Im updating the first post mentioning my observations so that one can read all my post in one place without hassel.
Friends, please help me with my bricked Epic.
My Epic was running on SRF 1.2
For couple of days it went fine.
But yesterday the problem started when I plugged in the Phone on Mass Storage mode. My computer said some erron on SD card and asked me to find and fix any errors.
I formatted the SD card using CWM 3.1.0.1.
Then I decided to go back to Stock EC05 and tired to flash the rom using Odin.
I've done it many times before. so Well aware of the steps needed.
But while flashing the Rom.. Odin hanged on factoryfs.rfs.
So I unplugged and tried again and again. But now the rreal issue start.
My computer do not recognize the phone anymore in download mode
On pressing power on botton or Volume Down+Cam+ power button.. NOTHING HAPPENS.
However I can boot into Download Mode (on battery only).
1) Computer do not recognize USB Drive. (tried uninstalling drivers > rebooting > reinstalling > rebotting ) still USB device not recognized. Even tried with different USB cable. And different ports.
2) However I managed it on my other computer. Where only 1 out of 4 USB port recognize my device.
3) Tried Odin to flash EC05 Stock... It hangs at some place or the other, and screen goes off or some times Solid Cyan (very rare).
4) Phone do not restart in Download mode without battery.
I tried to boot download mode without battery (plugged into computer).. but it wont.
Battery+USB = phone wont boot in download mode.
Phone boots to download mode only on Battery.
After that If i plug in the phone and remove the battery.. screen still stays on.
I went thru many threads but still having same problem.
Please help.
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well after I tried with DI18 rom which was still a failed attempt.
atleast now when I switch on the phone... i can see a screen with a logo..
tiny mobile phone -- "!" in a yelow triangle -- tiny computer
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When i go to download mode without the battery and try to Odin flash..
after some time it seems like the phone goes off for a second then I see the battery charging logo on the screen (0% batter).
needless to say that odin freezes.
When I plug in the phone with batery in my phone.. battery charging logo appears @ 0%.
charged the batter for 1 hr.. but still the logo shows 0%.
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One more info..
When i plug in the device.. 2 drivers are installed... (only 1 of of my USB port of my Desktop). Rest 3 ports.. it dont work. Neither it works on my laptop.
1) SAMSUNG USB Composite Device (USB)
2) SAMSUNG Mobile Modem #2 (Modem)
As far as i remember there used to be another Driver which used to show in Com Port section of Device Management window.
Am i missing any specific drivers?
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In another USB port of my desktop when I plug in the phone, it detects only SAMSUNG USB COmposite Device... But fails to detect modem driver.
When I try to flash using ODIN using that port, it stucks at SetupConnection..
yeah, im in search of HTC or BB original cable aswell.
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razortooth said:
Friends, please help me with my bricked Epic.
My Epic was running on SRF 1.2
For couple of days it went fine.
But yesterday the problem started when I plugged in the Phone on Mass Storage mode. My computer said some erron on SD card and asked me to find and fix any errors.
I formatted the SD card using CWM 3.1.0.1.
Then I decided to go back to Stock EC05 and tired to flash the rom using Odin.
I've done it many times before. so Well aware of the steps needed.
But while flashing the Rom.. Odin hanged on factoryfs.rfs.
So I unplugged and tried again and again. But now the rreal issue start.
My computer do not recognize the phone anymore in download mode
On pressing power on botton or Volume Down+Cam+ power button.. NOTHING HAPPENS.
However I can boot into Download Mode (on battery only).
1) Computer do not recognize USB Drive. (tried uninstalling drivers > rebooting > reinstalling > rebotting ) still USB device not recognized. Even tried with different USB cable. And different ports.
2) However I managed it on my other computer. Where only 1 out of 4 USB port recognize my device.
3) Tried Odin to flash EC05 Stock... It hangs at some place or the other, and screen goes off or some times Solid Cyan (very rare).
