I've been trying the root method listed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19792563&postcount=1
I followed the instructions to the letter, though when in came to selecting a file it never let me choose... only gave me a choice of internal and external SD. It's been 45 minutes that I'm staring at the "Downloading... Do not turn off target!!!" screen and I'm beginning to worry.
Any advice from others who've gone this route would be helpful. Thanks.
Sounds like your in ODIN mode (not recovery.) That doesn't make much sense when it gave you a choice with internal/external, however.
At which point in the steps provided in the linked post did you start to see that "downloading..." screen? Is your device attached to your PC with the data/charging/usb cable? Was it attached when you performed step 4 of the linked thread? If it IS attached, is KIES running? If KIES is running, is it doing anything?
Gary
Thanks for the follow up, Gary. This is all a bit new to me after dumping a rooted Noot Tablet that wasn't cutting it. It sounds like I did slip into Odin mode (?) for I remember seeing some similar mention in a terminal-like text in the top left corner of the screen.
I was able to shut it off, reboot, and all came back normal (sigh of relief). Considering the number of things you mention, I will have to brave the process again, as I can't remember all that was involved.
Couple of notes... I am on a Mac, though I have both Win7 and WinXP-SP3 virtualized. I have been having terrible problems getting Kies to pick up on the tab while in either VMed Win environs. Very on and off, and the Mac ver of Kies sucks! Any advice would be helpful.
Also... will rooting gain me write access to the external SD? As of now, the only file manager that can do this is the native one that came with the tab. I much prefer some the market FMs.
Related
Here is what I did to get Froyo and Root. THANK all the other people like noonbl for all the work. I just collected it here to show my process. Hope the video helps a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpimnSaVux4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPBDpXFYQYI
KRAISYDAVE
Sprint Samsung Epic 4g Android Eclair to Froyo Root with wireless
tether and GPS phone help howto.
Backup first!
My process is below. Read all the way through and follow at your
own risk. I had to reload many apps manually instead of from
my backups. It was recommended to keep things running smooth.
You will have to sign back in with all your accounts as this
process will be like getting a brand new phone. It took me a
couple of days to read all the posts and gather the needed
information with testing. Once gathered you are looking at only
a few minutes to get all this loaded and running.
Samsung Epic 4g > Rooted Eclair > back to stock >
Flashed to Froyo > one click root > wireless tether added
and fully functioning GPS w/video.
I used a Windows Vista 32 bit.
We will start assuming you have a stock phone.
Follow this process at your own risk. I used many forums
and websites to complete this process. I believe a video
of someone performing the steps can really help. I already
have my phone setup, so you will not see the actual loading,
but I will show each step. Please thank all the devs for their
hard work and the websites for hosting the forums. Many have
items forsale and take donations if you so feel inclinded. Again
this is the process that I took. If I made a mistake please
bare with me and I will try to fix it.
First step is to get your computer to recognize your Epic.
Follow the links below. You will need the Samsung drivers. This
has been a problem for many. Your type of operating system
matters such as windows (32 or 64 bit), mac, and linux. Make
sure your USB is plugged into a port on the motherboard. Not
being in the correct port has caused phones not to be recognized.
Again, this process I am showing was completed in Vista 32 bit.
Your process may differ.
Follow this link for the drivers for windows so that it can
recognize the phone. Ignore the Root link on the first post and
scroll to the drives links. We will get to the Root link later.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770388
Assuming you are running a stock Epic with Eclair (comes from the
store this way) you must go in and turn on a couple of things.
Go under applications and turn on Unknown Sources, then click on
development and turn on USB debugging and Stay awake.
Plug in the phone to the computer via USB in the motherboard.
Open the driver file and click on the application to install.
When it finishes you can go into the phone and in the pull down
menue select USB connected and then mount. This will allow the
computer to see the SD card in the phone as a drive thanks to
drivers you just installed.
Next step is to get the other needed software. You will need to
download a specific version of Odin and Froyo which I will
explain. Follow this link ...
http://briefmobile.com/how-to-update-sprint-epic-4g-to-android-2-2
Scroll down to the second set of instructions labeled Alternate
Instructions: Update Android 2.2 Froyo for Epic 4G. Download the
.tar file (different links have very different speeds). Then
download the Odin file right below it. Lets take a look at Odin
first. It must be this version of Odin as another I downloaded
did not have the needed options. Odin is used to Flash items to
your phone. Back to the .tar. The .tar is simply the Froyo
waiting to be flashed.
