Well I finally rooted my sidekick and went to backup the stock rom via rom manager and it rebooted and never got past t mobile sidekick boot screen so I downloaded odin the pit file and the tar but when I put my phone into download mode i cant get it to recognize the sidekick when I plug it in it just says unknown device and i have the driver down loaded any help please
Windows can be picky about drivers sometimes.
I recommend uninstalling the driver, opening regedit, and manually deleting any remaining registry keys associated with the Samsung drivers. (This will take you some time.)
After that, reinstall the driver and try again.
I think you may need to google some of what I said here to get it done. But, you can do it if you take some initiative.
well i tried deleting kies and reinstalling it whitch i thought it was the driver if im wrong or theres a more direct driver can someone tell me when i plug my sidekick in i get usb device not recognized message
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well i tried deleting kies and reinstalling it whitch i thought it was the driver if im wrong or theres a more direct driver can someone tell me when i plug my sidekick in i get usb device not recognized message
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Ok. Give me some information.
I need to know what you installed as a driver. I need to know what Odin you are using. I also need to know where you got your information; what threads did you search for and read?
Is Windows complaining when you plug the device in or is the Odin program just not seeing your device?
When we do get your device back, also consider the risk/reward here. These customs aren't really offering the earth shattering things you might be hoping for. We're geeks and we are splitting hairs when we talk about improvements. The truth is, the final official KJ2 is a reliable and stable OS on its own. (If it wasn't, developers would be basing their work on older versions.) It's just something to think about...
Anyhow, get some more info out here and we'll help you Odin back to stock. After that, it's up to you.
well i got a drive from softpedia as well as kies and i searched various forums and topics im using windows xp sp3 and odin 3 as well as got the pit and tar files from lins on this site i
windows is the one that wines when i plug the phone in it says unknown device and no drivers for device found
You should have downloaded a Samsung USB driver for Mobile Phones. At one point, we were using Vibrant drivers to access the phone. Did you get real Samsung drivers for this phone?
You do NOT want to use Vibrant drivers.
Also, let's not rule out a hardware problem.
If you are rough with your phone's USB port, you can bend/break a pin in there. You could have a bad port.
If your phone isn't working like a USB pin drive on any (and every) computer you try, you may have a problem.
You should also check your cable and the physical port on your computer.
i got the kies from the samsung web site it was under the sidekick model nuber and showed a picture of my phone also i believe the softpedia driver was probably the vibrant driver
FYI, Kies only works if can get booted. We won't be using it until we can get a proper recovery of some kind.
What is happening? Is it just sitting there and vibrating over and over? Or does it appear to be rebooting?
Does it keep showing the t-mo logo flashing on and off the screen? Or is it just sitting there vibrating?
If you seeing the logo and the device is rebooting, you must use the Odin tool. If it is just hung up in the boot process, you can use Android Commander to get into clockworkmod.
I'm going to upload you some files. I'll private message you a link to download them.
We'll close out our public discussion here.
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So I had the dreaded Win 7 x64 crash. I uninstalled IE 9. No go. Used that DLL fix (which I can't remember where I found it). Still crashed. So here's how I got around the problem.
Note:
I'm just sharing what I found since none of the solutions I googled up worked for me (maybe I'm the only one). For those who wonder why anyone would bother with stock Froyo, I'm sure there are reasons. I just wanted to do some testing of the upgrade exactly as it came from Samsung. There's probably an Odin flashable package somewhere which may be bit-for-bit identical, but I didn't bother looking. I'm hoping this will work if another update comes down the pike (Ha!) and Kies is still broken.
Here's what worked for me. It may brick your phone so understand that before you start.
Step 1:
Load up Virtual PC.
In Virtual PC:
Install the Samsung drivers
Install Kies Mini
Install Samsung PC Studio (for Gadget Serial driver)
Step 2 - back to the phone:
Flash stock. I flashed one-click JF6, but use the right stock firmware for your phone (build 1010 and later phones should use something like this)
Step 3:
At this point you may want to make sure the Gadget Serial driver is loaded and working (if you one-click flashed JF6 skip to step 4), so put the phone into download mode and plug it into the PC.
