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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
Early yesterday I launched Kies and hit the update firmware option from the tools menu to see if the alleged ICS update was available for my phone. It appeared it was with, a message promoting that it would clear all personal data from the phone, which I then selected cancel so I could do a backup of pictures/videos on the phones internal SD.

Without doing any sort of backup yet I shutdown the phone, only for it to freeze on the shutting down screen. After 20 mins I pulled the battery and let the phone cool down since it had gotten warm trying to shut itself down. After replacing the battery and turning on it was stuck in a bootloop with only the SGS2 logo, never reaching the ATT logo.

At that point I came to XDA, which I frequently browse but have yet to root, and began reading and searching everything I could find.

Hours later I decided to attempt to flash the stock firmware from sammobile.com using Odin. The flash took a long time and I assume never completed. I left it overnight since I didnt want to unplug it mid-flash. Checking back in the morning the phone is black, Odin says failed/disconnected, and I find the battery completely drained. I charged it for a while then tried turning it back on and got the yellow triangle "firmware upgrade encountered an issue..." screen.

Now i'm attempting once more to flash the firmware but again it has been 30 mins on Sbl.bin. I've had a hard time finding stock firmware in different varieties with working links, so to not increase the flash counter in the event I ultimately have to send it in for repair.

Any suggestions on where to go from here? I've followed every direction I can find for flashing stock firmware and nothing has been successful.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Glad to help if I can. Please tell me exactly what package you flashed from sammobile, with a link if possible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] BROKKANIC:
You should change the title of the thread.... I killed my phone. LOL!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1313659
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
I attempted to flash I777UCKH7, 2011 August, USA (AT&T)

w.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=SGH-I777&r=-1#modelsa

BROKKANIC:

I've tried the steps in that thread, the One-click Oden does not have the phone showing up in any boxes, yet it still shows up in the non-One click Oden.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] BROKKANIC:
Try this.....

2c.) How to root by flashing Entropy512's Return/Unbrick to Stock, Kernel + Rooted System Package with Modem using Odin3 One-Click Downloader (Windows)

Download the "Odin3 One-Click Downloader Stock I-777 UCKH7 with Root no BL" package from Hotfile. Extract the contents of the zip file to a directory on your hard disk drive. This is a One-Click version of Entropy512's Return/Unbrick to Stock, Kernel + Rooted System Package plus stock modem from the development forum. (Contains stock zImage, factoryfs.img with root, and modem.bin.)

Start the Odin3 One-Click Downloader program by double clicking on "I777UCKH7 OCD With Root.exe".

Now Enter Download Mode:

With the phone powered off, plug in the usb cable while holding the vol up + vol down buttons (but not the power button).

When the warning screen appears, press Volume up to continue into download mode.

In Odin, the small edit box in the upper left corner will turn yellow, and say something like [0:COM8]. The number could be different.

Click Start. Watch the progress bar advance in green while the message box in the lower area describes the steps. When the flash is finished, the top left larger edit box will turn green and say PASS! and your phone will automatically reboot.

Unplug the usb cable from you phone after it boots up. Success. You're Rooted.

SOURCE: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1311081

creepyncrawly would know better. It's his thread. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] krips2003:
Download the file from below post to go back to stock I777UCKH7. Follow the instruction written in the post. I just had the same a while ago using the mobile odin to go back to stock. Got stuck on Samsung Galaxy SII screen. Pulled the battery and then followed the instructions from this post. I selected the one that says no BL 'I777UCKH7 OCD No BL'.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=18859438&postcount=199

Once you are done with the stock restore. To upgrade to ICS LE5 follow the instructions from below post. Make sure you read and follow the instructions as mentioned in the post.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27707563&postcount=83
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
You downloaded I777UCKH7_I777ATTKH7_ATT and extracted I777UCKH7-rev02-home-low-cl503881.tar.md5?

Flashed the .tar.md5 in the pda slot?

What version of Odin are you using?

