It's kind of a funny story, actually.. - Captivate General

So I bought a Captivate off of craigslist. first mistake, i know. but i inspected the phone meticulously and everything had checked out. That is...
Until I got home. I had seen that CM7 nightlies were posted and I use them on my Inspire so i didn't waste anytime rooting and installing CWM. I then downloaded 2 ROMs, one normal 2.2 ROM and CM nightly build 13. I read about cm7 and how it replaces the EFS file system, so the only way to change ROMs is to odin back to stock.
Here's the funny part. Everything I did up up to and including installing CM7 I did WITHOUT using a computer/USB whatsoever. So I install samsung USB drivers on my 2 PC's (win7 and xp) and I go to connect my phone in download mode. no dice. everytime i plug it in, both of my PCs say the dreaded "usb device has malfunctioned"
2 additional details to note:
1. my friend picked up a stock 2.2 captivate at best buy tonight and i threw it in download mode on the same usb port and it connected fine and installed drivers, + odin saw the device. mine still says malfunctioned.
2. I know USB connectivity works because if i go to the CWM recovery I can mount USB storage.
SO what are everyone's thoughts? did i not read a special instruction? am I missing something really stupid? or am i stuck on CM7 nightly builds for the rest of forever? haha.
Edit: found this in the cm7 nightly post:
**Warning : Not for new users, flash this build only if you know what you are doing !!! Make SURE you can get into Download mode using only buttons (no other method, Download mode from just buttons is essential).**
I didn't read that^ whoops. I cannot get into DL mode using only buttons...does that mean i am stuck on CM7?

3buttonfix.zip is floating around here somewhere

ConeyKiller said:
3buttonfix.zip is floating around here somewhere
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His main problem is odin wont reconize his phone once it is in download mode. Three button fix is secondary mainly because you need odin to flash it.

Try getting jiffy with it
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erstad said:
Try getting jiffy with it
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I think you mean jiggy.....as in a jig. Still issue is odin not reconizing phone in download mode.

erstad said:
Try getting jiffy with it
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I don't think peanut butter is gonna do any good ;p

Correct me if im wrong but cm7 flash requires nexus s usb drivers(or did at one point). Your friends new phone would be detected with the captivate drivers while yours would not.
If you just have the wrong drivers installed you can get the right ones from the android sdk. Uninstall current usb drivers.. reboot... install nexus s usb drivers.. reboot... plug in phone.

whiteguypl said:
Correct me if im wrong but cm7 flash requires nexus s usb drivers(or did at one point). Your friends new phone would be detected with the captivate drivers while yours would not.
If you just have the wrong drivers installed you can get the right ones from the android sdk. Uninstall current usb drivers.. reboot... install nexus s usb drivers.. reboot... plug in phone.
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Your correct.
Good luck OP.

studacris said:
I don't think peanut butter is gonna do any good ;p
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Hahaha nice

erstad said:
Try getting jiffy with it
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I carry a jig in my wallet. Not sure I am up to carrying peanut butter too.

Well I hope you get out of your Jam...
Pun intended
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windows not recognizing phone

