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[Q] odin says" Can't open the serial(COM) port." and fails to flash recovery.tar

[Q] odin says" Can't open the serial(COM) port." and fails to flash recovery.tar
hey,...
i am trying to root my tmobile galaxy S2 and i am in downloading mode...put recovery.tar file in PDA section and when i hit start...nothing happens and after a while i get failed notice and says " Can't open the serial(COM) port." what am i doing wrong.

Did you install the usb drivers first? If not here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6onrjbyd46j4lhj
that could be the only reason i can think of that odin isn't detecting phone. Also try a different usb port on the computer, and if that doesn't work try a different cable.

uninstall Kies if u have ut because the drivers stick i did and now it works lol

hlimbu00 said:
hey,...
i am trying to root my tmobile galaxy S2 and i am in downloading mode...put recovery.tar file in PDA section and when i hit start...nothing happens and after a while i get failed notice and says " Can't open the serial(COM) port." what am i doing wrong.
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Darkshado said:
Kies could be interfering with Odin ...
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I too was having "Can't open the Serial COM". Kies was interfering.
Go into Kies, Tools -> Preferences, unselect "Run Samsung Kies automatically when a device is connected", save the change, close out of Kies, and then restart ODIN 3. Try flashing now.

reinstall drivers with KIES. go to troubleshoot and then you should be good to go after. also check the cable too..

hlimbu00 said:
hey,...
i am trying to root my tmobile galaxy S2 and i am in downloading mode...put recovery.tar file in PDA section and when i hit start...nothing happens and after a while i get failed notice and says " Can't open the serial(COM) port." what am i doing wrong.
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also sometimes you have to try a different version of odin before it works it happens to me alot. one odin wont work but another does. it's crazy.

Can't open the serial(COM) port Error
hlimbu00 said:
hey,...
i am trying to root my tmobile galaxy S2 and i am in downloading mode...put recovery.tar file in PDA section and when i hit start...nothing happens and after a while i get failed notice and says " Can't open the serial(COM) port." what am i doing wrong.
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I had the same problem and I fixed it by exiting from Kies software. You might get this new error "Complete(Write) operation failed". Then all you should do is just pulling your battery out and restarting odin and phone. I disables the firewall too, but I don't think the problem was firewall. Anyway mine is working well and I did it.

Hi, I'm also having the same problem. The 'Charging paused...' message kept popping up so I tried to flash a different official rom via odin (I was on official ICS). Unfortunately the flash failed and now when I try to turn on the phone the 'Firmware upgrade encountered an isuue......' message comes up. I tried connenting to kies also but can not to do so. I have hope as i can get into download mode but can't flash a rom. I got halfway once then suddenly it failed again. Your help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Thank You.
phi11yphan said:
I too was having "Can't open the Serial COM". Kies was interfering.
Go into Kies, Tools -> Preferences, unselect "Run Samsung Kies automatically when a device is connected", save the change, close out of Kies, and then restart ODIN 3. Try flashing now.
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Thank You.
disabled Kies and problem solved

iNeedICS said:
uninstall Kies if u have ut because the drivers stick i did and now it works lol
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Thanks, this is what was causing me this error. I was close to Hulk-smashing expensive things :laugh:

Re: [Q] odin says" Can't open the serial(COM) port." and fails to flash recovery.tar
NomadRip said:
Thanks, this is what was causing me this error. I was close to Hulk-smashing expensive things :laugh:
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Haha yea don't resort to hulk smashing things lol just send them to me instead of breaking them I'll delightfully take them off your hands! I'll pm you my address so you can ship xD jkjklolol
Sent from Squishy's N⁴!

This worked for me
I had the same exact problem (but this was on my Galaxy Y )
What I had was an old version of KIES (~ 2011 ).
Steps :
1) Uninstall the old Kies
2) Download the latest Kies (2013)

I have installed drivers but i cant connect my phone to pc when odin mode is on in phone but i can connect phone to pc when bootloader is on or recovery mode is on . However, when i boot into recovery mode and connect phone to pc and open odin and start it ,it shoes cant open the serial (com) port.
what to do
I'm flashing stock software to phone as my phone got bricked, hurry please help me to unbrick

ttffjioo said:
I have installed drivers but i cant connect my phone to pc when odin mode is on in phone but i can connect phone to pc when bootloader is on or recovery mode is on . However, when i boot into recovery mode and connect phone to pc and open odin and start it ,it shoes cant open the serial (com) port.
what to do
I'm flashing stock software to phone as my phone got bricked, hurry please help me to unbrick
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The phone needs to be in download mode for Odin. And kies shouldn't be running on your PC. Go to task manager and kill any kies processes.
Download mode on the phone as I remember is power button and volume down.
?

