My phone has been all screwy for months. I recently given up on it and bought a new phone but it irritates me that I still cannot fix this old phone.
After attempting to flash a new rom onto my phone everything went wrong. When I attempted to reboot the phone the phone showed the SAMSUNG screen then goes to CWD for recovery. I cannot fix this at all. Eventually I decided to run GTG's Ultimiate Unbrick thinking that Odin3 would fix my situation. It continuted to give me FAIL with every attempt. Now, the phone won't even show the SAMSUNG screen or the recovery screen. It just stays black... What can I do? Junk it? Is it permanently broke.. This is so upsetting.
Are you still able to access download mode? If so then i would try Heimdall this time using THIS flash file. Flash it once, let it reboot, then shutdown and go to download mode again. Flash once more with the "flash bootloaders" box checked. Has always worked for me when i screw something up due to not paying attention.
If you cannot access download mode WHAT-SO-EVER, i'm afraid i am unable to help.
Good luck
DarK_DemoN said:
Are you still able to access download mode? If so then i would try Heimdall this time using THIS flash file. Flash it once, let it reboot, then shutdown and go to download mode again. Flash once more with the "flash bootloaders" box checked. Has always worked for me when i screw something up due to not paying attention.
If you cannot access download mode WHAT-SO-EVER, i'm afraid i am unable to help.
Good luck
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Tried today to put it into download mode. The screen flashes on completely white and back off. I can hear it connecting and disconnecting from the computer repeatedly. Im guessing there is nothing at all I can do from here. This really sucks.
mramazingpanda said:
Tried today to put it into download mode. The screen flashes on completely white and back off. I can hear it connecting and disconnecting from the computer repeatedly.
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Does it connect and disconnect by itself? If it does then sounds like a hardware issue. If you can get it to connect to your computer open the JAR flash file which will open Heimdall after a few seconds (10-20). Once it's open press the Vol-Up button on your phone and see if Heimdall can see it (should say "Connected" in green at the bottom right).
Give it to me lol I'll fix it
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I had something similar happen to me a long time ago. I would try to put it in download mode and the screen would do something but then just shut off. I pulled up heimdall and it said it was connected. I might have just gotten lucky. Give it a try though.
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So, I bricked my Infuse last night at work when I tried installing MIUI from ROM Manager. I've been trying to unbrick using gtg's Ultimate Unbrick method, but no luck. I believe it's something to do with the Samsung Drivers since my phone is not recognized in Odin. Tried to redownload the Drivers from Samsung's website, but still doesn't work.
Any ideas?
BTW, running Windows 7 32bit
why would you install a rom that's for a different phone?
can you boot into recovery mode? did you try the "jig"?
Didn't think there would be a listed ROM in the manager if it wasn't for the phone...
Won't boot into recovery at all, Samsung pops up, then it goes blank, and Samsung pops up again. It loops like that until I pull the battery.
Was hoping to avoid having to buy something then waiting for it to arrive, as I need the phone working asap.
the reason other roms pop up in rom manager is because you are using the galaxy recovery. unless it says "for infuse" (there is only one, gtg's rom) it wont work. bummer dude. im all out of ideas, never had this happen. hopefully someone who's been through this can chime in and provide some info that will help you.
on a side note, why cant you take it to an att branch and have them exchange it for you?
Pat713 said:
Didn't think there would be a listed ROM in the manager if it wasn't for the phone...
Won't boot into recovery at all, Samsung pops up, then it goes blank, and Samsung pops up again. It loops like that until I pull the battery.
Was hoping to avoid having to buy something then waiting for it to arrive, as I need the phone working asap.
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I hope u have USB debugging turned on. If yes, u cud try this:
1. Download and install android SDK (search google for this if don't know how to).
2. Open a command prompt
3. Type in "adb reboot recovery" without quotes, and don't hit enter
4. Connect phone to PC
5. Turn the phone on
6. Wait for "samsung" to appear, and hit enter in command prompt
7. If it says "device not found", use the up arrow to get the command from history, and hit enter again. At some point, it should issue the command to the device.
8. If u can get to recovery, well, u have a way to now try to flash any other ROM.
Don't give up. Samsung has strong phones that could be got out of soft bricks most of the time.
Delete/reinstall the drivers.
Infuse 4G
Just tried Diablo's method, and it tells me command not recognized...
Download Kies on your pc to have it recognize ur phone. Run odin. Put ur phone in download mode (pull out battery, put it back in, hold both volume buttons down, plug in ur usb) and use gtg's unbrick.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
Tried Kies before and it would never recognize the Infuse. Should I pick Galaxy?
UPDATE!!
Redownloaded Kies and installed the drivers (for the 500th or so time) and now Odin is recognizing a device. It's showing [COM3] instead of COM## but I'm letting Odin do its thing. Seems to be working... Crossing my fingers!
