Hi,
I got a Galaxy S captivate today from the US (I am from India). It was SIM locked. Then I read though the ways sim unlock, most required rooting. So it started off from there, I wanted to root using Odin, but it was held up in the middle and I was into recovery mode. I read through the forums further and tried to flash it back to stock ROM (multiple times - failing at different stages of the Odin). Now I am able to get into the "Downloading Do Not turn off target".
Even now in the Download mode I am able to use Odin to flash back to Stock Rom, but I keep getting stuck in "Sbl.bin" phase.
I do not want to pursue further and hard brick (I do not know if I had already did). I would request some of the members here to please please help me out of my situation. Do not want my new phone to be bricked.
Fingers crossed, expecting a positive response from you guys - please help me out.
Thanks,
Sid
Hey Sid,
I would suggest downloading an Odin one-click if you are having trouble. http://www.mediafire.com/?5rcofbzusoor6mv
Just open odin without your phone connected to usb.
Plug your phone into USB.
Click the One-Click button.
Thanks for your reply. I had already tried many Odin one click ROMs - 2.3.3, 2.3.5 and even a stock Rom because of recommendations from various threads. All get stuck at one stage or the other. I haven't tried this one though. Given what I said, would you like me to try this one too?
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sidswami said:
Thanks for your reply. I had already tried many Odin one click ROMs - 2.3.3, 2.3.5 and even a stock Rom because of recommendations from various threads. All get stuck at one stage or the other. I haven't tried this one though. Given what I said, would you like me to try this one too?
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It is a place to start. Try it and let me know how it goes.
Sure, will try and post how it went. Download speeds are a little slow here, will take some time to update.
Thanks,
Sid.
Got stuck in boot.bin
Hi,
Got stuck in different stages of Odin. Finally I changed the USB cable to a cable from Motorola Bionic, it went like a charm..
Cannot thank you enough for providing the ROM and asking me to try again!! BIG BIG THANKS.
Now I have an AT&T handset with Rogers ROM in it, hope that shouldn't cause any problems in the future. I am even afraid of asking should I try flashing a AT&T ROM, I would be very hesitant.
Now coming to rooting the phone, I tried Superoneclick, it got stuck in the "shell rooting device....- step#5". I tried only once, I do not want to keep messing around this time. I tried an Indian SIM, asks for a Network unlock code - so guess it is not SIM unlocked as well.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Sid
PS: Title was drafted during my failed attempts , finally just before posting tried with my Bionic cable.
^
Galaxy_S Unlock by Helroz in the Google Play Store. Once unlocked-always unlocked.
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Thanks for your reply. To use the unlock app the phone should be rooted and that is where I am facing the issue. Superoneclick gets stuck in step7 - trying to connect to the device.
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[Utility]KK4 Easy Root
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Rooted. Stuck with Sim lock.
Rooting went smoothly. Thank You!!
But I am stuck with SIM lock. Samsung_S unlock does not seem to work,.
Would the problem be because I flashed a Rogers ROM in a AT&T set?
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That may be the problem. U could try and flash back to android 2.2 and then unlock and then flash whatever. Because once it is unlocked it will continue to be unlocked.
There is a Master Collection of Stock One Clicks available to choose from in the Dev forum. It is a stickied thread.
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Any problem less AT&T ROMs
Any suggestions? Any problem less AT&T Odin one click ROM?
Not that I can not search for one in this forum, earlier I ended up in this mess by doing so. Any suggestions on any working clean Odin one click AT&T ROMs? Would favour 2.3 versions.
Thanks,
Sid
Have you ever tried heimdall one click. Works like charm. Will upload it for you tomorrow. Us it and flash back to stock gb. Then just follow the root steps given on the captivate wiki forum. Check for the link on cyanogen website for root . This again uses heimdall
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Here you go with the heimdall one click
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1386924
Don't forget the thanks button
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This is for root
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Captivate:_Full_Update_Guide
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Haven't tried heimdall yet. Will try and let you know how it went!
Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Sid.
Thanks for all your responses and help.
Heimdall one click never got past the driver installation prompt. Kept repeating every time. May be it is again due to the Rogers ROM flashed, not sure. For a while the phone was stuck in the Downloading mode, but managed to get out of it.
Anyways, I purchased an unlock code from ebay and managed to unlock the phone. Now it is unlocked and works on the Indian GSM carriers.
Once again thanks for all your help, suggestions and time.
Thank You!
Sid
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hey,
i have an issue, i fear i may have bricked my phone, thou i cant be sure!
It gets stuck on the galaxy s screen when you first turn it on, thou i can still hear the start up sounds.
any ideas on how i can fix it, though i have tried the factory reset, no luck!
i tryed to use Odin, though i dont know how to use it very well!
cheers,
madkid21
Mind at least telling us what the heck you did before this happened?
It would REALLY help us in diagonising your problem, you know.
heh i suppose it would wouldnt it!
I installed the battery icon mod..
Madkid21
How did you try odin? I think that should have done the job.
