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Odin trouble... newer Captivate user

I'm having trouble flashing back to JF6 after a failed JH7 OTA update.
I can't flash back to stock firmware after following a lot of the directions posted around the forum. Odin One Click is all bank when I click start and I immediately get "All threads completed 0/0" and nothing happens. I've tried several different orders of operations in regards to putting into downloading mode and connecting to the PC, etc.
Also, Odin3 does the same thing after selecting the PIT file and firmware from samfirmwares. I get the same message and nothing happens.
Is there a more specific guide someone can point me to or share some insight? Thanks in advance.
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devho said:
I'm having trouble flashing back to JF6 after a failed JH7 OTA update.
I can't flash back to stock firmware after following a lot of the directions posted around the forum. Odin One Click is all bank when I click start and I immediately get "All threads completed 0/0" and nothing happens. I've tried several different orders of operations in regards to putting into downloading mode and connecting to the PC, etc.
Also, Odin3 does the same thing after selecting the PIT file and firmware from samfirmwares. I get the same message and nothing happens.
Is there a more specific guide someone can point me to or share some insight? Thanks in advance.
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How are you using odin?
The process is the same for either ODIN one-click or ODIN3
Your phone MUST be in download mode.
You will get a black screen with a yellow triangle, saying "DOWNLOAD"
The process to get into download (works for me) is by powering off the phone.. odin must already be turned on in your computer. <<IF you are using win7, run it as admin... right-click then "Run as Administrator">>
With the phone powered off, press and hold both volume buttons, then plug in the USB cable to the phone. The cable must already be plugged in to the computer.
Next, start ODIN and wait for it to finish.
This should be a foolproof method.

I am having the same issue...
I followed the exact directions on the thread title '[STOCK ROM] Odin3 One-Click Downloader and Drivers CAPTIVATE ONLY 'and I get into "Download mode" but nothing happens. I click start on Odin (the one downloaded from that thread) and it *instantly* says <OSM> All threads complete. (succeed 0 / failed 0).
What am I doing wrong?
Samsung Captivate running 2.1 rooted with "the beast". I bricked it last night trying to get OTA gps "fix" notice to stop bugging me.
Any tips? Thanks!

Drew489 said:
I followed the exact directions on the thread title '[STOCK ROM] Odin3 One-Click Downloader and Drivers CAPTIVATE ONLY 'and I get into "Download mode" but nothing happens. I click start on Odin (the one downloaded from that thread) and it *instantly* says <OSM> All threads complete. (succeed 0 / failed 0).
What am I doing wrong?
Samsung Captivate running 2.1 rooted with "the beast". I bricked it last night trying to get OTA gps "fix" notice to stop bugging me.
Any tips? Thanks!
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What OS are you running on your computer? Is it win7? If it is, make sure you run ODIN as administrator. Also, is ODIN on prior to connecting phone to computer?
Try following these steps:
1. Plug in USB cable to computer
2. Turn on ODIN (run as administrator)
3. Turn off phone (not connected to anything)
4. Hold down both volume buttons on phone
5. Connect USB cable to phone while doing STEP4
6. Click start in ODIN
This should work. If you are using ODIN3 instead of one-click, then make sure to set .PIT and PDA files properly, and to click re-partition if you are trying to unbrick your phone

Thank you....
I'm using Win 7 64-bit.
I've tried on both ways, prior and after, just to see if either worked.
The version of Odin is Odin3excution v1.00 downloaded from the aforementioned thread. (yes execution is misspelled on the actual program).
I am running it as administrator using the right click, run as function.
I can't link anything because I'm a new user (BAH! ) but it says Odin3 One-Click Downloader on the top in black.
ALL the boxes are blank. Every thing is blank...thank you!

jslee1020 said:
What OS are you running on your computer? Is it win7? If it is, make sure you run ODIN as administrator. Also, is ODIN on prior to connecting phone to computer?
Try following these steps:
1. Plug in USB cable to computer
2. Turn on ODIN (run as administrator)
3. Turn off phone (not connected to anything)
4. Hold down both volume buttons on phone
5. Connect USB cable to phone while doing STEP4
6. Click start in ODIN
This should work. If you are using ODIN3 instead of one-click, then make sure to set .PIT and PDA files properly, and to click re-partition if you are trying to unbrick your phone
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I did this and I do get into Download mode immediately, Odin3 One-Click Downloader just says <OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0) instantly.
I'm guessing I need a different version of Odin? FWIW, the name of the actual file is I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0

