So I had the dreaded Win 7 x64 crash. I uninstalled IE 9. No go. Used that DLL fix (which I can't remember where I found it). Still crashed. So here's how I got around the problem.
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I'm just sharing what I found since none of the solutions I googled up worked for me (maybe I'm the only one). For those who wonder why anyone would bother with stock Froyo, I'm sure there are reasons. I just wanted to do some testing of the upgrade exactly as it came from Samsung. There's probably an Odin flashable package somewhere which may be bit-for-bit identical, but I didn't bother looking. I'm hoping this will work if another update comes down the pike (Ha!) and Kies is still broken.
Here's what worked for me. It may brick your phone so understand that before you start.
Step 1:
Load up Virtual PC.
In Virtual PC:
Install the Samsung drivers
Install Kies Mini
Install Samsung PC Studio (for Gadget Serial driver)
Step 2 - back to the phone:
Flash stock. I flashed one-click JF6, but use the right stock firmware for your phone (build 1010 and later phones should use something like this)
Step 3:
At this point you may want to make sure the Gadget Serial driver is loaded and working (if you one-click flashed JF6 skip to step 4), so put the phone into download mode and plug it into the PC.
In Virtual PC:
USB Menu->Gadget Serial Attach
Insure that driver is working. If it isn't then the update won't work because Kies Mini will not be able to communicate with the phone after it goes into download mode. If it works then skip to step 5. If not then do step 4.
Step 4:
Have CWM update.zip on you sdcard root directory
Reinstall packages
Reinstall packages again
Install zip from sdcard
Install sbl_CWM_update.zip (attached to this post)
Do the step 3 check. If that fails then the Gadget Serial driver isn't recognizing you phone and this isn't going to work unless you can fix it.
Step 5:
Reboot the phone, turn on USB debugging then plug it in to the PC.
In Virtual PC:
Start Kies Mini
USB->Samsung_Android Attach
Start the upgrade
Wait 12 years or so until the phone goes into download mode
USB->Gadget Serial Attach
The install should continue automatically. If it doesn't there is an upgrade button which should be enabled when driver is loaded and the phone is detected.
Wait for the install to finish, at which point to phone should boot into Froyo.
Done.
thanks
cool, i had tried all of the other ways of forcing kies to recognize my computer... but it always ended with the same crash, nice little white box where the program should be. so im trying this out but its taking forever to get xp virtual machine up and running. i will post again with my final results
ok now for my story
i have had flashed multiple versions of cognition on my phone and have become very familiar with the process. i do love cog 3.04 but the problem is that the swype that is loaded on the rom is a 60 day trial version and it ran out. so i wanted to try out the stock froyo and see what improvents i wanted so i could cook my own rom.
i went and got kies mini on the release date for froyo and it was crashing everytime i used it, giving me this lovely white box on my windows 7 x64 ultimate computer. i tried multiple work arounds and have never thought of virtual machine so thank you for that.
i want and ran my odin one click reflashed to jf6, then decided to see if kies recognized my phone. it imediately was recognized and started to update in the virtual machine.
it is currently downloading to my phone and i will repost again if my phone either becomes soft bricked or if the update goes through
Please help me find the Gadget Serial Driver for My Samsung Vibrant
I've been trying to Update my Samsung Vibrant from version KA2 to version KB5 using Samsung Kies mini to no avail. I am running Windows XP SP3.
I know, this is a developer site but I have a feeling I won't be able to develop at all because I when I try to update to (Official) Froyo (Provided through Kies mini), I get stuck in download mode with the yellow sign forever. Luckily I can restore by taking the battery out and rebooting my phone. This is problem is due to not having a Gadget Serial Driver installed. Now note, I have all the other USB drivers installed properly. They all show up in Device Manager, however the darn Gadget Serial Driver is MIA and Windows only notices that is missing the driver when the phone enters Download Mode. I have searched xda developers for this issue and I have seen a number of posts where other people have had the same issue and maybe a couple of people solved it by installing PC Studio. I have Googled up and down the internet, went to Samsung's website and even spoke to a Samsung Representative for a link to Samsung PC Studio. However all of the links I found were either dead, contained fake software or were just shady.