In Virtual PC:
USB Menu->Gadget Serial Attach
Insure that driver is working. If it isn't then the update won't work because Kies Mini will not be able to communicate with the phone after it goes into download mode. If it works then skip to step 5. If not then do step 4.
Step 4:
Have CWM update.zip on you sdcard root directory
Reinstall packages
Reinstall packages again
Install zip from sdcard
Install sbl_CWM_update.zip (attached to this post)
Do the step 3 check. If that fails then the Gadget Serial driver isn't recognizing you phone and this isn't going to work unless you can fix it.
Step 5:
Reboot the phone, turn on USB debugging then plug it in to the PC.
In Virtual PC:
Start Kies Mini
USB->Samsung_Android Attach
Start the upgrade
Wait 12 years or so until the phone goes into download mode
USB->Gadget Serial Attach
The install should continue automatically. If it doesn't there is an upgrade button which should be enabled when driver is loaded and the phone is detected.
Wait for the install to finish, at which point to phone should boot into Froyo.
Done.
thanks
cool, i had tried all of the other ways of forcing kies to recognize my computer... but it always ended with the same crash, nice little white box where the program should be. so im trying this out but its taking forever to get xp virtual machine up and running. i will post again with my final results
ok now for my story
i have had flashed multiple versions of cognition on my phone and have become very familiar with the process. i do love cog 3.04 but the problem is that the swype that is loaded on the rom is a 60 day trial version and it ran out. so i wanted to try out the stock froyo and see what improvents i wanted so i could cook my own rom.
i went and got kies mini on the release date for froyo and it was crashing everytime i used it, giving me this lovely white box on my windows 7 x64 ultimate computer. i tried multiple work arounds and have never thought of virtual machine so thank you for that.
i want and ran my odin one click reflashed to jf6, then decided to see if kies recognized my phone. it imediately was recognized and started to update in the virtual machine.
it is currently downloading to my phone and i will repost again if my phone either becomes soft bricked or if the update goes through
Please help me find the Gadget Serial Driver for My Samsung Vibrant
I've been trying to Update my Samsung Vibrant from version KA2 to version KB5 using Samsung Kies mini to no avail. I am running Windows XP SP3.
I know, this is a developer site but I have a feeling I won't be able to develop at all because I when I try to update to (Official) Froyo (Provided through Kies mini), I get stuck in download mode with the yellow sign forever. Luckily I can restore by taking the battery out and rebooting my phone. This is problem is due to not having a Gadget Serial Driver installed. Now note, I have all the other USB drivers installed properly. They all show up in Device Manager, however the darn Gadget Serial Driver is MIA and Windows only notices that is missing the driver when the phone enters Download Mode. I have searched xda developers for this issue and I have seen a number of posts where other people have had the same issue and maybe a couple of people solved it by installing PC Studio. I have Googled up and down the internet, went to Samsung's website and even spoke to a Samsung Representative for a link to Samsung PC Studio. However all of the links I found were either dead, contained fake software or were just shady.
Samsung's site no longer contains an actual download link to PC Studio or New PC Studio (I don't know the difference). Can someone please help me get this Gadget Serial Driver or the PC Studio software which may solve this driver issue? Please don't point me to any "Samsung USB Drivers For Mobile Phones" links because I've downloaded that driver and it has solved nothing. Thanks in advance and sorry for sounding like a complete n00b.
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I've been trying to Update my Samsung Vibrant from version KA2 to version KB5 using Samsung Kies mini to no avail. I am running Windows XP SP3.
I know, this is a developer site but I have a feeling I won't be able to develop at all because I when I try to update to (Official) Froyo (Provided through Kies mini), I get stuck in download mode with the yellow sign forever. Luckily I can restore by taking the battery out and rebooting my phone. This is problem is due to not having a Gadget Serial Driver installed. Now note, I have all the other USB drivers installed properly. They all show up in Device Manager, however the darn Gadget Serial Driver is MIA and Windows only notices that is missing the driver when the phone enters Download Mode. I have searched xda developers for this issue and I have seen a number of posts where other people have had the same issue and maybe a couple of people solved it by installing PC Studio. I have Googled up and down the internet, went to Samsung's website and even spoke to a Samsung Representative for a link to Samsung PC Studio. However all of the links I found were either dead, contained fake software or were just shady.
