yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajwadifi:
where is the PIT file man?

i really need this .... pls help..... [ by galaxy s2 shows its internal usb storage 4 gb instesd of 12 gb after formatting. ] pls help how to fix it & get back the total 12 gb memory............... help pls
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DabuPL:
But what if my phone also doesn't enter download mode? :/
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
if the phone starts then u can enter download mode

and if u cannot enter download mode by the 3 button combo then use a usb jig it will surely get u to download mode
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DabuPL:
It starts but after the logo is shown screen goes black. I guess usb jig is the only way to get to download mode now?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spiralzz:
Yes...

Edit: you could try adb reboot download if you have adb set up, but I doubt that would work if your phone isnt booting...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DabuPL:
Nope, doesn't work. But thanks for help! :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdaarif:
Hay Neerajganga, many many tnx to u :) as ur suggestion i do these

1)First flash pit with repartition. Cuz odin can't start without re partition. once done phone on & remove usb , off my phone, remove battery again get the phone in download mode.

2) flash only kernel in pda once done phone on, remove usb, but my phone show me only starting logo, don't show boot s-logo, off my phone, remove battery, wipe factory data & catch partition. on it again it show staring logo but don't show boot s-logo, get the phone in black screen in soft brick. using 3combo for download mode.

3)after that then flash pit ( without repertition) and the firmware together without bootloader. Now i get my phone again :)

Sorry for my bad English
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdaarif:
ok here try this

pit : http://www.mediafire.com/?pu1nh622wudgzey

Firmware: http://hotfile.com/dl/146748985/809318f/I9100XXLPH.zip.html

Kernel : http://www.mediafire.com/?65a5a59666hdopx

PASSWORD FOR EXCTRATING KERNEL : intratech@XDA
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bevararajeev:
THANKS...

Very good post. :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] normanu:
Question, if you follow this tutorial, does the ROM version show Official Samsung Rom after you do this ?

It seems that on the Download screen, no matter what I flash in it, nothing changes the counter doesn't go up or anything .....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
You shouldn't be trying to flash CF-root... You should be flashing either the recovery package or the stock kernel...

The 1st stage of the flashing is always THE most important because it's when you flash either the sbl or you re partition. I think your phone is hard bricked, so the only way out is, as said, a JTAG...

Can you specify more? Like what you flashed, with Heindall or ODIN...?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
Yes, it'll show Samsung official. It'll show Custom or increase the flash counter when you flash a custom kernel or a custom ROM.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] normanu:
Ah thanks then something must be broken as the download screen doesn't change after flashing.....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
What have you flashed until now?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] normanu:
I flashed this recovery package from page 1, I tried this including partitioning. (PIT file)

And I tried CEKI1 aswell from the official ROM page.

No joy unfortunately ...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
All those ROMs & Firmwares are all official, therefore the counter isn't changing. It will only change if you flash CheckROM or CyanogenMod for example.

You should glad that it doesn't change, becuse it means that you haven't voided your warranty. As soon as you get a 1 in that counter, your warranty = void. ;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hedgepigdaniel:
Thanks for these instructions - makes me feel a little safer flashing stuff!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicknike02:
wrong firmware..stupid silly mistake..

I'm asking on behalf of my friends who is totally noob..he flashed the wrong firmware..

He own a I9100G, flashed a I9100 firmware. His phone no longer boot, cannot go to download mode nor recovery. Stick the usb cable, a picture of phone--yellow triangle--computer, odin detected it for a while, then it removed itself. Can u help me to help my friend? Thank u in advance.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] normanu:
Well I have a Custom Binary Download: Yes (2 counts) and Firmware says it custom ...

(while I flashed this recovery package).

So thats my worry aswell ... I have a USB Jig ordered, so I hope that will solve something....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
I'm sorry to say, but doing such flashing is dangerous and results in a Hard brick... There is no turning back unfortunately... :( Only a JTAG can help...

Glad I can help! :)

Thanks for the great feedback everybody :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
Mmm interesting... If you flashed only official packages, why would it increase the count? :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasta915:
I9100g bootloader

Hi ..

I need BOOTLOADER for i9100g where can I download it ?

Thanks
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
I don't know where you can DL them... Look up the I9100G threads or ask there...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohdmacki:
thank you !!!

:):):):):)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amcd1982:
Thank you, thank you , thank you!!!!

I'm a very happy (and a relieved!!!) guy this morning after finally finding a guide that actually explains clearly how to recover my SGII and actually works!!

This was my first attempt at flashing ROMs for my SGII and it was not a good experience, despite following the guide I used to the letter. I've flashed kernels and ROMs on previous devices without even a hiccup, but this just didnt work, so finding your guide and it working has saved me a massive amount of outlay on a replacement device, something I wouldnt have been able to afford!

