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This is for the people who got a new captivate through return or purchase or how ever you obtained it. If you tried flashing a new rom and now are stuck at the att boot loop or the battery loop and your phone will not boot up here is help.
1. See if your phone will do the 3 button recovery to get into download mode.
2. If you cant get into download mode you might need a Jig or do the resistor technique to get into download mode.
3. See if this odin (I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0.exe) will flash your phone back to the stock 2.1.
4. If after flashing the 2.1 odin and your phone still has boot loop then try the 2.2 stock odin
5. Next do the same as previous but try with this odin (I897UCJI6-OCD-REV02-Low-designgears_1_.exe) which is the 2.2 stock odin.
Note all of these flashes require you to be in download mode and have odin fired up on your pc the plug in your phone so odin can recognize it so
a. be in download mode (not connected to PC)
b. have odin open on pc
c. Plug in phone to pc and start odin.
odin likes to stop flashing when setting pit file so if it freezes give a sec and if nothing try it again.
if odin freezes on the set pit file your phone will have the dreaded phone to pc icon during boot but dont panic set your phone into download mode and try again.
If any questions should arise PM me or leave a comment and others and i will try and help.
Took me two days to fix my phone after flashing to stock to root it but i hope this helps you turn your 400 dollar paper weight back into a phone.
umm thanks but we know how to use odin there are a million guides in every ginerflash and captivate sticky.
and the 2.2 odin is actually an internal samsung beta 2.2 not official.
returning it with the designgears 2.2 will be an obvious warranty breach if they notice.
and your Step 4 and 5 seem to say the same thing... "flash 2.2 odin" (which isnt official)
and THE REAL FIX FOR THE BOOTLOOP:
reboot into RECOVERY > (not download)
wipe cache and data! (or factory reset)...
DONE!
reboot into the rom that you were trying to use!
takes 20 seconds and no reflashing anything.
i ran into this a few days ago while trying to root a friends captivate(1008) purchased from walmart recently. after trying to flash back to stock i was stuck on att boot loop and could not get into download mode via button combo to save my life. tried everthing minus a jig....after getting fed up with it, i sat it aside. to my amazment, after about 10-15 minutes the mf booted up. i had to use adb to reboot into download mode. flashed with odin(from aio toolkit) back to 2.1. everything worked fine, no problems except for one thing...sometimes it will still loop for a few minutes before it boots...sometimes it boots right away. Im still investigating the whole ordeal but my point here is: if you think your phone is stuck on att screen, just let it sit for a while....maybe a long while. and it should boot. then use adb to get back to download mode. i read every forum post on the web about this issue...just found this thread and thought id give ppl a heads up. hope it helps
I'm stuck in a bootloop right now on the Galaxy S animation screen and this wipe cache and data method doesn't seem to work for me.
so i recently tried flashing a darky rom theme onto my captivate running mosaic 8.
it worked the first time. then i tried another theme didnt like it, so flashed the darky rom one, and now, bootloop....
i can get my cappy into download mode, but odin doesn't recognize it.
i cannot get it into recovery mode with holding down the volume up and down and power button.
i need help
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fixed!
biggest help i have EVER had in custom roms/rooting etc..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351224
TRusselo said:
umm thanks but we know how to use odin there are a million guides in every ginerflash and captivate sticky.
and the 2.2 odin is actually an internal samsung beta 2.2 not official.
returning it with the designgears 2.2 will be an obvious warranty breach if they notice.
and your Step 4 and 5 seem to say the same thing... "flash 2.2 odin" (which isnt official)
and THE REAL FIX FOR THE BOOTLOOP:
reboot into RECOVERY > (not download)
wipe cache and data! (or factory reset)...
DONE!
reboot into the rom that you were trying to use!
takes 20 seconds and no reflashing anything.
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ok cmw is not mounting cache or anything else any other ideas
Hope someone has some info.
I have recently tried to recover my phone via Odin flash. I'm flashing the GummyCharged 1.9 FE odin file. I've done this SEVERAL times w/ out any problems.
My problem now is that when the Odin flash is complete it shows "Pass" and when I reboot my phone it boots with an old version of CWM (4.0.0.1). Not only that but when I try to "reboot phone" it boot loops back to CWM and will not load ANY for of an OS. I've tried multiple Odin files with no luck. Same thing over and over.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm used to having to recover my phone from a bricked state... but never had an issue where I push a file to the phone and it will not boot after. Tried wiping data/cache after Odin as well... Still nothing.
I would try going back to stock using Imnuts' stock ROM and PIT file which can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
That has always fixed any and all issues I've been having with the phone after messing something up.