Now it is time to get Froyo on your phone. Click on the Odin file
and click on it. Windows should extract and then click on the
application and select run. Now with Odin open you will need to
put your phone in Download Mode. Unplug the phone and turn it off.
With all the lights off on the phone open the keyboard and hold
the "1" key while you hit the power button. A picture will appear
with the word Download on it. At that point plug the phone back
into the computer. Remeber the .tar file? On the Odin program
you must select PDA which is midway down and put the .tar file
in it. The Odin program must see the phone. Is the left box in
Odin showing COM with a number and possible color change? If not
then Odin does not see the phone and you must back up. If yes then
you are almost there. click Start in Odin and watch the magic.
Let the process finish. You now have Froyo on your phone! Go
back into the phone and turn on unknow apps, debugging, and stay
awake just like before. This must be done again!
I ran into an error at this point.
"process com.google.process.gapps"
The error does not change anything. I believe it to be associated
with a app I was using, but I am not sure which one. So I ran
advancedtaskkiller once. I have not had the problem since.
Normally do not use taskkillers according to many experts as
it will cause malfunctions.
The next step will be a root if you want more options like tether.
Follow this link back to where you got the drivers...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770388
Download the first link of
http://firon.net/xda/one.click.root.exploitv2.5.5.zip
It is great as you get other apps like superuser, busybox
and clockworkmod with this. No need to get them from the market.
With the phone plugged in open the zipped folder you just
downloaded. Click on the word run towards the bottom. It should
open the Command window and stated press any key. Press it and
sit back as it loads. Once finished you will have a rooted
phone. This will give you access to files and apps you normally
would not beable to use.
Now it is time to fix a couple of items. Go download Wireless
Tether from the app store. It should be one with a Green signal
icon. Go ahead and run it. Use your other wireless devices to
look for Android Tether. Are they able to pick up the signal?
If not, like mine, we can fix that. Follow this link...
http://forum.androidcentral.com/sprint-epic-4g/32049-howto-wifi-tethering-working.html#post319341
I did this a little differently. You will need to download the
Google program called Google Goggles, tAttachApkInstaller and the
Dolphin Internet Browser. It is a bar code scanner that can save
you money at the store and load programs onto your phone. Start
the Google Goggles app which loads a camera view. On your
computer follow the above link to ...
http://code.google.com/p/android-wi...?name=wireless_tether_2_0_5-pre8.apk&can=2&q=
A picture of a barcode is what you need. Hold the phone very
close to the screen and using Goggles take a picture of the
Bar Code. A little bar will pop up on the phone showing the
program. Click on it. The phone will ask what is program you
want to run this with. Select Dolphin Browser which will download
the program. Click on it and you will again be asked what to use.
Open the program with tAttach. After it is done you have tether!
Give it a try...open wireless tether and check with your other
devices for the signal. You now can wirelessly share your 3g
connection with all your devices. I cannot protect you from
extra charges sprint may give you.
I am one of the few lucky ones who has a good working GPS. A
GPS must take between 1 and 15 minutes to get a location for the
first time. Mine did not work until I ran GPS Test and then GPS
Status. Both from the market. After that I had no issues.
Hope this helps. Again give cedit to the devs and websites for
all the help. If I helped you please follow me on twitter
@kraisydave, Youtube @kraisydave, and flickr @kraisydave. I am
just starting up the Youtube thing with plans of more helpful
videos.
Holy sh*t...lmao
Sticky worthy
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
A_Flying_Fox said:
Sticky worthy
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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*wiki worthy
Thought I would update....froyo is running smooth and it appears I have doubled my battery life.
If these directions are found worthy of adding to the sticky/wiki world I will clean them up. Since I wrote the directions in the middle of the night on notepad my spelling and some grammer was not the best. If any of the mods decide this just message me or post here, so I know to start.
Dave
Hi all, this is my first post here, but I've been reading walkthroughs for a while now. I really apologize for being such a noob, but any help/pity to help a girl figure out if she's just bricked her phone would be greatly appreciated.
I tried to flash a Gingerbread beta I got through one of these forums. I used Odin to root and it seemed like the install went OK, but when the phone started back up the screen went through a crazy colors standby (red, green, blue lines all over it), right after Samsung and before AT&T. This continued to happen at that point of startup every time, in case that's helpful. I also would randomly not send texts even though it looked on my end like they sent. I must not have rooted it properly because I tried to install an app (ROM Manager, I believe) that needed root permissions it said it couldn't get. I decided I was not ready for the phone ROM world and read up on returning it to stock.