Samsung's site no longer contains an actual download link to PC Studio or New PC Studio (I don't know the difference). Can someone please help me get this Gadget Serial Driver or the PC Studio software which may solve this driver issue? Please don't point me to any "Samsung USB Drivers For Mobile Phones" links because I've downloaded that driver and it has solved nothing. Thanks in advance and sorry for sounding like a complete n00b.
privetKalla said:
I've been trying to Update my Samsung Vibrant from version KA2 to version KB5 using Samsung Kies mini to no avail. I am running Windows XP SP3.
I know, this is a developer site but I have a feeling I won't be able to develop at all because I when I try to update to (Official) Froyo (Provided through Kies mini), I get stuck in download mode with the yellow sign forever. Luckily I can restore by taking the battery out and rebooting my phone. This is problem is due to not having a Gadget Serial Driver installed. Now note, I have all the other USB drivers installed properly. They all show up in Device Manager, however the darn Gadget Serial Driver is MIA and Windows only notices that is missing the driver when the phone enters Download Mode. I have searched xda developers for this issue and I have seen a number of posts where other people have had the same issue and maybe a couple of people solved it by installing PC Studio. I have Googled up and down the internet, went to Samsung's website and even spoke to a Samsung Representative for a link to Samsung PC Studio. However all of the links I found were either dead, contained fake software or were just shady.
Samsung's site no longer contains an actual download link to PC Studio or New PC Studio (I don't know the difference). Can someone please help me get this Gadget Serial Driver or the PC Studio software which may solve this driver issue? Please don't point me to any "Samsung USB Drivers For Mobile Phones" links because I've downloaded that driver and it has solved nothing. Thanks in advance and sorry for sounding like a complete n00b.
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This is for the flight II but the software has the PC Studio download. Good Luck!
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-A927ZAAATT
privetKalla said:
I've been trying to Update my Samsung Vibrant from version KA2 to version KB5 using Samsung Kies mini to no avail. I am running Windows XP SP3.
I know, this is a developer site but I have a feeling I won't be able to develop at all because I when I try to update to (Official) Froyo (Provided through Kies mini), I get stuck in download mode with the yellow sign forever.
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Thanks man. That made my day. I needed that.
You can also get the Heimdall suite and open the drivers folder and run Zandig. Then connect your phone in download mode it should show gadget serial in the device window click install and it should complete and you're good to go, this is how I did it after 3 days trying to get my phone to stop showing the device malfunction error which is due to another problem on my main xp machine, a sony which I can't get usb 2.0 drivers for from sony or anywhere else to work correctly even though all 8 ports are 2.0 according to support, my manual, and previous xp install and that's after installing xp 4 times to get the graphics driver to install right so I could then install the right ati driver which everyone online with this model sony seems to have to do, but back on topic. I hopped on my windows server 2k3 machine which had correctly working usb 2.0 drivers ran zandig with my cappy in dl mode and BAM finally working gadget serial driver, just make sure you have zandig.exe open, and connect your phone in DL mode or you'll just install the equivalent of the standard samsung drivers which you prolly already have, I haven't been able to test this on a win7 machine but from what I've read the heimdall driver should work on them and worked great on both xp and server 2k3 on my home server machine.
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Jsmokey said:
You can also get the Heimdall suite and open the drivers folder and run Zandig. Then connect your phone in download mode it should show gadget serial in the device window click install and it should complete and you're good to go, this is how I did it after 3 days trying to get my phone to stop showing the device malfunction error which is due to another problem on my main xp machine, a sony which I can't get usb 2.0 drivers for from sony or anywhere else to work correctly even though all 8 ports are 2.0 according to support, my manual, and previous xp install and that's after installing xp 4 times to get the graphics driver to install right so I could then install the right ati driver which everyone online with this model sony seems to have to do, but back on topic. I hopped on my windows server 2k3 machine which had correctly working usb 2.0 drivers ran zandig with my cappy in dl mode and BAM finally working gadget serial driver, just make sure you have zandig.exe open, and connect your phone in DL mode or you'll just install the equivalent of the standard samsung drivers which you prolly already have, I haven't been able to test this on a win7 machine but from what I've read the heimdall driver should work on them and worked great on both xp and server 2k3 on my home server machine.
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Best first post I've seen in quite some time. Thanks for that.
boborone said:
Best first post I've seen in quite some time. Thanks for that.