Thank you again!!!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soranof:
usb doesent recognized on odin

hi

plz i need some help with my sgs2.

after that i upgarded to 4.0.3 so it will not anymore be connected to kies or odin and every time it appears a massage that is usb malfunction problem and i tried with diffrent compute but still same problem .

i took out bettery and did what ever i could do but still same **** ?

could any one help me and post some tips to solve that issue .

obs

my 4.0.3 works and no problem but it is still beta version and a lot of bugs .

it just happend when i upgraded and sasw a lot of battery drop and now here i am with empty hand without my dear SGS2.

so please give me some tips

thanks a lot
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NOMIOMI:
kernel and bootloader download link is not working please reupload the kernel
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kstanley7:
I am curious if anyone else has had the issues that I have been having with my i9100 in which a clear cache has corrupted the nand rw permissions ? if anyone has had this prob what did you guys do to resolve this ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
for nand failure threre are less chances of recovery flashing the pit does help sometime

but it depends

if u have ur phone in warranty its betta to claim it
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geokilla:
Can someone give me the link to the PIT file? I don't see it in the OP and the above PIT file is locked.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
u can find it here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1734997
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmugal:
i have a situation where my phone does not enter recovery mode but can enter download mode.

i am trying to use this guide for ICS, inside recovery package there are only .md5 files

MODEM

CODE

APBOOT

CSC

no .pit file as mentioned in the guide.

also password samfirmware.com for Kernel_I9100XXLPH.7z does not work.

please help me to get .pit file for ICS and kernel password as well.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
U can find the pit in the post above urs.. also the password for the kernel is intratech@XDA

It u need any help then pm me
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spiralzz:
What is the apboot file? Is it the bootloader?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
Yes
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiac573:
THX A LOT UR AWESOME Phistachio!!!! i would thank you but i dont find a thanks button I LOVE U :o FOR this awesome guide

*found*
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monil88:
stuck on datafs

My phone is stuck on bootloop. I had rooted my phone with new method without insecure kernel and i wanted to remove the root. so i uninstalled superuser and cleared cache, dalvik cache and wipe partition. after that IT gets stuck on samsung galaxy s2 page. tried the procedure using odin it got stuck on datafs. would not move. then it said recover using kies. I flashed stocked xwpl7 using odin (showed success) but it got me back to bootloop. Also need password for PIT file please. so how should i proceed. please help me
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pooper:
Right, I flashed the ICS Bootloader / CSC / ROM last night and my phone still isn't booting and i still can't get into recovery :/

Would I be right in thinking that my only option now is to flash the PIT and re-partition?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harchaoui:
well thanks u sloved my problems xD
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fiddler97:
will this work with the conditions of my phone here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1809934
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kewachan:
Great Guide, hope i would brick my new i9100.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phistachio:
Password for PIT? Which package?

Yes, try using the PIT and re partition, it should fix.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vodanhdaisu:
Hi cdaarif, what is the password to unlock download link for the pit file? Thanks !

---------- Post added at 09:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:28 PM ----------

Hi there

I performed "Format USB Storage" for the internal flash memory, and then the internal flash memory capacity was decreased into 4.11G

I downloaded all the requirement files: recovery package: I9100XXLPH, kernel XXLPH, u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit, new_bootloader

then I used Odin to flash those files with "re_partition" option.

The phone was flashed successfully, but the internal storage capacity is still 4.11G.

Please help me to recover it !!

Thanks you
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Varekai:
Ok I really dislike samsung phones now. I have the Evo 4g lte, rooted it super easy, got s-off too. My fiance has the Sprint Epic touch 4g, I tried rooting it for her, failed. Got stuck in bootloop. Followed instructions to install CWM to install Cyanogen, won't read SD card so can't install it. Tried these steps using Odin, it failed, now it says (Firmware Upgrade encountered an issue. PLease select recovery mode in Kis & try again.) I have to be up for work in 5 1/2 hours, she has work in 7 hours, and I'm tired of screwing with this thing. Been downloading kies for 45 minutes now, my connection sucks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neutrino7:
Soft bricked S2 GT 19100

I have just updated my phone to XXLPQ6 and when it opened again it wasn't rooted so I tried to root it using chain fire via odin. I couldn't do from sd card because phone said "not recognised" I could not access any of the backups I had made because they were rooted backups. So now I have a soft bricked phone that will not go into recovery mode and nothing passes through odin. Does any one have a clue?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gBodell:
Witch did you flash, LPQ och LP6?

Did you get it from this thread?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1103399

Did you get any error when trying via Odin?