Drew489 said:
I did this and I do get into Download mode immediately, Odin3 One-Click Downloader just says <OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0) instantly.
I'm guessing I need a different version of Odin? FWIW, the name of the actual file is I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0
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I'm having the same issue. I'm on WinXP, SP2 (old computer, I know.) I'm normally a Mac user, this is the only PC I have.
I'm using the same Odin One Click version Drew stated, with all boxes blank. Perhaps a drivers issue?

look up the odin one-click thread and DL the appropriate drivers and try again

As soon as you get into download mode and connected odin should recognize your phone - is odin seeing your phone?

No, windows is a POS. I've downloaded so many different drivers and each time I get an error saying it failed. I've literally tried every Captivate 64 bit win 7 driver out there, I downloaded KIES and tried that too.
I'm *really* close to dumping windows and android and just going full Apple. I am so sick of this crap and I've always hated Apple products (almost to the point of being extreme) but...if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em.
I've spent the better part of 2 days trying to get this to work and the main issue, from what I'm slowly finding out, is windows wont recognize the phone and keeps dumping it before it gets connected.
It's just really too much at this point. I can go buy *shudder* an iMac, an iPhone *double shudder* and I'll be up and running in 15 minutes.
F8ck this noise.

Try this link for 64bit windows drivers.
Before you install, go to control panel, and delete all previous drivers.
Reboot your computer once before re-installing the drivers above.
http://http://www.mediafire.com/?3dh4d6up72me9re
I'm pretty sure you won't need to install .net framework for Odin to work.
But if after drivers it still doesn't work, try installing .net framework 4.0 as well. You will need that installed to root anyways.

dayv said:
As soon as you get into download mode and connected odin should recognize your phone - is odin seeing your phone?
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Nope, ODIN does not recognize my phone. I've tried it a few more times using the correct sequence and got nothing. Even reinstalled the drivers and rebooted the PC (without my phone connected).

Issue has been resolved. I tried it on a newer system running WinXP and got flashed back to stock with no problem... although the OTA update failed again.... but I've got the one-click version of that too.
Thanks for everyone's help!
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please help: frozen at boot, can't get recovery mode

So, I think I broke my captivate. No, scratch that, I KNOW I broke my captivate. I think it's just software bricked but I'm not sure. Here's what's going on:
I rooted my captivate, and installed CWM. I flashed Serendipity 2.0 and that was fine. It booted, and I downloaded ROM Manager and went to partition the SD card. It rebooted, showed the AT&T screen, and froze on a black screen with white letters that says:
"GALAXY S
GT-I9000
SAMSUNG"
Holding down any combination of the volume buttons and turning on the phone does not go into recovery. It goes to the same screen as above.
The only way (via buttons) that i can get into download mode is to pull the battery and cable, put the battery back, hold down both volume buttons, and plug in the USB. However, when in download mode, windows says: "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it."
On the other hand, if I plug USB in while it's frozen at the "GALAXY S GT-I9000" screen, windows and Odin DO recognize it. When I click start in odin, it gets stuck at "File Analysis..." though.
I would really appreciate any help getting this captivate running again. What can I do here?

Desk top or lap top, have you tried different ports, different drivers. You can recovery from where you are. Where did you get the drivers from? What ports are you using

scubabuddha said:
So, I think I broke my captivate. No, scratch that, I KNOW I broke my captivate. I think it's just software bricked but I'm not sure. Here's what's going on:
I rooted my captivate, and installed CWM. I flashed Serendipity 2.0 and that was fine. It booted, and I downloaded ROM Manager and went to partition the SD card. It rebooted, showed the AT&T screen, and froze on a black screen with white letters that says:
"GALAXY S
GT-I9000
SAMSUNG"
Holding down any combination of the volume buttons and turning on the phone does not go into recovery. It goes to the same screen as above.
The only way (via buttons) that i can get into download mode is to pull the battery and cable, put the battery back, hold down both volume buttons, and plug in the USB. However, when in download mode, windows says: "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it."
On the other hand, if I plug USB in while it's frozen at the "GALAXY S GT-I9000" screen, windows and Odin DO recognize it. When I click start in odin, it gets stuck at "File Analysis..." though.
I would really appreciate any help getting this captivate running again. What can I do here?
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Are you able to Open Odin, connect USB and check if Odin recognizes ur device?