Ok so I'm not sure what happened here, but my laptop wont recognize my phone. I have windows 7 and the phone is currently running octane. I originally had used odin to set the phone up with the proper boot loaders a while back then used cwm to flash ravers octane. I wanted to go back to stock using the official kj6 that raver posted through odin. When ever i hook the phone in to the laptop it says usb device not recognized. Any ideas or ways to fix this? I tried uninstalling and installing the sgs4g drivers again with no luck.
shut off..when u go into dl mode Odin should get it..don't worry about it while it's on...I did that for an hour last week...with octane
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odin still isn't catching it
http://tinyurl.com/KiesMini1
Download and install Kies Mini
So I just went ahead and downloaded the cwm ver that raver posted. moved it to root folder of sd card and flashed that copy instead. Even now that i'm stock the laptop won't recognize my phone so weird. Any other ideas?
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goddi2010 said:
So I just went ahead and downloaded the cwm ver that raver posted. moved it to root folder of sd card and flashed that copy instead. Even now that i'm stock the laptop won't recognize my phone so weird. Any other ideas?
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If it recognized it before, make sure you're plugging it back into the same USB port you previously used. Also make sure the drivers are installed. If they're acting buggy, uninstall them and reinstall them. Downloading and installing Kies Mini (link provided by FB) would insure you get the right drivers installed.
Every time you flash a new Rom, it will probably do that. It depends on your computer. Once you uninstall the drivers, try to run ccleaner from piriform to clean out the registry. Reboot the computer. Then reinstall the drivers using the files from the Bible.
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Yeah I tried UN and reinstalling the drivers I had gotten them from the Bible. I will try ccleaner and see what happens. Also I tried all USB Ports. Thanx for all your ideas I will post if ccleaner works or not
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Ok so i deleted the samsung drivers. used ccleaner to to fix the registry and then restarted the computer. installed the drivers and the computer will still not recognize the phone. any other ideas?
Have you tried/can you try it on a different computer?
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Plug your phone into your computer. Then go into your control panel and under Admin tools open computer managment. click on the device manager extension and find the device/s with the yellow exclamation point. right click and select uninstall. then unplug your phone and install the drivers from the SGS4G Bible and then plug your phone back in and it should work.
I forgot to mention my wife has this phone to stock never touched and my laptop registers gets just fine. When I plug mine in it says
USB device not recognized. And under some other options it says windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. I will try these suggestions though
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goddi2010 said:
I forgot to mention my wife has this phone to stock never touched and my laptop registers gets just fine. When I plug mine in it says
USB device not recognized. And under some other options it says windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. I will try these suggestions though
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if you have one phone that works on your laptop but another that doesn't then it would actually be your phone not your computer. I know windows far better than I do phones, sorry
yeah i'm deff thinking its the phone butderin what would cause this. thats what i'm wondering.
goddi2010 said:
yeah i'm deff thinking its the phone butderin what would cause this. thats what i'm wondering.
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What about flashing Raver's KJ6 via CWM & see if it makes a difference?
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Yeah that's what I did thinking it would help lol
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Yeah that's what I did thinking it would help lol
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Short of a factory data reset (which you'll want to do before sending it in for repair, anyway), I don't know. It's weird that it worked until you flashed a ROM.
I know its crazy, kind of blows if I brick my phone i'm done deal lol.
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Only thing I haven't tried is flashing back to stock 2.2 kd1, think that work work?
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goddi2010 said:
Only thing I haven't tried is flashing back to stock 2.2 kd1, think that work work?
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Can't hurt to try, right?

[Q] Getting my hands on a bricked g2x today....

