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Please help me guys! Urgent?

Hey, I'm new to the forum and I came here to desperately seek help on saving my tablet's life.. So It's obvious that I'm new to flashing too because today I tried to upgrade my android version to Froyo with Rockchip tools, I held down power + home buttons, I plugged in the usb, I installed the drivers and the program recognized my tablet. So I began flashing but at the middle of the process an error message came up that said something like: "can't continue flashing, restart process" or something like that, so when I unplugged the usb to restart the process, first I tried to boot my device and found out it could no longer boot neither it could be detected from my computer in flashing mode!! Plss tell me how can I fix this, my mom's gonna kill me..
Oh and I forgot to mention that afterwards I realised that the rom was actually not meant for my device ^^
PS I'm very sorry if I posted in the wrong place or if I seem pretty noob but it's kinda.. true Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

hmm... it might help if you tell people which tablet & model you are trying to fix
people here might be developer, might be techie, but i doubt any of us are mind reader

AllGamer said:
but i doubt any of us are mind reader
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Lol
@op yea tell sumtin bout your device and a link from where you downloaded the rom

AllGamer said:
hmm... it might help if you tell people which tablet & model you are trying to fix
people here might be developer, might be techie, but i doubt any of us are mind reader
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Well it's a Prestigio Multipad 5070 and the rom.. well I downloaded an android froyo rom from the Prestigio site but it was for another model..

bricked my captivate?

i tried doing this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127249
and i failed, i got the first part down and i saw the red fish which is the devs logo. then the second part with the kernelKF1.tar file i guess i screwed up, because on reboot it would loop, it would go to at&t screen then it would show my screen really screwed up, with a whole bunch of colors and what not like as if it was tripping on acid haha. anyways now when i turn on my phone it shows a logo of a phone, a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark next to a computer. I do not want to lose all my apps and what not, i mean i doooo have 27 hours on my final fantasy 7 lol. so please guys what do i do to bring my phone back to life so i can try to root and flash a ROM correctly this time.

Does it say something about firmware upgrade failure, use recovery mode?

Yep. It's a soft brick so you can recovery it!
First: You must flash AT&T Gingerbread Bootloader from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1129821. (You must go to download mode by Vol Up + Vol Down + USB Plug or use a jig (google: Jig Captivate)
Then: Flash your kernelKF1.tar again (Download Mode) or Another kernel you like for KF1! (I prefer you flash this kernel: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127322)
That's all!

-how do i access recovery mode? says nothing about an update failure.
-that's great news! does it matter that i was on 2.1 eclair first? back in the day i rooted my phone on the stock eclair and i beliiiiiieve did a lagfix as well, but no custom ROMS or anything like that.
-I use odin to flash both the bootloader/kernel correct? on odin i just have to wait for it to says "connected" in that little chatbox right? one of the box's all the way to the top isn't supposed to say anything until its passes right?
sorry for all the real dumb and seemingly obvious questions. But i want to make sure i know what i am doing so i can always do it correctly. thanks for all your help and quick replys guys i really appreciate it!

nismoasfuh said:
-how do i access recovery mode? says nothing about an update failure.
-that's great news! does it matter that i was on 2.1 eclair first? back in the day i rooted my phone on the stock eclair and i beliiiiiieve did a lagfix as well, but no custom ROMS or anything like that.
-I use odin to flash both the bootloader/kernel correct? on odin i just have to wait for it to says "connected" in that little chatbox right? one of the box's all the way to the top isn't supposed to say anything until its passes right?
sorry for all the real dumb and seemingly obvious questions. But i want to make sure i know what i am doing so i can always do it correctly. thanks for all your help and quick replys guys i really appreciate it!
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1. Use combo keys: Vol Up + Vol Down + Power to access Recovery. If you are on AT&T Gingerbread Bootloader, you are good to go!.
2. You must disable lagfix before flash any rom. You can go stock and reflash it but i think you must get KF1 work to backup your game process!
3. If you flash KF1 with bootloader, you needn't to reflash it again. Just reflash kernel and you are unbrick. (If you are on AT&T Gingerbread Bootloader, on screen PC -- /!\ -- Phone, you can run ODIN and reflash kernel KF1. No need to go to Download Mode to flash kernel. If you can't flash from ODIN (try some time, change USB port, change PC, and reinstall Windows), you must reflash AT&T bootloader.
Good luck!

at&T gingerbread bootloader is a program like odin? or does it literally mean the booting of a gingerbread device? im so confuuuuused.
So i have to flash a stock 2.1 eclair? then do the kf1 file to get to 2.3.3 gb?