EDIT: Here is the stock EE4 ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1172182
hazard209 said:
I would try going back to stock using Imnuts' stock ROM and PIT file which can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
That has always fixed any and all issues I've been having with the phone after messing something up.
EDIT: Here is the stock EE4 ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1172182
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Hey man, I cant thank you ENOUGH!!!! After A LOT of trial and error (had to download the ee4 file from another link) I was able to get this beast to boot back up. I REALLY appreciate your quick response and help!
KaneD20 said:
Hey man, I cant thank you ENOUGH!!!! After A LOT of trial and error (had to download the ee4 file from another link) I was able to get this beast to boot back up. I REALLY appreciate your quick response and help!
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No problem. Glad you got her back up and running. No one likes a $500 paperweight.
Props to hazard he's always helping people... just want to let you know
Your a good dude...
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No problem. Glad you got her back up and running. No one likes a $500 paperweight.
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Yeah, no doubt. And I was able to do a restore on the Imnuts PBJ OBT kernel from 7/30... my problem started when I installed the new kernel version (from 8/8) and tried to backup/restore. Working perfectly now though!
Having same issue still getting recovery mode
I did a fix sd cardupdate for the rom clocking.
I had gumicharge rom on it
After 4 hours my battery was at 50% so I decided hey i can just load the rom on it again and no problem clean free.
It did not work. I am using odin.
It did not work so I got the pit file from this and it gave my system life and the ed1 file wont download it stalls out and failes i tried using
CI510_VZW_EE4_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV03_user_CL1014954.tar.md5
or
CI510_VZW_EP1F_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV3_user_CL300919_Rooted_Debloated.tar.md5
both do nothing.
My phone just sits there reboots into Manual mode and looks like my blue recovery console.
Clear cache
Upload from SD Card
and clear memory so forth.
Thats all my options.
I am now stuck with phone i cant use or update. I am at work so now i cant use the megaupload since those are blocked by our firewall.
I was able to remote to pc to get a pit file.
At this point i dont know what to do or just do insurance claim on my phone and get another one. I dont know how to fix it now.
I cant read the sd card on any computer to put stuff on it and odin is writing things to it The pit file on this fix did give me a recovery enviroment but nothing on roms are on the sd card.
roms ive tried dont load for automaticaly its just in that manual mode thing with the icon of the little android dude.
it says
Android system recover (3e)
Enter: OK key, select:Vol Up/Vol Down
Reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
bewlo it syas #manual mode* and little android guy with eclamation point next to him.
I have tried severla tiems 3 different roms
2Much2Ask4 said:
I did a fix sd cardupdate for the rom clocking.
I had gumicharge rom on it
After 4 hours my battery was at 50% so I decided hey i can just load the rom on it again and no problem clean free.
It did not work. I am using odin.
It did not work so I got the pit file from this and it gave my system life and the ed1 file wont download it stalls out and failes i tried using
CI510_VZW_EE4_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV03_user_CL1014954.tar.md5
or
CI510_VZW_EP1F_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV3_user_CL300919_Rooted_Debloated.tar.md5
both do nothing.
My phone just sits there reboots into Manual mode and looks like my blue recovery console.
Clear cache
Upload from SD Card
and clear memory so forth.
Thats all my options.
I am now stuck with phone i cant use or update. I am at work so now i cant use the megaupload since those are blocked by our firewall.
I was able to remote to pc to get a pit file.
At this point i dont know what to do or just do insurance claim on my phone and get another one. I dont know how to fix it now.
I cant read the sd card on any computer to put stuff on it and odin is writing things to it The pit file on this fix did give me a recovery enviroment but nothing on roms are on the sd card.
roms ive tried dont load for automaticaly its just in that manual mode thing with the icon of the little android dude.
it says
Android system recover (3e)
Enter: OK key, select:Vol Up/Vol Down
Reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
bewlo it syas #manual mode* and little android guy with eclamation point next to him.
