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captivate starting to piss me off

i cant get kies to work,i cant root, i cant even get it to be recognized by my pc. ive installed drivers,installed .net4 and other stuff but it just wont connect to my computer. im running vista 32 bit,this sucks. any help will be greatly appreciated

It's pissed me off for months.

damn,i at least wanted to remove the bloatware,i cant even do that

Where did you get the drivers?
What cord are you using, oem, or cheap one bought some where?
Have you tried different ports?
Mikey us f ing with you he is a dev

mcord11758 said:
Mikey us f ing with you he is a dev
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It's kinda why I'm a dev.

im using the cord that came with the charger,i got the drivers off of the how to root post here on xda,i like the phone but i want flash and i want to be able to add video and music and i want to try and root

When you plug your phone into your pc what happens
Try these, click software tab
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-I897ZKAATT

To get my pc to recognize my captivate I had to use my rear usb not my front ones.
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And what is your USB settings set to? If you don't know, go to:
Settings->Applications->USB settings

I tried all of the ports and have tried usb debugging and mass storage and kies
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Try different drivers. Like the link I posted. Sometimes you may have to lead your computer to the drivers. When the pop up says unknown device click on it. You will need to know where the drivers are saved. Guide it to the drivers
Or you can insist you have done everything and in which case why create a thread

i installed the drivers,now do i need to restart my computer, thx again

Then take it into an AT&T store and see if they can make an USB connection. If not, then you can get the phone replaced with one that does work.

TopDogg1 said:
i installed the drivers,now do i need to restart my computer, thx again
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Yes, always reboot after installing drivers. It's the safe bet.

Ok ill try that and see if it works...thx guys..i hope i can get this thing workin right
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that still didnt work,i have usb debugging turned on,any more suggestions

TopDogg1 said:
that still didnt work,i have usb debugging turned on,any more suggestions
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Take it to the store and have them do it. Tell em you want to put music on it and it won't connect.
From a phone

TopDogg1 said:
that still didnt work,i have usb debugging turned on,any more suggestions
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Did you pull down the notification menu click mass storage, select mount

Take a screen shot of the my computer folder
From a phone

Kies used to recognize my phone till it was on JF6 stock. Even after 2.1 update 1 JF7, it stopped connecting.

bricked (here we go)

so... i was on cm7 with twrp and i wanted to install the new aokp team acid released with fixes. I thought i read the op correctly and could use twrp to install aokp. i was getting an error but i already wiped system and did a factory reset. anywho i had no os and all my backups on my sd card got deleted a few days prior than today. so i busted out heimdall and everything was going great but the usb cord i was using was some poop and it ""disconnected" during installation. so i rebooted the phone and it gave me the connect to kies message with the 2 computers and i tried i again leaving the phone in one spot. again it came "disconnected" (what a bs usb cord it is). so i went to try a third time and now heimdall cant see my device. but i know its not the cord as poopy as it is it will detect my wifes phone which is a sgs4g too. is there anyway to get heimdall to see what my phone is again?

goddi2010 said:
so... i was on cm7 with twrp and i wanted to install the new aokp team acid released with fixes. I thought i read the op correctly and could use twrp to install aokp. i was getting an error but i already wiped system and did a factory reset. anywho i had no os and all my backups on my sd card got deleted a few days prior than today. so i busted out heimdall and everything was going great but the usb cord i was using was some poop and it ""disconnected" during installation. so i rebooted the phone and it gave me the connect to kies message with the 2 computers and i tried i again leaving the phone in one spot. again it came "disconnected" (what a bs usb cord it is). so i went to try a third time and now heimdall cant see my device. but i know its not the cord as poopy as it is it will detect my wifes phone which is a sgs4g too. is there anyway to get heimdall to see what my phone is again?
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Calm down you will have to buy or use another USB a Samsung USB is preferred and try a different program I always had trouble using hemidall look up stock one click its a Java app
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Either that or you may have a broken charging port also. That could be a broken charging port on your phone. Not always is a usb cable fault. But like Imx said, just calm down and youll see the light at the end. After all, youre using an unbrickable Galaxy 4g. Which worst case scenario is the most simple to apply unbrickable mod.

