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[Q] Odin issues - drivers, etc?

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

What have I done?: Not bricked but phone can't be recognized any longer

I was trying to install Cyanogen 7 and my first step was a one-click return to stock that seemed to complete fine.
When I rebooted I go into Android 3e recovery. Each time I boot the recovery message says:
Update media. please wait
update media. finished
#manual mode#
--Applying Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
Install default apk-files. please wait
Install default apk-files. finished
The phone is no longer recognized by windows even though I've tried several different versions of the Samsung drivers. (also tried different USB ports, different cables and different computers per my search results in here)
I can get into Download mode but the device is not recognized so its not recognized by any of the ODIN utilities to repair or restore...
Any idea what is going on - or more importantly what can I do to recover this thing?
Help?
Thanks!

First of all, I would try Heimdall One-Click instead of Odin. It's more reliable, and uses better drivers. Will it not reboot into Froyo? And which one-click package did you use?

I used the Heimdall One-Click and it seemed to complete okay. Trouble started when I rebooted. I can't seem to redo it because the the One click utilities don't recognize the phone as connected.
I always get the Windows message "USB Device is not recognized" and when I go into my Device Manager the phone is listed as an "Unknown Device"

I would strongly advise against flashing back to froyo or eclair as the bootloaders are out dated.. As.for.your phone not being recognized it could be a number of issues from anywhere to ypur pc.needs a reboot to your usb cable is bad. I once had the same issue and i reinstalled the samsung drivers a few times with no reults. Believe it or not what fixed my problem was a fresh install of kies (a program i never use)
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I installed Keis, rebooted and it did in fact recognize and re-install the drivers. I then tried the heimdall 1-click and it failed on the attemped handshaking with Loke step. Now I am back to not being able to recognize the USB device again.!
ugh!

WinoOutWest said:
I installed Keis, rebooted and it did in fact recognize and re-install the drivers. I then tried the heimdall 1-click and it failed on the attemped handshaking with Loke step. Now I am back to not being able to recognize the USB device again.!
ugh!
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Heimdall uses completely different drivers
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Yes it installed the heimdall drivers successfully when I tried to run the on-click. Then it timed out. I now appear to be back to an unrecognized device again. Installing Keis, Samnsung drivers etc trying to get it to recognize the phone again. It easily goes into download mode.
Anyone got any ideas how I can get this thing breathing again?

Try rebooting the computer. Use a USB port in the back of the computer. Try a different cable. Open Odin before connecting phone to computer.

mrhaley30705 said:
Try rebooting the computer. Use a USB port in the back of the computer. Try a different cable. Open Odin before connecting phone to computer.
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Tried all of this - still no love. Every once in a while it will search and install Samsung drivers but then it disconnects almost instantly.
I also fumbled through getting a Ubuntu up to try it in Linux but the download mode isn't found in linux either.
Running out of options here. Wondering if I've pooched this phone.

WinoOutWest said:
Tried all of this - still no love. Every once in a while it will search and install Samsung drivers but then it disconnects almost instantly.
I also fumbled through getting a Ubuntu up to try it in Linux but the download mode isn't found in linux either.
Running out of options here. Wondering if I've pooched this phone.
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Its not broken permanently, I promise.

Well slap my a$$ and call me Judy!
After 1 million attempts (cords, ports. pcs, windows, linux) I finally managed to get back into my phone. I literally must have had this phone in and out of download mode several hundred times in the last 24 hours. One of my attempts finally worked in Ubuntu! Not sure why really - but I am okay with that at this point.
Thanks for all you help!
Darren

<smack> good job Judy.

Please help me with download mode!!

Hello, i am currently trying to root my sisters galaxy s 4g... Her Baseband is T949VUVKI1. Firmware is 2.3.5, Build Number is GINGERBREAD.VUVKI1. i remember flashing her phone to 2.3.5 and download mode working perfectly fine, and for some reason it wont go into download mode at all... the computer is not recognizing her phone either. YES, i do have usb drivers installed otherwise my galaxy s 4g wouldnt be recognized on my computer(odin specifically, not turning yellow). Please help, i have searched everywhere in the internet and tried almost everything... Volume up and down and plug charger, batter out volume up and down usb and battery in etc. PLEASE HELP!! Thank You in Advance.

