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[Focus General] SuperSport:
I don't know if it would make any difference, but have you tried to flash magldr and a custom rom? Maybe that would break the cycle? Or, use the WP Support Tool? Not sure about any of these, just thinkng out loud what I would try...
[Focus General] tenchi71:
I've tried every ROM I can get my hands on and nothing. The only one that seems to do anything other than say that its the wrong device, is the 1.4 ROM, and that reports a partiton issue, asks to redo it and download all, then fails with an app crash.

I cant get mgldr or WP Update Tool to work because the only ,ode I can get the phone into is Download Mode.

Any other ideas?
[Focus General] mirbekatabekov:
same here

download mode is the only thing I can get into
[Focus General] rbrsddn:
Maybe find the 7004 Rom, download that, and start over. I got my 1.3 stuck in the download mode, and IIRC, that's how I fixed it.
[Focus General] SuperSport:
I was going to say, Download Mode is exactly where you want to be... Be sure you have the Samsung Drivers installed, then flash a ROM.

I'm still not sure this will work, but again, it's what I would try. I'm half tempted to send the 1.4 to my phone and brick it, then bring it back, but if it's not doable, I'd hate to be be bricked with no return. :(

When in Download mode, you are unable to use WP Support Tool? Or, mgldr? Maybe check again that you have the drivers installed.
[Focus General] tenchi71:
I'm finding it disturbingly fascinating that this has happened. On most other devices I've owned and tinkered with, if I can get to some kind of boot or access the basic i/o, I could recover. This is the first one that's really giving me fits... Shame the WP Update used in the cab sender doesn't have a check in place to avoid installing the incorrect version. Or that the cabs could be used to extrac a CSC bin file usable with WP Downloader. Thank you Samsung and/or Microsoft for making it easy for us....

Now on to where I'm at in this endeavor:

Yeah... Ive tried every single combo of firmware/WP7 Downloader. When trying to push a 1.3 Firmware, I get "This Device is NOT a retail device. Downloader will NOT do anything." In the log I see:

[Channel 0] Confirm Model Name

[Channel 0] Locked

The process then fails. The phone then starts rebooting over and over again until I set it back to DL Mode. I cannot get it into Format Mode.

This happens with all ATT and Euro ROM I've tried, as well with an engineering ROM I picked up along the way. Doesn't matter in which version of WP Downloader I tried (.03, .05 & .21)

When using a 1.4 based firmware (4k) I actually get something different: "Partition information is not equal. Do you erase Nand and Download ALL?". I select "OK" and the following comes up in the log:

[Channel 0] Confirm Model Name

[Channel 0] FLASH UNLOCK

[Channel 0] FLASH UNLOCK Success!!!

[Channel 0] Send Partition Table

[Channel 0] Please select All image and Try again

[Channel 0] FLASH LOCK

Like before, this fails, and the phone starts rebooting over and over again.

Since the only mode I can get into is "Download Mode" and not Zune Update Mode, the WP Support Tool does not see my phone.

mgldr sees my phone, I'm prompted to select either Focus or Omnia attempts to install, but fails as well:

Selecting the Focus picture:

[Error Description]:

Device detection failed

[Info]: USBWorkDMLI_SAM.cpp (327)

[Error Description]:

Check device failed 3

[Info]: USBWorkDMLI_SAM.cpp (259)

Selecting the Omnia picture:

[Error Description]:

Device model unknown, can't continue.

[Info]: USBWorkDMLI_SAM.cpp (314)

[Error Description]:

Impossible! Omnia 7 can't be 4K! You had choosed wrong device

[Info]: USBWorkDMLI_SAM.cpp (149)

So mgldr definitely sees my phone as a 4K (1.4) device.

Anyone have any other ideas? Unless someone can think of anything else, my last resort might be to buy a usb jig, burn some incense and dance around the room before connecting the jig and giving it a try.
[Focus General] tenchi71:
Got a tip on the Cab Sender to try WP7 Downloader v7.41. didn't work. Looks like its time to buy a USB jig...

From my other post....

Thanks for the heads up on .41. I found a copy and gave it shot. Got further along... But just as it unlocks and starts to rewrite the partition table, the app crashes. Nothing happens on the phone.

There's only one version of magldr for Samsung Focus... Unless there's another one I didn't see in the Rainbow Loader thread.
[Focus General] vt2912:
Try flash stock rom using v7.21 software
[Focus General] tenchi71:
Been there done that, didn't work.