nismoasfuh said:
at&T gingerbread bootloader is a program like odin? or does it literally mean the booting of a gingerbread device? im so confuuuuused.
So i have to flash a stock 2.1 eclair? then do the kf1 file to get to 2.3.3 gb?
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its questions like these that make people say 'read, read, read, read, then read some more'
the answer is literally everywhere in these forums......

i just made it so much worse, i used the gb bootloaders as well as used that ROM by using the kernel and a previous file in odin. i can still go to download/recovery, and if i just power on the phone it will loop at the at&t screen

when i get to recovery, the vol bottoms dont let me select anything. so my only option is to keep rebooting. i cant apply update from sd; even though im sure its because im doing it wrong!! someone please help i need this phone for the upcoming work week didnt think it would take 4 days to figure out.
Can Someone Please Please tell me step by step what i should do, i understand how to work the programs i just dont know the order in which to do them in. what am i to do? remember i was initially on 2.1 eclair with a voodoo lagfix, yet, i dont know what i am on know, i tried flashing ROMS as well as gb bootloaders.

so your volume buttons are broken?
just boot into download mode, flash back to stock with ODIN or Heimdall, whichever is easier for you to use, then leave your phone the fk alone, because you are compounding the problems by panicking.
its obvious that you havent truly understood what you have been flashing on your phone, and you are about to wind up with a pretty brick that will need to get sent to jtag/unbrickable mod.....
until you understand and comprehend what you are doing, leave it the hell alone, this isnt childs play here

Pirateghost said:
so your volume buttons are broken?
just boot into download mode, flash back to stock with ODIN or Heimdall, whichever is easier for you to use, then leave your phone the fk alone, because you are compounding the problems by panicking.
its obvious that you havent truly understood what you have been flashing on your phone, and you are about to wind up with a pretty brick that will need to get sent to jtag/unbrickable mod.....
until you understand and comprehend what you are doing, leave it the hell alone, this isnt childs play here
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well said..

so have I lost all my apps? even flashing back to stock?.....and no, volume buttons are not broken.

i have the "firmware upgrade fail" and cant get into recovery...

OK! So i finally got the phone up and running late late last night. its on firmware 2.3.3 on build: cognition v2
kernel version: 2.6.35.7-I897UCKF1-CL273832
its definitely GB; thats something obvious. yet, i cant shake the feeling that it still feels slow. i ran quandrant and its a shy 1040. I know, I know, quadrant scores dont mean anything, but still.... i would think it would be in atleast the 1300+ especially with the lagfix from cognition5.

nismoasfuh said:
OK! So i finally got the phone up and running late late last night. its on firmware 2.3.3 on build: cognition v2
kernel version: 2.6.35.7-I897UCKF1-CL273832
its definitely GB; thats something obvious. yet, i cant shake the feeling that it still feels slow. i ran quandrant and its a shy 1040. I know, I know, quadrant scores dont mean anything, but still.... i would think it would be in atleast the 1300+ especially with the lagfix from cognition5.
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If you know quadrants mean nothing then why are you looking to get a higher score?
But in all seriousness, I think were all a little surprised to see that you have a working phone and even more so one with a custom rom. You need to read up on here before you start messing with things again or your going wind up with a brick.
let me quote Mr. Haley here
its obvious that you havent truly understood what you have been flashing on your phone, and you are about to wind up with a pretty brick that will need to get sent to jtag/unbrickable mod.....
until you understand and comprehend what you are doing, leave it the hell alone, this isnt childs play here
well said..
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Basically, nobody on here is going to offer you help until you attempt to help yourself. This isnt a support forum. None of it is. We are just kind enough to help you out. But its super annoying to see you put yourself in situations that we warned about then come back on here with OMG I THINK I BRICKED! So spend time reading and please realize we have 0 obligation to help if you brick.

capocaccia said:
If you know quadrants mean nothing then why are you looking to get a higher score?
But in all seriousness, I think were all a little surprised to see that you have a working phone and even more so one with a custom rom. You need to read up on here before you start messing with things again or your going wind up with a brick.
let me quote Mr. Haley here
Basically, nobody on here is going to offer you help until you attempt to help yourself. This isnt a support forum. None of it is. We are just kind enough to help you out. But its super annoying to see you put yourself in situations that we warned about then come back on here with OMG I THINK I BRICKED! So spend time reading and please realize we have 0 obligation to help if you brick.
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Actually, it was me that said it.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777

And I just agreed with him.

thaaaanks for the life lesson; but I wouldnt be able to sit here and tell you im Running a custom ROM unless i did do my research. The time differences between my posts was me literally finding and reading countless articles. I'm asking questions not figuring out fallacys..

