sure that the any generic driver was gone as well.
Still getting the issue.
Any other suggestions.
I'm at a loss not
what am i missing.
qnc said:
I just tried it again. deleted drivers and rebooted.
Installed Kies mini and rebooted.
I have had driver search turned off, but double checked and rebooted for safe measure and it still installed the the generic drivers.
deleted drivers and devices the way i know how and used the link above to make sure.
I even went in Deview and made sure that the any generic driver was gone as well.
Still getting the issue.
Any other suggestions.
I'm at a loss not
what am i missing.
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Which version of windows are you running,if running 7 when you plug phone in after deleting etc.you should new device installer telling you it is installing your new device,then it will say click here to view progress. Click immediately, when that pops up at bottom of it is link saying do not search microsoft for updated drivers. it will ask if you are sure yes you are. Then it will search computer and use drivers from Kies
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Which version of windows are you running,if running 7 when you plug phone in after deleting etc.you should new device installer telling you it is installing your new device,then it will say click here to view progress. Click immediately, when that pops up at bottom of it is link saying do not search microsoft for updated drivers. it will ask if you are sure yes you are. Then it will search computer and use drivers from Kies
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That did not work for me, but i did find this:
You can get the results above in Windows 7 Home Premium through the registry editor ... not going to tell you how to edit the registry... I'll assume you know how...
Add/update the following DWORD value in
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceInstall\Restrictions]
"DenyUnspecified"=dword:00000001
I had to manually add the "DeviceInstall" and "Restrictions" keys, then add the dword value "DenyUnspecified" and set it to 1.
To turn enable again, change DenyUnspecified to 0.
Now that i have stopped the automatic windows driver install, I thought i would be Ok but I'm still having issues with the proper infuse drivers. this just sucks odin will still not recognize my phone.
Ok any help.
I was able to stop windows 7 from installing the generic drivers by editing the registry, but the computer will not recognize the drivers from Samsung direct download or kies mini.
When doing a search to choose the driver windows 7 will not detect the drivers
I have tried the drivers from above, kies mini, kies, and samsung. no luck.
with the generic drivers it will still mount the storage cards no problem, adb works i just cant get odin or kies to work.
Install keis and don't let windows search for drivers
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qnc said:
Ok any help.
I was able to stop windows 7 from installing the generic drivers by editing the registry, but the computer will not recognize the drivers from Samsung direct download or kies mini.
When doing a search to choose the driver windows 7 will not detect the drivers
I have tried the drivers from above, kies mini, kies, and samsung. no luck.
with the generic drivers it will still mount the storage cards no problem, adb works i just cant get odin or kies to work.
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Any luck getting your phone to show up? Windows doesn't even acknowledge my phone is plugged in. This is on my win7 laptop, my pc still connects to the phone fine. Tried 3 different cables and reloaded drivers/rebooted several times. Phone does charge however.
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Any luck getting your phone to show up? Windows doesn't even acknowledge my phone is plugged in. This is on my win7 laptop, my pc still connects to the phone fine. Tried 3 different cables and reloaded drivers/rebooted several times. Phone does charge however.
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Sorry no luck here, I gave up on the process. I gave the phone away to some one that needed a phone and i know would not be doing any technical stuff to it.
When I plug in my p3113 into the computer while in download mode, it tries to install driver software, it does, then tells me the device was not successfully installed, I have Samsung USB drivers installed from kies, I've tried different usb ports to no avail.
I've been rooting phones since the G1, I've been through this process several times with several Samsung devices and have never had this problem, so is my computer just old or what?
I am running a fresh install of W7 Ultimate service pack 1. Don't come at me with searching either because I have and haven't found a solution.
Would like to get this done so my kids can continue downloading games, don't really wanna have to use someone elses computer but that is what it is gonna have to come down to unless someone here knows the answer to my problem.
Seems you know what you are doing. Only thing I can think of....did you turn USB debugging on? I believe it needs to be on for Odin.
Also do you have the proper drivers? If you install Kies and plug in your phone, your comp will download the needed drivers for your device, perhaps this may help
I'm sure the answer has already been posted, but I have searched for hours and not found it.
My device is not recognized in download mode. I tried automatically updating the drivers and it doesn't work. I downloaded the Samsung drivers and directed windows to the folder and it still doesn't recognize the driver.
I am running Windows 8 64 bit and am not sure if that has anything to do with it. I have Kies installed and have the drivers manually installed.
What am I missing?
Try installing Samsung Kies mini
Sxybob said:
I'm sure the answer has already been posted, but I have searched for hours and not found it.
My device is not recognized in download mode. I tried automatically updating the drivers and it doesn't work. I downloaded the Samsung drivers and directed windows to the folder and it still doesn't recognize the driver.
I am running Windows 8 64 bit and am not sure if that has anything to do with it. I have Kies installed and have the drivers manually installed.
What am I missing?
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For me this worked, install Samsung Kies mini.
Update
I installed the full version of Kies, then I clicked to install the Samsung Drivers. I restarted to make sure. Now it is working perfectly. I think that there are some issues with Kies Lite and Windows 8.