Long story short, I tried the community Froyo rom, it didn't work, so I tried the Collective rom, it kept rebooting. So now I tried the Heimdall to go back to stock and all I get is the samsung screen over and over again. Any help?
Use odin and include the pit file and check clear efs worked for my old issues with my mez
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kruuth said:
Long story short, I tried the community Froyo rom, it didn't work, so I tried the Collective rom, it kept rebooting. So now I tried the Heimdall to go back to stock and all I get is the samsung screen over and over again. Any help?
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Try my links for one click to stock....or the new Odin links also
Well I get as far as the rethink possible logo now.
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Well I get as far as the rethink possible logo now.
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Can you Get into cwm..do a factory reset
Thanks. Back up.
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Thanks. Back up.
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So u got it going
sedds89 said:
Use odin and include the pit file and check clear efs worked for my old issues with my mez
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no matter what you're doing with the Infuse, whether it's wiping or reset or repartition flash, or odin or heimdall, DO NOT CLEAR YOUR EFS UNLESS you are absolutely sure you have an EFS backup somewhere.
If you flash or clear your EFS and you don't have a back up, you're SOL
Yes. It's back. Don't recall if I've flushed my EFS or not. Now what do I have to do in order to be able to run CWM?
What do I do if the EFS is wiped anyway?
Anybody? On either thing?
kruuth said:
Yes. It's back. Don't recall if I've flushed my EFS or not. Now what do I have to do in order to be able to run CWM?
What do I do if the EFS is wiped anyway?
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Anybody? On either thing?
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Follow qkster links....for your answers....
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no matter what you're doing with the Infuse, whether it's wiping or reset or repartition flash, or odin or heimdall, DO NOT CLEAR YOUR EFS UNLESS you are absolutely sure you have an EFS backup somewhere.
If you flash or clear your EFS and you don't have a back up, you're SOL
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Hmmm... Now im kind of curious to do this and see if i can get my infuse back up or have to bury it.
scott.hart.bti said:
Hmmm... Now im kind of curious to do this and see if i can get my infuse back up or have to bury it.
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Try it and let us know.
Won't be an issue once you have make a tar of efs either with my backup, zen tool kit or any method. It may be the syntax, but when you wipe your efs partition, good luck on getting it back. I believe it was bml5.
Efs clears the programming on your phone cause me to need reactivated nothing more i use it everytime i resale a phone due to my info being able to read if i do not clear it. Efs clears what a factory reset will not. Including total talk time on the phone and stuff like that
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can someone give me the stock SK4G Update.zip file?
xIrandomIx said:
can someone give me the stock SK4G Update.zip file?
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How would I find it
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Nevermind just went to tmobile and they gave me a brand new one.
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how did you brick/soft brick your phone ? just so we know what not to do :3
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how did you brick/soft brick your phone ? just so we know what not to do :3
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He was testing a rom I made and it hung at the bootscreen. CWM wasnt working right and he couldnt restore his nandroid backup and I was at work for the past 10 hours and couldnt help.
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He was testing a rom I made and it hung at the bootscreen. CWM wasnt working right and he couldnt restore his nandroid backup and I was at work for the past 10 hours and couldnt help.
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i am curious if there is a way to make a tar file of the stock ROM that we might be able to flash thru Odin if things go wrong? this is what i always did on the Epc 4G. so far CWM seems to be having problems with the sdcard... i have made nandroid backups, but out of curiosity i went to 'restore' and it said it couldn't mount the sd. maybe this will get fixed soon tho.
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i am curious if there is a way to make a tar file of the stock ROM that we might be able to flash thru Odin if things go wrong? this is what i always did on the Epc 4G. so far CWM seems to be having problems with the sdcard... i have made nandroid backups, but out of curiosity i went to 'restore' and it said it couldn't mount the sd. maybe this will get fixed soon tho.
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yes there is. Find me someone with stock and i'll walk them through it
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yes there is. Find me someone with stock and i'll walk them through it
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thanks man, that would be great. if I had stock I would love to walk thru that.... we gotta do it soon and get something going for this phone!
Hi I have flashed my phone with a few roms and now that I have flashed any new rom and even whipped out and reformatted my sd card etc. I get the screen unlock pattern all the time.... even though all I have to do is swipe anywhere and not input a pattern unlock its really annoying!
