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[Q] Can't get blue recovery screen to load up

I have been running on the gb 2.3.3 rom (rooted) that I have flashed using odin back in summer and now decided to do some more upgrading . So I found a new rom that was very intriguing to me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1305145 After doing some research I realized I needed to do a different type of flashing (cwm?), and not through odin. So I downloaded root explorer into my phone and followed the procedures in this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122508 but every time I try to put my phone in the recovery mode (holding volume up + down + power) it wouldn't go into the blue screen. Instead, it would just restart, and restart, etc.. Any suggestions? Do I need to do something with the kernels?
p.s.hahah after messing around and looking through forums all day, I got a little impatient and flashed gb 2.3.6 using odin in the mean time

calvzzz said:
I have been running on the gb 2.3.3 rom (rooted) that I have flashed using odin back in summer and now decided to do some more upgrading . So I found a new rom that was very intriguing to me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1305145 After doing some research I realized I needed to do a different type of flashing (cwm?), and not through odin. So I downloaded root explorer into my phone and followed the procedures in this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122508 but every time I try to put my phone in the recovery mode (holding volume up + down + power) it wouldn't go into the blue screen. Instead, it would just restart, and restart, etc.. Any suggestions? Do I need to do something with the kernels?
p.s.hahah after messing around and looking through forums all day, I got a little impatient and flashed gb 2.3.6 using odin in the mean time
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Try this.
Basically do what youre doing but instead of keeping on holding to it, hold on to Volup+voldown+power for 2 reboots, then on the 3rd reboot, the gs4g screen in the beginning lights up a slight lighter than usual. Let go of the power button, See if this works.
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Alright! I can get into the recovery screen. But this is with the 2.3.6 gb rom. The problem now is that I don't know how to root it. The forum tells me to go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16160325 but I don't know which one to dl and flash. Would any of them work?

calvzzz said:
Alright! I can get into the recovery screen. But this is with the 2.3.6 gb rom. The problem now is that I don't know how to root it. The forum tells me to go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16160325 but I don't know which one to dl and flash. Would any of them work?
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Download the Odin KJ1 version.

Just making a quick check. You ARE using a galaxy s 4g right? if so, then from that link, download the kg4.tar from the odin section. Then flash via odin. .
-edit.- listen to fbis. Hes more experianced than me.
I personally used the kg4. cause that was all there was back then. Ahaha. Glw flashing
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WOOOO got it to work!!! thanks again for all the help!!!! hahah I would've just sat around playing with my phone all night if it weren't for the help

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Hi I have the same problem but I still cant get into recovery, I go straight into Download mode. Please Help

It might be because your phone is connected to the computer? If so, try disconnecting it

No its not that, I can access it without it being connected to a computer.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1183413
This thread says the original GB rom changed the key mapping. Any ideas on where I can find a fix. I think thats what happened to me.

hmm I'm still relativley new to this kind of stuff as well, so the only route I know that you can do that will most likley fix the problem is to odin to a newer rom, perhaps the one I have linked above, then odin the kernal as well to get it rooted and follow the guide on how to do it if you're confused. Then turn off your phone, hold (volume up + volume down + power), screen should boot up then dissapear, boot up again, then disappear, and on the third boot up, just release the power button but continue holding on to the volume up + volume down buttons and just wait. The cwm screen should come up from what I experienced on two different sgs4g's. Hope that helps somewhat lol. I'm sure there might be a easier way to just fix the key mapping but I'm not to sure on how to do it. gl

I just verified that method works for me as well. I'm lazy, though, and downloaded Quick Boot from the app store as it lets you boot into recovery or download mode. Less fuss.

Bricked and Stumped :(

Ok, So I flashed dmans UCKK3 Rom and everything was great. I decided to flash the Stock Kernel back, extracted and flashed the zImage for stock Rom and borked my phone. It gets stuck at the Samsung Logo and goes no where.
So, I thought, easy fix. Pulled up my Heimdall One-Click and booted into Download Mode and flashed. Still, same problem, phone boots up to Samsung Logo and goes no further.
This pissed me off a little bit so I decided, if I can get back into Recovery, I would be golden. So I used Heimdall One-Click Defused to get CWM back. Well, that works, I have Red CWM.
Reflashed the UCKK3 Rom, after I wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik of course. Rebooted, and low and behold, stuck at Samsung Logo once more.
So now I am frustrated and pissed as this is my only phone currently, so I broke out the GTG Ultimate Unbrick, guess what now, I can't get Odin to recognize my device. Yes, I uninstalled and reinstalled the Drivers multiple times, once from a direct download someone has posted in GTG's thread and Once from Kies, and Odin still will not detect my device, IE The Com##.
So, after a cup of coffee, I remembered some people were having issues due to there USB Cable, so I traded it out with several different ones I have from prior phones, didn't change.
So now I am stuck.
I can get into Red CWM. I can mount as USB Storage to drop any RoM I want to on my SD card. I can even enter Download Mode, however I can't get past the stupid Samsung Logo.
Any help is appreciated as I am currently stumped.
Thanks