I have tried severla tiems 3 different roms
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Not sure if you're going into download mode properly but try this:
open ODIN
add the PIT file in the PIT section
add the EE4 OEM file in the PDA section (do not use the phone section)
leave everything else in ODIN as default except click on "re-partition"
take your battery out of the phone
hold the volume down button & plug in your USB cable (do not let go of the volume down button until you are in download mode)
ODIN should now now show a yellow com port for your phone on top left of ODIN and your phone should display "download mode"
select start
When it's complete ODIN will show in green that it passed. Unplug your phone, put the battery back in & boot
Hope this helps & good luck
vudiff said:
Not sure if you're going into download mode properly but try this:
open ODIN
add the PIT file in the PIT section
add the EE4 OEM file in the PDA section (do not use the phone section)
leave everything else in ODIN as default except click on "re-partition"
take your battery out of the phone
hold the volume down button & plug in your USB cable (do not let go of the volume down button until you are in download mode)
ODIN should now now show a yellow com port for your phone on top left of ODIN and your phone should display "download mode"
select start
When it's complete ODIN will show in green that it passed. Unplug your phone, put the battery back in & boot
Hope this helps & good luck
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I would do this but before starting the flash in odin put the battery back in and uncheck the auto reboot box, when its done unplug from pc and remove battery, put it back in then boot up phone
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
anoninja118 said:
I would do this but before starting the flash in odin put the battery back in and uncheck the auto reboot box, when its done unplug from pc and remove battery, put it back in then boot up phone
blazing through on my VZ Droid Charge 4G
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don't put the battery in during flash & leave auto reboot checked. Auto reboot will not do anything as there isn't a battery installed... it'll just turn off. Unplug the phone after you flash it & put battery back in & boot
vudiff said:
Not sure if you're going into download mode properly but try this:
open ODIN
add the PIT file in the PIT section
add the EE4 OEM file in the PDA section (do not use the phone section)
leave everything else in ODIN as default except click on "re-partition"
take your battery out of the phone
hold the volume down button & plug in your USB cable (do not let go of the volume down button until you are in download mode)
ODIN should now now show a yellow com port for your phone on top left of ODIN and your phone should display "download mode"
select start
When it's complete ODIN will show in green that it passed. Unplug your phone, put the battery back in & boot
Hope this helps & good luck
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This is pretty much what fixed it for me. DON'T GIVE UP! Trust me, I literally had to try this several times before it booted up. I know its frustrating, trust me, but if you stick with it you can fix the phone.
Each time you're able to get to recovery mode, if you're phone doesn't boot, do like five data wipes and wipe cache. Then Odin the .pit and the EE4 from the link above in the pda field (both at the same time).
Good luck! Stick with it I know you CAN fix this!
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KaneD20 said:
This is pretty much what fixed it for me. DON'T GIVE UP! Trust me, I literally had to try this several times before it booted up. I know its frustrating, trust me, but if you stick with it you can fix the phone.
Each time you're able to get to recovery mode, if you're phone doesn't boot, do like five data wipes and wipe cache. Then Odin the .pit and the EE4 from the link above in the pda field (both at the same time).
Good luck! Stick with it I know you CAN fix this!
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No need to wipe anything... when you have "re-partition" checked it wipes everything but the sd card
vudiff said:
No need to wipe anything... when you have "re-partition" checked it wipes everything but the sd card
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I'm sure you're right, these are just the things that I did when I finally got it working.
I got stuck myself last night and odin started to fail every attempt, even with the pit file and following numerous instructions found around the site. I actually thought my phone was bricked for good.
I installed PST lite and selected the PIT and EE4 and selected to repartition. It took longer to do but everything came back up. Then using odin I was able to flash back to the rom I had before.
This was after an hour of trying to fix it as I mentioned and Odin kept failing.
^attempting to reflash via samsung pst lite.
loaded PIT, stock EE4. checked "repartition". when I click download, it starts, but freezes at 9%. RX_TIMEOUT shows on the phone screen.
I'm trying this method b/c Odin is not working. Same thing, just hangs, sez RX_TIMEOUT. (repartition w/ PIT, stock EE4)
sushi_stalker said:
^attempting to reflash via samsung pst lite.
loaded PIT, stock EE4. checked "repartition". when I click download, it starts, but freezes at 9%. RX_TIMEOUT shows on the phone screen.
I'm trying this method b/c Odin is not working. Same thing, just hangs, sez RX_TIMEOUT. (repartition w/ PIT, stock EE4)
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Have you tried putting the battery back in during the flash?
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
kvswim said:
Have you tried putting the battery back in during the flash?
Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyFroyo 1.9.1
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Yes. tried both with and without. Just hangs. Can never fully make it through the flash.
Stuck with soft bricked phone.
Waiting for my wife to get home with her PC laptop. Hoping it really is just a platform issue (running ODIN on Mac Boot Camp)
sushi_stalker said:
Yes. tried both with and without. Just hangs. Can never fully make it through the flash.
Stuck with soft bricked phone.
Waiting for my wife to get home with her PC laptop. Hoping it really is just a platform issue (running ODIN on Mac Boot Camp)
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What version of Odin are you using? I'm pretty sure I'm using Odin v. 1.82 or something close to that. Not too sure that it would make the difference. Just a thought.