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well i looked at it and thought wtf, how i use this **** lol,
any chance you can explain how to use it, i got it recognise the phone but thats it!
i put phone into download mode, could you explain how i can fix with it?
thanks,
madkid21
Have you downloaded an official ROM?
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not yet, im not sure where to get it from! lol
i only had the phone like a month or 2, and i broke it but got it replaced under the warrenty lol
so where can i get a offical rom from?
There are lot of ROMs on samfirmware.com and guides on how to flash them. You need an account though.
Have you even flashed a ROM before?
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i have flashed rom on a HTC Hero before, which was my old phone, but not on this phone, dunno how different its gonna be!
madkid21
Check samfirmware.com, it will help you (a lot).
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thanks muchly, i will check back soon when i have attempted to flash it!
madkid21
BTW, you could also check Doc's ROM if you want to use custom rom. I personally use it and its great. It has also some good guides compiled on the first post. I strongly suggest you read the Doc-Froyo.pdf guide in that thread.
Good luck!
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awesome i sorted it!!
thanks for your help mate,
*at least i think i sorted it*
Odd everything is foceclosing on me now, even the main android os!
Madkid21
No problem I assume you have your device working now.
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hi all,
when i first got my galaxy s it was locked to Orange (UK Network) and i unlocked the phone to be used on any network, and have been happily using it for well over half a year, i also attempted to flash the F1 SG2 Rom, however, there wasnt enough space on the partition so i flashed the phone back to XXJVQ (which i had on the phone before trying to install the F1 ROM) however, now my phone doesn't recognise the SIM that i put in, im wondering if the flash had anything to do with it or if the phone has locked itself. i have been researching around and some people have said that its something to do with efs or IMEI, i have no clue what that means but its sounds important, they also say that you need backups of these and that they contain phone files, however, if they were important there would be more emphasis placed on backing them up...
anyone who has had the same issue or someone who knows whats going on please help. everything else works fine, so is there a way to get my phone to read the SIM again without risking totally bricking the whole thing??
an (easy to understand) guide on how to fix this would be much appreciated...
thank you.......
flash a new modem file.. cause u may have corrupted your modem while flashing.. if that does not work change kernel( helped me once)..
Ive rooted it. If i flash something else wont it remove the root. Alsp which 1??
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GalaxySN00B:0 said:
Ive rooted it. If i flash something else wont it remove the root. Alsp which 1??
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Flash a kernel with root........ There's plenty in the development thread. You could also flash a new modem. Very simple.
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Kk. Ill try but i alreadt flashed a kernel in order to aquore root. Wouldnt it just be the same thing if i flash a new ? Thanks for reply though...
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Your imei is the code that identifies your phone. Look in settings, about phone, status.
Have you tried reflashing your rom?
If all else fails, i would recommend a flash of jm9 with odin. Files can be found at samfirmware.com. It's got me out of some deep black holes in the past!
Don't stress too much mate, there's been plenty of times that my phone hasn't recognised my sim when flashing cm7.
Reflash your rom, if that doesn't work, flash jm9, and most of all, relax.
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Worth trying the simple things, take out sim, clean and reinsert, this has worked for me in the past, and when you do get going again get sgs toolbox and with that you can make a back up of your efs folder, check your imei against the label on box that phone came in
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Worth trying the simple things, take out sim, clean and reinsert, this has worked for me in the past, and when you do get going again get sgs toolbox and with that you can make a back up of your efs folder, check your imei against the label on box that phone came in
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Hi slappy, probably best to use nitrality for efs backup, no?
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woolf clubs said:
Hi slappy, probably best to use nitrality for efs backup, no?
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Very true! My bad lol
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Damn. Threw the box away is the IMEI specific to each individual phone?
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Thanks 4 the encouragement. Ill try flashing that 2mrw...
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woolf clubs said:
Your imei is the code that identifies your phone. Look in settings, about phone, status.
Have you tried reflashing your rom?
If all else fails, i would recommend a flash of jm9 with odin. Files can be found at samfirmware.com. It's got me out of some deep black holes in the past!
Don't stress too much mate, there's been plenty of times that my phone hasn't recognised my sim when flashing cm7.
Reflash your rom, if that doesn't work, flash jm9, and most of all, relax.
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Theres only 1 thing. Im running Gingerbread w.e.r XXJVQ not Froyo. :0 will flashing this help?
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Jm9 helps everything - trust me.
When you flash a rom with odin it completely wipes your phone. The process of getting cm7 2.3.4 on your phone involves flashing back to froyo or eclair first.
You seem hesitant, if you're worried, i suggest you spend a few days reading up. Try the sticky on rooting/flashing in the development section.
P. S. There's a thanks button at the bottom of every post.
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GalaxySN00B:0 said:
Damn. Threw the box away is the IMEI specific to each individual phone?
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Yep. Will probably be with your original paperwork though.
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Hey i used the quick start thread and used BlackJack utility (Both methods) and it doesnt work and from what i can see the v20j is rare so how do i manage to root it?
Search before you post
Here is a root method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480392
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Any luck?
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Any luck?