To do that, I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251
I used GTG's Ultimate Unbrick, but again, I must have done something wrong. I downloaded Odin3 v1.70, ran as Administrator, and connected my phone in download mode. I clicked "PIT" and selected infuse.pit, I clicked "PDA" and selected PDA_UCKD5.tar.md5, then "PHONE" and PHONE_UCKD5.tar.md5. The "Re-partition" box was checked. The first time it said it failed. Two subsequent times it said nothing happened. For some reason my phone said it was "Downloading" even though nothing was happening on my computer and it said it had failed. It had been at that same screen for probably ten minutes or so with no progress I could see, and the thread mentioned it might boot loop or something, so I unplugged it. After that, it never started up again.
So far I've tried:
- Holding down power and volume buttons
- Removing the battery for about an hour
- Leaving it on its charger for about two hours
- Plugging it into the computer without SIM, SD or battery
I'm at a loss and at this point I'm pretty sure I've bricked it. I bought it from someone else (it was fully functional up to the point I tried flashing the ROM, although it said it was missing something it needed for a factory reset), so no warranty here. I'm hoping some brilliant dev will have some insight to save me from going back to a dumb phone!
Thanks for any ideas.
try putting it back in download mode and see if odin recognizes it if it does do the return to stock agian
fawn87 said:
Hi all, this is my first post here, but I've been reading walkthroughs for a while now. I really apologize for being such a noob, but any help/pity to help a girl figure out if she's just bricked her phone would be greatly appreciated.
I tried to flash a Gingerbread beta I got through one of these forums. I used Odin to root and it seemed like the install went OK, but when the phone started back up the screen went through a crazy colors standby (red, green, blue lines all over it), right after Samsung and before AT&T. This continued to happen at that point of startup every time, in case that's helpful. I also would randomly not send texts even though it looked on my end like they sent. I must not have rooted it properly because I tried to install an app (ROM Manager, I believe) that needed root permissions it said it couldn't get. I decided I was not ready for the phone ROM world and read up on returning it to stock.
To do that, I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251
I used GTG's Ultimate Unbrick, but again, I must have done something wrong. I downloaded Odin3 v1.70, ran as Administrator, and connected my phone in download mode. I clicked "PIT" and selected infuse.pit, I clicked "PDA" and selected PDA_UCKD5.tar.md5, then "PHONE" and PHONE_UCKD5.tar.md5. The "Re-partition" box was checked. The first time it said it failed. Two subsequent times it said nothing happened. For some reason my phone said it was "Downloading" even though nothing was happening on my computer and it said it had failed. It had been at that same screen for probably ten minutes or so with no progress I could see, and the thread mentioned it might boot loop or something, so I unplugged it. After that, it never started up again.
So far I've tried:
- Holding down power and volume buttons
- Removing the battery for about an hour
- Leaving it on its charger for about two hours
- Plugging it into the computer without SIM, SD or battery
I'm at a loss and at this point I'm pretty sure I've bricked it. I bought it from someone else (it was fully functional up to the point I tried flashing the ROM, although it said it was missing something it needed for a factory reset), so no warranty here. I'm hoping some brilliant dev will have some insight to save me from going back to a dumb phone!
Thanks for any ideas.
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Check out my thread on the HOW TO. The link is on the signature line. Read it a few times.
re: the first paragraph with the colors -rainbow - it's due to lack of GB bootloaders.
The part where the phone is not responsive:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19445643.
This link give you various method of getting into DL mode.
If it doesn't work,
try a different usb port on the pc, diff usb DATA cable, try a diff computer.
IF the phone is still not responsive, you a need a usb jig to put the phone back in DL mode.
search youtube for "usb jig". There's a vid that shows you how to make one.
gl
I need some help. I will set up the scenario first. My Cap has had the unbrickmod performed on it about 8 months ago. I had the battery fall out ib the middle of a flash. I was getting the phone /computer "you screwed up a firmware install" animation. I tried to get it cleared up with Odin and now it is black screen no matter what I try. Can't get download, or recovery, and the usb jig won't even get it into download. I am completely unschooled and self taught with pc and phones and I think I have done pretty well. Now, I have taken another big step and after reading up on what to do next, I installed successfully, Ubuntu in my laptop (xp pro)and I can dual o.s. or boot either o.s. individually and everything seems to work fine. I downloaded UnBrickResrectR40, HIBL.zip, and java jre7.0.5. Ihave no clue about Linux or command lines,but after reading a million different claims on how to install these files i was finally able to get the java installed. But, I can't get the unbrickres file to install. I always get an error saying file not found by regex. Now I have copies in downloads,desktop, home, files, and have changed permissions and types(jar,javaw.exe,zip.gz) and still nothing. No forums or help pages help. They all give directions as if you know what you are doing already. They must figure if you got this far you are a tech or a dev, not a noob electrician who can't even type. I need some seriously slow,detailed,step by step,hand holding through this one, if someone has the patience. Back to the phone. The only thing that shows any life in the phone at all is when it is plugged into my laptop. It doesn't show up anywhere but under device manager. It shows under "universal serial bus devices" as, SEC S5PC 110 Test B/D , location 0,device is working properly,driver provider-libusb.org, driver date-7-13-2009,driver version-6.7.7600.16385, not digitally signed. That is it. I need some direction. What do I do now? Hopefully someone feels adventurous.Thanks
khkaiser13 said:
I need some help. I will set up the scenario first. My Cap has had the unbrickmod performed on it about 8 months ago. I had the battery fall out ib the middle of a flash. I was getting the phone /computer "you screwed up a firmware install" animation. I tried to get it cleared up with Odin and now it is black screen no matter what I try. Can't get download, or recovery, and the usb jig won't even get it into download. I am completely unschooled and self taught with pc and phones and I think I have done pretty well. Now, I have taken another big step and after reading up on what to do next, I installed successfully, Ubuntu in my laptop (xp pro)and I can dual o.s. or boot either o.s. individually and everything seems to work fine. I downloaded UnBrickResrectR40, HIBL.zip, and java jre7.0.5. Ihave no clue about Linux or command lines,but after reading a million different claims on how to install these files i was finally able to get the java installed. But, I can't get the unbrickres file to install. I always get an error saying file not found by regex. Now I have copies in downloads,desktop, home, files, and have changed permissions and types(jar,javaw.exe,zip.gz) and still nothing. No forums or help pages help. They all give directions as if you know what you are doing already. They must figure if you got this far you are a tech or a dev, not a noob electrician who can't even type. I need some seriously slow,detailed,step by step,hand holding through this one, if someone has the patience. Back to the phone. The only thing that shows any life in the phone at all is when it is plugged into my laptop. It doesn't show up anywhere but under device manager. It shows under "universal serial bus devices" as, SEC S5PC 110 Test B/D , location 0,device is working properly,driver provider-libusb.org, driver date-7-13-2009,driver version-6.7.7600.16385, not digitally signed. That is it. I need some direction. What do I do now? Hopefully someone feels adventurous.Thanks
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Have you tried the Windows tool Windows32DriversAndCommandLineApp.zip ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242466
Thanks for the advice
Thanks Silvertag, I appreciate the fact that you even read my post. I was running late for work, but wanted to get something on the boards.
I will check out the link you suggested. Much appreciated.
HI guys, I'm hoping you can help me with a problem that's led me to start threatening my galaxy ace (S5830i) with a hammer.
Actually it's not the phone's fault it's purely my own stupidity, but none-the-less I'm here for help because I've spent all day and night trawling the net, trying to figure out how to proceed to resolve my issue on my own but I simply cannot make sense of the conflicting information I'm finding.
I promise you thing thing if nothing else, I have tried my very best to read around a hundred other forums, pages, and how 'to's but I'm finding that I have no resolution that I can work with because either:
- The tutorials turned out to be for the S5830 - not the i model - when I got to the forum
- The youtube videos all seem to be spoken in accents I cannot understand or not explained clearly, or are too technical
- Links I go to to get apk files etc are broken, wrong or leading me up another path I cannot follow
- Software does NOT look on my screen as it does on tutorials or websites (SDK for example)
- The people explaining the resolution type with such poor English I cannot understand what they're actually saying
- The solutions that work for others are too technical or advanced for me to understand and I'm finding it difficult to learn as I go (apart frm the root instructions which I found quite easy)
Anyway, I'll start at the beginning:
I have a samsung galaxy ace (S5830i) running:
- Gingerbread 2.3.6
- Baseband version S5830iXXLK1
- Kernel version 2.6.35.7
- Build number GINGERBREAD.XXLK3
I've already rooted it so I have superuser access, and I managed that perfectly well on my own
I installed titanium backup and somehow I managed to uninstall the stock email that comes with the phone. I think this is my problem because I now cannot download anything from google play, nor can I add a new gmail account to do so, so I'm stuck in no mans land not able to use googleplay (because my gmail account is now missing from my phone) nor can I seem to figure out how to get th apk file directly into the phone so that I can start fresh.
I'm also absolutely stuck on how to flash the phone and start again because nothing I seem to read is explaining it in simple clear terms that a layman can understand. When I do find a simple explanation, I find it's only for the non 'i' version of the phone, or if I find a simple instruction it's zip files for the rom do not contain all the files I need to use with odin v1.5
Also, there are conflicting explanations on flashing the rom on different forums/sites so I dare not use one over the other because another one contradicts it. I do not want to ruin my phone as right now it still basically works for now as a phone.
In my phone menu, the gmail icon is still there, just not the icon/app that said "email". The icon is now missing from my menus and with it there is now no way to use the play services without a gmail account on the phone.
When I click the gmail icon, it stats to open and then just shuts off quickly, not opening gmail, so I'm pretty sure all this is due to me deleting the email app using titanium backup.
Make sense?
What I'd really be grateful for is if on of you guys could help me out and explain in very simple terms what I need to do to either install the apk directly (preferred) so that I can add a gmail account to the phone and get access to google play again, or failing that a simple how to flash the rom with stock gingerbread, together with links to software that's known to be bonafide.
I am literally being driven mad going around in circles on forums and sites to keep going back to square one.
Any help will be very gratefully received. Or I'm afraid this may mean I'm going to smash my new phone int a wall and never use a smartphone again, because obviously I'm too stupid to play around with them on my own.
I really appreciate your help if someone would be able to invest a little time here.
Thanks very much for your time, guys
Jobeeey
additional info
Right, these are the instructions I found on this forum, but I'm unclear if I'm approaching this right..
Flashing s5830i with Odin v1.85
1.Turn off the phone and put it in Download mode by pressing Power+Volume Up+volume down.
2.Open Odin v1.85.Run as Administrator!.
3.Put the files in Odin and don't touch the settings
4.If it's a one-file firmware put it in PDA section.
If it's multiple put the files in the correct section.
5.Click start and don't touch the phone!Don't turn off computer and don't unplug the phone!It will reboot automatically and the first boot will take some time,so don't panic!
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I've found a rom (which is a single file) and if I'm reading this right I place that in the PDA section of Odin after installing the usb drivers onto my pc (done that and windows recognizes my phone in the sense that it isn't now hassling me for drivers every two seconds).
Ok.. so I seem to have got the correct rom for my specific ace model.. and the instructions seem to be that I now:
1) Connect usb cable
2) Boot my phone into download mode (I can do that I think).. but at what point do I press vol down to download a new os.. before or after pressing start in Odin?
3) Open Odin and add file as in my attached screenshot (I can do that)
4) Click 'start' in Odin
5) Wait for my phone to reboot
And that should be job done, the phone should be flashed with the stock rom again and that should get me back on track, right? Or am I about to screw up my phone and ruin it even further?
Thanks for reading. I hope someone can advise if I'm doing this right as I've seen other forums say that I should tick the 'Re-partition' box, and other that say I shouldn't, and this one says nothing about it at all.
This is one of the tings that's confusing me, and once I'm now flashing a phone for the first time it's flippin scary to do it on my lonesome!
This is what I mean..
I've just tested going into download mode with odin ready, and the phone gets there (vol up+down + power on).. but each time it gets into download mode it seems to disconnect from odin and no com port is open. I get the windows device disconnected/connected beeping and the connection seems to sever.
What the Fffff...
This is exactly what I'm talking about.. nothing seems to be working like it's meant to be and I'm getting nowhere with any instructions I can find after god knows how many hours researching this.
:crying:
update (lol)
Mornin all,
So, just in case anyone finds this useful..
The flashing problem is kind of irrelevant now because:
A) Odin (tried several versions) simply will not stay connected to my phone when it boots into download mode, and having checked many tutorials for this it sees that this is a problem some of us cannot get past.