With the .41 version, I was actually able to get a little further, but only AFTER I also installed the "Windows Mobile Device Center" and the "Windows Mobile Device Center Driver Update" package for x64.

With these new drivers installed, the .41 version was the only Updater that would actually see the device properly. I started a rewrite of the bootloader... and it hung halfway through. Big fat red "FAIL". I let it sit for a couple of hours, but nothing continued along.

I had to pull the battery to get the phone to turn off. That was the last time I saw the phone turned on. It's real brick now, will not power on.

Think a jig will get it out of its slumber?

Wonder how much I'll get if I sold it for parts...

Might be time to get me that Galaxy Note i keep drooling over...
[Focus General] Vanillalite:
Having a similar issue. Samsung Focus just flashes the logo.

Whenever I try and use WP7 Downloader Ver 7.41 and select the 1.3 files the WP7 Downloader Ver 7.41 says

SPH-i350 Downloader has stopped working

WP7 Downloader Ver 7.21 says...

This device does NOT match select binary

WP7 Downloader Ver 7.05 says...

This Device is NOT retail model...

I get the same error as the others when I try to install Rainbow as well.

Any ideas or am I SOL?!?!?
[Focus General] CRDeveloper:
Too bad :( same thing here
[Focus General] EnderPsp:
How many computers have you guys tried this on? If the answer is one, try again.
[Focus General] CRDeveloper:
2 laptops actually, i did the same thing as the one who opened this thread...

Is this totally lost?

I have a cable ready for the jig thing but still looking for the resistor. Will that help?
[Focus General] tenchi71:
Mine was a lost cause....

Bought a jig from eBay... nada.... won't turn on.

Thought it may be the batter... so when and bought an extern charger and then tried again... nothing.

Tested jig on the only other phone I could... AT&T Galaxy Note.. it jumped to life and took it to download mode, no problems. So the jig works.

Mah Focus is da brick...

---------- Post added at 04:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:40 PM ----------

3 here... two laptops and an old Dell Desktop that's rock solid. It was there that I got the best results... and was able to actually flash something on what by then was an unflashable device (1.3 device with a 1.4 bootloader). I was able to overwrite some of the bootloader when both the phone an flashing app both locked up.
[Focus General] CRDeveloper:
The WP7 Downloader Ver 7.41 was failing when the program was ready to start:

SPH-i350 Downloader has stopped working...

I got to trick the program by unplugging the usb changing the ports (My HP has 3 ports), and using the 7004 from this guy http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25668230&postcount=181 the phone started copying

Detect COM7 Port
Detect COM5 Port
Detect COM3 Port
[Channel 0] Confirm Model Name
[Channel 1] Confirm Model Name
[Channel 2] Confirm Model Name
[Channel 2] FLASH UNLOCK
[Channel 2] FLASH UNLOCK Success!!!
[Channel 2] Send Partition Table
[Channel 2] Partition Table is correct
[Channel 2] Erase MIBIB Region
[Channel 2] Write MIBIB Data
[Channel 2] MIBIB Download Success!!
[Channel 2] Erase FSBL Region
[Channel 2] Write FSBL Data
[Channel 2] FSBL Download Success!!
[Channel 2] Erase OSBL Region
[Channel 2] Write OSBL Data
[Channel 2] OSBL Download Success!!
[Channel 2] Erase AMSS Region
[Channel 2] Write AMSS Data
[Channel 2] AMSS Download Success!!
[Channel 2] Erase DSP1 Region
[Channel 2] Write DSP1 Data
[Channel 2] DSP1 Download Success!!
[Channel 2] Erase APPSBL Region
[Channel 2] Write APPSBL Data
[Channel 2] APPSBL Download Success!!
[Channel 2] Erase CSC Region
[Channel 2] Write CSC Data
[Channel 2] CSC Download Success!!
[Channel 2] Erase PDA Region
[Channel 2] Write PDA Data
[Channel 2] PDA Download Success!!
[Channel 2] FLASH LOCK

Phone turns off and then... its dead :crying:

My phone is now totally dead, it just wont turn on (didn't restarted, didn't finish the rebuild). I have the home made usb jig here but I don't have the 1k resistor jet, just 3 100k and it doesn't do anything.

What to do now? Game over?
[Focus General] MarcusD316:
Say it ain't so!

Say it ain't so! Anybody have a solution?!

I don't have much hope at this point, my 1 year old Samsung Focus will almost surely end up a brick...