Don't be so defensive, they weren't talking down to you and belittling, just making sure you don't end up in a worse situation. Looking out for your best interest.

I know that....If my posts were that bad at least show me the simple corrections.I know the value of my phone, ill deal with it if it comes to that and even then nothing has happened since. Regardless, I got out of the soft brick and now I'm on DG's 2.3.3.

[Q] Have I ruined my in law's phone? Please help

My father in law bought a new phone SGS on O2 and I offered to unlock it as I have unlocked my husbands last week (he's was on O2 as well but in 2.1 or 2.2.1 version I think-froyo?)
Before I continue may I say I know you guys out there know so much more than me and I really need your help. I really tried to help unlocking this phone and for hours I searched and read things like reboot, download mode, recovery mode, flashing, JKV and so many other words and letter that I could not understand. Very few I understood in the end but may have messed up badly (?).
Please, I need help and please treat me as if I were your mum or even grandma. Step by step in simple normal English please.
My father in law's version is 2.3.3
I tried unlocking it the way I unlocked my husband's but didn't work after looking for hours I thought that the best way to do it would be to downgrade from 2.3.3 (gingerbread (?)) to 2.2.1 (froyo (?)) and then unlock it.
I found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1089989
and tried to follow it.
I downloaded EZRom and EZboot-Froyo-1.0.tar.md5 from the same post.
I followed:
•Download the right version from section above
•Reboot your phone into Download mode
•Connect your phone to computer
•Run EZOdin
•Select EZboot-Froyo-1.0.tar.md5 or EZboot-GingerBread-1.0.tar.md5as a PDA file in EZOdin
•Check the "Phone Bootloader Update" checkbox
•Click Start
I waited for the phone to turn off and feel the little vibration but didn't. Instead it just froze at the first screen when you turn on the phone. The black background with white letters: Samsung Galaxy...
I waited and waited and as nothing was happening I then I took the battery out. Put it back in and tried turning it on. I wouldn't it would just stop and that same screen, the black and white one.
I reread
•Wait until phone reboots and make it reboot into Recovery
SO then I remembered in the many threads I read about the recovery mode so 3 clicked vol up + button at them bottom and turn on bottom.
It gives me a few options. When I click on reboot all it does is show me the black and white screen again and nothing else. ah!!!
I took the battery off and put it back on may times, also selected the fatory reset option and tried different buttons but nothing. Please help me.
I'm happy to phone any of you guys to help me and guide me even if it's just to put the phone back to what it was before, turning on normally, etc. (I can't even turn it on!) I'm feeling really sad and a bit stressed as these days are supposed to be a nice time to spend with my little ones and family.
Anyway, please ask me anything.
Thank you so much in advance. I really hope I didn't do anything wrong and I'm just stuck because I'm ignorant in this matter. Thank you

Well, I have no skill in this area. But I wish you good luck, and this post is acting as a bump! Double goal!
After a little rethinking: (I don't have a SGS and never touched one) You can try re-stocking the phone. Not sure how you do that. I'll check.
From http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723596 :
Darkstriker said:
(E) Recovery:
1.WHAAAA! I think I bricked my phone. My flash was unsuccessful/My device boots to a black screen/similar scenarios. Can I still save my device?
1.WHAAAA! I think I bricked my phone. My flash was unsuccessful/My device boots to a black screen/similar scenarios. Can I still save my device?
Most likely: YES! In almost any case, you should still be able to turn off the device (if necessary by removing the battery) and start into download-mode (VolumeDown+Home+Power) or recovery-mode (VolumeUp+Home+Power). After (for example) an unsuccessful flash, you can retry the flash in download-mode (same steps as when flashing a functioning device). If a flash to a functioning f/w (without applying any update.zip) doesn't help or you cannot get your PC to flash at all, you can ask for help here.
If you see a symbol asking you to connect to the PC, depending on how you arrived at this point, it may be sufficient to connect to the PC and run Odin (i.e. press "start" when the phone is recognized) without adding any files. This may, however, leave some residual issues if (for example) had an incorrect/incomplete flash so you may want to do a normal flash after this!
If you do not have download mode and for some ludicrous reason felt the need to go ahead and modify your firmware regardless of this lacking, there is now a guide on creating a home-made JIG which will force your device into download mode without the actual button combo here.
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If you need any extra help, I'll try.

Im somewhat of a rookie user too but I do know this, If you can still go into recovery/download mode (using the 3 button combo) then you havent bricked the phone and you can fix it! so dont stress too much .
EDIT: Im guessing you can download a stock ROM and flash it via odin.

