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Bricked epic4g using odin

I know there are various threads like this one but my situation is a bit different. I tried using odin to clean install 2.2 to then use the custom rom epic experience. I attempted to install 2.2 using odin but it would get stuck in "setup connection" and I would have to quit and try again. Last time I tried my phone got the "phone connection caution computer" icon and to get into recovery I would have to hold the power and camera button, not the volume down button. When I go to try and install things straight from my SD card I would get an error like "status 7" cus I didn't have the sprint apps to install 2.2. I believe I get these errors installing straight from the card cus I rooted my phone, modifying the kernal cus I read somewhere because when trying to update, it tries to verify but can't cus things are missing or edited cus of the root. I can't try to use odin again because my computer can't recognize the phone anymore regardless reinstalling the samsung drivers. SOOOO, I'm basically ****ing stuck for sure I think. The way I access the SD card is by using an adapter. The only way I see this working is if I find a fix using the SD card, but it's looking slim cus of the stupid root.

I don't know much about this yet, as I'm still learning myself. Did you try using another usb port and are you putting the phone in download mode?. Restart the computer and the phone. Make sure odin is running before you plug in the phone as well. And try another usb port. Are you using the cable that came with the phone? That one trends to have problems for some people.
Edit: I don't believe your phone is bricked either, people tend to throw the word around to much because that arnt quite sure about the definition. Just hang in there and the community will help you get back up and running. Good luck
Sent from my shoe, I mean....Epic shoe... I mean Samsung Epic!

mxcoldhit said:
I don't know much about this yet, as I'm still learning myself. Did you try using another usb port and are you putting the phone in download mode?. Restart the computer and the phone. Make sure odin is running before you plug in the phone as well. And try another usb port. Are you using the cable that came with the phone? That one trends to have problems for some people.
Edit: I don't believe your phone is bricked either, people tend to throw the word around to much because that arnt quite sure about the definition. Just hang in there and the community will help you get back up and running. Good luck
Sent from my shoe, I mean....Epic shoe... I mean Samsung Epic!
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You see, I'm out of options. Last thing I thought of was installing a custom rom 2.1 rom cus 2.2 roms need odin, but I try to install and I get a signature error or whatever. I'm about to throw the phone against the wall, crack the screen, and use my warranty and get a new phone cus I literally tried EVERYTHING. I spent my ****ing 8 hours of my saturday trying to fix this.

Try a different computer my new Dell XPS 9100 will never reconize my Epic, however, my wifes laptop will always reconize it. I know that sounds weird, I always thought I had a poblem with my phone but it ended up being my computer.
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cbpagent72 said:
Try a different computer my new Dell XPS 9100 will never reconize my Epic, however, my wifes laptop will always reconize it. I know that sounds weird, I always thought I had a poblem with my phone but it ended up being my computer.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
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omfg, I used my mom's lappy and the drivers worked. Meaning I can try and use an odin fix.

Odin can be tricky to use because of a few factors other than itself. 1) if you can, use a deskto pc and attach to a usb port literally on the motherboard, no front or pci, this may work, but this I what I found (reading countless threads) to be the most failsafe for everyone. 2) your sammy usb cable is for charging or non critical data transfer ONLY, as it is garbage... repeatedly proven in the threads. 3) reboot pc and phone, boot phone into download mode, (hold down 1. On physical keyboard and press power... DO NOT CONNECT YET! Start up odin, place files where needed (.pit, etc...) uncheck all but what you're told in the flashing instructions with the file you're flashing, most have awesome detals, but sometimes your little issue is resolved on page 50 of the thread... not in the OP. Ok so now plug in the usb connection, odin should find it. If it doesn't, search for drivers, uninstall, reinstall start over, OR you have a bad connection, refer back to usb port and cable. I have 1 out of 4 mobo usb ports that the drivers will maintain a connection to, so try another. Then, once odin has a connection, make sure you're following the guides to the T (and read all the posts)... after that, odin is your best friend. The problem lies elsewhere... odin is the goods. If you have run into problems maintaining connection, and plan to re-root, read all the one click posts and if it drops connection a lot, enter the commands in one by one, repeat if one fails till it sticks. There are way better guides, but you seem to have run into the same issues I did, and after hours and hours, I got that scary ass reconnect me now screen. Just read the whole threads, and if your problem hasn't already been resolved, post in the appropriate thread, so others may learn from your discoveries!
Don't give up, once you figure out the quirks of the relationship between your pc and phone, and of course meticulously follow instructions, your elation when successful will make you forget that pesky 'bricked' screen... trust me I got it too, and no matter how much everyone says you can't brick these following instructions on here... its still scary till it all works. If things are wonky, wipe, go back to DI18 and start over... or just sit tight for froyo roms... good luck!
Oh, and sorry for no links, but it would seem you've probly already read em all... not sure I can do links...