Thanks in advance...
[Focus General] SuperSport:
I wonder if Odin would help? I've checked, and it appears that Odin will send the Phone portion of the ROM to the Focus. MAYBE that will get something going again? It may also brick the phone as others have done, which is precisely why I have not sent it to my phone that is still working. But if you have nothing to lose, it may be worth trying...
[Focus General] MarcusD316:
I tried using ODIN to send only the PHONE part of the rom(the .bin file) and it starts the process and then it says the result of the operation is failed. At least it doesn't crash like that other WP7 Downloader program...

The problem is that even ODIN only recognizes that one file from the original ROM. The other files from the ROM (CSC, etc.) seem to not be the correct file format for ODIN...

Also, maybe we should try to flash another ROM, not the original 7002 ROM...

Anyone else have success with ODIN?

Please share your experiences!
[Focus General] MarcusD316:
Anybody have any luck fixing their Samsung Focus?
[Focus General] blackangel21:
I too have a focus that is stuck in a loop at the Samsung logo. I bought it like that thinking I might be able to resurrect it as another toy. I have had lots of experience with Samsung, HTC and Sony droid phones, this would be the first WP.

It is a I917R on Rogers, there is no hardware revision under battery. I am assuming it is V1.3 as I have only seen software for the that version posted. I do not know how the phone got to its present state. They just said it happened during normal use?

I can get to both download mode and factory reset. I have flashed the stock rogers files without errors, but I never get the screen connecting to pc. The phone just restarts after successfully flashing, only to reboot continuously. I have been able to install MAGLDR and flashed every v1.3 ROM i could download. All without errors, just the same outcome they all just keep displaying Samung logo and then reboot. Only thing I noticed is that when I flash MAGLDR and custom ROMs it takes the phone longer to reboot.

I never get the connect to pc if I hold camera and power, nor do I ever get that screen when I flash a ROM.

Not sure if situation is similar... I am puzzled?
[Focus General] mirbekatabekov:
anyone got any ideas yet? I still have 2 phones laying around and any help would much be appreciated
[Focus General] capt_morgan:
While upgrading my 1.3 hardware to 7.8 v5.5 I messed up somehow and got stuck in the Samsung boot loop. I saw a few posts that felt this was due to upgrading on a 64bit OS, which I did. I did not attempt to install 1.4 on 1.3 so perhaps the issue I came across is different, none the less I was still stuck in the boot loop.

I was able to get into Download Mode when hitting Volume Up, but not into MAGLDR when hitting Volume Down.

To resolve the issue I did the following...

1. Find and download "Samsung-i917-Focus-firmware-UCJK2-ATT-USA.exe" on the web.

2. Unpackage the .exe to a folder on your desktop.

3. After unpacking run the WP7_Download_Ver_7.0.5_for_Retail_Device file (do not use "All Device" it did not work for me).

4. Select all four options within the GUI screen (Phone, Eboot, PDA, and CSC) and choose the only file available within the un-packaged executable.

5. Boot phone into "Download Mode"

6. The "Start" button should un-gray once the phone is in download mode and connected to the PC (assuming you installed the Samsung USB drivers) and you should then be able to load a Vanilla install of Windows Phone 7 by clicking "Start".

7. Once I installed the Vanilla OS I was then able to upgrade to 7.8 v5.3 (v5.5 is what I initially used and ran into a problem with, I am now on v5.3)
[Focus General] mirbekatabekov:
This was the first thing I did when I first got into problem

Still bricked
[Focus General] imloveguru:
focus stuck on samsung logo solved

first u must have all driver installed which r needed mainly windows mobile device center drivers they are main for dumping samsung focus retail rom 1.3 and with keyhold volume up+camera+on key uill reach to download mode and ur stock rom software will connect ur phone liye com12 or com 15 and u will reach factory condition after flash ,,

ur lucky even ur phone is showing samsung logo my phone was full dead even it was not charging or nor swtching on at all..
[Focus General] dvijaykrishnan:
Same here

Bricked my phone while trying to flash the 7.8 rom. I tried what is mentioned above and ended up with a osbl error. Now I have a hard bricked phone that does not respond to anything. A mechanic tried riff jtag to flash a bootloader, which failed. Then tried another jtag, and something called medasis, and it directed my focus, and bootloader was successfully flashed, and but the phone is still hard bricked. Now I have a dead bricked phone in hand. A guy who is really good at this told me that in bangalore the there are methods to replace the specific chip that was corrupted. I am going to Try it out as a last resort.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zor Omega:
I'm really interested in doing this. I've been hoping and wishing sprint would get the galaxy note, but the more I'm waiting the more I just want to get a tablet as my main device. Has anyone tried this successfully...integrating phone calls and SMS through Skype or Google voice or some such service. And if could be achieved I'm assuming you could pair it with Bluetooth to talk. Now keep in mind I'm talking about a 7 inch tablet, with that I could at least carry it reasonably well. And it would have to be isc, which means I'll probably have to wait a little bit until some carriers start carrying them. Any thoughts or opinions on this? Thanks