The good Ol' 3 finger trick isn't working to get your device into download mode? You could order a USB jig from Amazon/Ebay they've been proven to work.
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if you flashed kernels in heimdall try flashing the unbrick in heimdall.

You can make your own jig. I spent a dollar at radio Shack and cut up a usb cord to make my own. Go to mobiletechvideos. com and it will show you how to make one.
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Try switching computers. Worked for me.

tmease1 said:
You can make your own jig. I spent a dollar at radio Shack and cut up a usb cord to make my own. Go to mobiletechvideos. com and it will show you how to make one.
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theROMinator said:
The good Ol' 3 finger trick isn't working to get your device into download mode? You could order a USB jig from Amazon/Ebay they've been proven to work.
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xKrisx said:
Ok, So I flashed dmans UCKK3 Rom and everything was great. I decided to flash the Stock Kernel back, extracted and flashed the zImage for stock Rom and borked my phone. It gets stuck at the Samsung Logo and goes no where.
So, I thought, easy fix. Pulled up my Heimdall One-Click and booted into Download Mode and flashed. Still, same problem, phone boots up to Samsung Logo and goes no further.
This pissed me off a little bit so I decided, if I can get back into Recovery, I would be golden. So I used Heimdall One-Click Defused to get CWM back. Well, that works, I have Red CWM.
Reflashed the UCKK3 Rom, after I wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik of course. Rebooted, and low and behold, stuck at Samsung Logo once more.
So now I am frustrated and pissed as this is my only phone currently, so I broke out the GTG Ultimate Unbrick, guess what now, I can't get Odin to recognize my device. Yes, I uninstalled and reinstalled the Drivers multiple times, once from a direct download someone has posted in GTG's thread and Once from Kies, and Odin still will not detect my device, IE The Com##.
So, after a cup of coffee, I remembered some people were having issues due to there USB Cable, so I traded it out with several different ones I have from prior phones, didn't change.
So now I am stuck.
I can get into Red CWM. I can mount as USB Storage to drop any RoM I want to on my SD card. I can even enter Download Mode, however I can't get past the stupid Samsung Logo.
Any help is appreciated as I am currently stumped.
Thanks
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I stated I could even get into Download Mode so a Jig is not going to do me any good.
on a side note, I finaly got it back up and running but I had to use Odin V 1.81 for it to recognize my device. Odin 1.7 wouldn't detect the Com Port for my phone. I am going to assume something happened to my Partitions. I ended up flashing the Kernel located in the Victory Rom forum included with Odin v 1.81. After about a 10 minute wait for it to Convert Partitions it finaly booted up. Thank god.
So I am not running UCKK3 Rom with that Kernel and all seems to be well now. I literally stayed up untill 5 AM fixing my damn phone, and the sad part is, I am still not sure wtf I did to begin with lol.

xKrisx said:
I stated I could even get into Download Mode so a Jig is not going to do me any good.
on a side note, I finaly got it back up and running but I had to use Odin V 1.81 for it to recognize my device. Odin 1.7 wouldn't detect the Com Port for my phone. I am going to assume something happened to my Partitions. I ended up flashing the Kernel located in the Victory Rom forum included with Odin v 1.81. After about a 10 minute wait for it to Convert Partitions it finaly booted up. Thank god.
So I am not running UCKK3 Rom with that Kernel and all seems to be well now. I literally stayed up untill 5 AM fixing my damn phone, and the sad part is, I am still not sure wtf I did to begin with lol.
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SO how did you run Odin without being in download mode?

