I was caught in a boot loop and tried to re flash, when in my haste I forgot that Odin will recheck partition when loading .Pit files (pretty lame feature)
Still it was my fault for clicking start in haste.
**phone was partitioned, and would not go into download mode, it was stuck in a screen that said "Firmware update error, please restore in Kies", but it wouldn't connect to kies**
I sent my phone to XDA member Connexion2005
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=1602851
I haven't got it in my hands yet, but he just told me it was fixed, I can't wait to get it back and leave it the hell alone (until someone makes CM7 or better work on it)
anyhow, this is out there so if you do what I did (DON'T) there's a solution. Set me back $50 plus shipping to TX from NYC but still, I didn't have to get a whole new phone.
for 50 bucks im sure k0nane would have made an uberfixit tar :/
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for 50 bucks im sure k0nane would have made an uberfixit tar :/
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Absolutely.
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for 50 bucks im sure k0nane would have made an uberfixit tar :/
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Please elaborate. Not finding much info on this "uberfixit", but it sounds like it's some method of re-creating the stock filesystem that's flashable in odin?
I was putting this out there, because I'm not the only one that this will happen to.
yea it happens when you repartition, an uberfixit requires a complete dump of the phone and quite a bit of time, but will completely fix what you described
the problem with repartitioning is that it wipes the phone clean and then starts to reinstall everything, problem is neither one of teh tars has the full dump (we do it for the sake of saving actual bricks)
knowing someone who can jtag is great we have had a few epic 4g touches that crashed and burned and were saved via jtag.
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yea it happens when you repartition, an uberfixit requires a complete dump of the phone and quite a bit of time, but will completely fix what you described
the problem with repartitioning is that it wipes the phone clean and then starts to reinstall everything, problem is neither one of teh tars has the full dump (we do it for the sake of saving actual bricks)
knowing someone who can jtag is great we have had a few epic 4g touches that crashed and burned and were saved via jtag.
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You may not remember, but I did go onto your IRC and spoke with you regarding this issue.
oh sorry, the irc channel we have is for a bunch of devices currently we house blaze 4g, attain 4g, conenct 4g, lucid and optimus m+ owners. so i probably thought you were an attain owner since we have had a good number of attain owners repartition as well :/
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oh sorry, the irc channel we have is for a bunch of devices currently we house blaze 4g, attain 4g, conenct 4g, lucid and optimus m+ owners. so i probably thought you were an attain owner since we have had a good number of attain owners repartition as well :/
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it's all good, bottom line is I f'd up my device, but now its fixed.
um...yeah...
So i did the exact same thing as you... Been trying to find anyone who can help me out. Is there anyway I can fix it myself? I haven't found a single place in my whole state that can fix the problem. If at all possible, I'd like to avoid sending it out for repair.
So how do I get this uberfixit?
I stupidly re-partitioned using Odin, also: I did not realize that Odin re-checked the check box -even after unchecking- when a new pda file was loaded. My bad. Totally though it was bricked until i was able to flash this stock gingerbread rom, but now kies says that my Blaze S does not qualify for upgrades... Did the re-partitioning do this?
I can no longer get to the recovery screen, although if I restart my blaze while connected to a pc via usb, it does allow the "re-install OS?" page to display, and I can get to recover from there: But absolutely no more access to the recovery "menu" which allows me to wipe cache/restore to factory/etc.
Just Odin cwm back then flash away
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Thanks for the quick reply; I will try that right now: My fingers are crossed.
2vivid said:
Just Odin cwm back then flash away
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Thanks for the quick reply; I will try that right now: My fingers are crossed.
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It's just a soft brick, I have done that at least 10 times.
Will you make this?
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Absolutely.
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Hi, k0nane I too have bricked my phone due to not unchecking re-partition. Now no matter what I do the phone displays the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again. It is frustrating. I will certainly pay you if you make a fix for this that I can flash in odin! I don't care if it wipes my phone completely as I was trying to flash a new rom anyways. Please reply I'm desperate to get this thing working again.