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Thanks I appreciate that I just wanna give back as much as I've received from the forums here its a great place to start. If anyone runs into any problem with this let me know and I'll see if I can reproduce and come up with something.
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Can't get Odin on a WinXP laptop to recognize the Droid Charge. Same machine does recognize my SGS i9000, though. I'm in DL mode properly.
Any suggestions and pointers (url?) for what drivers to install/update that might help me out? I've already tried samsung drivers for USB from Samsung's site and the Fascinate forums, as well as the drivers that heimdall installs.
I've seen people talk about the Verizon USB drivers, but I haven't found them.
edit: nuts, didn't mean to post this in dev section.
distortedloop said:
Can't get Odin on a WinXP laptop to recognize the Droid Charge. Same machine does recognize my SGS i9000, though. I'm in DL mode properly.
Any suggestions and pointers (url?) for what drivers to install/update that might help me out? I've already tried samsung drivers for USB from Samsung's site and the Fascinate forums, as well as the drivers that heimdall installs.
I've seen people talk about the Verizon USB drivers, but I haven't found them.
edit: nuts, didn't mean to post this in dev section.
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I had the same issue, when you plug your phone in, not in DL mode but just as normal, a drive will open it contains verizon crap and the samsung drivers, install those 1st, then the phone will install when in DL mode
here is the odin you need here
and here is the drivers you need here
a few tips also is make sure your laptop is plugged in, use your original cable that came with the phone, and if your using vista or W7 then right click odin and click properties. Switch to windows XP service pack 3 compatibility mode and save. Then right click again and run as an administrator..
worked first try for me
angry english said:
I had the same issue, when you plug your phone in, not in DL mode but just as normal, a drive will open it contains verizon crap and the samsung drivers, install those 1st, then the phone will install when in DL mode
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Hmmm...when I plug in in normal mode, no special drive pops up; that explains why I can't see it. I'll try again. The only time I ever use Windows is for Odin, so I'm pretty rusty with this stuff.
cold21blooded said:
here is the odin you need here
and here is the drivers you need here
a few tips also is make sure your laptop is plugged in, use your original cable that came with the phone, and if your using vista or W7 then right click odin and click properties. Switch to windows XP service pack 3 compatibility mode and save. Then right click again and run as an administrator..
worked first try for me
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Thanks for the links. I have that version of Odin, but not sure those are the same drivers I tried, so I'll give them a shot.
Okay, got it working.
I had USB Debugging turned on. Turned it off and the Verizon crap drive popped up and was able to install the drivers from it. Was a flakey drive mount though, kept disappearing. Driver install squawked about already being installed, but I said install anyways.
Odin 1.3 didn't recognize the phone, but Odin 1.83 did.
Was able to successfully flash the CWM and voodoo kernel. Wish I hadn't at this point...I got the successful conversion of the fs, but now everything screwed up on the phone. Force closes, apps won't open. Looks like a bunch of reinstalls in order.
Just not having much luck with this Droid Charge. Should have stuck with my Thunderbolt only. LOL
I posted this in another thread, but created this new one specifically for these users that are having this issue and can't solve it because they don't have access to an XP machine.
I solved my issue late last night. I am running Windows 7 64bit. I saw that a lot of the guys here used XP to run the KDZ flasher and that wasn't an option for me until I installed XP Mode.
XP Mode allows you to run a virtual XP machine inside Windows 7. I was able to run the KDZ flasher in there and successfully flashed the KDZ GB file to my phone.
You do need to flash stock recovery first. I tried unsuccessfully to flash the KDZ with CWM recovery installed. It would not work until I flashed stock recovery.
One other problem I ran into is, in XP Mode, you are "attaching" USB devices to the virtual XP session via a "stub USB driver." For some reason during the KDZ flashing process the USB modem driver for LG kept releasing from my session. What I did to counteract this was manual attach it each time it released. This was easy, but I had to stay on top of it until the flasher finished the job. I have two monitors so I had the "Devices and Printers" window open in Windows 7, and when I heard the ding indicating the USB driver had left the session, and saw the LG devices appear in the Devices and Printers window, I would just click attach on the USB pulldown in the XP session.
I know this sounds a little complex for some (and possibly vague), but once you get into the XP Mode session you will see what I'm talking about.
