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Bricked and Stumped :(

Ok, So I flashed dmans UCKK3 Rom and everything was great. I decided to flash the Stock Kernel back, extracted and flashed the zImage for stock Rom and borked my phone. It gets stuck at the Samsung Logo and goes no where.
So, I thought, easy fix. Pulled up my Heimdall One-Click and booted into Download Mode and flashed. Still, same problem, phone boots up to Samsung Logo and goes no further.
This pissed me off a little bit so I decided, if I can get back into Recovery, I would be golden. So I used Heimdall One-Click Defused to get CWM back. Well, that works, I have Red CWM.
Reflashed the UCKK3 Rom, after I wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik of course. Rebooted, and low and behold, stuck at Samsung Logo once more.
So now I am frustrated and pissed as this is my only phone currently, so I broke out the GTG Ultimate Unbrick, guess what now, I can't get Odin to recognize my device. Yes, I uninstalled and reinstalled the Drivers multiple times, once from a direct download someone has posted in GTG's thread and Once from Kies, and Odin still will not detect my device, IE The Com##.
So, after a cup of coffee, I remembered some people were having issues due to there USB Cable, so I traded it out with several different ones I have from prior phones, didn't change.
So now I am stuck.
I can get into Red CWM. I can mount as USB Storage to drop any RoM I want to on my SD card. I can even enter Download Mode, however I can't get past the stupid Samsung Logo.
Any help is appreciated as I am currently stumped.
Thanks

The good Ol' 3 finger trick isn't working to get your device into download mode? You could order a USB jig from Amazon/Ebay they've been proven to work.
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if you flashed kernels in heimdall try flashing the unbrick in heimdall.

You can make your own jig. I spent a dollar at radio Shack and cut up a usb cord to make my own. Go to mobiletechvideos. com and it will show you how to make one.
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Try switching computers. Worked for me.

tmease1 said:
You can make your own jig. I spent a dollar at radio Shack and cut up a usb cord to make my own. Go to mobiletechvideos. com and it will show you how to make one.
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theROMinator said:
The good Ol' 3 finger trick isn't working to get your device into download mode? You could order a USB jig from Amazon/Ebay they've been proven to work.
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xKrisx said:
Ok, So I flashed dmans UCKK3 Rom and everything was great. I decided to flash the Stock Kernel back, extracted and flashed the zImage for stock Rom and borked my phone. It gets stuck at the Samsung Logo and goes no where.
So, I thought, easy fix. Pulled up my Heimdall One-Click and booted into Download Mode and flashed. Still, same problem, phone boots up to Samsung Logo and goes no further.
This pissed me off a little bit so I decided, if I can get back into Recovery, I would be golden. So I used Heimdall One-Click Defused to get CWM back. Well, that works, I have Red CWM.
Reflashed the UCKK3 Rom, after I wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik of course. Rebooted, and low and behold, stuck at Samsung Logo once more.
So now I am frustrated and pissed as this is my only phone currently, so I broke out the GTG Ultimate Unbrick, guess what now, I can't get Odin to recognize my device. Yes, I uninstalled and reinstalled the Drivers multiple times, once from a direct download someone has posted in GTG's thread and Once from Kies, and Odin still will not detect my device, IE The Com##.
So, after a cup of coffee, I remembered some people were having issues due to there USB Cable, so I traded it out with several different ones I have from prior phones, didn't change.
So now I am stuck.
I can get into Red CWM. I can mount as USB Storage to drop any RoM I want to on my SD card. I can even enter Download Mode, however I can't get past the stupid Samsung Logo.
Any help is appreciated as I am currently stumped.
Thanks
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I stated I could even get into Download Mode so a Jig is not going to do me any good.
on a side note, I finaly got it back up and running but I had to use Odin V 1.81 for it to recognize my device. Odin 1.7 wouldn't detect the Com Port for my phone. I am going to assume something happened to my Partitions. I ended up flashing the Kernel located in the Victory Rom forum included with Odin v 1.81. After about a 10 minute wait for it to Convert Partitions it finaly booted up. Thank god.
So I am not running UCKK3 Rom with that Kernel and all seems to be well now. I literally stayed up untill 5 AM fixing my damn phone, and the sad part is, I am still not sure wtf I did to begin with lol.

xKrisx said:
I stated I could even get into Download Mode so a Jig is not going to do me any good.
on a side note, I finaly got it back up and running but I had to use Odin V 1.81 for it to recognize my device. Odin 1.7 wouldn't detect the Com Port for my phone. I am going to assume something happened to my Partitions. I ended up flashing the Kernel located in the Victory Rom forum included with Odin v 1.81. After about a 10 minute wait for it to Convert Partitions it finaly booted up. Thank god.
So I am not running UCKK3 Rom with that Kernel and all seems to be well now. I literally stayed up untill 5 AM fixing my damn phone, and the sad part is, I am still not sure wtf I did to begin with lol.
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SO how did you run Odin without being in download mode?