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It'll always work. Unbricked my p970 many time using this method
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You can also try find KDZ for your firmware and try CWM injection method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1512203) just use google to find your kdz. didnt work for me though
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22597935&postcount=3
Follow this guide and you can flash it over and over again and it will always be ready to root
What does that have to do with the V20J version that the OP asked about?????
I am also trying to root the same version for my girlfriend since she got a job at Koodo mobile and got stuck with this phone which with stock software is garbage compared to her old HTC Desire.
I've been searching for a while and not found anything to do with this software version except this post where you arrogantly told the guy to search first.
I've the same phone and the only way I managed to root and keep stock rom was downloading the v20j kdz file and following the cwm inject method. You'll have to find the kdz file, its here somewhere though
Edit: http://lg-phone-firmware.com/
Make sure phone model is selected and hit ok
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I've since given up. I cannot find a working source for the UPK file to perform the CWM injection method. Also half the tutorials and download sites are in another language or converted to English making them less clear because of the translation.
Its my girlfriend's phone and she has no backup she is allowed to use at work so I don't want to risk causing it to be down for any amount of time. She will have to put up with it and bite her tongue when customers ask if she likes it, lol.
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A friend tried messin around with his tab when he doesnt even know how to jailbreak an iphone 3g... The tab wouldnt even boot past the Samsung Galaxy Tab screen, but it was able to get to download mode... I used a guide to update it to gingerbread using odin, and everything went well! I opened odin, selected PIT and chose the P1_add_hidden.pit file, then i selected PDA and chose the P1000NVFJP6_P1000NUBJP3_P1000NUUBJPB_HOME.tar.md5 file, and i made sure i checked Re-Partition, Auto Reboot, F. Reset Time, Phone EFS Clear and Phone Bootloader Update.. everything went well, but on recovery it was unable to update the systemfile.. but everything else on recovery updated and installed fine! as it reboots, it gets stuck in the bootanimation in the part it says Samsung glowing.. did i do something wrong? how can i fix this? I am still able to get to recovery and download mode fine..
Use overcome method like described here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1855591
Btw, you should not have checked Clear Efs.
The replace bootloader too.
And best to use Odin 1.7 included in the gb stock safe in that link I give you.
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priyana said:
Use overcome method like described here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1855591
Btw, you should not have checked Clear Efs.
The replace bootloader too.
And best to use Odin 1.7 included in the gb stock safe in that link I give you.
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thanks! will check this out now!
Why do some people think its rational to use absolutely ridiculous titles like "hlp plz" etc etc??
Please use common sense and use descriptive titles, ie a short title that describes your topic for people browsing the forum. "help plz" does not describe your topic in absolutely any way other then somebody using a completely generic title.
priyana said:
Use overcome method like described here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1855591
Btw, you should not have checked Clear Efs.
The replace bootloader too.
And best to use Odin 1.7 included in the gb stock safe in that link I give you.
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hey! i just wanted to thank you, i did it all and the tab finally booted and is working perfectly!! i forgot to reply about it cause i was so busy with college... but yeah thanks again bro u saved my rep and my friend's tab xD
You a describing your friend to be a noob. Why are you yourself a developer? And do you even know the hard work required to develop a jailbreak for the first time? So don't talk about others' ignorance.
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In the mood for spamming threads eh, Gogol?
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gogol1996 said:
You a describing your friend to be a noob. Why are you yourself a developer? And do you even know the hard work required to develop a jailbreak for the first time? So don't talk about others' ignorance.
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Got a personal or emotional problem bro? Dnt care about it, he did something stupid instead of letting me root it for him and I just described wt he did, no need to get all *****y... Plus I already fixed it, so fk off mod plz close thread
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Hey, I unlocked my HTC Dream (Rogers, post 911 patched) bootloader from the HTC Dev site: http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/
The Dream/G1 bootloader unlock code is now provided by HTC themselves. Everything went smoothly but I don't know what to do next. I know I needed to do this to install custom ROMs (I'm on android 1.5 right now, want to go to gingerbread 2.3) but i have no clue how/where to start.
Any help would be seriously appreciated.
The HTC dev bootloader is garbage and will only cause you headaches. Relock the bootloader and root properly, Google search cyanogenmod wiki dream, follow those steps
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demkantor said:
The HTC dev bootloader is garbage and will only cause you headaches. Relock the bootloader and root properly, Google search cyanogenmod wiki dream, follow those steps
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Hi, thanks for the reply, however I only went down the HTC route cuz this link http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/Rogers_Dream:_Rooting_(Post-911_Patch) doesn't work. Many people have the same problem as me that the exploid, doesn't work, but I couldn't find a solution.
Dunno what to do, all I want is gingerbread lol, thanks for replying though, appreciate it
I don't know why it doesn't work I did it to my rogers g1 back when and it worked fine, what's the issue
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I don't know why it doesn't work I did it to my rogers g1 back when and it worked fine, what's the issue
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Hello again! So I took your advice looked around a bit and tried another exploid.zip file, this time from Droidx root method. FINALLY it worked and I now have custon recovery and ROM.
HTC Dev did nothing for me,
Thanks for help and suggestions