Also, I had to Odin QUITE a few times to get it back up. I had even run the Odin w/ JUST the .pit file. Thought I read somewhere to run the .pit an UNCHECK the repartition box (I know it says it'll give you an error but I did not get one).
All in all, not too sure what exactly it was that finally got it working. But I eventually ran the .pit and ee4 (both posted in post #2 of this thread). Then when my phone booted up, it looked like the problem remained. I had to get back to work from lunch so I just put the phone in my pocket. Then out of nowhere I heard the boot animation come on.
Just make sure you read through, pretty much, all of the threads that deal w/ this stuff. There is almost always someone that has come across the same problem that you may have and almost always someone who had figured out how to fix it.
Good luck, this CAN be fixed!
Ok so im not a newb to flashing ROMs or kernels and such. Both my roomate have the charge with imoseyon's kernel and DarkChargedTQ ROM. While he was on a business trip his phone reset but wouldnt boot, it would just loop at the samsung screen. So he got home, livid of course becuase of his broken phone so I tried to fix it.
I flashed back EP1W using ODIN which completes properly. THen when it reboots the stock recovery comes up saying that it cant mount /cache. THen if you try to factory reset it says that it cant mount /data. When I reboot I am still in the samsung boot loop.
Please Help, I was the one who flashed his phone and now its broken so im kinda freaking out!
I had a slightly different issue, kept getting the recovery halt when trying to go back to stock, all using the directions here. Nothing worked.
I then discovered this process, and it got my phone booting and stock.
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...harge-full-factory-tar-flashing-software.html
There might be an easier fix for you, but just sharing something that helped me out.
Thanks for the suggestion but thats a no go. Here is a little more detail.
After flashing the recovery fails to load the /cache. So when I try to fatory reset, I get this:
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid Argument)
E:install_application_for_customers: Can't mount /data
your storage not prepared yet, pl,ease use UI menu for format and reboot actions
Anyone ever seen this and can you help me?
Have you tried this?http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486
This was the only way I was able to get out of a bootloop condition the very first time I flashed this phone:
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...harge-ee4-full-factory-odin-return-stock.html
You need to download and install SamsungPST
Download the charge.pit file
Download the CI510_VZW_EE4_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV03_user_CL1014954.tar.md5
Next, you pull the battery from your phone, connect the USB cable to your phone and computer. Then, press the volume down button to enter "download" mode. AFTER you have entered download mode you *MUST* put the battery back into the phone. Do not skip this.
So, at this point you should have your phone connected to your computer, in download mode, ready to flash WITH the battery in the phone to provide the extra power it needs during the flash process.
Next, You run the SamsungPST program, load the PIT file in the PIT section, load the .md5 file into the software section below the PIT *AND* you must click the "Repartition" *AND* the "Update Boot" checkbox before you start flashing.
Your phone will reboot after the flash process is complete and you will see some messages on the screen and it will reboot itself again before finally coming up.
BE PATIENT. This process takes a while. It takes more than six minutes to flash the phone AND another ~5 minutes before it boots up on its own. (possibly longer.)
Hopefully this will recover you. The "Repartition" option is very important. Flashing this same ROM with Odin did not work for me when I had to recover my phone. There is something about the SamsungPST program that is somehow more thorough or works better for this type of recovery.
I wrote this down from memory, so the wording might be slightly off, but you should be able to get it.
quarky42 said:
This was the only way I was able to get out of a bootloop condition the very first time I flashed this phone:
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/...harge-ee4-full-factory-odin-return-stock.html
You need to download and install SamsungPST
Download the charge.pit file
Download the CI510_VZW_EE4_ALL_ONE-LTE-CP_REV03_user_CL1014954.tar.md5
Next, you pull the battery from your phone, connect the USB cable to your phone and computer. Then, press the volume down button to enter "download" mode. AFTER you have entered download mode you *MUST* put the battery back into the phone. Do not skip this.
So, at this point you should have your phone connected to your computer, in download mode, ready to flash WITH the battery in the phone to provide the extra power it needs during the flash process.
Next, You run the SamsungPST program, load the PIT file in the PIT section, load the .md5 file into the software section below the PIT *AND* you must click the "Repartition" *AND* the "Update Boot" checkbox before you start flashing.
Your phone will reboot after the flash process is complete and you will see some messages on the screen and it will reboot itself again before finally coming up.
BE PATIENT. This process takes a while. It takes more than six minutes to flash the phone AND another ~5 minutes before it boots up on its own. (possibly longer.)