Anyway, one of the methods to resolve this was to wipe the cache and clear all data etc, which I did, and now my phone is stuck on the "pres the android" screen, and my phone will no longer get past that. Tried pressing clockwise in all four corners but still nothing.
No probs.. so we move on to a new step of trying to split the roms via cygwin, but guess what? Every single time I try to download the cygwin files, that freezes at about 98% and will not download, no matter which mirror I select.
So, this is what I call a curse that isn't going to be lifted by me no matter hat. It's not not meant to be.
Therefore, what I'm going to do is take it to a local shop that unlocks mobiles and give it to them to flash back to stock rom for me.
If that doesn't work, do you know what I'm gonna do?
Nothing. Because there's nothing you can do when the processes do not follow the same progress as they do in the tutorials.
I hope other novice S5830i users save themselves all his time and trouble and don't bother following the same process and become locked out of their phone at the touch android screen.
Update
Yipee,
Right, I stumbled across a solution that worked for me.
What I did was get my 2gb msd card that came with the phone and slapped MindCR v1.0.12 on the card and whacked that in my phone (this bypassed not being able to get a new rom on the sd card as it wasn't unmounted before the crash, so my pc wouldn't recognise the date to put it on via the pc).
Then I updated the rom from that 2gb card (vol up + menu + power to get into recovery mode) and it took it a few minutes to update the firmware and give me back the full use of my phone, and with a shiny new os on it. Whoop!
I didn't bother with CWM as I'd forgotten to add it before flashing, but it worked none-the-less and I'm now back in business (wiped it manually).
As it turned out this version of MindCR works really well so far as I can tell. I realise there are updated roms now but I've come to the conclusion after the scare I had that if you're not entirely sure what you're doing, it's best to leave it alone if it ain't broke.
SO.. now I have a phone with what seems to be a better os than the stock and less bloatware on it, no phone problems I can see after thorough testing... and from what I can tell it turned out to be better than it was before the disaster.
And I learned a bit in the process. Like for example, don't feck around removing apps from smartphones with titanium unless you've backed them up and you're prepared to stress out for over 20hrs wondering what to do about it.
And, also, don't expect much help from a forum because you may not always get it. << That' not a dig at xda by the way. It's just a BIG forum so your threads may not be seen by the right person before they get buried in past pages.
Hope my little journey helps another unsuspecting S5830i user who comes across the thread.
Hey guys!
First off, i was searching through loads of forums and attempted different solutions. Anything to get it back working. This only made it worse
What happened was as follows:
After having CM 10.1 or some version of it (had the OS at 4.3 i believe), my phone was very slow, so slow in fact that i got so mad at it that i almost bit through it. So one day when i was in a tent at the foot of a mountain all alone (not that long ago) i decided to rollback the phone to its original state from backup i made some months ago before i upgraded the OS. At the same time just before this i backed up the current build just in case. Using ClockWorkMod 3pointsomething.
It went through everything and then asked me: Do you want to root this device? (or something in those lines). I, having no clue, clicked one of the million "no" on the screen.
After this it rebooted with errors saying "Can't detect this drive can't detect that drive". In other words, it couldn't detect niether Internal SD nor External SD. While having the Samsung logo being displayed without booting if i didn't go into "Volume Up, Menu Key and Start your tiny engines!".
I thought i could fix it and looked through tremendous amount of internets in attempt to fix it. Neither Odin nor Heimdall Frontend could detect the device even after installing the drivers and samsung kies and messing about with those two in between.
After a while i ended up with "Phone . . ! in a orange triangle . . PC" aka black screen of death, while the phone can go into download mode. Which in my hand is equally useless as no program can detect it still.
Now i just decided to start a new thread even though there is endless amount of other threads but none seem to cover exactly this as i haven't yet managed to fix it. Plus a response on progress is always pleasant as i personally don't know when i succeed unless phone works fully again.
How bad off am i?
Any input will be greatly appreciated! :victory:
Hoping not to have to spend money on a new one and as far as i've gathered this can be solved - Anybody can give me some tips on where to look or what i could try?
Adventurove said:
Hoping not to have to spend money on a new one and as far as i've gathered this can be solved - Anybody can give me some tips on where to look or what i could try?
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First you are posting in the wrong location as i9000 has its own forum here for Q&A and others too
second click on My Android Solutions (link below) and try methods to fix USB connection problems first after that get into download mode and use a rescue kit from MY Android Collections (link below) or follow this to flash a Gingerbread JVU stock ROM
Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.