Edit: You're getting lots of advice here. Let me know if you need me to help troubleshoot your issues.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
BROKKANIC/krips2003: Thanks for helping so far, but no luck. Those both link to the same Odin One click. This and another one click I tried do not show the phone connected to any COM#. But, in the non-one click Oden the phone shows up. I have pulled the battery and changed USB ports and it still will not show up in the one click.

In the mean time I'll see if there's a solution for that, but I'd like to hear any other suggestions.

Edit: I get the feeling Odin is not starting the write process, since neither the progress bar or words show up in the box above COM# until AFTER I unplug the phone, at which time it flashing quickly then displays Failed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] krips2003:
Try using another micro usb wire if you have one. If not then get one from radioshack or bestbuy. I had the almost similar issue on my captivate with the original USB cable. Then I got a Rocketfish one from bestbuy and it worked like a charm.

I'm sure you might have already done this. Make sure you first run the ODIN and then put your phone in download mode.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
krips your a genius!

The one click is now working thanks to the suggestion to pay attention to order of operations. I must have never plugged the phone in AFTER starting the one click. This was easily overlooked when I've been switching the phone between 2 PCs and 3 micro usb cables.

I now have a progress bar and have had made more progress than in the last 24 hours. Even after searching I did not find this solution, even though it's stated in the directions and it seems trivial, maybe it should be emphasized the one click needs to phone plugged in after it's running.

Thanks again. I'll update this post when it's back to being a phone again.

PS. BROKKANIC: you were right, if I didn't kill my phone then I sure was the impeding factor in its recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
Good news/bad news. Still stuck in bootloop, but now have SGS2 logo instead of yellow triangle. Trying to enter recovery mode crashes the phone soon after it appears.

Is this a bootloader problem, kernel problem, or something else?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] BROKKANIC:
LOL!. Glad you got it working.

Flash back to stock first.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
I believe that what I have been doing. I ran I777UCKH7 OCD With Root.exe, which resulted in bootloop, then ran I777UCKH7-CL503881-No-BL.exe, which also resulted in bootloop. Both completed successfully, but resulted in the same bootloop.

Odin appears unable to flash anything without it being a one click. I'm trying to flash Siyah-v2.6.14-att.tar. But Odin hangs at zImage with no progress bar.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hd779:
What operating system you using: if windows 7 are you running as administrator ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
I've resorted to my WinXP laptop which has been more successful than my Win7 desktop. On the Win7 attempts everything is run as admin, but has many time bluescreened and hard reset the whole PC when attempting to flash anything with Odin. Maybe a separate issue, maybe not. But the XP machine is atleast successfully flashing the Odin one clicks.

Update: Odin standalone (non-one click) appears to be unable to flash anything, it will only hang when trying to write. One click Oden packages seem to work. Is there a one click with full stock sbl, param, kernel, etc?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] gefox4vn:
I think your problem is you flash to stock with packet include bootloader, so that is the reason why your phone is brick.

I'm using this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1691659 for stock UCKH7. This is non-root version and work very well for me. It include sbl, kernel and param, ...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
I haven't flashed a package with a bootloader yet. The only ones that work for me are Odin one click packages, and the two I've tried do not have bootloaders. I've been looking for one WITH a bootloader but no such luck yet, since maybe that would solve the problem.

The guide/link you've suggested will not work for me at this time. I do not have the ability to boot into any andriod OS. The only capability my phone has is executing Odin one click packages for some reason, even Oden standalone firmware flashes do not work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] msinkovich:
I had a similar issue...I eventually got mine stuck at the ATT droplets....

Finally I flashed back to 2.3.4 stock....did the ota...then upgraded to ICS.

Its all on my work laptop so I wont be able to post any specific files or their names until monday...

