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Help NEEDED - semi bricked phone- yes I searched lots 5 hours trying to fix

FIXED- I found the stock ODIN Rogers file rooted and that got me going.
The unbrick ROM does NOT work for ROGERS phones.
Hello Everyone,
Problem: Infuse will boot up and you see the ATT screen then 2 seconds later it sits on the SAMSUNG screen.
I have tried just about everything posted. I even tried the Infuse unbrick Odin pkg.
I CAN get into download mode. I can flash with ODIN. But upon reboot the phone goes back to the SAMSUNG screen.
How did I get here?
I had was running ZEUS. I had the issue with ppl not hearing me unless I turned speakerphone on and off for every call. I did a master reset. I had an issue with something else so I tried using a CWM flashable file which caused the problems needing the master reset.
I have tried many things but I am stuck.
I am trying to get an ODIN kernel that is moded like the V8 community kernel BUT all the links are broken.

droiduzr2 said:
Hello Everyone,
Problem: Infuse will boot up and you see the ATT screen then 2 seconds later it sits on the SAMSUNG screen.
I have tried just about everything posted. I even tried the Infuse unbrick Odin pkg.
I CAN get into download mode. I can flash with ODIN. But upon reboot the phone goes back to the SAMSUNG screen.
How did I get here?
I had was running ZEUS. I had the issue with ppl not hearing me unless I turned speakerphone on and off for every call. I did a master reset. I had an issue with something else so I tried using a CWM flashable file which caused the problems needing the master reset.
I have tried many things but I am stuck.
I am trying to get an ODIN kernel that is moded like the V8 community kernel BUT all the links are broken.
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Seems obvious to a rookie like me, but shouldn't you just use GTG's ultimate unbrick back to D5 stock and go from there?

droiduzr2 said:
I have tried just about everything posted. I even tried the Infuse unbrick Odin pkg.
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Hmm... EVERYTHING?? I dunno about that... 2 second search bro.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22459950

Really 5 hrs?
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SnowBeer said:
Seems obvious to a rookie like me, but shouldn't you just use GTG's ultimate unbrick back to D5 stock and go from there?
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I wrote that in my OP that I tried the ultimate unbrick with ODIN still stuck on Samsung Screen.

Erik_T said:
Hmm... EVERYTHING?? I dunno about that... 2 second search bro.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22459950
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I said I needed ODIN files...if I am stuck ont he SAMSUNG screen it means NO CWM for me. The links in the original community kernel thread are broken and several ppl have contacted the OP including me asking to fix the links.

droiduzr2 said:
I said I needed ODIN files...if I am stuck ont he SAMSUNG screen it means NO CWM for me. The links in the original community kernel thread are broken and several ppl have contacted the OP including me asking to fix the links.
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Soo....
Erik_T said:
YES THERE IS! God. MediaFire Y U take so long!
Mirror for Odin. All credits to GTG. I am going to pm him to ask him to add it to the op.
http://www.mediafire.com/?c85mj690uk5vaw5
Thanks >>
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Posted http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112555&page=17
And that is the "original" community kernel.. Dunno why you'd say it's not?
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Ltilt2 said:
Really 5 hrs?
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Yeah.. I dunno about that...

Guys, I already posted that I tried that NO GO
I need the files from here BUT the links are broken
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119598
I think I can get it working again with a kernel that will convert to ext4.
I can not get into the phone to delete or change the voodoo lagfix.
It seems that the boot partition is not working right.
I can flash with ODIN the unbrick file and it will install but upon reboot still stuck at samsung screen. I can NOT get into recovery either.
WTF? Did I make a brick?
Someone has to know how to fix this

droiduzr2 said:
Guys, I already posted that I tried that NO GO
I need the files from here BUT the links are broken
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1119598
I think I can get it working again with a kernel that will convert to ext4.
I can not get into the phone to delete or change the voodoo lagfix.
It seems that the boot partition is not working right.
I can flash with ODIN the unbrick file and it will install but upon reboot still stuck at samsung screen. I can NOT get into recovery either.
WTF? Did I make a brick?
Someone has to know how to fix this
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Dude.. if you can't figure this out with those links that I posted, then I don't think that I can help you.. I can somehow manage to odin myself and bring myself back to a rom with those files and the respective rom. And I know that there are other people that can too... good luck bro.. I'm done..
Edit: May I suggest this?
Edit 2: Actually, if you need the 3e recovery file. I just remembered that you need that too. Haven't seen a mirror posted for that. Maybe that is the element that you are missing? If it is lemme know..

It is really quite on xda today

Flash any GB kernel that's rooted, but uncheck reboot.
Then try to boot to recovery.
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Thamma513 said:
It is really quite on xda today
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Kinda random place to put that bit I agree.
Truckerglenn said:
Flash any GB kernel that's rooted, but uncheck reboot.
Then try to boot to recovery.
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Try Entropy's DD
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Erik_T said:
Dude.. if you can't figure this out with those links that I posted, then I don't think that I can help you.. I can somehow manage to odin myself and bring myself back to a rom with those files and the respective rom. And I know that there are other people that can too... good luck bro.. I'm done..
Edit: May I suggest this?
Edit 2: Actually, if you need the 3e recovery file. I just remembered that you need that too. Haven't seen a mirror posted for that. Maybe that is the element that you are missing? If it is lemme know..
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I am well aware of using this stuff. I flashed many phones and tablets hence why I like Samsung.
Yes, can you provide me the 3e Recovery ODIN file.
That would be a good thing to try.