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Hi, k0nane I too have bricked my phone due to not unchecking re-partition. Now no matter what I do the phone displays the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again. It is frustrating. I will certainly pay you if you make a fix for this that I can flash in odin! I don't care if it wipes my phone completely as I was trying to flash a new rom anyways. Please reply I'm desperate to get this thing working again.
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That's a soft brick.
No need to pay anyone lol just pull the battery and go back to download mode (for Odin) again and revert back to stock. A quick search through 'bricked' type threads would have netted this info :thumbup:
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So it seems like the first time stuck so it restarted, now it's stuck at partition. I selected the PIT and the PDA stock file, but it's just sitting there ... I'm on the phone + PC logo.
Am I totally screwed? What to do?
What pit did you select?
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The one from the xda thread additional infuse files
bella92108 said:
The one from the xda thread additional infuse files
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Not seeing that thread. Please provide a link.
i think he means from lost1
@op i think the 512pit from the sgsphones will work
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in OP additional files
It gets stuck at "Setup Connection.."
im gonna go out on a limb here and say use h8rifts stock rom with the 512pit found in the i9000 and captivate sections. h8's rom is missing the param.ifs though, not sure if you will need that.
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im gonna go out on a limb here and say use h8rifts stock rom with the 512pit found in the i9000 and captivate sections. h8's rom is missing the param.ifs though, not sure if you will need that.
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So I've been able to use the 512 pit and get it to get back to the "Downloading... Do not turn off Target". ... but then when I go back in and try to flash the stock Rooted ROM I get the "Initialization..." then it just stops there... ideas?
not sure. let it sit for a while. h8rift or somebody said it took his like 20 minutes(if i remember right) which seems weird. also you should be logged in windows as admin and the usb plugged into a port that connects to the mother board not a expansion card or hub.
honestly though i have only used heimdall on the infuse. and never repartitioned because heimdall requires bootloaders for repartition. im not sure i trust lost1's bootloaders and if there is an issue with them there are no others to use.
it might be a driver issue. maybe samsung needs some updated drivers for the infuse.
also are you sure you have your .net framework up to date on windows? i cant think of everything odin depends on but i think having .netframework4 helps with some things on the phone, cant remember ifodin depends on it though
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not sure. let it sit for a while. h8rift or somebody said it took his like 20 minutes(if i remember right) which seems weird. also you should be logged in windows as admin and the usb plugged into a port that connects to the mother board not a expansion card or hub.
honestly though i have only used heimdall on the infuse. and never repartitioned because heimdall requires bootloaders for repartition. im not sure i trust lost1's bootloaders and if there is an issue with them there are no others to use.
it might be a driver issue. maybe samsung needs some updated drivers for the infuse.
also are you sure you have your .net framework up to date on windows? i cant think of everything odin depends on but i think having .netframework4 helps with some things on the phone, cant remember ifodin depends on it though
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So I've been able to get it to say FACTORYFS now. I decided to just try the NON-rooted stock file to see if maybe it'll work. Right now it says Firmware update Start.... and there's a tiny green line flashing, but it's just been sitting there for 5 mins alrady.... just let it sit?
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So I've been able to get it to say FACTORYFS now. I decided to just try the NON-rooted stock file to see if maybe it'll work. Right now it says Firmware update Start.... and there's a tiny green line flashing, but it's just been sitting there for 5 mins alrady.... just let it sit?
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cant hurt to leave it there a little longer. the captivate never took that long but we also had a true factory flash oneclick odin that they use to reset refurbished phones. no such luck on the infuse unless someone wants to see if designgears has some sort of connection at samsung who can get it like he somehow was able to get it for the captivate. the significance of odin oneclick is that is has all the files. param.ifs, boot.bin, sbl.bin, and all the first boot scripts. our stock roms have come from rom dumps. the captivate stock roms came from samsung.
i would leave it for a good 20 minutes. then try something else. you may need to try files from lost1's stock rom you can use 7zip to manipulate the .tar files and magic ISO to manipulate the .rfs files within the .tar files, but atleast one ofthe files from lost1 doesnt work. if i had 2 infuses id experiment with you to be able to post what works and what doesnt. with only one phone im hesitant to try anything that is not tested
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cant hurt to leave it there a little longer. the captivate never took that long but we also had a true factory flash oneclick odin that they use to reset refurbished phones. no such luck on the infuse unless someone wants to see if designgears has some sort of connection at samsung who can get it like he somehow was able to get it for the captivate. the significance of odin oneclick is that is has all the files. param.ifs, boot.bin, sbl.bin, and all the first boot scripts. our stock roms have come from rom dumps. the captivate stock roms came from samsung.