Samsung's site no longer contains an actual download link to PC Studio or New PC Studio (I don't know the difference). Can someone please help me get this Gadget Serial Driver or the PC Studio software which may solve this driver issue? Please don't point me to any "Samsung USB Drivers For Mobile Phones" links because I've downloaded that driver and it has solved nothing. Thanks in advance and sorry for sounding like a complete n00b.
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This is for the flight II but the software has the PC Studio download. Good Luck!
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-A927ZAAATT
privetKalla said:
I've been trying to Update my Samsung Vibrant from version KA2 to version KB5 using Samsung Kies mini to no avail. I am running Windows XP SP3.
I know, this is a developer site but I have a feeling I won't be able to develop at all because I when I try to update to (Official) Froyo (Provided through Kies mini), I get stuck in download mode with the yellow sign forever.
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Thanks man. That made my day. I needed that.
You can also get the Heimdall suite and open the drivers folder and run Zandig. Then connect your phone in download mode it should show gadget serial in the device window click install and it should complete and you're good to go, this is how I did it after 3 days trying to get my phone to stop showing the device malfunction error which is due to another problem on my main xp machine, a sony which I can't get usb 2.0 drivers for from sony or anywhere else to work correctly even though all 8 ports are 2.0 according to support, my manual, and previous xp install and that's after installing xp 4 times to get the graphics driver to install right so I could then install the right ati driver which everyone online with this model sony seems to have to do, but back on topic. I hopped on my windows server 2k3 machine which had correctly working usb 2.0 drivers ran zandig with my cappy in dl mode and BAM finally working gadget serial driver, just make sure you have zandig.exe open, and connect your phone in DL mode or you'll just install the equivalent of the standard samsung drivers which you prolly already have, I haven't been able to test this on a win7 machine but from what I've read the heimdall driver should work on them and worked great on both xp and server 2k3 on my home server machine.
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You can also get the Heimdall suite and open the drivers folder and run Zandig. Then connect your phone in download mode it should show gadget serial in the device window click install and it should complete and you're good to go, this is how I did it after 3 days trying to get my phone to stop showing the device malfunction error which is due to another problem on my main xp machine, a sony which I can't get usb 2.0 drivers for from sony or anywhere else to work correctly even though all 8 ports are 2.0 according to support, my manual, and previous xp install and that's after installing xp 4 times to get the graphics driver to install right so I could then install the right ati driver which everyone online with this model sony seems to have to do, but back on topic. I hopped on my windows server 2k3 machine which had correctly working usb 2.0 drivers ran zandig with my cappy in dl mode and BAM finally working gadget serial driver, just make sure you have zandig.exe open, and connect your phone in DL mode or you'll just install the equivalent of the standard samsung drivers which you prolly already have, I haven't been able to test this on a win7 machine but from what I've read the heimdall driver should work on them and worked great on both xp and server 2k3 on my home server machine.
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Best first post I've seen in quite some time. Thanks for that.
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Best first post I've seen in quite some time. Thanks for that.
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Thanks I appreciate that I just wanna give back as much as I've received from the forums here its a great place to start. If anyone runs into any problem with this let me know and I'll see if I can reproduce and come up with something.
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Can't get Odin on a WinXP laptop to recognize the Droid Charge. Same machine does recognize my SGS i9000, though. I'm in DL mode properly.
Any suggestions and pointers (url?) for what drivers to install/update that might help me out? I've already tried samsung drivers for USB from Samsung's site and the Fascinate forums, as well as the drivers that heimdall installs.
I've seen people talk about the Verizon USB drivers, but I haven't found them.
edit: nuts, didn't mean to post this in dev section.
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Can't get Odin on a WinXP laptop to recognize the Droid Charge. Same machine does recognize my SGS i9000, though. I'm in DL mode properly.
Any suggestions and pointers (url?) for what drivers to install/update that might help me out? I've already tried samsung drivers for USB from Samsung's site and the Fascinate forums, as well as the drivers that heimdall installs.
I've seen people talk about the Verizon USB drivers, but I haven't found them.
edit: nuts, didn't mean to post this in dev section.