EDIT::
<ID:0/003> Completed..
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)
****in A! Thanks for the help guys!
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Didn't think there would be a listed ROM in the manager if it wasn't for the phone...
Won't boot into recovery at all, Samsung pops up, then it goes blank, and Samsung pops up again. It loops like that until I pull the battery.
Was hoping to avoid having to buy something then waiting for it to arrive, as I need the phone working asap.
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You need to buy a jig, that will solve the problem.
The jig is less than $10 bucks shipped if you buy it on ebay.
Here is the link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Samsung-Galaxy-...0563626533?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item20ba3eba25
Easy to use.. all U do is pull the battery, plug the jig into usb port on the fone replace battery and you will see the big triangle saying "Download" then unplug the jig and load odin.
Setup the pda/phone/pit/csc files in odin3. Then plug in the usb cable from computer to the phone making sure that where odin says "com" that it is highlighted yellow. Then click start in Odin and wait til it says "reboot" after that you will have a working phone with stock froyo 2.2 . Don't change any default setting in odin.
Use the "Ultimate Unbrick" rom - Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251
Misterjunky said:
You need to buy a jig, that will solve the problem.
The jig is less than $10 bucks shipped if you buy it on ebay.
Here is the link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Samsung-Galaxy-...0563626533?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item20ba3eba25
Easy to use.. all U do is pull the battery, plug the jig into usb port on the fone replace battery and you will see the big triangle saying "Download" then unplug the jig and load odin.
Setup the pda/phone/pit/csc files in odin3. Then plug in the usb cable from computer to the phone making sure that where odin says "com" that it is highlighted yellow. Then click start in Odin and wait til it says "reboot" after that you will have a working phone with stock froyo 2.2 . Don't change any default setting in odin.
Use the "Ultimate Unbrick" rom - Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251
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I got it unbricked now, problem was the drivers wouldn't correctly install on Win7.
But, now I have a new problem. Just put 3e recovery on and flashed CWM, only to get bricked again (no problems unbricking this time, taking longer to type this than it took to unbrick...). Also, sometimes apps refuse to download from the Market. I tap "INSTALL" and the notification pops up saying downloading, but then it disappears and nothing happens, its like I hit cancel. I'm going to call it for today and get some sleep. At least the phone is usable now! :-D
Pat713 said:
Just tried Diablo's method, and it tells me command not recognized...
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That means u do not have android toolkit installed on ur system. You should install it first for the adb commands to work.
I would recommend downloading and learning the basics of adb. This could be a life saver in many no-so-happy situations.
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I got it unbricked now, problem was the drivers wouldn't correctly install on Win7.
But, now I have a new problem. Just put 3e recovery on and flashed CWM, only to get bricked again (no problems unbricking this time, taking longer to type this than it took to unbrick...). Also, sometimes apps refuse to download from the Market. I tap "INSTALL" and the notification pops up saying downloading, but then it disappears and nothing happens, its like I hit cancel. I'm going to call it for today and get some sleep. At least the phone is usable now! :-D
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Had this same problem and it turned out to be a hardware problem. There was no gix for it. Also youll notice that gtgs recovery includes a preroot. If you need to send your phonr back like i did youll need to get that off. It was tricky for me because the hardware was so screwey. I got it off after a few reboots of the phone and a couple of trys with superoneclick.
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ok so out of no where my phone started flashing the boot screen i tried to odin it but it failed and it is now flashing a phone and a computer with a yellow warning sign in the middle how do i fix it if i can
also i cant get into recovery or download mode
You can still odin from the screen with the Yellow triangle on it. Try odin again, make sure that you put in the pit file, and that the odin package goes into the pda slot.
i cant odin it because the yellow triangle screen flashes so the phone is rebooting like every 5 seconds
The phone shouldn't reboot with the yellow triangle, are you sure you're holding down the trackpad and down vol buttons when turning on the phone (download mode)?
i cant turn the phone on as soon as i put the battery in the phone shows that screen and then 5 seconds later it goes off then 5 seconds comes back on ao so forth
Is this the screen you're seeing?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/576/sdc10776y.jpg/sr=1
yes and that screen keeps flashing on and off
Have you tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350060
my phone wont stay connected
like it connects then 5 seconds later it disconnects
Foorperif said:
ok so out of no where my phone started flashing the boot screen i tried to odin it but it failed and it is now flashing a phone and a computer with a yellow warning sign in the middle how do i fix it if i can
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So by reading this, I assuming that Odin did recognize it before and then failed during the flash. You didn't unplug it before it was finished, right? It can take a while sometimes (and seem longer when something is kinda broken).
SD- Do you think his bootloader might have been corrupted somehow?