Nvm
10c

1. Try reinstalling to drivers. Also make sure you're using the same USB port as Windows can be funny about it it sometimes.
2. if download mode is being difficult, go download the Android SDK from www.android.com. Install it, run it, and only download the platform tools. When that's done, open a command promt, CD to where the plaform tools installed (either c:\program files\Android\Android-sdk\platform-tools or c:\program files (x86)\Android\Android-sdk\platform-tools ), then issue the command: adb reboot download.
3. I suggest you check the dev section for bhundven's one-click collection. Uses Java and Heimdall vs. ODIN and works easily.
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i have this issue 2.3.5 messed me up. Odin sees my phone in debug mode but not in download mode...using odin 1.85 sinse it is the only version that responds to my phone at all. help please!

Tytan0007 said:
i have this issue 2.3.5 messed me up. Odin sees my phone in debug mode but not in download mode...using odin 1.85 sinse it is the only version that responds to my phone at all. help please!
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Get it back into download mode, go grab a bhundven's one-click. The one-clicks utilize Heimdall vs. ODIN, which means they use open-source USB drivers instead of the proprietary Samsung drivers. See if that enables the computer to see the phone. If so, flash the one-click

Should I uninstall the samsung drivers prior to using Heimdall's One-Click?

Tytan0007 said:
Should I uninstall the samsung drivers prior to using Heimdall's One-Click?
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That's a good idea. Some people have reported conflicts between the drivers.

Why would only Odin 1.85 see my phone in USB Debugging and not in download mode? And all other Odin verisions never see my phone, no matter what state it is in... I am at work so I will give the one click another try when I get home. I never thought of uninstalling the Samsung drivers prior to install; however, I did use the one click method to no avail. However, Heimdall's one-click was able to see my device it just kept giving me a driver error. This is so crazy it might just work.

Tytan0007 said:
Why would only Odin 1.85 see my phone in USB Debugging and not in download mode? And all other Odin verisions never see my phone, no matter what state it is in... I am at work so I will give the one click another try when I get home. I never thought of uninstalling the Samsung drivers prior to install; however, I did use the one click method to no avail. However, Heimdall's one-click was able to see my device it just kept giving me a driver error. This is so crazy it might just work.
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I wish I had a good answer. ODIN's a funny animal. I've been fortunate and not had any problems with it. I am hoping you are correct - maybe it was just a driver conflict. Let me know how it goes.

didn't work...

You could try downloading a terminal app from the market. Open the terminal and type:
reboot download
See if that does it.

***Update***
Okay, so Oneclick was not working at all no matter what I did with the drivers. However, in all my tinkering with it I installed the Samsung Driver, the Open Source one, and some gadget driver as well from oneclick.
Doing this put all these drivers in my computer. Then I went into my Device manager (Win 7) and looked at my USB driver and I uninstalled everything and went to the stock win 7 usb driver. Then I plugged my phone in and my computer began searching for drivers for this device when it decided that it would be a good idea to load all three drivers at once and voila my phone was then showing up on ODIN 1.85.
I then proceeded to flash my phone with a rom, probably the wrong one considering I was coming from 2.3.5 and my phone boot looped and then soft bricked(sorry if I used these term incorrectly, noobin it).
After, some nervous moment of scouring XDA I found the god-send of a post on getting in to download mode, using odin, and flashing stock 2.3.6 - thank you Raver(I believe). When I did this, my phone magically started obeying ODIN like a devout viking and is now running 2.3.6 superbly.
Keeping with my phones newly found viking heritage, I intend to figure out how to properly root it, update the kernal and modem(not sure which one is best), get CWM, and subsequesntly put in Valhalla Black.
Seeing as though this last rendevous with flashing caused me a little scare I may hold off and wait to see what the next big update is (maybe a port ICS variant) and then go with that.
Anyway, thank you Stephen for helping me out with this and to everyone in this post.

Here's some reading for you Tytan,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_4G#FAQ_.28with_answers.29
PS: Unless you wanna brick your phone, do not flash anything that isn't intended for the SGH-T959V Samsung Galaxy S 4G. You're saying you wanna flash a Vibrant ROM. You can, if you want an expensive paperweight. Happy flashing!