Come on guys, OP's stated twice now he CAN enter DL mode, and it's fixed it already. Also, since when is the "good ol 3 finger trick" for DL mode? That's for recovery...just saying lol. Glad you got it fixed

xKrisx said:
I stated I could even get into Download Mode so a Jig is not going to do me any good.
on a side note, I finaly got it back up and running but I had to use Odin V 1.81 for it to recognize my device. Odin 1.7 wouldn't detect the Com Port for my phone. I am going to assume something happened to my Partitions. I ended up flashing the Kernel located in the Victory Rom forum included with Odin v 1.81. After about a 10 minute wait for it to Convert Partitions it finaly booted up. Thank god.
So I am not running UCKK3 Rom with that Kernel and all seems to be well now. I literally stayed up untill 5 AM fixing my damn phone, and the sad part is, I am still not sure wtf I did to begin with lol.
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I read somewhere that the stock kernel won't work if your still on ext4(or whichever) that it has to be switched back to rfs
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And that was my problem in the end. The Rooted / Deodexed / Zipaligned Rom for UCKK3 was originaly on Entropy's Kernel. It uses EXT4 partitioning. When I flashed the original Kernel it uses RFS and well thats were things went wrong.
But what the most unusual thing was, Odin V1.7 would not recognize the COM## port for my phone so I could not use Odin originaly. I was searching and getting pissed when I found the .zip in Victory Rom that contained an upgraded Odin and low and behold it work.

[Q] stuck on factoryfs

My infuse was running aokpcb rom. i made a backup of my previous rom, AEON v1.3.1. i restored using nandroid back to AEON but when i reboot its stuck at the samsung screen. I tried GTGs Odin back to stock multiple times using different ports but it always gets stuck at factoryfs. i even rebooted the computer and tried it again but still no good. I've used Odin back to stock a couple times before so im used to the program. now ive ran out of ideas and i would greatly appreciate the help. THANKS

Try heimdall...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
If that doesn't work 'I' don't know what to tell you
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And don't restore with nandroid, just to a full restore back to stock with odin or hemdall and reflash the rom.

Im not 100% but i think with aeon the first boot will freeze up at the factory screen. Try pulling battery then reboot..
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isaiahe97 said:
Try heimdall...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
If that doesn't work 'I' don't know what to tell you
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+1 odin sux. it's funny how some independant guys can reverse engineer what it's doing and write something better.

Happens to my Infuse all the time now, even using Heimdall. I just pull the battery, get back into the alternate download screen, reload the drivers (if necessary) on the pc and re-run Heimdall. It always seems to get stuck twice, but works the third time. The last time I took it to stock & did a "factory data reset", just to see if that would clear up whatever the issue was. Unfortunately (?), I haven't tried going back to stock since.

Dani897 said:
+1 odin sux. it's funny how some independant guys can reverse engineer what it's doing and write something better.
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Not sure if your being understood.

Sorry for not responding. I've been at a summer camp for the past week. Anyways, when i try to install drivers with heimdall it aborts the procedure and then freezes the program... and when i plug in my phone into the wall charger, the screen stays off..

Young_Khalifa said:
Sorry for not responding. I've been at a summer camp for the past week. Anyways, when i try to install drivers with heimdall it aborts the procedure and then freezes the program... and when i plug in my phone into the wall charger, the screen stays off..
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Heimdall is great when properly set up and WHEN IT WORKS. What I do, and this'll bring it back from pretty much anything, is use gtg unbrick, and if it doesn't boot from that flash, (and mine doesn't because its a rogers ) , i then flash the Odin stock lb3 pack, and boom back to normal no matter what I flashed. I imagine if you're running an at&t model , you shouldn't have to do the second step. Be sure to remove the battery and reinsert at least once on any from flash to be sure its not booting correctly before going to another step. Also be sure drivers are correctly installed through kies or kies mini. I find this is easiest with Odin because it clearly shows you in bright yellow that the download connection has been established.. many times i' very had to reinstall the kies drivers, I don't know why.. but try this , and like I say once you see yellow in Odin in phone download mode, you know you're set. Once again, like this kies/gtg/try booting/if no boot/pull battery try boot again/ if still no boot Odin lb3 stock and then flash a recovery kernel to regain cwm..
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ive been trying the odin lb3 from gtg and it gets stuck on dbdata.rfs instead.. im kinda flipping out...

[Q] Infuse forces into unique boot loop

Hi, I'm new to posting on these forums but I have been on here for a while and appreciate the work of the devs on the roms available. I have a problem, and I haven't been able to find any threads of anyone having this problem before.
My Infuse was stock froyo and working fine. I then updated it to stock 2.3.6 with ODIN with option c from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523
After that, I immediately updated it to the unofficial cm9 and the problems started. The phone would work fine, but in about 10 minutes of use, it would restart by itself and go into a boot loop. Sometimes the samsung logo would loop only twice and restart. Other times it can loop up to 50 times before restarting.
I noticed I had a rainbow CWM screen so I updated to the GB bootloader through ODIN. Didn't work. I then went back to stock 2.3.6 with odin. Didn't work. I then went back to stock 2.2 froyo through ODIN and re-partioned the PIT file. Still boot loops. I'm stumped.
Anyone have any idea what's causing this? I appreciate it