4) Phone do not restart in Download mode without battery.
I tried to boot download mode without battery (plugged into computer).. but it wont.
Battery+USB = phone wont boot in download mode.
Phone boots to download mode only on Battery.
After that If i plug in the phone and remove the battery.. screen still stays on.
I went thru many threads but still having same problem.
Please help.
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Try a different tar. I prefer dI18. A lot of people have problem on the ec05 tar and odin. Also if you can gt into download mode you are sponged. Not bricked. Hope this helps
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I just had this problem. I ended up reinstalling the drivers (like you did) and restarted my computer a few times. When that didnt work i got a new usb cable. the new usb cabe didnt work for crap... but then i used the old one and for some reason it just started to work. i also was putting the tar in phone slot, it would start but hang up at that same spot... i had to put it in the pda slot.
yeah i always used PDA slot for tar. pit in pit.
Odin 1.6
victory pit
Re-partition/auto reboot/f. reset time all checked
also tried with: auto reboot checked only
downloading DI18. like notsosmrtgeek suggested.
hope this works.
Tried DI18.
With Victory Pit.
Odin: 1.61
Screen goes White on sbl.bin
well after I tried with DI18 rom which was still a failed attempt.
atleast now when I switch on the phone... i can see a screen with a logo..
tiny mobile phone -- "!" in a yelow triangle -- tiny computer
tried to flash DI18 again with Re-Partition/Auto reboot/F. Reset Checked.
as usual hanged @ sbl.bin
but now when i start my phone i can see Samsung logo.
So if your computer is incapable of recognizing your phone, you are mostly screwed. I would say try a different computer. If that does not work, your last chance is to either make or buy a programming cable. The programming cable will force the recognition of your phone for reasons I do not understand.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077414
Good luck and let us know how it goes.
edit:
BTW, you can always use the Samsung Provided Flashing Utility
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22628158/Epic4G_FroyoUpgrade_EB13_Tool.exe
i just experienced a complete brick yesterday.. led didn't even turn on when plugged in to charge. couldn't boot into download mode. thought i was screwed.
i pulled the battery and the sdcard... let it sit for like 10 minutes. i kept hitting the power button just to clear any residual charge in the system. (i swear, i never got superstitious about electronics until this phone... ok, and the whole blowing in nintendo cartridge thing when i was 5 )
put the battery back in, with sdcard.. WAS ABLE TO BOOT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE -- YES!!!
i used odin1.3 to flash eb13... kept stalling several times (but each time it seemed to go further before stalling and giving me a yellow screen, then a red screen, then a blue screen, etc) so i figure at least i was making progress...
finally i was able to get it all the way through flashing eb13 in odin1.3..
i experienced a lot of similar things as you: computer not "recognizing" my device, the stalling in odin... hope this helps.
Downloading EB13
link to Odin 1.3 plz..?
odin1.3: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790026
eb13: http://www.multiupload.com/F0JFA0487M
i tried odin1.6 yesterday and that just wasn't working for me, either that or the ec05 tar file was messing me up... but good 'ol trusty Odin1.3 helped me out... note tho that i did have to flash a couple times (each time i went successively further before failure)
good luck!
Here is something new i noticed.
When i go to download mode without the battery and try to Odin flash..
after some time it seems like the phone goes off for a second then I see the battery charging logo on the screen (0% batter).
needless to say that odin freezes.
When I plug in the phone with batery in my phone.. battery charging logo appears @ 0%.
charged the batter for 1 hr.. but still the logo shows 0%.
oh yea, might be a good idea to remove sdcard while flashing in odin just in case
thank you for the link cache.
btw: should i use the same victory pit file with EB13?
use the pit that comes with the odin1.3 download
cache83 said:
oh yea, might be a good idea to remove sdcard while flashing in odin just in case
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yep
tried without sd card. stil same
just keep trying different things man.. working with these phones is a (very) inexact science
you might also give this a try: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042746 ... apparently some phones have this reset button and some don't.. mine didn't
seen that link yesterday.
my phone too dont have that button
One more info..