i would leave it for a good 20 minutes. then try something else. you may need to try files from lost1's stock rom you can use 7zip to manipulate the .tar files and magic ISO to manipulate the .rfs files within the .tar files, but atleast one ofthe files from lost1 doesnt work. if i had 2 infuses id experiment with you to be able to post what works and what doesnt. with only one phone im hesitant to try anything that is not tested
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I'm using H8rift's restore... and both of the two (rooted and non) have the same issue for me.
It just sits... I've used the rooted and non-rooted.... ugh.
It goes to firmware update start then has a little greenness in the progress bar on the computer, and a little blueness in the progress bar on the phone, but I let it sit for 30 minutes and it never progresses any further, so there's something going on.
I've tried other usb ports, updated drivers, every method of compatibility and admin mode, even reinstalled windows basic version, haha.... ugh, this is hopeless.
I think it's time to chalk this up to a very very expensive lesson learned and go out and buy a replacement... not happy about that :-(
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I'm using H8rift's restore... and both of the two (rooted and non) have the same issue for me.
It just sits... I've used the rooted and non-rooted.... ugh.
It goes to firmware update start then has a little greenness in the progress bar on the computer, and a little blueness in the progress bar on the phone, but I let it sit for 30 minutes and it never progresses any further, so there's something going on.
I've tried other usb ports, updated drivers, every method of compatibility and admin mode, even reinstalled windows basic version, haha.... ugh, this is hopeless.
I think it's time to chalk this up to a very very expensive lesson learned and go out and buy a replacement... not happy about that :-(
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Why did you use a .pit? Did I not state in the OP of the Odin thread not to use one? take out the .pit, uncheck re-partition and flash the package as it was originally attended. you will NEVER need to re-partition your phone until we actually start CHANGING your partitions sizes (i.e. CM7, MIUI, possibly Samsung's gingerbread, etc.)
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Why did you use a .pit? Did I not state in the OP of the Odin thread not to use one? take out the .pit, uncheck re-partition and flash the package as it was originally attended. you will NEVER need to re-partition your phone until we actually start CHANGING your partitions sizes (i.e. CM7, MIUI, possibly Samsung's gingerbread, etc.)
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He doesn't follow directions well.This much we know. He royally screwed up flashing my ROM as well and then proceeded to blame his problems on my ROM being crappy.
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He doesn't follow directions well.This much we know. He royally screwed up flashing my ROM as well and then proceeded to blame his problems on my ROM being crappy.
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Sorry to hear that.
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I am putting up another Odin package right now for him to try if h8rift's doesn't get him going since he tried to repartition.
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I am putting up another Odin package right now for him to try if h8rift's doesn't get him going since he tried to repartition.
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...... She ...
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Gtg the man
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...... She ...
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see how nice he was to help you! ive listened to these guys from day one never one problem and if there is they help you untill its fixed. they were once like us too bu now deserve respect in the developing\helping noob world lol
Poor bella, she seems to be having a tough time lately...
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Ok so I just got me a New samsung showcase. It came with 2.2 installed build number sch-i500.ee25. Ok so i find out about rooting and all this so i start researching all about it. Here is where i am. I rooted with SuperOneClick. Worked fine. I installed ROM manager to get the clockworkmod but it did not work so I used Odin to install clockworkmod. That worked fine. So at this point I decided i need to backup the stock ROM. I try this using ROM manager but no go. it reboots into clockworkmod and gives me the sd card not mounted stuff. So I read and read and read but i can't seam to find a solution to this problem. I know there other people that have had this problem. I have read through the step by step guides and i really see nothing on this. Anyone have any type of solution.
Running on stock 2.2 rom manager doesnt work. You will need to go into cwm by turning off phone, holding power,vol up and down at same time. after samsung blinks 2nd time let go of buttons and you will boot into recovery.
Thank you. I thought I tried that before but I guess i did something wrong. Worked that time. Now if my memory is correct from reading that will not back up two things. The kernel and something else. How do I back up the kernel? Or am I just not thinking correctly cause I have not had enough sleep.
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I had to have Kies Mini open and running on my computer to root my phone
First, Welcome!
Second, Download and familiarize yourself with a program called Odin. This phone is hard to brick. From nearly every situation you can flash back to stock with Odin.
Third, Showcase files are not common. Send me a PM and ill give you my email address. I can better help over email.
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This phone is hard to brick. From nearly every situation you can flash back to stock with Odin.
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Not true; that's what we call a false sense of security.
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Not true; that's what we call a false sense of security.
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that is true. ive seen phones get restored that have been flashed with roms for other phones and wont even get past the samsung logo. he said nearly, I'm sure you can come up with some weird far out situation but don't try and scare the newbies off this early.
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don't try and scare the newbies off this early.
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What will scare newbies off is when they start flashing crazy **** for another phone in the Phone box in ODIN or something and can't fix it by just ODIN'ing like you guys are suggesting.
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What will scare newbies off is when they start flashing crazy **** for another phone in the Phone box in ODIN or something and can't fix it by just ODIN'ing like you guys are suggesting.
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It's ok he's the only one still here so he'll have to help them.
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You say that but the fact that you said it means I'm not the only one.
Ooooohhhh someone's getting technicallllllllll
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Ooooohhhh someone's getting technicallllllllll
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dang right
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Same phone
I have the exact same phone as you. I just rooted my phone for the first time yesterday and I am having trouble installing CWM. Can you explain to me how you used Odin to flash CWM. And after you flash CWM, is it possible to revert back to stock recovery? If so how?
I've been a regular visitor on XDA. I am a semi-newbie at this point as I have flashed several ROM's successfully so that's my definition of a semi-newbi . I made some newbie mistakes this time around and soft bricked my Nfuse. It took a lot of reading but I managed to resolve the issue. I have appreciated the detailed posts on this site so I wanted to contribute and detail how I unbricked my Nfuse to help others.
I successfully loaded ICS CM9 for Infuse and spent the afternoon setting up all my apps. At the end of it all I decided it was time to back up the ROM via the ROM Manager app like I had done with GB. So I kicked off the backup and then it boot looped a few times and then it would only boot to CWM. I can't tell if doing this caused it or it not (anyone know if a ROM Manager backup should have worked here?)
I decided to start over so I began the Heimdall 'Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click.jar' to get back to GB Rom. In the middle of the flash, it barfed and the phone disconnected from USB. Booted the phone and it was now in a state with the phone and computer icons with a yellow triangle ! in-between. I was now in a state where I could not boot to Download Mode.
More research and I found out about Adam Outler's Heimdall 'One Click Unbrick' and it brought it back to life. I was then able to get back into download mode, flash back to stock ('Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click.jar' & 'SGH_I997 Entropy Test Kernel-One-Click.jar') from Entropy and got into GB. Then followed up with the CM9 ICS install using 'update-cm-9.0.0-RC0-infuse4g-05272012-UNOFFICIAL-signed.zip' and 'gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip'.
So I am back to ICS (and love it!). I just wanted to express my thanks for all the work others have done to provide us with these tools. I had already ordered a JIG from eBAY and was going to have to wait for it to be delivered to see if it would get me into download mode. I thought I was in a hard brick at one point as I found conflicting posts about what a hard brick really is. I now know a hard brick is dead as a doornail so I was in a soft brick situation. I was also considering sending the phone to be JTAG repaired for $40 but I am happy it was a soft brick.
In any case, my phone is resurrected and I am happy and I hope this post helps others.
Tai'Shar
Tai'Shar said:
I've been a regular visitor on XDA. I am a semi-newbie at this point as I have flashed several ROM's successfully so that's my definition of a semi-newbi . I made some newbie mistakes this time around and soft bricked my Nfuse. It took a lot of reading but I managed to resolve the issue. I have appreciated the detailed posts on this site so I wanted to contribute and detail how I unbricked my Nfuse to help others.