So you are able to enter download mode and successfully flash something? Somehow something appears to have been corrupted..
My only suggestion would be to try "one click unbrick" and see if that does the job
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andros11 said:
So you are able to enter download mode and successfully flash something? Somehow something appears to have been corrupted..
My only suggestion would be to try "one click unbrick" and see if that does the job
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All of the "one click unbricks" say that it isn't necessary if the phone is able to enter download mode. Is it still ok to try?

tried one click unbrick and it wouldn't allow me to use it. I then tried going to stock 2.3.6 using heimdall and still have the same problem.
I don't think its a problem with the rom, it has to be something else. But its not a hardware problem since it started once I used ODIN for the first time.

That's strange.. one click unbrick should have been able to run and reboot your phone. It probably would not solve your problem but should have at least ran successfully.
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one click unbrick just said something like, "if the phone is plugged in and everything is fine then visit resolution center".

Bricked from odin tutorial!!!!

Hello all! Im new here, but have been using alot of the tutorials and mods. I recently decided to move from FROYO to ICS, using several tutorials, but didnt even make it to gingerbread I was using this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1705260 and at first when I ran odin, all was well, except it wouldnt boot past the ATT splash screen, and it also had the 'rainbow' screen before the samsung loading screen, so i followed this :
2.) I have rainbow distortion in recovery or in the boot animation. How can I get Gingerbread bootloaders to fix this?:
If you have rainbow distortion, you still have Froyo bootloaders. You can download THIS .rar file, extract using 7zip, and flash the tar.md5 package in Odin (use the pda slot). Flashing Gingerbread bootloaders will correct rainbow distortion in recovery and in the boot animation. Only flash these if you are having issues with rainbow distortion, and only if you have had success flashing other, less dangerous items in Odin.
After re flashing with odin, my phone will no longer turn on... at all. Ive tried getting it to go into download mode, tried using the three button recovery, and nothing. Is there anyone that could help with this!? If i cant figure it out, I might not be on the infuse forums much longer... lol

Rainbows only appear on ics or above, so if you saw rainbows, you must have flashed ics.
As the warning said, a failed bootloader flash would leave you with a brick. Did odin stop during the flash or did it say it completed succesfully?
You may try using a jig and see if that forces download mode, but i doubt you will get results from that.
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hrmm :/
andros11 said:
Rainbows only appear on ics or above, so if you saw rainbows, you must have flashed ics.
As the warning said, a failed bootloader flash would leave you with a brick. Did odin stop during the flash or did it say it completed succesfully?
You may try using a jig and see if that forces download mode, but i doubt you will get results from that.
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The new bootloader I loaded was supposed to be a gingerbread bootloader, and it said that if I saw the rainbow screen it was becuase i had the froyo bootloader, as quoted above. Ive read in alot of different forums, and ive tried charging it, removing the battery for 10 minutes and trying to get it into d/l mode, but nothing works. I think i may just have to chalk this one up as a very mislead failure. When I used odin, it said it was completed successfully as well... Im pretty sure that the 'gingerbread bootloader' is just a bad file.

As Andros11 said, you might try using a jig, for me it would be worth the $2. price to give it a try. If it does not work there are unbrick services available for about $50.00- not too bad, considering.

Go back to that page DL the one unbrick root 1.1 flash in Odin,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523
Toto that link DL the cwm with root extras then as soon as you are done flashing the first one reboot for good measure, shut it off go into download mode flash that giving you a cwm recovery, somewhere in that post I seen gingerbread loader a link maybe getting you to them, I flashed to gingerbread bootloaders, forget where I got them off xda, then flash a cm9 rom taking you to ics, somehow in that process my rainbow screen went away and I have not had that problem every since.
I did have a small problem with Odin hanging on do not turn off and it just sits there. I got tired of waiting over five minutes nothing happening, I unplugged it, pulled battery, then when I went to download mode I had that rainbow screen, but not to worry it is still in download mode, with my infuse, I has to toggle the volume button up, after it sets to the first screen then you are in complete DL mode, check Odin to be sure you got that yellow check box to be sure it sees the phone then do the flash again, the BIG TRICK HERE IS, before you maybe find the rainbow screen in DL MODE, after you pull the USB cable pull the battery, replace the battery, then turn on the phone and let it hang up in what ever screen, then pull the battery again to turn it off, replace the battery then go into download mode, and the flash will take off and only be a few minutes. That worked for me more then once. Hope that helps,
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