Hopefully this will recover you. The "Repartition" option is very important. Flashing this same ROM with Odin did not work for me when I had to recover my phone. There is something about the SamsungPST program that is somehow more thorough or works better for this type of recovery.
I wrote this down from memory, so the wording might be slightly off, but you should be able to get it.
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OK this sounds like it might work as its the only solution I have seen that uses the repartion. I have never delt with this and I may be really stupid right now but where do I get teh charge .pit file?
EDIT: I found a link for the charge.pit in the imnuts thread that was posted a few posts back. Does this file not change with different OS builds?
Have you tried the fix my phone thread in development? ?
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I tried the fix my phone thread and it did not work. I have tried flashing just EP1W and flashing it with the .pit in both odin and the SamsungPST and I get teh same errors every time about not being able to mount anything. It seems like I dont have any partitions but I though that using the .pit and checking re=partition should fix the problem???
Ugh my roomate is gonna kill me, anyone have any other suggestions?
MasterRy88 said:
I tried the fix my phone thread and it did not work. I have tried flashing just EP1W and flashing it with the .pit in both odin and the SamsungPST and I get teh same errors every time about not being able to mount anything. It seems like I dont have any partitions but I though that using the .pit and checking re=partition should fix the problem???
Ugh my roomate is gonna kill me, anyone have any other suggestions?
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PIT isn't supposed to be used with GB roms.. go back to EE4 with the PIT file then boot up to make sure it works right, then Odin the GB rom of your choice by itself and you shouldn't have problems
blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
MasterRy88 said:
EDIT: I found a link for the charge.pit in the imnuts thread that was posted a few posts back. Does this file not change with different OS builds?
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Using the pit file will take you back to stock EE4. Since there is no official release after EE4 the file wont change. Even if we do get upped to an official OTA of GB you could still use this file to go back to EE4 and then you would get prompted to upgrade to GB.
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So basically you are stuck at the Sam recovery screen with some coded right
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bfitzpatrickd2d said:
So basically you are stuck at the Sam recovery screen with some coded right
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Correct, Per the suggestions Im going to flash back to EE4 but I just tried and it said the checksum was invalid so im trying to redownload a difffernt one
EDIT: UGH anyone know why the md5 keeps failing or what normall causes that?
No matter what I choose (EE4, ED1, ED2) the md5 fails. Is it safe to just remove the .md5 from the end or is that risky?
Take it to Verizon they will send you out a refurbished device
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Something similar happened to me and I took it in and they sent out a new device I think someone told me it has something to do with /system
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Ok didnt really follow everything so just gonna throw some stuff out there. So you are stuck at recovery so you can flash a .zip file? I found ee4 as a .zip file so you could try and do that but that doesnt help if you need to re partition. hmm. Instead of ee4 you could always try a download of ed1 or ed2. Or flash a .tar instead of a .md5. Im a noob also so just trying to help. Since you can odin files can you access your sd card? Can you odin clockwork and then try and load a file from there?
He's stuck system Samsung recovery can't flash from there but yeah flash cmw then flash a rom with kernal I think that should fix it cause when u flash w o kernal Samsung stock over writes cwm if I am not mistaking
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Found something else but it was for another phone. Can you take your sd card out. Use and adapter to put in your computer, format it then put .zip file on there and see if it see's it. Ok well probably making things worse so as someone said take it to verizon and get replacement.
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So something similar to this might work?
1. Download Odin, cwm_froyo-odin.zip
2. Extract cwm_froyo-odin.zip, place update.zip on root of SD card
3. Power phone down, remove battery
4. Open Odin, hold volume down and plug in USB to enter download mode
5. Select PDA and place cwm_froyo.tar and flash
6. Upon finish, replace battery, hold both volume buttons down and power on until you enter stock recovery (blue)
7. Apply:update.zip to enter red recovery
honestly thank you everyone for all your suggestions.
Here is where im at now. I was able to finally get an ED1 to flash with the pit file. Phone went through the same process of flashing, then went to samsung recovery and said it couldnt mount things, but it wasnt the same. It was like /dev/... and things of that nature. Factory reset, same thing. NOw when I boot I get bootlooped at the eye, which is better than what I was getting.
I didnt even think about flashing CWM to it and then flashing a rom/kernel. I might try that after I go through this. BUt as it is now the phone shouldnt show any signs of tampering so I may take it to verizon. Ill let everynoe know and THANKS AGAIN I really appreciate everyones help
I have clockwork as a .md5 file . Flash that from odin and then recover from there.