Maybe its just my eeepc that doesn't like the drivers, good luck! Sounds like you're on the way... oh don't forget with the drivers to let em install on connect, leave it plugged in for like 10 mins, unplug, it will then complain it wasn't done, reconnect, then after that finishes, reboot. Crazy drivers...

At least I got a computer recognizing my phone, so I can try and use odin. I've been trying to use this fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9755894#post9755894
and so far odin has been stuck at this one step "file analysis..."

Yeah I used that method to no avail, but it was about 3 pasts old at the time, so I figured id try
something more stable. Tried a couple dk17 roms, then went back to 2.1 and am now using syndicate xtreme. Id suggest going back to DI18, then go from there. Let me check for another post of mine, theres a dialer code I had to do too at one point...
Ok when doing one click root, someone suggested ##8778# in the dialer, then keyboard enter, then set UART to pda not modem. This and removing comodo firewall, all the sudden my intermittent connection was solid. Not responsible for what this does, but it worked for me. Never found out what it does..... still curious. So this may help you even in odin, try to flash di18 after doing this, then the all in one rom you're looking at...

Oddly enough, I managed to semi-brick my phone several hours ago - my wireless adapter was on the same USB header, and both the wireless adapter and the phone crapped out while trying to flash with Odin.
Thankfully I was still able to get into download mode, and plugging the phone into a different USB port worked fine.

After some more research, about 10 hours of it, odin finally cooperated with me after I downloaded about every kind of file that could make my phone work and finally got it into 2.1
I first flashed the stock kernal to get it working, then flashed stock 2.1
Now I'm that my phone isn't rooted anymore I tried installing 2.2 through the recovery menu and I still get error status 7. Any ideas?

Probly best to post in the thread for the package/rom you are trying to install... others using it should be able to help... or you can do a 2.1 rom and wait for a final froyo based rom... glad to hear you're not bricked... the only way I've heard you can absolutely do that with these is installing a GSM rom or something crazy like that... but non-functional phone is scary regardless...

ungovernable1977 said:
Probly best to post in the thread for the package/rom you are trying to install... others using it should be able to help... or you can do a 2.1 rom and wait for a final froyo based rom... glad to hear you're not bricked... the only way I've heard you can absolutely do that with these is installing a GSM rom or something crazy like that... but non-functional phone is scary regardless...
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Alright I completely fixed my phone. After I rooted my phone on 2.1, I then used odin v1.6 to install the froyo .tar file into pda and it worked. I then rooted it again so now I'm back to normal. Honestly, I did so many things I forgot what I did but I now have my phone functional. Thanks for help everyone, I greatly appreciate it!

lost clockwork whaile flashing, help...phone wont boot passed samsung screen...

hey everyone, im having a problem after trying to flash a rom. in the middle of the flash my phone went to the stock recovery. Can't get into clockwork. error = "can't mount /dev/block/vold/179:1" and cannot verify whole-file signature. Does any one know how to fix this with out flashing back to stock with Odin? the reason being is that my phone will connect to comp thru usb but it will not read the sd card, cant mount. further more, device cant be recognized when in downloader mode. my question is, is there a way to get the to get the sd card mounted to flash eclair and start over...bty my phone wont boot, stuck at samsung screen...thanx

I am not sure there is any other way other than ODIN. You can try removing battery for a couple minutes and booting again, but it is likely that if your flash was interrupted that you wont have the ability to get into clockwork. I have had a few flashes interrupted and the only way I was successful was pulling battery and using ODIN. You shouldn't need to mount your SD when you are using ODIN. ODIN connects to the internal memory.
I don't think ODIN even looks for your driver. First time I used ODIN I didn't even have it installed. However, the root software definitely needed it.
Make sure your USB is connected directly to your motherboard USB port i.e. the back of the computer. Go into download mode, then connect your phone.