Can u get the phone to download mode, if so there shouldnt be any problem flashing a proper kernel with Odin.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erkanoz07:
Awesome guide! Thanks for taking the time to put this together!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
Glad it helped you :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sanglxagdm:
thank for ur guide
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jessietwf:
General Question

Hi All,

I got ICS on my phone GSII, how to upgrade to latest firmware

Kindly advice me coz i feel got problem on my ICS

Thanks u
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BJavk:
It seems I got the NAND rw thing

Stuck on boot, can only enter download mode, used the guide, tried flashing a kernel it goes up to 100% in odin but

does not finish it stuck on <ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!! with full bar up on KERNEL

My phone is dead?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leeomendes:
good thread! thaanks!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pratici:
I'm a noob .. really thanks.

This guide help me.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philfrommancs:
Thanks for the thread..... Thats the 2nd time youve got me out of trouble since I got my phone a few months ago !!!!

Great advice.... I still have all my hair !!!!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
Glad it helped u guys :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xMiMx:
Thx for the guide.

I would suggest however to change the psw on the OP as it is not samfirmware.com anymore but intratech@XDA. Could be confusing for noobs :silly:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtreme26:
:good:So when I originally bought my phone, the seller rooted my phone so it could be unlocked. Unfortunately he didn't install clockworkmod so I decided to follow androidauthority.com/galaxy-s2-i9100-xxlpq-root-cwm-clockworkmod-recovery- and root my phone again. Well everything passed but now it won't boot. After the yellow triangle screen it just goes black. It goes into recovery and download mode but I don't know what to do from here. I have a couple of ics and JB roms downloaded, should I just go ahead and flash these roms? How can I go about doing that without being able to transfer the roms into my internal SD? Thanks btw im also on 2.3.3, I think I might have used a ics root?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benjamin831:
Unfortunately I think I just soft bricked my phone.

I'm running CM9 RC1.

I recently flashed Siyah 4.0.1. It was working fine for a few days but I decided to go flash the newest CM9 nightly builds and revert back to stock CM9 kernel.

I downloaded everything and rebooted to recovery mode using ROM manager. But during the reboot sequence, the boot screen came and went and nothing happened after that. It was just black.

I can boot into download mode but no recovery mode.

Coming from CM9, should I go ahead and flash the ICS recover package/kernel?

Any advice is greatly greatly appreciated :( :( :( :(
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billyJ:
got stuck at datafs all the time, any chance to fix it.

It is probably not fixable.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] worf_1977:
Just try to flash kernel only and restore any backup. That should do it :D

Enviado desde mi GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dimitri178:
Hey guys i really need your help.

I have a sgsII international version. I believe i have a Nand Rw corruption.

I cant go into recovery

It cant flash the recovery kernel, ( gets stuck at some point)

It cant flash the recovery rom,( gets stuck at Sbl1)

It cant flash the bootloader ( gets stuck at sbl too)

It cant flash the pitfile (gets stuck at DO not turn off target)

I dont have Kies installed on this computer

I can go into downloadmode

Is there any way to save my phone?

Regards,

Dimitri
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MajorWobble:
Thanks!

First off, thanks!

I tried to install a CWM via PDA in Odin and my phone just bugged at boot with a yellow triangle. So i followed these steps and now my phone works.

What do i have to do now to install a custom ROM, say this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1162715

I have to root i assume, and then install CWM, and then follow the instructions on the given ROM?

Sorry that i come off as a complete noob and taking your time. Any help is appreciated, i just don't know where to start really. Or better yet, i don't know where i am at now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
This thread is for helping users to recover their phone and not how to root it.. .

for installing any custom rom u need to root it

so root it and flash the rom u want ..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azriaphale:
Help

Have a problem with my 9100i, been running fine with LP7/XEU/Rooted until I started to play with a couple of notification apps and it crashed. No worries pulled the battery, phone starts - sits at the logo for 50 secs.

Have access to download mode and recovery mode, odin does its thing with out any errors. Have tried all the recovery options listed at the start of this thread.

Phone starts, sits at logo for 30 secs then jumps to the android man with spinning geo-cube for another 30 secs then jumps to a scrolling text in Red.

The red text says things like "cant find system, cant find directory/file" its a long list - then recovery (3e) kicks in with the standards options.

Rebooting the phone with recovery the option or pulling the battery results in the same boot loop.

Does anybody have any ideas ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeK0i:
Boot loop for download, recovery and normal modes

My phone was out of battery and the problems started surfacing. My phone now goes to after the samsung boot screen, where the animations start. After which, it just reboots. I've tried to go into recovery and similarly, it reboots a few seconds after starting up recovery. Download mode does the same thing too, rebooting after mayb 5 seconds. Interestingly, the battery charge animation flashes on and off once every 15 seconds continuously while charging instead of the usual "sleep".