Can anyone direct me on how I should go about this?
I currently flashed :
[Heimdall][One-Click][UVKJ6] The KJ6 Heimdall One-Click Collection [12/11/2011]
But I want to clean it out completely and start all over without the worry of this unlock pattern!
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Hi I have flashed my phone with a few roms and now that I have flashed any new rom and even whipped out and reformatted my sd card etc. I get the screen unlock pattern all the time.... even though all I have to do is swipe anywhere and not input a pattern unlock its really annoying!
Can anyone direct me on how I should go about this?
I currently flashed :
[Heimdall][One-Click][UVKJ6] The KJ6 Heimdall One-Click Collection [12/11/2011]
But I want to clean it out completely and start all over without the worry of this unlock pattern!
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Do a backup, perform a factory data reset, and you should be good to go. It's possible that clearing the cache & Davlik cache might work, but I'm not sure.
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Do a backup, perform a factory data reset, and you should be good to go. It's possible that clearing the cache & Davlik cache might work, but I'm not sure.
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Thanks Steven.... I actually backed up everything.... performed a data reset and even reset the sd card and it still happened, I dont think I have CWM with the One-Click I installed
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Thanks Steven.... I actually backed up everything.... performed a data reset and even reset the sd card and it still happened, I dont think I have CWM with the One-Click I installed
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Weird. I had an issue like that after installing the initial Octane release. I think I might've flashed chadster's KG4 via ODIN afterward to clean it out as it flashes 4 different files (PIT, PDA, CSC, Phone).
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Weird. I had an issue like that after installing the initial Octane release. I think I might've flashed chadster's KG4 via ODIN afterward to clean it out as it flashes 4 different files (PIT, PDA, CSC, Phone).
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this one:
[ROM-Leak][ODIN] Gingerbread 2.3.4 T959VUVKG4
I flashed that one too the first time also... so u think I should flash that then what is the best current 2.36 rom.... or what would u do?
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this one:
[ROM-Leak][ODIN] Gingerbread 2.3.4 T959VUVKG4
I flashed that one too the first time also... so u think I should flash that then what is the best current 2.36 rom.... or what would u do?
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Yeah, that's the one I personally always go back to that one to get a clean start. So far it's worked well for me.
As for what ROM, man, that's subjective I just read that Whitehawkx relased Valhalla Final. As for me I currently have Octane. I'd probably go to KG4, then stock KJ6, and maybe go to something custom from there. Others may have different ideas, though.
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Yeah, that's the one I personally always go back to that one to get a clean start. So far it's worked well for me.
As for what ROM, man, that's subjective I just read that Whitehawkx relased Valhalla Final. As for me I currently have Octane. I'd probably go to KG4, then stock KJ6, and maybe go to something custom from there. Others may have different ideas, though.
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Ya thats what ill do... I like KJ6 2.3.6, I just want my phone to be bloat free and fast with no issues lol
Lvnlegendinc said:
Ya thats what ill do... I like KJ6 2.3.6, I just want my phone to be bloat free and fast with no issues lol
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I hear ya! Check the Dev section; I think FB just posted a debloater of some kind.
Try backing up your sd card and wiping it. Or use a different sdcard.
Everything on the phone gets reflashed. I have tested all three one clicks and have not experienced what you are saying.
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To be fair, the one clicks, nor do any other method we tried (odin flashing, cwm falshing), reset EVERYTHING. The thread regarding incorrect time zones required a "hard reset" to get everything right again. Not sure if this should apply to this thread, but worth mentioning.
bhundven said:
Try backing up your sd card and wiping it. Or use a different sdcard.
Everything on the phone gets reflashed. I have tested all three one clicks and have not experienced what you are saying.
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In no way shape or form am I saying that its ur roms fault... im just trying to get an answer or hoping someone has had that happen to them... thats all.... im still going to reflash using the one-click u created it was easy and quick lol
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To be fair, the one clicks, nor do any other method we tried (odin flashing, cwm falshing), reset EVERYTHING. The thread regarding incorrect time zones required a "hard reset" to get everything right again. Not sure if this should apply to this thread, but worth mentioning.