Try the Heimdell like SD suggests. Adam's stuff is great. If it fails, do it again, I have had to do it multiple times to get a phone right again (Guy I know flashed a wrong rom onto a different model phone with the wrong bootloaders-- hence using the heimell to load the correct ones onto it).
can i get a new bootloader then
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my phone wont stay connected
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There should be an option in Heimdall that you check for bootloaders. IF it is diminshed at first, run heimdall normally, and when it fails, it should be selectable. If this doesn't work out, there is a possibility of a hardware issue. If it works, make sure you hit thanks for Adam and SD for helping out...
my phone wont stay connected
any other help guys
If it won't stay connected long enough to flash in odin or heimdall then no, you have no other options.
thanks for trying guys
ok just found out my phone is hardware locked if it helps any of you guys
Well, Ive been flashing roms for a while now and I have an issue with my captivate.
Lets start in the beginning. I had my captivate on THS ICS rom and It was going great. But my captivate isn't that great anymore. The power button is broken, but I was able to go around that. (Sidenote: It turns on when I plug in the battery.) Anyway, I wanted to go back to stock because I did have the right bootloaders. (I couldnt get into download mode with the button combination. I thought it was the bootloaders fault. Im I wrong?) I wanted to switch to I9000 bootloaders but I had to start fresh. But before all that, I noticed that while I was on ICS rom, I was unable to go to download mode. I used to before, but it magically disappeared (I know it didnt, I know I did something to it but I don't quite remember when it happened.) So I was unable to flash a new rom, if I wanted to.
A couple of days ago, I bought a jig and it worked! It took me straight to download mode. So I decided to get my Captivate and make it go back to stock. So I opened Odin, it found my Cappy and I clicked start. But, it stopped at factoryfs.rfs. I waited a half hour and nothing. So I unplugged it and now it won't turn on. But it can still go into Download Mode and be seen by Odin but it just wont finish. I tried both odin one click and the regular odin. I looked everywhere for more than six hours and nothing came up. Please guys, if anyone knows what I can do to fix it, please reply.
I might have missed something, but just ask if you need any more info. Please help me.
Edit: I forgot to add this:
While I was on the ICS rom, I switched over to CM7 to see if the process of going back to stock would be easier. Thats when I tried to flash stock. It didnt work as well as I thought it would.
And I knew that I didnt have I9000 bootloaders because I installed the Icy Glitch kernel and each time I tried to have DIDDLE on it would go to deep sleep mode and I was unable to wake it back up.
As long as you can get to download mode you are fine. Try flashing a different stock from. Or using Hiemdell
I've tried both odin and Hiemdell. But with Hiemdell, it would always tell me that I dont have the drivers installed. So, it installs it for me. Even with the drivers installed, it keeps telling me that I dont have the proper drivers installed.
I have had this exact problem, where a bricked captivate can get into download mode but when restored to stock through a one-click, it freezes on the factoryfs.rfs. However, in my case after freezing at this stage, the phone was completely inoperable, and could not even enter download mode, so I am suprised yours could.
What works for me is to remove the battery, wait for a few seconds, put the battery back in, use the usb jig to enter download mode, and then WITHOUT the phone plugged into the pc, download and open this one-click file http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989.
Once the odin one click is open, plug the usb cable into the pc, and then into the phone. This one-click has never failed me. Hope this helps.
Ok, now it passed. I don't know what I did but now its back up and running. But now it boots up into recovery. I can't select anything because my phone's power button is broken. What do I do?
Juiceboy125 said:
Ok, now it passed. I don't know what I did but now its back up and running. But now it boots up into recovery. I can't select anything because my phone's power button is broken. What do I do?
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Depending on the CWM recovery you're in, you can sometimes use the search capacitive key to do the same thing as the power button will do.
I had the same problem you had with Odin stopping on flashing a file, turns out I was using a third party USB cable. I switched to the USB cable provided by Samsung when I bought my cappy and problem solved. Hope that helps.
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Finally!
Well, I got my Cappy up and running again. While I was stuck in the CWM I just decided to install Gingerbread using a One click and it worked. Now I'm back to CM9. Thanks guys for the suggestions. I guess I just needed to wait and double check everything.
I was trying to flash CM9 yesterday and my phone turned off during the installation, after turning it back on it was getting into a boot cycle and I was not able to access the recovery mode. Today I decided to put it on download mode and turn it back to stock but I couldn't for some reason and decided to take it off the usb cable. Since then I cannot access the download mode and im only getting a black screen with a cellphone icon and computer icon.
Please help...
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I was trying to flash CM9 yesterday and my phone turned off during the installation, after turning it back on it was getting into a boot cycle and I was not able to access the recovery mode. Today I decided to put it on download mode and turn it back to stock but I couldn't for some reason and decided to take it off the usb cable. Since then I cannot access the download mode and im only getting a black screen with a cellphone icon and computer icon.