There is no way that I know of to apply clockwork from an update.zip. Does adb work in the stock recovery?
And have you seen if another computer with Odin will recognize the phone in download mode? We have a service computer thas has issues with epics, so our service people usually bring them to me when Odin isn't cooperating.
Your best bet is to Odin, if possible. If you can't get Odin to work from any computer and you can't access via adb, then there isn't much you can do.

thanks swanysto and DiGi760 for the replies. ima lurker that knows how to read and follow instructions. ive flashed multiple roms before, zips, ect. on the epic since ive got it without much problem at all...anyways i did like 4hrs of reading before i posted, hoping to not have to ask this question in this rude forum(the bickering of stupid replies) but i had to anyways.... i have tried to odin thru the motherboard in the back and that didnt work. i also tried adb but that didnt work either. so since the stock recovery came up, couldnt get into the phone, and i was able to do a factory wipe. i decide to take a shot at taking it to sprint repair. and guess what......they gave ya boy a new phone! i thank you guys for taking the time to reply! hopefully people will be more helpful like you guys( trying to be helpful answering question) than just starring at peoples posts and being uncommunicative. in the future if ur tired to repeating yourself because youve helped before, maybe u should make a note pad full of answers called "replies for noobie questions" so yall can cut and paste...

well lets just pray that sprint wont be able to see what u did and charge your account later......they did it to me for my evo, they added an extra $400 to my bill.

really? like the same exact issue?

even after i formatted everything(system, data, cache, sd card) then the stock recovery?

Tips and tricks when Odin and Kies dont work

Ok, I want to leave a message on here for future noobs like me with a Galaxy S
i9000 but it might work for others too.
My issue when flashing custom roms is that I have not been able to access my galaxy from my computer via usb since literally day 1 (when it did work once).
I spent a week trying to connect to Kies on multiple computers (vista and Windows 7). Tried via Android SDK, even tried hiemdall. I almost tried in ubuntu also but I never did get that working as I really don't know linux well enough. I've now given up...
So then I saw that you can do flashing all on the phone with the clockwork mod. With clockwork, my first rom flashed, well, like clockwork! But then I had some issues with lag and hang ups and reception and I decided to switch to another rom (seearms jl2 based rom - good stuff so far).
However this rom install went sideways... It said that it had installed ok but on reboot it stalled on the Galaxy I9000 screen and froze. Luckily I could still use the 3 button recovery to boot to clockworks but the hitch was that I HAD NO OTHER ROM to flash back to.
I had done a backup through clockworks but when I tried to restore it said the systems.img file was missing so it skipped it and the end result was the same freeze.
Normally everone says to reflash at this point with odin but that was not an option for me. So this is where I got lucky. The SeeARMs rom included Steam recovery module (though I thought it was the stock 3 button recovery menu for a while - I was panicking a little). I highly recommend seeing if you can get steam because it allows access to the External SD card for flashing which can be a lifesaver. Ahh, finally I could get the old rom on that, reflash it and go one with my life. My theory being that at least the issues would be aligned with the this rom and it worked.
So the lessons I learned:
1) Always have your new rom and your old rom on the interanal SD card in case of issues.
2) check your nandroid backup - even try testing it? - they don't always work perfectly with every device.
3)I highly recommend finding out if Steam or similar will work if you cannot access the USB connection and load things on when things go wrong.
Some tips I saw that also worked for me
1) flash a new kernel before you flash a new whole rom.
2) if things go sideways, try redownloading or retransferring the file to make sure there were no errors.
I did both and then reflashed (with my old rom Voodoo Doctor, SeeArms Rom and Darky's 8.1 rom on the card just to have options) and all was good!
PS: the steam recovery knocked off the first letter of the file when executing for some reason so I had to make 2 copy's of each rom I wanted access to ie Darkysrom.zip and arkysrom.zip just look for that error when you are doing this.

Good post - hopefully it'll help someone out who's stuck.

Hopefully
I'd like to stick some of that in on the thread for your rom but I need put another 7 half relevent messages out there before I am worthy... I understand the rule but I'd rather only post where it is meaningful...
GF

Really really bricked fascinate

windows wont recongnize my fascinate. yes it is a verizon. cant use odin as windows doesnt like my phone. and yes i did mess it up. Ive odin it a few times before with success. I have installed the samsung driver also. My question is, is it totally bricked or is there anything i can do?
Thanks.

Well what did you do prior to "bricking" it? What did you flash, etc.
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Try a different USB port, different cable, and finally a Different computer.