he said he bricked it trying to upgrade to ICS.
is the sticky at the top still the way to unbrick it? i noticed that a couple links were dead in the first post. granted i didn't go through all 17 pages, just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything newer then whats already been posted.
edit: he did say that the screen is showing s/w if that matters
Was it bricked by flashing a o2x rom? I think that may be the hardest brick I have heard of but still fixable. I believe if that is the case than following the sticky should restore the baseband and everything else.
Honestly though I would first try just reflashing CWM via nvflash, boot into recovery and load a stable GB rom. If that works, great.
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Was it bricked by flashing a o2x rom? I think that may be the hardest brick I have heard of but still fixable. I believe if that is the case than following the sticky should restore the baseband and everything else.
Honestly though I would first try just reflashing CWM via nvflash, boot into recovery and load a stable GB rom. If that works, great.
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he just said things went haywire when trying to flash ICS. i've been messing around with the sticky but can't get anything to work....yet!
im on windows 7 if that matters
and after i boot into recovery the screen is just flashing black. any ideas?
everything i do with flashing it just sits at the prompt saying "flashing" and nothing else happens.
blackbeasst said:
he just said things went haywire when trying to flash ICS. i've been messing around with the sticky but can't get anything to work....yet!
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You apparently you did not even read the first post. XP only, will not work with Windows 7.
"As many have stated, pushing the v21E_00.kdz via the KDZ_FW_UPD program does work. It's just touchy.
This is a step by step guide to get you back in to working shape.
Note: You MUST do this via a PC running Windows XP. Running Vista/7 in compatibility mode is not going to work, period.
Edit: As an alternative, a virtual environment running XP will do the job. Those steps are up to you."
That's not true. I updated the baseband using win7 on my first try. No need for comparability mode.
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That's not true. I updated the baseband using win7 on my first try. No need for comparability mode.
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Can confirm that too. Was working fine on 32 bit win7, using the method from the stickies upgrading wind's June baseband.
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duple and lurker, thanks for the confirmation that it works with 7
when i try and push the kdz i get the dreaded phone not found.
ok im on my xp machine here at work and heres what i got:
Part 1: Download the files you will need below.
V21E_00.kdz
KDZ_FW_UPD_EN
One-Click-G2x-recovery-flasher-06-16.rar
LG USB Drivers G2x
Part 2:
1) Install the LG G2x USB drivers to your WinXP machine.
2) Extract the entire contents of the One-Click recovery in to a folder and keep it handy.
3) Remove the battery from the phone. Hold both volume buttons and plug in the USB cable. If you are asked for a driver, look in the APX folder where you extracted the One-Click recovery archive.
4) Run OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe and flash the stock recovery. Wait for the process to finish and close all windows and unplug the phone.
no problems with above steps. after that nothing works. when i put the battery back in and turn on thats when i get the flashing black screen, not back to the s/w screen.
5) Put the battery back into the phone and turn it on. You will be back at the S/W Upgrade screen. This is where you want to be! Now plug the USB cable back in to the phone. If everything is up to snuff you should have no driver problems at this point.
6) Extract KDZ_FW_UPD_EN.7z in to a folder. Inside is a msxml.msi. You need to run and install this first!
7) Run KDZ_FW_UPD.exe.. Leave the type set to CDMA and the phone mode set to DIAG. DO NOT CLICK ON "Read phone information"
8) Click the folder icon and load the V21E_00.kdz
9) Click launch software update (and pray!)
ok just for craps and giggles i tried booting into recovery and actually got the box with arrow and android! but it then reboots back to the lg screen and then flashing black screen
WOOT! finally able to get into CWM recovery!
is all that needs to be done now is install a stable rom?
double WOOT! back up and running. time to test the functionality of if though!
edit: can't find the sim and no service.
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double WOOT! back up and running. time to test the functionality of if though!
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Delighted to hear that. So, another confirmation of the "old" folks stating it's 99.9% un-brickable.
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DupleX01 said:
Delighted to hear that. So, another confirmation of the "old" folks stating it's 99.9% un-brickable.
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and im a tard. sim was inserted bass akwards
blackbeasst said:
and im a tard. sim was inserted bass akwards
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Congrats man.
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wifi seems to be flaky. keeps scanning and dropping work and home network
also it appears that the market wasn't on that version of the rom. is that a quick fix?
Now you have the recovery and baseband sorted, start from scratch and do a full wipe(including system internal/external SD). Then flash a stable ROM Weapon/EB to make sure everything is good. Just my 2 cents
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DupleX01 said:
Now you have the recovery and baseband sorted, start from scratch and do a full wipe(including system internal/external SD). Then flash a stable ROM Weapon/EB to make sure everything is good. Just my 2 cents
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im was lucky to get it up and running, so im still a flashing noob! but what is considered a stable rom for this phone?
i grabbed one from cyanmod earlier today. i think it was from around 3/13?
blackbeasst said:
im was lucky to get it up and running, so im still a flashing noob! but what is considered a stable rom for this phone?
i grabbed one from cyanmod earlier today. i think it was from around 3/13?
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You were lucky, indeed!
A CM nightly can be stable too, however I would flash either Weapon or Eagles Blood for a couple of days to have a piece of mind that everything is working cool. The most important would be a proper full wipe (cache, dalvik, system under mounts and storage, battery stats and imho internal and external SD too) too get rid of the previous mess caused by the unsuccessful flash, etc.
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Defected sgs2 wont connect to pc, install custom rom ota?