Come on guys, OP's stated twice now he CAN enter DL mode, and it's fixed it already. Also, since when is the "good ol 3 finger trick" for DL mode? That's for recovery...just saying lol. Glad you got it fixed

xKrisx said:
I stated I could even get into Download Mode so a Jig is not going to do me any good.
on a side note, I finaly got it back up and running but I had to use Odin V 1.81 for it to recognize my device. Odin 1.7 wouldn't detect the Com Port for my phone. I am going to assume something happened to my Partitions. I ended up flashing the Kernel located in the Victory Rom forum included with Odin v 1.81. After about a 10 minute wait for it to Convert Partitions it finaly booted up. Thank god.
So I am not running UCKK3 Rom with that Kernel and all seems to be well now. I literally stayed up untill 5 AM fixing my damn phone, and the sad part is, I am still not sure wtf I did to begin with lol.
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I read somewhere that the stock kernel won't work if your still on ext4(or whichever) that it has to be switched back to rfs
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And that was my problem in the end. The Rooted / Deodexed / Zipaligned Rom for UCKK3 was originaly on Entropy's Kernel. It uses EXT4 partitioning. When I flashed the original Kernel it uses RFS and well thats were things went wrong.
But what the most unusual thing was, Odin V1.7 would not recognize the COM## port for my phone so I could not use Odin originaly. I was searching and getting pissed when I found the .zip in Victory Rom that contained an upgraded Odin and low and behold it work.

[Q] Sidekick 4G Bricked!!!!!!! odin dosent work

tried installing glorious overdose but I tried to wipe data, and it stayed there for about 10min so i pulled out the battery. i tried a second time but without wiping data (i didnt know WTH i was thinking) so it rebooted and was stuck at boot screen saying create new partition and system not avaliable (sumthing like that) so i decided to try odin so i can go back to stock firmware and it finished and now it stays at the bootscreen blinking i tried recovery im stuck.

before you odin, reinstall the phones drivers on your pc. connect the phone to the pc without the battery, hold the volume down button and the trackpad and reinsert the battery. when you odin, make sure only auto reboot is checked, and put the pit file in the pit slot and the tar file in the pda slot. if you use kies to update firmware, reinstall drivers again before updating.

You may need to check "Re-Partition" in Odin.

shouldnt need to repart, in fact it may be a bad idea. every time i odined and accidentally had repart checked, it screwed something up. most recently the stock messaging app didnt work after odin. i have since switched to go sms, but still made sure i had a clean firmware install. i would try odin without repartitioning first and see how that goes. if something is wrong, you can always odin again. the first time i tried to flash a rom i bricked because i flashed cwm through rom manager. the thread where i found the odin file said make sure only auto reboot is checked. besides, if the rom didnt flash correctly, then it didnt convert any partitions anyway.

ok i had the same problem for the first time i tried to install a custom rom, theres a way that you can fix it with out odin. follow this steps... i promise it will work.
1)boot into the red cwm voodoo lagfix recovery
2)wipe data/factory reset
3)wipe cache partion
4)after all the steps above are completed, go to apply sdcard:update.zip
the its going to take you to the regular cwm once there follow this steps...
1)install the custom you want to install, but make sure that it doesnt need special mounts and unmounts, so follow the instruction flash the rom and it should fix it

Heimdall worked perfectly when I bricked my phone.

Thank you!! ^ I was boutta cry when it was Rebooting .... Yea I guess I messed something up with odin

WolfV2 said:
Heimdall worked perfectly when I bricked my phone.
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I tried the method above but ater reboot it stays on the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G boot screen and does nothing else. I'm hesitant and Flash Bootloader but what do you all think?

flashing bootloader in that package doesn't break it.

creid2352 said:
I tried the method above but ater reboot it stays on the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G boot screen and does nothing else. I'm hesitant and Flash Bootloader but what do you all think?
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My advice is do whatever it takes, and besides, don't worry about breaking something that's already broken, if you know what I mean...
johnwazhere said:
Thank you!! ^ I was boutta cry when it was Rebooting .... Yea I guess I messed something up with odin
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No problem, glad I could help

creid2352 said:
I tried the method above but ater reboot it stays on the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G boot screen and does nothing else. I'm hesitant and Flash Bootloader but what do you all think?
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This is my current problem as well, except I have tried checking flash bootloader and have also tried Odin, but all to no avail. Can anyone help me? This is my situation:
I've had my sidekick for about a year now and have gone through the typical problems of a sidekick user. Then yesterday, my sidekick's alarm woke me as normal, but I was unable to turn it off because my touch screen wasn't working. So i battery pulled, restarted, and noticed that the screen stayed on the "T-Mobile Sidekick 4g SAMSUNG" start up screen and did not budge. I tried battery draining, more battery pulling, and nothing worked. So i did a lot of research on here and other websites and decided to use Odin. After initial problems of a newbie, I eventually figured it out and got it to RESET and PASS, but the subsequent reboot only caused my phone to be stuck in the same Sidekick start up screen it has been getting stuck in. Similarly, after many tries, Heimdall has done the same for me. Sorry if that was a long read (also, I hope its cool that i bumped this thread with my own problems), but is there anything else i can do? I'd really like to use my phone again..