If anyone is using Odin to flash 4.1.2, I found either Odin 3.04 or to be the only ones that worked for me.

Darth said:
The phone needs to be in download mode for Odin. And kies shouldn't be running on your PC. Go to task manager and kill any kies processes.
Download mode on the phone as I remember is power button and volume down.
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when my phone is on download mode for odin, it cant connect to pc as yellow border line is not showing on odin . I have uninstalled my kies.
tell me what to do

ttffjioo said:
when my phone is on download mode for odin, it cant connect to pc as yellow border line is not showing on odin . I have uninstalled my kies.
tell me what to do
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Try different Odin versions perhaps. Uninstall Samsung drivers and install the newest kies again to reinstall them. Don't need to uninstall kies , just be sure all its processes are killed in your PC task manager.
There's nothing you can do until your phone and Odin are communicating. Try another cable, try another USB port on your computer. Last, try another computer.

Darth said:
Try different Odin versions perhaps. Uninstall Samsung drivers and install the newest kies again to reinstall them. Don't need to uninstall kies , just be sure all its processes are killed in your PC task manager.
There's nothing you can do until your phone and Odin are communicating. Try another cable, try another USB port on your computer. Last, try another computer.
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I have downloaded latest kies 3 from official website with latest drivers
I uses cable of my tab 4 (which easily get connects with pc with its cable) to connect my y duos to pc.
Am i doing any thing wrong?

ttffjioo said:
I have downloaded latest kies 3 from official website with latest drivers
I uses cable of my tab 4 (which easily get connects with pc with its cable) to connect my y duos to pc.
Am i doing any thing wrong?
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Try everything I suggested. Otherwise, I'm out of ideas unfortunately.
I'm curious, what does your phone show as in device manager in pc when connected? Or is it not being seen at all?
And Y Duos? You know this is the Tmobile S2 section, right? ?

Lots of Y Duos bricked talk here as well as other links in this thread to review.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2275057

[SOLVED] Custom Recovery Mounting Problem

Im unable to connect to usb while in recovery because I can't find the drivers. I've installed every drivers I could find and no go. I tried also switching ports and no matter what the driver isnt found and it prevents me from running scripts like the auto debloat because my device cannot be found. im running stock rooted Help!

Did you enable USB debugging?

tonymtl said:
Did you enable USB debugging?
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Yeah

Why in recovery mode? You can run it booted to ROM.

tonymtl said:
Why in recovery mode? You can run it booted to ROM.
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well the auto debloat i found needed to be used in cwm. While I would appreciate if you can point me to and alternate solution; I still need figure this out to avoid future mishaps.

I mean you should be booted to ROM with USB debugging on and run it, it will auto reboot to recovery.

tonymtl said:
I mean you should be booted to ROM with USB debugging on and run it, it will auto reboot to recovery.
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ah gotcha. well I did but when i get to recovery my computer is asking for a driver that cant be found and i have no idea why. the script says that the "device is not found" and im pretty sure this is why. thanks for the help btw

Plug in your phone to PC, it will show locate drivers recommended, leave it.
In Windows go to control panel/system/device manager you'll see one with yellow "?" mark right click on it and update driver software>browse my computer for driver software >let me pick from list>pick Samsung android ADB interface. That should do it.

tonymtl said:
Plug in your phone to PC, it will show locate drivers recommended, leave it.
In Windows go to control panel/system/device manager you'll see one with yellow "?" mark right click on it and update driver software>browse my computer for driver software >let me pick from list>pick Samsung android ADB interface. That should do it.
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you hit it on the nose. thanks man. now the next problem. all the apps were not found on the debloat script. smh. 1 down 1 to go. many thx

I believe that script was written for international gs3. You can download root browser and manually delete apps you don't like.

tonymtl said:
I believe that script was written for international gs3. You can download root browser and manually delete apps you don't like.
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yeah i just read about it. what a bust. big help man.