Hey
i've been trying to find a custom rom that i can install onto my completely stock sgs2 lte without connecting to pc and flashing with odim. My phone is apparently defected and cannot connect to pc, trying to install custom rom might fix the issue. the phone is completely stock, not even rooted.
can someone direct a link to that rom?
thanksks!
the only way as far as I know is to hook it up to PC. Mine did the same thing. Wouldn't register on a PC. I tried various cables until I found one that would work. That's the best advice I can give you.
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Try different USB Ports and different cables or another computer.
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If your rom version support the zerg rush rooting method you can do it, install cwm and flash a rom from there.
I never had to flash anything using odin, tried using odin only once and even then I dont think it recognized my phone due to bad kies drivers(which I have fixed by now).
you do have the correct drivers installed right? More info in your first post would be an advantage to those trying to help
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Also like the last guy I just thought about it could be your kies installed **** drivers, happened to me the first time, couldn't connect the phone to the pc but it worked great on the mac try completely uninstalling kies and the usb drivers and installing them from scratch.
flickoff613 said:
Hey
i've been trying to find a custom rom that i can install onto my completely stock sgs2 lte without connecting to pc and flashing with odim. My phone is apparently defected and cannot connect to pc, trying to install custom rom might fix the issue. the phone is completely stock, not even rooted.
can someone direct a link to that rom?
thanksks!
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Download wifi file transfer peo and start loading up the phone without ever connecting it. I've never had to connect the phone to the pc ever since I stated using that app.
Everything is mobile Odin or CWM now right off the sd card and wifi for data.
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Get dolphin browser hd from the market. U can download anything u want just like on a pc.
I download my roms directly to my devices. No dealing with a usb cable or pc
kr3w1337 said:
Download wifi file transfer peo and start loading up the phone without ever connecting it. I've never had to connect the phone to the pc ever since I stated using that app.
Everything is mobile Odin or CWM now right off the sd card and wifi for data.
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We are supported by mobile Odin?
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roughneckboren said:
the only way as far as I know is to hook it up to PC. Mine did the same thing. Wouldn't register on a PC. I tried various cables until I found one that would work. That's the best advice I can give you.
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yes i have tried various cables as well as a search result, doesn't seem to budge.
xcrazydx said:
Try different USB Ports and different cables or another computer.
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yes i have tried different ports and as well as installing kies / drivers on different computers including windows xp, windows vista, windows 7, no conclusion.
roughneckboren said:
you do have the correct drivers installed right? More info in your first post would be an advantage to those trying to help
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yep i tried every single driver for the sgs2 lte that i can search on xda.
kishke said:
Also like the last guy I just thought about it could be your kies installed **** drivers, happened to me the first time, couldn't connect the phone to the pc but it worked great on the mac try completely uninstalling kies and the usb drivers and installing them from scratch.
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i've tried that but never tested on mac because i dunno anyone that has a mac nearby lol.
i have contacted samsung, they said its defected so send it in for repairs, since i dont have warranty they'd charge me up the ass. Its funny because they asked me why do i need to plug to pc, i simply said music, photo... shoulda been like TO MOD YOUR ****.
more or less, i have last resort to sell it on kijiji and buy another same model off kijiji, hoping its not defected. the sgs2 is a sweet phone, real talk lol
silver03wrx said:
Get dolphin browser hd from the market. U can download anything u want just like on a pc.
I download my roms directly to my devices. No dealing with a usb cable or pc
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i dont have a problem with getting roms onto my phone, i have a microsd adapter that i use to transfer, just issue is if can get pass the stupid E:signature vertification failed on the recovery upgrade from zip that be awesome, but that means i have to root, but how do i root without the pc..
Whats your rom version?
Android version:
2.3.5
Baseband version:
I727RUXKJ7
Kernel version:
2.6.35.11
Build number:
GINGERBREAD.RUXKJ7
Sigh!! Its so easy with the galaxy ace, rooting and unrooting and installing cmw, all with the stock recovery, which we have on this phone, I was tempted to try it on my 1727 just wanna root so I can freeze the wifi manager with TB.
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Android version:
2.3.5
Baseband version:
I727RUXKJ7
Kernel version:
2.6.35.11
Build number:
GINGERBREAD.RUXKJ7
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So it's pretty easy, use think to root your phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321582
Then download rom manager and install CWM.
Then just flash everything you want with CWM without the need for a cable.
kishke said:
So it's pretty easy, use think to root your phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321582
Then download rom manager and install CWM.
Then just flash everything you want with CWM without the need for a cable.
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Yeah i think ill just sell the phone, how am i going to use easy root when i said my pc wont even recognize my phone, yes it is easy if i can get it to connect....
kishke said:
So it's pretty easy, use think to root your phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321582
Then download rom manager and install CWM.
Then just flash everything you want with CWM without the need for a cable.
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Yeah i think ill just sell the phone, how am i going to use easy root when i said my pc wont even recognize my phone, yes it is easy if i can get it to connect....
Oh your right totally forgot about needing a pc for this >< my mistake.
BUMP
Hi, I want some help with this same issue. I'm not sure what forum etiquette is here, whether you guys prefer a bump of an old thread or that I just start a new one??
Anyway my phone is wigging out so I wanted to wipe and flash but I can't figure out how to do this since no PC/cord combo will recognize my phone, though it still charges. I wanted to use ROM Manager to flash OTA, but I can't since I can't figure out how to get cwm installed ota. I've been digging around the forum and googling for a couple days now to no avail.
Version - 2.3.5
Baseband - I727UCKJ2
Kernel - 2.6.35.11
It was rooted but I never flashed any roms. It randomly shuts itself off and upon a battery pull will get stuck in Odin dl mode? If i do a batt pull after that it will go straight back to Odin dl mode or it get's stuck in a vibration loop. Sometimes if I plug it in it will start up with a dead battery though?
Any ideas?
Should I just make a new thread on this??
clean the usb port on the phone, then the usb shall connect, i had the same prob its fixed now
Install Odin and see if it "sees" the phone in d/l mode.
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Help Please?? Can't get back to stock through Heimdall:(