No problem; been in your boat before If we helped hit the thanks button ;-)
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I hope there is a way for me to fix this. I am a noob but, I have been successful flashing things a few times in the past (and not so lucky a few times). This time I had flashed my Infuse back to stock 2.2 Froyo UCKD5 after having Zues w/ Aries HellFire running for a couple weeks. I decided to try another ROM because I was bored. Then I screwed something up thinking I knew more than I do. As I was trying to clean things up in my files to get ready to do a back-up,something happened and about half of my apps,factory and 3rd party had no files or ?? They didn't show any MB in cache / data,in TIBU or App Mgr, only "computing...", and obviously things didn't work right. So I hit the phone's Factory Reset,went into Odin3 thinking I would try doing something I never tried before,stupid me, and installed through the PDA button, zimage root tar file, success, saw the Fugu fish and then reset Odin, turned off/ on. Pulled battery from phone, usb jig to download mode, because three button method wasn't working. I thought it had something to do with the residual kernel or bootloader from Zeus. The kernel that was running is 2.6.32.9 and I don't know what that is. Any way I thought I would install KF1 .tar Odin3 installed it but it got stuck on the Samsung power-up screen,black background white Samsung letters. I usb jigged into download mode , thinking maybe I had the wrong drivers possibly and did the Heimdall Zadig driver install, nothing changed. So, I thought that I better just reflash to stock using GTG's Ultimate Unbrick, used the UCKD5 tar and it passed. Then I unplugged the phone when it shut off to reboot, it booted into blue recovery and I hit reboot and it came right back into blue recovery. I am able to get into download mode or into the ever looping blue recovery<3e>,but nothing else. No programs,Odin, Kies, Heimdall,GTG's, recognize the phone,the laptop does and says the device may not work correctly..., but I did notice what the fails were in the recovery boot-up. So I snapped pics with my Captivate and uploaded them and I will paste them here (I think XDA lets idiots like me paste in this area?). they are readable, but if I need to type everything out I can, but not until someone asks so as to keep this already lengthy story a bit shorter. Thanks in advance,KK13/khkaiser13. sent in using my Rooted Captivate on APEX12 through XDAPremium View attachment 899419
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Did you try clicking flash in Heimdall, sometimes it looks like it doesn't see the phone, but you click flash and it works. Also, have you tried clearing user data and cache? (I know you said you had factory reset at one point but now that you are stuck might be worth a try.) Looks like a boot loader issue, not sure why Heimdall doesn't see the phone, I've had good luck in the past with it.
I'm tempted to tell you to format the internal sd and try heimdall again, but maybe someone with more experience would have a better idea.
khkaiser13 said:
I hope there is a way for me to fix this. I am a noob but, I have been successful flashing things a few times in the past (and not so lucky a few times). This time I had flashed my Infuse back to stock 2.2 Froyo UCKD5 after having Zues w/ Aries HellFire running for a couple weeks. I decided to try another ROM because I was bored. Then I screwed something up thinking I knew more than I do. As I was trying to clean things up in my files to get ready to do a back-up,something happened and about half of my apps,factory and 3rd party had no files or ?? They didn't show any MB in cache / data,in TIBU or App Mgr, only "computing...", and obviously things didn't work right. So I hit the phone's Factory Reset,went into Odin3 thinking I would try doing something I never tried before,stupid me, and installed through the PDA button, zimage root tar file, success, saw the Fugu fish and then reset Odin, turned off/ on. Pulled battery from phone, usb jig to download mode, because three button method wasn't working. I thought it had something to do with the residual kernel or bootloader from Zeus. The kernel that was running is 2.6.32.9 and I don't know what that is. Any way I thought I would install KF1 .tar Odin3 installed it but it got stuck on the Samsung power-up screen,black background white Samsung letters. I usb jigged into download mode , thinking maybe I had the wrong drivers possibly and did the Heimdall Zadig driver install, nothing changed. So, I thought that I better just reflash to stock using GTG's Ultimate Unbrick, used the UCKD5 tar and it passed. Then I unplugged the phone when it shut off to reboot, it booted into blue recovery and I hit reboot and it came right back into blue recovery. I am able to get into download mode or into the ever looping blue recovery<3e>,but nothing else. No programs,Odin, Kies, Heimdall,GTG's, recognize the phone,the laptop does and says the device may not work correctly..., but I did notice what the fails were in the recovery boot-up. So I snapped pics with my Captivate and uploaded them and I will paste them here (I think XDA lets idiots like me paste in this area?). they are readable, but if I need to type everything out I can, but not until someone asks so as to keep this already lengthy story a bit shorter. Thanks in advance,KK13/khkaiser13. sent in using my Rooted Captivate on APEX12 through XDAPremium View attachment 899419
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Before you go any further,
Read my how to..click on the first link on my sigs.