Good luck!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] erad1:
Once your phone gets to the boot screen try to get into stock 3e (both volume buttons + power till 2nd SGSII splash screen) recovery and do a factory reset. Should boot after that. Good luck.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thanitos:
Why not try a custom ics rom? What else do you have to lose? Staying stock is overrated anyways. You may also have an antivirus stopping Odin but I doubt it. Just turn off your antivirus and try.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
There is a UCKH7 Full one-click downloader in the Download Repository. Link in my signature.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
After flashing the Full with one click it still continues to boot loop. I was able to go into recovery once where it looked to be clearing/installing things then rebooted the phone to the same bootloop. When trying to go into recovery after going in once it says "deleting cryption meta data" with no progress then reboots the phone.

I get the feeling I'm running out of things to try. Is there a one click that flashed CWM recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] shoman94:
One you flash the one click... you need to enter 3e recovery and wipe/clear data. Then it should boot.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
I can enter recover once the flash completes and it proceeds to install things, says successful, then reboots. I do not get the options to wipe/clear anything at this point. Once I try and go into recovery after the reboot i get the message "deleting cryption meta data" and it reboots. This happens every time I try to enter recovery, I never get to the point of the options to wipe/clear caches.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Lawrence of a Labia:
IIRC, the way to get the phone working after getting the "deleting cryption meta data" message is to flash the tar version of the Siyah GB kernel with Odin.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
I'm going to attempt that next, but, Odin standalone has never been able to flash anything to my phone since I've been trying to fix this. Only Odin one clicks seem to be able to flash anything.

The odin standalone will just sit there at the point where it should be writing to the phone and will fail once it's unplugged. An Odin one click with Siyah kernel in it might fix the problem, is there such a thing?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Before I go to the trouble of building you a custom one-click downloader, what version of stand alone Odin3 are you using?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
v1.85 and v3.0.4, I try both and both produce same result

EDIT: Mostly-complete-Success! I made my own attempt at using Heimdall to flash the SiyahKernel, and it worked! The phone was able to boot into android and connect as mass storage. Amazingly the old file structure was still intact and I'm pulling off the DCIM and download folder full of all the pictures and SMS pictures.

Problem: My concern now is the boot screen says GS-I9100 and has a large yellow triangle. I'm 99% sure I flashed the SiyahKernel from the I777 forums and 100% sure the full flash was the proper I777 Odin one click. Once everything is recovered I'll try to wipe caches if recovery mode works, or reflash the kernel. I have no idea why Odin still wouldnt work, I tried reinstalling drivers, different machines, etc. Is the yellow triangle and the I9100 label an issue at all? Starting the research on this now...

Thanks for the all the help, especially creepyncrawly and krips2003
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
OK. 1.85, or any 1.8x version will work with the I777. I havn't seen anyone use 3.04 on I777. It is listed as the correct Odin for SGS III, I747 though.

If your phone receives firmware from the one-click downloader, common sense dictates that it will also receive firmware from stand alone Odin. Let's work on that assumption, anyway. Try flashing again with Odin3 v1.85. Choose the tar you want to try to flash, maybe Siyah Gingerbread kernel. Follow and recheck each of the following steps, in order.

1.) Open Odin on Windows Desktop.

2.) Have USB cable plugged into USB port on computer

3.) Shut phone off.

4.) While holding down vol+ & vol- keys, plug micro-usb plug into phone.

5.) In Odin, you should get the yellow box under where it says ID:COM with the text 0:[COMx], and in the Message area, <ID:0/00x> Added!! where x is some number, usually 1-8.

6.) Make sure Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time are checked and all other items not checked.

7.) Click on the PDA button. Browse to the tar file you want to install and select it so its path appears in the text edit box next to the button.

8.) Make sure the check box next to the PDA button is checked.

9.) Click the Start button.

Let me know if it flashes successfully. Regardless if it works or not, before you close Odin, copy out the information in the Messages section.

---------- Post added at 04:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:58 PM ----------

Flashing a custom kernel (siyah qualifies) in Odin or Heimdall increments the flash counter and causes the warning triangle on boot. The warning screen has always said I9100. We think they were just lazy when they made the secondary bootloader for this phone, and used the image from the international version.