Truckerglenn said:
Flash any GB kernel that's rooted, but uncheck reboot.
Then try to boot to recovery.
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I can only use ODIN files because I can ONLY get into download mode. I can NOT get into recovery to use any CWM files.
I have been trying to find ODIN kernel files but the ones available the download links are broken and I pm'd the OP as well as others that need the files but still no luck yet.
Can someone please post an ODIN kernel for me to try.
Edit:
Just to be clear I have now flashed the Unbrick ROM several times. It will load up and install. I get a green pass in ODIN but on reboot I see the ATT screen then stuck at the Samsung screen.
I have started to flash odin kernels from my captivate and tablet. They do get past the ATT screen and no Samsung screen but all I see is grainy stuff all over SO that tells me that changes are being made. I just need to try with an INFUSE ODIN kernel that might convert to ext4. I think that will solve the problem.

btw- thanks for the help...I am just ticked trying to get my phone to work.
I just need one damn file or small command to wipe the phone so it will take the stuff we are trying to push.

FIXED- I found the stock ODIN Rogers file rooted and that got me going.
The unbrick ROM does NOT work for ROGERS phones.

I went through the same thing about a month ago on mine... I eventually found the same file you did... it was a pain and since then if I've bricked I've flashed ultimate unbrick then flashed stock Rogers and it resolves my issue... I keep both saved on my computer now
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So.. you're good? Yes? Problem solved? Close thread...?
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Simple Fix...
Use. GTG's ultimate unbrick.
Download http://www.mediafire.com/?i57410xodydx5l1
Follow the easy steps.
This will bring to how you bought the phone.
SECOND to all with BLACK screens.
Turn off the phone using power and volume up and down.
While plugging in the phone to the USB. Release power button.
This may take multiple tried, but you will get the download screen eventually.
Its all about timing.
YOUR PHONE CAN NOT BE BRICKED.
The down loader is not on the internal memory,
it is on a FLASH ROM separate from everything else.
Thanks to "secretasianman"
Original:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22404594&postcount=392

People need to remember that not everyone is using AT&T Infuse, gotta clarify that before posting guides.
And yeah keep the stock rogers rooted rom on your desktop, comes in handy for a quick return to stock if anything goes wrong.

Need help, phone screwed- yes, I'm a noob

Yes, this may be the wrong thread. Yes I know I am a noob and I apologized.
But I seriously think I effed up my phone and I really need someone to help me fix it. I was trying to root it via this youtube vid:
How to Root Samsung Galaxy S 4G Gingerbread 2.3.6 Part 1
But now it's stuck in an infnite static boot loop and sometimes won't even turn on. Is there any possible way to fix this or at least get it back to it's original software
Please help!!!

can u get into download mode?

Yes I can. Is there a kill disc program or something I can download to completely reinstall my original android software? At this poinnt I just want it back to where it was

You will hv to download ur phone's firmware an use odin to restore it to factory defaults, just google search ur phone's firmware ul find it an use odin ul be good

hey i tried that and i have SU and CWM app. is that considered rooted?

RaptorF22 said:
Yes, this may be the wrong thread. Yes I know I am a noob and I apologized.
But I seriously think I effed up my phone and I really need someone to help me fix it. I was trying to root it via this youtube vid:
How to Root Samsung Galaxy S 4G Gingerbread 2.3.6 Part 1
But now it's stuck in an infnite static boot loop and sometimes won't even turn on. Is there any possible way to fix this or at least get it back to it's original software
Please help!!!
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1. Get odin
2. Google search your phones factory firmware
3. Google search how to Factory Reset from boot cause im to lazy to go that far. its all over this forum.
and for the dude above me. just cause you have superuser on you phone does not mean it is rooted. have you used applications like setCPU, if so does it allow root access. if not you do not have a rooted phone. superoneclick. use it. its geat

Yeah, Odin is your best bet to go. Make sure you get the correct firmware. Whatever you do do some research on the stock Galaxy S 4G Gingerbread firmware if you make a mistake loading the wrong files and letting odin to go to work you will dead brick the phone. There will be a still chance on recovering it but you will need a person that can do that and there are some here, they will charge you like $30 for it at least. Good luck

If you have those on your phone then you are rooted
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I'm a woman noob and in the process of trying to unroot my EVO I must've gotten the wrong img zip and it sent my phone back to dinosaur ages! I have android 1.3 running on it and I have no idea how to fix it. I am all over paying someone to help me. If interested please PM me!
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I'm back to stock. I used RUU. I lost root but that's ok. I'm still relieved.
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Where are backups stored?