I hope this helps you guys still stuck on SW Update screen that don't have XP.
hey guys whats up
i lost my nerves for 2 days tr5ying everything to bring back to life my P990..
since im huge noob with android i messed up everything when i tried to update phone with cm7. anyway i can bring it back to life with rom for p999 and thats it...
all other techniques dont work. cant even boot phone or whatever.. tried smartflash but i dont get anything what should be automaticaly assigned.. like communication driver..com port etc. i wanted to try kdz but this file cant be downloaded..its forbidden on lg site and now it cant be downloaded on megaupload. can i download file from somewhere else? im really pissed off cuz im stuck like this. please help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
And if you have a P990, you're in the wrong forum (this forum is for the P999).
omerika.emir said:
hey guys whats up
i lost my nerves for 2 days tr5ying everything to bring back to life my P990..
since im huge noob with android i messed up everything when i tried to update phone with cm7. anyway i can bring it back to life with rom for p999 and thats it...
all other techniques dont work. cant even boot phone or whatever.. tried smartflash but i dont get anything what should be automaticaly assigned.. like communication driver..com port etc. i wanted to try kdz but this file cant be downloaded..its forbidden on lg site and now it cant be downloaded on megaupload. can i download file from somewhere else? im really pissed off cuz im stuck like this. please help
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The Roms for the p999 and the p990 are not inter changeable. Different frame work.
jrfaulkin said:
I posted this in another thread, but created this new one specifically for these users that are having this issue and can't solve it because they don't have access to an XP machine.
I solved my issue late last night. I am running Windows 7 64bit. I saw that a lot of the guys here used XP to run the KDZ flasher and that wasn't an option for me until I installed XP Mode.
XP Mode allows you to run a virtual XP machine inside Windows 7. I was able to run the KDZ flasher in there and successfully flashed the KDZ GB file to my phone.
You do need to flash stock recovery first. I tried unsuccessfully to flash the KDZ with CWM recovery installed. It would not work until I flashed stock recovery.
One other problem I ran into is, in XP Mode, you are "attaching" USB devices to the virtual XP session via a "stub USB driver." For some reason during the KDZ flashing process the USB modem driver for LG kept releasing from my session. What I did to counteract this was manual attach it each time it released. This was easy, but I had to stay on top of it until the flasher finished the job. I have two monitors so I had the "Devices and Printers" window open in Windows 7, and when I heard the ding indicating the USB driver had left the session, and saw the LG devices appear in the Devices and Printers window, I would just click attach on the USB pulldown in the XP session.
I know this sounds a little complex for some (and possibly vague), but once you get into the XP Mode session you will see what I'm talking about.
I hope this helps you guys still stuck on SW Update screen that don't have XP.
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I'm running Windows 7 Home premium 64 Bit and Virtual XP Mode is not compatible with this version of Windows 7... Is there another way around this issue...???
Erocks said:
I'm running Windows 7 Home premium 64 Bit and Virtual XP Mode is not compatible with this version of Windows 7... Is there another way around this issue...???
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VMware with XP on it/Google how to bypass limitation?
Found this to get Xp Mode on home edition idk if it works I just use VMware personally
http://m.tomshardware.com/news/windows-xp-mode-windows-7-win7,10213.html
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Hey guys, I'm having an issue here and I'm looking for help. I came from a Vibrant and loved it, have the Charge now and it's a great phone but I need a custom ROM quick. I have a desktop running Vista 32-BIT, and when I open ODIN and put my phone in DOWNLOAD MODE my PC starts searching for a Gadget Serial Driver. It searches and searches to no avail, and then it searches Windows Update. I've downloaded the drivers for the Charge and installed them and I'm still running into this error. If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.
You could reinstall the drivers; rt click them and run as administrator.
Also try right clicking odin and run as administrator.
Also try different usb ports.
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Ok guys so I got it working. When I plugged my phone in to the computer for some reason it wouldn't recognize the drivers from the phone. So I downloaded the drivers from one of the forums and was having issues installing them. Well come to find out in Windows Vista and Windows 7 there is this security feature called Driver Verifying. It's checking the drivers signature to see if it is a security risk or not. Well for some reason Samsung signs their drivers really weird or not at all. So the fix is to reboot your computer and on startup keep hitting the F8 key till some options pop up and select DISABLE DRIVER SIGNATURE VERIFICATION and the drivers should install smooth as butter. This is only a single boot use so if you shut down or restart your computer at anytime you'll have to disable it again on another restart. Hope this info makes it easier for some. Cheers.