I've been working for hours trying to figure out how to fix it, and I just don't know. The end result is always just the freezing at the t-mobile start up screen..Also, since i forgot to mention, I can only get into download mode with the volume down+trackball method because otherwise it would just go to the regular start up screen and freeze. I don't know if that means anything, but yeah.

Have you used heimdall yet? I bricked my SK4G the other day when flashing a rom and heimdall put it back to stock within 5 minutes of me bricking it.

Thank you for replying. Unfortunately yes, I did. With flash bootloader unchecked and checked. It says it disconnects after everything is done and it restarts, only to become frozen at the start screen again =/. I don't know if there is some silly detail that im missing that makes the flash rather than just restart, but all i can manage to make it do is restart.

Sigh. Guess im going phone shopping.

How did u get the phone in dl. Mode
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I had to plug the phone into my computer without the battery, hold volume and the track ball, then pop the battery in. Any other attempts would simply start it up/freeze it.

Ok did u have heimdall started first?
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And what rom did u last have?
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I'm not entirely sure if I had it started first, so I'll try it that way now. And the last ROM that I had? Honestly not really sure what that means =p, but i've never flashed one and I had the most recent sidekick update installed (though it is possible that I had done a factory reset at some point to fix an error).
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Just tried it. Without flashing bootloaders, it finishes and restarts to my frozen start up screen as normal. However, when i flash bootloaders, it gets to "uploading pit", but the upload fails and it reboots my phone. But this time, it reboots into download mode. A welcome change from my start up screen. Maybe there's hope.

[Q] stuck on factoryfs

My infuse was running aokpcb rom. i made a backup of my previous rom, AEON v1.3.1. i restored using nandroid back to AEON but when i reboot its stuck at the samsung screen. I tried GTGs Odin back to stock multiple times using different ports but it always gets stuck at factoryfs. i even rebooted the computer and tried it again but still no good. I've used Odin back to stock a couple times before so im used to the program. now ive ran out of ideas and i would greatly appreciate the help. THANKS

Try heimdall...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
If that doesn't work 'I' don't know what to tell you
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And don't restore with nandroid, just to a full restore back to stock with odin or hemdall and reflash the rom.

Im not 100% but i think with aeon the first boot will freeze up at the factory screen. Try pulling battery then reboot..
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isaiahe97 said:
Try heimdall...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
If that doesn't work 'I' don't know what to tell you
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+1 odin sux. it's funny how some independant guys can reverse engineer what it's doing and write something better.

Happens to my Infuse all the time now, even using Heimdall. I just pull the battery, get back into the alternate download screen, reload the drivers (if necessary) on the pc and re-run Heimdall. It always seems to get stuck twice, but works the third time. The last time I took it to stock & did a "factory data reset", just to see if that would clear up whatever the issue was. Unfortunately (?), I haven't tried going back to stock since.

Dani897 said:
+1 odin sux. it's funny how some independant guys can reverse engineer what it's doing and write something better.
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Not sure if your being understood.

Sorry for not responding. I've been at a summer camp for the past week. Anyways, when i try to install drivers with heimdall it aborts the procedure and then freezes the program... and when i plug in my phone into the wall charger, the screen stays off..

Young_Khalifa said:
Sorry for not responding. I've been at a summer camp for the past week. Anyways, when i try to install drivers with heimdall it aborts the procedure and then freezes the program... and when i plug in my phone into the wall charger, the screen stays off..
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Heimdall is great when properly set up and WHEN IT WORKS. What I do, and this'll bring it back from pretty much anything, is use gtg unbrick, and if it doesn't boot from that flash, (and mine doesn't because its a rogers ) , i then flash the Odin stock lb3 pack, and boom back to normal no matter what I flashed. I imagine if you're running an at&t model , you shouldn't have to do the second step. Be sure to remove the battery and reinsert at least once on any from flash to be sure its not booting correctly before going to another step. Also be sure drivers are correctly installed through kies or kies mini. I find this is easiest with Odin because it clearly shows you in bright yellow that the download connection has been established.. many times i' very had to reinstall the kies drivers, I don't know why.. but try this , and like I say once you see yellow in Odin in phone download mode, you know you're set. Once again, like this kies/gtg/try booting/if no boot/pull battery try boot again/ if still no boot Odin lb3 stock and then flash a recovery kernel to regain cwm..
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ive been trying the odin lb3 from gtg and it gets stuck on dbdata.rfs instead.. im kinda flipping out...