When i plug in the device.. 2 drivers are installed... (only 1 of of my USB port of my Desktop). Rest 3 ports.. it dont work. Neither it works on my laptop.
1) SAMSUNG USB Composite Device (USB)
2) SAMSUNG Mobile Modem #2 (Modem)
As far as i remember there used to be another Driver which used to show in Com Port section of Device Management window.
Am i missing any specific drivers?
the samsung usb driver should be it as far as i can tell really.. are micro usb cable are you using? might be a good idea to get a better quality one
So it all started out rather stupidly. I was attempting to flash a new ROM to my phone and I was deleting everything and accidentally deleted the OS by accident (mis-touched in recovery mode). I panicked and I attempted to push a file through adb but it was halting between 4MB - 8MB on a 200MB file. I knew this wasn't right. I ran cmd in administrator mode and tried again and got the same results.
I then moved to ODIN to attempt to flash the ROM. I ran ODIN in administrative mode. Bootloader was unlocked. I attempted to flash the new ROM but it stopped at about 1/8th of the progress (as shown in the download mode). This led to my phone having communication issues with my PC (displayed the phone with a hazard sign on the cord to the PC). I assumed it was bricked after googling around.
I then tried to use OMAPFlash as suggested by other people with the same issue. I did this, followed instructions perfectly, installed certificates. It got to the point where it was attempting to download a file. After 2 hours of waiting, I stopped it stupidly because it was making no progress.
Now my phone is completely black. I have no OS and I am not even sure if I have any files on it. Screen is black, phone not responding to button pushes and it isn't being recognised by my PC. I have tried unplugging it, removing battery and then plugging it in and inserting the battery again and that has failed.
I don't know what else to do. OMAP isn't picking up the phone anymore even though I have followed the instructions perfectly again. The one sign that my phone is still alive is the beeping noise from windows as I insert it meaning something must be happening. This however is soon followed by "Your device is unrecognised".
Can anyone help me on the situation as the phone is in perfect condition (physically) and I can't really afford a new decent phone at the moment.
Here is all the information you may need:
[Before incident]:
ROM: CM11
Rooted: Yes
Bootloader Unlocked: Yes
Ask for anything else.
[Attempted to change to]
ROM: XenonHD
Ask for anything else.
first off, why odin?
its a nexus you can flash back to stock from fastboot. I would suggest you download the factory images for the phone from here:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/takju-jwr66y-factory-5104ab1d.tgz
then extract the images into a folder - remove the battery from the phone, put it back in the phone, power up while holding down vol + and vol - to get into fastboot
hopefully you have android sdk installed and fastboot working. use the flash-all script to flash every partition of the phone back to 4.3 stock.
good luck.
Well first thing, did you select the right zip file for your Gnex when flashing XenonHD. Bcz in my case few days ago i stupidly selected the wrong zip file (ROM for Nexus 5) to flash, but luckily i was saved by the CWM via "Status 7 Error".
But your case is more complicated i would suggest you to use Gnex toolkit with Google Factory Images, i hope that it will come for your rescue . Also try this method http://www.androidrootz.com/2012/08/how-to-restore-galaxy-nexus-i9250-to.html maybe it will do some miracle for you. Best of luck.
Progress
So after sleeping on it and spending some time deeply reflecting on the derp that I had made, I successfully managed to use omap to restore my device to the Phone-Exclamation mark sign as posted by another XDA user who ended up sending his phone back. If you search galaxy nexus brick in google images, you will see what I am talking about (can't post image).
I guess the best way to explain it is: [] -- /_\ -- [ ]
Basically it is a phone connected to a yellow exclamation mark sign and then that is connected to a computer.
Is there a way to force my phone into download mode from here. I can't seem to do anything. Some good news is that ODIN is now picking up my device. It is however crashing whenever I attempt to flash the stock ROM (either "odin3 communicator has stopped working" or "odin3 downloader has stopped working").