Help me please? :crying:

Thank you all for your help...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azriaphale:
Here's a piccy of the errors Im get after unbricking
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Siberian Tiger:
Did you tried a factory reset?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azriaphale:
Yes tried that too, just tried it again. This time noticed a formatting error (see piccy)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Siberian Tiger:
Did you tried to flash a custom kernel?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Azriaphale:
No, phone was just stock LP7/XEU/Rooted been running for months with no issues.

Wasnt trying to flash or do anything firmware related.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fullmetalmax:
stuck on bootscreen and the guide didn't help

I have gt-i9100 xeu.

I wan running rooted LPT and tried to restore to previous backup, also LPT. the phone rebooted in the middle of restore, on 'restoring data' and after that its stuck on the boot screen.

I followed the guide and it still isn't working. When I do factory wipe from the stock recovery - the phone reboots as well before I get 'completed' message.

every time I use odin, it says succeed, when the phone reboots - it goes to android with spinning geo-cube but after 5 secs reboots and gets stuck on the bootscreen again.

I can access recovery and download modes no problem.

I've already tried to push bootloader successfuly but still stuck on the same problem.

the phone doesn't dislpay any error so I have no idea what can be wrong.

I tried using CF-Root-SGS2_XW_XEN_LP7-v5.4-CWM5.tar kernel. When I format data from CWM its stuck. After wiping cache and dalvik, I tried to flash officiak LPT (single tar file, no root), now its stuck on rom boot screen - big S flashing and nothing happens. if I go to recovery again - android with spinning geo-cube appears, spinning very fast and after couple minutes reboots with same results - stuck on booting screen.

When I try to mount sdcard from CWM, I get this: 'W:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (No such file or directory)'

What can be the problem?? please help

:crying:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Davinskey:
I had the same problem last night but manage to fix it. I was on litening rom 3.6 than I flashed cm9 with cwm 'n got stuck on boot loop after sucessfull flash. I flash back to stock GB 'n again got stuck on boot so I flashed a pit file with repartition and ca now only get into recovery 'n download mode. The I again flashed stock ICS, cant remember which 1 but it's the South African version but stil stuck on boot loop but I immediately root it with CF Root LP..... and go into recovery mode and restore back to my old backups. It work for me as a total noob. Hopes it helps guys
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fullmetalmax:
Thanks for advice. Tried to this right now but it seems to stuck on 'Restoring data...'. It looks like a problem with /data partition cause I also have from formating it as I mentioned earlier.

Does anyone know a way to check why it stucks or see any additional logs?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Genghis1:
Thanks a lot for the guide!!! I have just recovered my phone thanks to your help!!!

Best wishes!!! :):good:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
Glad it helped yu :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Randomthoughts12:
I have Sprint SGSII SPH-D710 and when I first got the phone there was a problem with the touch screen and I managed to fix that. After I noticed that there was a circle with a line through it where signal strength would be in the upper right corner. So I started down the list and sure enough the camera and led flash and sound did not work but yet everything else worked fine. There was no water damage or signs of physical trauma and the phone was not rooted. In a confused attempt I flashed a stock romantic hoping it was software related and Odin became stuck many times on modem.bin and now I'm stuck staring at the 2 triangles. I assume the phone is done for but if there is no fix is there an explanation is to what might have happened to the phone to begin with?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randomwalsh:
Hi

This guide was a phone saver about a month ago. Got my i9100 up and running again. It had water damage and we got everything working except the buttons at the bottom.

But i could get into download mode by holding vol down and power button and then releasing power button when the phone switched on.

Followed your guide with PC odin and 4 files ICS rom with PIT, root with CF root and installed Resurrection Remix v3.0.1 with onscreen navigation button. Working great for a month.

Today saw that version 3.0.3 is out so I thought reboot in recovery and flash that, did 3 wipes, installed and then reboot. And this is where the problem started. It will load the Galaxy boot screen, load the kernel boot screen, load the rom boot screen and even perform android upgrading your application but then just as the start wizard appears it reboots and so on. Doesn't stop rebooting till you take the battery out.

So i guess I would have to flash back to stock following your guide. And basically I have to go to flash bootloader which is successful but when I then try to boot kernel is fails.

I tried just doing the first 4 steps but it failed on boot.bin but now it wont even succeed on try flashing the kernel in the PDA tab.

Whatelse can I do?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pelpa87:
Indexed in [INDEX of GUIDES/TUTORIALS] SGS2 GT-I9100

Any question or request, please don't hessitate in ask me :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XTREME_GUNNA:
Thank you so much. Tried making a Nandroid backup and somehow my phone bricked. No recovery, no boot up and download mode wouldn't actually download anything. Followed this to the letter and got my phone back. Again, many thanks.:good: