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Problem Installing Driver

I am new to the whole flashing thing. I read a number of guides last night and was finally ready to do it. I downloaded Odin 1.82, had my drivers installed from this thread (Or so I thought) and tried to flash. In Odin, it hangs at "Setupconnection". I couldn't figure out what the problem was and then I noticed when I plug in my Droid Charge, this is what I get...
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Odin detects my phone, and I'm able to access the SD card on it from my PC, but like I said it doesn't flash...and I assume that's because of not every driver having been installed. How can I resolve this issue? I'm using the drivers that this site and a number of other sources say to use. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling them, different cables and different PCs, as well as different versions of Odin.

What confuses me is what I'm reading says to boot into Download Mode with the battery out. How am I supposed to do this when it's not plugged in and no battery? Also, is my phone supposed to stay on when plugged in and the battery is out? Because mine keeps turning off when the battery comes out.

OrbitzXT said:
What confuses me is what I'm reading says to boot into Download Mode with the battery out. How am I supposed to do this when it's not plugged in and no battery? Also, is my phone supposed to stay on when plugged in and the battery is out? Because mine keeps turning off when the battery comes out.
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Pull the battery, hold VolDown and plug in USB. When the phone is recognized, put the battery back in.

shrike1978 said:
Pull the battery, hold VolDown and plug in USB. When the phone is recognized, put the battery back in.
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I feel like an idiot. It's working now, thanks a ton. I think I was in recovery mode. I flashed CWM and am now planning to flash Tweak using Odin. What exactly is CWM and how do I use it if I need to? My understanding was that it's a recovery tool. Also for Tweak, I notice one download has a kernel and one doesn't. As a noob, what do these things mean and which should I go with?

After you Odin the rom and cwm, you want to boot into cwm and flash a custom Kernal before you allow the phone to reboot, otherwise the stock Kernal will overwrite CwM with the original recovery... Unless you odin the package that has the Kernal in which case CwM would stick.

FYI - CWM should stick on either of the tweakstock Odin files

dwitherell said:
FYI - CWM should stick on either of the tweakstock Odin files
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Sorry about that. I didn't mean to give bad info. You have me curious now... Is there something in the process that stops the Kernal from overwriting the recovery?

Adamsaudio said:
Sorry about that. I didn't mean to give bad info. You have me curious now... Is there something in the process that stops the Kernal from overwriting the recovery?
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No worries - there's an install-recovery.sh script in /system/media/ that - when removed - leaves CWM alone.

Bricked my Skyrocket

I was flashing a new rom last night and it stopped right in the middle of it. Now when I turned it on the only thing I get is the samsung logo. I can't get into recovery mode to install my rom again. Any suggestion anyone?

If you cant get in to cwm than Go to download mode and using odin go back to stock. Reroot again.
Dude research you will find 10 threads about soft brick.
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These will set you back to Stock and Unroot Your phone.​
Welcome Finally You have made it here. Well now I know that you are little worried bout your phone but Let me tell you that there is noting to worry about.
Make sure you are relaxed because if you are tensioned than you will most likely screw things up. Do me a favor and watch this video. Relax get beer or Watch Funny videos on Youtube.
“Never ever unplug your phone when you are Flashing”
Drivers You will need!
! Odin 1.85
!! USB Drivers
!!! Skyrocket Stock Recovery.tar file ATT Or Rogers
Extract the contents of odin-185.zip and the 7zip archive.
Run Odin3+v1.85.exe, and prepare Odin:
Check "auto-reboot", and uncheck all other options.
Install Usb Drivers and Unzip the Recovery file and put it to safe place.
Main Process.
Try to get in Download Mode.
) Connect USB to computer but not your Phone.
))Take out and put back in the battery.
)))Then, hold Vol + and Vol - , now plug in USB and you will at the following screen that’s in picture.
))))Press Volume Up button now.
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Finally You have made it to Download mode.
If in case this does not work for you than and you are still luck enough to go into CWM than do factory reset and flash any stock rom. And do all this steps again.
Ok so after getting into Download Mode.
-Go ahead and Go to Odin (Check "auto-reboot", and uncheck all other options).
--In Odin check PDA and find the recovery.tar file that you downloaded.
Now Press Start (Check "auto-reboot", and uncheck all other options.)
When you are done Your screen will look like one below.
It should now reboot to recovery and delete cache and data. Then, it will boot.
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Rocketing on Sky Ics¡
digitalnrg said:
I was flashing a new rom last night and it stopped right in the middle of it. Now when I turned it on the only thing I get is the samsung logo. I can't get into recovery mode to install my rom again. Any suggestion anyone?
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Rocketing on Sky Ics¡

digitalnrg said:
I was flashing a new rom last night and it stopped right in the middle of it. Now when I turned it on the only thing I get is the samsung logo. I can't get into recovery mode to install my rom again. Any suggestion anyone?
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Put it in download mode and flash back to stock with odin
Sent via smoke signal

thanks guys. I was able to flash it back to stock based on above instruction

Instead of making a new thread, figured i would try here first.
Long story short, my skyrocket wont boot into recovery or cmw. I've tried both countless times, and all i can ever get is a quick flash of a battery icon. It still vibrates (gosh i hope thats a good sign of life) and has been plugged into the wall with stock cable/charger for about an hour now.
Basically, flashed the phone via cmw, waited 30+ minutes for it to reboot, it wouldnt, and now i have the problem described above. Battery was at about 40% when i flashed, but was plugged into my computer.
Any help? Maybe i need an external battery charger?
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GOT IT! took out battery, left it out for 15 mins. got right into cwm.
whew

teeg07 said:
Instead of making a new thread, figured i would try here first.
Long story short, my skyrocket wont boot into recovery or cmw. I've tried both countless times, and all i can ever get is a quick flash of a battery icon. It still vibrates (gosh i hope thats a good sign of life) and has been plugged into the wall with stock cable/charger for about an hour now.
Basically, flashed the phone via cmw, waited 30+ minutes for it to reboot, it wouldnt, and now i have the problem described above. Battery was at about 40% when i flashed, but was plugged into my computer.
Any help? Maybe i need an external battery charger?
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GOT IT! took out battery, left it out for 15 mins. got right into cwm.
whew
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can you get the phone into download mode? unplug phone, pull battery and reinsert, press vol up/down at the same time and plug usb into phone, contine holding vol up/down until download mode arrears, basically have you followed the instructions in the post mentioned above?

Yes, I did try that, with no luck.
I actually got it, though. I pulled the battery countless times, did the whole download mode thing, cwm thing, and let it charge for an hour... so on, with no luck.
As an almost last resort, i ended up pulling the battery and leaving it out for 15 minutes after charging it for another hour. Once i reinserted it, i got it go into cwm, mounted my card, downloaded/flashed a new rom and I'm good to go.
Thanks for your help tho!
whew.

[CWM] Clockworkmod Recovery for the Samsung Blaze 4G

Shabbypenguin presents...
Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.5.0 for Blaze 4G
Sponsored by Shabbypenguin.com. Have you tipped your devs today?
DO NOT CHECK REPARTITION! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!​
Why the big red warning? Far too many people have broken their devices by not following these instructions! Search the forums, or drop by IRC - you'll see plenty of examples.
So the T-Mobile CWM worked... well sorta you couldnt see anything, so i fixed it up and made sure it worked fine for yall enjoy
Instructions​
Download Odin 1.85 - see section below.
Download the Clockworkmod recovery TAR - see section below.
Extract the contents of odin-185.zip.
Run Odin 1.85.exe, and prepare Odin:
Check "auto-reboot", and uncheck all other options.
Click PDA and select the TAR you downloaded.
Put your device into Download Mode:
Connect the USB cable to your PC, but NOT your device.
Remove the battery.
Reinsert the battery.
Hold down Volume Up + Volume Down + Power.
You should now be at Download Mode.
Click Start in Odin.
If you are having issues getting into download mode check out these instructions
That's it! Your device will autoreboot, and your phone should be working properly again.
Downloads​
Download Odin 1.85
CWM Touch 6.0.5.0
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Credits:​
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DrTaru: stock device, remote access, lots of testing, screenshots, patience
k0nane: k0nane for being an awesome sauce kind of guy
JFigure/Watcher64: initial testing and pointers/proof of concept
UberPinguin: notes on building kernels for celox, which also apply to this device
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Okay.
Im having issues.
I have a T-Mobile Samsung Blaze4G
Followed every step to the T.
When I do Vol up+ Vol dwn+ PWR
i come to a recovery screen and at the bottom it says Manual mode.
I dont see anything that says "Download Mode"
From the top down this is what I see
Android Systems recovery <3e>
Reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/ factory reset
wipe cache partition
Any ideas?
In Odin I had to download Keis Air because my computer was not installing drivers for the phone. once i downloaded Keis Air and plugged in the phone it recognized it and finished installing the drivers. I did a computer reboot and when I follow the steps I get a YELLOW highlighted box in ODIN under the ID:COM part that says 0:[COM3] in yellow.
I hit start but nothing happens.

Worked awesomely! Just need root now. ;-)
Thanks everyone for all the hard work!

avelasqu said:
Worked awesomely! Just need root now. ;-)
Thanks everyone for all the hard work!
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I guess you missed this, which was posted at the exact same time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591598

k0nane said:
I guess you missed this, which was posted at the exact same time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591598
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Ah shucks. I was able to use the SU files from the t989 and it worked for me.
Is there a difference in what I did and what the root kernel will do?

rooted kernel has a few perks to it that k0nane threw in . hopefully you guys can now attract some devs and start working on roms/cm . we aim to please, just remember us the next time you have a device that isnt getting much love ;P
SCossio from what i understand the key combo gets you into a quasi-downloadmode, need to hit vol up to confirm to enter download mode and then you can plug it in and begin to flash this
perhaps some nice blaze owner can make a how-to video? sorry if our instructions seem off or vague, myself or k0nane have never seen this phone let alone touched one, so we rely on you guys (blaze owners) to help with these kinds of things.

Here is a video on how to successfully enter download mode every time.

shabbypenguin said:
rooted kernel has a few perks to it that k0nane threw in . hopefully you guys can now attract some devs and start working on roms/cm . we aim to please, just remember us the next time you have a device that isnt getting much love ;P
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This! We're here to help. Feel free to come join us on IRC.

i highly suggest you guys check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.s0up.goomanager to download all your roms etc, just the same as rom manager except you can use any recovery you wnat. same rules still apply... if your devs dont post roms/kernels to goo then they dont show up in teh app

Pre-reqs?
Use odin to install the rooted kernel first, then clockworkmod, correct?
This is my first time rooting. I just wanted to double check that the clockworkmod image didn't contain the rooted kernel already.
Dedridd

It doesn't although for the sake of only incrementing the flash counter once it probably could be consolidated.
However, if you flash CWM its a simple process of flashing the SU binary zip package from the sdcard with CWM, same end result.

I keep getting this message when I try and run odin on my Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4g I know that I am doing everything right maybe it is my phone
<ID:0/004> Added!!
<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..
<ID:0/004> File analysis..
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
Someone help me plz

Total n00b here.. with a stupid question. (or twenty).
Let's say, if this "Clockworkmod Recovery for Blaze" was installed via Odin and then Rom Manager app flashed with Clockworkmod Recovery for Galaxy S 2, what happens to the previous files (loaded via Odin)? Do both recoveries co-exist? Or does one replace the other? and if so, can this process be repeated again?
I'm just trying to understand this process.
[Update]: I repeated the process described in this thread, figuring that having recovery for some other phone model would not be a good idea, probably not be a well functioning recovery... everything seemed to have worked great but how can I verify that I have the correct version of recovery now? (I apologize for another stupid question in advance).

SCossio said:
Okay.
Im having issues.
I have a T-Mobile Samsung Blaze4G
Followed every step to the T.
When I do Vol up+ Vol dwn+ PWR
i come to a recovery screen and at the bottom it says Manual mode.
I dont see anything that says "Download Mode"
From the top down this is what I see
Android Systems recovery <3e>
Reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/ factory reset
wipe cache partition
Any ideas?
In Odin I had to download Keis Air because my computer was not installing drivers for the phone. once i downloaded Keis Air and plugged in the phone it recognized it and finished installing the drivers. I did a computer reboot and when I follow the steps I get a YELLOW highlighted box in ODIN under the ID:COM part that says 0:[COM3] in yellow.
I hit start but nothing happens.
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Hey there. The phone must be plugged into the computer before you put the battery in.

You guys can also just turn off your phone hold down the volume up+volume down and plug the usb cable into the phone... Make sure the other end is plugged in to the computer first , Odin 100%
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Done...now will wait for ROMs. Thank you to all involved in making this happen.
Sent from my SGH-T769 using XDA

De Odexed / Debloated rom should be coming tomorrow. possibly maybe.

Awesome! Can't wait. Thanks for all of the hard work!

Well I screwed up

Okay, so SOMEHOW I downloaded the crespo factory images and flashed the bootloader and then the radio. The system update wouldn't flash and this is when I realized my horrible mistake. So I downloaded the correct factory images. But now, I have no USB access on the thing. Can't fastboot. Can't adb. Phone boots and charges over usb. I can reboot into the bootloader, but my computer doesn't recognize the phone is even attached. I can reboot into recovery (I still have CWM on there) but what can I do from there? Am I TOTALLY ****ed? Please please please help!.....

I think what I need is a CWM flashable bootloader zip file. Or a complete OTA ROM Update zip file that flashes ROM, radio, and bootloader. Since I have CWM I think either of these will work for me, but I can 't find anything like this for the Nexus S 4G. Can anyone help?

have you checked if your computer recognizes your phone on odin mode? if it does you can prob try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1575502

JOEOZUNA4U said:
have you checked if your computer recognizes your phone on odin mode? if it does you can prob try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1575502
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Unfortunately it doesn't. My computer doesn't recognize this phone at all anymore, not in fastboot or download mode, or even just booted into Android. If someone could PLEASE show me where a CWM flashable file that will flash the bootloader is, or make me one, I'd pay some good $$$ for it. Please help?

You flashed the bootloader & radio with ODIN?

supercluver said:
Unfortunately it doesn't. My computer doesn't recognize this phone at all anymore, not in fastboot or download mode, or even just booted into Android. If someone could PLEASE show me where a CWM flashable file that will flash the bootloader is, or make me one, I'd pay some good $$$ for it. Please help?
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Give me a sec I will try to make a flashable CWM with just the bootloader. No need for donations

polobunny said:
You flashed the bootloader & radio with ODIN?
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I flashed the CRESPO bootloader and radio via fastboot. Then when I tried to flash the ROM update via fastboot it gave me an error. This is when I noticed I was using the CRESPO files instead of the CRESPO 4G files.... Now, after rebooting, my computer WILL NOT recognize the phone at all via usb, in any way, fastboot, ODIN, nothing. But otherwise the phone seems fine. It charges over USB. It boots and I can get into recovery (and I still have CWM) so if I could download a file over wifi (which I can, already tried) and then flash said file via CWM that would flash the new bootloader, I'd be good to go.

rasengan82 said:
Give me a sec I will try to make a flashable CWM with just the bootloader. No need for donations
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Dude THANK YOU.

I don't think that's possible though, to make a CWM flashable bootloader. :|

Here ya go man. Hope this helps.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0yemj2aybmdda4f/crespo4g_bootloader_rasengan82.zip

polobunny said:
I don't think that's possible though, to make a CWM flashable bootloader. :|
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I'm pretty sure it is, as a complete OTA zip will flash the radio, bootload, and ROM, at least I think it will....

rasengan82 said:
Here ya go man. Hope this helps.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0yemj2aybmdda4f/crespo4g_bootloader_rasengan82.zip
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Here. Just in case you missed from previous page.

rasengan82 said:
Here. Just in case you missed from previous page.
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THANK YOU! Worked perfectly. Flashed, rebooted to bootloader, and computer recognized the device again. You are a life saver! You sure no donations are necessary???

supercluver said:
THANK YOU! Worked perfectly. Flashed, rebooted to bootloader, and computer recognized the device again. You are a life saver! You sure no donations are necessary???
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Nah it's alright man. Glad it worked!

NVM RAS is da man!
Can you put the phone into download mode?
1. Unplug USB and pull the battery. then replace the battery.
2. with the volume up and vol down buttons held down. Press and release the power button for about a sec.
If you get the same as the picture below follow the procedure found here
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i flashed a CM nightly build.. which is out nof the norm for me kuz i usually stick with #euroskank and i lost all USB capabilities too. everything else works perfectly, charges fine and all..
i flashed the above zip and it gives me temp access via USB but if my phone goes to sleep or if i reboot im back to square 1 and have to re flash... dunno wtf i did but damn this sucks

kalico17 said:
i flashed a CM nightly build.. which is out nof the norm for me kuz i usually stick with #euroskank and i lost all USB capabilities too. everything else works perfectly, charges fine and all..
i flashed the above zip and it gives me temp access via USB but if my phone goes to sleep or if i reboot im back to square 1 and have to re flash... dunno wtf i did but damn this sucks
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Did you ever get this resolved? I did something VERY similar when I first started modding on this phone, and experienced VERY similar issues. I have an AWESOME fix, even though it leaves the download screen looking like the oem unlock screen if you put oem lock back on (otherwise it looks normal, and who the heck would do that is beyond me - I only found it when I originally took it back to COMPLETE stock), but it functions fine, and this will take you back to gb, but it seems like the 'fixall' for this phone, and you can always reroot, reflash cwm via fastboot, etc, after using it.
Let me know.
Peace..
~WickiD~

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[Q] Infuse stuck on boot screen

Background: Trying to update my stock infuse to Jelly Bean. Looked into what was needed via hours of research. Used SuperOneClick to root phone (Success), installed ESFile Manager to help install mod 3e recovery (success), used ROM Manager to flash CWM (Success).
Upon testing the CWM by booting into recovery, this boot screen issue started.
- I've tried hard resetting, (no success, won't go past the Samsung screen).
- I'm currently using Odin to restore stock firmware, but it's been about 25 minutes so it's probably not working.
- I can only get to Samsung screen and download mode, that's it!
I need my phone and I need to get some sleep. what am I missing? Much appreciated
thanks

here's a shot of Odin right now. It's stuck on "setup connection"
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Here is what I used to Un-boot loop my phone worked like a charm, the instructions we're a little un-clear but if you read through it, a few times, it's really rather easy. You need to download Java (Jave Runtime Enviorment, also known as JRE I used OpenJDK Java 7) on your computer, download the Heimdall one click packages, put your phone in download mode:
-Pull the battery out and make sure the phone is NOT connected by a usb cable.
-Put the battery back in!
-Hold vol up+Vol down. DO NOT PRESS POWER.
-Plug in the USB cable.
Open the downloaded heimdall one click with java (in Ubuntu Context menu Windowz is likely the same) and it will return your phone back to stock which is where you want to start for I believe almost all the JB ROMs. If you search around Quickster made some other One click packages to get you rooted and CWM installed as well as Kernels and other stuff. These things work great and to me are a million times easier than every other method.Good luck and if there's any other help I can provide I'll do my best