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After a little rethinking: (I don't have a SGS and never touched one) You can try re-stocking the phone. Not sure how you do that. [/QUOTE]
Thank u so much for your reply. O don't know what re stocking is, but i will look into it. Thank u!

I don't know how to re stock it.
Sorry to seem so dumb.
Can anyone help me step by step? If at all possible could I phone someone to help me with this? Send me phone number via private message
Thank you sooo much.

anaki11 said:
I don't know how to re stock it.
Sorry to seem so dumb.
Can anyone help me step by step? If at all possible could I phone someone to help me with this? Send me phone number via private message
Thank you sooo much.
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Well, no problem, I guess. I don't think it needs to come to voice support, to be honest. I think text is enough for the issue in matter. I'll look a bit into this, I'll have to go soon from my computer. I'm sorry if I can't be of any greater help.

moses992 said:
Im somewhat of a rookie user too but I do know this, If you can still go into recovery/download mode (using the 3 button combo) then you havent bricked the phone and you can fix it! so dont stress too much .
EDIT: Im guessing you can download a stock ROM and flash it via odin.
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Your post helped me not to stress too much.
I'd like to download a stock rom and flash it but I don't know how to.
Here's where I am. I found a list of firmware. This is the last one on Samfirmware.com.
Europe Samsung I9000 Firmwares.
I9000XXJVS ##
512.PIT
2.3.5
2011 September 8
CSC = I9000OXAJVS
DOWNLOAD
Things I need: (I think)
-Download a firmware (should I use the lastest one?) or 2.2 or 2.3.3? . Is there one better than the other? or is it my choice? How can I choose the best one for me?
-Odin. I have OdinMultiDownloader v4.03 in my desktop. Is that the best thing to use or should I use Ezodin. I don't know what the difference is.
-(Do I need to download or do anything else?)
Things I should do:
-Put phone in download mode
-Plug it to the laptop
-Open Odin (or Exodin?)
-click PDA. Choose the fie I downloaded-firmware.
(-after this I don't know what else I should do or tick or untick)
Am I in the right track or completely off it?
Thank you again to anyone taking the time to read this.

anaki11 said:
Your post helped me not to stress too much.
I'd like to download a stock rom and flash it but I don't know how to.
Here's where I am. I found a list of firmware. This is the last one on Samfirmware.com.
Europe Samsung I9000 Firmwares.
I9000XXJVS ##
512.PIT
2.3.5
2011 September 8
CSC = I9000OXAJVS
DOWNLOAD
Things I need: (I think)
-Download a firmware (should I use the lastest one?) or 2.2 or 2.3.3? . Is there one better than the other? or is it my choice? How can I choose the best one for me?
-Odin. I have OdinMultiDownloader v4.03 in my desktop. Is that the best thing to use or should I use Ezodin. I don't know what the difference is.
-(Do I need to download or do anything else?)
Things I should do:
-Put phone in download mode
-Plug it to the laptop
-Open Odin (or Exodin?)
-click PDA. Choose the fie I downloaded-firmware.
(-after this I don't know what else I should do or tick or untick)
Am I in the right track or completely off it?
Thank you again to anyone taking the time to read this.
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In my thoughts, I believe that should be what you need. You can try, if that doesn't solve the issue, it's because you need something else as well.
And the think you should make the file a PDA file, I believe. Don't take my answer too direct. I'm almost unknown with Samsung devices on that matter, but I can say a couple of things, like, that, I'm pretty sure it is on PDA files.
And no problem, always pleasing to help someone in trouble. I was/am a rookie too Ignore the Senior Member thingie. Still a noob in pretty much everything. And don't panic, no need for that.

Thank you. I should try that tonight unless someone stops me before to tell me I'm about to make another mistake.

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Thank you. I should try that tonight unless someone stops me before to tell me I'm about to make another mistake.
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Haha. I doubt it. 99,99% of actions are reversible, really. And I have severe doubts that this is one of the remaining 0,01%.
Well, I wish you good luck. If you ever need any more help, you can post here. I'll look into here time to time.
BTW. Just wait a second. You know that link you give on the first post? There's also a Gingerbread file. You can *try* flashing that one, to see if it reverses the problem. Sounds legit to me.

Youtube.com/qbking77
He has tons of tutorials
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Note radio messed up phone HELP!!

So earlier today i Dl'ed the new radio and its been down here from there.
I was able to get to odin before and i installed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601483
And i now cant use odin. I found from this thread what to do if i could get into odin (also cant get cwm)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1611796
What should i do?