Hey, 1st i'm sorry to ask this i'm sure the info is out there somewhere but the closest iv found to an answer is "on the SD card" so what I need to know is where, on the device, when i'm in red recovery and make a backup, does that file get stored?
I received a replacement phone from atnt as my old infuse was damaged and before I send it back im trying to make a carbon copy of the phone on my new one. Iv abused the hell out of my old one with Odin and flashing and toying with this but this new one is being a PIA im not sure why. One noticeble difference is now it wants me to confirm when i'm entering download mode by hitting volume up.
Anyway I have the restore file off my old phone but cant figure out where to put it so that when I goto backup/restore and click restore it will find the file, it keeps telling me no files found. I also cant use rom manager to restore it because every time I try using rom manager it force closes, nor will it let superuser update the binary, I flash back to stock, start over and oh look its googletalk bug, rinse, repeat. Iv spent about 3 hours between the past 2 days doing this :/
As always any help is appreciated
Figures right when I giveup and ask for help I find the backup subfolder in the clockworkmod folder

Sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
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bambino326 said:
Hey, 1st i'm sorry to ask this i'm sure the info is out there somewhere but the closest iv found to an answer is "on the SD card" so what I need to know is where, on the device, when i'm in red recovery and make a backup, does that file get stored?
I received a replacement phone from atnt as my old infuse was damaged and before I send it back im trying to make a carbon copy of the phone on my new one. Iv abused the hell out of my old one with Odin and flashing and toying with this but this new one is being a PIA im not sure why. One noticeble difference is now it wants me to confirm when i'm entering download mode by hitting volume up.
Anyway I have the restore file off my old phone but cant figure out where to put it so that when I goto backup/restore and click restore it will find the file, it keeps telling me no files found. I also cant use rom manager to restore it because every time I try using rom manager it force closes, nor will it let superuser update the binary, I flash back to stock, start over and oh look its googletalk bug, rinse, repeat. Iv spent about 3 hours between the past 2 days doing this :/
As always any help is appreciated
Figures right when I giveup and ask for help I find the backup subfolder in the clockworkmod folder
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Which rom r u using?
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actually im still using bionix v2, I know its old as hell and not Gingerbready but its the only one iv used *this is asof 3 months ago and probably still dosnt apply* where EVERYTHING works and I gained battery life. Every other rom id run would have just enough wrong with it where id get frustrated and go back to bionix as my stock option. The phone should of shipped running this honestly.

bambino326 said:
actually im still using bionix v2, I know its old as hell and not Gingerbready but its the only one iv used *this is asof 3 months ago and probably still dosnt apply* where EVERYTHING works and I gained battery life. Every other rom id run would have just enough wrong with it where id get frustrated and go back to bionix as my stock option. The phone should of shipped running this honestly.
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Ok... i asked because 2.3.6 gb and some of the roms i have allways give me google talk error.
But its only the 2.3.6 based roms and stock
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[Q] [help] make a flasheable launcher

Hi all, let me see, my friend own a galaxy s i9003l, he asked me to root it. I was like ok np ill do it everything went fine no problems, then all hell brake loose, he, out of i dont know why, erased default launcher , and stayed with holo launcher, then he read about custom roms tryed to flash one of them, dunno wich one,and failed in the process, making the phone bootlooping, i have managed to install cwm, but since he didnt tell me about that erase thing, i made a factory reset, bottom line is that we have no launcher at all and for some reason neither odin, cwm or kies is.able to flash anything to it, now it actually boot but we have no way to use it .Then i was reading about making a flashable.zip launcher but i.have no idea how to make something like that, and was wondering about if someone would be kind enought of making it for us, i know it is a lot for me to ask, but it is the only way i can figure it out

Hi there. Maybe you can flash
Kpe file. It will revert your firmware back to stock but your problem will be fixed
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icephatom said:
Hi there. Maybe you can flash
Kpe file. It will revert your firmware back to stock but your problem will be fixed
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Ty will try that out agencia i get home

HELP with Soft Brick

So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??

Just search in the stickies for bootloaders. That will solve your problems
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COfatboy said:
So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??
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If you'd like to try GTG's Ultimate Unbrick, you can find a working download here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22404446&postcount=391

Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.

COfatboy said:
Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.
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You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709

prairied0gg said:
You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709
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It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.

COfatboy said:
It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.
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I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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prairied0gg said:
I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.

COfatboy said:
Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.
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This happened to me earlier. What I did was-
1 Went to full stock using heimdal one click, After completetion, U may stuck in bootloop in at&t as you said
2 Flash efs.zip found in the link below using odin. put efs.zip in odin and untouch any other setting and flash, (Ur imei may be previously corrupted so u got bootloop). This doesnot do any harm. So flash with confidence. If ur device doesnot show up in odin after u flash with heimdal one click , reinstal drivers with kies mini
Link for download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729838
3 Now u'll be out of AT&T bootloop if ur imei was previously corrupted.
I was in similar situation. And this solved my proble.
Hit me thanks if I helped you :good:

Thanks for all the advise. Still not working. Tried everything above and much more. Different things I do give different results but pretty much the same in end. Either sticks in recovery or boot loops one way or another. Really don't see how this could be related to software but you never know I guess.
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