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Im not 100% on anything im doing but i have never done a Hard Reset... I have whipped and reformatted my sd card and started from fresh and still have the lock screen pop up.
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Im not 100% on anything im doing but i have never done a Hard Reset... I have whipped and reformatted my sd card and started from fresh and still have the lock screen pop up.
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It involves downloading "GPS Aids" from the market. In that tool is a place to do a hard reset. I can't remember the exact menu option, I think it's under "Tools" or something.
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It involves downloading "GPS Aids" from the market. In that tool is a place to do a hard reset. I can't remember the exact menu option, I think it's under "Tools" or something.
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I think ill roll back to KG4 then go from step to step there
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In no way shape or form am I saying that its ur roms fault... im just trying to get an answer or hoping someone has had that happen to them... thats all.... im still going to reflash using the one-click u created it was easy and quick lol
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Its not my ROM... they are all kj6 stock with different kernels. Read the op.
I was saying that there are files stored on your sdcard that Android uses. If you can isolate those files, it might help you figure out the problem you are having.
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Its not my ROM... they are all kj6 stock with different kernels. Read the op.
I was saying that there are files stored on your sdcard that Android uses. If you can isolate those files, it might help you figure out the problem you are having.
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I pretty much deleted everything on the sd card and started ur 1Click hoping the problem would go away.... no worries, im sure ill go back and figure out what may help.
Thanks!
Also, maybe I missed something.
Do you mean that you see the lockscreen when booting for the first time after oneclick? It looks like a crappy low res lockscreen? If so, just enter your old pin/password. It wont ask again... Until you setup protected lockscreen again.
If not, and what you are trying now doesnt work, then could you rephrase the problem?
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I was given this Infuse to try and reset, easy task, or so I thought. Here is my problem I have tried every method I have read about to factory reset the phone. But nothing works, I've tried doing it through recovery, dialing the code, going into privacy>factory reset, and even trying to ODIN with GTG's ultimate unbrick. Nothing seems to work. It looks like it'll reset, but every time the phone reboots, I'm looking at all the apps/accounts still installed and on the phone.
Anybody know what the problem is?
Anybody got a solution?
I've tried GTG's ultimate unbrick twice now.
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I was given this Infuse to try and reset, easy task, or so I thought. Here is my problem I have tried every method I have read about to factory reset the phone. But nothing works, I've tried doing it through recovery, dialing the code, going into privacy>factory reset, and even trying to ODIN with GTG's ultimate unbrick. Nothing seems to work. It looks like it'll reset, but every time the phone reboots, I'm looking at all the apps/accounts still installed and on the phone.
Anybody know what the problem is?
Anybody got a solution?
I've tried GTG's ultimate unbrick twice now.
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Never had that problem personally.
Have you tried going to:
Setting/privacy/factory reset?
Warning though: I think this will erase EVERYTHING on the the phone and SD CARD.
If you were to procede, odin gtg's then factory reset from the phone settings..not cwm
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Never had that problem personally.
Have you tried going to:
Setting/privacy/factory reset?
Warning though: I think this will erase EVERYTHING on the the phone and SD CARD.
If you were to procede, odin gtg's then factory reset from the phone settings..not cwm
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Yes, I've tried all of that.
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Anybody?
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Anybody?
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Beyond me...
may try AT&T store?
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Beyond me...
may try AT&T store?
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Not my phone. I was asked to try to fix this for someone else.
Wow I'm stumped on this one bud. Never heard of someone having this problem before nor have I had this problem before. Good luck.
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Not my phone. I was asked to try to fix this for someone else.
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idk if you want to try it or not but heimdall has an option of re-partition; (upper left hand corner)
if you're rooted, you may want to use terminal emulator and back up "efs" first then save the efs on your pc;
then try heimdall again with re-partition also.
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idk if you want to try it or not but heimdall has an option of re-partition; (upper left hand corner)
if you're rooted, you may want to use terminal emulator and back up "efs" first then save the efs on your pc;
then try heimdall again with re-partition also.
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I've tried the repartition with Odin, but not heimdall, I'll give it a try though.
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I did not see any option to repartition in heimdall.
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I did not see any option to repartition in heimdall.
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To be honest, your problem is unique.
I don't think I am qualified to offer sound advise.
It is odd that a reset is not working and Odin back to stock is not working either.