mcord11758 said:
Desk top or lap top, have you tried different ports, different drivers. You can recovery from where you are. Where did you get the drivers from? What ports are you using
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I got the drivers from the 32-bit link here. I've tried both on a windows desktop and a macbook pro using VMWare Fusion for virtualization. I've tried all the USB ports, including the ones on the back of the tower
rickysa2000 said:
Are you able to Open Odin, connect USB and check if Odin recognizes ur device?
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I am able to open Odin. Odin (and Windows, for that matter) only recognizes my device when it's frozen at that black screen. I attached a picture of it. It does not recognize my device when it's in download mode

Try drivers from here
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-I897ZKAATT
Do not install save files to desktop. When your phone is in dl mode and plugged into the rear port of your pc click on the error message. Direct the computer to the driver files you just downloaded. This has worked for some

mcord11758 said:
Try drivers from here
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Do not install save files to desktop. When your phone is in dl mode and plugged into the rear port of your pc click on the error message. Direct the computer to the driver files you just downloaded. This has worked for some
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OK, got the new drivers and saved them to my desktop.
It's windows XP, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to point XP at those drivers. It pulls up the "Hardware Update Wizard" but it won't use the files. There are 3 .inf files, which is what the wizard wants. If I try to use any of them, it says: "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware"

scubabuddha said:
On the other hand, if I plug USB in while it's frozen at the "GALAXY S GT-I9000" screen, windows and Odin DO recognize it. When I click start in odin, it gets stuck at "File Analysis..." though.
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Ok, I don't remember if Serendipity installs with debugging enabled, but when the phone is in the state above and recognized by Windows can you send adb commands to the phone? Particulary 'adb reboot recovery'.

opcow said:
Ok, I don't remember if Serendipity installs with debugging enabled, but when the phone is in the state above and recognized by Windows can you send adb commands to the phone? Particulary 'adb reboot recovery'.
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I don't have the android SDK installed on that computer. Give me a minute and I'll find out

So, the phone does not respond to adb. "adb devices" returns a blank line. "adb reboot recovery" returns "error: device not found." I get the same result whether it's in download mode or frozen on the GALAXY S splash screen
Device manager shows the phone as "SAMSUNG Android USB Composite Device" when it's frozen at that screen, but as "Unknown Device" when it's in download mode.
How can I force XP to use specific drivers?
Edit: I just uninstalled the drivers and let windows find them on its own. It found and installed:
Driver Provider: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
Driver Date: 5/12/2010
Driver Version: 5.2.0.4
Is that the right driver version?

Its the right driver if odin recognizes you

mcord11758 said:
Its the right driver if odin recognizes you
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even though odin (and windows) doesn't recognize the phone in download mode?

scubabuddha said:
even though odin (and windows) doesn't recognize the phone in download mode?
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No, odin needs to see your phone.
What cord are you using, is it oem

it's the cable that came with the phone.
I don't think the cable's the problem though, because both odin and windows DO recognize the phone in its frozen state... i guess i could be wrong about that

Just a shot in the dark, but if inserting the battery with USB+vol-up-down gets into download mode, how about inserting the battery while the volume buttons + power are pressed.

Do you know what bulks you are on? Located under battery, I am 1008

opcow said:
Just a shot in the dark, but if inserting the battery with USB+vol-up-down gets into download mode, how about inserting the battery while the volume buttons + power are pressed.
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yeah, that also gets it into download mode. It doesn't change how windows reacts to it though... "Unknown Device"
mcord11758 said:
Do you know what bulks you are on? Located under battery, I am 1008
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Right underneath the serial number? Mine's 1009... why?

I am not sure if you mentioned this, but are you opening odin prior to plugging your phone in?