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I had the same issue, when you plug your phone in, not in DL mode but just as normal, a drive will open it contains verizon crap and the samsung drivers, install those 1st, then the phone will install when in DL mode
here is the odin you need here
and here is the drivers you need here
a few tips also is make sure your laptop is plugged in, use your original cable that came with the phone, and if your using vista or W7 then right click odin and click properties. Switch to windows XP service pack 3 compatibility mode and save. Then right click again and run as an administrator..
worked first try for me
angry english said:
I had the same issue, when you plug your phone in, not in DL mode but just as normal, a drive will open it contains verizon crap and the samsung drivers, install those 1st, then the phone will install when in DL mode
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Hmmm...when I plug in in normal mode, no special drive pops up; that explains why I can't see it. I'll try again. The only time I ever use Windows is for Odin, so I'm pretty rusty with this stuff.
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here is the odin you need here
and here is the drivers you need here
a few tips also is make sure your laptop is plugged in, use your original cable that came with the phone, and if your using vista or W7 then right click odin and click properties. Switch to windows XP service pack 3 compatibility mode and save. Then right click again and run as an administrator..
worked first try for me
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Thanks for the links. I have that version of Odin, but not sure those are the same drivers I tried, so I'll give them a shot.
Okay, got it working.
I had USB Debugging turned on. Turned it off and the Verizon crap drive popped up and was able to install the drivers from it. Was a flakey drive mount though, kept disappearing. Driver install squawked about already being installed, but I said install anyways.
Odin 1.3 didn't recognize the phone, but Odin 1.83 did.
Was able to successfully flash the CWM and voodoo kernel. Wish I hadn't at this point...I got the successful conversion of the fs, but now everything screwed up on the phone. Force closes, apps won't open. Looks like a bunch of reinstalls in order.
Just not having much luck with this Droid Charge. Should have stuck with my Thunderbolt only. LOL
Hello, i am currently trying to root my sisters galaxy s 4g... Her Baseband is T949VUVKI1. Firmware is 2.3.5, Build Number is GINGERBREAD.VUVKI1. i remember flashing her phone to 2.3.5 and download mode working perfectly fine, and for some reason it wont go into download mode at all... the computer is not recognizing her phone either. YES, i do have usb drivers installed otherwise my galaxy s 4g wouldnt be recognized on my computer(odin specifically, not turning yellow). Please help, i have searched everywhere in the internet and tried almost everything... Volume up and down and plug charger, batter out volume up and down usb and battery in etc. PLEASE HELP!! Thank You in Advance.
Nvm
10c
1. Try reinstalling to drivers. Also make sure you're using the same USB port as Windows can be funny about it it sometimes.
2. if download mode is being difficult, go download the Android SDK from www.android.com. Install it, run it, and only download the platform tools. When that's done, open a command promt, CD to where the plaform tools installed (either c:\program files\Android\Android-sdk\platform-tools or c:\program files (x86)\Android\Android-sdk\platform-tools ), then issue the command: adb reboot download.
3. I suggest you check the dev section for bhundven's one-click collection. Uses Java and Heimdall vs. ODIN and works easily.
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i have this issue 2.3.5 messed me up. Odin sees my phone in debug mode but not in download mode...using odin 1.85 sinse it is the only version that responds to my phone at all. help please!
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i have this issue 2.3.5 messed me up. Odin sees my phone in debug mode but not in download mode...using odin 1.85 sinse it is the only version that responds to my phone at all. help please!
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Get it back into download mode, go grab a bhundven's one-click. The one-clicks utilize Heimdall vs. ODIN, which means they use open-source USB drivers instead of the proprietary Samsung drivers. See if that enables the computer to see the phone. If so, flash the one-click
Should I uninstall the samsung drivers prior to using Heimdall's One-Click?
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Should I uninstall the samsung drivers prior to using Heimdall's One-Click?
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That's a good idea. Some people have reported conflicts between the drivers.
Why would only Odin 1.85 see my phone in USB Debugging and not in download mode? And all other Odin verisions never see my phone, no matter what state it is in... I am at work so I will give the one click another try when I get home. I never thought of uninstalling the Samsung drivers prior to install; however, I did use the one click method to no avail. However, Heimdall's one-click was able to see my device it just kept giving me a driver error. This is so crazy it might just work.