[Q] Infuse Bricked (I think)

I was running stock 2.3.6 and attempted to root it using Odin. During the process, it was stuck on cache.rfs for a long time...I took the battery out and turned on the infuse again. This time it said I needed to do recovery mode. Kies woulnd't recognize the device. So I went back into download mode and tried GTG Ultimate Unbrick. This isn't working because it keeps getting stuck at factoryfs.rfs. It's currently there now, and its been here for at least 15min. I've tried closing Odin, retrying, removing battery and SD and trying but nothing is working! I'm not sure what to do. :/

jaycrime said:
I was running stock 2.3.6 and attempted to root it using Odin. During the process, it was stuck on cache.rfs for a long time...I took the battery out and turned on the infuse again. This time it said I needed to do recovery mode. Kies woulnd't recognize the device. So I went back into download mode and tried GTG Ultimate Unbrick. This isn't working because it keeps getting stuck at factoryfs.rfs. It's currently there now, and its been here for at least 15min. I've tried closing Odin, retrying, removing battery and SD and trying but nothing is working! I'm not sure what to do. :/
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If you can still get into download mode, you aren't hard bricked. That's a good thing
As for recovering your device. This has happened to me multiple times. There are about a million different things I've tried. 1. Simply use a different USB port, 2. Try a different cable it it's available, 3. Use a different version of ODIN, 4. Try using the heimdal method, 5. Completely uninstall the drivers for the phone and then reinstall them.
Try all of these, not necessarily in that order. I tried last time and it turned out all I needed to do was switch computers for god knows what reason. Good luck!

I'm trying Heimdall right now. Will let you know how it goes..

So as I click flash, it starts...but then it says drivers not found so I click their "Reinstall Drivers" and then after 5min, the installation fails.

I got past the driver error. Now what it tell me is:
Uploading KERNAL
0%
>Then it says
KERNAL upload failed
Ending session...

I have managed to successfully run the Heimdall. But now it turns on and goes into recovery everytime. I wiped data and cache. SOMEONE HELP PLEASE?

I have had a similar experience. My flash would freeze at random points and never complete. This was using my laptop with windows 7. Tried a different computer (same brand, same OS,same USB cable) and it worked fine. This was the case for SOC and ODIN.
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jaycrime said:
I have managed to successfully run the Heimdall. But now it turns on and goes into recovery everytime. I wiped data and cache. SOMEONE HELP PLEASE?
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I would run it again, the one click...
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but when I hold up and down keys...it doesnt take me to download mode. only into recovery. but There is an option in recovery to apply update from sd card

actually, I got it into download mode and ran it again but same problem. Should I flash bootloader?

jaycrime said:
actually, I got it into download mode and ran it again but same problem. Should I flash bootloader?
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Yes...and do a factory reset....

[Q] Infuse forces into unique boot loop

Hi, I'm new to posting on these forums but I have been on here for a while and appreciate the work of the devs on the roms available. I have a problem, and I haven't been able to find any threads of anyone having this problem before.
My Infuse was stock froyo and working fine. I then updated it to stock 2.3.6 with ODIN with option c from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523
After that, I immediately updated it to the unofficial cm9 and the problems started. The phone would work fine, but in about 10 minutes of use, it would restart by itself and go into a boot loop. Sometimes the samsung logo would loop only twice and restart. Other times it can loop up to 50 times before restarting.
I noticed I had a rainbow CWM screen so I updated to the GB bootloader through ODIN. Didn't work. I then went back to stock 2.3.6 with odin. Didn't work. I then went back to stock 2.2 froyo through ODIN and re-partioned the PIT file. Still boot loops. I'm stumped.
Anyone have any idea what's causing this? I appreciate it

So you are able to enter download mode and successfully flash something? Somehow something appears to have been corrupted..
My only suggestion would be to try "one click unbrick" and see if that does the job
Sent from my sweet and buttery Infuse

andros11 said:
So you are able to enter download mode and successfully flash something? Somehow something appears to have been corrupted..
My only suggestion would be to try "one click unbrick" and see if that does the job
Sent from my sweet and buttery Infuse
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All of the "one click unbricks" say that it isn't necessary if the phone is able to enter download mode. Is it still ok to try?

tried one click unbrick and it wouldn't allow me to use it. I then tried going to stock 2.3.6 using heimdall and still have the same problem.
I don't think its a problem with the rom, it has to be something else. But its not a hardware problem since it started once I used ODIN for the first time.

That's strange.. one click unbrick should have been able to run and reboot your phone. It probably would not solve your problem but should have at least ran successfully.
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one click unbrick just said something like, "if the phone is plugged in and everything is fine then visit resolution center".