enelyam said:
Either that or you may have a broken charging port also. That could be a broken charging port on your phone. Not always is a usb cable fault. But like Imx said, just calm down and youll see the light at the end. After all, youre using an unbrickable Galaxy 4g. Which worst case scenario is the most simple to apply unbrickable mod.
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Exactly I brick my phone all the time
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Technically called "soft bricks"

imxsteezin said:
Calm down you will have to buy or use another USB a Samsung USB is preferred and try a different program I always had trouble using hemidall look up stock one click its a Java app
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Actually a blackberry cable is preferred. The samsung cable is not the best quality. I use it but Im also scared Im going to have issues. I use to have a blackberry cable around here somewhere and there wasnt a phone I couldnt get recognized on my pc with it.

thanks for the advice guys i will try a different cord and reply with my findings. i dont think it is my charging port. that should be fine never had a problem charging it. i never applied the unbrickable mod do you think this would help me?
All i get in the unknown device error when i plug the phone in right now. samsung drivers still dont help it. like i said when i hook my wifes phone which is a galaxy s 4g too to my computer it will recognize hers just not mine.

goddi2010 said:
thanks for the advice guys i will try a different cord and reply with my findings. i dont think it is my charging port. that should be fine never had a problem charging it. i never applied the unbrickable mod do you think this would help me?
All i get in the unknown device error when i plug the phone in right now. samsung drivers still dont help it. like i said when i hook my wifes phone which is a galaxy s 4g too to my computer it will recognize hers just not mine.
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When you google one click stock for our device and download it the Java app requires you to install Java on your PC one this is done the program will automatically ask if you won't to install the drivers click yes then you will need to go to list at the top left corner select recent devices then Samsung will pop up install them then you click flash and it does all the work
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goddi2010 said:
thanks for the advice guys i will try a different cord and reply with my findings. i dont think it is my charging port. that should be fine never had a problem charging it. i never applied the unbrickable mod do you think this would help me?
All i get in the unknown device error when i plug the phone in right now. samsung drivers still dont help it. like i said when i hook my wifes phone which is a galaxy s 4g too to my computer it will recognize hers just not mine.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517368
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Look at your base band and if its kj6 you can use my method
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Theres a thanks button you can use by the way
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lol i wil try it and right now i have no base band (it wont boot past the firmware upgrade screen)

i took a look at the link you pasted and thats the method ive been using. the problem is when the one click program loads it says disconnected when i plug the phone in instead of connected

goddi2010 said:
i took a look at the link you pasted and thats the method ive been using. the problem is when the one click program loads it says disconnected when i plug the phone in instead of connected
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Follow the directions in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953878&postcount=2
Be sure to follow them exactly how they are written. lumin has a guide on how to remove your drivers that is probably what is causing your problems is a wonked out driver.

goddi2010 said:
i took a look at the link you pasted and thats the method ive been using. the problem is when the one click program loads it says disconnected when i plug the phone in instead of connected
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Are you putting it in download mode? Also have you tried to use a different USB cable like I recomended
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It kind of sounds to me like your drivers are borked. I would recommend uninstalling all drivers, reboot and then install the drivers included with the heimdall one-click.
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guys, ive been messing around now for about 5 hrs trying to get this thing going and no luck. i know there has to be a way. this is a list of things that ive tried and any other suggestions would be very helpful.
*tried a different usb cord
*used usbdeview to delete anything android/samsung related
*tried another laptopkn
*tried another sgs4g (which one click will say connected but then if i try my phone it wont)
*deleted all known drivers samsung/android related
im going to the store now to see if i can get a brand new usb cord and see if that helps. other than that fellas im clueless as to why i wouldnt be able to get one click to see my device. its almost as if the device doesnt know what it is. but sometimes by chance when i plug it in to my computer it will try to install and if i have one click open it will say connected and the drivers are being detected and then when the drivers fail it becomes disconnected.
Anyone have anything else i can try???

Install Heimdall.
Plug in phone, while it's on download screen.
Launch zadig.exe from the Heimdall\Drivers folder.
Options->List all devices.
Choose the Samsung one... I'm away from my computer so I can't give you the exact name, but I think it's Samsung Composite Device.
Change the driver to libusb0.
Install/replace driver.
Restart computer.
Log into computer.
Restart phone.
Flash successfully.

I remember seeing somewhere that once on mtd the phone responds to the Google drivers. You can install those from the android sdk. Don't know if that would help, but worth a shot if you don't have those drivers installed.
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Bricked samsung s3 pleas help!!

Hi i can't find my mobile on odin, i have evry driver that is needed i can find my other phone, and it's stuck on logo!
i have tried wipe data/factory din't work.
i can get to download mod and recovery but in download it wont connect to odin so pleas help! :angel::angel:

Use mobile odin to get back up and running.

x714x said:
Use mobile odin to get back up and running.
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Can't start my mobile...

Err disregard that, forgot you cant boot. You try odin on a different computer?

nope can't find it on my mac or pc or the other pc

You have another cable you can try to see if its the cable? Also will it atleast charge when you plug it in?

yepp it charge! and i have tested diffrent cabels!

Have you tried reflashing a rom or restoring a backup? Also what were you doing that made it not boot?

If it's stuck on 'the logo' then how is it bricked?
Reboot into recovery and flash something else.
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Dude chill out your phone didn't brick if it did you wouldn't get to download mode hell it wouldn't be on at all. Just follow these guys advice and you will be fine. Oh and FYI your phone is stuck on a bootloop.

I would suspect the cable. I have tons of good quality Micro USB cables from phones past. ADB can Win7 can only see my S3 using the cable that came in the box. Others will charge it and view storage but not let me push stuff to it.

schneid said:
I would suspect the cable. I have tons of good quality Micro USB cables from phones past. ADB can Win7 can only see my S3 using the cable that came in the box. Others will charge it and view storage but not let me push stuff to it.
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I had to call VZW for a replacement USB cable because I like to keep my nandroids on my computer for backup, and it would freeze or not work, so I broke out the HTC USB cable, and it worked great, so determined either the Samsung cables blow, or mine was bunk.
it would charge and do everything else just fine, just couldn't move media without it disconnecting

Can't i do enything with sd card? it's rooted and evrything!

[Q] Can we go back to stock ROM without using ODIN?

My phone
MODEL: SGH-T959V
OS:2.3.7 , CM 7
When i plug in my phone to the USB jack , the computer doesnt recognize it. i tried installing drivers . there was no Help.
I wanted to go back to the stock rom.
I wanted to know whether there is a method to go back to stock ROM without using ODIN (Without using PC, without plugging the phone to PC)
PLEASE HELP

Search if there is a stock cwm flashable rom in your phone forum section...If there is one , download it to your sd card and then flash it in cwm..
Search and learn all that stuff..

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
the only method HEimDall One-Click and this work perfect
i have restore my device last day with this tool... have good time ahead

ithunter said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
the only method HEimDall One-Click and this work perfect
i have restore my device last day with this tool... have good time ahead
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Right, if you scroll half-way down the OP of that thread, you'll see:
bhundven said:
Download:
Download T959VUVKJ6 Stock UVKJ6
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That is the stock one click. Don't confuse that with the One-Clicks in the second post, which are rooted oneclicks.
EDIT: don't forget to read the instructions like 200 times first. Make sure you totally understand what each step is and that you follow them.

Well, had I read the OP...
ajmal92 said:
My phone
MODEL: SGH-T959V
OS:2.3.7 , CM 7
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So, some how, you got this far.
ajmal92 said:
When i plug in my phone to the USB jack , the computer doesnt recognize it. i tried installing drivers . there was no Help.
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Do you even get the option for mass-storage when cm7 is booted up?
ajmal92 said:
I wanted to go back to the stock rom.
I wanted to know whether there is a method to go back to stock ROM without using ODIN (Without using PC, without plugging the phone to PC)
PLEASE HELP
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Heimdall will use the same methods as ODIN, just a different application.
Try a different usb cable. Try a different computer. try and track all permutations of combinations of cables and computers. Make sure you don't use FrontPanel usb connectors.
EDIT: to answer the question in the title of the OP, No. You cannot flash bootloaders without being in download mode, which you need to go back to "total stock" (say for a return).

Also you can try uninstalling the drivers and re-installing them..
I have had to do this before..
Sometimes the computer doesn't
want to recognize the device..
I don't know why but it happens.
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This may be another case of broken usb connector on the phone itself. I've had to repair mine before and I recently sent back 2 phones that T-Mobile sent me as replacements both with broken usb connectors. The last thing to go is charging. Usually what happened to me was it won't talk to my computer or sometimes when I plugged it in to the charger when it was turned off it would randomly go into download mode.

Won't connect to PC no matter what (Tried everything)

Well I've tried everything to get Odin and Heimdall to see my phone and NOTHING will work. I used the .apk to get root access and put the modded bootloader on the phone to flash it. That all worked fine but I flashed a new rom with an incompatible bootloader so now I can not read anything on it and it will only bootloop the samsung logo.
I've tried every driver I can find and multiple USB cords. My Galaxy Mega will connect to Odin without any issues at all (So I assume it's not the USB cord or USB slots on the PC), however NOTHING will allow this darn Infuse to show up.
I am using Windows 8 on a Lenovo PC (if that matters). Does anyone have any suggestions that might be able to get me to be detected by Odin so I can take it back to stock and start fresh? Really getting annoyed with this phone's unwillingness to cooperate with my PC.
Thanks in advance for any/all suggestions.

So, I guess nobody has any suggestions on what I can do?

Have you tired using Heimdall?
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magnetboard said:
Have you tired using Heimdall?
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Yes I have, it also will not pickup on my phone, no matter what I do/try.

Jamio1988 said:
Yes I have, it also will not pickup on my phone, no matter what I do/try.
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So what happens when u connect the phone in DL mode to ur PC/LAP ?
Yeah.....its typed on Note 3.

rkkaranrk said:
So what happens when u connect the phone in DL mode to ur PC/LAP ?
Yeah.....its typed on Note 3.
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Absolutely nothing happens at all. I've tried two different computers now, with a total of 6 different USB cables, and EVERY driver I could possibly find.
Even before I bricked it, it would charge via the PC, but would not show up any options for PC connectivity.

I may sound stupid but how u putting ur phone in DL mode ?
Yeah.....its typed on Note 3.

rkkaranrk said:
I may sound stupid but how u putting ur phone in DL mode ?
Yeah.....its typed on Note 3.
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I pulled the battery, held in both volume controls, plugged in USB cord, then popped the battery back in. It gave me the warning screen about flashing another OS, and I had to hit Vol Up to confirm going into Download mode.

....Any suggestions on where to go from here?? This is getting to be rather disheartening.

It's a long shot but try using another computer. I can't think of any reason why it would make a difference but it's worth a try.

jkakkanad said:
It's a long shot but try using another computer. I can't think of any reason why it would make a difference but it's worth a try.
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I've already tried that. It would not show up on that computer either. A buddy is gonna bring over a laptop in the next few days so I can try it on that one, but since it has already failed to be recognized on two PC's, I imagine it will also fail on the third.

You might need to buy a jtag for your device.
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I think I'm just gonna chuck this thing in the trash. It's not worth the headache.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I527 using xda premium

Jamio1988 said:
I think I'm just gonna chuck this thing in the trash. It's not worth the headache.
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Sell it to me.......
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rkkaranrk said:
Sell it to me.......
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4
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How much you willing to offer?
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If you are able to get your phone into DL mode, it sounds like it is still salvageable.
The idea is to get a device recognition with a PC.
If you have already remove and re-install the original samsung drivers, tried different PCs, different USB ports and different USB data cords - then it could the the usb port on the device that is not working correctly.
You can try gently forcing the port in different directions etc..or just take the risk and replace the port yourself or sending to a repair shop.
USB replacement runs about $35 to $50. Mobiletechvideo's currently charges $35

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qkster said:
If you are able to get your phone into DL mode, it sounds like it is still salvageable.
The idea is to get a device recognition with a PC.
If you have already remove and re-install the original samsung drivers, tried different PCs, different USB ports and different USB data cords - then it could the the usb port on the device that is not working correctly.
You can try gently forcing the port in different directions etc..or just take the risk and replace the port yourself or sending to a repair shop.
USB replacement runs about $35 to $50. Mobiletechvideo's currently charges $35
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your problem is simple : uninstall all the drivers and Kies. Then reboot and reinstall Kies. now you can connect your phone with odin. It's because in some way, you got your drivers corrupted or changed and they are not able to be used with odin. It happens to me so many times that i cannot count them
So good luck with this issue but im pretty sure you will get rid of this problem with this procedure
Have a nice day !