I tried flashing the ics source port but forgot to flash cm7 first... It flashed fine and I followed the procedure to flash. The phone would turn on but always go straight to recovery. I figured this was because I didn't go to cm7 first, so I went to flash it but I kept getting errors. I went to flash stock, it started going so I walked away. When I came back my phone was just a white screen and odin was stuck at sbl.bin. So now I can't boot up the phone, there's no bootloaders, just a black screen whenever I try to do anything. The thing is, I can get into download mode just fine through button combos which leads me to think it's not bricked. However, odin/heimdall will not recognize it... Anyone know what to do?
Edit: resolved. After trying like a bazillion times it finally worked
mikel.canovas said:
I tried flashing the ics source port but forgot to flash cm7 first... It flashed fine and I followed the procedure to flash. The phone would turn on but always go straight to recovery. I figured this was because I didn't go to cm7 first, so I went to flash it but I kept getting errors. I went to flash stock, it started going so I walked away. When I came back my phone was just a white screen and odin was stuck at sbl.bin. So now I can't boot up the phone, there's no bootloaders, just a black screen whenever I try to do anything. The thing is, I can get into download mode just fine through button combos which leads me to think it's not bricked. However, odin/heimdall will not recognize it... Anyone know what to do?
Edit: resolved. After trying like a bazillion times it finally worked
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Glad it worked, the day when a Cappy dies is a sad one...
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Well, Ive been flashing roms for a while now and I have an issue with my captivate.
Lets start in the beginning. I had my captivate on THS ICS rom and It was going great. But my captivate isn't that great anymore. The power button is broken, but I was able to go around that. (Sidenote: It turns on when I plug in the battery.) Anyway, I wanted to go back to stock because I did have the right bootloaders. (I couldnt get into download mode with the button combination. I thought it was the bootloaders fault. Im I wrong?) I wanted to switch to I9000 bootloaders but I had to start fresh. But before all that, I noticed that while I was on ICS rom, I was unable to go to download mode. I used to before, but it magically disappeared (I know it didnt, I know I did something to it but I don't quite remember when it happened.) So I was unable to flash a new rom, if I wanted to.
A couple of days ago, I bought a jig and it worked! It took me straight to download mode. So I decided to get my Captivate and make it go back to stock. So I opened Odin, it found my Cappy and I clicked start. But, it stopped at factoryfs.rfs. I waited a half hour and nothing. So I unplugged it and now it won't turn on. But it can still go into Download Mode and be seen by Odin but it just wont finish. I tried both odin one click and the regular odin. I looked everywhere for more than six hours and nothing came up. Please guys, if anyone knows what I can do to fix it, please reply.
I might have missed something, but just ask if you need any more info. Please help me.
Edit: I forgot to add this:
While I was on the ICS rom, I switched over to CM7 to see if the process of going back to stock would be easier. Thats when I tried to flash stock. It didnt work as well as I thought it would.
And I knew that I didnt have I9000 bootloaders because I installed the Icy Glitch kernel and each time I tried to have DIDDLE on it would go to deep sleep mode and I was unable to wake it back up.
As long as you can get to download mode you are fine. Try flashing a different stock from. Or using Hiemdell
I've tried both odin and Hiemdell. But with Hiemdell, it would always tell me that I dont have the drivers installed. So, it installs it for me. Even with the drivers installed, it keeps telling me that I dont have the proper drivers installed.
I have had this exact problem, where a bricked captivate can get into download mode but when restored to stock through a one-click, it freezes on the factoryfs.rfs. However, in my case after freezing at this stage, the phone was completely inoperable, and could not even enter download mode, so I am suprised yours could.
What works for me is to remove the battery, wait for a few seconds, put the battery back in, use the usb jig to enter download mode, and then WITHOUT the phone plugged into the pc, download and open this one-click file http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989.
Once the odin one click is open, plug the usb cable into the pc, and then into the phone. This one-click has never failed me. Hope this helps.
Ok, now it passed. I don't know what I did but now its back up and running. But now it boots up into recovery. I can't select anything because my phone's power button is broken. What do I do?
Juiceboy125 said:
Ok, now it passed. I don't know what I did but now its back up and running. But now it boots up into recovery. I can't select anything because my phone's power button is broken. What do I do?
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Depending on the CWM recovery you're in, you can sometimes use the search capacitive key to do the same thing as the power button will do.
I had the same problem you had with Odin stopping on flashing a file, turns out I was using a third party USB cable. I switched to the USB cable provided by Samsung when I bought my cappy and problem solved. Hope that helps.
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Finally!
Well, I got my Cappy up and running again. While I was stuck in the CWM I just decided to install Gingerbread using a One click and it worked. Now I'm back to CM9. Thanks guys for the suggestions. I guess I just needed to wait and double check everything.
Originally one cm7, tried out cm9 but apparently i never got the bootloader right so i was getting rainbows. I tried to switch to emancipation and that loaded up fine. went and made one more attempt to cm9 but no luck. i am not stuck at the samsung logo. If Odin connects it gets to the step that says setup connection but never moves past. What are my options? I don't even care what rom i'm on as long as i can use the phone. cm9 gives and error if i try and flash. i can still access red CWM. emancipation will flash and say complete but if i reboot it just sits as the samsung logo. i checked mounts and no matter what i cant mount system which i think is my problem. i can no longer see the phone from my pc either. so i don't believe i can get another rom to it from the pc.
Any help is appreciated, screen shots or explanation for dummies is much appreciated. I've done this before but have never been stuck like this where i couldn't get back to a working rom stock or otherwise.
Thanks,
Joe
Try qksters heimdal to stock and see. If no luck, try Odin again(gtgs unbrick)but try with every USB port until it works. Sometimes Odin likes to prefer a certain one. Anyways, I prefer using the heimdall package. A lot more easier in my opinion
Try a pizza taco sometime, if you don't know what it is, look it up then
did you wipe user data,cache,and delvic
yes. also finally got hemidall to load on the home pc but phone would never connect. even if i went through cwm and put it into download mode.
Kies wont see phone ive tried that too. pc sees it and load drivers but it wont connect. i cant even see it as a mass storage on the pc anymore. gunna try odin from my work pc. If anyone can help it would be great i need to fix this asap as im in the middle of purchasing a house and have quite few people im going back and forth with.
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yes. also finally got hemidall to load on the home pc but phone would never connect. even if i went through cwm and put it into download mode.
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You need to install the drivers that come with hemidall before it will connect to your phone
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got odin to work. i needed a different usb cable.
I had a similar problem, except I was unable to flash any from after attempting to flash cm9. Im on vacation away from my computer so I was unable to Odin, I just kept using the three finger method to get into recovery. And kept trying to flash a different roms always getting stuck at the Samsung logo...after about 1-2 hours of continuesly flashing i was finally able to flash a rom-after my phone finally booted up I booted into recovery which was now red again and instead of flashing the kernel I just flashed cm9 again. Got stuck on Samsung logo booted into recovery which was once again rainbowish and reflashed and then I booted up into cm9!!!
So basically for those who are away from a computer just keep attempting to flash-it worked for me just took a looooong time
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I somehow screwed up updating CM9 and the recovery was also somehow broken (restoring backup not working) so I decided to go back to stock using Odin. I am familiar with the process because I have used Odin to return to stock many times before. However, Odin is not working today. Every time it reboots my phone after finishing flashing it and my phone will stuck at the end of the AT&T bootanimation. I have tried many times, with different ports, reboot the computer, still not working so far...any idea?
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I somehow screwed up updating CM9 and the recovery was also somehow broken (restoring backup not working) so I decided to go back to stock using Odin. I am familiar with the process because I have used Odin to return to stock many times before. However, Odin is not working today. Every time it reboots my phone after finishing flashing it and my phone will stuck at the end of the AT&T bootanimation. I have tried many times, with different ports, reboot the computer, still not working so far...any idea?
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odin did work if it flashed w/out any errors, go into recovery and do a reset
vincom said:
odin did work if it flashed w/out any errors, go into recovery and do a reset
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yeah i talked to an att rep and she told me to do that as well and it worked...so I guess att rep can be helpful sometimes XD i'm kiddin'
This is a very noob thing to do.
I have a Verizon S3 with a broken screen. So I was fooling around with it without reading the forum.
I have a fresh MF1 installed, then rooted and also installed ROM Manager. The foolish thing is that I used ROM manager to boot into recovery.
The boot failed. Now the stock recovery is gone. The worst thing is that, now I can't even get into Odin. The phone kept vibrating and give the yellow triangle, saying, System software not authorized by Verison wireless has been found on your phone.....
I do not know what to do now. I think the first thing I have to do is to get rid of the CWM recovery, which never worked in this case. Then I can get the Odin back.
I tried the download button combo. I got to Odin just once. And the Odin session did not complete stating that it could not find a COM port. So Odin is no go now.
Do I have to get on adb or bootloader level? How?
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Well, I think I made a fool of myself.
After repeated failures to boot into Odin, I put the phone to some rest. Then I just tried it one more time and my lovely Odin has returned. So I flash the phone with the stock ROM and the phone is back to normal.
I was thinking I have another hard bricked phone. I think by pulling the battery and put the phone to rest, it changed something.
BaSingSe said:
Well, I think I made a fool of myself.
After repeated failures to boot into Odin, I put the phone to some rest. Then I just tried it one more time and my lovely Odin has returned. So I flash the phone with the stock ROM and the phone is back to normal.
I was thinking I have another hard bricked phone. I think by pulling the battery and put the phone to rest, it changed something.
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You got that warning message at boot because you didn't unlock your bootloader.
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I flashed my phone to EB 4.04 earlier and it was great and worked fine. Loving it but the in call sound wasn't working as I didn't have the correct baseband. Turned my phone back to stock and updated so my phone is working properly now. Tried to flash back to EB but now I guess something went awry and now it gets past the LG logo and to the EB logo screen but then the phone turns off.
If I try to hold the power button + volume down, I get taken to a screen with a box and the android and the phone attempts to reinstall itself but it still has the same issue with turning itself off after the EB logo screen.
I found this thread on NVFlash
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492
which hopefully will fix my issue but I'm having trouble with it. I'm at step 8 and 9 where I start up cmd and I past in the code but no files are being transferred. It stops after the primary commands and gives me the prompt to press enter to continue or q to quit
Also, I am having issues with many of the mediafire download links. The captcha doesn't show up and all I get is "an error occurred"
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Fixed it
Since I hate those threads where someone finds their solution but never posts how leaving those who stumble across the thread want to cry out in agony, here's what I did.
Go here for the One Click Flash Recovery:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
Flash the ClockworkModRecovery
Downloaded new ROM and put it on my external SD
Went to recovery mode and installed the new rom
For some reason when I try to flash to stock though it didn't really work. It still gave me the eaglesblood screen and then shutdown. Oh well though.