[Q] Need some help.

I wanted a fresh start on my SG3, so I formatted my entire phone including the sdcard. Now my phone doesn't have a OS installed and my sdcard doesn't have any rom on it. I thought of just taking my sdcard out and using a sdcard reader to transfer a rom. But I couldn't find my ultra sdcard reader. I found a solution using adb in the "Samsung GS3 Toolkit" to transfer files. But I needed to install the phone drivers, now here's the problem. I can't seem to install the MTP driver without fully booted into android.
Could anyone give me some advice or point me in the right direction? Thank you.

xSignificant said:
I wanted a fresh start on my SG3, so I formatted my entire phone including the sdcard. Now my phone doesn't have a OS installed and my sdcard doesn't have any rom on it. I thought of just taking my sdcard out and using a sdcard reader to transfer a rom. But I couldn't find my ultra sdcard reader. I found a solution using adb in the "Samsung GS3 Toolkit" to transfer files. But I needed to install the phone drivers, now here's the problem. I can't seem to install the MTP driver without fully booted into android.
Could anyone give me some advice or point me in the right direction? Thank you.
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Install samsung Kies on your pc to obtain the drivers. Then boot your phone into download mode and flash a stock image. I have a step by step guide in the general section for this.

Towle said:
Install samsung Kies on your pc to obtain the drivers. Then boot your phone into download mode and flash a stock image. I have a step by step guide in the general section for this.
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My phone doesn't connect to Kies http://puu.sh/27nCI and while it doesn't get connected. It give me a error while trying to install the MTP driver.

xSignificant said:
My phone doesn't connect to Kies http://puu.sh/27nCI and while it doesn't get connected. It give me a error while trying to install the MTP driver.
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You don't need to connect your phone to Kies. Just download Kies to your computer to get the correct drivers onto your computer. After that, use Odin to flash a factory tar image.
Hold Vol Down, home and power to get into download mode.

Towle said:
You don't need to connect your phone to Kies. Just download Kies to your computer to get the correct drivers onto your computer. After that, use Odin to flash a factory tar image.
Hold Vol Down, home and power to get into download mode.
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Thank you for your help, it all worked out now.

[S5360] Phone fell down when loading firmware

I have a problem I wanted to write it soft to the phone and fell down while uploading cyg7 shows the system and swap partitions May -1 odin sees him undergo a mode other than download someone odin in donwload mode does not see the phone sees it as the phone hangs on logo samsungcould I help

follow instructions on how to use odin and download firmware
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2568853
questions go in Q & A Section NOT General section!!

Too bad english
Please write in a better way for us to understand what you mean. I hope you understand.

Oh and i had this problem it is easy fixable.This is caused when you dont install the Android Version good and it gets stuck on it.
Just use the older Odin method or swap android versions.

has anyone pit file ?
and I still have the question odin does not see my phone in download mode only when the phone hangs on samsung logo. and now the question is if we can somehow write it this soft?

ccrash said:
has anyone pit file ?
and I still have the question odin does not see my phone in download mode only when the phone hangs on samsung logo. and now the question is if we can somehow write it this soft?
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you dont need the pit file unless you have used a wrong pit file in the past
like I said - follow the instructions on my firmware thread
make sure you have samsung usb drivers installed
use rear usb ports if on pc
use the firmware thats on my thread and use a wipe pack (says wipe in filename)

screen when i start recovery and instalation cyng
and stupid forum i cant post screen nice

ccrash said:
screen when i start recovery and instalation cyng
and stupid forum i cant post screen nice
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if you dont use a wipe pack from my thread you need to wipe data/reset after flashing a firmware in stock recovery
also without a full explanation in understandable english I cant give you anymore support other than fully read the instructions on my firmware thread at the top of the dev section for 5360 and download and use a firmware with the word wipe in the filename

So yes odin does not see the phone in download mode but my windos in the Device Manager shows the device is samsung mobile usb cdc composite device what I am doing wrong?