Okay so what your saying is it will flash into: download mode If not and you see a black screen you could possibly try this so you will have to get an extra Mini USB to do so and a few other things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn5GoRjhn0&feature=youtu.be
If you are able to go into download mode ect there is no need for the above to be done. Or you might want to try looking at this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1153310
I am not responsible for what you do with this information though read through carefully to see if you want to take these steps on your device. From what I read and see some have had problems switching back to Odin when this program took over.
What Sendan has said here would probably help us more as I just jumped right into it for you. There may or may not be a need to do these steps listed here if we have more info on what is happening with your device.

Give me a detailed description of what you did, what you used, and what happens to it now.
Sent from my GT-P7510 using xda premium

cleanerdude said:
windows wont recongnize my fascinate. yes it is a verizon. cant use odin as windows doesnt like my phone. and yes i did mess it up. Ive odin it a few times before with success. I have installed the samsung driver also. My question is, is it totally bricked or is there anything i can do?
Thanks.
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Not sure if this will help, but I had a similar problem (PC wouldn't recognize phone in usb mode or download mode, Odin wouldn't connect, multiple cables had same result, remove/reinstall of Samsung drivers didn't help).
I ended up installing the Samsung drivers on a laptop that had never had them installed. Connection success! Was able to use Odin from that machine to flash back to stock Froyo/ED05.
After that, usb and download mode worked on the original PC. Same drivers that wouldn't work previously. Can't explain it, YMMV. It got me out of a jam.
Good luck.

maybe i freaked out. i put battery in just now and was able to boot into red recovery. yesterday i used it as an excuse to go buy a galaxy 2 on att. im trying an older backup. tried one a couple nights ago and it kept getting stuck. i have had the hardest time. started on a mac with heimdall and couldnt get it to work. went to a windows machine. couldnt get odin to work right with it. not sure now what i did to brick it. my win laptop i usually use is at my girlfriends. was just hoping to make this phone last til nexus prime.

Ok messing with it more. everytime i try something in recovery it will end up on the black screen with the phone to computer and the yellow sign between. heimdall (back on the mac) wont recognize it. not sure if i can do something in recovery

So Odin won't recognize your phone in download mode? You using the stock USB cord? Try different ports? Best thing would be to flash Stock ED05 and restart from there.

OK got it figured. Usb cord must be the problem. Now have cyanogenmod 7.1. But can't get gapps to install. Have tried rom manager and downloading it
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And fixed gapps. Had to use power menu to recovery. So all fixed.
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Clockwork Mod without USB

I know this is possible depending on the phone, but on the Vibrant I have not found a way to install clockwork mod without using USB. I saw that mobile odin was an option for some samsung phones but not the Vibrant.
My usb port is dead, no warranty etc. I bought it for 70 in like new condition with knowledge that the port was bad. I figured that the port needed to be soldered back down. But after taking the phone apart, I don't see anything wrong with it. Its not loose on the board, but the socket itself is loose inside.
The baseband is KA2 Eclair. I got it rooted with the oneclickroot tool.
On a side note, the phone also came with pictures of the seller and all his girlfriends naked . Not pretty

So let me review what you want to do, you want to install CWR without having a USB port. Seems easy enough.
Firstly, find a app that will let you connect to your phone to your computer, apps like Dropbox, Box, and this app i put up on these forums a bit ago will do more than just the job HERE
install one of those, which ever you like. I'll use the MIUI File Manager as a example throughout this post because its the easiest.
Open the app, go to the FTP and start service, go to your computer open MY COMPUTER and type in ftp://all your #'s
Put this file in your ROOT meaning just in sdcard/ no folders just drag and drop it in there. DO NOT RENAME,EXTRACT OR ANYTHING TO THE .ZIP just put it in the sdcard/
*Thanks for the CWR file from Woodrube and S15*
Now go into Recovery mode on your phone
Power + Volume up and down ( i think )
Press REINSTALL PACKAGES
It SHOULD say something like booting into clockwork recovery.
it will reboot, if it goes to clock work recovery, GREAT. If not, press Reinstall Packages AGAIN and it should directly go there.
Just reply if i'm explaining something wrong or if you need more help.

Or you could just download and install rom manager and flash clockworkmod through there. No offense xriderx, just seems like a lot of work to just install cwr that a single app can do as well.

djquick said:
Or you could just download and install rom manager and flash clockworkmod through there. No offense xriderx, just seems like a lot of work to just install cwr that a single app can do as well.
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To each his own, Rom Manager never has worked great on my phone. Even bricked it completely once and I don't believe it was user error.