From Degobah
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mlin:
For me personally, I would never do this for the following reasons:

1) Cell coverage for me is a little more reliable than data coverage. There are areas in my travels where I can place a phone call and send a text but not get data to reliably connect. While this is rare, I still wouldn't want to rely solely on my data connection. With a wife and a new born I don't want anything unnecessarily impeding my ability to communicate and be reached.

2) Phones are getting too big as it is. I'm not sure how I feel about these new phones with 4.6 and 5 inch screens. IMHO, the Nexus S is an ideal form factor. It's light, sleek and fits well in my pocket- I'd hate to lug around a 7" tablet.

3) While a tablet is advantageous for certain activities, most of my daily needs can be comfortably accommodated on my cell phone. Its not worth it to me to carry the extra weight for those few occasions where I feel I would be better off with my tablet.

To each his own, of course. This is just my opinion on the matter.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b1337:
Nerd alert!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WindSlash:
I agree with mlin for the most part.

I have Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S phones, and I think Galaxy Nexus is very likely the absolute maximum size I can possibly handle with one hand (have to stretch here and there occasionally). Nexus S was a good size that was very comfortable on the hand, just not as great on the eyes compared to Galaxy Nexus. With a tablet, you most likely have to hold with both hands. Sure, you can get away with a Bluetooth device, but probably not when you need to use the screen. Also, if you don't plan to use a Bluetooth device or it has ran out of power, the tablets may not be designed/optimized for talking, so if there are microphones on them, they might not be as good as ones found on smartphones.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RushAOZ:
I've been thinking of doing this. Simply because I barely make phone calls. I use my phone for everything other than its default uses (phone calls, etc ) so if I could just use my tab and keep only the bare essentials on my phone to maximize battery life it'd be sweet. I guess its on par to carrying your laptop around. Except much smaller and lighter. I think the idea is great. Though I think for a tab 7 or 8 inches would be my max.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zor Omega:
Exactly, I think I text more than I talk, and you can use Google voice for that. I think I only use about 200 minutes a month on voice. Plus having a data only plan for a tablet would be a cheaper monthly bill.

From Degobah
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RushAOZ:
Yep lol being a smart consumer is key. I'm definitely over paying. People hated me for making threads about tethering but what they don't realize is that I use only a measly 50 minutes a month with less than 5000 texts. Sprint is making out pretty with with me as a customer considering that I use only 35% of the services they provide me.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zor Omega:
Right, that's the way I feel. I'm not even utilizing all of the services I pay for. So why pay for it all. I think data is the way a lot of plans in three future ate headed anyway, I'm just a little ahead of my time. ;-)

From Degobah
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qtwrk:
what is IMHO?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -CMX:
In my honest opinion.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdatastic:
In My Honest Opinion
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zor Omega:
In my humble opinion.

From Degobah
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] jaggajatt187:
I have the Evo View, and it was working perfectly up until yesterday...the tablet says that my network is out of range even when I'm 2 feet from it. No networks show up, and the tablet scans in a continuous loop every 10 seconds but nothing show's up. Anyone else having similar issues or fixes? I don't want to wipe the tablet I don't have anything backed up as I'm not rooted.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] t-r-i-c-k:
That happened to me once. I did a hard rest, I.e held the power button for about 20 seconds, and that cleared mine up.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Manudroid:
change your wi-fi channel to channel 10 or 11 and set your IP to static. Strange enough this helps with a lot of Wi-fi problems after the honeycomb update. I encountered a lot of these problems myself and so far the above mentioned solutions have worked for me. Worth a try....
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] jaggajatt187:
I tried the hard reset method, but nothing changed. It just had a notification asking if I wanted to tell HTC about recovering from an abnormal reboot. Having to change the channel and setting up a static IP is a pretty annoying solution, but I guess it the best one I got so far. Thanks for the help.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] duSty[GgT]:
My cousin has a X10 Mini pro that was great running the stock New Zealand firmware whatever that was, phone started playing up took it in for repair and came back with no market app and a load of useless non-english applications.