I successfully loaded ICS CM9 for Infuse and spent the afternoon setting up all my apps. At the end of it all I decided it was time to back up the ROM via the ROM Manager app like I had done with GB. So I kicked off the backup and then it boot looped a few times and then it would only boot to CWM. I can't tell if doing this caused it or it not (anyone know if a ROM Manager backup should have worked here?)
I decided to start over so I began the Heimdall 'Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click.jar' to get back to GB Rom. In the middle of the flash, it barfed and the phone disconnected from USB. Booted the phone and it was now in a state with the phone and computer icons with a yellow triangle ! in-between. I was now in a state where I could not boot to Download Mode.
More research and I found out about Adam Outler's Heimdall 'One Click Unbrick' and it brought it back to life. I was then able to get back into download mode, flash back to stock ('Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click.jar' & 'SGH_I997 Entropy Test Kernel-One-Click.jar') from Entropy and got into GB. Then followed up with the CM9 ICS install using 'update-cm-9.0.0-RC0-infuse4g-05272012-UNOFFICIAL-signed.zip' and 'gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip'.
So I am back to ICS (and love it!). I just wanted to express my thanks for all the work others have done to provide us with these tools. I had already ordered a JIG from eBAY and was going to have to wait for it to be delivered to see if it would get me into download mode. I thought I was in a hard brick at one point as I found conflicting posts about what a hard brick really is. I now know a hard brick is dead as a doornail so I was in a soft brick situation. I was also considering sending the phone to be JTAG repaired for $40 but I am happy it was a soft brick.
In any case, my phone is resurrected and I am happy and I hope this post helps others.
Tai'Shar
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You're welcome, Tai.
from the op:
1. To cleanly install the latest ATT Infuse UCLB3 Gingerbread leak. No hassle One-Click. Then enjoy the lastest leak of Infuse GB.
2. To Restore your phone to factory state.
3. To Restore your phone from boot loops, Samsung Logo, Soft Brick - non-hardware related failures from bad flashes, borked partitions or mismatch voodoo partitions. (I suspect many users will use it for this purpose)
Scenario #1: Oh, gosh! I would love to have the latest GB leak from AT&T! How to I do that? What in the world is Odin? Ain't it some mythological Norse deity?
Heimdall 1 click - done!
Scenario #2: I think I did something to my phone. It's not working right. My wifi is dropping like a leaky faucet. My Market is not working. I hate my phone! I wish it was like factory.
Heimdall 1 click - done!
Scenario #3: Oh crap! I just #@#% in my pants! I bricked my phone. OMG!!! I'm stuck on SAMSUNG logo! I'm boot looping! I lost recovery! Help me!!!
Heimdall 1 click - done.
Rom Manager Backups and CM9 ICS
This might be a dumb question.... In my post above, does anyone know if using Rom Manager to perform a ROM Backup on ICS CM9 5/27/2012 build would or could cause the boot loop/soft brick? It probably is a coincidence but now I am not sure I want to try it again.
Tai'Shar Xda
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Ah, never mind, just found it in the Nfuse CM9 ICS Rom thread. It does cause a boot loop: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26648460&postcount=1090
Tai'Shar Xda
I know you already found the answer, but do not use from manager. Do you backups from the nandroid in recovery only. From mgr will definitely give you issues.
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I know you already found the answer, but do not use from manager. Do you backups from the nandroid in recovery only. From mgr will definitely give you issues.
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lol ah yes... brings back some unhappy memories...
Also...your yellow triangle with the ! Is still download mode...just a differnt mode-just an fyi that wasnt really that important....
Anyways glad you figured it out and posted to help.others who may not know how to use heimdal
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I know you already found the answer, but do not use from manager. Do you backups from the nandroid in recovery only. From mgr will definitely give you issues.
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Thanks for the input on this. I was about to research the best method for backup.
For backup of just the sdcard and all my photos and other personal files I've been using the Samba app. My PC has a mapped drive to the Samba share on the phone which is \sdcard. I use an inexpensive app on my PC called GoodSync and it checks every 10 min for the share and if it sees it after I enable Samba, it auto replicates all files to a folder on my PC. Not good for OS recovery but works well for personal data.