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Just got a Samsung infuse and i've had nothing but issues since the start. For starters. Im trying to go back to stock and start over. Ive tried odin and heimdall. ive tried at least 5 different driver packages. NOTHING will recognize the device. Ive tried different cables. different ports. Even different computers.
When I install any driver to it windows gives me code 10.
im about to throw this phone out the window
Are you using odin3.3?
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You need to download Kies Mini inorder to obtain the drivers for your device 1st of all. Once the Drivers install it will recognize your phone that is plugged in as Samsung. The rest of the Software does completely nothing other than give us drivers, Once your finished with the drivers reopen Odin set all the options as needed Put your phone into Download Mode and you should see a Port # show up as either 3, or some other number as long as theirs a Port # then you can flash the Rom.
Ok so i FINALLY got the drivers correct. however, ODIN now hangs on 'setting up connection"
now what?
Ok. so i set compatibility in windows to vista sp2 lol now it works?
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Ok. so i set compatibility in windows to vista sp2 lol now it works?
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Previously, were you running it as Administrator? I believe that is required on Win7, but not on Vista (which I am running).
yea... i was running on admin every attempt. weird.
now im just trying to figure out why CWM wont see my external sd card.
Well I finally rooted my sidekick and went to backup the stock rom via rom manager and it rebooted and never got past t mobile sidekick boot screen so I downloaded odin the pit file and the tar but when I put my phone into download mode i cant get it to recognize the sidekick when I plug it in it just says unknown device and i have the driver down loaded any help please
Windows can be picky about drivers sometimes.
I recommend uninstalling the driver, opening regedit, and manually deleting any remaining registry keys associated with the Samsung drivers. (This will take you some time.)
After that, reinstall the driver and try again.
I think you may need to google some of what I said here to get it done. But, you can do it if you take some initiative.
well i tried deleting kies and reinstalling it whitch i thought it was the driver if im wrong or theres a more direct driver can someone tell me when i plug my sidekick in i get usb device not recognized message
uncapj said:
well i tried deleting kies and reinstalling it whitch i thought it was the driver if im wrong or theres a more direct driver can someone tell me when i plug my sidekick in i get usb device not recognized message
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Ok. Give me some information.
I need to know what you installed as a driver. I need to know what Odin you are using. I also need to know where you got your information; what threads did you search for and read?
Is Windows complaining when you plug the device in or is the Odin program just not seeing your device?
When we do get your device back, also consider the risk/reward here. These customs aren't really offering the earth shattering things you might be hoping for. We're geeks and we are splitting hairs when we talk about improvements. The truth is, the final official KJ2 is a reliable and stable OS on its own. (If it wasn't, developers would be basing their work on older versions.) It's just something to think about...
Anyhow, get some more info out here and we'll help you Odin back to stock. After that, it's up to you.
well i got a drive from softpedia as well as kies and i searched various forums and topics im using windows xp sp3 and odin 3 as well as got the pit and tar files from lins on this site i
windows is the one that wines when i plug the phone in it says unknown device and no drivers for device found
You should have downloaded a Samsung USB driver for Mobile Phones. At one point, we were using Vibrant drivers to access the phone. Did you get real Samsung drivers for this phone?
You do NOT want to use Vibrant drivers.
Also, let's not rule out a hardware problem.
If you are rough with your phone's USB port, you can bend/break a pin in there. You could have a bad port.
If your phone isn't working like a USB pin drive on any (and every) computer you try, you may have a problem.
You should also check your cable and the physical port on your computer.
i got the kies from the samsung web site it was under the sidekick model nuber and showed a picture of my phone also i believe the softpedia driver was probably the vibrant driver
FYI, Kies only works if can get booted. We won't be using it until we can get a proper recovery of some kind.
What is happening? Is it just sitting there and vibrating over and over? Or does it appear to be rebooting?
Does it keep showing the t-mo logo flashing on and off the screen? Or is it just sitting there vibrating?
If you seeing the logo and the device is rebooting, you must use the Odin tool. If it is just hung up in the boot process, you can use Android Commander to get into clockworkmod.
I'm going to upload you some files. I'll private message you a link to download them.
We'll close out our public discussion here.