I've been trying to re-flash for the past few hours in vain attempted root using

FlashTool-(Latest Version) seems to work but always hit a wall when attempting to reflash firmware.

I've tried the xRecovery way multiple times but every firmware restore I tried shows random errors or refuses to do it...

FlasTool shows error

08/033/2012 20:33:07 - INFO - <- This level is successfully initialized

08/033/2012 20:33:07 - INFO - Flashtool Version 0.6.7.0 built on 2012-01-21 17:31:40

08/033/2012 20:33:07 - INFO - You can drag and drop ftf files here to start flashing them

08/033/2012 20:33:54 - INFO - Selected SK17i_4.0.2.A.0.58_GLOBAL.ftf

08/033/2012 20:33:54 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

08/034/2012 20:34:07 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.

08/034/2012 20:34:24 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

08/034/2012 20:34:24 - INFO - Opening device for R/W

08/034/2012 20:34:24 - INFO - Reading device information

08/034/2012 20:34:24 - INFO - Phone reading for flashing.

08/034/2012 20:34:24 - INFO - Start Flashing

08/034/2012 20:34:24 - INFO - Flashing loader

08/034/2012 20:34:24 - ERROR - ERR_SEVERITY="MAJOR";ERR_CLASS="SECURITY_CLASS";ERR_DYNAMIC="SIN header verification failed" <

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

s1tool shows the retarded firmware loaded now-

RUNNING S1_EROM VER "r8A029"

SOFTWARE AID: 0001

LOADER AID: 0001

FLASH ID: "0020/00BC"

LOADER VERSION: "R4A045"

MODEL (from GDFS): U20i

SOFTWARE VERSION: 1235-3411_2.1.1.A.0.6

CUSTOM VERSION: 1240-6095_R13B

FILESYSTEM VERSION: CHINA-1-8_2.1.1.A.0.16

SERIAL NO: CB511NWQE1

SEMC SIMLOCK CERTIFICATE

(Also attempted repair with seus and it failed)

So basically my question is what am I doing wrong and is there any guide that will work for this messed up phone.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] faiyyaz:
you are flashing the wrong kernel as per the log in your post ..

08/033/2012 20:33:54 - INFO - Selected SK17i_4.0.2.A.0.58_GLOBAL.ftf

the*.ftf should be for u20i and not SK17i model.. Flash the correct kernel..(*.ftf)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] duSty[GgT]:
Right :X

Stupid move then this is the first android phone I've attempted re-flash so I'm as dumb as they get, could you point me in the direction of the generic unbranded stock firmware? ftf format would be good because I'm going nowhere with the xRecovery/.zip guide.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] duSty[GgT]:
SOLVED

Solved sorry for wasting your time downloaded "UK_2.1_minipro.zip" a while back had another crack at it (extracted and did bundle creation with flastool) attempted re-flash and voila it worked this time :) :) :)

After all the trial and error...

I must've misread something somewhere and gone of course anyway thanks for making me realize the mistake.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] faiyyaz:
glad it helped you.. ;)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jonathanpeter:
When I try to use Iris, a toast notification comes up saying "No Speech Input". Can anyone help?? I've tried installing "Google Voice Search" for X10 but I still can't get it working....I'm on Jusada's ICSunday.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] codeknight11:
Try making google voicesearch a system app :)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jonathanpeter:
Oh! Thanks! I'll try that!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] Prawesome:
You must have TTS too..Not just voice search
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] celtique:
How ti get tts?

I'm facing the same issue too
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jonathanpeter:
I already have tts service, I installed Voice Search 2.1.4 and made it a system app, then everything worked fine...
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] celtique:
I've done the same and it worked.
[LG Optimus 3D] xKevin:
Yeah. So as of updating my phone to the newest 2.3.5 update, I found that my boot times have increased to over a minute long, can anyone explain to me why that happened?
[LG Optimus 3D] jimakos29:
welcome to the world of LG gb firmware...
[LG Optimus 3D] LyCC:
I have an LG P920, but the same here, since 2.3.5 update, it takes 1:35 to boot.
[LG Optimus 3D] xKevin:
So everyone has the same problem?
[LG Optimus 3D] Barracuda77777:
Mine takes 1:41
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kehlan:
I don't even see this launcher on the market, but I'd like to try it out on my tablet.

Is it even compatible with this ROM? This Android release? Did I miss something?

All feedback is appreciated.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Misledz:
Most aren't optimized for high resolution devices like this, have you tried GoLauncherEX, Some may not like it, but it beats the default fugly touchwiz.