2.3.5 may have been for vibrant...yeah I think I got lucky. I did it prior to knowing about xda.
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Tytan0007 said:
didn't work...
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How are you getting into download mode?
There was a post in another thread where the person apparently was using the power menu to get into download mode or maybe the adb command.
Have you tried both the old fashion volume +/- and plug in usb cable? Or the adb command?
Do you have access to another computer? Believe it or not sometimes just changing computers will make the difference.
Weird when I replied there was no posts other than the ones on the first page...oh well glad its working now.

[Q] Did I brick my phone? [Solved]

Hello all,
Firstly thank you for the great development and help the community is providing for GS4G. From the time I bought this phone (few weeks ago), I have been playing around with different ROMs. I try GB roms and ICS roms every now and then. Always go back to GB using 1 Click's.
Yesterday when I was going the 1-Click Heimdall, it failed in between with some error. After this, I am unable to boot into the OS or recovery or download mode. It comes to a screen which tells me that the firmware upgrade was interrupted and asks me to use recovery in Kies. I tried this, but Kies does not even recognize my phone anymore. Windows shows my phone as "unknown device". I tried uninstalling and re-installing Kies, but still no use. I hope there is some way to get my phone back.
I read somewhere about a USB Jig that could get you into download mode. I have ordered it from Amazon and it may take a couple of days. Meanwhile, if any of you can help, it would be great. Thanks!

youre soft bricked, this is fixable. The firmware upgrade interrupted screen is the same thing as download mode. try reinstalling the drivers which i think are found in the sgs4g BIBLE thread. after that, plug in your phone and make it go to the firmware upgrade interrupted screen and see if it installs the drivers. read lumin's guide. it explains everything step by step. im going to try to link it here soon.
EDIT: [GUIDES] Fresh out of box Galaxy S 4G | Heimdall One-Click For Dummies
this is lumin30's guide not mine, i just linked it. thank him.

gs_0523 said:
youre soft bricked, this is fixable. The firmware upgrade interrupted screen is the same thing as download mode. try reinstalling the drivers which i think are found in the sgs4g BIBLE thread. after that, plug in your phone and make it go to the firmware upgrade interrupted screen and see if it installs the drivers. read lumin's guide. it explains everything step by step. im going to try to link it here soon.
EDIT: [GUIDES] Fresh out of box Galaxy S 4G | Heimdall One-Click For Dummies
this is lumin30's guide not mine, i just linked it. thank him.
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Thanks. I had tried eollie's Heimdall Stock KJ6 + Root. But, I don't remember seeing the driver installation window show up. I tried reinstalling the drivers through Kies couple of times and re-booting. But, still didn't work. I will try what you suggested when I get home.

You should be able to fix it. Goodluck

When you are using the heimdall 1 click does zadig not recognize your phone?
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TwitchyEye said:
When you are using the heimdall 1 click does zadig not recognize your phone?
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When I connect my phone, Heimdall does nothing but says "disconnected". Windows shows that "a device has malfunctioned" and shows "unknown device connected".

Do you have the full heimdall?
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TwitchyEye said:
Do you have the full heimdall?
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I used this Heimdall - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1822626
I do remember installing drivers through this Heimdall before when the phone was working.

pmattie said:
Windows shows that "a device has malfunctioned" and shows "unknown device connected".
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Sounds like you need to run zadig.exe in the Drivers folder of the Windows distribution of Heimdall.
If that doesn't work, right-click on (My) Computer, select Manage, then select Device Manager. In the panel that opens, find your device, right-click on it and you can then look at its properties and potential change the driver there.
(Yes, this kind of shenanigans is another of the reasons I really dislike Windows)

Ok so what you should try is downloading the heimdall suite
https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/downloads
Extract and open the drivers folder and run zadig. Click devices/show all devices and if your phone is plugged in and in download mode it should see it. Install drivers and it should say drivers successfully installed. Then run your one-click jar file and it should work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
The downloads in this post will also get you where you wanna go
Somebody tell me if I led this guy wrong
Lol ya beat me to it!
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TwitchyEye said:
Ok so what you should try is downloading the heimdall suite
https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/downloads
Extract and open the drivers folder and run zadig. Click devices/show all devices and if your phone is plugged in and in download mode it should see it. Install drivers and it should say drivers successfully installed. Then run your one-click jar file and it should work.
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I tried all this. But, still Zadig shows my phone as "unknown device" and does not install drivers for it. Tried USBDview to remove any instance of Samsung & Android from the drivers. But, still does not recognize my device. Any other suggestions.