Have you used odin before?

mcord11758 said:
I am not sure if you mentioned this, but are you opening odin prior to plugging your phone in?
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yes
mcord11758 said:
Have you used odin before?
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no

Do you have access to any other windows pc? My first experience with odin I could bout get my phone recognized. Switched to another cpu, bam. I believe you have a mac as will but I an not sure that will work even with the vm
I asked about your build because 1010 has issues with the odin one click. Did not want to see you work for hours only to find port you need another program

Need Odin3 1 click/stuck on boot screen

So I flashed my phone to Phoenix and was going wonderfully. Flew into St. Louis from Oklahoma and the phone froze up. It's now stuck on the AT&T boot screen. Occassionally after doing a battery pull and turning it on, the Phoenix boot screen will come up and I've gotten it to the lock/unlock screen but is unresponsive to touch.
Occassionally it even has what almost looks like colorful static on the screen. So now I'm in a completely different state without my home laptop for a week with the Odin3 1 click and am unable to find a download link for it.
Help would be appreciated. I was hoping to get the phone into recovery to try and flash back to stock or reflash Phoenix but it just stays stuck on the AT&T boot screen now.

remove battery, put battery back in, hold up+down vol buttons, plug in usb.
you'll be at download mode, then use odin.

Chillyw said:
remove battery, put battery back in, hold up+down vol buttons, plug in usb.
you'll be at download mode, then use odin.
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Do you have an Odin download link? The Odin link on the site isn't good anymore and google isn't helping

here's an alternative link I've used:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0w2y31maz8mdom4

I appreciate the help so far and the Odin link. I managed to get Odin downloaded. I managed to get my phone in download mode. However, Odin is not registering that there is any phone. Normally I'd see a COM but nothing is showing up.
I started by running Odin.
Then got my phone in download mode.
I can't get any farther.

Do you have the drivers installed on your PC ? I also read somewhere where you have to have the latest net frame work as well...If you do...you might have a bad usb cord...and here in St.Louis..there are a lot of AT&T stores you can get one..
Mac

Well, on the original thread that had the link for Odin has the 32/64 Samsung drivers. I downloaded the drivers zip file to the desktop of the laptop.
One thing I find strange is usually when I plug in the phone to my laptop with the USB cable, the option to view files, etc pops up. It is not on this laptop.

kiltedthrower said:
Well, on the original thread that had the link for Odin has the 32/64 Samsung drivers. I downloaded the drivers zip file to the desktop of the laptop.
One thing I find strange is usually when I plug in the phone to my laptop with the USB cable, the option to view files, etc pops up. It is not on this laptop.
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Did you install the drivers then ? Sometimes my wife's Samsung laptop does that..and not install anything going to the desktop..If everything is loaded correctly..you 2 drive pop up windows should open..
Also (I'm sure it is) make sure usb debugging is checked on your phone..
Sometimes the most simplest things keeps things from working correctly..
Phone unplugged..in normal mode..usb debugging checked..do not mount phone..
Close Odin
Open Odin
Plug phone in
Put phone into download mode...click start...not master clear...
Mac

Odin is also finnicky about USB ports. If you are on a desktop machine, try using one in the back instead of the front, or if you have multiple sets, try using a different one. I've had Odin not recognize certain USB ports but recognize others before.
Finally, I suspect you already know this, but for sanity's sake make sure you start both the PC and phone up fresh after reboots, open Odin, then connect the phone. Connecting the phone first breaks Odin.

Mac11700 said:
Did you install the drivers then ? Sometimes my wife's Samsung laptop does that..and not install anything going to the desktop..If everything is loaded correctly..you 2 drive pop up windows should open..
Also (I'm sure it is) make sure usb debugging is checked on your phone..
Sometimes the most simplest things keeps things from working correctly..
Phone unplugged..in normal mode..usb debugging checked..do not mount phone..
Close Odin
Open Odin
Plug phone in
Put phone into download mode...click start...not master clear...
Mac
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Plug the phone in after it is in download mode, otherwise odin might not see it.
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skatcat31 said:
Plug the phone in after it is in download mode, otherwise odin might not see it.
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I know...but I have had to do it this way on a couple of times..and let it go into download when it was hooked up already..It's strange..but it worked at that time..after getting the drivers loaded for the first time on the wifes laptop..
Mac

What OS are you running? Are you explicitly starting odin in administrator mode (right-click->run as administrator)?

