Hi.....
I've just attempted to do the update via the moto tools update manager program and during installation my phone shown 'critical error' followed by 'coff' & 'CABE' on screen... the installation then failed and advised me to try again... Have tried three times now, does anyone have any ideas?
I'm back at work now and have left the phone at home so I cant supply many details right now..
I've been advised to try a master reset which I will try as soon as i'm home.
When I attempt to turn the phone on, it shows the boot loader menu and says 'something Failure'
Any help is much appreciated!
Well, you might try finding a 2.1 Milestone .sbf for your device and flash it with RSD Lite. Can you even boot into the recovery?
Hold camera button and power on. When you see the triangle screen hold volume up and then tap camera. (Just in case you didn't know)
Hey,
The device wont even boot into recovery mode so I don't think that idea would work
I would still try with RSD Lite. I had a problem similar to what you have, but luckily RSD Lite would still see phone and let me flash a .sbf of the Telus 2.1 I had.
When I plug the device into my machine though, it just flashes with low battery ect... its been on charge all night.
Broken said:
Well, you might try finding a 2.1 Milestone .sbf for your device and flash it with RSD Lite. Can you even boot into the recovery?
Hold camera button and power on. When you see the triangle screen hold volume up and then tap camera. (Just in case you didn't know)
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I thought it was "D-Pad Up" to get to the Boot loader screen? From there, RSD should see it no prob. Then, you can either push a recovery image, or the fill 2.1 swf
Volume up works for me. D-pad also probably does the same...
Broken said:
Volume up works for me. D-pad also probably does the same...
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as long as you can get into flash mode you should be ok,flash the sbf file like Broken said. Im not sure how to get into flash mode on the Milestone,but on the Cliq its the Menu Button+the Power Button. Do a google search for how to get into flash mode or maybe someone here will be able to tell you,the more difficult part is finding the original .SBF file for the Milestone. You have to use RSD Lite 4.5.7 or higher,dont use the Flash&BackUp program. once you get into flash mode RSD Lite should see your phone,and you shouldnt have any problems from there.
f he is lucky, just booting up to the error will allow RSD Lite to see the phone and allow flashing. As for the right .sbf should be easy. I can probably find it for him and point him to it if I new the locale of the phone, ie where it originated: Thai, Canada UK, Brazil, etc.
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So far this has been the only sure fire method I've found to 100% get around any brick situation regardless of firmware, etc. This only works for the captivate, not any other galaxy s variant.
Situations: phone-!-Computer / no download mode
Black Screen / RST_STATUS 0x0
Procedure:
1. Remove the battery, external SD card and SIM card.
2. Wait 10 seconds.
3. Open odin3
4. Connect usb cable.
5. Hold volume up + volume down + Power.
6. Insert battery.
7. Release POWER BUTTON ONLY.
You should now be in immediate download mode.
Please forgive me if this is duplicate some where, but I tried every procedure I could find on google to no avail, then accidentally found this method just before I was going to box it back up and see if my buddy at AT&T would make me eat it or not.
My situation was: Launched Odin3 to flash H3 firmware, died twice in the middle, and on the third time locked up half ways just at the beginning of factoryfs.rfs -- Then the phone did nothing. Blackscreen is all. Interestingly enough, while in the state if you hold volume up + power, it will give a hw diagnostic screen. Beyond that I could get no where. Just a black screen, no acknowledgement when connected to PC, no charging indicator, nothing.
If this is a dupe Im sorry but this method I could not find and hope to make it readily available to people who may think their phones bricked.
Update 12/22/2010:
How to BRICK the phone / WARNING!!!
If for whatever reason you decide to use Odin to flash a stock GTI9000 ROM and manually add the kernels and modems using a "pure" 2.2.1 sammy rom. BEWARE.
Researching a lot, it seems the consensus is that the sbl in the 2.2.1 versions of the GTI9000 has *hard* download mode crippled.. Meaning if there is a software screw up YOU CANNOT USE A USB JIG OR ANY OTHER METHOD OF GETTING THE PHONE IN DOWNLOAD MODE!!! To fix it you'll need a new one or JTAG to replace the bootloader.
As far as I can tell, beyond getting completely rid of the AT&T logo, there is no need to flash boot/sbl to get the "purity" of the 2.2.1 sammy roms.
Extract all files from the tar EXCEPT boot/sbl and re-tar and flash just those to avoid overwriting the stock captivate boot loader.
Also, it does not appear the boot/sbl from the captivate 2.2 leak suffers this same problem.
For any one iffy on bricking their phones, stay away from roms that remove COMPLETELY the AT&T logo on boot. This generally means the boot loader has been messed with any you may be screwed if you soft brick the phone. Most CWM roms dont overwrite the boot/sbl, but some can and do. Watch yourself.. if it the AT&T logo goes away COMPLETELY, I recommend flashing JF6 with One click while the roms alive using adb reboot download and try another rom.
thanks!
worked...took a few tries but some trick with this captivate to get it into download mode.. i was totally bricked too, diag screen with PC/Phone icons and exclamation mark. for me 1.) plug usb, 2.) hold power and vol up/down and connect battery (it fell out) and i was in download mode
I guess a similar procedure was on the odin3 one click thread, but there is something different in your procedure, it's not my case but it would be nice if some people confirms this as this may be useful and if it really works it should be included in odin thread
What worked for me was: Pull the battery, sim and micro sd card. Open odin on the PC. Insert the battery. Hold vol up and down then with the buttons held connect the usb cable. Just remember to plug in the usb cable with the vol up and down held in and odin must be open on the computer.
I also ran into the vol up plus power red text screen. Interesting to note that one of the fields will change depending if the usb cable is connected or not.
mine is dead
mi samsung captivate was working great but, suddenly it go black and only the touch bottom have light, when i plug it in the a/c it show is charging. i'm mac user and a read that i ned to use odin3 but it not work on mac. how i can unbrick the phone???
is rooted with one click lag
the dbdata was modif to
thats all
HEEEEELLLLLPPPPPP
Odin will not open on the mac?
Cant you use a virtual machine and use Odin on a Mac that way?
Or else take the odin 3 single click for JF6 and use on a friends Windows Computer.
Please help - unable to flash back with Odin3
I have pretty much tried it all at this point and am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I followed the directions just in case get to the big yellow triangle with the droid shoveling and the screen stays at "downloading, do not turn off target..."
Of course I had Odin3 open already but its not seeing my phone, USB drives are installed am using Odin3 ver. 1.30.
Any help would be appreciated, TIA!
TechNut* said:
I have pretty much tried it all at this point and am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I followed the directions just in case get to the big yellow triangle with the droid shoveling and the screen stays at "downloading, do not turn off target..."
Of course I had Odin3 open already but its not seeing my phone, USB drives are installed am using Odin3 ver. 1.30.
Any help would be appreciated, TIA!
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Best way to get download mode is use adb and type adb reboot download.
Or follow the volume up/down held with odin open on the computer, then you plug in the usb cable to the computer.
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What worked for me was: Pull the battery, sim and micro sd card. Open odin on the PC. Insert the battery. Hold vol up and down then with the buttons held connect the usb cable. Just remember to plug in the usb cable with the vol up and down held in and odin must be open on the computer.
I also ran into the vol up plus power red text screen. Interesting to note that one of the fields will change depending if the usb cable is connected or not.
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Thank you thank you thank you. i had a totally dead no boot or anything and this worked, i was going through the whole returning the phone senerio in my head
mattbeau said:
Thank you thank you thank you. i had a totally dead no boot or anything and this worked, i was going through the whole returning the phone senerio in my head
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Just sharing the info! Makes you think twice about trying something else don't it?
does not seem to work because as soon as my battery touches the contacts it goes to the diag screen. do I have to release the power button in super human speed times there?
looked at all threads here, looked elsewhere -- there are some that are not fixable. Wanted to add that in case others come here and think that they might be the only ones that can't get it to work.
Ended up sending mine off to Samsung to reset today. :/
I love you! I called AT&T to send me documentation to sign and it was going to cost me 125 dollars to get it replaced even with warranty. And you fixed it !
i have tried just about every single method detailed in these forums, and nothing works.
Trying what OP suggested just sends me to the battery charging animation screen.
Anybody have any ideas ?
file analysis
I keep can get to the download screen and I hit start and it does the same thing everytime it just does File analysis i cant figure what i am doing wrong here somebody please help me
I think the issue was it had something to do with 64 bit windows 7 i just re did the stock rom one click solution and it worked fine
thekurrgan said:
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5. Hold volume up + volume down + Power.
6. Insert battery.
7. Release POWER BUTTON ONLY.
You should now be in immediate download mode.
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Thank you for sharing your experience.
I don't have a Captivate yet but am doing research on it and hopeful of getting one. I am confused about one thing.
Every where that I have read about how to enter Recovery mode or Download mode on the Captivate using the 3 button method, it says holding down both Volume UP + Volume Down (plus Power button) will enter Recovery mode. But you say it enters Download mode which is confusing to me. As I recall, to enter Download mode you must press the Vol Down only (plus Power button). Could it be because the phone won't go into Recovery mode, it goes into Download mode instead? Am I missing something?
Thank you!
Download mode is for updating the phone's firmware.
Remove battery, plug in the usb cable to the phone, open ODIN on the computer (need usb drivers installed before hand) on the phone hold volume up and down then plug the phone into the computer. Your phone will say DOWNLOADING. This method works even if you run into problems and the phone refuses to boot properly.
Recovery mode is for installing Update.zip. The method is tricky but involves holding volume up/down and power, the phone will show ATT then go black. It will repeat that but after the second time it goes black let go of power.
If that doesnt work, android debug tools ADB reboot recovery will work even better.
Or root the phone and use Clockwork Rom manager to boot into recovery, just press the menu item.
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Download mode is for updating the phone's firmware.
Remove battery, plug in the usb cable to the phone, open ODIN on the computer (need usb drivers installed before hand) on the phone hold volume up and down then plug the phone into the computer. Your phone will say DOWNLOADING. This method works even if you run into problems and the phone refuses to boot properly.
Recovery mode is for installing Update.zip. The method is tricky but involves holding volume up/down and power, the phone will show ATT then go black. It will repeat that but after the second time it goes black let go of power.
If that doesn't work, android debug tools ADB reboot recovery will work even better.
Or root the phone and use Clockwork Rom manager to boot into recovery, just press the menu item.
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Thank you askpcguy! I understand the difference between Download and Recovery modes.
So the procedural difference here is having the battery in + Power button, versus battery not in (use USB cable instead) and no Power button. Can the phone get power from the PC via the USB cable? This seems to differ from what the original poster said about download mode. Perhaps OP could edit his original post for clarification? Or am I still missing something? Thanks to all
The phone does get power from the USB cable.
The difference is one procedure uses the USB cable (download mode) and the other does not (Recovery mode).
The volume up+down method does not use the power button, the phone is powered on into download mode once you plug in the USB cable.
We say pull the battery to get the phone powered off. If a firmware flash stalled or doesn't complete, pull the battery and try again!
I now understand the precedural difference.
Thank you askpcguy!
Well hello everyone to start off, i was trinketing around with rom manager and i think i flashed the original droid recovery and 2.5.0.1 into my phone on accident. now when i try to start the phone i get a white M and thats it tryed to boot into recovery only thing i can get to is the holding power and j and d down to get the usb flash init screen which is blue. can someone direct me in the ways of the force and help me bring this phone back to life or am i screwed? I have the j_rodd recovery image on the sdcard but adb wont pick it up as a device.
It is same with me...
Diremaker35 said:
Well hello everyone to start off, i was trinketing around with rom manager and i think i flashed the original droid recovery and 2.5.0.1 into my phone on accident. now when i try to start the phone i get a white M and thats it tryed to boot into recovery only thing i can get to is the holding power and j and d down to get the usb flash init screen which is blue. can someone direct me in the ways of the force and help me bring this phone back to life or am i screwed? I have the j_rodd recovery image on the sdcard but adb wont pick it up as a device.
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I have problem with my Motorola MB300 ME600. when power even power + up OR power + down it only display and to M logo and make sound (has vib)... I can connect to fast boot even RSD. Help me! Plz....
CyanogenVietNam said:
I have problem with my Motorola MB300 ME600. when power even power + up OR power + down it only display and to M logo and make sound (has vib)... I can connect to fast boot even RSD. Help me! Plz....
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firmware for your device.
You need to download these things...
RSD Lite 4.5.7
AT&T Stock Android 2.1 Blur v3.0.1390 - Original SBF by Skrilax_CZ @ ModMyMobile
And if you're doing this and haven't attempted root yet, or would just like to wipe your device through and through, HERE are the Moto USB drivers. Make sure to get the correct installer for x86 or x64.
Install your USB Drivers (if you haven't already)
Install RSD Lite
Turn off your backflip
Plug the USB cable into the phone and computer
Open the keyboard and press J+D+Power simultaneously and let up when you see the blue recovery screen with the black moto batwings. In the bottom left corner of the screen it will say in white letters "USB init mode"
Now when the phone boots to the recovery screen, Windows will begin installing a driver for the MSM720x flash recovery mode.
After the driver has successfully installed, open RSD Lite
Upon opening RSD Lite, you should notice ONE connected device in the table below. If not, post what you did exactly and we can help
Now that the device is showing in RSD Lite, click the "..." browse button to point to the Android 2.1 Blur 3.0.1390 image you downloaded earlier
Once that's selected, press start to start flashing your phone.... DO NOT UNPLUG UNTIL IT'S FINISHED.
Once finished, it will reboot itself and you should be presented with the Android Setup after a minute or two.
hi i am having really bad problems with my defy it is a great phone but when i got it it was on eclair 2.1, i wanted to update it so looked around and found a debranding kit that updates it to 2.2 only to find out that its not a officiall rom an now i cannot down grade iit back to 2.1 so i can root it an put a custom rom onto it i dont have the hold volume down option or tap bottom right of the screen, so any help would be very gratefull as just want to sort it out i have searched through xda an some links are not avail any more so i cant follow any guides proplerly i have found a proper nand back up if thats any good then let me know i just want to restore it first then go from there, thanks in advance
i also cannot do a factory reset either, i know there is someone out there that can help me so please come and help me restore my defy to life.
There is a volume key on the right side of your defy. Upper one is volume up and the lower one is volume down. Switch on your phone by pressing power button and volume down key together to enter recovery mode or power button and volume up key together to enter bootloader mode.
Download the official 2.2 for your phone, I beleive defy has 2.2 all over the world now, find the correct version for your Defy and download.
When you enter the recovery mode and see an Android with the exclamation mark, press both the volume keys together to enter recovery mode.
First do a facfory reset and clear cache in Recovery mode, then reboot and keep the volume up and power key pressed together. This will take you to bootloader mode, connect your phone via usb to your computer. Open rsdlite, see that your phone is detected. Browse to the 2.2 rom you downloaded and press "start".
^ this guy also forgot to mention, make sure you have the correct drivers for the defy and the correct version of rsdlite, also, make sure your battery is 50% or higher. The last thing you,would want to do is have to perform the mcguyver trick.................
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get the latest drivers and RSD lite, and make sure your sbf is a full sbf, and not a fixed sbf. full sbf is at least 160MB and above. i understand this is for blurless. for blur rom, could be up to 360MB
I want to give my atrix 2 to a friend. It's currently on cyanogenmod 10. How would I downgrade back to ics? Please help as I haven't used this phone in months because I have an htc one x now.
You'll need to download RSD lite and the Motorola drivers (the drivers can be found on the Motorola website) to your PC. If it is an AT&T branded phone you'll need this FXZ:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961310
If it is not AT&T branded, look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1934874
Make EXTRA sure you get the right one or you WILL brick your phone. Download the FXZ and place it on the C drive of your PC. Make sure the battery on the phone is fully charged. Open RSD lite on your PC. Turn the phone off, then press and hold both volume buttons and turn the phone on. That will bring up the Boot Mode Selection menu. Use the volume down button to highlight AP Fast boot, then use the volume up button to select. After that, connect the phone to your PC. Direct RSD lite to the FXZ file you downloaded and click start. It will take several minutes to complete. DO NOT unplug the phone until RSD lite is done flashing or you will brick the phone. For more info, there is a great tutorial here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1909319
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