Try different USB ports on your computer.
Install Ubuntu (not totally kidding on that one, it will install side-by-side with Windows)

When is that jig getting there? One time I had a similar situation and I built myself a jig and it worked like a charm. Phone goes straight into download mode. I dunno if this will resolve your situation but I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time we've seen someone with this problem and then after trying several different computers and USB cables we usually say maybe your phone's USB Jack is messed up? And then the thread goes dead.
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Have you uninstalled any drivers? Download and install the drivers from the bible thread if you haven't. Like suggested, try different USB ports and different USB cables. Sometimes it takes more than one try for some reason.

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Have you rebooted your comp at all?? If no that might be the problem.

SUCCESS !!
Thanks a lot for all your suggestions.
Here is what worked:
- I opened device manager and uninstalled ALL USB devices (Yes ALL, not just Samsung, Android etc) and unfamiliar Storage devices.
- Then I rebooted once so that all other device drivers could be installed.
- Then I rebooted a second time and let it install any remaining drivers.
- Then I plugged in the phone and it installed the driver and now it started showing the correct device name
- Now, I ran the Heimdall 1-click and it opened offered to re-install drivers. I did this.
- After all this, I was able to get 1-Click GB rom installed and now back to VB.
(I think the key was "uninstall all USB devices" and "reboot TWICE")

glad you got it to work. ive had my share of soft bricks with this device and it always takes something different to get it to run right. im starting to think that my computer is alive because of this reason because it just doesnt like to play nice sometimes. LOL

[Q] Infuse 4g can not be rooted HELP!

I just got my infuse 4g with 2.3.6 today, and I've been trying all day to root it so that i cant put CWM on it to put cm10.1 on. But each and every method I've found to root it, does not work. I first installed the usb drivers straight from Samsungs website, I hooked the phone into my computer and turned USB Debugging on and ADB recognized it. First I tried super on click because it seemed the easiest, But each time i run it it will simply freeze up and the program will crash, I tried 3 different computers and every usb port, no luck. Next I tried odin, I put the phone into download mode, and hooked it up to the computer, but odin will not recognize it, i tried many other usb ports and 2 other computers, but none will work. Then I discoved that the device manager doesn't have the driver for the download mode of the phone, under Other Devices it shows as Gadget Serial, Where in the heck do I find this driver? Is there any other method of getting CM10.1 on here other then having to root this thing?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25177681
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Shingaling said:
I just got my infuse 4g with 2.3.6 today, and I've been trying all day to root it so that i cant put CWM on it to put cm10.1 on. But each and every method I've found to root it, does not work. I first installed the usb drivers straight from Samsungs website, I hooked the phone into my computer and turned USB Debugging on and ADB recognized it. First I tried super on click because it seemed the easiest, But each time i run it it will simply freeze up and the program will crash, I tried 3 different computers and every usb port, no luck. Next I tried odin, I put the phone into download mode, and hooked it up to the computer, but odin will not recognize it, i tried many other usb ports and 2 other computers, but none will work. Then I discoved that the device manager doesn't have the driver for the download mode of the phone, under Other Devices it shows as Gadget Serial, Where in the heck do I find this driver? Is there any other method of getting CM10.1 on here other then having to root this thing?
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Goto the Develpoment page. They have some updated root options and more. So go try them out :victory:

TJj33p3rz said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25177681
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I already tried Odin, but my the program would not detect my phone. Which I discovered was because my phone was updated to the latest firmware which Odin does not support. The latest Heimdall One-click Back-To-Stock UCLB3 worked though.

TokyoLee said:
Goto the Develpoment page. They have some updated root options and more. So go try them out :victory:
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Thanks, after about 2 more days of trying different options I finally found that Heimdall One-click Back-To-Stock UCLB3 worked for me.