Okay, so I switched USB ports and it suddenly recognized and it started to download drivers. But it was listed as a gadget Serial and no drivers found. Geez this would be so much easier if I was at home where the laptop is set up with everything instead of being several states away.
Okay, so apparently I do not have the correct drivers installed. I really appreciate all the help so far. At this point, should I just google Samsung Captivate drivers or does someone have a link handy?
I can't get to my debugging as the phone stays on teh AT&T boot screen. I did have it enabled before I left OKC though.

I've gotten teh Samsung modem software successfully installed.

opcow said:
What OS are you running? Are you explicitly starting odin in administrator mode (right-click->run as administrator)?
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Phoenix 3.0 which is 2.2
The Odin is a zipfile that I have to use winzip to use it. It doesn't have the option to use as an administrator.

kiltedthrower said:
Phoenix 3.0 which is 2.2
The Odin is a zipfile that I have to use winzip to use it. It doesn't have the option to use as an administrator.
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OS as in, what OS is your DESKTOP/LAPTOP running?
and....you need to EXTRACT Odin from the zip file, and run it as administrator

kiltedthrower said:
Phoenix 3.0 which is 2.2
The Odin is a zipfile that I have to use winzip to use it. It doesn't have the option to use as an administrator.
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O_O You blew my mind.

Windows 7 is the OS and I finally got Odin extracted and running as administrator

opcow said:
O_O You blew my mind.
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I know. Flying from OKC to St. Louis and then from St. Louis to Baltimore with a several hour layover has me exhausted and not thinking clearly.
I did manage to reboot it and Phoenix came up. All drivers were showing ready except for ADB and then the phone shut down and ADB said phone was unplugged.
I feel like I'm making headway but just not there.
And why is it I'm staying in an expensive hotel and you still have to pay for net? Geez

I downloaded the 64bit drivers. Ran the exe file.
Extracted Odin and have run it as an administrator
Put the phone in download mode.
Odin is still not seeing anything.
NM....pop up box just said taht device driver software not successfully installed. I think I'm going to hit my head against the wall for a bit.

[Q] UPDATED: ODIN wont recognize my phone with USB debugging on, but will without it

Alright, so I was having some problems with my cognition rom and decided go back to stock so I could flash the new cognition. I put my phone into download mode, and it took a few times for ODIN to see my phone. After I got ODIN to see my phone I tried to master clear, it did not work. I had to pull the battery out and try again. I rebooted my phone again, and many program errors came up. I shut off my phone, tried to get into download mode and it wouldn't let me using the volume down + up then insert USB with ODIN open.
Now to get into download mode I must hold buttons with battery out, put USB in, and put battery in and I get download mode instantly, but I cant get ODIN to recognize my phone at all anymore. I tried many different methods(odin open before DL mode, odin closed before download mode, etc). I looked through a few threads and couldnt find anything that would work. Also my window 7 64 now says it doesn't recognize the USB device when I plug it in. Whats going on with my phone?? Im getting very annoyed! Is there any way to go back to stock besides ODIN??? Any help is appreciated!!
***UPDATE***
Seems like I may have a 3 button combo lock, and no USB support of any kind(besides charging).

UPDATE: I used rom manager to flash over my old rom. My phone works again, but it wont go into download mode at all now. Only when I use the cognition menu to send it to download mode will it work. I still cant get ODIN to see my phone. I want to go back to stock still, but without ODIN working, can I?

ziphoward said:
UPDATE: I used rom manager to flash over my old rom. My phone works again, but it wont go into download mode at all now. Only when I use the cognition menu to send it to download mode will it work. I still cant get ODIN to see my phone. I want to go back to stock still, but without ODIN working, can I?
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under your captivate battery, there is a number like 1008, 1010, what is yours?

I've had the same trouble with download mode + odin on my Windows 7 64 bit pc too.
I have to have odin running, phone off with battery out, and usb cable in. I leave the battery out for about a 10 second count. Then put the battery in and hit all the buttons at the exact same time (power + volume up and down). The key here is that I only had to hit all three buttons momentarily to get it to go into download mode. I didn't have to hold them down for any length of time.
I easily spent 1 hour trying to get odin to work the last time I had to reflash to stock. Only because I forgot how hard it was three last time with my 64 bit machine.
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mengbo said:
under your captivate battery, there is a number like 1008, 1010, what is yours?
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1006
So should I just keep trying to get into ODIN by just fiddling around with it? Ive tried an XP machine and it wouldnt work either. Does booting into download mode from the cognition power menu any different than entering download mode the manual way? Every time I put the battery in with the USB it takes me to the battery charger screen. At first with that issue, putting in the battery last while holding down volume up and down, would put the phone into download mode(as opposed to the normal ways of getting into download mode). Now that wont even work at all.