Any help fixing this?
The phone when trying to boot is stuck on the samsung logo. it doesnt progress past this. pressing and holding the power button makes screen go black and then it just returns to the samsung logo again when power button released.
Originally factory
reset phone... no difference,
wiped cache... no difference.
Got it to register in Odin. Odin crashed and hung part way through.
Now... computer doesn't recognise phone (drivers all installed)
Phone still stuck on samsung logo
Can't put in a file on SD card as it doesn't have option to install from zip from SD (think it was standard ROM and not rooted so doesn't have this ability from what I understand.)
Can get into recovery menus and download mode, however as PC can't recognize the phone can't do anything with it.
Anyone have any idea how I can make the computer recognize the phone so I can attempt to reflash it?
Many thanks
I have just gotten a new cable. The phone has been accepted by my computer with this new cable and I've now used the files on this forum to help flash the phone. This site is fantastic. I know noone has mentioned a response to this yet, however the ROM files accessible make it so easy from here. Thanks so much.
Hey everyone,
I did something really stupid while trying to get a certain app to recognize a codec that it needed in order for it to work and seem to have probably bricked my phone.
Phone Details:
LGH812
Lollipop 5.0.1
rooted
I went to /system/ and renamed lib64 to lib64bak because I wanted to put some new files in there. This caused the phone screen to immediately go black and unresponsive. I took out the battery and re-inserted it. The phone boot logo with LG comes up and then it goes to a black screen with the dead android guy with red triangle and the exclamation mark. No other text is present in this screen. Stays at this screen for about a minute and reboots only to go back to the exact same screen.
Things I have tried:
1.) I tried to boot into download mode (power+volume down) still goes to the aforementioned screen.
2.) Got LGUP to recognize the com port once, but it shows up as unknown and won't let me proceed with a fresh wipe/install
3.) Tried the LG Flashing tool, couldn't even see the com port.
4.) Tried the WHQL universal drivers as well as the specific device drivers with no advancement.
What I believe is happening is that it's trying to boot properly initially, but it can't find lib64 folder so it fails to launch the os and then tries to go into recovery due to error, but fails to go to recovery also because of lib64 is missing.
If anyone has any ideas/things I can try to get it into recovery or download mode or if anyone has seen this state before and was able to fix it please let me know.
Thank you all for your time!
Hey guys, I am trying to repair an SM-T800 that a retired co-worker left in his office on his last day. Unfortunately this means I dont know if ADB is/was enabled in settings, nor do I know what he did to screw it up. I have installed the latest Samsung USB drivers on my PC. When you try to boot up it gets stuck on the logo screen with the error "KERNEL IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING" and will not go beyond that.
I can get in to recovery: https://dl.xda-cdn.com/5/1/3/2/7/1/5/20201109_150504.jpg?key=mBcAaKMn5XfEKbdT-D9RAg&ts=1604952923 However when i go into ADB; my PC will not detect it. I performed a wipe data/system factory reset and I get stuck with the same error on the logo screen. If i reboot to Bootloader I get stuck at the same error on the logo screen.
I can get however get into download mode.: https://dl.xda-cdn.com/5/1/3/2/7/2/7/20201109_154421.jpg?key=AVyFna3n1f9PXJ6O6fWIig&ts=1604954839 but Odin will not detect the tablet.
I tried multiple cables on on multiple different PCs and it will not detect through ADB/Odin either. Is there a flashable zip I can install via microSD card from the stock recovery? Are there any de-brick tools? Any assistance anyone can offer is greatly appreciated.
I can't count how many times I've soft bricked my T800. Odin has always been my savior. My thoughts are, if you can get it into download mode, but even with multiple USB cables, Odin fails to respond, you've possibly got a damaged USB port on the tab. Does Windows respond when you connect it to a USB port. (USB2 ONLY, I believe.)