Hi guys.
Was wondering if anyone could help me out with my phone. I'd been running the Unnamed rom for a while then last week the phone started acting up on me. Now I'm trying to return it back to stock and for some reason I'm getting a claiming interface error. It says device connected on Heimdall, and the connection is able to initialize but it keeps failing on the interface part.
Any help would be truly appreciated.
I suggest you try another USB port or even another computer if you can.
try this
this happend to me once but what i did was
1.restart pc
2.take out battery from phone nd put it back in
3.enter download mode
4. put usb cable on a different spot (sometimes odin can interfer with heimdall)
5.open heindall with phone already on download mode
6.reinstall drivers for that usb slot
7.then initiate the flash back to stock
8.after its done reboot phone (mine turns on by itself)
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chacua358 said:
this happend to me once but what i did was
1.restart pc
2.take out battery from phone nd put it back in
3.enter download mode
4. put usb cable on a different spot (sometimes odin can interfer with heimdall)
5.open heindall with phone already on download mode
6.reinstall drivers for that usb slot
7.then initiate the flash back to stock
8.after its done reboot phone (mine turns on by itself)
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Thanks for the assistance man. But i got a question on one step. Could you explain how to reinstall the drivers for the usb slot? I'm on a mac os right now btw, but I could switch over to windows if needed.
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I suggest you try another USB port or even another computer if you can.
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Tried multiple other ports still same result. Even tried another comp, but no go.. I'm confused.
Hope you get it working. Here's this in case you somehow missed these.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716
Second post on this one
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First thing.... Take a breath and know that everything will be ok
now, you need to try different usb ports
reinstall the sgs4g drivers
make sure you have everything for heimdall
IF NONE OF THESE WORK
it is your cable
dsexton702 said:
First thing.... Take a breath and know that everything will be ok
now, you need to try different usb ports
reinstall the sgs4g drivers
make sure you have everything for heimdall
IF NONE OF THESE WORK
it is your cable
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i agee with dexton but one question so we can help you furthermore what version of stock do you want to go back to (i mean 2.2.1, 2.3.4 , or 2.3.6 )
chacua358 said:
i agee with dexton but one question so we can help you furthermore what version of stock do you want to go back to (i mean 2.2.1, 2.3.4 , or 2.3.6 )
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Thanks so much man! You have saved my life haha. Followed it exactly as you said, worked with no problems. Guess the old drivers just got corrupted and my phone wasn't being recognized anymore. Thanks again, you are awesome. :laugh:
classcsilk said:
Thanks so much man! You have saved my life haha. Followed it exactly as you said, worked with no problems. Guess the old drivers just got corrupted and my phone wasn't being recognized anymore. Thanks again, you are awesome. :laugh:
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hey no problem thats what xda is for is for people to help each other and we have all been on a sticky situation
chacua358 said:
hey no problem thats what xda is for is for people to help each other and we have all been on a sticky situation
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It is always the cord that gets me. I only own one that can one click correctly out of five... Not a fun time downgrading.
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Cooptx said:
It is always the cord that gets me. I only own one that can one click correctly out of five... Not a fun time downgrading.
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the original cable from the phone sucks its too short and thin mine broke 2 months after i bought a motorola droid one and broke like 3 or 4 monts after bought an lg one but all it does is charge the phone no data no flashing no nothing same with a cable from the gas station but the best cable ive used is the mytouchbranded on its been 5 months its the best one yet you should try it mine was from my old mytouch 3g slide:laugh:

[Q] I need some Help Please!

UPDATE: I decided to get another phone through my insurance and received the same phone as of today (3-11-13) so thanks to everyone that helped me it was a greatly appreciated! Thank you very much next time I root I'll make sure to backup everything and pay really close to everything. Thank you all for helping.
Okay long story short my phone (Galaxy S 4G) is stuck on the screen where it shows a Phone, !, and a Computer. I did some research on the Internet and read something saying that this is an alternative Download Mode. Basically, what I am trying to do is Unroot my phone / revering back to stock, but did some dumb things to the point where I am stuck on this screen. I am currently using Odin to do all of this, but Odin doesn't recognize my phone for some odd reason because its been read before. So I did some research and read that I had to uninstall then reinstall some drivers then reboot my computer then do everything again. I did that, but Odin is still not recognizing my phone. I tried plugging my phone in all USB ports of my computer and its still not recognizing my phone. What do you think I should be doing? I definitely need some help and it would be greatly appreciated if any of you can help me.
Tried a different cable? Wiped data/factory reset?
It's in download mode, that's a good thing.
Which Odin version are you using? Samsung kies installed? You could try uninstalling kies/drivers & go heimdall one click.. search for lumin30's guide (it's sticked in forum). Mash thanks in his thread if it helps
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champ1919 said:
Tried a different cable? Wiped data/factory reset?
It's in download mode, that's a good thing.
Which Odin version are you using? Samsung kies installed? You could try uninstalling kies/drivers & go heimdall one click.. search for lumin30's guide (it's sticked in forum). Mash thanks in his thread if it helps
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Well, yes it's in Download mode, but the alternative one with the phone, !, and computer. Also I can't wipe/data factory reset unless theirs a way to get that if so let me know. The version of Odin I am using 1.7, so I tried v1.80 and the latest version which is 3.07. Yes, I have Kies installed with the drivers as well. I also looked into that heimdall one click, but there is too much stuff to do and download that my computer cant handle because it is really old so maybe if there is another way around this that would be helpful other than that I don't know what else to do.
Whatever you did that got it there... was perfect. If you had just flashed it once more when you got to that screen, your phone would have been working ever since.
Now? No clue what you've done with drivers and the like since back then. Try a one-click in a new USB port without installing any drivers?
Does the computer see the device and not Odin or do both see nothing (any beeps ?).
Are you doing the battery drop in while it's connected to the usb? Or booting it (into download mode) then plugging it into computer?
Which Rom are you trying to flash?
Windows should be able to do the one click. Which version (of Windows) are you using?
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miglop said:
Well, yes it's in Download mode, but the alternative one with the phone, !, and computer. Also I can't wipe/data factory reset unless theirs a way to get that if so let me know. The version of Odin I am using 1.7, so I tried v1.80 and the latest version which is 3.07. Yes, I have Kies installed with the drivers as well. I also looked into that heimdall one click, but there is too much stuff to do and download that my computer cant handle because it is really old so maybe if there is another way around this that would be helpful other than that I don't know what else to do.
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Look for Gremlin Remover in the dev section. It is an Odin One-Click.
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Look for Gremlin Remover in the dev section. It is an Odin One-Click.
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Here is the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427
Also try to delete ALL Samsung and Android drivers.
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Here is the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427