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Why would only Odin 1.85 see my phone in USB Debugging and not in download mode? And all other Odin verisions never see my phone, no matter what state it is in... I am at work so I will give the one click another try when I get home. I never thought of uninstalling the Samsung drivers prior to install; however, I did use the one click method to no avail. However, Heimdall's one-click was able to see my device it just kept giving me a driver error. This is so crazy it might just work.
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I wish I had a good answer. ODIN's a funny animal. I've been fortunate and not had any problems with it. I am hoping you are correct - maybe it was just a driver conflict. Let me know how it goes.
didn't work...
You could try downloading a terminal app from the market. Open the terminal and type:
reboot download
See if that does it.
***Update***
Okay, so Oneclick was not working at all no matter what I did with the drivers. However, in all my tinkering with it I installed the Samsung Driver, the Open Source one, and some gadget driver as well from oneclick.
Doing this put all these drivers in my computer. Then I went into my Device manager (Win 7) and looked at my USB driver and I uninstalled everything and went to the stock win 7 usb driver. Then I plugged my phone in and my computer began searching for drivers for this device when it decided that it would be a good idea to load all three drivers at once and voila my phone was then showing up on ODIN 1.85.
I then proceeded to flash my phone with a rom, probably the wrong one considering I was coming from 2.3.5 and my phone boot looped and then soft bricked(sorry if I used these term incorrectly, noobin it).
After, some nervous moment of scouring XDA I found the god-send of a post on getting in to download mode, using odin, and flashing stock 2.3.6 - thank you Raver(I believe). When I did this, my phone magically started obeying ODIN like a devout viking and is now running 2.3.6 superbly.
Keeping with my phones newly found viking heritage, I intend to figure out how to properly root it, update the kernal and modem(not sure which one is best), get CWM, and subsequesntly put in Valhalla Black.
Seeing as though this last rendevous with flashing caused me a little scare I may hold off and wait to see what the next big update is (maybe a port ICS variant) and then go with that.
Anyway, thank you Stephen for helping me out with this and to everyone in this post.
Here's some reading for you Tytan,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_4G#FAQ_.28with_answers.29
PS: Unless you wanna brick your phone, do not flash anything that isn't intended for the SGH-T959V Samsung Galaxy S 4G. You're saying you wanna flash a Vibrant ROM. You can, if you want an expensive paperweight. Happy flashing!
2.3.5 may have been for vibrant...yeah I think I got lucky. I did it prior to knowing about xda.
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How are you getting into download mode?
There was a post in another thread where the person apparently was using the power menu to get into download mode or maybe the adb command.
Have you tried both the old fashion volume +/- and plug in usb cable? Or the adb command?
Do you have access to another computer? Believe it or not sometimes just changing computers will make the difference.
Weird when I replied there was no posts other than the ones on the first page...oh well glad its working now.
im trying to use heimdall because i bricked i got the screen with phone and computer heimdall recognises the phone and everything but when i get to the part to install the drivers i install and it says successful this is where the problem is when i go to flash i get this error
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
ERROR: Failed to access device. libusb error: -12
how do i fix it anybody any help appreciated
Are you using Heimdall or Heimdall One-Click?
heimdall one click for our phone this is a weird problem
Uninstall kies and uninstall the existing usb drivers b4 installing heimdall ones.
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Make sure you don't have any Samsung drivers installed. Restart the process, but try a different USB port on the PC & see if that helps. Rebooting may help as well.
Rebooting is always a good idea when you have problems. If you are following my guide read the notes about USB ports. Pick one for Heimdall One-Click and don't use it for anything else regarding your phone.
none of that worked i did all of it now heimdall wont even recognise my phone :'(
so am i completely borked ? i have honestly never had this problem with an android phone before
Keep trying.
Well done good job
And no you aren't "borked." People have this problem randomly and the reasons/fixes are also random. Without sitting in front of your computer myself it is hard to diagnose the problem.
ahhh ic okay that makes me feel better atleast im not entirely ****ed thanks for the advice and ill do what i can im going to keep this thread open and going so that any ideas someone may have can pass my way
Thoroughly uninstalling all drivers, deleting One-Click, running CC Cleaner, and rebooting is a good place to start. Make sure Kies isn't installed. Make sure Samsung drivers isn't installed. You have to uninstall Samsung drivers in 'Uninstall Programs' to get rid of those. I use USBDeview to double check all the drivers for a port I want to use are deleted.