first you can try the 3 button fix, just search the forum for that.
you may need to build a jig or buy one online just in case, it will get you into the download mode easily.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...47234&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_511wt_1139

im having horrible trouble with adb cmd. I installed the samsung drivers, put my phone in usb debugging, did some tutorials on how to install sdk correctly, went to the correct file paths in cmd promt, and still cant access the adb shell. Any pointers on this?
Also, could I wipe all data off internal storage and use the "reinstall package" option in recovery mode to use rom manager update.zip to restore my rom from my sd card? Im not sure if thats possible. Im getting errors with my rom, and it feels slower since I just reinstalled over the top of my faulty rom.
Seems the only usb function I have right now is to charge it. Hmmm USB brick?

Any help out there???
3g stopped working on my phone when I woke up. I really need to get a fresh rom installed.

If I recall correctly, the path to where adb is had changed. Check all folders inside the sdk folder. to make my life easier, I put the sdk folder right into the root directory (c and renamed it sdk. Don't know if that well help or not...
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I changed the folder to androidsdk from whatever it was.
bueller bueller bueller...anyone?

Well, if your phone is a rev 1006 you "should" have a problem like losing your button combo. I guess that could have happened but I doubt it, I've got a 1007 and never lost it.
So, as for ADB here's what I do. Take the android SDK folder you downloaded and look inside it. There is a folder called tools. I take the tools folder and copy it to the root of my C: drive. Make sure you have all the drivers loaded, speaking of which I would uninstall and reinstall the drivers. Sounds like they flaked out for some reason. Next open up a cmd window, Start > Run > CMD.
Then type,
cd /
cd tools
adb devices <<this shows if your phone is recognized. if it is...
adb reboot download
*or
adb reboot recovery
*or
adb shell
For what it's worth, I have been flashing my phone since I got it in July and the only time I Master Clear is when I have had a problem like a soft brick or something that I was suspicious about the data on my internal SD. Which, so far has been maybe 3 times. I don't think necessary to Master Clear every time you flash to stock.
Also, you shouldn't really have to the pop out the batter to do the download mode trick. I turn my phone off, hold both Vol up and down, then plug in USB and I'm in download mode.

bobbylx said:
Well, if your phone is a rev 1006 you "should" have a problem like losing your button combo. I guess that could have happened but I doubt it, I've got a 1007 and never lost it.
So, as for ADB here's what I do. Take the android SDK folder you downloaded and look inside it. There is a folder called tools. I take the tools folder and copy it to the root of my C: drive. Make sure you have all the drivers loaded, speaking of which I would uninstall and reinstall the drivers. Sounds like they flaked out for some reason. Next open up a cmd window, Start > Run > CMD.
Then type,
cd /
cd tools
adb devices <<this shows if your phone is recognized. if it is...
adb reboot download
*or
adb reboot recovery
*or
adb shell
For what it's worth, I have been flashing my phone since I got it in July and the only time I Master Clear is when I have had a problem like a soft brick or something that I was suspicious about the data on my internal SD. Which, so far has been maybe 3 times. I don't think necessary to Master Clear every time you flash to stock.
Also, you shouldn't really have to the pop out the batter to do the download mode trick. I turn my phone off, hold both Vol up and down, then plug in USB and I'm in download mode.
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Im having USB driver problems, windows 7 will not recognize my phone. I think this is why adb wont recognize my phone correct? I can only get into download mode now but using the power menu thats custom from Cognition. Is my phone screwed?? Can I flash a ROM without ODIN?

ziphoward said:
Im having USB driver problems, windows 7 will not recognize my phone. I think this is why adb wont recognize my phone correct? I can only get into download mode now but using the power menu thats custom from Cognition. Is my phone screwed?? Can I flash a ROM without ODIN?
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Like I said, have you tried uninstalling the drivers from windows and reinstalling them? I am running Win 7 x64 and have had that happen. After i flash a rom or flash to stock sometimes windows doesn't recognize my phone at all. The first time I just used my laptop to flash but the second time I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled. It's also important that you plug into the USB ports directly on the motherboard on the back of your PC. There are known problems when trying the front usb ports or through a hub.