Does your phone work at all? It sounds like you might have bricked it using ODIN incorrectly. Did you leave "repartition" checked? If so, you shouldn't have.
Can you get into download mode at all? Does your PC recognize your phone? If you don't know what I'm talking about, you need to go to the "DEV" section and read all of the sticky threads, which you hopefully already did before you tried to do anything with your phone. Asking a bunch of questions about things you haven't taken the time to read about isn't going to help you at all.
Have you tried the "Odin Oneclick" leak"s" that have been released? They include ODIN in the install package.
You claim the Note radio flash derped your phone? It has been known to mess with phones but I haven't known of it bricking any phones. If so, have you tried to flash a different radio? You need to provide as much info as you can about what you did and read all of the threads that pertain to what it is you think you wanted to do. If you provide more acurate info, maybe someone can help (if you didn't brick your phone with ODIN). Good luck.

actually my phones all fixed now i did alot of research and fixed it
Thanks anyways
Correction im trying to get the lock screen/ power off menu solution thats all i need atm

Dwolf16 said:
actually my phones all fixed now i did alot of research and fixed it
Thanks anyways
Correction im trying to get the lock screen/ power off menu solution thats all i need atm
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I'm happy to hear you are back up and running. I think the best thing to do is just stay away from the "Note" radio...its just not worth the risk.

scott14719 said:
I'm happy to hear you are back up and running. I think the best thing to do is just stay away from the "Note" radio...its just not worth the risk.
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Are you sure you didn't mean to say "it's just note worth the risk. " XDDDDDDD
~PsyCl0ne
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA

its really not...im still trying to fix my homescreen and shutdown

I'm learning a hard lesson about the Note radio, too.

i just need to find some one with a full efs folder so i cant replace mine and ill be fine

I've updated my method, try again. If ur having write issues with efs, no guarantee that simply dropping it I'm with fix it. I think this new method will allow it to stick

Hello SGS4G XDA section! Newbie needs a lot of help!

Hey guys i`ve recently managed to get an SGS 4G Vibrant ( i believe that i am at right place to seek for help ) , i have the T-Mobile version of the phone. I need help switching to different/better ROM, at this moment the phone uses the stock one ( or i believe so ). I`ve been tru the threads and saw that there are a lot of stuff posted about what you need to do/have to flash a rom, but i just cant understand the right order of doing the things.
If its posible can someone really quick just post the steps for the guide for flashing a ROM to the phone. I have previous expiriance with android phone and i am aware how thing go, just as i said i cant get the right order of puting all the thing at one place.
For the phone i used to have was like, first i had to install an stocklike ROM which had recovery, but before that i had to get some kind of software for LG that alowes to flash the rom via download mode. So is the same here? It would be awesome if someone can link or atleast type all the software and other thing i need to have installed to make this work. For now what i have is the USB drivers for Samsung.
Thanks in advance!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S/SGH-T959V
sent from me

Ok, that helped, not sure how i missed it. I am gonna write down what i did so far, so you could see if i messed up something.
I rooted the phone via SuperOneClick 2.2, then i installed the SGS Kernel Flasher, and then flashed the kernel, my current phone was running an 2.3.7 android, so i used the Basic with a Twist`s kernel ( i hope i did it right ), and now the phone rebooted and some different boot screen apiared with some Robotic Chick speeking some stuff, BUT for now the phone load to there, it doesnt wannt to load.
So did i messed up something, or ....

Can you go into recovery by holding Volume Up+Volume Down while pressing the power button and as soon as the SGS 4G splash appears leaving the power button ?
If so and you can see CWM Ver. 5.0... then kernel was successfully flashed.
You shouldn't be getting a bootloop.
What ROM do you want to flash ? If you want to flash GB then I suggest Barebone/Valhalla of some kind.
If you want ICS - Go to the CM 9.1 thread and follow the instructions. After that you may change to AOKP or MIUI or all the rest of the ICS ROMs you wanna try.

invictos said:
SGS 4G Vibrant
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This section is not for the Vibrant.
Check here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=708
I am sorry I do not know how to get you back to where you started before flashing the wrong ROM.
Good luck

Well, it wasnt a bootloop, it just loaded to some point and stoped. Gladly still got the download mode and brought it back to normal to how it was. Thats why i came here to ask, `couse there are too much similiar sgs`s and stuff for them here, i just got confused whats what. Got to start from scratch anyway, at least i didnt bricked it

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953587&postcount=1 <---- That's a post by Lumin 30 with a guide on how to get from stock to custom GB. If you want to get to ICS then use CWM 5.0.x.x.