Read through several times.
There is a BIG difference b/t download mode and recovery.
Thanks, I did clear Data/Cache. I also did format the sd as a last resort but, it didn't help. I don't know if you looked at the screenshots I posted but, it says Checksum Fail and Movinand Checksum Fail. I dont know what either of those are but, willing to bet if someone knows it might be repairable. Thanks Again, to both, enochpc and qkster for the helpful info which I did not know before. khkaiser13/ kk13
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Thanks, I did clear Data/Cache. I also did format the sd as a last resort but, it didn't help. I don't know if you looked at the screenshots I posted but, it says Checksum Fail and Movinand Checksum Fail. I dont know what either of those are but, willing to bet if someone knows it might be repairable. Thanks Again, to both, enochpc and qkster for the helpful info which I did not know before. khkaiser13/ kk13
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Put your phone in download mode. Odin or heimdall back to stock and start over.
Don't worry about anything else as long as you can get into dl mode
Hey, thanks for responding. I know the difference b/t recov. and dload. I am stuck in recovery<3e> blue, it just returns the recovery screen no matter if I press reboot, clear cache, or clear data, or try install zip. But if I usb jig it, it goes into download mode. Thats it. What I have and don't know what or how to fix is during the reboot attempt (you can read it if you click on my screenshots) it says Checksum Fail, Movinand Fail, and lfs undone. I'm gonna try to find out more about those files ( I guess thats what those would be ???) Thanks Bro.
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Hey, thanks for responding. I know the difference b/t recov. and dload. I am stuck in recovery<3e> blue, it just returns the recovery screen no matter if I press reboot, clear cache, or clear data, or try install zip. But if I usb jig it, it goes into download mode. Thats it. What I have and don't know what or how to fix is during the reboot attempt (you can read it if you click on my screenshots) it says Checksum Fail, Movinand Fail, and lfs undone. I'm gonna try to find out more about those files ( I guess thats what those would be ???) Thanks Bro.
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You borked something in the ROM. That's why it won't boot. Files mismatch and don't add up. That's why you're in blue recovery.
You've to get into dl mode and flash a stock ROM img. Then start over.
qkster said:
You borked something in the ROM. That's why it won't boot. Files mismatch and don't add up. That's why you're in blue recovery.
You've to get into dl mode and flash a stock ROM img. Then start over.
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Just to add this to what qkster said! I know you said you know the difference but be sure to have proper drivers installed I personally used GTG’s Ultimate Unbrick with 100% success. If there is any doubt about bad drivers I would also suggest reinstalling them there is a very easy to use Utility called usbdeview that lets you uninstall drivers and start fresh.
I need help guys,
I used Odin to root the phone and did my first custom rom which is the clean rom...it went through the process and when it was about to reboot i got the system software not approved by verizon and take phone to store
I have been told to odin back to stock but it wont let me. The stock image on odin wont work it says fail
I tried the first method and used odin in download mode to flash the stock image
Failed:
This is what I get
added
Odin V3 engine
File Analysis
all threads completed (succeed 0 / Fail 1)
In the Odin Download mode on the phone the top left reads as follow
Odin Mode (Red Letters)
Product Name (SCH-I535)
Custom Binary Download : Yes (1 counts )
Current Binary Custom
System Status Custom
Qualcomm Secureboot: Enable
One thing I gotta mention is that when I got the phone last week it had an OTA update from Verizon which I did install and then a few days later I rooted the phone and when I tried to use Clean Rom it gave me the dreaded Verizon message
Sounds like you didn't unlock the bootloader.
Ya your bootloader is locked again ... unlock it and redo the steps everything should be fine after that
Guys I know that the bootloader is locked but i cannot get back to stock to unroot phone and then unlock the bootloader
Odin recognizes phone but the stock image goes into fail mode right away
I cannot get into recovery and the only thing I can do is go to download mode and Odin but nothing else
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030&highlight=jtag
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798850
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/29256-tutorial-rootrecoverybootloader-unlockicsjb-verizon-galaxy-s-iii/
http://www.android.gs/fix-bricked-verizon-galaxy-s3/
one of these may be able to help you ... i lost the original link i had but saved these for bootloader issues hope they help they should
Stranger_84 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030&highlight=jtag
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798850
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/29256-tutorial-rootrecoverybootloader-unlockicsjb-verizon-galaxy-s-iii/
http://www.android.gs/fix-bricked-verizon-galaxy-s3/
one of these may be able to help you ... i lost the original link i had but saved these for bootloader issues hope they help they should
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You are aware he can Odin flashed the latest OTA instead of that you have provided. Here it is :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439. This will also help fix his phone being that it is recent. Forgot this link to get him back on track: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974114.
i thought thats what he already tried? but yes you can odin any ota file being that an unlocked bootloader isnt needed.