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Also...your yellow triangle with the ! Is still download mode...just a differnt mode-just an fyi that wasnt really that important....
Anyways glad you figured it out and posted to help.others who may not know how to use heimdal
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Thanks, I looked everywhere for the answer to that question.
Now that i recovered from a failed flash, I feel a bit more confident in replacing ROM's when I want to change the flavor.
I've read that these Samsung phones are really good for recovering from screw ups unlike other brands so i am glad I have the Infuse (but I have my eye on the new Galaxy III S).
I just tried to flash Jellywiz for the first time. I forgot to unlock the bootloader prior to flashing the rom. I know.........So Stupid.
Anyway. I've tried the odin trick but my phone just has the yellow triangle with the message that the system software in not authorized by VZE. I can't boot into recovery to restore my backup. Odin doesn't seem to work. I'm trying to follow the instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030 But I'm not getting the "PASS" message.
Please help... I'm freaking out.
Are you booting into download mode before connecting to Odin?
Oh, no I wasn't. I'm now going through the Odin process in Download mode. Thanks for the tip. Hope this works
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Oh, no I wasn't. I'm now going through the Odin process in Download mode. Thanks for the tip. Hope this works
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folks...i will say it again, you dont need to use puremotives guide to recover in this situation. just flash a stock rom in odin and be done. there is no need to flash bootchains...use section 6 of my guide, then if that does not work use puremotives guide. not trying to take anything away from pures great writeup, but its intended for devices that are actually soft bricked. i only recomend flashing bootchains if absolutely necessary because if anything fails during the flash, you get a hardbrick....then its jtag time!
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folks...i will say it again, you dont need to use puremotives guide to recover in this situation. just flash a stock rom in odin and be done. there is no need to flash bootchains...use section 6 of my guide, then if that does not work use puremotives guide. not trying to take anything away from pures great writeup, but its intended for devices that are actually soft bricked. i only recomend flashing bootchains if absolutely necessary because if anything fails during the flash, you get a hardbrick....then its jtag time!
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Ok, I'll try that. Thanks for every ones help. I'll let you guys know if it works.
I'm up and running. Thank you all so much... especially droidstyle for the tutorial. I tried looking for a "Donate" button on the tutorial but couldn't find one. I'll keep looking and send some cash your way. Again, thank you VERY much.
Dave
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I'm up and running. Thank you all so much... especially droidstyle for the tutorial. I tried looking for a "Donate" button on the tutorial but couldn't find one. I'll keep looking and send some cash your way. Again, thank you VERY much.
Dave
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donate link up! i never really thought to put up a link, but actually there have been quite a few folks wanting to make a donations...thx and glad your back up and running!
Droidstyle what are boot chains? I came from sprint and never saw them before and a Google search doesn't give an answer. Could u please shed some light on it for me. Thanks bro
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musclehead84 said:
Droidstyle what are boot chains? I came from sprint and never saw them before and a Google search doesn't give an answer. Could u please shed some light on it for me. Thanks bro
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bootchains are the order of operations for the boot process(aka bootloader). some folks have had thier devices emmc internal memory get corrupted during a cwm session causing the system permissions to read only. since no data can be written on boot, your device is stuck in a bootloop. reflashing the bootchain followed by the stock rom restores the proper boot sequence and read/write permissions allowing the device to boot. the kicker is you want to make sure nothing goes wrong when flashing a bootchain or its brick city. hopefully this makes sense lol
droidstyle said:
bootchains are the order of operations for the boot process(aka bootloader). some folks have had thier devices emmc internal memory get corrupted during a cwm session causing the system permissions to read only. since no data can be written on boot, your device is stuck in a bootloop. reflashing the bootchain followed by the stock rom restores the proper boot sequence and read/write permissions allowing the device to boot. the kicker is you want to make sure nothing goes wrong when flashing a bootchain or its brick city. hopefully this makes sense lol
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Yes it does. Thank you so much. I have never seen these used before so it was new to me. Thanks again.
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I wonder how many times droidsytles howto has saved people, im sure its in the thousands, thanxs droidstyle! I known it saved me a couple times
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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.
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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.
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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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