dginsd said:
Here is what I used to Un-boot loop my phone worked like a charm, the instructions we're a little un-clear but if you read through it, a few times, it's really rather easy. You need to download Java (Jave Runtime Enviorment, also known as JRE I used OpenJDK Java 7) on your computer, download the Heimdall one click packages, put your phone in download mode:
-Pull the battery out and make sure the phone is NOT connected by a usb cable.
-Put the battery back in!
-Hold vol up+Vol down. DO NOT PRESS POWER.
-Plug in the USB cable.
Open the downloaded heimdall one click with java (in Ubuntu Context menu Windowz is likely the same) and it will return your phone back to stock which is where you want to start for I believe almost all the JB ROMs. If you search around Quickster made some other One click packages to get you rooted and CWM installed as well as Kernels and other stuff. These things work great and to me are a million times easier than every other method.Good luck and if there's any other help I can provide I'll do my best
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I can't get into download mode anymore. I used to be able to prior to trying Kies. Now I can only get to an icon with a white phone with two dots and a computer icon with a yellow hazard triangle in between them (emergency mode logo). I can't get to any download mode no matter what, at least that's not displayed. I think Odin recognized it last night with this new emergency mode, but everything i tried failed

mendozer said:
I can't get into download mode anymore. I used to be able to prior to trying Kies. Now I can only get to an icon with a white phone with two dots and a computer icon with a yellow hazard triangle in between them (emergency mode logo). I can't get to any download mode no matter what, at least that's not displayed. I think Odin recognized it last night with this new emergency mode, but everything i tried failed
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Perhaps try to use the Heimdall "back to stock" while in that Emergency mode. The Heimdall program will also tell you if it recognizes a phone attached in download mode, and if it will recognize the phone and flash you back to stock, you can also have it put you back on stock bootloaders which sounds like your problem (though flashing bootloaders is dangerious but in your case may be nessessary). Maybe PM Quickster see if he recommends trying to flash with Heimdall on that mode you've entered, I might also try using an alternate USB cable if you haven't already.

mendozer said:
I can't get into download mode anymore. I used to be able to prior to trying Kies. Now I can only get to an icon with a white phone with two dots and a computer icon with a yellow hazard triangle in between them (emergency mode logo). I can't get to any download mode no matter what, at least that's not displayed. I think Odin recognized it last night with this new emergency mode, but everything i tried failed
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The computer icon with a yellow hazard triangle in between them is a form of download. Use Heimdall after making sure you have the correct JRE and drivers.
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psal217050 said:
The computer icon with a yellow hazard triangle in between them is a form of download. Use Heimdall after making sure you have the correct JRE and drivers.
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I have the stock firmware from Samsung. that includes the drivers I presume? the md5 file

holy smokes I'm so relieved it worked!
So, I used Heimdall's froyo Uck3 firmware or whatever since that's what was in the package. I still want Jelly bean. I have the JB folder with what I suppose I need (think it was from android geeks). However, since this was painless, is there a Heimdall one click for JB?

mendozer said:
holy smokes I'm so relieved it worked!
So, I used Heimdall's froyo Uck3 firmware or whatever since that's what was in the package. I still want Jelly bean. I have the JB folder with what I suppose I need (think it was from android geeks). However, since this was painless, is there a Heimdall one click for JB?
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I haven't seen a Heimdall for JB, or any custom ROM I think because it requires a special PIT file to make. I used this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1776129 To flash It though you have to be on the Gingerbread bootloaders, and the instructions for flashing it want you to even flash CM9 ICS, before you flash the final JB ROM. Basically follow the instructions thoroughly or you'll end up in a boot loop ( Not that that's a big deal, now that you have a quick easy way out)

meanhs sal
darn, I'll have to see if JB is really worth it to take the chance again. I also noticed that froyo version from the Heimdall is quirky with some apps. I turn the phone on and several apps just close on me. I get the buzz of death (the one and three) as i like to call it

I'm pretty sure there's Gingerbread version of the Heimdall one click, I'd flash that as almost all the newer Roms are going to require you at least have upgraded to the Gingerbread bootloaders.