I think drivers is not instal correctly
ccrash said:
So yes odin does not see the phone in download mode but my windos in the Device Manager shows the device is samsung mobile usb cdc composite device what I am doing wrong?
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1,Please make sure that drivers install correctly on your operating system (uninstall and reinstall)
2,Try to change Usb Cable
3, check shocket "charger pin" working or not

Big problem

This may be a huge one. Someone accidently resetted my phone. Now i had to start from the start menu. When I connect the wifi after it gets stuck on "checking for updates." So then I wanted to reinstall the rom from via twrp. Now I find out im stuck on this because I have no back up and no extra roms to flash. So I tried to connect to my pc but my phone has issues with connecting on pc. It does not even show up on device manager. No unknown devices no exclamation point. Only way I know it connected is when I disconnect it makes a disconnect sound. Any help? I tried fastboot its a no go, adb sideload just loops on loading, and just recovery and it does not work. Any help please I need this fixed asap.

try to connect on usb2 port. I have similar problems when connected to usb 3 port on laptop or desktop.

Evnul000 said:
This may be a huge one. Someone accidently resetted my phone. Now i had to start from the start menu. When I connect the wifi after it gets stuck on "checking for updates." So then I wanted to reinstall the rom from via twrp. Now I find out im stuck on this because I have no back up and no extra roms to flash. So I tried to connect to my pc but my phone has issues with connecting on pc. It does not even show up on device manager. No unknown devices no exclamation point. Only way I know it connected is when I disconnect it makes a disconnect sound. Any help? I tried fastboot its a no go, adb sideload just loops on loading, and just recovery and it does not work. Any help please I need this fixed asap.
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Delete all the installed drivers relating to the phone and then connect the phone. Necessary drivers will be installed. If not solved, try another PC, cable, USB port etc.

usbdeview from nirsoft might help you to clean your driver.
When you connect your phone to your computer, is it on fastboot or on recovery ?
You should grab adb and fastboot driver (i'll upload them if needed), go to fastboot and plug your phone.
If you type from command line fastboot devices you should see your devices. If not, driver issue.
If you see it, then flash the official recovery : fastboot flash PathToRecovery\name_of_recovery.img, then sideload latest OB through OP recovery.
I don't know if its the faster option, but its easy as f*ck with that way to come back nearly stock. After that, you could flash twrp and the rom you want.

stepi1 said:
try to connect on usb2 port. I have similar problems when connected to usb 3 port on laptop or desktop.
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i have tried on a laptop and a pc with different drivers. it still dont work

Rinonino said:
usbdeview from nirsoft might help you to clean your driver.
When you connect your phone to your computer, is it on fastboot or on recovery ?
You should grab adb and fastboot driver (i'll upload them if needed), go to fastboot and plug your phone.
If you type from command line fastboot devices you should see your devices. If not, driver issue.
If you see it, then flash the official recovery : fastboot flash PathToRecovery\name_of_recovery.img, then sideload latest OB through OP recovery.
I don't know if its the faster option, but its easy as f*ck with that way to come back nearly stock. After that, you could flash twrp and the rom you want.
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ive tried it on fastboot and recovery does not work. Ive checked fastboot devices and adb devices no result. I also did use usbdview nothing pops up.

tnsmani said:
Delete all the installed drivers relating to the phone and then connect the phone. Necessary drivers will be installed. If not solved, try another PC, cable, USB port etc.
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my pc has been recently resetted its on windows 10. theres no new drivers on it i checked on device manager.

By the way i did bypass the checking for updates. If anyone has a problem go to emergency call and type *#812#. Now I have a situation where I cannot hear anything from music apps. Can anyone help me with that? I tried installing viper4android, Dirac was crashing but not anymore, I installed magisk to fix it, i checked for audio_effects for bak file but nothing just the original. Any help?

Evnul000 said:
By the way i did bypass the checking for updates. If anyone has a problem go to emergency call and type *#812#. Now I have a situation where I cannot hear anything from music apps. Can anyone help me with that? I tried installing viper4android, Dirac was crashing but not anymore, I installed magisk to fix it, i checked for audio_effects for bak file but nothing just the original. Any help?
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Get back to stock and don't use mod, or use a stable ROM. Nitrogen 9.0 ROM havn't got issue with sound.