bobbylx said:
Like I said, have you tried uninstalling the drivers from windows and reinstalling them? I am running Win 7 x64 and have had that happen. After i flash a rom or flash to stock sometimes windows doesn't recognize my phone at all. The first time I just used my laptop to flash but the second time I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled. It's also important that you plug into the USB ports directly on the motherboard on the back of your PC. There are known problems when trying the front usb ports or through a hub.
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Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling many many times. I am using a laptop and ive tried all the USB ports but still no luck. I hate having my phone like this, it will drive me insane until its fixed.. or officially considered usb bricked.

ziphoward said:
Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling many many times. I am using a laptop and ive tried all the USB ports but still no luck. I hate having my phone like this, it will drive me insane until its fixed.. or officially considered usb bricked.
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Just curious, is it a Dell laptop? My Dell never recognizes my phone unless I power the laptop on with the phone/USB plugged in. If the laptop is on, and I plug phone in it never works, so I leave it plugged in and reboot and it works. It drives me crazy, but whatever it's my work PC.

bobbylx said:
Just curious, is it a Dell laptop? My Dell never recognizes my phone unless I power the laptop on with the phone/USB plugged in. If the laptop is on, and I plug phone in it never works, so I leave it plugged in and reboot and it works. It drives me crazy, but whatever it's my work PC.
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It is a dell actually, but I just tried your method and it didnt work for me. Thanks for the input though!

Alright, I downloaded kies mini today and it actually installed some drivers correctly. I was able to pull up my internal drive on the computer, but it wouldn't read it. I was able to get ODIN to see my phone(first time in weeks), but it only shows up when my phone is NOT in debugging mode. So im assuming Master Clear will work now. I was using AIO captivate tool box, and my phone rebooted at the click of the button into download mode, but once again it wont see my phone in ODIN while in download mode. Im getting closer!
Why wont ODIN recognize my phone with USB debugging on? Any more suggestions on how to make this happen?

Captivate stuck on phone-!-computer screen, even with jig

So I was flashing a stock rom from Odin, and Odin froze, so I unplugged the phone and took out the battery. Now, when I try to get into download mode, all I get is a screen with a phone-!-computer. Even with a usb jig, it just goes to this screen. My captivate is also not recognized by the computer when I plug it in when its on the phone-!-computer screen.

cherrybombaz said:
So I was flashing a stock rom from Odin, and Odin froze, so I unplugged the phone and took out the battery. Now, when I try to get into download mode, all I get is a screen with a phone-!-computer. Even with a usb jig, it just goes to this screen. My captivate is also not recognized by the computer when I plug it in when its on the phone-!-computer screen.
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Have you tried all the steps in the Captivate Connection Issues post (in my signature)?

Does it say something about hardware upgrade failure?

mrhaley30705 said:
Does it say something about hardware upgrade failure?
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Nope. It just doesn't show up at all; not even in device manager and it just shows the phone exclamation computer screen.

jmtheiss said:
Have you tried all the steps in the Captivate Connection Issues post (in my signature)?
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Yea more or less. The weird thing is it was detected before and odin was able to start the flash. But it hung after it said do not disconnect the device so I was forced to unplug it. Now I just don't see anything at all.

cherrybombaz said:
Yea more or less. The weird thing is it was detected before and odin was able to start the flash. But it hung after it said do not disconnect the device so I was forced to unplug it. Now I just don't see anything at all.
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Have you given Heimdall a try? It sometimes works when Odin won't.

jmtheiss said:
Have you given Heimdall a try? It sometimes works when Odin won't.
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Yep. When I try to install the heimdall driver, the phone doesn't even show up so it won't install.

cherrybombaz said:
Yep. When I try to install the heimdall driver, the phone doesn't even show up so it won't install.
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Odd. I'm assuming you've done all the uninstalling drivers, rebooting, etc, etc?

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Odd. I'm assuming you've done all the uninstalling drivers, rebooting, etc, etc?
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Yea I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Odin drivers. How do I uninstall the heimdall driver?