Please help...
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That is DL mode your getting. Follow Lumins guide and you'll be fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1470716
Read ALL of it.
well i never saw his DN mode beofore. There are two of them?
crematorio said:
well i never saw his DN mode beofore. There are two of them?
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There are a few of them. There is even one that I got once where the screen is totally black. No hint at all, but the device still showed up on the usb bus.
Yes. The one you're seeing is the "OH Crap I think I messed up my phone" one. Happens when odin or heimdall fail to flash correctly. Just read that guide and you'll be able to get back to where you want to be.
Its alive!!!! Thanks all.
So one day I decided to flash custom ROM onto my Samsung galaxy Tab 3 Lite (SM-T110) and I used Odin and was new to the whole Rom flashing thing, and so It messed up during flashing and I was stupid and unplugged my tablet and now it is stuck in the download mode saying "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please use KIES and try again" something along those lines, and I tried looking it up and tried to fix it, like holding down power button and hard rebooting, didn't work, which now, every time I plug it into my pc to try a flash factory ROM and it keeps turning on and off on the error screen. So can someone help? I cant take it apart because I am using a screwdriver and it is damaging it, to try and take out battery and put it back in, and I'm not buying one of those plastic tools, I want to but, its just for another reason why I can't, So can anyone help? Thanks!
EFS
iplayminecraftps4 said:
So one day I decided to flash custom ROM onto my Samsung galaxy Tab 3 Lite (SM-T110) and I used Odin and was new to the whole Rom flashing thing, and so It messed up during flashing and I was stupid and unplugged my tablet and now it is stuck in the download mode saying "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue, please use KIES and try again" something along those lines, and I tried looking it up and tried to fix it, like holding down power button and hard rebooting, didn't work, which now, every time I plug it into my pc to try a flash factory ROM and it keeps turning on and off on the error screen. So can someone help? I cant take it apart because I am using a screwdriver and it is damaging it, to try and take out battery and put it back in, and I'm not buying one of those plastic tools, I want to but, its just for another reason why I can't, So can anyone help? Thanks!
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hi and don`t worry
1-flash EFS file with odin (in AP).
2-than you can wipe in recovery mode.GOOD LUCK
NOTE:efs file which is compitble with your device
i.daniyal said:
hi and don`t worry
1-flash EFS file with odin (in AP).
2-than you can wipe in recovery mode.GOOD LUCK
NOTE:efs file which is compitble with your device
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where can I find an bfs? and what does it stand for?
EDIT: I think I found one, but ill have to wait till I get home from school to do it
So I downloaded it and it was in .tar format. do I need to convert it? because in ap it doenst show up, it shows file formats and .tar is not one of them.
EDIT: never mind used WinZip, and added it, but like I said, every time I plug my tablet into my pc, it turns on, shows the download mode error screen and turn off, then turns right back on, with same screen, and so on and so on. so I really cant do anything till that is fixed...any suggestions? Thanks!
ok try this method:
http://www.99mediasector.com/fix-er...d-issue-please-select-recovery-mode-kies-try/
i.daniyal said:
ok try this method:
http://www.99mediasector.com/fix-er...d-issue-please-select-recovery-mode-kies-try/
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Ok just fixed the turning on and off thing, I had best idea, hold power button and plug in cord, then let go of power button and it should stay on now
EDIT: just plugged into my pc and its doing it again, it worked with charging cable, but I guess since I unplugged it, it stopped working, ill see when I get home from school and try again
Also turns out the screen only flashes on and off, when it is connected to my pc, when it is to the wall, its fine, so I need to figure that out
Ok it works with my tablet plugged into the "charging only" port basicly, but it does both charge and can send data. But every time I try to flash i on Odin, It always fails, so idk what to do
iplayminecraftps4 said:
Ok it works with my tablet plugged into the "charging only" port basicly, but it does both charge and can send data. But every time I try to flash i on Odin, It always fails, so idk what to do
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1-enable USB debuging
2-what is the error?
I cant enable it. Still in download mode error screen, and I try to flash it using Odin and it doesn't say pass it says failed, but I'll try to reinstall Odin and maybe download a fresh copy of the stock ROM
iplayminecraftps4 said:
I cant enable it. Still in download mode error screen, and I try to flash it using Odin and it doesn't say pass it says failed, but I'll try to reinstall Odin and maybe download a fresh copy of the stock ROM
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ok I fixed it, using this link https://www.full-repair-firmware.com/2017/11/full-firmware-t110.html
ok good
But it made it a different language upon setup but I can change to English, but it installs like 4 applications every time I reset it and boot it up, I can uninstall them, but its annoying, and the app called calendar or is supposed to be, is called s planer, I don't like it so I'm trying to find a stock ROM for it so it is back to normal.