I'm thinking that heimdall may not accomplished the erase either.
if you want to try heimdall you will have to read more.
You'll have to learn how to use Heimdall Frontend.
The pit files and stock packages can be found in the one click package or unpacking the stock leaks.
Be careful, though...not familiar with it may potentially brick your phone
Dani897 has a thread of hemidall packages..he will know better how to solve this problem...I'm not a hemidall user either...
ALL HAIL *Z*E*U*S* !
Very strange issue indeed. I repartition with a pit file in Odin and still nothing. Very, very strange indeed. I tried heimdall about 4 times now, with and without flashing bootloader, no change either.
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dman3285 said:
Dani897 has a thread of hemidall packages..he will know better how to solve this problem...I'm not a hemidall user either...
ALL HAIL *Z*E*U*S* !
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I'm familiar with its use but I'm afraid to offer advise that may brick the phone.
I found this...
See if it works for you.
http://buntygsm.blogspot.com/2011/05/samsung-i997-infuse-4g-hard-reset.html
Thanks, but those were the first things that I tried.
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What about pulling the battery for 24 hours after a wipe in CM and before a reboot? Maybe there's something left in RAM? I'm a noob so no expert, just thinking of other options...
Can you root the phone? Install cwm and do it through that instead of factory recovery?
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Okay, so I've been pretty flash-happy the past few days, especially with the release to UCLD2 and stuff, but after the last few flashes I've noticed that I've lost my power menu and my lockscreen does not activate. I've already searched around and tried many methods of fixing it, but I may have been digging my hole deeper...
I've tried pasting keystr into /efs/imei, but no for some reason when I try creating a file in /efs/imei in Root Explorer it doesn't even show up...
I also tried using the terminal method, but whenever I type the line "echo -n ON > /efs/imei/keystr" it returns an Input/Output Error.
I'm really confused on what to do, files seem to be not appearing where they should be and I'm kinda worried, I like this phone so much! If anybody can help me out, I'd be greatly appreciated, and I can provide any files/info that is needed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348
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It was already said in another thread that I read that ODIN and CWR do not touch the /efs partition, thus making it useless to ODIN restore.
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It was already said in another thread that I read that ODIN and CWR do not touch the /efs partition, thus making it useless to ODIN restore.
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your efs is corrupt? Just odin back to stock man and see what happens
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your efs is corrupt? Just odin back to stock man and see what happens
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Go search and read the threads, bud. Odin does nothing for /efs
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Go search and read the threads, bud. Odin does nothing for /efs
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I don't need to search, my phone works fine. lockscreen and power menu don't have anything to do with it
xcrazydx said:
I don't need to search, my phone works fine. lockscreen and power menu don't have anything to do with it
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sorry x, I think ur wrong on this one. I had the issue and it was very frustrating. OP, I recommend the following. Odin back to stock and root 2.3.5. Then use the keystr method from within root explorer. Make sure it sticks then flash ics
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sorry x, I think ur wrong on this one. I had the issue and it was very frustrating. OP, I recommend the following. Odin back to stock and root 2.3.5. Then use the keystr method from within root explorer. Make sure it sticks then flash ics
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That was from the note radio when that happened to you?
I had flashed the note radio, since I was having trouble with UCLD2... That's probably what did it. I'm gonna give icenight's method a shot and see how it goes.
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I had flashed the note radio, since I was having trouble with UCLD2... That's probably what did it. I'm gonna give icenight's method a shot and see how it goes.
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I bet that radio did it. Sucks dude, good luck.
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xcrazydx said:
I bet that radio did it. Sucks dude, good luck.
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yup that radio futzed with my phone. I only stumbled upon the solution in the t989 forum by sheer luck. i was actually just gonna warranty the phone
Im having the same problem and I can confirm that going back to stock doesn't solve the problem. What is this "keystr method"? Did the OP get it to work?
Kagenui said:
Im having the same problem and I can confirm that going back to stock doesn't solve the problem. What is this "keystr method"? Did the OP get it to work?
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see my thread here for solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
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see my thread here for solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
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Much appreciated I'll try it out now. Thanks.
im having the same problem my thing is i cant get into odin to go back to stock to dl cwm, and then root explorer to do the keystr method
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.
shabbypenguin said:
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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