Glad you were successful. Would still be interested if you can flash with Odin.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] nett3:
Following the directions (after uninstalling Heimdall driver), this is the message window in Odin:

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> zImage

It stays frozen at zImage, I wait at most 10 mins then I give up waiting, in Odin3 v3 it appears to have a timeout and will say failed after about 5 mins, as soon as I remove the usb from the phone it will flash for half a second "Kernel" above the ID:COM box and a couple ticks of the progress bar the changes to FAIL!

<ID:0/004> Removed!!

<ID:0/004> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1

To me it sounds like a driver issue. But I've tried every possible way I can think of to get different drivers. Ones from the Samsung site, drivers only, Kies drivers, Windows automatic drivers, each time wiping out the previous first. The thing is this also happens on two other desktops running Win 7, and a laptop on XP.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] REOGrand:
I dont know if this will help or not but I was having driver issues when I first started to root my phone. This was the only thing that helped me. So if Your having driver problems maybe it will help you. Google this....Samsung USB Driver for Mobile Phones v1.4.8.0 Hope this helps you. If you already have this sorry I couldnt be more help.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] erad1:
Edit...http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1285823&page=8 post 226 has the working dl link..link #2.

If Odin reads "added" then its a good sign and hopefully not a driver issue. I had this happen once when Odin got stuck at "zimage" and I had to flash the cwm recovery kernel...which doesn't boot the phone ( you pull the battery at boot then button combo to recovery) it will let you into cwm to flash another kernel .zip provided you have one on your SD or externel SD (if not you can use USB mount in recovery to put one there).. preferably Siyah 3.x.x, if you think the ICS framework is still intact. I will try to find it and post for you....see edit and good luck.
[HTC One X] Nhialor:
So, I sold my GNex to get a One X, and as I always do first day round, went to install a custom room, recovery and root.

Now I did search around, but couldn't find anything too useful, or anything that would actually work.

I succesfully unlocked my bootloader at htcdev.com but I am unable to root or flash a custom recovery, when I try to use fastboot, whether it's fastboot flash recovery *.img or fastboot devices or fastboot boot *.img it gives me the error:

ERROR: could not get pipe properties

ERROR: could not get pipe properties

sending 'boot' (4280 KB)... ERROR: usb_write failed with status e0004061

FAILED (command write failed (No such file or directory))

ERROR: could not get pipe properties

ERROR: could not get pipe properties

rebooting... ERROR: usb_write failed with status e0004061

Something similar to that.

Can someone please help me out here...I'm losing my mind trying to achieve root on this thing! :(

Edit: BTW, I'm on a MAC! OS X Lion with the GSM International HTC One X

Thanks guys,

Nhialor
[HTC One X] daddioj:
on you on the bootloader screen? or in android itself?
[HTC One X] hutzdani:
If he fastboots while in android it will simply say "waiting for device"

Either your drivers need re-installing or you have a dodgy USB lead, failing that can you do it on a windows machine with the same lead and if so does it produce a simular error ?
[HTC One X] Goku80:
read here on how to get htc sync for mac
[HTC One X] minhlc1956:
I thank you good people really need
[HTC One X] Goku80:
no problem dude..hit the thanks if it did help..anything else just hit with me a message and i will try and help you out;)
[HTC One X] Laurentius26:
Sorry forget my marks.

Post deleted.
[HTC One X] Nhialor:
Yeah I was in the boot loader and the.drivers all come.pre installed on Mac. Got it working anyways, don't know what u did but it worked on like the 50th go.
[HTC One X] Nhialor:
One other quick question. Is it possible to get rid if the keyboard thing appearing in the status bar to chose input method when typing. I have my keyboard selected and that's what I want to stick with.