When I try the VRBLK3 chain it goes into set up connection for like 10 minutes on Odin with a fail at the end each time
I'm not sure being ive never had that issues ... im sorry and good luck
try flashing odin stock ROM, not bootchain
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When I try the VRBLK3 chain it goes into set up connection for like 10 minutes on Odin with a fail at the end each time
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Did you put the file in PDA in Odin they only work if you checked PDA.
NYGiants4Natic said:
When I try the VRBLK3 chain it goes into set up connection for like 10 minutes on Odin with a fail at the end each time
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I had a similar issue once. This helpful post by h3llsdr0id eventually got me up and running. Took a total of like 4 hours though lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30569324&postcount=26
Make sure you have the correct files. This is for the original root66 so it's ICS. Once I booted up and activated I took the Verizon OTAs all the way to JB and then rooted/unlocked bootloader.
edit: I actually had to go back to ICS to reprovision my SIM so not sure you have to go through all of this. Try to odin stock JB ROM like mentioned above.
Thank YOU so much guys you have made my day.
After trying all last night and today I got it back to stock with the OTA file through ODIN. That is all I needed and it went right back to brand new stock phone using 4.1.1
WOW.
I thought I was going to have a dead phone.
Thank you all
Glad you got it up and working!!!!!
Yea I had the same problem but all it needed was a handy flash back to stock. The good thing with making these mistakes is that if it happens again you know what to do.
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I'm having the same problem and can't get into download mode
Gatanater said:
Yea I had the same problem but all it needed was a handy flash back to stock. The good thing with making these mistakes is that if it happens again you know what to do.
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Hi there,
Could someone please help me. I bricked my phone 3 days go and went through odin and root66 stock to unbrick it. I installed CWR and backed up everything, then i purchased triangle away to reset the flash counter. When I did that I got the software not authorized by verizon error screen. It won't let me get into download mode or recovery. Can I still try to use odin? What should I do? I'd really appreciate some help today is the 4th day I have been trying to fix my phone, only to make it worse.
Thank you in advance
You have to get into download mode to use Odin. It will go into download mode, if you will search, there are ways to pull battery along with button combo to get it there. After rooting, use EZ Unlock 1.2 and that will unlock your bootloader without then unauthorized message from Verizon. Make sure you use only that version, the others don't work.
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mj76 said:
Hi there,
Could someone please help me. I bricked my phone 3 days go and went through odin and root66 stock to unbrick it. I installed CWR and backed up everything, then i purchased triangle away to reset the flash counter. When I did that I got the software not authorized by verizon error screen. It won't let me get into download mode or recovery. Can I still try to use odin? What should I do? I'd really appreciate some help today is the 4th day I have been trying to fix my phone, only to make it worse.
Thank you in advance
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Pull battery, hold volume down+home+power keys while you put the battery back in. If that's too many buttons to fumble with at the same time you can try pulling battery, put it back, hold all three keys while plugging it into your computer. My old phone worked that way, idk about the s3. You SHOULD get the download triangle and it asking you if you want to continue. Hit volume up to continue then plug it in and odin should recognize it. Get the stock rom image to flash in the PDA slot of odin. Accept the OTA's until you're up to date then unlock bootloader, root, then flash custom roms/kernels AFTER you've done the appropriate reading. Theres a sticky in development takes you step by step on how to unbrick, then unlock and root. Those should help once you get into download. Hope this helps! :fingers-crossed:
flammablepez said:
Pull battery, hold volume down+home+power keys while you put the battery back in. If that's too many buttons to fumble with at the same time you can try pulling battery, put it back, hold all three keys while plugging it into your computer. My old phone worked that way, idk about the s3. You SHOULD get the download triangle and it asking you if you want to continue. Hit volume up to continue then plug it in and odin should recognize it. Get the stock rom image to flash in the PDA slot of odin. Accept the OTA's until you're up to date then unlock bootloader, root, then flash custom roms/kernels AFTER you've done the appropriate reading. Theres a sticky in development takes you step by step on how to unbrick, then unlock and root. Those should help once you get into download. Hope this helps! :fingers-crossed:
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Thank you for your response. I tried pulling the battery out and holding volume down, home and power keys at the same time while putting battery in, even as i plugged it into my phone, but nothing but the unauthorized error screen comes up. I should note that my phone is note 2 not s3. I apologize for posting it here, but this thread seemed to be just like the problem i was having.