Driver Uninstallation Instructions:
1. Put your Samsung Galaxy S Captivate (i897) into download mode by holding Volume Down + Volume Up and...
2. Plug your phone into your PC.
3. Open up Device Manager on your PC.
4. Under "Libusb (WinUSB) devices" right click on "Samsung USB Composite Device" and choose Properties.
5. Go to the Driver tab and select Uninstall.
Done

4-2ndtwin said:
Driver Uninstallation Instructions:
1. Put your Samsung Galaxy S Captivate (i897) into download mode by holding Volume Down + Volume Up and...
2. Plug your phone into your PC.
3. Open up Device Manager on your PC (Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager).
4. Under "Libusb (WinUSB) devices" right click on "Samsung USB Composite Device" and chose Properties.
5. Go to the Driver tab and select Update Driver.
6. Chose to browse your computer for the driver.
7. Chose to pick from a list of devices drivers on your computer.
8. Pick the original Samsung Composite driver, press next and then follow the prompts.
9. Done
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The problem is I don't see my phone in device manager.

Edited my previous post. Gave u the update instead of the uninstall method, oops.

4-2ndtwin said:
Edited my previous post. Gave u the update instead of the uninstall method, oops.
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But I don't see the Libusb tab in device manager when I plug my phone in.

When u initially installed the drivers for Heimdall, they only installed to the usb port that u were connected to. So u need to be plugged into that specific port and then u should see it in the Device Manager.
And u really don't need to uninstall the drivers that u need for Heimdall, as long as u installed them after u installed the drivers from Kies. See this post... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19998299&postcount=115
And if u have tried everything in the Stickied thread--Captivate Connection Issues and Download Mode Help to no avail, then ??

4-2ndtwin said:
When u initially installed the drivers for Heimdall, they only installed to the usb port that u were connected to. So u need to be plugged into that specific port and then u should see it in the Device Manager.
And u really don't need to uninstall the drivers that u need for Heimdall, as long as u installed them after u installed the drivers from Kies. See this post... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19998299&postcount=115
And if u have tried everything in the Stickied thread--Captivate Connection Issues and Download Mode Help to no avail, then ??
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Yep I made a jig and it works but it doesn't go to the downloading screen with the shovel instead it just goes to the screen with the phone exclamation computer.

Then try this...may sound odd but anyway--just pull ur battery and leave it out for 5 minutes or so and then put it back in and try getting back into download mode and see what happens.
Btw, which stock odin were u trying that got u in this mess ?

4-2ndtwin said:
Then try this...may sound odd but anyway--just pull ur battery and leave it out for 5 minutes or so and then put it back in and try getting back into download mode and see what happens.
Btw, which stock odin were u trying that got u in this mess ?
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The odin3 one click downloader. Yep I tried taking out the battery -- no go :/.

happened to my cappy yesterday. went through 7 hours to fix mine. had the same issue as yours. no download mode showing with any combo I try even recovery had 4 micro usb cables and still my pc is choosy. that screen is actually download mode. you just need the proper drivers for the pc to read it. I used the one from heimdall. tried for atleast 100x before my pc recognizes my cappy as gadget serial and then boom! after installing,uninstalling and reinstalling all is A-ok now. just try it and have faith on your cappy

gonemad02 said:
happened to my cappy yesterday. went through 7 hours to fix mine. had the same issue as yours. no download mode showing with any combo I try even recovery had 4 micro usb cables and still my pc is choosy. that screen is actually download mode. you just need the proper drivers for the pc to read it. I used the one from heimdall. tried for atleast 100x before my pc recognizes my cappy as gadget serial and then boom! after installing,uninstalling and reinstalling all is A-ok now. just try it and have faith on your cappy
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What did you try before it was recognized? Did you just plug and replug the usb into the computer until it worked?

Mine did this before, when I accidently forgot to convert back to RFS before flashing back to stock, and I thought I was totally screwed. After this screen comes up the first time it will not go away, even if a download jig is used, until you get a good flash.
Try this:
Open your Odin, and have it ready with whatever you were trying to flash to begin with. Pull the battery on your phone, put your download jig in, and now put your battery in. It will still be the error screen that comes up. Pull your jig, and now plug your phone in. It should show on Odin now, and this flash should take correctly.
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Also make sure the USB port you are using is a direct link to your board. I always use one of the original USB 2 ports on the back of my computer. Not using a USB hub either, but straight from the port to your phone.