I am rooted and have titanium backup installed if needs be.
[HTC One X] Rekoil:
It sounds like you are not including the full file name in the command. As an example this would be a correct command, and in this example there is a file called boot.img in the folder that my terminal is currently pointing to:
[HTC One X] Nhialor:
Nah I definatly did have it properly typed and formatted. Any ideas about question regarding the text selection keyboard in the status bar?
[HTC One X] Laurentius26:
I've just unlocked my device and rooted for the second time with help of all the great stuff here on the board.

Awsom, I'm so happy! :laugh:
[HTC One X] farnsbarns:
I think you'll find that's to do with a 3rd party keyboard. Look in the settings for the keyboard you're using and see if the notification can be hidden.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] abhishek_turbo911:
I've read previous threads that instruct to search for rom.zip in the temp folder. I have found the rom.zip but it does not flash using CWM. How do I get the rom which I can flash through CWM?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hellhawk741:
You don't flash it through cwm, you rename it accordingly (PHxxIMG.zip) based on your phone model and flash it through HBOOT.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] abhishek_turbo911:
Okay. I do recall my phone searching for similarly named images when I booted the phone to recovery. How exactly am I supposed to flash them after renaming and placing them in the root of my SD Card?

Also, do normal regional restrictions still apply to this process? (Will it bail if I try flashing the phxximg.zip of a European RUU on a asian phone?)

Thanks a lot.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sashank:
Don't know about the regional restrictions. To flash it you just put the renamed zip in the root of your SD card and reboot into bootloader. It'll scan for the file and ask you to press some key if you want to flash the update. That's it.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] PoorCollegeGuy:
Regional restrictions apply unless you have changed your CID to allow for flashing of other regions ROMs. This is called "SuperCID". I'm not sure which HTC phone you have otherwise I'd link you to how to get it on your phone, but it's a simple google search "SuperCID *phone name*"

When you have SuperCID, it allows the flashing of any ROM by any carrier so if you intend on doing an Asian ROM on a Euro phone, check and make sure the hardware is the same, otherwise you'll bork something.

Example: if you flashed a CDMA EVO 3D ROM on a GSM EVO 3D, you'd likely lose your data, signal at least, given that the CDMA and GSM 3D's have different radios. You'd probably lose even more but the data and signal at least are for sure.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] abhishek_turbo911:
Exactly, just got an incorrect CID error. I'm trying to do this on HTC One V. The bootloader is unlocked. Can you please link me to the SuperCID for HTC one V? Is it software or hardware?

Also for this process, do I need to have stock recovery or having CWM won't cause any issue?

Moreover, is it okay if the bootloader is unlocked or do I "relock" it?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] abhishek_turbo911:
Can you please post me the link to the SuperCID for HTC One V. Googling didn't help much.

Another very important question, my stock ROM was an Indian one. I rooted and flashed a stock European ROM. Due to this process, do you think the original CID was modified?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xHausx:
You'll most likely need to re-lock before flashing the RUU. I haven't heard of a way to get super-cid on the One V yet, but if it's possible you should be able to find it in the HTC One V forums.
[Motorola Atrix 2] chiikko561:
Looking to by a new phone what's the best phone out right now Android big screen
[Motorola Atrix 2] matt99017d:
Probably the samsung gs3

I betcha google can tell you better than i can...
[Motorola Atrix 2] maddog497:
Best is very subjective. It would depend how you use your phone. Someone who uses their phone for media will look for something different than someone who needs their phone for calls and reading emails and needs it to last all day on one charge.

I need a phone that gets better than average reception because of where I live.

That being said, the Samsung Galaxy 3 will be tough to beat.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jimbridgman:
Dude, get the SGS 3..... I am waiting for mine to show up on my door on Monday.

Right now I think it is THE phone to have.
[Motorola Atrix 2] :
Atrix 2. Even though the bootloader is locked the phone is stable and excellent battery life.
[Motorola Atrix 2] Deliberate:
Will u be leaving the a2 for sgs3? Or making the a2 a back up?