Also try to delete ALL Samsung and Android drivers.
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You need Samsung drivers for ODIN.
That pesky kies installs them.
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im just trying to get back to stock/unroot but i cant access anything on my phone it just takes me to that screen. when i plug my phone it just says on the bottom right corner of my computer screen that the usb device cant be recognized. thats why i asked if there is a way around all of this
ive tried all usb ports on my computer and i cant get my computer to recognize my phone.
Okay I will try this method...
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You need Samsung drivers for ODIN.
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I know. Uninstall it then download fresh ones. Or just plug your phone in again and let it download new drivers.
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Odin only recognizes your port only if you actually in the download mode; the one with the picture of the android robot and the word 'downloading.' Here is what you need to do:
1) open Odin program;
2) remove battery from your phone;
3) plug USB cable into computer and your phone;
4) press the up and down volume keys at the same time;
5) As you hold down the volume keys, put the battery back on the phone, and wait for about 3 seconds. You should be able to see the download robot. If it doesn't work, try it again.
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It's okay if just decided to get a new phone through my insurance it's fine no need for any of this anymore, but thanks to everyone that helped me. Next time I root my phone I make sure I back up everything that I need!
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Well, if you plan to root your new phone in future, you are going to run into this issue again. Backing up the data won't help you get out of this jam. My advice to you is to use your new phone as is; don't try to root or install customize roms <<<---that was a painful experience, but I've mastered the timing to the point it takes only one try now.
If you are a first timer, it is not easy to get into download mode. You have to do a couple of times to get a hang of it. It becomes an art form - just like getting into DFU mode on an iPhone for first time.
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Well, if you plan to root your new phone in future, you are going to run into this issue again. Backing up the data won't help you get out of this jam. My advice to you is to use your new phone as is; don't try to root or install customize roms.
If you are a first timer, it is not easy to get into download mode. You have to do a couple of times to get a hang of it. It becomes an art form - just like getting into DFU mode on an iPhone for first time.
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Or, think of the learning curve he can have with 2... lol
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I'm wondering why no one told OP to use Heimdall One Click back to stock KJ6...
Its really not that difficult dude! Its scarier than it really is . Trust when we tell you. Its gonna be more time consuming than anything else bout 2 maybe 3 hours ...this includes downloading, deleting, re downloading, connecting, disconnecting, "If u can get Odin to open and running on your old computer.You should be able to get Java, Bhundvens 1 click ..and Or Gremlin remover".!!! Kies is only good if you want the Samsung drivers once you've got your phone back to full fledge stock. If you want to save the $130 its gonna cost you for a phone through (Assurion)that in reality isn't worth buying again your better off using that towards a New phone trust me bro I'm no dev and don't speak they're language Lol (I wish) I personally know from frustrating trial and error! Believe that u can do it and when you do it you'll be like wow that's it!!! Just try being more cautious homez.
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I'm wondering why no one told OP to use Heimdall One Click back to stock KJ6...
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Actually, champ1919 told him that already. Scroll to first page.
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