Relevant guide, +1 cookie. One suggestion though, organize the steps a bit further so there is a clear distinction between steps.
ie:
• Now go into Recovery mode on your phone, Power + Volume up and down ( i think )
• Press REINSTALL PACKAGES. It SHOULD say something like booting into clockwork recovery. it will reboot, if it goes to clock work recovery, GREAT. If not, press Reinstall Packages AGAIN and it should directly go there."
Anywho, to the OP: Since it's rooted, why aren't you simply downloading ROM Manager from the market and installing CWR from there?
edit/ beaten

Don't get me wrong, your tutorial is spot on, I just never had any problems with ROM manager before so I threw it out as a suggestion.
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium

working on it now, big thanks!

TheEnternal said:
working on it now, big thanks!
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As far as the port goes, Eugene, Krylon360 and myself all fried ours when we were porting the V4G - so you may not visibly see anything wrong with it at all.

Thanks guys, I ended up semi bricking the phone . Even though it was my 6th droid device. Not sure what I did, I was in recovery and everything was working, then went to reboot and it was stuck on the Galaxy screen, could no longer get into recovery. Too bad that USB port was out . I ended up just reselling it to a guy for parts and still made some profit off it. Shame though, that AMOLED display was beautiful. Ended up getting a G2X yesterday for 195, just missed one at 150 on craigslist. Already got it up with CM 7.2 with a minor OC. Hopefully towards then end of this year I might be able to get a Galaxy 2 for cheap.

hi.
pls need help.
have the same phone. my usb is not working too.
t-mobile vibrant t959.
its CM7.2 skang-kang flashed.
have issue with mute-unmute.
and need to get it back to froyo.
how to do it without usb?
card slot is working fine.

zukko said:
hi.
pls need help.
have the same phone. my usb is not working too.
t-mobile vibrant t959.
its CM7.2 skang-kang flashed.
have issue with mute-unmute.
and need to get it back to froyo.
how to do it without usb?
card slot is working fine.
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Download the files you need to your phone and flash them
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA

johnson8cyl said:
Download the files you need to your phone and flash them
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA
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i have tried this.
but gingerbread loader and froyo loader are different.
it gave an error at flashing and stopped flashing.

Hmmm. That would require fastboot huh. Don't know of a wireless way to use that. Is there an unroot procedure you could do from your sdcard without a cord and then re-root to gb perhaps?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA

and i'm asking for something like this.
but i ask for froyo not unroot.
to flash from sd card.

it gives an error
Amend scripting (update-script) is no longer supported.
Amend scripting was deprecated by Google in Android 1.5
it was necessary to remove it when upgrading to the clockworkMod 3.0 Gingerbread based recovery.
Please switch to Edify scripting (updater-script and updare-binary) to create working update zip packages.
installation aborted.

I don't think it is possible to downgrade to froyo from CM7 without ODIN. I might be wrong but that is how i remember it.
Though i did find this thread..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1149158
But i don't know how that worked for people. You might wanna research a little bit more. IMO you are better off going to ICS.

Br1cK'd said:
Just use Odin, don't shortcut it. The OP here has a very very basic idea of the reason and necessity to change these files, and has not provided a complete set of steps in two different "guides" he has posted here, and nobody has been successful as per the reports.
Bottom line, save both yourself and dev in the future a headache, and just use Odin.
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its very sad ((((

Just a reminder to some who have USB port problems. I'm not trying to insult anyone's intelligence here but remember Samsung phones are picky about USB cables.
I know because my phone was Semi bricked while doing Odin. Turned out my original Samsung cable went bad halfway through Odin'ing a new bootloader. After two months of playing with it I tried literally 5 different data cables that all fully worked for other phones and a few cheap off the street cables. Some would not even charge my vibrant but would work fine for data and charge on my wife's LG Quantum. Hard to find good micro-USB cables here in Peru. Finally I ended up modifying my original cable with another cable's micro-usb connector and wrapping a separate ground wire around the shield to get it to work. Samsung phones must require really good shielding to communicate and possibly not all cables have the shield connected on both sides or are properly shielded.

zukko said:
hi.
pls need help.
have the same phone. my usb is not working too.
t-mobile vibrant t959.
its CM7.2 skang-kang flashed.
have issue with mute-unmute.
and need to get it back to froyo.
how to do it without usb?
card slot is working fine.
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Check out 'mobileODIN' on the market.