Next it is often USB cord related. Make sure it is not a loooong USB cable. Make sure it is firmly pushed in to the computer and phone. One person had to have his USB connection to the phone more to one side than the other to make it work.
Just keep at it.
And consider hitting thanks with the people trying to help you.
Get rid of all the old drivers!
Spot on advice to get rid of Kies and any other Samsung drivers. I've been working on this on and off for days, and finally got there through this last post.
One final thing - I used the Heimdall drivers to overwrite that ones that Windows had put in by default, that was the final touch that got it all working.
Ok so i searched and searched and searched but found similar issues but not my issue. I was flashing a rom and it went into a boot loop. I went to get out of it and it wouldnt let me so i used a 1 touch odin download. When i plugged it in my computer recognized the phone i clicked start and it failed because my phone stopped being recognized by my computer. (i can get into download mode with no issue.) Now when i plug it in it just says usb device not recognized. I have uninstalled reinstalled drivers several times. tried multiple cables multiple computers. It also says gadget serial in the device name when its trying to auto find the driver... strange. I just need my phone back together lol. I was working on this til 3 am last night and had to run to walmart to get a cheap alarm clock to wake me up for work this morning at 6 any help is appreciated
trithumb said:
Ok so i searched and searched and searched but found similar issues but not my issue. I was flashing a rom and it went into a boot loop. I went to get out of it and it wouldnt let me so i used a 1 touch odin download. When i plugged it in my computer recognized the phone i clicked start and it failed because my phone stopped being recognized by my computer. Now when i plug it in it just says usb device not recognized. I have uninstalled reinstalled drivers several times. tried multiple cables multiple computers. It also says gadget serial in the device name when its trying to auto find the driver... strange. I just need my phone back together lol. I was working on this til 3 am last night and had to run to walmart to get a cheap alarm clock to wake me up for work this morning at 6 any help is appreciated
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You need to try the one click heimdall package by Bhundven in the development section
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You need to try the one click heimdall package by Bhundven in the development section
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isnt that a mac only program? if not can you get me a link. Im juggling fixing this while working lol
no is for windows and please dont ask in the dev section
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no is for windows and please dont ask in the dev section
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oops sorry didnt realize i was in the dev section
Not to be a ****, but I am reporting this thread to the mods and asking them to move it to the q&a section.
To fix your issue, using my odin 1 click (gremlin remover), start the 1-click, then boot into dl mode. If device still isn't recognized, go into device manager right click on the device and update drivers manually. Reboot phone into dl mode and all should be well.
Also once you reinstall drivers or update them, reboot your computer. That always helps the computer recognize my phone when I have this issue. Good luck.
Try another cable and usb port.
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Try another cable and usb port.
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again in the main post. I tried multiple computers multiple cables and all the usb ports on all 4 of my laptops
Start Oden first then plug in the phone give Oden a second to find the phone. When the box on the upper left turn yellow then you can start. Directions work for both one click GR and regular Oden.
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under device manager it shows error code 43 on "unknown device" no matter how i install or dont install drivers... use kies or not use kies... let windows find it or not.... just doesnt work
brighter minds than min here, but "one-click" and "odin" are different routes to the same end, aren't they? But if you start with heimdall and that fails, you will likely get the drivers issue when you try odin. I suggest opening device manager on your Win machine and removing all drivers related to the phone as storage device or whatever. Then reboot your machine. When you get to your desktop, open odin (my preferred tool), then with your phone powered down, hold vol-up+vol-down together and connect the phone to your usb cable. Win should find the drivers and load them, and odin should see your phone.
Gonna steal something from lumin30 here.
* * If you have used your phone on every USB Port and/or have no idea where all you have plugged your phone into or used ODIN or Heimdall with - Download [usbdeview-x32.zip] for 32-bit operating systems or [usbdeview-x64.zip] for 64-bit operating systems. Uninstall anything you see that has Samsung and Android related.
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It is from this guide here. I suggest following post two to get everything fixed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21953878